I had this written for a while, but I decided that three in one day would make people get their hopes up so I waited. . .
EDIT: I just realized how mean that was. . .
Star Revealing
The day was like any other for the Host Club. . .
"Tamaki-sama," several girls were swooning as the Host Club 'King' wooed the poor girls into puddles of nothing. Even more girls screamed from a nearby table as they watched Hikaru bring Kaoru's face just close enough to be inappropriate, but not far enough to be a bad show. Hunny and Mori were eating cake at a small table with a girl. Koharu and Haruhi were both laughing at a joke that their customer had decided to share though very hesitantly. Even Kyouya had a guest which he was sharing light conversation with as he discretely watched his girlfriend work. A few uneventful hours later, the Host Club was finally sitting around their little meeting table to relax as the day dwindled down to being almost time to leave. Suddenly there was a knock on the door and Tamaki stood to answer it a little unwillingly. He was about halfway to the door when it opened to reveal a pair of red-haired twins. The two girls were holding hands and had smug grins on their faces.
"Ah, welcome princesses!" Tamaki called happily to the two girls before his smile turned into one of deep sadness. "I am sorry, but we are closed at the moment."
"We don't care," the two replied coldly, leaving Tamaki to harden into stone from their words. As they skipped passed Tamaki without a care, the two caused the rest of the Host Club to think of female versions of the Hitachiin twins. Especially when the murmured, "We aren't here for your services, you stupid perv," as they passed.
"Na, Ne, cool it," Koharu called out from her seat in between Kyouya and Haruhi, running her hand through her short hair with a sigh. She stood up and walked over to the twins, who had stopped once they heard their sister's voice.
"Onee-chan!" the twins called out before tackling Koharu to the ground in a heap of brown, orange, black, and blue.
"Off!" Koharu yelled at the two as they fought each other to hug her. With matching sheepish looks on their faces, Aileana and Aileene stood up on either side of their sister. Koharu sat up and glared at her sisters, though a small smile was on her face as she faced the Host Club. "Guys, they are my little sisters, Aileana and Aileene. NaNe these are my friends."
"Tamaki Souh, at your services," the Host 'King' introduced as he sidled up behind the girls and placed a hand on their shoulders.
"Didn't we say," the girls turned on him with a glare, effectively moving out of his touch. "We. Don't. Care."
Tamaki went into shock and retreated to his corner of woe from their words.
"NaNe, didn't I say to cool it?" Koharu reminded the twins with a smooth and deadly look. Both girls shrunk back slightly as their sister bore down on them. "Now did you skip your club activities to come here?"
"What club activities? We weren't even at school today," the two replied in a nonchalant way, both shrugging. Koharu was about to reply, but the Hitachiin twins walked up to the Veddette twins with mild interest and cut her off.
"Don't you know how to talk individually?" Hikaru questioned as he grabbed his brother's waist much like how Na was holding onto Ne.
"Naturally, pretty boy," Na replied with a devilish smirk on her face, holding Ne closer to her.
"Those are some pretty nice dresses," Kaoru commented nicely on their attire. The two girls did a spin in their matching brown and orange dresses before latching onto each other again.
"Thank you," Ne replied with a bow that was returned quickly by Kaory. "Our brother, Lin, designed them for us."
Koharu cleared her throat and brought their attention back to her though the two sets of twins were obviously enjoying their exchange.
"Did you say you didn't go to school?" she questioned her sisters, her tone a little colder than before. Aileana and Aileene both nodded hesitantly. "How many days does this make?"
"Only ten!" the twins replied quickly before their faces fell slightly. "Or maybe fifteen."
"Do they skip school that often?" Haruhi asked her older friend as the rest of the Host Club walked over to them, all of them curious about the two red heads that were related to their friend.
"They really don't like their school," Koharu informed them with a swift glare towards her sisters. "The only reason they pass is because of tutors."
"Why don't they attend Ouran?" Kyouya suggested as the two sets of twins started to talk animatedly about something in hushed murmurs.
"And who in the world will pay for them to attend?" Koharu wondered, her voice filled with sarcasm. "I am already here on scholarship and Haruhi took the one for their year."
"Naturally, I will pay for them," Kyouya said smoothly, adjusting his glasses with a small smirk.
"I will not be indebted to you any more than I already am, Kyouya," Koharu said to him in an icy tone, her eyes narrowing. She turned on her heel and marched up to her sisters. Grabbing their arms in a vice like grip, she started to lead them out of the room and away from the Hitachiins. "We're going home."
The large doors banged shut behind the three girls as the Host Club watched in shocked silence.
"Who knew our dear Koharu was so sensitive about being in debt to us," Tamaki muttered dramatically, tapping his forefinger on his chin thoughtfully. Haruhi bit her lip as she quickly gathered up her things and left without looking at any of them.
The next day, there was no sign or word of Koharu to any of the hosts or the school. By the time lunch rolled around and all of the classes were released, Tamaki was extremely depressed and Kyouya refused to talk to anyone. The two met up with the rest of the Host Club in the cafeteria, who were all feeling their friend's absence as well.
"Ko-chan didn't come to school today?" Hunny asked sadly when he noticed that Koharu really wasn't with Tamaki and Kyouya when they entered, just like the rumors that their guests were spreading were saying. Kyouya gave a stiff shake of his head before he sat down across from the twins, decidedly not eating anything.
"Why does she hate us so suddenly?" Tamaki whined desperately and flung himself across the table, causing Haruhi to finally slip in her resolve to keep Koharu's family a secret.
"She is actually pretty rich," she said quickly, but the Host Club was able to hear it and perked up at her spilled words.
"Haruhi," the twins laughed, both completely misunderstanding her words. "Owning two houses isn't being rich."
"But owning houses in several different nations is," Haruhi countered, shooting a glare at her two friends in irritation. Now the whole Host Club was interested in what she was saying.
"What do you mean?" Tamaki asked Haruhi, who sighed as Tamaki sat back up so he could turn to her with a curious look.
"Her last name is actually Veddette and her family owns a mansion not too far from my house," Haruhi informed them quietly so the nearby guests couldn't hear her. The Host Club seemed to freeze at her words, all of them recognizing the last name. Haruhi blinked in confusion before continuing on. "She didn't want to make friends by her last name, so she used her mother's maiden name."
"V-Veddette?" the twins and Tamaki clarified quickly. Haruhi nodded, looking at each of her fellow hosts in confusion.
"What's so important about them?" she asked, wanting to know what the big deal was about Koharu having that last name.
"Most of our boats are made by them," the twins quickly informed Haruhi with identical gestures towards the rest of the Host Club. "As are our planes, jets, and some of our cars. They are one of the best at making transportation in the world."
"They are based in Italy, where the Veddette family originates," Kyouya informed the rest of the Host Club through clenched teeth, knowing a great deal about them since his father wanted to make a business deal with the company but couldn't seem to convince the elderly head of the family. The rest of the Host Club seemed to shrink back from his anger, not knowing the business ties between the two families and believing that he was mad completely at Koharu. "And they specialize in the transportation of the rich. As Hikaru and Kaoru mentioned, they make just about everything we ride in."
Lunch quickly disbanded for the Host Club as they realized their friend's betrayal, none of them wanting to eat much now that they knew their friend had lied to them for so long. No one talked to each other and club was canceled that day, much to the confusion of the regular guests who just assumed it was because Koharu was absent. The next day, Koharu came to school to find almost the entire Host Club ignoring her though she didn't get much of a chance to talk to any of them through the throng of girls that bombarded her every time they had even a moment break.
"Haruhi, what's going on?" she asked as she grabbed her friend's shoulder as they passed in the hall after school. Koharu had had enough of all of her friends ignoring her throughout the day and wanted an answer before the club that afternoon. "Why is everyone ignoring me?"
Haruhi looked at her upperclassman in utter shock, she had no idea that the boys had been ignoring Koharu no matter how mad they had gotten. The two girls stood in the middle of the hall for a brief second before Koharu maneuvered them to a wall so the building crowds could pass.
"It's because I told them your name," Haruhi answered in a hushed voice so none of the other students could hear over the buzz of conversations. Koharu's grasp eased as her eyes grew large, surprise and hurt clear in her whole demeanor.
"Come on," Koharu said when she focused again, now seeming to be determined about something. She grabbed Haruhi's hand and led her to the third music room, the crowds parting slightly to let them pass. There, they found the rest of the Host Club sitting about quietly. Tamaki was in his corner of woe, Kyouya was typing away on his laptop, the twins were playing a video game, and Hunny and Mori were eating cakes.
"What is wrong with you guys?" Koharu nearly yelled at them, tears stinging her eyes for a brief second. Everyone looked up at her from what they were doing, none of them looking happy to see her at all. "Just because my name is different you think you can just act like you don't know me!"
"We don't know you!" the twins yelled back as they jumped off the couch they were sitting on to stride to her. They sneered at her and gestured towards her. "You kept that from us, so how do we know you didn't keep something else too?"
"I just wanted to make friends for who I was, not who my family is," Koharu countered, her cheeks flushing slightly at their implication that she kept anything more from them. "And it doesn't matter that my name is Veddette, I haven't seen my family in years!"
"Really?" Tamaki said, his eyes going large with shock from his corner. He stood and came a few steps closer to her.
"Yes," Koharu nodded with a sigh. She thought for a moment before she addressed the entire club. "When my father married my mother he changed his name to Yamato and moved here. My grandparents were really upset. The last time I saw them was when we went to Italy nearly ten years ago."
"Oh," Tamaki looked sad as he moved even closer to Koharu and Haruhi. He turned to the rest of the Host Club with a sad smile. "I think we should apologize."
"What for?" the twins asked, completely appalled at their leader's words. Hunny and Mori joined the five in the middle of the room.
"We didn't know about Ko-chan's situation," Hunny answered for Tamaki, understanding what it was like to have a messed up family. The Host Club looked at each other before nodding.
"We're sorry Koharu," they all said together, except for Kyouya who was still sat at his table. Koharu smiled at them, but then glanced towards the indifferent Kyouya.
"Do you want to know more about my family?" Koharu asked them as they went to sit at some couches, the tension in the air relaxing quite a bit. She thought she saw Kyouya tilt his head up slightly, but couldn't be too sure without looking at him closer than just a glance.
"Yes!" Hunny, Tamaki, and the twins all said eagerly, clearly accepting her now that they knew her situation. Koharu laughed slightly as she sat next to Haruhi and across from Tamaki and the twins with Hunny and Mori bringing up two chairs to sit at either end of the group.
"So I am the sec- no, third oldest in my family," she began, deciding to start with her generation than to try and branch her way down. Haruhi gave her a questioning look, not knowing about the newest member of the Veddette family. Koharu noticed this and smiled slightly at her. "My father decided to get me an older sister while he was in Greece. My oldest sibling is my step-brother, who you've met, Acelin, then it's my new sister, Anastasia. Then there is me and Yuigo, then Emily, then my sister Caitlin, Na and Ne, and lastly there is Rose."
"What a large family!" Hunny said as he and Tamaki tried to imagine all of them, but couldn't seem to place everyone somehow living together.
"My mother used to say 'the more family the merrier' which my father decided to stick with even after she died," Koharu explained with a soft chuckle. With a quick glance towards him, Koharu saw Kyouya intently watching them discuss her family. "My mother didn't have a large family and I think her parents also died when I was a baby, so I have no idea who I'm related to in Japan if I even have a family here. But my father's family makes up for it."
"How big is his?" Tamaki questioned, completely ignoring the sadder part of what she said. Koharu began to think hard about the Veddette family tree.
"Well there is my father, who was originally named Mortagna, his sister Felicity and their younger brothers, Dante and Ciro. My aunt and uncles all have at least one child. My Grandpapa and Grandma are both from families with five children, but that's all I know."
"You mean your father is the eldest son?" Kyouya spoke up for the first time. The Host Club looked up to see him standing right behind Koharu, though none of them had noticed him before.
"Yes, as is my Grandpapa," Koharu nodded slightly, knowing what kind of reaction this will bring from the boys that had grown up around first born traditions. There was a gasp from some of the male hosts just like Koharu had expected.
"Does that mean that your grandfather is the head of the family?" Tamaki asked, his voice a slightly higher pitch than normal at the thought of being close friends to the granddaughter of such a prominent family.
"He is," Koharu smiled slightly, pride obvious in her tone. She paused as she glanced around the circle for a moment. "My father is his heir too."
"Oh my god! You are rich!" Tamaki and the twins nearly yelled in unison, all three of them jumping off the couch.
"Why didn't you just pay off the debt?" Kyouya asked his girlfriend, receiving a few small glares from the others.
"The money is my grandparents' and father's, not mine," Koharu shrugged as if it didn't really matter to her one way or another. "I will earn my own money."
The rest of the Host Club nodded and started to chat with her idly. Eventually they all went home and everything went relatively back to normal amongst the friends as they all texted and called each other about various things. But Koharu soon found out the next day that Kyouya had not accepted her reason for lying to them. Instead, he continued to ignore her and treat her as if he didn't know who she was. Every time Koharu tried to confront him about it, he would turn away and begin chatting to someone else. Even during class, where they had no choice, but to be near each other, Kyouya opted to choose someone else to discuss their lessons with.
"Why won't he talk to me? We are dating right?" Koharu asked Haruhi as the two talked in the changing room as they were waiting for the rest of the Host Club to show up for their general meeting. Haruhi shrugged, not knowing what to say about the already odd relationship between her two upperclassmen. She heard a small choking sound and turned around to see tears running down Koharu's cheeks as the older girl's shoulders shook and she tried to hold on to one of her books with jittery hands. Haruhi walked over to her and placed her hand on her best friend's shoulder, hating to see the older girl in so much pain. Koharu turned slightly to look at Haruhi with tear filled eyes, not bothering to wipe away the tears that normally would not have fallen or to even hide the tear tracks that lined her cheeks. "I thought he wouldn't care."
"It was a pretty big shock for them," Haruhi whispered, wanting to take the boys' side but also not wanting to make Koharu any more upset. Koharu shook her head and sighed, shrugging off Haruhi's hand.
"I'm going home early," she told Haruhi as she grabbed her things. "Let me know what happens later, okay?"
With that, Koharu left and Haruhi found herself slightly angry at the Shadow King. This feeling continued on with Haruhi for several days, all of which Koharu failed to come to school again. The Host Club began to grow worried and Haruhi even tried to call her apartment and the main house, but Yuigo and Acelin informed her that Koharu wasn't around. In secret, Haruhi told the rest of the Host Club, besides Kyouya, about how sad Koharu was about how Kyouya was treating her. The other hosts began to think that Koharu had run away from them so she wouldn't have to see Kyouya and were even planning on getting Haruhi to sneak them to her real house. Kyouya ended up hearing about all of this though and began to rethink his decision to ignore Koharu.
Koharu had told him she loved him, other girls had said the same thing, but none were smart enough or clairvoyant enough to see through his masks. Though he tried to think of other things, he always seemed to end up on thoughts of Koharu again. Truthfully, he had no reason to be mad at her. If anything, he should be happy that she comes from such a wealthy family. Now he wouldn't have to fight his father if their relationship continued and got public.
He was reasoning things out much like this on the way to school one morning, taking the same route that took him past Koharu's apartment. He hardly glanced at the stairway that led up to the upper levels of her building and called out for the limo to stop. The limo had hardly stopped near the curb when he jumped out and started to jog towards the two girls he had seen. One was a girl with dark hair and a female Ouran uniform, but he barely noticed she was there. Instead he pulled a shocked Koharu into a hug.
"If you run again, your debt increases so much that you have to use your family's money," he whispered into her ear as he clutched her close. That seemed to cause Koharu to unfreeze and being to giggle into his shoulder.
"I'm sorry," she said as she pulled away from him with a large smile on her face. She motioned to the girl next to her. "This is my cousin Kay-"
"Kaydence Maldrona," Kyouya finished, recognizing the girl that he had met a year ago. Kaydence nodded back at him with a look of distaste on her face.
"Ohtori," Kaydence replied curtly.
"You know each other?" Koharu questioned, completely surprised that the two knew each other let alone were enemies.
"I told you I came here freshman year, right?" Kay said with an eyebrow raise towards her cousin as if this piece of information was the most obvious thing in the world. "I happened to meet the famed Host Club while here."
"Oh, well, okay," Koharu seemed to be lost for words as she tried to process this.
"So why were you gone?" Kyouya questioned her, taking advantage of her moment of quiet.
"There was a family emergency back in England, so I'm going to be staying with Koharu and Yuigo for a bit," Kay answered for Koharu, grinning slightly after scowling at nothing in particular. She gestured down at her uniform with a look of disgust mixing with her grin. "I'm obviously going to be attending Ouran with you again."
"Isn't that great?" Kyouya said, his tone a little too cold to be cheerful. He turned to his girlfriend with a raised eyebrow. "Do want me to take you to school?"
"That would be great, Kyouya!" Koharu replied with a large smile. She grabbed both Kyouya's and Kaydence's hands and started walking towards the limo. "Naturally, you're coming with us, Kay."
The three got into the limo. All the way to the school, Kyouya and Kaydence were glaring at each other over Koharu's head.
EDIT: Hey everyone! Lovelydasom commented on how I didn't write and "EDIT" section last time so here we go. Last chapter I managed to jump from about 1,500 words to nearl 3,000 and this time I reached 4,000 words. Again, I am terribly sorry for deleting all of the other chapters, but the next chapter is a new one to make up for it! I hope you guys enjoy a little insight of Koharu's emotions and things and even Kyouya's family in the next chapter. Also, please review these chapters. since I got rid of the old ones, you can now review these even if you had reviewed them previously.
