Hey there! Is your mom home?"
With that said, the door slammed to a close in front of the man's face.
Smirking, he turned to the person beside him who held exactly the same expression and face as he had.
"Boys! Who's at the door?" a woman's voice called out from the kitchen.
"Just a salesman mom!" the twins called back, grinning to themselves.
The doorbell rang again.
"That must be some persistent salesman," she said, peeking at the twins by the doorway.
The doorbell rang yet again.
Shaking her head, with a frown on her face, she walked towards the front door herself. "Look, we don't want-"
"Are you sure?" said a voice from behind a bouquet of flowers.
"Oh! Ryuuji, it's you!" she said with a grin before taking the bouquet.
"Don't look too surprised Sakura, we're going out this evening, remember?" the man said, a smile on his face.
"Of course I remember, come in, come in," Sakura said, ushering him inside the house before sending a knowing look to the twins who were now frowning at each other. "I just have to leave Mona a few instructions, then we can leave."
"No problem, take your time," he said, grinning at her.
"Where are you taking mom?"
Ryuuji looked down and smiled at the twins.
"Oh hi there! So you must be the twins Sakura keeps talking so much about. I'm R-"
"You didn't answer our question," said one of the twins, cutting him off.
A smile still present on his face, Ryuuji gave them an apologetic look. "I'm sorry about that. Your mother and I are going to the movies."
"What movie are you watching?" they inquired at the same time.
"Well, it's not exactly the sort of movie 5 year olds should know about," he answered.
With that said, the twins turned to the other.
"Ehhh…do you remember that last movie mom watched with that guy? What's his name, hmm…Tim?" he asked, as if speaking only to his twin.
"Yeah, mom was so freaked out by that movie. She went crazy when she got home, I thought she'd do to him the same thing she did to our father," the other twin replied, also sounding as if it were only them at present.
"What did she do to your father?" Ryuuji who can't help himself, asked, a frown now upon his features.
The twins turned to him simultaneously. "She murdered him."
Although he doubted if it was true, Ryuuji still visibly paled at hearing the words come out of their lips.
"See that photograph over there?" one of the twins said, pointing to the frame being hung on the wall just behind Ryuuji. "That's him, that's our father."
"And mom hangs that picture right there, because on the spot you're standing on right now, is the place where he died," the other twin added looking solemn.
"That was such a sad day," said the other twin.
The twin to the left nodded in agreement at this. "I know, we couldn't even mourn well because the police kept coming here day after day always asking about what really happened."
"But of course, they never found out," said the twin on the right, looking at Ryuuji. "Because we helped mom cover it up."
"Yes, we even hid the weapon she used to murder him…"
"…to make sure she won't get caught."
"Actually, mom still uses the weapon from time to time when the wrong guys come into this house."
"We even have it with us right now…"
"…here it is." One of the twins then pulled a hand gun from the back of his pants and held it up to Ryuuji who looked like he was about to faint.
The older man's eyes bulged as he stared at the weapon on the child's hands with dripping blood on the handle.
"Please tell your m-mom I'll call her. I forgot I had an emergency…thing to go to," he managed to say in a voice that sounded more like a squeak before he practically ran out the door.
The twins looked at each other with grins spread across their faces.
"Eh? Where's Ryuuji?"
"He left!" they replied to their mother who had just come back, trying to hide the delight in their voices.
"Huh? Did he say anything?" she asked, looking at her boys suspiciously.
"Yes, he says that he'll call you…"
"…because he forgot that he has an emergency thing to go to."
Sakura sighed, Ryuuji is officially the third guy who had one-way-or-another ditched her. Only this was the worst out of the rest of the other men she had dated, because this time, she didn't even get to start the first date yet and already he'd run off like the rest of them.
And somehow, she had a feeling that the reason behind all these guys from suddenly disappearing without another word to her, was because of the two twin boys who were the most mischievous kids she knew.
"You guys want some ice cream?" she asked, getting full blown smiles from them at the mention of the treat.
"Yes please!" they shouted before hugging her, a leg each.
But even if they were the reason why men avoided her, she wouldn't mind, they were the only men she was genuinely interested in. Her little men, Xiao Tian and Xiao Hai.
"Eh? How did this frame get so crooked?" Sakura wondered aloud, seeing the frame so lopsided. It couldn't have been the boys, their current height barely even reached pass her knees.
"The man was looking at it earlier…"
"…we saw him touch it because he was curious who it was."
The twins then snickered to themselves as the image of Ryuuji hitting the wall with the photo due to his fear of their toy gun, ran through their minds.
Sakura looked at the man on the photo who was about the age of 30 when it was taken. "I really do miss him," she said fondly, before straightening the frame.
"We miss grandfather too!" Xiao Tian and Xiao Hai declared.
With one look at the picture of Fujitaka Kinomoto, Sakura lead the twins into the kitchen.
"Xiao Tian, why do you have a large ketchup stain at the back of your pants?