The teacher had an exciting announcement for her class.
"We're going on a field trip!""
The girls cheered, the boys eagerly anticipated where it was going to be, and Kyo Sohma was...asleep.
"Psst...KYO!" Arisa prodded him multiple times until he woke up with a growl.
"What the hell do you want, Yankee? YA LOOKING FOR A FIGHT?"
"Hush, Kyo." Hana deadpanned. "You don't want to get another detention, do you?"
"Well, why'd ya wake me UP?"
"We're going on a field trip."
Kyo wasn't impressed. "To where?" he demanded.
"To Ouran High School for the rich and wealthy!" The teacher flamboyantly shouted.
"To Ouran High School for the rich and wealthy." Arisa repeated in a whisper.
"You don't have to repeat it, I heard it the first time!"
One of the girls stood up. "Mr. Kitamura, I don't want to go. I hear they treat poor people like nothing. I went to a festival of theirs with my neighbor, Haruhi Fujioka, and all they could talk about the whole time was how wonderful commoner life was, like they were mocking us."
"Oh, Mei, it really couldn't be that bad!" Mr. Kitamura jovially replied. "It's only one day...and afternoon...and evening."
"WHAT?" Kyo leapt up from his desk and stood on the table with a scowl on his face. "WE GOTTA SPEND THE DAY WITH RICH BASTARDS WHO LOOK DOWN ON US? THAT'S LIKE BEING LOCKED IN A ROOM WITH A THOUSAND YUKIS!"
"Shut up, Baka Neko," Yuki calmly replied.
"Ehehe..." the teacher chuckled nervously. "We'll be fine. Say, next term, we'll go to that new Mogeta movie."
Again, all the girls cheered, while the boys had the good grace to look modestly excited.
As class ended, everyone crowded around the door, waiting for the bell to ring.
Yuki whispered so softly only Kyo, with his cat's ears, could hear it. "I really don't think this field trip is going to go so well."
"For once I agree wholeheartedly, damn rat." Kyo whispered as softly as Yuki did.
It was the morning of the field trip, the one day where the students didn't have to wear uniforms, and they had taken full advantage of it. The girls were dressed in colorful shorts or flowing skirts with impeccably done make up and the guys wore what they deemed "their coolest clothes". Only Kyo, Yuki and Tohru had dressed normally, in a sleeveless tee, a china-style shirt, and a pastel-pink sweater with a turquoise skirt, respectively. (Kyo and Yuki didn't want to give 'the rich bastards' any more respect than they had to, and Tohru had just forgotten in her hurry to make cute bento for everyone.)
The bus ride was cheerful, the first fifteen minutes spent in singing all the songs everyone knew at the top of their lungs, and the last fifteen talking jovially and laughing at funny stories that different people told.
Kyo, Tohru, Arisa, Hana, and Yuki were sitting on the longest seat in the back of the bus, in that order. Kyo was trying to ward off some not-so-good natured teasing from the Yankee and Hanajima, and Tohru and Yuki were excitedly talking about gardening.
The bus squealed to a stop after one hour in front of the biggest, pinkest, most sparkly building that anyone had ever seen.
"Woah...it's so sparkly...and pink." Yuki tried to shield his eyes from the sun bouncing off the marble walls of what really looked like a castle.
"Damn right. It's gonna drive me crazy," Kyo muttered, copying Yuki's movement because the sun really was too bright.
"No, I think it's really pretty!" That was Tohru. "Sure, it might be a bit too shiny, but I think it's beautiful!"
Arisa patted her head while Hana smiled slightly.
"WELL, LET'S GO!" Mr. Kitamura shouted joyfully.
They walked to the school gates, where an assortment of people were waiting. One was undeniably handsome, blond hair and blue eyes sparkling charismatic ally. "Hello, princesses," he said in a low, seductive voice. Half of the girls melted and the other half patted their aggravated boyfriends on the shoulder, trying to get them to calm down.
The other two were amber-eyed, redheaded, twins.
"Oh, Hikaru, you'll melt in this heat! Here, my dear brother, drink my water."
"But Kaoru, that's your water bottle! I don't want to see you perish under the merciless summer sun!"
Some more girls melted while some more guys turned their heads away in disgust. Kyo spat at the ground.
Hikaru and Kaoru immediately took notice of him. "Now who's a little kitty? Who's a little kitty?" (Kyo was surrounded by pedigreed Persian and Siamese cats, and with his orange hair and ruffled, independent demeanor, really looked a lot like a cat himself.)
They tried to jump up and tickle under his chin, but Kyo growled as his hair slowly rose.
"Er, never mind, never mind!" The twins quickly scuttled behind Tamaki, the handsome one.
The school tour was basically Tamaki and the twins hounding them about commoner's life as they saw the extravagance running rampant in every corner of the school. A fur jacket in the lost-and-found (which was a huge room, by the way) was made of alpaca and chinchilla fur from South America, and crafted in the finest tailoring houses of Italy. A cup of coffee cost as much as a designer outfit. (Which the Ouran students thought was really cheap)
During the tour, Sohma and company, which consisted of Yuki, Kyo, Tohru, Arisa and Hana, were somehow sidetracked in the giant maze of the school. They were lost for half an hour, which was the time it took for school to end. Frantically running up huge staircases to try and find their group, Kyo and Tohru were in a world of their own. Yuki and Arisa sighed and followed them, while Hana was in the middle sending out electric signals to try and get help.
Once on top of the giant staircase, Yuki politely knocked on a door labeled "The Third Music Room," and then pushed it open with all his might.
Rose petals swirled out in a fragrant pink haze.
"Welcome to the host club," a chorus of voices sounded as Sohmas, Gangster, Electric, and Bubblehead alike gasped, jaws falling to the floor.
As Kyo barreled quite brazenly into the large, rose-scented room, he caught the eye of another Kyo. Kyoya Ootori, handsome and ruthless.
TO BE CONTINUED