Haruhi's Kasanoda Crush
Chapter 3
Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran High School Host Club.
"Hikaru?" Kyoya asked, looking at the boy holding a video camera outside of Haruhi and Ritsu's room.
"Shut up!" Hikaru zoomed in a bit further, and hit the record button. Kyoya smiled, seeing the younger's intentions. The Vice-President snatched up Hikaru's camera, began filming Kasanoda and Haruhi, and handed Hikaru pictures of Haruhi in swimwear, all within a few seconds. As Hikaru walked away, Kyoya pushed up his glasses, grinning.
"This will do well at the next Host Club auction..."
"F... Fujioka?" Ritsu leaned in closer to Haruhi, cheeks still furiously red. She looked a little nervous. "Are you alright?"
"I... I'm fine," she said, her enormous brown eyes twinkling slightly. Fujioka has the most amazing eyes... Ritsu thought. She ran a hand through her hair. "Just a little worried, is all. I mean... My first kiss was technically with another girl. The first kiss you and I shared, it was so impersonal, and in front of everyone. This space... This kiss... What if it's not as good as I think it'll be?"
Kasanoda smiled. Fujioka's adorable when she's nervous...
"Haruhi, it won't be as good as you want it to be."
Haruhi frowned, looking down. Ritsu took her face in his and leaned even closer to her, their lips mere cenitmeters apart.
"It'll be better."
They stayed like that for a while, unsure what to do, unsure why they were... Or even if they were... In love. So... In love?
Ritsu broke the kiss to say something to her.
"I... I think I love you, Fujioka..." Then, he leaned in for another.
Surprise, surpirse. At that very moment, the entire host club decided to walk in.
"HARUHI! MY LITTLE GIRL!" Tamaki snatched her up, already in tears.
Ritsu sprang away, extremely embarrassed.
"Oh. Um.. Hi senpai... Could you let me go?"
"WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO YOUR OWN FATHER?!"
"I told you senpai, you aren't my father!" Haruhi yelled, already tired of Tamaki.
Tamaki flushed white after she spoke, turning into a tube-armed man, going into the corner to grow mushrooms.
"Aww, Haru-chan, you look so cute when you're flustered!" Honey cried, sitting on Mori's shoulders.
Kasanoda looked at Kyoya, who had just hit the recording button again, stopping the tape.
"Hey... Otori... Were you recording us?" Kasadnoda yelled, slightly outraged.
"Indeed. This video alone has the potential to completely pay off Haruhi's debt. While the Host Club has already seen your first kiss with Haruhi, this one is much more... Intimate if you will. And since I'll only make one copy of this, and keep one for the Host Club, the prices of bidding will be extremely high. Possibly into the millions, 10 million Yen. Maybe even more."
"You can't do this without Fujioka's permission!" Kasanoda looked at Haruhi expectantly, waiting for her to say no.
"I don't really care. I don't have a say, anyway." Haruhi brushed it off, sighing.
"K-Kyoya, you can't possibly-"
"Tamaki, I can, as we need the money for the Western Pop Star Event you wanted so badly."
"Well, my ideas tend to-"
As Tamaki tried to put together a comeback, the door rang.
"I'll get it," Haruhi muttered, pushing her way through the crowd.
She opened up the door, a young woman standing there.
"Oh, hello. I'm sorry, I must have gotten the wrong address." The girl began to pull away. Then, Tamaki pushed through the crowd, knocking Haruhi away.
"Nonsense, fair maiden. It's impossible such a beautiful goddess as yourself could make such a mistake. It was fate that brought us together."
"Oh, really?" The girl giggled furiously, causing Haruhi to sigh. Well, senpai's back to normal...
Tamaki put a hand to the girl's face, smiling.
"You have such beautiful red hair... I've never seen anything like it... Wait a moment... I have seen hair that color, but nowhere near as beautiful... Bossa Nova, could you come here?"
Kasanoda sighed, then looked toward the door.
"A... A-Akemi?" He gasped, running to embrace her.
"Ritsu!"
"Y-you... You're s-supposed to be dead..." They were both on the verge of tears, and Kasanoda was the first to give in. It was unnatural, how much he cried.
"Ah, so this is the Akemi Fukuhara I read about..." Kyoya said, pushing his glasses up his nose.
The girl Kyoya called Akemi stopped crying, shaking slightly as tears ran down her chin.
"How do you know who I am?"
"I have my sources, and the day that Ritsu here was brought to our attention, of course I did my reading up on him. And his family." Kyoya muttered the last part, quieter than the stern voice he'd used for the rest of the sentence.
"F-family?" Kasanoda asked. "No, that can't be right. She's just-"
"Your sister..." Akemi muttered. "Your... sister..."
"No..."
"Yes. She is the firstborn of your mother and father." Kyoya said, grabbing a laptop in his hands. "You were believed to have died at birth, but really, once your father found out you weren't the boy he needed, he faked your death. You were given to a woman, a new maid of the syndicate, who had to dye her hair to match yours. When Ritsu was born a few years later, you both shared the same hair color, because you inherited the color from your father, not your mother. Your father, who had been bald since he was fifteen. It would be nearly impossible to find out who your truly are, only two people knew, your father and your adoptive mother, Haruka."
Akemi was crying once again, new tears of fury.
"So you think you can just tell everyone where I come from? Who I am? You have no idea how I felt when my 'mother' told me. My best friend, Ritsu, was actually my brother? My true mother died giving birth to Ritsu? Then, the whole syndicate found out what I was, the workers, anyway, and they all helped me fake my death? For years, I heard them whisper how they didn't believe I was just a maid's daughter. They were right! And then, to find out the woman who raised me isn't even my mother? I know you don't believe me Ritsu, but it's true, it's-" Akemi broke off midsentence, sobbing. It was harder to understand her, but after composing herself, she kept speaking.
"I was supposed to be a boy. Father wanted me to be a boy. He would have loved me if I was a boy, the way he loves you, Ritsu. But, I was born a girl... Mother was ecstatic, and I was to be named Chihiro. Chihiro Kasanoda. But dad wanted a boy, an heir, a leader... I was supposed to be a boy... A boy named Ritsu Kasanoda. So, father pretended I had died, and dumped me on Haruka. I was born with black hair, so Haruka had no idea why Father told her to dye her hair red, but she found out as I got older and my hair turned red. Everything turned out perfect, no one suspected anything.
"That is, until I was almost three years old, three months before my birthday. You were born. With violently red hair... Like mine..." Akemi smiled then. "Ritsu Kasanoda... I remember being so happy on that day. Children love babies... As you got older, we played together and became the best of friends. Since I was the only other child on the syndicate, he had no choice. I was having the best childhood ever. Until those three years ago. I was a first year in high school, just as you are now. You were a second year in middle school. Of course, I couldn't afford to go to Ouran Academy, so I just went to the nearest public school."
"But... You died on the way home from school one day... A rival gang caught you, and killed you because no one paid the ransom..." Kasanoda said, still in shock.
Akemi laughed coldly.
"From what I heard, you begged your father to pay it... But why would a man that hates his daughter pay the 'ransom', exposing a plan he created himself? It's the only thing he'll ever do for me, Ritsu. The only thing father gave me in life was my death. Twice."
She sat down, tears trailing down her cheeks as she played with her red hair.
"Well, that's who I am, guys. Akemi Fukuhara." In a colder tone, Akemi added "Pleased to make your acquaintance."
Haruhi stared at Akemi, unsure of what to do. Sure, Haruhi had her share of tragedy in life, but it didn't even compare to this. Honey clung to Mori, sobbing. Hikaru and Kaoru also stared at Akemi, having run out of tears to cry. Kyoya just stood there, having cried himself emotionless the day he first read her story.
Tamaki stepped close to her, hugging her and planting a kiss om her cheek.
"You are incredibly brave. I can't even imagine how hard it has been for you. However, I can thank you for trusting us enough to tell us your story. You are truly an amazing woman... Remarkable..." He held a hand to her face, and she held her hand over his.
"Why... are you being so nice to me?"
"Beautiful young ladies, amazing young ladies, they deserve nothing but the best of treatment. Now, please sit down. I believe you and your brother have a lot of catching up to do. My name is Tamaki Suoh. I am pleased, very pleased, to know you. " He dropped his hand from her face, and directed her to the sofa where Kasanoda was sitting.
"Thank you so much... Tamaki-kun."
"Haha, that has a nice ring to it." Tamaki walked Akemi over to her brother, then sat away from them at the dining area.
She turned to Ritsu, giving him an immense hug.
"You have no idea how much I've missed you. Out of everything in that syndicate, I've missed you the most."
"I've missed you too... And to think, you're my older sister..."
And so everyone sat together, talking like friends do. Eventually, Akemi opened up the floor to everyone, and she got them all laughing together. She recalled tales of playing kick the can with Kasanoda, ("It's true! She taught me everthing I know!") asked if he got any taller ("You were always really tall for your age...") and asked if Kasanoda had a girlfriend.
"Haha," Haruhi laughed. "As a matter of fact, that would be me! I'm Haruhi Fujioka."
"Hi! I'd been wondering why a beautiful young lady would want to hand out with a bunch of guys."
"How did you know I was a girl?" Haruhi wore boyish clothes, a maroon hoodie and tan pants.
Akemi bopped her on the nose, saying "I could just tell".
"Most people in the Host Club think Ritsu and I are homosexual, because they don't know I'm a girl."
"Wait, you're in the Ouran High School Host Club?" The older girl asked, amazed.
"Yeah, we all are, except Ritsu here."
"Aww..." Akemi seemed genuinely disappointed. "You're not hot enough..."
"Hey!" Kasanoda yelled, blushing once again.
And so, Akemi became a part of their lives. They all took turns telling her stories, Haruhi telling the story of how they met Ritsu, up until him telling Haruhi his feelings for her right inside the Host Club.
"Renge actually put us into her doujinshi..." Haruhi groaned, earning two loud laughs from Hikaru and Kaoru.
"That one sure did sell quickly..." Kyoya said with a smile. He'd be lying if he said he wasn't drawn to this girl...
"Who's Renge?" Akemi wondered, twirling her hair around.
"She's the self proclaimed manager of the Host Club!" Honey said, much too happy.
"She's from France," Mori muttered, saying his one line of the episode.
"Also a huge otaku," Hikaru added.
"Always doing weird cosplay." Kaoru said.
"Hm... Sounds like a... uh... very interesting person." Akemi had mixed expressions on her face.
Everyone had to laugh.
"Takashiiiiii~," Honey sang, springing on top of his cousin. "I want sweeeeeeets~."
"Ooooh oooh oooooh!" Akemi jumped up, spinning around. "I know this amazing bakery a few black away!" Her eyes darkened. "But... It's probably not suited to your tastes."
"Nonsense, Akemi-senpai... Wow, come to think of it, you're in the same grade as Mori-senpai and Honey-senpai!" Hikaru proclaimed.
The young woman's face went blank.
"He's seventeen?" she cried out, jerking a thumb toward Honey.
"Sure am! Almost eighteen!"
"But, but," she was confused, "you're so cute!"
Honey grinned, batting his extra-long eyelashes.
"Wow. Just wow." After collecting herself post shock, she came back to herself. "Well, my reverse harem, ready to go?"
Haruhi nodded, excitedly taking Ritsu's hand. She pecked him softly on the lips, and as the reverse harem headed out the door, he began to cry once more.
"Ritsu, what's wrong?" Haruhi said hugging him close, which made him cry even more.
"I've never been this happy in my life..."
A/N: OC ALERT! I have decided to make this story a bit longer, depending on how you guys feel about this chapter. I promise my other updtaes won't take as long as this one did! I got grounded, and my computer broke... Well, did you guys like Akemi? I tried not to make a Mary Sue, but things happen... Please tell me if you love or hate her. Thanks for reading, please review my darlings!