A/N: Okay, I'm sorry this is so late, I'm horrible at updating, I know but I seriously lacked inspiration for this chapter :O I eventually found incentive to write it though because of those two insanely funny and good looking British youtuber twins that remind me of Hikaru and Kaoru. So yeah. The next chapter should be up sooner. Thanks for all the lovely reviews for the last chapter. I know Ouran fics (especially the OC ones) don't usually get many reviews so I am extremely grateful :D This chapter's a bit longer than usual (I think it is anyway) to make up for it's lateness.

Enjoy readers :3

"Eat it," he said, extending his hand towards me to offer what appeared to be an innocent chocolate chip cookie. I narrowed my eyes at the crumbling treat.

"What did you put in it?" I questioned skeptically, wondering if he'd slipped a good dose of rat poison inside the batter, or even worse - raisins. Bleh, I hated those things.

Kaoru frowned. "Nothing. It's just a cookie, nothing more, nothing less." He broke off a chunk and slid it into his mouth to prove the validity of his statement. "See?"

"Oh, okay." I blinked. "Thank you?" I reached out to grab the cookie but Hikaru slapped my hand away.

"Not so fast, commoner. You're our dog remember?" He tugged at my leash as a reminder. I scowled at him.

"So?"

The older twin's face cracked into a devious grin. "Dogs don't have hands. They use their mouths to eat."

"You can't be serious-"

"Oh, but I am," he assured me. "You want to get out of that leash, right? So eat out of his hand."

It is a proven fact that school sucks sixteen times more when you have two spoiled teenage boys tugging you around on a leash. This proof being today's experience, acting as Hikaru and Kaoru's dog for the day. I can assure you, this had to be the most humiliating day of my life. And that includes the day that bitch Haruka Kudo caught me picking my wedgie in an assembly and thought it would be funny to announce it to the whole school - through the microphone. I narrowed my eyes at Hikaru.

"I swear that if you don't let me out of this thing right now, I'll-"

"You'll what?" Hikaru interrupted, smirking as I struggled to think of an immediate answer.

"I'll- I'll…" Dammit, I why couldn't I think of anything? Kaoru grinned, tugging at the collar so my mouth moved closer to the cookie.

"What's the matter pet? Short on threats at the moment, are we?" he taunted as he pushed the cookie closer to my mouth. I sent him a bitter smile before clapping my hands on his cheeks and squeezing. Stupid Kaoru, this was what happened when you invaded my personal space.

"Shove that cookie any nearer to my face," I growled, pulling at his cheeks so his face resembled one of those clowns off of a corny horror movie, "and I will literally rip your face in two. You hear me?"

Kaoru frowned and I released his cheeks.

"That was really mean, pet." He pouted, watery eyes widening, and I quirked an eyebrow at him. Since when was Kaoru such a baby? He only acted that way when he was playing host and-

"Kaoru, are you okay? I can't believe she did that to you!"

Oh crap, I'd completely forget we were in the host room. The girls, whom I presumed were Hikaru and Kaoru's regular guests crowded around Kaoru, stroking his face and comforting him as if I'd given him a black eye or something. Typical. He drags me around the room on a chain and they're off giggling in the corner. I give his cheeks a bit of a pinch and suddenly I'm the bad guy. You'd think since these kids' parents were paying small fortunes a year towards their child's education that they wouldn't be so….stupid. I supposed education wasn't really equivalent to intelligence after all.

"Ah, your cheek is so red! Does it hurt? Did she break anything?" a red-haired girl fussed frantically and I sweat-dropped. Yup, definitely not equivalent to intelligence.

"I'm going to the ladies room," I announced to nobody in particular as I slid off my seat. Not bothering to hold my leash, I let the chain drag across floor while I trudged towards the bathroom.

Even though I saw the Ouran Bathrooms more than once a day (I have a tiny bladder), the prissiness never failed to amaze me. Rose petal soap, scented toilet paper, a free tampon dispenser and as if that weren't enough, there was a couch in the bathroom. Yes, a freaking couch. So, if all the stalls were occupied, you could sit your tosh down on a velvet-covered couch while you waited for another girl to finish tinkling.

Nice, Ouran. Nice.

Anyway, I entered the bathroom and walked straight to the mirror (because I didn't need to pee, I just wanted an excuse to get away from the devil twins). My hair was all over the show, probably due to the fact that it hadn't been combed this morning and Hikaru and Kaoru had taken to ruffling it condescendingly every time I obliged to their ridiculous requests. To top the whole look off, I had bags under my eyes, which were probably emphasized from the bits of eyeliner I forgot to wash off last night. Great.

I was about to lean over the sink to splash water on my face when suddenly a girl with reddish brown hair appeared behind me. Jumping in fright (yeah, I'm not a big fan of people sneaking up behind me I the bathroom), I turned and regarded her expectantly.

"Can I help you?" I asked with a raised eyebrow. Looking closely, she kind of resembled one of those freaky dolls from horror movies. Her hair was cut into an old-fashioned bob and her eyes were wide and a blue so piercing it made me suspect she was wearing contact lenses. She looked me up and down before meeting my eyes with her cold gaze.

"What's your relationship with Hikaru and Kaoru-sama?" she questioned, her voice demanding and clipped. I blinked at her.

"What do you mean?" I asked. She rolled her eyes as if she were talking to an air-headed twelve year old girl. Um, rude.

"I mean," she said, talking deliberately slow to make me feel like an idiot, "what is your affiliation with them? Are you having romantic or sexual relations?" My mouth fell open as I stared at her blankly. Was this chick serious?

"What in the hell would make you think that?" I blurted out incredulously. Okay, sure maybe the sexual relations I would believe. There was no denying that the twins were very physically attractive. Let's be honest; I'd probably have gone there if they weren't annoying as hell. But romantic relations? What the fuck? Just the image of holding hands along a beach or having disgustingly sweet pet names for each other or doing the 'No you hang up' thing over the phone with either of the twins was enough to make me feel nauseous.

"You're always together, " she accused, leaning closer to my face. "And you always get special treatment."

Special treatment? That would only apply if special treatment meant getting treated like a dog that just recently rolled in its own shit. I gawked at her, pointing to the collar that hung around my neck.

"How is this special treatment?" I asked in disbelief.

She glared and pointed to my neck. "They've designated you their pet! How is that not special treatment? I would give an arm and leg to be bound to Hikaru and Kaoru-sama for just an hour!" she snapped. I flinched, about to tell her to calm her damn farm before an idea popped into my brain.

Perhaps I could use this crazy chick to my advantage. Ooh, it looked like my revenge would be coming sooner than I thought.

"It's actually very easy to get Hikaru and Kaoru's attention," I said, trying my best to keep a deviant smirk from gracing my features. I don't think I did a very good job, but luckily she didn't seem to notice.

Her eyes widened slightly.

"How?" she queried. I could tell she was trying not to sound too interested, but she gave it away by leaning in towards me, pursing her glossed lips in anticipation. I rested a hand against the marble sink and gave her a smile that I hoped would come off as warm and friendly.

"You see, Hikaru and Kaoru are both masochists at heart. They absolutely love it when you're cruel to them. So all you have to do is…well, be a complete bitch," I told her confidently, crossing an ankle over the other. She frowned, stepping back a bit.

"Somehow I don't think Hikaru and Kaoru-sama will be pleased…" She furrowed her eyebrows in doubt as if imagining herself saying cruel things to the twins. I gave her a reassuring pat on the shoulder, ignoring the way she cringed at my touch.

"It's working for me, isn't it?" I tugged the chain that adorned my neck. "We're closer than ever. The way I see it, the crueler the better." I grinned, sending her a wink, and she nodded skeptically.

"Well, if it worked for you…"

When I went back to the Host Club room, I found the twins doing another one of their brotherly love routines. I could tell because Kaoru looked to be on the verge of (obviously fake) tears while Hikaru was running his fingers through his hair trying to 'console' him. Rolling my eyes, I pushed through the barrier of girls and 'gently' knocked the girl who had her hands placed dangerously high on Kaoru's thigh off her chair to claim it as my own. Because I'm a bitch like that.

"What took you so long, pet? I was beginning to think you'd run away," Hikaru stated casually, grabbing the handle of the leash again.

"What? Me? Run away? That's absurd," I protested, taking a sip of tea to hide the smirk forming on my lips. Kaoru raised an eyebrow at me.

"I thought you hated green tea," he said and I scoffed.

"What are you talking about? I'm Japanese, of course I like green tea," I replied, resisting the urge to pull a face or spit it back into the cup.

Kaoru gave me a weird look, but soon his attention was drawn away because Shiori (AKA, the freaky doll-looking girl) cleared her way through the twin's harem and stood there, looming over Hikaru and Kaoru with a determined look in her eyes.

I smirked. Oh yeah, she looked like she was really gonna dish it to them. I couldn't wait to see the look on the twins' faces when their number one fan started spurting profanities towards them. Well, maybe not profanities, because this was an Ouran girl we were talking about, but I was still anticipating a few good verbal lashings.

"Shiori-chan?" Hikaru asked in confusion. "Is there something wrong?"

The older twin was about to stand up but was stopped when the red-haired girl drew her hand back and slapped him across the face, leaving Hikaru with nothing but a look of pure bewilderment.

My smirk immediately dipped into an expression of 'Oh shit' and I shot up from my seat. Except Kaoru was faster.

"Hikaru! Shiori-chan, what's gotten-"

Kaoru was interrupted with a strike to the face.

Anyway, that's when I stepped in, grabbed crazy doll-chick by the wrist and dragged her away from the twins' table.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" I hissed at her when we were a fair distance away. She blinked at me innocently.

"Did I do something wrong?" she asked obliviously. I resisted the urge to grab her by the shoulders and shake the living daylights out of her.

"Well, if you classify assaulting two boys for no reason whatsoever as 'something wrong,' then yes, you did do something wrong," I growled. She folded her arms across her chest and shot me an irritated look.

"You're the one who told me 'the crueler the better.'"

"By cruel I meant saying mean things! Not violence! Violence is my thing, and even then I don't go around slapping people in the face. That's assault!"

"How was I supposed to know that? Your instructions were so vague, as far as I'm concerned, this is all your fault!" She pointed an accusing finger in my face.

"Bitch, you better get that finger out of my face before I-"

SLAP.

I blinked at her for a few moments, eyes moving from her hand which had moved back to her side to her face which had returned to a blank expression.

"Did you just slap me?" I asked slowly, raising a hand to touch my cheek which was still stinging slightly. She shook her head.

"No," she replied, and I narrowed my eyes at her.

"You did! You just slapped me!" I exclaimed. She shook her head again, putting her hands behind her back.

"I don't know what you're talking about," she insisted. I sweat-dropped.

Did this chick think I was stupid? She was actually trying to convince me that she didn't just slap me. No wonder my plan turned to custard - this chick was batshit insane.

"What's going on here?" a voice questioned, and I turned around to see Hikaru and Kaoru standing there with matching red marks on their left cheeks. They didn't seem very happy - which was expected because getting slapped in the face didn't exactly feel too good - but their annoyance seemed to be towards me, not Shiori. I'd like to remind you, readers, that this was NOT my fault. I honestly didn't think she was going to do anything worse than swear at them, and even then I didn't think she'd say anything worse on the profanity scale than 'crap.'

Before I could come up with some sort of explanation, Shiori turned around and bowed apologetically, head turned down in shame.

"A-ano, I'd like to formally apologize for slapping you. Ikeda-san suggested that it would be a good way to get your attention, but I guess I was tricked. I'm sorry for being so foolish." My mouth fell open.

That lying little witch! I did not tell her to slap them! That was out of her own stupidity!

"She's lying, I never said that!" I told them. Hikaru frowned and grabbed my leash.

"We were kind to you all day and this is how you pay us back? Tsk, tsk, pet, when will you ever learn?" he said and Kaoru nodded in agreement.

"I think you can find your own way home today," the younger twin remarked. I frowned.

"You're not serious."

They both grinned.

"Try us."

I kicked the bus-stop sign in frustration. Stupid unreliable public transport. The bus was supposed to be here twenty minutes ago! What was taking the driver so long? I hate to sound snobby but private limos were eight six times better than public buses. Not that it was difficult to beat the bus. Hell, I'd walk back to the house if it wasn't absolutely pissing down with rain.

Even worse, Ouran, the area which habituated the richest and most spoilt brats in the nation didn't have bus shelters. Yep. No bench, no shelter, not even a freaking time table.

Just a slightly bent sign.

So, this left me holding my English folder over my head in a futile and pathetic attempt to stop the rain from frizzing up my hair.

Hikaru and Kaoru were so cruel. I was pretty sure they just used that Shiori incident as an excuse to torment me some more. I mean, hello, they weren't the only ones physically violated. She slapped me too and pretty damn hard I might add. Stupid cow, if she hadn't been such an idiot then my plan would've gone smoothly and I'd be curled up in bed playing MarioKart right now.

But no. Thanks to her idiocy and the twins' mean-ness I was stuck at a bus stop in the pouring rain, my English notes getting less legible by the second. Ugh.

"Are you alright there?"

I glanced up, realising that I wasn't alone at the bus stop. It was a dark-haired boy, about the same height as I was and he wearing the uniform of Ouran High school, the public school. He was giving me a look of genuine concern as he peered at me from underneath his umbrella. I turned my eyes back to the street.

"Yeah. I guess so." I shrugged, even though I wasn't alright. I was cold, wet and moody and wanted nothing more than to go back to the mansion, have a hot shower and watch a movie in my pyjamas. But I wasn't telling him that, of course.

He raised an eyebrow and extended the umbrella towards me.

"Want to share? I kinda feel bad being underneath here while you're out there getting soaked." He offered with a crooked smile. Under usual circumstances I would have stepped underneath the umbrella without question. However, after living with the Hitachiin twins for two weeks I'd trained myself not to accept kind gestures without investigating ulterior motives.

"And is there another reason you're offering to share your shelter with a random, bus-stop-sign-kicking girl?" I asked, moving closer to his face and narrowing my eyes suspiciously. He scratched the back of his head sheepishly as he thought of a reply and moved his head away from mine.

"Um, I don't know, because I think you're cute?" He said unsurely, as if he didn't know the right answer. I blinked in surprise, stepping back a little.

"You think I'm cute?"

I felt my lips twitch up into a smile. Despite being around boys all the time I hadn't actually been called cute since I'd moved to Ouran. Hikaru and Kaoru were so critical; they were really good at giving your self-esteem a pummelling. The closest they'd gotten to giving me a compliment was:

'Hey, Matsu, that outfit is a lot less ugly than yesterday's.'

His face began to turn red in embarrassment but he nodded anyway.

"Um, yeah. And you must be really smart too." He began to ramble in an attempt to avert the conversation elsewhere," It must've been hard to get into Ouran Academy. I was thinking of taking the entrance exam but I heard all these rumours about it being really hard so I decided to stay at Ouran high."

I tilted my head to the side in confusion. What was he talking about? Me? Smart? I barely scraped passes in all my subjects. Hell, I was a little bit surprised I hadn't been kicked out of Ouran yet. Oh, wait. He probably thought I was an honour student. Ha. Haha. That's funny.

"I'm not an honour student. Actually, I suck at school but my mum's friend made a deal with the school so I'm like a transfer student." I explained and he nodded in understanding, moving the umbrella a bit more to my side after noticing my shoulder was still getting splashed by the rain.

"That must be fun. Is it true that Ouran has a solid gold fountain?" He asked curiously and I shrugged.

"I don't think it's solid gold but it's definitely solid something. And you're wrong, going to Ouran isn't fun unless you're rich and like hideous poofy yellow dresses." I told him and he raised an eyebrow.

"You don't like it?" He questioned and I frowned at him.

"What is there to like? Rich kids are a whole different species- it's like we don't even speak the same language. It's so hard to make friends, I've only made one actual friend since I arrived and that was the honour student. As in a commoner. Like me." I ranted, kicking a nearby pebble down the drain.

"Well, I guess that's private school students for you." He said. If he was beginning to feel annoyed or uncomfortable, he didn't show it. He just kind of stood there, holding the umbrella and listening to my pointless rambling.

"You don't know half of it. I live with the Hitachiin twins. Ever heard of them?" I gave him an expectant look and he grimaced.

"Yeah. My sister's the president of their fan-club at Ouran high." He scrunched up his nose and I gawked at him.

"They have a fan club and Ouran high too?" I said in disbelief and he nodded in affirmation.

"Yup. And they take it pretty seriously too. They even made up this thing called 'twin appreciation week' and went around the school, passing around badges and posters stuff."

"That's intense."

"No, do you know what's intense? There are more pictures of the Hitachiin twins in my house than there are pictures of me. My sister's wall has been plastered with so many posters it may as well be her wallpaper."

"Ugh. How the hell does she sleep at night?"

"I have no idea. She's actually a pretty normal fifteen year old girl. It just seems that whenever the Hitachiin twins are on the agenda she goes…well, crazy."

And that was when another little plan for revenge hatched in my brain. I tucked away this tidbit of information for later use. This guy's sister sounded interesting, I wasn't about to let this opportunity go to waste.

"Can I have your number?" I asked.

And that was when the bus arrived.

A/N: A few of you have been asking about the romance aspect of the story (ie. when are we going to see some KaoruxMatsu action?). I know it's kind of frustrating because at the moment because Matsu sees both the twins as practically one person but the romance will come. It's just that a few things need to happen before they can get some one on one time and hopefully that should be in the next chapter. If you didn't notice, I did add in like two slightly romantic (?) parts with them but I guess you might have to squint to see them. Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter. Revieewssss are VERY much appreciated and stay tuned for the next chapter :D

-LR