Sakura Kisses

Chapter Three: I'm Just Peachy, Thanks for Asking.

Yawning loudly, Etsuko made her way towards the club room, the last box of cake in her hands. Staying up all night is definitely not good for my health. She thought sourly, cursing the rich bastards for the fifth time that day. Picking up her walking pace, she could see the Music Room up ahead. Before she could actually enter the room though, she managed to snag her foot on some sort of string, set up as if it were a prank. Gravity was not on her side, causing her to face-plant on the floor, squishing the cake with her chest.

"What the hell?" Looking behind her she saw a women's silhouette disappear from the site. Sighing and picking herself up, she grabbed the now ruined cake box and pushed the door open roughly. Her hair was tied up in a messy bun; her bangs clipped back to keep it out of her eyes. Her now ruined white blouse and black skinny jeans had bits of cake and icing over them, and her hands were covered in the chocolate crumbs.

"Etsuko! Are you okay?" Haruhi asked, concerned for her friend.

"Yeah, just peachy… thanks for asking." A blank look crossed her face as the rest of the host members started to surround her.

"Ah! Su-chan! What happened? Are you okay? Takashi, go get some towel's please!" Hunny ordered, pushing Mori towards another room.

"I…uh…tripped?" She offered a sheepish smile. It's not a lie, per se, I'm just not telling the full story! The twins gave her a 'No duh!' look, as if asking for the full story.

"Yes, well, be more careful next time. You just cost us one cake. Haruhi, that's adding onto your debt." Kyouya stated simply, going back to typing frantically on his laptop.

"H-Hey! It's not her fault that I'm a klutz!" Etsuko pointed an accusing finger towards the glasses wearing 2nd year. Mori came back from the room carrying a towel and her uniform.

"Here." With that, he made his way back to his companion and went back to his silent self.

"Thanks!" Shooting the upperclassman a grin, she skipped off towards the changing room.

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She stared at the maid costume. It wasn't flashy or anything, it was just a little puffy near the bottom of the dress. It was a plain black maid dress that stopped just below the knees. After pulling up the white stockings and placing on black shoes that were just like the girl's uniform, she pulled her hair into pigtails that rested on each shoulder. To add a finishing touch, she then placed a lacey black headband in her hair. The rest of the hosts wore simple outfits, garcons or butlers, with a few things adding to their personalities.

Tamaki was simple, a black apron over a white dress shirt and had a plain black tie around his neck. The apron came to his knees, covering half of his black, regular, jeans. His black dress shoes were shining, and his bangs were clipped off towards the left with two purple clips. Etsuko suspected that those were hers.

The twins were almost fully matching, wearing dress shirts similar to Tamaki, each having a tie around their neck. Kaoru wore a black-with-skinny-orange-stripes tie, while Hikaru had a black-with-blue-stripes tie. Over their shirts and ties was a black vest-like jacket, along with white skinny jeans and black dress shoes.

Kyouya wasn't really dressed, seeing as he didn't really participate in the club like the others. He just wore regular black dress shoes to match the rest of the club members, a black dress shirt that hasn't been buttoned up all the way, a least two or three buttons were lose, and a purple tie around his neck. He wore black skinny jeans with a black leather belt around the waist.

Haruhi wore almost what Tamaki wore, except hers was a little more girlish, with the tie having a few cherry blossoms on it and all. Her shoes were also black, but she just wore her school shoes, attempting not to add onto that debt of hers. In her hair was a cherry blossom clip, and her shirt was (of course) buttoned up all the way to avoid from any of the girls possibly seeing that she was female. Her apron had a few more cherry blossom petals near the bottom of the bottom.

Hunny was wearing an almost all white suit. His pants were white, but his shoes were black contrasting well with the rest of his outfit. His apron was shorter than the rest of the hosts, stopping at his mid-thigh, and in the center of his torso, there was a bunny that looks a lot like Usa-chan printed on it. His shirt was white, and the sleeves were rolled up to his elbows.

Mori was dressed a little like a butler. He wore black skinny jeans, also with a leather belt and his black dress shirt tucked in. He had a black blazer that was opened to show off the white tie that was around his neck. His shoes was a charcoal grey color, his hair as usual was messy.

Recovering from her shock of the seven handsome "men," Etsuko quickly composed herself and placed on her best business smile. Walking towards Haruhi's table, she giggled at how the girls adored her friend.

Placing down the tea and a few pieces of cake, she smiled pleasantly at the guests, asking them how it tasted.

"It's really good! They're not the usual cakes that we get, are they?" One asked, confusion plastered on her face.

"No, Tamaki-sempai wanted to try something different, so I happily made these." More like forced…thought Etsuko bitterly. Picking up a tray of hot tea, she made her way to Tamaki's table, but only to trip on someone's foot. Barely catching herself, she spilled the tea all along hands. Letting out a yelp of pain, she dropped the set of cups. Heads turned to see Etsuko blowing on her hands trying to cool them down.

"Suko!" Haruhi pushed up to her feet, making her way towards her 'cousin.' "What happened?"

"I-I tripped!" Whimpering like a lost child, she held out her hands. Letting out a sigh, Haruhi simply took them and planted a kiss on each palm.

"Better?" Haruhi smiled gently, bringing her to her feet. Nodding weakly, Etsuko wrung out the apron tied around her waist. There was a silence for several minutes, but then a loud "SQUEEEEEEEE!" burst out in the room.

"Did you see that? It's like an older brother taking care of his sister!"

Sighing dreamily, one girl said "I wish Haruhi-kun would do that to me someday!"

"She's so lucky to have a friend like that!" Another squeeing session let out, only to cause sweatdrops to form on the back of Haruhi's and Etsuko's heads.

"Mission: Accomplished!" High-fiving each other, they started to pick up the broken glass.

"That was too easy. I can see how those two can do it every day!" Pointing behind her should, Haruhi grinned.

"Told you it would work, maybe now you'll get more customers?" Etsuko let out a giggle, her hands still tingling.

"Hopefully. And if we do this every day, we'll get more and more customers! We'll be out of this club in no time!" Haruhi answered back, grinning even wider.

"Haruhiiii! Do you hate your daddy's club so much?" Tamaki whined, shaking Haruhi by the shoulders.

"Actually, I do. I could've helped Etsuko finish her Geometry homework by now, along with her Biology."

"Etsuko, you need help with that? It's so simple!" Hikaru and Kaoru butted in, resting an arm on her shoulders.

"Well, excuse me for being stupid." She snarled, wriggling out of their grasp.

"But if you're so stupid" Hikaru began, shrugging and looking towards his twin.

"How'd you get into this school?" Kaoru shrugged back.

"Luck? It has been happening a lot lately." Laughing nervously, she threw away the glass, grabbed the cakes and rushed to Hunny's and Mori's table. Automatically giving Hunny his cake, and Mori his tea, she turned to the guest's "Wouldyoulikesomecakeortea?"

"Uh…..Cake please?" Was the response to all of Hunny's guests, and "Tea, please?" was the response of all of the guests at that station.

"Thank you, Su-chan!" Hunny giggled, while Mori just nodded in reply. Grinning, she nodded back to both, and made her way to the waiting guests.

"Would you guys like some tea?" Smiling pleasantly, she held out a teapot.

"Who do you think you are?" The girl sitting in the middle of the same black haired girl from yesterday along with a new red-head, snarled. Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.

"Kawasaki Etsuko… Why?" Etsuko raised an eyebrow, confusion crossing her face as she tilted her head to the side.

"I mean: why are you here with Tamaki? He belongs to me, his one and only true love!" She glared, causing a giggle to escape my lips.

"This is a host club… you share the hosts with the rest of the guests…the hosts are here as eye candy and to entertain you ladies. Plus, I barely even know Tamaki. I only know that sometimes he can be a bit of a creeper." Shrugging, Etsuko made her way towards Haruhi's table once again.

"Well, I think she's a total whore, Suki." The red-head supplied. Turning, a grin was plastered on Suko's face.

"Hunny-sempai is present, so please watch your language."

"Oh, look at that, Rika. Tamaki-sama is hugging that foolish bastard again." Suki growled. Turning to see Haruhi being spun by the blonde idiot, Etsuko turned back to glare. "He's not even that handsome! Not to mention he's such a spineless coward, being protected by all of them. To top that he's a commoner! And don't even get me started with his…" There was a smack, and Suki held her cheek. Etsuko's hand was still up, a silence filled the room, and all eyes were on the four of them.

"Just because I let you take out your jealousy on me, does not mean that you can insult Haruhi and his father like that. Don't call Haruhi spineless, a coward, and worst of all, a foolish bastard." A purple aura surrounded the girl, with the word "die" floating around. With eyes stone hard and cheeks flared with anger, Etsuko stomped off towards the changing room and slammed the door shut.

Being sick isn't fun. I'll probably not have the next chapter till this weekend, and I've been so busy lately OTL I hope that this is better, and I still have a few more chapters to write out. I know these have been short, but my teachers think that it's fun to pile a lot of projects on us until the end of the school year. I've also drawn Etsuko! It's not one of my best pieces of work, but you can find it on my profile, I'll have a link to my DeviantArt, so just look through the gallery there. I am so happy that I'm back, and the reviews have been very nice! I thank all of those who have added Sakura Kisses to their favorites/alerts and all of that mumbo-jumbo~! I LOVE YOU ALL! 8D

PS: I've noticed that in the last chapter, I quickly shifted to a different perspective…Um, sorry about that. Yeah, that was still Etsuko. If you've read the first version of Sakura Kisses, it's all from Etsuko's P.O.V. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go work on an InuYasha fanfic that a friend of mine has been wanting me to write OTL