Ouran High School Host Club Fan Fiction ❯ The Solitary Twin ❯ Fate Always Brings Them Together ( Chapter 13 )
[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
Warnings: some brief angst, Etsu-abuse, plot-filler, long chapter.
Chapter 13
"We're screwed, aren't we?" Hikaru quietly asked his brother while sitting beside him on the limo heading to the manor.
"You could say that...," not looking at him, Kaoru was still obviously upset with what had happened moments earlier at the academy.
Slumping on his seat, he eyed him from the corner of his eyes.
I just made matters worse by bringing all that stuff up...
He had just been so pissed at Etsu's coldness that he had unthinkingly brought up everything without really thinking that she had more on them than anyone. He tried to see her as the one to blame for their current predicament, but whenever he made an attempt the fact that he had started the argument taunted him.
There was no way he'd verbally admit to provoking her into revealing their secret even though that was exactly what he had done.
She'd stayed quiet about it long enough.
"It was bound to happen some day," hearing the low subdued tones of his younger twin, he shifted uncomfortably in his seat. "I just didn't expect for it to happen this soon..."
"Listen, Kaoru... I...," he trailed off when Kaoru looked at him with dulled weary eyes. "I...," flushing and gulping, he forced himself to continue. "I shouldn't have said anything like that to her in the first place-!"
"She had to defend herself somehow," interrupting him, Kaoru smiled faintly. "Can't say I blame her for doing it like that. Had I been in her place I probably would have done the same thing."
Seeing that his brother clearly didn't want to talk about it any further, Hikaru desisted by looking away and staring listlessly out the window at the passing scenery. Whenever Kaoru showed some temper, he became unusually melancholic and quiet afterwards, leading him to believe that he just spent too much time over-thinking things, unlike him that was naturally impulsive and could stay fuming for hours or even days on the same subject.
This really sucks. In fact, everything has started to suck ever since Etsu came along...
Clenching his jaw, he went over the day's events and still couldn't get over the bad luck that had been following him and his twin ever since they'd started their 'game' with Etsu.
Mori had been the one that had tackled Etsu to the water and had pulled her out to hand her over to the school officials. The girl had been so rabid that she probably hadn't noticed who had grabbed and carried her soaked squirming form like a child. It had almost been comical seeing her screaming and struggling against Mori's vicelike arms, but now that he thought about it, it only made him angrier.
She had inadvertedly gotten everyone in the Host Club involved, even if it had been indirectly.
Though I feel kind of bad for tono... it was funny as hell when she bit him!
"Hikaru! I don't find anything funny right now!"
Surprised at the somewhat annoyed chastising tone his brother had taken, he looked at him questioningly raising his brows.
"What?"
Frowning in barely hidden frustration, Kaoru said accusingly, "You were laughing just now."
"Oh...," feeling an all too familiar heat that had been coming too much lately on his cheeks, he adverted his eyes.
I hadn't realized that..., looking away from his brother, sensing that he was still annoyed, Hikaru returned to looking out the window. For all he knew, Kaoru would be in a bad mood for the rest of the day. What always made him uncomfortable about his twin's temper was how silent he could become. It didn't give him anything to go on; any comforting words would be useless and it wasn't like he could say anything to help him brighten up again.
Kaoru wasn't going to get over it any time soon. He knew that for a fact.
Man... This is a huge mess! What if our mother finds out about it...?, his heart clenched painfully at that thought. Their mother wouldn't accept it. She loved them, even though she sometimes confused their names and was barely around, but she would never like the idea of both of them being lovers. Hikaru knew that with them being brothers, identical brothers, best friends... Two different yet similar people that had been together from the womb and shared the same blood would be deemed as disgusting by people too dense to understand it. He and Kaoru may have grown used to it after letting down the barriers of what society's morals stated, but the world outside of themselves would be cruel about it even though they hadn't done anything personally offensive to them.
A beeping ring entered his thoughts, making him jerk in his seat. Glancing towards the noise, he saw a slight frown on Kaoru's face as he pulled his cellphone out of his pant pocket.
Kaoru has a specific ringtone from everybody we know... That ringer just now is for unknown numbers., For some reason the fact that his twin would be getting a call from someone they didn't know so soon after they had left school didn't bode well with him.
Kaoru appeared to feel the same way when his wary eyes met with his before he finally opened the cellphone to place it on his ear.
"Hello...?"
Curious about the mystery caller, Hikaru moved on his seat to study his brother's face as he spoke.
"Wait... What?" his breath hitched at Kaoru's shocked tone, but he held back the need to ask who it was.
"No! You two have the wrong idea about us! What makes you think that we'd do that?!"
"Kaoru? What's going on?!" Hearing his brother sounding so angry was in turn making him angry. It was so rare to hear than kind of sharp tone on Kaoru.
Instead of answering him, his furious eyes looked at him, letting him wordlessly know that something that had to do with the events of the day was starting to rear its ugly head.
This can't be happening!
Sucking in a deep breath, his face showing every bit of anger he felt, Kaoru snapped, "So what if we did that with her?! That doesn't mean we're going to-!" Whoever it was cut him off.
"Then you're in bad luck, because I'd prefer that, than having me and Hikaru participating in something that sick!" the desperate edge in his brother's voice, had Hikaru instinctively putting a hand on his shoulder to offer at least some comfort.
It of course didn't work.
"I told you that I don't care and I'm sure that Hikaru will agree with me once I tell him what you just said!" the shoulder under his palm trembled.
Another infuriating pause that signalled that his brother was impatiently listening to whoever was on the other line almost made Hikaru fidget nervously.
Maybe I should just take the phone from him...
"Oh, yeah?! At least Etsu didn't have to resort to something as disgusting as this! Who do you think you're dealing with?!"
Giving up on patiently allowing Kaoru to let off some steam, he snatched the phone from him, startling him in the process.
"Hey-!"
"Let me deal with this!" he hissed at his brother's protest, putting the cellphone to his ear.
At first there was silence... Until he heard a very familiar feminine voice speaking on the other line. A voice that grated on his nerves at the over-dramatized mysteriousness of it. It was so obvious who it was no matter how she tried to change her voice to sound more mature and dangerous.
"Hello?" the faked seductive tone purred.
"What the hell do you want, Uchino?!" he scowled at the hypocracy of the girl.
"What every girl wants... What you gave to Sakoi. We want it. If you don't give it to us, the whole school will know what you two very naughty boys have been doing to each other. That'd be a shame wouldn't it? For everyone at Ouran and their families to know exactly how real your brotherly love is."
His breath shortened.
IS THIS GIRL FUCKING KIDDING ME?!
"Oh, you'll get what you want...," Kaoru gasped beside him, surprised as his words, "but it'll be when you die and fry in hell!" Beyond pissed at how the situation had worsened so quickly, he pulled the phone away from him and punched the off button with his thumb.
"Hikaru...?" the soft low voice of his brother somehow soothed him, though there was still a festering rage at how deceptive some people could be boiling inside him.
I thought that Etsu was evil, but Megumi-chan and Emiko-chan are much worse than she is.
"Don't worry, Kaoru...," he started gravely, grinding his molars to keep himself from shouting and showing how truly outraged he was about the audacity of two of their most frequent clients. "We'll make it through this. I know we'll make it through this."
Even if we have to ask for Etsu's help in cleaning up our names after she practically shit on them.
***
This is awful! Hikaru and Kaoru getting in trouble in school! I didn't think Etsu was the kind of girl to start brawls of that nature!, shaking her head at what the principal of Ouran's high school section had told her hours earlier before her boys had been released back to the mannor, Hitachiin Yuzuha walked so fast up the front steps of the Sakoi estate that it was a miracle her heels didn't snap over the marble ground.
She wasn't angry about what she had been told, but more like concerned. She didn't know a thing of what was going on with her children due to her and her husband being out of Japan for extended periods of time, so hearing that her sons had gotten suspended because of Etsu and had gotten in trouble once more because Etsu had nearly drowned two girls from their class in the school pond... No! There was something that didn't meet the eye and she wasn't about to let something like this slide.
Just ask Etsu as nicely as possible what's going on... I can't get angry! For all I know she had to have a good reason to do those things! She looks like such a good mature girl...
Refusing to believe that her sons may have had something to do with the girl's supposed fits of rage, she reached the door and thrust her finger at the doorbell as hard as she could. Holding her finger without relenting, she let the melodious albeit thunderous sound of the doorbell be long and annoying as if that could make whatever servant close by open the door quickly.
After twenty seconds of the remarkable racket, the door flipped open showing a tiny slip of a maid that was probably younger than Etsu herself.
"Y-Yes, ma'am...?" the blushing childish maid didn't meet her eyes, like she had done something wrong for taking so long in getting the door.
Softening her face upon feeling some sympathy, she smiled warmly down at her, "I'm here to see Sakoi Etsu."
The young girl's big brown eyes widened in fright. "Etsu-sama?!"
Is there something wrong with this girl?
Blinking at the her odd reaction, she said a slow, "Yes..."
The fearful eyes of the maid brightened immediately, though there was still a hint of apprehension swimming in them. "Thank goodness you're here! We're so afraid of going into the misstress's study after the young miss came home and we were hoping that someone would...!" trailing off in her excited chatter, she bit her lower lip and looked down at the floor.
"Is... Is there something wrong?" there was a tightness in her chest when she asked that question. The maid was acting far too strangely as if she wanted to say something but feared doing so.
"Please, ma'am! Don't tell Sayuri-sama that I told!" the girl's sweet childish voice beseeched her as did her big eyes that looked up at her from thick dark brown bangs.
Already sensing that something bad was happening for the maid to be that frigtened, Yuzuha straightened her back and said firmly, "Take me to your mistress's study. And don't worry I will not tell her you said anything." It was rare for her to take such a commanding tone, but her suspicions called for it.
I really hope its not what I think it is.
"Thank you so much, ma'am!" moving aside to let her inside the mansion, the maid curtsied several times in her gratitude.
What exactly is happening here?, she asked herself as the small maid quickly turned around to show her to the study of her mistress while saying, "Please following me!"
When she had first come there, she had intended to interrogate Etsu about what had been happening between her and the twins for them to be getting in so much trouble lately, but now all of that was pushed aside as she walked behind the speedily walking maid that seemed nearly desperate to get her to their destination as soon as possible.
Her eyes widened when she was led to another wing on the first floor of the large estate. What had to be every servant of the household lined the walls murmuring to each other in hushed tones as the maid in front of her lowered her chin to her chest, probably embarassed at giving away some information they themselves had been unwilling to disclose. They were now in a long stretching pristine white hallway that matched the rest of the pale decour of the mansion. Having so many dour faced servants shifting and whispering nervously at her appearance made the situation all the more tense.
"Sayuri-sama's study... is behind those doors...," meekly speaking, the maid pointed a trembling finger at two white doors at the other end of the hall.
Feeling some anxiety at how nervous everyone around her appeared to become at those words, Yuzuha nodded stiffly and wasn't surprised that no one followed her when she walked towards the doors that the maid had shown her to.
Swallowing, it didn't take her long to realize why the servants were too frightened to intervene.
"OF ALL THE THINGS YOU COULD COME UP WITH TO SHAME OUR FAMILY, YOU DRAGGED TWO MORE FAMILIES INTO IT!" Sayuri's voice screeched, startling Yuzuha. It was the first time she had heard the usually charming smooth voiced woman yelling like that.
Etsu's voice was soft in responding back to her shout, "Sometimes I have to do what I have to do. They reaped what they'd sown."
"Etsu...?" Yuzuha was in shock at hearing the callous words coming from the normally calm girl.
"THAT'S STILL NO EXCUSE, ETSU! I DON'T CARE THAT THOSE GIRLS THREW EGGS AT YOU BECAUSE OF SOME JEALOUSY FIT! YOU'RE A SAKOI! AS A SAKOI, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO PERFECT! ABOVE EVERYONE ELSE! THIS-THIS JUST PROVES WHAT A DISRESPECTFUL BEAST YOU ARE!"
"Then I guess being a Sakoi means that I have to be a coward, am I correct in asuming this, Mother? Is defending myself beastly or justified?"
"You... You... I can't believe I got stuck with you! I honestly don't know what I did to deserve being STUCK WITH YOU!" slapping a hand over her mouth at what Sayuri was implying, Yuzuha's eyes trembled in disbelief.
"Such is life. We never get what we want, do we? But I am glad that Iku is in a much better place than by your side."
She flinched at the harsh sound of flesh hitting skin.
"Your sister! She would have never said anything like that to me! How I regret that it was her that died!" Sayuri's shouts sounded histerical. "You never do anything but cause trouble for everyone! You're absolutely useless! Why are you STILL HERE?!"
"Would you feel better if I turned the other cheek for you, Mother?" Etsu's voice didn't show any pain or sadness at being struck by her.
"GOD, HOW I HATE YOU!" yet another slap rung out and the voices of the servants standing behind her rose in volume.
I have to stop this!
Not really thinking, not caring that what was taking place was a private argument that had nothing to do with her reasons for being there, Yuzuha's hands grabbed the brass doorknobs of the doubledoors and turned them sharply to slam them open.
The two females inside jerked to look at her. Sayuri who was standing over her daughter wore a stricken expression, obviously not expecting her there and Etsu who was sitting on a leather seat in front of her mother's desk turned to look at her with her passionless black gaze.
"I would have never in a million years have even thought that you, Sayuri, were capable of doing something like this!"
"I'll take that as my cue to leave," Etsu said boredly, fluidly rising from her seat, unaffected by the fact that both of her cheeks had red handprints and that her hair had been slightly mussed by her mother's lashing hands.
She acts as if this is normal... How long has Sayuri been having these tantrums?, Shocked at Etsu's calmness, she was even more surprised when the girl bowed respectfully.
"As always, Hitachiin-san, a pleasure seeing you," lifting her head up, she casually glanced at her mother, "I suppose you'll want to continue our amiable conversation some other time, Mother."
Trembling in rage, Sayuri just covered her mouth with one hand as if to keep herself from screaming again. Yuzuha suspected that if she hadn't been there, she would have hit Etsu once more for her frosty comeback.
Shaken by what had happened, she stared after the girl that walked unhurriedly out of the study without looking back at them. No tears, no anger, just an emptiness floated in her eyes that gave Yuzuha a chill at how abnormal it was. The girl was either an expert in bottling her anguish in or she merely didn't feel any. She didn't know what to think of her behavior.
Once the girl left them, even having the presence of mind of closing the double doors behind her to give them some privacy, Yuzuha forced her stare to harden on the still angry Sayuri. She could tell that the woman was struggling in keeping herself from chasing her daughter down judging from the furious tears floating in her violet eyes and how her hand pressed hard on her trembling lips.
"Sayuri..."
"You don't know what its... like to live with someone like her...," Sayuri managed to choke out behind her fingertips.
Narrowing her eyes, Yuzuha now saw through the other woman's act.
"I doubt you do either, considering that you locked her away in a different country after her twin's death."
Shock registered in Sayuri's eyes and Yuzuha couldn't help feeling a twinge of guilt at giving such a low blow. It wasn't her business and she hated feeling so angry, even if that anger was about something as wrong as what she had witnessed moments earlier. By nature, she liked surrounding herself by joyous things. Colorful things that never let her think of the bad things happening in the outside world. She liked having laughter around her at all times and loud sometimes obnoxious people because she believed that cheerfulness was meant to be infectious.
So feeling so much anger, was a rare thing for her. She disliked seeing something so undeniably ugly like what the false Sayuri hid behind her praises for her only daughter.
Seeing the other woman slowly sitting down on one of the seats facing her desk, she released a breath she hadn't realized she'd been holding.
"I understand your anger, Yuzuha. It must have come... as a shock," Sayuri's shimmering eyes glanced at her as she removed her hand from her lips.
"A very unpleasant shock," she kept her tone hard, to let Sayuri know that she wasn't going to be as easy to win over as before.
"I'm... I'm so sorry you had to hear that!"
Yuzuha felt some of her anger relenting; not like she was going to let her see that.
"Is it common practice for you to hit your daughter and compare her to her sister?" she just had to ask that.
Shaking her head vigurously, Sayuri gasped, "No!"
Why do I find that hard to believe?, Etsu's attitude ealier had been a giveaway. For someone to be so cold after receiving blows and such insults, it had to be seen as normal. Etsu was clearly accostumed to it.
Not truly knowing how to handle such a situation, she sighed and took an empty seat beside the shaken woman that carefully looked away from her in obvious shame. It was uncomfortable having to witness something so personal, especially when that 'personal thing' happened to be from a person she barely knew...
What Sayuri didn't know was that Yuzuha had thoroughly investigated her and her family before deciding to go to Sakoi Exports with a business idea. There were plenty of reasons why she had done it. One reason was that she couldn't put her work in the hands of someone untrustworthy. The second reason, the reason that Sayuri probably didn't suspect in the slightest was...
The elusive Etsu herself.
She had always been understandibly intrigued by the story of the Sakoi twins. When the older twin, Iku, had been alive, both of the little girls had been quite famous in the social circles in Tokyo. Business people even traveled to see the charming identical 'living dolls' and Yuzuha, having twins herself had curiousity regarding the lovely children, though being so busy had never given her the priviledge of meeting them.
Unfortunately, it didn't take long for her to realize that Sayuri had shamelessly exploited her daughters to bring in new clients for Sakoi Exports. Everyone that so much as laid eyes on Iku and Etsu fell instantly in love with them; Iku for her genteel mature manners and Etsu for her ability to make people laugh and warm up to her. Sayuri had taken advantage of the innocent charisma her children displayed.
That fame ended the day of Iku's death and Etsu being practically locked away in some boarding school in England soon afterwards. At first she hadn't wanted to believe the rumors of Etsu, already a teenager, being used as a pawn for business ventures, but once in awhile people talked of the cold shadown of the once happy twin. Pictures of her had appeared from time to time on magazines saying that she was either dating the son of some influencial family or making friends with some aristocratic daughters in England.
Every picture would show an etheral black haired girl with a bland smile that never reached her eyes.
And I've always wanted to see what happens to a lone twin., She didn't like admitting that what always interested her with the tragic story was the effects of twins being separated. Seeing Etsu being nothing like the charming girl people had praised her to be as a child, had given Yuzuha second thoughts about 'helpfully' separating Hikaru and Kaoru.
She couldn't do it if they were to become empty shells of their former selves; that was why when the boys had become interested in a girl for once, she had gladly encouraged them to continue their friendship with her.
"Losing a child like that must have been painful, but have you ever thought about how Etsu must be feeling?"
Sayuri didn't answer, her eyes downcast and unmoved.
She sighed, seeing she wasn't getting anywhere.
"Well, I'll take that as a no. Hitting your child for not being like her sister is the wrong way to handle grief...," I just can't leave without doing something at least., "Couldn't you find a more effective way of disciplining her without any violence?"
Hearing a audible gulp, Yuzuha had a hard time catching Sayuri's whisper, "I... We've never had a very close relationship...," her bloodshot moist eyes met hers briefly before they skittered away nervously. Taking in a shuddering breath, she continued, "Etsu was always closer to her father and paternal grandmother... While Iku," her voice cracked as her eyes became more damp and distant, "Iku was a little angel... She never caused trouble. She had perfect grades and was so polite... Etsu," she gave a weak wry smile through her tears, "was always the opposite. Rude, loud and didn't think before speaking..."
Smiling, knowing what she meant, Yuzuha murmured, "I think all twins are pretty much like that, Sayuri."
Stiffening at her words, the other woman didn't comment on that as if that fact of life was something that displeased or made her feel some actual physical pain.
"How long...," she paused, feeling that awkwardness again when the woman looked at her waiting for her to finish her question, "how long have you and Etsu been fighting like this?"
Blinking as if taken aback, Sayuri took a while in answering her, "Eight years or so. Since Iku's death..."
Eight years is a long time for a mother and daughter to be at odds. From what I see so far, the two of them haven't even tried to fix their relationship.
"You haven't taken any counceling, or tried to talk it over?" the more she wanted to get away from the truth that hit a bit too close to home, the more she felt herself pulled in.
Scoffing softly at that, Sayuri let a grimace that vaguely resembled a smile cross her features.
"What you overheard just now is what all our conversations are like... We've gotten so used to it already that we don't try to change the routine out of bad habit. As for counceling," she shook her head, scoffing once more, "Etsu always finds a way to weasel out of everything. Her old school tried to do it by having a resident psychologist give us some therapy, but she eventually got fed up and started running off during the scheduled visit dates or pretending to be sick."
Is this the same girl?, Making a face at what Sayuri was telling her, she didn't have any good words to say about Etsu's 'dark side'.
"I guess...,"she chose her words carefully, "Both of you spending so many years living apart and coming back together under the same roof so suddenly hasn't been easy."
"You have no idea... I wasn't really thinking when I have her transferred here. I thought it...," Sayuri's eyes glimmered, "I thought it would have been easier."
Swallowing, she folded her hands over her lap. This was far too intimate for her liking, yet... Etsu... The twins... Everything. Seeing this changed girl reminded her of the mistake she could have made if she had seperated her own sons.
The truth is ugly.
"I... I have a proposition for you," straightening her back and taking a purposeful tone, Yuzuha tried her best to look at the confused distraught woman in the eyes.
"A... proposition?"
"Yes."
Frowning slightly, Sayuri shifted in her seat, probably already sensing what she was about to say.
"Yuzuha, I know that you want to help, but this is not-"
"I want Etsu to stay with me until you two learn how to mend your differences!" the words left her in a rush as she clutched her eyes closed. It was a selfish 'proposition' on her part, since she was mainly doing it because of the guilt she felt at merely thinking of making her own two children suffer.
She knew, like any mother should know, that they would surely die inside if she had done what she had thought was right. For the last couple of months she had been not only traveling for business but searching for all boys schools so that one of the twins could study abroad while the other one continued attending Ouran.
The reality of what she had almost done had her eyes stinging.
Sayuri gaped at her in disbelieving terror."But-? I can't let you do that, Yuzuha!" some life entered the woman's eyes, leading her to think that not all hope was lost.
I hate having to resort to doing this! I just don't like seeing this! I hate having to see what could have happened. Of course my sons are both alive, but what if...? What if they end up like Etsu? What if they end up hating me like she hates her own mother?
"I know it's shocking," she tried to smile to take the sting out of what she was about to say, ignoring the selfishness and guilt spearing her, "but it's either that-"
Sayuri's eyes widened.
"-or the complete cancelation of all future contracts. If all of Japan were to find out about the abrupt removal of my company from yours, all businesses with Sakoi Exports would be jeopordized."
She knows it's true., Yuzuha understood that it was condescending of her to use her family name in such a way. She tried to see it as a 'good thing'. In a way she was sparing Etsu of the verbal and physical abuse, while... she got some closure in somehow paying for trying to do the same to her boys by killing them in life by keeping them apart.
"Why...? I don't understand!" Sayuri blinked rapidly. "I've just told you what she's like and you still want to bring her to your house?!"
Wincing at that, since in some way Sayuri was making it sound as if she were crazy, Yuzuha held up a hand, "I know that its sudden, but this might help the both of you in the long run-"
"How?! How can that help?! You have no idea what's she's like when she's in a vengeful mood! She can be dangerous!"
She makes this poor girl sound like a demon., Closing her eyes, she pushed aside what Sayuri had just said. After seeing how the woman had easily lied to her about how wonderful her daughter was, only to tell her weeks later what a monster she was, didn't exactly make her believe everything she said.
I don't think her sister's death is the only thing that has to do with Etsu's bad attitude. Sayuri has half of the blame for it.
"I wasn't kidding when I said that I would cancel all future contracts and pass on the word," keeping her tone hard, Yuzuha felt herself cold even if the icy commanding voice was her own.
A steely silence followed her words.
Say something!, She felt like an intruder, attempting to kill two birds with one stone when no one asked her to. It wasn't her place, it wasn't her problem... But it was similar and though unrelated, too personal for her to forget about.
"Fine...," her heart sped, "Etsu... may stay with you until we can... mend our differences."
Opening her eyes, it felt as if a heavy weight had been lifted off her chest at Sayuri's reluctant agreement.
***
Mills aka vanillakisses: Since I'm a crack or OC addict (I sound like a druggie), I've just thought of something CRAZY! I know you'll want to kill me, but... How does Tamaki/Renge sound? AWESOME! It's the crackiest crack EVER! I'm screwed up, aren't I? But they're both such hyper individuals that one can't help but wonder how they'd behave as a couple. THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT SO INTERESTING! If only someone would do something with them! I might as well do one when I'm finished with this and my other stuff. Crack smut... *sniffles* I need my CRACK SMUT! As much as I love Ouran yaoi, I need some HET CRACK PAIRINGS! SMEXXY JUICE! I'll shut up now...
lanaris. Sorry about not updating 'Reflection', but good news! That fic is already finished at my AFF account (my penname there is Mirrors)! I've already started a sequel for it though I hit a writer's block on it. Many people want to kill me, so I'm one step away from deleting it before they start a flaming campaign. We ALL hit writer's block sometime and it could be weeks, months, or years before we get out of them! We can't force ourselves! *wails*
WoWs: Lol. I loved the kiss scene too. Can you imagine seeing good-looking boy twins tonguing each other and then having one of them tounge-screw your face like he was going to... ahem... do something to you? *sigh* OMG! I didn't scare you, did I?! I do get pretty explicit with my ideas... *blushes*
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Chapter 13
"We're screwed, aren't we?" Hikaru quietly asked his brother while sitting beside him on the limo heading to the manor.
"You could say that...," not looking at him, Kaoru was still obviously upset with what had happened moments earlier at the academy.
Slumping on his seat, he eyed him from the corner of his eyes.
I just made matters worse by bringing all that stuff up...
He had just been so pissed at Etsu's coldness that he had unthinkingly brought up everything without really thinking that she had more on them than anyone. He tried to see her as the one to blame for their current predicament, but whenever he made an attempt the fact that he had started the argument taunted him.
There was no way he'd verbally admit to provoking her into revealing their secret even though that was exactly what he had done.
She'd stayed quiet about it long enough.
"It was bound to happen some day," hearing the low subdued tones of his younger twin, he shifted uncomfortably in his seat. "I just didn't expect for it to happen this soon..."
"Listen, Kaoru... I...," he trailed off when Kaoru looked at him with dulled weary eyes. "I...," flushing and gulping, he forced himself to continue. "I shouldn't have said anything like that to her in the first place-!"
"She had to defend herself somehow," interrupting him, Kaoru smiled faintly. "Can't say I blame her for doing it like that. Had I been in her place I probably would have done the same thing."
Seeing that his brother clearly didn't want to talk about it any further, Hikaru desisted by looking away and staring listlessly out the window at the passing scenery. Whenever Kaoru showed some temper, he became unusually melancholic and quiet afterwards, leading him to believe that he just spent too much time over-thinking things, unlike him that was naturally impulsive and could stay fuming for hours or even days on the same subject.
This really sucks. In fact, everything has started to suck ever since Etsu came along...
Clenching his jaw, he went over the day's events and still couldn't get over the bad luck that had been following him and his twin ever since they'd started their 'game' with Etsu.
Mori had been the one that had tackled Etsu to the water and had pulled her out to hand her over to the school officials. The girl had been so rabid that she probably hadn't noticed who had grabbed and carried her soaked squirming form like a child. It had almost been comical seeing her screaming and struggling against Mori's vicelike arms, but now that he thought about it, it only made him angrier.
She had inadvertedly gotten everyone in the Host Club involved, even if it had been indirectly.
Though I feel kind of bad for tono... it was funny as hell when she bit him!
"Hikaru! I don't find anything funny right now!"
Surprised at the somewhat annoyed chastising tone his brother had taken, he looked at him questioningly raising his brows.
"What?"
Frowning in barely hidden frustration, Kaoru said accusingly, "You were laughing just now."
"Oh...," feeling an all too familiar heat that had been coming too much lately on his cheeks, he adverted his eyes.
I hadn't realized that..., looking away from his brother, sensing that he was still annoyed, Hikaru returned to looking out the window. For all he knew, Kaoru would be in a bad mood for the rest of the day. What always made him uncomfortable about his twin's temper was how silent he could become. It didn't give him anything to go on; any comforting words would be useless and it wasn't like he could say anything to help him brighten up again.
Kaoru wasn't going to get over it any time soon. He knew that for a fact.
Man... This is a huge mess! What if our mother finds out about it...?, his heart clenched painfully at that thought. Their mother wouldn't accept it. She loved them, even though she sometimes confused their names and was barely around, but she would never like the idea of both of them being lovers. Hikaru knew that with them being brothers, identical brothers, best friends... Two different yet similar people that had been together from the womb and shared the same blood would be deemed as disgusting by people too dense to understand it. He and Kaoru may have grown used to it after letting down the barriers of what society's morals stated, but the world outside of themselves would be cruel about it even though they hadn't done anything personally offensive to them.
A beeping ring entered his thoughts, making him jerk in his seat. Glancing towards the noise, he saw a slight frown on Kaoru's face as he pulled his cellphone out of his pant pocket.
Kaoru has a specific ringtone from everybody we know... That ringer just now is for unknown numbers., For some reason the fact that his twin would be getting a call from someone they didn't know so soon after they had left school didn't bode well with him.
Kaoru appeared to feel the same way when his wary eyes met with his before he finally opened the cellphone to place it on his ear.
"Hello...?"
Curious about the mystery caller, Hikaru moved on his seat to study his brother's face as he spoke.
"Wait... What?" his breath hitched at Kaoru's shocked tone, but he held back the need to ask who it was.
"No! You two have the wrong idea about us! What makes you think that we'd do that?!"
"Kaoru? What's going on?!" Hearing his brother sounding so angry was in turn making him angry. It was so rare to hear than kind of sharp tone on Kaoru.
Instead of answering him, his furious eyes looked at him, letting him wordlessly know that something that had to do with the events of the day was starting to rear its ugly head.
This can't be happening!
Sucking in a deep breath, his face showing every bit of anger he felt, Kaoru snapped, "So what if we did that with her?! That doesn't mean we're going to-!" Whoever it was cut him off.
"Then you're in bad luck, because I'd prefer that, than having me and Hikaru participating in something that sick!" the desperate edge in his brother's voice, had Hikaru instinctively putting a hand on his shoulder to offer at least some comfort.
It of course didn't work.
"I told you that I don't care and I'm sure that Hikaru will agree with me once I tell him what you just said!" the shoulder under his palm trembled.
Another infuriating pause that signalled that his brother was impatiently listening to whoever was on the other line almost made Hikaru fidget nervously.
Maybe I should just take the phone from him...
"Oh, yeah?! At least Etsu didn't have to resort to something as disgusting as this! Who do you think you're dealing with?!"
Giving up on patiently allowing Kaoru to let off some steam, he snatched the phone from him, startling him in the process.
"Hey-!"
"Let me deal with this!" he hissed at his brother's protest, putting the cellphone to his ear.
At first there was silence... Until he heard a very familiar feminine voice speaking on the other line. A voice that grated on his nerves at the over-dramatized mysteriousness of it. It was so obvious who it was no matter how she tried to change her voice to sound more mature and dangerous.
"Hello?" the faked seductive tone purred.
"What the hell do you want, Uchino?!" he scowled at the hypocracy of the girl.
"What every girl wants... What you gave to Sakoi. We want it. If you don't give it to us, the whole school will know what you two very naughty boys have been doing to each other. That'd be a shame wouldn't it? For everyone at Ouran and their families to know exactly how real your brotherly love is."
His breath shortened.
IS THIS GIRL FUCKING KIDDING ME?!
"Oh, you'll get what you want...," Kaoru gasped beside him, surprised as his words, "but it'll be when you die and fry in hell!" Beyond pissed at how the situation had worsened so quickly, he pulled the phone away from him and punched the off button with his thumb.
"Hikaru...?" the soft low voice of his brother somehow soothed him, though there was still a festering rage at how deceptive some people could be boiling inside him.
I thought that Etsu was evil, but Megumi-chan and Emiko-chan are much worse than she is.
"Don't worry, Kaoru...," he started gravely, grinding his molars to keep himself from shouting and showing how truly outraged he was about the audacity of two of their most frequent clients. "We'll make it through this. I know we'll make it through this."
Even if we have to ask for Etsu's help in cleaning up our names after she practically shit on them.
***
This is awful! Hikaru and Kaoru getting in trouble in school! I didn't think Etsu was the kind of girl to start brawls of that nature!, shaking her head at what the principal of Ouran's high school section had told her hours earlier before her boys had been released back to the mannor, Hitachiin Yuzuha walked so fast up the front steps of the Sakoi estate that it was a miracle her heels didn't snap over the marble ground.
She wasn't angry about what she had been told, but more like concerned. She didn't know a thing of what was going on with her children due to her and her husband being out of Japan for extended periods of time, so hearing that her sons had gotten suspended because of Etsu and had gotten in trouble once more because Etsu had nearly drowned two girls from their class in the school pond... No! There was something that didn't meet the eye and she wasn't about to let something like this slide.
Just ask Etsu as nicely as possible what's going on... I can't get angry! For all I know she had to have a good reason to do those things! She looks like such a good mature girl...
Refusing to believe that her sons may have had something to do with the girl's supposed fits of rage, she reached the door and thrust her finger at the doorbell as hard as she could. Holding her finger without relenting, she let the melodious albeit thunderous sound of the doorbell be long and annoying as if that could make whatever servant close by open the door quickly.
After twenty seconds of the remarkable racket, the door flipped open showing a tiny slip of a maid that was probably younger than Etsu herself.
"Y-Yes, ma'am...?" the blushing childish maid didn't meet her eyes, like she had done something wrong for taking so long in getting the door.
Softening her face upon feeling some sympathy, she smiled warmly down at her, "I'm here to see Sakoi Etsu."
The young girl's big brown eyes widened in fright. "Etsu-sama?!"
Is there something wrong with this girl?
Blinking at the her odd reaction, she said a slow, "Yes..."
The fearful eyes of the maid brightened immediately, though there was still a hint of apprehension swimming in them. "Thank goodness you're here! We're so afraid of going into the misstress's study after the young miss came home and we were hoping that someone would...!" trailing off in her excited chatter, she bit her lower lip and looked down at the floor.
"Is... Is there something wrong?" there was a tightness in her chest when she asked that question. The maid was acting far too strangely as if she wanted to say something but feared doing so.
"Please, ma'am! Don't tell Sayuri-sama that I told!" the girl's sweet childish voice beseeched her as did her big eyes that looked up at her from thick dark brown bangs.
Already sensing that something bad was happening for the maid to be that frigtened, Yuzuha straightened her back and said firmly, "Take me to your mistress's study. And don't worry I will not tell her you said anything." It was rare for her to take such a commanding tone, but her suspicions called for it.
I really hope its not what I think it is.
"Thank you so much, ma'am!" moving aside to let her inside the mansion, the maid curtsied several times in her gratitude.
What exactly is happening here?, she asked herself as the small maid quickly turned around to show her to the study of her mistress while saying, "Please following me!"
When she had first come there, she had intended to interrogate Etsu about what had been happening between her and the twins for them to be getting in so much trouble lately, but now all of that was pushed aside as she walked behind the speedily walking maid that seemed nearly desperate to get her to their destination as soon as possible.
Her eyes widened when she was led to another wing on the first floor of the large estate. What had to be every servant of the household lined the walls murmuring to each other in hushed tones as the maid in front of her lowered her chin to her chest, probably embarassed at giving away some information they themselves had been unwilling to disclose. They were now in a long stretching pristine white hallway that matched the rest of the pale decour of the mansion. Having so many dour faced servants shifting and whispering nervously at her appearance made the situation all the more tense.
"Sayuri-sama's study... is behind those doors...," meekly speaking, the maid pointed a trembling finger at two white doors at the other end of the hall.
Feeling some anxiety at how nervous everyone around her appeared to become at those words, Yuzuha nodded stiffly and wasn't surprised that no one followed her when she walked towards the doors that the maid had shown her to.
Swallowing, it didn't take her long to realize why the servants were too frightened to intervene.
"OF ALL THE THINGS YOU COULD COME UP WITH TO SHAME OUR FAMILY, YOU DRAGGED TWO MORE FAMILIES INTO IT!" Sayuri's voice screeched, startling Yuzuha. It was the first time she had heard the usually charming smooth voiced woman yelling like that.
Etsu's voice was soft in responding back to her shout, "Sometimes I have to do what I have to do. They reaped what they'd sown."
"Etsu...?" Yuzuha was in shock at hearing the callous words coming from the normally calm girl.
"THAT'S STILL NO EXCUSE, ETSU! I DON'T CARE THAT THOSE GIRLS THREW EGGS AT YOU BECAUSE OF SOME JEALOUSY FIT! YOU'RE A SAKOI! AS A SAKOI, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO PERFECT! ABOVE EVERYONE ELSE! THIS-THIS JUST PROVES WHAT A DISRESPECTFUL BEAST YOU ARE!"
"Then I guess being a Sakoi means that I have to be a coward, am I correct in asuming this, Mother? Is defending myself beastly or justified?"
"You... You... I can't believe I got stuck with you! I honestly don't know what I did to deserve being STUCK WITH YOU!" slapping a hand over her mouth at what Sayuri was implying, Yuzuha's eyes trembled in disbelief.
"Such is life. We never get what we want, do we? But I am glad that Iku is in a much better place than by your side."
She flinched at the harsh sound of flesh hitting skin.
"Your sister! She would have never said anything like that to me! How I regret that it was her that died!" Sayuri's shouts sounded histerical. "You never do anything but cause trouble for everyone! You're absolutely useless! Why are you STILL HERE?!"
"Would you feel better if I turned the other cheek for you, Mother?" Etsu's voice didn't show any pain or sadness at being struck by her.
"GOD, HOW I HATE YOU!" yet another slap rung out and the voices of the servants standing behind her rose in volume.
I have to stop this!
Not really thinking, not caring that what was taking place was a private argument that had nothing to do with her reasons for being there, Yuzuha's hands grabbed the brass doorknobs of the doubledoors and turned them sharply to slam them open.
The two females inside jerked to look at her. Sayuri who was standing over her daughter wore a stricken expression, obviously not expecting her there and Etsu who was sitting on a leather seat in front of her mother's desk turned to look at her with her passionless black gaze.
"I would have never in a million years have even thought that you, Sayuri, were capable of doing something like this!"
"I'll take that as my cue to leave," Etsu said boredly, fluidly rising from her seat, unaffected by the fact that both of her cheeks had red handprints and that her hair had been slightly mussed by her mother's lashing hands.
She acts as if this is normal... How long has Sayuri been having these tantrums?, Shocked at Etsu's calmness, she was even more surprised when the girl bowed respectfully.
"As always, Hitachiin-san, a pleasure seeing you," lifting her head up, she casually glanced at her mother, "I suppose you'll want to continue our amiable conversation some other time, Mother."
Trembling in rage, Sayuri just covered her mouth with one hand as if to keep herself from screaming again. Yuzuha suspected that if she hadn't been there, she would have hit Etsu once more for her frosty comeback.
Shaken by what had happened, she stared after the girl that walked unhurriedly out of the study without looking back at them. No tears, no anger, just an emptiness floated in her eyes that gave Yuzuha a chill at how abnormal it was. The girl was either an expert in bottling her anguish in or she merely didn't feel any. She didn't know what to think of her behavior.
Once the girl left them, even having the presence of mind of closing the double doors behind her to give them some privacy, Yuzuha forced her stare to harden on the still angry Sayuri. She could tell that the woman was struggling in keeping herself from chasing her daughter down judging from the furious tears floating in her violet eyes and how her hand pressed hard on her trembling lips.
"Sayuri..."
"You don't know what its... like to live with someone like her...," Sayuri managed to choke out behind her fingertips.
Narrowing her eyes, Yuzuha now saw through the other woman's act.
"I doubt you do either, considering that you locked her away in a different country after her twin's death."
Shock registered in Sayuri's eyes and Yuzuha couldn't help feeling a twinge of guilt at giving such a low blow. It wasn't her business and she hated feeling so angry, even if that anger was about something as wrong as what she had witnessed moments earlier. By nature, she liked surrounding herself by joyous things. Colorful things that never let her think of the bad things happening in the outside world. She liked having laughter around her at all times and loud sometimes obnoxious people because she believed that cheerfulness was meant to be infectious.
So feeling so much anger, was a rare thing for her. She disliked seeing something so undeniably ugly like what the false Sayuri hid behind her praises for her only daughter.
Seeing the other woman slowly sitting down on one of the seats facing her desk, she released a breath she hadn't realized she'd been holding.
"I understand your anger, Yuzuha. It must have come... as a shock," Sayuri's shimmering eyes glanced at her as she removed her hand from her lips.
"A very unpleasant shock," she kept her tone hard, to let Sayuri know that she wasn't going to be as easy to win over as before.
"I'm... I'm so sorry you had to hear that!"
Yuzuha felt some of her anger relenting; not like she was going to let her see that.
"Is it common practice for you to hit your daughter and compare her to her sister?" she just had to ask that.
Shaking her head vigurously, Sayuri gasped, "No!"
Why do I find that hard to believe?, Etsu's attitude ealier had been a giveaway. For someone to be so cold after receiving blows and such insults, it had to be seen as normal. Etsu was clearly accostumed to it.
Not truly knowing how to handle such a situation, she sighed and took an empty seat beside the shaken woman that carefully looked away from her in obvious shame. It was uncomfortable having to witness something so personal, especially when that 'personal thing' happened to be from a person she barely knew...
What Sayuri didn't know was that Yuzuha had thoroughly investigated her and her family before deciding to go to Sakoi Exports with a business idea. There were plenty of reasons why she had done it. One reason was that she couldn't put her work in the hands of someone untrustworthy. The second reason, the reason that Sayuri probably didn't suspect in the slightest was...
The elusive Etsu herself.
She had always been understandibly intrigued by the story of the Sakoi twins. When the older twin, Iku, had been alive, both of the little girls had been quite famous in the social circles in Tokyo. Business people even traveled to see the charming identical 'living dolls' and Yuzuha, having twins herself had curiousity regarding the lovely children, though being so busy had never given her the priviledge of meeting them.
Unfortunately, it didn't take long for her to realize that Sayuri had shamelessly exploited her daughters to bring in new clients for Sakoi Exports. Everyone that so much as laid eyes on Iku and Etsu fell instantly in love with them; Iku for her genteel mature manners and Etsu for her ability to make people laugh and warm up to her. Sayuri had taken advantage of the innocent charisma her children displayed.
That fame ended the day of Iku's death and Etsu being practically locked away in some boarding school in England soon afterwards. At first she hadn't wanted to believe the rumors of Etsu, already a teenager, being used as a pawn for business ventures, but once in awhile people talked of the cold shadown of the once happy twin. Pictures of her had appeared from time to time on magazines saying that she was either dating the son of some influencial family or making friends with some aristocratic daughters in England.
Every picture would show an etheral black haired girl with a bland smile that never reached her eyes.
And I've always wanted to see what happens to a lone twin., She didn't like admitting that what always interested her with the tragic story was the effects of twins being separated. Seeing Etsu being nothing like the charming girl people had praised her to be as a child, had given Yuzuha second thoughts about 'helpfully' separating Hikaru and Kaoru.
She couldn't do it if they were to become empty shells of their former selves; that was why when the boys had become interested in a girl for once, she had gladly encouraged them to continue their friendship with her.
"Losing a child like that must have been painful, but have you ever thought about how Etsu must be feeling?"
Sayuri didn't answer, her eyes downcast and unmoved.
She sighed, seeing she wasn't getting anywhere.
"Well, I'll take that as a no. Hitting your child for not being like her sister is the wrong way to handle grief...," I just can't leave without doing something at least., "Couldn't you find a more effective way of disciplining her without any violence?"
Hearing a audible gulp, Yuzuha had a hard time catching Sayuri's whisper, "I... We've never had a very close relationship...," her bloodshot moist eyes met hers briefly before they skittered away nervously. Taking in a shuddering breath, she continued, "Etsu was always closer to her father and paternal grandmother... While Iku," her voice cracked as her eyes became more damp and distant, "Iku was a little angel... She never caused trouble. She had perfect grades and was so polite... Etsu," she gave a weak wry smile through her tears, "was always the opposite. Rude, loud and didn't think before speaking..."
Smiling, knowing what she meant, Yuzuha murmured, "I think all twins are pretty much like that, Sayuri."
Stiffening at her words, the other woman didn't comment on that as if that fact of life was something that displeased or made her feel some actual physical pain.
"How long...," she paused, feeling that awkwardness again when the woman looked at her waiting for her to finish her question, "how long have you and Etsu been fighting like this?"
Blinking as if taken aback, Sayuri took a while in answering her, "Eight years or so. Since Iku's death..."
Eight years is a long time for a mother and daughter to be at odds. From what I see so far, the two of them haven't even tried to fix their relationship.
"You haven't taken any counceling, or tried to talk it over?" the more she wanted to get away from the truth that hit a bit too close to home, the more she felt herself pulled in.
Scoffing softly at that, Sayuri let a grimace that vaguely resembled a smile cross her features.
"What you overheard just now is what all our conversations are like... We've gotten so used to it already that we don't try to change the routine out of bad habit. As for counceling," she shook her head, scoffing once more, "Etsu always finds a way to weasel out of everything. Her old school tried to do it by having a resident psychologist give us some therapy, but she eventually got fed up and started running off during the scheduled visit dates or pretending to be sick."
Is this the same girl?, Making a face at what Sayuri was telling her, she didn't have any good words to say about Etsu's 'dark side'.
"I guess...,"she chose her words carefully, "Both of you spending so many years living apart and coming back together under the same roof so suddenly hasn't been easy."
"You have no idea... I wasn't really thinking when I have her transferred here. I thought it...," Sayuri's eyes glimmered, "I thought it would have been easier."
Swallowing, she folded her hands over her lap. This was far too intimate for her liking, yet... Etsu... The twins... Everything. Seeing this changed girl reminded her of the mistake she could have made if she had seperated her own sons.
The truth is ugly.
"I... I have a proposition for you," straightening her back and taking a purposeful tone, Yuzuha tried her best to look at the confused distraught woman in the eyes.
"A... proposition?"
"Yes."
Frowning slightly, Sayuri shifted in her seat, probably already sensing what she was about to say.
"Yuzuha, I know that you want to help, but this is not-"
"I want Etsu to stay with me until you two learn how to mend your differences!" the words left her in a rush as she clutched her eyes closed. It was a selfish 'proposition' on her part, since she was mainly doing it because of the guilt she felt at merely thinking of making her own two children suffer.
She knew, like any mother should know, that they would surely die inside if she had done what she had thought was right. For the last couple of months she had been not only traveling for business but searching for all boys schools so that one of the twins could study abroad while the other one continued attending Ouran.
The reality of what she had almost done had her eyes stinging.
Sayuri gaped at her in disbelieving terror."But-? I can't let you do that, Yuzuha!" some life entered the woman's eyes, leading her to think that not all hope was lost.
I hate having to resort to doing this! I just don't like seeing this! I hate having to see what could have happened. Of course my sons are both alive, but what if...? What if they end up like Etsu? What if they end up hating me like she hates her own mother?
"I know it's shocking," she tried to smile to take the sting out of what she was about to say, ignoring the selfishness and guilt spearing her, "but it's either that-"
Sayuri's eyes widened.
"-or the complete cancelation of all future contracts. If all of Japan were to find out about the abrupt removal of my company from yours, all businesses with Sakoi Exports would be jeopordized."
She knows it's true., Yuzuha understood that it was condescending of her to use her family name in such a way. She tried to see it as a 'good thing'. In a way she was sparing Etsu of the verbal and physical abuse, while... she got some closure in somehow paying for trying to do the same to her boys by killing them in life by keeping them apart.
"Why...? I don't understand!" Sayuri blinked rapidly. "I've just told you what she's like and you still want to bring her to your house?!"
Wincing at that, since in some way Sayuri was making it sound as if she were crazy, Yuzuha held up a hand, "I know that its sudden, but this might help the both of you in the long run-"
"How?! How can that help?! You have no idea what's she's like when she's in a vengeful mood! She can be dangerous!"
She makes this poor girl sound like a demon., Closing her eyes, she pushed aside what Sayuri had just said. After seeing how the woman had easily lied to her about how wonderful her daughter was, only to tell her weeks later what a monster she was, didn't exactly make her believe everything she said.
I don't think her sister's death is the only thing that has to do with Etsu's bad attitude. Sayuri has half of the blame for it.
"I wasn't kidding when I said that I would cancel all future contracts and pass on the word," keeping her tone hard, Yuzuha felt herself cold even if the icy commanding voice was her own.
A steely silence followed her words.
Say something!, She felt like an intruder, attempting to kill two birds with one stone when no one asked her to. It wasn't her place, it wasn't her problem... But it was similar and though unrelated, too personal for her to forget about.
"Fine...," her heart sped, "Etsu... may stay with you until we can... mend our differences."
Opening her eyes, it felt as if a heavy weight had been lifted off her chest at Sayuri's reluctant agreement.
***
Mills aka vanillakisses: Since I'm a crack or OC addict (I sound like a druggie), I've just thought of something CRAZY! I know you'll want to kill me, but... How does Tamaki/Renge sound? AWESOME! It's the crackiest crack EVER! I'm screwed up, aren't I? But they're both such hyper individuals that one can't help but wonder how they'd behave as a couple. THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT SO INTERESTING! If only someone would do something with them! I might as well do one when I'm finished with this and my other stuff. Crack smut... *sniffles* I need my CRACK SMUT! As much as I love Ouran yaoi, I need some HET CRACK PAIRINGS! SMEXXY JUICE! I'll shut up now...
lanaris. Sorry about not updating 'Reflection', but good news! That fic is already finished at my AFF account (my penname there is Mirrors)! I've already started a sequel for it though I hit a writer's block on it. Many people want to kill me, so I'm one step away from deleting it before they start a flaming campaign. We ALL hit writer's block sometime and it could be weeks, months, or years before we get out of them! We can't force ourselves! *wails*
WoWs: Lol. I loved the kiss scene too. Can you imagine seeing good-looking boy twins tonguing each other and then having one of them tounge-screw your face like he was going to... ahem... do something to you? *sigh* OMG! I didn't scare you, did I?! I do get pretty explicit with my ideas... *blushes*
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