Title: Three's A Crowd
Fandom: Ouran High School Host Club
Pairing: Hikaru/Haruhi, Kaoru/Haruhi, and a surprise at the end
Categories: Romance, angst
Length: Medium [~10,000 words]
Warnings: n/a


Author on LJ: miko_no_da 
Website: Miko no da

Review:  "Things get complicated when it's not just 'our world' and 'everything outside our world' anymore."  Hikaru and Kaoru both want Haruhi, and neither is willing to step aside for the other.  Is there any way for one of the twins to get Haruhi AND preserve their sibling relationship?   

Ouran Host Club, for those not aware, is set at a rich high school in Japan, and is one of the few high school fandoms I like -  it's zany, the characters get fleshed out admirably and act like people rather than stereotypes, and the heroine is a no-nonsense, studious "commoner" who pushes the rich boys of her acquaintance into becoming better people.  Ouran is a fandom with only one girl, and six+ guys who have varying levels of interest in her.  (It sounds like a reverse harem, but it really isn't.)  Canonically, the twins fall on the "want to date her" end of the affection scale.  The twins also have a scary amount of mental issues (as do most of the Hosts), and don't have a lot of experience in acting alone/against one another.

I worry about what the twins may end up doing in canon {please don't tell me what's going on in the manga; I'm pretending that the anime is the only canon to preserve my sanity}, but Miko no da has thankfully offered a third option.  I won't spoil that for you, but I don't mind telling you that the majority of the fic is about the twins struggling to find that option.  It's angsty, the twins are suffering, and at times I wondered how it could ever be resolved.  I was satisfied by the end, and glad the twins and Haruhi were finding happiness.

Three's A Crowd [on Insanejournal, since I can't find this particular fic on either of her other sites]