A/N: I feel like I kind of put the twins out of character in the beginningāAt first, I had their roles switched around in the dialog, so the first sentence was supposed to be said by Kaoru, instead of Hikaru. But then I re-read the parts, and I switched them around, having an idea come to me. Please read&review anyway
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"Kaoru, let's go swimming. It's so clear outside." Hikaru said, looking out of the balcony. Kaoru looked over from a small couch in a gathering room near the balcony. He set down the magazine he was reading and twiddled his fingers.
"It's so boring with just the two of us. We should see if Kyouya--" Kaoru started, before being cut off by Hikaru.
"No calling Kyouya, remember? He said he'd kill us." Hikaru stated, turning to face Kaoru.
"Or The King."
"We shouldn't break up a family reunion."
"Hony-sempai and Mori-sempai?"
"Too loud and too quite."
"Since when have you been so picky?" Kaoru chuckled, walking to the balcony to join his twin.
"Well...We haven't had time to ourselves in a while." Hikaru said, pretending to focus on something stuck in his nails.
Kaoru laughed. "Time to ourselves is the only time we've ever had since we came here."
"So, you don't like spending time with me anymore?" Hikaru asked, feeling a bit hurt.
Kaoru sighed and put his head on his aniki's shoulder. "That's not what I meant. I'd love to go swimming."
"If you really don't want to, Kaoru..." Hikaru said, wrapping his arms tenderly around him.
"I said I'd love to go." Kaoru looked up at Hikaru and smiled. "I'm just going to change, and ask Takako if she'd like to come along."
"What..? Takako? Why?" Hikaru asked, stunned a bit.
Kaoru laughed lightly, "I swear, Hikaru, you act like other people don't want to have fun too."
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Twenty minutes later, the trio made their way down the white sanded beach.
"It's so nice outside. Thank you for asking me to accompany you." Takako smiled warmly at Kaoru, who returned the smile, much to Hikaru's clenching of the teeth.
"Well, being in the house alone gets pretty lonesome, doesn't it? It's good to be invited out here." Kaoru took a breath of fresh air, raising his arms above him. For a moment, Hikaru thought as if the witch lady inched a bit closer to his outoto, whom strolled in between the them.
Hikaru cleared his throat loudly, scratched the back of his head, and put on an apologetic face. "I forgot my beach ball. Takako, would you be so kind as to go back and get it?"
"Aa--" Takako started, but was cut off by Kaoru.
"Hikaru, why don't you just go back and get it? Takako's been working non-stop since we got here; don't you think she deserves a break? At least for an hour or so?" Kaoru furrowed his brows.
For a moment, Hikaru stared dumbfounded at the two others who opposed him.
"Fine, fine." He grudgingly trudged back up the slope which they had just come down, kicking the white sand to the side. He opened the doors forcefully, not even bothering to shut them before stalking down the hallway. It took him almost twenty minutes before he finally found the beach ball he was supposedly looking for at the very back of the clothes dresser.
"Found-ja." He said, smiling accomplishedly. He walked out onto the balcony deck, holding the beach ball out like a trophy, before he suddenly dropped it. He half-gaped, half-glared out at the beach scene he was watching. The witch lady 'accidentally' falling dangerously close to that of his twin, and Kaoru catching her in the waves like a newlywed couple. "What...the...hell?!" Hikaru clenched his fists, making his nails imprint on his palms, and grinded his teeth. "I see how it is..."
Kaoru helped stabilize Takako and looked up at the house, wondering why Hikaru was taking so long. He furrowed his brows in puzzlement, seeing his twin starring back at him from the balcony. The boy could feel his brother's eyes piercing him and was about to call out to him when the ever-so-clumsy maid once again knocked him over.
"Oh--! I'm so sorry!" A light blush crossed her face as she pinned him down on the shore. "These waves just have a mind of their own." she giggled and smiled cutely at the boy she held captive between her arms. "O-oh--!" Takako's face reddened a tenfold when Kaoru grabbed her waist and plucked her out from above him.
"It's alright." Kaoru chuckled, a small grin appearing. He stood, brushing off the sand that clung to his torso, and looked back up at the house. Hikaru was gone.
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"Enjoy your time out?" Hikaru asked when the two returned to the house fifteen minutes later. He sat on a velvet couch in the gathering room nearest the main door, already changed out of his swimming attire."Yes I--we--did," Takako smiled and rubbed a towel into her hair, "It's too bad you didn't come back down. Ever find the beach ball you wanted?"
"Yeah...it had a hole in it.." Hikaru lied, scratching the back of his head.
"So you decided not to come back down?" Takako eyed him, grateful that the punctured beach ball kept him away. She and Kaoru walked into the room, careful not to drip on any of the furniture.
"Yeah, it really was no fun without you." Kaoru said, taking a seat in an armchair after drying himself.
Hikaru hmphed and chuckled, "I'm sure that's not true, but sorry I didn't come back down...I didn't really feel up to it. I, uh...got kind of sick."
"Are you okay?" Both Takako and Kaoru asked in worried unison.
"I'm still kind of sickened--sick--but I'll be okay.." Hikaru said, smiling a bit.
"Maybe you should get some rest." Kaoru studied his brother, looking for any signs of illness.
"Yes. Sleep will definitely help." Takako said, bustling into the hallway, "I'll just get changed, then I'll come back out and help Kaoru help you."
When did she start calling us by name?...Hikaru thought, slouching into the cushion he held in his arms.
"Actually, I'm pretty wiped out too. I think I'm going to bed with Hikaru, so you can take the rest of the night off." Kaoru said, standing.
"Aa..Alright. Goodnight, then." and she shuffled off into the darkened corridor.
Kaoru finished drying off his hair, and walked over to the balcony to hang his towel. "Hikaru? You coming?" Kaoru asked, holding out his hand to him.
"Yeah, yeah." Hikaru replied smiling, and took his brother's hand.
The two made their way down the hallway, silence engulfing them. When they reached the bedroom far back, the twins undressed, crawled into bed, and lied silently together.
"Hikaru..?" Kaoru asked, finally breaking the silence ten minutes later.
"Hm?"
"...Are you mad?.." the younger set of golden eyes stared up into the identical ones, which gazed back down at them.
"At what?.." Hikaru asked, sensing hurt in his brother's voice.
"At me.." Kaoru broke their eye contact, burying his face into the pillow.
For a second, Hikaru was shocked, but regained himself. "Where'd you get an idea like that?"
"Today...when you came back to the house...I looked back, and you were glaring at me. Did I do something wrong?"
Okay...So it was just innocent fun. Nothing more. Nothing at all. Unless that Takako has anything planned. Hikaru reassured himself, recalling the sight he'd watched earlier.
"'Course not. I can't be mad at you." He pulled Kaoru close and nuzzled his head into the crook of his brother's neck.
Kaoru...I love you..
"Hikaru...I love you.."
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Yei...another chapter finished. xD Please read and review. I hope this meets your standards, and that you decide to let me live after all. XDD I tend into writers' blocks a lot...so I'm sorry if I don't post soon. Thanks for reading REVIEW :3