Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran High School Host Club or Percy Jackson. *sigh*

Death at the host club chapter 2

"Ladies, I would like to introduce our newest host. Although he may
only be temporary, I hope you all give him a warm welcome. Ladies, I
give you Nico di Angelo!" said Tamaki with a flourish. It was the day
after Nico's strange arrival. When they had asked about it, he had
refused to tell them anything more than, 'it runs in the blood' Tamaki
had decided to open the host club again today and introduce Nico to
the girls. Not many had turned up, frightened after yesterday, but
those that did appeared more interested in Nico than afraid of him.

Nico himself looked rather annoyed, Tamaki having addressed the ladies
in Japanese so he hadn't understood any of it except the Nico di
Angelo bit. Haruhi smiled at him and said in halting English, 'smile
Nico. It is not... So bad?' she said the last part as an unintended
question, hoping she got the phrase correct. Nico flashed a quick
smile.

"Thank you Haruhi." he replied in Japanese.

"You speak Japanese?" she asked him.

"Not much" he replied in English again, "just please and thank you
really."

"Perhaps we could teach each other? I'd love to learn more English and
knowing Japanese will really benefit you here." she said in halting
English but smiling at the end.

"Yeah, I'd like that" he replied with a small smile.

After that, Tamaki started showing Nico the basics of being a host.
For his part, Nico tried hard to be polite and kind, but his attention
wondered a lot. Haruhi looked over to see him sitting on a couch. A
girl walked over to him. She had long red hair the colour of wine, a
slender figure and an elegant face. Her most striking feature was her
eyes. They were electric blue.

"Hello Nico, my name is Arya. May I sit with you a while?" she asked
with a cheeky glint in her eyes.

"Uhh, sure." said Nico.

Haruhi smiled, he already had one request. She thought that his age
and the sadness that hung about him would endear girls to him. They
were all very sympathetic after all. Her smile turned to a grin. He'd
be out of here in no time.

Sitting talking to Arya wasn't as bad as Nico first thought. He had
assumed it would be really awkward - he wasn't exactly the talkative
type - but Arya spoke good English and seemed to understand quite a
lot about Nico. She told him she loved to perform plays and that she
was head of the dramatics society. Nico tried his best to concentrate
on her, succeeding mostly. They also talked about schools. Nico tried
to be as vague as possible with his explanations of his school career,
but asked instead about Arya. She told him that she had moved around a
lot. Her mother was a wealthy business woman and it was from her she
had inherited her hair colour. She had never known her father.

"He took a flight to America and he never came back down." she told
Nico sadly. Nico nodded but said nothing.

When Arya left and the host club was finished for the morning, a
thought started to form in Nico's head. Electric blue eyes, ADHD,
dyslexia, a flare for dramatics, never knew her father, lots of
schools... but she couldn't be... It would be impossible... There
couldn't be a daughter of Zeus here in Japan... Could there?

The next day, Haruhi noticed a few more girls coming in, getting over
their fear of Nico and coming back to the host club. Nico was the talk
of the school apparently, and girls came to stare at him and gossip
just as much to be entertained by the hosts. To his credit, Nico
didn't show that he noticed any of the gossip about him, but
continued his work in much the same way.

Nico didn't attend the school. He had been severely opposed to the
idea, preferring instead to concentrate on getting requests. Also, he
argued, if he attended the school then left when he had paid his dept,
it might be suspicious.

By the end of the third day of Nico's hosting, as his dramatic
entrance began to fade into memory, a few more girls requested him.
Haruhi watched with amazement as he handled the girls like a
professional host. Nico seemed to be very good at empathizing and the
sad tales he came up with had the girls around him in sympathetic
tears in minutes. When Tamaki asked where he got the ideas for his
stories, Nico replied in an emotionless voice, "it's all true". And
with that he walked away.