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Chapter 4,
Attack of the Lady Manager
"Tamaki-sama, why are you so beautiful?" one of the Host Club's many guests asked in an awed tone. She was one of the small groups of girls who had managed to secure a seat closest to the Host Club 'King' out of the large group of girls that surrounded him on the tatami mats that the host sat upon. He had on a layered kimono of different shades of brown and purple and white with a purple ribbon tied into the hair at the side of his head to help attach short extensions to his hair and make a ponytail.
"So that I may catch your eye for possibly a second longer," Tamaki answered the girl smoothly as he ran his hand through his light blonde bangs.
"Why is your voice so mellow?" another girl asked, several of the girls gasping in delight at the host's actions.
"So that my feelings of passion might reach your delicate heart all the much sweeter," Tamaki answered as tears came to his eyes. The girls' eyes started to tear up at the sight of their beloved host almost crying.
"You two wear matching kimonos too?" a girl with cropped blue hair asked the Hitachiin twins from her seat not far from Tamaki's group.
"Yes," the Hitachiin twins answered in unison. They were wearing matching blue and yellow kimonos with green hair clips helping hold back the parts in their hair. The two were sitting in simplistic bamboo chairs with a sign in between them that read 'love'. The two motioned around the room at their friends. "Nearly everything you see us wear was designed by our mother. If you would like, we can take an order for something."
The two motioned towards their own kimonos with opposite hands. "Our grandmother came to help us put these kimonos on."
Hikaru turned in his seat to grab his younger brother's chin and force him to look up at him. "But the only one to help you take off your kimono will be me, Kaoru."
"Hikaru, you're embarrassing me in front of our guests," Kaoru said with a slight blush coloring his face and tears welling in his hazel eyes. Their two guests began to scream in delight at their show of affection.
"Haruhi! Kagome!" three girls called together to the two 'males' from their cushions on a area of elevated tatami mats.
"Yes?" Kagome answered with her 'host smile,' turning towards the girls. She was wearing a pale orange and green kimono with a white ribbon tied into her hair. Haruhi on the other hand had on a shell pink and dark green kimono with a white ribbon in her hair. The two slowly walked over to their waiting customers. As they were stepping up onto the mats, Haruhi stepped on the long and bulky kimono that pooled at her feet. She tripped over it and landed on her hands and knees on the mat.
"Are you alright, Haruhi?" Kagome asked, turning rather gracefully in her own bulky kimono to help her best friend up. Their guests watched eagerly as Kagome extended her hand and Haruhi glanced up at her.
"Yes senpai," Haruhi replied in a breathless tone as she reached up and grabbed Kagome's extended hand so the older girl could pull her to her feet. Kagome accidentally pulled on her hand a little too hard and Haruhi ended up colliding with her chest, causing them to hug in order to steady themselves. Their three customers squealed in delight at their sudden closeness.
"Haruhi looks like a cute girl!" one of Haruhi's regular guests cried happily, her hands on her cheeks as she blushed in pure delight.
"Kagome looks like a handsome noble from history books!" one of Kagome's regular guests cried, moving in the same way as the other girl.
"They're like a couple!" the third girl, the newer guests of the Host Club, cried happily. The three girls squealed once again in delight as Haruhi and Kagome settled on two cushions next to each other. The two hosts glanced at each other and sighed softly.
"You've been getting a steady stream of customers lately, haven't you?" Kyoya said from a cushion in front of a table just behind the two girls' area. Both hosts looked over their shoulders to see him writing in a large paper tablet with a paint brush. Kyoya had on a slim brown kimono with a yellow sash around his middle. He flashed them his 'host smile.' "Keep it up. We don't plan on charging you interest on your original debt, Haruhi. So, both of you keep working hard to pay it off."
Haruhi blinked at his thin smile for a moment before she leaned close to Kagome's ear to whisper to her. "Why do we deal with these idiots?"
"For one, Haruhi, it's your entire fault we are in this mess," Kagome whispered back, giggling at the younger girl's annoyed look. "And two, it's your entire fault."
Kagome grinned at her before Haruhi started smiling right along with her. The two began to giggle softly as they turned back to their guests.
"Ko-chan! Haru-chan!" they heard the high pitched call of the small senior of the Host Club. The two girls turned to see Hunny walking towards them. He was wearing a long yellow kimono over a shorter pink kimono. The small boy was rubbing his tears out of his large brown eyes and carrying a small straw sandal as he came up to them. "I lost one of my sandals!"
The two girls slid off of their platform to come to their upperclassman. Haruhi knelt down to be eye level with the older teen. "Weren't you just wearing it Hunny-senpai?"
Mori walked up behind his smaller comrade before kneeling down and lifting the smaller boy's foot. He was wearing a long, thin, deep brown kimono that had a light pink sash holding it together. Mori placed a small brown sandal that matched the one in Hunny's hand on the blonde's foot. "Mitsukuni, I noticed you dropped this."
Hunny jumped into Mori's arms with tears in his eyes. "Takashi!"
Kagome walked towards Kyoya's table and sat across from him. Kyoya flashed her 'host smile' and continued to write before she spoke to him with a raised eyebrow. "Teary scenes seem to be spreading through the Host Club lately. I wonder why?"
"I wonder how everyone can cry so suddenly," Haruhi said as she looked around the room at all of the teary hosts. She took a step back to turn towards Kagome and accidentally backed into Hikaru. A small blue bottle fell out of his pocket and Haruhi bent to pick it up. She frowned at the small bottle in her hand. "Fake tears?"
Hikaru and Kaoru came to her sides with identical grins on their mirrored faces. Hikaru leaned into her and took his bottle of tears back from her. "You should know that it is common practice for hosts to use fake tears."
"There isn't a girl around that wouldn't swoon when she sees a guy cry," Kaoru elaborated as he hugged Haruhi's shoulders.
"Isn't that cheating though?" Haruhi asked as she noticed Kagome purse her lips. "Shouldn't you try to cry yourself in a situation that deems tears needed?"
"Don't be so uptight," Kaoru grinned at her as he poked her cheek.
"Here, this is for you," Hikaru said, handing Haruhi a small sweet that was shaped as a pink flower. The flower was in a glass box that fit perfectly in Haruhi's palm.
"I can have this?" she wondered in amazement, staring down at the flower with wide eyes.
"How charming!" the twins called together, moving away to go stand by Hunny and Mori.
"Haruhi, you like sweets?" a couple of the girls asked, coming up to her shyly.
"No, not at all," Haruhi told them, surprised by their assumption. She glanced up at them before smiling slightly at the sweet in her hand. "It still might be a nice memorial offering for my mother."
All of the girls in the room stared at her as she smiled happily at the small sweet. They soon began to murmur and blush at the sight of Haruhi's soft expression.
"How admirable of you!" Tamaki called, appearing by her and ruining the kind moment for the guests, though many did swoon at the sight of Tamaki crying slightly. "Such devotion to your mother! Here, take as many as you want!"
Haruhi looked at him with disgust as he started to pile the small sweets into her cupped hands.
"Are those fake tears too?" Kagome asked quietly so none of the guests could hear, but the others hosts could if they listened. Haruhi coughed to hide the laugh she let out at her friend's question. Hunny slipped to stand behind her and thump her back lightly as she coughed, the little boy thinking she had choked on her tea.
"How can you say that?" Tamaki answered, suddenly getting very serious and his tears disappearing. "My tears are always genuine. Being able to cry without using eye drops is the mark of a true host! Well, are you impressed? Have you fallen for me again?"
"Not really," Kagome answered in a bored tone, turning to see Haruhi looking at her curiously. Haruhi sat down next to Kagome and the two began to talk quietly. Honey fell asleep in Mori's arms not too far away, the twins yawned and began to slump to the floor, and Kyoya continued to write in his journal.
"My overtures just don't seem to reach you, huh, Kagome?" Tamaki cried, being very dramatic. Haruhi glanced up at him with very bored eyes. "Perhaps I should alter my character somewhat."
Kagome's attention returned to her as she noticed a girl hiding behind a pillar. Tamaki stopped what he was saying and looked towards the girl as well. The rest of the hosts seemed to get interesting once again and looked towards their guest.
"So we have a brand new guest?" the twins voiced for the whole club, standing from their slump on the floor. The two made their way to the girl.
"What are you waiting for? Come on in," Kaoru said smoothly, producing a rose out of his kimono sleeve. The girl seemed to gasp in shock.
"It isn't any fun just to watch," Hikaru continued as he draped himself over his brother's should and also produced a rose. The girl backed away slightly so the hosts could now see that she had long brown hair with a large pink bow resting at the top of her head.
"Come on," they said together. The girl started to stutter under her breath and took a step back.
"Aren't I always telling you to be more courteous to our first time guests," Tamaki reprimanded the twins as he appeared behind the new girl with a rose in his hand. He extended his hand to the girl and smiled at her warmly. "Here, don't be afraid, Hime."
He took ahold of her chin and got close to her face, giving her his natural host smile. "Welcome to Ouran Host Club."
"No! Don't touch me, you phony!" the girl yelled suddenly, slapping Tamaki's face in order to move him away from her. The rest of the Host Club froze behind Tamaki and were forced to look on with shock clear on their face at the new girl's sudden violence.
"I'm. . . a phony?" Tamaki questioned as he clutched his face, surprise and hurt clear in his large eyes.
"Yes, you are a phony!" the girl yelled with sudden confidence. She pointed at him with a fierce look in her large brown eyes. "I can't believe you are the prince figure of this club! The prince figure does not go spreading his love around so readily! How can you be so stupid? It's almost like you're a dim-witted narcissist! Incompetent! Mediocre! The pits!"
Tamaki seemed to physically take all of these insults. By the time she was done yelling at him, Tamaki felt like he had been struck by lightning. He staggered slightly and then, slowly, he began to fall backwards.
"Oh, it's a new technique!" Hikaru noticed as Tamaki began to fall. The twins and Hunny watched him closely with awed looks on their faces. "One-man slow-motion!"
"By any chance, are you-?" Kyoya began to say before the girl tackled him, shocking him and the Host Club as the two nearly fell from the force of the tackle.
"Kyoya-sama! I've wanted to meet you! My own prince!" she cooed as she tightened her hold on him.
"Fiancée?" Hikaru asked the girl that was now sitting on a couch in the Third Music Room, disbelief clear on his and his brother's matching faces.
"Kyoya-senpai's?" Kaoru wondered, the twins looking at each other with wide eyes as they leaned over the couch opposite the girl that Kyoya was sitting on.
"Yes. My name is Hoshakuji Renge," the girl answered politely, smiling at all of them. "I will be transferring into Class 1-A tomorrow."
The Host Club turned when they heard a loud thump. They saw Tamaki sulking in his 'Corner of Woe,' mushrooms appearing all around him as he spun his finger on the floor.
"Look, he is mad," the twins commented. The two turned to each other and grinned wildly. "Tono is just mad that Mommy kept something from Daddy."
"Whatever," Kyoya muttered. He glanced up at the twins with a thin smile on his face that creeped the twins out. "Are you really trying to make this married couple thing stick?"
The twins shrugged in answer to their senpai, not trusting themselves to open their mouths without a squeak of fear coming from them.
"It was indeed love at first sight!" Renge called their attention back to her as she cooed at Kyoya. She had a dreamy expression on her face as she clutched her hands against her cheek. "The way you were adoring those flowers by yourself in the back courtyard, even when no one else was looking. And the way you kindly reached out to that injured little kitty!"
"Who are you talking about?" the twins wondered, both thoroughly confused by the girl's words about their cold-hearted senpai.
"Could you have the wrong person?" Haruhi asked.
"No! You can't fool these eyes!" Renge yelled at Haruhi. The twins started to run around in confusion from the words that did not match the Kyoya they knew and Haruhi looked at Renge as if she was insane. "He is someone who is kind to everyone, and yet does not seek to have anyone take notice of him. He loves solitude, but is quite lonesome. The one who looks just like the star of the currently popular love simulation game 'Uki-Doki Memorial,' Ichijo Miyabi-kun, and that's you!"
She pointed at the calm face of Kyoya, who just raised his hand to his chin and thought about her words. Suddenly, they heard laughter coming from Mori's general direction. Everyone turned towards him to see Kagome laughing her head off.
"Sh-She's an otaku!" Kagome gasped through her laughter and the Host Club sighed in relief, all of them fearing that she had gone mad. Soon the Host Club found themselves sitting together at a pair of couches as Renge ran around behind Kyoya with hearts in her eyes.
"I see now. You are infatuated with the character and are projecting the infatuation onto me, going so far as to delude yourself that we are engaged," Kyoya explained in a low murmur for the Host Club, though he was really trying to address Renge. "This Miyabi character probably wears glasses too, right?"
"Deluded, you say?" Tamaki asked from Kyoya's right side, pouting slightly as he looked at his best friend. "Then that story of her being your fiancée is-?"
"I don't ever remember acknowledging that," Kyoya answered simply. He shrugged and adjusted his glasses before he continued on. "For one thing, I've never even met her before today."
"According to my information," Renge said, "Kyoya-sama administers everything about this club."
"That's right," Honey answered from behind the couch, jumping up to lean over it and see everyone. "Kyo-chan is our director!"
"The director? That's perfect!" Renge cried, clasping her hands together with stars in her eyes. "I've always dreamed of being the drawing card of someone's business!"
"We don't need one, we are a host club after all," the twins noted, annoyance clear on their faces. Both clearly disliked the girl that would soon be joining their class, but were trying their best not to be cruel to a guest.
"I've made up my mind," Renge continued as if she didn't hear them. She stood up and moved so the entire Host Club was in her view before she pointed at them, oozing confidence as she grinned at them. "I'm going to be this host club's manager!"
"Is this really alright Kyoya?" Haruhi whispered into her senpai's ear, leaning down to talk to him.
"She's the daughter of a client that is important to the Ohtori family," Kyoya said quietly, yet to the whole Host Club. "I ask that you be sure not to do anything impolite."
The Host Club was sitting around talking about the incident yesterday when Renge hesitantly came in.
"Everyone," she called hesitantly, causing all of them to turn towards her. She took a few more steps into the room so now everyone could see that she was holding something behind her back. "Renge, your drawing card, has baked you some cookies!"
"Oh. . . how ladylike! I'm moved!" Tamaki cooed from the other side of the open door. Renge scowled at him and moved her little bag of cookies away from him.
"I didn't bake them for you, you phony prince," Renge replied coldly. Tamaki resided himself to his 'Corner of Woe' once again in utter defeat from the younger girl's words.
"They are a bit burnt, but I know what you are going to say, Kyoya-sama," Renge said as she walked up to Kyoya. 'Anything you make will be delicious, Renge,' the love-struck girl thought happily, holding her cheek as a light blush formed on her face. She sighed softly. "Oh, Kyoya-sama. . ."
"You're right, these are burnt," Hunny said, taking a small bite of one of the hard sweets.
"Mitsukuni, stop. They are bad for you," Mori quickly appeared next to his cousin, trying to get the small blonde to spit out the cookie. Renge turned around and seemed to attack the two with a Medusa-like appearance. The twins took this chance with Renge's cookies to show off their closeness with Haruhi to a flustered Tamaki.
"Haruhi, let's share a cookie," Kaoru said, placing a cookie in her mouth before she could respond, then breaking it apart by biting on the other end of the cookie.
"Ah, Haruhi, you have crumbs on your cheek," Hikaru commented, tilting her head slightly to the side and towards him before he licked the crumbs off. Tamaki immediately started to call them perverts and sexual harassers as Haruhi just stood there and rubbed her cheek.
"I guess they became a classmate trio when no one was looking," Kyoya guessed, smiling softly at the older three hosts as Tamaki freaked out about the twins touching Haruhi. Haruhi just seemed to shrug off their actions as the way the twins were and started to head over to Kagome.
"No! Your reaction is all wrong!" Tamaki screeched as he grabbed her face so she'd look at him, making the girl stop in her tracks. "This is where you are supposed to rebuff them and then casually brush them aside!"
"Please stop sexual harassing me, Senpai," Haruhi replied blankly, refusing to look at the older teen. Her reaction seemed to get Tamaki even more riled up. Kagome just walked up and pulled Haruhi away from the group with Tamaki slinking after the two girls as they walked back to the calm hosts.
"No! It's all too tepid!" Renge suddenly yelled at the whole group. They all turned to her, shock clear on their faces. "Except for Kyoya, all of your characters are too lackluster! All of you hosts are lacking a 'dark' side! Girls are vulnerable to handsome men going through trauma! If you keep carrying on in this ridiculous manner, it's only a matter of time before everyone gets tired of it! Are you trying to ruin Kyoya's precious business! As manager, starting today, I'm changing all of your character backgrounds! Starting with you!"
She pointed to Hunny, causing the small blonde to have tears form in his large brown eyes.
"If all you are is cute, inside and out, then you're the same as a baby!" she continued on, ignoring his tears as they began to flow. "As such, you are now 'The cute face that is actually a thug!' Morinozuka-senpai, you're the 'Childhood-friend flunky!' The twins will be basketball players 'Shut up in their own world!' Haruhi, you are an honor student faced with 'Intense bullying!' Kagome, you are the honor student that is 'Hiding a secret!' And, Tam-"
"Excuse me, Renge-chan," Kagome interrupted slowly, trying to be polite. Renge turned to her with a huff, obviously peeved that she was interrupted. "But what kind of secret am I hiding?"
"Well that's a silly question," Renge laughed in a high-pitched chuckle. She stopped laughing and gave Kagome a smirk that made the older girl cringe on the inside. "You are gay, of course!"
The Host Club looked at her like she had multiple heads, obviously surprised by the strange girl's idea.
"Now, Tamaki-san, you are the school idol, esteemed for your looks, but actually, you have an inferiority complex, 'The lonesome prince!" Renge continued to instruct as if her idea had nothing wrong with it. Tamaki seemed even more shocked over his own role as everyone was over Kagome's. Renge turned towards Kyoya with a smile on her face, her change in attitude surprising the Host Club. "Oh, Kyoya-sama, you're perfect! You just stay your usual kind, affectionate self."
"I'm honored," Kyoya replied with a slight bow, his hand resting lightly on his chest.
Hikaru ran down a basketball court, dribbling and evading all of the players that came his way. He was in a yellow and blue jersey with the number 69 on it with matching shorts and tennis shoes. Without much difficulty, he threw the ball and made it into the basket, scoring points from a large distance away from the basket. Several of the regular Host Club guests started to cheer for him from the crowded stands as he headed back down the court, giving them all thumbs up as he ran by them. He heard someone fall and his face fell as he stopped in his tracks. He looked to see Kaoru lying on the ground, holding his knee to him. Kaoru was wearing a uniform identical to his twins except his number was 96 instead of 69. People were calling for medical equipment and others were rushing around to hold the game.
"Kaoru!" Hikaru called, running over to his brother as he was loaded onto a stretcher. Hikaru dropped to his knees and clutched Kaoru's hand in his. "Kaoru! Kaoru!"
"Hikaru, enough! Get back in the game!" the coach said, kneeling down next to the orange haired boys.
"Shut up!" Hikaru yelled, lashing out at the coach who backed away from the twins as a spotlight came from nowhere and centered on the twins.
"Hikaru," Kaoru whispered, opening his eyes slightly. The coach and Hikaru looked down at the hurt boy, worry clear in their expressions. "Take it easy. You can't go and try to feel my pain. Understand? You're not the one who got hurt."
Kaoru reached up and touched his brother's cheek softly. Hikaru's eyes began to well up with tears as he clutched at Kaoru's hand.
"It's no use. It hurts. It hurts, Kaoru!" he said with tears flowing down his face, holding Kaoru's hand closer to him. "Your pain is my pain."
It doesn't matter if no one else understands it. As long as we are both there for each other, we can go on living.
"I envy you two," Tamaki said as the twins somehow appeared outside in the rain. The twins looked up at their 'King', clearly surprised to see him. Tamaki was clutching his loose white dress shirt to him as rain drops trailed down his face. "Being able to support each other like that. . ."
"Souh-senpai," Hikaru called as Tamaki trailed off sadly, the young 'King' seeming to begin crying as the scene played out. Hikaru straightened into a crouch as Kaoru sat up off the ground. "But Souh-senpai, you are the academy's idol."
"An idol, am I?" Tamaki said as the rain pelted down on the three of them. Tamaki turned away from the twins and looked off into the distance. "If people are going to celebrate me over a superficial title like that, then I'm sure I'd be better off alone."
He looked up into the raining sky as he finished, the rain making him have to close his eyes.
One injured heart intersects with another. They pass each other and wound each other. What are the hearts of these young men made of?
"K-Kagome-kun," a girl stammered to Kagome as the two of them stood at the corner of the school. The girl was blushing profusely as she fiddled with piece of her auburn rain fell down onto Kagome who was hiding her eyes with her bangs so she didn't have to look at the girl in front of her. "I-I l-love you."
"I'm sorry I ca-" Kagome began to say, looking up enough so the girl could see her eyes, "I am gay."
"Y-You're gay!" the girl looked at Kagome in disbelief as she took a step back. Kagome just nodded and began to walk away and towards the forest of the school.
How will these hearts turn out? Will they be shown the way?
She made it a few yards away from the school and into the courtyard before Haruhi ran by and knocked her down into the mud. Haruhi reached a tree within the school's small forest and rested some against it.
"You can't run away any longer," a voice came from behind her. Haruhi turned around with a soft gasp and slipped down the tree into the mud.
"You're going to learn what happens when you go against me," Hunny continued to tell her with a sneer on his face as he approached her.
"Don't, Mitsukuni," Mori said, looking down at his cousin as he stood a few feet behind the blonde. "Every time you hurt others, you're the one who ends up getting hurt."
"Don't try to give me any advice, Takashi," Hunny said coldly, still staring at Haruhi with hard brown eyes. "You want me to put you over my knee again?"
Will it be the light of salvation that ultimately awaits them? Or something else?
"I hate it when people try to rise above their station in life," Hunny continued in a low chuckle as the rain water dripped down his face. Within the time it took for the small boy to blink, he returned to his normal, cute self and ran to hug Haruhi.
"Haru-chan! I'm sorry! I really can't do this!" he cried into her arms. Haruhi patted his back soothingly as she looked up at the sky with a sigh.
"CUT!" Renge yelled, her hair turning into snakes once more at tight of the cute teen. The crew surrounding the forest-like area stopped all of their machines as Renge marched up to Hunny and Haruhi with murder in her eyes. She turned to Hunny with a small growl. "You there! Stick to the script!"
"But I. . ." Hunny began to say in a soft whimper, but Renge was already turning towards the chairs where Kagome, Kyoya, and the twins sat to dry off. The twins were trying to show Kagome some sort of commoner's joke they had discovered, but were failing at it with Kagome laughing at their attempt.
"No, you listen to me, 'Miss Manager'," Kagome whispered to the younger girl in a low and dangerous tone. Renge looked into Kagome's eyes and saw nothing but pure loathing. "You can''t go around treating people like this, it isn't right." Kagome's eyes softened. "You need to start living your life and open up to people not just sit in your room and play video games. Kyoya doesnt love you."
"N-No," Renge whispered, tears coming to her eyes as she took a step back. She shook her head and leaned forward to be in Kagome's face again. "He loves me!"
That's when Kagome snapped. None of the Host Club were quick enough to grab Kagome before the enraged girl slapped Renge across her face.
"Stop leading yourself on!" she yelled at the now crying girl whose hands were covering her reddening cheek. "He isn't even like Miyabi!"
Everyone froze at Kagome's words and actions. Everyone, but Kyoya, that is. He quickly picked up a large rock and slammed it into the lens of the camera that had been eagerly pointing at the scene between the two girls. Everyone unfroze and looked in his direction.
"I'm sorry, but I cannot allow there to be record of a club member treating a lady in such ways," he told the shocked group coldly. Kagome pursed her lips at his words, not caring in the slightest about the stupid camera. Kyoya gave her a hard look before he turned his look directly on Renge. "I am extremely displeased at the way you're acting like such a pest."
"W-Why?" Renge whispered, tears rolling down her face as she lowered her shaking hands to look at him. "Kyoya, you're supposed to tell me not to worry about it, and then gently Pat me on the head! Why would someone so kind and affectionate as you. . ."
"Because that isn't Kyoya," Kagome said from behind Renge. She walked up to the crying girl and placed her hand on Renge's head, using the other to bring out a handkerchief to wipe off Renge's tear stained cheeks. When Renge looked up at her, Kagome smiled sadly. "I was trying to tell you to not waste your time thinking that he was like that so you wouldn't be heart broken when you found out he wasn't. In a relationship, you need to get to know each other, bit by bit, before you fall in love."
Renge stared at Kagome for a long time before slowly turning away and running towards the school gates.
The next day, the Host Club is open.
"I bought that video!" a girl cried eagerly as the Host Club welcomed in their guests for the day.
"Me too!' cheered several other girls as they grouped around the hosts who were sitting together around a couch.
"Kyoya?" Tamaki asked without turning to his best friend, his eyes roaming around the cheerful girls in the room.
"I may have broken the lens, but, naturally, the footage that was already shot remained," Kyoya answered as he did some calculations in his journal, not looking up at the crowd around him who wished for more of the footage. "Of course, that one scene with violence is cut out. Sales have been pretty fair. That film crew did as good a job as any Hollywood staff would. "
"Hello," they heard a familiar voice call and turned to see Renge standing by their couch.
"We thought you went home to France," the twins wondered, as always, in unison. "You weren't in class today."
"I realized something while I was sleeping this morning that made me so happy that I just couldn't sit through classes," Renge answered slowly, stepping forward with a small smile. "Your kindness towards me and the protection you showed for my heart. This is what you meant by getting to know people and falling in love, right, Kagome-kun?"
Kagome blinked at the girl now clutching her hands and sighed softly in defeat.
"I wished I wouldn't have to say this," Kagome whispered with a glance at Kyoya, who was smirking as he watched her try to wiggle out of the new attention that had been turned from him to her. Kagome sighed again and smiled warmly down at Renge. "I'm sorry, Renge, I just came out of a bad relationship and I can't-" Tears welled up in her eyes.
Renge stared at Kagome, "It's okay, we can be th best of friends!" Renge said hugging the young girl tightly. "I am going to make you cookies now!'
"Thank you." Kagome kissed the young girl's cheek and Renge skipped off happily.
She turned back to the others, "What?" She asked as they stared at her.
"What was that about? Tamaki exclaimed.
Kagome smiled evilly and held up a bottle of eye drops. "I must say, it does work."
Haruhi began to roll her eyes.