I'm back! (throws confetti in the air) So, how are you all? I'm reallyreallyreallyreally sorry for the delay! I've had to do a lot of work at school, and… Let's be honest, I've been reading manga and watching anime A LOT, and some times being lazy… I'M SORRY! TT^TT With the summer holiday here I should have more time for writing. I won't promise anything, though. More like I CAN'T promise anything.

Thanks to LilMissCaprice for the review: I'm glad you like the story that much!

And thanks to RockStar-DJ-Girl and Tsuyomi Vampire Princess for the favorite :D

Disclaimer: I don't own Ouran High School Host Club, all rights go to Hatori Bisco. But, I do own Sakura and Tsubasa.

Indications (I've already corrected it in the previous chapter):

"Christmas party": normal speech

"Christmas party": Hitachiin twins

"Christmas party": Hiroyuki twins

'Christmas party': thoughts

Now, let's go~~!

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Chapter 2: The job of a high school host!

Tsubasa POV

"Achoo!" I woke up sneezing. Geez, what a great way to start the day. Half sleep, I searched for the blanket, and I found Sakura had it with her. Annoyed and cold, I snuggled close to her. "What are you doing Tsubasa?" my sleepy sister asked. "Let go of me." "But it's cooooold~~! Besides, you took the blanket from me, so if I catch a cold, I'll blame you, okay?" I said. She didn't like it, and got up suddenly, surprising me. "Anyway, let's get dressed, or we'll be late for school." "Okay." I yawned.

"What are you going to wear today, Sakura?" She thought about it for a moment. "The dress, I think. It's warmer than the skirt… What are you doing?" I peeked from under the covers. "I'm covering myself with the blanket, duh." "I can see that. What I meant was, why aren't you getting dressed?" "Because it's cold~~ And I'm sleepy~~ !" A vein mark popped on her head, and she pulled the blankets, throwing me out of the bed in the process. "ONEE-CHAN! Why did you do that?" "Your laziness won't make us be late. Now, get dressed!" "Okay…"

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"Cold cold cold cold cold cold cold cold: IT'S COLD!" I protested. "Tsu-chan, you are really sensitive to cold weather, nee?" Honey-senpai asked. We were going to the club room: Sakura, Hikaru, Kaoru, Honey-senpai, Mori-senpai and -obviously- me. "Well, after all, it's nearly Christmas, what did you expect? A blinding sunshine?" the twins said.

I gave them my special glare, but they didn't notice it. "Besides, it's not that cold inside the school building. Aren't you exaggerating a little too much?" Hikaru pointed my cream colored scarf. "You even left half of your hair down. Does it do anything against the cold?" said Kaoru, referring to my little side bun. I started to do turns in front of them, hitting them with the fluffy balls at the ends of the scarf. They all sweat dropped. "Guys, stop it, will you? We have enough with Tamaki-senpai being overexcited for today's theme." Sakura sighed. 'Ah, that's right! Today we're doing cosplay'. I prayed the costumes would be warm ones. Maybe Tamaki-senpai got obsessed with the North Pole, and we would wear those warm looking anoraks…

We opened the door and stared at the decorator company decorate the room with exotic plants- which gave me a really, really bad feeling. "Please, tell me I'm wrong, and I'm not seeing a tropical jungle in front of us right now." Silence answered me. "Ah, there you are." Kyouya-senpai said. "Kyo-chan, today's theme is…" asked Honey-senpai. "Well, Tamaki decided we would do a Bali theme. I guess there aren't any complaints?" They all stared at me, and I was hiding my eyes under my fringe. I lifted my head and smiled sweetly, a deadly sweet smile. "Of course not! To you, at least. Now, could you tell me the whereabouts of Suoh-senpai?" A sweet smile + black aura showing behind my back + polite language + me = homicide/murder. "He's-"

"There you are! What did take you so long? Anyway, look at the dresses! The ladies will be pleased for sure." There was Tamaki-senpai, holding a skimp- I mean, tropical –rather exposing- outfit. There went my igloos, my warm anorak… "Now we just have to convince Haruhi to wear a matching outfit with mine, and we can start our love story, and-" He kept rambling and rambling, until I couldn't keep my cool anymore.

SNAP

"Snap?" asked all. I smiled at them, and they backed away. "Please, excuse me while I'm killing him." "Don't harm him too badly, though. We have customers to attend later." Kyouya-senpai said. He started to write something on his notebook. "I can't promise anything." Finally, Tamaki-senpai realized the aura around me, and started to get scared. "Err, Ts-Tsubasa-s-sama, is there a-anything wro-wrong?"

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

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"Stupid Tamaki, always giving trouble to others!" Sakura and I were in the changing room. "And what's with this skimpy outfit? We're in the middle of December, for God's sake!" "Now, now, relax Tsubasa. I think he'll think twice before doing anything anymore, so let's just get this over the sooner we can, okay?" Sakura smiled at me. Sigh, I can say no to her. "You're right. Can you help me with the top?" she grinned.

When we had the dress on, I asked her: "Are you okay with tying your hair up?" "Yes, just this once." I made a messy bun, and I tied my hair in a low side ponytail. "Let's see how the boys are doing."

We stepped outside, and lost our way inside the jungle. "… I'll go look to the right, and you'll go to the left." I nodded, and started searching for anything that could lead me to a safe place. I mean, there were living animals in there! 'Who puts real exotic animals in a school room? Oh, the ones who create a real jungle in a school room. Great, Tsubasa.'

While I was having my little internal rant, I bumped into something… but maybe someone would be more appropriate. I looked up to Mori-senpai and apologized. Just then, I looked at him again: he was shirtless! Tomatoes were jealous of me, I'll tell you. I mean, I don't feel anything special towards him, he's like an older brother to us… but he's still handsome. In fact all of them were, and being part of the club doesn't exclude anyone from blushing from time to time. "Mori-senpai, is that your costume?" he nodded. "I see…" I said while fighting my blush. I guess being a kendo champion has its good sides; damn good looking guys. "Where's Honey-senpai? I thought he would be with you." "…Mitsukuni is with Tamaki." "Aah… why don't we go meet the others?" "Hm."

We found the others around Tamaki-senpai's 'throne', as he called it, and of course, all the boys were shirtless. It took all my self-control to not have a nosebleed: a girl's heart can only take this much of shirtless good looking boys at once. A quick glance to my sister's direction confirmed my thoughts: she wasn't any better than me. Gosh, and earlier I was whimpering about the cold.

"Here you are." I turned around and faced Kaoru. "Tono was beginning to get hysterical and saying something about calling the research team… So, you finally put on the dress, huh?" I looked at him crossing my arms. "Yeah, so? Even someone like me can be rational sometimes." I joked. He backed away a little, and looked at me from head to toe. "W-what?" he was making me nervous. "Wait a moment." He took a red hibiscus from a bush, and put it above my ear. "There, it suits you."

I stared blankly at him, and my face got 10 different shades of red before some smoke popped out of my head. "Umm, Tsubasa … are you okay?" he asked. "I think I need some air."

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Haruhi POV

I was running through the school, directly to the top floor of south campus, at the end of the north corridor. I was late, really late for club activities. 'Shoot… I spent too much time in the library. I wonder what they will do to me if I'm late.' I thought. They were the weirdest bunch of people I had ever met. It's not every day you see a carefree blond, a cold looking glasses guy, a small senpai, a quiet giant and two pairs of mischievous twins all together in a room. Furthermore, I contracted a debt with these people. Those last days were tiring, yes they were.

'Well, I'm getting used to their speeches and actions.' I arrived at the third music room, and opened the door. 'So I won't be surprised by them so easily-…' There were palm trees and exotic flowers everywhere: when I opened the door, it was a southern country. All the members were dressed in tropical (?) outfits, even Tsubasa-san, who that morning was protesting against the cold. "Welcome"

I thought I wouldn't be surprised anymore: epic fail. "Oh, it's you, Haruhi. You're late." I heard Hikaru say. "I thought I was a guest, so we positioned ourselves." Kaoru said. I couldn't believe they made a jungle in the middle of the room, in the middle of December… but I wasn't sure of which month we were in anymore, so I took my portable calendar out of my bag. "According to my calendar, it is the middle of December…" "Heh. It's only a commoner's feeling to be afraid of the cold and put yourself into a kotatsu! Why do we have this perfect air conditioning system?" Tamaki-senpai started to babble. "Why don't they put this perfect air conditioning system in the corridors, I wonder?" I heard Tsubasa-san say, her voice filled with sarcasm. I saw Tamaki-senpai backing away from her, looking scared. 'I wonder what happened…?'

Tamaki-senpai continued. "A good man cannot hide his beautiful body by wearing lots of clothes! It's winter, that's why we welcome all those little kittens with warm southern country aura… Yes… This is the ultimate Eden! Sparkling handsome oasis…! It is the real gentlemanly way, isn't it?" "Is that so? I think it's rather cold, for another reason. Besides, Tsubasa-san doesn't look like she agrees with you…" she was giving him a cold glare, and Sakura-san was trying to calm her down. "W-well… Let's not worry about that now! You know, December has the big event, when we'll be shining the most! The Christmas party, Haruhi!" 'Christmas party? What's that?'

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Host club time~~~~

"How miserable…! My smooth skin, like ivory, my moderately tightened muscles, king of Bali's costume that looks very good on me…" Tamaki-senpai stood close to the girl's face. "Everything is just a faithful servant who kneels in front of the goddess (you)…" "Tamaki-kun…!" Whispered the girl. I turned my eyes to the other side of the room.

"What are you doing for the Christmas party?" asked another girl. "Well, we reserved the entire large hall in the central campus so there will be a dance." started Hikaru. "And we're thinking of having some casinos. Of course it will come with rewards." said Kaoru. "Actually I wanted to spend some time alone, Kaoru…" "Don't say that, Hikaru…! I wanted it to…!" They leaned closer to each other. All their guests started to squeal loudly.

Sighing, I turned to Kyouya-senpai. "…It seems like the guests' tension is higher than usual… they've lost their minds…" I said. "Being slightly naked is popular. We had another plan, too, though. Santa Claus' costume play." 'I wonder why Tamaki-senpai changed the theme.' I saw the Hiroyuki twins were approaching us. "…I'm glad I put that Bali scenery photo book in front of Tamaki. Of course I don't have any say over this…" He finished with a business like smile. 'He's like a dark king…' I swear, this guy is the most dangerous of all them.

"WHAT!" I looked at the twin girls. "How could you!" Their reactions were quite similar, both with red faces and embarrassed (?) expressions, but they surprised me. Maybe I expected Sakura-san to be calmer than Tsubasa-san… Then again, I shouldn't judge a book by its cover… I realized Tsubasa-san was shouting at Kyouya-senpai, I never thought someone would have the courage to do that… even if I only had been some time with the club. "We could be wearing warm, less exposing costumes right now, you know?!" Tsubasa-san said. "She's right! Even something like Santa Claus is better than this!"Sakura-san continued. "If you wanted to see Sakura in a tropical skirt that bad you just had to say so!" "Of cou- TSUBASA!" Sakura-san looked at her sister. 'Why did she say that?' Ignoring her, Tsubasa-san started talking -more like shouting- to Kyouya-senpai in a foreign language… English, maybe? But it didn't sound like it…

I turned to Sakura-san, who was hiding her face in her hands. "Sakura-san, are you okay?" I asked. She looked at me. "Yes, thank you. Oh, and Sakura alone is fine, the same with Tsubasa." She smiled, and I returned her smile. "I see you escaped Tamaki-senpai and his matching dress." I cringed at the memory of the dress. "Somehow…" I muttered. "Lucky girl… Tsubasa, LANGUAGE!" she turned to shout to her sister. "But-" Tsubasa was interrupted by the guests in the nearby table.

"KYAAA! Honey-kun, kawaii!" Honey-senpai showed the girl his flower necklace. "This is Bali's national flower~~ We imported it." He looked back. "Ah, Takashi, Takashi!" he went to Mori-senpai. He climbed Mori-senpai like a koala would climb a tree, and put a flower necklace on him. "Yay! We're wearing the same clothes! 3" some girls fainted.

By now, Tsubasa was staring at them with a blank expression. Sakura looked at me. "Haruhi, isn't your host time starting soon? And Tsubasa, let's go talk with Kyouya-senpai over there, okay?" she sweat dropped a little at her twin's sour face. Seeing as she was right, I went to my assigned table.

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'They don't make any sense, as usual…' I thought while looking around the room. How did I end up with these kinds of people, again? "Haruhi-kun, Haruhi-kun!" I turned around to face my customers. "Why don't you wear a southern country costume? I want to see!" said the girl who had called me. "Oh no, I'm…" what could I say to answer that? "I think it's only natural to wear warm clothes in the winter." 'Please let them buy it, please let them buy it!' "I see, you value the seasons… That's wonderful, too." Said another girl. I sighed with relief.

"Then I wish it'd snow on Christmas" the first girl sighed dreamily. "Kya! Be close to each other in the snow! That's my ideal…" the other one said. "Hmmm… Is that so…?" I smiled at them. "Both of you have your little dreams, and that's very cute." I said sincerely to them. I don't know why, but both of them blushed. Then one of them said "I… I could go into a snowstorm if I were with you…" at least, that's what I think she said, but I wasn't sure. "Huh? Snow-mountain climbing?" I asked.

"Excuse me? I believe it's almost time for my turn…" someone said from behind. I turned around and saw a girl with short hair and brown eyes. 'I think she's a senpai…' I took the list with my customers' names, which Kyouya-senpai had given me my second day here. "Ah. I'm sorry. You must be the one who made a reservation… Well, your name is…" I looked at the list.

"I'm Kasugasaki Kanako from second year class B." She tilted my chin upwards. "You are cuter than I heard. I've decided. I'll let you be my favorite."

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Sakura POV

Slurp. "I don't understand…!" Tamaki-senpai said. Sluuurp. He was eating ramen in a dark corner of the room. Loudly. "Tono~ Stop eating peasants' ramen and help us make the final plans. We have only one week until the party." Hikaru called him. "He didn't like it that Kasuga-hime took Haruhi?" Kaoru asked. "It's not like her illness just started." Kyouya-senpai said. "Nor it's the first time he's been like this." I pointed out.

"Illness?" Haruhi asked. "So-called 'switching guys disease'." "Also known as 'host club wanderer'." Tsubasa completed the twins' sentence. "Usually regular guests stick to one host forever… But she likes to change her favorite every now and then." Kyouya-senpai explained. "Everybody's probably had her at least twice…" I thought out loud. "It was Tama-chan's turn until a while ago~." Honey-senpai said.

"Tamaki-senpai…" I started, "…And Kasuga-hime…" Tsubasa continued. "It was like watching a sappy romance movie!" we laughed together. "I see…"Haruhi said, and we all looked at Tamaki-senpai. "All because I took his guest…" she didn't look sorry at all. "NO! That's not it!" Now he was mad. "Wow, Tamaki-senpai, relax!" Tsubasa held her hands up in an 'I surrender' stance. "There's no need to get this worked up" the twins said.

"I cannot stand it anymore, Haruhi!" he pointed at her. Had no one ever taught him not to point at other people? "Wear proper girls' clothing!" "Huh?" said girl sweat dropped. "How can you be so popular among girls when you yourself are a girl?!" 'Maybe because she's so easy to talk to that the girls are attracted to her without realizing she's a girl herself, like I've been trying to tell you every single time you've asked the SAME question.' I rolled my eyes, there was no use trying to tell that to him now. He continued rambling. "I tell you, it's only the club members that know you are a girl! Argh, I CAN'T TAKE IT! It's against my gentlemen's policy to lie to the poor girls!" Poor girls? Where?

"She's not taking PE classes since it's an elective," started Hikaru. "And the students' ID numbers are co-ed, so nobody would know!" finished Kaoru. Tsubasa wacked them both with THE paper fan. Aah~, it had been so long since she last used it… "Stop adding fuel to the fire, you two!" she said. They rubbed the back of their heads while shooting dirty looks at the paper fan. 'They really hate it, don't they?' I sweat dropped. Well, it was our fault they did, somehow…

Tamaki-senpai took a trunk out of nowhere and started to look for something inside it. It had the inscription 'King's private stuff' in it. Typical Tamaki-senpai. "Dad… Dad wants…" Oh no, he started referring to himself as 'Dad' again… "Dad wants to see when you were like this~! Look at this cuteness!" He said crying. He took out a photo of a cute girl with long straight hair and big eyes… in other words, a photo of Haruhi in third year of middle school. How he got his hands on it was a real mystery… "Don't just enlarge my photo without my permission!" Haruhi said, all freaked out.

We all were looking at the photo. "I wonder every time I look at this-. How can this" Hikaru pointed the photo "become this?" he pointed at Haruhi in front of us. "Yeah… My hair… I got a bubble gum in my hair from my neighbor's kid on the first day of school…" "Devil kid" we said. "I thought it was troublesome, so I just cut it." "On your own?" we were horrified, to say at least. "Yeah, and as I told you before, I lost my contact lenses. My dad stepped on them a while back and they broke." "What a sloppy reason…" Tamaki-senpai was crying in a handkerchief.

"I (ore) don't really mind being treated as a guy. I don't really care. Actually, that's better because I can pay my quota of 1000 people and pay off the debt of 8 million yen. So…" Haruhi said. What's with that way of thinking? I didn't dislike her or anything, but as a girl I felt a little hurt. No girl would like being mistaken for a boy, would she? By now, Tamaki-senpai was out of his mind. "A girl cannot address herself with 'ore'!" "But if she addressed herself properly as a girl, she would be discovered right away, right?" Honey-senpai said. Mori-senpai, Tsubasa and I nodded. He had a point there… Tamaki-senpai turned to look at Kyouya-senpai. "MOM! Haruhi uses bad words~!" he said. "Mom? Who?" Kaoru asked. "Probably me… I'm guessing." Kyouya-senpai answered.

While Kyouya-senpai, Mori-senpai, Honey-senpai and Tsubasa comforted Tamaki-senpai, Hikaru, Kaoru and me took Haruhi away from said blond. "Unexpectedly Tono dreams about his ideal girl. Haruhi, he's scary, so come this way." Hikaru said. "By the way, do you have any experience in social dance? It's a must for the party." Kaoru said. "Huh?" I looked her in the eye. "Haruhi, you know how to dance, right?" She averted her eyes. "Right?" I repeated. "No… No way. But the party doesn´t count for the quota, does it?" She really thought that way, didn't she?

I looked at Tamaki-senpai, who was listening to what she was saying. "I'm not interested in the event, either, so I'd rather skip…" Tsubasa, who was now by my side, smirked. "Heh, and I thought you said that you wanted to disguise as a boy to repay your debt as soon as possible… Not that you'll be able like this." She crossed her arms, and I side-glanced at her. It wasn't usual for her to be this rude, even if she was joking.

"Fine! If you want to walk the road of men, let me help you!" So Tamaki-senpai noticed it too, eh? Good distraction. Tsubasa went to the window. "Social dance is a gentleman's common knowledge!" He pointed at Haruhi, who looked scared. "If you can master the waltz in one week and show it off in the party, I'll reduce your debt by half!" Wow, how generous of him…

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"Now we just need to find a teacher suitable for her, right?" I asked Kyouya-senpai. "Why doesn't one of you teach her?" he asked. "Because-" "Because we know she's a girl, and our teaching won't be as good as if someone who doesn't know of her real gender teaches her." Tsubasa said. For once she was looking serious. Well, not serious but… melancholic. I put on an energetic smile. "Exactly! Besides, I already have someone in mind." I took Tsubasa's hand and dragged her to the door. "Now we'll go to fetch her. See you later!" I waved at them and run to the second years' east building.

I stopped to catch my breath again, Tsubasa was panting too. "What… (pant)was that… (pant)Sakura?" "My… (pant)way of… (pant)getting… (pant)out of… (huff)there." I said between pants. "Okay, now tell me." I looked expectantly at her. "Tell you what?" she was averting her eyes: she knew exactly what I was talking about. "Why are you so melancholic today?" she stared at me like it was the first time she had ever seen me. "Well?" I smiled at her. She returned the smile with watery eyes. "Melancholic is a beautiful way of saying it." She started to sob.

I hugged her close to me. "Oh, Flügel*…" I said using the German translation of her name. I knew she loved it. She giggled a little, and I smiled. "I'm your twin sister, but I can't read your mind, you know." I joked. "So tell me what's going through your head from time to time, okay?" I kissed her cheeks and wiped her tears out of her eyes. "I'm sorry." She said. "I guess the stress from the ball, the cold weather and the teenage hormones are affecting me more than I thought." She wasn't telling all the truth.

"Listen, I understand that thing about the stress, maybe even that about the hormones, but you and I know ALL winters are cold and that you haven't told me all the truth." She got a little away from me, just enough to look at me in the eyes. I rested my forehead against hers. "… Hearing a girl saying she doesn't care about her appearance, or that she doesn't mind being mistaken for a guy takes the worst out of me, I guess." Now I understood it. It really was Haruhi's comment from before. The way we had the same thoughts at the same time sometimes really amazed me, thought I should be used to it. I laughed, and she pouted. "What's so funny?" Gosh, I couldn't stop laughing, she was so cute!

"Onee-chan, did you go mad already?" I wacked her in the forehead. "Ouch!" "Silly, silly Tsubasa… What are we going to do with you?" She put on an exaggerated thinking face. "You could buy me sweets on the way home." She said in a hopeful tone.

Finally, I stopped laughing, and I sighed. "You got worked up over nothing. I understand you didn't like what Haruhi said, but she didn't mean any harm, you know." "Yeah, I know." I tilted my head. "And…?" She sighed. "And I shouldn't take my unreasonable anger on others or throw a tantrum like a little kid because I'll be the one who will end up seen as a fool, unsociable person. Besides, it's not like I dislike her, it's just that we don't have the same opinion over a similar matter." I sweat dropped. "Yes, something like that… but," I looked out through the window. "your opinions might not be that far apart, after all." "…Maybe." She hugged me again. "Thank you, Sakura." "Anytime, Tsubasa."

"Now that I feel better, who are we looking for?" I stared at her for a few seconds. "You tell me, I have no idea." She nearly did an anime fall there. She started to massage her temples. "How about Kasuga-senpai? That way we might discover the reason why she changes hosts so much." "Good idea, let's go!" I took her hand and started to run again. "Wait a moment, Sakuraaa~!"

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Tsubasa POV

Next day after club activities~~~~

Gentlemen's knowledge, part 1.

"Shall we? Haruhi-kun."

Dance basics are the steps.

"Quick (right), quick (left), slow (right). You put your legs together at the 'pause'." Kasuga-senpai said.

"I say we put cream colored cloth here, and this red curtains over there. How about it, Kyouya-senpai?" I asked. We were deciding the decoration for the upcoming Christmas party while Kasuga-senpai was teaching Haruhi how to dance.

"The gentleman always leads. Please look at your partner closely." Kasuga-senpai corrected Haruhi. "Y-Yes."

"I'll trust you two on this matter, seeing our 'King' is indisposed right now." Kyouya-senpai said. "Then, I suggest we use this color here, and this one there." Sakura said. "Maybe… But don't you think it will look too bright? It's a Christmas party, after all…" I looked at the dancing couple; Haruhi was doing a pretty good job-

"WAH." "KYA."…Until she stepped on her partner's foot and fell on the floor, that is. "I'm sorry, Kasugasaki-san…!" Haruhi blushed, embarrassed. "It's all right, Haruhi-kun…" Kasuga-senpai held Haruhi WAY too close to her. Wait, were those flowers around them? "I don't know who I'm worried about the most anymore…"Sakura muttered. I looked at her. "What do you mean?" Kyouya-senpai pointed to the window's seat with his pen. I sweat dropped: Tamaki-senpai had a black, depressing aura around him, and a lost look on his face.

"Tono's acting blue. And he's posing like a model." Hikaru said. "I heard he wanted to be the practice partner. If you think about it, he will never be Haruhi's female practice partner because of their height. How stupid." Kaoru said. How come they weren't helping us plan the party? I got up from the table and went to those two.

"Eeeh~? We're ok with it~!" Honey-senpai said. He was dancing –sort of- with Mori-senpai. The question was: Who was the female partner? "Honey-senpai and Mori-senpai are good." I stood behind them, paper fan raised, and ready to strike. "You guys are out of common sense already." I wacked them in the head. "OUCH! Oi, Tsubasa!" "How…"Hikaru started. "…Is it possible…"Kaoru said. "…That you wacked…" "…us both…" "…Twice in two days?!" "That's for me to know and you to never find out." I said as a matter of fact. They stared at me with blank faces. "Anyway, if you have time to be lazy, you'll have time to help us prepare the party, right?" I said pointing the table were Sakura was discussing something with Kyouya-senpai.

"We got it, we got it." They said. "There's no need to be that demanding, you know." Hikaru complained. "…You really want me to hit you again, don't you?" I asked. "N-no Ma'am!" "Then get to work, you both!" "Right away, Ma'am" They saluted like military and ran towards my sister. "Geez, those two…" I smiled a little, and then I looked at the paper fan. "It's not that scary, is it?" I asked out loud tilting my head to the side. I shrugged and walked towards the table.

"Huh, where are Haruhi and Kasuga-senpai?" I didn't notice them leaving the room. "There was a little accident in which Kasuga-hime spilled some tea. Haruhi took her to the infirmary." Kyouya-senpai said. "I see…" Who would have thought Kasuga-senpai was a clumsy girl? "Tamaki-senpai, how long do you plan to be all depressed? We have a party to plan, you know." Sakura said. "But… Haruhi… practice partner…" He mumbled. "You are still at it?" Kaoru said. "Get over with it quickly, Tono. You don't want to be the target of…" Hikaru looked at Sakura and me. "…Their wrath." Tamaki-senpai looked at us, shivered and got up at lightning speed. "Come, my faithful teammates: we have a Christmas party to put in motion!" He said pointing to his imaginary sunset. We sweat dropped. "You didn't have to put it that way…"

Suddenly, I felt someone tugging my skirt. "Tsu-chan, Saku-chan." We looked down, and saw Honey-senpai with watery eyes. "Have you seen Usa-chan? I can't find him anywhere~" He said, and pink flowers floated around him. We hugged him between us. "So cute, Honey-senpai~" Hikaru, Kaoru and Tamaki-senpai sweat dropped at the scene. "Don't worry, we'll help you find Usa-chan." Sakura said. "Actually, isn't Usa-chan there, on the floor?" I asked. "Wah~! Usa-chan! What are you doing there?" He jumped off of between us and ran to it. Somehow, he tripped and fell to the floor, and Mori-senpai stepped on him.

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"WAAAAH~~~" "HONEY-senpai!" "HONEY-senpai, HANG IN THERE!" "Mori-senpai, take him to the infirmary right now!" Kyouya-senpai instructed. Mori-senpai nodded and ran to the infirmary while carrying Honey-senpai and leaving a cloud of dust behind. "Honey-senpai was… Honey-senpai was…" Tamaki-senpai looked ready to faint at any moment. "WAH! TONO! Don't die on us!"

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A few injured people and some minutes later~~~~

Haruhi POV

Gentlemen's knowledge, part 2.

"Everyone! Discuss Mr. Suzushima and Kasuga-hime's discord!"

Heated discussion will develop an independent mind.

After Honey-senpai, Mori-senpai and I returned from the infirmary, we told the rest of the club what had happened between Kasugasaki-san and Suzushima-senpai. For some reason I'll never understand, Tamaki-senpai decided it was the club's duty to help them reconcile with each other. "Excuse me… What happened to my dance lesson…?" No one answered me: they were all waiting for they turn to speak. Tamaki-senpai started pointing at Hikaru and Kaoru. "Starting with you, Hitachiin brothers!"

"YES SIR! They're childhood friends. It seems their parents decided their engagement!" How did they know about that? I thought these kinds of things were considered private information…? "Next! Kyouya, report about Mr. Suzushima!" "Okay: excellent grades. Normal pedigree, normal appearance. So called 'C' class."

"His seriousness is his strong point, and he'll be studying in the UK starting next spring. His weakness is…" "He's not very impressive. Faint-hearted." "In short, he's plain. That's all." Kyouya-senpai concluded. "Hmm… Makes sense." Tamaki-senpai said. "They don't have any mercy over guys…" I whispered, sweat dropping. And how in the world did that make sense? "Well, Haruhi, the host club wasn't called the 'Invincible Class A Group' for nothing." Tsubasa said. "Besides, any guy would look plain by their side… But-" Sakura took the notebook with Suzushima-senpai's information from Kyouya-senpai's hands and looked at the picture. "See, he is kind of cute, too." " Really? Let me see… Hmm, you're right." They looked at the rest of the club members. "What?" We were all looking at them with wide eyes, except for Kyouya-senpai, who didn't show any emotion.

"She took the Shadow King's notebook as if it was normal!" the twin boys said. 'I never thought someone would be brave enough to do that. Wait, is it really ok to call him Shadow King?' The girls looked at the notebook, then at us again. Suddenly, Tsubasa had come to our side and was hugging me for dear life, although she was grinning, not scared. "Oh my god, she did!" she said, excited. "More like Kyouya LET her take his notebook!" Tamaki-senpai said, shocked. Tilting her head to the side, Sakura looked confused. "I don't see what the problem is." She closed the notebook, and handed it to Kyouya-senpai. "Anyway, let's return at the matter in hand, please." " 'Kay…" was the general answer.

"The reason for the princess' illness, 'Marrying such a dumb man in the future is the stupidest thing to do'." Kyouya-senpai said. " 'For now, she just wants to play around.' If you think, that's the flow." Hikaru said. " Can't help it with that plain guy." Kaoru said, as if it was an obvious thing. "Hmm… Is that how it is? I can agree with the flow, but…" Somehow, it didn't look that way to me. "Maybe he has a secret girlfriend?" Sakura said with a finger to her chin, in a thoughtful expression. "Or maybe they had an argument and now they don't know how to act with each other?" Tsubasa said crossing her arms over her chest. "Who knows?" The twins shrugged.

"Haruhi, how's your dancing coming?" Hikaru asked me. "If I could practice today." I sighed. "We would help you, but…" the twin girls looked over the table, full of papers and cloth samples. "It's okay, I understand. Thank you, anyway." They smiled apologetically at me. "Well, I'm sure it'll be okay." Kaoru said. "By the way," they leaned closer to me. "Here's a question for you." Hikaru said. "If you search on the net for 'Suzushima', what will you get?" Kaoru asked. 'Huh?'

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December 24, 5:00 PM, Central Campus Large Hall~~~~

"Lambs gathered tonight. Give thanks to the fortune that we can attend today, and to the sovereign beauty-ness." The lights started to light the room softly, increasing its brightness little by little. "May the Lord's blessing be with us. Open the door." The lights were at full power now. "Welcome to the Ouran Host club Christmas party…!" Tamaki-senpai said to the guests.

"Whoa~!" "Amazing!" "So pretty…!" I looked around me. Tamaki-senpai and Kyouya-senpai wore clear colored tuxedos, Mori-senpai wore a dark tuxedo, Honey-senpai wore checked pants and necktie, Hikaru and Kaoru were dressed as casino workers, and I was wearing a suit I borrowed from the twin guys. I hadn't seen Sakura or Tsubasa yet, though I knew they were with us before the party started.

"Hello. Why don't you play some cards with us, ladies? If you win one game, you'll gain 1 point and a gorgeous reward! For those of you who get the highest number of points, you will have the chance to dance the last dance with one of our club members!" 'I see. That's why dancing is a must.' It made sense now. "Moreover! The top point-getter will get a blessing kiss from King!" "Kyaaa!" all the guests were a little too excited. Tamaki-senpai got close to one of the guests who were there. "Do your best…" he said in a dreamy voice. "Ye… Yes!"

"Wait a moment, Tamaki-senpai." I turned around to see the twin girls making a STOP motion with their hands. Comments like 'So beautiful', 'You're so pretty, Sakura-onee-sama' and 'I love your outfit, Tsubasa-chan' could be heard from all the ladies there. "Huh?" Tamaki-senpai looked confused. "Really now, Tamaki-senpai." Tsubasa said, somehow disappointed. "You should save your flattery for later." Sakura scolded him, and they both dragged Tamaki-senpai by the back if his clothes, away from the crowd to where the other hosts were. "Saku-chan, Tsu-chan, you look so cute~!" Honey-senpai said. "Yeah, you look pretty." I said.

Tsubasa wore a light purple dress with straight neck-line and a dark purple, long sleeved bolero jacket. The ends of the sleeves were a little bell-like, and had really light ruffle on them. The skirt stopped a few inches above her knees, and was a little more puffed then the uniform they usually wore, and had the same kind of ruffle at the hem. It had some glitter that formed a series of chains around the skirt; they started and ended at her left hip. She had completely white shoes on (I think they were called wedge heels) that were tied around her ankles. Her hair was down, except for the little bun at the upper left side of her head. She had white pearl earrings and a chain bracelet with a little yellow crystal heart on it.

Sakura wore a similar dress, but hers was light blue with a dark blue three-quarter sleeves bolero jacket, without ruffles. The jacket had a high neck, and the skirt wasn't puffy like her sister's. It stopped just under her knees and had the same glitter chains on her right side. She had white closed heels, at the same height as Tsubasa. Her hair was in a braided side bun. Like her twin, she had white pearl earrings and a chain bracelet with a little green crystal heart on it.

"Thank you" they both smiled at us. I was glad; lately, Tsubasa acted a little stiff around me, I think I did something to upset her… "Hey! Haruhi! Why are you so tense?" Tamaki-senpai asked behind me. "Ack!" I turned to look at him. "I'm not used to these events. On Christmas I only eat the cakes that my father brings home from his work." "Eh~ Then Haru-chan, you're alone?" Honey-senpai asked. I nodded. "What do you do…?" Sakura asked.

"Let's see…" I brought my hand to my chin in thought, trying to remember what I had done last year. "I think I watched Katoh family's dinner table Christmas special on TV." They showed some special techniques like cutting the whole cake equally… I think. "Katoh family's…" Tsubasa said. "…Dinner table…" Sakura continued. "… Christmas special? What's that?" they tilted their heads. "Ah, peasants' knowledge program for peasants, huh?" Tamaki-senpai said. "Is that so…" "No relation what so ever for us though. Our living standard is far different." Hikaru and Kaoru shrugged. "Yes, I knew that would be the response. I don't mind." I said without looking at them.

Suddenly, Tamaki-senpai was cupping my face in his hands with tears in his eyes. "Why…! Why are you so plain…! Your lovely Katoh family is being made a fool of! Isn't it a wonderful TV program that makes you feel like you are a part of family?" "How can I love it that much?" I asked. "I get the feeling that Tamaki-senpai probably loves it more than Haruhi." Tsubasa said. There there, my thoughts exactly. Tamaki-senpai sulked.

"Hmm… Gorgeous party doesn't mean anything to you, huh, Haruhi?" Hikaru sighed. "Oh man, no fun." Kaoru said. "Well, why don't you just eat something then?" Kyouya-senpai said. "They are high class foods." Sakura added. "High class foods?" I repeated. "Of course: only the best for our guests, you know." Tsubasa said. High class foods… "Like… Fatty tuna?" I asked with hope. I don't know why, but they all froze for a moment. Suddenly I found myself between the twin guys, with the twin girls holding my hands. "WAH-!" "Somebody! Bring fatty tuna here, quick!" Tamaki-senpai instructed. "What a thrifty person…" Kaoru said. "What a shy person…" Hikaru said. "There's no need to be so shy, Haruhi."Sakura said. "You just have to say what you want right from the start." Tsubasa agreed. "Haru-chan, there's Tupperware, too! Do you want to bring some home?" Honey-senpai asked. Mori-senpai brought a plate of sushi, and Kyouya-senpai was making a phone call. "Hello? Please, add 10 servings of super special sushi. Please be quick." They couldn't be serious… I only asked if there was fancy tuna!

I made my way out of the mess they were creating, and acted as thought I didn't know them. 'How was I so thoughtless…?' I sweat dropped. I turned to my right, and saw Kasugasaki-san. "Kasugasaki-san." "Haruhi-kun! I was looking for you." She greeted me. "Would you please dance with me?" "I don't mind…" then, I got an idea. "Ah! Suzushima-senpai!" I said pointing behind her. "Wah!?" she threw all the plates she was holding, and fell to the floor. She looked like a little lost puppy. 'She's such a cutie…'

"I don't think you can use any tactics." I smiled. "Even if you wander around the host club to gain his attention, you look happier when you you're looking at the tableware." Her eyes widened, and had a faraway look on them, as if she was remembering something. "Suzushima importing main business is tableware importing, isn't it?" She lowered her face, and she looked sad. "…It's ok… He doesn't care about what I do… He decided to study abroad by himself, too… That's why…" Unfortunately, I couldn't hear her finish.

"Found you, Haru-chan." Honey-senpai said. Mori-senpai took me over his shoulder. And they both ran away to God knows where. "Noooo! Let go of meeee!" I shrieked. We arrived at the Large Hall waiting room, where Hikaru, Kaoru, Tsubasa, Sakura and Kyouya-senpai were waiting. "Oh, here she comes." I heard Kaoru say. "Wah? Hey, what are you…" I started to say. Hikaru gave me a bag with clothes and shoved me into the changing room. "No complaints. Just go change your clothes!" "We don't have much time." I heard Tsubasa say.

When I had the new clothes on, the twin guys started to put make-up on me while Sakura did my hairstyle. "Ready? The time limit is 20 minutes, until the climax of the party." Kyouya-senpai explained. "We already sent Suzushima-senpai to the second year's classroom C." Tsubasa added. "Please find his true feelings, ok?" Honey-senpai asked. "How troublesome. Tono suddenly started planning this yesterday. The preparation was so tiresome." Kaoru complained. They had finished with my make-up when Tamaki-senpai burst into the room.

"You shouldn't come to this room all together!" I stood up to look at him. "You need to attend to the guests…" He stopped talking when he saw me: I had a pink dress, pink heels and a long haired wig, similar to my own hairstyle one year ago. "Haru-chan, cute!" Honey-senpai said, excited. 'This wig is heavy.' I walked out of the room, followed by the cheering words of the others. 'And it's hard to walk with these shoes.'

When I arrived at the classroom, I found Suzushima-senpai was already there. "Eh… you sent this…?" He said holding a letter. 'A letter?'

*LOVE- 3

Just thinking about you, my hearts gets crazier and crazier, and I'm so into this love like a hurricane or deep impact! I want to be in love with you. Let's go rendezvous in Noah's arc.*

…THE HELL!?

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Tsubasa POV

"Will she be okay?" I asked to no one in particular. "What do you mean?" "What if Suzushima-senpai doesn't go to the classroom?" We were back to the main room, finishing the final touches of Tamaki-senpai's plan. "Why wouldn't he?" Sakura asked me. I stared at her, sweat dropping. "You haven't read the 'love letter' those three wrote, right?" 'Those three' being Hikaru, Kaoru and Kyouya-senpai. "No… Was it that bad?" "What are you talking about?" Hikaru said. "It was a master piece." Kaoru said. I looked at them for a moment before turning my back to them, and I picked a chocolate candy from the table. "If you say so…"

The candy was delicious! Its flavor seemed to explode in my mouth… Aa, delicious! Sakura elbowed me lightly. "It's time for the countdown." "Oh!" we got a microphone each, and spoke to our guests. "Good night ladies~ We hope you're having a fun Christmas night with us~" I cheered. There were a lot of agreements from the guests. "I don't know if you have noticed it yet, but it's nearly midnight right now." Sakura continued. "We would like your cooperation for the final countdown so…" We looked at Kyouya-senpai, who looked at his watch before giving us a nod. "Okay, are you ready?" The ladies were really excited.

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"The Ouran Host Club wishes you all a Merry Christmas!" The Christmas tree in the garden lighted up, and you could see Kasuga-senpai and Suzushima-senpai under it. 'Looks like the plan worked out well, huh?' Sakura and I looked at each other before bursting in laughter and hugging each other.

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It was the last waltz. "So…" I started. Sakura and I were keeping company to Haruhi, who had sprained her ankle, and couldn't dance. "You ended up not eating any of the feast food." I stated. "And the dance practice came to naught, too." Sakura added. "Also, the decreasing my debt to half deal is gone. But…" We looked directly at her. "I feel happy." She smiled. "Ah!" "What?" "I've meaning to ask, Tsubasa did I upset you?" she asked me. "What do you mean…?" "Well, these past days I've got the feeling that you were angry at me, though I don't know why…" she trailed of.

"Well…" I thought about it: was I angry at her? No, I wasn't. I was angry at myself. Angry because I had left some harmless comment affect me too much. Angry because the rest of the group was accepting her so quickly, but I still saw her as someone who had a debt with the club, not a fellow host. Angry at myself because… "I don't understand you." I said. Haruhi and Sakura stared at me with blank faces. "…Hah?" "I mean, how could you accept it all so quickly? You have to hide your gender every day, isn't it tiring? And you're growing used to the club's eccentricities too early. More over, how can you not mind being mistaken as a guy?" I had gotten closer to her with every sentence, so I was looming over her. When I realized my outburst, I stepped aside.

I was panting a little, so I took a deep breath before continuing. "I'm angry because I don't understand some things about you, but I'm not angry at you. Actually, I really like you. I think is nice that there's another girl in the club apart from Sakura and me." I bowed. "I'm sorry if it looked like I was upset with you." She started laughing, and I looked at her. Even Sakura was holding her laughter! "It's okay, Tsubasa! I'm just glad we can be at good terms again, somehow. Actually, the reasons you just gave me mean that we have to get to know each other more, that's all." "Haruhi…" I hugged her. "Thank youuuu!" "Wah!" "Tsubasa…!"

"Now, we'll have the last event." "Eh?" we looked to the twins, who had microphones with them. "This will be given to Miyako-hime, the top point getter. A blessing kiss from the King…" It was that late already… "Modified… into a kiss from Fujioka Haruhi!" A spotlight lighted over Haruhi, and all the guests went into fan girl mode "Huh!?" Haruhi and Tamaki-senpai said at the same time. "Oh my…" And Tamaki-senpai was so excited over giving the kiss…

Tamaki-senpai turned to Hikaru and Kaoru. "Hey?!" " It's all because Kyouya-senpai said that if we had an accident at the end, the party would be more fun." "In other words…" I started. "You just did what you were conventionally told." Sakura continued, and we sweat dropped. "How about doing this instead of the dance?" we turned to Kyouya-senpai, who was bribing- I mean convincing Haruhi to give the kiss. "We'll cut off your debt by 1/3." That's Kyouya-senpai for you…

"Isn't this her first kiss…?" Honey-senpai thought out loud. "You say first kiss, but…" Sakura said. "Isn't it just a kiss on the cheek?" I said sweat dropping. "Hold that kiss!" Tamaki-senpai exclaimed. I think he was trying to stop Haruhi from kissing Miyako-hime in the cheek, but he made them kiss on the lips instead. 'Wait a moment… They kissed on the lips!'

The room froze: that was the real accident. Kyouya-senpai had a satisfied smile, Hikaru and Kaoru had matching cheeky grins, Mori-senpai sweat dropped, Honey-senpai was surprised and Sakura and I were laughing at Tamaki-senpai's fail. The girls surrounded the fortunate (?) girl. "Congratulations, Miyako-hime!" "Hey! Tamaki-sama tried to stop the kiss just now?!" "He really wanted to give a kiss, huh? He's a kissing machine!"

"What?!" Tamaki-senpai was scared. Haruhi turned to look at him with dead, expressionless eyes. "I see… Kissing machine…" she said. "Kissing machine…Pff-BWAHAHAHA!" We were laughing so hard, Sakura was leaning on Hikaru for support, and I was on my knees holding my stomach. Imagine Tamaki-senpai like a robot, with red lips puked and making 'CHU' sounds without stop. Hikaru and Kaoru started to laugh with us, and we calmed after a while, breathing for air. "That was hilarious… Hehe!" I said. I saw a hand in front of me, and looked up to see Kaoru. I smiled and took his hand; he helped me to stand up. "Thank you." I said blushing a little. I saw Hikaru giving Sakura a glass of water; my sister was sitting in a chair, and she was still laughing a little.

That was an interesting Christmas party

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*Tsubasa means Wings, and it's called Flügel in German. You can guess why I used German, can't you? ;)

Aaaaand that's it, second chapter finished! It was long to write… I feel tired. So, how did you like it? A lot? Nothing? It sucks? Please, feel free to leave a review :D

Next chapter (following the manga story line) Hikaru and Kaoru are from the basketball team, Tamaki is the solitary school idol, Honey and Mori are the bullies, Haruhi is the bullied, Sakura and Tsubasa can't stand each other, Kyouya stays as he is –which is scary by itself-, a possible rival for Sakura… WHAT'S HAPPENING?! Wait, where did those cameramen come from?