"... And then the door opened, and I ended up here." I laughed nervously, rubbing the back of my head awkwardly thanks to Benibara-San.
"Of course that's how." Kyouya commented harshly on my story as eveyone was...
Not paying any attention to me at all.
"Nice to know that people care." I sighed under my breath, tugging my arms away from Benibara's grasp.
When I gave up, I turned to everyone for help, but again... no one was looking over to me and the Lobelia girls.
Honey and Mori-Senpai were bust talking to Haruhi and Erik (For some unknow reason). Tamaki was sulking and growing mushrooms in the corner (I don't know why, but he was). Hikaru and Karou were playing videogames, and Kyouya was... being Kyouya.
"Don't worry little flower bud," One of Benibara's friends, Benibara called her... Hinagiku?
"Benibara-Sama will take good care of you once you arrive at St. Lobelias Academy."
Huh? Lobelias Academy? Are they really thinking-
"Come Lady Benibara, let's go on our way with you're diamond in the rough." The other one, Lady Suzaran laughed into the palm of her hand.
"Wait what? I'm not going anywhere, I don't even go to this school!" I cried out, but Benibara's hold on me got tighter as she started pulling me away.
"No matter, we wouldn't want such a delicate little thing to be ruined by these... beasts." Benibara laughed almost maliciously, her eyes twinkling with her pride.
I stiffened in her hold, hoping it would stop her from taking me away. But then her friends lifted me off the ground, so my plan back fired on me.
"Uh guys... a little help please!" I shouted in the air, which finally got everyone's attention at last.
"You let go of my little sister right now you hear me!" Tamaki shouted as he started running towards us.
He looked so cool and heroic until Benibara punched in right in the face, and said
"You are not allowed to touch a hair on this child!"
"Wah! She punched me in the face... AGAIN! How mean!" Tamaki cried like a child, scooting away from the Lobelia girls on the ground.
"Man up Tamaki!" Honey-Senpai said, as everyone behind him held a white flag, Kuma-Chan, and balloons for some ungodly reason.
"Hey! That wasn't nice! Put me down, right now!" I shouted, thrashing my legs and pulling them away from Suzaran and Hinagiku.
"Hey now little flower bud!" Suzaran said, her voice soft as she tried calming me down.
"It's unneccesary to thrash around like that!" Hinagiku said, as she pulled me back down to the floor.
When I felt her pull, I used that and pushed myself out from their grasps, unaware that there was a banana peel again. Stepping on it, I started sliding foreward, and almost hit the floor face first, if Karou hadn't caught me before that happened.
"Chi!" Everyone shouted, but it was dark and everything seemed muffled.
"Chi? Chi answer me." Karou begged me, the feeling of his hand carrassing my head waking me up from passing out.
"Oh... holy crap I think I passed out right there." I gasped, catching my breath as I looked up into Karou's worried amber eyes.
"Chi." He sighed in relief, his hand brushing my face with a light, almost feathery touch.
"Don't worry... I'm fine. Are you alright? Sorry, I'm alot bigger now." I laughed, making the tiniest smile grow on his face.
"It's okay, I'm all good here."
"Well... that's good to hear."
"Karou! Chiya!" Hikaru, Haruhi and Tamaki shouted, rushing to our sides as Mori-Senpai silently started picking me up.
"You alright?" Mori's deep, almost too grown-up voice asked me, his eyes looking down at me with hidden anguish.
"Yeah, I'm alright, really I am. Thank you Senpai."
A small... and I mean small but noticiable smile grew on his face, and his overly-large hand slowly patted my head. I guessed it was a sign that he was relieved, or maybe he really liked my head.
Hikaru and Tamaki helped up Karou, while Erik rushed to my side, and put a strong hand on my shoulder.
"You really know how to worry people don't you?"
A devilish grin grew on my face, as his hand lightly smacked me in the face. I grabbed it, placed it against my face, and looked into his eyes.
"I'm sorry... Ani-Chan." I cooed to him, oblivious to everyone's stares, omit Haruhi thankfully.
"I'll make ~hamburgers tonight~ ... you love those no?"
A tiny grin started growing on his face, as his arms wrapped themselves around my neck. Instinctively, my arms found his waist, and we started swaying to invisible music.
"Haruhi and Ranka have to join us." Was his only demand, his signature crooked smile on his face as he spoke.
"I think mom would like that."
"A-hem... Chiya, if we could interrupt you lovey-dovey moment for this special event." I heard Hikaru's voice say, his hand by his mouth like a microphone.
I pulled away and felt myself blushing bright red. Not because I had that mushy moment with Erik... But because Karou was glaring at me, his eyes full of hurt and threatning to overflow with tears.
Damn, he knew that hurt, but I deserved it.
"Little flower bud!" Benibara cried out to me, despite the fact it was pretty much her fault I almost bashed my head.
"My name's Chiya Rouji!"
"Ms. Rouji!" She said a second later, her hand pulling me towards her, forcing me to look up back into her eyes.
"Why stay here? Why not come along to our school, and thrive like the woman you should be!"
Okay, I had enough of her blibber-blabber about being a woman and blah blah.
"Please stop. I've had enough."
"What do you mean? Have you made your decision?" Benibara gasped, her eyes bright with hope and glistening with glee.
"Yes... and I..."
Wait for a dramatic pause... everyone's eyes were on me right? Right.
"I decline your offer."
"But why?" All three of them nearly cried in hysterics, while everyone around me sighed in relief or shock.
"One: I don't even go here, I'm just the music player."
I turned my head around, and finally caught the sight of Hikaru and Karou, both of the griping each other's hand for comfort. A playful smile found it's place on my face as I walked over to them and un-pryed their hands apart. Both my hands grabbed theirs, and I interlocked them for safe measures. Hikaru, not surprised at all, squeezed my hand, smiling like no tomorrow. Karou, who had a relived grin on his face, was so clammy, it took him awhile to relax in my hand.
"I could never let these guys go. Even though I've only known them for a real short time... they're kind of a part of me,"
My eyes glanced to everyone, who smiled back at me as I turned back to Benibara-San.
"And I can't leave them. Ever again."
A silent moment passed through all of us, many not even breathing. Including myself. What got me to breath again was how Hikaru and Karou lifted me off the ground, and started carrying me off without warning.
"Well-" Hikaru laughed obnoxiously, his hands grabbing my legs with the softest touch since the beginning.
"-You heard her." Karou finished, his fingers griping my upper body without grabbing anything...bad.
" ~Don't let the door hit you in the behind! ~ " They sang together, laughing as we disappeared behind some curtains by the window.
" Ah!" Poor Benibara and her girls gasped, their hands covering their mouths in pure shock.
"Y-you won't see the last of me! We will take you away little flower bud!" She laughed, twirling off into the hallway with her croonies at her side.
" ~Some day!~" She laughed, her friends laughing along with her as they twirled into oblivion.
"Don't hold your breath." Haruhi sighed, as she leaned against Tamaki, who blushed bright red but didn't say anything.
~5 minutes later...~
" Ahahaha that was too good!" Hikaru laughed as he set me back to the floor.
I couldn't agree more, but I was too busy laughing to say it out loud. And at the moment, so was Karou, for he was... you guessed it, laughing his butt off.
"I have to give you guys credit... you know how to tell people off." I laughed, earning the famous double-smile from my best friends.
"Yeah, all part of growing up." Hikaru laughed, patting my head as he walked off back to his friends laughter behind the curtain.
Once the curtain fell back into place, it was just me and Karou, standing awkwardly beside each other. My eyes glanced up at him just as amber eyes darted away from my gaze.
"So... I wanna thank you."
"For what? Picking you up? Cause you're welcome." Karou laughed pathetically, but even then he couldn't hide the pleasure of my gratitude in his eyes.
"That, but also because you didn't let go."
His head tiltled to the side, and leaned in close to my face. Giggling, I pulled out, only to be pulled back in, this time, forced to look into his hot, amber eyes.
"What'ya mean?"
"It could mean alot of things! Pick one though." I tried joking, I even laughed as quietly as I could to play it off.
Because honestly, it could have meant alot of things to me. One: for not forgetting me since the day I left. Or two: for catching me even though he was torn between his feelings for me and the fact Kyouya-Senpai was my fiancee. His eyes got smaller as his face got closer and closer to me. Okay, we have been this close before, but now it was different. He was older, and so was I, and we weren't playing a silly game like "Are you Nervous."
W were in the grown-up world where getting close to someone's face means something completly unexplainable.
"Chi..." He whispered, his breath touching my lips and making a shiver pass my spine.
"Kao..." I couldn't help myself whisper, my body instinctively leaning in closer to him as well.
I closed my eyes before it happened, but not even that could mask the warmth against my lips. Gentle fingers cupped the sides of my face, as my hands found themselves wrapped around his waist with little disturbance. A grin grew on his face, as we continued to kiss for a good long while. No tounge or anything, just a soft, yet greedy kiss from both of us. It probably could've lasted forever, if Tamaki's voice didn't ruin the moment.
"I wanna song!" He shouted, disrupting the beautiful yet awkward moment between Karou and I.
At the time of us pulling apart, I caught a glimpse on Karou's face. It kinda reminded me of Kyouya for a moment, the time when we first met. The first time I cried about leaving Hikaru and Karou.
A smile of getting what he wanted. What was the word?
"Chiya, shall we go?" Karou asked me, holding out his hand so I could grab it.
Shaking off the feeling, I barley brushed his hand, when he pulled me out into the open. Where Hikaru and Honey-Senpai were laughing like no tomorrow.
"Hahaha! You're funny Tama-Chan!" Honey laughed, tears rolling down his face, as Hikaru fell to the floor, laughing.
Karou was chuckling as well, upon seeing Tamaki trying to calm down a ferocious Kyouya and an equally as mad Erik.
" S'not my fault!" Erik shouted, his face red with anger and close to punching Senpai in the face.
"It is too your fault."
"Is not!"
"Too."
"Boys! Take it easy, Chi!" Haruhi gasped as their bodies got closer and closer until Tamaki and Mori stepped in.
"Erik! Home, now." I demanded, turning away and heading for the door without another word.
Behind my shoulder, I watched Erik nod bitterly towards Kyouya, who grinned back to him. When he was by my side, I was all ready to scold him, but he got the upper voice.
"Cannot believe that guy's your fiancee." Was all he said to me, and not too quietly I must say.
I stood there, speechless about the fact that he knew, and the fact that he was fuming with animosity. When words didn't form fast enough, he stormed out of the club room, and left me alone.
"Erik..."
"Chi, let me walk you home." I heard Haruhi say, rushing to grab everything together before I did something crazy and regretable.
"I'm sorry if I wasn't supposed to say anything." Kyouya said, his hand somehow already on my shoulder before I could blink.
I turned around, to find his body close to mine, smiling naturally at me while everyone was looking away. A tilt of my head made him laugh, a minute later, his usual fake smile slowly faded onto his face.
"I do apologize, Chiya."
"It's...fine. I was going to tell him sooner or later anyway." I sighed heavily, just as Haruhi came to save to day.
"Ready Chi?"
"Ready. I'll see you later, Senpai. Bye Hikaru and Karou!"
"Mori-Senpai, Honey-Senpai, and Tamaki! Au revoir!"
"Au revoi to you as well, mademoiselle." Tamaki laughed, going along with my little french moment.
A smile grew on my face, but it quickly faded when I found the word I wanted.
Greedy, with just a pinch of corrupt.
Um... I used the word hand alot didn't I? So sorry about that... You try coming up with another word for hand?
Couldn't do it huh? I thought so :P