Okii Ichigo: A pretty big amount of stuff happens in this chapter, and a little bit of KxR fluff.

Okay, so I wanna run an idea by you guys. I love to draw (I've been drawing forever) and I was wondering if you think I should make a Deviant Art account or something and put drawings of my OCs. I mean, I don't have to if you like to picture the characters yourselves or whatever… Also, if I do post drawings they'll be from MS Paint because I don't have a scanner or anything. So, they'll be a bit suckish. xD

Hope you like this chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own the Host Club, or anyone in it (except for my OCs) and never will unless I rule the world one day.

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I sighed and trudged down the hall. I couldn't help but be in a bad mood; today was a 'field trip' thingy for the Host Club. And, to make it worse the twinkles had spent all class today overflowing with excitement and playing guessing games at what we were going to do while I sat there banging my head on my desk. Guess I'm just a party pooper.

Wait… Had that big dark door always been there? It was unusual, especially in a school where girls wore ugly neon yellow (I hope that's a real color) dresses, the walls were pink, and bright colored roses randomly flew out of doors and poked your eyes out. Suddenly, the door cracked open and a cat puppet poked its head out, followed by a guy in a dark cloak.

"Hello, I'm Nekozawa and this is Belzeneef. You look like someone who'd be interested in Black Magic…" He smirked evilly. "Do you want to join our club?" He made a gesture to inside of the room, where I could faintly see other dark figures. I think.

"Uh, Black Magic is pretty cool, but you see… I'm stuck with the Host Cl--" Before I could even finish, I was dragged away so fast that by the time I blinked I was in the Third Music Room.

"Don't… Join… Black… Magic… Scary…" Tamaki was panting like a dog. And, by the way, a golden retriever was the animal I'd always compared him to (A/N: I compare people to animals in real life xD).

"Oh my Kira, Tamaki!" Yeah, that's right. Kira, not God. I decided NOT to use God's name in vain for once… Unless… You consider Kira to be the 'God of the new world.' In that case… Nevermind. "Why'd you do that?!" I probably looked like someone pointed a fan at my face and put it on 'overdrive'. Darn. Today my hair had actually looked presentable.

"Do what, Rin-chan?" Honey was pulling on my sleeve.

"He freaked out and dragged me away from Nekozawa's Black Magic Club thingy!" And that club had looked pretty cool too. Y'know, not that I'd really seen inside of it. But it sounded cool.

Tamaki had caught his breath and was in my face within seconds. "Rin, don't go into that club!! It's evil!"

"How's it evil?"

"Let me tell you the story…" Something told me that I really didn't want to hear it, so I zoned out. I caught pieces of Tamaki talking about 'cursed puppet' and something about how he'd walked into the wrong room and taken a wrong test. I'm not sure. I was momentarily distracted by those little bubbles that get in my eye. Y'know, the ones you can't ever catch, but its fun to try to anyway. "And that's why you should NEVER go in there." Tamaki finished.

"Or maybe you're just being a wimp because you're scared." Haruhi muttered bluntly. Of course, Tamaki receded to his emo corner.

"That wasn't very nice." The twinkles appeared behind Haruhi.

"We all have something…" Kaoru started.

"…That we're scared of." Hikaru finished.

"Tamaki is scared of a cat puppet." I thought I heard Kyouya mutter. I'm not really sure, because he was writing furiously in his notebook thing. But, apparently Tamaki heard it too.

"IT'S CURSED!!" Tamaki yelled and turned his head back into his corner. I should label it 'Tamaki's Emo Corner' sometime… (A/N: I have a thing on my wall in the corner of my room that says 'Tamaki's Emo Corner: Please cultivate mushrooms here.' XD)

"Its okay, Tamaki!" Honey tried to cheer him up. "I'm scared of… Well, scary things!"

"What are you scared of, Rin-chan?" Hikaru asked. Like I'd REALLY answer that. Hikaru would twist it around and haunt/torture me for the rest of my life.

"Nothing." I gave my 'serious' face (or at least I hope I did).

"What? You have to be scared of something!" Kaoru said.

"Nope."

Tamaki flew back into the group. "Of course she is, but she would never tell you shady doppelgangers what she's scared of." He patted me on the back. "Now, come on and tell you're father."

"Uh, number one: I was being serious when I said that I'm not scared of anything. Number two: You aren't my father. Nor will you ever be. So please stop saying that you are." I muttered. This topic was covered in LAMESAUCE. (A/N: I stole that word from Jess. xD)

"You're seriously not afraid of anything?" Haruhi asked, and I nodded.

"Not even the Burger King guy scares you?" Uh, wow. The first actual words I'd ever heard Mori say, and it seemed EXTREMLY out of character for him… I give him a stamp of approval for randomness.

"Well, he KINDA used to freak me out, but then he was in that 'I Like Square Butts' commercial so he gets my respect!" I chuckled as that song got stuck in my head.

"Uhh…" And I officially weirded everyone out today! Yay!

"Well, our customers should be here any second, and then we will go on our 'field trip.'" Kyouya smirked evilly at the words 'field trip.' I really don't know what that's about, and something tells me I don't want to…

Just as Evil Tax-Collector Man (I haven't called him that in a while!) said, the ladies arrived and we started to walk around to the back of the school. I know, I found it completely lame that the 'field trip' was on the campus too. In the back, there was some strange building that I swore I'd never seen there before, but who knows. This school is so friggin' big. I haven't even seen half of it yet.

"Come on in, ladies." Tamaki spoke in his 'prince charming' voice and led the crowd inside. The customers/ladies were all muttering to each other about why the Host Club would move from one room to another one. Inside, there were GINORMOUS windows side to side going all around the building, and the room couldn't have been bigger than the Host Club. There were small little tables everywhere, binoculars at the windows, and in the back there was another ivory piano just like the one in the Host Club room.

"Well this is lame--" I started to speak, but I was interrupted by the sudden rumbling of the ground and that weird butterfly feeling in my stomach. This thing was about to take flight. I felt like I was going to puke, but I was way too scared to. The room took off and started to hover off the ground and into the sky, much to the delight of the girls. Apparently this 'room' was actually a blimp.

I felt my knees get wobbly, and then they just gave out and I plopped onto the ground. Tears started streaming down my cheeks, and I wished I could stop and just act normal like everyone else but I knew I couldn't. I curled up into a little ball and cried harder than I had in two and a half years, until someone picked me up(or attempted to, I was latched onto the ground as hard as I could hold on) and carried/dragged me away. I didn't know who it was, all I could see was blurriness and all I could hear was my crying and screaming inside. But, I could feel myself press my face onto this person's shoulder and cry for like a bajillion minutes. Or maybe just 15 minutes.

When I felt like I could try to open my eyes for a second, the first thing I realized was that I had been carried into some kind of windowless pantry thing, and I was sitting on the ground with my face pressed up against a blue-clothed shoulder. Then, I realized the shoulder belonged to Kaoru. He looked at me with a concerned face.

"Are you alright?" I couldn't talk because I still knew we were in the air, so I nodded slowly and sniffled. "Uh… Are you afraid of heights?"

I tried to calm myself down enough to actually talk. "I'm… Mostly scared of… Flying…" I managed to say, even though I kept breathing and hyperventilating.

"Why?" I wanted to tell Kaoru. It would feel good to get off my chest.

"Because, two and a half years ago… My parents died in a plane accident." I had calmed myself down enough to actually get that out, and once I did I felt my eyes swell up with tears again. I tried to swallow them to finish. "My parents were rich because they owned a plane company. They had just gotten a new private plane thing and wanted for me to fly in it with them, but when we were in the middle of the air something went wrong and we started crashing. They both died on impact, and I lived of course. But…" I felt my eyes spill over and hot tears ran down my cheeks again. "I remember crashing and waking up when we hit the ground and they weren't breathing… They… Died… And…" I couldn't finish, because I choked up.

Kaoru didn't say anything as I rubbed furiously at my eyes, but right when I turned to look at him, his arms surrounded me in a hug. It felt extremely comforting, and I couldn't stop crying again as I buried my face into him. I don't know how long I sat there and cried, but he let me sit with my face buried into his shirt until I stopped and sat up.

"Thanks." I said, knowing my eyes were red and puffy, and feeling pretty darn stupid about it too. Kaoru smiled at me.

"No, thanks for telling me. I know it was tough for you, and I just want to let you know that you can tell me anything." Wow, without Hikaru, he was much more… I dunno… Less scheming? Yeah, that'll work.

"Yeah, I know that now." I said while giving him an 'I-just-cried-and-I-look-completely-retarded-but-I'm-gonna-give-you-a-fail-smile' smile. "So… Nice weather we're having in this, uh… Pantry." I desperately wanted to uplift the mood in here, and it must have worked because Kaoru gave me a weird stare and then laughed.

"Uh, yeah."

Realization came over me. "Hey, shouldn't you be out charming ladies with your whole yaoi thing?"

"First off, it's called 'brotherly love.' Second, I want to stay here and make sure you're ok."

I felt pretty bad keeping him in here with little ol' depressing me when he could be out having fun with his brother. "No, I'm fine. This room doesn't have windows. You should go out and have fun. I'll be okay. Seriously."

"Even if that is true, I'd rather stay in here with you." Yes, okay, I'll admit that I went completely red. But I don't think he noticed because I already looked like a wreck.

"Thanks. Again." I said. And, after an awkward moment of silence we launched in to a big debate about what was the best teacher prank ever. I personally went for the whole 'putting a bucket of honey and another bucket of feathers above the door, and when the teacher walks in the buckets dump on her making her look like a chicken, then the rest of the class gets up and does the chicken dance and the funky chicken around said confused teacher.' He liked the prank where 'you put super glue on your teacher's seat and when they sit down and get stuck you run up and tie their hands, then paint his/her face like a target and spin him/her around in the chair while pelting her/him with popcorn and attempting to hit the middle of the target on their face.' In the middle of my speech about why my idea was more humane, I felt a slight thump on the ground. We had finally landed.

Kaoru reached down and helped me out, and even though I was fine he insisted on keeping his had on the small of my back the entire way to the door to make sure I was okay. My face was like a beet I'm sure.

"Hey, what were you two doing in the back all alone?! Way to go Kaoru!" Hikaru jumped perkily in our way, and Kaoru went reddish himself when Hikaru implied that we had been making out or something in the pantry.

"Can it, Hikaru." Kaoru muttered, pushing past him with me and continuing to the door. As I was feeling happy that Kaoru had stood up for me to his brother, I noticed Hikaru was glaring at me. In fact, I felt him glaring at my back all the way to the door. And Kaoru, too. Wait, was I the cause of twin-conflict? Aw, poopy.

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Haha, sorry for making Hikaru sound so mean! I know Jess will beat me up for that! Don't worry, I'll make him sound nicer next time. Maybe… Muahaha!!!

Now, to answer reviews! :

xXImmortalsxDiceXx: Haha, I've never heard that song but it sounds like it would work if I made a live-action movie of this! And I think that Honey could be pretty fearsome when he wants his cake or when he wakes up from a nap. xD

yuki-chan555: Thanks! I'm glad I could nearly make you fall off your chair! xD

AshAnesthetic: Thankyou! Haha, I actually laughed out loud when I read your 'Apples Ate An Alligator' thing.

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