Metal Cross High School Host Club!
Important note: This story was updated on the 28/02/15, slight changes to chapters and story etc.
Author's note: Ouran High School Host Club gave me a whole bunch of ideas for fanfics, crossovers and elements I could add to the other pairings I ship. So I decided to make a fanfic featuring characters in the plot shown in the Ouran anime. This one featuring my own ship between Max Tate from Original Beyblade series and Gingka Hagane from the metal fight Beyblade series. This will be the second story in which I ship Gingka and Max together so I hope you enjoy it!
Max will be the only character from the original series to be featured in the main cast of this story for now will most of the characters will my favourite ones from the metal series. Together they'll be this fanfic's version of the Ouran Host club gang, most of the scripting will from the anime just with these characters.
Prologue: Max Tate, a young scholarship attends a prestige school: Metal Cross Academy who comes from an average class world feels a little out of place at this school for rich kids. However everything changes when he becomes friends with Gingka Hagane, who begins to fall for the new kid as he then discovers his new friend is part of the school's host club.
There meets Gingka's other friends and soon after due to an incident he becomes a member in order to repay a debt to the club! With the chaos of studying, teenage drama, family and the host club, Gingka's feelings for Max grow as does Max's feelings for him, along with other members falling for him and clashing for his attention, friendship and love, the tale of comical and romantic adventures for the school's host club...
Chapter 1: Welcome to Metal Cross Academy, Love at first sight, Staring today you are a host!
It was bright morning over of a large city, the skies were a clear blue with the sun shining out over the city, all the buildings and establishments had Japanese language on as this city was somewhere in Japan. This was metal fusion city, the metropolis was filled with high tech with transportation, appliances, and business and leisure establishments. The city was divided by the social and economic classes, and the area in particular was the focus of this tale, in the upper class section of the city a young man was walking down a street.
He had short but wild looking light blonde hair with slight pale white skin with freckles and ocean blue eyes, he was wearing a yellow shirt under a green and orange hoodie, blue trousers, and green trainers. Over his back he had brown backpack over his back as he was en route to his new school, this youth's name was Max Tate he had recently moved to metal fusion city a few weeks ago from Shibuya leaving his close friends behind and he was beginning his first year of high school life.
He had recently been accepted into one of the country's prestige academic schools, the school known as Metal Cross Academy. It was one of the nation's exclusively elite private school mainly for those students who came from extremely wealthy rich or high standard families. Max wasn't from a rich family, but he scored very highly in his academics and after taking school's honour student exam he was offered a scholarship at the school, these were only given out to youths who they believed to be worthy of them.
This was a fresh start for Max, it was a going to be a new experience for him, but truth be told he wasn't as eager to attend this school as he would appear to other people. He was escaping from something from his past back in his hometown, and right now he wasn't interested in making friends, or having too much fun. He just wanted to study hard, in order to help his friends back home who supported him and to succeed in his academic in order to make his late parents proud of him.
"Let's see... After I got the bus last time, I kept following this road until I got to the academy... I should be able to remember this route now" the boy told himself as he looked around the area he's walking
"At the end of this road Metal Cross Academy is just ahead, the place is really big... I wonder what it'll be like attending here..." the blonde youth said out loud still wondering what kind of school he was going to be attending
"I'm not even sure about the kind of people I'll meet while attending this school? Who knows, they'll probably just be a bunch of rich kids" he said with a faint smile as he continued to walk down the street , and In the distance was a formation of buildings, the architecture seemed to 19th century Paris-like buildings
It seemed more like a palace. The buildings were a pale lilac, the groups were large with fields, ponds, and gardens, it seemed like some kind of private resort, on the grounds there were students, all the males had on the uniform, which was a dark blue blazer with an emblem, underneath he was wearing a white long sleeved buttoned shirt and a black and blue tie, and straight black trousers and black shoes while the females wore well fitted purple dresses with pink bow with a skirt down to their calves, this was Metal Cross Academy.
This lovely and sophisticated school was Max's destination, it seemed to be exclusive from the rest of the area as if it was the crowning jewel of this entire place, all the kids seemed to be happy and were socializing with each other. They all seemed like ordinary students but they would be completely different from any teens that Max had met in his life, but as they seemed normal a certain group of students stood out. Inside the building looking out a window were six unseen male youths, it appeared that they were looking for someone.
"Why is Gingky always late? Hey Tsubasa do you know why he's late?" a male spoke with sweet and baby-like voice as he was asking another male a question
"I'm not really sure Yu it's just part of his routine I guess..." another unseen youth responded with a deeper tone in his voice in comparison to baby-like boy's voice
"Of course... After all Gingka does live a fair distant from here, and since he choose to walk to school it makes sense, besides he always makes it from first bell" another voice spoke with sense of coolness in his tone reassuring the younger unknown male
"Kyoya is right you guys, in about five minutes Gingka's gonna show up at the gate" another younger voice spoke with a pleasant tone with an upbeat hint
"In that case let's just head to the cafeteria, I'm a little hungry" another deep male voice spoke which seemed to go with the previous youth's voice
"Well my friends, it's going to be another beautiful day here at Metal Cross... Come on, let's go" the last male voice spoke with a charming manner as they started to work off
Meanwhile back outside the school just as Max was coming up to the academy's gate down another street the sound of running footsteps was heard. A boy dressed in the academy's uniform was speeding down the road, he had long spiky red hair wearing a blue backpack as he sprinted down the road, he had fair skin, he was sweating a bit as it appeared he had been running for quite some time. Max just stood in front of the gates examining them as he didn't realise that the youth was on a collision with him.
Max was a little nervous as he started to walk up to the school's gate, he was completely unaware of the youth running towards whose eyes were closed as he carelessly sprinting down towards him. Just as the blonde just hesitated as he placed his hand on the clean metal gates, he looked onwards as he saw the students on the grounds socializing with each other in the beautiful setting. Suddenly the running youth had just opened his eyes wide as he saw Max in front of him, as the boy just heard the youth running towards him.
"Hey! Look out!" he tried to warn Max but it was too late as he crashed into Max as they both fell to his ground with their backpacks and some of their contents falling out as this youth was on top of Max
"Ow... What just happened?" Max asked himself as he held his hand slightly as he realised that he that there was someone on him as he couldn't get up as the first thing that caught his eye was something red
"Sorry about that, I was trying to rush before first bell..." the youth on top of Max said apologising to him as he trailed off as he was faintly blushing as he noticed Max's face while Max looked a little confused
The youth on top of him had dark spiky red hair, very light tan-like skin, he had a small bandage on across his nose, and golden-brown eyes that were now staring deeply at Max. Faint lines of pink blush suddenly appeared across the youth's face as he was just looking at Max, the expression on his face was like he was looking at a familiar face while Max looked at him with a slightly confused and curious expression. Just then the red hair youth snapped out of his trance as he realised that he still on top of Max.
"Sorry about that, I wasn't looking and I didn't see you..." the red hair youth said as he got off of Max and then extended out his hand to help Max up as the blonde took his hand as he pulled him up
"Don't worry about it... It was an accident after all" Max said showing the youth a smile as he chuckled slightly as he then looked to see the books and papers and their backpacks
"Sorry..." the teen repeated as he knelt down to pick up the Max's stuff as Max then knelt down to help him
"Ah it's okay... Here let me" Max said as he helped him gather their things up as the youth glanced at Max and once again extended his hand out to Max showing a smile
"I've never seen you before, I'm Gingka Hagane, and it's nice to meet you..." the youth said introducing himself to Max who faintly smile as he shook Gingka's hand
"Nice to meet you Gingka... I'm Max Tate" Max said with a smile shaking Gingka's hand as the red hair teen eyes slightly widened after hearing Max's name
"Oh I've heard about you... You're the new student joining the academy, the honour student right?" Gingka stated as Max looked a little shocked that word of his arrival had already reached the school
"Really... I didn't think that me coming here would be such big news?" Max said feeling a little more nervous that his arrival was the talk of the students at the school
"Yeah I guess it is, after all it's every day that an ordinary guy like you attends our school" Gingka said with a slight grin on his face as they gathered up all their stuff with their backpack
"Uh huh... So I take it that you're a student here too?" Max asked Gingka noticing that he was wearing the same uniform as him as Gingka just smiled as he had his hand behind his head
"Yeah, I'm a first year student here, and I take it that you're a first year too?" Gingka asked Max pointing to the school logo's on his blazer which had a small text that read 1st on it
"Oh, well yeah I was still doing my first year..." before Max could finish the sound of a bell rang throughout the area it was coming from the school as Gingka had a shocked expression on his face as he suddenly grabbed Max's hand who looked confused
"Come on, that's the first bell! We've got to get to class before the bell ring ends!" Gingka said as he dashed towards the gate dragging Max along, he then pushed on the gate as it opened as they entered the grounds
Max was helplessly being dragged as Gingka zoomed across the courtyard as most of the students were already inside, Gingka was grinning brightly while Max had a dizzy-like expression on his face as he was being pulled along. The academy had 4 buildings each one was a different division of the school, the building to the east was for the middle school students, the building to the centre where the boys were heading to was building for the high school students, and building to the west had a large library, the dining hall, and studios.
The last building behind the middle building across the large garden was the school's sports hall which was sub-divided with a court for ball sports, a large swimming pool, an exercise facility, and a gymnasium. While the bell rang all the students were making their way to their individual homerooms, the students' homerooms were separated based on their years, the 1st years were on the ground floor in the main building, the 2nd years on the first floor and the 3rd year students on the second floor.
"Haha! We made it just in time!" Gingka said as they finally stopped inside the high school building, as Max was still dizzy as he then snapped out of it, as then examined the inside of the building he was standing in hall
"Wow... This place is incredible?" Max quietly said to himself as he carefully examined the great hall, the interior matched the outside of the building, it was looked like palace as he all the students walking around
"And just before the final bell, well we'd better get to class then huh? Do you know what homeroom you're in?" Gingka asked Max who looked at him and then reached into his backpack and took out a piece of paper
"Well my timetable says that my homeroom is... Ah here its homeroom 1-D" Max said as Gingka smiled at him
"Okay that's down there, I'll take you there" Gingka said with a smile as Max chuckled slightly as Gingka then wrapped his arm around Max's
"Alright then, let's head to your homeroom before you get a detention, you don't wanna get in trouble on the first day right?" Gingka said as they walked off towards their homeroom
"For future references our homeroom is down here, half of the rooms our here and the others are on the opposite sides of the building" the red hair teen explained to the blonde as they walked down a hallway
"Oh thank you Gingka... I wasn't sure if I was going even find my way to my homeroom" he said awkwardly thanking Gingka who just smiled at him, just then they stopped in front of his homeroom door
"Well here we are? This is your homeroom..." the red hair youth said as Max paused for a moment he was still a little nervous about this, his cheeks were a little pink as he embarrassed
"Is something wrong...? Hey are you nervous about going in?" Gingka asked Max who just looked at him with an awkward and nervous expression as Gingka just smiled
"Hey don't worry about anything, you'll blend in just fine with the rest of us?" Gingka said reassuring Max as he then pushed the door opening the door for Max as saw a simple classroom with students socializing with each other
"Okay good luck in there Max, I'll see you around..." Gingka said wishing him good luck as Max smiled faintly as he then entered the classroom as Gingka closed the door behind Max as he headed off to his class, he slowly walked over to a vacant desk, as the rest of the class's attention was focused on the youth as he took his seat, just then the teacher entered the classroom
"Good morning class" the teacher was wearing a grey suit, and glasses with clean cut haircut carrying some books under his arm as the class greeted him as he took his seat on the desk the student all took their seats
"Alright everyone, I hope you're all working hard everyday... Remember you are the pride of Metal Cross Academy, so will expect great things from all of you" their homeroom teacher said
"Now I understand that we have a new student joining us from Shibuya... Max Tate, would you like to come up here and introduce yourself to the class" he said pointing to Max who then took a deep breath and then got up from his seat and walked up to the top of the desk
"It's a pleasure to meet all of you, I'm Max Tate... I hope to get know you all" the blonde said with a calm and pleasant tone showing his classmates a bright smile as he then slightly bowed before them
Soon after the teacher registered the students the bell rang once again as the first period was about to begin, all the class left the homeroom heading out to their first lesson. Max was on a study period first, he had a lesson later on in the morning, so he decided to take this time to go to find a quiet to work. He casually walked past the students in the hall, they were just socializing with each other, it seemed that they were a lot of students currently on a free period, it seemed like being at the academy was like a place of leisure to them.
Max felt even more out of place, his uniform was kinda of a hand me down, it wasn't as clean and fresh as the other students, after all his cousin had given a second hand uniform she had gotten years ago from a friend. He tried to find a place to work in peace, he tried the library here in the high school building but it yet another social gathering for the students as they weren't working and socializing with their friends. Max decided to head upstairs to see if he could find a place to work on his peace, after that he went to the top floor.
"According to this sign, there's a classroom that's never used here at the end of top floor... That sounds like a quiet place for to work on Dad's prototype" Max said to himself as he was examining a sign on the top floor
(Max's Thoughts)
How are things with you and Mom Dad...? I still can't believe that it's been nearly five years since you've both been gone, I hope you're both looking down at me from heaven...?
Mom I still can't thank you enough for all the work you put into helping me get here, you wanted to attend this school for my high schools years, and after going through a lot of hard work, I finally made it here...
But I'm starting to think that these rich kids only come here to have a good time, there really isn't a quiet place here for me to study, but don't worry I'm sure everything will be alright...
Max kept walking down the hallway, I did see a few classes in session but still a lot of students were just socializing, as he followed the directions from the sign he finally reached the end of the floor, a quiet hallway with a single door at the end, there the symbol which read classroom 3F and under it read abandoned. This looked like the place, Max then placed his ear against the door, and he couldn't really hear anything on the other side, so I just took the handle and slowly opened the door.
Suddenly Max covered his eyes as he was met with bright shining light probably coming from the windows, as a small group of petals fell past the youth as he entered the room closing the door behind him. Suddenly he saw before him a silhouette of people as his eyes widened as he was met with seven young men. One of them was sitting on a chair while the other stood around him, they all had smiles on their faces. The youth who was sitting in the chair had large spiky yellow blonde hair with large spike of hair on the top on his head, and purple eyes and a light skin tone and a muscular figure.
The first youth standing around the blonde stood two boys one appeared to be a taller than the other, they both had the same white spiky hair style with a red patch in their hair, with the shorter youth red on the right and the taller youth's red on the left. They appeared to be brothers as they both had tanned peach skin and golden eyes, the older brother had a more muscular figure than his sibling. Next to them was a tall youth the same height as the elder brother next to him, he had light dark skin silver hair with a clip and bangs that hanged over his golden-brown eyes his built was similar to rest of youths.
Next to him was a rather small boy with pale skin, green eyes and the same hairstyle as the first youth but it was a yellowish orange. Then was another teenage boy with tanned skin, dark green spiky hair with a pony tail, blue eyes and a faint cross scar on his left cheek, he was wearing glasses and a muscular figure. And finally standing next to him was a familiar face, it was Gingka , Max had just noticed Gingka as he didn't understand what was going on as they all showed him smiles each of them held a rose in their hand.
"Welcome to the host club!"the seven youths said in union as Max just gasped faintly as he blinked a couple of times, just then Gingka noticed that it was Max standing before their group
Max had a shocked and awkward expression on his face, these seven boys in front of him were a host club, the first thing that came to his mind were the kinds of host clubs that were the night-life entertainment clubs that were well known in Japan in which male hosts 'entertain' female guests. The youths facing Max all had slightly confused or curious expressions on their faces as they examined the embarrassed looking Max. Just then Gingka realised it was Max standing before them as a bright smile appeared on his face.
The room was actually a suite comprised of three rooms within its substantial size. The walls of the room were covered with marble-inlay panels of differing shapes and sizes. They were also large windows which you could see the courtyard and the rest of the grounds outside. The ceiling is pink and white, and is adorned with bas-relief scrollwork. The main part which they were currently in was the salon is furnished with red upholstered chairs and couches of varying lengths, accompanied by wooden tables.
"A... Host club...?" Max awkwardly said as he slightly stuttered slightly
The Metal Cross Host Club is where some of the school's handsomest boys with too much free time entertain young ladies who also have way too free time on their hands...
"Hey Max, it's you! Hey I didn't think I see you this soon!" Gingka said with happiness in his tone as the taller youth with spiky green hair looked at Gingka and then Max
"Oh wow it's a boy..." the blonde boy and younger spiky white haired sibling said in union seeing Max before them instead of a girl, as the youth with glasses examined Gingka's smiling face
"Chris, Ryuto, isn't this young man in your class right?" the youth with the glasses asked the two youths who stated the oblivious as Chris and Ryuto, who then looked at the youth
"Yeah, he's the new transfer student from America I think he said...?" the youth with blonde hair known as Chris answered
"But that's about it really, he introduced himself and that's all, he seemed kinda of shy..." and the younger sibling known as 'Ryuto' with white spiky haired said finishing his friend's sentence
"I see... And Gingka how do you this young man?" the spiky green haired youth asked Gingka who grinned at his friend and then looked at Max
"I actually met him today by the gate after I ran into him, then I helped him find his homeroom Kyoya" Gingka told his friend naming him as 'Kyoya'
Well then, welcome to the Metal Cross host club Mr. Tate" Kyoya said greeting Max who looked awkward and nervous as sweat was slightly running down his face as he felt a flustered
"Oh, you're Max Tate, the honour student who transferred here from the U.S aren't you?" the older sibling with white spiky hair asked Max who was currently trying to open the door behind him but then he paused
"How did you know my name?" Max asked the older youth how he knew his name and then he remembered what Gingka had told him earlier that he was quite the talk of the school
"Well you're what most of the high school's been talking about, it's not every day that an ordinary person like yourself gains entry into our school, you must've worked extremely hard to get into Metal Cross academy" Kyoya stated with cool and pleasant charm in his voice
"Well... Thanks I guess..." Max said still a little awkward when suddenly as youth known as Chris was a now a few feet in front of Max as his face went completely red, as the blonde male in front him smirked at him
"You're very welcome Mr. Tate, your shining example that ordinary people, commoners, anyone without wealth or riches can excel here at our school..." Chris said as Max felt a little uncomfortable
"It must be a little hard for you huh? To be constantly judged and looked at by everyone around here" Chris said further as Max glanced at him slightly as that's how he felt
"Uh... I think I should go..." Max said trying to slip away from Chris but then he felt something go around his neck as he looked to Gingka on the other side to him
"I really didn't expect to ever see here in the host club Max?" Gingka said as had appeared beside the blonde putting his arm around Max's neck making him feel more flustered
"Me too, I never imagined that the American scholar student would be openly gay" Chris said as Max's eyes widened by that statement as he suddenly blushed, but then the silhouette of person appeared in his Max's head they appeared to be a male as he then had a slightly sad expression on his face
"Max... Hey, you don't have to be ashamed or anything, your sexuality is perfectly normal" Gingka said as Max snapped out of his thoughts and then looked at Gingka, just then Chris placed his hand on Max's shoulder
"Gingka's absolutely right, your sexual preferences is your business, and asides almost all of us here is completely bisexual, we cater to the needs of both genders" Chris said showing Max a seductive expression
"So why don't you tell us what kind of guys you're into Max..." Chris asked the youth who had a shocked expression as he felt all the boys' eyes on him as Gingka then slightly stepped away from Max smiling at him
"Wha...?" Max simply said as he suddenly felt his arm being dragged down as he saw the youngest of the boys holding onto his arm showing him a bright and happy expression
"Ah don't be nervous Maxie! You're like a superhero or something!?" the young boy brightly stated to Max nicknaming him 'Maxie' as Max slightly smiled from that comment
"Ah thanks little guy... Hey wait a sec, are you a high school student?" Max asked the young boy who just nodded at him as he gleefully grinned at Max as he then let out of Max and playfully ran back to the silver haired youth who showed his younger friend a faint smile
"So Max, what's your type of guy?" Chris asked Max as Chris then walked over to his friends as he extended his arm out towards them as Max looked confused
"Do you like the strong silent mysterious types like Tsubasa-Senpai here?" he said indicating the silver haired male as 'Tsubasa' who smile faint at Max
"Or the cute child-like types like our Yu here" Chris said gently panting the head the little boy's head naming him as Yu who just smiled brightly at Max
"The mischievous or brotherly types like Ryuto and Ryuga-Senpai here?" he state as Ryuto winked at Max and his older brother who Chris named 'Ryuga' smiled at Max slightly waving at him
"Or maybe you like the cool type like Kyoya over there" Chris said pointing at Kyoya who smiled at Max
"But perhaps seeing that comfortable with Gingka, perhaps your attracted to the nice guy types" Chris said point over at Gingka who smiled at Max as he blushed a little as Chris then walked over to Max
"Or maybe you're into a guy like me?" Chris asked Max as he seductively rubbed Max's chin with his finger as he was inches from Max's face as the boy blushed
"No, no, you've got it all wrong I was just looking a quiet place to work on something?!" Max said as he backed away from Chris unaware of the table behind in which was a large crystal glass sculpture was on
Without realising he had back into the table as it made him lose his footing as he knocked the table, as he turned around everything became as he quickly tried to reach for the crystal glass statue that was falling, his hand had just missed it as it fell to ground with Max falling after it just as it shattered into pieces as the broken crystal pieces flew across the ground. The host club members looked in shock as Gingka went to see if Max was alright as he Max got back to his knees as Gingka placed his arms on Max's shoulders
"Hey are you alright, did you get cut?" Gingka asked Max who just nodded as there were no visible cuts on him
"Oh, your statue... I'm absolutely sorry, it was an accident it just happened and I..." Max was cut off as Gingka placed his hand in front of Max's mouth as he showed him a faint smile
"Hey it's alright... It wasn't intentional" Gingka said reassuring Max just as Kyoya came up to them as he knelt down examining the broken pieces of crystal and then got out a notepad writing something down
"Gingka's right Mr. Tate... It was an accident, but this was antique crystal statue one of 14 statues... Tsubasa how much was this?" Kyoya asked Tsubasa who then got a small pocket PC device
"The crystal sculpture was an original piece that created almost 200 years ago in Kyoto... On their own there exactly worth about 8 million ¥" Tsubasa said in simple but stern tone as Max looked pale with shock
"Uh... Eight... Million... Yen...?!" Max nervously asked as Tsubasa then typed it into to his PC device as he then looked at Max
"That's a shame... It's been an expensive piece, it won't be easy for someone like you to pay for it?" Kyoya told Max who was still in shock by the price as Kyoya as the sunlight seemed to reflect off his glasses as he stood back up as he then looked over to the older sibling Ryuga
"Well Ryuga, it's your call what should we do with him?" Kyoya asked Max looked worried from that statement as he then looked at the older sibling who had his hand on his chin as he thinking
"Well I suppose he'll have to work to pay back the crystal sculpture, since he's unable to pay for it upfront..." Ryuga said as that was a reasonable deal for Max, he could work to pay off the broken statue
"Say, about he works here as an errand boy for the host club!" Chris suddenly suggested as Max looked even more shocked as Ryuga looked at Chris and then Kyoya who just nodded at him
"That sounds reasonable enough... Very well he'll work here and run errands for the host club until he graduates, or until he's able pay the debt" Kyoya said as Max went pale as all members seemed to be in agreement by that statement
"So it's settled... Max Tate as of today you're the host club's errand boy!" Chris stated as Max was in complete shock as the host members were all around, it was still the first day and now Max was a servant to the high school 'host club'
"I have his timetable up, he has lesson next period, but it looks like it can be changed around" Tsubasa as he had been typing away on his pocket device as Kyoya walked over to him and looked at it
"Alright I'll let the reception known, and will change his timetable... He'll work here until final period" Kyoya added as they were acted as if Max wasn't even in the room, as they were making these decisions for him
"Wha... What just happened?" Max was still unclear as to what just happened in a handful of minutes, in the blink of an eye Max's high school experience had dramatically changed...
End of Chapter 1
Hoped you liked the chapter, I had to rearrange and change the story so far is still the same I just combined some of the chapters together, the next chapter will be combination of previous chapters. The next chapter should be up in a few minutes, the first two chapters are loosely based off Ouran episode 1, and the newest chapter will be based on episode 2, please leave your reviews of the updated chapters...
Bye for now!