HELLO, BONJOUR, KONICHWA everyone! Hope you enjoy this fanfic, it's my second time writing an Ouran one so tell me how you thought of it! THANKSSS!:D

There doesn't seem to be enough Kaoru fics so... but this story kind of centres not just on Kaoru but almost everyone~ Once again thanks for reading!

Pairings:

KaoruXOC

the rest of the pairs will be revealed later hehehe... I promise it won't be too mushy and lots of deadpan humour just like Haruhi


CHAPTER 1: Just another scheme

The bells chimed, the birds chirped, yellow dresses and blue suits scrambled to class. Yet another typical day in Ouran High School for Haruhi Fujioka and the host club.

"Typcial eh?" Kyouya murmured to himself. It had gone to a point where everyone learnt to ignore his side comments instead of trying to figure out what his mind was scheming about.

Her face as calm as ever, she stepped into the nearly empty classroom, trailing towards the middle and plopping down onto her seat. She tried smiling, then made a few mental notes on how to introduce herself. Finally satisfied, she fished out a Romeo and Juliet guidebook out of her backpack, pouring through it intensively.

Well, Ouran isn't as crazy as I thought.

Kyouya pushed up his glasses routinely, giving a half-smile to no one in particular.

"The story has only just started."


The bespectacled woman gestured towards the thin girl beside her, encouraging her to continue. Hikaru looked very bored.

"Hi. My name is Hotaru. It's… very nice to meet you all…" Then she walked back to her seat casually without letting the teacher have a chance to prompt her.

"Ah, short and simple, I like that." Hikaru was rather pleased, though Haruhi shot him an annoyed look, making him smirk even wider. All the girls squealed in anticipation before the teacher silenced them.

"I'm Haruhi." As soon as class ended, Haruhi stretched out her hand to greet the newcomer.

The girl named Hotaru cocked her head curiously, and said, "Hello Haruhi." She grinned a little, continuing, "You look very nice as a boy, I'm impressed." Then she waved goodbye and walked out of the classroom.

Isn't she acting as one too? Haruhi wondered.

Just at that moment, Tamaki Suoh showed up, pushing his way through to make it to his beloved Haruhi.

"DOES HE KNOW YOUR SECRET?"

Haruhi sighed, "Senpai, calm down."

"HOW CAN I CALM DOWN HE KNOWS YOUR SECRET! DADDY WILL NOT ALLOW ANYTHING TO HAPPEN TO YOU AND YOU KNOW-"

"Senpai-"

"Men! Come into place immediately, this is an emergency, Haruhi is in trouble!" Tamaki shouted into a walkie-talkie.

His face reminds me of a tomato. Haruhi shook her head warily, knowing there was no way to stop that idiot. Unless it was Kyouya. But that would mean a rise in her debt so she really did not see the gain in that. Tomatoes are getting a little pricey these days…

While Haruhi switched off her mind on the current situation, instead thinking what could substitute tomato soup which her Ranka loved; Tamaki was still very enthusiastically ordering everyone around.

"Is everyone present? HIKARU, KAORU!"

"Sir yes sir!" They saluted in unison, their faces totally determined.

"MORI-SENPAI!"

Mori gave a silent salute, being extremely serious about it.

"HUNN-SENPAI!"

"Hai!" Hunny saluted… albeit cutely, which caused a whole crowd of girls passing by to faint like dominoes.

"KYOUYA!"

"Here." He replied dully.

"We are hereby informed just a moment ago that Haruhi was in trouble! Her secret has been revealed! We must protect her at all costs!"

Kyouya gave him an expectant stare.

"By the rate you're going, her secret would have been revealed without anyone's help." He stated the obvious. "Besides, I have businesses to attend, unlike you all, our profits are lowering due to Tamaki's lack of love quotes that cause all the girls to be jealous, apparently, and there's this girl I'm particularly interested in helping us in this matter so listen carefully."

Everyone immediately turned their attention to the Shadow King, who assumed his position as the one who took control of everything, and the King was ignored just as usual.

"Hey! Everyone! Haruhi's in-" Cutting of mid-sentence by Kyouya's deathly glare, he cried in self-pity in a lonely corner. Of course, none of the hosts were quite bothered with it.

Haruhi suddenly broke out of her trance of "commoner's thinking", and simply stared at Kyouya, bored.

"Another scheme." She deadpanned.

"Obviously."

She's the new student from your class, Haruhi, Kaoru and Hikaru – Hotaru. She transferred to Ouran in the middle of the semester due to her talent in literature and mostly in writing, a very good privilege, if I were to add on, I am planning to…

"That guy is officially creepy. If he's actually thinking that…" The eavesdropper ran her fingers through her cropped pixie cut, then lazily flinging the banana peel towards the bin, not noticing it landed on the floor.

Tamaki stepped on it and skidded 3 metres and landing hard on the concrete floor before screaming in a phenomenally high pitch voice.

It's me again:) Reviews are appreciated! VERY appreciated xD I think I'm hyper... but oh wells. I haven't gone into how Hotaru is like as a person... gonna go to that soon. And lots of unanswered questions:) Seeya!