A/N: First off...the song I used for this is one I made up myself called (Like A Raven) I'll Disappear, and so sorry, but I have the tune in my head...just make up your own...lol! Second, would someone mind telling me what 'kawaii' means, other than the fact that it's an island in Hawaii, and if I'm not mistaken the capital?
Chapter 7: A Song for the Hitachiin Twins
"Come on, boys!" Mariko laughed walking ahead of the twins as they all walked down the street toward Mariko's house. "You guys are so slow!"
"You know, we could call for a car and have it drive us to your house," the twins said together, hinting that they didn't want to walk any more.
"Oh, come on, sissies!" she laughed. "A little walk isn't gonna kill you!" She suddenly stopped and they walked up next to her.
"What's wrong?" they wondered, stopping next to her.
"Nothing," she smiled sweetly, glancing between them. "I just like it when you guys have your arms around my shoulders."
The twins grinned at her and slung their arms over her shoulders making her giggle as they began walking again.
"So, how much farther is your house?" Kaoru wondered.
"Just a little while longer," Mariko replied. "You guys can go in and rest your spoiled feet when we get there, if you like?" She giggled when they glared at her, but secretly they really loved how she teased them.
"Mariko!" a male voice called to the left. They all shot a surprised gaze toward a long black limo pulling up and a blonde man with eyes like Mariko's stuck his head out the very back window.
"Daddy!" Mariko grinned and ran from the twins toward the car.
"Daddy?" they asked as the man got out the car and let Mariko climb inside. She stopped and looked over the door at them.
"Well? Are you coming?" she hinted and the twins glanced at the man she had called her father. He was tall, and built. Certainly not a man to be reckoned with and to top it off he was scowling at them. He obviously didn't want them to go with them.
"That's ok," they laughed nervously. "We'll just go home now."
"Hikaru! Kaoru! You get your butts in this car right now!" Mariko demanded, jokingly.
"Yes ma'am!" they saluted and ran into the limo with her father staring in disbelief at his daughter.
"Good boys," she smiled, and got in the limo with her father following and closing the door.
"Home," he barked at the driver, obviously displeased that the Hitachiin twins were coming along with him and Mariko. Mariko sat herself between the twins and her father growled when they moved to put their arms around her shoulders. They froze and looked at him then scooted farther away from her.
"Dad," Mariko scolded. She took one arm of each twin and wrapped them around her shoulders, making her father glare at her, but she only smiled "innocently."
"Mariko," he began. "Where are your manners?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, father," she smiled. "Hikaru, Kaoru, this is my father: Saigo Hasigawa."
"A pleasure to meet you, Mr. Hasigawa," they grinned and bowed their heads, but he just looked at them.
"So, which one of you was the one that kissed her?" he demanded in a low voice. The twins looked at him in horror, and Mariko stared at him in disbelief.
"Dad!" Mariko cried.
"Did you thank them yet?" Saigo wondered making the twins look at Mariko as she shrank back a bit.
"What's that mean, Mariko?" Kaoru on her left wondered.
"Oh, nothing," Mariko lied, twiddling her thumbs in her lap. "I was just going to sing for you as a thank you for theā¦thing yesterday."
The twins grinned at each other, and Saigo noticed that they were genuinely excited. They looked at Mariko and pushed her arms as they spoke.
"Let's hear it!" they grinned. Mariko shook her head, but Saigo noticed she was slightly smiling.
"I can't sing right now!" she objected glancing at the both of them. "We're in a car! I can't sing in a car!"
"Maybe we can coax it out of you," Hikaru murmured, leaning toward her a bit.
"Try it and you'll be in the street," Saigo muttered and Hikaru shrank back in a flash while Mariko looked at her father disapprovingly.
"Dad," Mariko scolded again. "You know I wouldn't let you do that."
The car came to a stop and Saigo climbed out of the car followed by Mariko and the twins. When the twins stepped into the house they immediately noticed the portrait at the top of the main staircase.
"Who's the beauty?" Hikaru asked.
"Akina," Saigo whispered.
"Who?" the twins asked.
"My mother," Mariko clarified. "Come on. This way." She led them to the right and they took one more glance at the picture before following her but Saigo stopped them from behind.
"She was a beauty," he agreed, placing a hand on each of the twins' shoulders. "Mariko takes after her mother, and I'm glad of that."
The twins nodded, and swallowed in fear at whether or not he was going to hurt them and he seemed to read their minds.
"You don't need to worry about me. Mariko used to be a sad girl, and now thanks to you and the Host Club, she's happier. Thank you."
The twins looked at each other in shock as Saigo leaned down to whisper to them.
"But I warn you two. If you hurt her, you will have to worry about me."
Kaoru didn't hesitate to whirl around as Saigo stood fully.
"We would never hurt Mariko, Sir," he said and Hikaru turned with him. "We like her, in all honesty. And just today we rescued her from that guy that just came to Ouran. Yukio, whatever."
Hikaru smacked his brother in the arm and Kaoru jumped then rubbed his arm.
"What?!"
"Yukio Hayate?" Saigo breathed, and the twins looked up at him with wide fear-filled eyes. They nodded slowly, and watched as Saigo groaned in despair and held his head in his hands. He suddenly froze then looked up at the boys and gripped their shoulders. "Tell me he didn't hurt her!"
"Not too much," Hikaru replied. "We got there just in time. She put up a hell of a fight."
Saigo sighed in semi-relief.
"Thank you, boys," he said, sincerely. "Is that why you were walking home with her?"
The twins nodded, and he nodded as well in approval.
"Thank you for telling me." He straightened. "Now I know what I have to do." He walked the opposite way and the twins looked at each other in confusion.
"Guys!" Mariko called, and they whirled around. "Come on! You wanna hear me, or what?!"
The twins grinned and ran toward her. They followed her into a huge room with a tall window on the opposite wall with white chiffon curtains, and a grand white piano sitting in front of it.
"Is this a music room?" Kaoru asked.
"Yup," Mariko nodded and walked toward the piano. "Dad had this piano brought in when he found out my love for music."
"You play piano?" Hikaru smirked as he and his brother walked a bit behind her.
"Yeah, and I made up a song," Mariko smiled, sitting at the piano.
"Is that the one you're gonna sing?" the twins asked together with grins of hope on their faces and Mariko nodded. They walked toward her as she played a scale to warm up and Hikaru sat to her right, Kaoru on her left.
"Do you mind if we sit with you?" Kaoru wondered and Mariko just shook her head, staring at a piece of paper in front of her. The twins smiled at her when she closed her eyes and she smiled. It was a simple scale, but it had been so long since she had played this piano, it was as if a simple scale was enough to take over her.
"Ok, Mariko," she thought. "This is its debut. Treat it right, and don't screw up." She took a deep breath and opened her eyes to examine the paper as she quit the scale. She played a few chords and a melody and the twins stared at her in surprise at her talent. Tamaki would go crazy.
The rain came down
With a flame in its eyes
The rain came down
Though it was cold as ice
And as I watched it poor
Like a child through my window
I saw you there
You were the light of my soul
Let me die in your arms
Let me feel this sweet surrender
Let me stand with you here
And like a raven
I'll disappear
The twins stared at her in total disbelief. This girl had talent! So much talent that they couldn't understand how she wasn't a famous musician or singer. What was she waited for? She could do anything she wanted with a voice like that and those hands she was using on the piano. Why wasn't she out there doing it?
You came to my door
Like a bolt out of the blue
And I felt your love
It ran me right through
And you held me close
As I fell asleep
And you said "My love"
"My heart is yours to keep"
Let me die in your arms
Let me feel this sweet surrender
Let me stand with you here
And like raven
I'll disappear
I feel your tears
Falling on my face
And all I want
Is your sweet embrace
Tonight
Mariko didn't look at the twins. She didn't want to see if they disapproved of her song. She was rather impressed with how she carried the song. She hadn't made any mistakes so far, and she was proud of herself for that, but she didn't get overly confident, the song wasn't over yet.
The rain came down
With a flame in its eyes
I saw you there
I was your only vice
Let me die in your arms
Let me feel this sweet surrender
Let me stand with you here
And like a raven
I'll disappear
Let me die in your arms
Let me feel this sweet surrender
Let me stand with you here
And like a raven in the night sky
I'll say just one last good-bye
And I'll disappear
She trailed her fingers down the keys to her left sending the notes to the song lower, and she hit a very low note. She let her finger linger on the note and looked up into Kaoru's golden eyes. He studied her face as she just stared at him for a moment, frozen in a trance.
"That was amazing," he whispered.
"Thank you," she whispered back.
"Why aren't you famous?" Hikaru wondered making the two jump. Mariko sat up straight and closed the piano.
"I don't want to be," she mumbled and the twins looked at her in surprise. "The entertainment business is filled with rich snobs that don't care about anything but their own lives and money. I don't like snobby people, and I don't wanna become one." She stood up and swung her legs over the other side of the bench so that she could walk toward a mirror that made up the entire wall to their right and had a support beam protruding from it.
"You know, we're rich too," the twins said together with annoyed looks on their faces.
"Yeah, but you guys are different."
"But if you hate rich snobby people so much, why do you go to Ouran?" Hikaru wondered.
"It's the best education I can get," Mariko explained then tried to think of a way to change the subject. "You know, this isn't just a music room." She leaned back on the support beam. "This is a theatre room, a ballet room, and any other art you could think of. I could never stick with one." She looked at the twins and walked quickly toward the piano again. "Except music and acting. I would obsess over a certain movie and memorize the lines then take the leading role for myself and come here to act it out. I'd do that with songs too. Mom was the only one that I would show off to. She was the only one who could truly enjoy and appreciate it."
The twins watched as several emotions crossed her eyes then she smiled and ran to them, taking their hands and leading them to the middle of the room.
"What's wrong?" they asked.
"Phantom of the Opera!" she simply smiled. "The tragic love story of a love triangle between a viscount, a prima donna, and the phantom beneath the opera house. The prima donna must choose between her childhood love, the viscount, and her angel of music who taught her everything of music, the phantom."
"Sounds nice, but why are you telling us this?" Hikaru wondered.
"The last scene is the three of them in the phantom's underground lake," she circled the twins and as she spoke, she moved around the room and made dramatic movements to her words. "The prima donna stands on the shore, pleading with her angel to let the viscount go, who he has tied up and ready to hang. The phantom gives her a choice: Stay with him and he will let her lover go, or choose her lover and he'll kill him. But either way she would not win." The twins were now engrossed in the story.
"What does she do?" they ask.
"I'll show you!" she grinned. She grabbed Hikaru and pushed him against a wall. "You are the viscount." She ran to Kaoru and positioned him in the middle of the room. "You are the phantom." She ran to position herself a bit away from the twins. "And I am the prima donna. Now, this is a musical, but I won't expect you to sing. The scene goes on when the phantom says to make her choice, and she's looking around desperately at both of them." She fidgeted a bit on her feet and cleared her throat as she looked down at the floor. She looked up at Kaoru and the twins stared in disbelief as she suddenly had a look of sorrow, despair and looking for the whole world so innocent and lost. She was a good actress too! She slowly walked toward Kaoru.
Pitiful creature of darkness
What kind of life have you known?
God give me courage to show you
You are not alone
She stopped in front of Kaoru and pressed a kiss to his lips. Hikaru rolled his eyes as they melted into the kiss, but couldn't help his smile. Kaoru was lucky to have a girl so into him and not willing to settle for the other twin just because Kaoru wasn't there and they looked alike. Hikaru now knew that they both liked each other. He just hoped they would tell each other and get it over with.
"So she chose the phantom?" Hikaru wondered, and Kaoru and Mariko were jolted from their kiss and looked up at Hikaru.
"Yes, but he lets her go," Mariko smiled, walking toward Hikaru and taking Kaoru's hand.
"Why?" the twins asked.
"Because he loved her. The sad thing is that as soon as he said she could leave, she did without a second thought. To add insult to injury, she left the wedding ring he had given her with him before leaving with her precious love."
"That is sad," Kaoru said. She leaned against the wall next to Hikaru and Kaoru did the same on her left with Hikaru on her right.
"Yes." Mariko sighed. She smiled and glanced between the two. "You guys wanna stay for dinner?"
"Why?" they asked together.
"Because you're my friends and I'm inviting you," Mariko retorted. "Come on, stay for a while longer. I haven't had visitors here in forever!" She stood in front of the two and took one hand of them each. "Boys, don't make your Princess beg!" The twins looked at each other and shrugged.
"I guess we could," they said, casually. Mariko nearly deafened them with her squeal of glee and hugged them both, leaving a kiss on their cheeks.
"Thank you, my friends," she smiled sincerely.
A/N: I couldn't help it, I had to put Phantom in there...it was just one of those things where my hand kinda took over along with my obsession for it. Anyways...I'm worried she's turning into a Sue, what do you think? Reviews please?
