Ouran High Host Club

Author's Note*

Hi again! Phew, this chapter is finally finished! I really enjoyed writing this chapter … it was such fun to make up a believable history/past for our Tsuki- chan!

And finally, we begin to reach the actual storyline! (Yes, the purpose of the last two chapters and this one were simply so you could get to know Kurotsuki … she is to be a main character, after all ^ ^)

Hopefully, you have started to get involved in the plot and enjoy it, too!! Please write and tell me what you think, everyone! Keep reading!

Chapter Three – Tragic Past

Inside Third Music Room, everyone except Mori and Hani felt as if they had been struck a physical blow – that beautiful boy they had just met was actually a girl! But why had she enrolled at the school as a boy? And why would she want people to think of her as a boy?

By now, the other members of the Host Club were totally intrigued and desperate to know more about Kurotsuki. However, they didn't get a chance to talk about it until much later because, with her departure, the first of their customers started to trickle in.

At long last, the Host Club finished for the day. But today, they did not immediately go home like usual, but stayed behind, seated together around a table in the Third Music Room. "Hani- senpai, Mori- senpai, do you two know her well?" Tamaki tried to sound casual. But Hani and Mori took the hint.

Hani sighed. "Alright, alright Tama- chan. Takashi and I will tell you everything we know, starting from the very beginning."

"Me an' Takashi first met Tsuki- chan 11 years ago, when she started learning karate and kendo at our family's dojo. She's 2 years younger than us both, so that'd make her around 5 around the time … so she ended up in our class – mine for karate and Takashi's for kendo. She was an extremely quick learner – my father said she was one of the best he had ever seen – and she advanced so fast that she was soon at the same level as us."

Hani paused for a second and then continued, hugging Usa- chan. "We became good friends. Tsuki- chan was soo cute and adorable as a little girl! She was such a calm n' serious 5 year old ... sort of like Kyouya! Well, over the next 6 years, we grew very close. She was just like a baby sister to us and we shared everything with her."

"She was extremely quiet and shy, so it wasn't difficult to like her. We understood each other and were I was comfortable with her … we could sit together for hours without needing to talk." Mori's expression was blank as usual, but his eyes were gentle.

Secretly, Haruhi thought to herself, "Wow! That's the longest statement I've ever heard Mori- senpai make!" She had a sudden mental picture of mini- Mori and Kurotsuki sitting on a bench together with identical vacant expressions on their faces and suppressed a laugh.

Hani smiled up at his cousin – "You've always had a soft spot for her, Takashi. You love her even more than if she really is our little sister … you've always felt the need to protect and look after her, and you still feel that way, don't you? Even after so long?" Mori didn't look at Hani, but gave a slight nod in agreement.

"What do you mean by 'after so long', Hani- senpai?" Kyouya's pen temporarily stopped moving over a fresh sheet of paper.

"Tsuki trained with us for 6 years until our first year of Middle School. By then, I was a national Karate champion and Takashi was a national Kendo champion and Tsuki- chan, because she learned both, was a champion at Karate and Kendo. She was the only one in either of our classes who was as good as Mori or me."

"Even though she was so young, she became a trainer at our dojo, but one day, she suddenly stopped coming. We thought she'd got sick and we waited for her to come back, but after a month she still hadn't returned and we got worried, so we went to her house to see her."

Tears welled up in Hani's eyes and he started to cry. Mori gently pulled him into his lap and patted his back. The others exchanged glances. Did something happen?

"When we got there, she had gone and her house was sold." Mori took up the story – "She'd never had any secrets from us, so we were confused … why had she not told us she was going away? But then one of her neighbours saw us and told us what had happened."

"P-poor Tsuki- chan!" sobbed Hani, tears still swimming in his huge brown eyes, "Her parents had gone overseas together and were killed in a car accident. It must have been so hard for her, losing both her mother and her father on the same day… and she was only 11 years old… they were the only family she had."

"Tsuki's grandmother tried to stop her father and mother from being together before Tsuki was even born, so her parents ran away together and her father was disowned by her grandmother. Tsuki- chan has never met the rest of her family and I don't even think her grandmother knows Tsuki exists. So she's been alone all this time …"

"The neighbour told us that Tsuki- chan's family home had been put up for sale the very next day and she'd moved out a few days after that. No one knew where she'd gone, and we couldn't find her anywhere."

Hani stopped crying and patted Mori on the head. "Poor Takashi was so sad when she left. Although most people didn't notice, he became even more silent and stopped talking altogether. He also became more protective of me … from then on he was always by my side."

"I was afraid of losing you too, Mitsukuni." Mori said simply.

He continued – "Since then, we never heard from her again. It was as if she'd taken herself out of our lives. It's been almost 6 years since we last saw her, and she's grown up so much. Today, when she burst in like that, I wasn't even sure it really was her until I saw her eyes."

"But now that we have her back, Takashi and I aren't going to let her disappear like that again. We're going to look after our little imouto- chan for always from now on, aren't we Mori dear?" Hani smiled happily up at his cousin and they shared a private, affectionate look.

Suddenly, Hani turned on the others with a stern expression on his face. "Kurotsuki is Senior Hani and Senior Mori's little sister, so you all have to be nice to her, alright?"