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Sirens of the Sea

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Leaving reason far behind

Yuri had walked off quickly, nearly tripping herself over her feet as she huffed off through the hospital. She was only trying to help the younger twin, but now that she knew clearly that she was unneeded, she left. When the sliding doors admitted her to walk out, she looked at the sky.

It was cloudy, but it didn't mean rain. Just that the clouds were being annoying and was blocking the sun. She sighed carefully as she moved out of the way for other people and walked along the sidewalk. Talking to the older twin was far from her mind despite her threat.

Why was it that she always tried to help the hopeless cases? Her mother said it was because she understood them in a way that made everyone else look idiotic. But Yuri knew that wasn't true. It was possibly because it was a challenge. She helped people before, and refused to be helped. She said nothing about herself, and pestered others for information about themselves...people called her beautiful, but in her eyes she was the most dirtiest looking girl in the crowd.

She had no idea why helping people was her. She snapped. Had a very short temper. Always seemed to get into trouble at the littlest thing like she had just done now.

Nothing here is cruel or kind

She walked to the park in silence and sat down on a bench watching the kids play soccer. She remembered when she first tried to make the lonely Hitachiins' Twins to play with her. When presented with the test. She sucked in her breath and tried her best. Tears had been brimming in their eyes. When she saw the tears, she knew that she had guessed wrong.

"Please don't cry." She had begged them.

Now she was only trying to help them once again. Why did her life make her cross paths with them again and again? It was cruel and harsh and it wasn't very kind of life to do that to her. It kept embarrassing her every time she tried. Now she realized that this was why she was trying to help them.

The other twin was with the girl that had been standing at the window. Her eyes weren't fooled. The twins were being separated little by little, the gates and pathways were becoming a little bit bigger and were opening a little to fast for the other twin to grasp it. Maybe she was wrong into judging him so fast into thinking this. Twins stuck together, twins always had when they were identical or at least almost similar to the other.

Biting her lip she grasp the bench her hands. Visiting hours were up, she knew this much, but for some reason, she wanted to try again. This time she wanted to make sure she did the listening, and not the talking. This time she might be able to see what was up with the twins.

But that was going to be in vain wasn't it?

Only your desire to set me free

She knew it was. She bit her lip and sighed again as she leaned back into the bench all the way. A leaf fell from a nearby tree and land right next to her. She looked at it and frowned. It was in the middle of spring. It was too early to make the leaves fall. When she looked up, she saw that she was wrong. This was a crisp brown leaf that just fell from the tree just now.

It explained to her only a metaphor that her aunt used to tell her. 'Leaves fall from the trees not all at once, but one at a time. Some take longer to fall, while others go quickly.'

The twins were just like that. Falling leaves. The twin that was still walking, talking and grinning in pride was the fast falling leaf. Took everything that life threw at him and threw it back if he hated it, always took the paths that were bound to get him into trouble, or maybe took paths that made sure that he had a stable life.

The other twin, the one that swallowed self-pity was a slow faller. He wanted to hang on as long as he could before a new bud took his place. He was scared to touch the ground and let the wind carry him. He was scared to know what pathways to take without someone beside him.

Yuri knew that feeling, but she grew up with no one but her mother and relatives to help her, yet she never held a friend's hand because every time she tried, she wound up hurting them with either something she didn't mean to say or to high school drama where clothes, the right friends, and the right connections mattered.

Let us lie here all alone

Holding someone's hand from childhood. What was that like? Yuri had some friends, yet never lasted long enough for her to answer that question. The other twin was right, she didn't know what she was talking about. She had no idea what the twins were going through, and she had just assumed that she did.

Wasn't she part way right though? The twins did change for the better and for the worse, but change was always good. Even if it was for the worse. It only meant they were finally getting personality right?

Yuri sighed as she used her hand to brush the leaf away from the bench. She watched it fall to the ground and she frowned to herself. Life wasn't a kind thing. It was the most cruelest thing the world could have made. Yet Life was always generous despite what it was made to do.

She bit her lip as she looked at her watch. It wasn't a designer watch, but more of a one dollar type deal of a watch. She wasn't picky about jewelry or watches so she just picked out the cheapest. Maybe that's why she hardly got friends. Why should it matter?

The time was late. About six to be accurate. Yuri sighed, she had promised her mother that she would be hope at five. All this thinking that she was doing made her loose the sense of time. That was sort of typical of her. She could always get lost in her thoughts and come back and hour or two to realized she was late for something. Sighing she got up from her bench and decided to walk. It couldn't hurt being more late then what she was. It would cause her mother to worry more, but Yuri knew that if she ran off, people would talk.

Worn away like river stone

She sighed as she walked out of the park. The traffic was terrible, almost a traffic jam down the street by the tone of the honking horns. Possibly another bad driver who didn't know how to speed up. She sighed lightly to herself, grinning almost at the dialogue that was going through head as she thought of the little scene.

She kept walking, smiling. Keeping herself amused with the skit that she just made up on spur of the moment. A couple of times she laughed aloud at her own jokes, getting some very weird looks from the crowd. As she covered her mouth and turned around to walk backwards some to see how many people heard her, she turned back around to run into the other twin.

Just her luck.

"How's Kaoru?"

"So that's Kaoru? Funny, I still can't tell you apart from him." Yuri tried to use humor so that Hikaru wouldn't think her nuts...hell that was probably already a bad idea. "Visiting hours are up."

"Yeah, I figured." HIkaru blinked as he looked at her. "Why did he let you in?"

"I dunno, ask him tomorrow." Yuri shrugged. "He's being a really weird twin."

"Weird how?" Concern was clearly in his eyes.

"Oh...just that even though he's holding on, afraid to look down, he should try falling sometimes. Its fun." Yuri sidestepped. "Sorry, but I promised mom I'd be home around five."

"Its six fifteen." Hikaru blinked.

"Yeah, I'm late." Yuri said to him trying to get him to understand that she wasn't in the mood for idle chitchat. "I would talk to Kaoru...if that's his name...if I were you." Yuri said as she walked off.

Let us be the sirens of the sea