A/N: Riki, this is your entire fault. She got me into Kyoya Fanfics and this is what was born. I hope you enjoy.
Disclaimer: Nope, don't own OHSHC in anyway shape or form (literally) aside from this fic. They belong to Bisuko Hatori.
Claimer: I do own Markus Lee though, plus any other characters not from anime and manga.
Note: This is will mainly follow the manga since I don't have the time to rewatch the anime.
Beta edited by Hikari Nami
The Neko Obsessed Deamon: Enter Markus
I was new to Ouran and since I was an art scholarship student I had no clue of how rich these people really were. It didn't help that I was from America either, or the fact that I was experimented on by my crazed father so that I became a neko. I could shift into a brown tiger stripped cat and even in human form I still had the ears, tail and when angered, my eyes turned gold with my pupils becoming slits.
When I enter Ouran, the first thought that ran through my mind was; holy shit this place is huge! I couldn't help but stop and gawk at how large this place was. People were walking around me and seemed to take no notice of me, for which I was grateful. That was until a person walked up to my side. "You must be new here," a person said from beside me and when I looked over, I found a slim brown hair person standing there.
The person was around average height, slim, with a feminine figure, but the person was wearing a male's uniform. Their eyes were a pair of large chocolate brown and their hair hung slightly down in front of one eye and were brown as well.
"Yes, I'm a first year student. I transferred here form America," I answered and turned to look at the enormous building, once again.
"My name is Haruhi Fujioka, what's yours?" Haruhi asked.
"Markus Lee," I answered and continued up to the large oak doors.
Haruhi smirked and we both walked up to the doors. I walked slightly in front of the cross dressing girl and opened them for her. She seemed startled but walked through them. "That's the first time someone did that to me in a long time," She commented and I just smirked.
"Men should open the door for women, ne?" I said and she stopped right then, it was a good thing that everyone had already walked off otherwise I knew that there would be trouble.
"Who are you and how do you know that Haruhi is a girl?" Two voices said and I turned around.
"I'm Markus Lee and it is obvious that Haruhi is a female, though why she is a dressed in the male's uniform, I don't know," I said and turning fully around I found a pair twins standing behind me.
They had what I could only describe as light auburn hair and gold eyes. They were both slightly taller than me and I could tell they would be nothing but trouble. "Tono isn't going to like this one bit," One twin said looking at the other.
"Kyoya isn't going to like this either," the other said both shrugged their shoulders' as if to say that they didn't really care.
I didn't know who they were talking about but I just hoped that nothing bad was going to happen to me. I was finally out of the cage and I didn't want to go back into it. They reached over and placed their arms over my shoulders. "Come, we need to have an emergency meeting. If we don't tell Kyoya and he was to find out, then we are in big trouble," They said in unison and pulled me away from my classes and towards the back of the large school.
"Haruhi…." I lamely said in a desperate tone and she just shrugged and followed along behind the strange twins. "By the way, what are your names?"
I might as well know who my tormentors are.
"Hikaru and Kaoru Hitachiin" They introduced at the same time.
That whole telepathy thing was really starting to get annoying. One pulled out their phone and started texting Kyoya and Co. I could only assume. "By the way who is Kyoya and Tono?" I asked since I could only guess that was the people that they were texting.
"Kyoya Ootori is the person who keeps our club going and Tono is Tamaki Suoh, the leader of the Host Club, which is the club that we belong to," Haruhi started with the twins adding the last bit about the club.
"You guys are in a Host Club?" I questioned and they just grinned.
"If what we believe is going to happen is going to happen then so are you," the demonic grins on their faces scaring me.
And I thought that this year was going to be easy… I thought and slumped forward.
"That's no way for a future host to act," a monotone voice said from behind us.
We all turned and discovered a black haired man standing behind us. He had thin glasses covering his burnt gray eyes which the light seemed to like to gleam off. He was easily taller than us and he was thin, yet I had the feeling that he was strong. His eyes told of intelligence and I feared that he was also mischievous.
I straightened my posture and met his gaze. "Let's discus this at the club room shall we?" He said and walked in front of us.
I had the strange urge to stick my tongue out at his retreating back, but held back, though the twins started to chuckle. The twins let loose a low whistle, "You are in so much trouble," They said and I glanced at each of them.
"You really need to stop with the twinness thing, it's getting annoying," I stated and Haruhi let out a small chuckle, obviously amused by my predicament.
We ended up walking to the South wing and stopped at Music Room 3, when the blacked hair glass wearing boy opened the doors we found that there were 3 other people in there.
There was a tall blonde boy with shocking amethyst eyes. When we entered he rushed forward and pulled Haruhi into his arms. "Oh, my precious daughter! How did anyone find out that you were a girl?" he cried and the twins stepped in and pulled her out of the blondes embrace.
"Chill out Tamaki, why don't we find out for ourselves," the glasses wearing person said.
"But Mommy, the twins are taking our daughter from Daddy," he said, his eyes filling with tears.
Haruhi just sighed and slipped from the twins to come and stand beside me. "I'm confused," I said to her and she chuckled.
"Tamaki made us a family. I'm his daughter, he is the father, Kyoya is the mother and the rest are the sons," She said, pointing to the glasses wearing boy when she said Kyoya and gestured around for the sons.
"I see," I said, understanding that most of the time, when friends are extremely close they feel like they are a family. I never experienced it for myself since I was locked up in a cage for most of my life, but I read about it in books when I could.
A little boy walked up to me with a towering black haired, dark gray-eyed person walking up behind him silently. He scared me, but I got the vibe that he was really a good guy. "Are you the one that they said found out that Haru-chan is a girl?" He asked while clutching a pink rabbit to him.
He was a small, slight build, blonde haired, golden-brown eyed kid that I just wanted to hug tightly and take him home and never let him leave. "Yes, I am," I said while crouching down next to him.
"How did you find out?" He asked with large puppy eyes, eyes that no one would be able to resist.
"It just seemed obvious to me. She has a feminine build and so I just knew," I said with a shrug.
"We can't allow you to tell anyone," that monotonous voice said from behind me and I turned my head to look up at Kyoya.
"I won't," I simply stated and he just looked at me, calculating whether I was telling the truth or not. "How about if I tell you a secret that I don't want anyone to know and so if I tell anyone about Haruhi, you can tell everyone my secret. Fair?" I said and he seemed stunned that I would do such a thing.
"Yes, but I fear that your secret might have no merit what so ever," He said and pushed his glasses up on his nose.
"How do you know if you don't even know what I'm going to tell you?" I simply stated and everyone went dead quiet.
"He does have a point," the club stated and I swear he started to blush at that, but it was quick.
"How about he just works for us. It'll be easier than black mail, and we'll be able to keep an eye on him," Kyoya stated and I just shrugged.
Tamaki smiled at that and rushed over to hug me, "A new member and son!" he said with a large blinding smile on his face.
I still think the trade would have been easier, but I have a feeling that this is going to be fun, I thought and smiled. It'll be nice to have friends since I just moved here.
The bell started ringing and my smile fell from my face, "No! I need to get to class! I'll see you guys later ok?" I said; my face paling and they nodded.
"I'll show you where your classes are," Kyoya said and I know he was going to ask me about my secret that I was willing to tell them at that time, now it was a moot point.
"All right, if it isn't too much trouble," I said and he pushed his glasses up on his nose again.
I swear it's a bad habit of his.
We left the club room and headed back to the first year wing. "Your name is Markus Lee correct?" Kyoya asked and I nodded, not trusting myself too talk at that moment. Being alone with Kyoya scared me.
"Why are you here?" He questioned again and I sighed.
"To escape," I stated simply and he looked at me out of the corner of his eye. "Watch where you are going, senpai," I said and he looked forward to avoid colliding with a table.
Again, I swear I saw him blush, but it was hidden quickly. "You know it's ok to show emotion right?" I said and he looked at me startled. I think I was the first person to ever say something like that to him.
"Whatever," he said and I chuckled. For some reason I had a feeling that I was pulling Kyoya out of his element and it was fun. "By the way, what is the secret that you were going to tell us?"
I knew it.
"No, it doesn't have any merit right?"
"You're the one who said I don't know until I hear it correct?"
"True but it doesn't matter anyway. I'm going to work for the club, so you don't need to know right this minute anyway," I said with a smile and I knew that Kyoya was going to bug me until he knew every little thing about me.
"You'll find out all in good time senpai," I said with a smirk of my own and turned to look above the door. "This is my class, I'll see you later, Kyoya-senpai," I said and turned to open the door.
"See you Lee-san," He said and walked away.
I walked in and sat at the desk that the teacher had said I could sit in. No one said anything to my late arrival but I knew that I would be the talk of the school just from the looks I was getting, mainly from the female student body.
When it was lunch time, I got my food and looked around for a place to sit. It seemed as though everyone was sitting at a table and were forming some sort of group that they would be a part of for the rest of the year. I really didn't like the idea, but from what I heard it was normal. "Maku-chan, come sit with us!" A voice said from behind me and I turned around and found the whole host club standing there with smiles on almost all of their faces though Mori, Kyoya, and Haruhi not smiling, I think Haruhi wanted to be left alone.
I smiled back and walked over to them. "Lee-san, you are going to have to show up to the club early so that we can show you how to be a proper host ok?" Kyoya said and I nodded as we sat down at a table and started eating.
They were all staring at me and I gave them a quizzical glance. "You already seem to know how to eat properly, maybe there isn't much left to teach you after all," Tamaki said and I just shrugged.
"This was how I was taught," I simply stated and started eating some more.
"Markus-san, who are your parents might I ask?" Tamaki asked, all innocent of the pain.
I froze. My mind went back to what happened so long ago. When I first became what I am and my heart started pounding and I couldn't breathe. I needed to get out. I quickly stood, grabbed my bag and ran. I needed fresh air. I needed to remind myself that I wasn't there anymore. That nothing bad was going to happen to me anymore.
Being around all those people, felt crushing. I had read somewhere when people are suddenly out of their element they can get culture shock. I think moving from an American lab to Japanese prestigious high school was my culture shock. Going from a cage to having freedom still felt weird for me, and I had been out of the cage for two years now, but then again, I lived in a cage for 14 years of my life, so it's understandable.
I don't know where I was going, but I knew that I just needed to be outside. I found myself outside in a hedge maze, near a gazebo it seemed and I sat down on the stairs to try and calm myself down enough for the second round of classes.
I took deep breathes and when I heard footsteps I was on my feet, my tail coming out of the belt loops twitched behind me. I glared at the place where the footsteps where going to appear and I felt my ears start twitching back and forth.
The figure that appeared stopped and stared as the others emerged. It seemed that the whole host club came. "It's a neko-chan!" the small blonde host shouted and ran over and glomped me and I fell backwards to land on the grass.
"Just so you know, since I didn't get to introduce us earlier, my name is Haninozuka Mitsukuni, but you can just call me Hunny! This is Morinozuka Takashi, but everyone calls him Mori!" Hunny said pointing to the giant black haired person that all ways follows him.
"Nice to meet you Hunny," I said with a smile as Haruhi came over and started to pull on my ears as if to find out if they are real.
"Ow! That hurts Haruhi," I cried as tears formed in my eyes.
"So those are real?" The twins asked and I looked at them.
"Yes, now will you please let them go Haruhi?" I said as I tried to twitch them out of her hold.
She let go and I plastered them back so that, hopefully, no one would try and touch them. My tail kept twitching as a silence settled on the group. "How?" Tamaki finally asked, coming out of his shock, and I looked sideways, trying to think of the best way to answer that innocent, yet so painful question.
"He is dead, that's all I want to say to that at the moment," I stated and they seemed to get the message. I turned my attention towards Kyoya, "You have your answer now".
Kyoya looked surprised at this but nodded that he got the message. Pulling out his little black book he started writing some things down in it and I stared at the book. I knew that book had some important things written in it and I wanted to steal it so bad! I calmed myself and looked at it. 'I shall steal you one day my pretty' I thought with a grin. "Touch the book and you'll regret it," was all Kyoya said to my look and I just smiled innocently.
"I have no clue what you're talking about, I was only thinking of what you could possibly be writing," I said and it was half true.
He just raised an eyebrow at me and I continued the innocent act, my eyes large round disc of stormy grey with black outlining the cornea.
The bell chose that moment to ring and I stood, laying my ears flat and ruffling my hair to cover it and put my tail back through the belt loops and making sure that my jacket covered it well. Everyone watched as I hid my Neko-ness. "What? Do you honestly think I'm stupid enough not to hide it?" I said and walked past them.
I took one turn and was already lost, "Ok, does anyone know how to get out of this maze?" I said and turned to face the host club.
They chuckled and the twins came over and draped their arms across my shoulders, "This way!" they said, dramatically pointing to what must have been the way to the exit and led me through the maze.
They walked me all the way to my next class and even apologized to the teacher for keeping me from class. Again, I was at the end of glares of envy.
This is going to be a long school year.
The second round of classes flew by. Everyone left me alone, probably because they have seen me with the Host Club; they just didn't know that I myself am a host.
I told my last period teacher that I needed to leave a few minutes early for club and when I explained, she said it was fine. I went to the club room, remembering my way from when Hikaru and Kaoru had taken me to meet with everyone.
When I had reached the club room, I opened the door to find everyone already there. "Neko-chan!" Hunny cried and jumped in my arms.
"Hello, Hunny-senpai," I said with a smile and he nuzzled my face.
"Ah, Markus-kun, you're here. Now let your crash course training begin," Tamaki said and when I looked I found a table set with everything and he showed me the proper way to do everything.
Sad thing is, I already knew everything, but I humored Tamaki and let him show me. I got the feeling that he was extremely sensitive.
Through the whole time, I felt someone watching me. When I looked up, I found Kyoya paying attention. "Kyoya, you're going to kill him if you continue to stare daggers at him," The twins said coming up behind him startling the poor kid.
"Why are you staring daggers at Neko-chan?" Hunny asked with a pink rabbit clutched to his chest.
Tamaki ran over to Kyoya, "Why do you want to kill our pet?" Tamaki cried shaking Kyoya.
While everyone was spazzing on Kyoya, I walked over to Haruhi, "Why do you think Kyoya was staring at me?" I asked the level headed host.
This got the group's attention.
"Well since the Ootori's own a large portion of the medical field, I think he is just trying to figure out how your genes could be capable of working together," Haruhi said and a smile crept up on my lips.
"Easy, my father entered the genes when I was still an egg. So they combined when I was still a fetus and worked everything out then. I can shift into a cat too," I said and everyone just stared at me and then a loud snap! resounded through the room. We turned and Kyoya had broken a pencil or pen he had been holding. "Your father?" He asked and that's when I understood what I had said.
"Yes, my father was the leading scientist, but when he said I should be allowed to have the freedom of other children, but also allowed it to be limited to the lab grounds they kicked him out and he was killed by a hired assassin so that he wouldn't leak info. I'm not happy that he used me, but I do love him for saying I should have freedom," I explained and was glomped by almost everyone. "You poor thing!" they cried and I chuckled.
They are defiantly a strange group.
I was finally able to wiggle out of their hold after about five minutes of suffocation. "Ok, everyone, we're going to b e opening soon. Lee-san, please stay after so that we may discus this further," Kyoya said and I could hear the strain in his voice, but it was very slight.
I walked over to Kyoya and gave him a hug. He stiffened at the contact but I let him go. "Why?" He asked and I just shrugged.
"I like hugs. You seemed to need one. You do the math," I stated and went over to where everyone was gathering.
"When the doors open say welcome," Haruhi said and I nodded my head understandingly.
The doors opened to reveal a line of girls and everyone said "Welcome," the girls gave a small squeal and we went to our separate areas, I had several girls sitting there. "Hello, how are you fine ladies today?" I asked as I sat between two with three sitting across from me.
The one in the middle, sitting right across from me had tears forming in her eyes. The girls on either side of her immediately put their arms around her. "I'm so sorry! Did I upset you?" I said, getting up and walked around the coffee table to crouch before her.
"N-n-no, it's just that m-m-my boyf-f-friend broke up with m-me to go out with my b-b-best friend," she stammered and I placed my hand on her knee to get her attention.
"I'm so sorry to hear that. May I ask how long you two were going out?" I ventured and she bushed her black bangs out of her brown eyes.
"Three years," She whimpered and I felt a pang of sympathy.
"I'm so sorry, but you are an extremely brave girl for coming here after all of this," I said, not knowing what to say.
I did receive a small smile. "Thank you. Thank you for not saying bad things about them too," she said and stood. "Mara, Yumi, you were right, coming here was a good idea. I would stay longer, but I have a dinner to go to,"
Her friend's hugged her and I bowed to her. "I hope that the diner goes well for you," I said and she gave me a full smile.
"Thank you. I'll request you for sure when I come again," She said with a curtsy.
"I'll be waiting."
The other two girls squealed so loud that I almost passed out.
The hours passed and I was just being myself and one time, Hunny visited, called me Neko-chan and then everyone picked up on the nickname Neko-chan. I answered all their questions truthfully and I think that my guests picked up on the fact that questions of my family were painful and it was just better not to ask them.
Soon, though I wish it ended sooner, I thought that I was going to pass out from all the loud squeals resounding through the room. I stayed after like I promised.
"You say you can turn into a cat, right? I would like to see this," Kyoya said and I knew that this was going to be an interesting sight.
I shrugged out of my jacket and allowed my ears and tail to come out of hiding. Closing my eyes, I felt my clothes tighten to my skin and my body to become smaller. Finally after much shifting of my bones, I opened my eyes to see faces of shock. "You're so cute!" I heard Tamaki, Hunny and the twins squeal so loud that I instinctively hissed at them from the pain in my ears.
Kyoya just walked over as the others backed away. He picked me up and I met his gaze. "How is this possible?" He muttered and I shrugged my kitty shoulders.
I didn't know the science behind it; I just knew that I could do it. Haruhi walked over and held out her hands, silently asking to hold me. Kyoya passed me over and held me close to her large brown eyes. I inched my head forward to give her a kitty kiss. "So cute!" the boys, minus Kyoya and Mori, cried again and I flattened my ears and glared at the squealers.
Mori walked over and held out his hands and I was once again passed over and he held me up and I met his gaze, which I saw soften. I mewled at him and he put me on his shoulder and I rubbed my face against his, and I noticed a smile.
I hopped down and sat there, staring at them all. "You can shift back now, Lee-san," Kyoya said and I did.
Once back to regular size I rubbed my ears. "Are you ok?" Hunny asked, worried that something had happened.
"Just all the loudness today. It hurt my ears," I answered and he nodded.
I looked at Kyoya, who was once again writing in his black notebook, I really wanted to steal that sometime soon, and just stared. "Yes Lee-san?" Kyoya asked and I sighed.
"Two things actually. One, call me Markus or Neko-chan. Two, I'm not going to become a science experiment am I?" I asked; I really didn't want to be locked in a cage again.
The pen he was writing with snapped and I flinched. "No, I'm just writing down observations. It is interesting that you can shift into, what I'm assuming is your alternate form. That's all I'm going to do," Kyoya answered and I sighed with relief. "Why?"
"I don't want to be locked in a cage again," I answered truthfully and the new pen that he had pulled out broke.
Poor pens. I would hate to be Kyoya's pens, getting broken like that all the time. "You were kept in a cage?" Kyoya said and I nodded.
"I think we should finish this conversation later before something other than pens get broken," Tamaki wisely said and I nodded in understanding.
I went over and got my bag and left with Haruhi. We ended up walking home together and discovered that we were neighbors. "Ha~ru~hi!" a voice said and we looked over our shoulders to discover someone running up to us.
"Dad?" Haruhi said shocked to see this cross dressing man running up to her.
"I got off early today so I thought I would rush on home and see if you wanted to go out for dinner tonight?" He said and hugged his daughter tightly.
He looked up before releasing Haruhi, "Who are you?" He asked.
"My name is Markus Lee; I'm your new neighbor and met your daughter at school today. I ended up in the same club as her as well. It's nice to meet you, sir," I said honestly and he seemed ok with that.
"Just don't try and take her away and I think that we should be fine, and call me Ranka," he said and I smiled.
"I don't think that will be a problem Ranka. I'm gay," I answered and Haruhi looked at me shocked.
"You're gay!" she cried, obviously extremely shocked and pointing at me. I merely smiled.
"Yes," I said and she just looked down and shook her head.
"This year is going to be a weird one," She said and I laughed.
"It will. It defiantly will."
"Would you like to join us for dinner?" Ranka asked and I chuckled.
"Just let me drop my bag off and I'll be right back," I said with a smile.
This is going to be the best year of my life, I thought with a small true smile on my face as I opened the door to my apartment to drop my bag off and join my soon to be best friend for dinner.
A/N: whew! Done! Longest chapter ever written….I really like this so far. I'm sorry for Kyoya being OC, but I could actually see him doing that and that happening to him. I do feel for the pens too, for there shall be more pen breaking in later chapters. I know, Mar-kun's life sucks but that is going to be playing a major role in future chapters to get what I want to happen.
Also in later chapters, I will be posting links to my Deviantart account because like stated, Markus is on an Art Scholarship and the picture's he does, I will be doing and posting there!
I'm going to try and update this weekly or biweekly depending on school and work!
STAY TUNED FOR NEXT CHAPTER!