Third Person POV

"Hey, Sakura-forehead!" shouted a blonde sky-blue-eyed girl as she found the friend they have been searching for minutes ago.

"Oh, Ino-pig!" said an emerald eyed pink haired girl as she turned around to face the blonde and the brunette beside her.

"Where in the school have you been?" scolded Ino, fuming.

"I volunteered for some errands," Sakura replied innocently.

"Tenten and I had been looking all over for you!" Ino said in the same loud tone and voice.

"I-I see… sorry," Sakura scratched the back of her head then gave them a sheepish smile.

"And aren't you forgetting something?" asked the brown eyed brunette who always had her hair up in two Chinese buns.

"Like what?" Sakura asked curiously, as she tried to recall what could've been important that very day. It slipped from her mind when she saw the Uchiha who had been her long-time crush while she was doing those errands the whole time.

Tenten and Ino looked at her with disbelief.

Tenten sighed. "Don't tell me that my constant nagging with Neji was pointless."

And then it hit her. "I totally forgot! We're going to visit Hinata in her new school today, right?"

"At last you remembered!" Ino exclaimed.

"Their class dismissal is in thirty minutes and club activities start from there, so we have to hurry!" Tenten informed them then dragged them out of the school and into the direction where Hinata's school is.

Meanwhile, in Ouran High School, the Class 1-A was having a class meeting regarding a class project everyone should cooperate in for their English class. It had to be related to the classic novel the teacher made them to read.

After the class president tallied the votes regarding the suggestions written on the black board, he announced, "It's been decided, we'll have a stage play. Now, does anyone – "

The school bell rang. More than half of the class stood up; starting to leave or go to any club they had joined.

"Classmates, please, wait!" the class president shouted to call the class' attention but he remained unheard. Sighing, he went back to his seat to get ready to go home.

"We'd better get there now. Tamaki-sempai said there we have a theme this time," the older Hitachiin announced to his twin and to his two female fellow host club members who all nodded in agreement.

After getting ready to leave, they all went to the 3rd Music Room, also known as the host club room.

Tamaki announced, "As I was saying, our theme for today is – "

The ground started to shake.

"A-An earthquake?" Hinata asked with that worried look on her face.

"I'm guessing, it's probably – " Haruhi started to answer Hinata calmly, only to be interrupted by a familiar high-pitched laugh coming from the floor.

"Aahahahahahahaha! Aahahahahahahahahahaha!"

From the floor rose something circular and stage-like, revealing a certain otaku with brown eyes and light brown hair decorated by a ribbon.

"Ahahahahahahahahahaha! Ahahaha~!" the otaku finished her long laugh.

"W-Who i-is she…?" Hinata whispered to Haruhi's ear.

"That's Renge, the host club's cosplaying otaku manager," Haruhi replied softly with a smile.

"The club is doing cosplay for today, in favour of their dear, dear manager!" Renge told everyone, showing them a lot of cosplay costumes.

"Ooohhh! How amazing, Renge-chan!" Hunny complimented, seeing the cute costumes.

"Yes, yes! That's me! And since we have a new female member, I got some others made for me and her too, since we're almost the same size!" Renge replied full with pride, showing some other cosplay costumes specially made for girls.

"T-Thank you, R-Renge-san!" Hinata exclaimed, relieved that she won't get to wear a short and quite revealing maid uniform for the day.

"You're welcome! But I must choose your costume and do the make up!" Renge replied with a smirk on her face.

A little hesitant, Hinata forced a smile and replied, "I-I'll be in y-your care then…"

For the next few minutes, everyone was changing clothes. Of course, Haruhi changed in a different room and had a male cosplay costume to wear which wasn't very easy to pick since there weren't a lot of costumes suited for her body. Hinata also changed in another room, since she has Renge with her and they didn't want Renge to also know Haruhi's secret.

Haruhi cosplayed Yuki Sohma of Fruits Basket, Tamaki cosplayed Edgar of Hakushaku to Yousei (which, didn't seem much different since they somewhat looked alike), Hikaru and Kaoru cosplayed two soul reapers of Bleach saying that it's the only one that has two of its kind, Kyoya cosplayed Kaname Kuran of Vampire Knight, Hunny cosplayed Momiji of Fruits Basket (since they have a lot in common), and Mori cosplayed Kyoya Hibari of Katekyo Hitman Reborn.

Everyone waited a little longer until Hinata and Renge emerged from a dressing room.

Hinata wore a gothic lolita outfit. She was wearing blue-green and black striped stockings and also had a long indigo and pink wig that's similar to her hairstyle (only longer) and a ribbon on top. She also had some make-up on.

Everyone looked at the doll-like Hyuuga with awed and amazed expressions.

Renge smiled proudly on her 'doll', informing them that Hinata looked more like a doll than a maid. Hinata blushed and looked away, though her blush wasn't much noticed because she also had a blush-on on her face.

"Hina-chan looks so cute! If you were a doll, I'd probably buy you for a high price!" Hunny complimented the doll-looking maid.

"Of course! I'm the one who made her this pretty after all!" Renge said proudly, after she saw the varying face expressions of the other host club members.

"U-Ummm… T-Thank you, H-Hunny-sempai and R-Renge-san…" Hinata said timidly, looking down at her feet to avoid seeing the others' gaze on her.

"Till next time, Hiiina-chan~!" Renge departed with a grin on her face as the circular stage went back to the way it was.

"N-Next… time…?" Hinata mumbled nervously.

Meanwhile, the three students from Konoha Academy just made it in the school building.

"Are those real gold?" Tenten pointed to the elegant-looking chandeliers.

"This IS a rich kids' school!" Ino exclaimed, looking around at the well-designed hallways and staircases.

"But where is Hinata? We didn't come here to sight-see, girls!" Sakura reminded them.

"Said the girl who forgot about this plan…" mumbled the brunette and the blonde.

"Hey, hey! I said I'm sorry!" said Sakura, which made the other two giggle.

"We must ask around, then," Ino suggested.

"Yeah!" the other two agreed.

So the trio asked around for which way was the club where Hinata had just joined. Turns out, a lot of students, especially the girls, knew about the shy Hyuuga Hinata, which was quite a big shock for the three knowing about Hinata's bashful nature. They were led to the 3rd Music Room. Sakura opened the elegant door, hoping to find the friend who they haven't seen for some time.

"Welcome to the Anime Realm," the host club members said in unison, as their themed greeting for the day.

"Hinata-chan… joined an Anime Club?" the trio said at the same time, shocked since the Hinata they knew didn't pay much attention to anime.

"Sakura-chan, Ino-chan, and Tenten-chan?" said a high toned voice.

"Hinata!" the outsiders exclaimed, recognizing their dear friend despite being in complete cosplay. Ignoring the seven handsome cosplayer guys around their friend, they ran and gave her a three-person glomp, making Hinata loose her balance but she managed to gain it in such a small period of time.

"Waaahhh! We missed you, Hinata-chaaan!" exclaimed Tenten.

"It was never the same without you!" added Ino.

"It felt like something was missing ever since you left!" said Sakura.

"I-I missed you all, too!" replied Hinata, glad that she saw once again her best friends since grade school.

"Why, seems like there's another happy reunion," commented the princely blonde in cosplay of the Blue Night Earl (Edgar).

"O-Oh, s-sorry for the interruption and false alarm, T-Tamaki-sempai…" Hinata apologized stutteringly. The three girls let go of their tight hug with Hinata, seeing the sophomore who seemed to be the club leader.

"You look good in cosplay, I mean really, really cute, but what confuses me is why did you join an anime club, Hinata?" Sakura asked, still thinking that her friend joined an anime club and not a host club. Ino and Tenten also waited for Hinata's answer intently.

"H-Huh?" Hinata tilted her head, thinking that the only club she joined is the host club. "B-But I – "

"She joined a…" Hikaru started, cutting off Hinata.

"…Host club, for your information," Kaoru continued.

"WHAT?" Sakura, Ino, and Tenten exclaimed at the same time, eyes widening after hearing the twins' response.

"Now, now, let's try not to overreact…" Haruhi tried to calm the girls, with the twins nodding approvingly behind her.

"You," Ino pointed at Hinata, "Us," then she pointed at the three of them then continued, "We need to talk. Right. Now." Ino pulled Hinata, Sakura, and Tenten towards a corner of the room.

"Waaaiiit a sec," the auburn-haired twins said in unison, pulling Hinata the other way.

"WHAT DO YOU WANT?" Sakura almost shouted in annoyance to the twins she regarded as strangers who can't be trusted yet.

"It's time for club activities…" Hikaru started.

"… and the costumers would be coming soon," Kaoru continued.

"And we need Hina-chan more than you do!" the twins said in chorus.

With that said, the twins and the trio played some kind of tug-of-war with Hinata as the rope in the middle.

"Uhhh… Maybe you'll survive, Hinata," Haruhi mumbled.

Meanwhile, the cosplaying sophomores and seniors are discussing to themselves while watching the freshmen with their little tug-of-war.

"My, my. First years are quite a handful…" Tamaki remarked. "And so we thought that they were costumers that we rushed getting ready in these costumes…"

"Don'cha think Hina-chan's costume might get harmed in that human tug-of-war, Tama-chan and Kyoya-chan?" the loli-shota third year remarked.

"I concur, Tamaki," Kyoya agreed.

"But what should we do?" Tamaki asked.

The tall, silent-type third year then walked towards the area where the tug-of-war was being held. He lifted Hinata and placed her a little further, causing the twins and the trio to lose their balance.

"T-Thank you, Mori-senpai…" Hinata gratefully thanked Mori who just nodded in reply.

Mori helped the twins get up on their feet while Hinata helped her friends.

Before an argument between the trio with Sakura as the leader and the twins erupt, Tamaki went in the middle with his sparkly princely aura. "I'm sorry that you didn't get much hospitality, dearest princesses," he started, turning to the Konoha Academy students, "And making every lady who enters the host club happy is our main priority, which also includes the three of you. But let's not forget about our costumers here in Ouran High School that would enter any minute now. So why don't we settle this with the three of you becoming our customers in the meantime then you could ask dearest Hinata-chan when the club activity finishes? Not to worry, dear princesses, we'll give you our top-notch service the ladies come back for. Would that be fine with you, my dear, dear, dearest princesses?"

Charmed with Tamaki's little princely gentleman-ish speech, the three gave nothing but a nod to show that they agree.

"That's better," Tamaki smiled gently. He turned to the infamous Hitachiin twins. "Hikaru and Kaoru, say sorry to these fair ladies."

"Yes, my lord!" they said in unison. With smirks on their faces, they met the trio's eyes. Mimicking Tamaki with some kind of a sparkly aura, they said, "We're truly sorry, dear pretty princesses."

"No problem. We did come barging in here," Tenten said on behalf of her two other friends, who all seemed touched with the twins' apology.

The twins bowed at the girls, showing Tamaki their mischievous smirks which could've irked him if the three girls on front of him weren't there.

"It's settled, then," Tamaki said, still with his sparkling aura that usually attracts girls.

"Hinata," Ino whispered to Hinata's ear. "Who are these really handsome cosplayer guys?"

Hinata nodded, getting ready to introduce her host club mates. She pointed at Tamaki, "T-This is Suoh Tamaki-sempai, the host club's founder."

"Nice to meet you, princesses," Tamaki said with his gentle grin.

The girls smiled back, wondering if Tamaki was actually some fairy tale prince who was cast out of its book by some spell.

Then Hinata pointed at the twins. She pointed at Hikaru, "T-That's Hitachiin Hikaru-kun," then pointed at Kaoru, "and t-that's Hitachiin Kaoru-kun…"

The twins beamed their Cheshire cat grin then said in unison, "Hiya!"

"Hi," Sakura said on behalf of Tenten and Ino, who had a feeling these guys in soul reaper costumes are mischievous, judging by the way they smirk.

"T-That's Fujioka Haruhi-kun," Hinata pointed at the crossdressing host, thankful that she didn't get to interchange Haruhi-san with Haruhi-kun.

"Hello, there," Haruhi smiled her signature girl-capturing smile, which affected the outsider Konoha students without any clue that the gentle-looking guy introduced to them is actually a girl crossdressing as a host to repay her large debt.

"A-And," Hinata started, continuing with her introduction, "T-The guy w-with the laptop is Ootori Kyoya-sempai, the host club's co-founder…"

"Salutations," Kyoya said with his cool-looking smile, looking up from his laptop.

The girls smiled ear-to-ear, feeling some cool radiance from the vampire-cosplaying glasses guy.

"T-The cute blond short…" Hinata paused, thinking of what noun could best describe the loli-shota host. "Uhhh…" Not wanting her friends wait much longer, she came up with the right but poorly-picked noun. "Third year – "

"THIRD YEAR?" the girls exclaimed, shocked that the cute elementary schoolboy-looking kid was actually a third year.

"Yes, yes!" giggled the cute third year. "I'm Hunny-sempai! Nice to meet ya, hime-chamas!"

"KAWAII!" the trio said in unison, even though it was quite out-of-character for the hot-headed emerald-eyed female.

"Thankies! Oh, oh! And this here is my dearest cousin Mori who's always there for me!" Hunny continued and finished Hinata's introduction by familiarizing the tall, silent-type, guy who's in Hibari Kyoya cosplay to the girls. Mori just smiled slightly on Hunny's description of him.

"Awww! That's so nice!" Tenten giggled, then looked at Hinata which reminded her of Neji, Hinata's over-protective cousin who's kind of harsh on the outside but has something really nice caring side hidden.

Hinata smiled at Tenten, knowing that she was thinking of her brother-like cousin.

"Now that you all know who we are, why don't you introduce yourselves, princesses?" Tamaki said.

Ino and Tenten looked at Sakura with that you-go-first-since-you're-quite-the-leader-of-the-group look. Knowing that there was no escape, Sakura started, "Well… I'm Sakura… Ha– "

She was interrupted by Kyoya's announcement, rather, introduction of the female. "Sakura Haruno, age 16, studies in Konoha Academy, blood type O, born on March 28, named after her cherry-blossom-coloured hair, has experience at medicine at a young age, wants to be a great doctor."

Sakura's eyes widened with shock. "How did you know all that? Where did you find out?"

"Sources are sacred," Kyoya said coolly. "The blond with you is Ino Yamanaka, age 16, studies in Konoha Academy, blood type B, born on September 23, her family runs a flower shop, a florist and a botanist at a very young age, has some psychic abilities."

And now it's Ino's eyes turn to widen. "What the…?"

"Last but not the least, the chocolate-brown haired brunette, Tenten, age 17, studies in Konoha Academy, blood type B, born on March 9, her family has Chinese blood and owns a Chinese restaurant, learned to use different kinds of traditional Japanese weapons at the early age of 10, has her own fighting style."

"Now that's… freaky. Kyoya-san, did you send in some stalkers to find out all those?" Tenten jokingly said then giggled.

"Maybe. Sources are sacred so I can't tell."

That was supposed to be a joke, Tenten thought to herself as the twins applauded Kyoya. "Ah-mhay-zhing~!"

"Everyone," Tamaki announced, "The customers are about to arrive. Please go to your respective places. Hinata, give your friends somewhere to sit."

Everyone followed the prince's orders. Hinata led her friends to a not-so-used table and they sat on their own, giggling that their little shy princess is now a maid. Hinata then rushed to the host club's side to do the greeting.

"Welcome to the Anime Realm!" The only one who said this was Tamaki, as the others did their own poses according to the character that they are cosplaying.

In just a while, everyone got settled in, with each host with their customers. The three female outsiders, however, just watched and observed what goes on in the host club and how they treat Hinata while they eat the little treats Hinata served them.

"She may be a maid here, but they still treat her respectfully like how they should treat a lady…" Tenten remarked, chewing the chocolate cake Hinata served her. "Oh, and their food here is really good!"

"Yeah! It's like we're in a high-class café!" Sakura agreed, sipping some Chamomile Tea afterwards. "But we gotta ask her of all clubs she could join, why did she pick the host club?" she added thoughtfully.

"Totally agree!" said Ino as she took another spoonful of tiramisu. "I mean, she's not really that good with guys. The only guys she was comfortable to be with are Shino and Kiba. Well, she might be comfortable with Neji but there's still some tension between them."

The three watched their friend as she walked over to the table where the girl-looking brown-haired Yuki Sohma cosplayer and his (her) customers were seated then shyly took their order. The host seemed really friendly towards Hinata as he (she) smiled a gentle smile at her then asked the girls himself (herself) about what they would like to have. Hinata then nodded and bowed, giving Haruhi a shy thankful smile before going to the storeroom.

"But that guy looks really friendly," remarked Ino. "He seems really close to Hinata."

Then the same idea sparked on the trio's minds.

"I-Is it possible that…" Tenten started talking, with a bit of cake being chewed in her mouth.

"That that guy Haruhi…" Sakura continued Tenten's sentence.

"Is in a relationship with Hinata?" Ino finished the thought then the girls looked at each other seriously.

"B-But it's been just a week!" Tenten exclaimed, but not loud enough for everyone in the host club to hear.

"That Haruhi guy might seem better than the idiotic Naruto, but Hinata couldn't have gotten over him that fast!" Ino added with the same loud tone Tenten used.

"And a relationship couldn't form in just a week!" said Sakura.

On the other side, Hinata just looked at her friends while holding a tray of cups of coffee and slices of cake. She smiled, glad that her friends since her primary days haven't changed, though she was curious what her friends are conversing about. Remembering that she has a job to do, she walked towards Haruhi's table, carefully balancing the rectangular tray's contents. She placed each item in front of each customer according to what they ordered.

After an hour or two of serving, hosting, chatting, and other things they do in the host club, the club hours were done. When they had all finished changing into their uniforms, it was the time when they had to do the so-called 'confrontation'.

"Hinata, why did you join the host club?" Sakura asked the first question the three of them agreed on.

"I-I wanted to help Haruhi-kun pay his debt on the host club… H-He's just a scholar unlike everyone in the high school and h-he's got a debt to pay the host club by serving o-one thousand costumers… T-The help I could give him is by serving the host club a-and every day I serve them is equivalent t-to two costumers," Hinata replied honestly, hiding the fact that Haruhi is actually a girl.

Sakura, Ino, and Tenten didn't know what to think or feel. Awe because of Hinata's kindness or worry and shock because maybe Hinata is helping Haruhi out because of infatuation?

"Do you think you could survive being a maid?" Ino asked like a host in a talk show.

Hinata nodded unsurely. "I-I think I could… A-And I think I could s-socialize with others through this…"

"Aaand finally," Tenten started, "Are you and Haruhi in a relationship?"

"Bwahahahahahahahahaha!" the twins burst out laughing.

"Pffft!" Tamaki tried to hold in his laugh.

"N-NO WE'RE NOT!" Hinata and Haruhi replied at the same time, both surprised about the flow of questions. From the maid job to a relationship?

"Prove it," the three said.

"U-Ummm…" Hinata thought. She can't just tell them that Haruhi is a girl. She promised her. She never breaks promises.

"Simple. I'm too busy with school to have a relationship and Hinata's… nice and all but she's not my type," quick-thinking, Haruhi replied for Hinata.

"A-And t-there's someone I already admire who's not in this school," Hinata added.

Naruto, the three thought to themselves as knowing smirks formed on their faces.

Since the club time is over, outsiders are not allowed inside anymore, for safety purposes according to the guard the three encountered on the school gates.

"It's settled then," Sakura announced, and then glared at the other members of the host club. "If ever Hinata gets hurt while she's in your care, you're all dead."

"We assure you that she's safe in here," Kyoya replied coolly, unaffected with Sakura's deadly glare.

"Good. We're just glad to see you Hinata." Sakura smiled gently.

"Come visit Konoha sometime," Tenten requested as they got ready to leave.

"We'll text you when we're going to the mall and maybe we could meet sometime," said Ino.

"Bye!" said the trio as they turned to leave.

Hinata gave a pleading look to Tamaki. She wanted to leave earlier to walk with her friends and even take them home on the shiny black car her Kou-san drives.

"Aw! C'mere my daughter! You learned my puppy dog eyes!" Tamaki ran and hugged Hinata tightly.

"Pervert," Haruhi mumbled softly.

"I-I c-can't b-breathe T-Tamaki-sempai," Hinata tried to say.

"Oh, sorry, Hinata," Tamaki let go of her. "Go ahead and walk with your friends." He smiled.

"Thank you, Tamaki-sempai!" Hinata thanked him gratefully, eyes sparking with her face overjoyed, she took her bag and ran off the catch up with her friends in just a little while.

Later that night, in the room of the Hitachiin twins, the two are absorbed in what they are doing. Hikaru on his PSP and Kaoru on his Wi-Fi laptop. Hikaru's shoulders move accordingly to his fighting game on his game console, and Kaoru kept smiling and grinning in front of his laptop screen and typing.

By the time Hikaru noticed, he asked, "Uh, Kaoru, are you on drugs that you kept grinning on your laptop screen?"

"Am not! I'm just chatting here for goodness sake!" Kaoru replied.

"With who? Lemme guess, Sumire?"

"Yep."


Yay! Chapter 7's done! I stayed up upto 11 pm for this. XD
So that was another long chapter. O.O I didn't know I could manage to make 3,700+-word chapters in a row.
Sorry if it was quite boring, I went on to the 'writer block' mode at the middle of the chapter. And the characters could also be OOC, but I'm working on it. Gambarro! .
And, if it won't bother you much, please gimme a review… *puppy dawg eyes*
Oh, and the one who guesses which character is Hinata cosplaying gets a cookie. X3
About the girls too, I invented the part that Tenten's family has a Chinese restaurant, Tenten could use weapons, and Sakura was named after her hair (that was an obvious guess). The Yamanaka clan (Ino's clan) specializes in mind jutsu's, so I just wrote that she's a psychic. XD

Now sleeping,
Eru-chii.