This is my first Ouran fanfic. After watching the anime and reading what's been published of the manga I couldn't resist writing something.
We Build Then We Break
Ch1 Transferred
A few minutes after the bell rang, starting the first class of the day, a girl walked into third year class A at Ouran Academy. She was a tall girl, standing at five foot seven inches, towering over most of the native Japanese girls, with long slender limbs. Her long blond hair was clamped messily behind her head and her pale skin was littered with freckles. Scanning quickly over the class with her gold hued eyes, a light blush flushed over her features, noticing that most of the students were staring at her due to her late entrance. She quickly handed the teacher a note and they exchanged a few words before the teacher addressed the class, "This is Lumiere LaVie and she will be joining us for the remainder of the year." The girl then gave a quick bow before hurrying to the closest available seat and took out a journal and pen from her bag to take notes.
Since there were only a few months left of school before graduation she had opted out of wasting her money on the expensive uniform, receiving a waiver as long as she dressed nicely. So today she had dressed in black slacks and a crisp white shirt with a tie. She preferred men's clothing over women's, but would still wear dresses from time to time. She was a oddly thing, wirey creature, with an over active metabolism, and had a boxy frame with small breasts and only slightly curved hips. So men's clothing did nothing to extenuate her femininity, but she was still obviously female.
Her classes and lunch were relatively uneventful the entire day. She had engrossed herself with taking notes during instruction and ate her lunch alone in the school garden, enjoying the sunny day. However, things became a little more interesting after school when she decided to explore Ouran's campus.
'Great idea Lumiere, lets explore the school…and get lost,' Lumiere thought irritated as she wondered through the schools halls. "I should have just gone home," she muttered to herself, then seeing a sign over a pair of large double doors labeled Music Room 3, she perked up thinking that someone might be in the room that could give her directions. When she reached it she heard the promising sound of muffled voices and slowly opened the door to find a group of seven teens gathered around a couch, talking around themselves. She recognized two of them from class, but couldn't recall their names.
Since they did not notice her, she stepped into the door way, "um excuse me?"
At the sound of her voice they all turned to look at her, the tall blond one seaming to float over to her, taking her hands in his, "Oh Princess, my lovely flower, I'm afraid the host club has already closed for the day, but we would love to be graced with your beauty tomorrow."
Lumiere stared at him like he had two heads and snatched her hands away thinking, 'what's wrong with this guy?' but saying, "host club?...I only wanted directions," instead. 'What's a host club anyway,' she wondered before her hands were once more seized by the odd blond in front of her, "I would gladly guide you across the universe my Princess!"
Once again she stared at him like he was insane and pulled her hands away, taking a step back and raising her hands in front of her nervously, "uh…no that's okay. I think I'll just figure out how to get out of her on my own." She then felt a tug on her sleeve and looked down to find a small child with large brown eyes and blond hair who was holding a pink bunny in his free hand. If she remembered correctly he was in her class, as well as the tallest of the seven who shadowed his small counterpart.
"Lumi-chan we never got a chance to introduce ourselves in class! I'm Mitsukuni Haninozuka and that is my cousin and that's my cousin Takashi Morinozuka, but people call us Hunny and Mori," he said with a large grin before turning to the others and continuing, "This is Lumiere LaVie! She joined our class today!" Lumiere gave an unsure nod and wave before Hunny took the liberty to introduce the rest of the group, "the twins are Hikaru and Kaoru Hitachiin, that's our newest member Haruhi Fujioka, and the one with the glasses is Kyoya Ootori, our vice president, and…" He was interrupted by the other bland boy, who gently lifted her chin, "and I am the King, Tamaki Suoh, my Princess."
She swatted Tamaki's hand away with a thoroughly disturbed expression, "don't do that! Do you not have any concept of personal space? And stop calling me princess." Her face was slightly flushed from his unwarranted affection and her expression was contorted into a priceless mixture of several emotions. Lumiere did not like being touched by others, especially those she did not know. Naturaly, is also made her uncomfortable when strangers invaded her personal space. At her rejection, Tamaki shuffled away to sulk in his 'corner of woe', not used to girls having such a reaction to his usual charms.
"Ah, so you're the new American transfer student. It's kind of odd that you are joining us so near to your graduation…but at any rate, welcome to Ouran Acadamy," Kyoya said pushing up his glasses and shifting his note book under his arm.
Lumiere rubbed the back of her neck explaining, "well yeah, but you can't really help but move schools when daddy suddenly decides to move the headcounters of his corporation to Japan."
Kyoya gave a knowing smirk that was slightly unnerving, while typing something into the laptop on the table next to him, "oh? Your file says you were tutored privately in America, so it's not really moving schools."
This received a glare from the blond girl, "why does it matter?" She then growled, a bit irritated by the group and from getting lost in the first place, "look, I just came into the room to find someone who could show me the way out of this damn building, but you're just going to play games with me, I'll find my own way out."
Just as she reached the door Hunny shouted, "Wait Lumi-chan! Takashi and I can show you the way out. We're about to leave anyway so it's not a problem, right Takashi?" The tiny teen looked up to his tall cousin who replied with a nod and an "Aa." Hunny then grabbed her arm and pulled her out the door energetically, Mori following close behind. He chided happily to Lumiere all the way out of the school and to its gates. When he finally let go of her arm, Lumiere gave a polite bow saying, "thank you both so much."
"It's no problem Lumi-chan, right Takashi?" Hunny replied once again looking to his cousin for conformation, who once again merely nodded with an "Aa," standing like a statue with his bag held over his shoulder and a blank expression.
She raised an eyebrow at the tall host's demeanor wondering if he was always so emotionless, before shaking it off and half turning away from them with a wave, "Well, I suppose I'll see you in class." She then hurried to a motorcycle, which was ironically parked next to a bike rack, giving another wave after she had climbed on and pulled her helmet over her head.
Hunny jumped up and down excitedly as she pulled away, waving franticly while shouting, "bye Lumi-chan!" Gazing in the direction she sped off in he then commented, "Lumi-chan sure is pretty, isn't she Takashi? And it's so cool that she has a motorcycle!" Mori promptly patted his short counterpart on the head before lifting him onto his shoulders and starting on their way home.
