Me: Alright, so first off, welcome to chapter 7. I just want to thank everyone for reading (: I really appreciate it. If you're reading this, then you get a special prize! passes out freshly baked chocolate chip cookies Okay, now that's out of the way.
Hikari: Hinata wishes for me to ask you to please get on with it.
Me: Why isn't she here herself?
Hikari: She's sick, remember? Geez you call yourself an author.
Me: Watch it. Glares. Anyway, as I was saying, I want you all to know that I will be taking requests for stories about Ouran! Shoot a message my way with your pulls a gun out of nowhere patented message shooting gun! It comes with a free nowhere place to store your random nonsense!
Hikari: No way! I want one!
Me: Patience is a virtue my child. Enjoy the chapter!
"Hinata, unlock the door." Hikari stands outside of our bedroom door. She sounds a little irritated.
"No!"
"Hinata. Open. The. Door."
"Never!"
"Hinata, I will take away ALL of your pocky. Open. The. Door."
"Yes ma'am" I walk over and unlock it then flop back onto my bed. She walks in and sits at the edge.
"Kaoru told me what happened..." I don't look up at her. My face is in my pillow. She starts messing with my hair and I bat her hand away gently. I hate when people mess with my hair. "Come on...it's good that he doesn't want other guys pawing at you...frankly I don't either. If Takashi knew..."
"Takashi does know. He couldn't say no, because that would by hypocrisy." If it hadn't been quiet she would have had to ask me to repeat because my voice was muffled by the pillow. As it is though, she didn't have to.
"Well...the boys care about you. Not just Mitskuni and Takashi but everyone. Tamaki, Kaoru, Hikaru and even Kyouya. Even though Haruhi's a girl, she still cares about you too. Everyone loves you Hinata. Especially me, 'cause i'm your sister. I've got to take care of you. If I don't then who will?"
"Vic Mignogna" I side-glance at her and she looks really confused. I chuckle slightly and she just looks more confused.
"Who's Vic Mignogna?" I sit up and pull my hair into a pony tail. I wipe my eyes and shake my head.
"A very amazing man." With that I get up and go over to my phone which I'd thrown against the wall. Luckily I didn't kill it. That's what happened to my old phone.
"33 from Hikaru, 172 from you...and 200 from Tamaki...wow." I delete my inbox. There is no way I would go through all of that.
"Oh, I just got a text from Takashi, The twins' fight...wasn't real." Anger flares in her eyes and I see even more how we ARE related.
"I'm going to kill them! I FAKE CRIED FOR KYOUYA JUST TO GET THEM TO MAKE UP AND THEY WEREN'T EVEN REALLY FIGHTING!"
"Calm down sis, everything's gonna be alright. Besides, if we killed them, then who would we mess with?"
"You're right...it is rather fun making them sweat. It really doesn't feel like I ever used to hate them. It feels like since the other day with Hikaru, we've somehow resumed being friends...wait a minute. Takashi texts?"
"Yeah, that's what I was just thinking." I look at my phone and see a text similar to the one Hikari got. Huh...who would have thought.
"Wait...does Mitskuni text!" I hurry up and open a new text message and address it to him and send a super cute message. I wait...and wait...and wait...all of a sudden my phone bursts out into chocolate disco. Wow...I feel like I really don't know those two.
"Anyway, back to the subject at hand. Why did you come home even though you aren't sick?" She pulls me back over to the bed and we sit down facing each other.
"Well...I really do feel sick. I didn't lie about that part. I never play hookie, i'm a little offended that you would accuse me of such things."
"Right, cause you are so above that" She says sarcastically and I make a face at her. "Tell me what made you want to come home along with being sick supposedly." I sigh.
"Hikaru started telling me that he didn't want me to be a hostess because he didn't want boys pawing at me. I...I guess I freaked out."
"Ha! I knew it! You do have feelings for him!" I scowl at her and she looks at me. "You don't? Or you do?"
"I don't know! He is my friend! Is that ever good enough? Gee! You act like I have to fall in love with someone...well what if I love...uh...Kyouya! What will you do then huh?"
"I hope that's not the case...because I would have to respectfully...uh decline your feelings." The Shadow King walks into our room with Tamaki. "Good evening ladies."
"Well, go ahead, come on in." I say dryly. "And what's wrong with me! I'm attractive, and pleasant." Hikari looks at me skeptically. "Most of the time." She nods then.
"Anyway. We came here on official business!" Tamaki steps up in his normal way. I can't help but smile at his child-likeness.
"Yes, what is it?" Hikari picks a stuffed animal up off of the floor and puts it on my bed. I pick it up and hug it to my chest.
"Well, concerning your birthday. We, the Host Club, would like to invite you to spend the evening with us, like going to dinner. Something simple like that." He says it so smoothly.
"I'm busy that day...I'll be uh...sleeping." I don't trust that it's simple. Hikari Gibbs-smacks* me and I rub the back of my head.
"We would love to. Ignore her, she generally doesn't know what she's talking about." She smiles at the two.
"Alright, we'll keep in touch. Oh, and Hinata, it's been requested that I don't allow you to be a hostess" I feel rage burn in my eyes as Kyouya says this.
"Who?" Everyone is quiet and they all stare at me. "Well, I don't think I mumbled. Who has requested that?"
"Honey-senpei. He thinks that it wouldn't be a good environment for you." Tamaki says this softly. "Frankly I don't think it would be very good for you either."
"Then we have to work something else out Kyouya." I feel the desperation leak out slightly and I try to bite it back. "I can't allow this to go on. I mean, it's not good for her."
"Hinata, I think you should just leave it." Takashi stands in the doorway, Mitskuni is on his back. I look up at him.
"It isn't right!" I shout, getting agitated. "Why should she be stuck dressing like a man, constantly being harassed by screaming fan girls."
"Haruhi doesn't mind. She says it herself. She only continues to put up with it so she can pay off her debt."
"Did it ever occur to you to help her?" I feel the emotion in my voice. "I just don't think it's right."
"She doesn't want help...Haruhi is a very independent person. When she was a little girl, her mom died. She soon took over the chores and grocery shopping."
"I...didn't know that." I gulp, not intentionally. "So...is that why she's so adamant about me not helping her with the tea and things?" Tamaki nods solemnly.
"Yes, she heard about you becoming a hostess and got upset with us because we didn't want to tell her why."
"I...I just want to help her." No one would ever help me when I was in trouble...so I don't want anyone to have to deal with that.
"Lets go for a run Hinata" Satoshi walks into the room and puts an arm around me pulling me out of the room.
"Hinata, don't forget that sometimes in life there are things that you have to do on your own." Takashi pats my head before Satoshi leads me away. Once i'm down the hallway I hear people start freaking out slightly.
"I don't want you to worry about a thing. Hinata, I promise I will take care of you at all costs." Satoshi gives me a one armed hug and I wrap my arm around his waist and we walk outside. Somewhere in between there we'd put on running shoes.
"I know. You're one of my favorite people Satoshi, no matter what you're just always...Satoshi. You don't worry about disappointing people..."
"Yeah, that's your major fault. You are always trying to impress people. At what cost though? I know it may seem like I don't pay attention to little stuff like your depressed moods, but they seem to be more frequent lately."
"Sometimes you're way too wise little cousin." I look up at him. He's in his third year of middle school and he's already taller than me. I wish I had that Morinozuka gene. I hate being short. It's always difficult to reach the top shelf.
"Who are you calling little cousin? I'm bigger than you are." I playfully punch him in the arm and take off.
"But i'm faster." He takes off after me at full speed and I push myself to go faster. This is often how we begin our runs. It's good conditioning.
~Super Hikaru POV!~
I see Hinata run past the car, with Mori-senpei's little brother chasing after her. I turn around in my seat.
"Stop the car!" I yell and the driver stops. I hop out. "Hinata!" I take off. Running as fast as I can. "Hinata! Wait! Stop running!" She stops dead, and the younger Morinozuka runs smack into her and they fall over. She starts laughing and pushes him off of her. I get to the pretty fast actually and she looks a little confused.
"What are you doing?" She asks, her voice betrays no emotion. Is she taking apathy lessons from Mori-senpei? She's getting pretty good at it.
"I thought you were running off...and he was chasing after you..." I say in a 'duh' tone. She laughs.
"No, we're going for a run. I heard you screaming and thought maybe someone was trying to kill you." She shrugs. "I guess for the project I would have had to have saved you." I feel my heart flutter. Her breathing returns to normal.
"Oh...well I'm sorry I stopped you. I guess I'll let you go. Kaoru's waiting in the car." She nods and stands up.
"Alright, later." She takes off again. After, I think his name is Satoshi, gives me a hard look for a moment, he runs off after her. Claiming that it was unfair because she had a head start. I watched after them for a while. She stopped and he caught up with her. They started at the same time and she still blew past him. She's almost like the wind.
"Hey Hikaru, get in the car. The boss needs to talk to us." Kaoru calls from the car and I turn around and jog back. Once inside the driver drives us to the front door and we get out and knock on the door. A maid answers and shows us to where everyone is in a living area.
"It's nice of you to join us. Hikaru. Kaoru." Tamaki says in a smug manner. He looks like he's just won the lottery.
"What is it Tono? Our Mom needs us tonight. We can't stay here forever." Kaoru and I say together and he glooms in a corner.
"It's about next Friday." Mori-senpei speaks and I feel my eyes widen. This isn't normal. Honey-senpei takes a bite of cake.
"Yeah it's Hina-chan and Hika-chan's birthday! They're turning sixteen!" I didn't know their birthday was so soon.
"Yes, and we're planning a ball, to honor all that they have done for the club." Kyouya-senpei looks smug. The number of customers has been increasing a great deal since the child development project. I hear a baby crying down the hall. Hikari must be taking care of the babies. She does a lot to try and help Hinata out. She's a really good sister. Not to mention she talks to me about my 'relationship' with Hinata.
"Mori-senpei thinks that you two should be the ones to get them to the school." Tamaki is sitting where he was again.
"Why do you think that she would come with me?" I say glumly before I even realize it. Then I put my foot in my mouth...figuratively. Mori-senpei stands up and goes over to the window. Probably watching his younger brother and cousin run around the estate, having a good time. He smiles sadly.
"She's beginning to trust the club, maybe even more so you Hikaru." He looks directly at me. I see something in his eyes, but I can't place it. "When she lived with her parents in England...it was hard on her. They don't get along very well. Then on top of that, the school she went to was full of people who constantly made fun of her. They would call her fat, so she stopped eating. Hikari, used to tell me how it was like watching her sister waste away...pretty soon she locked herself in her room and wouldn't leave. She didn't go to school. She didn't go to dinner. She didn't do anything at all."
"Soon Uncle Takoji called Takashi's dad and asked if he would send Takashi to talk to her." Honey-senpei sounds somber, which isn't usually like him.
"It took me a month to get her out of that room. When I did though she didn't talk much. Even now she doesn't talk as much as she used to." He looks to be lost in some memories.
"Hina-chan is a troubled person. She finds it hard to believe that we all care about her. So I'm asking you guys to please help us with this. We need to make her have faith again." I look over at the door and Haruhi is standing there. Tamaki must have sent his driver for her.
"I'll do all that I can to make Hinata have faith again Mori-senpei" Haruhi has a determined look on her face. Mori-senpei walks over to her, pats her on the head and walks out the door.
"Thank you, Haruhi" is faintly heard. I look around the room at the somber faces of everyone in the host club. Tamaki, for once not being an idiot. Kyouya, not looking like he's plotting anything. Even Honey-senpei is acting mature. Haruhi has a sad look in her eyes and Kaoru's face is probably mimicking my own. A mask of something like shock and disbelief. Hinata doesn't seem like the kind of girl anyone would pick on. It's just cruel and it lights a fire in my heart. I have to protect this girl...I can't let her lose faith. Even when the world is cruel.
"Well...I guess there's only one thing we can do..." I say simply. Everyone looks at me. "We have to make sure that Hikari and Hinata have the most enjoyable time here from this moment on."
*Gibbs-smack is from NCIS, pretty much just smacking someone on the back of the head when they least expect it.
