A/N: Hey guys! If you haven't noticed already, I updated this fanfiction's cover. I spent about 12 hours working on it. I'm actually really proud of it, and now that I know how to actually make book covers, I really want to make more!~ Anyway, after finishing the new cover, I finally forced myself to finish the second half of this chapter...well until I became distracted again and started making more covers for fanfiction ideas. Anyways, I hope you guys like my new cover and also enjoy this new chapter!
-SingingGeekyBookWorm-
"Hikaru! Kaoru! Give me back my glasses!"
Fumika sweatdropped as she watched Kyoya clumsily chase the twins around. The twins had unexpectedly stolen Kyoya's glasses for reasons unknown.
"Fumika, here!" Kaoru shouted, pushing the glasses onto Fumika's face.
Startled, Fumika landed on the chair behind her, her eyes trying to adjust to Kyoya's prescription.
"Wow, Fumika. You look hot," the twins complimented, giving her a thumbs up.
"Really?" Fumika asked, taking off the glasses.
"Aw, why'd you take them off?"
"Because these are Kyoya's glasses, and he needs them to see properly," Fumika said before scolding the twins, "And you shouldn't have taken Kyoya's glasses. He could've gotten hurt trying to chase you two around."
"Sorry," the twins apologized, not sorry at all.
"Honestly, don't you two have anything better to do," Kyoya sighed as he took his glasses back and slid them back onto his face.
"Nope!"
"Well, no one's hurt, so I think we can let this past, right Kyoya?" Fumika said, kissing Kyoya's cheek before walking over to fix Haruhi's tie." "Anyway, to your places, everyone. It's almost open hours!"
|| A few minutes later...||
A little blonde girl stood in front of the doors of Music Room #3. She paused before determinedly opening the doors.
"Welcome!"
The girl looked past the flying petals to see a bunch of highschool boys dressed in police uniform surrounding a girl also in a police uniform standing in front of her (the little girl).
"My, what an unusual guest we have here, huh?" the tall blond boy standing next to girl in the middle said, "Welcome, my little lost kitty cat."
The little girl just stood there, staring at the Host Club.
"Hello, where did you come from?" the brunette girl asked, bending down.
"Reverse harem! This is a reverse harem!" the little girl exclaimed.
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"HEH?!"
"This can't be right. Apparently, there's still some water left in my ear from when I was swimming at the pool," Tamaki said, smacking the side of his head to get any left over water out of his ear.
"Tamaki-senpai, that was four chapters ago," Fumika reminded him.
"But that must be it, Fumika," Hikaru protested.
"Yeah. It's the only reason as to why it sounded like this little girl said 'reverse harem'," Kaoru agreed.
"Debauchery," the little girl said, shocking the Host Club again, "Yay! There's debauchery here!"
"The oblivious main character that all the boys love," the girl stated, pointing at Fumika.
She moved her finger over to Kyoya, "Glasses character who is also the one to win the main character's heart."
To Honey, "Boy Lolita..."
Then to Mori, "stoic type..."
The twins blushed and stared at her in shock as she stated their stereotype, "Twincest..."
"Bookworm..." the girl said, pointing at Haruhi.
The girl turned to Tamaki, who reeled back, afraid of what the girl would say about him. The girl started to tear up as she continued to stare at him. "Big Brother... You're blond, so you're Big Brother!"
"We've never heard about this!" "You have a younger sister?" the twins asked as they watched the little girl hug Tamaki.
"No, I am definitely an only child. At least I think I'm an only child..." Tamaki said, looking down at the girl.
"Now that you mention it, maybe you do kind of look alike. You are both blond, and all," Honey stated.
"You're also blond, Honey-senpai," Fumika said.
"Oh yeah!"
"For that matter, are 'glasses character' and 'Big Brother' on the same level?" Kyoya wondered.
"It doesn't matter, does it? She called me a 'bookworm'." Haruhi said.
"Well you are a bookworm..." Fumika said, "Besides what's wrong with being a bookworm! I'm a bookworm!"
"Yeah, but according to that girl, you're also the main character," Haruhi said.
"Um... Miss, what's your name?" Tamaki asked.
"Kirimi."
"Kirimi?" Haruhi repeated, thinking of the fillet, Kirimi.
"Kirimi-chan, you've made some kind of mistake, haven't you?" Tamaki asked, putting Kirimi down, "I don't think I have a younger sister."
"You're not my Big Brother, even though you're blond?" Kirimi asked, tearing up.
"What kind of logic is that? Honey-senpai is also blond..."
"All right. As of today, I will be your Big Brother, your Big Brother!" Tamaki declared, picking Kirimi up and spinning her around, "You're so cute... you're so cute..."
"No matter how easily carried away by your feeling you may be, do you really think you should make such irresponsible declarations to a child that young?" Haruhi asked.
"I'm not irresponsible! I'll make sure I look after you! So come on home with me!" Tamaki shouted.
"What should we do, Kyoya-senpai?" Haruhi asked.
"It's possible that she actually does have a blond older brother in high school, isn't it?" Kyoya questioned, causing Tamaki to hug Kirimi protectively.
"Kirimi...Kirimi..."
With wide eyes, the Host Club turned to see a door appear and a blond boy peer through the door.
"Um, who are you?" the twins asked.
"He's a foreigner!" Honey exclaimed.
"And for that matter, didn't that door just appear out of nowhere?" Haruhi muttered.
"Well, this is a fanfiction, so anything can happen," Kyoya told her.
"You really need to stop breaking the fourth wall," Fumika told him.
Spotting Kirimi, the blond man smile and stepped forward, "Kirimi..."
"Master..."
"...you've forgotten your attire."
A butler and a maid stepped through the doors before putting something onto the supposed foreigner. After giving him a dramatic spin, the foreigner was revealed to be Nekozawa.
"Nekozawa-senpai?!" Tamaki, Haruhi, and the twins gasped in shocked.
"Ah! Nekozawa-senpai!" Fumika exclaimed, smiling happily.
"Master Umehito is terribly vulnerable to bright lights. As such, if he doesn't shroud himself in black attire, he cannot endure the brightness, and will collapse," the maid, Kuretake, explained, "He even has to cover the lightness of the color of his hair with a dark wig!"
"On the other hand, his sister, Mistress Kirimi, hates dimly lit places," the butler secretary, Kadomatsu, continued.
"Then, she's Nekozawa-senpai's younger sister?" Haruhi clarified.
"To tell the truth, that is correct," Kadomatsu said, wiping away some tears.
"K-K-Kirimi...so this is where you are..." Nekozawa said, staggering closer to the small girl.
"Waah! A monster!" Kirimi cried, running over to Tamaki.
"It's all right. The cursed puppet Belzenef here is not the least bit scary. The Nekozawa family has worshiped cat-shaped objects for generations," Nekozawa said.
"No, it's not the puppet that she's afraid of, Nekozawa-senpai, it's you, yourself," Haruhi said, bluntly, causing Kyoya to nod in agreement.
"It's because of the way you're dressed, isn't it?" the twins said, trying to pull off his cloak.
"Don't do that! It's so bright, I'll die!" Nekozawa protested.
"Well, we could just darken the room!" Honey suggested, closing the curtains.
"Waah! I hate the dark!" Kirimi cried, stopping Honey in his tracks.
"Oh, there, there," Tamaki comforted.
"So now, she can't take it," Kyoya pointed out.
"The tragedy that gave rise to these two opposite personalities is the reason why these two are called the Nekozawa Family's Romeo & Juliet," Kuretake said.
"Romeo and Juliet weren't brother and sister, and the situation is greatly different," Haruhi informed.
"I am aware of that. It was just a snappy catch quote that I came up with just now. I thought it would make it more dramatic," Kuretake said.
"Oh, I see."
"Incidentally, we have been sent to pick Kirimi-sama," Kadomatsu explained.
"Is the whole Nekozawa family..." "...as strange as all this?" the twins asked.
"What are you talking about?! The Nekozawas are a distinguished, proper family, descended from the Tokarev dynasty of Russia!" Kuretake shouted, shaking Nekozawa wildly.
"Tokarev?" Kyoya repeated.
"D-don't you mean the Romanov dynasty?" Tamaki corrected.
"But there's a legend that says that, for whatever reason, once every few hundred years, a person in the Nekozawa family is born, who, like Umehito-sama, is fated to be possessed by darkness..." Kuretake recited, "...which may or may not be true."
"It may or may not be true?" Honey repeated.
"So which is it?" the Host club asked.
"The Master, as a result of his condition, is unable to go near his sister without his black attire, and Mistress Kirimi fell in love with the fairy-tale prince of an older brother that she only knew from his portrait," Kuretake continued to explain, "After she learned that her older brother was enrolled in high school, she's gotten so that she will come looking for Umehito-sama like this.
"Of course, we have repeatedly tried to comfort the Mistress with bedtime stories of princely characters, and having run out of stories to tell, we have lately added shojo manga having prince characters that appear in them to her repertoire, and she has gotten utterly absorbed in them," Kuretake finished.
"Shojo manga?"
The Host club thought back to when Kirimi had called them a reverse harem and a debauchery.
"The maid was the source of that?"
"Debauchery in shojo manga?" Haruhi thought out loud, "So then, Sashimi-chan..."
"That's kirimi (filet)."
"It's Kirimi!"
"Kirimi-chan doesn't know that you're her older brother, Nekozawa-senpai?" Haruhi finished, correcting herself.
Nekozawa froze and started sulking on the floor.
"Yes. We have told her many times, but she just will not believe us," Kuretake said.
Honey also started crying, "Neko-chan must feel sad about that."
"Yes. Which is why I offer prayers like this, every night, that Kirimi will come to love darkness," Nekozawa said, setting up a creepy ritual shrine.
"Please do not set up creepy shrines in the Host Club! It's against our policies," Fumika said, pointing to a sign that read in bold: Do NOT set up creepy ritual shrines in the Host Club. Thank you~
"Besides, you've got it backwards," the twins told him. "You should get accustomed to bright places." "What are you trying to do to your sister?"
"Come, Kirimi-sama," Kadomatsu said.
"Let's go home," Kuretake said.
"No!" Kirimi cried, strangling Tamaki, "I'm staying with Big Brother! I'd rather stay with Big Brother!"
"Nekozawa-senpai..."
"That's okay, Suoh-kun. It doesn't matter what happens to me. Please, please, give Kirimi the love that she needs!" Nekozawa shouted, running away.
"Nekozawa-senpai!" Tamaki shouted, but it was too late. Nekozawa was already at the end of the hallway, still running.
"Siblings are such that they are the source of problems, in any family," Kyoya said.
"Hey!" Fumika, Haruhi, and the twins protested. Fumika gave Kyoya a light smack on the shoulder for good measure.
"I feel bad for them," Fumika said, hugging Haruhi behind and resting her chin on Haruhi's shoulder, "I mean Haruhi and I have always gotten along...most of the times...but having a brother and not getting along with him is kind of sad, isn't it?"
Instead of replying, Tamaki set Kirimi on the ground.
"What's the matter, Big Brother?"
"I'm sorry, Kirimi-chan, I'm really not your big brother," Tamaki kindly told her, "But don't you worry. Kirimi-chan, you have a prince that's even more handsome than me, and he's your real Big Brother."
Haruhi looked at him in shock, "Senpai..."
"Once she came here, Kirimi-chan became a guest of the Host Club. Ouran Host Club exists in order to bring happiness to girls," Tamaki declared, dramatically, "Having a brother and sister that don't care for each other, and who can't be with each other, is a serious problem that should not be! As of now, 'Operation Reform Nekozawa-senpai into the Bright, Princely Character that Kirimi-chan Prefers' (aka Operation Character Reformation) is underway!"
"Again?"
"B-but..." "...reforming Umehito-sama's dark-possessed character? Is that even possible?" Kadomatsu and Kuretake asked.
"Like I said, not matter how easily carried away by feelings you may be, these irresponsible declarations are..." Haruhi started to say, but she stopped once she saw Tamaki smirk.
"Have you forgotten? We have someone on our side who is more heartening than anyone else when it comes to altering a person's character, do we not?" Tamaki asked.
The twins gulped. "By any chance..." "...does he mean?"
To prove the twins right, there was a haughty laugh and then a loud motor. As on cue, Renge came spinning out of the ground on her platform, how that always happens, Fumika and Haruhi had no idea.
"Sure enough..." "...it's Renge."
|| Three days later... ||
The Host Club was now in Science Room #3, which strangely (yet conveniently) had electric powered blinds.
"Your golden hair, as it flickers in the candlelight...Your shining, ivory skin...Your smile, more mysterious than a flower, illuminated by moonlight...Yes, almost as if...
"...AS IF YOU WERE A CURSED WAX STATUE, WITH YOUR MALEVOLENCE-"
"Wrong!" Renge shouted, hitting Nekozawa sharply with a big paper fan, "You numbskull! Who told you to say that line?! How many times do I have to tell you using occult terms is off-limits?!"
"B-but, my vocabulary is limited to these sorts of words..." Nekozawa tried to explain, but that only annoyed Renge even more.
"Talking back to me is off-limits, too!" Renge shouted, hitting him even harder, "A princely character doesn't come up with such a sissy excuse so easily!
"Remember, it's good to have a dark side. Solitary characters work pretty well with young girls, too. But these days, the occult, horror, and the like are out of the question!" Renge shouted before pointing at Mori, "Mori-senpai, add another no-good word!"
"Wax statue, right?" Mori asked, writing the word onto the blackboard that was already full of words.
"Renge-kun is really ripping it up, huh?" Kyoya said, leaning against the table.
"She's on a roll," Honey agreed.
"Don't you think Renge is being a bit too harsh on him?" Fumika asked, leaning against Kyoya's arm.
"She was always like that," Hikaru pointed out, " But I'm not sure if those lines will be practical for his sister, though."
"Sir, aren't you gonna watch?" Kaoru asked Tamaki.
"Well, I don't want to end up cursed later," Tamaki said honestly.
"Okay, you seem to have learned most of the character-altering lines," Renge said, drawing their attention back to her, "I think it's about time we moved on to it."
"H-Hold on! It's still far too soon for me to attempt it!" Nekozawa tried to protest, but it was too late.
"Evil beam!" Renge shouted, shining a flashlight in Nekozawa's face, causing him to cower in fear, "Don't you let a mere flashlight upset you! Pluck up your nerve! It's not a physical problem for you, which means its a problem of guts!"
"Edgar was able to deal with a cross with his nerve and guys, right?!" Renge said, finally turning off the flashlight.
"I thought you rejected the occult," Nekozawa said.
"Fiction is all all right. Fashion is not," Renge said.
"Is that right?" Tamaki asked.
"And you're the one..." "...who's always engaging in weird cosplay," the twins pointed out.
"You're not putting your whole heart into saying these lines, either..." Fumika started to zone out of what was going in front her and turned to Kyoya.
"Ne, Kyoya. I'm going to go to Haruhi," Fumika informed, earning a nod from the boy.
Fumika blinked as her eyes adjusted to the sudden brightness in the next room. She walked over to her sister, who was reading a manga to Kirimi.
"More, Bookworm!" Kirimi ordered, clapping her hands.
"What's going on, here?" Fumika asked, asked, perching on the arm of the couch.
"Kirimi's forcing me to read manga to her..." Haruhi grumbled, "Help me!"
"How about I take over and you can go see what the boys are doing," Fumika suggested, picking up a manga book.
"Really? You'd do that for me?" Haruhi said, "Thanks!"
"No problem," Fumika smiled before sliding into Haruhi's old spot. "Alright, so-"
"What's going on here?" Kyoya asked, walking up to the two girls.
"Oh, I was about to read some manga to Kirimi," Fumika explained, holding up the manga in her hand, "You wanna read with me?"
"I suppose I could do that," Kyoya said, taking a seat behind her so he could read over her shoulder.
'How does one read a manga out loud?' Fumika thought as she opened the book. 'I guess I'll just read the dialogue?'
"There are four libraries in this school, but why is it so noisy everywhere?" Fumika read, "If you don't feel like studying, just go home!Are they a bunch of carefree students?
This is probably the only place left that's quiet...When I opened the door, there was the Oubo Koukou Host Club..."
"Welcome." Kyoya read.
"Oh, it's a guy." "Watch your mouth. He is our important guest even if he is a guy. Welcome to to Oubo Koukou Host Club! Rare scholarship student, Fujimocha Harumi-kun!"
"This sounds strangely familiar..." Fumika muttered to Kyoya, who chuckled in response.
"How...How did you know...?" "Private school, Oubo Gakuen is first about pedigree, and second about money,"
Suddenly there were was a scream. Startled, Fumika dropped the book and stood up.
"You stay here, Kirimi-chan. Kyoya and I will go see what happened," Fumika told Kirimi before running to the Science Room.
"What happened?!" Fumika asked, worried, running into the room.
In front of her was an angry and disgusted Haruhi and a shocked Tamaki holding a mannequin in a bathing suit.
"Is that supposed to be Haruhi?" Fumika asked, appalled when she noticed the brown wig.
"Kirimi came over again. Now, if you have the time to goof around and doing repulsive stuff like that, then you should be out there taking care of Kirimi," Kyoya said, annoyed.
"I-It's not like that!" Tamaki protested.
"Do you not like children?" the twins asked.
"No, children are fine, but it's just that for the past three days, she's been making me read shojo manga to her," Haruhi explained, "And of all things, this stuff is really full of reverse harems, and debauchery."
"Big Brother?"
The Host Club turned to see Kirimi standing the doorway.
"This room is too dark!" Kirimi cried.
"Ah, Kirimi-chan! I thought I told you to wait in the other room," Fumika said, gently picking her up.
"Oh, what's wrong, what's wrong?" Tamaki asked, jogging over, taking Kirimi into his arms to swing her around, "There, there, you see? Nothing to be afraid of."
Meanwhile, Nekozawa was still on the ground, but now with a determined look on his face.
"Senpai?" Renge said, worriedly.
"I am a handsome, princely, big brother..." Nekozawa repeated, "I'm not afraid of the light!"
"Self evil beam!" Nekozawa shouted, turning on the flashlight.
"He did it!" Honey cheered.
"Ooooh..." Mori said, clapping.
"Nekozawa-senpai has finally become able to shine a flashlight on himself!" Renge said.
"Bravo, bravo." the twins said, popping some party poppers.
"Nekozawa-senpai..." Haruhi said, clapping.
"You've done it! I'm sure that Kirimi-chan will be thrilled, too!" Tamaki said before leading Kirimi towards Nekozawa, "Look, Kirimi-chan. This is your real Big Brother."
"I'm so proud of you," Fumika said, smiling. But it soon disappeared when Nekozawa turned around.
"Kirimi..."
"KYA!"
"WAH!"
Terrified, Fumika ran and hid behind Kyoya, trembling at how scary Nekozawa had looked in the flashlight light.
Kirimi on the other hand, just ran out of the room, crying very loudly.
"Kirimi!"
"That evil beam just now..." "...must have been pretty scary, huh?" the twins asked, glancing at Fumika.
"Kirimi..." Nekozawa murmured, dropping to the ground.
"Nekozawa-senpai..."
"Enough. Even if I go through any more special training, there's no guarantee that Kirimi will accept me..." Nekozawa said, "Rather than Kirimi having me for an older brother, Suoh-kun, you should be her substitute older brother, instead."
"You're the one that girl really wants to see, aren't you?" Tamaki asked, forcefully, "If you hold your sister dear, then show more guts, even if it kills you!"
At the window, Hikaru and Kaoru decided that they've had enough with the dark classroom and decided to open the blinds.
"Huh? Your sister is still in the courtyard," Hikaru said, looking out of the window.
"There's something down there with her..." Kaoru added.
"Oh, it's a cat," Hikaru said, causing Nekozawa to gasp.
"Your family sure does love cats," Kaoru commented, "You warm right up even to stray cats."
"That's not true!" Nekozawa shouted, running to the window, "Regardless of how the Nekozawa family may revere cats, there's no way that something as occult as her being chummy with a stray cat could happen, is there? Kirimi is afraid of animals! And live cats are what she's most afraid of!"
Nekozawa gritted his teeth and jumped through the window, "Kirimi!"
"Nekozawa-senpai!" Fumika gasped.
"Oh, no! He's not even wearing his hood!" Haruhi shouted.
Meanwhile, Kirimi stood there, frozen, in front of the cat. "Help!"
"Kirimi!"
Surprised, Kirimi turned around to see a boy that looked exactly like her brother from the portrait running towards her.
"Kirimi!"
"Big Brother!" Kirimi shouted, realizing that the boy was indeed her big brother.
Inside Science Room #3, the Host Club watched the Nekozawa siblings reunite.
"He did it!" Honey said.
"This is the result of my special training," Renge said, proudly.
"I don't know..." Fumika said as she watched Nekozawa collapse onto the ground.
|| Several days later... ||
"Nekozawa-senpai..." Tamaki said as he watched Nekozawa hide back into the darkness.
"He probably took a whole life's worth of sunlight that day," Hikaru commented.
"And he's reacted by reverting back to his condition before the training," Honey said.
"Well, well, that explains why he's wearing those gloomy black clothes again," Kaoru said.
"I bumped into Nekozawa the other day, he told me that Kirimi is getting more used to him now," Fumika reported, smiling softly as she hugged Haruhi, "I'm really happy for him."