AN: Okay...again, I have no idea why I am continuing this. I guess, thank you to everyone who is reading this, and continues to read. Without you I would have surely not written this far lmao. This is a teaser, I repeat...TEASER for the real chapter five. :) Oohh man, and is that chapter LONG, STRONG, and bound to get the FREAK shit on. Needless to say- someone says something that changes the twins relationship...forever. )

:D

Chapter Five Teaser: ./... .

"Hikaru-Kun, did I happen to leave my toothbrush at your sink?" When I turned the corner, the mess of red hair mirroring my own sat flushed under a sink-full of water, the faucet still running steadily over the back of his head. I smiled, leaning against the door frame to admire from afar.

He always did this. When he was upset, distraught, bored, or otherwise too unnerved by something that he would test how long his lungs could hold. One minute and thirty-one seconds had been his outstanding record, and that being true- it would only be a few seconds more that I knew he'd stay submerged.

3...

2...

1...

Long pale fingers twirled at the crystal base of the sink, the running water slowly becoming nothing more than hurried drops beating on the surface of the small reservoir that had formed. He lifted his head, a sopping wet disarray of hair with his small petite nose and mouth peaking out from beneath it, and turned to me as he pushed the tangled bangs aside.

"What?" His voice had been nothing more than I had expected. Two days had passed, and still we were on awkward terms. It wasn't like me to address situations so forwardly, but really...this was becoming tiresome, even for me. (Rather, I should say especially for me.)

Raising myself from the lean, I moved around him taking a deep breath, "Nothing, It's right here. Sorry, I didn't want to disturb you nii-san." The small blue toothbrush was hard and cold in my hand, being the perfect object to subject to my ritualistic anger. Were this any normal situation, it would have been Hikaru whom I'd go to in my time of need, but with him being the center of such volatile frustration...well, it would be in both our best interests if I just didn't do anything.

The last time I had was what had caused all this.

He didn't say anything to stop me as I left the room and I was alright with that for the most part. What was I expecting him to do, stop me and say 'Kaoru, I understand. Let's not be angry?'. Fat chance. My brother was known for holding grudges, and while I still hadn't understood to the full extent why he wasn't talking to me I knew he wouldn't let up anytime soon.

Really I should be happy that talking to me was the only thing he wasn't doing. We still performed with one another during hosts, and we still snuggled occasionally if the girls had asked for it. But nothing more. Never anything more. No more in-depth affection, no concert or recitals. Nothing. Only two days, and it had seemed like forever. Sighing, I fell hard onto my bed.

Why was he so stubborn...

Why was I so messed up?

"Kaoru."

His voice sent chills down my spine, and I immediately shot up to look at the corner where the identical form stood still, a towel draped lazily over his shoulders where his hair had been dripping. My eyes flickered down his form to the carpet, then back up again- the twin garnet pools catching me so violently it stole my breath away.

"..." I didn't say anything, but the look on my face was enough for him to know I was listening.

He smiled a little and dropped his eyes. Just then he opened his mouth, silence spilling from it as if it were a poison, and he sucked his words back in.

Wait- what was he going to say?

My body leaned forward by itself, being caught in suspension by those words failed to be spoken. What was he going to say?

"I just wanted to say, Goodnight." My crown broke. A prince with no kingdom. Abandoned.

I smiled. "...Ne, goodnight Nii-san."

As he walked away from me, all I could feel was the tightening sensation in my chest- a thousand phantom daggers sticking into my sides and stomach settling comfortably among the sorrow and doubt. Goodnight, heh...so was that it?

I didn't want to think about it.

AN: R&R!