A double shot at love - Chapter two: The host club with hostesses.
~~The host club is now open~~
The girls watched with horror as all six boys started acting like hosts.
Hikaru laughed. "And then he said he woke up from a scary nightmare."
"Hikaru!" kaoru said, looking shocked. "Speaking of that in front of others…" Tears started to form at the corners of his eyes, "… Is so mean…" One tear escaped his eye. "That story…"
Hikaru reacted just as shocked and out of character. "Kaoru…"
While Hikaru cupped Kaoru's face and brought it dangerously close to his', the two girls watching them squeaked softly.
"Sorry, Kaoru. You just looked so cute that moment… I just…"
"Hikaru…"
"KYAAA!" The girls screamed as they squeezed each other. "It's the beautiful brotherly love!"
"KYAAAA! Hahahahaha! It's the gay brothers! Quickly Airi, come!"
"I can't! It's too, it's too…"
"Too WHAT?"
""TOO HILARIOUS!"" The Mitsuki's started laughing again. Seriously, just what part was attractive? Everything just seemed to tickle the girls' laughing senses: the way they stood, the way they talked, the way they held each other…
""Done yet?"" The Hitachiin's asked after the girls were still rolling over the floor, laughing, after five minutes.
"No." Koizumi answered as the girls continued laughing for five more minutes.
After they were finished laughing and finally were able to stand again, Mori walked into the room with a sleepy Hunny on his back.
"Sowwy!" Hunny said rubbing his eyes sleepily, "I'm late."
"Hunny-kun! Mori-kun!" One of the four girls at their couch said as they walked over to them.
"I'm still kinda sleepy…" Hunny said as he yawned.
The four girls started squeaking. "So cuuute!"
"Is he really a senior?" Koizumi asked Airi.
"I doubt it. He had me fooled alright."
"Koi-chan! Ai-chan!" Hunny said happily as he spotted the two girls. "Wanna eat some cake with us?"
"No, I'm not hungry." Koizumi answered. Airi was always in the mood for cake.
"Then I'll lend you my bunny!"
"I don't really like stuffed animals anymore…" Koizumi answered. Airi did.
Hunny started tearing up. "You don't like my bunny?" He asked sweetly.
"I… uh… I guess he's cute?"
"Then take good care of it, 'kay?" And he was gone.
"…Why do you get to hold the bunny?" Airi pouted.
"Wanna trade?"
"Will you?"
"No."
"Then why ask? You're so mean, Now I've got to cry." Airi started fake crying. "See?"
"If you've got time to cry you've got time to do the host club's errands." Kyoya said, resulting in the Mitsuki twins shopping for coffee.
"They piss me off! What's with these rich bastards? Going all kyah kyah over nothing but gay porn and child abuse!" Koizumi said angrily as the girls were walking down the street.
"Don't you think you're blowing things up a bit? Child abuse?"
"Aww, you know what I mean! And the sense of hierarchy! It's rich bastards first, then dogs and then commoners? Seriously?"
"Koimi, " Airi said while gesturing her to calm down. "You'll only get angrier if you keep puffing up like this. Relax, and let's look positively for now okay?"
"Wasn't I the optimistic one?"
"You've got your moments."
She laughed. Then inhaled and exhaled. "Okay, I'm calm."
"Good Girl."
~~Later that day~~
"Tamaki-sama, I've heard about it."
"Hmm?" Tamaki looked at one of the girls sitting next to him on his couch.
"That you have taken in two little stray cats."
"I wouldn't call them little stray cats but rather..." Tamaki looked up as he heard Airi and Koizumi walk into the Host Club Room, and looked at them for a minute. "… Bunny's!"
""Bunny's?"" The twins asked.
"Well, it's because of the strange shape of the hats." He said, pointing at them. "Welcome back, and well done with your errand. Did you buy the correct items?"
"Yes, we have." Koizumi answered.
"Here." Airi gave the coffee to Tamaki.
Tamaki studied the package. "And What would this be?" He asked as if he seriously didn't know that was coffee.
""Coffee, as you can see."" The girls answered annoyed.
"I haven't seen this maker before. Is this the one where it's already ground?"
""No, it's instant.""
"Instant?" A few girls surrounding Tamaki asked. More and more seemed to look or walk this way.
"Ohh! Is this the type where all you need to do is put hot water in it?"
"Oh my," A rich girl said. "So that's the famous…"
"So it was true that poor people use this since they can't grind coffee nuts with the little time they have." Tamaki looked stunned, and all the girls nodded.
"Can I please kill somebody?" Koizumi asked Airi.
"Not today." Airi said, patting her sister.
"Commoner wisdom, I see." Kyoya said as he and the twins walked closer by. Now about everybody was standing around Tamaki, the Mitsuki twins and the instant coffee.
"300 yen for 100 grams, huh?" Kaoru asked.
"What an extraordinary price!" Hikaru added.
Airi became seriously pissed. "I'll go buy it again! I'm so sorry for not buying expensive coffee nuts!" She tried to grab the coffee away from him.
"No wait!" Tamaki said heroic. "I'll try this."
Lots of "Ooooh's" and "Aaaah's" came from the rich girls surrounding them.
"Kill me, please." Airi said, leaning against her sister.
~~After an idiotic scene with coffe, Tamaki and lot's of screaming~~
Airi and Koizumi sat down on the couch farthest away from Tamaki and his gang.
"How much more do we have to take from that moron?" Airi asked herself, but Kyoya answered.
"Feel free to run away." He said. "But my family has around a hundred private police stations. It's either the debt or…"
"Or you'll make us disappear from Japan?" Airi finished.
"I don't care being deported, I'll just go back to the Netherlands."
"Koizumi!"
"What?"
Airi shut her up with a gaze.
"That's right, work like two cute little bunnies." Tamaki said, blowing in Airi's ear.
She yelped and spasmed. "Please don't do that, I won't be able to secure your safety if you tickle me in any way possible. Nor with my sister, just don't."
"You won't be popular if you're so pathetic, you know?"
""So?""
"It's a very important issue!"
"It doesn't really matter, does it?" Koizumi said.
"Men, woman, or looks… It's what's inside that matters for a person." Airi finished.
""We're clueless as to why this club exists.""
"it's such a cruel thing…" Tamaki said pitifully, "God sometimes creates perfect beings with perfect insides and outsides."
""I'm an atheist.""
"I can understand the feeling of consoling yourself like that. You wouldn't be able to live without doing that. But think about this carefully. Why are there art pieces in the museum? Yes, because beautiful things show themselves off because that is their duty!"
"What was the word for these type of people…" Koizumi said.
"And so, for the people who crave for beauty, I stood up and established this club, working day and night in pursuit of beauty! It may be unnecessary with your looks…"
"What was it again?" Airi joined Koizumi in the thinking. The Hitachiins stopped to see where this was heading.
"When you put down a glass cup, you must always use you pink as a cushion first. That way there won't be a loud sound, and you'll find where you left it easier. Doesn't it look classier this way?"
"Troublesome?"
"Nah. There was something more accurate for this…"
"A good man should not make ungraceful sounds, nor should any decent lady. And I love to see my reflection on the glass. Finally, at the last moment, a look from the lower angle is very effective."
""Ah, I know!""
"Did your heart pump a little faster -"
""Obnoxious.""
"GAH!" Tamaki became one big brown mushroom as he drooped of into a corner.
The Hitachiin twins laughed out loud. ""After all you girls are special!"" They said, leaning on each other and pointing at the girls.
Airi looked from the twins to Tamaki, and decided to tell him she really was a bit touched. She just felt so sorry for him.
"I see, I see! Then I'll show you more techniques!"
""That's too fast!""
"My lord, " Kaoru started.
"Call me king!"
The Hitachiins ignored him. "Even if you showed them the basics of being classy," Hikaru continued.
""In this case they don't even pass the most basic visual criteria, right?"" Hikaru and Kaoru gestured at their hats.
"Because in this case, even if you take of the hat, the hair will explode -" Hikaru stopped talking the moment they stole the girls weird hats.
"Hey, give it back!" Koizumi said. Short, brown hair with natural honey-like highlights waved around her head in twirling locks, giving it a playful, childish and innocent look, yet cute. Very cute.
"We have our reasons for wearing these things!" Airi's hair fell until the half of her back. Long wavy hair that at the end curled a little, jumped around her body freely and shyly the moment they escaped her hat.
The twins looked dazed.
Kyoya, Mori and Hunny went silent for a moment.
Tamaki pushed the twins aside and snapped his fingers. "Hikaru! Kaoru!"
""Yessir!"" The twins captured the girls in their arms and kidnapped them to a changing room.
""Okay,"" they stepped into the changing room. ""Put these things on!"" They held two girls school uniforms up.
""What? Why?""
""NO questions!"" The twins almost jumped on top of the girls as they tried them to get them to wear them.
"NO!"
"GET OFFA ME!"
"Okay I'll wear it!" Airi gave in. "But both of you:"
""GET OUT!"" The girls threw the boys out of the changing room and shut the curtains closed.
"Christ! What's wrong with those people?" Koizumi started complaining the moment the twins were gone. "The moment they saw our hair the jellyfish went nuts and now they're forcing us to wear these -"
"Jellyfish as in Tamaki-senpai?"
"Don't interrupt my tirade. And now they're forcing us to wear these banana dresses!"
"Aw, come on! We both know you wanted to wear that dress at least once while studying here."
"…"
"See? Let's just get dressed before those pervs try to do something again."
""We can hear you!"" the boys shouted from the other side of the curtain.
""We know!""
The girls tried the dresses on, but the sleeves were too short.
"They're too small! Do you have other ones?" Airi asked, already putting back on her shirt.
"Yes we have, I'll go get them." Hikaru answered.
"I'll come with you! Hang on…"
"Why?" Yes, why indeed? Was it because she wanted to be alone with him, or because she wanted Koizumi to be left alone with Kaoru?
"Otherwise you'll get the wrong size again." She was done putting her clothes on, so she left her twin sister alone in the changing room, walking away with Hikaru.
"Thank you for trusting me so much."
"You're welcome! Now let's get going."
Before Koizumi fully understood what was happening, she was left alone. With Kaoru. To be more precise, left alone with Kaoru.
She started to undress herself slowly, very aware of herself. "Jeez, I can't believe that girl…" She mumbled to herself.
Kaoru's face popped up between the curtains. "Done yet -"
Wrong moment.
Very wrong moment.
"YOU PERVERTED SICK BASTERD!"
Kaoru dodged her punch and quickly turned around, closing the curtains.
"Sorry!"
"PERV!"
"I just said I'm sorry!"
"Who's gonna believe you?"
"Why did you cut your hair?"
"Don't go changing subjects!"
"I'm not!"
"Yes you ARE!"
"Well, maybe I am, but why did you? Cut it, I mean."
Koizumi fell silent for a moment. She pulled her t-shirt over her head, draping it around her torso.
"I didn't"
"What?"
"I didn't cut it."
And silence again. It was clear Kaoru didn't understand what she meant, so before he could ask any further questions she handed him the dress.
"Here." Her fingers lightly brushed his when she pushed the yellow fabric in his hand.
"Thanks." For a moment she thought he wanted to take her hand instead of the dress because of the movement she saw his hand making. But that must have been my imagination. She told herself.
At that moment she was glad he couldn't see her face through the curtains.
"Oh, and Koizumi-chan?" There was a childish undertone to his voice.
"What?" Calling me –chan…
"Nice panties."
"YOU PERV!" This time she hit him hard.
~~After changing~~
"Um, senpai?" Airi asked while shoving the curtains away. "Is it really okay for us to take these uniforms?"
The question was meant for Kyoya, but Tamaki was the one reacting. "You look so cute!" Tears flowed down his face from happiness. "You girls actually look like girls now!"
"Koi-chan, Ai-chan! You're so cute!"
"If you'd look so good in dresses,"
"Then say so earlier, eh?" Hikaru and Kaoru said.
"You girls might be able to get some customers like this." Kyoya mentioned, nodding in agreement.
""How should we be able to get customers? Aren't we girls?""
"Yes, and commoners. We usually don't see this level of outer beauty from your world." Tamaki flattered. "Just as I expected."
"Liar." Koizumi said.
"And don't we live in the same world?" Airi asked.
He pointed at the girls, ignoring their statements."Starting this afternoon, you'll be tested on your hospitality skills and charming attitude. If you succeed, you'll graduate from trivial chores and be an official member of the host club!"
"A hostess? Us? ME?" Koizumi gasped.
"If you gather a hundred customers that designate you, your eight million debt will be gone." Kyoya noted.
"Airi!"
"Koimi!" The girls said grasping each other's hands, eyes twinkling dramatically.
""We'll succeed!""
~~The girls being tested~~
The moment the Mitsuki twins walked back into the Host Club they got caught by three girls and dragged down to one of the empty couches.
"Say, how did your hair get so silky?" One of the girls asked while she brushed Airi's hair with her fingers.
The eight million yen debt will disappear, anwer correctly! Airi though to herself before answering.
"I usually keep this a secret, but," Airi said leaning forward while brushing the other girls hair, "Since your hair is more silky than mine, " Jackpot! She saw the eyes of the other girl lighten up, "I'll tell you, okay? But keep it a secret." She whispered in her ear. Airi could swear the other girl started blushing.
"Koizumi-san, " Another girl asked, "What exactly do commoners like you do in your free time?"
"I really like drawing and acting." She answered.
"Really? Can you draw portraits?"
"They're one of my favorites! Would you like me to draw one of you two?"
"I'd love to!"
"Yes, please."
And so it was the Mitsuki twins chatted the whole afternoon about girly things, explaining commoner devices and drawing portraits. The three girls promised to tell other girls and guys about them, and then they left around closing time.
"They were accepted even though they're girls." Kyoya said, correcting his glasses with his middle finger.
""They don't need any techniques.""
"Mitsukis! Get over here!" Tamaki waved them to come.
"Oh no, what now…"
"Come on Airi, it can't be as bad as you think."
"Did something good happen to you today?"
"Uhm-"
Koizumi's answer was interrupted by Tamaki's blabbering. "First of all I'd like to say: Congratulations! You're an official member of the Host Club!"
"Yay!" Koizumi said sarcastically, but meant it.
"And second of all, Airi!"
"What?"
"Show me how you'd greet customers – male customers."
"Why?"
"Because I am the King of the Host Club!"
Arg, He's such a spoiled brat. She sighed, but did it. She stepped back, focusing on Tamaki's eyes, smiled lightly while deliberately blushing. "Welcome to the Host Club," She said looking up through her eyelashes, blinking twice. "And thank you for having me." She said in a soft voice, almost sounding as if she were singing. She bowed princess-like.
"Gak!" Tamaki looked shocked. "That's so cute Airi! And here I though you couldn't act like a lady! Good! Good! Very Good!" She tried to catch her to hug her, but she stepped away from him.
"Come on, come back to papa's arms!"
Snatch. Koizumi pulled Airi away from Tamaki and pushed him away from them.
"Come on, " She said while she let her bangs cover her eyes, "Let's go home."
"Koimi…"
""Eh? Already?"" The twins said as if they were enjoying themselves very much.
"YES, ALREADY!" Koizumi shouted.
"Hey, Koimi, calm down!" Airi said while she got tugged out of the room.
"I am calm!"
"NO you're not." They were in the hallways now.
"YES I am."
"Hey, I didn't like the comment too, but did you see me flipping?"
"You're just too calm! How can you let him, let anybody use the appointment 'papa' or 'daddy' or 'father' when they're just joking?"
"You're making a bid deal out of nothing. They're spoiled, right? They're rich bastards with too much time on their hands. Their parents are rich too. They don't know what it is like to suffer or struggle for something, because they just have to snap their fingers and get what they want. We know what it is like, they don't. So don't take it to the hearth, okay? Please don't do that."
Koizumi stopped walking. She had been walking so fast it was more like she had been running. They were at the school gate already.
"Promise me you won't." Airi repeated.
"It's just so frustrating."
"Yes I know."
"They don't know anything about us, do they?"
Airi thought about Kyoya. Nah, no way he knew everything. "No, they don't."
"Which means it looks to them like I'm blowing things up out of nothing, right?"
"Well… Yes."
Koizumi chuckled. "O my god, I'm so sorry."
"'S okay. Had to happen sometime."
"They're going to question my behavior tomorrow, aren't they?"
"O shit we have to come back tomorrow!"
"Yes! We're hostesses now, remember?"
"But what about my part-time job?" Airi panicked.
"Haha! That's hilarious! You're in trouble, girl!"
"It's not funny!"
"Yes it is!"
They kept on discussing whether it was funny or not until they got home, unknowing what would happen the next day at school.
Second Chapter - End.
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Airi laughed a little. "Well done, that sounded a lot like him."
"Right? Oh, and also," He held Airi's purse up with one hand, "The finder keeps it all!" He stuck out his tongue.
"No way! Give it back!"
"Catch it! Too high for little Airi?" He held the purse high above his head.
She blushed as she started jumping as she tried to grasp the wallet away from his hand. "Hikaru! Don't be so mean!"
"I am mean so get used to it!" He held the purse behind his body.
"Christ! Give it back!" She said as she per accident jumped against him, making the both of them tilt backwards and fall into the pond.
For one short moment their faces were centimeters away from each other.
And what happens next? Find out in the next chapter...
