Chapter one: nekos and one hell of a butler

I woke up on the hard wooden floor, my back aching. I saw my sister's long fluffy tail hanging off the side of the bed as she was sprawled across it, snoring softly.
"Emi, wake up." I said loudly, sitting up and hissing at the pain in my back. She didn't move.
"Emiko!" I shouted, but the girl was a heavy sleeper. I picked up my pillow, which was on the floor beside me, and lobbed it at her, hitting her head.
"Get up ya useless lump!" I yelled, and she finally stirred.
"Wuh?" She mumbled sleepily, then noticed me on the floor. I glared at her.
"You kicked me out of bed again." I spat, getting off the floor and sitting on the bed, rubbing my eyes. She sat up and hugged me, playing with my silky ears.
"Sorry Nari, I can't help it." She replied. We looked at the mirror on the wall and saw identical nekos staring back.

My name is Nariko, and I have an identical twin sister called Emiko. She's older then me by 3 minutes, and she never lets me forget it. We are nekos, with black hair/fur and amber eyes. We are 16, nearly 17 and are going to school for the first time in our lives.
Because of being nekos, our mother never let us go to school, not wanting 'normal' people to see us. But after seeing a brochure for ouran private academy, she had immediately got us enrolled, declaring that we could find rich husbands there and that the uniform would hide our tails.
"Why'd you want me up Nari? I'm still sleepy." Emiko said, yawning. I rolled my eyes at her.
"Today's our first day at Ouran. We're going to school!" I said slowly. She looked confused.
Three...two...one...
"Yay! First day at school!" She cried happily, jumping on the bed and wacking me with her tail.
"Honestly Emi, if you weren't pretty you'd have nothing." I muttered, receiving a punch in reply.
"Emi I was joking!" I said quickly, for she was glaring at me. Then she smiled and got up off the bed.
"So what is the uniform like? Mother never told us." She asked, walking to the large mahogany wardrobe in the corner.
"I don't know." I muttered back. How would I know?
Emiko opened the door and gasped.
"It's...it's..."She stuttered, trying to get the words out. Was it that amazing? She turned round and I gasped in horror.
"It's hideous!" She cried sadly. I nodded in agreement.
She was holding a ankle length canary yellow dress. There was a red bow at the neck but other then that it was quite plain.
"If this is the girls uniform I wonder what the guys uniform is like." I muttered. Then an idea came into my head.
"Sebastian!" I yelled, and 10 seconds later our butler was standing in the doorway.
"Yes M'lady?" He asked. He was new so he couldn't tell us apart. Not that anyone else could tell us apart.
"Please bring up two sets of the male Ouran uniform. We're curious." I ordered. He nodded and left the room.
"Why do you want the male uniform?" Emiko asked, putting the dress back in the wardrobe. I smerked, forming a plan.
"You'll see Emi." I replied, then lay back and waited for Sebastian to return.
After 5 minutes he opened the door.
"Here are the uniforms you requested. And the mistress and master have informed me that they will not be joining you for breakfast." He said, holding out two boxes. I grinned and took them.
"Thanks Sebastian, your the best butler we've had." I said, smiling. He smiled back.
"Well, I'm simply one hell of a butler." He replied, standing up straight and adjusting his tie.
"Okay don't milk it." Emiko muttered, closing the door on him. I sighed and put the boxes on the bed. Emiko walked up beside me.
I gingerly lifted the lid of one of the boxes and grinned when I saw the uniform.
"Look Emi! It's loads better!" I said happily, pulling it out.
There were black trousers, your typical white shirt, a black tie with a purple strip down the middle and a light blue blazer, the school crest on the breast pocket.
"Yeah, it does look good. Only one problem though Nari. We're girls. We have girl parts, that won't be hidden by that." She said, looking at the uniform. She was right, we wern't exactly flat chested.
"Erm...bandages could work." I muttered, putting down the blazer and pulling out a medi-kit from under the bed.
"Ah, like when woman used to disguise themselves so they could join the army?" Emiko asked excitedly, taking the roll of bandages from me. I nodded.
"Yeah, something like that. And I was thinking we could strap or tails to our legs in the same way."
"What about our ears? And our hair Nari, it's too long for a boys. There are a lot of flaws in your plan." She muttered, wrapping the bandages round her now bare chest as I wrapped some round my tail and left leg. It wasn't actually that uncomfortable.
"We can wear wigs. Mother has lots. They would hide our ears too." I replied. I had already decided on that. Emiko smiled.
"Yeah, that's a good idea." She agreed, finishing the bandages and pulling on a shirt, doing the buttons quickly and looking in the mirror.
"What d'ya think? Flat enough?" She asked, and I looked at her now almost flat chest.
"Yeah, can you do mine how you did yours?" I answered, passing her more bandages. She grinned and started to do mine, wrapping me up tight but not so that it was uncomfortable.
"There, we're like a pair of mummies." She said, giggling at her own joke. I laughed and slipped on a shirt, admiring my now boyish figure in the mirror. My plan was actually working. Usually it was Emiko who had the good ideas.
Emiko had already done her tail and was slipping on the trousers. It was only then that I realised everything fitted perfectly. Thank you Sebastian. Smiling, I slipped on my own trousers and turned to face Emiko. She was standing there frowning, the tie in her hands.
"Nariko, do you know how to put on a tie?" She asked, and I picked up mine.
"No, I don't." I mumbled back, an identical frown on my face. Then it was as if little light bulbs popped up above or heads as we both shouted;
"Sebastian!"

"Yes M'ladies?" He asked as he walked through the door 10 seconds later, his eyebrows raised at our boyish appearances.
"Can you show us how to tie a tie?" Emiko asked, holding it out. He smiled and undid his own tie.
"Of course. But you first need to turn up the collar of you shirt." He said, showing us.
We copied everything he did until we got it right, and it took a few goes to memorize. But after a while we both had tied the ties around our necks, making sure they were the same length.
"Thank you Sebastian, we'd probably of strangled ourselves." I said, and he chuckled. Then he frowned again.
"Forgive me for asking, but why are you dressing as boys?" He asked.
"Because we don't like the female uniform." Emiko replied, shrugging. Then she slipped on her blazer and shoes and looked in the mirror, holding up her hair to see the result.
"Ah, well it's your choice. But I do hope your not planning on cutting your hair." He said sadly. I smiled, he loved our long hair and ears because he said we reminded him off fluffy Persian cats. He loved cats.
"No worries, were going to wear wigs." I told him, putting on my own blazer and shoes. He smiled, then bowed and left the room.
"C'mon Nari, we haven't got much time left." She said, taking my hand and pulling me out the door. I smiled as we walked to mothers wig room. She was a hair stylist and tried out all her styles on wigs first.
When we got there I opened the door and looked around for the perfect pair of wigs. We still wanted to look identical.
"How about this?" Emiko asked pointing out a pair of blonde wigs. I shook my head.
"I don't want to be blonde, it's too common." I replied, looking at some black ones.
"Well let's change our colour at least. That'd be more fun." She said, pulling me towards the brown and ginger ones. We both stopped by some auburn wigs, identical apart from the way it was parted.
"These ones." We said together, making the other laugh. We took the wigs and put them on, fixing the others until it looked like it was our natural hair. We looked at the other, barely recognising our twin. We looked like convincing boys. And we were still good-looking.
"We look so different. We've changed everything but our eyes." Emiko mumbled. Then she grinned.
"C'mon, let's go to school!" I cried, dragging Emiko out of the room and down the stairs. We grabbed our bags and ran outside, getting in the car that was waiting for us.
School was going to be fun.