Chapter 8 - The Sun, the Sea and the Host Club: Part 1
"Somehow I keep managing to let you guys bring me to all sorts of wonderful places, don't I?"
"Yeah but, why did we come to Okinawa?" the twins asked together as we stood atop a long flight of white marble stairs, the walls around us appeared bleach white marble too with red tiling along the tops of the wall and the same motif was the decor for the surrounding buildings not immersed in luscious green plants. I made sure to snap a picture with my camera as we took in the view.
"Because Kyoya's family have a private beach here." Tamaki explained to the twins in order to answer their questions.
"It's beautiful isn't it?" Hunni marvelled as we descended the stairs and made our way down to the beach. Mori agreed with his cousin who was placed atop his shoulders.
The twins didn't really seem satisfied though, "But why couldn't we go to the Caribbean, or even Fiji?" The asked looking between Tamaki and Kyoya.
"Oh please, do you really think that commoners like Haruhi and Hisoka have passports?" He commented as he gestured towards us. I glared at Kyoya slightly.
"Just for the record I have a passport. I've even travelled to Scotland before so suck it. Even if Haruhi doesn't have one I do, so you're half wrong." I said and shrugged.
"You know I can hear you, right?" Haruhi stated to the both of us and I smiled, slinging an arm around Haruhi's shoulder. Like usual she wasn't impressed, "You know you can also get off me anytime soon Hisoka." She said and I ruffled her hair and beamed like the hot sun in the sky.
"Oh lighten up Haruhi, your always such a grump when we take a holiday. You said you'd like to come to the beach anyway. We also didn't kidnap you this time so cheer up. Personally I can't wait to soak up some sun and play some beach ball before playing in the ocean. Today will be wonderful!"
(-+- Time-reversal -+-)
Once again I found myself standing in a room littered with countless swimsuits on mannequins. Once again the twins had brought all of their mother's latest designs for Haruhi and I to choose from. It was once again overwhelming. Like Hunni, Kyoya and Mori I stood surrounded by the swimsuits, I was looking them over with interest. The twins had told me that no matter which one I chose I could keep it like the last one...on the condition that I spent at least a full hour hanging out with them at the beach. That had to be one of the easiest decisions I had ever made. I was currently staring at a purple suit with a white stripe down the side.
'Maybe this one...?'
My good friend Haruhi seemed to be abit less enthusiastic then I was, sitting at her table with her work and a pile of books. The twins were showing her a swimsuit that they had picked out for her, it was a light pink two piece suit with the bikini top being ruffled. It was honestly very well thought out all things considered.
'That shade of pink will also really suit Haruhi's skin tone. It's so nice I'd even consider wearing it….even if it is pink.'
"Not that one!" Hunni objected running over to the twins with an alternative swimsuit in his arms, "I think that this swimsuit will look much cuter on Haru-chan." He said and I looked the suit over: it was a light blue sailor styled 1-peice suit, white frills were attached to the bottom of the suit and a darker blue ribbon was tied around the neck.
The twins shook their fingers in disapproval, "I don't think you got it Hunni-sempai." They told him before walking over to Haruhi and hosting her up from under her arms, "You see unlike Hisoka who has to bind her chest every day to actually pass as male, Haruhi's uniform barely hides the fact that she's as flat as a cutting board. A one piece suit like that will only upset her as it draws attention to her lacking feminine physique." At this the twins dropped Haruhi who huffed and went back to her work. They then walked back over the pink suit and gestured to it, "That's why we personally selected this two-piece suit, the ruffles help hides the fact that she's so flat chested."
I looked over the swimsuit once. The twins were entirely right. I could see Hunni pouting at the rejection of his swimsuit option and so I sighed and walked over to him. As I did I went round to face the front of the suit so that I could see Hunni's face, he looked up to meet my eyes and I smiled.
"You know even if Haruhi won't wear the swimsuit I'll wear it instead. This way at least the swimsuit you picked out will be worn by one of us." I told him and he smiled before giggling.
"Okay Hiso-chan, thanks!"
"Hey Hikaru, Kaoru. Mind if I take this one?" I called over to the twins who seemed to be hiding behind the table that Haruhi was working at. They appeared to be hiding from Tamaki who was standing rather gleefully with a baseball bat. I think he had gone on to the twins about sexual harassment again….which wasn't very surprising. They didn't seem to hear my words as I took the mannequin from Hunni's arms and placed it on the ground beside me.
"That means we're not going to the beach?" They both questioned Tamaki almost disappointedly, their recipient just smiled and swung the bat onto his shoulder. I was guessing that Tamaki had just berated them about their enthusiasm/actions or something. I didn't overthink it.
"Who said that we're not going?" He mused to us all and I sighed.
"Really?" The twins asked in glee as wide smirks etched across their faces, "So you want to go after all?"
"Can Usa-chan come, too?" Hunni piped up excitedly as he pulled his precious bunny out from thin air and hugged him happily. Mori seemed to nod from where I could see him so it seemed that he was on board too.
"I have no problem with that." Kyoya announced from somewhere behind me and I nodded in agreement.
"I'm game. Hey Hikaru, Kaoru, once again can I wear this one?" I said again and they finally looked over at me. When their eyes landed on the swimming costume next to me they broke into a smirk and sent thumbs ups in my direction.
"Good choice Hunni sempai, that suit will look awesome on Hisoka here." They directed to Hunni who nodded and ran off somewhere. They then changed their tone so that it was directed at me, "We'll deck you out in accessories too, and you'll look like one of our mum's models by the time we're done with you." They promise and I smiled.
"I don't think looking like a model will happen anytime soon but I appreciate the offer."
Haruhi still didn't really seem to believe that this was happening and to be fair if I wasn't so excited about the prospect of going to the beach then I'd be abit put out too.
"Huh? We're really gonna go?" She inquired, placing her pencil down on her notebook. Tamaki smiled down at her as I tried to figure out a way to take the swimsuit off of the mannequin.
"Why not? Let's go to the beach." He told her. And with that baffling statement and while I tried and failed to take my costume off an inanimate object the next course of the Ouran Highschool Host Club was decided.
(-+- Timeskip back to the Present -+-)
"Kaoru, catch!"
The aforementioned twin hit the ball up into the air and over the net towards his brother. I had long since surpassed the 1 hour of time that I needed to spend with the twins to get my swimsuit. We had been playing volleyball on the beach for the past hour and a half or so even before our guests had arrived. Before you ask any questions I think I should confirm that I am dressed like a boy right now, my chest uncomfortably bound, wearing a baggy light beach shirt and loose shorts, hair tied away and wig firmly in place. Kyoya sprung the surprise on us when we arrived that during our time at the beach, in exchange for the trip being free we would all be entertaining our guests. At first I was understandably angry at the shadow king since I would have to endure being dressed as a guy during our short holiday, but since I enjoyed the company of my guests I could easily deal with spending some time with them. Afterall we could easily enjoy the beach after they all left so there was still hope, even if it got painful wearing my bandages and trying to do exercise at the same time after a while.
Currently the twins and some of their guests and me and some of my guests were engaging in a massive volleyball game. It was currently Me, Kaoru and 3 of our guest's vs Hikaru and 4 other guests, we switched up the teams after almost every game so that we could host as many girls as possible.
I paused to breathe as Hikaru hit the ball to far over our head and Kaoru was forced to run after it. Hikaru went after him and they pulled some mild twincest as they were running after the ball, or more accurately Kaoru ran after the ball and Hikaru ran after his brother. I sighed as many of the girls giggled and cooed over the twin's actions. Beyond the laughs I heard footsteps approaching in the sand, I looked towards the source of the noise and saw one of my customers: her name was Mika Inuzu, she was quite shy with long curly black hair and was wearing a loose beach dress with sandals, I could see the imprint of a swimming costume under the dress.
"Oh Hi Mika, been a while." I noted and smiled a welcoming smile towards her, "You want to play too? If you do I'd take the dress off and play in your swimsuit, it's easier that way."
She slowly shook her head, "I couldn't." She said in a highly soft voice, "I don't really have the..." As she spoke I noticed her holding her arms tightly around her stomach and as I fellow girl I got it. I walked up to her and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"You're not fat Mika." I told her and an embarrassed blush came over her pale face, I turned to the rest of the girls and called out to them, "And this goes for the rest of you, be happy with your bodies and don't hide them so long as it makes you comfortable. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Let me give you a life lesson: If someone calls you fat then you turn around and eat them. Finish them faster than a cheesecake."
Some of the girls giggled and others nodded with pleased expressions over their faces.
"Of course don't actually eat them but you know what I mean, don't feel insecure about yourselves. You have nothing wrong with you, you're not like me. You don't have to cover part of your face so just be sure to smile it through, that way you can always live your dreams."
The girls nodded and some of them even had tears in their eyes, "I'll be sure to always smile Hisoka." One girl told me.
"You've told me I'm beautiful, no one can dissuade me now, it's such a kindness to hear those words from you." Another announced and I nodded before turning back to Mika.
"If it makes you uncomfortable then keep it on, but know that I won't judge you no matter what you think of yourself." As I spoke I pointed to my eyepatch, "Don't worry, I've kind of lost the right to judge anyone's appearance so you won't hear anything except praise from me."
Slowly Mika began to smile and I took my hand off her shoulder, "Thank you Hisoka." She said to me and I nodded.
"It's my pleasure Mika, everyone needs that confidence booster every once in a while." I told her and smiled one last time before noting that the twins still hadn't returned.
"Okay ladies. I'm sorry but the game will have to be disbanded for a while, I need to go find the twins, be sure to dream about me while I'm gone." I told them with a playful wink before heading off in the direction I'd seen them leave.
The girls giggled at my wink, "Come back soon Hisoka." They called out to me as I walked away, as I walked I could feel the cool breeze that rung through the beach momentarily relieve my skin from the sun's rays.
As I walked I stretched and almost groaned at the strain the bandages put on my chest as I stretched, while I certainly was enjoying spending time with my guests I knew I was going to enjoy taking my bandages off even more.
I gave a wave to Haruhi who was sitting hunched up under a beach parasol on a towel as I passed her, "Come on Haruhi even I'm enjoying myself, loosen up alittle." I told her and she looked up at me with her dazzling brown eyes.
"I thought this trip was meant to be time off so this is kind of a let-down." She told me and out of the corner of her eye I could see 3 of Haruhi's regular guests coming up behind her so I shrugged.
"Speaking of time off we'll get some in the evening so just be sure to keep entertaining until then, afterall I thought that you were the adaptable one." I told her with a smile as I wiggled my toes in the sand.
"Whatever." She told me and with that Haruhi's guests began to get closer to her. I waved her a quick 'later' and kept walking. I also saw how Hunni and Mori were doing, they were doing some kind of I don't know...stretching/exercise...I didn't bother questioning it but still took a picture of it. It still didn't beat what Tamaki and Kyoya had gotten up to, or more accurately Tamaki with Kyoya supervising. What they had been doing was actually quite amusing to watch: Tamaki would entertain his guests on large rock and flirt with them while looking out at the pristine ocean. Kyoya quite simply would stand with a stopwatch and take note of how long each girl had spent with Tamaki and when her time was up another girl from their long line would have her time with Tamaki. It was a bizarre combination of amusing, brilliant and objectively unnecessary and as you can probably guess I also took a picture of that too.
I eventually made my way over to the twins who had finally caught up with the beach ball, as I catch up with them I snatched it up from them with a grin. Hikaru just shook his head and spoke, "I can't believe he fooled us." He observed as he looked around the beach.
"Who'd have thought he'd bring the ladies with us?" Kaoru continued and I realised who they were referring to.
"Oh right you mean Kyoya telling us at the last minute that he had invited our guests on holiday with us?" I asked and they nodded.
"We certainly didn't expect it." Hikaru explained and I agreed throwing the beach ball into the air before catching it again. Said mentioned host happened to be sitting at a white metal table next to us under an umbrella in the shade and as you could probably expect he was writing in his notebook. He was clearly close enough to hear our conversation.
"You were invited on this all-expenses-paid vacation for a reason and that is to keep our clients entertained." He told us and I sighed. To be fair I had been curious as to why this trip had been completely free for Haruhi and me, especially since none of the expenses were being added to our combined debt.
"We know." Hikaru sighed, "But with the ladies here...Hisoka and Haruhi can't change to their swimsuits." Kaoru concluded and I shrugged and threw the ball back to them which Hikaru caught. I decided to sit down and noted a spare seat next to Kyoya, there was a lounger next to him on his other side but Tamaki had already claimed that and appeared to be sunbathing.
"Don't worry. I got it all under control." Tamaki announced from his chair smugly as I sat down, Kyoya didn't even bother looking up, "My little angel and princess shouldn't be prancing around in swimsuits, at least not in front of two perverts like you." He told us all directing his last part at the twins. I leaned an elbow on the table and mock raised my hand.
"Already pranced around in a swimsuit Tamaki, at the theme park. You didn't stop me." I informed but the host king didn't seem to be paying attention. It looked like he was daydreaming or something again. I rolled my eyes and noticed an iced blue drink infront of me, a red umbrella sticking out of it along with a yellow straw. Given the mild heat it looked really refreshing. I also saw that Kyoya had one infront of him which looked partly drunk, "Hey Kyoya, this yours too?" I asked pointing to the drink.
"Not at all." He told me glancing up for a second before going back to his writing. I pouted, if it had been Kyoya's I would have just drank it and made him add it to my debt or something. I pointed next to Tamaki.
"Is it our Kings?"
"Not of which I'm aware."
I sighed, "Does it belong to anyone or can I drink it?" I asked no-one in particular, neither the twins nor Kyoya replied so I figured I could drink it. I picked the drink up and took a sip, the cool liquid making its way down my throat and cooling me down. It was a blue raspberry flavour, a personal favourite of mine.
Without warning a gasp came from over by the sun lounger which caused me to look over in curiosity. Our king, Tamaki, for whatever reason was red in the face and was writhing about in his chair excitedly, "It'll happen just like that. The greatest day of my life. I don't know if I can handle it." He gushed and with very word he seemed to get more and more exited.
"I'm pretty sure that I don't want to know what he's thinking about." I muttered aloud as I took another sip of my drink. Kyoya seemed to smile abit before checking his watch and standing up from his seat, "Going somewhere?" I stated the obvious.
"Just helping some people pay back a debt." He waved me off and I took another sip of my drink.
'Whatever, I'm curious but I'm not going to ask.' I thought to myself and leaned back in my chair. One of Tamaki's guests had come over and was observing his strange current state.
"What's the matter with Tamaki? Is he having a seizure?" She asked concerned but the twins just waved her off the same way that Kyoya had done to me.
"I wouldn't worry about it." Hikaru told the girls that were making their way over to us.
"He gets like this occasionally." Kaoru continued as both twins leaned back casually on their beach chairs like I had. After about a minute I sighed and stood up, dusting off my shorts.
"Well I'm going to take a walk, haven't seen Hunni and Mori in a while so I guess I'll go find them." I told the twins and they nodded.
"We'll mess with Tamaki for a while." They told me and I nodded as I began to walk away.
"Try not to drive him mad." I waved as I walked.
I made my way over to wherever I heard Hunni laughing. As I made my way closer to them I noticed something very strange. As I walked I noticed a growing number of shellfish scattered around the ground. It was rather strange, I hadn't expect this beach to be the sort to host all these shellfish. Scallops, clams, urchins, crab, muscles...this could all make quite the nice meal. I swear that would be the first thing going through Haruhi's mind if she saw this.
And judging by what I could see when I finally caught up with Hunni and Haruhi they were surrounded by buckets decorated with pink bunnies (naturally) and filled to the brim with the surrounding shellfish. They both really seemed to be enjoying themselves which made me pleased. I looked past them and noticed Mori looking peering over a pile of rocks that he seemed to have climbed up. I walked past Hunni and Haruhi who were so absorbed in their shellfish that they didn't seem to notice me. I quickly climbed up and peered over for myself.
Kyoya was standing next to a black van while members of his private police force seemed to be unloading shellfish in pink bunny buckets from the van. Admittedly I had seen weirder sights. The noise I made scrambling up the rock must have alerted Kyoya.
"You too Hisoka? Before you ask, my family's private police force stopped by. They brought shellfish in order to make it up to Hunni-sempai for attacking him at the water park."
"Fair enough." I told him and Mori began to clamber back down I nodded to Kyoya before heading back down the rocks myself. I tripped up alittle as I hit the ground and almost fell, Mori made the motion to catch me but I managed to catch myself in time. I smiled at Mori's attempt to catch me.
"Look how many we got!" Hunni exclaimed as he held up a clam to Mori and me.
"We're gonna have some fancy side dishes tonight." Haruhi added and I smiled, my Haruhi always did like her seafood. Tamaki who seemed to have come out of his gushing had made his was over here and was watching everyone else, he came and stood next to me and Mori.
"My my, certainly looks like they're enjoying themselves. All's right with the world." He remarked, we all looked over when Haruhi called over to the newly arrived Tamaki.
"Senpai, dinner is gonna be awesome." She called over excitedly as she waved to us all, "It's a major haul! Dinner is gonna be awesome. It'll be a real treat!"
I smiled as I noted that Haruhi appeared to have started to enjoy herself, Tamaki seemed to be revelling in this fact and walked over to Haruhi before picking up a crab from the sand, he stared at it for a moment before speaking to Haruhi. "Tell me, Haruhi. Isn't this crab crab-tivating?" He asked and I fought the urge to laugh at his pun, it was honestly a pretty good one all things considered. Haruhi turned around at Tamaki's words and smiled at him.
"Oh yeah, they are." She laughed and Tamaki stated gushing again.
"You're so cute." He remarked as I sat on one of the rocks behind me. After another short 10 seconds or so I heard a chorus of screams and looked towards the source. Like moths drawn to a light many of the female guests had begun to gravitate towards us, they all had been the ones to scream, as they screamed I could faintly make out the word centipede being uttered by some of the girls. I looked for where this bug could have come from and saw Haruhi calmly walking towards Tamaki who appeared frozen and picked something off the crab he was holding, it was probably this monster centipede. With no change in expression she walked towards the closest pile of rocks and threw the bug into them. Once done she simply dusted her hands off.
'This here is why whenever i find a bug in my flat Haruhi is the one to get rid of them, I always get paranoid that it will move.' I thought to myself as walked over to stand next to Tamaki and wriggled my toes in the sand again, the coarse grains feeling nice against my skin. The twins seemed to come up behind Haruhi and say something to her before all the girls that had been surrounding us went over to Haruhi and started gushing over how she was so manly at not being afraid of bugs. The twins seemed to take this as their opportunity to escape over to Tamaki and I, leaving Haruhi with her gushing fangirls.
"Haruhi is not normal." They commented together as they approached us, "I thought girls were afraid of bugs."
"Not all girls clearly." I commented as Tamaki finally shook his head out of his shock.
"I'm sure she's afraid of something..." He trailed off as we all looked at her. I heard a noise from the twins and looked over to them, their golden eyes were bright and a smirk was equally etched across their faces. It didn't take a genius to deduce that they had just come up with an idea.
"Hey boss, listen up. We just thought up a new game to play that could be a lot of fun. What do you say? It's called the "Who can find Haruhi's weakness" game. So think you're up to it?" Tamaki seemed to stare at them before replying.
"But that game sounds terrible." He told them in slight distaste as the twins turned their backs to him and began to walk away.
"Yeah, I guess you're right. Besides she'd only share her weakness with someone she was really close to." They commented dryly. Knowing that that phrase would have Tamaki hooked made be sigh as he called out to them with his arm outstretched getting them to pause.
"What are the rules?" He asked determined.
"Now that's more like it." The twins grinned as they turned back to face Tamaki and me, "The deadline is sunset tomorrow. Whoever finds out her weakness first wins."
"And I have the perfect prize for the game's lucky winner."
I jumped as I heard Kyoya's voice behind me, I spun around and my jaw dropped. The sneaky bastard was holding photographs of Haruhi and me...well more accurately 3 of Haruhi in middle school and one of me in my first year of middle school before I got my eyepatch.
While I stared at the photos in Kyoya's hand the rest of the club minus the additional female member seemed to have gathered around us. Hunni seemed to call out that he wanted to play too and so Kyoya began. "I guess that means we're all competing." He observed as like I was doing internally Tamaki began to spaz out and tried to get a better peek at the photos all the while asking where Kyoya had obtained the photos. It was only when Hunni asked that he replied.
"I have my sources. How about we just leave it at that for the moment." He smirked and that seemed to end the discussion for everyone but me.
Almost instinctively I began forward with my arm outstretched and tried to take the photo of me from Kyoya's hand. Immediately he held the photos high above his head so I couldn't reach them.
"Seriously Kyoya, give me that picture of me in middle school." I told him and reached up my arm to try and get the photo. Kyoya may only be 5 centimetres taller than me but man was it infuriating right now. The more I tried to reach the photo the closer to Kyoya I had to get which was annoying as when it got to the point that my chest was pressed right up against his as I tried to reach up I knew that all my fingers would be able to do is grasp at the photos, I would never get them. In the end I stepped back from him and he lowered his hand back down with the photos in them.
As I stared at the photos in his hand Kyoya looked down at me, "Seeing as I've already won this game by knowing Haruhi's weakness can't I at least get that photo of me?" I asked much to my surprise Kyoya sort of complied.
"How about you give us all a head start in this contest and then I'll hand the photo over." He suggested. I didn't even need to think about it.
"Haruhi isn't scared of: Heights, fire, scary movies, spiders, birds, needles, sharks and clowns. So good luck and happy weakness hunting." I stated bluntly and held my hand out to Kyoya who placed the photo of me in my hand.
"Thank you." I said and turned to the rest of the boys who were watching me. After a moment Tamaki raised his fist to the air with renewed vigour.
"Alright men, Hisoka has given us a head start so now asking Hisoka for the answer is grounds as instant disqualification. Let's go!" He announced. And with that began the 'let's find out Haruhi' weakness competition.'
'Oh well, at least it will be amusing to watch.'
(-+- Timeskip) -+-)
It was sunset now and so I had taken to sitting underneath a large structure of rock, there had been a path that I could have walked up to get a better view but the view from where I was sitting on the sand was pretty good so I didn't bother. The sunset was a beautiful array of pinks oranges and yellows and covered the whole sky. We only had another hour tops at the beach before we went back to our residences so this was a nice was to end it.
The 'let's find out Haruhi's weakness game' had been pretty poor so far and naturally I had made sure to snap a picture of every single attempt.
The twins had tried luring Haruhi into a 'haunted' cave and scaring her with the ghost tactics in their Paranormal fear strategy. It didn't work.
Hunni was abit more inventive and had himself and Haruhi shut into the truck that Kyoya's private police force had brought the shellfish in. He tried to kill two birds with one stone by seeing if the fear of the dark from within the van would freak her out, he then tried to see if claustrophobia would work on her, while at the same time testing if him having a claustrophobia attack would scare her...either that or his plan backfired on him and the claustrophobia attack was real. None of it worked.
Mori's attempt was simple. He tried to see if Haruhi was afraid of sharp objects by holding a harpoon to her face, God knows where he got it. That failed too. After taking all of the pictures I had left my camera on the table where Kyoya was so it didn't get lost, I was kind of regretting that as I kind of wanted to take a picture of the current sunset.
Currently the host club's victim was off somewhere gathering more shellfish. Hunni and Mori had decided that they would cook the crabs that they caught for dinner, I told them that I would make a Moroccan muscle pot with the dozens upon dozens of muscles that were caught. We also agreed that Mori and I would make an oyster plate. Dinner was looking luxurious tonight already...I was almost drooling...
"Hey Hisoka, look up here!"
I did look up and saw 3 of my regular guests standing atop the rock that I was sitting under. I stood up to get a better look at them. They were standing near the edge and looking across the sunset, "The breeze up here feels great!" One of them called down to me.
"Be careful up there ladies, it could be dangerous. Be sure not to fall." I called out to them.
The girls didn't really seem to hear my warning and one of them sighed dreamily. You're so dreamy Hisoka. The way you care for our safety makes me want to travel to your dream world and stay there forever in your protective embrace." She gushed and I sighed and leaned against the rock.
'Maybe I should go up too, a breeze sounds nice.' I thought to myself as the roughness of the rock dug into the fabric of my shirt. As I debated I froze as an unfamiliar male voice met my ears, it certainly wasn't one of our hosts.
"Hey, there are chicks up there man."
The first thoughts to go through my mind were something along the lines of 'shit' as I pushed myself off of the rock and began to run towards the base of the rocks. I ran up the rocks as quickly as I could almost tripping once or twice. My eyes widened as I reached the top of the rock. Two older boys were surrounding the 3 girls, one of them was roughly grabbing one of the girls by the wrist while the other boy had his arms wrapped around the other two. The girls were struggling in their grasps but the boys wouldn't let them go. I grew irritated by the sight and ran up behind one of the boys and hit him on the back of the neck, he groaned and let go of one of the girl's wrist. I felt a moment of triumph as she girls stepped back from the pony tail boy and she called out my name. My triumph then turned to fear as the boy turned around to face me with irritation in his eyes...I had kind of been hoping that the knock to the back of the head would have been enough to knock him out, clearly not.
'Maybe I can bluff my way out.' I thought to myself as I addressed the two boys.
"Why don't you guys leave the girls alone, you all heard them, they don't want you here so just leave them alone! If you guys don't leave now then the private police force we have stationed around the beach will stop you and arrest you." I told them with as much fierceness as I could in my voice, the girl that ponytail had released ran over behind me. The second guy that held the two other girls seemed to have a second thought and paused enough for the two girls he was holding to break free and run behind me as well. The ponytail guy on the otherhand just seemed to get angrier by the news.
"You little runt!" He shouted at me and stalked up towards me, as he did so the 3 girls ran away which was probably for the best. I tried to get away from him but he grabbed me by the wrist. The action caused me to tense up and ponytail smiled when he noticed.
"Looks like you're not as tough as you thought and besides that police force can't help you if they're not here." He snarled at me and began to drag me over to the edge of the rock face. I understood what he was going to do and eventually pushed myself away from him, as I did so I tried to throw a punch at the boy. My punch grazed the boy's cheek and I felt it touch him but he barely seemed to notice.
Pain erupted on my left side as it dawned on me that he had managed to punch me back on the left side of my face. I gasped as my vision clouded over. I guess I stumbled a bit, I can't quite remember. The last thing I remember was Tamaki frantically calling out my name as I felt my feet leave the ground and my world began submerged in black.