An odd life

Chapter 1 : Childhood

A few years later

I sighed when i heard our alarm clock do it's job and got up. Ignoring my brothers who were stirring, i ran to the bathroom and brushed my teeth whilst washing my face. I couldn't help but look at me, kaoru and hikaru's face. I went out and waited for my brothers to finish washing their face and brushing their teeth. When they arrived we grinned and we started rummaging around the wardrobe. Since we want to be identical we had to have the same clothes so we developed a system. I pick the boots and gloves we wear, hikaru picks the top and hat, whilst kaoru picks the trousers and scarves. When we were done, we had light brown boots and light blue gloves with, a light grey top and light brown hat. We then put on light blue trousers and a light blue scarf. We looked at the mirror and looked at each other.

"Right!" Hikaru shouted

"Left!"I shouted and kaoru pouted then smirked.

"You were left yesterday kouru." He reminded me smugly. It was my turn to pout as i now had to part my hair in the middle which looked really weird. When we parted our hair(Hikaru right, kaoru left and kouru middle) and we sneaked into the kitchens. Both hikaru and kaoru went to get the equipment ready to prank the maids, whilst i was watching to see if anyone will come. After a few minutes i saw a maids coming and ran into the kitchen.

"Maid alert! Maid alert!" I whispered.

I took notice of the wires and pieces of pudding on the floor and avoided them. I turned off the light and we ran under the table. I heard the light switch on and a few grunts and screams. I couldn't help but laugh out loud at the maids faces. I clearly wasn't the only one as i heard laughter behind me. The maids didn't find this funny as they glared at us. We ran out the room still laughing and ran to the dining room. We smiled at mother ignoring the 'hikaru, kouru, kaoru! Come back here now!' Mother chuckled at us.

"Boys-"She started but we cut her off.

"Who's who?" We asked in sync. She then frowned and pointed at me.

"Hikaru" She pointed at kaoru " Kouru" She then pointed at hikaru "Kaoru." She then smiled at our pouting faces.

"I'm kouru!" I whined.

"Yeah and i'm hikaru." Hikaru said.

"And i'm kaoru!" Kaoru said.

Mum just beckoned us to the table and we sat down. We started eating and when we finished, we got off our chairs and went to go get our coat to go school. We picked a light grey and a dark grey coat and took off in our limo to school. To be honest since we don't interact with all the other kids, we're just alone most of the time anyway. Not to mention when the teacher asks us to answer a question we answer in sync. It was as usual and we were just sitting in a bench watching the other children play around when a girl came up to us.

"Do you wanna play with me?" She asked.

"Who are you talking to?" We replied instinctively.

"To the three of you." She said.

"There's nobody called ' the three of you' here." We replied in sync once again. I couldn't help but frown, why is she trying so much? Other kids would have just gone by now.

"I'm talking to kouru, hikaru and kaoru." She replied.

"Which one is hikaru, which one is kouru and which one is kaoru?" We asked. She stayed silent for a moment and i honestly thought she was going to walk away like the others. Nobody can tell us apart after all, but maybe she can? What am i thinking about? Nobody can and nobody ever will, people always leave us disappointed after all. Just lost hope an-

"-I'm sorry." She whispered and walked off. I couldn't help but squeeze my brothers hands wanting comfort. I could feel them faintly squeeze back but all my attention was on that girl. Why did she apologize and why does she have a regretful tone? I ignored the urge to go running after her and sighed. She was just another disappointment after all. Why would i even think of hoping about such a thing anyway? I never really did have an answer as i had to worry about the party my mother was hosting tomorrow after all.

Time skip

I ignored the lady yip yapping about us and set the frog on her. I took notice of a maid and blinked in surprise, nobody ever had the guts to try and scold us after all. I couldn't help but smirk, after all she clearly doesn't care about herself getting fired. We went to our room and changed out of our clothes. Hikaru the oldest had a pink dress with one bow, karou a blue dress with two bows and i had a green dress with three bows. After we took them off and dressed in our pajamas, it was late after all. I went to sleep and took notice of a sound as i was trying to sleep. I looked at hikaru and kaoru and saw they were awake as well. Hikaru left and i left after him. I heard kaoru following us with the guard button in his hands. We eventually came across the maid women. She attempted to threaten us with a knife but we twisted it on her.

"If we press this button, the guards will come instantly." We said in sync. She seemed troubled and we smirked.

"One...two-"We said but was cut off.

"-What do you want?" She said

"Which one is hikaru?" We replied instantly.

"Wha-what!?" She shouted.

"If you get it right we will be willing to give you the combination." We said in sync as hikaru brought the combination out. We then went back to our bedroom and got back into bed.

"Do you have the combination?" Kaoru asked.

"It's safe." Hikaru replied. I smiled and went back to bed. Before i knew it the alarm went off and we were woken up instantly. We ran to the safe and saw it was open. We then ran to our balcony and saw her climbing down a rope.

"You broke our promise." We said. She seemed surprised to see us but the smiled.

"I had no choice did i? Nobody can tell you three apart! It's just possible that no one will turn up in your whole lives that can really tell you three apart." The lady maid we really liked said that to us and then disappeared into the darkness of the night.

I went back inside and saw the bank broken in pieces, just like my hope felt right now. I could hear her words in my mind and clenched my hand. Can we really be told apart or will we nobody be able to tell us apart? Will anyone be able to look me in the eyes and confidently say ' your kouru'? Of course after this, with these words constantly replaying in our minds we became progressively more twisted as we grew up. We gave a friendly barrier and sometimes there were people who were to dense to notice it but we got rid of them just like the last. Of course that all changed when blondie showed up.