Home
The Hitachiin family had a total of eight houses. They had a chic apartment in downtown France, two beautiful mansions in Japan (plus two summer homes), a resort in Fiji, a fancy little bungalow in New York, and a huge, expensive flat in London.
Kaoru's favourite house was the French apartment, and Hikaru's was the New York bungalow. Separately, their mother had spoken to each of them.
"Kaoru, don't you want to go stay in that home we've got in France for a while? It would be fun, you'd enjoy the fashion, and a break from Hikaru would be nice, ne?" she had said to one twin.
"Hikaru, don't you want to try out that home in New York? You'd have a nice time, meet some pretty girls, and you love that rushed environment...A separation from Kaoru would be nice, you know, make some new friends?" she tried to persuade the other.
When her twin boys had given her the same reply, she'd resigned herself to her fate.
"Home? What home? It's not home if he's not there."