A/N: This is my first Ouran High School Host Club (WOW! That's a mouthful to say!) fanfic on this site. I have another one that will be coming out after this one is done first. Although, I should really focus on my other fanfics! XD Gah! Well, anyways, enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran High School Host Club in any way. I wish I did though T_T.
Rhythm of the Beat
//Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul//
M e A s U r E 1: Haruhi's Friend
Haruhi took a good look around the room. And as usual, the Host Club was preparing for another day of entertaining young ladies who happened to have too much time on their hands. Today's theme was a fairy tale theme, and so, the hosts were dressed in knight costumes except for Tamaki who assumed his role as a prince. Haruhi had refused to wear the princess costume that the twins had prepared for her. She didn't want to play the role of the typical princess in distress that appeared in fairy tales. Tamaki had proceeded to give a speech to her about how every girl was a princess waiting for her prince to come for her and yada…yada…yada. She decided to tune him out and stare out blankly around the room. On the inside, she was beaming with excitement. Her friend Jin had called her up the day before and invited her over for dinner right after her club activities were done. It had been awhile since she had seen Jin. She was really looking forward to it. A small blonde who held a pink bunny noticed her blank staring and walked up to her.
"Hey Haru-chan?" asked Hani. Haruhi snapped out of her daze and looked down at him with a smile.
"What is it Hani-senpai?" she asked.
"You seem kind of…spaced out. What's wrong?"
Tamaki suddenly froze and rushed straight up to her. "Dearest daughter, are you not feeling well?! What is it?? Did those devil twins try something funny?"
"Hey!" came a unision retort.
"Yes. You do seem rather distracted." said the Shadow King.
"Ah." said the tall young man of oh-so-very-little words.
Haruhi looked at them for awhile before replying. "Nothing's wrong. It's just that I have to be somewhere later."
The rest of the Host Club blinked…and blinked…and blinked.
"Oh." Was all that was said by the group before they blinked…and blinked…and blinked…again.
"Is it…somewhere important?" asked the twins.
"Where are you going Haru-chan?"
"Well…an old friend of mine invited me over to her house…"
"Oh…"
The bunch continued what they had been previously doing nonchalantlybefore Tamaki and the twins froze like statues.
"Her house??!!!" they shouted in surprise.
"Why didn't you tell us you had a friend who was a girl??" Hikaru asked. Haruhi shrugged.
"Ah! My child! So you do have a young lady friend to help bring out the feminine side of you!" exclaimed the prince as he imagined Haruhi and her friend frolic around in a field of flowers giggling like innocent children.
"Oooohh! Can we meet her Haru-chan!!"
"Hm."
"Excellent idea Hani-senpai!!"
"We want to see her too!"
"Hmm…interesting…-scribble,scribble-…"
Haruhi's eye twitched in annoyance.
"It's settled then, men, we shall escort Haruhi to meet this young lady!"
"Oh…joy." Haruhi replied with sarcasm.
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After club activities, the Host Club was now heading on to meet this 'lady' friend of Haruhi. Tamaki was excited and could hardly contain all that bubbly-bubbliness of excitement. The excitement was too much and he began to wiggle unrestlessly. Meanwhile, the rest stayed cool-headed unlike a certain princely type. Kyoya tapped away who knows what onto his laptop while Hani talked to Usa-chan about Haruhi's friend(Mori just watched silently at the interaction)...and the twins questioned Haruhi about this 'friend' Haruhi had not told them about.
"You didn't tell us what her name was." stated both twins.
"Jin Musume." Kyoya answered. Haruhi stared at him in schock.
"How did you know that?!"
"I have my ways."
"Jin? That's a weird name for a girl." said one twin.
"Yeah…isn't that a guy's name?" the other asked.
"Does it matter? It suits her." Haruhi said.
"How so?" asked both twins at the same time.
"Is she nice?" asked Hani with that oh-so-cute look.
"…yeah."
Tamaki jumped around inside the limo. "This is so exciting!! Another commoner to meet!"
"She's not too poor…is she Haruhi?"
'Damn rich bastards.'
"Actually, her family owns a small mechanical repair shop." Kyoya said. The twins 'ohed' in a not-really-caring manner and looked out the window losing interest in the topic already.
"That's interesting. Right Takashi?"
"Ah."
A moment of silence ensued before the ecstatic Tamaki burst it.
"Are we there yet?? Are we? Are we???"
"-Sigh-…no senpai…not yet."
"…how about now?"
"…-groans-..."
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The limo pulled up next to a car repair shop called Musume Repair. It looked like a very nice shop with large space to work in. Other small shops surrounded it and so it seemed obvious that people would be out...well...out shopping. And so, as Haruhi and the rest came out of the nice expensive looking limo, onlooking bystanders could only whisper among themselves.
"Oohh! What handsome young men!"
"Are they here for a movie or something?"
"Is that a limo? Oh, my!"
Inside the repair shop, a young man with brown eyes and dark black spiked up hair stopped his work on the car before him and stared in awe at the strangers and stepped closer to get a good look at them. One of the strangers looked very familiar to him.
"Haruhi??" He asked unsure whether or not he had made an identity mistake since the group were all wearing some type of boy uniform.
Haruhi looked up and smiled brightly. "Hiroyuki-san!"
The young man smiled and ran up to her and picked her up leaving Tamaki and the twins in distress. "Whoa! You look different. Why'd ya cut your hair?"
"I had to get the gum out somehow."
"Haha…"
"Where's Jin?"
Hiroyuki put her down and turned his head slightly, "JIN!! Haruhi's here!!"
Loud banging was heard from the inside of the large opened garage. BANG! "Oh, shit! WHAT??!!!"
"I SAID…HARUHI"S HERE!!"
The Host club cringed at the loudness of his voice and heard more banging from the inside of the shop. A trail of dust could be seen and then...whoosh! Haruhi was tackled to the ground by someone.
"GAH!! Haruhi!!" exclaimed Tamaki.
"Haruhi!! Haruhi!! It's been so long! You're always too busy with school stuff and other stuff I don't know about that I hardly ever see you!! DDUUUUDDDEEEE!! I missed you!!"
Haruhi stood up with swirls in her eyes and was wobbling. "…same…here…"
The girl who had tackled Haruhi stood up and smiled. She then noticed there were others present and turned her body to face them. The Host Club stared blankly at the girl before them. She looked...different. The girl wore beige cargo pants with the ends of the pants tucked into a pair of large black boots. She also wore a black tank top over a brown tank top with some dog tags dangling from her neck. Her long jet black hair was pulled up into a ponytail and her hazel eyes could barely be seen through the bangs that almost covered them. Her hands were dirtied with grease and even a small smudge of black car oil was stuck onto her cheek. She had a more feminine physique than Haruhi and apparently, wasn't as feminine as they thought she would be. Surprise, surprise!
"Who the hell are these guys?" she asked. Haruhi sighed as the Host Club stared in shock at the unlady like friend of Haruhi's. Jin glared at the young men. Oh, boy! And thus, another adventure with this crazy bunch was about to begin.
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A/N: Well! There's the first chapter! I can't promise you fast updates since I have a lot on my plate but I can promise you that I will definitely finish this story! So, review if you like! It's a nice gesture! ^_^