Title: From Drag King to Prom Queen in 30 Days
Author: Insane Elven Pirate
So this chapter is twice as long as the first. Yay! Oh, and you should read my freind's fic. It's a crossover of Host Club and Fruits basket. It's called Host Basket and it's really fun!
This chapter was a lot of fun to write. I hope you all enjoy it!
The next morning, Haruhi sat in her first period classroom, trying to fully wake up, or at least wake up enough to function, before the class started. She had stayed up late last night studying for an important test in her next class. Glancing out the window, Haruhi smiled. The sky was a brilliant blue and dotted with clouds that looked like little puffs of cotton signaling that it was likely to be a nice day. Several students were milling about in the courtyard, talking and laughing with their little clusters of friends.
Pushing up her sleeve, Haruhi checked her wristwatch. Class wouldn't start for another 15 minutes. Sighing, Haruhi opened her textbook and began going over her answers to last night's homework, making sure she had answered them correctly. When she was certain that she had, Haruhi flipped her textbook closed. She crossed her arms on her desk and rested her head on them. Drumming her fingers, she tried to come up with something productive to do to pass the time. Remembering the book she was reading in literature, she decided to read ahead to give herself less homework tonight. Pulling out the book, she opened it and began to get lost in an imaginary world.
However, she was rudely pulled out of it by squeals from the other side of the room. Finishing the sentence she was on she glanced up to see the twins up to their usual antics …which was somehow rather unusual. Usually, the twins reserved most of their girl pleasing, brotherly love for the Host Club. Yet here there were, smack-dab in the middle of the classroom, clinging to each other, blushing like mad, and proclaiming their love. The situation as it was now had Kaoru clinging to Hikaru's shirt, while Hikaru supported his brother.
Kaoru was trembling slightly, and if Haruhi didn't know any better she'd say something was really going on, but the fact that Kaoru was talking loud enough to be heard over the screaming girls was a clue that he was perfectly fine.
"Hikaru… I feel… so weak…" Kaoru stated dramatically.
"Oh, Kaoru! I told you, you should have eaten breakfast this morning! Now look at you. I… I blame myself. I should have made sure you ate. I should have taken care of you. I'm… I'm sorry." Hikaru bowed his head in shame, and the girls' squeals grew even louder.
"No, Hikaru. It is I who should be sorry. Through my negligence I have made you worry. I promise I shall never be so careless again."
"And I promise to always protect you. I will carry you to the cafeteria now, since you lack the strength to stand."
"That will not be necessary, for your love has given me strength."
At that moment the bell rang. Haruhi sighed and put her book back in her book bag. 'What could this all be about?' she wondered.
As she was pondering this, the teacher entered the classroom. "Alright class, settle down, I know you're excited for the upcoming prom, but that's no reason to…" He noticed the twins in the center of the circle. "Good God! What's happened here!"
Haruhi's eyes widened in surprise. 'The prom!' In her studying escapades last night, she had entirely forgotten about the dance. 'That's what this is about! They're trying to gain more votes for Prom King!'
"Teacher! Kaoru skipped breakfast this morning and now he's sick!" one of the girls in the crowd cried.
The teacher sighed. "Alright Kaoru, you may go and buy some food. But come straight back to class once you're finished. No, not you Hikaru, just Kaoru," He said, as Hikaru began to leave the classroom with his sibling.
"Just… K- Kaoru?" Hikaru stuttered. Immediately the two began clinging to each other again.
'Oh, brother' (No pun intended) Haruhi thought to herself, resting her head in the palm of her hand. 'How can anyone stand those two?'
"Hikaru!" Kaoru declared. "If I have to go alone, then I would rather stay here and suffer. For to be without you would only cause me greater suffering than to be without food."
Tears came to Hikaru's eyes. "Oh, Kaoru. You will never-"
"Alright, alright!" The teacher interrupted before the spectacle could go on any longer. "You may both go. Just be back promptly! Now, all of you girls settle down! We have work to do today!" he ordered, as he began to write the day's assignments on the board.
Haruhi watched the twins exit the room. Just as they were walking out the door, Haruhi caught sight of the twins winking at her, unnoticed by everyone else. Grumbling at the pair, Haruhi pulled out a piece of paper and began to copy what the teacher was writing on the board.
Pretty much every class Haruhi had with the twins went the same way. At some point during each class the two would break out into one over-dramatized display of affection or another. Girls began leaving their own classes with some excuse about getting a drink, using the rest room, or retrieving a book from where they had left it to flock outside the windows and doors of whatever the twins' current class happened to be. It got so bad that in some of the classes there wasn't a single girl present. Haruhi was beginning to find she most looked forward to the classes she did not share with the troublesome twosome because they were the only classes in which she was able to concentrate due to the absence of masses of screaming girls.
Finally, by the time the last class before lunch rolled around, the teachers forbade anyone from leaving the classroom for any reason. This made Haruhi's day a little better, but not by much, for that period, she unfortunately shared another class with the twins.
Haruhi sat at her desk in the corner of the room, rubbing her temples to try and thwart the headache she could feel coming on, while the twins were cradling each other in the center of the room.
The teacher, who had already given up trying to control the class, was sitting at her desk reading a mystery novel, so the class was free to do as they pleased until the bell rang. About half the class chose to gaze at the twins as they performed their acts (a rather appropriate word for the situation) of brotherly love. The rest of the class was goofing off in some form or fashion while poor Haruhi tried her darnedest to study and get started on that night's homework.
Haruhi felt a sense of relief wash over her when the bell finally rang, signaling that she could leave the zoo that the classroom had transformed into, and go somewhere quiet and eat her lunch.
Sadly, however, fate seemed to have a quite different plan in mind for her, as she suddenly found herself sandwiched between Hikaru and Kaoru as they surround her in a hug..
"What are you two doing? Let me go!" She demanded, desperate to get some peace.
Ignoring her, Hikaru looked at the girls still following them around. "Don't you think the we look just perfect with Haruhi?" He asked the closest one.
The girl blushed and exclaimed, "Y-Yes! Absolutely perfect!"
Kaoru smiled. "And don't you think it would be even more perfect if we were elected Prom Kings and Haruhi Queen?"
The girls began squealing again, and Haruhi began to wonder how their voices weren't hoarse by now, as they called out things like:
"Yes! Yes that would!"
"Oh I would love for you two to be Prom Kings!"
"I'm voting for you two!"
"Yeah, you've got my vote too!"
"Mine too!"
"And mine!"
The twins grinned at each other. Waving to the girls they shouted, "Kay! Thanks!" and, despite all of her protests, dragged Haruhi to the cafeteria with them.
Upon their arrival they were greeted by a rather disgruntled Tamaki. The twins' constant public displays of affection were all any of the girls could talk about, so of course the prince of the Host Club had heard of it.
Seeing the miffed look on Tamaki's face the twins stared innocently at him. "What?"
"I know what you two have been up to!" he said accusingly.
The two brothers stared at him blankly. "…And?"
"And you can't do it! I won't allow it!"
"Why not?"
"Because it's cheating!" Tamaki whined. He looked to Kyouya for support. "Mama, tell them it's cheating."
Kyouya finished entering some calculations in a… calculator. Duh. "Actually, their activities are predicted to raise customers to the Host Club by as much as twelve percent."
"But… but… it's just not fair!" Tamaki cried.
"Milord… can we help it if our love for each other is so overwhelming that we must display it every chance we get?" Hikaru asked, wrapping his arms around his brother.
Immediately, as if some switch had been flipped, the girls in the cafeteria began fawning over the over affectionate pair.
"Oh it's so beautiful! It sends shivers down my spine!" a girl standing near Tamaki squealed to her friend.
"I know what you mean! I have the same feeling!" her friend shrieked back.
Tamaki, who had been staring helplessly, got a sudden determined look on his face. Putting on his most charming smile, he draped his arms over the girls' shoulders. "Are these beautiful girls cold?" He whispered in their ears. "I'm afraid I can't let that be."
Slowly, and a little dramatically (because let's face it. It's all about the drama) Tamaki took off his jacket and put it around the first girl's shoulders. He then began to carefully undo every button on his shirt. Noticing this, a random, unnamed, unimportant (except for this single line) girl in the crowd cried out, "Look! Tamaki's taking off his shirt!" As one giant mass, the girls' heads turned, making Tamaki the center of attention. It was deathly quiet until Tamaki undid the last button and took off the shirt, exposing his chest. At that point all the girls erupted in screams, squeals, and cries of 'I love you, Tamaki!', or 'I'll vote for you for you for Prom King!'
The last cry caused Hunny, who until now had been standing and watching the whole thing in awe, to say "Taka-chan! These girls are all going to vote for Tama-chan! We can't let that happen!" He rushed out into the crowd and began pulling off his shirt. However, with it half way off, he became stuck, with his head through a sleeve and one of his arms through the neck. Several of the girls standing near him thought this was absolutely adorable, and squealed as he stumbled around trying to get his shirt off.
Mori walked over to where Hunny was and looked down at him. "Mitsukuni…" he stated in his monotone voice. Hunny stopped struggling, and looked up at him. Mori helped Hunny get his shirt put back on correctly, and then led him back over to the sidelines where he didn't run the risk of getting trampled by the girls still swarming over Tamaki.
Haruhi, who was standing next to them, stared at the crowd a moment longer before saying. "I'm leaving."
Hunny looked at her with large, surprised eyes. "Haruhi… Are you Ok?" he asked, concern in his voice.
Mori, however, just nodded understandingly as Haruhi began making her way through the crowd of girls.
As she walked by the twins they saw their opportunity to get the attention drawn back to them. They each grabbed one of her arms and pulled her into their embrace. They now focused all their attention on her. Kaoru whispered words most likely about her looks and his love for her into her ear, and Hikaru fed her exotic, rich people foods. Or tried to at least. When Haruhi refused to open her mouth Hikaru pinched her nose. Finally, Haruhi couldn't hold her breath any longer and had to open her mouth to breath. Hikaru took this opportunity to shove a forkful of food inside her mouth. The girls, noticing this, turned around to watch. Cries of 'It's wonderful!', 'He's so lucky!', and 'I want to be fed by Hikaru and Kaoru too!' could be heard throughout the crowd.
On the other side of the room, Tamaki was freaking out. "That's indecent! You do not do that stuff to your si- brother! Father orders you to stop!"
The twins of course ignored him. When urged by their audience to go on further with the love trio, they began taking off their own shirts, before they started to remove Haruhi's jacket, much to the pleasure of the crowd. Upon seeing this, Tamaki looked around frantically for something to throw to Haruhi so she could cover herself. Having already given away his shirt and jacket, he threw the next best piece of clothing he was wearing to Haruhi. As Tamaki's pants went sailing over the crowd, the girls turned again to see Tamaki standing there in nothing but his boxers and tie. This of course prompted a rise in the level of noise.
Breaking out of the twins' grasp and looking flatly at the complete chaos ensuing around her, Haruhi picked up her jacket and, for probably the second time, began to leave the room. "Now, I'm definitely going."
On her way out, Haruhi passed the vice principal who was carrying a bowl of soup on a tray. Upon seeing the state of pandemonium the cafeteria was in, he sighed, and put his tray down in the table. Seeing Tamaki nearly naked in the middle of the screaming girls he could easily guess who the source of the problem was. After the first girl noticed him it took about five minutes for the cafeteria to quiet down enough for him to say, "Tamaki Suoh, you will report for one hour of detention after school."
Tamaki looked shocked at first, but then jutted out his lower jaw and replied, "Fine. If that is my reward for doing the right thing and not letting an indecent thing occur, then so be it."
The girls began talking in hushed whispers as Tamaki followed the Vice Principle out of the lunchroom to get a detention slip.
"He's so noble!"
"He's so brave!"
"He's such a rebel!"
"A rebel?"
"Yeah! Did you see the look he gave the vice principle? I never knew he could be so… wild!"
"I know! It was sooooo sexy!"
"And hot!"
"And even more sexy!"
The twins just shook their heads.
"He really didn't need to take off his pants." Hikaru stated. "We wouldn't have actually taken off Haruhi's shirt.
"Yeah, doe he think we're stupid or something?" Kaoru agreed.
That afternoon in the third music room, it seemed that all any of the Host Club's customers could talk about were the events that had occurred in the lunch eating-place. (I've used lunch room and cafeteria too much. :P) Hunny's customers complimented him on his cute actions, while Mori's gushed about how he had helped his smaller cousin. The twins were delighting girls with more displays of affection, and Haruhi was trying to explain that, no, it wasn't a dream come true for her to be loved by both of the twins.
When her customers saw that this was not a happy subject for Haruhi, they switched the topic of the conversation to the upcoming dance.
"Haruhi, which of the Host Club members do you hope will win?" one asked.
Haruhi glared at the twins' backs and answered, "None of them." However, when she saw the disappointed looks on the girls' faces and the disapproving look Kyouya was giving her (the kind that warned of an increase in her debt) she immediately added. "But, I suppose since one of them is going to win, I don't care who. I'm friends with all the Host Club members." 'Unfortunately' she thought to her self, while giving the girls a charming smile.
They responded as she had expected: with delighted smiles and cries of 'That's so sweet!'
Kyouya nodded approvingly and went back to typing on his laptop. Feeling relieved, Haruhi poured her customers some more tea, and asked them if they were planning to go to the dance.
About an hour later the doors to the room opened and Tamaki Suoh entered, having finally finished his detention. He was immediately swarmed by a bunch of girls who wanted to congratulate him.
"Oh, Tamaki! That display in the cafeteria was wonderful!"
Tamaki smiled and thanked the girls as one of them asked, "When did you become such a rebel?"
Haruhi overheard this as she was carrying a tray over to her table and scoffed. "He's more of an idiot than a rebel."
But Tamaki simply ignored this and ran over to the twins.
The two were just chiming "And now it's time for the 'Which one is Hikaru-'" when they were quickly interrupted by Tamaki pointing a finger in their face.
"If you two are going to play dirty, then fine! I have thought of an ingenious plan!" He declared and without giving the two a chance to reply, walked away.
The brothers looked at each other. "What do you think he was going on about?" Hikaru asked, as Kaoru shrugged in reply.
