Sorry I haven't updated for awhile. My homework load is weird. Some week I have none and others I have a ton. In addition, I posted another ouran 'twoshot' fanfic called "Hair Shave" where Haruhi suddenly wants to shave off her hair. It was a random idea but I really wanted to type it before I forgot. And then, I started to read other shoujos like Hana Kimi (finished in a week XD) and Girl Got Game (just finished). So yeah... I had a lot of distractions. :D
Chapter 9 –A Memorable "Birthday"
::Chiyeko's POV::
I couldn't believe that I would have to leave soon. I was sad and excited at the same time. Change is always hard... especially the dramatic change that happened to me about seven years ago. It prevented me from doing a lot of things from listening to my little brother playing on his toy guitar to hearing the sizzling bacon that mom would cook in the morning. I tried to hide it. At least moving to another country was a kind of change that I was prepared for.
I fiddled with my joystick and my miniature mechanical servant strolled towards me.
My little brother poked my back. "Can I play with the robot?"
"Okay. Just a sec," I told him. "And please be careful with it. Dad is running out of materials." Though... I kind of wanted him to break it again. Heehee.
I pushed a button and the robot's arm lifted my album. But because it lifted the album so fast, it flung the book onto the floor.
"Oops," I noted to myself. "Need to adjust that." As my brother took the robot away, I picked up the album off the floor. While I flipped through the pages, it made me remember that change wasn't always bad. I smiled to myself. I was going back to Japan.
::Yumi's POV::
"Happy Birthday Hisoka-san!" I sweat dropped. They threw a birthday party for me? I looked at each of their faces, all gleaming and happy. Well... Kyoya was smirking. But to see their grins just made me want to laugh and roll on the floor. Seriously. A birthday party? Whose idea was this? It was so hard to keep my laughter in.
It was November 15. Oh. Now I saw what was going on. I struggled to show only a smile on my face.
"Look Hiso-chan!" beamed Mitsukuni. "I got you a present!" Mitsukuni held up a decent cashmere-wrapped box.
"Thank you Mitsu-sensei," I smiled. Well, at least I got presents. I opened up the box. "Heehee, she'll Bun-bun's sister," I squealed. "And they could eat sweets together!" Mitsukuni hugged me.
"This one's from me, Hisoka-hime," Tamaki said as he bowed. He held out a jewellery case. They were a just pair of 10-carat diamond earrings. Great... Another pair of earrings that will go dusty in my jewellery box. I rarely wore jewellery.
"Thanks Tamaki-senpai," I grinned.
"We got you presents too!" declared the twins. My stomach twisted. A gift from Kaoru? I accepted their gift and was anxious to find out what it was. An amethyst necklace! It was beautiful. The small 5-carat heart-shaped amethyst gem that was hung by a silver chain was brilliantly cut and shined light at any angle. It was from Kaoru. Kaoru! I wanted to squeal but I just smiled like I did for everyone else. But it was so hard not to squeal. It was heart-shaped! Heart-shaped!
"Thanks Kaoru-kun... and Hikaru-kun." I was going to wear this every day. Teehee.
"Ah." Takashi, who stood behind me, held a sweatband in front of my face. Was this his present?
"Um... thanks Taka-sensei."
"But Takashi," said Mitsukuni, "I thought that you were going to give--," Takashi covered Mitsukuni's mouth.
I noticed Haruhi standing behind Tamaki. "Sorry, Hisoka-san," apologized Haruhi. "I'm trying to save up my money for something else."
"It's alright with me," I smiled. "You tutor me anyways."
"Yeah... but with a price."
"Oh I don't think you need to tutor me anymore," I just remembered. "I'm going to be in your class starting next week."
"WHAT?!?!?!" Haruhi said in surprise.
"What?" I said confused. "You're a good tutor. And you did mention that I was a fast learner."
"Yeah... that's true..." Haruhi's face grew gloomy.
"Don't worry," I tried to cheer her up. "I'll still be here once in a while since I'm learning karate." I looked over at Kirio. (It was fun to call him that.) "So where's your present?" I asked him.
"I provided the nourishment." I swear dropped. Why did I expect anything from him?
"C'mon Hisoka-hime," called out Tamaki. "The food is great! Mother even got Haruhi's favourite!" As soon as he said that, Haruhi's eyes got bigger (yes it's possible) and strode towards the platter-filled table. "Here, try some!" Tamaki stuffed some food down my throat.
I swallowed and blinked a few times. After a few seconds, I felt my throat heat up. "Uh...Tamaki-senpai... what did you just feed me?"
"Ootoro."
"Ootoro?"
"Yes, ootoro."
"Ootoro?"
"Yes, I just told you-"
"OOTORO!?!?!" I yelled. "I'M ALLERGIC TO OOTORO!!"
Tamaki blinked a few times. "How can you be--?"
"I just am!" I snapped. I started to feel my throat swelling. I clasped my throat. It was getting harder for me to breath.
Tamaki started to panic. "I POISONED HISOKA-SAN!" He ran around in circles. "I POISONED HISOKA-SAN! I POISONED HISOKA-SAN!" The others turned to see what was happening.
"Tamaki-senpai, take this." I threw him my EpiPen.
"Hisoka-san, what are you doing?" asked Kirio across the room. He started walking towards the commotion.
Tamaki had a hard time catching the EpiPen and juggled it around for several seconds. "What do I do now?" Tamaki asked rapidly. "What do I do? What do I do?"
"Take the EpiPen out the case..."
"Hisoka!" asked Kirio. "What are you doing?!?!"
"... remove the grey cap on the back..."
"Stop fooling around!" Kirio yelled.
"... and jab it in the outer part of your thigh."
"Is it hurt going to hurt?"
"Just do it!" I yelled.
"But--"
"DO IT!"
"HISOKA!!"
Squeak.
The room was silent. Tamaki's eyes were closed with the EpiPen against his thigh. He opened on eye to see if he was okay. Then he opened the other. Finally, with both eyes staring at the needle, he blinked in confusion. Then he looked at me looking for an answer.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" I burst out laughing. "You actually fell for that?!?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"Hisoka what's wrong with you?" scolded Kirio. "You have to go to the hospital!"
"Hahahahahahaha," I held my stomach. Tamaki's reaction was just too good. He's so gullible. "I knew I was going to use that EpiPen squeak toy some day. Hahahahaha—," Thwack. I placed my hand on my head. "Ow."
Takashi had whacked me on the head with his kendo stick. He gave me my real EpiPen. I opened the case and took out the needle. Then, I jabbed it in my thigh.
I looked up to see that everyone had cringed as they watched me. "What?" Everyone looked at me as if I was a monster. "It's not that bad." I was actually surprised that I laughed for that long. My tightened throat eventually started to unravel.
"I've already called my father's hospital," stated Kirio. He looked calmer. "An ambulance is on its way."
"I don't need an ambulance," I protested. "I'll be fine. I just need some Benadyl and sleep or something." I felt uneasiness in my stomach.
"Hisoka!" He grabbed my shoulders. "You're taking this too lightly! You could--." He looked straight at me then looked on the floor.
Uh oh.
Blech I barfed.
I think some got on his shoes...
I lay on the hospital bed. This seriously wasn't necessary. It wasn't like I was going to die. The main threat of an allergic reaction was the swelling of the throat. All I had were hives around my lips. I was fine. Especially since my body got rid of the ootoro. Hehe...
But, I couldn't believe that Kyoya called an ambulance. It was so awkward in there. The paramedics didn't even know what to do because it wasn't an emergency. Everyone was just silent. Why wouldn't anybody believe that I was okay? But everyone was still worried about me. They all stood around my 'sickbed'.
"You guys could go home now," I told them. "I'm okay!" None of them seemed to budge. I gave up. Their loss.
"Hey look! They have magazines here!" exclaimed Mitsukuni. Why was he getting all excited about—oh shoot! "Hey!"
I snatched the magazine from him. Guess who was on the front cover. I probably should have done that though. It wasn't very subtle... "Sorry, Mitsu-sensei. I just really love this magazine." Was that really the best excuse I could come up with?My stomach scrunched. I was scared that someone might have noticed how lame my excuse was.
"I was reading the horoscopes," stated Mitsukuni. "It's amazing how they could tell your future." I sweat dropped. They just made the horoscopes so general that anyone could apply it to their life. "Oo. Oo. Mine says 'You will gain contact with one of your old friends. Now you must get your friend a pet nail... What the heck?"
I laughed. "Those are the gag horoscopes. I wanna see mine!" I scanned my eyes until they met the word Sagittarius. "You will do something drastically funny... then end up in the HOSPITAL!! HAHAHAHA – ow. My stomach."
Everybody took a step back.
"Wait a moment... you read the Sagittarius horoscope...," pointed out one of the Hitachiins as they looked for their horoscope. "You're a Scorpio, aren't you?"
"Yeah... Your birthday is today," added the other twin.
"Her birthday is on December 15," Takashi stated flatly. Everyone turned to him shocked. I smirked.
"Why didn't you tell us before?!?!" cried Tamaki.
"I figured that it would be fun to see what would happen." I shrugged. "Also, now I'm going to get two birthday parties." I grinned.
"She just like Kyoya-senpai...,"commented Haruhi. Why did she always say that? I was nothing like Kirio.
"First you don't say that YOU need the EpiPen," Tamaki complained, "and then you don't say that your birthday wasn't today..."
"You really are a good friend Tamaki-senpai," I interrupted. Tamaki stopped babbling, stared blankly at me and tilted his head. Was he really clueless about how caring he was? It would have taken a loyal friend to stab a needle into his body just because his friend told him to. He would sacrifice himself for a friend. Just like Haruhi told me. But I couldn't figure out if it was his stupidity or his faithfulness that made him do that.
"Just out of curiosity, who told you guys that today was my birthday?" Everyone's finger pointed to Kirio. I gave a smug grin.
"I'm amazed... Kyoya-senpai's information was actually wrong," said Haruhi with wide eyes.
"Tisemai-sama," my limo driver had entered the room. "Soie-sama. She disappeared."
Suddenly, it felt as if someone had just punched my stomach.
::Normal POV:: (A/N: I'm going to take a stab at this)
"You know you guys just combined two completely different games." Haruhi sweat dropped.
They all sat around the hospital bed. Everybody was getting bored but they didn't want to leave Yumi behind. And Kyoya wouldn't let Yumi out of the hospital for another 15 hours. Yumi wasn't really happy about that. She wanted to leave. She wanted to go out there to look for Soie. But all she could do was just lay her head on the bed to try to prevent her tears from flowing. But they didn't stop pouring.
The host club wanted to cheer her up or at least provide a distraction for her. So they ended up playing spin-the-bottle & dare. The twins took out the truth part because it was boring. Then, Hani added in the bottle so the victim would be selected randomly and the spinner would choose the dare.
"Why don't we just play--"
"--spin the bottle instead?"
Haruhi sighed at the twins. "You know that Hisoka and I are the only girls here..."
"...so it would be very likely that a male would have to kiss another male," completed Kyoya.
Everyone slowly turned to Kyoya in shock.
'He completed her sentence...' Hikaru and Kaoru looked at each other.
'Only the twins can do that.'Tamaki's jaw had dropped.
"Anyways...," Haruhi continued once she recovered from the shock, "I think everybody had their first kiss already, right?" Haruhi glared directly at Tamaki. 'I know I did.' Tamaki winced. She was still mad at him. He got the hint and retreated to his corner of woe.
Hikaru placed his arm around his brother. "We had our first kiss together right, Kaoru. Remember? The one in front of our first customers."
"Yeah... well...," Kaoru stuttered. "Actually..."
"WHAT?!" Hikaru shook Kaoru violently.
"It's – not – my – fault!" protested Kaoru, as he was still being shaken. "She – just – came up – and –"
"What! WHO?!?!"
"So..." Haruhi ignored the two. "Kyoya, did you have your first kiss already?" she tried to pick up the conversation.
"It was not a kiss that was noteworthy," he replied stately. Haruhi cocked her head.
"Yes, he's telling the truth," added Tamaki. "His sister told me that he gave her the evil glare once she kissed him. Whatever happened to that girl?"
"She moved to Italy two days later."
Haruhi sweat dropped.
"Same thing happened to Takashi!" exclaimed Hani.
"WHAT????"
"Oopsies. I mean that a random girl just came up and kissed Takashi," Hani corrected himself. "Except..." He paused to recall his memories. "I remember that Takashi saw her kissing another guy the day after." Hani's head darted left and right. "Hey... where's --" Mori had already gone to look for Soie.
"Hani, what about you?" asked Haruhi.
"Oh..." Hani stared at the floor. "My first kiss was a good-bye kiss." Everybody looked at him with sympathy. Hani's face was rarely gloomy. He cared for her ever since they could remember. She did gymnastics. He did karate. They helped motivate each other to do their best. And the first and only time she ever kissed him was when she left him. Hani shook off his dreary expression. "She was my childhood friend." He tried to sound like his normal, cheerful self. "She moved to Australia when we were 8-years-old."
Tamaki comforted Hani. "Poor, Hani-senpai. You must miss her terribly." Tamaki's face suddenly lit up. "You know what? We'll go to Australia! For our Christmas Break Vacation!"
"Okay then." Mitsukuni smiled. He suddenly stood up straight. "Oopsies. How could I forget?" Mitsukuni ran out of the door. "Takashiiii!"
"Tono," Hikaru interrupted. "The bottle's pointing to you. And since I was the one who spun the bottle..." Hikaru snickered. "I get to choose the dare."
Tamaki's face went from ecstasy to fright. "AH! NO!" Tamaki cried. "THE HORRORRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!"
Tamaki's expressions were always funny. Yumi smirked.
"Yay!" cheered Hani. "Hiso-chan's smiling." He jumped her bed and squeezed her tightly.
"Ow."
"Kaoru..." Hikaru grinned mischievously. "Do you think that Tono had his first kiss already?"
"It would be funny if he didn't," replied Kaoru.
"He didn't," Kyoya simply stated.
"WHAT?!?!?!" Everybody was caught off guard. Tamaki didn't comment. He just blinked a couple of times. He wondered why everyone was so surprised about that.
"Well this makes things very exciting," pointed out Kaoru.
"It sure does," agreed Hikaru. "Tono," he dared. "Kiss Hisoka-san."
"WHAT?" yelled Tamaki and Haruhi.
"Ew..." Yumi said in disgust. She wanted to say that she wasn't Hisoka – which was, in a way, true.
"Who was your first kiss Hiso-chan," asked Hani while he was still sitting beside Yumi.
"Um... uh..." Yumi stuttered. "Actually... I don't know." There were too many movies and too many guys and too many kisses. Do you know how many takes they would do for only one kiss?
"Wow... who knew that Hisoka-san was a slut," commented Hikaru.
"What!!!" Yumi was taken by surprise.
"Since when did sluts dress like that?" Hikaru pointed at her outfit. "Everything is baggy and no skin is showing."
"Hey..." Kaoru was getting another naughty idea. "Maybe they should French. Hahaha." Hikaru smirked. He liked that idea considering that they both knew French.
"Ewwwwww! No way!" she yelled.
"I will certainly not spoil my lips on a slut!" Tamaki stated pompously.
"I'm not a slut!"
"C'mon," insisted Kaoru.
"Just pucker up already," urged Hikaru.
"WHAT THAT HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU TWO!?!?!" Everyone turned slowly to Haruhi. Nobody had ever heard Haruhi shout that loud before. "There was a reason why most of us didn't want to play spin the bottle." Haruhi's face burned up with anger.
"Why?" Hikaru snapped. "Because some people might get jealous?" He looked straight into her flaming eyes.
"No!" Haruhi told him off. "You shouldn't force people to do what they don't want to do!" She flashed her eyes back at him.
"Well, it's that the whole point of a dare?"
"Kisses are different!" she protested. "Every time you kiss someone, you give that person a part of you. You can spoil them on a dare!"
"Well..." Hikaru's eyes started to water. "If you so pissed..., why don't you kiss Tono yourself?" He walked quickly out of the room.
"Hikaru." Kaoru followed after him. Haruhi was still fuming while the others stared after then empathically.
::Hikaru's POV::
"Hikaru," Kaoru said calmly, "how can I help?" He knew what was bothering me already. That's why he didn't make the effort to ask if I was okay. He knew the answer. I was not okay. Haruhi... The next closest person that knew me. The next closest person that I felt happy to be around. The person that identified me as an individual.
Argh Why didn't I see it sooner? I could have saved myself from the pain. It was a direct stab into my heart. She loved another. Another that wasn't me. I chose her and she didn't want me. I wished I saw it sooner.
"Kaoru, I..," I couldn't speak. My jaw was trembling. "I... give up."
"What? Give up on Haruhi?" Kaoru stared at me hoping that I would reconsider my words. "You – you can't do that!"
"You saw her just now!" I yelled at him. "She got jealous! You have eyes!" I felt a lump in my throat. My chest rose and fell rapidly.
"She could have been mad because Hisoka was her friend!" Kaoru attempted to deny the facts to cheer me up.
"Yeah right..." By now, I felt as if my voice was about to crack.
"But you can't give up on her now. You're stronger than that! She's not even sure of her own feelings."
"Then why did you give up on her?" I turned the problem to my twin.
"Because you love her more," answered Kaoru. "I won't let you give up! I won't let you lose to Tono! I didn't stand a chance against him."
"Is that what this is all about? Not letting Tono win? Are you just using me to bring him down?!?!?!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. Tears were streaming down my eyes. I let them run. I let it all out.
"Hikaru..."
I took a deep breath. "If Haruhi loves Tono, then, then." I faced the ground. "Then, I shouldn't stop her." I hated this feeling. I felt so small. I couldn't do anything about her feelings. My actions were useless.
"You really love Haruhi don't you?"
I nodded. "I love Haruhi more than how I love the idea of us together." I knew that I had to sacrifice my love for her. I didn't want to be a burden to her.
Kaoru gave me an understanding smile and hugged me. I hugged him back. My tears started to soak his shoulders.
"You know... maybe there's another girl just waiting for you," comforted Kaoru. "Like how you were waiting for Haruhi." I didn't want another girl. I wanted Haruhi. I couldn't fathom myself with another.
I think the only thing that gave me hope for a future was Kaoru. Whenever I was depressed, he would be depressed with me. Then, he would try to cheer us both up. I smiled. I was so glad to have him on my side. Our problems brought us closer together.
I tightened the hug.
"Thank you Kaoru."
Sorry to leave you guys at a dramatic moment. Kyoya was angry that Yumi was hurt, Yumi missed Soie, Hani and Mori were looking for Soie, Haruhi got mad, Hikaru was heartbroken, and Kaoru was sad that Hikaru's heartbroken. The only person that was fine was Tamaki.
I wanted to make a "Chika, Mika, and Satoshi" side story to cheer you up but this chapter was too long. Maybe I can make another oneshot/twoshot about that story. Please criticise. :P
