Chapter 9: Green with Envy
Anna tried not to stare at the women before her, but it was not the woman she was looking at so much as it was her beautiful kimono. It was a beautiful deep blue with black and blue butterflies decorating the expensive looking fabric, seeming to flutter there wings as the woman walked gracefully towards her and the two Martial Arts heirs.
"Welcome home, Takashi. I see you brought Mitsukuni, with you as well as a young lady~." Came the woman's beautiful voice that made Anna blush before she bowed to the woman avoiding eye contact.
"I-I am Vargas, Anna. P-pleased to meet you." Anna greeted the woman nervously, looking at her white socked feet, the Morinozuka home being more of a Japanese Mansion. The trio took off their shoes before entering and meeting the beautiful Japanese woman with her shiny dark hair pulled into a neat bun, her face flawless and pale, dark eyes gazing far away yet close, and red painted lips curled up with a smile.
"My, such a timid little pup. You must be the one Takashi asked us to adopt." The woman said with amusement in her voice as she saw the girl's reaction. "W-what?!"Anna yelled and quickly looked up at her with wide surprised eyes before looking at Mori, who looked away from her with a small blush on his cheeks.
"Auntie! Auntie! Mari-chan wants to wear a Kimino, but her evil step-mother won't allow her to!" Honey told the woman who blinked in shock, a bit surprised as she looked at the girl. Anna looked at the blond as if he betrayed her, her face a bright red. "Mi-misukuni!" Anna blushed as she used the Haninozuka's first name without thinking. The Lady Morninozuka gave off a soft giggle, drawing all three teens' attention to her.
"It's nothing to be ashamed of, pup. I would be happy to let you try on a Kimono." She smiled at the still blushing girl, who was looking at her with wide disbelieving eyes. "After all, I noticed you admiring mines earlier." The woman couldn't help but tease the young girl as she blush, looking at the ground in embarrassment before the Lady Morinozuka called over a servant.
"Call my dear sister; it seems we finally have a little girl to dress up." She told the servant who nodded in understanding, leaving Anna confused as the two boys left them alone.
"Have fun Mari-chan!" Honey waved to her before he and Mori disappeared behind a door, before Anna could ask them to stay, as The Lady Morinozuka pounced on her, dragging her deeper into the Morinozuka home with surprising strength.
-*Green with Envy*-
"What kinda cake do you think it will be this year, Mari-chan?" Honey asked the young woman, as he and Mori had joined her for lunch in the cafeteria, the blond senior sitting on her right as his cousin sat on his right like normal. The two seniors having bought their lunch and Anna having her own from home, opening the ordinary looking purple beto box, the smell form the still warm Chicken enchiladas, Mexican rice, refried beans inside of it, while a small side salad and dessert container where set off to the side along with a bottle of soda.
"Eh? Probably that nasty, sugarless, green tea flavored thing she's into now." Anna responded, sounding uncaring as she picked up her fork and dove into her lunch happily, her stomach having made its emptiness be known when she smelled the Cafeteria food, a result of skipping breakfast that morning. "Eww. Why does she always get nasty stuff? It's your birthday Mari-chan. You should pick what kinda cake you want." Honey told her with a pout as he at his lunch, talking about the Anna's step mother and how the woman was handling her step daughter's birthday this year.
"It's not really for me, Honey-senpai. It's just her excuse to throw a party and whore me off to more investors, not to mention sucking up to some of the richer families." She told him, rolling her eyes in memory of her 15th birthday, what was supposed to be Anna's milestone achievement in becoming a woman was nothing but meeting old men, not being able to have anything more than water and some vegetables to keep her stomach quiet for the night, and dancing with important men for possible business deals later in her life.
"That's not right, Mari-chan. She doesn't even pick cute dresses for you to wear, and Auntie says you look way cuter in kimonos." Honey told her, smiling as Anna chucked recalling Lady Morinozuka dressing her up in a kimono that belonged to her as a young woman.
"Yeah, thanks again for saving me form that awful party, and staining that eye sore." Anna added, as she recalled the small senior tripping, holding a large piece of intact pink cake, that was then smeared into her once pure white dress. Honey and Mori had offered to clean her up, when really they kidnapped her, taking her to the Morinozuka home to be cleaned up and dressed in a special Kimono for her birthday, spending it with real cake and surrogate families.
"You're welcome, that cake wasn't any good anyway." Honey giggled as they were then joined by Anna's new friends, and the twins who had their lunches and joined them at the table.
"Mari-kun! You started eating without us." Tamaki greeted her as he took a seat across from her as Kyoya sat to his right, the twins sitting together on Tamki's left in front of Honey and Mori setting down their own lunches, but Tamaki looked at Anna's lunch in curiosity.
"What is that you having for lunch? It looks rather exotic." Tamaki told her, catching he attention of the twins who looked at it questionably.
"What is it?"
"Looks like dog barf."
The twins commented looking at the odd box filled with even odder food, Anna let out a small chuckle at the comparison."Far from it, it's Extra Spicy Chicken Enchilada, Mexican rice, and refried beans." She told them pointing to each side as the Host looked at it with intrigue. "Extra Spicy huh?" The one on the right started, looking unimpressed, as his brother smirked, adding on. "More like slightly mild." The other bother shook his head as they looked at her smirking.
"No way can you handle spicy foods, Anna-senpai~."
The other hosts looked at Anna, wondering how she was going to respond to them, as she smiled at them shaking her head. "As if you little boys are good judges of what is spicy. You'll cry your eyes out eating normal Enchiladas." She shot back at them, as they only grinned, but Anna sensed their irritation with being called little boys, but was replaced by amusement very quickly.
"Oh really? Wanna bet?"
The twins asked, waiting for her to take their bait as they wanted to try her lunch, curious about the spiciness of the food but also wanting to give the upper classmen a much needed makeover, wondering if they could pull of a change with her like they did Haruhi.
"What cha wanna bet?" Anna asked them a bit more interested, a smirk still on her face.
"That we can eat the Extra Spicy Enchiladas with no problem-"
"And you can't, Anna-senpai~."
They confidently purposed to her as Anna thought it over, looking at her lunch and then looking at Mori who gave her a nod before looking at the twins."And if you two have a problem eating them? What do I get?" she asked, frowning as she thought about what she saw in her food. The twins shrugged their shoulders, grinning not believing they would lose the bet.
"What do you want, Anna-senpai~?"
They asked, grinning as they saw the annoyed tick she had when they called her by her first name, thinking she would just ask them to stop calling her that, or be her hosts next time she came to the Host club.
"How about, you answer one question of mine with complete honestly." She told them and they looked at her in surprised and confusion, she could feel it rolling off all of the hosts when she finished her sentence.
"We have a deal then?" they asked, holding out a hand for her to shake as she shook their hands one at a time, squeezing their hands a bit but the twins did not say anything about it as she pushed her lunch to them as the twins grinned and took a piece of the Chicken Enchilada and stuffed it in their mouths. Their eyes widen at the strange new taste before they feel the spiciness kick at their taste buds.
They shut their mouths as their club mates watch them for a reaction that may never come as they see Anna pull something out of her bag and sprinkle a bottle of some red sauce over her remaining lunch before putting it away.
"Hey! That's chea-" they twins start to say as Anna then eats her lunch with a grin, feeling the twins surprise as their eyes start to water when they open their mouths.
"Sorry, it wasn't spicy enough for me." Anna told them as she showed them a bottle of hot sauce with a cartoonish pepper on it. "I just added more hot sauce to it. Wanna try again?" she asked them but got no response as she saw them slowly turning red. "No? Okay then." She said with a smirk before eating her lunch without incident, she could feel the twins not liking her gloating as they tried not to give into the spiciness.
"Um? Mari-kun? Are you okay?" Tamaki asked her a bit worried as he looked at the twins and then her, but she seemed fine as she smirked at him. "I'm perfectly fine, Tamaki-san, but it seems Hi-chan and Kao-chan are not breathing." She said as she saw the twins' faces get redder and redder.
"AGH! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE!" the younger twin, from what Anna assumed yelled first, caving in and downing a glass of water that was set on the table by the tall senior who was giving Anna a small smile as she ate her lunch, and drank in her victory. "AGH! I CAN'T EATHER!" the other twin finally admitted glaring at Anna as he panted after downing water with his brother.
"What was that?" they yell looking at her angrily as she ate her lunch with a smirk. "You just lost the bet. So you have to answer one question honestly." She told them but they looked at her with suspicion.
"No way, you cheated! No way can you handle something that Spicy! What was in that bottle!?No way is that hot sause!" One twin asked angrily, Anna mentally thinking him the older twin as he seemed to be the one to start everything and his little brother would follow."Hot sauce and I didn't cheat. Your untrained taste buds just can't handle the heat of an Extra Spicy Enchilada." Anna told them, smirking as she avoided the habanera peppers that where snuck into the Enchilada. The twins glared at her, feeling swindled as the older one eyed her school bag before looking at his brother who nodded in agreement with their new plan.
-*Green with Envy*-
After school, Anna walked through the darken halls of the north building's basement. Black cloak resting on her shoulders and bag at her hip when she entered the Black Magic Club, she was startled as black rose petals floated past her and she saw her fellow club members dressed in fine dark gothic clothing, only visible in the low candle light.
"Welcome home~, Mistress~."
They greeted her happily, and Anna's heart stopped for a few moments as she took them in. The first year girl, whose name Anna forgot, was seated on one of couches, dressed in a black dress lined with white lace as she looked down at the tarot cards she had placed down on the table before her. Behind her where two other members, grinning as they saw her, one with wild looking dark brown hair, the other with soft silky looking dark locks. Then there was a boy she faintly recalled was in her class smiling at her from under his styled maroon hair holding what looked like a human skull in his hand looking like a British aristocrat with the morning broach pinned to his white cravat.
However her attention was mostly on Nekozawa, who was out of his normal cloak and in a fine dark suit with a white lace covering his wrist and hands, Beelzenef on his right hand looking happy to greet her, lacy Cravat and black bow around his neck looking like he was a gift as his eyes half closed and Smokey gray eyes as his pale skin seemed to glow in the candle light as she saw him give her a rather seductive smile that made her face go red and her heart and breathing stop.
Next thing she knew, Nekozawa's face changed from seductive to shocked as Anna's vision went to black as she felt herself falling into someone's arms.
-*Green with Envy*-
"I-is she okay? I thought this would encourage more students to join us if we dressed like the Host club." Anna heard Nekozawa's voice as she looked at the back of her eye lids, the sound of clothing reaching her ears.
"Think we should have told her? I mean, she did faint once she saw us." Came a male voice, she recognized as a classmate. "You think we scared her?" came another voice, sounding worried. "She didn't seem scared. Beside she came to us during a black mass and that didn't scare her." another male voice chimed in.
"Her face was red, it could be a curse." Came the girl's voice, Anna then heard the other's gasp.
"WHO PUT A CURE ON OUR BELOVED BREWER?" Nekozawa yelled angrily, making his male club mates cower in fear as Beelzenef also seemed angry. Thinking her bright red face and fainting where a result of a curse put on her by one of the other members.
"It's... not..." Anna tried to tell them as she slowly opened her eyes, much to her disappointment they were all wearing their cloaks again. "There fault. It is a curse but not one they could have cast, Nekozawa-senpai." She said, starting to sit up, noticing she was laid on one of the fainting couches in the room. Nekozawa was quick to come to her side, she could feel his worry come off him and see it in Beelzenef.
"What do you mean? Are you all right?" He asked her as she nodded before looking at him, blushing as she looked into his Smokey eyes as he was really close to her. She slowly sat up from the soft black cushions, Nekozawa held his arms out to catch her if she fell again. "Y-yeah, and I mean the curse that is placed upon everything with beating heart. The Crush Curse." She told them and they gasped, as the only other girl blinked and looked at her.
"The...Crush Curse?" she questioned and Anna nodded.
"S-sounds painful. What does it do, Anna-senpai?" came from one of the first year members, looking at her with curiosity and fascination. Anna couldn't help but chuckle at her little joke, still blushing as Nekozawa sat next to her, also curios about the so called curse.
"Unlike what the name implies, it does not physically crush you." She started out which confused the other members but they stayed quiet. "It reaches into your heart and crushes it into a vice, making your face turn red and your lungs unable to breathe; sometimes it even causes your mind to go into its primal state... all too either cure or break the curse. More often than not, the curse is often broken, taking a piece of your soul with it." She told them, frowning as she looked away from them, only to see Beelzenef on her right shoulder as Nekozawa was on her left, meaning his arm was around her shoulders as the cat puppet gently creased her cheek. Anna saw it's cloth darken, surprising her as she reached up and hand and felt her tears.
"Mari-kun?" Nekozawa called her, making the young woman's heart jump hearing his soft seductive voice so close to her ear, her face blazing red. She shyly looked at the Black Magic Club president, swooning as she looked into his beautiful eyes filled with his worry for her.
"You still have a piece of your soul left." He told her and she blinked in confusion before remembering what she had told him before, a sad smile graced her lips. "No I don't, Umehito. It belongs to a demon now." She told him, which chilled the members, who then wanted to hear about the Demon that had her soul now.
-*Green with Envy*-
"How has classes gone for you, Haruhi-kun?" Anna gleefully asked the cross-dressing first year girl, having meet her in the hallway along the way to the host club, having put up her cloak for now, Haruhi looked at her in confusion.
"Why are you using –kun, Vargas-senpai?" Haruhi asked, noticing the other girl having switched suffixes ever since yesterday.
"They think you're a boy, haven't you noticed?" Anna asked the first year who nodded. "Yeah, but I don't see what the big deal is. A lot of girls in class seemed to act pretty weird around me today." She told Anna who let out a little chuckle. "You make a cute boy, Haruhi. There can never be enough cute boys, even if they are girls." She joked making Haruhi sigh.
"That was rude senpai, it doesn't matter if I'm a boy or a girl, all that matters is what's on the inside." The first year scolded her, but Anna only laughed, making the other girl feel a bit insulted. "I agree with you, but being a boy or a girl does matter when it comes to the next generation." Anna told her with a smirk only to get a confused look from the first year. "They can always adopt Vargas-senpai. As long as there's love they can be a family." Haruhi told her, before Anna started laughing coldly.
"S-senpai?" Haruhi looked at her nervously, confused by her reaction.
"Ah~ Haruhi, you have so much to learn." Anna grinned at Haruhi, but her eyes where dark, filled with bitterness and hate. The first year was shocked and confused by what she saw in the upperclassmen. "I heard from a pair of kitsumes that you've been having a bad case of luck." Anna asked her, going back to a relaxed mood that threw the first year off.
"Um? Yeah. It's no big deal really." Haruhi tried to brush it off, unsure of where her senpai's dark mood came from or when it would return. "A hidden razor blade in a textbook, a soaked math book, and a sewing needle in the collar of your jacket right?" Anna asked looking down at the first year with a worried frown, as Haruhi's eyes widen in shock and surprise as the older girl grabbed her left hand and looked at the bandage on her index finger.
"H-how did you know senpai?" Haruhi asked, shocked and scared now of the upperclassmen who only smiled at her sadly. "I've been there, Haruhi." Anna told her before reaching into her bag and pulling out a wooden Voodoo doll about the size of a manga book, in the shape of a cat the Black Magic Club sold, only this one had a messily written kanji on its head. "Here, take this... for protection." Anna then placed the doll in Haruhi's hand confusing the younger female.
-*Green with Envy*-
"So Haruhi what are you hobbies?"
"I hear you take the train to school. Don't you have a car?"
"Your skin is so soft and silky~. What's your secret?"
Three first year girl's asked the new host, who was sitting with Anna as her first round of customers, the new host however looked a bit unsure. She looked to the older girl who said noting as she ate a piece of cake and was watching the other hosts. "Um? No car, No secrets really." Haruhi told them nervously, unsure of how to deal with the girls and Anna being of no help to her.
"Why did you join this club, Haruhi-kun?" the first girl asked her and Haruhi thought about why she was doing this.
"I think you are a bit too much for him ladies~. After all, Haruhi-kun is not used to having the attention such beautiful flowers such as yourselves." Anna said making the girls look at her in confusion, she was still dressed in her hoodie, but her curled hair was over her right shoulder, giving the girls a kind smile before looking at Haruhi. Who noticed the girl's glass was empty, picking it up and looking up at the girl before asking.
"Would you like your drinks refreshed?"
Anna stuffed a large chunk of cake in her mouth as she looked away, trying not to laugh as the other girl's blushed at the action. "Y-yes, please~." The girl's gushed over Haruhi as Anna handed over the crystal jug of water without being asked. "Thank you, Vargas-senpai." Haruhi thanked her as the other girl's then looked at Anna who smiled. "Please, call me Mari-kun. You're my host after all." She said and gave a wink to the female host who smiled at her before pouring the other girl's drinks.
"You're not part of the club Vargas-san?" a girl asked and Anna only got another piece of cake. "Nope, Just here for the cake and the good company, anything else for you ladies?" Anna asked and the girl's took up her offer on cake, their unease vanished as she served them cake.
"Wow, it's like another Mori-senpai and Honey-senpai." Tamaki noticed form peeking over his couch as the older girl would let Haruhi talk to the girls and almost silently serve them; Anna was being more kind and soft with the girl's with her words, giving Haruhi some time to relax.
"Yes, it seems Mari-san has taken a likening to our new host, as well as our customers." Kyoya informed him, watching the new host and unusual guest entertain the girls. "Do you think Mari-kun will start coming to the more club then?" Tamaki asked his friend. "It's a possibility." Kyoua responded before watching Anna get up and get more cake, or at least that's want she told her table.
"I'll go see if she need's assistance." Kyoya said as he left to follow Anna to the back room where the extra cakes where kept, but he did not see her anywhere among the colorful cakes that were waiting to be eaten.
"Mari-san?" Kyoya called out for her but she gave no response, he walked around the towering cakes and saw her crouched down closing the panel on one of the walls quietly. "Vargas-san." Kyoya called out to her making her jump as she looked at him with wide surprised eyes. His glasses glowing in the darken light. "Now what where you just doing?" he asked her as the girl looked nervous and said nothing as she got up.
"Why don't you tell me what I was doing?" she asked him, making Kyoya let out a short chuckle. "I believe you where attempting to hack into Ouran's security system, but failed. I must say this does not look good for a scholarship-" he was sawing before a soft noise interrupted him and Anna pulled out the source of it from her pocket.
It looked like an IPhone, but on the back where the symbol for a bitten apple would be there was a glowing crescent moon. With a few taps Anna was looking at something on her phone that made her glare at it.
"Just as I thought." She muttered which interested Kyoya as to what she was looking at. "What is?" he asked her coming closer in curiosity as she shifted, seeming like she was going to run. "You should know my family employs one hundred officers. You wouldn't have time to grab your passport." He threatened as he stood in front of her but she only rolled her eyes at it before showing him what was on the screen.
A three of the Host Club's customers, Tamaki's customers, were captured on the school's security cameras putting a razor blade in Haruhi's text book, pouring water onto her math book, and slipping the sewing needle into the collar of her jacket was what he saw before Anna pulled it away.
"Have you ever dealt with jealous girls before?" she asked him, looking serious as the Ootori's eyes widen behind his glasses but said nothing. "I'll take that as a no. This could get dangerous for her" Anna muttered, catching Kyoya's attention. "It's none of your business, why don't you stay out of it?" he told her coldly and she glared at him.
"I'm making it my business, Little Kitten." She told him angrily, Kyoya was a bit taken aback with the new nick name. "If you don't do something now, what's to stop them from going after the other customers then?" she told him before letting out a small chuckle. "Even with one hundred officers, all it takes is one little fracture in the right place, to destroy even the strongest of foundations." She told him before picking up a cake and leaving with it as Kyoya didn't stop her, seeing her point.
"She'll be of more use then I thought." he smiled before following her back to the main room.
-*Green with Envy*-
"It's time for the 'Which One Is Hikaru?' game!" The twins grinned happily, acting like they where game show hosts, as their bangs where no longer neatly combed right or left but were sticking strait up, making them look identical.
"I can't tell."
"They're so alike."
The girls pouted as they could not tell the twins apart, Haruhi and Anna sat together again as they looked at the twins, unamused, Anna was just eating some more cake sitting back in a chair, before a girl turned to her with a sad smile. "Can you tell them apart Vargas-senpai?" she asked Anna who was finishing off her piece of cake inside her mouth, she set the empty plate down as the twins grinned.
"Yeah senpai. If you can tell us apart we'll give you a nice reward~." The twins promised her with grins on their faces as Anna looked away from them as she was selecting another cake, seeming to ignore them. "Vargas-senpai! Come on! Tell us apart~!" They pouted at being ignored before Anna picked up a strawberry cake, happily eating a large strawberry before she answered. "The one on the right is Kao-chan, and Hi-chan is one the left." She said, ignoring the halted breaths of their customers as the twins only smiled at her.
"Wrong~. Now you have to be punished!" The twins gave an annoyed grin as they got up and looped their arms under Anna, lifting her off the chair. "Hey! Let go of me." Anna growled at them as Kaoru set her cake down away from her, she didn't fight them as they dragged her out of the chair and pulled her towards the back.
"Nope! You lost Senpai~!" They told her grinning before Haruhi spoke up for the upper classmen's defense. "No. She was right." The first year spoke up getting everyone's attention. "You two may look alike, but two you are not the same. I'm sure you've noticed it to, Mari-senpai?" she asked shocking the customers and the twins. "You really can't trust Kitsumes can you." Anna said before she sighed, the twins still holding her arms before she looked at the twin on her right.
"Keeping in mind our little wager from lunch. I would like to cash in my prize with you." she looked at him with a wicked grin. "Now tell me honestly little Fox. Are you really Hikaru-chan~?" She asked, amused as she felt the twin before her have a flash of anger and the one behind her a reaction of shock. She felt the customers where looking at her in aww, as If the twins where never told apart.
"I still say you cheated." Hikaru grumbled, his golden eyes glaring at her as she only laughed a little and pat him on the head as he let her arm go to cross his arms. "No need to be angry Little Kitsume. It's all in good fun; no one has to get hurt over a silly little game of who's who." She told him, but as she said that Kaoru's grip on her other arm tightened a little, and she felt a cloud of sadness come over some of the girls.
"Wow! Haruhi-kun and Mari-Senpai can tell them apart!" a customer of the twins voiced, surprised but Anna could feel sadness in her heart. "How did you do it Haruhi?" another girl asked eager to learn what made the twins different.
"Well, from what I could tell Hikaru's voice and actions are a lot meaner then Kaoru's." She told them as Anna looked at her confused. "That's how you tell them apart? I just know Hikaru is older and whatever he gets into his brother naturally follows." She blurted out surprising a few girls.
"No way, you probably cheated again." Hikaru accused her, making the girl's gasp. "Hikaru." Kaoru looked a bit shocked at his brother. "How could I cheat then?" Anna asked him smirking at the twin. "Haruhi told you which one we are, I bet you can't tell us apart by yourself." He told her, looking confident.
"Okay I'll take the bet. What are the stakes this time?" Anna asked him, making their group gasp. Hikaru smirked as he pulled on her curled hair, a bit amaze when he felt it and when it sprung back. "When we win, you have to let us give you a make-over, black is not sliming if it's all you ever wear." He mused looking her up and down as her went around her to his brother who let go of her arm and examined her with his brother.
"And if I win?" She asked, still smirking.
"We will be your next Hosts~."They told her with identail grins and her smirk faded. "Well that's not a very good reward." She muttered, angering the twins before she added on. "but okay you have a deal." She held out her hands to both of them, crossing them over which confused the twins a little before they just shook her hands.
"Deal!" They exclaimed happily before they disappeared behind a screen that was suddenly there, making a ruckus as they hid and then reappeared before her with their hair still standing up but she noticed they had messed it up a little more.
"Which one is Hikaru?"
They asked her with confident smirks but Anna could feel the anger coming off Hikaru and the slight Joy from Kaoru. So Anna played along with their game by tilting her head in confusion. "Hmm, I don't know. I actually have a spell for this." She told them making the twins confused and annoyed while the girl's gasped, Haruhi was not impressed but watched what the upper classmen was up to.
"A spell? Really Anna-senpai? Go ahead and try it~."
They dared her with smirks, only to be confused when she grabbed a glass of water and offered it to the one on the left. "Hikaru-chan, this is for you." She said, smiling at the two who only looked at her unimpressed.
"That's it? That's not much of a-spell?" They were saying before Anna threw water on the twin that was offered it mid sentence leaving Kaoru to finish alone as his brother tried to get the water off of his face. "What was that for!?" Hikaru asked as his face was now a noticeable light blue as he glared angrily at a smirking Anna. "Aw~ Don't look so blue Hi-chan~. It's just water." She mocked him as Kaoru looked at his brother in horror.
"H-hikaru! Your face! Your face is blue!" He told his older brother before producing a mirror for his brother to see and once the older saw his reflection his eyes widen in horror as Anna laughed at them.
"WITCH! Take this spell off me!" Hikaru yelled angrily as she only laughed, the girls around them gasped at Anna's spell having worked including Haruhi who thought it was just a harmless joke as Anna didn't seem concerned. "Nope~." Anna mused still laughing before Hikaru lunged at her but she dodged him easily still laughing. "Change me back!" he yelled trying to catch her as she laughed, her eyes watering over but she still dodged the angry twin.
"What happened?" Tamaki asked one of the girls looking confused, seeing one of the twins literally blue in the face trying to catch a laughing Anna, the girl looked very concerned. "V-vargas-senpai cast a spell on Hikaru-kun and made his face turn blue." She told the blond host who looked at her with disbelief before Hikaru finally tackled Anna to the ground, still in a fit of giggles as the older twin glared down at her, holding her hands on either side of her head, sitting on her toned stomach, not that he noticed.
"Get rid of this spell on me, witch." He growled at her and she only smiled at him. "I can't." was all she told him and it only made him angrier "What do you mean you can't?" he asked before he was picked up and thrown over someone's shoulder, or rather Mori's shoulder. "Mori-senpai! Let me go!" Hikaru complained trying to wiggle free from the senior's grasp as Honey looked at Anna with an amused smile. "You didn't really put a spell on him, did you Mari-chan." the little senior said with a knowing look as Anna got up giving him a grin.
"Nope. I can't remove what's not there." She told him making Hikaru go still with shock. "Then why is his face blue?" Kaoru asked, still confused about what happened to his brother.
"You two tried to get the bottle of hot sauce in my bag didn't you?" Anna asked looking at Hikaru then Kaoru, both looked at her in shock. "It was Hikaru who opened my bag and got sprayed with something right?" she asked looking at the older twin who glared at her. "It was a mixture of certain ingredients that, when water is added, changes color depending on what surface it came into contact with." Kyoya spoke up pushing up his glasses as he looked at Hikaru's face, the twin blinked at him in confusion.
"Am I right, Mari-san?" Kyoya looked at Anna with a smile, but Anna could feel he was annoyed with her, having noticed no customers were around she assumed it was because of them. "Yeah, but it comes off pretty easily, if you know how." She informed them, but mostly Kyoya since she didn't like how he felt right now. "Then please take care of it before we take more guests in the next 15 minutes." He told her before walking away, and Mori set Hikaru down.
"I'll get my magic wand then." Anna said as she rolled her eyes going to get her bag where Honey and Mori had put it along with the other's hosts' things, opening the door Anna was not surprised to notice a window open in the otherwise dark room, walking over to the open window she could see a well worn bag and it's owners things floating about in the fountain below, including the wooden cat doll Anna had given Haruhi.
"Now let's see you in the act, wicked little witch." Anna muttered to herself before she turned around and saw Haruhi herself.
"Mari-senpai? What are you looking at?" she asked coming over to the older girl who only frowned at her. "I'm sorry, I was too late." She said, confusing Haruhi even more before she looked out the window, her eyes widen, Anna could feel a slight panic in the younger female before she ran out of the room.
Anna didn't follow but went to her own bag, opening it as there was a small spraying noise from the little cat statue in her bag on top of her stuff, having run out of it. Twisting it head off there was a small counter inside reading a bright red four at her, pressing a white button inside it she twisted the head back on before putting it back in her bag and pulling out her magic wand, a glue stick.
"Mari-kun? What did you do to Haruhi?" Tamaki asked as her entered the room just as Anna closed her bag. "I didn't do anything, but your fan girls did." She told him, her face serious as the blond looked at her in surprise. "What are you talking about?" he asked and she pointed to the open window. "This is the final straw. They can threaten me all they want but bullying my friends is another thing." Anna scowled as Tamaki looked out the window and gasped in surprise.
"I have photo evidence if you need it Tamaki, but if you do nothing, I will personally repay Haruhi's debit and free her of this club this instant." Anna told him, a dark look coming on her face as she glared at the blond who was taken aback by her sudden declaration but smiled at her after a second. "Fine, give Kyoya your evidence. I'll go help our dear Haruhi." He told her before leaving to go help Haruhi who was wading in the water now.
Anna came out and was met with the curious gazes of the Host Club.
-*Green with Envy*-
"I don't like this." Anna muttered before she stuffed more cake into her mouth as she sat with Kyoya who was on his laptop, estimating the host club's earnings for the week. "Then why are you eating it if you don't like it, Mari-san?" he asked, making Anna want to kick him but she settled with just glareing at him. "I meant having those three request, Haruhi." She clarified, glancing over behind him at the group who seemed to be talking nicely so far, but Anna could feel the envy coming off the girls like a cat's purr. "They're just moments away from doing something drastic. I can feel it." Anna voiced as Kyoya taped away on his laptop, frowning as he looked at the loss profit from losing three of their customers, he pushed his glasses up his face.
"Where you serious about paying her debut for her?" he asked, hearing a short laugh from her. "So you know too huh?" she asked, smirking at him as Kyoya looked at her with a polite smile. "Mari-san, only and idiot wouldn't notice." He told her, making her chuckle a little more. "You and Tamaki must be good friends then." She voiced before her head snapped to Haruhi's table where there was a commotion.
"Eek! Brute! Savage!" A red head girl screamed as she shot out of her seat from Haruhi's table, knocking it over on the pour first year as her friends did the same cowering around her as if Haruhi was a nasty wolf. "Haruhi made a disgusting suggestion!" a brunet girl cried out, cowering with the red head before the blond of the group pointed an accusing finger at the cross dresser. "Barbarian! Someone needs to throw this commoner out before he taints our-" the three girl's stopped their screaming as water was thrown on them.
"Oops. It slipped." The twins said as they each held a picture of water along with Anna who only chuckled as she looked down at the girls with a dark smirk. "Looks like we have some little green monsters in our mists." The other commoner purred as the three girls looked at them in shock before Kyoya spoke up, holding pictures of the three girls. "Did you take us for blind fools...you three really didn't think we were on to your shenanigans?" he asked with an equally dark smirk on his face as the pictures in his hands showed the girl's planting everything to hurt Haruhi and Anna, along with the pair of scissors with one of the girl's full name engraved on it. "We have plenty of evidence of you three skulking about, not to mention the green on your faces tells us all of your envy." As he said that the girl became confused before they looked in their compact mirrors and screamed at their now green faces.
"It will go away by itself in a few days, give or take a week." Anna told them as the three turned to glare at her and the twins who where on either side of her now, chuckling at their faces, as theirs was back to being identical from just a stick of glue, but they were not going to tell.
"T-they-re scary, like Ogres." Honey added, tearing up as the three girls looked at him in shock. "Pitiful." Came the only word from Mori as the girl's eyes widen in shock before turning to the last host and their favorite.
"T-tamaki-kun! Y-you're not going to let them get away with treating us like this are you?" the red head asked as the blond host who only smiled at the girls as he tilted the red heads chin up to face him."Such a shame, you princess were all quiet lovely…" the blond host told them before pulling away from them as he ran his fingers threw his hair, brushing them back and giving the girl's a rather cold look.
"T-tamaki-kun?" the burnet of the group head called to him hopefully but it was dashed by his next words. "Be good girls and disappear." Once the words left his mouth Anna could almost see their hearts breaking at those words. "You tried to smear a member of the Host Club and threatened one of my friends. Henceforth, you three are bared form the Host club." He told them with a very serious look in his eyes. The girl's looked at him in shock as tears pooled in their eyes and they ran away.
"Tamaki-kun! You idiot!" the blond of the group shrilly yelled before they disappeared threw the music rooms pink doors.
"Spoiled princesses." Anna muttered as they left before the twin on her left looked up at her. "Wasn't the brunet the daughter of a Hayashi Pharmaceuticals partner?" he asked only to get a surge. "Don't know, don't care." Anna told him simply before looking at Haruhi who was standing shocked in a wet uniform. "Sorry, Haruhi. We over did it on the water." Anna apologized to Haruhi as she was looking at them all with a look of disbelief.
"Ah, such a shame to lose three regulars like this. I'm going to have to impose a penalty on you for this whole fiasco..." Tamaki said before pointing at Haruhi. "I'm now raising your quota to 1000 customers!"
"WHAT!" Haruhi yelled in shock before a fluffy pink towel was set on her shoulders by Mori.
"I'm sure you'll mange it Haruhi, or Mari-kun could take your place since she offered to take care of your debit for you." He told her and the young girl looked at the older one with shocked wide eyes, Anna only gave her a kind smile in return. "N-no. It's my fault senpai, I'll take care of it." Haruhi stuttered a little not wanting the kind older girl to be stuck alone with the Host club.
"Excellent choice, Haruhi. Sorry but this is our last spare uniform, why don't you go change before you catch a cold?" Kyoya smiled as he gave the younger girl a bag, Haruhi peeked into it and saw nothing but a white collar and yellow of the girl's uniform. "Okay." She nodded and disappeared into the back where the dressing rooms where.
Without thinking Anna corrected the knocked over table and chairs along with the, thankfully not broken, vase as she slipped the flowers back into its neck before setting it back on the table. Leaving the rest to the cleaning crew as Host club was over now.
"Hey, Anna-senpai." One of the twins looked at her; Anna looked at him, mentally calling him Hikaru, as she plopped down into a chair. "Why is your bag so heavy?" the other one popped up beside his brother. "If they threw Haruhi's into the fountain why not yours too?" They asked her and the other hosts looked at her but Mori and Honey smiled knowingly.
"I had my old weights in my bag. They got to light for me so I take them off and leave them in my bag." She told them surging her shoulders. "Wouldn't they have just taken the other stuff out and left the weights?" Tamaki asked her, frowning as she had showed him pictures of the girls also picking on her in a similar manner, even if they failed at hurting the older commoner, the blond noticed a change in Anna from when he first saw her.
"This guy probably scared them off." Anna pulled out the wooden voodoo doll, the names of the three girls' neatly written on it, Tamaki and the other hosts gasped, thinking she cursed the three girls. "Wow Mari-chan, your writing's gotten a lot better!" Honey praised her, looking at the neat and perfect writing, but Anna look away with a blush.
"A-actually, it's Nekozawa-senpai's handwriting. He wrote their names on it before giving it to me." she told them, looking away as she tried to hide her happiness from the hosts.
-*Green with Envy*-
"Is Tamaki the only one who doesn't know?" Anna asked the other hosts as she sat on Kyoya's right to help her with her German homework, as he was taking the same class. Tamaki having offered to get more towels for the wet cross dresser. The other host were talking about having found out Haruhi was a girl, and when Tamaki was going to find out.
"Yup." The twins responded, eyeing her hoodie with suspicion. "We thought that was it, after you threw us like a pair of rag dolls form the changing room." Hikaru said with a bitter smirk. "We also learned you're not so chubby, Mari-senpai." Kaoru added with a smirk as Anna looked at the two in annoyance before Honey spoke up from her
"Mari-chan, worked really hard to lose a lot of weight. You should have seen the funny face she made when she found out about gained it all back with all her muscles." Honey told them happily, letting out a giggle that caused Anna send a small glare at him. Honey turned to his cake, about to eat the strawberry that sat on top of the cake, before he noticed it was gone.
"M-mari-chan~!" Honey yelled in shock as he looked at the girl with sad eyes as. The remaining hosts saw her chewing something and then swallowed whatever was in her mouth, but some white frosting from the cake was on her lips before she licked it up to hide the evidence told them she has taken the red fruit.
"Did she just-"
"Steal Honey's Strawberry?" the twins looked at each other, trying to confirm what they just saw.
"She's heavier." They heard Mori say before Anna glared at the senior, and before anyone knew it, she had thrown the tall senior across the room making him land upside down on a couch a few feet away, letting out a monotone ouch in response, but unhurt.
The other hosts Jaws dropped at the feat, before turning to Anna who stood up from the chair, Honey giving her sad eyes and all. "I'll go check on Haruhi-chan." she said getting up as she packed away her stuff and went to the changing curtains where she found a blushing Tamaki and Haruhi half undressed in a thin cami.
"Oh! Looks like the boss finally found out." The twins mused from behind Anna who took the towels from Tamaki. "Pervert." Anna muttered before she bumped his hip pushing him aside as she closed the curtain behind her, looking at a confused Haruhi.
"Need some help? You've been in here a while." Ann offered with a smile, which Haruhi returned. "Thanks, Mari-senpai." The cross dresser was grateful for the older girl's help, a bit nervous as she saw the corselet that came with the girl's uniform but the older girl didn't make her wear it.
"You only wear a cami underneath?" Anna asked, shocked as she did not see a bra on the younger girl.
"Yeah, the training bra's my dad gets me are uncomfortable, so I just wear this instead. It's no big deal right?" Haruhi asked but as confused by Anna's horror stricken face."I am taking you home and come Sunday, I'm picking you up to go Bra shopping. You need some girl to girl time badly." the older girl said in horror as she fixed the younger girl into the yellow uniform Haruhi was confused by her reaction as the older girl dressed her. Once done Anna pulled away, grinning as she gave the younger girl a wink.
"How about we go show Tamaki and the others how cute you are as the fairer sex?"
-*Green with Envy*-
While on the other side, Tamaki was making a lot of nonsense noise as he messed up his hair in surprise.
"It seems Milord needed a visual aid to catch on. Huh?" Hikaru said as the host looked at Tamaki with flat looks. "He probably had an instinctual suspicion. He would never come onto a real guy like that." Kaoru added watching the blond try and understand what he just saw.
"Mari-chan, wouldn't have been so protective if Haru-chan was a boy. She knew all along, just like us right, Takashi." Honey voiced as he ate his cake, Mori at his side with more strawberries, nodded in agreement. "This is a rather interesting situation then." Kyoya smirked as the curtains opened again and the hosts turned to stare at Haruhi, who was not dressed in the yellow girl's uniform with white stockings and cute brown mary-jane shoes on her feet as the younger commoner adjusted the red bow around her neck. Looking a little odd but also like a little doll when compared to Anna who was behind her, still dressed in her hoodie.
"I figured it would have just been easier if you guys thought I was a guy." Haruhi said as she looked at them from her bow, bringing her hands around her body, missing the jacket of the boy's uniform. "I don't really care if you see me as a boy or a girl. In my opinion it's more important for a person to be recognized by who there are rather then what sex they are."
Haruhi told them making Anna chuckle behind her, as the upper classmen patted her head. "Aw~ Your so innocent and cute Haruhi~." She told the younger girl who looked up at her confused as before she looked at Tamaki who made a strange noise as he gestured to the younger girl, noticing the budding breasts, slender waist and slightly flaring hips.
"I have to say Tamaki-senpai, I thought you were cool earlier." Haruhi told Tamaki, before giving him a natural smile making the blond turn red as he also put a hand to his mouth, slowly backing away as he imitated a tomato. Anna cringed as she felt Tamaki's emotions loudly as they rapidly went from embarrassment, joy, shock, shame, lust, another one she wasn't filmier with and back again in a very fast and nauseating circle.
"Now I could be wrong, but I believe we are witnessing the beginnings of love here." Kyoya spoke up, talking to no one in particular as Anna scoffed, having heard him as she closed her eyes to block out Tamaki's emotions, or at least dim them. "Tamaki, just be shocked that she's a girl, you're making me sick with all your emotions." Anna growled the host king, who blinked and became confused at her words.
"You know it's not so bad being fussed over by a bunch of girls. I wonder if I can pull it off." Haruhi asked, more talking to herself as she looked at Anna who sighed as Tamaki's emotions stopped spinning. "What do you think Mari-senpai?" she asked her, and Anna sighed in relief, feeling Haruhi's fluttering emotion of determination, she gave the younger girl an encouraging smile.
"I think you should go for it." The upper classmen said as she felt the prick of shock and horror from Tamaki, ignoring it as the curious emotions from the other hosts helped to dull it. "They think you're a boy already, and you would deal with your debit a lot faster as a Host. So why not?" Anna asked, before Haruhi nodded in agreement.
"B-but she's a-a-a..." Tamaki tried to speak, still in shock as Anna rolled her eyes. "Is this how you reacted after I told you I was a girl?" she asked before taking off her Jacket and offering it to Haruhi. "Here, put this on. That uniform really just screams kidnap me." the upper classmen said, ignoring the hosts' look of shock when she removed it, blowing the minds of the younger hosts who's eyes took in her hourglass shaped body, the black shirt she wore stretching across her large bust, like her jeans hugged her hips and rounded back end.
"You don't have to take me home, Mari-senpai. I'll be fine walking home by myself." Haruhi told the upperclassmen, putting on the hoodie that hid the yellow dress pretty well as it was rather baggy and long on the smaller girl.
"Nonsense, I'm not gonna let you walk all the way home after the day you had. Let's go, Mr. Sato is already waiting for us." Anna told her, gently guiding the girl out the door as she took Haruhi's and her own bag, ignoring the wild mix of emotions coming from the other hosts.
-*Green with Envy*-
A 10 year old Anna looked around her grandmother's living room; it was mostly unused with plastic covered sofas, an antique looking coffee table between them having only a cute little tea set that Anna and her little sister often played with, and two tall book cases filled with books and family photos.
Little Anna's eyes locked on to a strange looking book on one of the shelves, only reading Dictionary on the spine, but the little girl didn't really understand the long word, but she did know one of her uncle's kept something valuable inside of that book.
Dragging a chair from the kitchen quietly the girl hoped onto the chair to reach the special book, pulling it away from the others before opening it and letting her young eyes see a small bag of strange dried green leaves and the other green stuff she often saw the adults give each other at the stores.
Looking at the green leaves with disgust the little girl pulled out one of the bills before stuffing it into her uniform's pocket before she put the book back in it place. Hoping off the chair Anna smiled as she replaced it and went to her other uncle's room, where her siblings were watching cartoons with her.
A little 5 year old brown haired girl with large doe brown eyes in a pink dress with pink ribbons, and a 6 year old boy with blond hair and brown eyes, dressed in a plaid shirt and dark green slacks where watching the screen fascinated as they sat in the conferrable recliner, they turned to their sister as she returned with a proud smile.
"Let's go get ice cream." She declared pulling out the twenty dollar bill from her pocket to show her siblings whose eyes sparkled with joy from just seeing their big sister.
AN: Another chapter down. Let me know what yall think so leave a review!
