Hey, It's me! You get to learn about Ayami's and Akani's parents!

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AYAMI

When we finally got back to our uncle's estate, the thunderstorm was in full swing.

The flashing of lightning partly blinded me and the booming of the thunder and howling of the wind was deafening as Akani and I jumped out of the limo and rushed into the mansion.

Standing in the entry, dripping wet from the downpour outside, we looked up to see our parents staring worriedly at us.

"What happened to you two?!" They asked their voices full of concern.

"We got wet from the storm," we answered rolling our eyes. "It's not like we're going to melt."

When we said this, our dad took three steps towards us and, without warning, he slung us over his shoulders.

We squealed in surprise, and then demanded furiously, "what, are you doing? Put us down, now!"

"Not gonna happen," dad responded, carrying us up the stairs, ignoring our protests, while our mother followed with concern apparent in her eyes.

Once upstairs, our dad placed us in our bathroom and shut the door on us after our mother entered.

"What are you doing?" I asked annoyed.

"Keeping you two from catching pneumonia," she answered, stripping our sopping wet clothes off until we were naked.

"Why would you think that we'd catch pneumonia? It's warm outside," Akani asked dryly as mom pushed us into a hot shower.

"You can never be to careful," mom said, turning the temperature of the water up even more.

"Mom! your burning us!" We yelled as scalding hot water poured out of the shower head.

Mom ignored our complaint and left the room, saying as she left, "you two finish your shower. I'll go get you some dry clothes." And with that, she disappeared.

We sighed, stepped out of the shower, wrapped ourselves in a towel, and waited for our mother to return with our clothes.

When she returned, she had lacy undergarments and two really expensive looking dresses.

They were both floor length, light pink dresses, with a light pink see through layer sticking out at the bottom. The sleeves were three quarter length with light ruffling and a transparent layer sticking out of it.

Lastly, around the waist there were diamonds and small silver beads, intricately combined to make a belt. There were also some diamonds and beads sparsely scattered around the collar and bottom of the dress and sleeves.

Once dressed, mom pulled us out of the bathroom and into our bedroom where our dad was waiting patiently for us.

"Don't they look elegant, Kazuhiro?" Our mom said dramatically as we entered the room.

"Of course they do, Rika. You have an exquisite taste in clothing," dad answered pecking mom on the lips.

"Um," Akani and I said interrupting our parents show of affection. "When are we going to discuss this Inokuma business?"

"This is the first time our family's been all together in months," our mother said sweetly.

Then, with her eyes and voice growing dark, she said, "We will discuss our present situation tomorrow."

"But," we protested.

"No buts," our dad said coldly. "Your mother and I want to spend some quality time with you two tonight."

"Yes father," we said weakly.

"Cheer up," dad said, gently pulling us into a tender hug. "Tonight we're having Italian food, your favorite."

We forced a fake smile onto our faves as our parents dragged us to the dinning hall. We sat down with our aunt, uncle, and cousin who were waiting patiently for us.

Once Akani filled our plates with a little bit of everything: pizza, spaghetti with meatballs, lasagna, and bread sticks, I silently observed my parents.

My father, Kazuhiro Sataki, is the oldest of three brothers. One of his brothers manages the company in America while Uncle Tanko manages the company in Japan. Dad is in charge of the importing and exporting of food and keeping the company running smoothly in both countries.

My mother, Rika Sataki, is the youngest of seven, her dad owned a successful law firm that stretched from Japan to America. Mom's three oldest siblings jointly run the Japanese side of the law firm. While the four youngest, including mom, run the American side of the law firm.

Both my parents were teens when they were engaged and, although it was an arranged marriage, they truly love each other.

I was jolted out of my thoughts when my dad turned to my twin and I and said, "Ayami, Akani, how do you two like Ouran Academy?"

"It's definitely the nicest school we've ever been to," I started.

"And all the students and teachers are nice," Akani finished.

"I'm glad you're enjoying it," mom said. "Did you know that your father and I went there when we were in high school?"

"No," we answered in disbelief.

'I had no idea that they went to Ouran when they were in high school,' I thought. 'But it does explain why they were so insistent that we go to Ouran.'

"Hey, why don't you tell them about the club you're in," Toshi said butting in on our conversation with our parents.

"You two... Are part of a club?" Our dad asked slowly not sure if what Toshi said was true.

"Yes," I said dryly nodding my head.

"Which one?" Mom asked.

"Ahh, a *clears throat* host club." Akani and I answered reluctantly.

"Oh, so you did decide to join it after all," mom said nonchalantly.

"Wait, you two know about the host club?!" We said.

"Of course," dad responded. "When you two ran away your uncle called me and we decided that you should repay the host club by helping them for a week, remember?"

"Oh, yeah," we answered dumbfounded.

'How could I have forgotten that?' I asked myself.

"But who's in the club? Your Uncle Tanko never told us," dad said.

"Well there are three other first years: Haruhi Fujioka, a scholarship student; and the Hitachiin brothers; Hikaru and Kaoru," I said.

"They're twins," Toshi said interrupting me.

"Ooh, one for each of you," our mom teased.

"Mom, not funny," we said unamused.

"Anyways," Akani continued, "there are two second years: Kyoya Ohtori, and Tamaki Souh."

Then together we concluded, "lastly there are two third years: Mitsukuni Haninozuka, and Takashi Morinozuka."

"The Haninozuka and Morinozuka heirs," our parents said thoughtfully.

"Oh, crap, they're up to something," Akani and I whispered simultaneously to each other.

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AKANI

The next day, Ayami and I were sitting on a bench in our backyard listening to music and enjoying the sunset.

Both Ayami's and my hair was pulled back into high ponytails, we were wearing denim skirts, purple and white striped shirts, and grey sleeveless hoodies.

School had been uneventful today, our parents had forced us to skip the host club saying that they had something important to talk to us about, but we've been home for the past two hours and we still haven't had our 'talk' yet.

We were listening to "Domino" and humming along when somebody pulled our headphones off our head.

"Hey! we were listening to music," Ayami and I said angrily to our parents who were holding our headphones in their hands.

"You're not getting these back until we talk," mom said sternly.

"Fine," we mumbled.

Then Ayami said, "actually, there's something that I've been meaning to ask you. Uncle Tanko said that you were bringing bodyguards with you, where are they?"

"Oh, they canceled at the last minute, so your uncle has been helping us find some people locally. In fact, we think we know exactly who to hire, dad said.

"Great," we said sarcastically.

'Darn it, we almost got away with having no bodyguards,' I thought.

"Back to the topic," mom said interrupting my thoughts. "Your dad and I have figured out what to do about Michi Inokuma!"

"Really?" Ayami said.

"Already?" I asked

"Yes!" Mom said shaking her head excitedly.

"Okay, so what's the plan?" We asked.

"We've decided to throw you two a ball!" Our parents said, dramatically throwing their arms to the side.

"What does a ball have to do with catching Inokuma!" We shouted exasperated.

"That's a secret," dad said walking away with mom.

"No! It's one of your crazy, convoluted, round-a-bout, contorted schemes!" Ayami and I shouted after them in frustration.

We were so upset that we fell off the back of the bench. Landing on our backs with an, "ooff," Ayami and I glanced at each other and said, "I wonder what, exactly, they're planning?"

"Welcome," the hosts said as Ayami and I opened the doors for the waiting guests.

As they entered the room, all the girls eyes turned huge and starry as they gazed at they hosts who were cos-playing as athletes.

Hunny and Mori were wearing their karate and kendo gear, obviously.

Kyoya was dressed as a referee, he's always judging people.

Tamaki was dressed as a soccer player, for his insane kicking skills.

The Hitachiin twins were dressed as basketball players, for some reason they're always dressed as basketball players.

Haruhi was dressed as a tennis player, which is something somebody her size could do.

Lastly, Ayami and I were dressed as baseball players, that all American sport because we're from America.

Our costumes looked like the uniforms girls wore during world war two; short dresses, knee high socks, and saddle shoes. So glad I don't actually have to play baseball in this.

"Kyaaa! Kyoya looks so cool as a ref!"

"And Haruhi looks so cute as a tennis player!" Some of the girls said screaming.

'Ugg,' I thought rolling my eyes. 'What's so great about a bunch of guys pretending to be athletes.'

After serving all the waiting guests, which wasn't many because Kyoya assigned more girls per guy, I reached into my bag and grabbed my headphones.

Ayami followed suit and, while we were listening to music, I heard a girl say, "Look! Ayami and Akani look like they're getting ready for a game, they're so cute!"

I just ignored this comment and reached down to turn the volume up on my I-pod when I heard the twins say, "think fast!"

I looked up just in time to see Hikaru and Kaoru throw basket balls at us. I quickly dropped the I-pod and grabbed the ball just before it hit my face.

As soon as I had a firm grasp on the ball, I sent it flying back towards Kaoru, hitting him square in the chest, while Ayami did the same thing to Hikaru.

"Why'd you do that?" The twins asked from the couch they had landed on when we threw the balls at them.

"Because you're annoying!" We answered turning the volume on the I-pod up and sitting on a couch as far away from the twins as possible.

A minute later, Hikaru was sitting on Ayami's right while Kaoru sat on my left.

"Kaoru, what's wrong?" Hikaru asked anxiously. I looked up to see that Kaoru's eyes were filling with tears.

"Do you think I'm annoying?" Kaoru asked sadly, looking away from Hikaru.

"Of course not," Hikaru said gently, reaching out and putting his hands on Kaoru's shoulders.

Kaoru did the same thing and I thought, 'oh, crap! we're stuck in the middle of their twincest act!'

I'm not exactly sure what happened next but, when the twins closed their eyes to hug each other, they ended up grabbing Ayami and I instead of each other.

Now I was stuck in an extremely tight hug with Kaoru. He was hugging me so tightly that I could feel the beating of his heart, and we were so close our cheeks were touching.

'To, close,' I thought, but out loud I said, "Kaoru, I'm not your twin so let me go!"

In response, Kaoru just leaned his head back so that I could see his face and smirked. The next thing I knew Ayami and I were being crushed by both Hikaru and Kaoru, who had started hugging each other with us in between.

"Let us go!" We demanded.

"Not until you say that we're amazing," the countered.

"Fine! Your amazing," we said through their shirts which were in our faces.

Immediately they released us, and we sat on the ground gasping for air.

"Why'd you do that?" We gasped.

"Isn't it obvious?" They said in unison, "we're playing with our favorite toys."

"TOYS!?" We hissed angrily under our breath.

I was trying not to lash out at them when I saw that Ayami was about to kill them.

Then an idea popped into my head and I quickly grabbed Ayami's arm and whispered my idea into her ear, she smiled and we instantly rushed over to Tamaki.

"Daddy! Daddy! Hikaru and Kaoru are harassing us!" We said this with a fake look of terror in our eyes.

Immediately Tamaki's happy face turned serious and he started yelling at the twins and chasing them around the room.

While we watched smirking, Kyoya came over and said, "looks like you two are enjoying yourselves."

"Yes, we are," we said smiling deviously. "They're getting what they deserve."

"I'm not trying to change the subject but, what have your parents decided to do about Inokuma?" Kyoya asked.

"Don't tell me they're sending you away!" Hunny said running up to us and hugging us with Mori following him.

"No," Ayami said, "our parents decided to throw us a ball."

All three of them looked at us blankly. "How is that supposed to help you? It doesn't even make any sense," Kyoya said.

"That's what we said," Ayami and I answered defeatedly.

"Anyway, you're all invited. Feel free to tell those idiots when they're done fooling around." I said pointing at Tamaki and the twins.

"Yay! A ball!" Hunny said excitedly, clapping his hands. Mori and Kyoya just nodded their heads.

"We'll tell Haruhi tomorrow," we said. (she had gone home during the twincest act to catch a sale at the supermarket)

Walking out the door we said, "bye," and Kyoya, Hunny, and Mori waved back.

"I wonder how long it will take for those guys to realize that we're gone?" I said wondering out loud.

"Who cares?" Ayami said as we followed Toshi to the limo.

Kyoya: *observes Tamaki chasing the twins* They're still at it?

Hunny: Yep!

Kyoya: Can they get any more stupid?

Mori: Yes.

H. Twins: Hey! who you calling stupid!

Kyoya: All three of you.

Tamaki: That's no fair! What reason do you have for calling us stupid?

Hunny: The fact that you still haven't realized that Aya-chan and Aki-chan have left!

Tamaki & H. Twins: They're gone? When do we get to see them again?

Kyoya: You'll have to wait till, "An Explanation," to see them again.

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