My Childhood with You
Chapter 2
Kamui sat beside his brother, Subaru in the large oak tree, violet eyes sleepy. "Subaru, did we have to wake up so early?"
Subaru grinned, in the half-light, "Yes. It's not every day you see Rei's flock fly from his tower and scatter, beautiful white-"
Kamui huffed, "We've seen that over and over, every year. Hotaru hasn't bothered looking for years."
Subaru frowned, slightly annoyed at his twin, "That's because Hotaru doesn't accept nature's gift-"
Kamui yawned as Subaru started is sentence and broke him off, "I just want to go back to sleep."
"Kamui, that's being horrible to me!" Subaru reprimanded, green eyes narrowed a fraction.
At that moment, as Kamui opened his mouth, Hotaru poked her head out of her bedroom window which happened to be beside the tree, "Kamui! Subaru! Be quiet! You two are going to wake everybody up if you keep arguing!" The golden-eyed girl pointed up, "Just wait for the birds." And she turned around, hurriedly attending to her hair with black ribbons.
In the tree, Subaru was grinning, "See, Kamui? Hotaru-chan wants to see the birds too."
Kamui frowned, "She's probably only coming to stop us killing each other." He scratched his head, and turned to Hotaru's bedroom window, where she was nodding furiously to answer his statement while she had a comb clamped between her teeth.
Subaru sighed as he watched and a second later, realized he had contradicted himself.
Hotaru climbed onto the window sill when she was finished and jumped onto the closest branch before scrambling up to her twin brothers, "You two are extremely troublesome. The main reason I'm looking after you two is because last time, both of you decided to go on a little hike up the mountain after watching. And I swear that there was an avalanche before you came back."
Kamui and Subaru looked at each other guiltily.
Hotaru noted their gaze and the girl nodded, "I thought so. At least okaa-san is so air-headed she didn't really connect the two of you with the avalanche." Her golden eyes traveled between theirs, "I did. But it was so funny too." And she started giggling uncontrollably.
Kamui frowned, "What's so funny?" Subaru too, leaned towards his elder sister for an answer.
Hotaru grinned at them, holding back hysterical laughs, "When all those rocks started tumbling down, you could hear you two swearing really loudly." And she let loose, laughing, "I didn't know that my twin brothers can synchronise their swearing too. Okaa-san was wondering why I was laughing later that day." She wiped away a tear produced by the laughing, "Oh, that was rich."
The twin vampire brothers, suddenly felt very uncomfortable, that was the only thing about Hotaru. She remembers every embarrassing thing that has happened to you and torments you with them for the rest of your life. And the rest of your life is quite long it you're a vampire.
Their train of though broke as some white feathers drifted around them and their eyes turned to the sky, awed by the ridiculously large amount of birds that flew above them, scattering beautiful white feathers that did no harm to their flying.
Hotaru stared and murmured at the same time, "I swear, there are more every year. It's about time Rei sold some of them to high bidders…"
Kamui and Subaru nodded, whilst gazing at one of the wonders that their little vampire community threw at them.