We Are Family

Group Project

The quadruplets and their new friends hurried into their class, ready to start a day of learning. Or at least to try to learn, in Yuya and Yugo's case. Neither of them liked going to school, at least not academic school, and they both got very bored very easily.

But to their surprise, the teacher gave an assignment that piqued their interest. "Alright, class, today you're going to be doing a group project," he said. "You'll be in groups of four, and you can choose your partners."

Yuto, Yuri, Yugo, and Yuya's quadruplet telepathy hivemind immediately kicked in, and they all knew that the four of them would be in their group together. The project was a Social Studies project about an important historical battle, and the four boys immediately knew what project they wanted to do together.

"You can now quietly pick your partners and discuss ideas for your projects," the teacher said. A couple of students turned to ask the quadruplets if any of them wanted to partner up with them, but the four brothers immediately turned to look at each other and said in unison, "Reenactment!"

The students who had wanted to ask the quadruplets to be their partners realized that they had already picked each other. Disappointment set in, but they watched the Sakakis in intrigued silence, realizing from their unison decision that they might actually have quadruplet telepathy after all.

"Ok, Yuya, you're our resident performer," Yuri said. "You help us rehearse and practice, and come up with the storyline. Yuto, you're the best at writing, you write the script. Yugo, you're good at making things out of wood and metal, you make the weapons. And I'll make the costumes."

"Sounds good to me," Yuto said. Yuya and Yugo both nodded in agreement. They pushed their desks together and huddled close, talking quietly together.

The teacher was surprised by how quickly the Sakaki boys had come to an agreement. After all, just the other day they were fighting over who got to sit next to Yuya! But then again, they definitely knew each other better than anyone else did. It did make sense for them to know each other's strengths and weaknesses, and apply them to a project together. Perhaps their project would be better than any project they could do with other people.