About a few hours ago, you were a happy girl in a happy life. You lived with your beloved cousins Kagura and Rin Sohma under Kagura's kind parents. You attended an all girls private school and wore a pretty school uniform everyday. Your nails were always painted a pretty pink, your shoes always shined, and your hair was the most beautiful shade of orange anyone had seen.
Now as you looked in the mirror, you could hardly recognize yourself, you were wearing a boy's school uniform in a sloppy fashion with no tie and the buttons undone. You had on dirty white tennis shoes and your nails were plain and clear. But the most shocking part was that all your long beautiful hair now laid on the floor at your feet. You almost would have cried now looking at yourself in the mirror, but then your three elders Ayame, Hatori, and Shigure came up from behind you. "Despite the lacking of height, the broad shoulders, muscle, and bad attitude, you look just like Kyo!" Ayame commented. "Really? I do?" you asked excitedly "Not when you do that, when you're Kyo don't be so happy and look pissed off." You tried to scrunch your face to look angry but Shigure merely laughed and told you to stop. "This isn't just some joke, take this seriously or don't do it at all." Hatori said "Remember to not hug any boys and if you ever need anything please go to Hatsuharu, Momiji, or even Yuki if you need help." you nodded and Hatori took you to school in his car.
Just as the bell rang, you came into the classroom. The teacher shot you a look but began to call roll anyways. You listened intently for your name to be called, but it never came "Kyo Sohma? Is Sohma-kun here today? I guess not." She looked up when she was done with attendance "Anyone I didn't call?" you raised your hand "Sensei, you forgot to call me." "Kyo Sohma-kun? I called you about ten times and you didn't answer me." you became horrified, right I'm not Harumi Sohma, I am now Kyo Sohma you thought to yourself
"Sorry sensei." you said "Whats wrong with your voice Sohma-kun?" you also forgot that your voice wasn't nearly as deep as Kyo's "I was sick over the weekend, so my voice turned out like this. I hope to talk less today." you said.
The class itself was easy because Kyo was taking classes that you took last year and the courses at his public school were much easier then the ones you took in private school, so you were relieved for that.
But the most tricky part came when it was lunch break and you weren't really sure who your brother's friends were, and it would be a dead giveaway if you asked. Then someone tackled you from behind and almost knocked your lunchbox out of your hands. "Hey kitten, you haven't shown your face all weekend, trying to hide from a fight?" you flew into the locker in front of you and hit your forehead, when you turned around to see who pushed you it was Hatsuharu and he seemed to be in a very bad mood "I'm not trying to hide from anything, I'm very hungry, so I'm going to go now." you said as you tried to slip away casually, but he grabbed your shoulder "Well if you're not trying to hide, you have to fight me right now!" He threw you into more lockers and this time you hit the corner of your mouth on the metal hinge. Then the last thing you saw before you fainted was his fist coming at your face.
You woke up in the nurses office and winced as you felt a pain on the corner of your mouth, you sat up and also felt your shoulder were sore too. "You're not dead, I am so glad I didn't kill you!" on the side of your bed was Hatsuharu, he was holding your hand and looked very regretful. You didn't know what to say and looked around the room, and sitting in the nurses chair a few steps away was the most beautiful person you had ever seen. He had silver hair and large gray eyes and a smile sincere from his heart. "I'm glad you're up. How are you feeling?" "Yuki-sama, I'm sorry I caused trouble for you." He smiled and handed you a glass of water.
This was only the second time you had met Yuki Sohma, it was weird that you saw him so little since your brother lived with him and he was the talk of the entire Sohma household and he was very popular even at your girls private school. As you saw him now, you remembered the first time you ever met him
It was 10 years ago and you and Kyo were playing by yourselves as always in the park when Rin, Hatsuharu, and Yuki came to play. Rin"Lets play at the other park, those twins are here, the whole place smells bad." Rin remarked starkly, Kyo heard and you also heard, and he took you by the hand "Lets go Harumi, I'm tired of playing at this park, I want to go somewhere else." and you obeyed him, as he was packing up his toys, you snuck over to Yuki as he was being led away by his mother "Me and onii-chan are leaving now, so you can stay and play. There are a lot of beautiful flowers to pick here. Here I got some for you." and you presented him with fresh flowers "I can't keep them for long because I'm allergic, so they're yours now." and he excepted them with a gracious smile that made you fall in love with him.
Yuki had probably forgotten meeting you, so you didn't bring it up. You tried to take a sip of water but your lip hurt too much and Yuki took the glass of water back. "I feel like I should be saying sorry because you got hurt your first day here, but actually the real person to say sorry is Hatsuharu." Hatsuharu got down on one knee and begged your forgiveness with his forehead meeting the ground. "Wait so you really hit me? And I really passed out!" you asked. Yuki laughed "No no, he was going to but then you fainted right away." You sighed and covered your face "I'm so embarrassed." you mumbled. "Don't be embarrassed, Hatsuharu is again the one to feel embarrassed." Yuki poked him in the head "Whats the matter with you, we told you for a long time now that Kyo and Harumi are switching. Why did you have to go and pick a fight with the wrong cat? Are you stupid or just being mean?" Yuki asked. Hatsuharu turned to apologize to you again "I'm sorry again, I should have remembered when I grabbed you and you were obviously too skinny to be Kyo, or when you screamed and tried to run away, or when you didn't give me a mean cow comeback, sorry again." You smiled and forgave him instantly "No harm done! I mean at least I look more like onii-chan now right? Since onii-chan gets in fights so much, he probably has a lot more scratches. Hatsuharu, you are welcome to rough me up a bit more, you crazy...cow." Yuki laughed "The comebacks could use a bit more work." You nodded and bowed "Yes Yuki-sama." the bell rang "I have to go to gym now, I have to leave. Thank you Yuki-sama and Hatsuharu." Yuki grabbed your shoulders before you left "Just a little tip, Kyo never calls me Yuki-sama. Its just Yuki okay?" you blushed at how close he was "Yes, Yuki?" he smiled and ruffled your hair, letting you run to class.
As expected, you weren't as good in gym as Kyo was and in a basketball game, you got several bruises along your arms from falling and the basketball hit your previous scratch from the scruffle with Haru and it got bloody and worse.
It was a good thing that when you got home, Hatori was still there. He saw the scrape above the top of your mouth and inquired about what happened, when you were about to tell him it was merely basketball, Hatsuharu and Yuki arrived home "Hatori, it was all me. I punched Harumi, I am very sorry." And he bowed and stay bowed for a long time. "Hatori, it was nothing like that. I got pushed into a locker that was all." "But I pushed you, I'm sorry Harumi." Hatsuharu said. "You didn't intend to push Harumi, you wanted to push Kyo. You couldn't know the difference." Hatori applied too much medicine on your cut and you sat back "That hurts!" "Stay still so it doesn't get worse." he commanded, and you obeyed.
After he was done treating you, Hatori went back to the mainhouse with Haru and Shigure too, so that meant you and Yuki were home alone together. You tried to stay out of his way as much as possible, taking your shower after he took his and then going to your room right after so he didn't see you. Your plan would have been fine, but then you got hungry and it was in th kitchen you finally ran into Yuki. You quickly put on your hood and zipped up your jacket all the way "Are you wearing Kyo's clothes?" he asked, you were startled he would want to start talking to you, you answered quickly "No, they're mind. Ayame-san made these boys clothes, for my size. Does it look bad?" "You look really bad, just as if you're like a boy or something." He laughed, you took off your hood and ran your hand through your hair and then it came up short. You missed your orange locks badly, and depressd by this you put your hood on. "It was a brave thing you did, for your brother. You cut your hair and assume his identity and you live his life. You gave up your freedom so that he has his, thats very courageous, something I probably can't do." You took a seat next to Yuki "Its not courage that made me do it, I was scared to even try it, and I'm scared now, but despite my fear, nothing can compare to the love I feel for my brother. Because I love him so much, I think its only fair that I take the burden off of him like he did for me for so many years now." Yuki smiled "If only I had such a relationship with my brother."
It seemed like Yuki was getting sad talking about the subject, so you started talking about something else. "Today was a good day though and I think I'm playing Kyo's character really well." Yuki turned to you "I hate to burst the bubble, but its not very well at all." "Really?" you asked, he nodded "You're not a very good Kyo at all." you pouted "How do I become a better Kyo?" "First of all you have to be less polite. Kyo is very curt with his replies and he never says please or thank you." you nodded and he kept going "He likes gym a lot and hes very good at sports but he is horrible in school, so try to be better in gym and less smart." you didn't nod this time, but Yuki continued "And you can't look so happy, you have to have a really mad expression and frown almost all the time." you frowned and tried to make your eyes look menacing, but Yuki just ended up laughing "I think this is the face he makes?" you asked when you thought you had it, but Yuki just laughed again "Thats his face on a good day." "Then I guess, Kyo nii-chan will have good and happy days from now on." Yuki's smile faded a little and he looked at you for a long time "No matter how I look at it, you two are not very similar at all." "Its funny have siblings can be do different, by looking at me and Kyo, and you and Ayame I hope you can find some similarities between you and him, and try to understand him a little bit." You yawned "I'm going to finish my homewo- or errrrr I mean go do one hundred push ups. See you in the morning." And you left Yuki sitting at the kitchen table, hoping he would think about what you had said.