A/N: Whoop! Whoop! Two days in a row! Be sure to let me know what you guys think! :)
Haruhi wasn't concerned about her gender being revealed during physical exams and so that meant Hoshiko wasn't either. She just sat there as they devised a plan to conceal it from their classmates while Haruhi wasn't really caring if they figured out a way or not and when they were trying to figure out a way to convince her Takashi spoke up, "Fancy Tuna."
She saw Haruhi freeze and couldn't believe that Takashi had thrown the girls weakness, or well food in general was her weakness, but she knew how much Haruhi loved Tuna, out in the open for the other boys to feed on, since he really didn't say anything after that. She listened as Haruhi spoke, "I'm not that much of a glutton that I would keep lying to everyone about my gender just to try some fancy tuna."
"Whatever helps you sleep at night." Hoshiko said the second she finished and Haruhis face fell.
"You're supposed to be on my side." She looked over at the girl who was sitting cross legged on the couch.
Hoshiko just smiled and waved her off, "But you know how much I love honesty."
Haruhis shoulders fell, "Am I really going to get to try some?"
The majority of the club cheered that she caved in.
The next day she was sent to the room that Haruhi was going to be in for her exam early to get hers done and decided to wait there until Haruhi went in. When it took longer than it should have she went searching for them and walked into the room just in time to see Tamaki exit the small room with a brown wig on and busted out laughing with the twins at how dramatic he was being about it.
She joined the others in leaving once Haruhi had been sent away to the private room and heard one of the girls talking about one of the doctors grabbing her. Kyoya said that he had noticed a strange man in there that wasn't a part of her staff and finished with saying that the security guard would find him. They over heard the girl telling him where the strange doctor had went, "Yes sir, he ran off towards the special boys clinic."
Her heart stopped and she immediately took off running. The five boys with her were shocked at how fast she moved but Takashi was right behind her and Tamaki had recovered enough to be fast behind him. She broke into the room and Tamaki managed to get in front of her and kicked the man away from Haruhi before she had the chance and so instead she wrapped her arms around the half undressed girl protectively, "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine." She looked up at her friend and could see the concern fading in her eyes. They sat there listening to this guys story and she placed her jacket on the girls shoulders so that she could cover up. She couldn't help but smile when Haruhi asked them to leave so she could finish her exam, "I'm not doing it for food, I'm doing it to repay my debt."
Tamaki went to engulf her in his arms in another one of his cute rages and Hoshiko was there before he could blink with her knee in his stomach, "YOU DON'T TOUCH HER WHEN SHE'S NOT PROPERLY DRESSED!"
"Ow!" Tamaki groaned with tears in his eyes, looking up at Haruhi hoping for some help.
"Thanks for that Shiko, but why don't you do it when I'm dressed?" Haruhi looked up at her with an unamused face.
"Because you never ask for my help then, but when you're like this I can only imagine what your father would do to me if he found out I let that happen." She shivered in fear.
"That's a fear that's going to last a life time isn't it?"
"Oh god yes." Hoshiko said before grabbing Tamaki by the collar and dragging him out of the room with the other Hosts following.
Haruhi couldn't help but laugh at her best friends illogical fear of her father.
"You must really care about her, Hoshi-chan." Hunny looked up at her with Usa-chan in his arms as they walked down the hallway.
"Ruhi and I have been through a lot together, we've known each other for close to eleven years now." She smiled at the boy.
"Wow so you two are like me and Takashi." He smiled.
"I guess you could say it's something like that." She smiled back at him.
"Loyalty like that is a hard thing to find these days." Takashi spoke to them both.
"You're very right." She smiled lowering her eyes to the ground as they walked.
"Oh Hunny! That kimono is too cute on you." Hoshiko couldn't help but find the boy completely adorable in his oversized garb.
"Thanks, but I'm having a problem properly tying the back, Takashi is changing so he can't help me." Hunny showed her the back.
"Well I think I can help you with that." She smiled kneeling down to help him and when she was half through Takashi walked out having a similar issue.
"Now you can help Takashi! Look how good she made mine!" Hunny jumped up and down and Takashi nodded.
"Please." He asked.
"Of course." She smiled at him standing up to be able to help him. It was strange helping guys get ready, normally it was always girls getting dressed up for things, but she had to admit that they had great plans for getting the girls riled up, "There you go."
"How do we look Hoshi-chan?!" Hunny said jumping on Takashis arm.
"Adorable and masculine." She smiled saying to Hunny and Takashi respectively and they both gave her smiles.
She never participated in the club activities, she only ever observed, Kyoya liked the idea of having her around since the girls would have someone to entertain them or swoon over when they weren't with a host. Often watching from a window sill she took notice of the new girl who was sitting there watching them that Haruhi had noticed first.
Hoshiko spit out her tea with a laugh when she saw the girl hit Tamaki away calling him phony. She quickly cleaned herself up noticing that Takashi had looked over at her. And she was sure to cover her mouth as the girl continued to call him other names including disgusting and commoner.
When she jumped into Kyoyas arms Hoshiko almost dropped her tea cup again as the girl exclaimed that he was her one and only prince charming, "Are you sure you have the right guy?"
Haruhi gave her an ice cold stare as the twins busted out laughing, "I like her!"
"She can stay!" Kaoru said after Hikaru had finished.
The room cleared out and the girl sat down and explained herself and her love for Kyoya. As she described all the things that he'd done like save a cat and picking flowers in the garden Haruhi knew that Hoshiko had to have been right, "Could you have the wrong person?"
"I say it and I get in trouble, but you says it and it's polite." Hoshiko took a bite out of the cake that Hunny offered her.
Renge continued to go on about Kyoya and they all knew that it couldn't be the Kyoya that they all knew. When she said that he was her real life character off of Uki Doki Memorial Hoshiko did a little victory dance in the back ground, having been the first that called it.
As soon as Renge declared that she was going to be the Host Club's manager the dance stopped, "I'm tempted to find another way to spend my spare time all of a sudden."
"Don't you dare leave me alone in this." Haruhi mumbled next to her.
Takashi even looked at her with a plea in his eyes and Hunny had tears welling in them so she sighed, "Fine I'll tough it out only to watch Kyoya deal with this."
The next day they were all sitting around the table drinking tea and Tamaki said that Haruhi having another girl around would bring out her feminine side and Hoshiko looked sideway at him, "What am I then?"
"Apparently only a girl in anatomy." Haruhi said flatly giving Tamaki the same look.
Not to long after Renge came in with cookies that she claimed were slightly burnt and when Hunny said that they were burnt Takashi told him not to eat them because they were bad for him and Renge took off after them and they both began running and there was no end to it so she sighed and swallowed, picking up a cookie and biting in to it, it was hard as a rock, "Did you even use butter or eggs in this!?"
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" Renge took off after her and she just stood there not threatened by the girl and once she saw that and saw who she was she stopped, "Maybe I could have used another egg."
Takashi and Hunny looked at her from behind the girl with thanks in their eyes. She thought that trouble had been adverted until Renge began 'recasting' the members of the club and Hoshiko threw her hands up, "Okay, that's it. I'm out. Let me know when you guys go back to who you are because watching Hunny be a thug is not how I pictured my day."
They all watched as she walked over to the couch and propped her feet up grabbing her notebook again and began scribbling. "What was that all about?"
Haruhi looked up at Hunny who had asked the question, "Well Shiko has never really liked lying, and not being yourself qualifies to as that to her, so that's why she only likes Senpai half of the time, because to her it seems like he's acting most of the time. She has always said that when people are fake, they're more likely to hurt you because they can't even care enough about themselves to be true to themselves."
"That's very wise." Takashi said looking at the girl on the couch who was now wearing headphones.
"And very true." Hunny said sliding down Takashis arm, "But I wonder why it upsets her so much."
"How well do you guys know her mother?" Haruhi looked up at them.
"We've only seen her at a dinner parties, she was always doting on Hoshi-chan and bragging about her." Hunny answered and Takashi nodded.
Haruhi looked down at the ground and the two boys noticed her sad eyes, "That's why… Her mother is a different person when she's around certain people, but growing up Shiko and I hung out a lot at her house and her mother was either never there or always looking down on her or her father."
"I heard her say something like that once before." Takashi spoke his eyes still locked on the girl who seemed as if she still couldn't write down any lyrics, "But it was only a mutter."
She watched from the windows as they filmed a movie and just shook her head and headed for the piano while she had the room to herself. Putting her fingers to the keys she decided to play a song she had already written, one that she had yet to perfect, it was better than sitting with blank paper in front of her and getting nowhere.
She played lightly singing along to the words until she heard crashing from outside and left to look out the window seeing Haruhi blocking Renge from being shoved into a wall full of equipment. Hoshiko quickly went running and didn't even stop when she passed by Hunny and Takashi who ended up following her to come around just in time to see Kyoya break the camera lens.
Seeing that Tamaki had saved Haruhi stopped her from running to the girl. Knowing that she had other people to look out for her was nice and it couldn't help but make her smile. She listened as Renge compared Kyoya to the character from her video game, saying that he should be being nice to her, then Tamaki answered her. Hoshikos smiled grew as she listened to Haruhi explain how much better it is to get to know the real person and not just the fake on you made for them and she finished Haruhis thought, "And the bond is stronger that way."
Haruhi looked up seeing she was there and walked over to her after putting her contact back in, "Hey, you've come out of hiding."
"Well you're all acting like yourselves again." She smiled.
"I didn't remember it bothering you that much before, I mean it was never me that you would get that way about but it was still never that extreme with anyone else." Haruhi looked up at her.
"It's been a long four years." Hoshiko let out a small laugh, "And the past few months have been the worst of it, except for the parts when I'm with you guys."
"Well I'm glad to hear we don't make your life any worse." Haruhi laughed.
Hoshiko couldn't help but grin at her friend, "Well I still have a lot more time to have to put up with you!"
"Oh gee thanks." Haruhi acted insulted until Hoshiko put her arm around her shoulder and pulled her in tight.
"We should order sushi tonight!" Hoshiko laughed at her friend's doe-eyed look, "That place by your house looked pretty good!"
"Sounds like a plan." She laughed, the club had to admit that it was nice to see Hoshiko smiling again.
It was the second day of the twins fighting and they were beginning to get on everyone's nerves. Kyoya was sitting by himself and she walked over to where he was, "So interesting events happening huh?"
"Interesting indeed." Kyoya smiled and looked up at her, "Not only do you know how to get information, you're observant too."
"I was wondering if you'd figured it out yet." Hoshiko smiled and turned around to walk away.
"Delany-senpai, when did you figure it out?" He turned to look at her.
She looked over her shoulder and smiled innocently at him, "If I tell you that you'll say you discovered it sooner. But I will say, faking a break up like this takes coordination."
"Hoshi-chan!" Hunny called her from the other side of the room and she waved goodbye to Kyoya.
She sat down next to Hunny and he offered her a piece of cake, and she thanked him "Strawberries, my favorite."
"You and Kyo-chan seem to have a lot in common. You're both really smart and really observant, and sometimes really scary. You two would make a power couple." Hunny smiled and Takashi froze at his words without realizing he had until Hoshiko began choking on her cake from shock.
"No, two people like me and Kyoya would not make a good pair, the differences between us would only make us hate each other more than we do now." She finished clearing her throat.
"You hate Kyo-chan?" Hunny looked sad.
"Not in the normal sense, it's more of a competitive hatred, we respect each other for our similar abilities but we always want to be the first to arrive at the answer and that makes it a healthy hatred since we're friends, but if we were to ever be more than that we would probably kill each other." She smiled reassuringly sipping her tea.
"I'm sure I would kill you first." Kyoya said walking by.
"You really wanna make that a competition too now?" She glared at him.
He turned around with his sly smile, "No, because that would mean that I would have to marry you, which I have no intention of doing."
"It wouldn't even get that far, because I would never say yes. You're too strict with your money and that would drive me up the wall." She returned to her tea cup.
"But-" Hunny started again.
Takashi interrupted him, "Mitsukuni, that's enough."
Hoshiko had noticed his expression the whole time the conversation had been happening and wondered if he had some hidden feelings for her? She shook the insane idea from her head, she knew that Mitsukuni always came first to him so he would never let himself be bothered by feelings, plus it's not like they were reciprocated.
The next day Haruhi yelled at the twins and they revealed to her that this was their way of getting her to let them come over to her house and at the same time Hoshiko and Kyoya said, "Knew it."
They looked at each other and he smiled at her, "When was it you knew, honestly?"
"How about we answer at the same time?" She smiled at him and he agreed.
They counted to three and both said at the same time, "Your momma wears to much make up!"
They both started laughing and Takashi could see what Hunny had meant the day before about them being a good match even if they didn't want to admit it. When they were done laughing everyone else turned to glare at them, even the twins, but Haruhi was the one that spoke, "You knew they were faking it!?"
"Of course. That insult was to perfectly planned for them to have both come up with it on the fly at the same exact time." She giggled.
"You know…" Kyoya looked at her, "While we would be a horrible couple…"
"Perhaps we wouldn't do so badly in business together." She finished his sentence.
Takashi's stomach dropped they were finishing each other's sentences, how could they not be perfect for each other. He hated how simple he was, never knowing what to say to her, he could barely start a conversation with her, and Hunny was the one that always invited her over to the table with them. He would never stand a chance against Kyoya if they started working together.
"I'm sure we could find a way to merge your musical talents with my business talents." Kyoya said.
"Yes but we would have to do something about your money hording." She placed her finger to her lips thinking about it, "It is just something we will have to think on."
"You guys are going to get in trouble one day for being too smart." Haruhi groaned.
"Not if we're always the smartest." They said at the same time and Hoshiko looked over at him with an unamused look on her face, "If we could stop doing that now it'd be great."
"Of course." He said walking away.
