Chapter Three

Okami Murasaki stepped out of the shower. She shivered as the cold air reached her warm body. She wrapped herself in an oversized fluffy dark purple towel. She sighed when she noticed that Shizuku had dropped her black towel on the ground. When she bent over to pick it up, she knocked over Rin's bottles of shampoo, and when she cursed and stood up, she smacked her head on the towel rack. She saw stars. The bathroom door cracked open and five Rins walked in.

"Are you okay nee-san?" Rin asked. It took Okami a second to get her eyes uncrossed.

"Huh? Oh, yeah I'm fine." Okami replied. Rin laughed, and helped her clean up. When she was gone, Okami put on her pajamas. She wore a pair of baggy dark purple fleece pajama pants, and a tight black tank top. She opened the bathroom door to find Rin at her desk doing her homework, and Shizuku sitting on her bed writing in a notebook. From the expression on Shizuku's face, she was writing depressing poetry. Again. Okami headed to her backpack to check her homework. Yup. It was all done. She sighed in contentment and continued with the manga she was creating. Only her sisters knew that she created the increasingly popular manga. It was called KokoroNamida. So people wouldn't know that it was her, she used the pen name Miki Shinjiiro.

After working for a while, Okami checked the clock. It was 11:53. She yawned, and put away her manga supplies. She noticed that Rin was asleep at her desk with her face on her homework. Okami laughed quietly because Shizuku was asleep. She shook Rin, and when she didn't respond, she put Rin's right arm around her shoulder, and carried her to her bed. She smiled. Even though Okami was the middle twin, she felt like she was in charge of her sisters. Whenever Rin did something ditzy like dropping a plate bringing it to the sink after dinner, Okami would just laugh and help her pick it up. Whenever Shizuku came home all beat-up after a fight, Okami was the one cleaned her up, much to Shizuku's embarrassment now that they were teenagers. Okami smiled and picked up Rin's panda off the floor. She tucked it in next to Rin. Okami made her way over to her bed, and got under the covers.

"Sou da ne bokura atarashii, jidai o mukaeta mitai de, kiseki teki koma ne, nido to wa chotto, ajiwaenai yo ne….Mou ichido omoidashite….." Okami groaned. Her alarm was ringing. She didn't mind that Evolution was playing, she just didn't like that her favorite song was blaring at 5:45 in the morning. She sat up. When she attempted to get up, she landed face first on the floor. Rin gasped. She got up and made her way over to Okami. Okami looked up at Rin.

"Ow." She said surprised. Rin started laughing. Shizuku groaned. "Can't you two idiots be less quieter than you already are?" She hissed.

"Gomen Shi-nee-chan." Okami replied. Once Rin and Okami had made sure that there was no permanent damage to Okami's face, the started getting ready for school. Even though Okami hated most skirts, she had a weird addiction to short pleated skirts. Okami spun around to make her skirts fan around her. Shizuku snorted.

"You look like an idiot every time you do that baka." Okami just laughed. She tied the bow on the front of her sailor suit uniform. Rin looked confused. "Isn't the bow supposed to be red?" she asked. Okami laughed.

"I dyed it purple!" she announced, grinning widely.

"Well if you can have a purple ribbon, I can have a pink ribbon…" Rin mused. Okami laughed.
"Let's hope the teachers agree with us!" she replied. Shizuku groaned and put her pillow over her head, muttering what most likely were swears. Okami tromped over to Shizuku's bed, and swiftly removed the covers.

"(Censored)!!!!" Shizuku replied.

"Time to get up!" Okami replied. She tossed Shizuku's uniform at her. Okami and Rin skipped out to the kitchen to make their lunches.

A few minutes later, Shizuku came out to the kitchen, tying the bow on her uniform. Rin and Okami began another round of hysterical laughing. The bow on Shizuku's uniform was inky black. Shizuku glared at them. Rin and Okami knew that look, and stopped laughing before anyone got hurt. The triplets went on making their lunches.

In Okami's bento, there was ramen, pickles, and cat shaped onigiri, amidst other foods. In Rin's bento, there was takoyaki, miso soup, and sashimi. In Shizuku's bento there was dango, sushi and other foods that I'm too lazy to mention.

When that was done, the triplets packed their bags, and headed out the door. Halfway down the street, Okami stopped dead.

"Wait guys!!" she said, putting up a hand. She flew back down the street with her long hair flying behind her.

"What'd she forget today?" Shizuku asked Rin.

"I dunno." Rin replied. "Probably a school book." But a minute later, Okami returned with a drawing pad underneath her arm.

"Is that your manga pad?" Rin asked warily eyeing the pad. Okami sighed.

"No, baka. If I brought my manga pad everyone would know about KokoroNamida." She flipped open the pad. "These are just random doodles. I draw new characters and outfits when I have spare time, usually in World History." Rin sweatdropped.

"THAT'S what you do in World History? And here I was thinking that you were actually doing your schoolwork!!" She shouted angrily.

"I DO do my schoolwork!" she insisted."It just doesn't take that long. It's too easy, because I did the same stuff in our last school." Suddenly a watch was shoved in their faces. Shizuku was showing them the time. They swore, and ran.

"We're gonna be late!!" they groaned. Shizuku caught them by their collars, and turned them the right way. Shizuku sighed. Every morning since they had moved here, Rin and Okami had had a spat and tried to go the wrong way to school. Shizuku dragged them to school, where on the way Okami and Rin had a fight about whose lunch was better, whose ribbon was prettier, and for some odd reason, whose toothbrush was cooler. Shizuku sighed, and once they were inside the school gate, she knocked their heads together hard enough to make it hurt, but not hard enough to do any REAL damage.

"Owww!!" they protested, over their short bout of sibling rivalry. Shizuku pushed them towards class.

"C'mon guys, we're gonna be late." Shizuku replied.