An Escaped Information
"Renge-sama, you shall wake up." A maid exclaimed, slightly shaking the still asleep otaku, who eventually decided to open her eyes sadly.
It just wasn't Renge's moment.
Kaoru, her new crush, was more than likely homosexual. It meant he would never be attracted to her, like she was attracted to him.
And she had to go to Ouran Academy today, and to top it off, Kaoru and her would finally show their presentation project to the whole class.
'As if it could get any worse...' She thought, getting out of her queen sized bed. She just wasn't in the mood.
As Renge arrived in the first year A classroom, Kaoru hurried over to her excitedly. He was smiling brightly, extremely impatient and giddy to show one of his passions to the class.
But, his smile suddenly became a frown as he saw the manager wasn't smiling.
"Renge?" Kaoru asked, nervously and trying to get closer to her face. She eventually looked up at him, with small noticeable tears in her eyes.
Renge smiled at her one sided crush but he didn't buy it.
"What's wrong Renge?" Kaoru asked, beginning to feel very concerned for her. The said girl rubbed her neck nervously, trying to avoid his eyes and laughed.
"Haha! I-I'm a bit nervous... That's all!~ Don't worry!" Renge replied, obviously faking mad giggles and making Kaoru raise an eyebrow in confusion.
'...She isn't shy...why would she be anxious?' He thought, recalling as well that Hikaru seemed awfully happy to show Haruhi's and his project to the class. 'Hikaru doesn't like speeches...'
"Ha-ru-hiii~" A mischievous and enthusiastic voice was head next to him. Kaoru turned his head to see his twin.
'Oh.' Was all Kaoru could think. The image before him was indeed unusual.
Hikaru was holding Haruhi's hands in his and was shaking them madly.
"I'm soooo excited!~" The older twin exclaimed, making Kaoru realize he wasn't as giddy as his brother.
Haruhi sighed, surely feeling tired.
"Yeah...I know..." She responded, resulting in Hikaru leaving her hands and starting to dance crazily until the teacher finally arrived in the classroom.
"Hitachiin Kaoru and Houshakuji Renge, it's your turn." This made Kaoru jump a bit in surprise. As he stood up, he heard Hikaru encouraging him quietly. Eventually, Haruhi shut the big brother up so he and Renge could finally begin showing their project.
They mostly talked about Baudelaire's life as a child, his poetry, Les Fleurs Du Mal.
"As a way to end our presentation, Renge will read you out loud one of his poems in french called Spleen." Kaoru announced, almost at the end of their 'show-time'.
Renge coughed a bit and grabbed a paper where she had written down the poem. She finally started to read.
"Quand le ciel bas et lourd pèse comme un couvercle
Sur l'esprit gémissant en proie aux longs ennuis,
Et que de l'horizon embrassant tout le cercle
II nous verse un jour noir plus triste que les nuits;
Quand la terre est changée en un cachot humide,
Où l'Espérance, comme une chauve-souris,
S'en va battant les murs de son aile timide
Et se cognant la tête à des plafonds pourris;
Quand la pluie étalant ses immenses traînées
D'une vaste prison imite les barreaux,
Et qu'un peuple muet d'infâmes araignées
Vient tendre ses filets au fond de nos cerveaux,
Des cloches tout à coup sautent avec furie
Et lancent vers le ciel un affreux hurlement,
Ainsi que des esprits errants et sans patrie
Qui se mettent à geindre opiniâtrement.
— Et de longs corbillards, sans tambours ni musique,
Défilent lentement dans mon âme; l'Espoir,
Vaincu, pleure, et l'Angoisse atroce, despotique,
Sur mon crâne incliné plante son drapeau noir."
Her voice was monotonous though. And everyone could hear it, Haruhi blinked a bit, surprised at Renge's blankness. Even Hikaru, who had half slept the whole time, since he hated poetry, had suddenly woken up, noticing the otaku wasn't happy sounding.
Kaoru, not enjoying the sudden silence after Renge's speech, decided to clear his throat before exclaiming; "I'm going to read the translated version before explaining the poem itself."
Everyone nodded their head as Kaoru took a deep breath.
"When the low and heavy sky presses like a lid
On the groaning heart a prey to slow cares,
And when from a horizon holding the whole orb
There is cast at us a dark sky more sad than night;
When earth is changed to a damp dungeon,
Where Hope, like a bat,
Flees beating the walls with its timorous wings,
And knocking its head on the rotting ceilings;
When the rain spreads out vast trails
Like the bars of a huge prison,
And when, like sordid spiders, silent people stretch
Threads to the depths of our brains,
Suddenly the bells jump furiously
And hurl to the sky a horrible shriek,
Like some wandering landless spirits
Starting an obstinate complaint.
— And long hearses, with no drums, no music,
File slowly through my soul: Hope,
Conquered, cries, and despotic atrocious Agony
Plants on my bent skull its flag of black."
The ginger's speech was much more passionate, everyone could almost already figure out what the poem was about. Kaoru had begun reading with a nervous tone before ending with a desperate and traumatized one.
"There are actually four poems called Spleen but the one Renge and I chose to read you is the last one of them and it is the most violent one. It is in fact describing the poet's crisis because of not being able to escape the real world. Baudelaire is suffering and panicking since he couldn't go elsewhere. He is trying to fight against his panic attack but he eventually loses, mentioning the black flag, a pirate flag, to denounce the fact that his sanity has been stolen by his anxiety." The younger twin said, looking at everyone deeply.
Finally, a huge applause could be heard in the classroom. Kaoru smiled brightly, very content with what he did until he looked at his partner.
'Renge's sad...why?' He asked himself, frowning and wanting to see her smile. He decided to shrug it off as they both returned to their seats, leaving the teacher's desk to Hikaru and Haruhi.
'It is their turn now. I really wonder what they have prepared.' Kaoru thought, slightly giggling at Hikaru's enthusiasm and at Haruhi's 'I wanna die' face.
"So, to introduce you our presentation project's theme we're going to..." Hikaru began saying, at the same time struggling with his laptop. He eventually pressed a button and a very familiar music made its way in the whole room.
Hikaru smirked mischievously as Haruhi fell on her knees, looking completely depressed.
'No...It can't be...' Kaoru wanted to say out loud. Yet, he didn't find the time to do so as his older brother randomly grabbed a microphone from somewhere and began dancing and singing excitedly.
"I wanna be the very best! Like no one ever was~" Hikaru sang, making every student's jaw fall down.
Haruhi could be found underneath the teacher's desk, her knees to her chest and whimpering as her partner continued to sing.
"To catch them is my real test! To train them is my cause!~ I will travel across the land, searching far and wide! Each pokemon, to understand, the power that's inside!~"
'Oh my goodness... Hikaru is really enjoying this!' Kaoru thought, hiding his face in his hands, giggling.
"Pokemon! Gotta catch'em all! It's you and me, I know it's my destiny! Pokemon! You're my best friend, in the world we must defend!~ Pokemon! Gotta catch'em all, oh so true! Our courage will pull us through! You teach me and I'll teach you! Pokemooooon! Gotta catch'em all, GOTTA CATCH'EM ALL! YEAH!~" Hikaru eventually ended his singing, smirking creepily.
Everyone was laughing in the classroom as Haruhi stood back up, feeling completely humiliated.
She grabbed her notes as she said "As you could guess...Our theme is...Pokemon."
It made everyone clap their hands, even the teacher.
Renge smiled weakly, Hikaru and Haruhi's joyful subject had managed to almost make her forget about her unrequited love.
After the Host Club hours, Tamaki had wanted to for everyone to stay a little bit while longer, making Renge tilt her head in confusion. Apparently, the whole club, including her, was going to have a sleepover party at Tamaki's mansion,since it was the biggest.
"Since when was it planned?" Renge asked out loud, not recalling this information from yesterday's meeting.
Tamaki shook his hands before her face as to wake her up.
"Hello, Renge-kun! You were apparently sleeping when I was talking yesterday at the meeting! Of course I mentioned it!~ I even told you all Honey-senpai and Mori-senpai would be here too! Isn't that amazing?~" He exclaimed, giggling a bit as Renge looked away from him, embarrassed.
'I was thinking about Kaoru...' The otaku told herself, remembering the fact that having her crush not returning her feelings really messed her up. As she could already feel the tears back in her eyes, she tried to shrug them off as to not attract the hosts' attention.
The sleepover idea surely came from the fact that Haruhi mentioned she used to have them with some of her middle school friends and thus, Tamaki had to experiment a commoner's event again.
And it was actually nice, Renge found it very sweet to be able to see the graduated members again. Even though she wasn't as close to them as she was to Kaoru, she was happy to see them.
"It's sleep time now!~ There are loads of bedrooms with two beds in each one!" Tamaki exclaimed, looking at Haruhi intensely, making the natural type deadpan.
What the Host Club king said made the twins smirk mischievously.
"Hm~ What if we-" Hikaru began, quickly followed by Kaoru "-play a little game?~"
This question caught Tamaki's attention. As soon as he tilted his head, the Hitachiin brothers pulled out a hat magically.
"There are papers in this hat with one of our names written down each one." Hikaru explained, asking the others to get closer to the hat.
"You have to pick one piece of paper randomly, thus we won't have to choose with who we'll sleep. It makes it more interesting~" Kaoru finished as Haruhi grabbed a piece of paper, sighing.
On the piece of paper she had grabbed was written 'Renge'.
"I'll be in the same room as you Renge-chan." Haruhi said, smiling slightly and making Renge weakly return her smile.
"Honey-senpai, you'll sleep with me apparently!~" Kaoru exclaimed, giggling.
As Tamaki grabbed a paper and saw it was written 'Hikaru' on it, both boys blushed madly, thinking about Renge's TamaHika doujinshi.
"Seems like Mori-senpai and I will be in the same room then." Kyouya announced, leaving the living room with Mori after having both cousins share a friendly hug.
"Er...Hikaru?" Tamaki nervously asked, earning a small grumble from the twin as they left as well to sleep.
"I guess it's our turn senpai..." Kaoru said, smiling. It didn't even make Renge flinch, since to her mind, the twin was head over heels for the cool type, not the loli shota type.
"Tamaki-senpai said the guest rooms are over there..." Haruhi exclaimed, pointing at a door as both girls went to go to sleep.
A/N: I'm sorry I'm late! D: I was in vacation... And I'm so happy I'm home now! XD
I hope you liked this chapter, I don't really know what to say, tell me what you think of it! :) Thank you for reading! :D
