Woohoo! Number 11. And, just to push it out there, I want to tell you all that I was recently obsessed with Full Metal Alchemist. Now, I still am, it's just been toned down. I've been forcing myself to watch more Ouran vids and stuff to get me into writing this. Oh, and since I write my author's notes before I actually start writing the chapter, I am writing a Tamaki one shot. It just popped into my head and I thought it was a good idea so I'm gonna publish it. Its only partly done on paper so far, and I hope that it gets longer before I consider it done. It might be out by the time I'm done with this or it might not. I'll tell you in the ending note thing. So that's something to look forward to. Well, on to the disclaimer and then the story. And yes, I was looking in my manga to get the words mostly right.


Disclaimer: How long do I have to do this until I'm off the hook of typing it? I don't own Ouran High School Host Club. There. That's ten seconds of my life I'll never get back.

Chapter 11

Bri-ing~ Bri-ing~

I groaned and lifted my head up off the pillow sleepily. "Stupid ring tone…" I said groggily. I picked up my cell phone and answered it.

"Hello?" I asked, still worn out from the amusement park. Wow why am I still tired. (Wow, its making me sleepy just writing this.)

"Maika-chan~ How are you?" Tamaki's overly cheerful voice came through the earpiece.

"Tired and sleepy…" I answered.

"Whaaaaat? But its already 1 o'clock in the afternoon," Tamaki exclaimed incredulously. I sat straight up in bed, a little more awake now.

"It's what?! But, but, I was still asleep….why would my parents let me sleep for so long?" I asked aloud, and Tamaki thought I was talking to him because I could hear him making guesses as to why. "Uh…Tamaki-senpai…I'm going to hang up now…" I said, then snapping my phone shut.

I ran downstairs to see my parents eating what I assumed was lunch. They looked at me and smiled.

"Good morning sleepy head," my mother said to me lovingly. I just looked at her with a twitching eye.

"One o'clock?" I asked her in more of a growl. She tensed.

"Eh-heh, well you looked so sleepy last night. You could barely get to your room without our help. We wanted you to get your rest," my dad shook his head.

"Don't rope me in with you. I told you to wake her," my father said with his hands up. I sighed.

"Mom, you know I don't like waking up so late. It throws my whole sleeping schedule out of whack," I said, sighing in defeat. What's done is done.

"I know sweetheart, but you were so tired."

"Whatever. I'll just try to go to sleep on time," I said, sitting down to eat.

And so, the day past very boringly. I drank some tea before bed to help me get to sleep, and it kinda worked. I still laid in bed for about an hour before I was able to get to sleep.

When I woke up the next day I was…well, I was what I would call 'meh'. I wasn't especially cheerful, but I wasn't anyone-who-tries-to-talk-to-me-will-get-glared-at either. I went down, ate breakfast, and went to school. I got there right before the bell rung, so I didn't have time for any of the club members to bother me. Until I got to class of course.

"Hello Maika-chan," Haruhi said to me when I got in the classroom.

"'Ello Haruhi-kun," I said with a smile and a wave. And then I sighed. "And hello to you too, Hikaru, Kaoru," I added, sensing them behind me. I then felt arms wrap around me, letting me know I was right.

"Why, hello Maika-chan. How are you?" they said. In sync of course.

"Good, although I'm hearing in surround sound," my tone was dripping with sarcasm as I rolled my eyes.

"Don't you just love they're unison?" Arisa, walking up from nowhere, said while also rolling her eyes.

"Yes, it's the most amazing thing in the world," I said without emotion.

"Really?!" the twins asked.

"No," Arisa and I deadpanned. I smirked. "See, its not very hard at all," I added. Then the teacher came in and we all went to our desks to sit and stare at the board all day long. Luckily I had brought a book so I took that out and read it.

And that is how my day went. I decided to keep Haruhi company in the classroom during lunch, so if anything happened out there I was unaware of it.

After school we went to the third music room. The twins sent Haruhi out to buy coffee.

"Why can't you just buy it yourself?" Haruhi asked them.

"We don't know where to get it," was their excuse. I rolled my eyes.

"Whatever, you're just lazy. I'll go with you, Haruhi-kun," I said, smiling at Haruhi. She smiled back and we went off to the store. The store, where we easily found the coffee.

"Well, if the twins can't find coffee this easily maybe they should be put back a couple grades," I said. Haruhi laughed and we went to pay. After I had a little detour into the cookie section of course. I was able to get a little stash of Pocky. It'll rule the world some day I tell ya!

We were walking, more like jogging, back to school with the groceries. We bought a lot so we wouldn't have to another trip soon (not to mention my snacks took up a whole bag) and our arms were full.

Right outside the school gates Haruhi had a little confrontation with gravity. Luckily for her some random kid caught her.

"Are you alright? It'd be a pity to damage that cute face…young lady," the person said (insert dun dun dun here). Maybe it wasn't so lucky after all…

-Time Skip, yay!-

I walked into the club room with Haruhi and the strange really perceptive person. They (he or she was dressed in the male uniform, but had a bit of a feminine air around her/him) made a bit of an obnoxious speech against some line or other of Tamaki's.

I figured s/he wasn't really from our school, because whether or not s/he approved of the host club, s/he would be at least popular enough to be recognizable. As s/he made his/her speech, s/he seemed to be flirting with Haruhi…and me. Yes, s/he went down on one knee, held one of each of our hands, and kissed them. I tensed and shuddered, wasn't it enough to already have to hang around the club?

As s/he did this, I noticed Tamaki looking extremely disturbed. I held in a snicker. This person was a little entertaining, if not slightly creepy. Two girls ran over to him/her and started saying stuff about being late and whatnot. I did hear a mention of Benibara, which I assumed was his/her name or at least nickname. So lets go with that for now!

They started fawning over Haruhi, and it's a good thing there weren't any customers around because they were going on and on about how she was so obviously a girl. The funny thing is Tamaki still tried to insist that Haruhi is a guy, which just resulted to Benibara shoving him away.

"They're dumber than I thought. A light-headed group, lacking history, and filled with street trash!" Benibara yelled out. That got my blood boiling. Some of us may not be the most sensible people in the world, but that doesn't give her/him the right to insult us!

"Who are you? You aren't from Ouran!" Tamaki pointed out the obvious. At least he asked a useful question.

"That's right…" Benibara said, while loosening his/her tie. I just raised an eyebrow. Does stripping have anything to do with answering a question?

Suddenly the three outsiders just threw their uniforms up in the air to reveal another, different uniform. Then introductions, of course.

"Saint Roberia Institute, second year! Benio Amakusa!" Benibara shouted, so I was assuming Benibara was her nickname. Well, I was right about the feminine vibe. (A/N: yes, the school is pronounced Lobelia, but the Japanese pronounce r's like l's. Their alphabet doesn't include the letter l. Yes, I feel smarticles knowing this)

"Second year! Chizuru Maihara!" the girl with long hair yelled.

"First year! Hinako Tsuwabuki!" the last girl, you guessed it, shouted. I'm guessing they liked to be loud.

"We're the Saint Roberia WOMENS Institute's "White Lily Club"! Otherwise known as the Zuka Club!" they yelled in sync. I wonder how long they had practiced that.

I just raised my eyebrows and walked over to Arisa. We both just pretty much stared at the scene before us blankly and Haruhi went to put the coffee away. The twins started cracking up about their club name.

The Zuka Club members just went off on a rant about something like women's rights or something that I only paid half attention to. They ended it with an example of an 'equilateral love triangle'. The twins had gotten bored of them and told them to go home while the Zuka Club just responded by saying they were speechless. Which was just them trying to make themselves seem more important.

"I don't care if your president is half-European or something…using your superficial looks to spread false love and play with pure female hearts is a complete degradation of women! Indulging your greed in the name of 'club activities'!" Benibara shouted. Well, if I was angry before I was now completely offended and furious. Who asked them to barge into our school, and our club just to insult us? These are my friends, and if they don't like it don't stick your nose in other people's lives. But that, of course, wasn't it.

"And involving delicate female flowers? Unforgivable! I swear to you…I will have the host club disbanded immediately!"

If Kyoya hadn't spoken up I think I might have hurt that girl. She just really struck a nerve that I didn't even know I had.

"I understand your intent, but since our president is out cold from the culture shock, can you come back later?" Kyoya tried to get them to leave without offending them.

"Then slap him awake!" she shouted.

"Arisa-chan, you better hold me back," I whispered to Arisa, my right eye twitching in anger. She responded by firmly grabbing my arms.

Haruhi came back into the room from behind us carrying a tray of coffee and offering some to the Zuka Club. They, of course came running, giving compliments and proposing a tea party with them, Haruhi, Arisa, and me. I took deep breaths so I wouldn't strangle them.

Tamaki shot up like a bullet and pulled the three of us from the Host Club away. "You girls are wrong!" he started, pointing at the Zuka Club. "What can come from a woman loving a woman!? Why did God create Adam and Eve if not-" he was cut off by Hinako 'accidentally' spilling coffee on Tamaki. Good thing too, because he was starting to add to my already raging fire of anger.

"They hardly seem worth talking to. I cannot keep young ladies at this club, knowing its current state! I will start the transfer process immediately…and welcome them into Zuka Club!" Benibara announced.

"What?!" the three of us yelled.

"No way! I ain't leaving and I certainly ain't joining your hypocritical club!" I told Benibara firmly.

"I agree!" Arisa said.

"Wait a second, I think there's a few misunderstandings. Like the Host Club having a shallow history." Haruhi tried to reason.

"Nope. It is a small history. The club was only formed two years ago," Arisa informed me and Haruhi.

"Well, I've never heard of Tamaki being half-European…" Haruhi tried.

"No. Tama-chan is half-European. His parents are French and Japanese," Hunny supplied.

"Uh…er…you say greed, but its not like we're taking fees from the customers…" Haruhi said meekly, probably realizing, like me, that it was probably a truth also. And of course, Kyoya was happy to educate us.

"Its more like a point system based on the amount the girls buy from our club auction site," he then continued to inform her that her pencil she had lost had sold for 273 dollars (yen?).

I sighed, it wasn't all that surprising really. Especially keeping in mind Kyoya is the vice-president. Then Tamaki offered Haruhi his pencil and a lovely story of all his memories. Which she not very surprisingly declined.

The Zuka Club surrounded me, Haruhi, and Arisa. "Poor things. You must be shocked, learning of this deceit."

"You should just dump these scoundrels and come with us!"

"Wait, wait. The young ladies are still in shock. We'll just come back tomorrow. We hope we receive a good answer." And with that, the Zuka Club walked out. My right eye twitched some more.

"I think I'll take my leave for today. Bye," Haruhi said, walking out.

"Excuse me guys, I need to go vent a bit," I said through my teeth. Then I turned to them and smiled. "But don't think I'm mad at you guys. I didn't know all that stuff, but it isn't all too surprising and nothing to really get mad about. Except maybe selling stuff without our permission…" I said, trailing off and walking out of the room. I ran after the Zuka Club. Luckily for me they had been walking so I caught up to them fairly easily.

"Hey, Zuka Club, stop right there!" I yelled out to them. They turned and when they saw me Benibara smiled.

"Oh, have you already made your decision? Good, we can go get your transfer papers right now, save us some time," she said smugly.

"Um…no," I said straight out. "I'm not leaving Ouran. I like it here. Oh, and I have some things I'd like to tell you," they looked interested in what I had to say, so I continued. "Let's start off with the whole 'the Host Club is degrading women' thing. The guys aren't forcing the girls to go there. It's those airheads' own fault that they're receiving 'false love'. As dense as I think they are, I believe they're smart enough to know in the back of their heads that the guys don't really mean most of the flirting.

"Now, about the little history. Yes, they don't have much history now, but neither did your little Zuka Club when it was first started. I bet plenty of people looked down on it when it was started, and look at it now.

"Third, about the Host Club being greedy. Yes, they're auctioning things off, but most of the people in our club are going to grow up to inherit their family business. Think of it as training to keep those businesses going strong.

"And then about the whole transfer thing! Arisa-chan's family is here, Haruhi-kun walks here, and I think it would just be plain inconvenient to change schools. Especially for a stupid reason as another club doesn't want us hanging around our friends," I finished, saying all that as calmly as I could, which was surprisingly pretty calm. The Zuka Club just stared at me with their mouths hanging open a little. I just smirked, turned on my heel and walked to the parking lot to get a ride home.

Ah, it felt good to let that rant out.

The next day at the Host Club, the guys told Haruhi to wait outside and come in with the Zuka Club. At first I was confused, but then I saw what the guys dressed in after they made sure Haruhi wasn't going to come in.

Needless to say I took one look and started laughing until it hurt. Heck, even then I didn't stop laughing. Hunny and the twins were in dresses with wigs, while Mori and Tamaki had really big feather…things behind them. Kyoya just wore a fancy tux. They had me and Arisa dress in dresses too. They were pretty dresses, and really, really fancy.

Once I finally stopped laughing I went over to Hunny. "Hunny-senpai…you look so cute!" I told him while giving him a hug. Yes, even I had to admit he looked soooo adorable…especially holding Bun Bun.

"Really?" he asked cheerfully. Arisa walked over to him.

"Yup! You look just like a princess," she told him. The twins walked up to us.

"What about us?" they asked unison. I just stared at them. I really didn't know what to say….it was a little disturbing but they actually looked really pretty. Me and Arisa glanced at each other before replying.

"You look prettier than us," we said together then jumped and looked at each other with freaked out looks.

"That was creepy….we've been hanging out with the twins too much," I said.

"Yeah…" she said with a sweat drop.

Then the twins, completely ignoring our little side conversation, threw their arms around us. "There's no way we could look prettier than you," they told us.

"Um guys….its really creepy when you flirt with us while dressed as girls…" I told them. Of course, they then grinned at each other and I got a bad feeling.

"But its so hard not to flirt with you," Hikaru said, grabbing my chin with his thumb and index finger.

"You're just so alluring," Kaoru said while wrapping his arms around Arisa from behind. Of course, its not hard to guess that we blushed. It was still disturbing though.

So, after a bit more not-so-torturous-torture (meaning the twins kept bothering us even though we secretly liked the attention) the guys got into 'formation'. I don't know how the guys do it, maybe their psychic (its Kyoya! Kyoya, I tell you!) but not a minute after the door opened. Of course, it was Haruhi and the Zuka Club.

They just looked at us with blank expressions. Not surprising. Then the Zuka Club's expressions turned to ones of anger.

"What is the meaning of this?! Do you mean to insult our culture?!" Benibara yelled out.

"Insult? Of course not!" Tamaki started off, as 'extravagant' as ever. "This is all according to plan! The secret plan that will make anyone smile! The 'two for the price of one' plan! Heh, you sheltered Roberia girls probably won't understand, but commoners have weaknesses for bargains. Although Haruhi may be attracted to Zuka Club, she'll have both brothers AND sisters if she chooses our club! She can enjoy a Zuka Club atmosphere while at the Host Club!" he then proceeded to bother Haruhi about his 'pretty' outfit. Only succeeding in knocking poor Haruhi down with the big feather piece thing in the back, which he promptly threw to the ground.

Then the twins went over to her and started asking if they were more beautiful than her dad. Of course, having never met her father, I didn't really understand what they meant. Then Hunny followed up by telling her she could call him 'big sis'.

"The young lady will not be fooled by this drag act! Cease this idiotic-" Benibara started, but was cut off by Haruhi's laugh.

"I-I knew you guys were silly, but…this…is the limit…it's so illogical," she managed to get out in between laughs. Of course, being the perceptive person I was (yeah, right) I noticed Tamaki giving her a 'look'.

Mwuahahahaha, it seems Arisa and I aren't the only ones who have gotten crushes on our fellow club members.

"Is it that funny?" the twins asked, getting right in front of Haruhi. She laughed more and they grinned and continually insisted that she call them 'big sis'.

"Young lady…" Benibara walked over to Haruhi.

"I'm sorry. There are all kinds of people, and your point of view is…interesting, but…I came to Ouran for a specific reason. I've never had any intention of leaving." Haruhi said with a simple smile.

"Benio…" Chizuru said glancing at Benibara.

"Yes, I know. I'm not giving up young lady," she stated. Then she walked over to where Arisa and I stood. "As for you two…" she started, but then saw me with my raised eyebrow. She stiffened and backed up. It was quite humorous actually.

They then fled the premises. Finally! -insert smiley chibi face here-

"Well…that was an interesting little episode…" I reflected.

"Indeed," Kyoya responded. I sighed.

"So, does that mean we go back to our regular club schedule tomorrow?" Arisa asked. I smirked.

"We have a regular schedule? Since when?" I asked skeptically.

"Good point…" Arisa said with a sweat drop. Then Kyoya smirked.

"Of course we'll go back to our schedule. Whether it be regular or not," he said, answering Arisa's earlier question.

"Either way, I think I'm going to start getting grey hairs early because of this club…" Haruhi said with a sigh. I smiled and chuckled.

"Poor Haruhi. But I know what you mean."

And with that we all went home. Yeah, it was kinda anticlimactic, but you don't hear me complaining.


Hope you all liked it! I'm sorry you all had to listen to my Roberia rant…it just got stuck in my head I wanted to get it out. At least you'll only have to listen to a small amount of my many rants! Oh, and I did use the exact dialogue for a lot of this, but other parts I shortened what they said. At least it doesn't get repetitive, right? Well, as always, readers and reviewers are loved! But especially reviewers, since then I know your names! Come on, you know you all want to get a spot on my opening note~ First five reviewers get a spot on my next update! Unless I forget…but they'll still get a spot~

Oh yeah! And about the one shot…I focused on finishing this, but I'm still planning on getting that one shot out! So you can look forward to that. I'll probably get it out before my next update of this. Well, bye folks, remember, first five reviewers! And maybe, just maybe if your review is good enough after the first five I'll still give you a spot.