Greetings yet again readers. I fell behind in my writing due to video gaming again, my one true weakness. First off, I'd like to thank the one person whom actually reviewed so far. As usual, I'm true to my word since I asked for at least 1 review before I posted again. So, I will allow you to get right to the chapter then. I hope you enjoy and please remember to review!

This was not the least bit amusing, for any of them.

It was finally the day of the party, they had maybe a few hours until it started, and suddenly the three girls in disguise were whisked away by the mischievous twins to be prepared for the party.

"Why do we have to wear these?" Ryo complained, aware that Kyoya was standing just outside their stalls in the changing room writing in his little black book. Probably adding the rental of the blasted clothing to their debt to him.

"As hosts, it is your job to look professional and like a proper gentlemen, especially when you will be entertaining various guests tonight. You three have quiet a few girls interested to see you, even if you yourself are girls." Kyoya said with an amused smile before all three girls in their stalls yelled at him to be quiet about it.

So far, the only one who actually knew that all three of them were girls was Kyoya, and the reason for him not telling still wasn't exactly clear since even if they were revealed, they could just bump them down to their "dogs" again.

"Well, you three better hurry up, don't want to be late to the party." Kyoya reminded before the girls heard the soft click of the door, signaling that the shadow king had finally left them alone.

"He really gives off the stalker feeling now that he knows our secret." Ryo grumbled as she finally walked out of her stall, Ren and Haruhi filing out of their own seconds later in their own suits for the night.

Haruhi was dressed in a casual brown suit for the occasion, pulling her purple tie a little tighter as she remained silent, in her own thoughts about the party since she knew the boys were planning something for Kanako.

Ryo was forced into wearing a casual black tuxedo, leaving the top open to reveal her dress shirt as she worked on sticking her rose to her lapel, which was of course by request of none other than the manipulative shadow king himself.

Ren on the other hand was indifferent towards wearing her tuxedo. It didn't bother her in the slightest from the looks of it. She wore a bright vanilla suit with a gray dress shirt and salmon pink tie. "After tonight, hopefully they'll cut down the debt so we won't have to do it again. Don't worry so much about it, just try to be happy so none of the guests complain." Ren advised before the door opened once again, the twins appearing in the door with matching smirks over the fact that the hosts complied and put on the suits like they told them to.

"Good job, now on to the party with you three." Before any of the girls could protest, the twins began to drag them out of the room and towards the hall where the dance would be taking place.

Halfway there, someone snatched the littlest girl from Kaoru's shoulder where he had pinned her so he could help drag Haruhi and Ryo.

"Ren-Chan, your suit looks so cute!" Honey-senpai squealed as Mori-senpai set the girl back down on her feet to allow her to walk on her own, giving her a nudge towards the hall where the party would be starting very soon.

"Thank you, Honey-senpai, now I just need to fix my tie though thanks to the terrible two." Ren said, straightening the tie as they walked, falling behind the twins since the two were almost running with the other two towards the party.

"You should just stick with Takashi and I tonight then, Hika and Kao-Chan are supposed to be helping with the plans tonight, so they might try to get you to help if you're around them." Honey-senpai warned as they walked into the dim hall, Tamaki ranting on about how everything was perfect and gushing over his darling son and daughter who looked so cute in their suits.

Before long, the dim hall began to fill with young women in colorful dresses, a quiet buzz of excitement and awe at the fact that they were attending a party hosted by the Host Club of Ouran Academy.

"It is so good to see you here tonight, my little lambs." Tamaki began not long after, silence overtaking the room. "The Ouran Host Club would like to bid you, welcome." Tamaki lowered his hand to the girls as a spot light fell on him for dramatics, before all the lights in the room flickered to life and a slow ballad began to play from the hired orchestra.

The women burst into gentle applause with excited smiles as they looked upon the nine men up on the grand staircase as they all gave a quick bow to the women.

"As always ladies, the host club members are here for your entertainment. So we invite you to dance to your hearts content. Based on her dancing skills, one lucky young lady will be chosen as tonight's queen. The queens reward will be a passionate kiss on the cheek from our king." Kyoya announced to the crowd of excited and enchanted women, Tamaki standing on the landing above him with a gentle smile on his face.

"Good luck to you, my darlings." Tamaki wished the women, holding his hand out to them with a wink that served to send various girls into fits of giggling and awe over how charming the man was.

Haruhi looked at the girls in displeasure, unsure how to react to all of what was going on. "Haruhi, show some enthusiasm." The twins chastised the girl as she continued to slouch in displeasure.

"Well excuse me you guys, sorry. But I'm not used to this sort of thing. I've only ever gone to the festival held in my neighborhood park." Haruhi complained as she slouched down further where she was standing between the two.

"I don't know if you can really consider that a party or not." Kyoya advised Haruhi before Ryo appeared at Haruhi's side suddenly with a plate in hand.

"Well, since we're here, you might as well eat Haruhi, they have quiet a spread." Ryo advised, holding out the plate to the girl only to reveal it was a bunch of different things that Haruhi had never really tried.

"Fancy tuna?" Haruhi questioned, and before she knew it both twins were hugging her between them and rubbing their cheeks on her as they cooed over her.

"Get some fancy tuna here stat!" Tamaki ordered Kyoya as he leaped over the stairs to land in front of them, Kyoya already ordering the dish as Haruhi looked to Ryo for help.

Damn rich people.

Haruhi stood off to the side as the eight other members danced, not too keen on the idea of dancing even if she spent a week learning how to dance just for this party.

She felt better just watching instead. Everyone knew better than her how to dance, so it was best that she just let Ryo or Ren have the guests that would usually sit with them during club hours.

Currently, Ryo was dancing with just one of those girls. One of their regulars actually. "Wow, Ryo-san. I didn't know you knew so well how to dance." The girl, Akemi, cooed as Ryo led her to the music with ease, smiling down at the girl with a cool air about her that only served to make Akemi blush and smile like a lovestruck teen.

"Perhaps I will find time to show you later after my other guests just how good of a dancer I am, my sweet girl." Ryo offered kindly as the girl began giggling happily.

The music soon turned more cheerful as Ren took the hand of a girl much closer to her height, leading her out into the dance floor with a soft flourish of movement to go with the change in the ballad, leading her quickly to the music. "Nikolai, you're so skillful with the waltz, I wish I could have been your partner when you were learning." The soft voice of the girl came over the instruments as Ren lead her in a circle among the watching girls.

"I learned at a young age, so it gave me plenty of time to master it for you, princess. And you may call me Ren." Ren reminded with a gentle but laid back smile as the girl began giggling, blushing bright red as Ren caught the sounds of other girls fawning over the display as well, more than happy since that meant she would probably shrink her quota way down from this party alone.

"Excuse me." Ren parted from the girl to see Honey-senpai and Mori-senpai were the ones who interrupted them.

"I'm sorry, but we need to steal Ren-Chan away for a little bit. We need her help with something." Honey-senpai advised before Ren glanced around to see that all the other hosts were missing as well, even Haruhi and Ryo.

Before Ren could even protest, she was whisked away by the two to where the rest of the hosts were preparing Haruhi for their plan.

"That dress is so...bland. No offense, Haruhi." Ryo advised as she looked over her friend, ignoring the glares from the twins.

"Our mother made that dress." Deeper voice, snarky tone, it was Hikaru who replied to her about her comment on the dress.

"It looks more like a nightgown." Ryo replied with little feeling as the two twins loomed over her from behind with annoyed expressions.

"Ryo..." Haruhi began to protest about her words before Ryo pushed her down onto a nearby chair, reaching for some of the nearby make up at hand.

"I think you would rather I do this than the twins." Ryo reminded her friend as Haruhi sat still for Ryo to apply the make up.

"I know this is the boss's strategy, but it's a little unsettling." The twins said in unison as they tried to help with the make up but Ryo kept getting between them and Haruhi to assure they didn't try to make her look like a clown.

"Stop trying to help, you'll only make her look like a clown instead of a girl." Ryo chastised as she began to finish with the eyeliner, yet again ignoring the insulted looks on the twins faces.

"How dare you!" The twins snapped in unison.

"We have more fashion in one finger than you've probably ever seen, commoner!" Hikaru growled as Ryo continued ignoring them, finishing up Haruhi's makeup.

"Gentlemen!" The doors flew open as the king himself appeared. "Here you all are, what are you doing? The guests are all waiting for..." Tamaki cut short upon laying his eyes on Haruhi, who was now dressed up looking like the princess of his dreams.

Tamaki was speechless as the twins stood at his side. "So, what do you think?" The twins asked in unison as Haruhi began trying to walk around in the heels, looking more like a robot than a girl who was about to go try to put two people back together.

"Wow you look so cute!" Honey-senpai cooed as Haruhi walked past him.

"My face feels heavy. And it's hard to walk in these shoes." Haruhi complained as she headed for the door.

"You'll get used to it. Good luck." Ryo said before giving Haruhi a push towards the door.

"I can't believe...she's so pretty." Tamaki cooed quietly as he watched Haruhi walk away with a blush on his skin.

"And you would know she would get used to heels and makeup, how?" Two arms circled around Ryo's shoulders suddenly before Ryo pushed the invasive twins away.

"I'm going back to work, come on Ren." Ryo walked away from the two grinning twins as Ren bounded after her, somehow having managed to get a lollipop again and stick it between her lips without Kyoya seeing her and chastising her for the unprofessional action.

"Shall we follow?" Kaoru asked his twin with a small devious smile on his face that was soon matched by his brother.

"Kyoya did say a little accident would be quite thrilling, didn't he?" Hikaru asked in response before they took off after the girls in disguise.

"Do you think she'll be fine?" Ren asked as they walked through the empty halls towards the party, her arms folded behind her head.

"She'll be fine. So long as those devils don't try to do anything while she's trying to get Kanako back with her fiance." Ryo said with a shrug before they finally reentered the party hall, being separated once again by girls asking them to dance.

Ren had danced with about three more girls before she noticed Honey-senpai beckoning her over towards him and Mori-senpai, obviously having gotten into the cake already since he was unable to stand still for even a minute. "If you'll all excuse me, I need to go rest for a few minutes. We'll pick up where we left off after, darlings." Ren said with a bow before heading over towards the two men.

"Ren-Chan, you want to have some cake with us while we wait for Haruhi to finish the plan?" Honey-senpai asked as he sat at a table filled with plates of cake, leg bouncing under the table to show he had already had more than enough sugar.

"Are you sure you haven't had enough?" Ren asked before Honey-senpai leaped up and pulled her down into one of the available seats, pushing a slice of chocolate and strawberry layer cake in front of her.

"I remembered how much you liked this kind, so I asked Kyo-Chan to make sure some was here." Honey-senpai said as he grabbed a few extra strawberries and syrup to put on his own cake.

"You...remembered something I liked just once?" Ren asked, at a loss for words since she had never really known anyone to remember anything small like that about her except for Ryo or Haruhi.

Ren looked up from the cake in front of her to catch Honey-senpai's eye for a second, before he abruptly turned his gaze down to the cake on the table in front of him.

"I wanted to make sure you had something you like. You don't seem to eat much when you're hosting, so I figured you'd like it." Honey-senpai explained as he kept his mahogany eyes on his plate, poking at the strawberry syrup soaked cake with his fork.

He's been watching her? Ren hadn't even noticed. Granted, she was used to the usual greeting of throwing himself at her every time she came to the club, but outside of the club when they were in class, he didn't really talk to her. She saw him looking her way a few times or so, but he'd just give that signature childish grin before she turned back to her work.

How much did he watch her? Did he know her secret, or Ryo's for that matter if he'd been watching enough to notice her habits like that she didn't try to eat too much during hosting to keep Kyoya off her back about her sugary consumption habits?

"Excuse me." Ren looked up from her cake to see a girl standing before them, recognizing it as being Honey-senpai's regular, Leiko. "I don't mean to be rude, but I was hoping to see if you would like to dance tonight, Honey." Leiko spoke as she looked between both of them, her eyes seeming to settle on Ren for a little longer as Ren tried to figure out what she was looking at her like that for.

"Can I finish eating my cake first?" Honey-senpai asked before taking an extra large bite of the syrup soaked cake, making a happy face at the taste of strawberries before a plate was held in front of Leiko, looking over to see Ren had stood up when he wasn't watching.

"If you'd like, you could sit and eat with him, Leiko-sama. I need to attend to my guests. Thank you for the thought, Honey-senpai." Ren said with a quick bow before taking the first girl to come to her side's hand and leading her away quickly, almost pulling her along as she fled.

Mitsukuni watched her go in confusion. Why did she reject the cake, she liked sweets. Did he say something wrong? He glanced over at Leiko to see she had now taken the seat that Ren had been sitting in, forcing a smile at her even though he was trying to figure out what he had done to scare off Ren.

Ryo held a glass out to her guest with a small smile, having been dancing with her minutes prior but stopped when her guest started to feel lightheaded. Fortunately, the boys had already filled some glasses from the fancy fountain that was pouring with punch for the guests, so she didn't have to make the girl wait. "That should help. Always remember to drink, we don't want such a precious girl such as yourself to faint from dehydration." Ryo reminded the girl who only began giggling at the pleasantries.

"Phase one?"

"Go ahead, brother."

Unknown to Ryo, the twins were crouched down behind the table with mischievous grins on their faces, Hikaru looking over the edge of the table at the host that was now handing drinks out to other girls as well.

Suddenly, the fountain's flow of punch began to increase unbeknownst to the girl in disguise in front of it, who was too busy with her guests to notice. It began to rattle suddenly when the flow became too strong, drawing the attention of Ryo finally in time to see the glass fountain was overflowing with punch now.

Before Ryo could get behind the table to unplug the malfunctioning machine, the machine began to tip towards her and her guests due to the unbalance of the liquids.

"Ryo!"

The hall filled with a loud splash followed by the shatter of glass as Ryo hit the floor, feeling the cool liquids of the fountain seep into her skin through her clothing before she opened her eyes, gasping when she realized it wasn't the fountain that landed on top of her.

Ren cringed, held up above Ryo with her arms but her entire body stiff as the feel of glass and juice intermingled on her back, waiting for the sound of glass falling off of her body to end before opening her eyes to see her younger sister looking up at her in shock as to how she had defended her from the falling contraption with her own body.

"Oh my god, is Ryo and Ren okay?"

"How did the fountain fall?"

"Are they hurt?"

Ignoring the fact that there was shattered glass all over the floor around them, Ryo carefully sat up, taking Ren into her arms before spying the darker red intermingling with the light red juice that was seeping into her vanilla suit. "You're hurt." Ryo advised as Honey, Mori and Kyoya made their way through the crowd that had formed to them.

"What happened?" Kyoya questioned as he looked at the shattered remains of the expensive fountain.

"Your fountain could have seriously injured my Ryo, that's what happened." Her voice was a low snarl as Ren looked up at the shadow king, pushing her way out of her sisters arms as she stood up, ignoring the pain from glass in her hands and arms before reaching down and lifting her sister to her feet.

The girls in the room were in a quiet uproar at what had just happened as Ryo tried to take Ren's hands to look at them. "You need to get the glass out." Ryo advised her sister only to earn a tired look in return.

"Honey-Senpai, Mori-senpai, take Ren-Senpai back to the club room so that he can get bandaged up." Kyoya ordered before pulling out his phone to order a clean up for all of the glass.

"Can you walk?" Takashi questioned the shorter girl, only for her to turn and walk off on her own in silence, girls asking as she passed if she was okay.

"Well, that could have gone better." Hikaru murmured as he and Kaoru watched from nearby, not daring to get near once they saw the infuriated look Ryo dawned once Ren was gone.

Ren POV

Damned host club with their stupid parties that could have severely injured my sister had I not been there in time. I should force them each to take a glass fountain filled to the brim with fruit punch falling on their back. They have no concern for the safety of any of us, obviously if they use such a shotty piece of crap as that for serving at a party!

I didn't even bother to wait for Honey or Mori-senpai to try to help me to the club room. I can move just fine all on my own, I don't need their help.

Before long, I was back in the dressing room. Now my vanilla suit was fruit punch red. Now I'm going to have to pay to have this cleaned, just great. I liked this suit too, really fit me and looked good.

I pulled my jacket off carefully before realizing I was just smearing blood on it since my hands had glass in them still. Just wonderful, blood and fruit punch are not easy to get out of a tuxedo goddamn it.

I pulled off my now pink shirt and tossed it across the stall before sitting down on the bench to begin pulling the glass out of my hands that I could do without tweezers.

So much for having fun at this party, instead I'm gonna have to go home with bandages on my hands. Just wonderful.

Mitsukuni's POV

Ren-Chan got ahead of Takashi and I before we could stop her to try to help her. It was almost like she didn't want our help. Takashi lifted me onto his shoulder instead as we headed to the nurses office to get some bandages.

I never though I would see Ren-Chan so angry. He's always so laid back and happy, I've yet to see him seriously angry like he looked when Kyoya asked what had happened.

But what did he mean by his Ryo? The way he said it sounded possessive.

"Your fountain could have seriously hurt my Ryo, that's what happened."

Ren looked enraged by it even, not just mad. I had seen how he reacted before hand. I heard the girls all gasping over something and looked over in time to see the fountain tipping over towards Ryo-Chan, and within seconds Ren had managed to run to him and put his own body between the fountain and Ryo's. The way Ren had protected Ryo, I'd only ever seen that between Takashi and I, since Takashi is still protective of me even though he knows I can protect myself.

What did he mean by that? Was Ryo his family? Or is Ren just willing to protect any of his friends even at the cost of his safety?

"Mitsukuni." I looked down at Takashi to see we were in the nurse now, and he had the bandages and antiseptic we had come to get for Ren-Chan. "Stop worrying so much." Takashi said as I looked at him in shock for a second before frowning a little more.

Takashi knows me too well.

I gave Takashi a nod before he began to head towards the Club room so we could help Ren-Chan.

I don't know why I'm thinking so much about this, about Ren really. I mean, there's been plenty of new kids in our class before, but for some reason Ren just seemed to stick out like a white rose in a red rose bush.

When he's with Ryo and Haruhi, he's relaxed but happy. But then when he's in class, he sits alone. He's quiet, closed off almost. As if he just wants to be left alone, since he just sits there and writes notes, not trying to talk to anyone unless one of his guests comes up to him.

The Ren I see in class and the Ren I see in the club are almost like two different people, and it just continues to make me keep trying to talk to him and figure him out. Like he's some big mystery that I just want to figure out.

I've never been like this before. There's been quiet kids in class, and I've just left them alone if they want to be alone. But for some reason I just feel like I need to talk to Ren, try to make friends with him. I don't know if I feel bad for him or if I just want to be his friend, all I know is it's extremely confusing.

Once we were finally in the club room I could hear an angry voice back in the changing room, but I tilted my head to the side when I realized that whoever was back there wasn't speaking Japanese. Was someone with Ren?

"Ren-Chan, we brought bandages." I announced as Takashi opened the door, leaping off his shoulder only to freeze when I saw the person standing in front of one of the full length mirrors.

In front of the mirror stood someone about my height, wearing nothing but tuxedo pants and a bandage wrapped around their chest that was also a light pink now instead of the normal white that bandages were.

"Chto ty zdes' delayesh'?" I heard the person speak in a language I couldn't understand, but my mind was more focused on the compression wrap bandage around their chest before I looked up at an obviously surprised Ren, unable to stop myself from looking between the bandages and Ren's face before I finally found my ability to speak.

"Ren...are you...a girl?"

Ren POV

As if this night could have gotten any worse.

I had been using the full length mirror outside of my stall in the changing room to ensure my back hadn't been cut with any glass as well as ranting about the host club when suddenly Honey and Mori-senpai came into the changing room. "Ren Chan, we brought bandages."

That was all he said before freezing on the spot when seeing me standing in front of the mirror with nothing on but my compression bandage and tuxedo pants.

Obviously, next time I'm forced to change clothing in this horrid changing room, I'm staying in my stall no matter what.

Forgetting where I was, I questioned them what they were doing here in my native tongue before I even realized this was Japan, not home. Not like they'll notice anyways, they keep staring at the bandage on my chest.

"Ren...are you...a girl?" Honey-senpai was the first to speak, his face turning a light pink as I reached for the hand towel I had been using to clean the cuts on my hands and arms with.

"I think you already know the answer since you're both still staring at my chest." I replied simply before both of their faces turned five shades darker red before Mori-senpai quickly closed the door behind them and turned the other way, reaching over and forcing Honey-senpai to turn around as well. "Might as well not hide, not like you can see much anyways." I said with a shrug as I walked up to them and plucked the bandages and antiseptic from Mori-senpai's hand to finish with my hands.

"Y...you've been hiding that you're a girl for the last week and a half?!" Honey-senpai asked, his voice now squeaky with his obvious embarrassment over having seen me without a shirt.

"Haruhi has been too, it's not like it's that bad." I gave another shrug as I began to spray the antiseptic into the wounds on my hands and arms, glad they were only superficial since that meant I wouldn't have to get stitches tonight.

Maybe the only good thing about this night.

"But...but we knew she was a girl! Does anyone else know you're a girl?" Honey-senpai asked as he turned around to face me, only for Mori-senpai to turn him right back around.

"Be respectful, Mitsukuni." Mori-senpai reminded him quietly as he kept his back to me, silent as always.

"Kyoya knows, of course. Only because he used my last name to search for me finally and found my old school ID." I replied before the door opened again, turning to see the shadow king himself.

"Oh, well it seems you've been found out again." Kyoya said as he walked in, holding a replacement tuxedo for me before setting it down on a table since my hands were still bleeding.

"No thanks to you, baka." I grumbled as I began to wrap the bandages around my hands, glaring at him for having not stopped the two from coming into the room before I was properly dressed.

"There are separate stalls in here, Ren. You could have changed in one of them instead of out in the open where anyone could see you." Kyoya replied to me with an indifferent tone as I finished with one of my hands, looking up when I felt someone poke at me from behind.

"Uh...let us help. Wrapping your hands alone only exasperates the injury." Honey-senpai murmured as he took the bandages from me, looking down at my hand instead of up at me but I could still see the pink hue across his face over having seen me in my compression wraps.

"Well, you better hurry up Ren. We don't have much longer until we announce the queen for the night, and we'll need everyone there for that." Kyoya advised us before leaving to go back to the party, leaving me with Honey-senpai wrapping my hand and Mori-senpai still standing by the door with his back to me.

"Were you planning on telling us that you were a girl?" Honey-senpai asked after a minute or so of silence as I watched him finish with the bandage on my hand and move to my arms.

"Maybe. It doesn't really matter to me. Who cares if I'm a girl or a boy. So long as I pay off that debt to Kyoya, I'm gonna keep acting like a boy and making those girls out there happy." I said with a shrug before Honey-senpai looked up at me for a second.

"You're...different." Honey-senpai said before turning his eyes back to bandaging my cuts.

"So I've been told." I said with a shrug. Once he was done I took my new tuxedo into one of the stalls, changing quickly before coming back out so this party can just end already and I can go home.

"You look like a boy again." Honey-senpai murmured as he rubbed his neck while I walked by, able to see the red tint to his face as I walked. Great, now these two are going to be nervous and embarrassed around me all the time probably. Just great.

Exact reason why I prefer to dress as a boy. No one notices me then, but now that the secrets out, it's like I'm some big spectacle.

I ignored Honey-senpai asking me if I was okay again as I continued walking towards the party.

With boys like Ouran's Hosts, it's pretty much impossible to keep a secret for very long. Let alone a week and a half. Well, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter as much as I did writing it for you. It took me a little longer I think also because I'm still trying to consider if I should just cut the chapters in half so that I can get everyone's point of view each chapter instead of focusing for a little amount of time on each character. I don't know, still trying to figure this stuff out. Anyways, thanks as always for reading. I'll try to make sure I write my chapters a little faster, gets a little harder when I've literally got about 4 story ideas on my word doc at the moment, but I'm trying to focus on this one first. Thanks as usual, and let's go for 1 review again before the next chapter.

And before I forget, since I've forgotten to mention this in previous chapters, if there's something left out, say Haruhi's encounter with Toru, then that usually means that it still happened the same exact way as it did in the anime. Just wanted to clarify that before I forget for the umpteenth time.