My head is killing me. It is cold, and so bright.. Who’s baby is crying? My vision is so fuzzy, What happened? I feel like I just got hit by a truck. Oh ya.. I remember. I did. Wait, my brother, and the other twins, what happened to them, I think we all got hit, or…. Maybe the other twins made it out okay. I don’t remember, but I know my brother and I were hit. My body feels heavy, and when I try to open my eyes, it is cold and fuzzy and bright, but I think I can barely make out a grown man over me with white hair and large ears on his head, don’t tell me this is another world like one of those anime. Holy cr-, I think we got hit by truck-kun…!

“Mmmrrmmm muurrmmm” I can’t make out what they are saying, my ears hurts and feel weird. I feel something on my butt. My eyes feel like they are crying, my face feels all wet.

They wrapped me in a blanket, ya… I think I am a baby now… I wonder what happened to my brother…

They set me on some kind of bed. I feel someone next to me, I don’t know how, but I just can. I think it is my brother. I am curious as to what he thinks of all of this.

“NOO!”

I hear a sudden loud shouting voice. That sounded like..

“Michael?”

“W-WOAH! W-who is that? Nate? What are you doing in my head, how did you do that?”

“I don’t know exactly how it works, I just wanted someone to hear me, I think we have twin telepathy in this world.”

“This world? No… don’t tell me.. We got hit by a truck, and in another world… truck-kun… does that mean we are some kind of main characters in some kind of story being written by some guy in their mom’s basement (not exactly..).”

“Of course not. That is ridiculous (>:D). Anyway... can you see anything, it is all fuzzy and cold.” I try to move my head and arms around, but I have no strength.

“Do you hear footsteps? I think someone is coming.”  Now that he points it out, I am starting to be able to hear, but everything is so loud.

“Quiet Dear, their ears are sensitive right now. You must walk softly and speak quietly.” I hear a warm voice of a woman.

“Do you think that is our mother Michael?”

“Mother? You mean we actually have a mother in this world?” 

I nearly forgot, in all the excitement, that he's never had a mother or father, well maybe it is a good thing we came to this world..

“Maybe... We might also have a father, maybe even other siblings. What do you think of that?”

“Hmmm… if we are babies… then.. Whenever we cry, somebody will come feed us or do whatever we want?”

“I guess so, but you shouldn’t cry too much or else you will end up a cry baby when you are older.”

“You are probably right.... Hey! You know how in those manga and anime where this happens, they get strong really fast and grow up in their second life too fast.”

“Not all of them are like that but I get it, what about it?”

“Let’s not do that, let’s be kids as long as we can in this world. In our past lives we had a pretty bad childhood since we didn’t have parents for most and all of them.”

I thought about it for a bit, he probably did have to grow up too fast in the past, since the orphanage only had so many people helping, nobody was there to play with him or take care of him.

“I agree, let’s just live our lives.”

“Alright, speaking of which, I am hungry…”

“Uh-oh, she said our ears are sensitive and we are right next to each other.” Even though she was whispering, it sounded like she was talking loudly, and I could tell she was on the other side of the room as well. WAIT…

“Wait a second, you realize how you are going to eat right!?”

“Uhhhhh…? OH! Uh… I didn’t think about that… But I am hungry… and I am not a pervert or anything I swear, also we would have to eat sooner or later..”

My head hurt just thinking about it!

“Alright go ahead… start crying.” I brace myself.

He started crying and whining, as I thought, it was loud, instinctively, I tried to cover my ears. It was so loud that tears started coming out of my eyes, and I started crying as well. I was worried that I would have to eat too, but my worries were for not. I don’t think that it is customary to breastfeed, I believe they put the milk into a bottle, because they gave me a bottle. Either that or they decided to do formula, which worried me because breastfeeding is better. NOT because of any weird reasons, I mean nutritionally better!... I made things awkward… anyways… they came in with bottles. From the way they were dressed, I’d say they are foxes and elves as maids. Interesting…

We were still crying, one of them picked up my brother and another one picked me up. The one that picked me up had a soft face and red hair and green eyes, she was a fox I think. She started patting my back and rocking me in her arms. I may be an adult in my past life, but this body finds it soothing. She put the bottle in my mouth and I drank the milk. After I finished as much as I could, she handed me to someone else and they burped the air out of me. This is so weird but also kind of comforting. They all made sure to be gentle and quiet. After that person finished burping me, and my brother also finished eating and being burped, another person took us to, who I presume is our father, he was sitting next to who I believe is our mother. Our father held me while our mother held Michael. Our father whispered and said 

“Your name is Yukine, named after our god of love. Your brother is Fuyuki, named after our god of snow.”

I wondered why they named us after gods, and then I thought about my name, I wonder why they named us after those specific gods. Looking at the two of them, I can tell they love each other, and these lives of ours were born of love. I think that is why they named me after the god of love, but I wonder why they named Michael.. Or Fuyuki after the god of snow.

“Well… Fuyuki.. What do you think of our parents..”

I didn’t hear him say anything back, I thought he fell asleep.

“They are alright, ... Yukine.”

I smiled and our father cradled me to sleep. He was warm and smelled like cherry blossoms. I thought about what Fuyuki said earlier about having an actual childhood, and I thought to myself.

"What a smart idea."