Orphan Flower

Yep, he has a fan club

And he's so anti social sometimes

Mimi could be the girl he likes

And he's mysterious

Terrific, he's an all perfect student

Oh well, let's begin again

"Tch. What sister?" Takeru glared at the blond girl before him. "Why are you suddenly asking me about my family? I only have a brother."

This situation and his attitude wasn't making Izumi's job very easy. "Takeru, I know the truth." she added.

He stood up from his seat to face her. With the two of them standing, he was only a few inches taller than her. He leaned towards her. "Maybe you do. I bet that you only know half of it though."

"Hey T.K. don't be so hard on our sister." interrupted another blond, as he walked in the room closing the door behind him. "It's not nice."

Izumi, for the first time becoming nervous and scared of what they were going to do for her, could only stay still and frozen on her spot.

Matt shook his head and sighed. "Sorry, T.K. is just pissed at the idea that you still don't know what's going on."

"W-Well how would I know if you guys didn't come looking for me?" she argued back thinking that if they all went to the same school since primary, they could've told her then and she wouldn't have to suffer through all this.

Takeru sat back down. "Even if we did tell you, we wouldn't be able to do anything. We were going to wait until Matt turned eighteen so that he could be the legal adult of our problems."

His brother turned to him. "So that's why you were so eager to this plan!"

"Eh, it took you a while didn't it?"

Izumi giggled at her brothers quarreling. Calling them brothers was a new term for her head to get used to. It was going to take her a while for that to happen. "What you said earlier." she announced looking straight at Takeru. "That I probably knew half of the truth…"

"Oh…that." they said in unison.

Moments later

"After mom left to Italy with Takuya's parents, we were all at home just expecting her to come back after the visit. Turns out that on that very same day, was the plane accident." Takeru explained to Izumi, and nodded for Matt to continue the rest.

"The weird thing was that she was pregnant when she left, and none of us seemed to have realized it. You happened to be born at Italy I guess. I heard that there was only one survivor and it turned out to be you." he added and paused to turn to the other blond. "T.K. and I were saying how you looked alike, and that you looked like mom. But we thought we were just seeing things."

"Wait." she began to point out. "How does this explain how I knew Takuya? How did he know about me already?"

The two looked at each other again. Then Matt spoke up again. "Takuya was probably brought to Italy by his aunt and uncle for the funeral. I heard that they weren't able to adopt him into the family at the time and had to leave him in an orphanage. They left a note saying that Takuya was friends with Izumi's family."

"How do you two know so much about this?"

"Diaries are pretty informative."

"That's how you guys found out?!" she asked in disbelief and smacked them across the face.

"Ow! What the heck!" Takeru glared but saw his sister's smiling face and sighed. "Girls." he muttered.

She grinned and sat back down. "So I'm guessing that Takuya and I were childhood friends ever since then."

"Yep, that's pretty much what happened." Takeru nodded. "But he left when he was around 5 or 6 to live with his aunt and uncle. And they asked the orphanage to bring you along."

"Huh?"

Matt could do nothing but chuckle. "Did you think that you were really going to pay for your own school tuition? Who do you think is paying for most of it?"

Izumi took some thought about it and gasped. "Oh my gosh! and I had no idea!"

"Ah, the blond finally gets her memory back."

Smack! Crash! Thud!

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On the Way Home

"Ow… why did we have to get a sister again?" Takeru asked aloud rubbing his red cheeks that Izumi did to him. "Man, if I had known she was this tough I wouldn't have bothered to tell her the whole story in the first place."

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Izumi who was calmly walking home, deep in thought about the new info she just learned didn't realize what death had planned on her. Hearing footsteps follow her, she stopped and looked around. Shrugging that it was her imagination, she turned forwards to face Rika with a knife against her throat. "R-Rika? What are you…doing?!"

"Only my friends call me Rika, but to you, I prefer you call me Nonaka!" the brunette replied leading her into an alleyway and a dead end.

"What do you want?!" the blond teen asked as she was all tied up and thrown against the side of the wall.

"You were the reason that I almost died. I thought that maybe it could be payback, I would like to take a "stab" at revenge." she explained with a smirk.

She gasped in horror and closed her eyes as she saw the knife coming down at her, but peeked open to see that someone stopped her.

"What do you think you're doing Rika?" Matt asked sternly with a firm grip on Rika's wrist with the knife.

"Trying to do what I should've done before!"

"Killing your best friend?" Takeru joked, and saw that Rika's expression went blank hearing the words "best friend".

"What are you talking about?! She's no friend of mine!" she protested back but paused to see photos fluttering down on her. "What is all this?!" she glared grabbing at a random photo.

"Take a look at it and see."

She glared at the boys and looked at it. A small gasp was heard from her as she suddenly dropped the photo. "This isn't true. Izumi and I being in the same picture and smiling, you guys just used tools to photoshop this picture."

"Think harder." Matt pressed on hoping his plan would work.

Rika closed her eyes and tried to calm down. "Mimi and I were friends. Izumi and I were friends. This is all too much. Only my memories are true!"

Takeru appeared beside her. "But which ones are the real ones?"

"Ugh….you guys are-" but she couldn't finish her sentence as she suddenly collapsed, luckily being caught by Matt.

"It's amazing how much of an impact a photo can do to a person."

Crash! Punch! Thud!

"How'd you get untied?!"

"Haha, wouldn't you like to know T.K." Izumi grinned mischievously, but looked at Matt. "Will Rika be alright?"

He nodded. "Yeah, she just passed out because she was putting too much stress on herself."