Shomin no Seikatsu - The Commoner's Life

Alright, here it is...I'll admit, I'm in a bit of a rough spot, trying to get through the middle of this as well as start a new fic so that I don't have a writing gap...and, I'm failing at this...very sadly, actually. Haha...I went through my entire idea archive, and I couldn't get into the mindset for any of them...

DISCLAIMER:I do NOT own OHSHC or ANY characters created by Bisco Hatori
CLAIMER:I DO own the fic's plot line and any self-made characters.

"Momma, those evil sons are at it again!" Tamaki cries moronically as the mischievous twins, Hikaru and Kaoru, charm women at the bar with their 'forbidden brotherly love'.

"Oh Hikaru...I just don't want to see you get hurt." Kaoru whimpers with fake tears.

"Kaoru...why do you have to be so rash?" Hikaru moans in sadness.

"Incest, I tell you...INCEST!" Tamaki shrieks.

"Shouldn't you intervene, Kyo-chan?" Hunny, a grown man—though still pretty short—asks innocently. "Takashi, please stop them before Tamaki bursts a blood vessel." Hunny frowns. Mori nods and obediently does so. Kyoya, meanwhile, continues with his order to the server.

"Yes, platter A, dish D, and a side of 60 pieces of fancy tuna. Oh, and just keep the drinks coming." Kyoya says as he scans the menu.

"Why all the fancy tuna? None of us really like it..." The twins ask Kyoya in unison. Kyoya stops adjusting his setting for a moment and realizes what he'd just ordered.

"Haruhi does!" Tamaki cries with excitement before realizing what he's said.

"Well," Kyoya clears his throat, "Noel likes it, so I'll just bring it back for her."

"You shouldn't feed Noel all that tuna...she'll get sick." Hunny tears up. Mori pats his head and explains how cats love eating fish.

"So...anyways," Kaoru starts, desperately trying to change the topic, which is undoubtedly on all the Host's minds. "How are things? Hikaru and I only just got back this morning." He asks flamboyantly. Hunny instantly perks up and begins speaking with his familiar cheery tone.

"Well, Takashi and I got a two new students a couple of weeks ago. One of them is Kasanoda and Mei-chan's son, Ren, while the other is a friend of there's...Watanabe something. He looks more like Kasanoda than Ren, though." Hunny giggles. Hikaru shrugs.

"Oh...apparently there's been this kid coming to headquarters every few days to drop a lunch off for his Mum...Security described him with shaggy red hair, and a very girly build." Hikaru snickers.

"Yeah, and his Mum apparently looks similar, figure wise...we haven't gotten a chance to meet her yet. The guy we left in charge says that she's very hard working, though. And more or less sarcastic." Kaoru adds. With this, Mori and Hunny sit up a little straighter.

...

Meanwhile, during this reunion, off in the change room of Music Room 3—though no one is quite sure why a music room would have a change room within it...then again, this is Ouran—two light bulbs begin to flicker on, though only slightly. Somewhere else in the room, a light bulb is already lit, though it's ready to burst from being on for so long.

...

"Interesting...Kyoya had this patient, a boy, who had gotten into a fight so bad that he landed himself in the hospital." Tamaki begins, intrigued by his old friends' stories. "Anyways, he was a commoner, so I drove him home, which made Kyoya miss out on drinking time." Tamaki chuckles. "In fact, now that you mention it, he had red hair and a girly build too! Kyoya, what was his name again?" Tamaki asks, turning towards Kyoya, who has yet to say anything in this conversation.

"I believe it was Watanabe Takahiro." Kyoya replies simply. Hunny and Mori gasp—or rather Hunny does, Mori doesn't seem to have many emotions.

"That's the students name!" Hunny cries with excitement. "He joined the dojo because he was having troubles at school...Ren-chan mentioned something about people calling him by his father's last name...that and he sort of looks like a foreigner?" Hunny recalls.

"Hey! That's what our Takahiro looked like! Hey, Kyoya, pull up some pictures of Takahiro on your laptop." Tamaki more or less declares, now getting excited. Kyoya sighs and does so, turning the screen to face the other Hosts. Everyone—even Mori—gasps.

"That's him!" They all cry in unison—except for Mori. Kyoya retains his cool demeanour as he scrolls through pictures of Takahiro, including one of him from behind, without his identifying red hair.

"Hey...that kind of looks like Haruhi." Kaoru whispers to himself.

...

As the Hosts continue with their discoveries, the two flickering light bulbs fully light up in recognition of what's going on, allowing the lone bulb to relax a bit as another bulb begins to flicker.

...

The other Hosts continue discussing this mystery boy, Takahiro Watanabe, as Kaoru, being the smarter twin he is, flicks through the employee database on his tablet. First he scrolls down to Watanabe, but the results don't show him what he wants. So, he switches to ordering to first name, last name, and then goes to H. And then he sees it. An employee profile for a Miss Haruhi Fujioka. He eagerly opens the profile, not even notifying the other Hosts first, and reads quickly through the information until he finds what he's looking for.

"Guys...Hey, guys!" Kaoru calls, trying to speak over their excited bickering—which only actually includes Tamaki and Hikaru. "Guys!" He yells louder, catching their attention.

"What is it, Kaoru?" Hikaru asks his brother, sweeping his dark mahogany hair back.

"You'll never believe what I just found." Kaoru starts with a grin.

...

As the Hosts gawk at Kaoru discovery, the flickering light bulb shines bright, joining the other three. The second last bulb quickly flashes on as well, leaving but one bulb unlit.

...

"I don't understand what this means..." Tamaki says in defeat, after about 15 minutes about trying to figure out what the other Hosts are so excited about.

"Can't we just tell him?" Hikaru groans.

"No, he should realize this one his own." Kyoya says coolly as he continues typing away on his laptop—which is quite rude, considering their having a meal at a restaurant. Tamaki pouts and gives Kyoya puppy dog eyes. Kyoya ignores him coldly, which results in Tamaki whimpering in a corner and growing mushrooms.

"C'mon Kyoya, just tell him." Kaoru begs.

"Oh, that fool. He's making a mess." Kyoya scowls, ignoring Kaoru. Tamaki slowly turns his head towards the group, his face a pure begging, that only a select few could resist. Unfortunately—for him at least—Kyoya is not part of this select few. "Fine. Get over here." He beckons, opening up a saved page in his families' database, which most could guess by now, he'd been monitoring for the past 15 years. Tamaki barks with excitement and hops up on the chair beside Kyoya, acting like a puppy. Kyoya rolls his eyes and scrolls down to the section that would reveal all.

...After Fujioka's father suffered a terrible incident on the job—which resulted in numerous injuries and a permanent disability—, Fujioka was forced to abandon schooling and begin working numerous jobs. The constant working and stress of taking care of Fujioka, Ranka was too much and Fujioka, Haruhi was unable to support both of them on her own. About a year after abandoning school, Fujioka, Haruhi met a foreigner, Watanabe, Embry. The pair dated for a year and then hastily got married. Approximately 4 months later, a child was conceived. The child, a male, was born and named Watanabe, Takahiro. From that point, the marriage between Fujioka, Haruhi and Watanabe, Embry decayed and became toxic (reasons are noted in the Watanabe, Embry profile). The same day of the death of Fujioka, Ranka, Fujioka, Haruhi left Watanabe, Embry and took their child with her. For the past 10 years, they have been living on the borderline between being a commoner and poverty.

Tamaki gasps as he finishes reading the long paragraph and bolts up, nearly flipping the table over.

"Oh my god, we have to find her! We have to find him! Daddy is coming!" Tamaki shrieks as he gears up to start frantically searching for Takahiro and Haruhi. Kyoya pinches the bridge of his nose before shutting his laptop down and turning to the other Hosts who are practically shaking with excitement.

"So, when do we get to see her?" Hunny asks hopefully.

"Well, don't you think that maybe, she stopped talking to all of us for a real reason?" Hikaru asks the group pessimistically. This statement calms everyone down, leaving them in a rather sombre mood.

"Maybe, she just wanted to see who would fight to see her again!" Tamaki cries, delusional.

"So then, shall we make this a competition?" Hikaru asks, reverting to his devilish ways and extending his hand.

"Absolutely." Tamaki grins, shaking his hand.

So, not much to say about this chapter...Review and Keep Reading!
-JAMZD