Ouran Drabbles

Chapter 9
Her Sons

Shirts sold to commoners looked exactly alike but they always differed in the slightest way since they were made in bulk. However the clothes she made were each different and that's what her customers liked best.

She used to think her sons were like commoner shirts. Not to say they were cheap and inelegant. No, they were quite unique but not in their own ways. They seemed to be exactly alike.

She knew something was different about the pair when she went to get the first ultrasound. She and her husband looked on in amazement as the image showed on the screen. There were two tiny babies, one sucking the other's thumb. Her husband looked on in confusion while his wife smiled gently at the image.

When it came time for the babies to be born, out came the first one. To their surprise he came out clutching the ankle of his twin. Then the second baby came out. Two nurses flew forward and took the boys to be cleaned. The second the two were separated, they started bawling. The nurses, used to crying babies, quickly cleaned off the boys before returning them to their mother and father. The pair stopped their crying as soon as they were near each other again.

As children, the boys were rarely seen apart. They lived in their own little world, one that their parents couldn't even intrude upon. It was theirs and consisted of only the two of them.

Once the boys started school, the teacher expressed his concern regarding the pair. Their mother immediately reassured the man that her boys were acting normal. In fact, if they hadn't been acting that way, she would then be gravely concerned.

And so the twins remained the same; always near each other, ignoring the others around them.

When they started junior high school, they each began to change slightly. The elder twin began expressing his interest in the more substantial subjects like math, physics, and chemistry while the younger twin seemed to enjoy the more abstract things like English and modern literature.

After junior high school came senior high school. She watched as her boys changed ever more. The first born seemed to express his emotions without thought while his brother tried to keep his to himself. But then it seemed to be that the boys had changed even more.

They began acting happier and less withdrawn. At supper, they would recount their tales of some club they were in and one particular person. It would seem that this person was a female who dressed like a male. The twins informed their parents that they were to adopt this girl into their family.

At this, their mother was slightly surprised. It sounded as if someone had managed to infiltrate her sons' world. Surely, this person had to have been incredibly special to her boys and she couldn't wait until they met.

Finally that day came. It was the day that Ouran Academy's school festival. The boys had been excitedly talking about what their class would be doing. The twins left for school early to help get things ready.

To say she was curious as to meet this mysterious girl was quite an understatement. Could someone really have made such an impact on her sons' lives? She had come to readily accept her sons' previous behavior. After all, they had acted that way for so many years. But it seemed that there was someone who could crumble the seemingly unbreakable bond between the twins.

Upon first meeting the girl, she hadn't appeared too extraordinary; but perhaps that was the reason why she affected the boys so. Maybe they needed someone so completely different from them to shake up their world. Just maybe that girl was the final piece needed to complete her sons' lives.