Rain Makes a Flower Bloom Brighter
Two adopted American twin girls discover they are the only heirs to a very rich Japanese family. Enter a new language, a new school, uniforms, and of course, the host boys! Watch these ordinary girls and their younger brother go through a crazy whirlwind at Ouran Academy with romance, making new friends, and tons of giggling fan girls along the way. Mori/OC Hitachiin Twins/OC Tamaki/Haruhi
Rated T for teenage romance and mild kissing and swearing. Romance/Humor. Reviews are greatly appreciated!
Chapter 1: Introduction
Kaori stared out of her window as the limo passed picturesque fields and sprawling manors and estates. Her hand was tucked securely into her bother Yuki's hand. She thought of her old house back in Michigan as they passed another grand house and sighed with sadness. She missed the city and normal people houses. It just didn't seem real to her that they were now richer than she could even comprehend.
Yuki and Kohana were bickering as usual, this time about the possibilities of sports at Ouran Academy. Kaori smiled to herself and hugged her stuffed cat Kiki tighter. At sixteen, she was considered too old to have a stuffed animal, but she loved having it with her wherever she went.
Yuki, Kohana, and Kaori were siblings, although Yuki wasn't blood related. Kohana and Kaori were twins, blonde and blue eyed with fair skin with only faint Japanese traits in their faces. Yuki, on the other hand, had darker skin, black hair and grey eyes, and was all Japanese. They were all born in Japan, but the twins were half American. All three had been adopted by their parents, Jo and Don Webster, American professors who couldn't have children of their own. Don was Japanese and American, so he and Jo decided to adopt from Japan. The twins had been only five months old when the Websters had adopted the girls. They brought them back to the states to start their brand new family. When the twins were three, Yuki was adopted and accepted into their happy family. He was a year younger than the girls.
Growing up American had been awesome, but the kids at school always asked about their names. Jo and Don had decided to keep their original names. It was important to them that their children know about their heritage. Apparently Kaori means Night Rain, while Kohana means little flower. Kaori thought Kohana's name was much prettier than hers.
When Kaori turned five, she developed an unknown disease that made her weak and sick all the time. It stripped whatever muscles she had in her small child body, and her bones became very brittle. She was in the hospital for almost a year as doctors tried to diagnose her condition. Then she was sent home to be taken care of by nurses and to be kept comfortable and on IV fluids until she hopefully recovered. Hospitals visits became a staple in her young life. She missed three years of school, which made her shy later in life. She also had no friends except her brother and sister. Her stuffed cat Kiki had been a gift from a trip to Disney World when she turned four. Kiki became her best friend when her stronger siblings went to school and enrolled in basketball, soccer, and science camps. Yuki became a genius at math, and Kohana was a very popular girl with all the other kids. She was very outgoing, laughing all the time. She was very nice to everyone, but she still had a quirky personality that made everyone want to be her friend. And she was very sarcastic and quick to pick fights.
While Kohana grew and became moderately tall for her age, Kaori stayed slender and short. While Kohana made tons of friends and grew confident and funny, Kaori was home all the time watching Disney movies and playing with dolls by herself. Being sick meant she couldn't get a lot of exercise before she would collapse, so she was indoors all the time. Kaori became more withdrawn, and she started to read all the time, and she learned to paint and play piano to pass the time. By the time she was eight, she was a foot shorter than Kohana and very skinny, but the doctors said she was greatly recovered and healthy enough to lead a normal life, but with some limitations on her strength. She was allowed to go back to school, but she had to take special classes because she was so far behind.
She was too shy to make friends. Everyone had already made close friends since she had fallen ill, so no one accepted her into their groups right away. After the first week of teasing and giggles, Kohana had been sent to the principal's office nearly every day for beating up kids that teased her smaller twin sister. After that, a large group of girls who were friends with Kohana accepted Kaori like a baby sister, so she had lots of support and affection up till high school.
Yuki, who was also very protective of Kaori, grew very tall, even taller than Kohana. He loved sports, and he was very smart. With his help, Kaori caught up easily with the other kids. She had also read so much as a child that she was at a much higher reading level than kids her age. Yuki helped her with everything, including carrying her books and opening doors for her. It was an endearing sight watching him carry his older sister around everywhere while he and Kohana bickered back and forth. By the time she was thirteen, she was thoroughly sick of being babied. Her parents fussed over her all the time, and kids at school and teachers treated her with an almost childlike attitude. It drove her crazy. But she couldn't make it stop, since she did need extra help most the time. If she had to walk for longer than five minutes, her legs grew weak. If her backpack was loaded with books, it became hard for her to carry it. And someone was always there waiting to scoop her up on their back or into their arms like a small child. Over the years, she grew slightly stronger. But she would never be able to do sports or run like a normal kid.
Almost a year ago, Jo had received a phone call from a man who worked for the Koizumi family. They were a very rich family who owned a lot of real estate and hotels in Japan. Recently, the main head of the family had passed away in a freak boating accident, who incidentally was the biological father of the twins, Haru Koizumi. He died without any children from his marriage to a woman that was not the girl's mother. While he had been married to his wife, he had had an affair with a journalist from New York, a woman named Carolyn Trapper. A month after she gave birth to twin girls, she died in a car accident. With no family, the girls were sent to Japan to live with their father, which caused a big stir in the Koizumi family. Ashamed of her son's behavior, their paternal grandmother thought adoption was the best option, so Haru gave up his children to the Websters.
With no heirs to succeed the family name after her son's death, Akemi Koizumi had hired a private investigator to track the girls down. A year later, the private investigator had found them in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After many family arguments and many meetings with Akemi Koizumi and her lawyers to make the girls the successors to the family company with many stipulations, the Websters finally agreed to move to Japan so the girls could begin their education so they could be prepared to run a million dollar company. Only after they had had a thorough education, spoke fluent Japanese, could run a business, and became proper young ladies would Akemi consider them for the position of the head of the Koizumi family company. The girls also had to have their surname changed to their biological family's name. Jo and Don were very hesitant to let their girls be accepted into another family, but the girl's future would be so much brighter and well off in such a renowned family. Plus they would never be too far away from the girls or Yuki, who was bound to work closely with the girls in the company.
At first, Kaori and Kohana had flat out refused the name change. But after many talks with their parents and their new grandmother, they had allowed it.
After months of etiquette, cultural studies, language classes, business lessons and weekly afternoon tea with their stern grandmother, it was finally the first day of school at Ouran Academy, one of the best institutions in the country.