A/N For those of you who weren't aware, Niichan is a shortened title for 'big brother'. Thought I should clear that up. (Unless I'm terribly wrong, in which case……NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *emo cut*)
Chapter 4
(Hikaru's POV)
"Oh, don't be so surprised to see me, Niichan!" Yuuki-san says, reaching up to ruffle Tono's hair.
"NIICHAN?!" Kaoru and I recoil in shock. Kyoya-senpai enters the room, engrossed in his laptop. He stops a few feet from the group, either noticing the shocked looks on all of the Host Club's faces, or the moe-induced ones on the girls', who always seem to be looking on with excitement. It's quite tiring.
"Oh. Suoh-san. What are you doing here?" Kyoya-senpai asks, looking at Yuuki-san with a slight amount of surprise.
"Su….oh….san?" I choke out. I fall into Kaoru's arms. "What's going on here, brother?"
"I don't know, Hikaru. I don't know."
"Tamaki-senpai?" Haruhi looks up towards Tono. "What…who is this? I thought you said you didn't have any siblings when Kirimi-chan came here." Yuuki-san slaps her hands to both sides of her cheeks.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL THEM ABOUT ME TAMAKI??" Tono looks like he's about to go into shock. Yuuki-san, meanwhile, has curled into fetal position in a corner of the room. At that moment, there's no doubt in my mind that these two are related.
"I think I can explain this." Kyoya-senpai says, pushing up his glasses. "After Tamaki was born, the Chairman knew he wouldn't be able to please his mother, head of the Suoh household, any longer. He decided to continue his relationship with Tamaki's mother, and a few months after Tamaki was born, Ms. Grantaine became pregnant with another child.
"A healthy baby girl was born, and the Chairman decided to keep her a secret from his mother. Tamaki was also told to keep it inside. When he left for Japan at fourteen, his sister and he hadn't seen each other for nearly three years already because she had been sent off to a boarding school in England.
"However, as you know, Anne-Sophie Grantaine has returned to Japan, and, apparently, so has her daughter, Tamaki's sister, Kiyomi Suoh."
"Wow, Boss. You've been hiding a lot more than we thought." Kaoru says appearing on one side of Tono.
"Yeah. To think that you haven't even been the only illegitimate child this whole time." I say, resting my hand on his other shoulder. He's practically stone by this point.
"YES! IT'S TRUE! IT'S ALL TRUE!" Kiyomi-san (I have no idea why she would use 'Yuuki' as her disguise name instead of something more fitting for a Suoh) says dramatically, throwing herself back to us. There is a rumbling underneath our feet and a piece of the ground starts to move upwards.
"HOHOHOHOHO!" Renge appears on her magic platform. "This is perfect!" She cries, jumping into the midst of us all. She takes Kiyomi-san's head and cradles it to her chest. "You poor child! Having to live without brother and father all these years!" Kiyomi-san nods, wiping at a tear.
"It's been awful! All I've wanted is to come back and see my Niichan again!" All of a sudden, Kiyomi-san bites her lip. Her face becomes red. She pushes Renge away and bursts out laughing. "Oh. Oh, geez. I'm sorry. Can I stop?" Renge looks as if she's about to spit acid.
"YOU CAN'T BREAK CHARACTER THIS FAR IN!" She screeches, jumping back onto her platform and disappearing into the ground.
"What the hell?" Haruhi says.
"I'm sorry." Kiyomi-san apologizes. "Renge got to me a little ago and suggested that I become a broken character to further push myself into your acceptance. I'm guessing it was a little over the top." We nod silently. Tono still hasn't moved. "Right. Well. I'm Kiyomi Suoh. All of that was true. And…yep. How've you been, Niichan?" She leans in towards Tono. She pokes him and he falls to the ground with a loud thud. "Does…does he do this often?"
"Yep."
"Pretty much."
*All the time.*
"Mm-hmm."
"I see." Kiyomi-san steps back. "Well. I guess I'll just have to go tear around the school all alone, spreading around my story…" Tono jumps up.
"That won't be necessary." Kiyomi-san embraces Tono, who's face softens as he hugs her back.
"S'good to see you again, Niichan."
"Same here, Imouto-chan." Kiyomi-san clobbers Tono. He collapses to the floor, holding a large lump on his head.
"ARE YOU TRYING TO BE FUNNY, TALKING TO ME LIKE THAT?" (A/N from the website I've been using for these honorifics, 'Imouto' is for Little Sister, and 'chan' or 'kun' is only used with it when the older is looking down on the younger.) Kiyomi-san glares angrily at her brother. Kaoru and I, meanwhile, are hardly hiding our laughter.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE LAUGHING AT?" Kiyomi-san turns to us, raising a fist. We yelp and run behind Mori-senpai. "Oh. Sorry. Didn't mean to lose my temper there." Kiyomi-san smoothes down her shirt.
"Sorry." Tono cowers away from his sister.
"S'kay."
"When did you get here?"
Kiyomi shrugs. "When Mom got here. I've been staying in your old room." She grins evilly. I think I'm starting to like this girl.
"How come you haven't seen me sooner?" Tono starts to get a little huffy.
"I wanted to make a big impression on you and your friends." She looks wonderingly at the seven of us, her eyes landing on Haruhi.
"What?" Haruhi asks after Kiyomi-san keeps staring at her.
"Niichan…Why is this girl dressed like a boy?" I may have never seen Tono move so fast. His hands slaps across Kiyomi-san's mouth and he drags her into the empty room adjoining Music Room Three.
"Please excuse us, ladies." I shout, grabbing Kaoru and running after them.
"Kiyomi!"
"Tamaki!" Kiyomi-san shouts back at Tono.
"Listen…Haruhi's sort of working off a debt…and it can't really be let out that she's a…she."
"ARE YOU PARTAKING IN KINKY PROSTITUTION??" Kiyomi-san screams, falling backwards against the wall. "HARUHI! ARE YOU A SEX SLAVE??"
"NO! Of course not!" Kiyomi-san rushes over to Haruhi.
"You can tell me! I swear, I'll help you out of it!" Kiyomi-san pushes Haruhi behind her and glares daggers at us all. "You're all a bunch of sickos! I should…I SHOULD CIVILIAN ARREST YOU RIGHT NOW!"
*She's definitely Tama-chan's sister.* Mori silently agrees.
"Kiyomi-san, please." Kyoya-senpai says. "You're overreacting. What Tamaki was trying to say is that Haruhi broke something very valuable and her work in the Host Club is going to pay for it, since she is a Commoner."
"Oh." Kiyomi-san releases Haruhi. "Why didn't you just say so in the first place?" She darts over to Tono and grabs his cheeks. "You silly boy! You could've saved so much trouble by just saying that."
"Would you--AH! WOULD YOU PLEASE STOP TREATING ME LIKE I'M NINE! I'M OLDER THAN YOU!" Tono complains, pulling away from his sister.
"Yes, but I'm older than you emotionally. So."
"Hikaru. Kaoru." Kyoya-senpai says.
"YESSIR?" We salute.
"Take Kiyomi-san and show her around the school. It appears that she's to begin studying at Ouran Academy next week."
"YESSIR!" We both grab one of Kiyomi-san's arms. "Right this way, Kiyomi-san." She digs her heels into the floor.
"Please, don't be so impersonal. I plan to be spending a lot of time with you all. Call me Kiyomi." She grins at all of us, batting her eyelashes.
*Yomi-chan! You're almost as cute as Haru-chan!* Hunny-senpai says. *Usa-chan thinks so too!* Tono recoils in horror.
"HUNNY-SENPAI! HOW COULD YOU THINK ANYONE EVEN COMES CLOSE TO THE LOVELINESS OF HARUHI?!" Haruhi blushes. Kiyomi rolls her eyes.
"Well. It's nice to know my Niichan isn't lonely. Well, au revoir, boys. And Haruhi." She faces Kaoru and I. "Come on, show me around." She let's up on her heels and we take her back through the screaming girls out of Music Room Three.
A/N Ugh. You guys…I don't think I can keep up with these honorifics. You won't hate me and think me an awful writer if I don't use them anymore, will you? (except in the case of Usa-chan, only because that's…the name.) And sorry this one was so short. I thought it was a good place to leave off without getting too deep into Kiyomi… Anyway, next chapter might be a little while. I've been working hard on these past four and have almost no idea how this is going to go anymore…I'm not very good at planning ahead. Kisses!