Welcome to Chapter 4! I know it's an early update, but I've been in the car for the past six hours and I finished this chapter (among other things), so thought I'd post it! Anyway, blah, blah, blah... Here you go! Enjoy!

DISCLAIMER! (For this chapter and the last!): We don't own Ouran, only our OC's!

Sayanozuka, Morinozuka, and Haninozuka walked (or were carried, in Mitskuni's case) side-by-side down the hallways to their awaiting limo.

The trio had already said goodbye to their fellow hosts and left for home.

"Don't forget to pick up Ryan, Billy!" Piper called to the driver as they got in the car. Yes, she knew his name was really Stephen, but her mom said he looked like Billy Joel once. Her mom had meant to say Hunter Hayes, but whatever. The name stuck and Billy didn't seem to mind. He was one of her best friends, in a big brother kind of way. He was around when Taka and Mitsu weren't, so they bonded quickly.

They arrived at Ouran Middle School just in time to find a young blonde boy crying i front of the school. As the limo pulled up in front of the school, the poor kid tried furiously to wipe the tears off of his face. Piper went out to get him.

"Come on kid," she picked up Ryan and dusted him off. "How was your day?"

"Fine," he sniffed. "It's just, when you didn't come, I was worried that something might of happened to you! You could have been kidnapped! They do that to people like us! They-"

Piper put her hand on his head to stop him. "Really? Kidnapped?" Piper retorted, ruffling his hair. "Who am I?"

"Piper Sayanozuka..." Ryan sniffed.

"I said, Who am I?!"

"Piper Sayanozuka!" Ryan wiped his face with his sleeve.

"I can't hear you!"

"PIPER SAYANOZUKA!"

"I'm Piper Sayanozuka! One of the strongest fighters and most amazing people in the world and I refuse to be kidnapped!"

Ryan cheered, the remaining tears sparkling in the corners of his eyes. He sighed, then looked like he was about to cry again. "But why were you three hours late?"

"You dunce." Piper dropped her fist on Ryan's head. "Weren't you listening to Uncle Haninozuka at dinner the other night?"

Ryan blushed and shook his head.

"Great job, idiot. I take it you didn't hear him say anything about the club Taka and Mitsu are in?"

Ryan just shook his head again.

"Geez," Piper started to walk towards the limo. "If you would stop talking to Chika and Satoshi for a second... I mean I know you three are best friends and all, but really..."

Suddenly, Piper felt a looming presence behind her. Instinctively she ducked. Piper watched a foot fly over her head and flipped backwards over her attacker.

"Ugh... And for once I thought you WOULDN'T try to fight me. I hate this rule..."

Like the Haninozukas, the Sayanozukas also were supposed to fight on contact. Piper, although good at it, didn't exactly enjoy fighting...

While she was lecturing him, Ryan had snuck behind her, trying to catch her off guard.

"That's not going to work!" Piper taunted.

A little peeved, Ryann tried to pin Piper to the ground with those tall, long needle things and jumped back.

Piper just laughed and jumped high in the air to dodge. Piper pulled a plastic pipe out of her backpack.

The onlookers in the limo sweatdropped. Piper's favorite weapon was the pipe. That wasn't ironic at all...

From the air, she dived towards her brother. It was all he could do to twirl out of the way, barely avoiding the speeding pipe(s) coming at him.

"Quick... Nice," Piper commented as she flipped backwards to avoid another onslaught of needles.

As they were thrown, Piper suddenly dropped out of the air and landed in an extremely uncomfortable looking position.

Had Ryan hit her for once? From a distance, he could see a needle sticking up from right about her... Heart. Had he killed her?! Ryan started to freak out. He'd killed his sister! His sister had died... By his own hand! Isn't death against the law?! 'No,' he thought. 'But, killing people is!'

He turned around, his sister's body beginning to make him sick. He tried to run to his cousins for comfort, but he couldn't move. His feet had been pinned down with his own needles!

"I win," said Piper behind him.

"B-but, I killed you!"

Piper sweatdropped before hitting him in the stomach with her pipe. Ryan doubled over. "It that was what you were going for, punk?"

Piper sighed. "It's not hard to catch a needle, put it in your armpit, and drop. Don't assume I'm dead. I'm not going to die. I'm a helluva lot better at this than you. One year and lots of talent makes a big difference."

Piper head locked her brother and dragged him to the limo.

"You're getting better!" Honey said to Ryan as the Sayanozukas sat down inside the car.

"Meh," he replied, still ticked off about, well, not killing his sister.

As they drove around, the foursome sat discussing random things about their day.

"Oh yeah," Ryan said. "Piper, why are you wearing the boy's uniform?"

"Uh... None of your busyness, you little brat! I don't think I need to tell you ANYTHING after you tried to KILL me." Piper barely slid through with that one.

"W-well..." Ryan stammered, looking away.

"Well?"

"Nothing...

Piper and her cousins had decided that Ryan didn't need to know that Piper was a part of the host club. This was shared in a silent glance between Takashi and Piper. They were both very good at the whole "silent" thing.

"Your parents said that you guys would be staying here until dinner tonight," Piper said to her cousins as they pulled up in the driveway of the Sayanozuka residence.

"Cool!" Said Honey. "Are we going to have cake?"

"Is Usa-chan pink?" Replied Piper.

"Yay!" Came the answer from the entire car, with the exception of Mori, who just clapped.

As everyone climbed out of the car, Piper realized something.

"Ryan, you realize that you could've just called Billy and had him come and pick you up, right?

Ryan turned away. "Psh. Ya...?"

Ryan turned back to face his sister. Clearly, she wasn't buying it and rolled her eyes. "That's what Chika-chan and Sato-chi do."

"Yeah well," Ryan began talking and Piper stopped listening. So she wasn't the greatest older sister in the world.

Piper began to closely study her family and their similarities.

'Ryan looks just like Mitsu-kun and Chika-chan, Sato-chi and Taka-chi look exactly alike, but I don't look like any of my family members...' Thought Piper randomly. She started to space out as she walked up the stairs, completely ignoring anything her going on around her.

As she stepped up to the next step - twenty six or so out of seventy (why they needed so many stairs, she would never know) - Piper stepped on the very edge of the step and slipped.

"Oomph!" Piper landed safely in the arms of a mystery person.

'Mmmm... This person smells nice... Waait, that's kind of creepy...' Thought Piper as she leaned into the strangers arms. She didn't recognize the scent, however. Who was it who'd caught her?

Haha! We're going to make you wait until Saturday to find out who it is! Leave any guesses/ideas about who this mystery person is down in the review box below! Thanks!

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