Hello, my dear readers. Have I ever told you all just how much I love you all? No? Well guess what. You guys are awesome, Each and every one of you. Yes, even the kid sitting in the corner of an abandoned warehouse reading this on a laptop. I even love you. Thank You all for reading my story, it means so much to me!
You will never guess what happened. I was on the City bus, when I drove past a graveyard. And guess what decided to come up on shuffle on my iPod. Cemetery Drive, by My Chemical Romance. Is that cool, or am I just weird? Because I thought it was pretty cool.
Speaking of music, my current obsession is Dig, by Incubus. If you haven't heard it, you should look up the epicness. And if you have heard it, but don't agree with me, you stink. XD But I still love you because you're reading. Smelly Reader. XD Ok, enough chatter, on with the Chapter! (Ha-ha, pun. XD)
Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran High school host club, only my characters and plot. The rest belong to Hatori Bisco-sama!
Kichi was drifting awake slowly, taking in the softness of her surroundings.
'This is a really comfortable limo…' was one of her first thoughts, as she stretched slightly, burrowing her head into the pillow. 'Wait… Limo?' Kichi's eyes opened dazed as she looked around at her surroundings, before sweat dropping.
'Right, Definitely not a limo,' she deadpanned, flopping back onto the bed. 'Wait, how did I get here? I don't remember anything leaving the aquarium…' Kichi pursed her lips slightly in concentration, while staring at the ceiling.
'If it's really that important, I will find out later,' She resolved slowly, dragging herself out of bed and over to her window. She dragged open the curtains, waiting to be blinded by the sunlight, but she wasn't. Instead she was looking at a gloomy, overcast sky, which seemed to be threatening rain. She gazed up into the clouds, wondering if there would be any lighting, if it did rain.
Kichi really loved storms; she found them to be really great stress relievers. Back in the U.S. she would always go sit in the backyard to watch the lightning until her parents shepherded her inside, clamoring about the unsafely of staying outside. Her favorite thing of a storm was always the thunder. It was so deep and powerful, that it felt comforting to her.
She walked over to her dresser, getting dressed and reminding herself to stay near a window today, so she could see when the storm started.
When Kichi entered the dining room to get some breakfast, she was smiling happily.
"First time making it all the way here without getting lost," she informed the twins as she took a bit of omelet. Yuzaha laughed as the twins both smirked.
"Well, actually, we are remodeling some of the halls. You might have to be finding a different route," they both said as Kichi dropped her fork.
"What!" She exclaimed incredulously, starring at them in horror. They both snickered.
"We are only joking." Kichi starred for a minute in disbelief.
"I can't believe I actually fell for that," she replied slowly, resisting the urge to face palm. The twins both laughed before turning to Yuzaha.
"Didn't you say that we could help with the fashion designs today?" They both asked expectantly, as Kichi smiled slightly. There was no separating or distracting the twins from their favorite hobby.
"Yeah, I think so. Kichi, would you like to model for us?" Yuzaha asked excitedly, clasping her hands together in eagerness.
"I'm sorry, I have Karate Practice really soon, I should actually be leaving now," Kichi said quickly, suddenly incredibly grateful of the Dojo, and not at all sorry.
"Oh, well that's too bad," Yuzaha said as she and the twins sulked, watching Kichi stand up, grab a piece of toast while smiling apologetically and going back to get her bag.
Kichi walked through the doors, relishing being back in the atmosphere that filled the Dojo. Waving at Shishou, she walked into the locker rooms to change into her Gi.
The class seemed to go faster than normal. It was like one second she was bowing into the training area, the next second she was bowing out. The other black belts were all joking around after class, like they usually did. Kichi watched them with a warm feeling growing inside her.
Checking her watch, she noticed that her bus was going to be coming soon. She smiled as she waved to everyone, and then walked out the front door of the Dojo, pulling her iPod out of her pocket as she did so. The bus came about ten minutes later, which was a little later than usual, but Kichi jumped on anyway, sitting by the window on the once again empty bus.
Once she got to her stop, Kichi thanked the bus driver and walked about three blocks to the mansion. She was about to knock on the door when it opened. At first, Kichi thought that Kotone had been watching for her, it was a favorite pass time of hers to open doors the second before the person knocked.
But instead it was Honey. She looked down at him for a minute, blinking in confusion and surprise as to why he was at the mansion before he spoke.
"Hika-chan and Kao-chan invited all of us over today, because they wanted to try some of their mother's designs on Haru-chan," he explained as he stepped aside to let her in. She nodded slowly as she set her bag down, watching Takashi walk down the hall towards them.
"I just went to go get Chi-chan," Honey told Takashi, gesturing importantly to Kichi who was pulling off her shoes. Takashi nodded as Honey jumped onto his shoulders, and waited for Kichi to finish taking off her shoes before motioning to follow him.
They walked to a different part of the house that Kichi had never been in before; she looked around curiously as she listened to her music, trying to remember what turns they were making, but after the fourth fork in the path she gave up.
"How do you know your way around here?" Kichi asked interestedly, looking up at them as they turned left into a large hallway.
"I don't, but Takashi does. He always remembers directions," Honey explained, patting Takashi's head, who nodded as he held out a hand in front of Kichi, pointing to a door on the right the she was about to walk past.
"Oh… Well that's a lucky memory," Kichi moped as she opened the door. "I can't remember directions to save my life." Honey giggled and Takashi's eyes shone in amusement as they all walked into the room.
The room was huge, and filled with loads of racks, along with a huge sketching desk, and some racks of cloth. She spotted Haruhi, who was trying to hold up a pile of clothes that the twins were adding too, going through racks and giving her every other piece of clothing. Tamaki was going through the dress racks, and was picking out the pinkest, and most frilly clothing he could find for what Kichi presumed was Haruhi. Yuzaha was sitting at her sketching table, watching the twins with amusement and Kyoya was typing on his laptop, no doubt researching the Hitachiin fashion history or something related to the topic. Honey walked past her and up to Yuzaha.
"I got Chi-chan like you asked!" He announced to her, making the twins freeze, and look over to her with a creepy smile.
"Well, well, well. Will you look who decided to show up," they said eerily as she backed up, running into Takashi.
"Gomen, Takashi," Kichi said as she moved around him, desperately trying to get to the door.
"Kichi-chan, we were expecting you anytime now, we didn't want to have Haruhi start dressing up without you here as well!" Yuzaha called out to Kichi, who froze, looking back at them with a panic-stricken expression.
"W-well, I think I have some homework I have to get done," Kichi said, trying frantically to find a way to reject without plainly stating her refusal to dress up. Yuzaha just smiled.
"Oh, you can finish that later. Now the twins already picked out some clothes for you to try on, and we put them in the back room," she replied, pointing to a large door to her right.
Kichi looked helplessly around the room, silently begging someone to help her, but no one did.
"Sounds like lots of fun, right Chi-chan?" Honey asked sweetly, blinking his eyes up at her. Kichi mentally groaned. When Honey brought out his huge eyes, she knew it would be no use.
Considering telling him if it was so fun, he should try on all the clothes, Kichi looked back over to Honey, who smiled pleasantly.
'Cheater,' Kichi groaned as she stormed into the backroom. 'He must have known exactly what I was thinking. I don't get why people think he is so innocent.'
She stepped into the room, closed the door then looked around, mentally groaning again. If it weren't that her current host-guardian was there, she would have shouted about her displeasure out to the twins. All of the clothes were either dresses or skirts. She inspected all the clothes for a second, trying and failing to find some jeans, or any type of shorts.
'I hate skirts. And dresses.' Kichi mentally complained, keeping up a continuous rant in her head about having to be her host family's 'doll'.
She was still looking around in a huff when she passed a window. Looking outside, she saw that the wind had really picked up during the small amount of time that she had been inside. The wispy grey clouds were rolling by fast as the leaves on the trees swayed with the wind. She could hear the small pitter of the rain, which seemed to be getting louder by the second, plummeting down to the ground with increasing size.
Watching the storm in a dream-like state, Kichi was brought back from her reverie when a large fork of lightning flashed through the sky. She opened the window, watching with interest, until the lights started to flicker as the loud thunder clapped, making the windows vibrate.
Almost immediately after the thunder, there was a loudcluck and a shriek from the other room, and the lights stopped flickering, going out completely. Kichi stumbled over the clothes racks, trying get to the other room to find out the reason for someone screaming, when she ran straight into a large rack of clothes that tangled her inside the hangers and fell over, dragging her with it.
'This is great,' Kichi thought, trapped under the rack and intertwined into the hangers. 'How am I going to get out of this mess?' She struggled against the rack for a minute, but only succeeding in getting herself more twisted into the hangers.
'Well… Fail,' Kichi thought, giving up and relaxing into the jumble that she had gotten herself into. She lay there for about five more minutes before the lights flickered on again. It was teasingly agonizing to her that every time there was a loud clap of thunder, it was echoed by another shriek from the other room, and that she didn't know who or why the person was. She tried several times to call out for help, but no one could hear her over the roaring over the storm from the open window. Finally, the door clicked open as Honey walked in.
"What happened, Chi-chan?" He asked in astonishment as Kichi sighed, relieved that someone had found her.
"I'm not too sure of that myself, Honey. Could you help me out? I have been here for a while, and every time I try to get out, I just get more stuck…" Kichi said, trying to maneuver herself out of the pile again. Honey laughed as he rushed over to her and began to untangle hangers out of the mess. After a minute of removing hangers, he realized how big the job was going to be.
"Takashi, can you come here and help?" He called into the other room. Takashi came into the room, and froze, his eyebrows raised at the heap. Honey and Kichi both giggled, which seemed to awaken him back to his senses as he walked over and helped unravel the mess.
"I have to ask, do you think that you could have made a bigger mess then me, if you tried?" Kichi asked mock-solemnly as she unsuccessfully tried to help them untangle herself. Honey laughed shaking his head as Takashi smiled faintly.
"Well, I guess that means I am pretty talented," she sighed, giving up on helping and relaxing into the pile. Takashi smiled while ruffling her hair.
"Not talent, gift." He corrected her in amusement as she sulked at him, unable to smooth her hair back over because her hands were trapped, and Honey laughed again. She was about to reply, when they were interrupted by another clap of thunder and yelp from the other room.
"Who is that?" Kichi asked urgently, trying to sit up, but was stopped by the rack.
"Haruhi." Takashi replied. Kichi looked up at them then back to the door in concern.
"Haru-chan's just afraid of thunder, but don't worry. Tama-chan had it all under control." Honey said, smiling slightly at this. Kichi nodded slowly, reassured, but still slightly worried. After a while, Haruhi's screams were becoming fewer and quieter, even though the thunder was increasing in volume.
Once she was free of all of the hangers and the rack, they walked into the next room to find Haruhi fast asleep in between Tamaki and the twins, who were watching her protectively. Kichi smiled warmly at the little group, before realizing Yuzaha was gone.
"She went to go check on the electricity, then on dinner," Kyoya murmured quietly, appearing at Kichi's side. Kichi looked up at him, nodding slightly before looking back at the group. Lighting flashed again, illuminating the window as Kichi looked outside again.
'Should I stay? It looks like she is taken care of, and asleep. And it's going to be a really good storm…'
Deciding that she could be gone for a little while, she inched towards the door, then slipped past it and walked quickly down the hall.
Wandering the never ending hallway, Kichi started opening doors, trying to find a door leading her outside.
'Guest room… Gaming room… mini-theater?' Kichi mentally listed, peering around the doors. 'Well… I suppose they ran out of ideas, of what to do with so many rooms…' Kichi thought, sweat dropping.
'I might just run into a museum.'
After a lot of searching, Kichi finally found a door to outside, and bolted through it.
Instantly feeling the cold rain soaking though her clothes, Kichi savored the feeling of the wind blowing through her now soaked hair. The rain was coming down in sheets, plummeting to the ground and making large puddles everywhere.
She walked along the grass towards a large tree, breathing in the fresh smell of the rain. She froze watch as the lightning flash across the sky again, and the thunder rumbled around her, making her feel like she was vibrating along with it. As the reached to tree, she sat down at the base, ignoring all the mud and water that was getting smeared all over her in the process and sat blissfully during the storm, her mind focusing solely on the storm.
She must have drifted off at some point, because the next thing she knew there was splashing noise as footsteps approached her. She sat up, trying to remember when she had laid down. Wiping mud off of one of her eyes, she looked up to see Honey and Takashi both standing in front of her. They both looked at each other in confusion and amusement for a couple minutes.
"Um… Hi?" Kichi asked, grinning sheepishly up at the pair.
"Why are you asleep on the ground, or even outside for that matter?" Honey asked worriedly, as Kichi laughed again.
"I didn't mean to fall asleep; I was just watching the storm." Kichi replied, looking back at the storm, which was almost nonexistent now, and wondering just how long she had been out here.
"You were gone for a while, we all got really worried!" Honey said tearfully, hugging Usa-chan to him.
"Gomen, Honey. I didn't mean for you to worry. I would hug you right now, but I would get you all wet…" Kichi smiled apologetically.
A feeling of cold then passed through her as she got to her feet, and started coughing.
"Chi-chan?" Honey asked uncertainly as Kichi finished her coughing fit, and looked down at him with bleary eyes.
"I'm fine Honey, my throat is just dry," she tried to reassure hum before coughing again. She felt a warm, large hand on her shoulder as Takashi spoke.
"You should get inside," he told her, worry being reflected in his eyes. Kichi slowly nodded, as they walked back to the mansion.
Well? Do you people like it? I updated on time today because, I have no school. But updates are slowing down, as of this update. Sorry. So, Please Review! I can't tell you how much it means to me for you to review!