hikaruorkaoru | Fourth Pattern ; voice, drawing

Fourth Pattern ; voice, drawing

This place is so stupid.

[As he talks to the journal, he's sketching.

This place is great for his creativity, he's realized... but that's because there's nothing else to do. He hasn't left his apartment in a few days except to steal food from the communal kitchen.

Being forcably dragged back into the mindset of having Kaoru and only Kaoru to rely on... didn't go away easily. He'd missed his brother before, but it's only gotten worse since then.]

The people in charge are idiots. Why would you only kidnap one? It still doesn't make any sense.

[He might not realize that he can be heard right now. He hasn't been exactly careful about where his hand's brushed in the journal.]

We're not supposed to be apart.

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No way. Oldest brother gets most of it, second gets some, but Kyouya-senpai... He'll probably end up, like, a manager at one of the companies or something, but other than that? Nope.

That's terrible. Is that really how humans do it...?

That's how the Otori family does it. [And a lot more, but. Hey.]

Why are you friends with them?

I'm not. Just Kyouya-senpai.

[???]

[Explain this.]

...You there?

How can you only be friends with one of them?

Kyouya-senpai's only a year older than us. His brothers are, like, four and six years older than him, I think. Plus they're jerks. [Even though he has no right to call anyone that.]

They all sort of do their own thing. Not like me and Kaoru. But that's because we're twins. Ageha -- our little sister -- has her own friends who aren't friends with us.

[The guy sounded old enough... so why was he explaining that you didn't have to like siblings just because you liked one person? That was, like, grade-school stuff.]

[He didn't go to grade school okay.]

[But more important, you have both a twin and a non-twin. That's interesting.]

[He lowers his voice, almost conspiratorially.]

Normal siblings are... different, aren't they?

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Yeah. They definitely are.

[He assumes that, well. This guy mentioned having four brothers. An older and a younger. So one of the others must be a twin.]

Kaoru and I have always been together. From the day we were born and ever since. "Normal" siblings aren't like that. Don't know what that's like.

They don't get it. No one else does.

[Don turns this over in his mind for a few moments.]

Listen, Hikaru... when Kaoru comes, he - might not be the same age as you anymore.

...What?

[Nope. Not possible. Wings? Sure. Magic journals? Fine. Random age changes? Fine. But Kaoru and him not being the same age? Not possible.]

[In an awkward rush:] My brothers all got here first and they were from later. Now they're all gone and I'm still here. I don't know why I'm different...

That sucks. [Kaoru not being here? Is awful. Kaoru leaving? Would be so much worse. He wouldn't deal with it. Just wouldn't.]

But what do you mean "from later"?

The future. Relative to me. They were all older...

[... ... ...]

This place is so screwed up!

[Tell him about it. A crashing noise as Don punches something in his temporary lair.]

[...And people say he has a temper.]

[Don usually doesn't - but when he loses it, it's spectacular.]

[At any rate, there's not much left to say on this subject.]

The offer stands. I'll be around on the journals if you're looking for me.

Yeah. I'll keep that in mind.

[But after all that noise? Well, Hikaru's not keen on being around someone likely to snap.

Not that he'll say that, of course.]

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