Sorry, sorry, been going on an Avenger/Superhero marathon all week! Loki~! (Fangirls loudly) And Iron man...and Hulk. XD And then there was the SAR: Some Assembly Required done by Jexthejinx on Youtube...Can ya blame me?
Kazukiyo was tucked tightly into a ball, his knees brought to his chest and his arms around them, his face in the form of a frightened little boy who wanted nothing more than to leave the school he was in...Especially since it was night time. Haruhi was against a wall, next to a small column with a statue on it, holding up a fishing rod. Isami, however, was between the Hitachiin twins'.
And Hikaru, being Hikaru of course, had to begin with a devilish smirk, "Hey, Kaoru, tell us the story...about the evil clock tower Witch." Isami tensed, her breathe hitching slightly. Kazukiyo just shivered and the two scaredy cats just listened as Kaoru spoke, a devilish grin on his face,
"One day, may years ago, a girl dressed in a witch costume, fell to her death from the tower." Isami snapped her head up and asked, stuttering slightly,
"Wh-What?" Her eyes were wide and she was paler than usual. Kazukiyo's head shot up and tensed, grinding his teeth together as another shiver ran through him. Both of their gazes moved towards the clock tower that was located right outside the window.
"And now..." Kaoru began again, only finishing in unison with Hikaru,
"Whoever sees her on Halloween Night," They moved in front of the trembling duo and grinned, eyes flashing, "Be cursed FOREVER!" Kazukiyo screamed,
"No! Please stop it you guys!" He had tears streaming down his face as he stood, screaming. Isami merely flinched and buried her face in her knees, determined not to look at the tower. Haruhi stood, angered, and placed her fists on her hips, growling,
"Will you guys knock it off!?" She demanded, pissed, "The point of the game is to scare someone not on your team! Why don't you guys save that dumb shtick for somebody else!?" The twins wrapped their arms around each others shoulders and complained in unison,
"But nobody's come yet; we're tired of waiting around!" They then glanced at Isami with smirks on their faces and continued, "Besides, we wanted Isami to get scared and cling to us!" The girl, though you could not see her face, felt her face burn and she promptly ignored the twins'.
"As if that's going to happen now!" Haruhi barked, crossing her arms with a glare, "You were the ones who told her the story! She's gonna cling to me instead, you idiots!"
"You don't know that." They argued. Isami, lifting her head up slowly and seeing Kazukiyo's soul leaving his body, squealed in alarm and reached up, grabbing it and stuffing it back into his body, declaring,
"I got your soul, Kazukiyo!"
"Not so fast, you two!" Haruhi barked and grabbed the brothers' collars, preventing them from escaping. They let out sounds of protest and she ordered, "You two are going to sit there, against that wall, until the other team comes, got it?"
"But-"
"Got it?"
"...Fine..." They sounded disappointed and annoyed at the same time. She smiled,
"Good."
"Hey...Class Rep, I borrowed this book from the library." Isami said quietly, pulling out a very worn, and very old book, "Sure Fire Methods for Coping with Anxiety." She told him, reading the title slowly.
"Fujioka..." Kazukiyo said in surprise, not expecting such kindess from her. Haruhi knelt down and took the book out of her sister's hands gently, saying,
"Now, let's have a look, shall we?" She flipped through the pages, before pointing at a sentence and reading, "Ways to cope when dealing with Anxiety: Number one, Just pretend everything is okay. It'll be over eventually." Isami read next, paling slightly at the ridiculous methods the book possesses,
"Second, Whistle a cheerful little tune? How the hell is that supposed to help!?" Kazukiyo seemed to turn into stone, slowly breaking. "A-And repeat to yourself, "I'm Brave?" That-That doesn't help at all!" She cried, tears streaking down her face. Kazukiyo snapped, standing and pressing his hands against his face as he cried,
"Are you kidding me!? None of those things actually work!" He ran around in circles before just stomping repeatedly, "You can call me the "Captain of all Cowards" you can scream for the rooftops for all I care; Just get me out of here!" He screamed before collapsing, face-planting into the ground. His soul started to leave again and Kaoru commented, re-positioning himself on the floor,
"Really? Even if it means Kurakano will think you're a big chicken?" His soul quickly reentered his body and he sat up, smiling and closing his eyes as he thought about the auburn haired girl, his heart rate increasing and a blush growing across his face. Haruhi grinned,
"Whoa, wait a minute...What's goin' on with you and Kurakano?" He instantly grew flustered,
"Nothing! Nothing's going on at all! I just knew her since we were little, that's all! None of this has anything to do with it!" Isami giggled slightly at his reaction and the Hitachiin twins' moved away from the wall, in front of Kazukiyo, and asked with grins,
"Fine, fine, we understand." They both smiled and Hikaru spoke, tilting his head slightly,
"Funny how you told us how you didn't want to throw your weight around." And Isami's thoughts made her blush red, but she couldn't help but think, They're so sexy when they smirk like that...Her face went tomato red and she quickly covered it with her hands, embarrassed at such thoughts. Kaoru continued, smirking sexily,
"When the only reason you agreed to this, was because you didn't want to look like a scared-y cat."
Kazukiyo's eyes went slightly misty, a small blush on his face, as he spoke quietly, "That's not it...That's not the reason why I couldn't oppose it. I-It's just.." He could remember Kurakano's smile and happy face, plain as day. Kazukiyo fidgeted slightly as he thought about her, causing the male twins' to tilt their heads and ask,
"Huh...?"
"Kurakano...well," He started again, not looking at any of them, "she had her heart set on this tournament. I-I didn't want to let her down so I-so I couldn't say "no."
The twin brothers' gained stress marks on their faces as they inhaled sharply, asking, "You mean-?"
"Oh, crap!" Hikaru gasped, alarmed as he and his brother backed away from the boy, "He's totally pure!"
Kaoru waved his arms around frantically, sweat beading down his frightened and worried face, crying out, "He's got a heart of gold, Hikaru!"
"Our powers are nothing against his wholesomeness!" An image of Tamaki popped in Haruhi and Isami's head and they instantly thought,
A pure type that is easy to pick on? They looked at each other and shrugged. Hikaru then asked, crossing his arms,
"So...does this mean we have to help him now?" He blinked when Isami gave him a look that practically read, "What do you think?"
Just then she saw a shadow, a large-ass shadow, pass by the window. She froze and sweat started to bead down her face, her breathing becoming slightly labored as her heart rate quickened in fear,
"D-Did you guys just-Did you guys see that?" Haruhi had stress marks on the side of her face, seeing it too, and asked, voice trembling slightly,
"That creepy shadow just now..."
"Ou-outside the w-window...?" Kazukiyo started to freak out, declaring,
"Ah, not you too, Fujiokas'! Knock it off, would'ya!?" It went silent as their was the thumping of something falling down the stairs. The entire group tensed, frightened, and headed slowly over to the stairs, watching in complete terror as a skull bounced down the staircase, before landing on the ground at Isami's feet.
Her breathing became shallow and a scream echoed around the hall, but it took a full moment for her to realize that it was her. Soon, the rest of the group followed her lead and screamed.
"T-This is a sneak attack by those A-Team acts..." Kaoru stuttered, voice cracking slightly as he stared fearfully at the skull.
I-Is that blood? He wondered briefly in the back of his mind, staring frightfully at the skull.
"Hey," Hikaru snapped, but he was a little shaken too. "It's not your turn guys! Follow the ru-ules~!" He shouted as he kicked the skull back up the stairs. Isami felt as though her life had been sucked out of her, panting heavily with a headache starting to form.
She just wanted nothing more than to go home. But, she had to admit, Hikaru was pretty brave. Kaoru's plaudits echoed around the hallway as he cheered,
"Yeah! You show 'em!"
"Go, Hikaru?" Isami cheered weakly, too out of breath to do much more.
"My skull..." A voice echoed around the room, up from atop the stair case. The entire group froze and watched as a person with dark, matted hair, that stopped just below their shoulders, wearing a torn, bloody white dress walked into their view. "My skull..." Isami and Kazukiyo jumped when the clock tower bell started to ring.
"H-Hikaru...K-Kaoru..." The pale brunette whimpered, tears starting to prick her eyes as she stepped back towards them. The brothers' barely registered her words as they slowly turned their wide eyes to look down at the trembling girl. "C-can we leave now?"
"Could it be..." Kazukiyo began, making his voice grow louder by the moments. Isami's breathing hitched as he cried out, "The CLOCK TOWER WITCH!?"
"Why did you kick...my skull?!" The creature demanded, lifting it's head up and parting it's dark hair, revealing it's completely mutilated face. It had no nose, blood trailed down it's lips, missing a few teeth... The entire area around it's right(left) eyes wad burned and the whole person itself looked starved to death. And at that moment, Isami let out an ear-splitting scream and booked it down the hallway.
She learned to not try, just do. Screams echoed behind her and the clattering of footsteps, but she didn't care. She just wanted out. She wanted away from this place and wanted the comfort of her nice, warm, cozy bed. She wanted to eat all the Pocky she could before she got sick, drink some nice, hot tea, watch some cartoons with Haruhi and her father, just be safe. She heard some voices shout her name, but she ignored them. She was more than aware of the hot trails of tears streaking down her face and the fact that her hair fell out of it's tie, but she didn't care.
She just kept running. And she ran, as fast as she could, only to scream loudly when her foot caught on something and sent her flying forwards.
"Isami-!" Two voices screamed and she screamed when something wrapped around her arm and pulled, sending her back crashing against something as she and the person or thing twirled in mid air. She felt herself land on something rough, but soft, and found herself bouncing in the air slightly before everything came to a stop, something heavy landing on top of her while something beneath her moved.
She screamed, loudly, and thrashed, too scared to think rationally. She felt something grab her arms and try to hold her still, but she resisted. She ignored the voices that seemed to be shouting and screaming her name, telling her to calm down, and just tried to break free. She let out an angered and fearful wail as the tears streaked down her cheeks and cried out, "No! Let me go! Let me go, damn it! No! No, no, no, no, no! No!" She sobbed loudly as she struggled and the grips became tighter and more constant. This continued for a few more minutes, before she finally gave up, collapsing against the figure beneath her and just crying quietly, her chest heaving from exhaustion and fear.
"Hey..." She felt the thing she was leaning against and the thing she was being held by both move. The thing beneath her spoke, while the thing that was holding her embraced her, resting her head against a shoulder, "You're okay..."
"Just-" She hiccuped slightly and whimpered, eyes squeezed shut, "J-Just kill me, a-already...Get-get it over with..." She shook, shivering when a chill passed through her.
"Ow..." The thing she was sitting grumbled, re-positioning itself and making the thing they were in shake. She whimpered again and the voice spoke, placing a hand on her shoulder and causing her to flinch, "Hey-Hey, calm down, Isami, it's fine. It's us, you know, Kaoru and Hikaru?"
"Yeah, just chill." The deeper voice spoke. The girl tensed and opened her eyes slowly, inhaling sharply, as she lifted her head up and gazed into the amber eyes that were Hikaru's, and turned her head slowly, looking at the worried form of Kaoru.
"H-Hikaru...Ka-Kaoru?" She asked, voice slightly hoarse.
It went silent, in which she could hear the beating of Hikaru's heart from the close contact, before she broke down completely, burying her face in Hikaru's chest (As he was the closest) and sobbed.
"Class Rep, slow down!" Haruhi shouted, trying to catch up with the poor man. He was running at lightning speeds and she was losing breathe quickly, "I can't keep up!" They ran past a pair of open doors and they both screamed when Kuretake and Kadomatsu jumped down from the ceiling and kicked them into said room. They quickly slammed the doors shut and backed away, a bunch of sandbags falling from the ceiling and collapsing together in front of the door.
They struck successful poses as Nekozawa appeared, chuckling darkly with a creepy (Gorgeous) grin on his face.
"My fright strategy was perfection itself!" Now to find out if that Fujioka is really a boy... He smirked and made Belzenef look at him, "Hmm?"
Nekozawa strode down the hallway, towards where Hikaru, Isami, and Kaoru were all trapped inside a net, and encountered Kyoya, who was leaning against a wall and reading something in his death note, using a flashlight.
"Kyoya, you're not joining in on the fun?" He asked curiously and slightly disappointed. He should really have joined in, it's so horrifyingly terrific. Kyoya replied simply, not moving his gaze from his book,
"I am not."
Inside the room, Haruhi banged angrily on the door, ticked off. She grunted and sighed, giving up, as she leaned against the door before sliding down. She cursed, "Damn it, they've locked us in. We're stuck.
"I'm sorry-I'm sorry..." She whimpered, pulling away from Hikaru and wiping furiously at the trail of tears that didn't want to stop falling. She laughed bitterly, stating, "I'm sorry...I'm such a crybaby, huh? So stupid..."
"Hey!" Hikaru said and frowned at the girl, who was currently sitting on his brother. "Don't say that! You can't help what you're afraid of."
"Yeah, I know, but still..."
"And as much as I'm loving this couple, bonding moment," Kaoru grouched, none to comfy with his current position, "Can you move, please? You're kinda sitting on my-"
"Sorry!" Isami exclaimed, wincing with a red face, and tried to move. Kaoru let out a sigh of relief,
"Much better...Thanks." She then realized something and her eyes went wide, face palm, and gasped. The brothers looked at her confused only to shout in alarm when she started to thrash around in the net, crying,
"Haruhi! I gotta get to Haruhi! Haruhi!" The net bounced around, causing them to roll around multiple times in the net and around each other, changing their positions greatly. "Haruhi!" She cried out, clawing at the net furiously.
"Hey! Hey-Ow!"
"Stop-Stop thrashing around, Isami-Ow!"
Isami stopped, after a few more moments, and sighed, collapsing against Kaoru, her head resting on his stomach. A blush rose to his face but he said nothing. Hikaru was leaning against the side of the net, Isami's legs resting on either side of him. He tried to figure a way out of this situation and found none, so he asked,
"Do any of you guys know how we can get out of this thing?" Isami blinked and sat up, so she was resting between Kaoru's and Hikaru's legs, and patted down her blazer, searching for something,
"I...I think I might...Where is it? Damn it, where is it!?" She cursed and quickly unbuttoned her blazer, pulling it off, and searching through it violently before she pulled out a small, light pink, sewing kit. "Haha! Here it is! My sewing scissors..." She pulled them out of her box and placed said box, back in her blue blazer. She didn't really think about putting it on, leaving her in a thin, white, button-up shirt with a collar and her tie.
"Wow," Hikaru began to comment with smirk, "So you really do have a feminine side. We usually have to buy you clothes just to get you to dress up." Isami turned her head and sent him a small glare, all signs of her break down from earlier gone.
"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?"
"Nothing," Kaoru intervened from in front of her, trying to prevent a fight from starting, "he's just goofing around."
"Sure, sure, what Kaoru said." Hikaru continued, still smirking, "But you have more of a figure without the blazer, just sayin'." Her face heated up as she looked down at her shirt for a moment, and ordered quickly,
"Shut up." She then turned to Kaoru, standing up, wobbling slightly, and holding onto the net for balance and she kept a tight hold of her scissors, saying, "Now, hold still for moment Kaoru. I-I don't want to cut you." She leaned down, hovering above the ginger's head slightly, as she began to cut right above it.
"I-Isami-" Kaoru stuttered, staring wide-eyed at chest which was hovering directly in front of his face. He couldn't seem to finish his sentence, so Hikaru finished for him, face a bright red as he blatantly stared at her ass,
"What a-are you do-doing?"
"J-Just bear with me, will ya?" She was more than embarrassed, but she wanted out of this place and was willing to do anything to leave, "I-I know it's kinda awkward b-but it'll only take a minute." She moved slightly, cutting the rope, causing Kaoru's nose to nearly touch her shirt and tie. His face went even redder as his heart rate quickened.
"No, no, it's fine!" Kaoru said quickly, blinking multiple time.
"It's-It's complete fine. Please, t-take your time." Hikaru stuttered slightly, unable to remove his gaze as he blinked a few times, face a bright red. He swallowed and could hear his heart beat quickly.
Outside the net, behind a corner, stood a crying Tamaki, who was struggling not to attack the twins for molesting his daughter, muttered, "I can't allow this~!"
Nekozawa kept a firm hold on the blonde, a smirk forming underneath his hood.
"My daughter is being sexually harassed by the minute~!" And Umehito Nekozawa's smirk grew,
So Fujioka really is a girl... He told Tamaki, his deep voice vibrating, "Patience Tamaki, the pay-off is yet to come!" Tamaki tightened his grip on his witch mask, tears streaking down his face.
Back in the science room, Haruhi sighed, giving up on her attempts to open the doors, "It's useless...The A-Team is going too far." She sighed. Kazukiyo blinked at Haruhi and asked confusedly,
"You're..." He couldn't remember if Haruhi was the long haired twin, or the short haired. Haruhi frowned and sighed, but smiled as she introduced herself,
"I'm Haruhi. Are you scared?" He smiled nervously and said, sweat beading down his face,
"Well..., not anymore. No, my nerves kinda shut down." Haruhi smiled, but sighed as she leaned against the wall, muttering,
"Our plan is completely ruined now..." Kazukiyo glanced at the brunette confused, "It's such a shame, really. We had it planned out and everything. Hikaru, Kaoru, and I came up with a plan to scare Kurakano, and have you come to her rescue. Kind of pointless, now, really."
Kazukiyo smiled gratefully, "Wow, you'd do that for me? That's really thoughtful of all of you." He pulled his knees tighter to his chest, "But I don't stand a chance. There's someone else she likes..." Haruhi glanced at Kazukiyo confused, until he explained, "While it's true that you don't feel the same towards her quite yet, I'm positive it's only a matter of time." Haruhi blinked in surprise, eyes widening, before laughing nervously and scratching the side of her head, saying,
"Um, yeah, I don't think that'll happen." Kazukiyo glanced at her confused and slightly offended that someone would not be able to like Kurakano,
"Why not?"
"Well, she's not," She tried to think of something to say and came up with, "She's just not my type." And at a completely random moment, that really confused her, an image of a ridiculous blonde with purple eyes ran through her mind. She shook her head to clear it and said, "Just trust me, I don't like her like that and I probably never will. She's just a really good friend."
Kazukiyo nodded and twiddled with his thumbs, saying with a small blush on his face, "Still...this may seem weird, but...I don't wanna risk changing anything right now. Because things are perfect; just being on the Committee with her is such an honor. If this is as good as it's gonna get, I'm still grateful."
Haruhi was silent for a moment, before speaking, "I think it's great that you care so much about her, that you're pushing your feelings for her aside just so you can remain friends. But one day, one day you're going to have to take that big leap and tell her how you feel." She looked at Kazukiyo and smiled, "Now, don't get me wrong, I don't mean for you to tell her right away, or anytime soon for that matter, but you're gonna have to tell her, before you lose her completely. But, just so you know," Her smiled widened and she gave Kazukiyo a thumbs up, "I'm rooting for you, Class Rep.!"
"Haruhi, Haruhi! You in there!?"
"Haruhi, Class Rep.!"
"Haruhi!" Multiple voices shouted and there was banging on the other side of the door. The doors then slammed opened and revealed everyone's favorite (Hopefully, unless you have other fanpairings for Isami) couple, er-group, couple, Hikaru, Isami, and Kaoru. They stood there, panting.
Haruhi stood up, eyes wide as a smile grew on her face, as she declared, "Isami!"
"Haruhi!" Isami cried out, tears pricking her eyes, as she charged towards her sister, quickly wrapping her arms around her in a tight hug.
"Isami/Haruhi." They spoke in unison, glad to see each other again. (I think the twins' got their scenes mixed up...XD)
"You're not hurt, are you?" Haruhi asked as she pulled away, looking at her sister. Isami blinked, remembered the cut on her hand from when they fell onto the ground, and shook her head quickly,
"Nope! Not at all! Perfectly fine!"
"I think not." Hikaru barked and gripped her right hand, causing her to gasp, and pull it towards him. He pulled a handkerchief out of nowhere and tied it around her palm where she was cut. "That should work for now, until you see one of the Doctors' Renge hired." Isami frowned and argued,
"I'm fine-"
"Isami," Kaoru cut her off, giving her a look. Isami blinked in surprise as he said, "Don't even start." She opened her mouth to argue but frowned, slumping her shoulders, and sighed,
"Fine..."
X.X
"There they are!" Renge cried out, tears in her eyes, once she caught sight of the group.
"We've been so worried about you!" Kurakano said, looking as thought she was about to cry. Their group ran towards Kazukiyo's group, and a boy demanded,
"Why did your group leave your post when you weren't supposed too!?"
Miroku, a boy with black hair and blue eyes, said, "We called off the whole thing to go looking for you!" Isami's eyes went wide and she stuttered,
"Wh-What?"
"Wasn't that you guys trying to scare us?" Kaoru questioned, confused.
"Huh?" Kenchi asked confused, "We didn't do anything." Everyone's attention was then redirected towards Renge and Kurakano, who screamed. Loudly. Haruhi blinked,
"What is it?"
"O-Outside, by the window!" Kurakano gasped. Renge cried out, shaking,
"There's a dark figuuure!" The group members all looked up to see a huge ass cat-shaped shadow of awesome and screamed like little eight-year-old school girls, with pigtails. (DW REFERENCE! Micky screaming because of dead rats...XD)
All of their souls left their bodies. It's safe to say they'll be having nightmares. :)
XX
The next day, Kurakano, Kazukiyo, The Fujioka Sisters', and the Hitachiin Brothers', were all looking at the front page of the school newspaper that was pinned the billboard.
"They sure got us." Haruhi commented, sighing. The headline read, "The Entire Class of 1-A is the Captain of all Cowards".
"Ain't that right." Isami said, depressed, leaning against Hikaru, who had his arms wrapped around her. The ginger growled,
"Nekozawa's such a jerk." Kaoru was staring intently at the picture of the shadow and questioned his sanity and intellect, asking no one in particular,
"How did we not know that was Belzenef?"
"He can be nice...sometimes." Isami spoke after a few moments. "Like that time he jumped out of a window, stories high, just to save his sister from a kitty?" She felt Hikaru tighten his grip on her.
"Well...Sometimes. But hardly. He's creepy as all hell."
"Be nice."
"No."
"I heard," Kurakano told Kazukiyo, who tensed. She smiled softly at the embarrassed boy, "You're really a fraidey cat, are you Kazukiyo? But you still agreed to the tournament, just to be nice?"
"I-um, yeah." He swallowed and diverted his gaze, blushing, "Sure..." He looked down, all hopes of her liking him fading, "That's it."
"I think, that's so unbelievably sweet of you!" Kazukiyo snapped his head over to look at her with wide-eyes, his face turning red quickly.
Kaoru smiled, him, his brother, Haruhi and Isami, all watching the scene unfold. Kaoru commented with a smile on his face, arms crossed, "Well, would'ya look at that? Looks like the spell cast on the carriage can't be cast after all."
"What do you mean?" Hikaru and Isami asked Kaoru in unison, confused. He blinked down at them in surprise and smirked, shaking his head,
"Nothing, nothing, just my own private joke." He pulled them apart and pushed them towards the gates, "Let's get out of here! Hurry up, Haruhi!"
"Hey!" The tan brunette shouted in protest, running to catch up with them, "Don't go tearing off without me!"
Still, one day, Haruhi and the boss will realize they have feelings for one another, and then...Then they'll both have to take the next step on their own. Kaoru, pausing in his walking. Isami noticed and frowned, walking over to him. He blinked, when he felt her poke him in the arm and looked down at her confused. She smiled up at him, causing him to smile back, and tugged on his sleeve, saying softly,
"C'mon, let's go. We'll be late for class." He nodded, smiling softly at her as he allowed her to drag him towards class.