A/N: When something is said like "\This/", is is spoken in English, ok? On with the story

2- Bitter Tears

In the Third Floor Music room, a quickly, but safely, built stage stood empty with a wireless, silver microphone standing in a normal stand in the centre front of the stage. In the top left corner of it was a DJ set, with a metallic pink mike of its own. The velvet curtains either side of it danced in a soft breeze every now and then. Hansom young men, running the host club drifted to and fro among the young female customers, all exited about the promise of live music. Suddenly, a slightly young but proud looking Stephanie Whips strutted across the stage in faded jeans, high heels and a rose coursette and stopped beside the DJ set.

"Dani, come on." She ordered into the wings. Dani poked her head out from the sea of red, blushed vividly and dove back into hiding

"\Nooo, too scary./" She squeaked in English Those who had been studying English, and been paying attention, gave a little 'Aww' at her shyness. "\They'll just laugh and make fun of me./" Steph tsked at this.

"Danielle don't be silly; you promised them music, and I intend you to keep it." She then stomped over too her, grabber her wrist and dragged her out. Dani's hair had been pulled into a low side ponytail and then wrapped in a purple ribbon loosely except for a thick clump that covered her right ear and part of her right eye, the end of it was dipped in red gel that made her hair look like it had been dipped in blood. She wore a blue boob tube with scarcely attached, belling, off-the-shoulders sleeves made in some kind of sky blue fabric. Her mid calf length leggings were too. Over the leggings, she wore a pair of long shorts with huge pockets and hung low around her hips. Her nails were painted lime and her eyelashes given a lick of mascara. The precious locket simply stayed visible over her top. She cleared her thought, and walked up to the stand and grabbed it gently. The music played, and Dani began to sing almost instantly

"I still here your voice when you sleep next to me, I still feel your touch in my dreams." Her confidence started to boost up as she got into the feel of the club song, and she began to dance to it a little. "Forgive me, my weakness, but I don't know why. Without you it's hard to survive!" From there on, the rest of that day of hosting hours, Dani (and some others, a little) sung energetically to popular English songs that translated into Japanese through the special designed microphones.


The next lunch, Dani sat half curled up on the edge of the stage, glaring incisively at the door. They suddenly swung open, making her jump a little. It was the hosts, looking as happy as they always did, in their own little ways. Haruhi looked up to her and gave a little surprised look.

"Oh, hi Dani." She said, with a little friendly smile. "Where were you this morning? Hunny-san and I were worried that you weren't coming in, and the girls missed you too." Dani gave a little grunt, struggling to keep her bad mood away from Haruhi and Hunni, as not to upset them.

"Where's Stephanie?" She tried desperately to maintain her control. "I need a-" Her eyebrow twitched "-word with her."

"I right here, 'DanGer' scar" Came the voice of the super-genius, with cold patronising-ness in her voice. Tamaki jumped to the side, being as larger-than-life he always was. The rest of them just parted, and looked over their shoulder at her. "Just make sure you don't blow a fuze, you don't want to do anything monstrous in front of your lovely little Hunni-san."

"Don't mock me!" Dani jumped to her feet with a roar blended in with her speech. "Why didn't you wake me up this morning? You pass my door anyway! It wouldn't take two seconds more!"

"I was running late and my lift was there. I didn't have the time to keep up with you a your worthless penny job."

"You always have time! " She stormed past her, into the hall. "And maintaining Law and justice is not a worthless penny job!" She then disappeared in a huff. Everyone stared on in shock, except for Steph, who was already chuckling to herself, and setting up the sound systems.


The whole day, the Strength Cat sat sulking in the corner of the room, stealing unintentionally stealing Tamaki's 'Corner of Woe'. The girls were terrified to go near her, especially with the occasional lick of fire floating around her and the somewhat reptilian appearance to her. She got up, at long last, after every customer had left at the end of the day and simply stood with her hands in her pockets, looking slightly more frightening than she did on the floor. In a attempt in continue playing the good host, Tamaki shuffled up beside her.

"Dani? Perhaps you should calm down a little now? Such stress cannot be good for a delicate lady like yourself." He said hopefully. Dani let out a growl.

"Who are you calling 'Delicate'?" Her voice sounded terrifying, like both the voice of a highly strung woman and a hell-demonic beast at the same time. He let out a meep, and cowered back as melodramatically. "Hhhushh the drama!" Next Hunni tried to calm her. Before he got to say a thing, Dani turned and glared at him. His eye went huge and tears sprung into them. Before he could properly become petrified, Mori, pulled him a way and hugged him defensively. Dani's own brows rose at her actions.

"'Hush the drama yourself, Danielle. There's no need to take the after effects of your own bad sleep pattern of the Hosts." Steph said, taking a few steps towards her, just in case.

"It's your fault I'm in a bad mood in the first place!" Dani took a step forwards too, raising a fist to her chest intimidating.

"No, Danielle, it is your own fault for having such a poor sleep/work pattern."

"You are the one who recommended I work in Japan in the first place, knowing full well they're all Late Hunts!"

"It was You who chose to be a bounty hunter! You could have gone for any other job in the world!"

"The only freaking other job in the world that'd use my powers in the slightest is a god-damned freak show! Like you are!" This truly angered Steph.

"You have always been jealous since I became the smart one! Brains and beauty." She gave a vain flick of her hair.

"And you've always been jealous of this strength that I have! At least my family did find me such a damned idiot that they had to rely the charity of their bosses!" She stepped right up so she was in Stephanie's face, snarling nastily.

"At least I have a Family. At least MY foolish parents weren't Murdered!" She spat venomously. Dani's anger vanished completely. The flames vanished, and so did her dragon like demeanour. Her eyes filled with tears and she looked as if she had just been slapped. She took a few stumbling steps back, shaking her head repetitively. Chocking back a sob, she turned and fled. "Dani…" Pink said in a small voice filled with resentment.


Hunni reached up above his head from where he sat on Mori's wide strong shoulders, and pushed the skylight open wide. Though the tall Morinozuka could more likely than not opened the window himself and even been able to get out there, he still let he cousin do it for him. The young looking teen poked his head out of the window and quickly looked around.

"There she is. Stephie-san was right, she did go up to a high place like a leopard would." Haninozuka said as sunnily as ever,

"Ah." Came Mori's neutral reply. Dani sat near the middle of the pink tiled roof with her knees under her chin and her arms hugging her legs. She didn't move as tears flowed freely from her eyes, only to blink and the wind making her hair dance. The ex-superhero stared at nothing in particular in the far, western horizon. With Hunni still on his shoulders, Mori climbed with ease onto the roof. When he was sure it was safe enough for him to walk on, her put his short cousin down. When they were just a little away from her, she noticed their presence, and looked up with shock.

"Oh! I didn't notice you coming." She told them without any real point, sounding a little apologetic. The took a seat either side of her; Mori to her left and Hunni to her right.

"We came to make sure you were ok. Stephie-san said that you sometimes do "very resent-able things we you are letting your heart get the better of your control'" Dani smirked despite herself at that.

"Yes that sounds just like her." And just like me. She thought. For a moment, she lapsed back into silence. "I- Um," Dani stared unsurely, "I'm really sorry about how I acted today. I shouldn't have acted like such a dragon, to you or 'Tama-senpai' or any of the girls. I was being silly. My dad use to tell me to treat the ones I love like I do, and to not be so angry. I mean, I love you like a little brother I never had already!" Hunni couldn't help but smile.

"Hunni is older than you, technically." Interjected the normally near mute Mori. She switched her attention to him, thinking of a reply, but could come up with nothing but a comment on his emotional age, which was what was important to her. "Ah."

"DAni-San?-"

"Please, just call me Dani, or Guns. No titles for me, thanks." She interrupted.

"Dani? What happened to your parents? What happened to you?" Remembering the huge, vicious looking scar down the side of her belly, that no one else seemed to notice yesterday, through the glitter and boldness of her clothes.

"I became a super hero. That's what. Lightning hit us, and our flaws inverted. We became super heroes. Dangerous, destructive, hunted super heroes. My parents were never bad people. They just happened to be to valuable and have to many expensive possessions…a thief came to our house, whist my tem and I were in the hospital. And my parents were home…They were in the way…We came home just in time to see them freshly killed in each others arms and in our back garden, and the murderer attempting to flee. Blade and I were so angry…Well, you saw how I was down there, and that was just a petty huff. We became monsters. I killed him with my own fangs…" She looked down in desperation at her hands, as if she could still see the blood there. "I'd never felt so…Angry.

"And then there was Lone Wolf. He gave me this; " She pushed up her right sleeve, and showed them a thick, slightly curved scar that stretched from her wrist to her elbow. "And the one on my belly…He broke my heart…" She said quietly, tears running a new down her cheeks. "I-I…" She stuttered, breaking into sobs again. "I've already died twice, and I can't be with any of them…I miss them so much." She hiccoughed into her knees. She felt an arm wrap around her from her right. With out much though, she buried herself into Mori's chest, trying to gather strength and control yet again. "I'm sorry." She whispered. Hunni placed a hand on her shoulder out of pity, and gave her a compassionate look.


Stephanie perched on the edge of the expensive seat, staring ruefully out of the window. Her hands were squeezed between her knees and she twitched her foot agitatedly. She hated it when any of her friend were like this, and even more when it was out of an act of sheer stupidity on her behalf. Especially considering that she was suppose to be the most intelligent being both outside and inside of existence at her best. As Haruhi sat down beside her, Steph let out a sigh.

"Is it true? That Dani-san lost her whole family?" Haruhi asked, unsure but trying to help.

"Not exactly. She still has some family left, but we never know for how long: She has her aunt, her mother's sister, but she scarcely knows her. And there's Blade, but he is a mercenary and could be killed for the things that he has done. And Rod, her cousin and half sister, isn't much different. She has some shaky connection, possessions and powers. She could get killed just because she knows the Queen of Dragons (Well, now ex queen, she retired). But she's no poor, little orphan: She's the hair to the Scar fortunes, and title of Royal Amorist (Her family have provided the royal families guards and armies with weapons for generations). And Blade has inherited that side of the family's company. She belongs here more than me, but has never wanted to surround her self in richness. We even have a Gaming industry going by ourselves." Haruhi sat up in shock a little.

"Danielle-san is rich, like us?" Tamaki asked in over exaggerated shock. Steph, looked up to him, and moved to answer, but Kyouya got in there first, not looking up from his lap top, where he was working.

"Yes, she is. Scar Guns use to be a small, localised gunsmiths in a village on the south east of England, just outside of London. They made high quality guns that caught the interest of the Head of the Royal Guards at the time. They're now a very important company, providing over half of the United Nations weaponary since the Second World War. Since resent times, became connected to Blade Publications and even more recently to Cats Co." He then looked over to Miss Whips, who nodded in agreement.

"Dani was named after the founders of her company. Daniel and Jerry Scar. Nicknamed after the company too. Blade was named in honour of his, Sword Blade. We just call him Blade." The door then opened a small amount unnoticed. It was Dani, looking down and guilty.

"Stephie?" Said girl stood up. With a sudden serge of energy, Dani ran over and hugged her old friend over the seat. "I'm sorry!" She cried. "I'm sorry I took it out on you and I'm sorry that I'm such a moron and I'm sorry if I got you scared at all…I'm so very sorry." Stephanie hugged her back.

"All's forgiven, Guns." She smiled.

"I owe you guys an apology too, but how can I prove it? Oh, I know! How about you guys come over to out house? I'll do you dinner and wait on you hand and foot and even give you all my best breakfast in bed in the morning!" She smiled hopefully. "Please, as my apology!"


A/N: Hopefully, there wont be quite so much angst after this, only moments. Yup. Dani is an orphan, but she mostly doesn't let it get to her. Hope you enjoyed it, till next time, byebye!