a/n at the bottom (also pls dont sue i dont own ohshc)

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She expected a bit more from this whole rebirth thing. Weren't you supposed to go through emotional trauma, the five stages of grief or whatever? She mostly just felt hungry and cold.

Maybe that was because she was steadfastly ignoring all of her problems, but whatever, what she refused to compute never happened, right?

Wrong.

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It isn't that long into this second life of hers that she comes out of her own head for enough time to realize that there is something beside her.

It is warm, soft, and stretches from over her head and all the way down to her knee. With herculean effort, she manages to turn her head.

Oh, that's right.

She had forgotten about the other. A boy, if the idiot doctor was to be trusted, but seeing as the doctor had gotten her own gender wrong, she doubted it. Still, she tentatively renamed other in her mind, as 'brother' instead.

Her brother snuffled, and she deduced that he was sleeping, and it was probably night time, evidenced by the fact that she couldn't see a damn thing.

She let his breathing wash over her as she laid there, and, as she had no real pressing matters to attend to (duh, baby) she figured she might as well join him in sleep.

So, that's exactly what she did.

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The second time she woke up was nowhere near as pleasant.

She blinked open heavy eyelids only to be blinded by a camera flash. A whine came out of her unbidden, which tragically alerted the adults in the room that one of the babies was awake.

"Oh! Look, dear, Kaoru is awake! Oh look at how pretty and pale those grey eyes are! I hope they both get your lovely amber eyes though.."

A laugh echoed in the distance, from a man she could not see.

She didn't really care though, because she had a new thing to think on. She has finally been given a new name to go with this new life.

Kaoru.

…...is it just her, or does that name sound a tad too masculine?

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Kaoru is starting to come to the conclusion that something is off. She has gotten to the point where she is lucid for greater lengths of time, she can hold her head up, and her brother (who she has recently discovered is named Hikaru!) has taken to slapping her whenever he got the chance.

The fact that he coos in apology whenever she lets out a grunt from a particularly hard hit does not take insult away from injury. (She is lying, of course. Her brother already has Kaoru wrapped around his pudgy baby fingers)

Needless to say, whoever changes her diapers (don't get her started) must be sympathetic to her mission of not being one baby shaped bruise, because she is on the changing table (really, don't get her started) more often than not.

It is in one of these such instances, where Kaoru is bared to the world, that she noticed something strange. Something.. down there.. is off. It doesn't feel right. So using, her newfound neck strength, she lifted her head to get a good look at the situation.

Oh. Oh no. Is that- why, yes it is.

I'm sorry, doctor dude, she thought faintly to herself, it looks like you were correct.

The maid changing her diaper looked down on Kaoru in slight confusion as the boy seemed to fall asleep mid diaper change.

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When Kaoru woke up again it was night time. The familiar baby snores of her brother soothed her racing mind. Okay. She can deal.

Actually, why isn't she more freaked out? Should she start referring to herself as himself now? Shouldn't she be having a panic attack?

…..does this mean sh- he can pee standing up now?

Kaoru nodded his head in resolution. He wouldn't let this ruin his second chance at life. Everything would still be the same, he could rely on his brother through this, just like how his brother had been his rock through the abyss.

Kaoru will take this second life by storm, believe it.

Okay, ew, stop giving me gross weeb pep talks, brain.

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"Boys!"

Hikaru and Kaoru both looked up to their mother (Yuzuhu? Yuzuchin? Kaoru doesn't remember) from where they were sitting on the rug in their grand playroom.

"Your father has left on a business trip, and your poor Kaa-chan is left feeling all alone! What say you two that us three go out for a picnic on the grounds, hmm?" The woman in front of us stretched out her hand, and smiled.

Kaoru looked at Hikaru's uncomprehending face, and then back at their Mothers, which was wavering to uncertainty.

Kaoru made the choice for both of them, and reached up to grab their Kaa-chans pinky to haul himself up. Hikaru, squawking at the prospect of being left behind, scrambled to get up beside his brother on eleven month old legs.

Kaoru took in his new mothers relieved smile and they meandered their way out of the playroom into an even grander hallway, and felt something warm in his chest.

She began to prattle on something about bonding time with her sons, with a twin in each hand, and maybe some part of Kaoru still flinched at being branded male, but with his hand dwarfed in his Kaa-chan's, and his brothers face lit with a tentative smile, he felt like he could, maybe, roll with the punches.

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a/nok wow can you believe it. here it is, in time. i could almost cry tears of pride.

anyways, i hope i handled the whole gender thing well (lmk what you think, im looking at you angelicsailor, lol)

thanks for the follows and favorites, can you believe this trash got like 30 views? thanks guys, you warm my cold dead heart ;)

question, should i do quotes? i kinda want to. leave a review on your way out please?

happy monday, lads.