Chapter 3
"hey Ryoko I forget why are you called the charming monster?" "well everyone thinks it's because I'm pretty but fight like the devil himself... But it's actually a really girly reason." she scooted in."do you remember that story our maid used to tell us as kids?" "no?"
"there was once a monster who took the form of a lovely girl. She would come into the nearby village and people would praise her. She was sought my many suiters but never once accepted them. One day she came across an injured rabbit and she gave him life again. He thanked her and said he would always protect her and stay by her side. One day the king of this land heard of her healing powers and decided he wanted to live forever. He sent his troops into the village to try and take her. But the rabbit came and he turned into a monster to protect her. Eventually they killed the rabbit by stabbing his heart and they took the charming monster. The next day when they went into her room she was found dead. For you see she had given her heart to the rabbit. And when he died so did she."
Yuuki started to tear up, "Ryoko! Don't ever give your heart away okay?" "too late haha." "oh yeah. Haha. But that still doesn't explain it?" "oh yeah? Well dad wanted to give me a name that sounded scary and I said charming monster, he agreed not knowing the story." "that's so like you."
The next day at the host club
"charming monster?" I turned around and it was Mori. HE CAN'T KNOW IM A GIRL OR HE'LL THINK I'M WEAK! I deepened my voice a bit to sound tough. "uh yeah, totally. I'm like pretty but dont mess with me! You know heh." he put his large hand on my head and ruffled my hair, "have you found your rabbit yet?" my eyes widened, is this a love confession! Dear god in heaven THANK YOU! He smiled, "just be yourself." I nodded. ANYTHING FOR YOU MORI! I LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU! I CAN BARELY HOLD IT IN! "yeah yeah, whatever." I moved his hand. Why did I do that! He walked back to Honny. That was my chance and now it's gone.
"so what were you and Mori talking about?" I turned around to the Hitachiin Twins. "what does it matter to you?" "no reason, so tell us." I definitely can't tell these guys. "ways to mutilate ginger haired twins." I said sarcastically. They looked a little frightened but then they looked like they were scheming something. Oh crap, twins with time on their hands are the devil, and I would know! "Why don't you and Yuuki come with the host club to the beach, guests are invited." I stared at them. What are they planning to do with Yuuki? Well if other guests are invited then it should be okay, "on one condition." "yeah what's that?" "Kasanoda has to come." they looked at each other, "why should he go?" "because heh heh heh" I had an evil smile.
"let's see, if you win the witch one us Hikaru game then he can go. If we win he can't come and you're going to help us kidnap Haruhi so we can dress her up." "yeah okay. That works. Let's do this." they put on hats and started swapping back and forth. "alright witch one is Hikaru." "on the left is Hikaru." "reasoning?" "Kaoru is gayer than Hikaru." "what? Am not!" said the one on the right. "well looks like theres no denying it, I win. Be sure to invite Kasanoda later." I walked off giving a wink to my sister. She had no idea what it meant... The thing is if everything works out on this beach trip... Then I'm home free with Mori!
Reluctantly the twins had me ask, "hey Kasanoda wanna come to the beach? After all you are a guest of Haruhi's." I felt two glaring eyes behind me, I turned to find poker faced twins and then I looked back to Kasanoda who looked scared, "uh I'm busy that weekend! Well gotta go!" he ran off. I turned and glared at them, "you guys are gonna get it..." "whatever, come one Kaoru, let's go home." I saw Kaoru look at Hikaru a little nervous, are they okay?
"Hey Kaoru!" I called. He turned around. "Im sorry I called you gay! I was wrong!" Hikaru looked confused and Kaoru just turned back away. There's a difference between gay incest and worrying about your twin. They must have been Alone their whole lives, I remember when Yuuki and I were something like that, only we didn't even get along with eachother. So we were separate where as they had each other, one day she became a demon and beat me in a fight and somehow we became close after that and then once we could accept each other, we could accept other people and we made some friends. Im sure their story is different, but when I saw Kaoru he seemed to cling to Hikaru a bit, which makes me think they've only had eachother their whole lives. I wonder what changed that?
At home
"We're going to the beach!" "yeah somehow we got roped into it." "mehhhhh..." "yeah I know... I mean I can't swim... So this is gonna suck." "yeah and with those annoying twins." "Yuuki... Could we give them a chance? I mean they seem okay?" "oh I get it, digging up info on the enemy. Let's do it!" "uh... Yeah sure." they seem so close, I wonder if my sister and I could be close like that? I'm a no homo way! "uh Yuuki?" "yeah?" "never mind!" "what?" "nothing... I was just curious about them..." "yeah? Whatever. Good night."
At the beach
"Yuuki... There's allot of water..." "well what did you expect? It's the beach?" "I know... But..." remember when I said there were few things that scared me and one of them was Yuuki? Well there's only one other and that happens to be the water, but Yuuki didn't know that, she just knew I couldn't swim. "Ryoko want me to teach you now?" "oh god no! Not in front of them! I'll never live it down." Yuuki ran off into the water and I just found a shore line rock to sit on.
"hello my princess." "TAMAKI! this is my rock! Step down!" "oh don't shy away from me darling." I looked behind me to a line of girls, so this is an attraction... He held me, "it's so lovely just the two of us." "GAH!" I sprung out of his hold and fell in the water.
