~Chapter 1~
"Tama- Chan! Tama-Chan!" Honey ran excitedly through the club.
"Yes Honey?" Tamaki bent down and greeted the childish Lolita of the club, causing several guests to give them a large aw.
The senior smiled at Tamaki. "Did you hear about the foreign exchange student coming to stay at Mori's house? Satoshi told me she's super nice and wanted to meet everyone in the club today, is that okay?" Honey gave his best puppy dog eyes and the entire club paused momentarily for the extreme cuteness factor.
"Of course it is okay, Honey-sempai! We would love to greet another lovely lady to the school, is she in the high school this year?" Tamaki asked.
Kyoya took this time to interject into the conversation. "She's in her last year of middle school. Her name is Ava Smith and she won the spot as a student at Ouran last summer in an essay competition."
"I didn't know we did that." Tamaki said in surprise, he usually knew about new students from his father.
"You don't," Kyoya said plainly. "The Morinozuka family held the competition. They wrote about one historic battle that their ancestry had fought in. Miss. Smith wrote about the war original fight between the Morinozuka and Haninozuka clans before they had joined together, the fight that caused the Morinozukas to become servants to the Haninozukas. According to the judges she not only won because she was the only person to include a loss for the Morinozukas but also because she had chosen to write from the perspective of Ayuza Morinozuka, the wife of a soldier. I read the story when I heard about the new student. It was very well done."
"Wow, you really know a lot about the students at this school Kyoya." One of the girls, Yoko, said.
"Thank you." He nodded his head and gave the crowd a small smile before heading back to his table.
"Tama-chan," Honey pulled on Tamaki's uniform jacket for him to give his attention back to him. "Can Mori and I have some more cake?"
Tamaki chuckled and grabbed a few slices of cake from a nearby table. "Here you go."
"Thanks Tamaki!" Honey grabbed the cakes and smiled while skipping back to his table.
"I don't know Satoshi, this club sounds pretty weird and I need to study for Japanese. The class is hard enough for those of you who already speak Japanese." Ava pushed her last book into her book bag, the thing was already 30 pounds heavier than she had allowed herself to make it, and there were just too many books that she could read now. Since she'd started taking intense Japanese last year she was able to speak it fluently enough to understand what people were saying and respond most the time with whatever she wanted to say. And now from the classes the school is providing she could read Kanji, there was nothing stopping her from curing up with an entire series of manga and just reading. Not to mention that the library had an extensive English section for normal books.
"You have to come though, you know Mori and you've met Honey- sempai two or three times but I'm telling you, you should meet these guys! You told me you hung out with older people at your old home." Satoshi tried to convince.
"The U.S is still my home." Ava said flatly. "And that was only to talk to them with my sister, not to have them flirt with me!"
"They won't be though, it's after club hours. You can just see how they are normally. Please just come!" He pleaded.
"I guess," Ava warily followed Satoshi down the halls. "But if it's creepy I'm going to go through your laundry and slip a red sock in with your kendo uniforms."
"So?"
Ava laughed at him. "Satoshi-san, it's shocking how little information you have about the real world."
"Huh?" He thought about it for a minute as they went up the stairs of the music building. "I don't get it."
"That's okay; you don't need to get it." Ava smiled at him and he stopped worrying about the matter.
"Do you have any classes in this building?" He asked her while they continued on their journey.
"Yeah," She pointed behind them. "Back there is the band room for Jazz, I play guitar in the second band, and down stairs I have the concert band and I play the first flute."
"You take two band classes? Goodness how many courses are you taking this year?" He laughed jokingly, bumping her to the side.
"Only nine." She rolled her eye and shoved him back.
"Nine!" He stopped walking and watched her. She gave him a curious expression before he continued. "Most people only have six after they pass elementary."
She shrugged and ushered that they kept walking, not wanting to keep the people waiting. "Well there are so many great classes to take! I have the regular 6 classes, English- which is easy as heck by the way-, Japanese History, Biology, I'm taking Algebra two this year with the second years, and band for the basic one extracurricular. Then I took Jazz during study period and I have a Japanese class before school plus drama during early release on Wednesday and Friday."
Satoshi gaped at her. "Gosh, that's a lot. Plus you're taking Algebra 2? How did you handle skipping two grades of math?"
"Well at my old school in America thee was a program where you could just test out of the math classes or take two math classes a year so I tested through two years."
"That's cool, so who all is in your class?"
"I don't know, they had to change some records over and it took a week to two more than they expected so I've just been watching videos online for the first chapter." She looked out the window in a bored manor.
"So that's what you've been doing on the computer all week!" He exclaimed.
"That and video games." The two laughed together.
A group of girls came around the next corner. "That was great today, Honey was so cute! And Tamaki was talking to him; I didn't know whether it was hot or adorable!" A girl with medium length blond hair said. The other girls squealed at the cute memory.
Ava turned to Satoshi and gave him a questioning look as if to ask what he had pulled her into. He smiled sheepishly.
They turned the corner and came to two large double doors. Above them there was a small black sign with white symbols saying Music Room 3. Satoshi grabbed the handles and pulled the door open. He almost ran into a group of girls walking out, all of their yellow uniforms swaying in step.
"Sorry Satoshi! We didn't see you there." Several unusually high voices chorused.
"It's fine ladies, it was my fault." They all giggled and turned into their group slightly. Several whispered about how they hoped he would join the club after Mori and Honey had to graduate.
"Seems like you're quite popular with the ladies," Ava commented.
"Nah, most of them just like Mori. Come on, let's go inside." Satoshi gestured to the room.
Ava curtsied and elegantly walked into the room. Satoshi laughed and followed her in.
Inside, Ava looked around. She quickly spotted the tall blond who she assumed was Mori's friend Tamaki. He was frantically running around chasing two red headed twins. Patiently watching them was a fairly stuck up looking guy with sleek black hair and boxy glasses. Next to him was a cross dressing girl, Ava decided to worry about that later though, and behind them she saw Mori and Honey eating some sweets.
Looking at all the people one more time, Ava rolled her eyes and walked over to the sweets table. She grabbed a cupcake and slowly began to peel away the paper on the outside. She was quickly shoved the entire thing in her mouth, chewed for a moment then swallowed.
When she turned around the chaos in the room had ceased. Tamaki and the twins were standing in an orderly line staring at her. The boy with glasses and the cross dresser were standing there with a slightly confused expression staring at her. Honey was smiling with a hint of sadness while staring at her. And Mori sat there frowning while staring at her.
"You guys got a problem?" She said while licking the frosting off her mouth.
No one spoke for several second until Kyoya finally snapped out of his trance. "I'm sorry Miss., but the club hours are over for today."
She wiped her hands on her dress and pointed at Satoshi accusingly. "I told you this was a bad idea." She then proceeded to walk towards the door.
"Wait," The cross dresser stopped her from leaving. "If Satoshi brought you then you must be Ava Smith, the foreign exchange student, right?"
"Yeah," Ava said. "That would be me."
The club shared a collective oh.
"You wrote that paper?" Kyoya asked in surprise.
"Yup, took me like a week too. I really wanted to travel but I couldn't afford college and to pay for the program in high school so I entered the competition." A prideful smile came to Ava. "It was one of my better stories, even though I don't normally like history it was interesting once I looked into it enough."
"Yes well," Kyoya looked like there was a lot more he wanted to say on the subject but he stopped himself. "Well I'm Ootori Kyoya, pleasure to meet you Miss. Smith."
"Pleasure to meet you too Kyoya," Ava stuck out her hand to shake Kyoya's, who reluctantly shook hands with the odd new girl.
"Pst!" Satoshi tugged on Ava's hair to get her to turn to him. He got a pretty nasty glare but he just brushed it off. "You need to call him Ootori-sempai. He's older than us, it's considered very disrespectful to call someone just their first name when you've just met them."
"Oh," Ava thought about that then got back to Kyoya. "I'm very sorry, Ootori- sempai. I didn't mean to be 'improper'."
"It's fine." Kyoya said slightly awkwardly. He tried to forget the past minute and get back to his normal self. "Please come sit with us and we can introduce ourselves."
Ava looked at Kyoya gesture towards a large group of couches. "That's fine; I already know who you are, but thanks for the offer."
Satoshi quietly face-palmed behind her.
"Oh really?" Tamaki came to the side of her and grabbed her hand, kneeling and giving it a kiss he looked up at her dramatically. "So who am I?"
"You're Tamaki, the dramatic, uh, shoot. I swear I know the word, we learned it last week in class too!" She put her chin in her hand and thought for a second. "Oh! Tono, that's it. King! Of the club that is, sorry, I couldn't think of how to say that in Japanese."
"It is perfectly fine princess, I'm so proud that you knew my name!" He grabbed Ava and pulled her into a tight hug.
She quickly pushed him off her and stumbled towards the other side of the room. "What the heck was that for? Are you trying to kill me? This uniform is tight enough without having someone try to strangle you!"
She readjusted her uniform and pulled the collar away from her neck. "Speaking of that," Satoshi said from the other side of the room. "Didn't you say you wanted to change clothes?"
"You can use the club changing room if you would like." Kyoya said while looking at some papers on his clip board. He lifted the pen and pointed towards the small room in the back.
"Cool, thanks, Ootori-sempai." She gave him a quick wink and dug through her bag. She pulled out some clothes and headed off to the changing room.
A minute later she came out of the room wearing a pair of overalls. They were loose to fit on her and she had a stereotypical red checkered shirt under them. The club gave her another going stare and she decided that this time the best thing she could do was stare back until she got her uniform back into her bag.
"What are you wearing?" One of the twins came up behind her. His voice was mischievous and low.
"Who even sold those to you?" The second voice from the same person asked. This twin's voice was slightly higher and had a sweeter ring to it.
"I got the overalls when my connecting flight stopped in china, they're really comfy." Ava stepped away from the twins and turned to face them. "And who are you to judge what I wear? Oh wait. Twins." She thought for a moment and looked back at the twins. Then thought again. "If your voices are like your personalities then on the right is Hikaru and on the left is Kaoru, at least according to the descriptions I heard from Mori and Honey."
The twins turned to look at each other, then back to Ava in awe. "How did you do that?"
She simply shrugged and looked at the occupants of the room. She finally found the person she really wanted to know about and walked up to her. "You're Haruhi, right?"
Haruhi looked at Ava; they were about the same height and had close to the same haircut, though Ava's was a little shorter. "I am, it's nice to meet you Ava. Do you think you'd like to come to the host club someday?"
"Uh sure," Ava lied. "But the thing I really want is to know about you."
At this point the entire room was watching the two intently. What was Ava getting at?
"Mori and Honey told me that you were in the club, Haruhi Fujiyoka. The only thing they didn't mention is that a girl was in the club."
"A WHAT!?" Tamaki and the twins screamed.
Ava looked at the inn shock.
"Haruhi isn't a girl!" Hikaru said waving his arms around.
Kaoru joined his brother. "No, he's so macho and tough."
"Not a girl my butt. A short haircut and a not so feminine physique doesn't make her a guy." She rolled her eyes at Tamaki who was growing mushrooms in the corner.
The entire room seemed to pause, and then seconds later, everything was black. There was shuffling and people moving about. Ava tried to figure out what was going on but was quickly surprised when she was picked up. She struggled and struggled against her captors until she had no strength left in her. She tried to calm down. Just breathe. In and out, in and out. She took deep breaths for another minute until her head started to hurt, she felt like she was spinning in the darkness. This only caused her to panic and breathe quicker until the black wasn't just in the room.
Hey, so I just wrote this and thought I'd try making it a story because reasons, so yeah. Hope you enjoyed it! I might make another chapter and continue it, not sure yet. Please review and tell me what you thought!
~Micadee123