Twins?!

Chapter 2

After the Winter Cup

That was it. The game has ended with the score being 106-105, Seirin High's win. Seijuro couldn't believe it. 'I...lost? I guess no one is absolute' Seijuro thought with a sad smile. He walked over to his friend, Kuroko. Kuroko and everyone else on the court stared at him. He held his hand out to Kuroko.

"This is your win, Tetsuya. Congratulations." Kuroko smiled and shook Seijuro's hand.

"Good game, Akashi-kun."

"Congratulations, Seirin" the rest of Rakuzan said. Seirin smiled and said good game back to Rakuzan. After they lined up and bowed, Seirin was awarded as the winners of the Winter Cup. The two teams went back to their locker rooms and got ready to go home.

Over in Rakuzan's locker room, Seijuro was sitting on the bench with a sad look on his face. He too deep in thought to notice that Mibuchi walk up to him, with a look of worry.

"Are you alright, Sei-chan?" Seijuro looked up at the vice-captain with tears in his eyes. Everyone was surprised to see their captain and 'Red Emperor' crying. Seijuro looked back at the ground with the tears escaping and falling to the ground. "Are you sad that you lost, Sei-chan?" Seijuro shook his head and wiped his tears away, only for more to escape.

"It's just that, I finally got a precious friend back, so why can't I have someone even more precious to me back? I've changed so why? It's just not fair" Seijuro said with a broken voice. Mibuchi sat down and brought the first-year captain into a hug, which he gladly accepted.

"Somethings just don't come back to you that easily. We just have to be patient. Does that make sense?" Seijuro nodded his head. Mibuchi smiled and released his hold on Seijuro. After everyone was ready to go, they all headed to the hotel they were staying at for the Winter Cup, well everyone besides Seijuro, who was staying at one of the Akashi's vacation homes.

Seijuro was very scared on the way home. Scared to face his father. The quote his father always uses is that 'all Akashi's are absolute'. Every time he heard it, he always thought of the day Sora ran away. Seijuro was so caught up in that day that he didn't notice he was home. He looked up, sighed and headed to his father's office. He knocked on the door and heard his father's voice say "come in". The thing is, is that his father's voice sounded like he'd been crying. He carefully opened the door to see a sight he'd never see again. Mr. Akashi was sitting there in his office chair, but he wasn't alone. Sitting on his lap, was a boy with pale red hair, and pale skin, and his father was hugging him. 

"Ah, Seijuro, welcome back. How was the game?" his father said still hugging the boy close to him. The boy sitting on his father's lap turned toward Seijuro with surprised eyes. Seijuro's eyes grew ten times bigger when he saw the very face of someone who ran away seven years ago. Seijuro couldn't believe it. The boy right in front of him was Akashi Sora, his innocent baby twin brother.

"S-sora?" Seijuro asked quietly. Sora looked at his older twin with surprised eyes.

"Seijuro-nii-sama?" Seijuro ran up to them, took his brother, and hugged him.

"Oh, Sora! I've missed you so much! Where have you been?!" Seijuro said tears escaping his eyes. Sora was surprised to say the least. He just couldn't believe that both his brother and father missed him. He was expecting to be kicked out, but instead, he was brought into a hug by his father when he saw him, and now Seijuro as hugging him and crying. Sora smiled, a sad smile but a smile at that, and hugged his older, and slightly taller, twin.

"I'm sorry, Seijuro-nii-sama. I've been in the States" Sora said.

"Okay boys, as much as I love seeing my youngest back can we sit down and talk for a while?" Both the boys nodded and sat down on the chair across from their father, and by that I mean Sora sitting on Seijuro's lap while Seijuro sat on the chair with his arms wrapped around his brother's waist. "Thank you. Now, Seijuro, has was the game?"