DISCLAMER: I do not own "Yu Yu Hakusho" the movie called "The Parent Trap" or anything else I may mention in this fic. I do however, own a couple original characters. These original characters are NOT reincarnated versions of me, and they are also NOT Mary-Sue fangirls who chase Kurama and Hiei around. Have I made myself clear? Good.

A/N: I am SSSOOOOOOOO sorry! I know it's been five months, but I've started another story and I've had other things to do. Don't worry, I have never lost interest in this fic. I'm going on a trip in a couple weeks, and I'll try to update before I go.

NOTE: I don't know how to convert American money to Japanese money, so every time an amount of money is mentioned, it will be in American money.

"Are We Related?"

Chapter 19: I Have a Confession to Make

It was nine o' clock a.m. when Ayame woke up. "I guess I better go tell mom who I am." She was very reluctant, but she knew she had to do it and there was no getting out of it. "If Shina can do, I can do it. How hard can it be? Mom isn't as scary as dad."

Ayame climbed out of bed and went to the bathroom to brush her teeth and freshen up before heading downstairs.

She came downstairs to the kitchen to find Shizuru pouring herself a cup of coffee. "Hey mom."

"Good morning." Shizuru said as she sat down at the table.

When Shizuru put down her coffee cup, Ayame walked over to her and embraced her in a loving hug.

"Mom, I need to tell you something." Ayame said as she let go of her mother and took a seat next to her.

"What is it?" Shizuru gave Ayame her undivided attention, but she knew full well what 'Shina' had to tell her.

"Well, uh…Shinaiswithdadandiamyourotherdaughter."

'There, I said it.' Ayame thought to herself.

Shizuru and Ayame just stared at each other for a few seconds. "Did you just say Shina is with her father?"

"Yes. She is pretending to be me, and I'm pretending to be her. Are you mad at us?"

"No. But I do have a small confession to make, Ayame."

"Yeah?"

"I've known about your secret since last night."

Ayame was surprised. "How did you find out?"

"When you came home last week from your exchange trip, I sensed something different about you. I just brushed off the feeling since I was glad you were home. Yesterday you left your purse on the kitchen counter and I couldn't help but check your driver's license."

"I'm sorry I kept this secret from you. I wanted so badly to meet you, and Shina wanted to meet dad. It was just coincidental that the two of us got paired up and stayed with the same family."

"Don't be sorry. I'm actually glad you two switched on us. I somehow think this whole thing was meant to happen."

"Me too."

Ayame once again embraced her mother in a tight hug. To her, it felt so good to have this weight lifted off her shoulders.

"Well, Ayame, what do you want to do today?"

"Umm…"

"I'm just going to go check in at the salon and then we can go have fun the rest of the day. Just me and you."

"Well, can you do me a favor?"

"Anything."

"Since you're so good with hair, can you dye my hair back to brown? I'm ready to 'look like myself' again."

"Sure. Oh, and do you realize before you came down to talk to me, you forgot to put in your blue contacts?"

"Oops. Well, I can throw them away now. I hated those."

"Much better!" Ayame said as she looked at herself in the mirror with her long brown hair.

"I like it better on you, too."

"I guess I better call Shina tonight and tell her I told you about us."

"Have you talked to her since you switched?"

"Just once, but we said we'd call each other when our secrets were out."

"Well, I'm going to clean up and then we can go get some lunch."

"Okay."

Ayame remained at her mother's work station while Shizuru cleaned up the area. 'I wonder how Shina is doing.'

Shizuru got done cleaning up a few minutes later. "Ready?"

"Yeah." Ayame said with a small smile.

"Let's get out of here then."

Ayame and Shizuru went out to a local restaurant for lunch, but did not talk about family stuff because they did not want anyone else to overhear them.

When they were done eating, they decided to go home. All Ayame wanted to do was spend the day at home with her mom and catch up and what had been happening in their lives.

"Ayame, you haven't told me how you and your sister found out about each other."

"Well, when we first saw each other I thought we looked a little bit alike. The idea seemed silly, so I just let it go. One night when the two of us took our make-up off, that is when we both saw that we had the same facial features, but different hair and eye colors. It turned out Shina was thinking the same thing I was. She told me I look a lot like you and she showed me a picture of you. I did the same with her. And then, we put the pieces together when we told each other our birthdates."

"That had to have been the first time she had seen a picture of her father. I've never showed her one, when she would ask about him I always told her she looked like him."

"Dad tells me a lot that I remind him of you. I know he misses you…I can see it in his eyes."

Shizuru looked at her daughter with a somewhat sad look on her face.

"You miss him, too, don't you mom?" Shizuru did not want to admit it, but she did miss him very much.

"We were going to get married soon after you and your sister were born, but I broke it off when I was eight months pregnant."

That was new information for Ayame. She never knew her parents were engaged. She knew her parents never got married, but her father did not tell her about the engagement.

"Why did you call it off?"

It was hard for Shizuru to talk about this, but she thought her daughter had a right to know, and made a mental note to herself to tell Shina all the stuff she was telling Ayame when she came home.

"His lifestyle bothered me. I wanted him to quit this Black Black Club bull shit, but he wouldn't. He said the only way to get out of it is if he died. We agreed when you and Shina were born that each of us could have custody of one child. You have no idea how hard it was letting you go. I still loved him, too, but I did what I thought was best." Shizuru had tears in her eyes, and Ayame was getting teary eyed as well.

"Dad still loved you, too. He still has the engagement ring he gave you."

"He kept it this long?"

"Yeah. I caught him looking at it once. He kept it in the top drawer in his nightstand in his bedroom. I was walking by and his door was open and I saw him looking at it. I snuck in a few times to look at and he caught me. I thought I was gonna be in trouble for snooping, but he didn't get mad. He caught me looking at it and putting it on my finger a few times that he told me I could keep it with me in my room."

"Did he ever put you in any danger?"

"No."

"Good. He made a promise to me saying he will do everything he can to keep you safe. Looks like he kept it.

"He told me that he knows he is not the best father, but he tries. He doesn't want me to be in any dangerous situations. He promised me that he would never do anything to hurt me. He made sure I was safe and had security watching me, but not so much that my privacy was invaded. He had cameras at every entrance of our property and there was a security gate where a password would have to be keyed in."

Ayame paused for a few seconds and then continued.

"He lied to me for the first thirteen years of my life. When I was thirteen he finally sat me down and told me about the Black Black Club business. I give him credit for doing such a good job of hiding something for that long, but lying about this is so wrong. I hated him for awhile and I avoided being around him. The house and the whole estate was big enough to where I could avoid him."

"How long did you stay away from him?"

"About a week. I ate my meals in my room and did other stuff. I didn't care as long as I wasn't around him. When I finally apologized for my behavior, he told me he understood why I acted like that. I still can't fully forgive him for all the bad things he has done in his life, but I love him so much. Nobody else knows about what he really does for a living, and nobody needs to know. If the public finds out, I'll lose him forever."

Ayame was in tears as she remembered the day Sakyo told her everything about his dirty life. She remembered that day as if it was yesterday.

A/N: Next chapter will be Ayame having a flashback of the day she found out the truth about Sakyo. It will not be pretty! I hope you liked this one, and sorry it seemed rushed. And, sorry again that it took me about five months to update. PLEASE REVIEW!