Disclaimer: I do not own any characters, settings, etc. from Ouran High School Host Club. I own my OCs.
A/N: Italics are usually the setting or Natsuki-chan's words. I apologize for any bad language or OOC.
Chapter 1 A New Job
"Ouran High School, huh," Natsuki told herself. "So this is where my father wants to send me."
Natsuki Inoue is the "son" of the wealthy owner of Inoue Records, Akira Inoue. She has one brother, Akihiro, who is also her twin. She always admired her brother, even with his health issues. To her, he was a prodigy in his musical talents. She always saw him as a beautiful pianist who was always the center of attention. Akihiro was always fragile, but strong. Natsuki always finds herself pitying him and then regretting it as soon as he does his little pranks.
He's not the only one with an illness. Natsuki has some eye problems due to the loss of pigment in her eyes. Her eyey were a deep shade of red. Red meant no pigment is present. Sunglasses seemed to be the only solution to keep her eyes from feeling pain in the sunlight and thats why she often weres them outside. She can't look at the sun directly or else some complications can appear.
She has only one real talent, being an assassin. Her assassin skills are top notch since she has been trained since childhood, but she thinks that it wouldnt attract or impress anyone. Still, she was envious of her twin brother. Even though, these twins have endured their shares of trouble together throughout the years, they promised to never leave each other...until she was accepted into Ouran.
Natsuki looked at the gigantic private school that was filled with flowers and sunlight. She sighed and took out her sunglasses. She let them rest on her face. She was wearing the blue blazer uniform of the school and black pants. Her blue jacket had the school's symbol on it. Seeing it made her feel proud. She finally did something that her brother didn't.
She walked into the school and wandered around aimlessly. Natsuki took out a piece of paper from her pocket and examined the note. It said "Music Room 3". Her friend, Nami, had written this down. She told her that this room was famous and wanted Natsuki to check it out. Nami had told her that she found a website that had seven handsome guys posted all over it. Natsuki chuckled at the expression that Nami gave her when she told her story.
The inside of the school was huge! Well, she expected as much. She saw thousands of chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. She casually walked up and down the endless hallways until she came upon a door with a sign that said "Music Room 3". It sounded suspicious, but the faint smell of sweets that lingered near it attracted her. Natsuki took off her sunglasses and reached for the door handles, but she hesitated. And instead, wondered what was so amazing about this room. Natsuki shook the thought away and opened the door.
A gush of wind rushed passed her. The room was sparkling before her eyes. Several roses of different colors popped out of thin air. Seven boys were in the center of the room, all huddled next to a seat that was fit for a king. Natsuki almost put on a bored face, but remembered that she was new so she created fake smile. She thought that it was so superficial.
"Welcome, to Music Room 3 where the high school host club will fulfill all of your needs," announced the person sitting in the chair. "So what brings you here?"
Her smile faded. Natsuki's eye twitched as she heard an annoying kingly voice come from the person.
"Ah, speechless huh?" said the princely figure. "Well, I do have that effect on everyone. Let me introduce myself, I am Tamaki Suoh and the Prince host. The ones to my left are the Little Devil types, Kaoru and Hikaru Hitachiin. The Cool type is Kyouya Ootori. The Loli-shota type is Honey. The Strong and Silent type is Takashi Morinozuka. And last, but not least, Haruhi Fujioka is the Natural type." Natsuki saw the girl-ish looking boy sigh.
"Okayy…I'm gonna go now…" Natsuki said as she tried to get out of the room. The Hitachiin brothers stopped her in her tracks and brought her closer to the rest of the members.
"Aw, don't leave yet," the Hitachiin boys chorused as they dragged her along the floor. "You should at least tell us your name."
Natsuki gave a small glare at the boys, but they didn't flinch. They just simply smiled. After a few seconds of her cold stares, she gave up and stated, "I am Natsuki Inoue."
"Oh, so you're the new student," the guy on the laptop said nonchalantly while still typing at a fast rate. "Natsuki Inoue: 'son' of Akira Inoue, the owner of Inoue Records. Talent: few. Has some eye problems. One brother, Akihiro Inoue. Talent: Pianist, but has a severe illness."
Natsuki's mouth dropped at all the information about herself that she just heard. Tamaki just laughed at the spectacle.
"You're very well informed," she said worriedly. She looked around the room and saw that the Hitachiin brothers were playing with something expensive. It looked like a golden egg ornament. Natsuki found a chance to escape from this nightmare. Her training (her 'talent') kicked in as she dashed for the Hitachiin boy's toy. Her senses heightened slightly that would aid her. Natsuki leaped into the air and grabbed their toy. She told them, "If you guys won't let me out I'll destroy this." She was pointing at the inedible egg.
The Hitachiin brothers chorused, "Oi! Give it back." They ran after the girl. Natsuki started running around like crazy. She jumped over obstacles like the couch and random chairs placed into the room. The boys had no trouble following her since they were taller and had longer legs.
Honey and the others started laughing.
Crash!
"Ow!" She yelled in pain. She tripped over a table's leg. She hit her head as she realized that was stupid of her to not watch where she was going.
"Oi," said one of the brothers, "You have to pay for that." Natsuki was confused at what he had said until she saw a bunch of broken gold pieces lying on the floor. Serves them right.
"That egg costs 4,000,000 yen," said the evil-looking guy behind the laptop. He gave a wicked smile and said, "Are you going to pay for it? Or is your father going to cover it?" He reached over for a phone and started dialing a number.
Natsuki stared at the guy with glasses and then stared at the broken 'toy' of the twins and back again.
"Yes, WITHOUT my father's help. Now hang up the phone." She walked (more like ran), grabbed the phone, and turned it off. She was thinking about smashing it instead, but thought that was inappropriate.
"Oh, really? How are you going to pay for it? Do you even have a job?" Kyouya's grin grew wider. The girl just shook her head "no". "Then work as a host club member here." He smiled at the thought of bigger profits with a new member.
"Fine," she grunted at her last statement. She thought that she had no other choice. She didn't want her father comparing her to her least troublesome brother again. She wanted to show everyone what she was capable of and didn't want her father's money to bail her out of her own problems.
A hand reached out to her and said, "Hi, I'm Haruhi. Do you need any help? I kind of ended up this way almost the same exact way as you did." She gave a gentle smile as she pulled Natsuki up.
Natsuki smiled at the gesture and knew that they could become best friends. I guess working in a place like this won't be that bad. Is this guy REALLY a guy?
"Hey, are you really a guy? You're too pretty to be one..."
Haruhi smiled, "Nope. I'm just a girl."
"Ah, I see." So she's pretending like me...unless she likes crossdressing. Although, I feel more comfortable in pants than a dress...Natsuki throught to herself.
"How'd you figure that out?" Tamaki asked Natsuki.
"Call it intuition."
Natsuki felt so claustrophobic as the 3 loudest hosts stared at her. The room was silent. Natsuki's eyebrow twitched at the annoying threesome.
Silence finally broke as Natsuki yells into the hosts' ears, "LEAVE. ME. ALONE!"
Kaoru and Hikaru put on a fake expression of being scared as they held each other's hands. Tamaki cowered into a corner circling his finger around and trying to get his 'wife's' help. When no sign of help came, he fell into a dark depression. Hikaru and Kaoru started teasing him with comments like 'he's definitely NOT a gentlemen' and 'he made the new host scared on the 3rd day'. Tamaki's body was thrown around as if he was being stabbed by an invisible thing.
"Don't worry about him he's always like that," Haruhi told Natsuki. "Since you'll be working here, you'll get used to them." She gave another warm smile. She's really nice. There was no trace of lies in her kind words.
"Ah, I see." A little senpai came up to her. He looked like a little blonde kid that held a pink bunny around. A taller senpai walked closely behind him.
"Suki-chan, do you like cake?" He asked with his big brown eyes.
"Yes! I love sweets!" Natsuki exclaimed. She couldn't help it. She always liked sweet and cute things. Little pink flowers appeared around him as he heard the delightful answer.
"Do you want to share some with me, ne?" Honey asked. Natsuki nodded and he grabbed her arm. He brought her to small table with piles of sweets. "Cake-e, Cake~" He chanted happily. A taller guy brought some blueberry cake and some chocolate mousse with him as he sat down at the tiny table. The taller senpai looked like a stone that couldn't crack. No emotions were ever displayed on his face.
"Well, shall we start the meeting for today?" announced Kyouya. "Tomorrow we will be having a 'Café' setting as the Host Club's theme tomorrow. Everyone will be required to wear a waiter's outfit-"
Kyouya's speech was cut by Tamaki who had big purple eyes and said, "Except Haruhi who will wear a waitress' outfit." Kyouya glared at the spoiled Prince host. Haruhi made a bored face until she saw Kyouya's I'm-going-to-raise-your-debt-higher-if-you-don't-do-this face. She just agreed in fear.
The meeting ended after a few minutes. Each host member gradually left the school. Haruhi needed to go home to help her father with something, so she left first. After her, Tamaki, Kaoru and Hikaru had to leave. All that was left were Honey, Usa-chan(his bunny), Mori, Kyouya, and Natsuki.
"Natsuki-chan," Kyouya said in a mischievous smile. "Come here, I need to ask you something."
Natsuki wondered what he wanted. She did everything he ordered. She decided to find out by following his command. The two senpais watched the spectacle unfold.
"Natsuki-chan, you have a twin right?" asked the curious host. She nodded her head. "Not identical, but close right?" She nodded again. "Do you mind telling me why you're pretending to be a boy?" He asked with a wider grin.
Natsuki's mouth dropped at his question. Honey stopped eating to stare at the two. Mori didn't show any reaction at all as usual. Shit, I forgot that he is very observant. She looked over to see how Honey and Mori reacted, but only saw Honey eating and Mori looking out the window. Phew.
"Yeah…I am," she said hesitatingly. She wondered about what the consequences would be from this development.
Kyouya continued to type on his laptop. He finally said, "I won't tell anyone. And so will those two. You wont tell anyone yet right Honey-senpai, Mori-senpai?" He pointed to the sweets-eating senpai and the taller one. They waved in return. Natsuki sighed in relief. "However, I will add a few thousand more yen to your debt for not telling me sooner." He said with a bigger grin.
A sweat drop appeared on her head. Natsuki felt annoyed and shocked, but she knew the hard road paved for her in the future. All she could do was nod and sulk to herself.
Kyoya chuckled as he typed in more digits into his calculator. More profits and interesting stories. He thought to himself.
A/N: to my first reviewers= thanks for the reviews!
