Kura: Hey peoples! We're back with the second part of chapter one!
Hana: We write way too much!! Is typing up My Twin, our Naruto fanfic
Kura: You have no room to complain. Ouran is way longer. Anyway, I'm just going to stop stalling and type.
Hana: T.T pain
Kura: ZOMG PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIKE THIS THING!! WE GOT 10 HITS AND AN ALERT ON THE FIRST PART WITHIN LIKE 30 MINUTES!! Uberly happy We own nothing by the way. Oh, and if any characters seem a bit off, we're terribly sorry. We're trying to get them right, but sometimes they need to be a bit OoC.
Recap. Liza set the oven on fire, and Alyx managed to put it out after Tamaki made himself look stupid. Kyouya told them he was going to have to add the oven's repair to their already high debt. Needless to say, the girls weren't happy about this.
"What?!" Liza shrieked.
"But it's fine!" Alyx yelled.
"Does it look fine to you?" Kyouya asked.
"Yes," Alyx retorted mulishly, "It just needs to be cleaned up."
To prove her point, she rolled up her sleeves and tucked in her shirt. She grabbed a bucket and filled it with hot, soapy water, and started scrubbing the oven with a sponge she'd found. Everyone but Liza left.
"Liza, keep working on the last of the snacks and give 'em out, would you?" Alyx suggested, "You aren't hurt, right?"
"No," Liza answered and got to work.
About ten minutes later, she left to give out the last of the delicacies before the club closed for the day. Liza was kept longer than she expected. Apparently, she was more interesting than she thought. The whole twin thing sure was popular. Unlike the other mischievous twins, Liza and Alyx were actually seen separate a lot – neither minded nor cared. Being together certainly had its perks though. It was much easier to cause problems that way.
"They called you the Phantom what?" a girl in the club asked.
"The Phantom Menace," Liza replied, chuckling at the nickname stolen from a Star Wars movie.
"Menace? But aren't there two of you?" she asked.
"Yes, but most of the time only one of us was ever seen. Usually me, if we both were in on it. But sometimes Alyx let herself be seen when she did some prank on her own," Liza explained.
"Wow, that's so cool!" another girl exclaimed.
"Yeah!" the first agreed, "Were you ever caught?"
"Not really, since Alyx was the mastermind behind all of it," Liza admitted, "I just helped to inspire her to do something, and then I'd try to help carry out the plans. If they ever saw me, which they did a lot, they couldn't punish us because they couldn't prove who'd done it. We both claimed to be innocent."
Liza visited a bit more, until the last of the questions were answered, then left.
"Wow, you're a natural," Tamaki exclaimed, "It's almost like you're one of the hosts!"
Liza blushed a bit and thanked him. Suddenly, she remembered her sister, slaving away in the kitchen.
"Alyx!" Liza yelled when she entered the grand kitchen.
The other girl jumped and slammed her head on the inside of the oven. She crawled out of the machine, rubbing her now-red forehead. Glaring at her sibling, she demanded to know what her problem was.
"Sorry, I just realized that I forgot about you," Liza answered innocently.
"Gee, thanks," Alyx muttered, "The Oya-bakas will be here soon. I guess I've gotta finish this tomorrow."
As they turned to leave, Kyouya inspected the oven. He grudgingly admitted to himself that Alyx had actually done a good job on the parts she'd gotten to. She was very lucky that no parts had been damaged. If the girls noticed the action, they didn't show it. Instead, they made their way to their car.
"Hello girls," their chauffeur greeted, "How was your day?"
"Hey Phil," Alyx said, trying not to sound disappointed, "It was ok, I guess."
"Are the parents still working?" Liza asked sadly.
"Yes, but they should be home for dinner," Phil answered.
The girls sighed and settled into the car. Phil started it and pulled out of the school's driveway. The girl stared out of the windows, watching the school disappear, and then looked at each other, letting out a sigh. They knew that they would, unfortunately, have to go back to that crazy and psychotic place.
Phil looked back at the twins and tried to start a conversation with them, "So, did you like your new school?"
"Guess…" Liza began.
"…So," Alyx finished.
"Did you blow anything up or start any fires?" he teased.
Alyx and Liza exchanged glances and giggled, "Not on purpose."
Phil sighed, not expecting an answer like that, "Do you remember what your parents said?"
The girls pretended to think, "Hmmm, nope! Not at all!"
"You may not, under any circumstances, blow that place up. It doesn't matter how much you hate it."
"Shut up, Phil!"
They pulled into the large driveway of their home. Phil opened up the girls' door and they hopped out. Immediately, they went to change out of their uniforms.
"You know, if we're gonna be stuck in that club, we should at least bring some comfortable clothes," Liza said, taking the bow out of her hair, and letting it hang down.
"You think Lady Drama Queen will let us?" Alyx asked, referring to Tamaki.
"Who cares?"
"Good point…but what about that Kyouya guy?"
"Am I hearing you getting scared? And of a guy no less?!"
"Heck no!" Alyx threw her hairbrush at her sister, "I'm just not going to stay there longer than we have to!"
"We have a time limit?"
"Crap! We don't!" Alyx pondered for a moment, "How much do we owe them again?"
"Not including the stove?"
"He'd better have taken that off! I'm actually cleaning it! Very well, mind you!"
"Then 500,000 dollars."
"Ugh!"
"And we can't pay in American dollars, so we've gotta get 50 million yen."
"HOW THE CRAP ARE WE SUPPOSED TO PAY HIM?!"
Someone knocked on the door.
"Ja?" Alyx and Liza called.
A maid opened the door, "Young Mistresses, your mother would like to see you downstairs."
"'Kay," they replied. When the maid left, they looked at each other.
"Mom? Wanting us? This can't be good," the girls concluded.
They went downstairs to see what their mother could possibly want with them.
"Girls," she sang, clearly in a much better mood, "Guess what?"
"What?" her daughters asked, completely uninterested.
"What are you wearing?" Sheryn Hayashi asked, switching the subject.
"Does it matter?" Alyx replied.
"Of course it matters! We're having dinner with Mrs. Hitachiin and her boys tonight!" their mom cried in exasperation.
"WE'RE WHAT?!" Alyx and Liza yelled.
"Calm down," Mrs. Hayashi ordered, "Now go upstairs and make yourselves look like proper girls your age."
They sighed and walked upstairs to their room. Closing the door, they grumbled about their mother and slipped on some nice and expensive-looking clothes. All the while they also questioned where they'd heard the name "Hitachiin" before.
"Maybe some kid in our class had that name," the twins decided.
"All right girls!" their mother called, "Out to the car!"
"Yeah, yeah" Alyx said.
"We're coming," Liza added.
The girls walked out to the car, and were driven a little ways down the street, to the next mansion over.
"Did we seriously just drive next door?!" Alyx asked, irritably. She really hated people that couldn't walk to a place that was a few minutes away…or next freaking door.
"Well, we have to make a good entrance!" their mom defended.
The annoyed twins got out and walked to the door, trying to hide their irritation. Once their mother joined them, they knocked on the door. A maid opened it for them.
"Welcome," she greeted, "We've been expecting you."
"Nah, really?" the twins muttered sarcastically, feeling a bit ornery.
They looked around and then at each other.
"It's nice…" Liza trailed off.
"…I guess," Alyx ended the sentence for her.
They received a glare from their mother as she hiss, "Girls, be on your best behavior."
A woman about Sheryn Hayashi's age walked down the stairs, and, with open arms, called out, "Welcome, welcome!"
The twins sighed, thinking of the long night they were going to have to endure with these crazy ladies.
"These must be your two girls that you told me all about, Sheryn," she said, looking at Alyx and Liza, patting their heads, "What little darlings."
The girls scowled at each other as this was happening.
"Boys, our guests are here!" she yelled up the stairs.
There was a muffled "We're coming" from a voice, very familiar to the girls. At the top of the stairs, two ginger-haired boys appeared. Twins to be exact. Hikaru and Kaoru to be even more exact.
"YOU!!" Liza and Alyx yelled, looking, wide-eyed, at the boys, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!"
"We live here," Hikaru said, shrugging.
"The question should be what are you doing here?" Kaoru added.
"She," the girls jabbed an accusatory finger at their mother, "forced us to come."
"Do you four know each other?" Mrs. Hitachiin asked.
The four of them looked up (or down in the cases of Hikaru and Kaoru) and together said, "No."
The two mothers looked confused, but then Mrs. Hitachiin took Mrs. Hayashi to a separate room, where they were to eat dinner. The girls and boys reluctantly followed. When they entered the dining area, there was food, food, food galore. The female twins felt their eyes widen and their jaws drop.
"…Holy…" Alyx murmured in awe.
"…crap…" Liza kind of finished.
"Impressed?" Kaoru and Hikaru asked.
"Who's gonna eat all this?" Liza asked.
"We are, stupid," Alyx answered.
Suddenly, the elder twin gasped. She had spied some delicious-looking Fillet Mignon.
"I love you!" she cried, hugging one of the boys, not really caring who it was.
Alyx ran to the table and stared that the steak, drooling. Unbeknownst to her, she was getting some very peculiar stares. Liza mimicked her sister when she was the gourmet lobster and sushi.
"This stuff…" Alyx started.
"…Looks amazing!" Liza, you guessed it, finished.
"Our chef makes some pretty good stuff, if it's some special thing," the boys said.
"So this isn't his best?" Alyx asked, after taking another bite of the delicious Fillet Mignon.
"Jeez Sheryn, your children are acting as though they've never eaten before," Mrs. Hitachiin said.
"They have, you can be sure of that. Our servants take very good care of our girls," Mrs. Hayashi answered quickly.
"Some of them do," the girls retorted.
The dinner went on with common conversation between the mothers, and, of course, between the four twins. They talked, and decided to keep up the "we've never met" charade. Yet they knew about school and everything, so their mothers were very confused.
"So how long do we have to stay in the club as your servers?" Alyx asked nonchalantly as the dessert was coming out. The girls admired the mountains of cake blissfully.
"Until you can pay the club back for the painting and the oven," Kaoru answered, taking a bite of cake.
"WE HAVE TO PAY FOR THE OVEN?!" the twins shrieked.
"I DIDN'T MEAN TO CATCH IT ON FIRE!!" Liza cried.
"AND I'M CLEANING THAT STUPID THING UP!!" Alyx interjected.
"AND WE DIDN'T BREAK THE STUPID PAINTING!!" they finished together.
The moms were staring at the group, "You guys don't know each other, right?"
"Got that right," they all said again.
"All right then," Mrs. Hayashi said, giving up, then looked at her two daughters, "Mrs. Hitachiin and I were just talking about our new selection, and we'd like you girls to try them on."
The girls looked at Mrs. Hitachiin and their mother, dumbfounded, then at each other, as they did a lot, and yelled, "NO!!"
"Come on girls, it will be a treat to try on the newest stuff!" Mrs. Hitachiin goaded.
"NO!" they yelled once more.
"Mom, they don't want to do it-don't make 'em," they boys said, bored.
"You mean you weren't enjoying our torture?" Liza asked.
"What makes you think we're into that kind of stuff?" Kaoru inquired.
"Tamaki said you guys were devils…" they said, as though it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"GIRLS!!" their mother scolded.
"WE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING, IT WAS OUR SEMPAI!!"
"Ah, Tono did call us devils, didn't he?"
The mothers just sighed, knowing they weren't going to win the argument.
"Ok girls, now why don't we try those clothes on now?" Sheryn gave them the stern look that they never heeded any more anyway.
"NO!! WE DUN WANNA!!" the girls shouted again.
"NOW!"
"RUN!!"
The girls were gone in a few seconds. They found themselves in a random room where they hid.
"Do you think Mom knows where we are?" Liza asked.
"Doubt it, though I know she's extremely angry at us," Alyx answered.
"Who cares?"
"We will, when we have to go home."
"We're right next door…why don't we just walk over?"
"Good plan!"
"Wait…Mom would follow us."
"No, she'd call Phil to come and pick her up."
"True."
They pondered this for a while. Then, all of a sudden, the door swung open and the Hitachiin brothers were standing there.
"Found you!" they proclaimed.
"SHUSH!! We don't want them to find us!" Alyx pulled the twins in as Liza shut the door quietly.
"You have to swear on your lives that you won't tell them where we are," Alyx and Liza said together.
"We're not gonna be Mom's little fashion stars any more!" Alyx added.
"So we're going home to play video games," Liza contributed.
"All right, we won't tell," Kaoru said.
"But only if you play a game with us," Hikaru added.
"O…k…?" Liza agreed shakily.
"What game?" Alyx questioned.
They looked at each other mischievously and together said, "The 'Which One is Hikaru-kun' game!"
The boys put on hats and started spinning around each other. When they stopped, one boy said, "The rules are, you have to correctly guess which one of us is Hikaru."
"If you get it right," the other said, "We won't tell."
"But no one has ever won our game!" they chorused.
Alyx looked incredibly bored and pointed to the twin on the right, "Hikaru."
"Wrong!" they told her.
"No she's not!" Liza defended, "Alyx has never lost this type of game!"
"Ja," Alyx agreed, and then tried to explain, "Games where you find an object that gets switched around with objects identical to it are very easy to win. Especially when there are so few objects and they move so slow."
The boys looked shocked and the girls laughed.
"Don't feel bad," Liza consoled them, "Alyx is just super good at games. Mostly because she's a video game junkie."
"Guilty!" Alyx laughed, "Hey, you wanna come over to our house? We've got nothing better to do! It'd be fun to see how bad you are!"
"Sure," the boys whispered, "Why not?"
The Hitachiin twins were a bit shell-shocked. Never before had anyone won their game. It didn't matter if she didn't really know who was who, or that she was a video game addict and played games like that all the time. Someone had still won. Hikaru and Kaoru smiled slightly and followed their new "toys". Those two were sure to be interesting…
Kura: I DID IT!! I GOT THIS DONE!!
Hana: Yay!
Kura: Just so all you readers know updates won't be regular. I'll probably have to start typing up A Strange New World again since it's been a while since I've done that. Anyway, I'm glad people actually like this story and I'll update when possible.
Hana: Until next time!
Hana and Kura: Sayonara!!
