When Fate Takes Its Course

Aria Ketsuki age 16.

Looks: Hourglass figure, silvery-blue eyes with dark long eye lashes. Her hair is a maroon to blonde ombré that goes down to the middle of her back. She has plump, rosy (sp?) pink, lips. A little bit of a tan, but still pretty fairly colored skin.

Likes: Singing, dancing, music, make-up, art, friends, and doing hair (which happened to be her part time job before she moved to Japan).

Family:

Mother- Loretta Ketsuki (married into husbands' family) famous fashion designer that is well known around the world; was offered a partnership with Mrs. Hitachiin in the fashion industry which caused the urgent move to Japan.

Father- Akito Ketsuki (Caucasian but originally from Japan) owner of a large mining company that has made his family wealthy for generations and has founded a well-known real estate agency. Akito was able to move to Japan to broaden his businesses overseas and help build relationships with other wealthy families to back him up and have allies.

Background: Grew up in California, spent a summer in Alaska when she was nine. Her parents were never home so she became very close to the homes' house keepers and cooks. At age 10, Aria began writing to a pen-pal in Japan which lead to her urge to explore foreign languages. By 12, she was fluent in Japanese, French, Spanish, and a little of Italian. By the age of 13 she was very close to her pen-pal and even had spent a summer overseas with her. Right after she turned 15 her parents told her she was moving to Japan.

Chapter 1: Meet the Host Club!

"Ding. Ding. Ding. Di-" I silenced my alarm on my phone and rolled over in bed, covering myself in a cocoon of blankets.

"Miss. Aria, are you awake yet?" I heard Kelsey, the maid who mainly takes care of me, yells through the door. I groan. I hear the door open and I roll over farther from the loud, cheery voice.

"Aria, it's time to get up! This is my third time coming in here and if you don't get up now, you are going to be late with the chairman at school." She ripped the blankets- along with me- off the bed. I flumped to the floor and groaned even louder as Kelsey only laughed, walking away, blankets in hand. I sighed, knowing she was right and got up. I slipped into my monster slippers and walked into the bathroom to get ready. I put on my makeup for the day and curled my hair, knowing I needed to give off perfect first impressions. A lesson my mother has burned into my brain.

I put on a black undershirt with a red plaid shirt on top, leaving it unbuttoned. I slid into a pair of lightly ripped jeans and put on my jewelry. A gold necklace with "dream" engraved and a longer necklace with a white opal pendant that had multiple chains hanging from it. I threw on some bracelets and put on my black ankle high, high heeled boots. I walked down the stairs to see Kelsey smiling at me.

"I'm glad you're ready; but jeans with holes? Shouldn't you wear a dress?" I laughed at her concern.

"I think he'll understand, since this is how most dress in America." I gave her a quick hug and walked out into the limo that was waiting for me. I dug out a paper from my purse that had my destination on it. I smiled.

"Ouran High School Academy. Music Room #3."

*Bibbity Boppity Time Skippity Boob*

After filling out all the papers for school and ordering 5 uniforms – which I was allowed to modify as long as Mr. Suoh approved- I bowed and left his office. I went through the packet of papers I had gotten and finally found a map.

"Thank God… Even with this I'll probably get lost here." I mutterd to myself, looking for the third music room of the school. Once I found it on the map I started in the direction I hoped it was in.

"What school needs three music rooms?" I panted, finally at the top of all the stairs. I walked up to the room which had a sign, "Host Club Canceled- Very Sorry, Tamaki" I was about to leave but I heard some yelling from inside and decided to go in. "Aria, you've seen enough horror movies to know better than to walk toward the screaming…" I mentally sighed to myself again and took a deep breath as I opened the door.

What I saw easily made my mouth drop to the floor.

A child eating an entire cake by himself with a taller man sitting beside him just watching like it was a normal occurrence. Across the room a tall blonde was frantically yelling and flailing his arms around at a set of twins.

"Why, hello my dear maiden, I haven't seen you around here before. Could you possibly be the new transfer student from America?" A tall man with black hair and glasses forcibly smiled at me. His eyes held a knowing-yet creepy look to them. I nodded with an eyebrow raised as he smirked.

"I am sorry to tell you but the Host Club is closed today, can I schedule you in sometime tomorrow perhaps? Do you know which type you prefer? The boy Lolita type, the strong silent type, the mischievous type, the normal type, the princely type, or," He paused closing into my face, "the cool type?" I stared blankly at this man. Is he for real?

"Uh, is Haruhi Fujioka here?" By now everyone had stopped to look over at us. And then to Haruhi. Then you guessed it, back to me.

"Aria? Is that you?" A voice shouted from behind the crowd that had gathered.

"Haruhi!" I ran towards her as she put the tray of tea pots down and engulfed her in a hug. I pulled her out of the hug and held on to her shoulders.

"What happened to your hair?" I asked, taking a step back to look at her overall appearance.

"Well, a few kids got gum stuck in my hair a few days before school started- wait, what are you even doing here?" I pouted playfully.

"Do you not want me here? I guess I can go…" I went to turn around and I could hear Haruhi roll her eyes.

"You know that's not what I mean. Why are you in Japan?" I grinned. But before I could answer a voice spoke up for me.

"Haruhi, Aria is the new transfer student to class 1A from America, but how do you know her?" I looked at him weird again, still wondering how he knew all this about me, before I could ask him Haruhi jumped on me, giving me another hug.

"Oh Aria! I'm so happy! I can't believe you're really here! I haven't seen you in so long!" I smirked. "Two and a half years to be exact, but I told you I would be back to see you and since were both going to the same school now and all I thought I'd surprise you!" She sweat dropped at my grin.

"In other words, you lost my address so you had to meet me at school." A sweat dropped formed on my head as well but my grinned never left my face as I nodded.

I felt a tug on my hand and looked down to see the cute little blonde boy looking up at me with a slight blush on his face. "Yes?" I said as I kneeled down to his height.

"You're really pretty!" My smile only got bigger. I hugged him, "Why thank you! My names Aria, what's yours?"

"My names Mitsukuni Haninozuka but everyone calls me Honey. And this-"He pulled out a big pink stuffed bunny, "is Usa-chan!" Would you like to hold him?" I could not resist those eyes and nodded. He handed me the bunny and I held it tightly to my chest as he continued to drag me by my other hand, and away from Haruhi. When I looked back at her she gave me an apologetic smile and shrugged. "That poor girl has no idea what she's in for…" Haruhi shook her head, smiling even bigger.

Honey dragged me over to the tall, stoic man had been sitting next to him. And when I mean tall, I mean this guy had at least a good foot on me.

"This is Taka-chan! But everyone calls him Mori." I smiled up at him, and he returned it. Another tug on my hand and I looked down at Honey giving me the biggest puppy dog eyes I have ever seen. Oh no… "Want to have some cake with Mori-chan and I? Pretty please?" I giggled as he climbed his way up the tall Mori.

"I'm really sorry Honey but I can't today. I just stopped by to see Haruhi real quick and see what club it is that she was in." As if on cue, the taller blonde who had been screaming earlier came to my side with a rose in hand and twirled me into him and dipped me low to the ground, "Well, if it's the Host Club you are interested in, then please," He got closer to my face, "let me explain it to you." He pulled me back up and handed me the rose and got into a pose. "The Ouran Host Club is where the schools most handsome boys with too much time on their hands entertain young ladies who also have way too much time on their hands. Just think of it as Ouran Academy's playground for the super rich and beautiful. And I, Tamaki Suoh, am the president of this club." I nodded, covering my mouth as another giggle fit was about to erupt.

"And Haruhi you are here, why? This doesn't really seem like your thing…" I said walking towards the girl. Then a light bulb went off in my head and I realized she was wearing the same uniform as the rest of the men. I gave her a look.

"It's not you think… It's a long story but to cut it short, I broke an expensive vase and since everyone thinks I'm already a dude I went with it and this is the fastest way to pay off my debt." I nodded, slowly. Trying to take it all in. So this is Japan.

"Ketsuki? That name rings a bell… Oh that's right. You must be related to Akito Ketsuki, owner of Ketsuki Mines and Real Estate. Am I correct?" I turned to the glasses boy.

"Okay… How do you know so much about me? This is starting to get very creepy." His smirk only got bigger, it's like you could see his ego grow. "I have my ways, Miss. Ketsuki. I am Kyoya Ootori" He took my hand and kissed it. The two red headed twins popped out behind him. "Which means he read it on your file for the school." Kyoyas' head dropped. I couldn't help but laugh at the scene. Kyoya didn't seem like the one who got found out very often, but I plan to change that. My phone ringed and I looked at it and saw it was a text from Riku, our new driver, saying he was here.

"Well, I'm sorry guys but I have to go. Bye Honey-senpai! Here is Usa-chan back," I handed the bunny to the small boy and gave him a big hug. "I promise I'll eat cake with you tomorrow, okay?" His frown turned into a smile as he jumped into the hug. "Okay Ari-chan!" I smiled down at him and got up. I walked over to Haruhi and gave her a hug, too. "Here's my new number so you can get a hold of me, okay?" She nodded and hugged back.

"Bye guys! It was very nice meeting you all. I'll see you tomorrow!" They all waved and said their goodbyes as I walked out the door and down the evil stairs to my car.

"Did you have a nice time, Miss. Ketsuki?" Riku smiled as he opened the door for me.

"I told you Riku; just call me Aria, please. And yes I did. I'm actually excited to go to school here, if you can believe that." The middle aged man laughed as we drove off heading to my house.

*Few Hours Later*

"And finished!" My mother made the final adjustments to my uniform, which the chairman was very fond of, especially learning that it was going to be a Loretta Ketsuki adjustment on his schools uniform. Mainly all we did was make it a wide neck line and a high low to the skirt part of the dress and added some fabric so that it wasn't showing so much leg.

"Okay now change into the dress we agreed on, we have to get going if we are going to get to the Hitachiins' house on time." I nodded and went into my bathroom, taking along the dress. It was a strapless dark blue dress with a thick, sparkling strap underneath my breasts. The dress went down to my ankles and I put on my favorite silver high heels and a silver bracelet and walked down into the living room to meet my parents.

"You look beautiful, my dear." I smiled up at my dad as he kissed my cheeks. I thanked him and we all walked out into the limo and drove to my mother's new partners' home for dinner.

We pulled up to a beautiful light grey modern styled house. It was stunning.

My father helped my mother and I out and we walked up to the door.

"Loretta! My darling you look as beautiful as ever and is this your daughter? Oh my goodness!" A beautiful red headed woman came out and hugged me, which I returned with a smile. I love how energetic she was. Well come on in guys! My husband is away on business but my sons are here. Actually I think they are your age Aria. What school are you going to?" I was too busy looking at all of the paintings and gorgeous art work to notice everyone staring. I blushed a deep red. "Uh, I'm sorry… I didn't catch that…" She laughed it off along with my mother.

"You'll have to forgive her Yuzuha, she absolutely adores art work. She's attending Ouran Academy. She'll be in class 1A." A big smile rose on Yuzuha's face. "So are my boys! Come, let's get sit for dinner, they should be in there already." After a few more minutes of walking we entered their dining room and I gasped. It was the twins from the Host Club!

"Aria? I didn't know your mother was joining with ours." I smiled and waved.

"Neither did I! I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to get your names today though…" They both gave me a smile.

"I am Hikaru and this is Kaoru." I nodded and sat between the two, with our parents on the other side. My dad pretending to be interested in the ladies conversation while I talked to the boys more about the Host Club and Ouran itself.

After dinner we all sat around a table in the living room and had tea. The twins and I exchanged numbers, and we all had a great night full of laughter.

We left giving them all hugs and headed home for a well needed night of sleep. I didn't even take a shower or wash off my makeup. I threw my dress in a corner, put on my extra large pizza tee, and fell straight to sleep, excited for my first day of school tomorrow.

Hey guys! I hope you enjoyed this chapter. It's really only the begging so I know it is a little slow. Please no rude comments but constructive criticism is always welcomed!

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