Chapter 3

"Come on. People are starting to come closer to us. Let's get your schedule and things." Takashi says in a hushed voice and starts to lead Scarlet towards the registration building.

"O-okay…" She replies. She has no idea why the girls went crazy when Takashi kissed her. Did he not tell anyone about them being an item? Anyways, how could he waste a perfect first kiss like that just because she wouldn't shut up and listen to him? How could she be so stupid? How could HE be so stupid?

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"Ah! Miss Oh. Please come in." Mr. Suoh says stoically as Scarlet enters the office. Takashi had to go to class but he said that someone was already chosen to show me around the school. "Here is your schedule, your locker number and combination is on there as well. Here are your school books and since you are a transfer student, this is your free Ouran Academy notebook."

Scarlet picks up the notebook and stares at it. "Is there something wrong, Miss Oh?" Mr. Suoh asks.

"It's… It's pink." She says.

"Yes. It is pink. Is there a problem with pink?"

"What? Oh, no. Pink is fine." She plasters on a fake smile.

"Okay well, anyways, I have arranged for my son, Tamaki-"

"Tamaki Suoh! At your service malady! It's a pleasure to meet you, princess!" The blonde boy says cheerfully, taking Scarlets' hand and kissing it. She jerks her hand away before his lips could meet her skin.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Scarlet says defensively.

"Why, greeting you, of course!"

"Well, next time, please, don't touch me."

"You'll have to excuse my son. He can take things a little too far sometimes, especially with new students." Mr. Suoh cuts in. "Tamaki, please, show our new second-year student, Scarlet Oh, around the school and make sure she knows where her classes and locker is. We do not tolerate tardies for lost classrooms, Miss Oh. Which, by your records, show that you are very familiar with a tardy pass."

"Sure thing father! Scarlet, please, come this way!" He leads her out the door and into the halls.

"Where are the restrooms, Tamaki?" She asks once they are out into the halls, passing by the small fountain in the courtyard.

"Down that hall, second door on the left. I shall wait for you here." He takes a seat at the fountain and Scarlet walks off quickly.

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"I'm back." Scarlet states. Tamaki, of course, is still in the same spot as when she left five minutes ago; his back to hers.

"Ah there you are! I was starting to worry about you Scar-" Tamaki freezes. He takes in Scarlet's new apparel and doesn't know what to say.

She is in black ripped skinny jeans, black and white converses that rise up to her knee, a grey tight tank top covered by a black leather jacket, and a single fingerless leather glove on her right hand. Only her right hand is covered in a glove, and now that he thinks about it, only her right hand had an Ouran glove on it. Weird. She also has a lip piercing, a simple silver ring and her ears have gold bullet shaped earrings pierced into them with a thin gold chain going from the earring to her cartilage, ending in a little cuff that keeps the chain in place.

"What's wrong? Is there something on my face?" She says in mock innocence and a smirk.

"N-no it's just that you… You changed out of your uniform into something completely unexpected."

"And your point is…? This is how I usually dress so get used to it. I am not wearing that stupid dress through year's two to four. Seriously. I would have to be drugged constantly to keep me from taking it off."

"O-okay! That's fine just please, unclench your fists. You are making a scene." Scarlet hadn't realized that the bell for passing period had rung and there are both girls and guys watching her.

Taking a deep breath, she unclenches her fists and Tamaki looks pleased.

Throughout their whole tour, Scarlet makes it a living hell for Tamaki.

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"Ah! Kyoya!" Tamaki exclaims. "So glad I ran into you here!"

Kyoya stops in the idle of the hallway to talk to Tamaki. "What is it Tamaki?" He asks.

"Please! Please finish the tour of the school for me! She is making this a living hell! She keeps running off and she even changed out of her Ouran uniform! Ya gotta help me!" He begs. Scarlet is hiding behind Tamaki, out of Kyoya's sight.

Without even seeing her, Kyoya replies to Tamaki's frantic request. "Ah, so I see you have met Scarlet Oh." He chuckles slightly, pushing up his glasses. "Well, I won't argue that she can be a bit of a handful at times. Even I can't handle her most of the time."

"Wait. I never said her name and you can't even see her but you know who she is?" Tamaki questions.

"Yes, I do know Scarlet Oh. For starters, your description matched her perfectly and I already knew that she was coming to attend Ouran."

"But why is she here? She doesn't seem like she wants to be here. Almost like she was forced to attend Ouran."

"You see, she and I are-"

"Our families are business partners and Kyoya and I have to work on the next project together. So, my father wanted us to attend the same school so I wouldn't have to drive an hour and a half every day just to work on the project for three hours straight. Right? Kyoya?" She lies easily, after sneaking up behind the blond haired boy. As if it were her job practically.

"Ah, yeah. Right. Business partners. That's it. Partners." Slightly taken aback by her sudden lie, Kyoya fluently goes along with it, all while glaring at Scarlet. She glares back, causing her death stare to make Kyoya look away quickly.

"Well then. Since you two know each other already, I'm leaving her with you. You can take care of this beast." Tamaki storms off and Scarlet and Kyoya are left in the hallway, alone.

"Never thought I'd live to see the day that the great and powerful Miss Scarlet Oh was at an academy." Kyoya says. No matter what anyone says, Scarlet and Kyoya have somewhat of a friendship. They tease each other and are super competitive with one another but in the end, they'll always there for one another whether they like to admit it or not. In the mafia, you either make connections, or die without them.

"Neither did I. I hate it here. 'Sit like this. Don't do that. No, we don't allow knives or any sort of weaponry.' I mean, what kind of shit is that? Do they know who I am?"

"They don't know about the mafia and they don't need to know. And it's the kind you get at a fancy school. Now, do you have all of your classes figured out and you know where your locker is, right?" He asks.

"Yeah. We covered those first."

"Well, any place that hasn't been covered that you want to check out?"

"How big is your library?" She asks quietly.

"Bigger than yours, that's for sure. C'mon, I'll show you." He gently places his hand on her lower back, something only him and Takashi are allowed to do, and guides her towards the library.

"Oh, and Scarlet?" he says as they begin walking down the hall.

"Yes?" She replies.

"Kindly remove the knife from your backside."

"Dammit Kyoya." She says defeatedly, slightly lifting up the back of her shirt, careful not to show her tattoo and grabs the knife and sets it in Kyoya's open hand.

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Two large wooden doors swing open with a small creak and reveals a library that is almost the same size as the one in Beast's castle in the Disney classic, Beauty and the Beast. Rows upon rows of books, old and new, line the walls. In the center is a circular desk with computers, drop-off slots, and various styles of book marks. Kyoya looks over at Scarlet to see her eyes filled with awe and a smile across her face- one of the few smiles he's actually seen on her.

"Look at all these books!" Scarlet exclaims. She starts running up and down the aisles and soon makes her way up to the second level "So many to choose from! Oh I haven't read this one yet! Or this one! Agh! This is so amazing! Thank you, Kyoya, for showing me the library!" She tackles Kyoya in a hug, making him fall over and her landing on top of him. They both freeze.

"…Uh, Scarlet?" Kyoya asks.

"Um sorry…" Scarlet says, gently slipping off of Kyoya. He stands up and holds out a hand to Scarlet and she accepts it, letting him pull her up off the floor.

"It's alright… I'm just going to get so much shit from the girls today. You owe me."

"What? How do I owe you?" She says defensively.

"You knocked me over and because of that little scene just now, I'm going to be bombarded with questions and jealous whining girls today. Therefore, you owe me."

"What do you mean jealous whining girls?"

"Well, you see, Tamaki and I run a Host Club along with Hikaru and Kaoru Hitachiin, Mitsukuni Haninozuka, and Takashi Morinozuka. And I'm pretty sure you know Takashi, or Mori as we call him, VERY well."

"I see. So how do you know that I know Takashi?"

"Well, this is going around the whole school." He pulls out his phone and shows Scarlet a picture of her and Takashi kissing. "Mori never told us that he had a girlfriend… You better not let headquarters hear about this. Not mine, not yours, not anybody's."

"Those stupid girls. What are they now? Paparazzi?" Scarlet rolls her eyes. "Unbelievable!"

"Scarlet, can we talk outside for a minute?"

"Fine." Kyoya grabs Scarlet's arm and drags her out into the hall.

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After school, Scarlet walks down the hallway, looking from her phone to the door numbers, and back to her phone.

"Found it. Music Room number three."