Disclaimer: I don not own Ouran High School Host Club, nor do I make any profit form the show, book, merchandise, or this story… sad face
Claimer: I do however own the Satomi family, family business, and story plot.
A/N: This is my first Ouran story; I really love the Hitachiin twins, and hope I don't make them seem bad in any way. Well, here you go; 'Rekindling an Old Life:
Rekindling an Old Life
Summary: You've heard of Hikaru, & Kaoru Hitachiin's past, where they were jerk-ish loners? Well, the truth is that they weren't always like that; and, the only reason they were, is because their best friends were forced to move away due to a loss of money in a business decline... Their closest and only friends; another set of twins, once they were lost... everything changed… They were never the same after that loss… They were never truly happy after that... and no one else was ever let into the Hitachiin twins' life, for fear they would lose them too... after all; if you don't get close to something, you can't feel the pain of losing it, right? Wrong... See what happens when these girls return to attend Ouran High, and visit the famous 'Host Club'... Will memories of friendship or maybe more arise; or will it just send the boys spiraling back into their middle school turmoil...
Chapter 1 - Return to Places Once Known:
'Bunkyo Tokyo… oh, how I've missed thee… Ha, thee… funny; but seriously…'
'Oh, sis; you're definitely something, alright…'
The 2 girls smiled at each other and looked back out the moving trains windows.
A family of 4 sat in the Shinkansen bullet rain, traveling from Osaka back to Bunkyo Tokyo; the place where the 2 sisters were raised… that is until they turned 10 and the family business was overrun by a competing family…
'Grrr…'
Anyway… that's beside the point; 2 ½ hours to go, and they'll be back home where they belong, now that those stupid Hashimoto's are gone… hmph, we always said their brands would never make it in Japan; only in their own heads…
It feels good, sitting in these reserved seats; it cost 13,000 yen but that's no big deal, now that we've got our business back on top. Well, I'm sure your all probably wondering who we are anyway. Well; that's easy, we're the Satomi's. The Satomi's of Satomi Cosmetics & Perfume (our father creates the body sprays & specific cosmetics for our male customers). And, you see; a few years ago, we were one of the top businesses in Town… until The Hashimoto's showed up, and took our spot… we lost all our customers, and were forced to move away to somewhere we could live off of a lower income… Osaka. Not very far away; but, far enough that we had to leave everything behind… Our house, school, and most importantly our best friends…
But it's ok now, because we get to move back; our cosmetics were a hit in Osaka; and all throughout Japan actually. So, now that we're back on track, we get to go back to Bunkyo, Tokyo; and, back to Hikaru & Kaoru… the Hitachiin twins; and our best friends since birth.
Yeah; you heard right, we're the best friends with famous fashion designer Yuzuha Hitachiin's twin sons. Maybe that's the reason why our parents work with cosmetics, so our parents could make a clothing and accessories line or something… Ha; yeah, our parents were best friend since kindergarten, and we were all conceived at the same Halloween party. We were even born on the same day! And, guess what… tomorrow is our birthday! Yeah, June 9th. It's great, we planned everything! We heard that Hikaru & Kaoru are in this thing at Ouran High called The 'Host Club'. So, we were gonna go check it out; and surprise them with a birthday present… It'll be awesome! Our parents were away on business a lot; so we spent all our time together; can't wait till tomorrow.
"EEEEE!" We squealed together, grabbing hands and stomping our feet up and down excitedly.
"Girls, calm down; people are staring…" Our mother scolded us.
"Sorry…" We whispered together still smiling, and squealing in our heads.
Soon we were off the train, and in a limo… our limo; cue squeal.
"EEEEE!"
Our parents just smiled, as they said hello to Satoshi; our butler/limo driver. We hugged him, and got into the limo; watching as the streets blurred by as we drove to our childhood home.
"Girls, look out the window; we're here…" Our father said, pointing out the window.
And there it was… our mansion, was standing there in all it's glory. It was left untouched, since we left. It was beautiful… it seemed a lot bigger when we were last here… wonder why… well; it was still, huge though.
We ran up to the front gates, and pushed them open, running through the front lawn up to the front doors. We pushed open the doors - we would need to set up a new alarm system later – and, ran into the house… our parents just smiled after us, as the maids and butlers followed Satoshi into the house as well with our luggage.
We spun around in slow circles, taking in everything slowly; the high walls, the hanging three tiered chandelier in the center of the room above a table with a set of our newest make-up, and perfumes. There was also a matching set of boxes, with mine and my sisters name's on a card leaning against each of them…
We ran up to the table excitedly and picked up our respective cards, and boxes. We opened the cards and all they said were, happy birthday; from Yuzuha Hitachiin.
We squealed again, and opened the boxes throwing wrapping paper all over the room. When we finally got the boxes open we pulled out matching outfits from Yuzuha's newest clothing line: 'Summer Flare'.
My outfit consisted of a bright red ruffled off-the-shoulder top, which had spaghetti straps holding it up; and little flower designs all over it. The sleeves ended just past my elbows. There was also a pair of blue jean shorts, which ended at the top of my thighs, a few inches past the end of the shirt; with yellow at the end where it was folded up about 2 inches. A pair of red shoes with tan wedge heels completed the gift.
"OMG! This is gorgeous! We'll be the first people to wear these clothes; this line doesn't come out for another week! And, I have the perfect accessories to wear with it too. Eeee, this is perfect for the party tomorrow, right Tukiko." I asked.
"Totally! This'll be a great way to reunite with Hikaru…" She responded holding her matching outfit, (the shirt & shoes in blue); up to her chest while she imagined Hikaru.
"Kaoru will love me in this; it shows off my legs…" I said, also imaging Kaoru.
"Tukiko, Sachiko." Our mother called from the top of the double stairs in front of us.
We looked up to see what she wanted. Our father was standing next to her with our stuff.
"Girls, go put your stuff away; and set up your rooms, dinner will be ready in a few hours.
"K!" We yelled, grabbing our clothes; and the make-up & perfume and ran up stairs and to our connected rooms. Then we turned around, after dropping off our gifts and grabbed our suitcases; running back to our rooms again.
We got everything set up in our rooms, and met up out back to walk through the garden, and relax.
"Tukiko, don't you just love this garden?" I asked as I ran down the path through the rose covered arches to the giant fountain in the center of the garden; and turned in slow circles much like in the house earlier.
"I do… I really do…" Tukiko said, with a genuine smile; as she stared at all the flowers, and reminisced on all the great times we had here when we were kids.
"Tag you're it! Come on, catch me if you can!" I yelled as I tagged Tukiko; and, ran through the garden in a flash.
"…" Tukiko just blinked twice, with wide eyes… then she smiled, laughed; and ran after me.
Just like old times…
Now, if only the boys were here…
'Just wait, boys… we're back!'
The next morning…
"Girls, wake up; it's your first day back at Ouran Academy!" Our mother called, knocking on our doors.
I shot up in bed. Oh, my gosh… Ouran 'high'… "High school!" I screamed as I got out of bed, ran into the bathroom; and through the opposite door into Tukiko's room.
"Tukiko, Tukiko; Tukiko, wake up! We get to see Hikaru & Kaoru today!" I yelled in Tukiko's ear, as I pulled the sheets off her.
"Hikaru… 5 more minutes… I'm tired… over… exerted myself…" Tukiko mumbled into her pillow; as she rolled over.
'Whoa… nice dreams, big sis…'
"Hehe… Oh, Tukiko-chan… But … I want you… no, I need you right now…" I whispered in her ear.
"Hikaru!" Tukiko shot up staring at the wall, breathing hard; sweating and blushing.
"Hehe… he… HAHAHA! What were you dreaming about, sis?" I burst out in laughter, as I rolled around on the floor holding my stomach in pain; tears welling up in my eyes.
"Grrr… Shut up! You know you've had the same dreams about Kaoru!" Tukiko yelled at me in frustration.
"Hmph… shut up! Just hurry and get ready…" I muttered hiding my blush, as I stomped out through the bathroom and back into my room.
Tukiko just smirked as she stood up, and walked to her closet. She walked into her walk-in closet, and since they didn't have their uniforms yet, pulled out a black t-shirt with 3 white skulls in a triangle in the center over a single cross-bone and the words 'mess with me, and this'll be you' with an arrow pointing to the skulls above them. The right sleeve ended a couple inches below her shoulder, the left had a longer stretch of sleeve connected to it, like a connected arm-warmer that ended right below her elbow, which had a silver cross on it. She also wore a black glove that went around only the middle finger on her right hand, a gold bracelet band over it. Her left hand had a purple & black striped glove that stopped at the first knuckle of each finger. She pulled on a dark blue ruffle mini skirt that ended mid-thigh with black striped socks that went up to right above her knees. Black buckle boot that went half-way up her calves, and a light blue belt finished the outfit. Tukiko took a shower and then got dressed.
I got in the shower right after Tukiko & then went through my closet and picked out, - not surprisingly - an outfit very similar to Tukiko's. Mine was a black t-shirt with three red hearts in the center of the shirt, the words 'what is love' under the hearts. My shirt didn't have the extra part of the sleeve though, and I only had on one glove, on my right hand pink & black striped. A silver chain with a red pendant charm bracelet hung loosely off my left wrist. I slipped on a red ruffle mini skirt, and a hot pink belt, pulling on a pair of zip-up black heeled knee-high boots over black striped socks that went up to right above the top of the boots (right above the knees).
I pulled my ass-length black hair with red tips into a high ponytail on the left side of my head, with a red ribbon, letting my bangs frame my face; a few strands of hair falling out of the tie. My bright green eyes really stood out like this. I smiled to myself applying a light layer of sparkly red lip gloss. 'Perfect…'
I walked out of my room and down stairs with my black and red striped purse, placing anything I might need for school in it (pencils, pens, highlighters, notebooks, with the rip-out paper, etc…) and found Tukiko in the kitchen, her black, sky-blue streaked hair in a high ponytail on the right side of her head. She was eating a bagel with strawberry crème cheese her blue back-pack slung over her left shoulder.
"Bagel?" She asked hers hanging out of her mouth, as she tried to talk through it; holding out the other half with strawberry covered in crème cheese as well.
I simply laughed, and took the bagel from her, taking a bite from it, and walking into the living room to find a note from our parents.
Girls, we had to leave early to meet up with Yuzuha to go over her new clothing designs and see if we have any new cosmetics to work with it. Really, we're just catching up on each others life's over the past few years. Happy birthday, girls; love you both. Tell the boys I said happy birthday to them too. Satoshi will drive you to school. Hope you all have a great day together.
- Mother & Father
I looked out the window and saw Satoshi standing all prim & proper in front of the limousine, waiting patiently for us to head out for school.
"Tukiko, mom & dad left to talk with Aunty Yuzuha about stuff… we're on our own; come on, Satoshi is waiting for us outside." I called out to Tukiko.
"K!" Tukiko called back, as she wiped her hands off on a napkin, and threw it away; following me out the front door.
We locked up, and walked out the front door, and through the front gates; to meet up with Satoshi.
He courteously bowed his left arm in front of him, pulling off his hat and doing that wave gesture thing you see in the English movies.
"Morning, Satoshi." I said politely, curtsying & smiling up at him.
"Hey, Satosh'." Tukiko said with a small wave & a smile as well, calling him by his nickname.
"Good morning, little ones." Satoshi said with a smile, opening the door for us to get in.
"Oh, come on Satoshi, we're not little anymore." I whined.
"Yeah, man; we're practically adults already." Tukiko said with a smirk.
"Yes, yes; of course mi'ladies." Satoshi said with a smile, as he got in to the drivers seat, buckled up, and started to pull out of the driveway.
"Seatbelts, girls."
Yes, Satoshi." We said in unison as we put on our seatbelts.
Soon we got to Ouran Academy in the high school section of course. High school…
"Tukiko… we're finally high school first years. And we get to be with Kaoru again…" I muttered dreamily.
"Just, Kaoru? Don't you mean, Hikaru & Kaoru?" Tukiko asked with a smirk.
"Th-that's what I said… Hikaru & Kaoru… both of them… right... anyway." I faded out at the end.
"Heh, calm down, Sachi; I'm just messing with you. I feel the same way about seeing Hika-Kun again…"
"Yeah… I wonder how much Kao-Kun has changed since we were 10…"
"Well, let's go find out!" Tukiko said excitedly, grabbing my hand and pulling me after her to the office to get our schedules.
We left the office, and made sure we had all the same classes. Once we were sure, we went looking for first period.
When we got there, we introduced ourselves to the teacher & the class; not really caring too much about anyone there; found some seats and sat down in the back of the class.
"So, I heard that Hikaru & Kaoru are in the host room setting up for today's activities." One girl in front of us whispered.
"Yeah, I heard about that. I wonder what today will be about; someone said they were all gonna be different types of wild animals, or something." Another girl responded.
"Ooh, ooh, ooh; they can be twin wolves!" The first girl responded a s the 2nd just giggled.
'Yeah, right… their obviously the cat type.' Tukiko thought.
'I know right, so obvious; if anything they'd be twin lion kings.' I replied through our telepathic speech, with a smirk.
"Hehe." We both giggled.
So it was kind of sad hearing that they wouldn't be in class, so we decided to go check out the famous 'Host Club' we'd heard so much about.
Lunch Time…
We took the directions of a few grumbling boys, (complaining that the Host Club got all the girls) who told us to go to the 3rd music room.
We thanked them, but got a little lost. That is, until we heard squealing fan -girls… and figured it would be best to follow their screams… so we did…
We finally found it… the 3rd music room; or better known as the 'Host Club'…
We pushed open the doors, and as we did the lights seemed to flash directly in our eyes; so we squinted as any normal person would in that situation.
As our eyes adjusted, and the lighting dimmed down to a normal level; we gasped in surprise.
The room was full of tables, chairs, and couches & such. But; none of that was important… what was important, was the group of boys in the center of the room, 1, obviously the leader of the group a blond boy sat in a red armchair, his – again – obvious, right-hand man a dark haired boy with glasses sat to his right, on the arm of the chair. To the left of the leader stood a tiny blond boy a huge smile on his face, balanced on once foot, with a stuffed pink bunny on his head. In front of him on the ground sat a brunette, with an innocent, somewhat feminine smile. Behind the little blonde boy, a tall black haired man, (as it seemed) his back turned to the rest of the group, only his face seen looking over his shoulder. And, to the left of the big guy, in a Charlie's Angels' pose… a pair of orange haired 'little devil' type twins…
"Hika-kun!"
"Kao-kun!"
"No way…" The orange haired twins said together, wide-eyed shocked expressions on their matching faces…
Everyones smiles dropped.
"You know these girls, Hikaru, Kaoru?" The leader asked a small smile on his face at the sight of two new pretty young ladies.
"More twins; and their girls!" The tiny blonde, bunny boy yelled happily; as he ran up to us.
Sadly though for him; we didn't really care for him cuteness at the moment… not with the 2 whose eyes we'd caught sight of the moment we stepped through those double doors…
"Tukiko… Sachiko… how…" The twins stuttered.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HIKA & KAO-KUN!" We yelled in unison as we ran right past the little blonde, jumped over the 2 boys on the chair, and glomped the twins; tears in our eyes…
'What is going on here…?' this one lone thought ran through the twins' heads as they lay there with a pair of sobbing girls on top of them… staring at the ceiling; they lay in wait of what was to come next…
A/N: Well, there we have it; the first chapter of Rekindling an Old Life. Hope you liked it; I worked super hard on it… I know, it may not seem like much; and, it's pretty short for most of my stories, even for a first chapter, but I think it's pretty good. A nice place to cut it off too, I do believe. Well… I'm gonna go to sleep now; and, I'll start the next chapter tomorrow… or later today technically, since it's almost 1:30AM… So… until the next chapter, please review; I appreciate it. First Ouran story, hope I did it justice. ^^
Ja Ne – Tomi's Little Jenna
