Requested by YukinaMizuki

"Shouta what are you hiding on your back?"

There was a long paused before he answered. He was obviously hesitating to answer "lyrics, for my new song" he smiled forcefully

"Hmmmm, so you can't even tell your own twin sister" I chuckled and patted his shoulder "I'll just change then let's go buy sushi, my treat"

"Okay, I'll wait you on the living room"

I left his room with smile on my face, but once I closed it, I sighed.

As if he could hide well that paper. I had a glimpsed to it and it was a birth certificate. Why in the world Shouta had that, looking at that, gripping at that with disturbed face. Something was wrong since yesterday, not just Shouta, but mom and dad too.

Later that night, Shouta and I went to the sushi restaurant and he was telling me about how he got really close with his senpai in UtaPri, and how they bullied him. He was complaining but he was enjoying his time.

Once we got home, mom and dad's eyes widened as they saw the two of us entered the house

"Where did you two go?" mom asked worriedly

"We ate dinner. (F/N) treat me to a sushi restaurant" Shouta answered as he bowed down "I'll go change now"

"We bought you sushi too" I told the two of them but they really looked worried

"Ah, before you two change, Mom and dad are thinking if you want to go to grandma's house before Shouta-chan go back to Tokyo" Dad wrapped his arm around mom's shoulder, but their smile were so awkward "Like our family always do"

Wait!

Grandma's house?

"I don't mind since I still have a week vacation. How about (F/N) and Dad? Can you get day offs from your work?"

"Dad is fine. I already have mine. How about (F/N)?" The three of them looked at me, but why did I feel so suspicious? Their stares weren't as the same as before

"I'll ask them then I'll let you know. How many days?"

"Three days, and starting tomorrow or the next day if possible"

"Got it. I'll call my boss" I put down the sushi we bought for mom and dad as I hurriedly ran towards my room. I grabbed my phone and call my boss. Indeed, he was surprised but he understand the situation and thus gave me three days off. Though I still had a work that next day. I told mom and dad and they smiled. Shouta was acting uptight.

That night I couldn't sleep. Memories were overflowing. Grandma's house? The last time I went there with the whole family was when before Shouta went to Tokyo.

I stared at my ceiling but then rolled right and left. I grabbed a pillow and hugged it tightly.

"Why of all places? With Shouta"

~flashback~

"Sea side?! Grandma's house?!" Shouta and I shouted in chorus with delight. It had been two years since we last saw grandma.

We got too excited when mom and dad said it. Shouta and I immediately packed our things and we excitedly left to grandma's house.

We hugged and kissed grandma as we arrived in her house, but then immediately set off to the sea.

We played! We had fun! We ate a lot! We laughed to our heart content!

Until the last day

"So after all, you are really going to Tokyo?" I asked Shouta as the two of us sat beside the sea side watching the night sky "Why do you need to go?"

"I wanted to try more things. I wanted to become cooler" he answered in soothing voice. He won an audition that he didn't know he entered. I was happy for him. Since he would leave, I would be free from being compared. From being dumped by other people.

But I was contradicting myself. My chest was being stabbed. I didn't want him to go. Ever since we were young, Shouta was always beside me. During our ups and down, we were together. Even though I hated him sometimes, he was still my twin brother. We knew each other a lot.

Indeed Shouta cried a lot, but this kind of things, I had a weak emotion. I cried beside him and he was smiling gently while patting my back

I cried non-stop and I had no plan on stopping. But I was surprised it stopped. Tears stopped, no I was frozen and stopped when I felt Shouta's lips on my lips.

"Sho-Shouta?"

"Ah, you finally stop!" he grinned and hugged me "Sorry for what I did. I heard that when you someone is crying, you can silence her by kissing her. I was surprised that it worked." He patted my back as I was still dumbfounded on what he did. "I will always be your closest best friend no matter what." And in low voice "I am your twin brother"

I stopped crying and I clung to his shirt while he hugged me.

~End of flashback~

Since that day, for some reason, I felt something else towards Shouta. Not as a twin brother, but a man that I like.

He was my reason why I couldn't get a boyfriend when I was in high school, and in university. But the reasons were different.

I tried to fall in love with other person to forget the feelings towards my twin brother who was away, but I couldn't bring myself to love someone more than what I felt toward Shouta. It took time, and reality that we were brother and sister, specifically twins, hunts me down

So I became friends with Kawashiro-san and I was surprised that he started to court me and as time passed, he became my boyfriend. But I honestly couldn't feel anything towards him. Just a friend. But still I went out with him. As I finally trying to move on with the incest feeling towards Shouta, he suddenly return home. I acted as what a sister should do. But once I was on my bed, I couldn't help, but clung on my chest. Painful.

When I broke up with Kawashiro-san, I was so happy that I felt that something burdensome again returned to me.

~

"So you will go to your grandma's house tomorrow. That was surprising to hear from your parents" Naru commented as I told her our family outing "Ah, I only read this on manga and watch in anime, but I am really surprise that there's a case of incest taboo"

"Please don't put it that way. He is just doing his duty as my brother" I sighed and took a bit of the burger. Well, Naru asked me to check her sister's essay so I went to her house. But after checking the essay, I told her about our family trip. Besides, of all people, Naru knew everything, and became my advisor

"True, a duty as your brother. But I honestly felt that something is different you know" I tilted my head and curiously looked at her "The way he looked at you during middle school, high school, and now changed"

"What do you mean?"

"During middle school, I could see that he was a brother who wanted to be protected by you. When we became high school, he changed and he seemed pretending to be someone wanted to be protected. And now, seeing him, he doesn't want to be protected, but wanted to protect"

"Of course, since he is matured now, right? As my brother, he at least wanted to do what a brother should do, right?"

"In my eyes though, his relationship towards you became a brother to some guy who wanted to protect the person he loved, not as a brother, but as if, you are not related to each other at all"

"Naru, you read too much manga and watch too much anime. You are not as worst as Raika and Anri, but you are the silent, but scary type"

She drank his tea and smiled at me "I am just saying what I noticed."

I sighed and we just continued talking. I wanted to stay longer, but I needed to pack my things, thus I went home and went straight to my room.

The next day, I was excited to see grandma and the sea.

"Shouta, what is this?" I curiously asked the big gift wrapped neatly, sitting between me and him "for grandma?"

He nodded and grinned "I actually bought it from Tokyo and I was planning to send it to grandma. But good thing we will go there"

"Hmmm, grandma will surely be happy to see you since it's been a long time since she last saw you."

"Probably, since she always see you every year, right?"

"With mom." I answered "Ah, I can't wait to see grandma, since it's been a year"

"Of course, me too." We just looked at each other and both laughed.

All the way, we were listening to his songs. We were singing along.

And once we arrived to grandma's house, we immediately hugged her, kissed her, and again as if we returned as high school students, we immediately went to sea.

We played, we had fun, and again we laughed into our heart content. And again, my feelings toward Shouta grew bigger.

"Where's mom and dad?" Shouta and I asked as we came back from playing.

"They just went to visit someone" grandma answered with smile on her face "I cooked a fried fish for the two of you"

We excitedly followed her and together with grandma, we ate.

That night, for unknown reason, grandma told me and Shouta to have a walk on the sea side. She said that the sky was especially beautiful tonight.

She was right! It was beautiful! The night was full of stars and it reflects on the sea

"Ah, what a beautiful sky" I stared on the horizon as smile escaped from me. I looked at Shouta and he was looking at me "Shouta?"

Again it happened, Shouta suddenly kissed me. As he parted, I could see his worried, concern face "I love you, (F/N)"

"You can't!" I moved back and tried to put a space between us, but he pulled me on his arms "Shouta! We are twins!"

"We are not!"

"Eh?"

It was so quiet. I could just hear the wind and the sea. What did he mean by that?

He tighten his embraced and as if he wanted to cry "We are not twins. We are not related by blood."

Eh? Just now, did he say, eh?

"Shouta, just now, what do you mean?"

"You are adopted, (F/N)"

Once he said that, I moved back and freed myself from him. There were tears in his eyes. In this situation, I should be the one crying? Why he was crying?

"Shouta, what do you mean?"

"I-I saw it, your adoption paper" he put his hands on his pocket as he averted his eyes away "I love (F/N) ever since we were young. But I was keeping it to myself. It was then, I accidentally, saw it in mom and dad's room. I didn't tell anyone about it until recently"

"Eh? Recently?"

"I told mom and dad about it. They were surprised that I knew about it. I asked them where your parents are, mom said that both of them were already died. Your dad died even before you were born. They didn't know who he was. Your mom died after giving birth. The hospital was about to send you to an orphanage, but mom decided to adopt you since the two of us were born two minutes apart."

I couldn't help but I started to cry, "Shouta, why did you tell me? Somehow I wanted to know nothing than knowing the truth"

"AS IF I CAN DO THAT!" I was startled when he raised his voiced. "Sorry. I was anxious"

"Anxious?"

"That during the time I am away you will find a guy that you will marry! I went to Tokyo to improve my voice acting, in order to show you how cool I became" he lowered his gazed as he continued to explain "I tried my best to make all the guys, no all the people to avert their attention away from you"

When he said that, my tears stopped and I was dumbfounded to what he just said "What do you mean by averting their attention?"

"What else is the reason why I tried my best to look so beautiful just to make them looked at me instead of you. I didn't want them to see you evolve. You became beautiful. I became anxious"

"Can we continue this inside?" we looked behind us and dad was there and his face seemed relaxed compared to our first day here

Once we got back, mom and grandma were sitting on the table.

They asked us to sit down and I was surprised that mom and dad immediately apologized.

"We really wanted to tell you this, but we were afraid. So we decided to hide it from you. Since we really wanted to let things to what it is." Mom sighed them for the first time, she glared at Shouta "If Shouta-chan didn't mature and fall in love with his own sister" she again sighed

"You cannot hide things forever. But isn't it better? Since your son fall in love with someone you know very well" grandma chuckled as she sipped her tea

"A while ago, I was thinking that I didn't want to know this. But thinking it carefully, it might me better that I know the truth" I honestly told them

Grandma again chuckled "Besides, you two knew very well that these two would eventually fall in love to each other"

"Each other?" Mom and dad tilted their heads as they looked towards me, and even Shouta

"Don't look at me!" I said as I covered my face that turned so red

"The two of them still have lots of time, so make sure to look after them. But also you two, things will be slightly different, don't go overboard."

Later that night, I tried to comprehend everything. I was adopted. My parents that I didn't know. Grandma said that my mother came from this place. Mom and dad went to visit her grave today. Tomorrow, we would be going to visit her, all of us

But I couldn't believe it. Shouta and I felt the same. We both love each other. My heart, it was pounding so hard.

I believed that he was my twin brother and I kept what I felt towards him. Ah, I didn't know what to do from now

"(F-F/N), c-can I sit next to you?" Shouta's voice was stuttering. He was in the verge of crying. He was still the same old Shouta

"Of course you can" He sat down next... next to... close to me, so close that his head was cuddling on me "Sho-shouta?!"

"I can't believe it. (F/N) and I"

"Shouta, I still can't comprehend things so I hope until I comprehend my situation, please wait for a little"

"I don't mind to wait. As long as (F/N) already know what I feel now"

"So mind to put some space between the two of you? Or rather go to sleep now" we jolted in surprise as dad suddenly popped out.

~

That next day, we visited my mother's grave. They didn't know who was my father nor his family, so they couldn't tell any details. But my mother, at least I wanted to thank her

I prayed and thanked her for giving birth to me. I told her that I had a good family who loved me as their own daughter. I was glad to have a good family, even though they are not my real family, they loved me

But I didn't know that I prayed loudly. I was embarrassed that they heard me.

"I loved you as a real brother. But I can't help it, but loved you as a man. So (F/N), don't worry" Shouta held my hand as we walked behind mom and dad

"Eh?"

He gripped and smiled gently "If you think you are not a real Yanagawa, don't worry. Because one day, you will become one, as my wife, okay?"

~Brotherly Love of Aoi Shouta Part 2~Fin~

~To be continued~The Target is not Hatano Wataru Part 1~