I've only read the first two editions of this manga, so I'm taking what I know, and making out what I think. I'm putting this completely in English, without most of the honorifics, so I'm sorry if I offend some people. By the way, this is my first really serious fanfic, so if I don't do a good job, let me know and I'll...(i don't like saying it, it makes me feel icky inside.)...beat you...down. There, I said it! And I feel like an icky human being, too. T.T ...Anyways, here's the story.
l never understood them. The outside children. How could they be so happy all the time? It never made any sense to me. They were always so...unchained. How did their masters let them be so free? Maybe they don't have masters. Not like me. Not like us. We have to do whatever he says. He hurts us sometimes. He makes us feel bad, like when he fails a job, he comes home and he says mean things to us. I don't know what his words mean, but they don't sound good. We got let outside once. Only once. We met a nice girl. Then, our master came outside, and he dragged us back inside by our ears. The girl's name was Yuuki. We didn't find out what her last name was. She never got to tell us...
11 YEARS LATER...
My twin and I stood before the gates of Cross Academy. We didn't know how we got there. We didn't know why, or how we were set free. But, something... something drew us here, like it was divine intervention. Yeah, right. I laid that theory on my twin, and got laughed at. He said he didn't mean it, but I'm not so sure. My name is Yoshitoki Hamano, and my twin is Yamashita Hamano. We're fifteen years old, and identical. We have sort of a twin-mind-channel thing, and it works pretty well.
I took a deep breath, and looked over at him. "Ready, brother?"
He took one, as well, and replied, "Whenever you are, brother."
We pushed open the gates together, and stepped inside the courtyard. It was so big! I knew my twin was thinking the same.
"Where do we go now, Yama?"
"How should I know, Yoshi?"
Just then, a girl about our age landed in front of us. We looked up, and you could see the tree branch that she started from. "Are you two new here?"
"Who are you?" My twin and I asked together.
"Yuuki Cross. You are?"
My twin and I looked at each other. Could this really be her? That girl from eleven years ago?
We didn't get to find out, because at that point, a man in a fur coat (? It was early September.) came over and said, "Yuuki, who are your new friends?"
"Headmaster! W-What are you doing here?"
"I saw my daughter out the window with two young fellows who I hadn't met before, and oh! Curiosity got the better of me."
My twin and I cocked our heads to the side. "Huh? 'Daughter'?" "'Headmaster'?"
We pointed at the girl. "You're the headmaster's daughter?"
She blushed at this. "Uh, yeah. Hehe."
My twin and I looked at each other, and shrugged. "Hm."
The man addressed us now. "And who are you two?" He said with a smile on his face.
I hesitated to speak. When I started to open my mouth, my twin stole the opportunity. "We would like to enroll in this school, sir."
"Well! You get right to the point, don't you? No matter," (My twin scowled at this, as the man said it like it was a bad thing.) "You may most certainly enroll here."
"Awesome!" I exclaimed, as I high fived my twin.
"If..."
'Uh-oh,' I thought. 'Whenever someone more powerful than you can give you something, says they'll give it to you, then says "if", it's generally a bad thing.'
"...you have the necessary funds."
My twin and I looked at each other, checked our pockets and found nothing. "Uh-oh. Looks like..."
"We're broke." My twin finished.
"What are we going to do?"
"I think I may have a solution for you two..." The man said with a cryptic grin on his face, and his glasses angled so that the glare was completely on the lenses.
Something inside gave me a feeling I was going to regret this later.
Well? What do you think? Please R&R. But remember, I'm not very familiar with this series. kthxbai
