TITLE: STARSTRUCK!
SUMMARY: Haruhi, descends from a long line of famous actors/actresses, but their fame is faltering. So she creates and stars in a small series on the condition that her six male co-stars are orphans from orphanages. This way they could be given a chance at stardom. Her public sees it as an act of charity to to six underprivileged kids. But is this really charity or a publicity stunt?
STORY PAIRINGS: Haruhi+Tamaki, Honey+Mori, Kaoru+Hikaru

PLEASE NOTE: This story is rated M. According to the FF site, that means it has to be appropriate for ages 16+ WITHOUT explicit content, which includes adult language, themes, and suggestions. This story meets those requirements.

"Good morning Masters," Shima said entering their room. Only... the boys weren't there...

Feeling somewhat worried she hurried to Haruhi's room which was the next nearest resident. "My Lady, please wake up. The boys are gone!"

Haruhi sat up rubbing her eyes. "Wha?"

"Please come and see..."

Haruhi jumped out of bed hurrying in her night dress to the boy's room. It was indeed empty, though Haruhi smiled. "Don't worry, I'm sure they're around. They wouldn't have left..."

And then they heard noises coming from downstairs.

Shima suddenly looked rather upset. "What are those ruffians doing? Why are they up before they have been awakened by their servant? Who does that?"

"I'm sure they're just not used to being awakened by others," Haruhi explained. "Wait I'll handle it, go ahead and wake up the rest of the house."

She entered the kitchen and gasped at the sight.

"Wha! What are you doing?" she gasped.

"We're making breakfast!" Kaoru said grinning.

"Sit down and join us Haruhi!" Tamaki said cheering.

"What… what about the servants I had here for you. They would have cooked you something…"

"We didn't wanna wake them, because we got up really early," Hikaru explained.

"Even me!" Honey explained, happily. He looked back at the others smiling, "They're making pankcakes! I've never had them but it's got the word cake it in so it must be good! Right?"

She sighed watching him run back over to where one of the twins and Takashi were cooking.

"Well alright, I'll go over the agenda then. We will be doing a full script reading today," Haruhi said taking a seat at the kitchen table. "Do any of you know what that means?"

"Yup!" Tamaki said sitting beside her. "It means we'll be reading the script."

"Well, yes, but it's where we go over the whole show with just our voices and then we make any necessary changes," she explained. "We should have the show down pact before we worry about where people are standing or what movements we're doing for the scenes."

"Could you read the whole script to us over breakfast, like a storybook?" Honey asked running up to her smiling brightly.

"Uh… I suppose…" Haruhi answered.

"Yea!" he said crawling under the table to sit on Haruhi's other side.

She realized she needed to grab a script and hurried up to her room quickly before returning with it in hand.

"Let's see… Haruhi: This place has four library rooms. You'd think one of them would be quiet. How are things in heaven Mom? I can't believe it's been ten years already. I'm beginning to think that rich kids only come to school to have a good time. An abandoned Music Room. I guess this is the only place I'll be able to study in peace and quiet. Then I open the door. The Host Club says: Welcome. Haruhi: When I opened the door. I found the host club…"

"That's how you're starting this?" Hikaru asked frowning.

"Yeah, what's wrong with it?" she asked looking up at him.

"It's just… Boring. You should start it with a high speed chase or something like that," he suggested.

"This… isn't really that kind of show though," she explained. "It's a comedy, not an action show."

"I don't wanna be in any show that doesn't have a high speed chase…" Hikaru stated frowning as Takashi put some pancakes on his plate.

"I'll think about it," Haruhi said somewhat annoyed.

"Keep reading!" Honey said scooting closer to her so he could look over her shoulder at the page.

And that's how breakfast was spent, her reading through the script she had made and everyone making comments and suggestions (which were sometimes inappropriate).

"You can't say that!" Kaoru snapped to Hikaru after one comment he made. "This is a family show, and Honey's right here."

Honey blinked at him. "I'm sixteen," he told him.

"See, now you embarrassed him so he's trying to make himself seem older…"

"Why do you have me and Kaoru as a couple anyway?" Hikaru asked looking at Haruhi. "I thought we were supposed to be siblings…"

"Well…" Haruhi said looking slightly embarrassed. "You are, but… You guys just pretend for the sake of the Host club. My sister Renge said it would be a good idea…"

"Like Kaoru said, isn't this supposed to be a family show? Incest doesn't seem like a good topic for—"

"What's incest?" Honey asked looking over to him.

"It where people have sexual relationships within' their own family," Hikaru explained completely unabashed.

"Hikaru, don't explain words like that to a little kid!" he snapped. "How many times do I have to tell you!"

"Okay guys, let's just get back on topic," Haruhi said frowning and getting up from where she was seated. She started walking to the door but heard the clattering of dishes behind her. She looked back to find the boys were taking care of the dishes and bring them over to the sink.

"Uh, guys, we have people for that," Haruhi explained, but they were talking too excitedly about the upcoming script to hear her. She shrugged and headed upstairs to get dressed since she was still in her night dress. The boys washed and put away the dishes. Some having more fun than others when it came to the dishsoap. Honey had grabbed clumps of the foam made and put it on his own face to make a beard and whatever else he found funny. So Kaoru, Hikaru, and Tamaki eventually joined in until the next thing they knew there was soap bubbles and foam clumps everywhere.

"Uh, maybe we overdid it," Kaoru said looking around. Kyoya (by the end) had been the only one actually doing dishes, because even Takashi (who was genuinely helping him had been pulled aside by Honey to have a foamy hat put on his head. When Kyoya turned and saw the mess they had made he sighed.

"I'm not cleaning that up…" he said frowning.

"Guys, what's taking you—" Haruhi began as she looked around the corner and froze at the sight of all the foam.

"Haruhi, want some foam?" Kaoru asked grinning.

"No," she said frowning "Come with me now guys. We gotta work."

"Wait a second," Honey said. "We have to clean this up."

"No no, that'll take even more time, I'll get the servants to clean it," she said shuffling them down the hall.

Honey grabbed his bunny running after them all, and hurried to the front of everyone. There was an odd smell about the bunny. It both stunk really bad, and had a flowery smell to it, but the scent of it was quite obvious. She wondered why she hadn't noticed it before.

Haruhi stopped and called Honey. He turned back running over to her. "Yes?"

"Why don't I have someone take this thing back to your room," she said reaching forward to grab the bunny but Honey pulled it away.

"It's mine!" he snapped frowning.

"I know," she said a bit confused at his reaction. "I'm not taking I'm just gonna have someone…"

"No, it stays with me!" Honey snapped.

"Uh…" the other boys had stopped to stare at their interaction. "Okay fine, but you know you can't have it with you when we're filming…"

"Wha! How come?"

"Cause it's disgusting, look at it, it's dirty and frayed…"

"He stays with me…" Honey said frowning.

"That doesn't change the fact that you won't be able to keep it on you while we're filming…"

Frowning Honey turned away and continued walking down the hallway.

Feeling she would figure out what to do later they all climbed into her limo and headed back to the set, she took them all to what was to serve as music room three. They camped out on a blanket that had been set on the floor since the room had no furniture yet and some of the film crew help them cookies to munch on while they read through the script. It was actually really fun, each character read their lines from where they were sitting. Haruhi had to stop them occasionally to ask them to put more emotion into it, or less. Tamaki went way over the top with his lines so she kept telling him to tone it down. Honey was the most impressive. He sat on his back the whole time, his bunny on his chest, and he said all his lines by heart without looking once at the script. He seemed to have memorized it from that morning's reading...

When they got to the part of Hikaru and Kaoru's scene, Hikaru got overly ridiculous and at one point dropped his script screaming, "Kaoru I love you! Run away with me!" and he felling on top of him trying to kiss him.

"Whaaa! Get off!" Kaoru yelled pushing him back.

Haruhi was snapping at Hikaru shouting, "That wasn't in the script Hikaru!"

Honey had tilted his head back looking at the scene and Takashi reached over covering his eyes.

"Enough!" Tamaki snapped putting a hand on Hikaru's forehead and pushing him off. "Leave Kaoru alone."

"Ooooh," Hikaru said. "Wait a minute, that's right…"

Hikaru grinned. "You two were at the same orphanage together weren't you…"

Tamaki blinked at him. "Yeah so?"

"You guys are goin' out ain't ya?"

"No!" They shouted together.

"That's why you're protective of him," he said grinning. "How cute, a happy couple…"

"We're not dating," Tamaki snapped hitting Hikaru on the head lightly with is script.

"Then why are you two so close?"

"We grew up together," Tamaki said. "I've looked after Kaoru since the day he first came to our orphanage. I'm like his Father!"

"Like his father…" Haruhi said frowning… "That might be cute…"

She grabbed a notepad making a few notes. Honey crawled over looking at what she wrote.

"Okay guys," she said flipping the notebook closed and Honey frowned. "Let's get back on track. Honey why don't you start with your next line.

Immediately Honey yawned. "Sorry," he said in his cute voice. "We're running late…"

"Hello Honey! Hey Mori! We've been waiting here for you guys. Hi!" Haruhi said, she was serving as the extra they would need temporarily until the extras arrived.

"I'm sorry, I was waiting for Takashi to finish his Kendo meeting and I fell asleep, and I'm still not completely awake."

"Girl's gasp. So cute… My line: Is that boy really a third year student? And Kyoya's next… go!" she said pointing to Kyoya.

And it continued. Until they had gone through the whole episode about three times.

"Alright guys," Haruhi said smiling. "That's it… That's the episode…"

"Usa-chan doesn't have a part," Honey said frowning.

"I know, and he's not gonna have a part…" Haruhi said dully.

"But…" Honey said frowning. "He wants one…"

"Okay, fine…" Haruhi sighed…

"Yea!"

"I'll add a small bit for him tomorrow when we start filming. For now, could you all follow me?" she asked leading them to what appeared to be the costume room. She opened it and walked in.

"Alright," she said grinning. "You guys are all experts on being poor, so I need you to pick out the poorest ensemble here so that I can look the part of a poor person."

"They usually wear whatever they have in their closets," Kaoru explained frowning.

"Exactly, so pick out what you think a poor person would have in their closet," she said and Kaoru frowned.

"Haru-chan!"

Haruhi looked up, noticing Honey was calling her with the suffix she had him use in the script.

"Look at this!" he said running a sweater over to her. "It's so warm!"

"Good," she said taking it. "This looks poor."

Kyoya brought her over a white shirt. "This looks like a similar shirt the head of my orphanage would make us wear when she shipped us off to church."

Tamaki and Kaoru brought over a pair of over-sized pants.

"Oh, no, those are too big for me," Haruhi pointed out.

"So?" Kaoru said. "You wear what you get when your poor. Whether it fits or not…"

"Oh, okay," she said taking it too.

Hikaru who was looking rather annoyed with all the clothes turned to her. "I know, I'll give you poor people's hair…"

"Poor people's hair?" she asked frowning.

He went over to her and started ruffling her hair up until it stuck out oddly in many directions. "Ta da!"

Takashi was the last to contribute, by placing a pair of thick brown glasses on her face.

"Okay go put it on!" Tamaki said excitedly.

She went to a changing room and tried on the ensemble presented to her and when she came out they all looked at her.

"There, you don't look rich at all now," Tamaki said smiling.

"You look warm!" Honey pointed out grinning.

"Alright then," Haruhi said. "This is what I'll wear tomorrow. Thanks for helping me!"

However, they had already lost interest and were now beginning to play dress up with the clothes. She smiled, hoping this will all work out.

The next day filming was to begin. Haruhi put on the outfit they had picked out and messed up her hair as Hikaru had and when she showed up everyone in the host club had just finished being dressed in their uniforms.

"You all look great!" she said smiling as she saw them.

"The last time I wore clothes like these I was attending a funeral," Tamaki said looking down. "But these are too bright to be funeral clothes."

Sobbing met her ears and she turned to see Honey sulking in a corner. Takashi was trying to console him. "Oh what's he crying about now?" she asked frowning.

"Seems his bunny doll went missing last night. He woke up this morning and couldn't find it."

Haruhi gasped, "Oh gosh," she said. She opened a bag she was carrying, and there was his bunny.

"Wha! You stole it!" Tamaki gasped.

"I didn't steal it," she snapped. "I had one of the servants take it while you guys were sleeping last night so I could have it repaired and cleaned. I couldn't have him using that stuffed bunny on screen in the state it was in…"

She walked over to Honey, "I have a surprise for you."

Honey looked up sobbing and blinked when he saw what she was holding. "Usa-chan!" he gasped taking it from her.

He was happy for all of about two seconds, when he looked down at it. "What's did you do to him?"

"I had him cleaned, and had a professional seamstress re-sew him," she smiled before patting his head. "You're welcome!"

She rushed over to the camera man to talk to him and Honey had not moved. He was still staring down at Usa-chan looking as though his whole world had just fallen through the floor.

Takashi walked over to him looking down, he placed a hand on his head.

"It… it doesn't smell like her anymore…" he said miserably.

While Tamaki was off recording his narration for the beginning intro Haruhi decided to begin with filming the Host club scenes that didn't require Tamaki. So the twin's scene was the first one they filmed. As expected Hikaru was not taking this seriously.

She had asked the daughters of rich families to serve as the extras. Their daughters were given scenes based on donations to the series so they were all very excited at a chance to be in a film. However, Hikaru kept making rather inappropriate jokes. Haruhi wasn't sure if it was nerves or if he just really didn't care…

"Could you take this seriously please!" Haruhi snapped.

"I am taking this very seriously," he frowned.

"No you're not, stick to the script!"

"Your script is boring. I don't wanna say that," he snapped.

"What you want to say isn't important. You have to follow the script or you can't be in this series!" Haruhi snapped.

"Tsk," he scoffed leaning back in his chair.

"Maybe… maybe you can't act. I thought this might happen to one of you… I'll have to find someone else…" she sighed turning away. "But you came as a pair, I'll have to find another set of look-a-likes…"

Kaoru looked really worried at that, and Hikaru caught the expression from the corner of his eye. He jumped to his feet. "I CAN act!" he snapped.

Haruhi spun around, "Then prove it!"

She turned yelling action to the camera man, and Hikaru proceeded to do the scene… perfectly.

"And cut!" Haruhi shouted when they were done. "Excellent! See I knew you could do it!"

He frowned falling back into his chair looking annoyed.

Hikaru was a difficult one, but he didn't seem to want to ruin something for someone else just for a laugh. Deep down he seemed nice.

When Honey's scene came up Honey was not his cheerful self and all his lines were rather sad sounding. "Honey," she said after the fourth take. "Honey can you be more cheerful, like you were in the reading?"

Honey frowned clinging tighter to his bunny.

"Takashi can you do something?" Haruhi asked.

Frowning, Takashi turned to him. He took Usa-chan and started making him dance and spin. Honey's face became very stern as though he were a little kid trying desperately not to laugh when he wanted to be pouting, but that didn't last long. Honey suddenly smiled and grabbed the bunny back. "Well, I guess… he probably was due for a bath anyway…"

"Wow, Takashi," Haruhi said after Honey's scene was done. "You're really good with kids."

And just as simple as that, Honey was suddenly okay to shoot again, and unlike the others they filmed, he never messed up his lines once.

They had to add an extra scene with Usa-chan because Honey really wanted it so she decided to make it the scene when Honey found out she was a girl.

Then their was Tamaki… Oh God Tamaki was hard to shoot. When he finally came back his acting was way over the top. He was very loud and exuberant. That was until they shot the scene where Haruhi spoke about having a dead mother. Tamaki suddenly got very solemn and he even ran off by himself for a few minutes.

Haruhi realizing that parents were probably a touchy subject for all of them. Especially since all the boys there were orphans so she hurried off to find him and saw that he had hidden in the costume room. He was sitting at the window looking out it.

"Tamaki?" Haruhi said hurrying in.

He looked up when she came in. "Oh, hi… Sorry, I. I think our pancakes this morning were strange. I felt I just needed to be by myself a second. I'll come back in a few minutes…"

"I'm sorry Tamaki," Haruhi said. "I gave my character that backstory, and I didn't even stop to think that you're an orphan so you lost your parents too. Were you close to your Mother?"

"Yeah," Tamaki said smiling. "I… I a... was…"

"Well, I'm sure your Mother would be very proud of you for helping me with this project," Haruhi said. "So you can think of that when scenes like this come up."

Tamaki stared down at her. That certainly wasn't very heartwarming, and her words didn't sound at all like she was sorry or that she felt his pain in anyway. He wondered if Haruhi had ever lost anyone close to her. He was guessing she probably hadn't, and therefore she didn't really understand that pain...

He put a hand on her shoulder. "Thanks, I'm fine now. Let's go back."

Haruhi took a deep breath, silently congratulating herself on avoiding this crisis.

After they took a break for lunch their was a rather hot man sitting in the Host Club room, and the extras and even some of the female film crew were eyeing him.

"Who is that?" Hikaru asked.

"Oh he's here!" Haruhi exclaimed rushing over to him. "Hi, you're Matsuko right?"

"It's nice to see you again Fujioka-san," he said taking her hand he brought the back of it up to his lips to kiss it softly.

The room got oddly quiet as everyone stared at them.

Haruhi turned to the boys grinning. "Okay guys, this is Matsuko-san. He works at a real Host Club and he's going to teach us how to be real Host Club members. He even assisted in helping me write a bit of the script."

"So these are the boys you told me about," he walked over. He was tall, dressed in a suit and had his jacket slung loosely over his arm. "I look forward to working with all of you."

Thirty minutes later Matsuko was deep into a Hosting lesson telling them about hints and tricks the could use. Like setting down a glass with your pinky extended so it would make an unseemly clattering sound. Tamaki however was looking at Haruhi who was diligently taking notes as though this were a terribly difficult class in school.

"Tamaki," Matsuko said smiling. "Are you paying attention?"

He blinked turning back to him. "Uh, yes..."

Matsuko turned to see what he was staring at and a smile crossed his face.

The next scene they shot was the one with Tamaki's instruction.

"Why do I have to blow in her ear?" he asked. This scene hadn't been in the original script that Haruhi had made so she was trying to explain her vision to him with Matsuko-san's input. He had suggesting the blowing part.

"It's intimate," he explained. "It's something people do when they're being flirtatious, which is something that your character is. Haruhi will take it differently. Instead of blushing like most girls, she'll be creeped out which will cause a laugh from the viewers."

"This is difficult..."

"Hhmmm..." Honey frowned he grabbed Usa-chan lifted up his bunny ear and blew on it. "See, it's easy."

"Good job Honey," Matsuko-san said chuckling slightly.

"Okay, just say your line, and lean on this," Haruhi said wheeling in a green sign.

"Lean on this? Why?" Tamaki asked.

"I'm going to cgi some signs and captions. I thought it would be cute if you leaned on the caption for this scene."

"What's it going to say?"

"Not sure yet..." Haruhi frowned.

"Aright, places..." Matsuko-san demanded and everyone got out of their way except for Haruhi, Kyoya and Tamak. So Tamaki did what he was told. He leaned on the sign to say his line.

"You're going to have to work hard to pay off that debt," he explained after Kyoya's passport line.

Then Haruhi had the camera focus in closer when he said his next line. "My little nerd," Tamaki recited and then he blew really hard into her ear.

Haruhi jumped a little bigger than she intended. "What was that?" she gasped frowning.

"What? I just did what you said," Tamaki said innocently.

"No no," Matsuko-san explained. "You don't blow in a woman's ear... You exhale softly, like the sigh of longing you give when when haven't heard a lovers voice in a long time. Like this..."

He turned Haruhi's back to him and leaned down blowing softly into her ear. Haruhi did feel a chill run down her spine and she jumped. Matsuko straightened up smiling. "Alright, how about you try again..."

Tamaki felt his face grow hot. He couldn't do that to her! "Uh..." he frowned. "Let's go on to the next part when I give that speech... Yeah... uh... I needed a rose for that right? I better go find a rose..."

"Here you are," Matsuko said producing a rose from seemingly no where handing it to him. "I guess we can try that later on when you're not so uncomfortable with it."

"One sec though," He handed the rose over and removed from his jacket a spray bottle so he could put small droplets of water on the pedals. "There..."

Tamaki frowned down at the pedals. Were the drops necessary, he wondered.

The remainder of the episode was finished the following day. The girl who played Princess Ayanokoji in episode one was actually one of her big sister's close friends. On the second day of filming she had brought some tickets to the band AirRaid Arai. Enough for all the boys to go and see the concert. She handed them over to Haruhi as a thankyou for letting her be in the first episode. She was actually much nicer than the character Haruhi had her portraying.

None of this episode had been filmed in order, so how it would all come together was going to be a surprise for everyone. Haruhi made a mental note to be better organized for future episodes. As a present for finishing episode one she gave the Host Club members a cell phone that had everyone's numbers already programmed in them. They all seemed super excited to have them.

"So what now?" Tamaki asked taking off his tie when Haruhi officially declared the last scene of the episode filmed.

"Well, I'll take the scenes and sit with our editor. See what we're gonna use and what we're not. We'll add in some appealing visuals, and we'll have episode 1 done by the end of the week."

"A whole week," Honey said frowning.

"What do we do for a whole week?" Hikaru asked.

"Well, actually," Haruhi said. "We'll start filming episode two before edits are done on the first. However, tomorrow we're taking a break. I wanna take you guys to see some plays. Professional actors in their element and in an environment where there are no retakes. I think it'll be a great learning experience, and your guys' acting could use some work. So we'll probably go to a few different things, and at some point I'm going to hold a press conference to announce the show. And the families you're all pretending to be from, I think you'll need to meet them in person. These people may be adopting you so, it would be good to get to know them. Don't worry, we'll be quite busy..."

"So we did a good job then," Kaoru asked.

"Yeah," she said smiling. "Overall though I'm happy with how episode one went. Well, let's go home."

"Haruhi," Tamaki said stopping her as she was preparing to leave. "Would you like to do something fun? Maybe we could all go to the park or something. We could play hide and seek."

"I have a lot of work to do before tomorrow," she explained. "But you guys can go play somewhere if you want. My driver's number is in your phone. So, he'll pick you up when you're finished..."

"Oh… yeah sure…" Tamaki said frowning.

"I'm going," Haruhi called to everyone. "Come home whenever you want. See you later!"

"Are we gonna go play somewhere?" Honey asked.

"Sure," Tamaki said frowning.

Haruhi headed out to her limo and was slightly shocked when she found her father sitting there waiting for her when the driver opened the door. She was sitting there in her typical cross dresser attire.

"Oh, hey Dad," she said sitting down.

"So?"

"So?" she asked.

"How did your first episode go?" he asked.

"A few bumps, but all in all it was good," she said smiling. "I really think this is going to be popular. Our family will be back on top again for sure."

"Haruhi, if you're doing this for us…"

"I am doing it for you!" she interrupted. "Our name used to be known by everyone. Since Trio in Tokyo was shot when I was a kid our popularity has been slowly declining. We come from five generations of entertainers and I don't want that to be thrown away because our last few events have busted in sales..."

"Haruhi, it's true that our family is not as popular as it used to be, but it's not your responsibility to fix that. You're a kid, just have fun with your project. If it works, wonderful. If it doesn't, that's alright too."

However, she didn't seem to be listening. "The problem is older people still remember us, but the younger generation doesn't really have a clue who we used to be. I really think this series will attract the younger generation…"

Ranka sighed as his daughter went on the whole car ride about her plans.

Phew! And with this update I have updated all my Ouran Host Club stories this month!

Now it is nap time. *curls up in a ball* Goodnight!