Yamayurikai Host Bu by Wordsworthy
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Chapter 1: Selling the Pitch
"I have it! Let's do a Host Club!"
"Host Club?" echoed Eriko of her friend's ludicrous, yet oh so fascinating proposal. "Omoshiro. Please elaborate Rosa Gigantea."
"Well, we've been putting up plays almost every year for the school festival! It's boring! It's high time we did something more interesting and interactive than having our guests sit down and gape for the entire hour or so." explained Rosa Gigantea, also known as Satou Sei, enthusiastically as she stated her case.
"Rosa Gigantea, do keep in mind that this is a school festival we're talking about?" reasoned Youko in the room in her usual level-headed way. "You're not doing this just to rile up my poor petite soeur again now, are you?"
"What? I'm shocked that you think of me that way!" exclaimed the blonde with feigned indignation while the other two girls shook their heads lightly at her theatrics.
"Because it sounds exactly like what you would do." admonished Youko and Eriko matter-of-factly, and in perfect synchrony no less.
"That's rude. Of course, we will take out the sexual parts of the concept. Think about it, instead of having the guests watch us put up false pretences and assumed roles, we can have them observe how we student leaders associate and take care of whatever concerns our fellow Lilian students may have. Isn't that much more meaningful and reassuring for the parents than just a simple play?" tried Sei in her best salesgirl pitch.
"Hmm…" hummed Youko contemplatively while the blonde beamed, her bait having been taken.
"Furthermore Rosa Chinensis, weren't you the one who's always whining… I mean lamenting on how the students have been avoiding the Rose Mansion and how the Roses seem to have been placed on some higher pedestal? We can take this chance to rectify things, to change the normal student's perception of us, to reach out to the masses!" added Rosa Gigantea for good measure as the icing on the cake.
"You sound just like a politician Sei." commented Eriko with an airy giggle, to which the blonde gave an impudent v-sign.
"Well, what do you think Youko? Is it really such a bad idea?" pleaded the current Rosa Gigantea with her best puppy eyes and hurt look, not that they were the slightest bit convincing.
"I must admit that you made a strong case… but the others…" conceded Youko reluctantly and not without reservation.
"Eriko, what say you?" retorted the blonde right away, turning her attention to the brown-haired girl beside her.
"Let's see… it's new, unusual and definitely interesting… what are we waiting for?" agreed Eriko with an impish light in her eyes.
"There you go. It'll be unanimous if you agree too." pressed the blonde keenly.
"Unanimous… the boutons haven't even voted… Sei…" the dark-haired girl dragged the emphasis on her name accusingly.
The blonde simply laughed out wickedly before she winked like the little devil she was.
"Onee-samas! You can't be serious!!"
Looking at the hostile flames of blatant indignation and objection that consumed the livid eyes of her petite soeur, and that of the inwardly sniggering blonde fiend to her right, Youko could only apologise silently as she pressed on with her absurd proposal.
"It is just like I said Sachiko, the Host Club is meant to help bring our students closer to the Yamayurikai and provide assurances to the parents that their precious children are well looked after by us student leaders. There may be some degree of entertaining involved, but there is nothing indecent about the whole idea."
"But Onee-sama!"
Faced with the well presented merits of the proposal, the eyes of the current Rosa Chinensis en bouton darkened further as she grew more desperate in overturning the near watertight case. Whipping her head to the right, she looked unto her fellow en bouton for support.
"Rei, don't just sit there! Say something!"
The boyish blonde girl gulped visibly, having been caught in the middle of a hard stare by her closest friend and the expectant smile of her beloved Onee-sama beside her.
"Well… putting aside whether or not we should do it, perhaps we should be considering how much more work it will take to execute this project as compared to the play. Even then, although the Rose Mansion is rather spacious, there would not be enough chairs and seats to properly accommodate everyone…"
"Sou! That's it Rei! Think about all the logistics details Onee-samas!" agreed Sachiko hurriedly, latching on to the lifeline her friend has so graciously provided as though for her very life.
"I would think that moving around some existing furniture will be much less troublesome than having the Handicraft and Fine Arts Club make us a whole stage set, or having to burden the Stage Crew Club to help out with our backstage duties." chipped in Rosa Gigantea not so helpfully, having been oddly quiet for a while now.
Having her only lifeline all but cut seemed to be the straw that broke the camel's back.
"Rosa Gigantea, there's not way I am entertaining any old stranger that comes through our doors! Onee-sama, you should know I cannot and will not do that!"
"Sachiko, you're overreacting." cooed Youko soothingly as she tried to placate her little sister on the surface. In her mind though, another plot was slowly being unfurled. Hmm… this might be a good chance to get Sachiko to open up to others as well… or to get her to find a petite soeur at last…
"Sou sou. All we have to do is to act natural and interact with the girls and their parents like what we normally do." added Rosa Gigantea once again nonchalantly.
"Natural…" droned Sachiko mechanically, as if she was stunned by the concept.
"That's right. It'll be defeating the purpose otherwise no? Relax and don't worry, we're all nice people here, isn't that right Rei?" said Rosa Foetida with that expectant smile still directed at her petite soeur. Evidently, her role in the meeting today was to curtail the Yellow Rose family from disagreeing.
"Erm… I suppose so…" began the blonde hesitantly before she felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand on its ends, no doubt from look that screamed "traitor" her fellow en bouton was aiming at her or the possessive stare of her own petite sister. Probably both.
"Or could it be that you've become so accustomed to being superficial that you've forgotten how to act natural?"
"Rosa Gigantea!!"
"Well, since you can't give a good reason why we shouldn't do the host club idea, we'll consider the issue decided then. Who knows, you might be able to meet your future petite soeur in the meanwhile." concluded Rosa Chinensis with the unmistakable airs of finality.
"You're being tyrannical and mean, Onee-sama!" tried the long-haired heiress as she struggled valiantly.
"Someone who can't find a petite soeur shouldn't have the right to speak in meetings."
The trap was now set and primed, with the prior issue momentarily ignored no less.
"Well then, all I have to do is find one right now!"
Youko rolled her eyes as her furious Rosa Chinensis en bouton made for the door in a huff, fully expecting the door to be slammed shut along with her attempts at persuasion for the day. What she did not expect were startled cries, an accidental collision and a tangled heap of two.
"Anata, are you okay?"
"Yes, I just fell on my bottom…"
The senior Roses raised an eyebrow each at the scene and at the new faces at the door before looking at each other with a sly glance.
The day just got more interesting.
Author's Notes:
Just a little teaser of an idea I had on the side about marrying good nice series together. Consider it a break from my usual darker pieces perhaps. It doesn't really take that much stretch of one's imagination to see Satou Sei as a darker Suou Tamaki and Mizuno Youko as a nicer Ootori Kyoya… Curious on which character would be be parrelling who? Would there be a second chapter soon? It depends on the reception for this chapter I suppose.
As usual, please read and review. Constructive or positive comments are always welcome.
That's all for now. Later.