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It all started in a small town in Japan called Kamikatsu. Small town, as in 2,000 people. My family and I live on a farm that grows wheat and rice, and we have an averagely normal life.
Technically, had*. My twin brother, Nao, was to be head of the family, so he was expected to be a strong, steady base, smart enough to run the family farm to support the next generation.
At school, we were known as the Araki twins, and each known for a particularly strong set of skills, and us both together would be unbeatable. My brother was known for t being excellent at sports, film and photography, and languages (he could speak and write in 7 while I can only speak and write in 3-Japanese, English and Spanish). He wasn't particularly extremely smart in subjects at school, pulling a B average, but he wasn't dumb. He was the captain of the boy's swim team, and did a damn good job at it too.
I, on the other hand, sucked at most sports. I trip on the ball while kicking at it, the ball hits my face, or I somehow score on my own side and earn the other team a point. But, I excelled at swim team, with being captain(ette?) of the girl's team. I swam fast, and kicked butts too. I excelled at school work pulling A's and A+'s, and I'm a hugeeeee book nerd, reading almost a book per day. I also liked singing, and programming, occasionally hacking for money (gotta get money for books and manga from somewhere).
Everything was perfect until 3 year of middle school, when we could apply for other schools for high school. I had high schools lining up to accept me, the closest being the local high school in our town, but I was shooting higher up. Of course, I had to be a Baka ( T) and tell this to my family at dinner (Mom, Dad, brother).
"Sooooo..." I began, hearing the scraping of forks against the plates cease and all eyes turned towards me. My family decided to eat in silence, mainly because my father is a raging asshole who likes to gamble, money AND saying provocative to see what reactions he gets, hoping it will end in his favor (usually doesn't end up in his favor, like I said, raging asshole)
"Yes?" My mother asks, looking at me with watery, blue eyes. I loved my mother to death, but she's become fragile over the years, dealing with my father getting rid of some of her personal possessions, and his verbal a use to obtain them. She's sick of it, I can tell, but she's not strong enough to stick up for herself.
"At school, I looked at the scholarship list, and I saw a school that sounds interesting..." I begin, looking at my plate full of noodles (AN- idk what else to say for food lol).
"Was it Iwatobi high school? Cousin Makato goes there... Maybe he can put in a good word for the administrator to put a slot in for you... You could also join the swim team too, but than again it's all male..." My mother begins to rant. My mother was always looking for an opportunity to get me away from home, but I don't know why though...
"No, even though that's a great high school, there's somewhere else I'd like to go..." I begin, "Well, spit it out already!" My father say sternly, glancing from side to side.
"I'd like to apply for Ouran High School!" I blurt out, causing the room to go silent.
A few moments pass, and than my father says "no."
Looking back at this, if not for him, I may not have had made it to high school without his 'motivation".
"Why not?! I believe I'm smart enough to attend on scholarship. I can study a bit and earn a 100%, landing me a complete spot since the test is har-"
"Because you aren't attending high school at all!" He blurts out, standing up with his fists clenched and face red.
A deathly silence follows, and my brother looks shocked, and my mother is looking away from the table.
"What.. do you mean I'm not attending high school?" I question, rising slowly from the table. "I want to pursue my career of being a successful Doctor, and future doctors need to attend high school to get into college."
"I-I was stupid and young..." My father's voice lowers, looking away from the table. "It was 9 years ago, when you were 4. I gambled away everything except this house, and our family was starving..."
"You promised you wouldn't tell her until she graduates middle school..." My mother begins, only to be shushed by my father.
"The only way to obtain food and money was to, uh, promise your marriage to another man."
"Ok than, so why can't I do that after college?" I inquire, I mean after all I plan on attending a college in America, and I can make myself a new identity using my computer skills.
"The man is turning 18 this year, and is now old enough to inherit his family business, only if he has a wife." My dad explains, with a 'duh' look on his face
"Why can't he just wait?!" I ask, getting nervous.
"His father was the godfather of a nearby mafia, and was just killed." My dad blurts out, before sitting quickly (no, it's not the mafia boy in the Ouran episodes.)
"WHAT?! YOU ARE MARRYING ME OFF TO A GODFATHER?! I DONT WANT TO BE A MAMA (mafia's lead woman)." I blurt out angrily, I mean who wouldn't be pissed.
"Screw this guys, I'm going to Ki-chan's" I say, leaving the table of a shocked brother, asshole father and a silent mother.
I grab my bag by the doorway with my flip phone (Note- in this fanfic I will have it so its modern day, where the host club owns iPhones and samsungs as they can afford the newest models) and slip on my shows and exit the house. I grab my rusted bike from the porch and begin the 7 mile journey to Ki's house in the neighboring town.
Maaya Ki, the daughter of the the mayor in the neighboring town, has been my friend since grade school since the only grade school in the area was at the border. Though we attend different schools, we still stay in contact. She has a car which her brother drives (he is friends with my brother so they hang out) and I bike to her house.
Maaya is one of the most beautiful people I know. Cheekbones are perfect, long, dark lashes, curly hair, dark chocolate skin, and eyes the deepest color of black, hey carry the soulful look in them that she knows something you don't. She and her brother were adopted from somewhere outside of Japan, but I honestly don't care about her past, but the future. I've asked her about it before, but she kinda blew me off so I figured she doesn't like talking about it.
I explained to her the situation, and she agreed that my father was a raging asshole.
After an hour of us hanging out, around 8' o clock, my fate changed when the door opened and in came my brother. "Onii-sama, what are you doing here?" I ask, hearing him breathing heavily. "I got in, I'm going to Hollywood."
"What?!" I ask, my older brother never mentioned any of this before. "I'm going to work as a translator in Hollywood, casually assisting in film once grade school is over. I will be attending a film school in Hollywood on scholarship too, and they will pay all costs. The only thing is I will be using an American name instead of my Japanese one, so mom and dad can't contact me, for all they know I will be attending a school in Sapparo."
"Wait... say that again," Maaya says, with a serious look on her face.
"I will have an American name, so mom and dad can't contact me, for all they know I will be attending a school in Tokyo...?" repeated Nao, with a look of confusion on his face.
"What if, you both switch places...?" asks Maaya, and my brother suddenly shakes his head. "No way! I worked my butt off to go to Holly-"
"I see what you are getting at, so my brother goes to Hollywood under is American name, while I attend a school as a boy under my brother's name?" I ask, smirk growing on my face.
"Basically," Maaya says, "you guys could look alike if you were the same gender, except Nao is a bit taller and has more masculine features." "Than, let's get this show on the road! This is a top secret plan, so no one can find out, got it?" Nao says, and I nod.
I made my mind up on Ouran, and told them that school was the one I wanted to attend. We set the plan in motion. I was to do training for the next year, until high school started.
My brother was to teach me how to act like a guy and Maaya would help me remove my feminine side. Maaya had always wanted to be an actress, so she would help me 'get into character' so I can easily 'act out' the parts of a guy. She also was skilled at doing makeup, and showed me how to contour my face to look more masculine and like my brother's.
Each day, after school, I would run to Maaya's house to build up muscle to look more masculine and muscular, run back to my house, do work on the farm's field, study, than from about 12-3 in the morning I would do computer jobs for people across the world, by hacking, looking up private information, or other deeds to earn cash. Six months of doing this, it was time for the scholarship test.
My brother and I arrived early to sit next to each other in the back. I wrote his name on my paper, and he wrote my name on his paper. I completed the test 5 minutes before it ended, and my brother failed to complete the test, so he handed it in 3/4 full. Purposely, like we planned. I was prepared to pull up tears on the way home, saying I couldn't handle the test, saying it was too hard.
My sperm donor and birth giver took the bait, comforting me, telling me my future husband would take care of all my needs. Gag.
The results came in, and before showing it to my parents, my brother made a copy of the one that said that I didn't make it, and I photoshopped his name onto it. We showed it to our parents, and our parents said it was understandable, on how wealthy Ouran is. The letter for the test I took under Nao's name was opened the next day at Maaya's house, and I got the scholarship! The letter said that another student in another town got the scholarship too, as she was a few points lower than me but still had an exceptional score of 96. I got a 99 (I would've gotten a 100 but one of the questions was about American politics, but who honestly cares about that :/)
Than, the fated day came, where 'Nao Araki' would go to Ouran High School in Tokyo. My brother was to leave a couple days later, so we decided to speed up the plans.
The night before I left for Ouran, I would go to sleepover at Maaya's house, and she would cut my hair in the style of my brother's, would drive me to the airport where I had applied for a passport 9 months ago. I would take a 1 way ticket to Tokyo. I used my female name, and would go to the airport makeup-less. Once I arrive to Tokyo, after a while I would apply for a passport under my male name, or my brother's name.
Maaya would tell my parents that I never arrived at her house, and I planted a fake ransom note that asked for 10 million yen, which my parents could never afford. It also said to have it in a week, which is impossible as I did research on the mafia my parents wanted to cart me off too. The 'Vines and Roses Mafia' (How cheesy of a name is that? Sounds like a weird fanfic) was easily identifiable, as they had a ring around their arm with vines and a singular rose on it. Their worth as a mafia is pretty small compared to some mafias, only 4 million yen.
I had already payed a year's rent for a small, 1 room apartment 10 blocks from OHS, and I shipped 3 bags to that address, where a family friend of Maaya would put the bags into the apartment. I had about 312,427.50 yen (3,000 American Dollars,2286.57 British Pounds, 3,947 Australian Dollars, 3,888 Canadian Dollars) for buying groceries and other necessities. Maaya's brother and my brother had a ton of old clothes that no longer fit them, and gladly gave them to me. Maaya also purchased me a few things to hide my chest, which was the biggest problem. I have a 36C, so the pain I have to endure everyday will suck, but it's definitely better than marrying young. ACE bandages are the base, with a binder on top of that, and sports bra is layered on top. All with a black tank top (manly, not a camisole) is put on top. This way, if any person sees me in a tank top, they won't see the heavy bulge as bad with white and gray. I do have neutral colors, but I am not wearing the Ouran uniform as it it too expensive for me.
On the plane ride to Tokyo, which was 8 hours, I completely scrubbed my existence off the internet as Nao's sister, and implanted fake information that I went over with my friend and brother.
I am Nao Araki, 15 year old scholarship student in class 1-A. I want to become a successful doctor one day, and will try my best in school. I have physical conditions, not allowing me to do excessive amounts of exercise, and I have a doctor's note approving me skipping gym, which the headmaster approved in a school email. I am an only child, as I had a twin sister named Kako, who died during childbirth.
Watch out Ouran High School, there's a new student coming, and they will pursue their goals successfully, and nothing will get in the way.
And this boy has got something up his sleeve, and down his bra. Kako is my past, and Nao is my future.