Umiko's POV
"Eggs, Milk, Bread, Coffee, and Sugar... yep got everything"
I picked up my basket and started to walk towards the checkout when I accidently ran into someone else.
"I'm so sorry" I bowed
"That's ok"
I stood up straight with a smile "wait, Haruhi? Is that you?"
"I'm sorry do I know you?"
"Oh well you probably don't remember me but we went to middle school together, Umiko?"
"Umiko, of course, I'm sorry you look different now" she smiled
"Yeah you to, short hair?"
"Some boy in my neighbourhood got gum in my hair" she explained "and what about you, growing yours out?"
"Trying, just doesn't seem to want to pass my shoulders though" I sighed pulling at my hair
"Next!" the checkout girl called
"You first, I walked into you after all"
"Thanks"
Once we paid for our things we walked out the shops.
"What way are you going?" I asked her
"This way" she said pointing to the left
"Oh me to, want to walk together?"
"Sure"
"So you got into Ouran?" I asked once we were walking
"Yeah"
"That's good, you studied really hard for that, you deserve it"
"Didn't you apply for it?"
"No, I just go to the local high school"
"Weren't your grades pretty good?"
"Yeah... well how is Ouran anyway? Full of stuck up rich people"
"Most of them yeah but there are some that aren't too bad"
We talked for a while exchanging stories about our new schools until we reached her building, outside the apartments were some fancy cars all lined up.
"What's going on?"
I turned to face Haruhi but she had her head leaning on a pole and groaning.
"Is everything ok Haruhi?"
"Those idiots, showing up just like this" she muttered
"Huh?"
After a while the car doors opened and out stepped 6 boys that were dressed pretty well, the tall blonde one turned around and looked straight at as then started shouting out Haruhi's name.
"Do you know them?"
"Unfortunately yes" she sighed pulling herself away from the pole "these are some friends from school, I can introduce if you like"
"No that's ok, I have to get home, maybe another time" I smiled politely
"It was good seeing you again"
"Yeah you to"
I said goodbye to her then went my separate way, just before turning the corner away from the commotion I turned around and looked behind me; I had this strange feeling that someone was watching me. I turned and saw one of the rich boys looking at me, he had an icy glare and didn't seem to care that I noticed him watching me. I huffed silently and turned my head away from him and continued proudly around the corner out of their sight.
Kyoya's POV
"HARUHI OVER HERE" Tamaki shouted waving his arm around
"Who do you think that is?" Hikaru asked
"I don't know, one of her friend's maybe?" Kaoru answered
I looked over at the girl Haruhi was talking to, she didn't like anyone important, she had simple straight hair reaching her shoulders and was wearing blue denim shorts and a red shirt with a white number 18 on the front, she looked a little taller than Haruhi but not by much. After a little while Haruhi started walking towards us and the girl left, she didn't even glance over at us. I watched her as she left, Haruhi had never mentioned friends from here and her father said she didn't really have anyone she visits so I was curious to who she was. Just before she walked around a corner she looked back at me but instead of the usual drooling girls do she lifted her head, turned it away from me and continued on her path.
"What are you guys doing here?" Haruhi asked walking past us
"We came to visit you Haru-chan"
"Hey Haruhi who was that girl?" the twins asked
We all followed behind her to her small apartment, she just seemed to ignore the question until we were all sitting down drinking tea and eating some cakes that Honey-sempai bought when the twins started to question her again.
"So who was she?" they asked in unison
"She is just someone I knew in middle school, Umiko used to help me study for the Ouran acceptance exams"
"She helped you study?" Honey-sempai asked
"She is really smart, if she went for the exams to she probably would have gotten in instead of me" Haruhi explained
"Then why didn't she?" the twins asked
"I don't know" she shrugged
After that Tamaki changed the subject to tomorrow, I had lots of things to take care of tonight so I was planning on sleeping in but it seemed Tamaki had another idea.
"I can't sempai, I have to go to the store tomorrow, there's this huge sale and we need some new things"
"Then we will come with you!" he shouted standing
Haruhi tried to say no but Tamaki just wasn't listening so in the end Tamaki got everyone to agree to meeting up tomorrow morning.
Umiko's POV
"Hey mum I'm home"
"Welcome back"
"I got the stuff you wanted"
"Thankyou"
I finished taking my shoes off then closed the door behind me and started to put away the shopping.
"I ran into Haruhi today"
"Haruhi?" mum asked walking into the kitchen
"I went to school with her last year; she was the one that got accepted into Ouran"
"Oh I remember now, how was she?"
"She seemed good; looks like she has some friends, there were a bunch of rich boys outside her house"
"You didn't get introduced?"
"Haruhi offered but you know I can't stand rich people"
"Not all rich people are bad"
"Yeah that might be true but I haven't met one yet"
"That's because you don't give them a chance"
"So have you finished the list for tomorrows shopping?" I asked changing the subject
"Yes I finished the list, is there anything you needed?"
"No, I was just going to look around"
"Ok but don't forget, were leaving here at 9, I don't want to miss everything"
"Yeah I know, I'm going to go finish my homework"
I walked up the stairs to my room and lay down on my bed.
The next morning I woke up and got ready, I had fallen asleep with my hair in plaits the night before so my hair was a little wavy. I left my hair wavy and put on a pink dress with black spots with black pants on underneath, I tied some of my hair out of my face but most of it was left down. After breakfast mum and I left to the store, there were a fair few people here but there was a huge store wide sale so it made sense.
Once we entered the store we went our separate ways and I started walking around just looking at things. While I was walking around I overheard some girls talking about 'the hot guys' I wasn't too concerned about it, I just rolled my eyes and continued on my ignoring all the talk but I couldn't ignore it when the crowd was that thick I could barely push my way through.
Kyoya's POV
"I'm going to kill him" I thought as I walked around
That morning Tamaki had come over and woken me up after I had only had 3-4 hours' sleep, I told him to leave me alone but then next thing I knew I was being dressed and dragged into a car then once again I was left on a bench with no phone and no wallet.
"He is never coming into my house again"
I walked around for a while trying to find him but while I was walking around I managed to attract a small crowd of people that seemed to grow. I tried my hardest to ignore them but after a while I just snapped at them, they all left me alone, some were afraid and others just muttered rude comments but I didn't care and continued on my way.
"You know, just because your rich doesn't mean you can treat people like dirt" a girl huffed behind me
I turned around with a frown and saw the girl that was with Haruhi yesterday, I quickly changed my frown to a smile, if she was a friend of Haruhi's then maybe I could use her.
"Why are you here anyway, you don't belong in a place like this"
She didn't say that in a nice way, it was almost like she was saying I wasn't welcome here. She pushed her hair behind her ear and sighed as she walked past me.
"How much money do you have on you?"
"What?" she asked stopping a little in front of me
"I was left here with no money and no cell phone"
"Oh really?"
Judging by the tone of her voice she felt sorry for me and that meant I was sure to get my way.
"Sucks to be you then doesn't it"
Just like that her attitude changed; despite her nice appearance she was actually quite rude.
"You will get paid back"
"Tell me one thing, why would I go out of my way to help you? I don't see anything in it for me"
"You're starting to sound like a rich..."
"If you want to live don't even finish that sentence" she cut in glaring at me "I am nothing like you rich people"
"Your selfish attitude says otherwise"
"I never said I wasn't going to help you" she huffed crossing her arms "I just meant that you should ask nicely that's all"
"It wouldn't benefit me to be nice to you"
"Really? Who's the one with the money?" she asked pulling out her wallet and waving it around
I pushed my glasses away from my eyes a little and rubbed the bridge of my nose and closed my eyes, this was going to be a long day.
Umiko's POV
"So did you want something to eat? It's getting close to lunch time" I offered
"Very well"
"Well where do you want to go?"
"You're paying"
"Yeah but you're the guest... kind of so you choose"
"What kind of logic is that?"
"It's not logic, it's called being nice"
I started walking away and he followed me, we walked past a few places where we could eat but he had yet to say something.
"Are you ever going to choose a place or are we going to walk around forever?" I asked getting slightly annoyed
"I doubt you have much money" he said simply
"Just because I don't have the money to go to your fancy school doesn't mean I can't afford a decent lunch" I pointed out "so just choose a place before I change my mind and leave you here"
"What about that one?" He was pointing to a nice little sushi place.
"Looks good"
I walked off towards it not really paying attention to whether he was following me or not then walked up to the counter, there were a couple of people in front of us but it didn't take long until it was our turn to order.
"What do you want?"
"You choose something"
"Pick something or you get nothing" I hissed at him
He moved from leaning on the counter and looked at the sheet on the bench in front of us then picked out a couple of things. After we placed our order I sent him to go find a seat while I waited for the food, it didn't take too long and it was easy enough to spot him, just look for the small crowd of people.
"Here you go" I sighed placing the tray down
"Did you remember to get a receipt?" he asked taking his food
"Don't worry about it, it's on me ok" I smiled at him
"If you insist"
"So what's your name anyway, you have yet to introduce yourself even after I bought you lunch and everything"
He looked up and seemed a little surprised, I don't think he even realised he hadn't introduced himself.
"Kyoya Ootori" he said after a while
"Ky-o-ya Oo-to-ri" I said slowly
"Is there something wrong?"
"I'm going to call you Kyo-Kyo" I decided after a while
He almost chock on his drink and just stared at me with utter shock.
"Oh right, sorry, Kyo-Kyo-Sempai" I smiled innocently
"My name is not Kyo-Kyo"
"I know that, it's your nickname" I winked "just like my name is Umiko Isowa but lots of my friends call me Umi or sometimes Iso"
He continued to eat not saying a word to me, I was starting to think he didn't like the nickname I gave him which was fine with me.
Kyoya's POV
"Calling me such a name, commoners really have no manners"
"Oh hey its mum"
She stood up and ran off, a few seconds later I heard her laughing then stopping next to me with another person next to her.
"Well I guess this means you have already had lunch"
"I'm sorry"
"Don't be, so who is your friend? I don't believe I have seen him around before"
"Mum this is Kyoya Ootori, Kyo-Kyo-sempai this is my mum Noel" she smiled "I found him wandering around with no phone and no wallet so I decided to help him"
"It's a pleasure to meet you Mrs Isowa"
"Oh please call me Noel, so Kyoya are you from around here?"
"He's a rich boy" Umiko explained sitting back in her seat
"I see, so what do your parents do then? And what brings you to our little area"
"Hey mum I was hoping he could come back with us and use the phone"
"Of course, I just have a few more things to do then I was going to head back"
"Sounds good, I wanted to look at a couple of things still"
"Meet out front in an hour?"
"Yep"
"It was lovely to meet you Kyoya, Umiko be nice" she said leaving
"I'm always nice" Umiko called out
Everything happened so fast I wasn't even too sure what happened or what to say; somehow they had decided everything for me.
"I hope that is all ok with you, I just thought considering you have no way home..."
"I came with friends"
"Oh... wait you mean those other boys you were with yesterday?"
"Yes and Haruhi is here to"
"... Uhhh"
"What is it?" I asked with a sigh
There was something about the way she was acting made me think I wasn't going to like what she was about to say.
"Well I saw them leave not long ago..."
"Why didn't you say anything" I growled at her
"Well why didn't you tell me you were with them"
"If I leave now I might still be able to catch them"
"Looks like you have no choice but to come with me now" she smiled
I didn't understand this girl, she made it obvious that she didn't like me or any rich person but yet she was being so nice and had nothing to gain by it.
"Well we have an hour to kill, is there anything you wanted to look at?"
"No"
"Then you're stuck looking at what I want then"
We finished lunch then started to walk around the store, everything seemed to have no order at all but no one else seemed to notice.
"So just to warn you mum will probably ask you a bunch of questions"
"I am a stranger with her daughter that is to be expected"
"Nah mum is just like that"
We walked around for a bit longer until we entered a small shop full of different kinds of fairy ornaments, I felt really out of place in this store, most of the other costumers where children and their parents.
"I know fairies are for kids but I just love them" she smiled as she looked around
I followed quietly after her cursing at Tamaki vowing to make him pay dearly for this when Umiko stopped. In front of us was a dad and a small girl not older than 6 who was blubbering about something.
"Hey Kyoya think you could grab that?"
I turned around to where she was pointing and saw a bunch of tiny boxes that had a small fairy sitting on them, I grabbed one and handed it to Umiko but she never took hold of it.
"Hold onto that for a second"
She turned away from me then walked up to the two
"Did I hear you lost a tooth?" she asked looking down at the girl
"I was eating and now it's gone" she muttered through her tears
"All this over a simple tooth"
"Well you know, my friend here is a good friend of the tooth fairies" she said pointing to me
The girl turned and looked at me then looked back at Umiko.
"Are you sure?"
"Oh yes"
"He doesn't look like it"
"That's because he is in disguise"
"Why?" she asked tilting her head a little
"Well just in case someone loses their tooth, if you go tell him you lost your tooth then he will give you a special present so the tooth fairy can find you and give you a surprise"
"What is she going on about?"
She looked up her dad and he nodded then the girl started to walk over towards me, I guessed I was supposed to give her this small box.
Umiko's POV
"Thank you, I didn't think I would ever get her to stop crying"
"That's ok"
"Don't suppose you know..."
"Just wait until she is asleep then put a few coins in there then take her to the shops so she can buy something herself"
"Daddy, daddy look what I got!" she shouted running back
"Oh wow"
"We have to go home! That way the tooth fairy can come and give me a surprise!"
"But we have to pa..."
"Don't worry about it" I smiled at him
"You're too kind"
"It's nothing" I smiled
They left and I walked towards the counter with Kyoya following behind me.
"What exactly did you mean by 'don't worry about it'?"
"The cost"
"You're paying for it? Why? What do you have to gain by doing that?"
"I gain the nice warm feeling from doing something nice and besides... it's not very often you see a dad who actually cares"
We walked up to the counter where Kimi was waiting for us.
"You're going to go broke if you keep doing stuff like that"
"But she was so sad" I giggled paying for the item
"You do this often?"
"Nearly every time she comes in here, Umi I didn't know you had a boyfriend"
"He is NOT my boyfriend" I glared at her
"I'm guessing your parents aren't together" he said once we left the store
"Nah, dad ran off with some rich girl when I was 12"
"Is that why you don't like rich people?"
"What just because my dad ran off? No that's not why, it's because their all selfish jerks that only care about their precious family reputation, people who just follow a path that was laid out for them are no better than robots. Are you a robot Kyo-Kyo-sempai?"
"Of course not" he scoffed
I got the feeling he didn't really know what I was talking about but that was fine, we walked around some more looking at the different shops then it was time to leave.
"I thought you kids forgot, did you have fun?"
"How much fun can you have with some rich boy who has nothing on them?" I smirked walking towards the car
Kyoya's POV
I followed them to their car, it wasn't anything great but it would have to do. Umiko ran to the front door and pulled on the handle but it was locked so she turned around to wait for us.
"Hey mum can you open the doors?" she called out
She didn't answer her, she pushed her trolley to the back of the car and unlocked the boot then started to put the shopping in, once she was done she pushed the trolley towards Umiko.
"Mind taking that back?"
"Ok" she chirped taking hold of the trolley and running off
"Sorry about her, you can have the front seat if you like"
"I'm fine with the back"
She unlocked the doors and we got into the car, it wasn't too bad but I was used to much better.
"So you only met my daughter today?"
"Yes, I saw her yesterday when she was with Haruhi but we never got introduced"
"Ah so you were one of the rich boys outside her apartment, Umiko was telling me about when she came home"
"She doesn't like rich people very much"
It was more of an observation then a question but Noel started to answer it anyway.
"Well it's a jealously thing, all us poor people hate what in our lifetime will never have and with Umiko... well she had a bad experience with some rich people but even so she isn't as cruel as she may seem at times.
I was going to ask what she meant but that's when Umiko returned jumping into the front seat, once everyone was buckled up we leaved the car park.
"So Kyo-Kyo-sempai you never did tell mum what your parents did for a living"
"Oh that's right"
"They specializes in hospital management"
"What about brothers and sisters?"
"Two older brothers and an older sister"
"So you're the youngest?" Umiko asked turning to face me "me too but I only have two older sisters"
"I never asked"
"And what about you? What are your plans for the future?"
"Mum he's a rich guy, his path is already laid out for him, you're going to take over your fathers company right? But then again you're the youngest so there's going to be a kind of fight for that right?"
She got it all correct; she seemed to know a lot about how the rich world works.
"Well then maybe you can talk some sense into this one"
"Huh? What did I do?"
"I'm guessing you're in high school?"
"2nd year"
"See I still have a year until I have to worry about my future"
We pulled up to some apartments but they looked different from Haruhi's, instead of lots of apartments on different floors there was only a row of maybe 15 and they looked bigger than Haruhi's one they also looked like they were two story.
"Welcome to the Isowa household" Umiko said as we pulled in
"I'll unlock the door and lock up the cat if you start bringing things inside?"
"Yeah sure"
They got out the car and set to their tasks, I got out and went to help Umiko, after all wether I liked to admit it or not she had helped me today.