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We walked back to the host club room in silence. It felt awkward but I worried if I said anything it would only add to the uncomfortable atmosphere. When we arrived Tamaki had quickly explained to everyone what the circumstances were and everyone seemed to liven up and agree to help, even Hikaru. I hoped he'd warmed to me, either that or everyone had told him to be nicer.

The twins had dashed off with smirks on their faces and a worrying idea in their heads as everyone else began to argue about what was more important for me to learn first. As they chattered I pulled on a shirt that I'd brought with me, I'd grown cold in just the strappy top. All of the topics seemed pointless to me, after all, for my job I didn't need to know any of these useless facts, dates or other knowledge they thought was of use to them in life.

"Alright, first off we need to work on history and polotics!" Kyoya stated as he shifted his glasses on his face.

"No, Science and law is more important." Haruhi interjected.

"Should she not work on her English, poems and literature? Drama aswell!" Tamaki was being over dramatic and throwing his arms around like he had nothing to lose, but I was contemplating taking his life, it would make mine so much easier, not to mention quieter!

"Maybe she should work on her maths and Geography first!" Honey giggled, I think he wanted to make me suffer. Sadist.

"You know, I can just.." but I got cut off by the twins bursting in with a large piece of card, on it was a detailed time table of my study plan.

"Look, if she studies all day, every day, she should be able to at least cover half of the topics." Kaoru said as he pointed out the fact that they hadn't allowed me any time to sleep. I rolled my eyes, I was struggling on just missing one nights sleep, let alone all of those...

"How do you put up with them?" I asked Mori as he was the only one being silent among all the chaos. He shrugged and looked at me.

"You get used to it." He grumbled. He turned back to face them and seemed only to look at Honey-Senpai.

Is he… gay?

"Come with me," Haruhi sighed as she took my hand and began to pull me away from the boys. "I'll teach you."

"I'll help!" Takamki skipped beside us.

"Hey, don't keep the new girl to yourselves!" Honey wailed as he chased after us.

"You wouldn't be able to adequately tutor her by yourselves." Kyoya said as he stood in front of the door and blocked our way.

I yanked my arm from Haruhi's grasp and stumbled away from the horde of want to-be-sensei's. "Enough! You're all going to tutor me!" I snapped, my head feeling like it might explode from all the commotion. "You can all tutor me at the same time." I smirked.

"That's impossible," Hikaru and Kaoru said together.

"You're forgetting something." They all stared at me, silently questioning my sanity. "The reason I'm here! I'm a ninja, remember?" I rolled my eyes and crossed my two fingers on each hand over eachother. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" As I expanded my chakra another seven of me appeared. "Let's get to work!" They all yelled in excitement as I began to trudge off to a quiet corner.

"Where are you going?" Honey asked.

"Sleep." I yawned and left them to teach my clones.

Shadow Clones…

"Why did I get stuck with you!?" The clone left with Tamaki huffed.

"You're all the same, either way. YOU still would've ended up being taught by me… I think." Tamaki shrugged as he prepared for our 'class.'

Everyone had been so shocked by the shadow clones, it was priceless. Honey had been excited, the twins thought it cool, Haruhi and Kyoya tried to get their heads around it while Tamaki and Mori just stared at the several copies of Naruko that were standing around.

Each went off with one of the clones and began their lessons.

Tamaki was in charge of Drama.

Haruhi was in charge of History and Science.

Kyoya was in charge of Political stuff and Business.

Honey was in charge of Baking; apparently that was needed for Home Economics.

The twins were left in charge of Maths and Geography, while Mori was expected to coach one of the clones in Physical Education; not that Naruko needed help with that at all.

Mori took the clone which was assigned to him outside and began warm ups, Honey took his clone to the kitchen and began preparations for baking his favourite deserts and Haruhi took hers to the library to fetch all the books they would need to use for their studying. The twins escorted their clones of Naruko to an empty class room, one with maps covering the walls. Kaoru took his Naruko to one end of the room and began covering mathematical problems while Hikaru taught her Geography at the other end.

Which just left Kyoya and his clone.

He brought her out of the club room and headed for the library which most widely covered political history and business problems. There he began his lesson with the rather bored Naruko clone.

All the time, the original Naruko sleeping in the corner of the club room.

Naruko...

As soon as my eyes closed I was asleep. Even though the floor was hard and I was cold in only the skirt and top, I was too tired to care. I was surprised that my clones weren't also falling asleep, but they seemed to be working hard for me. I opened one eye to see Tamaki instructing one of me. I failed to see anyone else in the club room. Although, I had a weird feeling in my gut. It was almost like I had butterflies.

Does that mean.. I'm nervous? But, what could I be nervous about?

I stayed quiet and didn't alert anyone to the fact that I had woken up.

The sun was still up but it was a lot dimmer than when I'd gone to sleep, I guessed it was getting towards evening time, maybe seven 'o' clock. Tamaki seemed as ease as he continued with his over expressiveness but my clone seemed to mirror myself, she kept fidgeting and looking around cautiously. Tamaki was far too busy in his own world of drama to notice.

"Ninjas." Something from within me grumbled. "You can sense them, idiot." I knew who it was but I didn't wish to acknowledge him at such a time. But that didn't mean I was going to ignore his warning. If he'd been so kind as to wake up and attempt to talk to me, I'd take his kindness and bare it in mind.

"Shut up." I heard my clone snap at Tamaki as he'd began to break out in song. He looked at her in shock, obviously not used to such blunt rudeness. I reached down for my leg pack to pull out a kunai but what do you know, it wasn't strapped to my leg.

"Tamaki!" I sat up in and instant and got to my feet. "When you took my clothes, what did you do with my pouches?"

"You're awake?" He asked, surprised by my sudden burst. I rolled my eyes and glared at him. "I left them in the changing room." I nodded and began briskly walking towards the curtain which divided the club room and their small changing room. I counted my steps as I walked.

One, two, three, four…. Sixteen, seventeen!

It took me seventeen long strides to get there; as soon as I peeked in I could see my leg pouches and hip pouch hung up on the hook on the right hand side. I walked in and reached for them, grabbing them I pulled out a kunai and put it between my teeth as I set about strapping them back on.

"Oh, what's a kitten doing here?" Tamaki asked.

"Stay back," my clone warned him. I turned back to them as I finished with the strapping and saw the rather cute, white kitten making its way towards the rich boy and my clone. I slowly took the kunai from my mouth, making sure not to make any sudden movements. Tamaki did as he was told and stayed behind my clone as I began to slowly walk over to them.

"Hey cutie," I spoke softly as I crouched down. It looked at me and hissed, it's fur standing on end as it jumped about in fear. "I know, I smell funny, don't I? But I promise I won't hurt you."

"Why are you getting so worked up over a little kitten?" Tamaki asked, innocent to reality.

"Look!" My clone pointed to the hissing cat. "On its back."

"What is that?" Tamaki asked as he looked closely and saw the paper bomb that was beginning to sizzle.

"Come here," I coaxed, trying to get it to calm down and come closer. It jumped back and looked around, obviously in distress. "No, no, no. You need to just calm down, dattebayo." I smiled and tried to sooth its nerves, although as my lips withdrew over my teeth the small animal flipped out, beginning to charge straight for Tamaki and my Shadow clone.

She pushed Tamaki back and lunged forward. The white fluff ball was scared by her sudden movements and darted back towards me. In one motion I flipped the kunai up and caught it, holding it firmly between my teeth once more before I pounced on the kitten, grabbing it firmly in my hands. It bit into my finger and scratched furiously at my palm, but I ignored the pain and the blood and swiftly tugged the explosive tag, which was very close to going boom, off of him and threw it away just in time for it to explode.

The force of the blast sent us all flying and returned my shadow clone to a cloud of smoke. Using my free hand I managed to flip onto my feet and block against the majority of the damage. The entrance to the club was blown wide open; the doors were no more than shredded wood. A horrible cloud of dust was puffed around the room like a smoke bomb and limited my vision. The cat escaped from my grasp and scurried to Tamaki. I knew what it was about me that frightened it but still, I'd just saved its life, it could've been a little kinder to me.

As I coughed out the kunai and grabbing it mid-air, I tried to waft away some of the dust cloud with my free hand. I could feel the presence of three other people in the room. Three people I did not know.

I walked over to Tamaki, the cat scurried onto his head and hid in his hair as it saw me. "You okay?" I whispered. He nodded and covered his mouth, trying to resist the urge to cough.

I looked around the room, I was still unable to see anything clearly, which put me at a big disadvantage. Not exactly how I liked to play but it wouldn't be fair to them if I hadn't of had a little set back.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu." I said as quietly as I could. Another of me popped up and nodded, grabbing Tamaki by the arm and dragging him to the farthest corner of the room. He was about to protest and fight back when I glared at him and it seemed to sink in, he was in trouble. After that he stayed still and quiet for once in his life.

I turned back toward my opponents and squinted my eyes, trying to see as best I could through the dirty powder which filled the air around me. Luckily it was starting to die down and I could see the outlines of the three people. One was extra tall and wide, his hair spiking out in every directiong. Another was only a little taller than I, with long hair which I could see flicking around her whole body and the last was another man, smaller than the other but still well built. The two guys looked physically strong but I wondered what the female's role was. If they had brawn, they didn't need any more in the woman.

Could she be the brains? But then... Why accompany them into a fight?

A/N: Okay, I was worried about how this chapter was going to turn out but, I don't think it's too bad.

Thanks for all the reviews ^^ I'll keep in mind the romance vs No romance. But I guess it depends on the next couple of chapters and how they turn out.

Thank you for reading, hope you enjoyed :)