Sakurai: Yo! Wassup all you people out there! I am ready to write this fanfic!

Kaoru: So am I! I want to see what the great Sakurai has in store for my love life.

Sakurai: That's right! This is going to be a completely different story than you're used to so get ready, get set, and GO! GO READ!

Kaoru: Okay then Sakurai… hey Hikaru, what do you think is wrong with our author?

Hikaru: I'm not so sure. HEY! YOU!

Sakurai: Who me?

Hikaru: Yeah you! What is wrong with you?

Sakurai: What do you mean? What did I do?

Kaoru: Well, for starters you're holding a knife behind your back.

Sakurai: *laughs nervously* haha… oh that! That's nothing! Nothing at all…

Hikaru: Then why do you have it?

Sakurai: Just in case you two try any funny business…

Kaoru: You mean you really don't trust us! *pouts* I'm offended. You make us sound like creepy, perverted high schoolers!

Sakurai: No! No! I wasn't… I didn't… well… you're kind of… Never mind! I'm sorry!

Hikaru: *grumbling* I'm not the creepy one. HE'S the creepy one.

Kaoru: *sweat drop* Sakurai does not own OHSCH or any of the characters.

Kaoru's PoV

My brother, Hikaru, and I were walking to the school auditorium for some assembly they were going to give us. Some of the people walking by, mostly the Gossip Girls, were whispering to each other. Ugh, the Gossip Girls annoyed me the most out of all the stupid, boring people in this school.

In case you're wondering, they're not called the Gossip Girls by anyone except for my brother and I. We had names for all the groups of people at this school, Ouran High School.

The groups were these: The Gossip Girls, self explanatory. The Kiss-ups, who were the ones on the honor society, did community service, and all that teacher's pet kind of stuff. The Cheer Chicks, who were almost as annoying as the Gossip Girls, but since they wore their uniforms were short, Hikaru and I tried to give them a bit of a chance.

Then there were the Chillers, who included the skateboarders, the cool musicians, and all the drop-out type people. Then there were the Goths, also self explanatory. The Club Kids, who were all the people in any sort of club or group or society in the school. There were so many clubs that we were lazy and just grouped them all together.

Then the Powers. They were the "popular" kids in the school. That also included the jocks and sports heads and stuff. Then last but also least, we had the Geeks, who were also self explanatory. Of course there were a few kids here and there that were in no group, but not that many. We called them the Others. Hikaru and I were part of this group.

We walked into the auditorium and sat down. Since we got there slightly early, more people didn't start filing in until about five minutes later. While we waited for them to take their seats we played the 'which teacher is gonna get angry' game.

Whenever we had an assembly, one of the teachers would unsuccessfully try to get the chillers to stop goofing off and pay attention. Sure enough, Mrs. Rantaku walked over to the stands.

As I looked at her boredly, she instructed a few Chillers to get their heads out of their laps and to give her their IPods. They just ignored her and went on with their business. As she continued on with her efforts I started to tune her out and think out the new video game I had just gotten as a present from mom.

Mr. Suoh, our headmaster, walked up to the microphone and cleared his throat. All of us were told that this was a health-and-hygiene assembly. We have had them before, mostly about people smoking in the bathroom or leaving gum under the cafeteria tables. I noticed something was a bit different when the only people I could see were seniors. (In case you don't know, Hikaru and I are seniors too.)

We were all prepared to listen to his long, boring speech, but Mr. Suoh had surprised everyone when he had announced they were all about to participate in a marriage project. All the seniors were going to be paired up into married couples for two weeks and they had to take care of an egg as a child.

"This is going to be fun." Hikaru whispered sarcastically from the seat next to me. I overheard some Gossip Girls in front of me. "This is going to be so romantic! I can't wait!" Are they kidding me? Romantic? "Ohh, I hope I get paired up with Monta! He so dreamy!" Ignoring the rest of their conversation, I looked around the room at everyone else.

Most of them all had the same dreamy look in their eyes, guys and girls both. "I can't wait to get married!" Another Gossip Girl said. "I think a wedding is the most romantic thing in the whole world." I snorted and the girl glared at me.

"Mr. Suoh, will we get to have weddings?" Yet another Gossip Girl called out eagerly. How many of them were there? Hundreds?

"No, you won't have weddings." Mr. Suoh said, looking impatient. There were groans of disappointment, mostly coming from the Gossip Girls.

Mr. Suoh held up his hand for silence. "Marriage isn't just about weddings and flowers and romance. Marriage is about responsibility, the kind you need when you go off to jobs or college next year. That's what I hope you'll learn from this project."

"Will we at least get to pick who we're married to?" A student asked. I didn't know his name; I hardly knew anyone's name. That might be a problem for this project.

"Couples will be selected at random," he answered "I will pick names out of a hat and post a list of couples tomorrow morning."

"The lottery of loooooove," a student sang, quoting the lyrics to a popular new song. The rest of the students burst into laughter and Mr. Suoh clapped his hands. "Quiet, please. Raise your hand if you have something to say." He spotted a student waving his hand in the air. "Toji?"

"I still don't get it," Toji said. "Is this supposed to be part of our science class or health class or what?"

"That's a good question. This is what we called a multidisciplinary unit. It will be part math, part Home Ec., part social studies, part health, and part science. There will be several sections of the project, and you will be expected to complete them all. For example, each couple will be required to work out a household budget, plan a menu, and cook a meal. You'll even get a taste of child rearing. Over the next two weeks, we will have a series of lectures like this one. When necessary, the cafeteria will be turned into a study hall to accommodate such a large group.

He held up a manual. "At the next assembly, every couple will receive a manual like this one. In it, there are several collected essays and articles on marriage and family life. There is a lot of good information in here that I hope will help you complete the project successfully."

I glanced at Hikaru and rolled my eyes. "Mr. Suoh can make anything sound boring-even marriage." I said, keeping my voice down as he continued on with his lectures. He looked out over the group of students.

"I want to emphasize that this project is designed for couples. As of tomorrow morning, when each of you has learned who your spouse is, you must remember that you are a part of a couple. You must learn to think as a couple and you must learn to work as a couple."

"All seminars and study halls must be attended as a couple. No matter how you feel about your spouse, all sections of the project must be completed as a couple. Understood?" There were a few nods around the room, but other than that it was eerily quiet. He smiled at us, but then his face became serious.

"I think you will discover that life will change dramatically after tomorrow morning." He said "So be prepared." I looked around and saw that many of the students were suddenly looking as serious as Mr. Suoh. I felt a flicker of worry, but then dismissed it as just being hungry. After all, this assembly was cutting in to my lunch period.

I still think this marriage project sounds more like fun then work. Besides, stuff like this never gets graded. What could be so hard about it? We might have to write a short paper or something, but mostly it sounded like lectures and study groups.

"We will assemble again tomorrow morning," Mr. Suoh said interrupting my thoughts. "Until then, you are dismissed."

The auditorium erupted into excited chatter and I quickly pulled Hikaru out of his seat and out the door towards the cafeteria. We loaded up our lunch trays with cafeteria goodies and went to the nearest empty seats and dug in. We were extra tired and hungry because we stayed up late last night holding dinner for my mom who was flying in from London.

Her plane was a little, okay a lot, late and by the time she got home she went to bed. We were too tired to wait for food, so we went to bed also. In the morning, we slept in and as we rushed out the door, we learned that the cook didn't have time to make us breakfast because mom had kidnapped her to look at her newest designs.

After we finished our food, we got up and got more. As I handed the lady the money and turned around, I crashed into someone, knocking them and their lunch to the floor. Thankfully it was a bento and it was closed so it didn't spill. Wait, that wasn't what I was supposed to be worrying about! The person, the person, where is the person! They weren't on the floor anymore.

I looked up and saw everyone staring. Half at me and the other half at a girl with long black hair, a red and black plaid skirt, and a black jacket running out the cafeteria doors.(Ouran doesn't have uniforms anymore. And they started accepting more and more scholarships. It was about half rich people, half commoner.) I guessed that she was the person I had knocked down, so I grabbed the bento and ran out following her.

I burst into the courtyard, bright sun shining into my eyes. I squinted my eyes and looked. I saw a door closing and a flash of red and black plaid. I threw open the door and ran into a hallway, up stairs, and through another yard. I just want to give this girl her bento back! Why is she running?

Finally, after about twenty minutes of running, I collapsed panting onto a nearby bench panting. I leaned against the bench, stretched my legs out and closed my eyes. I let the sun engulf me with its warm rays and was completely at peace. That is, until I heard a ruffling next to me and a quiet tap-tap-tap of shoes. I opened my eyes wide and jumped off the bench.

The bento was gone and, as I ran in the direction I heard the footsteps going, I discovered that it was in the hands of the plaid-skirt girl. I caught up to her a bit easier this time grabbed her wrist, jerking her to a stop. She whirled around to face me and I finally got a good look at her.

She was about three or four inches shorter than me and her hair reached about halfway down her back. She tried to pull her arm away, but I didn't let go.

"Why did you run?" I asked curiously. No one at this school was very interesting, and this girl seemed to be coming close to the interesting mark, so I wanted to know more.

She didn't answer, only succeeded in freeing her arm. Before I could stop her, she was running out the school gates and down the block. I decided to classify her in the group Others. It didn't completely fit her, but oh well. Maybe I'd think of a new group with Hikaru later.

The next morning…

I walked into the hallway and found it bustling with activity. Mostly seniors wandering the halls. The couple postings hadn't been put up yet and everyone was interesting in finding out who their "spouse" was. I hate to admit it, but I was kind of interested too.

Mrs. Rantaku walked up to Hikaru and I and handed us two name tags. I put the one that said "Kaoru Hitachiin" on the front of my shirt and walked deeper into the sea of seniors. I leaned against a locker that didn't have too many people around it and was soon joined by Hikaru, who was now wearing his nametag also.

"Do you have anyone you want to get paired with?" Hikaru asked, just trying to pass the time and not really caring about my answer. I shook my head and we stared at the crowd in silence.

Soon the noise level grew considerably and I looked around to see what the commotion was about. Mr. Suoh was walking out of his office and quickly headed for the bulletin board.

"Everyone stand back! Get into a line right now or you have detention!" I don't blame him for getting angry; all the students had crowded him immediately and nearly squished him as flat as a pancake.

The kids slowly got into a line, but I stayed where I was. I was going to wait until the line died down a bit. It's not like I was in a hurry. About ten minutes later, the crowd had dispersed and only a few students remained. I strolled up to the bored and closed my eyes.

Not a Gossip Girl, Not a Gossip Girl I thought to myself. If I got paired with one, I might not live to the end of this project.

I scanned the list and found my name. Kaoru Hitachiin….. Kana Chikoku. Never heard of her.

I walked around the hallways hoping I'd find her. (Mr. Suoh gave us free time to look for our partners during first period. We had to be at an assembly with them for second period and he didn't want any excuses.) I asked two teachers and they said she spent a lot of time in the library. Great, a Kiss-up! At least she's not a Gossip Girl, and maybe she'll do all the hard work and let me take it easy.

I got more excited as I came closer to the library. As I rounded the corner I knocked into someone and we both fell on the floor. I looked up and saw that it was the black-haired girl. (I would have called her the red and black plaid skirt girl, but today she had on a completely black skirt.)

Why was I always bumping into her? I got up and held out my hand to her. She looked at it and stood up on her own, brushing her skirt off. I looked at her and my eyes drifted towards her nametag.

Kana Chikoku. Found her.

Sakurai: So? Whad'ya think?

Kaoru: Good good!

Sakurai: thank thanks, but I asked the readers. Not you.

Kaoru: Haha oh sorry. HEY READERS! PLEASE REVIEW!

Sakurai: Yes! PLEASE! Review like you life depended on it!