hello there! so actually, i originally posted this story up way back in 2008 as 'sandwiched', but never got around to finishing it. then because of the live action drama of ouran and me thinking that it's about time that i'd finish the manga, i rediscovered why i used to love this show show so much-well, not that i stopped loving it, but just that phrase of being so passionate and obsessed about something just evaporated, you know? and now, i just had the thought that maybe, i should come back and write this one once more and actually finish it. i have yet to finish a multi-chapter fanfic, so why not finally do just that. this one wasn't that long when i plotted it out, so i think i have a good chance of actually finishing it if a write a little bit each day. so here's 'sandwiched' re-written as 'you and us'. enjoy :)
Opening the door to the first year classroom, Haruhi, wearing a dark purple sweater strode in and sat down at her desk. Pushing her black rimmed glasses up her nose, she got out her notebook and pencil.
Just then two identical twins stepped through the door way. A group of girls quickly dashed forward to greet them.
"Good morning Hikaru and Kaoru! How are you today?" one girl asked.
"Not very good. I didn't get much sleep last night," one of them answered with a yawn. "Kaoru had a nightmare and was screaming in his sleep too loudly."
"Don't say that Hikaru. It's too embarrassing," the other said, blushing slightly and turning away from his brother.
"Sorry, Kaoru, but you were just so cute then," Hikaru said, holding Kaoru's face close to his.
The action caused the group of girls to squeal loudly in a dazed state.
Haruhi sighed. Ever since she had started school the Hitachiin twins have always been playing their 'brotherly love' act in front of all the girls whenever they got the chance. She didn't understand what all the nonsense was about. To her, it was plain stupid. She wasn't even sure why the girls like it so much.
Now that she mentioned it, everything and everyone in this large and rich school was weird. Maybe it's just because everything here was a new environment to her. Although, she never minded that she was what these people call a 'commoner'. She could care less about fancy and expensive items. What's the need of it when you already got what you need to live on during everyday life? Well, she guessed that it maybe because the everyday life of these people contained more things than her ordinary life; things that she didn't need.
Just then the bell rang, indicating the start of class. All the students scrambled into their seats including the twins, who sat down on both side of her. She found the twins rather distracting at times. Okay, try most of the time. They constantly tend to look over her shoulders to observe the notes she would take. Sometimes they would even start poking her with their fingers and pencils as if to see if she was still alive. However, she always managed to ignore them every time. There was no way that she would let a couple of obnoxious ginger headed twins interfere with her studies. She had come to this school to accomplish something and that's what she will do. This goal required her to study hard and earn good grades and it seemed as if the Hitachiin brothers were born to hamper with it.
Today was the same. However, it was even worse. One of them was now toying around with her glasses and the other was ruffling her already messy hair. When the teacher glanced back, they would regain their form as two hard working students, keenly taking lecture notes. When the teacher looked away again, the both of them would start trying to distract her once more. She could now feel a vein beginning to pop out of its place from inside her head. She was definitely going to have a nice talk with these two annoying pests after class.
As the bell rang, Haruhi shot up from her desk and stepped in front of it, so that she now faced both twins.
"Why on earth are you standing there staring at us?" the one on her left asked. A devilish grin suddenly made its way across his face. "Don't tell me a guy like you have just fallen for us."
"Why on earth would I fall for you two!" she snapped back. "What I want to say is that the both of you have been annoying me since the first day of school during class. It's proving to be quite a pain and I'm starting to lose my concentration and also my patience with you two."
"Fujioka Haruhi, you seem to come from a very different background than the rest of us," the other twin on her right commented. "Is it wrong for us to take interest in testing out a new and unique student?"
Haruhi, felt her temper rising. "Testing? What do you two think I am? Your toy?"
The Hitachiins glanced at each other before smiling at her.
"To tell you the truth it's been a while since we got ourselves a new toy to play with," Hikaru remarked. "What do you think Kaoru? Do you think that this little guy here would be suited for the position of our new 'toy'?"
Kaoru nodded. "Why not? It'll be interesting to have a commoner as a toy to play with."
"I'm nobody's toy!" Haruhi shouted, but before she knew it, the twins grabbed her by both her arms on either side and dragged her out of the room.
"Where are you guys taking me?"
"To lunch of course!" the twins chorused.
"My lunch box in still in the classroom!" Haruhi yelled at them, trying to break free.
"Why need a lunch box when you have a lavish lunch waiting for you in the school cafeteria?"
"Plainly because I don't have enough money to afford the fancy food in this school!"
"Don't worry, we'll pay! It's a special treat for our new toy!"
"I'm not your toy!"
Haruhi sat down at an empty table with Hikaru and Kaoru and stared down at the food on her tray. It contained a deluxe bowl of salad, a plate of mouth watering roasted steak and even some orange juice in a wine glass. Rich bastards. How much of her allowance would this meal have cost her if she had to pay for it by herself?
"Don't just sit there staring down at it. Food is for eating, not for observing," Kaoru on her left told her as he stuffed a piece of steak into his mouth.
"Start eating already or else we'll have to feed you like a little baby," Hikaru said, reaching for the fork on Haruhi's plate. However, he accidentally knocked down the glass of orange juice.
To Haruhi's dismay, it spilled all over her sweater. What on earth? She forced back a loud, annoyed and angry groan. Someone help her before she ended up literally killing one of the twins…or both. Haruhi stood up and started wiping her sweater with some tissue.
"Don't bother," Kaoru said, also standing up. "There are extra uniforms in the nurse's office. C'mon, we'll take you there."
Haruhi let out a sigh of exasperation as she pulled the curtains in front of her, hiding Hikaru and Kaoru from view. The twins have been causing a lot of trouble for her ever since this morning and saying that she was starting to get tired of it was an understatement. She wondered what she should do in order to solve this problem.
"Hey, Haruhi, you forgot the necktie to the uniform," one of the twins suddenly stepped behind the curtains. He turned to face Haruhi, but only to end up staring with his jaws dropped open and after a second of being frozen to the spot, he quickly dashed out from behind the curtains, but not before she managed to catch sight of a blush streaking across his face.
Haruhi could only stared at the spot where Hikaru took his exit. She then blinked. Her eyes then traveled back to gaze at her own body. Oh…Well, okay, so they finally figured out that she was a girl. She couldn't really blame them for not knowing at first though. After all, she was dressed in an oversized sweater—she had no money to afford the school uniform—with thick glasses—she lost her contacts—and topped it off with a messily cut hair—a boy stuck gum into it the day before school started and the results of cutting it herself wasn't actually that satisfying. Not that she cared if anyone had mistaken her gender though. It didn't affect her studies, so it didn't really matter.
However, it seemed that it mattered to the two standing outside…
"Haruhi's a girl…"
"What!?"