We get to the abandoned music room, and he opens the door for me, his eyes hidden by the glare of his glasses. Red rose petals fly out of the room, an aura of romance fills the air so thick I can choke on it.
But I keep my composure as Suou-sempai tries to take my hand. I use the same trick twice, and move it away subtly, completely prepared for Tamaki's idiocy. "Hey, Suou-sempai, how are you today?" I ask him brightly.
He blinks at me with those annoying violet eyes. "Fine, thank you my princess!" He gushes and once again tries to take my hand.
I use that hand to flick my fingers through my hair. "Oh, princess is going to far, sempai! I have business with Ootori-sempai, so if you'd excuse us." I say and bow deeply.
Ootori smirks and leads me to a table in the corner of the room. "You really are a stalker, no?" I ask him in a bitter tone.
"Oh, dear, someone has an awful lot of attitude." He says in an equally bitter tone. "I thought you were little miss sunshine."
I give a short, curt laugh. "Now, Ootori-sempai, I usually am. But even when you corner the sweetest lioness, she'll still bite your head clean off regardless." I say cheerfully. "Now, I'd like to watch the video you took, or more likely, one of your cops took."
He smiles at me, a real, cold smile. "Fair enough." He says and faces his computer towards me.
He plays the clip, and I feel my eyes widen more and more as the clip goes on. It cuts off as I hug Cori.
I bite back my psychotic laughter, hard. I swallow it, and look at Ootori. "So then, I suppose, I ow you?" I snicker. "I'd be happy to pay whatever it takes. I have a large sum of money." I remind him.
He smiles at me. "Now, as I'm sure you already know, we made an agreement with a commoner earlier, and I think the same should go for you." He says.
Commoner. "What did you do to Haruhi?" I demand quietly.
He looks surprised for a moment then he looks stoic once again. "He's fine, just broke a vase worth about 8 million yen." He states.
I laugh. "I'll pay off that little debt!" I say cheerfully.
He stares at me like I'm insane. "I won't allow that…" He says uncertainly.
"You're an egoist, sempai, you only want the money, right?" I ask him with a glare and a smirk.
"Don't think I don't know you can read me, Aki-san." He reminds me harshly. "It'll be, fun." He plays the word off his tongue.
I smile at him brightly. "Why didn't you just start with that?" I laugh. "Seriously, all you had to do was say please." I emphasis the word like he's never heard it before. "Oh, and I like cherries on top!" I giggle.
He just stares at me through the glare of his glasses, and then asks me. "Have you looked around?"
I nod. "I saw them at lunch before I ran into you, I understand the concept, and it's sure to be profitable, but I doubt you're the president, hmm?" I questions
He pushes his glasses up once again. "Well, Tamaki 'came up' with the idea, and I'm here to follow through the money related interactions." He says simply.
"I see." I say with admiration, but then I mutter. "He's never been the brightest."
"True, which is actually a good thing on some levels." He says and weighs the thought in his mind.
"So, I presume you want me to start working?" He nods "Doing what, might I ask?" I ask sarcastically.
"Can you bake?" I nod. "Can you make tea?" I nod. "Can you clean?" I nod once again. "Start by making and serving tea." He tells me authoritatively.
"Yes sir!" I say with pep. I start to get up and he stops me. "What?"
"You might want to change, there's an outfit your size in the dressing room." He says slyly.
I give him a look, and then walk back to meet my poison. It's a black and white maid's outfit, except it's sort of backward, with white where there's usually black. I look around, and find some white and black ringed leggings. I sigh and put them on, finding it kind of tight around the chest area, which I take offensively because the rest of it is perfect.
I put my hair up into a ponytail with the black bow the twins put in my hair this morning then I pull on a pair of white boots and I walk out into the host club. Embarrassingly enough, the Himari twins are sitting a chatting with the Hitachiin twins.
I'm gonna die, dear god, my heart's gonna explode and I'm gonna die! I think in a panic. If they see me they're gonna make me wear stuff like this at home too! I cuss under my breath.
I run to the kitchen and grab a silver tray, it's surprisingly heavy, but I start filling it up with tea cups and tea pots and trays of sweets.
I walk carefully back out into the main room and towards the place farthest from the twins.
Unfortunately, that place is Suou-sempai's gathering of fangirls. I suck in my breath and walk as fearlessly as possible, right towards the moron and his flock of idiot females. "May I refill your tea?" I ask one girl with a beaming smile on my face.
She blushes at my attention and nods, pushing her cup gently towards me. I fill it carefully with the correct tea and ask all the other girls the same question. They all blush and answer yes, and finally I must ask Tamaki the same dreaded question.
"May I refill your tea?" I ask, maintaining 25% brightness on my smile. His hand shoots out, causing me to jump, and my tea tray to jump with me. Suou-sempai, has a firm grip on my hand and isn't planning to let go, so I drop the tray. Several girls scream as it begins it trip to the floor.
Luckily, my balance is better than average today, so I catch it on my foot. I let out a relieved sigh and look at Tamaki like he has three heads. "What was that for?" I ask him loudly. I repress a few cuss words at the end of that sentence, because I'm just that nice a person.
Though Suou-sempai takes the question in and of itself as an insult. He walks over to a corner and gets surrounded by a childishly depressing aura.
I raise my leg to a 90% angle so I can grab it off my foot, but Ootori-sempai walks by, and knocks it off. This time it actually does fall, even my reflexes can't do much on one foot.
"Oops." He says, looking at the tea pooling on the floor. "Oh dear, I'm afraid I'm going to have to start a tab for all the things you've broken."
"Me?" I ask quietly to him in a tone as sharp and cold as ice. Even the prince of darkness is shocked at the bitter cold of my voice. "Your at fault." I remind him bitterly. I shoot him I look I know is full of lime-green ice shards. "Don't even go there with me." I warn him.
I walk away and come back with a mop, broom, and an apologetic smile. "So sorry I spilled the tea." I say nervously. "I'll clean it right up." I assure them.
I pick up the 4 broken teapots; finding only one completely uninjured. Then I start picking up the 15 cups; finding just 6 of those pristine. I then mop up the tea and cookie mess until the marble floor is sparkling. I shoot the girls a sparkling-bright smile and walk towards Tamaki, in his depressed corner.
"I didn't mean to snap sempai, please forgive me." I say kindly. He jumps back up and continues his host duties.
When I walk by, I shoot Ootori a look that could spear Death himself to the wall. Though he pretends not to notice I can see the fear in his aura.
I walk back to the kitchen, tossing the broken teapots into the trash, and putting the safe ones next to the sink for me to wash. I refill my tray and walk back out into the clubroom.
I now walk over to the boy Lolita and his tall friend, whom I don't know the names of yet, and give them both a warm smile. "Hello, may I serve you some tea or cookies?" I ask politely, because I'm pretty sure they're my sempais, because I don't see them around.
The boy Lolita grins up and me and does the unexpected, jumps up and hugs me around the neck. "Cookies please!" He says, batting his golden-brown eyes at me. His cute golden-blond hair almost matches mine, but looks brighter.
I don't even know this kid, and he's pretty much used my as a jungle gym. "Uhhh, sure, sempai." I guess on his age. "If you, ya know, get off me." I wiggle a little to get out of his grasp.
He hops down and sits next to his bigger friend. I set a plate of chocolate cookies down on the table near the Lolita boy, and then face the tall dark-eyed boy. "May I pour you more tea?"
He nods silently and I refill his cup. I ask the girls sitting with them too, they nod and I pour them each more tea. I smile at them all and begin to turn away, but the Lolita stops me. "What's your name?" He asks cutely.
"Akuma, but you can call me Aki-chan." I tell him brightly, and look at his plate. He ate all those cookies! I think in shock when I see it empty."What're your names?"
"I'm Mitskuni Haninozuca, but you can call me Honey. This is my cousin, Takashi Morinosuka, or Mori for short." He says adorably with a big smile on his cute lil face!
"Okay Honey-sempai, can I get you more cookies?" I ask him, eyeing the empty plate.
He shakes his head. "I want some cake!" He says, more like an order than anything else.
I blink at him. "I think we're out of cake…" I say, remembering the kitchen completely devoid of the fluffy confection.
His golden-brown eyes well up with tears and my heart sinks. "Don't cry! I'll go make you some more!" I assure him "What kind of cake do you want?" I ask quickly.
"Chocolate with chocolate frosting and lots of chocolate sprinkles!" He tells me excitedly.
I stare at him for a second, then smile and nod. "Right away, sempai!" I say and walk to the kitchen quickly.
Baking a cake, baking a cake, how exactly do I start, baking a cake? I think in a singsong way as I get out ingredients.
I mix up chocolate cake batter and pour it into a few different pans. I put them in the oven and then started making the frosting. By the time I'm done with that the cakes are done, so I take them out to cool while I get out some chocolate sprinkles and chocolate covered strawberries.
While I wait for the cake to cool I go out with my tray of tea and cookies, only to find the Himari twins waiting for me. Damn. I think, but smile at them. "Hey girls, are we all made-up?"I ask with certainty they're completely okay.
They evil-smile at me with those cute faces and dark indigo eyes. Cori's on the left because I can sense the heat coming off her in waves of spice, and Tori's on the right because of the strands of hair in front of her eyes. "Yep, Maid-chan." They snicker.
I shoot them a warning glance, and Cori cringes… Oh yeah, I'm a monster, I forgot. I mentally sigh. But in reality I smile brightly at them. "That's Maid-sama, to you idiots." I stick out my tongue at them.
The giggle at me and pull me into a double-hug. Does no one notice the freaking plate? I ask myself mentally as I balance the plate on my finger tips to prevent it's downfall. "Aki-chan, your boobs are so soft!" They say, each of their faces on one of my boobs.
I blush full red and thump them both on the head. "That's the weirdest thing to say in public!" I remind them in a whisper. They grin and walk away with their hands clasped.
My face is still crimson when I walk over to the Hitachiin twins reluctantly. Kaoru has his finger in Hikaru's mouth for some reason, but I don't question it. The girls are screaming currently, so I just fill the empty cups without disturbing them.
Then the twin's notice me. Those amber eyes get some kind of idea, and I'm now officially scared. Then they suddenly appear beside me, Hikaru on the right, Kaoru on the left, and slide their arms around me, Kaoru's on my waist, Hikaru's on my shoulders.
"Say, Aki-san." Hikaru purrs. "Since when did you work for the host club?" Kaoru asks.
I sigh, this was inevitable. "Just today, thanks for asking Kaoru, and please, get the hell off me." I say sweetly.
Instead they wrap their arms tighter. "Aw, Aki-chan doesn't want to play with us!" Hikaru pouts. Kaoru puts a finger under my chin and turns my face towards his. "Come on, let's play." He purrs.
I'm freaking out inside, but on the outside I just smile at him cheerfully and say something very persuasive for some reason. "I need to go get Honey-sempai his cake."
They immediately release me. Note to self, don't get between Honey and cake. I think and walk back towards the kitchen. The cake is mostly cool, so I start layering them and slathering icing on each layer before I put the next on. There are a total of four layers and then I cover every inch of the surface in icing, adding those little squiggly things on the bottom. Then I put the chocolate strawberries on, and then the sprinkles.
"Done!" I announce to no one. I put the cake on a silver platter and take it out to the clubroom.
Honey basically tackles me, and I have to lean back onto a wall so the cake doesn't fall. "Honey-sempai!" I say, having a mini-heart attack.
"Yeah, Aki-chan?" He says so sweet I can almost taste it.
I sigh, and then I brighten up and smile at the boy hanging on my neck. "Here's your cake!" I tell him and her looks over at the cake in my hand.
His eyes go wide and he drops down, snatching my cake somewhere in the process. He scampers back to Mori and he takes a huge bite out of it with his fork. He puts it in his mouth and little pink flowers surround him…
Is he okay?... I ask myself. Honey has his eyes as wide as possible and theirs this blissful little look on his face. Taking that as a yes… I decide reluctantly.
Before I turn around I notice a fearful dark blue aura that is all-to familiar to me by now. "Ootori-sempai." I say calmly. "What is it?"
I hear him scribbling in his notebook and then I turn around to look at him as he says. "You can bake a cake sweet enough to make Honey-sempai speechless." He looks over to the little Lolita; who's golden-brown eyes are still wide and Mori is trying to snap him out of it, obviously concerned. "That's impressive."
"Its all in the icing." I tell him. "But anyways, I'm sorry for going all black-Aki on you back there. I'll pay for the broken tea sets." I assure him.
He looks momentarily surprised, but soon he returns to his stoic look. He nods and then begins to walk away.
"Wait, Ootori-sempai." I stop him and her turns around to face me. "Can I get you something to drink?" I ask politely with a bright smile.
He shakes his head and walks away silently, like a shadow prince should. Lovely that I can piss off even the most pressing egoists. I think cheerfully.
I shrug and walk back into the kitchen, grabbing a tray of sweets and tea. I start to whistle, Twisted nerve, which is actually a pretty messed up song if you've ever seen the movie Kill Bill… but never mind that.
I don't get to finish the whole song because when I walk outside everyone is staring into space with mooneyes and a fork in their mouths.