A/N: Hello my fellow readers! Thank you for being very patient with my rather sporadic updates. I am going to give you all a head's up, but I may or may not post another chapter this upcoming week. I am working quite a bit, and then I do have a function at the end of the week. So, hopefully this chapter will keep you all abated for a bit. Have a great weekend everyone!

Chapter Three: Settling In

Two weeks had flew by in the blink of an eye. Haruhi and Ryoji had each done their respective talks, and both had been accepted to transfer. Haruhi had garnished a high aptitude on the entrance exam, and was granted an academic scholarship to the prestigious school. The scholarship covered her uniform, as well as her tuition for the year and a half that she would be attending for. Today was Wednesday, or in other words, was moving day. She had gone to school the previous day to say her farewells. She brought her school books with her, since each teacher thought that they would give them to her as a parting gift. All her classmates were sad to see her leave, though Haruhi was sure that was all just an act since they only spoke to her since she liked doing her work ahead of time.

The pair had decided that they would pack everything into the vehicle they were borrowing and then started the 5.5 hour move that night. They would arrive in the early hours, since Ryoji wanted to stop at a motel for the night, but they would be back on the road and be in Tokyo before 8AM. They had arrived safely a few short hours ago with the time now being 9 AM, and had finally finished hauling in the last of the boxes. Haruhi had planned on not going to school until the following Monday. It made much more sense anyways. She'd be unpacking her stuff in her room all day at the apartment complex that they were renting at the moment.

Her father was going to start on a night shift on Monday as well, since he wanted to be able to see the school his daughter was going to attend. Haruhi sighed. She just wanted her father to either go to work or stay at home. He could do anything BUT come see where she was going to school.

"Ha~ru~hiii! What would you like to eat today? We also need to go grocery shopping! And, I can't wait to go see your new school on Monday!" The male was screeching around the house.

"Dad! You are not going to come to school Monday. It's too embarrassing enough as it is. I'm going to let you sleep in for a change on Monday, just don't be late for work." An black aura had surrounded Haruhi at that moment, which caused her father to yelp and mumble a complaint about his daughter not loving him. Haruhi smirked. Her aura dissipated. "I'm going out to the local store here to pick something up for dinner. I'll be back in a bit." The girl sent a wave before she walked out the door.

Ryoji could only stare at where she had been a few minutes before. Shaking his head violently, he padded his way down what would be his room to start unpacking. He knew that Haruhi would have hers done tomorrow for sure. The weekend would be spent studying, in other words.

Meanwhile, in Ouran High School, an overly excited 2nd year blond male was bouncing around his best friend's desk before the start of classes. "Kyoya! Did you hear yet?!" The boy excitedly told the raven haired male.

"Tamaki, I would suggest that you calm yourself down and then proceed to sit at your desk. As for the news, I heard it." The raven haired boy named Kyoya replied.

"But, Kyoyaaa, when is the transfer student coming? I want to meet her!" Whined Tamaki.

"I heard that the transfer student won't be coming to class until Monday." Kyoya responded. He pushed up his glasses, enough to let light reflect off of them. After that, he pinched the bridge of his nose. It was a habit when he was dealing with this idiot of a friend.

"You know, when we meet the new transfer student, we should invite her to the host club!" Tamaki exclaimed, but then quickly settled down since the teacher had just walked in to start the lesson.

The day passed on, but in each class, Tamaki had to ask when they were meeting the new transfer student. It really bothered Kyoya. The raven haired fellow even snapped at the idiot a few times after that.

Club time had even passed. At least Kyoya got a break during the club, since the blond idiot was busy wooing the ladies to even be able to prance over to where Kyoya sat with his laptop, typing away. However, the moment the ladies were ushered out of the room, came the problem again. Kyoya sighed internally.

"I would like to call an emergency Host Club meeting right now! I promise I won't keep you all too long." The king, as people often called him in the club, exclaimed all of a sudden.

"Why are" One red headed twin started.

"you calling an" The second red headed twin continued.

"emergency meeting Tono?" The two replied in perfect unison.

"Usa-chan and I also want to know, Tama-chan! You too, right Takashi?" The blond Lolita exclaimed.

"Ah." The giant known as Takashi grunted.

Kyoya stuck around, but he was planning on not participating in this discussion at all.

"I'm glad you all asked! As you all are aware, Ouran has allowed a commoner to enter our school on a scholarship. I was going to invite the commoner to the Host Club on Monday!" Tamaki explained.

"Yay! Will there be cake?" The Lolita jumped up and down.

"Yes, Honey-senpai. There will be cake." Tamaki declared.

"And, what does this have to do with us?" The twins asked.

"You are to behave yourselves, you shady twins. The scholarship student is starting on Monday." Tamaki started yelling at the twins.

"A new student is bound to be refreshing, ne Takashi?" Honey asked his friend.

"Ah. It'll be interesting." Takashi replied.

Everyone left shortly after.

~Time Skip: Monday morning~

Haruhi could not believe that Monday had come so fast. But, nonetheless, she got up early with her alarm, much like she was used to doing. She had styled her wig the night before, so she didn't have to do that today. Since she was unsure how long it would take her to walk, she decided to leave a bit earlier her first couple days until she could get the timing down pat.

She arrived 10 minutes later to the gates. She groaned internally at how quickly she had arrived. Now, the newest task was to find her homeroom on her own. After another 15 minutes of wandering around the school, Haruhi knew that she was lost. Sighing, she at least remembered where the principal's office was. She would just have to go there.

How could you get lost on your first day here? Haruhi, you really need to learn to memorize blueprints faster. These two phrases were two of the many things she said to scold herself as she made her way down to the office. She eventually made it to the office and immediately calmed herself down before entering. The secretary looked up.

"Good morning. I'm a new student here, and I just can't seem to remember where my homeroom is. Would you mind pointing me in the right direction?" Haruhi asked with a smile. When she smiled, the secretary nearly fainted, but she did give her a map of the school and she was nice enough to mark Haruhi's current location and where her homeroom was. After thanking the secretary and giving her another smile, which really did make her faint that time, the new student set off towards homeroom. By the time, she got there, she was only a couple minutes early for class. The teacher was just reaching the door a minute after Haruhi had arrived. The teacher told her to stay there for another minute until she could introduce her.

Haruhi did just that. She stood outside the door for what seemed like half an hour, but was only two minutes before she heard the teacher say to come in.

"Would you like to introduce yourself?" The teacher turned to look at Haruhi.

"Yes. My name is Haruhi Fujioka. I moved to Toyko this past weekend from the Kyoto Prefecture after learning that I was able to get into Ouran on a scholarship. I hope that we can all get along. Thank you." Haruhi gave a fake smile, though the other males seemed to have their jaws drop, the girls somewhat fainted.

"Ms. Fujioka-san, you will sit between Mr. Suoh and Mr. Ootori for now." The teacher instructed.

Haruhi spotted the open desk. Then she looked to her neighbors. One looked too eager, considering he was bouncing in his seat, but at the same time he looked like a baka. The other one shocked Haruhi a bit. He had her exact shade of raven colored hair. But, at least he looked intelligent.

The class was starting. Haruhi took out her notebook. She wanted to compare what she had to where the rest of the class was. It seemed as if the class was only learning what she had known for a month already. What a boring lecture. She wondered when something would interest her in school, or even catch her off guard. At some point, Haruhi must have put her head on her arms and was slightly dozing off. Few minutes later, she heard a question being asked. And her name.

"Fujioka-san, can you please come up and answer the questions on the board?" The teacher probably didn't like it when people were starting to fall asleep in her class. Haruhi heard a few of the girls giggle, the guys snicker. Getting up and doing a light stretch, Haruhi grabbed her notebook and headed up to the front.

There were 20 questions on the board. She knew she only had to answer at least 5 of them, but Haruhi smirked in her mind about how the teacher would react to her doing all 20. Haruhi quickly scrawled the answers to every question. The teacher gaped. The other half of the questions on the board were things they hadn't quite covered yet.

"T-Thank you Fujioka-san. You may now be seated. Though, you may still want to pay attention." The teacher managed to stammer out.

Haruhi mumbled something along the lines of "Why, when I have already known this content for a month? And, I am sure I am nearly three months ahead in the work too," before getting to her seat.

Classes finally ended for the day. As she had agreed earlier that day, Haruhi walked out of the room with her two new classmates, Tamaki and Kyoya. Whenever Kyoya was around, other students seemed to steer clear of him. Haruhi couldn't help but feel bad for them, so she had smiled at a few of the ladies and convinced them to walk with her to the destination.

The girls swooned and had hearts in their eyes. Though, that wasn't all. Word was spread quickly, and even a few males were grovelling to keep up with the new transfer student.

I need to remind myself again that these girls are all airheads. I mean, what girl actually gets hearts in their eyes from another girl? And, I will have to find a way to get rid of these equally idiotic men. I have two missions. First, study to become a lawyer. This has been my base cover for needing to attend this school. Second, I need to find my family. The first step in that is to find my twin. Then, I'll find the family. Haruhi mused in those thoughts for a moment longer. They had finally reached the Third Music Room at last anyways.

The room was fairly large. There was not a trace of. Oops, she had to correct herself. She was thinking that there weren't going to be any instruments, but there was a grand piano in the corner. Oh, how she longed to play the instrument again. She had taken a few lessons throughout her elementary years, but stopped in her second middle school year. The other hosts were arguing about something, but Haruhi paid no mind to them. She silently walked over to the piano.

Sitting at the piano, she drew up in her mind's eye, Fur Elise. It was her favorite Beethovenian piece to play. And with that, she slowly began to play the song. After doing Fur Elise as a warm up song, she went into a few faster pieces. After playing four more songs, Haruhi stood up and stretched. It felt nice to finally be able to play the piano again.

Haruhi turned only to see all the guests and the rest of the hosts looking at her in awe. Before long, one of the guests spoke.

"That was beautiful music, Fujioka-senpai. When did you first learn to play all those songs?" It was a female voice.

"Thank you, miss –" Haruhi stopped. She realized that she forgot to ask the asker's name.

"Miss Seiko Suzuki, Class 1-B." The girl voluntarily gives.

"Thank you, Suzuki-hime. I was taught the basics in elementary school, but most of the songs I played today I self taught myself. Beethoven is my favorite so I memorized most of his sonatas, and even Fur Elise before I had to abruptly quit studying music in my second middle school year." Haruhi explains.

There were murmurs of "That's pretty good for being self taught" going around the room. One of the males that were also there, since they had followed her into the room, was about to speak when a voice rang out from the doorway on the other side.

"Haruhi! Is that really you?" The voice was that of another male. One that Haruhi knew as Hiro Shido. He was an annoying fellow. He had been in Haruhi's class in their first year of high school before he moved to attend Ouran.

"Ah, Hiro-san. Yeah. We just got to Tokyo on Wednesday, but first day here today." Haruhi tells the newcomer.

"Hm. Welcome to Ouran. But, I must say, you look different than normal." Hiro mumbled, but Haruhi caught the gist of what the boy had said. Instead of responding to how she looked different, she went with a topic she knew well. His standing in school. Always in fourth place on tests. He would have probably been lower, if she hadn't lent him her notes half the time.

"Hm. You haven't changed much at all, Hiro-san. What rank are you at currently for tests?" Haruhi inquired.

"I'm at least third on the ranking chart now." Hiro didn't like where this was going at all.

Haruhi sighed. "So, either you have ripped off another brainiac or you are actually studying. But, you seemed to finally have went up a notch."

The boy finally realized what was different about the girl. The hair was shorter and it was brown. Not to mention her eyes were normally an emerald color, but here she had in brown contacts. Since she was pestering him about his grades, he'd reverse the process by quizzing her about her appearance.

"I actually do a combination of both, thank you. And, why aren't you showing off your most prominent features, Haruhi?" Hiro smirks.

Haruhi took a few seconds to think about what he said. Her prominent features were her emerald eyes and black hair. She had brown hair and eyes here (thanks to the magic of colored contacts). There was no way she was letting him win.

"Same reasons as two years ago. No, I am not revealing those three secrets either until it is time. And, you will keep quiet about those in a further manner." Haruhi replied crossly, while at the same time, pinching the bridge of her nose. So soon of getting to this school, and she had a headache.

"Hm. What if I don't want to?" Hiro asks casually, but a smile was encased on his face.

"Well, I could consider it a favor you still happen to owe me for keeping your sorry ass within the top 5 in class for three years in a row. I didn't have to help you, yet I did. Second, I could always bribe you too. Third, there is always that issue that I still remember. I could tell your parents and older brother, but then again I don't want the wrath of your parents either. Which shall I do?"

This time, Haruhi smirked. She had the perfect blackmail. Hiro had forcibly made any of the girls who generally went after his brother, break off the engagement. Well, except for the current female that had been introduced to the Shido family. Hiro had often dragged Haruhi along on majority of the dates.

Haruhi had hit spot on, since Hiro paled at his three options. Hiro did owe her for the grades. He knew what she would bribe him with too. Her notes. Haruhi was already fishing in her bag for her notebook. Hiro knew that Haruhi was in on him breaking his brother's engagements. He sighed. But, before he could respond, Kyoya interrupted the two.

"Shido-san, you know our newest transfer student? And what does she mean by her last comments? And, what on earth are you talking about to begin with?"

"Yes, I know Haruhi since I went to school with her before. I'm not going to divulge in our own private matters, Ootori-san. Haruhi, fine, I'll keep quiet for now, as that favor that I owe you for those grades. I won't dare take the blackmailable item. I, too, would rather not have the wrath of my parents and brother. By the way, how far ahead are you for this year?" Hiro asked.

" Remember, I only was here today. But, you are lucky that I was able to quickly analyze the content in each of my courses to be the same curriculum as what it was in Kyoto. According to that, half the school year ahead, as usual. I still have the same habits where I go off on my own, but read my notes three times a day, every week. Just be sure to give my books back to me in the morning." Haruhi sighed as she threw her green notebook to the boy, who caught it swiftly.

"I still don't get why you write half a year ahead, and still review them ten times a day. But, thanks. Oh, and since I guess your father found a job here in town since you finally moved and he probably won't be home, you should come with me now. My parents would be rather pleased to see you again. I think my brother's bringing his newest fiancée too. I'll inform everyone when we get outside that we will meet them at the restaurant. I will, of course, treat you. I hope that is a satisfactory payment for what you are doing for me today?" Hiro finished, while holding up the green notebook.

"Hm. Sounds interesting. It's a deal. But, if you were just going to ask if I wanted to come over for dinner, why didn't you just ask me then to borrow my book?" Haruhi asked as she calmed down out of her slight rage. With that attitude, people would normally sweat drop, much like Hiro was sweating a bit at the current moment. When Haruhi calmed down, Hiro felt better too. Haruhi's rage was too much like a fire.