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Chapter fourteen: Law
"Why did you do this, Haruhi?"
Haruhi stares at Tamaki fearfully who is now trapped in her cage that is covered with dried brown rust, trying to figure out what is she going to do now. All around them, they both see dried blood splattered on walls and white paltered floors and torturing tools Haruhi used to make pain more deadly for her pleasure. She could hear chains rattling together, making clinking noises that sound more like laughter. Her breathing has gone heavily just like Tamaki, they both stared at each other with bewildered eyes…how did this happen?
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"Hey, Haruhi!" Arin greeted as she walked out of the classroom.
"Arin? What's up, I thought-"
"Yeah, no time to chat but I found the cutest picture that Zeith made for me," she took it out of her bag and showed it to Haruhi on her face. "See? Isn't it cute? It's all of us and the Broken Hearts café."
Haruhi could see the crayon colored picture from a mile away if she wanted to, the picture of smiling faces of all the girls grouped up together in the sun and the background of Broken Hearts was cute. He even put the boys in with colorful clown outfits on. Haruhi looked at everyone in the picture, the childish colorings of all the girls she know are in there…but something was a little off when she looked at the Broken Hearts window at the very top to see someone standing there…grinning at her.
"W-what's that?" Haruhi asked, pointing at that particular part of the café.
Arin looked puzzled and turned the picture around to see what she was talking about, only to say that is a smudged picture of something. Maybe Zeith tried to draw something and it got smuggled by something. Haruhi started to breathe normally, but she than spotted someone by the corner taking a picture and left. She could tell it was a girl and that got her worried, so she took Arin and told her to find the others so she could take them home herself. When Arin asked why, she said that someone is starting to stalk her and the others because some group of girls know that they have been talking to the boys and when that happens…
"What happens?"
"They'll take you to their so-called 'court,'"
"Court?" Arin gulped. "Did…you go to this place?"
"Almost, but nobody could because I'm a boy. To them, actually. When I…you-know-what, I was nearly put into trial if it weren't for Renge."
Arin widen her golden eyes in shock, how could someone so…weird, crazy, annoying and a pain inside the ass could have helped Haruhi out? Haruhi explained that they were friends a few months back, meaning that they are close enough to help each other for any reason. But right now, they have to get out with the others, Arin said that they are waiting nearby the gates and Haruhi started pacing faster along with Arin. They both found themselves running to the gates; Haruhi was blocking the sun from her eyes to get rid of the sun rays that are damaging her sight to see the girls standing around. When Yuuki saw them, she waved at them to come over, but then a large black van came running out of the street corner and halted. When all the girls saw the van, Haruhi screamed with all of her strength to run but it was too late, five groups of men came out of the van and took all of them into the truck forcefully. Kori ducked down and curled up like a ball but nobody noticed her, the girls are all pushed inside the back of the black van and the men went inside. By the time Arin and Haruhi got to the gate, the truck drove away to their unknown destination.
When Arin and Haruhi stopped running, they both start to talk so that they could plan on what they should do.
"Wait, how many came here?"
"Yuuki, Avalyn, I, Caitlin even though she refused and I guess that's it…"
"Okay, I got a plan," she said. "I'll dress up as a girl and I'll get to the court, I know the way and-"
"AHEM!" Kori coughed from the bottom of them, when they looked down, Arin and Haruhi saw a very pissed off Kori. "All right, maggots. I got a better plan; I'll go and see if I can get them. If I have a problem, call the cops and I'm gonna make sure that I don't get caught along the way."
"But-"
"Ah, no 'buts!'" Kori shouted at them. "I'm capable to do this, don't regret this decision or I'm gonna kick your asses. Got it?"
They both nodded automatically, not wanting to piss her off any further…
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"Maybe this was a bad idea…" Kori said, being squashed by a fat girl with short black hair with a white hairband.
When Haruhi gave her the directions to the 'court,' it was just an old stadium that nobody used except for the girls for their personal favors. Kori is sitting at the middle of the stadium and it is really squashed, she could not move at all and she could nearly gasp just for one misally piece of breathe. From the bottom of the whole stadium, she could see Avalyn and the girls all tied up on the light brown dirt ground. They all have blindfolds with Xs on their eyes, duct tape on their mouth and five male guards with black outfits that looked like executioners with pig masks on. From the top of them, she saw seven people all dressed in black robes that looked like judges clothing. Kori poked the overweighed girl and asked what is going on, but she did not pay attention to her because she was eating a raspberry chocolate chip ice cream in a cup. Kori was obviously getting nowhere with this, but she heard from her right someone chatting about it.
"Those girls are so receiving the dark room punishment,"
"No way, it's the blinding room punishment for sure!"
"Why are they getting punished again?"
"Duh, they were spending too much time with the Host club! For that, punishment is highly tolerated, right?"
"Yeah, you're so right."
Dark room? Blinding room? What kind of place was Ouran really like under their fancy makeup they used to make it so high class? Kori then heard a loud banging noise from under, she looked down and everyone dimed their voices.
"Ladies, welcome to the Court of Justice," said a girl with long brown hair with straight bangs that covered her eyes. "I hope you all are ready to see the cruelty of what happens if one takes a man from us!"
All the girls started cheering except for Kori who felt sick in the stomach.
"Now, do these peasants have a lawyer to present them?" the girl asked in a high laughing voice, looking at the pig masked men.
"No, Your Honor," they said in union, standing tall and proud before her.
"Well, this should be easy, what are they charged with?" the girl asked dolefully, looking at the golden blonde girl with light brown freckles that are all over her face.
The girl stood up and pushed back her dark green glasses. "They are all charge by the following category," she said high and mighty. "Talking with the Host club, involving themselves with the Host club…"
"This is bullshit…" Kori muttered to herself quietly.
When the girl finished her list of categories, she sits down on her stand and waits for the leader to speak of her study.
"Well done, now, since none of you have any lawyers to present you-"
"Wait!" three people shouted from the dark.
When everyone turned their attention to the door that swung open to bring out a flash of light that blocked the three figures that stood tall and proud, there stood Haruhi and Renge who wore a suit dress with a pencil skirt. Arin stood next to them, their hairs are tied up in ponytails and Haruhi has to wear a wig in order to not let anyone recognize her. The first judge only started to quietly chuckle, than a crazed laughter came out of her to reveal her true self. It was none other than Harumi herself who held up her wooden hammer to start slamming hard on the cup.
"Well, if it isn't Harumi?" Harumi shouted out loud, pointing her hammer at Haruhi who is dressed as her. "My dear twin," Harumi said, glaring her with her dark brown eyes, "let the games begin, shall we?"
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"So that's what happened?"
Haruhi nodded, she was hugging herself with her knees to cover her shamed face that was filled with tears that showed true sadness.
"Yes…what happened next was this…"
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"May I call the three witnesses?" Renge asked, looking at her papers to see their names. "Miss May Adams, Miss Lily Colder and Miss Sasha Summers."
Soon, the three spying girls who stalked the girls came forth. May Adams has a bob brown colored haircut with thick glasses that covered her eyes that did not show form. Lily Colder went to the second stand, her long bangs blocked her eyes that shine like the color of the sun and her hair is tied up to a tight bun which is golden brown. The last girl is Sasha Summers who only smiled brightly to everyone just has red hair like flames and her eyes are golden yellow. Haruhi decided to cross-examine them, Renge told her that if one of them is lying, use it against them. Haruhi nodded and goes up to the three girls who looked like they not only cared but are smiling at the girls who were once tied up. Because they have lawyers, they do not have to wear blindfolds or duct tape around their mouths.
"So you girls spy on my clients?" Haruhi asked, walking to them to talk near for them so they could hear.
"Yes, we all did,"
"When have you started spying my clients?" she was nervous, trying her best not to say 'friends.'
"January the twenty-seventh, two thousand and thirteen at presumably eight forty five p.m." Lily said with high control of her accurate calculations.
"That's very intelligent," Haruhi said sarcastically. "But tell me; how you knew that my clients were talking to the Host club?
"We have evidence on that," May said, giving her pictures of all the girls and their time with the boys. "As you can see, all of them have spent at least an hour or more on special occasions. To summaries, we calculated that they have also sent messages to each other and texts thirty minutes or less to prove so with socialness at a high level matter."
"This is very informative…but is it true that they have been messaging the Host club? Where's your proof of that?"
"A-ah, we don't have the papers…"
"That's odd; I thought your type of despicable stalkers would have papers of such needing necessities." Haruhi said with a high pitch of ironies to them who looked at each other nervously.
"Watch your tongue, bitch," Sasha hissed coldly at Haruhi. "Just because we don't have damn papers doesn't mean that we can't tell you that they did spend time with them."
"Okay, show us your proof," Haruhi asked, glaring at her. "You've been awfully quiet for the past twenty minutes before, is something troubling you?"
"N-no…"
"So, you, under oath could tell me with your own two eyes that you have evidence that they have been sending messages together?"
The three girls are now at hot water, all the girls in the stadium are all whispering to each other because Haruhi is doing extremely well.
"Therefore, if you don't have this kind of evidence, then there's no proof whatsoever!"
The judges all together slammed their hammers, they called order to all the girls who are all gushing at this lawyer for being so talented and said that the witnesses may take their leave. But Sasha was screaming at the lawyer because she is underground a serious tantrum problem, so Harumi waved over one of the pig faced men and he took her with his arms tied up around her so she would not escape. Now came to the next witness who is going to explain how she knew that Kyouya was dating secretly with Yuuki. She came to the stand and she flipped her flaming red hair and glared at Haruhi with her icy blue eyes that made her frozen but continued to cross-examine her. She starts to explain that she noticed Yuuki talking to Kyouya on rare occasions; usually she would fall asleep during class for some odd reason and never did much. Yuuki tried her best not to attack her from the spot the girl is in.
"So…can you tell me your name?"
"It's Isa, Isa Rose."
"Ah, the Rose family…weren't you set up with the Ootori family's son? But what happened?"
Isa stiffens, "I-I forgot…" a flush came across her face.
"It states in these papers I was given to my loyal friend Renge that you were forgotten later on because your family was undergoing a money crisis. It was resolved but Mr. Ootori forbidden you to be in any relationship with Kyouya, therefore giving reason why you have been spreading rumors around school."
"Th-that's preposterous!" Isa shouted and she turned to the judges. "Can't you see she's spreading more lies?"
"She's right," one judge said who is on the side for Kyouya. She has a blue rose printed in her robes to show proof. "You have gone under a money crisis. You would've had opportunity and motive to spread rumors. The judges shall withdraw her testimony, please bring the last witness and we'll all take a ten minute break."
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"This is great, Haruhi," Renge said to her, folding her arms with an impressed smile to her. "You really got what it takes to be a lawyer!"
"Are you thinking about being a lawyer, Renge?"
"Oh, no," Renge said. "I'm only doing this because I got the chance to cosplay as a lawyer, and I even get to see Haruhi perform so well as well as seeing him in boy version!"
Arin backed away, not wanting to be attacked by her with her super tight hugs that she is now giving to Haruhi. Arin looked over to her right to see the girls, wrapped with a red towel around them and drinking hot tea. That was when she heard loud, stampeding footsteps that came to her direction…when she turned around again, she saw Kori with her hands into fists and she looked like she was going to attack her! Arin was lucky however because Kori is so short that she could merely use her hand to place it on her head, and without using any force whatsoever, to hold her down so she would not move. Kori waved around her arms around, trying to shake her out so she could pulverize her to death. Haruhi from the distance only mentally chuckled, but she knew she has to go and do something right now. so she excused herself and went back into the courtroom where she saw all the judges together, talking to each other causally. When she looked up to see Harumi, she grinned and told everyone that she wishes to speak with Haruhi…alone. All the girls got up, bowed down to her and all left so Harumi could talk with Haruhi in peace.
"So…how're you?" Harumi asked, getting down the small stairs to get near her as Haruhi walks over to her.
"Same like usual, just less killing because of you,"
"Ah, yes," she said. "That whole sin bullshit is so boring, and you know it since we went to church once. I refused to drink their crap and as my little sister, you agreed not to. Ever since then, your mother and father refused to talk to me, even look at me! But, I guess that's normal."
"You knew that they loved you, they have and they would've still…"
"If I drank that crap, I wouldn't be able to find real happiness! That load of crap about heaven and hell doesn't exist, you said so yourself. But I guess once I finish with this court, I might go somewhere better and kick back. I can't stand this horse shit with you or anyone here." Harumi turned around with her arms folded and stopped to not look at her. "You do know…you'll have to tell him, right?"
"Yes…I'm planning on it."
"It's gonna happen tonight…you'll see." Harumi grinned with her teeth, looking at her. "And you know that he'll think you're crazy…" and, she was gone…for now.
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"And…that's what happened after our meeting,"
"So…you don't know how you're sister survived?"
"It could be that, but it could be that I made her up in my head," she said, tapping her head with her finger. "But anyway, after four hours that it took for the girls to think, they said not guilty and they were free to go. I highly doubt they'll forget this, but I can tell by telling you all of this that you think I'm a freak."
"No, that's wrong."
"Then why didn't you believe me when Isabella lied to you? Why didn't you stop the bullying? Why couldn't you be with me instead of her?"
Tamaki looked up to her with his violet eyes that sparkled with dewdrops of tears.
"I'm sorry…I don't know why I didn't do anything…"
"It's okay, but can you please leave me?" Haruhi asked.
"Bu-but I can't leave you all alone in this cage, I can find the key and-"
"No, I mean…" she took a deep breath and finally said it. "Can you please go away, meaning…can you never speak to me again?"
To be continued…
We beg. That is all I can truly say in these words
But what we all can do is move forward
What is there is unknown but I'll push myself to the light
All I ask if forgiveness and you shall no longer be in the night