DISCLAIMER I DO NOT OWN OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM
"Mmm, steak," Kyoya said with pleasure as Ryoko served up dinner, "with a bake potato. Looks delicious, my dear."
"Thank you," said Ryoko blushing.
"So Ei, how was school? Did you get your grade for your family tree?" Kyoya asked.
"A," said Ei, "could have gotten higher if I had included some extended family, but...,"
"Yes, yes no need to explain," Kyoya insisted.
"How has your other school work been going?" Kyoya asked.
"Top in Math, Second in science, tied for first in English, and with the good grade with the family tree, I'll be first again in History," Ei rattled off, "so other words, nothing's changed."
"Yes, that does appear to be the case," Kyoya. That made Ei give off a little sigh.
"Ei-Ei, what's wrong?" Ryoko asked.
"Is it wrong that I'm not feeling stimulated or challenge even though I'm only a first year?" Ei asked.
"No, given you'd always been the top of your class all through elementary and middle school," said Kyoya.
"Yeah, but, I've never felt this bored with school before. Even though I'm in some of the most advanced classes Ouran has to offer," said Ei.
"No doubt some of your birth father's characteristics," said Kyoya.
Ei sighed again, "I guess I just wish I could figure out what I really should be taking in order to get ready to what I want to do in life," she said.
Kyoya narrowed his eyes. He quickly shifter his glance to his wife before he looked at Ei again, "do you have any ideas as to what you'd like to do with your life Ei?"
"I was thinking I"d like to work for the company, the Host Group," said Ei, "I'd figured I'd like to make sure I could at least be on the board of directors someday."
"Really?" Kyoya said rubbing his upper lip, pondering his thoughts, "no, desier to be a lawyer like your mother?"
Ei twitched her mouth back and forth, "not really," she finally confessed, "I mean, maybe I could study law a little as a back up career choice. But in the grand scheme of things, I want to work for you guys. Carry on the family business."
"Hmm" very admirable," said Kyoya. He looked back over at Ryoko and saw she had been listening in silence while feeding Michiko.
"Are you and Michiko almost done?" Kyoya asked her.
"Uh, yes-yes," Ryoko sputtered, "just a little more."
"Hmm, well hurry, I'm sure you want to do your dishes too," said Kyoya.
"Of course," said Ryoko.
"Are you going to need my help with that? Because I should really get going down to Hikaru and Jun's floor for desert," Ei asked.
"Actually can you hold off on that and instead stay here and watch Michiko for a little bit?" Kyoya asked.
"Uh sure, why?" Ei asked.
"Your mother and I need to discuss something important with your other parents," said Kyoya, "we won't be long."
"Oh really?" said Ryoko, "well maybe I can put off the dishes until after we talk?"
"Of course, you always keep a good clean house," Kyoya complimented her as he stood up with his own plate and taking it to the kitchen.
"Should I at least get Michiko ready for bed for you?" Ei offered.
"At least put her into her pajamas," said Ryoko.
"We shouldn't be too long that your mom and I won't be back down by her bedtime," said Kyoya, "are you ready, Ryoko?"
"Oh yes, just a moment," Ryoko said as she gathered up a few more dirty dishes and carried them to the sink. She quickly came back out and looped arms with Kyoya and walked out with him to the elevator.
"Wonder what got Kyoya all worked up," Ei asked Michiko still in her high chair. Michiko reached over and swatted her face, "you're right, I've learned to not worry about what it is he does and just go with it. At least he's not super crazy like the rest."
"This better be important Kyoya," Jun complimented as the six sets of couples all filed into a big meeting room with red chairs.
"Yeah, come on, some of us have been in meetings all day. We're tired of meetings!" Hikaru joined his wife in complaining.
"This won't take long and I think it needs to be discussed. It's about Ei," said Kyoya.
"What about her? Is she having trouble at school? With some of her classmates? Some of the staff here at the building?" Alice asked with concern.
"Has someone hurt Ei?!" Tamaki also asked.
"Oh as far as I can tell she's doing well at school and with most of the student body and no major concerns with any staff members," Kyoya said.
"I should hope not, I'd hate having employees harassing Ei!" said Akira.
"What is wrong with Ei-Chan?" Hunny asked.
"Nothing is necessarily wrong with her. It's just that she has express something that I think we need to take action towards," Kyoya said, "Ei's said she has a desier to work for the Host Company someday."
"She wants to work for the company?" Kaoru.
"What? No! She wants to be a lawyer! Like her mom!" Hikaru insisted, "we've always known that!"
"Have we? Or have we always just assumed she wanted to without really asking her what she desired?" Akira pointed out.
Hikaru had to think about for a moment, "no! No! Ei should want to follow in her mother's footsteps like she herself did."
"Hikaru, I know it's nice to think that Ei would want to be like Haruhi someday, but she's also her own person who's grown up in a different environment than Haruhi. So it's safe to assume Ei may have experienced things differently than her mother that would shape her choice of what kind of career she'd like to assume someday," said Kyoya, "which brings me to the main reason I called for all of you here. I think it would be a good idea to leave the entire Host Group to Ei. That we name her as it's next President."
"You want to leave the whole company to Ei?" Mikasa asked.
"Yes, I think that would be the wisest dissension for the company as a whole," said Kyoya.
"What about the other children?" Tamaki asked.
"Well, we still have our different shares of our families business we control that I'm sure we will be able to leave our children. Tamaki, with your Suoh family hotel business and chairman position of Ouran. I myself still have control over the pharmaceutical company my father handed over to me. Hikaru and Kaoru, you of course have your family's fashion and software business. Also Jun has her family's flower delivery company."
"Oh yeah, don't know who else dad will turn it over to," said Jun.
"And of course Mori and Hunny's martial arts practices along with Mikasa's family gymnast troup...,"
"More like just managing it," Mikasa muttered.
"And Gin"s sweets factory," Kyoya finished, "lots of other opportunities for the other children to explore and peruse."
"And we can still leave them each a chair on the board of directors," said Akira, "it's just Ei would be the main head, the top of the food chain as it were. Do I have that right?"
"Correct as usual," said Kyoya.
"Well I thin it's a good idea, especially if it's what Ei wants," said Gin, "and even if it meant none of my kids get any control of the Host Company, I'd trust Ei to not leave any of the children empty handed."
"Very good Gin, thank you," said Kyoya, "now does anyone have any other major concerns or objects as to why Ei shouldn't be allowed to be the next President?"
"Are we sure this won't put any extra pressure on Ei?" Alice asked.
"Not if we help guide her the way to make sure she has what it'll take to be a good president," said Akira, "she's watched and helped us so much growing up as it was. I used to love it when she'd come into my office wanting to help in anyway."
"And we help her find her the right classes to take both in high school and college," Kyoya said.
"Are you sure she really has no desier to become a lawyer though?" Hikaru asked, "what would Haruhi think about that?"
"I think Haru-Chan would want her daughter to be herself and chooae a career that made her happy," said Hunny.
"Yeah," Mori chipped in.
"And besides, Ei did mention she wouldn't mind perssuing a miner degree in law just in case working for the company isn't what she'd like to peruse after all," said Kyoya
"Seriously?" Hikaru asked, perking up.
"Hey, come on, don't live through your kid. My dad tried that and look how I turned out," said Jun.
"So, do we have to vote for putting Ei in line to inherit the top spot or something?" Ryoko.
"We could, make it offcial," said Tamaki.
"And you can guarantee this is what the kid wants?" Jun asked.
"Most assuredly," Kyoya insisted, "Ryoko can testify to that, right dear?"
"Ye-yes!" said Ryoko.
"Alright, I vote yes then," said Jun, raising her hand.
"Me too," said Gin.
"I," Hunny, Mori and Mikasa all said together.
"I," Akira and Ryoko added.
"I," Alice said, though not with as much enthusiasm as the others, "just promise she won't be under too much pressure with this."
"She'll be fine," said Kyoya, "everyone else?"
"I" Tamaki finally agreed.
"I, I guess," said Kaoru, "she could do a lot worse."
"Yeah, I," Hikaru finally said, "though I'd really feel a lot better if she would go on to practice law instead."
"She'll have to study it a little if she's going to be a head of a company," Akira pointed out.
"Hmm," Hikaru muttered, "just remember what I wanted."
"Yes, of course," said Kyoya, "then it's decided. Ei will be the Host Company successor. Meeting adjourn. You can all go home, let your house keepers go home and what not."
"Do us a favor Kyoya, make sure Ei gets down to our floor quickly. We can't guarantee the twins won't eat up all the cannolis," said Jun
"Yes, yes, shall I leave the sharing of the good news to Ei yourselves?" Kyoya asked.
"Sure, we'll tell her," Hikaru said smugly, sharing an evil smirk with his wife.
"Maybe we should join them just in case," said Alice.
"What? I'm sure they'll be gentle with their delivery," said Kaoru also a little smug.
"Oh dear god, how did I ever marry into this family?!" Alice asked out loud.
"Because I said yes," Kaoru teased, acting a little perverted as he ushered her to the door.
"What have I said about touching me like this in public?!" everyone heard Alice scream followed by a loud cry of pain from Kaoru.
"It's not my fault you loom sexy when you're mad," he tried to argue.
"Well I'm happy with this choice!" said Akira witb delight, "it'll be so nice to see Ei grow and learn about the world of business! And I think her real mother will 6happy watching her from heaven growing into a wonderful lady!"
"I think you're right" the more I think about," said Tamaki, taking her hand, "plus now we'll have a better idea of what we can do when Michael gets older."
"That's true, got a good picture of what kinds of futures both our kids will have," Akira agreed as they left holding hands.
"This is kind of exciting, huh Gin?" Hunny asked his wife.
Gin nodded, "plus now we can really talk about our other three children and their futures. I really think we need to discuss that, even if we didn't just decide to leave so much to their big sister."
"Of course, when we get home," Hunny promised.
"We should talk too, Mikasa said to Mori, "especially since I still don't know where exactly I stand with dad's plans for the future of the Silver Dragon."
"Sure," Mori said as they walked out.
"Do-do you think Ei's going to be happy or nervous when she finds out what we decided for her?" Ryoko asked as she and Kyoya left behind all the others.
"Probably a little of both," said Kyoya, "and it's not like she's taking over tomorrow. She'll still have some time to learn more and prepare for that day."
"Su-sure," said Ryoko.
"You're shuddering, is something bothering you?" Kyoya asked.
"I-I guess I'm just a little overwhelmed with the idea of what's going to happen to Ei now and what may happen to Michiko as a result. Not to mention how my father may feel or your father. Or some of the other grandparents," Ryoko.
"Yes, I suppose a few may feel a little threatened or ashamed we've decided to leave most everything to Ei, like your father. No doubt he may feel as though it's a personal attack against Michiko. But it's not his final choice in the long run."
"What about your father?" Ryoko asked.
"He won't mind, he actually doesn't mind acknowledging Ei as his granddaughter and would understand why we decided to leave most everything to her," Kyoya said.
"Why can't my father be a little more open minded like yours?" Ryoko asked out loud as she and Kyoya left the meeting room.
"...so the bunny hopped up and down as the fairy said," Ei read from a story book as she sat with Michiko on her lap.
Michiko seemed more interested in grabbing the book herself to play with than hearing Ei read it.
"Ei, we're home," Ryoko said as she and Kyoya came back into the penthouse.
"Oh hi," Ei said.
"Reading Michiko a little story huh?" Ryoko asked as she came and took her baby back.
"If you want to call it that," said Ei.
"Well, anyway, you are free to go to whever it was you were planning on going," said Kyoya.
"Here's hoping Miki and Mihu haven't eaten all the cannolis!" Ei said as she dashed to the elevator.
"If you're going to that floor, be forewarned, Hikaru and Jun has some news for you and you know how they love to share news," Kyoya advised.
Ei stopped at the elevator.
"Does this have to do about what you were doing?" she asked.
"You'll see," said Kyoya, "I can't say more as I'm sure it would anger them if you happened to figure it out on your own and you know how they get when they are upset."
"True," said Ei, "I'll just take whatever it is they have to say as it comes," said Ei, hitting the button and jumping in, "see you guys later."
"Hope she-she, takes it well," said Ryoko as the couple watched Ei disappear.
"She'll be fine, I'm sure," said Kyoya.
EEi sighed a little impatient as she road down to Hikaru's floor.
'They better have a least one left over!' she thought grumpy right as the elevator stopped. Ei hopped out and hurried to the living room. There she found the family of four all fighting over a plate.
"No, no daddy gets the big one!" Hikaru was saying.
"Mihu, you already have three, you don't need four!" said Jun.
"Mine!" both twins whined.
"Hey, what about me?!" Ei shouted, making her pretense known.
"You know the rule kid, first come, firts serve," said Jun.
"Oh you!" Ei shouted as she charged at the group and managed to snatch the plate away from Hikaru. Two were left.
"Mine! You hear me? All mine!" she declared as she scoffed one down.
Jun and Hikaru looked at each other.
"Hope you're not too mad about that," said Hikaru.
"A little!" Ei said with her mouth stuffed, before shoved the second cannoli in. She didn't notice Hikaru and Jun's evil smiles as she did.
"Well, maybe this will cheer you up then," said Jun, "we've devided we're going to dump all the responsibility of the Host Company on you."
Ei nearly choked on her food as Jun said that.
"I'm sorry, what?" she asked.
"Yeah, we decided that we don't want the little kids doing all the hard work of running the company so we're making you do it," said Hikaru.
"What do you mean do all the hard work of the company?" asked Ei.
"Simple, when everyone's ready to retire, We're going to make you step up and take the reigns of command of everything," said Jun.
"What do you mean make me? I kind of wanted to be a part of this company. And I'll gladly try and become a good president if that's what you want me to be."
"Oh darn, she's happy with this Hikaru!" said Jun.
"Dang, guess we can't taunt her over it!" said Hikaru.
"Is that what everyone was talking about?" Ei asked.
"Guess you could say that," said Hikaru, "though I still don't get why you're more interested in the world of business over the world of laws."
Ei shrugged her shoulders, "guess it's just because I grew up around the world of business more than law." she said.
"Well in either case, we're still dumping everything on you 're all done with it," said Jun.
"Wow, that's that's great," said Ei, "I'm sure I'll have to work hard to be ready for that day."
Though inside her head she was doing a little dance of joy and thinking, 'Hell yeah! I'm going to be the next freaking president of the host group!'