"Let's play the 'Which one of us is Hikaru?' game!"

"Okay! Uhh...Let's see...This must be Hikaru-kun, right?"

"And on the left is Kaoru-kun!"

"Aha! Correct!"

XX

It has always been this way with us. From our birth and now sixteen years later, nobody can tell us apart. Not our nannies, not our friends, sometimes not even our parents. It hurts us both.

But we've come to accept the fact. It doesn't bother us much now. We even made up the guessing game for our entertainment. Our guessers are always never correct.

But, she came along.

XX

"No, you're wrong. The one on the left is Hikaru and on the right is Kaoru."

XX

Somehow, she would always know which one of us was which, as if she could see through our lying masks and deep into ourselves. To our 'personalities', as Mi'lord would put it.

And that made us happy.

Finally, somewhere, someone could tell us apart. She came into our lives in strange ways but she was there, always ready to correct out guessers, take our jokes and smile.

We loved her.

There wasn't much else that we could give her aside from that. Yes, we could shower her with gifts and riches to support her commoner's life. Although she did accept a gift, she liked living as she was and those presents ceased.

Instead, we gave her our everlasting friendship and kept her close to our hearts. She meant a lot to both of us but we couldn't show much of our love for her. We didn't want to tear apart the closely bonded relationship between us.

Whatever it was, we wanted her to be happy for as long as we were together with her.

Even if that meant she would go to another.

That hurt the deepest.

But if that were to make her continue smiling without false pretenses, to make her continue laughing her sweet laugh, we would give it to her.

Oh, we would give anything to make her be happy.

That's what we promised ourselves.

Forever.

XXX

A/N: My first Ouran High School Host Club Fanfic. More like a drabble, but I like it.

I sorta got really sad writing this, 'cause I love the twins a lot and was really rooting for Hikaru to get Haruhi (not only that, I was also listening to a fairly sad song (though I don't get much of the lyrics 'cause it's Japanese - the tune was sad though) as I was writing). Although I have not finished the manga (6 volumes to go!), I know that Haruhi ended up with Tamaki anyway. I watched the anime and the Live Drama too.

Aargh! Hikaruuu! I totally sympathise with you.. :'(

... BTW, I'm still new with Ouran and though I'll definitely continue writing for the Ouran fandom, I haven't gotten to know all the characters right yet.

Though the fic is nothing you don't already know in the manga/anime, please tell me how I did with this! I'd appreciate any feedback.