The Best Friend Type
Chapter Twelve: Physical Exams
We were all in the club room and I was in the middle of having a mental breakdown when Tamaki-Senpai broke through my thoughts by shouting about physical exams and needing another emergency host club meeting.
I wasn't worried about physical exams because I got special permission from the Chairman to not take them. I gave him an edited version of my medical history and some edited documents on my last physical exams. I also had Aunt Ema talk to the Chairman on my behalf and he reluctantly agreed.
"Tamaki-Senpai!" I shouted, making him stop and blink at me. "We'll figure it out after club. Now please go entertain your guests while the rest of the club does the same. I'll figure something out with Kyoya-Senpai afterwards."
"Thank you!" he wailed, hugging me before running off.
I rubbed my chest. Tamaki-Senpai had shaken me a bit too hard. My old wound felt a little sore from my latest surgery, so that was wasn't good. I ran my hands up and down my face, staring at the host club king. The guy was in Lala land. You could see it from his face.
"He must be having a great daydream," Honey-Senpai told Hikaru.
"He's kind of creeping me out," Hikaru admitted.
"Jealous Hikaru?" Tamaki-Senpai asked, suddenly snapped out of his daydream/fantasy/whatever-he-was-thinking. "This is all part of my strategy. While you've wasted time, blinded by your jealousy, I've forseen the outcome of this charade." He sighed happily, making me sigh out of weariness. Whatever he's about to say is going to sound like babble. "This anime is obviously a school comedy. Haruhi and I are the main characters, so that means we're love interests."
"Yeah, then what're we?" the twins asked.
Tamaki-Senpai pointed at all of us. "You boys, are the homosexual supporting cast." He drew a line on the ground. "So please make sure that you don't step across this line."
"You've gotta be kidding," Hikaru and Kaoru stated, staring at the line. They turned serious though.
"Hey listen boss," Hikaru started.
"I don't think you get it," Kaoru continued.
"If word gets out that Haru-chan is really a girl, then she won't be able to be in the host club anymore," Honey-Senpai explained. That hit a sore spot with Tamaki. "But if Haru-chan started wearing girls' clothes, I bet she'll be even cuter than she is now." I stared at the cute little senior with a smirk. Mischievous little….
"She dressed like a regular girl when she was in middle school, right?" Hikaru asked. "She must've been pretty popular with all the boys."
"Yeah," Kyoya-Senpai confirmed. "According to my investigative reports, someone would declare their undying love to her at least once a month."
"Oh, I see," Kaoru stated as I sat on the floor with a yawn. "So the boss wouldn't even be able to get close to her."
"But we'd be able to because we're in class with her all day long," Hikaru added. Now they're just teasing poor Tamaki-Senpai. Not that it isn't funny to watch, but still.
Tamaki-Senpai started tearing up. "No way…"
Oh dear, here comes the water works, I sighed.
The door opened and the person we were just talking about stuck her head in the room. "Hey guys, sorry I'm so late."
Tamaki-Senpai grabbed her by the shoulders, holding her close to his face. "Don't you worry Haruhi. We're determined to keep your secret. No one will find out that you're really a girl during tomorrow's physical exams. So please, promise you'll stay as our beloved secret princess."
Haruhi blinked twice. "Sure."
"You know what?" Hikaru asked. "I think both of us would be a little peeved if we had to watch all the guys flirt with her."
Kaoru agreed with his brother. "Then that settles it." I felt a painful stab in my chest. I rubbed where it hurt.
Tamaki-Senpai tried getting the whole host club to do some kind of plan, but I was standing in front of Haruhi. She stared back at me.
"Um, Rin?" She asked, blinking. "Is something wrong?"
I tilted my head a bit to my right side before shaking my head and moving back.
Haruhi stared at the guys now before hitting her fist into her open palm. "I've got it. You guys are worried cause if they find out I'm a girl, I can't be a host and therefore can't repay my debt." She turned to the window and started calculating the remains of her debt as I crawled onto the window sill in front of her and stretched out. "Well, guess I'll have to come up with another way to pay you back."
She laughed as Tamaki-Senpai and the twins mumbled some stuff to each other.
"I can help you pay it back," I offered to Haruhi, making her turn to me. I don't know what possessed me to say it, but I felt a weird dark feeling boiling in the pit of my stomach. I felt mad and defensive. I guess I said it because I wanted them to remember that I exist too.
"Rin!" Tamaki-SenpI shouted, pulling Haruhi away to the side.
The twins were laughing as Haruhi deadpanned. I let a chuckle out. "I'm just playing Tamaki-Senpai, don't get your boxers in a twist." I moved my hands to rest behind my head. "Continue on with whatever you were doing though." Tamaki-Senpai gave me a suspicious look. "I'm just kidding Tamaki-Senpai. Sheesh, as if Haruhi would let me pay it for her anyways."
"Are you saying that you hate being a host?" Tamaki-Senpai asked, going back to the subject from before I was offering Haruhi a favor. "That you hate this club?"
"To be honest, I'd have to say yes." I let out a little laugh at the honesty this girl has. Her honesty sent Senpai to his corner again. Though that isn't really hard to do. "I mean you guys aren't bad, but if it gets out that I'm a girl, there's nothing I can do, you know."
I turned my head to stare out the window and at the beautiful blue sky. There were clouds in the sky today, in my opinion adding to the beauty of it all. I don't know what it is, but it's just so peaceful to look at. My mind began to wander into dangerous territories as I thought about my past.
"Rin?" a voice asked. "Rin, what's wrong?"
"Get away!" I shouted, hitting whoever's hand it was away from me. I sat up, my knees to my chest and my head in my hands. "Stay away from me!"
"He's having a panic attack," someone else said.
"Rin-chan, calm down," a young voice said as they touched my arm.
I let out another pained yell and tried to move away from whoever it was, but here was something solid behind me, blocking my path. "Get away from me!"
"Calm down Rin," a calm voice said. "Everything's okay. You're fine now. Take slow, deep breaths." I tried calming down my breathing, which I didn't realize had sped up. "Keep taking deep breaths."
I closed my eyes, taking deep breaths. A hand was on my lower back, the only part of my back they could reach since the rest was against whatever was behind me.
"Are you okay Rin-chan?" that same young voice asked, making me open my eyes again. Now that I was thinking clearly, I saw the room around me instead of the blood and white light. Honey-Senpai was standing next to Kyoya-Senpai, who had his hand on my back.
I looked at Kyoya-Senpai's eyes, which seemed worried. "Are you alright now, Rin?"
I nodded numbly.
"Has this happened before?" Haruhi asked, looking over at me worriedly. In all honesty, everyone was looking at me worriedly.
"This happens every once in a while," Tamaki-Senpai answered.
"This is the fourth time we've seen it," Hikaru admitted.
"Third for Takashi and I," Honey-Senpai said, climbing onto the windowsill to sit next to me.
"I've helped him through all of his panic attacks he's had at school so far," Kyoya told Haruhi. "Thankfully he never has them with many people around."
"I'm sorry," I apologized, moving my legs so they were hanging off the windowsill. "I don't know what causes them."
"Maybe it's a memory," Haruhi said.
I shook my head, looking at the ground to avoid looking into any eyes, lest my own eyes betray me. "I haven't had anything bad happen to me enough to make me traumatized."
Honey-Senpai hugged my arm. "I wish we knew a way to stop them. It scares me when I see you like that Rin-chan."
"It scares us all," Kaoru admitted. I tried giving him a reassuring smile, but I failed and it looked more like a grimace, I'm sure.
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"We will begin conducting physical examinations shortly. All students please proceed to the clinic in your respective school building."
"And off we go to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz," I sang with a sigh, standing up.
We went to the clinic that Hikaru, Kaoru, and Haruhi would be going to and waited in the room.
After a while the students finally entered the room. To entertain myself, I climbed up on the bars and sat on the bars above the curtains for the room Hikaru and Kaoru would be changing in.
Across the room Honey-Senpai and Mori-Senpai were dressed as doctors, but it was obvious it was them.
"Hitachiin brothers," a nurse said, only a few inches to the right of my foot. She gestured to the empty room beyond my feet. "Would you please come with me? We're ready to do your chest measurements. You can use the area behind this curtain to undress." All the girls around the area seemed ready to see shirtless twins. I for one agree with these girls. They may be a year younger, but these guys were sexy.
"Doesn't matter to me," Hikaru said, taking off his shirt.
"We're not shy," Kaoru added, also taking off his shirt. "Who needs a curtain?"
"Me, if you two continue undressing," I answered, chuckling.
The girls screamed for them, while I just wolf whistled.
"I won't allow it," Hikaru told Kaoru. "It's just not fair. I won't let those doctors touch you Kaoru."
Kaoru chuckled. "What're you talking about? You don't seem to have a problem touching me when we play doctor at home. I can't get you to stop tickling me and toying with my body." They held each other, making the girls scream. A couplehad a bloody nose.
"Mmm, can I toy with your body?" I joked half heartedly, bending backwards over the bar I was sitting on top of and hanging on upside down with the back of my knees. What? I had a role to play and I'm a good actress.
"I don't know if we'd have room for you, Rin," Hikaru said, watching me hang upside down.
I let go of the bar with one of my legs, bending it back. "I can squeeze in. I'm quite flexible you know." I winked at the twins. "The question is, can you keep up with your best friend?" I said the words in a low voice, drawing it out with a grin. The twins came up on either side of me.
"I think we may have to test this out one time Kaoru," Hikaru told his brother, looking at me.
Kaoru mimicked Hikaru. "I agree. We should see if our best friend is really as flexible as he says he is."
We all glanced over at the changing rooms Haruhi was going to be in when we heard the commotion over there.
"Ah, we'll have to cut this short guys." I let go of the bar with my other leg and landed on my hands before bending so I was on my feet again. All three of us headed over and waited for the curtains to open and Tamaki-Senpai to appear, trying to be Haruhi. I must point out that it failed.
Terribly.
The girls also noticed this, since they immediately knew it was Tamaki-Senpai. The twins were busy laughing at Tamaki-Senpai's fail while I went check on Haruhi.
Kyoya came in the little room right behind me.
"Haruhi, ready?" he asked. "I went ahead and set up a separate room for you. A special boys clinic. And I have a doctor standing by sworn to secrecy."
"It turns out the doctors here today, are all on staff at one of Kyoya-Senpai's family's hospitals," Hikaru stated. I noticed both he and his brother were dressed again. Such a shame.
I scowled at my last thought.
"Would've been nice if he had said something to us earlier," Kaoru said. Both he and Hikaru shrugged.
"I had to get my revenge too," Kyoya-Senpai informed them. "I'm sorry. I just don't think I'm supporting cast, homosexual or otherwise."
"I'm tired," I grumbled, leaving the guys in search of food.
"Where're you going, Rin-Kun?" one of my Haruhi's customers asked.
"To search for some food, I'm hungry," I lied.
She giggled. "You use so much energy doing all of your tricks and such, it's no wonder you're hungry."
I smiled. "Yeah. Using so much energy can be exhausting though." I rubbed my chest a bit. "If you need me, I'll be napping in the Hitachiin's changing room instead. They're not using it at the moment, so I might as well. So if any of the other hosts come looking for me, let them know."
"Okay," she said, smiling.
"Thanks." I gave her a quick hug, which made her blush and girls around squeal before I headed off to Hikaru and Kaoru's changing room, letting the nurse there know I was their friend and taking it for a quick nap. She had no problem and even pushed the chairs together for me.
Those chairs were comfy enough to fall asleep easily, so I was asleep in a matter of minutes.
"Aww, he looks so cute."
"I don't want to wake him up."
"But Haruhi and the others are looking for him."
"I told them where he was sleeping."
"Maybe they're taking their time."
I moaned a little, turning away from all the noise and hearing some squeals.
"So that's where he's been hiding."
"That has to be uncomfortable for Rin."
"The chairs are very comfortable Haruhi. He's probably sleeping like a baby right now."
"Or he's trying to go back to sleep," I grumbled, moving my hand in the air and waving it behind me. "I stole this room. If you two are gonna get undressed, feel free to come in. If not, stay away."
"Rin!" the twins whined.
I opened my eyes and flipped to my back and turned my head to see the host club standing in the opening of the curtains and girls were standing behind them, looking in.
"Were you really that tired, Rin?" Haruhi asked.
I got out of the chair, rubbing my eyes as I walked over to her. I put my arm around her shoulder, leaning my head so my mouth was close to her ear. "Maybe I wanted the extra energy so I could exert myself later."
The girls nearby let out loud screeches that I assume meant they liked it.
Tamaki-Senpai's eyes were wide and his mouth was open. The twins were smirking.
"Oh don't think I wouldn't have the energy to last against you two either," I told them, clasping my hands together behind my back as I walked through the girls and toward the doors. "In all honesty, I think two at once would be more fun though." I chuckled. "Though, I still do wonder. Do you two have more energy than me?" I walked out of the room, leaving very happy girls thinking of us together.
I think I also left a shocked Tamaki-Senpai, embarrassed Haruhi, curious twins, and three other hosts that just found this scene slightly entertaining.
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I got a ride home from Kiko. We were both awkward since we haven't talked much since I started hanging out with the twins. Kiko has made some new friends to keep her company since I'm not there much anymore, I mean, she visits the club once in a while and requests me, but it's just not the same thing.
"So you have to come," she begged, clasping her hands together and shaking them.
"You know I can't." I sighed, "I can hardly walk to my room when I get home, let alone go to a full on party."
"Please!"
"No."
"If you love me you will."
I glared at her and shook my head, "You can't use that shit on me."
"But I did."
"Fine," I grumbled. She squealed and clapped her hands happily.
It's settled then, I'm going to a wild party on Saturday. I had a bad feeling, but I brushed it off and looked out the window.
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Things are about to get a whole lot more interesting…. *smirks evilly* my other story was discontinued... sadness... ( つ᷄.̯σ̣̥᷅ )
