Disclaimer: Yeah, I know. Everyone hates em and want to get on with the story. I don't own any of the OHSHC characters, nor do I own anything else of the creators. I'm just a typical fan that wants to write her own story. (Any added characters are MINE.) : )

Chapter 1. Kukiko's surprise

I started to think while I was walking up the Ouran Highschool stairs. Haruhi said that this was a good school. I wonder how well I could act like her today. We didn't talk about much last night, but enough for me to force her to stay home while I took her place for today.

Last night...

I just arrived in Japan, from the mainland, from a 16 hour flight. I had to catch the bus right after that but I still had to walk at least two miles to Haruhi's house. Haruhi is my identical twin. She's only two minutes older than me so we don't really care which of us gets called older or younger. She also acts like she doesn't care for anything if it doesn't help her with getting the same job that mom had.

She always wanted to try giant sushi. I laughed in my mind. I forgot to ask if her and dad were eating enough food.

Haruhi said that she went to Ouran High school for schooling. Apparently, that school is full of rich kids. She said that I would definitely pass that school entry for a scholarship because of my brain. Great, going to school with rich kids will be such a bother. The only thing good coming out of this is that it will look REALLY good on my resume. I always wanted to get a job that will pay for all the bills and still leave a considerable amount of money to do what I want with it. Of course, I had to got a full scholarship or else I wouldn't be able to go here!

I trudged my feet up the road to my sisters house. I knocked my weary hand on the door.

I heard footsteps coming near the door and out came Haruhi.

"Kukiko!" Haruhi exclaimed as she hurriedly came over to me to relieve me of my suitcases.

"Wait! They're too heavy for you to lift," I gasped.

Haruhi mumble something I couldn't make out and reached out her hand to grab one of my suitcases.
I swayed my suitcases to my left, making her stumble as she caught herself from falling. "I told you, you won't be able to lift them. If you should remember anything, I had monster strength then and I got more now."

Even so, I let down one of my suitcases to prove my point.
Haruhi put both of her hands on the suitcase and pulled up with all her strength. The end result was one inch off the ground.

"What do you have in there," Haruhi groaned as she dropped the suitcase.

"Yours and dads souvenirs. Good job for even lifting it off the ground! You have gotten stronger!" I said in a annoying voice, while I flashed my teeth. I would've clapped, but my other hand held my second suitcase.

Haruhi just hmphed.

She kept the door open while I carried my bags into a room she pointed to.

"So, how's school?" I asked Haruhi. I want to get as much information from that school as I can. The more I know, the more I know who to talk to and who to avoid.

"What do you want to know?"

"Things I should know about," I expressed 'should'. I don't want useless information.

"Well, for starters, everyone in that school thinks I'm a guy-"

"WHAT!" I shouted out without meaning to. "Do you want me to set things straight? Tell me! I'll go there right now and personally notify each damn think-they're-hot-stuff-rich kid in that school that you are a girl!"

"Wait! No, just calm down," Haruhi grabbed my shoulders and made me sit down again.

"The reason why everyone thinks I'm a guy is because I have to repay a debt and the only way to do that is to-"

"-be a boy! Who's the one saying you got a debt! Tell me! I'll tell them I'll repay them when I finish schooling!" I got up again, but Haruhi made me sit back down.

"Just sit down like a good little sister and listen." I decided to sit since I didn't like that Haruhi had to use the older siblings to younger sibling thing on me.

"But you know I've never listened ever since I was ten years old."

Haruhi sighed. "I know. But anyways, I have to repay them back because I broke an expensive and important vase. I repay them by working in a host club. It's easy, all I have to do is make girls request me every day and when I get a high enough requests, my debt is paid off. I like being a host member, with girls admiring me and all. We're both tomboys, so I know you get how I'm feeling. All the host club members know that I'm a girl and help me out when someone's close to figuring out that I'm a girl."

By that time, I have cooled down. Geez, what a bother.
"Isn't being a boy . . ." I searched for the word, "...bothersome? Or is it annoying?"
"Well, it isn't hard for us to act like boys since we are tomboyish. I mean, we act like boys all the time. We don't really care what we look like as long as it's comfortable, we like simple things, and it's not like we are lazy, we just don't want to do anything that seems too bothersome or annoying."

I had to admit, that hits it right on the spot. If no one knew better, someone might've mistaken us as the other person. Yes, we are identical twins, but it's always awkward when we get called each other's name. We don't usually care about that, its just that I wanted to go to the mainland to find myself. Yes. My main purpose for studying abroad was to find my own self without confusing my personality with Haruhi's.

"While you're right about all of that, there is still one thing you missed," I spoke back.

Haruhi looked at me with confusion written all over her face.

"While we are both what you said, you are the more carefree type of tomboy while I am more of the fighting type of tomboy," I said while looking at the ceiling then around the room, observing how the house looked. It looked neat for such a small place. I guess that's what you'd expect from a two person family in a apartment. I looked back at Haruhi.

Haruhi, face facing the floor, looked like she was thinking about what I said.

"True. You have always had monster strength for a girl-"

"Tomboy," I growled.

"Yes, yes. You have monster strength for a 'tomboy girl'. So," Haruhi looked at me, "does this mean you know how to fight?"

"Yeah! I trained myself every single day in America! Even when I was tired as hell from studying, I still trained myself. I wanted to protect someone from my school in America..." I trailed off realizing that I had said too much.

"Someone? Did you have a crush on a guy?"

Urk! Damn, when did she get so observant? She was so frickin' dense about love and all that the last time I saw here.

I looked back up at the ceiling, avoiding Haruhi's gaze.
"Yeah. I did, but I found out he like this other girl. He never really talked to me unless I acted differently, had to ask me something, or I started a conversation. He always ended it, though. It was a one-sided love." I looked back at Haruhi and faked a smile.

"That sucks."

"Yeah. Well, at least I know about love. Don't you remember when you broke that guy's heart in your last year of middle school?" I pointed my finger at Haruhi.

Haruhi's response was to wave her arms in front of her as if to say that I'm wrong. "That was purely an accident!"

"But that was a cruel way to crush someone's heart. The last thing I did to him was to give a hug. Then I never saw him again. I'm glad that I didn't let my heart fall any lower. The amount of love that my heart held for him made me cry for the following two weeks. Now, I won't let anyone in. Men . . . are people that are cruel. And I'm not just that because of what happened to me personally. I changed a lot during the summer. I observe people. How girls act, how guys act, how people communicate, everything. In the last two months, I have been collecting an endless amount of information from just observing. Men have emotions that they dont show because they think it will make them look weak. I've observed how life is, what certain things mean. If I were to tell someone, they'd think I was a old man!" I laughed lightly.

"It seems that you have a lot of emotions locked inside."

"Yes. I do. But I have suffered a lot. Did you know that the prettiest smile hide the deepest secrets, the prettiest eyes have cried the most tears, and the kindest hearts have felt the most pain? I, even here, have felt enough pain that broke my heart. My heart . . . is gone. All that lives inside me are overpowering emotions. Did you know that everyone has a good and bad side? It's just how strong one side is is what shows through the surface. All my emotions are too strong. My main emotions is anger and kindness. Each emotion changes based on the situation. How I act changes on how people around me act. If people are fighting each other, I'll get all mad. If someone is beating me up, I go crazy and won't stop beating them up until someone stops me. If people are sad, I'll try to cheer them up. If people are happy, well, that works like keeping a tight restriction on my emotions. -" I paused to look at Haruhi.

Haruhi looked at me as if she didn't know what to say. I laughed inside my head.

"When I feel that people are following me, I show a kick-ass attitude. When I feel that people are sad, I'll ease their pain. I'm like a empty hearted person that has a sixth sense of empathy. It's weird. The closer my heart is to the person, the better feel of how much their pain is. It's complicated, but I'm sure that it will show sometime. Just . . . be careful with the other me's. Kay?" I asked, showing a fake smile.

I got up to go to the room that Haruhi showed me.

"I don't want to put too much information on you so just watch, alright. The way to stop me is-" I stopped in the middle of my sentence, hearing a voice in my head.

Don't tell her!

Why not! If you get out, it'll be hell for whoever you're pissed off at! I yelled to my inner self.

Just let her figure it out on her own. She's our identical twin, right? Twins have a type of bond that lets them understand each other. She'll have to figure it out herself. My inner self sighed.

Now you're starting to sound like an old man.

I start to feel tired and jet lag is clinging to this body like oil.
I yawned.

Fine. I won't tell her. Happy?

….. My inner self didn't reply.

"I'm sorry. My inner self won't let me tell," I pointed all of my fingers to my to my chest.

Haruhi had confusion on her face as I went into my room.
As I just took a step in the room, I told Haruhi, "By the way, I'm going to Ouran tomorrow in your place to see if your safe there, so dont be alarmed when I take your uniform."

I heard Haruhi gasp right before I shut the door.

Back to present...

I looked up at the outrageously huge school, slumped my shoulders, adjusted my man uniform, and took my first step inside the school.

(A/N: Please comment and rate!^^ I have a lot of ideas for this story, so the confusion will clear up along the way!)