GatewaysDiary- Thank you for pointing out how much you liked the moment with the Shadow king and the twins, I was hoping someone would find that part interesting.
Thanks to all who have reviewed so far and like I said previously, if there are any questions please ask them and I shall answer them in my next chapter. Thanks!
After everyone had arrived in the club room for their pre-opening meeting things did not seem out of the ordinary. Kyoya had stolen a quick glance at the twins as they entered but then quickly turned away and scribbled something in his black book, Haruhi had given them a reassuring smile, Honey had placed some cake in front of them at the table, Mori nodded at them and Tamaki reached out to give the twins an over enthusiastic handshake.
"So what's the plan for today?" Said Hikaru, in what he thought must have been an excited tone. The other host members looked surprised and taken aback at his sudden cheery attitude but they decided not to question it.
"Err... Well, Renge thought it would be a brilliant idea to dress up in Japanese warrior cosplay." Said Tamaki as he seemed to be addressing the other hosts rather than the twins for some bizarre reason.
"Any warriors in particular?" Wondered Kaoru as he leaned forward to make himself known to the clubs king. Tamaki glanced at the twin which had spoken and stared for a moment before Kaoru motioned- by a role of his hand- for him to answer the question.
"Oh, erm, no-one in particular. She thought it best if we allowed the guests to be free with their imagination.
"Didn't we do that in episode twenty one?" Asked Honey-Senpai, clearly well aware of them being in an anime and that this plan had already been thought of. Tamaki laughed.
"No, no, Honey-Senpai. That was episode twenty two." Tamaki then turned around and winked at an invisible camera, earning him odd looks from the twins.
"Oh yeah that's right!" Said Honey, brightly. "But then why are we doing it again?"
"It was quite popular with the ladies." Tamaki said with a smile and looked over at Kyoya when he started to speak.
"Yes but I'm afraid you are pushing your luck with our budget, we'll have to use the previous costumes worn in 'episode twenty two' as you so put it." Said Kyoya as he rested his book on the table and put air quotes around 'episode twenty two'. Tamaki pulled a serious face as he nodded.
"No surprise there about over shooting the budget." Muttered Haruhi under her breath, the twins snickered and Tamaki narrowed his eyes at her.
"And what is that supposed to mean, Haruhi?" He asked, though, not as seriously or with much venom as he would have liked. Haruhi looked him in the eyes and in a calm voice she said.
"Well, you can be really greedy, Senpai." With that Tamaki hung his mouth open and went to sit in his sulking corner yet again. Kyoya called over to him.
"Don't go sulking; we need to get ready for the guests." Tamaki stayed in his corner as the host members moved behind him. "Oh very well, everyone I suggest you go change. Our king is too busy acting like a child to do anything currently." The others moved away but nearly all of them heard Tamaki speak.
"Even mommy is mean to me, no-one's bothered about daddy." The twins rolled their eyes and stifled a chuckle each at Tamaki's reference to Kyoya being a motherly figure for the others in the host club.
It didn't take long for everyone to get dressed into their blue warrior cosplay costumes. After going over the check list of costumers everyone took their allocated seats. The twins had two guests, Tamaki had four, Kyoya had one, Haruhi had two and Honey and Mori had three.
"Hikaru, Kaoru are you cosplaying as Kenichi right?" Asked one excited girl. The other girl who was sat beside her burst out with.
"Of course not, they're clearly cosplaying as Mamoru!" The first girl suddenly lit up like a Christmas tree and nodded her head frantically as though agreeing. The twins looked at each other and for the first time since this whole maid incident, they were smiling without faking it.
"Ladies, you know we can be both," Hikaru winked at them. "Right?" The girls gave loud squeals of excitement.
"Do you have your own swords?" Asked the second girl, excitedly. Kaoru smirked and pulled out an authentic samurai sword, his brother did the same thing.
"Brother," Said Hikaru, speaking in character, clearly this was the start of their brotherly love performance. "Shall we commence with our battle?" His voice had lowered slightly as he put on an accent, the girls giggled.
"We shall," Kaoru nodded and ran a finger down the blade of the sword, after removing the case and dropping it to the floor. "But you know; it will be I who comes out victorious." The brothers smirked at each other, this had been planned for a while but they hadn't practised it in ages. It was a good thing they could remember how it planned out though.
Hikaru started as he waved the sword high and brought it down, Kaoru ducked his head before the blade had chance to collide with it. Kaoru then reached up and banged his sword onto his brothers, they looked at each other before Hikaru pulled away and smacked Kaoru's sword- gently so not to harm his brother- as planned Kaoru let go off the sword and watched it clatter to the ground. Hikaru grinned and put the blade to Kaoru's throat- yet again, not close enough to hurt but close enough to make it look real- Kaoru pretended to look sad. The girls let out a small gasp and watched on; none of the other hosts appeared to take notice at all.
"Looks like you are a champion no more, Kaoru." Said Hikaru. By the use of eye drops, which Kaoru had used at some point during the guests visit, he let a single tear fall down his cheek.
"Hikaru..." He tried to be upset; Hikaru put the sword on the ground and gripped Kaoru's face. His voice went soft.
"I'm sorry, Kaoru, I didn't mean to scare you..." He whispered, the ladies gripped the armrests so hard that their knuckles went rapidly white.
"I forgive you." He replied back quietly. The girls squealed and Kyoya came over to relieve the twins of their guests. With a deep breath in both of the boys bent down and picked up the swords, putting them back into their cases and leaving them on the sofa in which their guests were previously sat on. The rest of the guests came and went without any problems and the issue with Miyu was never brought up once.
When the host club closed for business for that day everyone went to lessons. Haruhi met up with the twins when they got changed back into their school uniform. The twins tried their hardest to laugh and joke but it was clear that, that was never going to happen.
"Are you guys doing ok?" Haruhi asked eventually. Both boys turned to look at her and nervously said.
"Yeah, of course we are, why wouldn't we be?" Asked Hikaru, trying to force a few chuckles but clearly failing the convince her.
"You can't fool me; I can see you're both still upset." Both of the boys shared a look. They walked back to their classroom in silence, wondering how Haruhi had managed to see right through them. "Do you want to talk about it?" She asked.
"I want to know something," Said Kaoru as he looked up at her, her eyes widened and Hikaru looked- sideways- at him. "How on earth could you tell something was still wrong?" There was silence for a moment.
"Well," She started. "Let's call it intuition." The pair stared at her. Just then Kaoru and Hikaru had both remembered something, by saying it was 'intuition' she really meant that she could somehow tell there was still something wrong, so she must have picked up on the little hints they dropped. Both were reminded of what Kaoru had said the day Hikaru and Haruhi first went on a date.
"And remember, whenever you care a lot from someone, Hikaru, it's important you pay attention to any subtle little hints they drop."
That meant that Haruhi really did care about the two of them because she had bothered to notice the hints they dropped, even if they themselves did not even recall dropping them.
"Well we will be ok, Haruhi, and thanks." Said Hikaru, Kaoru gave a small smile and nod, to confirm his brother's words.
Later that day the host club returned back to the club to see more of their guests, this time they stuck to their usual school uniform. However, it was such a beautiful day that when they all met at the club room- they decided they would greet their guests outside by the cherry blossom trees. Everything seemed to be going perfectly well, Kyoya had wondered away from the group for a moment so he could write in peace, that and he had an extra credit assignment to hand into his science teacher- it would give him an extra boost that his father might respect.
He reached the classroom and seeing as there was no teacher in the room he simply signed his name on top of the report he made and left it on the desk before leaving the room and closing the door. The corridors were quite deserted as the teachers were in the staff room and the students- both male and female- were wondering around in the grounds for their free time.
Kyoya had noticed that ever since the scandal with Miyu Suzuki had begun, the host club were getting double the amount of guests they usually did, which meant that business was better than ever. It might be an idea to get some more picture books ready quite soon before the shock of the maid dies down and the usual amount of costumers attend again.
His thoughts were torn from his mind when someone accidently shoved past him, almost making him lose his balance but he regained it quickly and pushed his glasses up his nose. Eying the person curiously. The person was a woman approximately in her late thirty's or early forty's, she had a pair of black trousers and a long blue shirt on with light blonde hair, she looked up at Kyoya and muttered.
"Oh, I'm so sorry!"
"No problem..." Said Kyoya as he watched the woman trot away from him and disappear down the corridor, she was dressed casual like a female teacher but he knew for certain she was not one of Tamaki's father's staff. "Hmm." He said mainly to himself as he tried to jog his memory, trying to work out just why her face looked so familiar. Eventually he decided that this was not important right now so he brushed it off as nothing for the time being. He rushed back outside to join the host club as he did so he overheard one of the twins.
"Damn it, I think I left my phone in the club room. I'll be back in a sec." And with that Kaoru jumped from his seat, waved a momentary goodbye to his guests and Hikaru and ran towards the gates, only to be stopped by Kyoya.
"Where are you going?" He asked in a cool voice, clearly he wanted Kaoru to ask permission before leaving.
"I left my phone in the club room, I'll just be a sec and by the way look- Hikaru is doing fine, it won't take me long I swear." Kyoya waited for a moment but eventually stepped aside and let Kaoru burst through the gates, run across the grounds and into the building.
Kaoru sprinted to the room and pushed the doors open, the room was empty. As he walked further in he noticed that the samurai swords he and his brother had left on the couch were both gone. "Kyoya must have moved them." He thought as he took another looked at the couch before remembering he was sat at the windowsill with Hikaru earlier.
He moved over to the window and smiled as he picked up his phone but groaned when he saw the 'low battery' icon blinking rapidly. There was the sound of ruffling feet behind him and Kaoru expected it to be Hikaru, checking to make sure he found his phone. But when he turned around he found himself frozen to the spot. His heart pounded against his chest so hard that it might shatter his ribs.
A blonde wig fell to the floor and a face of evil stared at him with a sick and wicked smile. The samurai sword he thought Kyoya had taken was resting in her hand. He remembered her, he knew her and for some reason unbeknownst to himself... He was terrified of her, even though she never gave him any reason to be.
"My boy, how you've grown." She said in a false sweet voice drenched with loose venom. His mouth was dry; his head was spinning but at the same time rage boiled through his veins but his anger could not reach the surface.
"...Miyu Suzuki..."
Coming up: Face to face time with Kaoru and Miyu. The host club notice Kaoru's absence. Kyoya reveals that he saw a mysterious woman roaming the halls and the club come face to face with the evil maid... Miyu Suzuki.