Fourth story in my series of short stories with various VK characters. Independent from the previous three. :D
#: 04
Title: Two halves of a whole.
Characters: Kiryuu twins.
Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Knight, this is a fanfic written for fun and for love of the series. I'm not making any money with it.
Warnings: Implied spoilers for recent chapters of the manga.
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It's funny how the whole world could turn upside down, your life could be completely torn to pieces and thrown to the wind, everything you knew and everything you thought you had could be flipped inside out, and in the end, even years later, you may still find yourself back in the very same spot you left from, wondering how in the hell was that possible, considering just how many things changed.
His brother… his twin, the flesh of his flesh.
Didn't people say twins were a same and single entity in two bodies?
What a joke, they couldn't be farther from each other, the two of them, as different as blood and water, especially now.
And yet, despite the treason, despite the hatred, despite the scorn, the envy, the pain and fear and loss of everything… he still loved his brother. He missed him so badly, he yearned for him with all his being.
So many things had happened during those years… bad ones and good ones. Like meeting her…
But in the end, they were both left alone, his twin and him, and he found himself at the same spot he had left from, in his heart.
He spent so many years trying so hard to convince himself that he hated him, that he wouldn't forgive him, and yet… in the end, he had been fooling himself all along, he loved him with all his being.
To think that what he claimed to be a lie for so long turned out to be the truth in the end… what did that make him? Failing in my lies even when I lie to myself.
But it was okay. It didn't matter anymore, the lies, the pain, the failed attempts to hate his other half.
He just had to push himself a little bit further, and he'd make it to the basement. He just had to manage to get there before dying.
He would finally be one with Zero again, like they were in the womb, before it all went so horribly wrong.
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The End.
Sagakure, August 18th 2008
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I wanted to write this so that it sounds like it's about Zero at first, but then, it turns out it's Ichiru.
The turning point should be the part about him lying to himself. Because Ichiru claimed he hated Zero, when in truth, he didn't. He hated the fact his parents prefered Zero, and he may have tried to hate Zero, but we know that in the end, he failed at that and still loved Zero. :)