SECOND CHAPTER IS UP! Thank you so much for the reviews that I got! Reviews make me so glad that people appreciate my writing!
This chapter should be more exciting than the first, and pretty please with sugar on top (or sprinkles, depends what you like :P) help me get my number of reviews higher, coz I'm aiming big!
'"I've read about histories that include Games of Mirrors, and none have ended well. The Mirrors have turned against one another, and many have finished with deaths. How do you know this will work?" Nekozawa's face split into a wicked smile.
"We are the Black Magic Club," he said, pulling his hood up over his head, and Kanazuki did the same. "I do not."'
The bell in the courtyard of Ouran chimed to signify that the hour hand had hit twelve o'clock.
Haruhi glanced out her classroom's window, into the deep cerulean sky. It was a perfectly cloudless day, a day for outdoors, Haruhi assumed as she watched students begin to drift out from the doors and start milling around the courtyard and greens.
"Club time!" Hikaru sang, seizing Haruhi's shoulder and jolting her back to earth. "What's so interesting out that window, Haruhi?"
Kaoru leaned against the window frame and gasped.
"Oh no!"
"What?!" Haruhi and Hikaru shouted at the exact same moment.
"Haruhi, you can't possibly be eyeing one of those boys out there, right?" Kaoru hissed mockingly, and Haruhi groaned.
"Oh my gosh, Kaoru, get out of my head!" She threw her books and stationary into her bag and, noticing that the twin's weren't beginning to walk out the doors, called over to them, "are you coming?"
Hikaru and Kaoru paid absolutely no attention to her, and muttered between themselves as they looked down to the courtyard. Haruhi tipped one head to a side, and walked over to them, wondering what had intrigued the Hitachiins'.
"That's her, isn't it?" Hikaru breathed to Kaoru.
"Wow, she's beautiful," Kaoru mumbled back, Hikaru nodding in agreement.
"What're you guys–" Haruhi was cut off as her eye finally met the same spot that Hikaru and Kaoru were looking at.
I never knew that they had any love interests, she thought to herself as they all stared at the new girl. Even from the height difference as they examined her, Haruhi could see that the girl had wide, amber-brown eyes and long auburn hair. She was of petit stature, and looked as though a breeze could push her over. Haruhi rolled her eyes and grabbed the twins' arms and pulled them away from the window.
"Jeez, guys, and you say I moon over people from the windows?" She complained, glad when they cooperated and followed her out of the classroom. Her path was cut short when Kaoru came into her peripheral sight, followed by Hikaru.
"Oh, poor Haruhi!" He sniggered, glancing over at his twin brother through narrowed golden eyes.
"Poor… me?" Haruhi cocked an eyebrow, trying to shove past, but they wouldn't let her pass, their grins widening like the Cheshire Cat's smile.
"Is Haruhi jealous?" Kaoru added to Hikaru's comment.
"What're you talking about?" Haruhi asked blankly.
"Anyone could tell that this scholarship student is crushing on us, right, Hikaru?" Kaoru went on. "Really," he directed at Haruhi. "No one knows that you're a girl and they'll get suspicious if they know your feelings for us…" he spoke as though it were the most tragic event ever.
"I am not crushing on you!" Haruhi answered hotly, brushing her fringe from her eyes to display how annoyed they looked.
"You're not a very good liar–" Hikaru started, but was interrupted.
"I do NOT like you!" Haruhi shouted at them, hating them for even bringing up the 'forbidden subject', as Tamaki put it. "So just shut up about it!" She stormed away, and this time Kaoru let her pass.
"Sheesh, what's up with her?" Haruhi heard Kaoru comment, and Hikaru answered, "maybe we went one step too far…"
Maybe? Haruhi thought, fuming as she sped up her pace, bumping accidentally into a three third years, whom all watched her run past, shocked that she hadn't even apologized, before beginning to discuss her.
"What's up with that guy?" The first guy muttered.
"Isn't he in that corny Host Club?" The second asked.
"Yeah, that's Fujioka, alright…" The first guy responded.
"Have you ever spoken to him before? He's got eyes like a girl…" The third whispered.
"I think he was arguing with the Hitachiins'."
"The guys that look like cats?"
"Yeah!"
"Huh…"
The third years' conversations droned out of hearing, until Haruhi came to the Music Room 3 door, and not bothering to knock, shoved the door open grumpily.
"Haru-chan!" Hunny called, waving Usa-chan around. "You're late!"
"Indeed," Kyoya said. "We're opening in a few minutes."
"Sor-ree," Haruhi grumbled, and sensing Tamaki approached her from behind, said, "go away, Senpai, please!"
"Don't you want a hug from daddy?" Tamaki sulked, slouching away again.
"No." Her voice was so cold that even Hunny noticed.
"Did something happen, Haru?" Hunny asked. Tamaki's head shot up, Mori turned and Kyoya paused his writing in his black clipboard.
"Yes. No," Haruhi replied.
"Did those devil twins do something to you?" Tamaki wailed, wringing hands, and bounding around the room. "I'll get them! Don't you worry, Haruhi! Daddy will keep you safe!" He strode over to the door and reached for the handle, everybody's eyes on him. Then someone from the other side threw the door open, slamming it into Tamaki's face.
"Ouch." He whimpered. Hikaru and Kaoru came in, and the two pairs of eyes searched the room, until they found Haruhi who stood next to Hunny, looking at Tamaki sardonically.
"Sorry, Haruhi!" Hikaru said.
"Very sincerely sorry, Haruhi," said Kaoru.
Haruhi ignored them.
"Have you seen Miss Kanazuki of late, Hunny Senpai?" She quizzed.
"No… Why?"
"I passed her in the corridor earlier this morning and she doesn't look good."
"Oh."
"Don't ignore us!" The twins scolded. "That is not good manners, Haruhi."
"I'm talking to Hunny," Haruhi replied coolly. "It's not very good manners to interrupt."
"Indeed!" Tamaki sided with Haruhi immediately. "You shady twins are extremely impolite!"
"Keep out of this, milord!" Hikaru and Kaoru shot back in unison.
"And stop sulking," Haruhi added. "Or you can be the one to clear out those mushrooms that you've been growing."
"But–" Tamaki complained, but stopped short.
A chilling laugh rang out from nowhere, and shiver ran up Haruhi's spine. She wasn't usually spooked so easily, but this laugh was eerie.
"Nekozawa," Kyoya said simply, pushing his glasses up his nose, "Must be up to his usual tricks again."
Haruhi couldn't help but feel slightly relieved that Kyoya was there with them. It was silly, but the thought still remained.
"Tricks?" Nekozawa's voice giggled, and the floor opened up beneath the hosts' feet.
Haruhi's mind was completely blank as she listened to the yells of the other host club members (or the hysterical screaming that was being emitted from Tamaki) as they were engulfed by the blackness as the tumbled down, down, down, deeper into the heart of Ouran. She couldn't think for a good ten seconds, and she only registered what was happening as she hit the floor somewhere far below Music Room 3.
Haruhi gasped at the chill, just like that morning when she'd tumbled from her bed, and stumbled and slipped, trying to find her feet. Around her, Tamaki, Hikaru, Kaoru, Kyoya, Hunny and Mori were all doing the same thing.
"Where are we?" Kaoru hissed into the darkness.
"The dungeons," Mori responded shortly.
"The dungeons?" Haruhi panted, taking a step forwards, feeling around her as she did so. "What dungeons?"
"Ouran is an old school, Haruhi," Kyoya's voice came. "It was said that somewhere below the school, before it had been established, there were dungeons from a kingdom that had crumbled many hundreds of years ago. Nobody knows why it fell, but the only remains from it is what we are in now. Ouran was planted on top of the dust and rumble, unsure whether the dungeons were still existent or not. Apparently it is."
"So we're like, the first in a hundreds of years to be down here?"
"Perhaps."
"Then there has to be a way out of here!" Haruhi said.
"Careful, Haru-chan, there're lots of loose stones," said Hunny.
"Just stay put!" Hikaru advised. Haruhi ignored him and started padding across the dungeons carefully, trying not to think about the prospect of being stuck there forever.
"Watch where you step, Haruhi!" Nekozawa laughed out of nowhere. Haruhi lost her guard and stopped walking.
"Don't walk, Haruhi!" Hikaru yelled.
"I'm over here!" Tamaki wheezed from somewhere just ahead of Haruhi.
"Stay still," Mori instructed.
"Where's Usa-chan?" Hunny squeaked, sounding extremely scared.
"Stop talking, everyone!" Kyoya spoke for the first time in a while. "Someone's speaking to me…"
Everybody was silent as they questioned Kyoya's sanity.
"It's Nekozawa, I think. He's saying that there's a tunnel, no! It's a drop in the ground. It'll lead to–" He never finished talking. Someone from in front of Haruhi bumped into her, and she puffed as the breath was knocked out of her. To her horror, however, rather than her back meeting floor, she fell into the 'drop' that Kyoya had been talking about. Once again she was falling, only further away from the other hosts this time. A scream escaped Haruhi's throat and the last thing that she heard was, "Haru–?" from Tamaki before she tumbled too far down to hear the rest of his sentence. And she continued to scream as she fell down into the unknown.
Cliffhanger! Sorry about that, but I'll make sure that the next chapter takes off from there. Only it won't be from Haruhi's POV. I hope that that chapter met you expectations, and was good enough for you to review! Remember to PM me if you've got any suggestions for later chapters, included pairings! Expect the next chapter to be out in two or three days.
~Black Cat Widow~
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