It was a quiet, less than active day in the World. Which meant something was up, but hardly a soul noticed.

And that included a player by the name of Anissa, who was consistently jumping up and down, both in virtual and non-virtual reality, and laughing at some of the looks she received from observers who were passing by.

With silver hair, occasionally glinting with a lavender sheen in a certain light, violet skirt half-way to the knees, fishnet arm warmers up half way past the elbow, and black boots, matching violet eyes, which seemed to go on forever, and creamy skin, she looked the sight of an angel on a over active hyper spree.

And truth was, an angel on an overactive hyper spree was the exact truth. An angel with an attitude, vocabulary including of four constantly used four-letter words, and sometimes destructive streak, anyways.

Any who met her in battle or watch her grace in clash with a monster of the World would undoubtedly say something along the lines of 'Big, destructive things can come in cute, nice packages'. That, was also the truth.

Anissa, having eating ten small bars of chocolate in victory of defeating a monster ten levels higher than herself and her twin blades, ranted on about the superiority of being a twin blades to her older sister and the only one she'd say was unwaveringly faithful to her, Kayane.

Kayane, in truth, looked like she was the older sister without the need to be stated so, but also the near opposite, which led to the question of how it was assumed automatically.

Instead of a light color, Kayane had black hair, which shimmered with a dark violet hue every now and then, green eyes that seemed to end right at the beginning in a sudden calm, a black jacket and white shirt ending at the waist underneath, and a black skirt. Her hair, nearly down to her knees, was pulled back in a low ponytail by a large white ribbon.

“I really like being a twin blade. Quick, fun, much, much better. Better than a heavy blade, right?” Anissa chirped, twirling on one foot as she stared up at the skies. “No offense to our favorite heavy blade, though.”

Watching her sister from the corner of her eye while she faced the center of the town they were in, which was Carmina Gadelica, she nodded in response, silently waiting for her sister to opt for hitting a dungeon once more.

Grinning, Anissa noted the slight nod of her sister's head and lack of complete attention. “We're even better than those blade master people, too, aren't I?”

“Nope.”

“Damn, I almost got you.”

“Nope.”

Anissa stuck her tongue out childishly. “Nyah, I'm still right though. I'm always right.”

“Right and Wrong is only a matter of opinion,” Kayane voiced, turning her head to look at Anissa yet keeping her face solidly still.

“Whatever! You're my big sister, you're supposed to let me be right, not give me truth back in my face.” Anissa began to cackle when her sister opened her mouth to speak but shut it again and looked the other way.

“Shuyin's here.”

Then Anissa stopped doing everything altogether.

Anissa looked up at Kayane shocked from where she had rooted her feet to the ground suddenly. "What do you mean?" Following her sister's gaze, she saw the person that was the object of Kayane's almost careless statement. Him. "Him again." Anissa muttered, looking down and brushing off the palms of her hands distractedly. "I thought I told you I didn't like you anymore." she voiced, wondering absently why Kayane hadn't charged after him for some of the thing he'd done to her while they'd been dating.

"I don't know whether to say he remembers what you said, or to say he's forgotten," Kayane dead-panned, sending as cool a look as she could to the man who was known to them as Shuyin and mentally berating herself for ever letting Anissa still go out with him after she'd been informed of their romantic relationship.

"What do you mean?" Anissa asked, glancing over at Kayane.

“Check your email in-box.”

Anissa did and it could be easily enough said that her jaw dropped. “Twelve new fucking messages?” Then she looked up at her sister. “How'd you --?”

“He sent me a bunch of 'please don't kill me emails'.”

Anissa mentally sighed. Oh, fucking, boy, she muttered in her mind.

Kayane and Shuyin never got off on a good start, to put it lightly. Anissa had asked Shuyin out and he accepted. They went out, him usually keeping his hands to himself, never trying to touch her intimately, or get her alone with him. After about three months, he'd tried to move further, deeper kisses on not just the lips and getting pushed back each time. One night, Anissa had complained to her older sister about it and, to put it lightly, she walked out of the house, eerily calm, found him in an alley, smoking a cigarette and didn't beat the shit out of him, but talked to him. He never tried anything like that again. Afterwards, Shuyin always stayed outside when picking her up and when he did come into her sight, he always kept his eyes low and never looked her in the eye. i That, she fully understood.

Her sister had always been a force to reckon with and her bad-side was highly feared because you never got hurt physically but damn, her sister knew exactly what to say and where it hurt.

"Kayane, I think he's smart enough to not get himself talked to a crying pulp in this world, too," Anissa chided, crossing her arms demandingly.

But being her younger sister certainly had its major perks.

Kayane tore her gaze from Shuyin and looked at her younger sister. "I don't think being ignorant of your feelings is being smart enough to not get a few words up, Anissa. Unless he's got a death-wish, he's as big an idiot he was then."

Yet being younger meant not being as smart and quick to speak as well. Damned age difference.

Anissa snorted to herself. She should have known her sister would have said that. Very good at playing her role, she muttered in her head. "No, you should talk to him, make him apologize and offer to do something in return," she responded snidely, closing her eyes and sticking her nose up defiantly. She opened her eyes when she heard the sound of two people snort. Kayane and Shuyin.

"Alright," the two of them deadpanned sardonically.

Sigh. How alike the two of them were.

"Fine." Anissa turned to Kayane. "You; S.B., now. Go." She turned back to Shuyin and rolled her eyes at the angry look on his face, a glare directed at Kayane, no attempt made to hide it from her. "Go bye bye now, or I will actually let her do whatever she wants without kicking and screaming for her to stop." With that, Anissa spun on her heel and walked away, leaving a stunned, confused Shuyin and an almost amused Kayane.

Who's the older one here? Kayane inwardly questioned. She paused for a second, a few of Anissa's words dawning on her. "Let me?" her voice still calm.

"Yep. Younger sister, here, remember?" Anissa replied, waiting for her sister to come up next to her.

"Can't let you forget it, can I?" Kayane sneered, folding her arms, her calm and almost cold exterior already going back in place. Kayane ignored her for the rest of the time they were in The World. Her little sister was going to be in so much trouble when they logged out and Anissa came over to her home and her father's for two weeks.

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Lightning raged in the area as Shugo and Rena fought a monster. A data monster. They were down to very few life points and low on magic as well. Finally, Shugo could use Data Drain and succeeded. Now, all that was left to do was rid the monster of its life points before it did the same to them. A few minutes passed and the monster was destroyed, leaving nothing but a memory in the twins' minds.

"Shugo, let's go. I don't like it here. Let's go back before another monster sent by whoever it was shows up again," Rena offered, standing close to Shugo, her brother.

"Yeah, let's."

Glancing to each other from habit, both of them activated Sprite Ocarina, left the dungeon, then headed back to Carmina Gadelica.

“Sakura Blossoms we go,” Shugo declared jovially almost instantly after arriving, then grinned without a higher reason other than excitement as golden rings circled around them once more and they were transported to area aforementioned.

"Sakura Blossoms," Rena smiled, glad to see the familiar pink blossoms around her and the sight of a couple of her dearest friends. "Anissa! Kayane!" Rena and Shugo ran toward their friends. Even though Kayane was older, they were still extremely good friends; great friends. Shugo favored Anissa more, living less than a mile away from each other, and Rena took more of a liking to Kayane, living just two streets over. Shugo to Anissa because he liked the way she wasn't too much of an adult and Rena to Kayane because Kayane knew so many things and stories and strategies and so on and so forth.

"Yo, twin alert!" Anissa laughed, springing up from her position of laying against a tree to almost a run toward her friends, while Kayane looked down from where she was quite peacefully sitting on a tree branch.

"Fancy meeting you here," Kayane smiled, watching as the three of them embraced and Rena tore away to run up to the tree.

"Hey, batgirl!" Rena smiled, waving hello. "Why don't you come down?"

Obliging, Kayane slid off the branch and landed gracefully in front of Rena before she had said 'don't' and ruffled the girl's hair. "No harm in that, right?" Kayane smirked, walking over to where Shugo was telling Anissa of the Data monster they just saw.

"And what have you two been up to?" Kayane asked Rena, referring to both her and her brother.

"We just got back from defeating a Data Monster," the reply came, from not just Rena, but Shugo as well.

"Took us forever and we almost lost," Shugo continued, absently yawning. "We escaped with less than a hundred Life Points. It was close.

"What did it look like this time?" Anissa asked, sitting down and folding her legs.

"That's the thing," Rena began. "It looked like a bunch of things. It changed it's form after awhile."

"We had to adjust our attacks and strategies each time. We didn't know the weaknesses of half the monsters it transformed into and had to guess on them," Shugo continued. "We could've really used your help. With all of us there, at least one of us would've known what to do each time."

"Hell yeah! Then why didn't you ask us to come?" Anissa looked up at Shugo and Rena expectantly.

"Well," Rena began, trying to think of why they hadn't done just that. "I don't know. I guess we were just--"

"You wanted to do something yourselves without any help, am I correct?" Kayane interrupted, no touch of anger or misunderstanding in her voice at all. Nor was there any hint of any other emotion in her voice either, as it usually was.

"Yeah." Shugo looked over at Kayane almost… defiantly, as if waiting for her to announce her disapproval if their decision.

Kayane and Anissa exchanged quick looks and smiled. "We can understand that perfectly," they both assured, referring back to when they were younger and were in similar positions as the two twins were.

"Come on, let's go and have some fun," Anissa smiled. "Anyone up for hittin' a dungeon or ten?"

Kayane was walking by her sister at her first sentence, having guessed what she was going on about. Along the way, though, she extended a hand and pulled her sister to her feet. "Or ten."

"I was being funny," Anissa informed, brushing herself off then playfully pushing Kayane in the direction of the Chaos gate.

"And ten dungeons is?" Kayane looked over her shoulder calmly. "And besides, i I'm /i the one bored and needing to do something for once." Kayane had reached the Chaos gate by the end of her sentence and was disappearing as she turned give her sister a small and warm smile.

Anissa glared at the spot her sister had been at last. "When I get to her and dad's house to spend a week visiting them, I am so going to invite Shuyin to the house i just /i to piss her off."

Rena ran past Shugo and Anissa, eager to join in with Kayane and her search for a challenging and venting worthy dungeon. "Come on, you guys! Let's hurry or she'll have destroyed half the monsters in the field by the time we get there!" Rena laughed, waving them on to hurry up at the Chaos gate, disappearing a moment after.

"You had better take some pictures for me so I can see Kayane's face. Or maybe getting it on tape too, by the way," Shugo smiled, walking along side Anissa to the Chaos gate.

"Don't worry, I am going to need all the help I can get afterwards if I want to be even remotely close to still living when she figures out I coordinated it all.”

Chuckling, Anissa grabbed Shugo's hand and ran to the Chaos gate. Needless to say, what Rena had said about her sister was the full truth and Anissa was guessing that more than half the monster portals, and the monsters inside them would be gone by the time anyone caught up with her.

Ah, such is the life of having a sister that, by Anissa standards, was inhumanly perfect.