HEY! Whoot, i got's five reviews, i was so happy this morning, i had a good day at school and everything :)
Soo... lets clear stuff up...
Dragon of Twilight - Yeah, I loved writing the last chapter because i got to put my own opinion in there... and the whole having Mori put his hand over Saori's mouth thing was just a stroke of genious i had a three in the morning :)
Mizuki Yumeko - ... unfortunately, no, i did not kill Renge. The plot bunnies are holding back on me :(
Kuramas red red rose - I just wanted to be the one to set off the insanity. Otaku-slayer... i love you :D
Mitsuki Hiyasii - first, love your pic, Cliff x Claire (3) ... and don't worry, the Mori love is coming up ;)
And sister friend - I'm makin it up XD but any hints would be nice, I'll try to encorporate it somewhere in the story.
ALSO! I got hit in the head today and had an epiphany. As soon as i finish this story (might take a while) I'm gonna make a sequal. But for now i have to concentrate on this, so very sorry.
Have fun reading, sorry for rambling. Much love peeps!
Renge moaned from the sofa, and while the twins had cracked up laughing, I got a sharp look off Kyouya. I grumbled walking over to Renge, and hoisted her up to her upright position.
"You're a horrid person you know..." she mumbled, averting her eyes from mine.
"I've been told. Are you okay though?"
"I suppose."
Honey brought over two cups of milk. I took mine right away and started drinking it as you couldn't say no to Honey. When he offered the other cup to Renge, she didn't take it, but regarded him wearily.
"Lukewarm..." she said.
"Huh?" I looked at her confused, so did Honey.
"Every single one of you! Except from Kyouya, all of your characters are lukewarm!"
We looked at her. Could she be serious?
"Each of you needs to have a dark side, do you understand? Girls are vulnerable to handsome young men are troubled! If you keep carrying on like this then it's only a matter of time until the girls get tired of you and stop coming altogether! Are you trying to ruin my precious Kyouya's business?"
We looked at her. Was she seriously serious?
"As your manager, it's my duty to change your character backgrounds." she whirled around to Honey. "Lets start with you!"
He cringed away, trying to hide behind Mori. Rather unsuccessfully might I note.
"If you're always cute inside and out then you're no different to a baby! Therefore from now on you are the baby faced thug! And Mori-sempai, you are his childhood friend, the flunky."
Mori stood there looking at her questioningly while Honey looked truly mortified at the idea of being a mean person for five minutes. She then whirled around to the twins and Haruhi.
"The twins will be basketball players enslaved in their own world. Haruhi, you're an honor student who's constantly being bullied!"
She turned her evil eye to Tamaki, who was sweating profusely.
"And... as for you Tamaki. You're the school idol who's admired for your good looks but you actually have an inferiority complex you're hiding from the world! The Lonely Prince."
Afterwards she 'squeed' and turned to Kyouya with a huge smile on her face.
"Ah! And Kyouya, you're perfect just the way you are now, so I want you to stay as kind and affectionate as ever, 'kay?"
He gave her what may have looked like a genuine smile (if you were wearing rose tinted spectacles) and said;
"Thank-you, I'm honored."
I flumped down on the sofa. Tamaki was going through a drama stage but I was too busy thinking about something. She had probably left me out on purpose. I was 'supposedly' the only female host, I didn't have a tenth as many clients as the boys did, so I wasn't important. Why should I be? I'm only the gossip girl. What's so special about me?
I let out a sigh and squashed myself further back into the pink cushions. Mori sat next to me and patted my head sympathetically.
"She left me out on purpose." I mumbled to him.
"Yeah. I don't like her either."
"I didn't think I could dislike someone so much!"
He smiled at me.
"Wanna go work on being more feminine?"
I gave him a look that clearly said 'say whaaat?'
"You, me and Mitsukuni can go and make some cookies that you can actually eat. If you want?"
"Yeah. That's a good idea."
* * *
"Takashi the dough's sticking to my hands!"
I laughed as I went over to Honey to scrape the cookie dough off his hands and face. Takashi was in a similar mess, but as he'd been kneading the dough he'd managed to flick some up into his hair.
We'd already baked two batches each, but it was so fun we just kept making more, and supplies of ingredients never seemed to run out. We were all covered in flour, and there were eggshells dotted around.
"Okay, picking bits of food off you guys is definitely not making me feel girly." I laughed
They started laughing too, but it was no surprise because we'd drank about a liter of cola each. We were all pretty hyper, Mori too. We were laughing so hard that we didn't notice anyone else come in.
"Hey! So this is where you've been."
I spun around, but in doing so I slipped on some egg that had been left on the floor. With a shriek I started falling. Then I felt Mori grab hold of me, but he slipped on the egg too and we both fell to the floor. Next thing I knew, flour was being poured over us. Sputtering I sat up again.
"Why is flour being poured on me?" I started to wipe it off. Honey was laughing along with the twins, and Haruhi who had just entered the room.
"Takashi knocked it when you two fell~"
"Oh."
I twisted around to look at the giant of an eighteen year old, still holding onto my waist. He was laying spread eagled on the floor, blinking. Then he looked at me, and smiled.
"It's you're fault you know. You should have cleared that egg up."
"Yeah, I know."
I flicked some flour at him, and he in response flicked some back. It soon escalated into a whole cookie dough war, where the dough we had worked, oh-so hard on making was spattered across the room, Hikaru, Kaoru and Honey joined in, even Haruhi after she got hit in the face with a large blob of cookie dough.
We must have been lobbing flour, eggs, butter blobs and dough around for ages, because we only stopped when the room (and ourselves) were covered in the gooey mess, and we heard a loud yell from the doorway;
"Stop!"
We all flinched, quite visibly, at the voice. Inching around, we saw a shocked Kyouya, Tamaki and Renge in the door.
"What... How... Who started this?" spluttered Kyouya, flabbergasted is what my mum would have said.
I was about to step forward, when I heard a deep voice from behind me.
"It was me Kyouya, sorry."
We all looked at Mori, mouths agape. It was me, and I was going to say so when he rested a hand on my shoulder, silently telling me to be quiet. So I did.
"I'll have it cleaned up. Don't worry."
Silence. Kyouya considered it for a moment, then shrugged.
"Whatever you say Mori-Sempai."
And he walked away.
He so knew it was me.
"We... better get started then..." I mumbled looking for a mop.
"No, it's okay, I'll have my maids come in."
"Fine... but you didn't have to take the blame you know."
He just shrugged and smiled, then I felt my mobile vibrate in my pocket and Skillet's song 'Comatose' started up. I grabbed it and answered.
"Saori, you need to come home soon. Dinner's nearly ready, and if it goes cold good help me I'll-"
"Okay grandma. Bye."
I shut the phone, then sighed.
I turned to the guys.
"I gotta go, keep the cookies, seeya tomorrow!"
I ran out to get home. If I was too late, grandma would go ape shit on me.
* * *
General
As Saori ran out, everyone started getting ready to leave too. Mori pulled out his mobile and pushed in a number, he walked away for a moment to talk, giving the others chance to gossip.
"I haven't seen Mori-sempai smile so much, have you?" asked Haruhi. She hadn't known the older boys as long as the twins had, and since Honey was stood nearby he might drop a few hints to the tall boys behavior.
"Nah, not so many times in one day... but really...-" started the older twin.
"You should ask Honey sempai, nobody knows Mori sempai more than Honey sempai." finished the younger twin.
"Yeah, I will." and with that Haruhi strode towards the cutest member of the host club, leaving the twins looking dumbfounded.
"Honey sempai, I need to ask you something." she asked.
"You want to know why Takashi is acting different." said Honey, sounding rather more mature than usual.
"W-well, kinda."
Honey looked at her, and smiled softly. It wouldn't be obvious to many people yet because Mori could be so plain faced, and that could make it hard to tell his feelings. But he could see.
He almost whispered his next sentence, but the sheer certainty in his voice stunned Haruhi into silence.
"Takashi likes her."
