Hosts…and Hostess?!?
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AN: Thank you for the reviews you had sent me. In this chapter you will meet yet another character from SM.
Ch4
Usagi looked around the courtyard in slight amazement at how these guys managed to do anything they want and still get away with it. They had completely transformed the area's scenery, splitting half of it into a European open café and the other half a traditional Japanese tea ceremony with the large amounts of cherry blossoms surrounding the area. Tamaki was flirting with a customer about the fancy teacups they're supplied with while Hikaru and Kaoru were flirting with each other to the girls' enjoyment. Kyoya was still managing to make profits out of everything by selling pictures of their everyday routine. And last but not least was Hunny and Mori serving tea, or she should say that Hunny was splashing the tea that they were supposed to serve.
Usagi sighed as she began to wonder how her friends and family were doing. Hotaru was with her club members, conducting a science experiment, oblivious to the several male members who were eyeing her with stars in their eyes. Shingo was practicing for the upcoming soccer tournament, too into the game to notice several girls cheering him on. And Minako had decided to join the drama club, claiming that the stage was calling for her, or rather she still loved being in the spotlight. (1)
Hearing her name being called, Usagi turned around to see Tamaki coming over to her. She looked up at him as Tamaki began to engage a conversation about the cherry blossoms that surround the area. "It's during the spring where you see all these beautiful flowers grow. You know, I, too, am very similar to spring as well; what part of me reminds you of spring?" he asked.
"During the spring, flowers grow," Usagi replied, "So I guess it must be your ego that reminds me of spring." Usagi stared at Tamaki in confusion as he began to sulk in the corner yet again as she wondered what she said that made him like this.
Hikaru and Kaoru just laughed and each wrapped an arm around her shoulders. "Did you pick what courses you want to take yet?" Hikaru asked. Kaoru nodded his head and said, "Let's pick the same ones. After all…" The two smirked at Tamaki and continued, "We're in the same classes."
"Hey, mom?" Tamaki asked, staring at the three with sad eyes as Kyoya asked what was wrong. "Why do I get the feeling that, despite I see Usagi everyday, I know her a lot less than the twins?"
Opening a photo album, Kyoya pointed out, "Let's look at the evidence we have here." Pictures of Usagi sitting in between the twins in class and on break were shown. "Despite the fact that you do see Usagi everyday, you only see her during the blub hours, and even then the time is limited to at most an hour. While the twins are in the same class with her, they spend nine hours including club times. And comparing that to yours, you only spend about 3 percent of the day with her."
"NO! It can't be true!" Tamaki shouted. He ran over to Usagi, who had jumped from his outburst. He wrapped his arms around her and began to pull her away from the twins, who were pulling her back towards them. "Come, Usagi, follow dear father. I'll protect your chastity from these two demons," he shouted.
"Hey! Who are you calling demons?" Hikaru and Kaoru shouted.
"Usa-chan!" Hunny cheered, bouncing over to Usagi, who was now being treated like a tug-of-war rope. He draped his arms around the yukata-clad girl and glanced up at her excitedly. "When is your class having the health examinations? Let's compare our heights!"
Usagi just stared in complete shock as her face flushed red while everybody watched her. "Can't I just have a check up at the hospital and send the results here?" she asked.
"No, may I ask why?" Kyoya asked.
Usagi turned around as her shoulders just sagged down. "I'd rather not talk about it," she muttered.
"What's wrong? Got some bad memories with these exams?" Tamaki asked in a concerned tone.
"Do the girls and boys separate fro these tests?" Usagi asked, "They do in my junior high school." "But even then, it doesn't stop them," she complained silently.
"We all go to the same nurse's office but we do the tests behind screens so…is there something bothering you?" Hunny asked when he saw Usagi's shoulders drop even further down. This is just unlike her, the old Usagi would just speak her mind if she something's bothering her or if she doesn't like it, but this one just won't say what's wrong.
"What's wrong for both boys and girls being in the same room?" Kaoru asked while Hikaru nodded his head, adding, "Yeah, it's not like the guys will try to peek at the girls undressing…wait, you don't mean…"
Everybody watched with wide eyes as Usagi all of a sudden dropped to the floor and wrapped her arms around her leg, burrowing her face in them. "You're afraid that the boys will try to watch you," Tamaki said.
"Not afraid," Usagi muttered, even though they can't hear her, "I just know that they're going to do tit again. I thought she sent a note to the office about these examinations." She sighed and hesitantly got up. "I should get going. Mina-chan and I were going to take Luna to the vet today." And with that, she walked back to the music room to change out of yukata and back into her uniform.
"Luna?" everybody asked, turning to Kyoya, who just answered very shortly, "Her cat."
"So, Usagi's jut worried about the boys staring at her virgin skin," Tamaki said. Than a vision of Usagi clutching a large white blanket around her naked body and looking all scared came to his mind. He clenched his hand into a tight fist as he said determinedly, "Don't worry about a thing, Usagi; I'll protect you from those lechers."
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"Tsukino-san, please undress behind this curtain for the examination," a nurse said, smiling kindly at an uncharacteristically shivering Usagi. "Don't worry about a thing; it'll only take a few minutes for the measurements to be done."
"Honto?" Usagi asked shyly. Her blue eyes glanced at the nurse, who nodded her head. "Arigato," she said with a smile before entering behind the curtain.
None of them noticed a large group of leering eyes with lecherous grins on their faces. Then together as a group, they walked towards the unsuspecting bunny, who was beginning to take her dress off. Just as they were about to pull the curtain aside to expose the girl, cries of pain could be heard from the back. They all turned around to see Tamaki standing there with a foot on top of a guy lying on the floor and another guy in a chokehold.
"Don't even think about taking another step," Tamaki said firmly, "Nobody will be able to take advantage of Usagi with Tamaki Souh on the job."
Upon hearing the disturbance, Usagi, still fully dressed, glanced out to see the large group of boys quickly vanishing in fear of Tamaki. "Tamaki-sempai?" Usagi whispered softly.
The tall brunette turned around and smiled gently at her. "Daijobu, Usagi, nobody will hurt you with me around," he said.
Tears began to fall down her cheeks as Usagi ran over to Tamaki's open arms. "Sempai! I was so scared!" she cried.
"Don't worry about a thing. I won't let anything bad happen to you," Tamaki said, "I'll protect you with my life."
"Honto?" Usagi asked. Seeing him nod his head, Usagi hugged him tighter. "Arigato, Tamaki-sempai," she whispered with a light blush on her face.
(Now I know what you're all thinking and it's probably on the borderline of 'Huh? What the heck was that? There's just no way that Usagi would act like that. That's just about as bogus as the way Tamaki always daydreams about Haruhi.' And if you think that that was all a daydream created by Tamaki's non-existent brain, just continue reading and you'll see that you're correct.)
Tamaki's eyes were closed as he leaned back against his seat. It was just one more day until the health examination and he had come up with a brilliant scheme to protect Usagi. "Yes! That's perfect," he shouted, causing everyone to stare at him. He chuckled in a low tone and said, "This is going all according to plan." He stood up and declared, "Yes! This is the beginning of a romantic story between Usagi and me.'
"And what about us?" the twins asked, gesturing to themselves and the rest of the members.
Tamaki took a stick and drew a line along the marble floor, separating him from everyone else. "You're all suspects of being the sexual predators that'll prey on my daughter."
"Dono, are you sure that your plan will work?" Hikaru and Kaoru asked, "Not every boy in our class will try to spring on Usagi during the exam."
"Usa-chan's very pretty so I'm sure that there will be other boys trying to play hero to get her to like him," Hunny said.
"And if another boy beats milord in protecting Usagi and she falls in love with him, the she might not spend as much time in the club anymore," Hikaru said.
Kaoru nodded his head and said, "And she does have friends who are more than willing to pay the debt off for her."
"With her debt gone, there'll be no reason for her to stay in here," Kyoya said.
"And that'll just make milord's 3 percent into 0 percent," the twins said, "Not that we care, we're in the same class."
Usagi sighed as she entered the room to see a white board with drawings on it that resembles a football game plan. "What are you guys up to now?" she asked in a tired tone.
Tamaki wrapped his arm around Usagi as he said dramatically, "Don't worry about a thing. We'll protect your virginity from those voles so you can keep being our pure princess."
Usagi pulled away and said, "I highly doubt they'll go that far as to rape me, Tamaki-sempai. I think I'll be just fine if I stick close to the girls." She shrugged her shoulders and began to walk away.
"What kind of princess doesn't want a prince, or in this case, six princes to protect her purity until marriage?" Tamaki shouted, falling to his knees in tears.
Usagi just sighed as she turned around. "If anything, I'm more worried about you than anybody else," she said, turning back around. She didn't even take note of Tamaki falling to the floor, clutching his heart as the twins just laughed at him in amusement.
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Usagi was walking between her self-proclaimed bodyguards, the doppelgangers, as they headed over to the nurse's office for the health examination. She felt somebody wrap their arms around her neck and turned to see Minako smiling at her. "Hey, Mina-chan," she said.
"Hey yourself. I'm surprised that they're having you take the exam here rather than at the hospital," Minako said, "I thought notice was sent by the doctor and school's nurse about this."
"The board said that they'll see if anything will happen," Usagi said, "If it happens at this school too, then I will have to take the inspection at the hospital." Usagi turned her attention to the two smiling clones and asked, "What are the health tests like in Ouran?"
Hikaru shrugged his shoulders and replied, "It's no different from any other school." And with that, he opened the door as a long line of distinguished and professional looking doctors and nurses greeted them.
Usagi's face dropped. She shook her head and glared at the two boys next to her. "No different from any other school, huh?" she repeated. She sighed yet again and continued walking with a childhood friend by her side and two bodyguards following close behind, warning every boy they see with a glare.
Minako glanced up and noticed a very familiar woman standing beside Kyoya. She had long dark blue hair tied into a ponytail that's draped over a shoulder and thin oval-rimmed glasses over her azure eyes. She wore a white lab coat over a white blouse and dark coffee-colored skirt. Minako grinned as she pulled Usagi's hand. "Usa-chan, it's Kasui-obasan(2)," she said, pointing at the woman.
Usagi looked at where Minako was pointing and saw that she was right. "You're right. Let's go and say hi. Maybe she can give me the examination instead," Usagi said.
The two blondes hurried over to the doctor and called out her name. Kasui turned around and grinned at the two. "Usagi-chan, Minako-chan, it's so good to see you again," she said, "But what are you doing here?"
"We go to this school," Minako replied with a grin. "Usa-chan's been coming here since the beginning of the school year and I just transferred in just recently."
"Oh that's right. I remember having a big celebration for Usagi-chan's acceptance into this school," Kasui said. "We'll it's great to see that you're both healthy and well."
"Oba-san, what are you doing here?" Usagi asked.
Kyoya had been watching the discussion and decided to step in. "Mizuno-san happens to be the best doctor we have in the hospital," he said, "And when I asked for her to come and participate, she agreed."
"Well, it is an honor for anyone of my profession to come after the son of the CEO had asked for them," Kasui said with a grin. She glanced over at Usagi for a second and then frowned. "I thought that I sent a notice about you and health examinations at the school," she said in a puzzled tone.
"The school said that this would be like a trial run, if the same thing happens again like what you and the rest of the past principals I had said, then I'll take the exams at the hospital," Usagi said, shrugging her shoulders.
"Usagi, how do you know Mizuno-san?" Hikaru asked as Kaoru leaned closer and said, "Yeah, she's one of the renowned doctors known throughout Japan."
Usagi turned to them and smiled with a light blush on her cheeks. "I know her daughter," she replied, "We've been friends since grammar school when we were in the same class and paired up for a project in second grade."
The twins fell to the floor as everybody stared at them in confusion. Usagi just arched an eyebrow at them as she wondered what they were doing. "Ne, Usagi?" the twins asked. When the girl nodded her head to indicate that she's listening, they continued, "Is every one of your friends by any chance famous?"
Usagi shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know, are they?" she asked, turning to Minako, who just shrugged her shoulders in reply. "I mean, most of my friends' parents are well known, but I don't know about them."
Kasui cleared her throat to catch the identical blondes' attentions. A big smile was on her face, almost as if she was planning something as she said, "Oh, by the way, there's someone here who I'm sure you'll want to meet."
"Huh? Who?" Usagi asked. Kasui just smiled and looked at the person behind Usagi, who turned around and gasped. "Mamo-chan!" she shouted. She ran over to a tall raven-haired young man with dark blue eyes.
"Usako, it's been so long," the inspiring doctor said, embracing the teenager tightly, "How is school treating you?"
"I'm fine, but what are you doing here? I thought you were going to college overboard," Usagi replied.
The dark brunette just laughed and said, "I already got graduated from Harvard. I decided to come back and continue my education in medicine while I do an internship with Kasui-san."
They continue to talk about their schools as the twins stared in shock at the sight of a man hugging the blonde intimately, almost as if they were lovers or something. Shocked, they tapped on Minako's shoulder and pointed at them when she turned around. Minako just laughed and said, "That's Mamoru Chiba, he's a very good friend of ours. He went to the United States for college so he could be a doctor." She noticed the shocked looks on their faces and couldn't help but smile as she said, "And don't worry about a thing, those two's relationship is nothing but platonic. They just seem intimate because those two met when Usagi was very young when her mother was in the hospital and he was in an accident. Mamoru-san's parents passed away and he was sent to an orphanage, but those two developed a sibling relationship with each other." (3)
Kasui held a hand to her lips and laughed, catching the small group's attention. "Why don't you guys finish the examinations first and then we'll continue this conversation?" she asked.
Usagi watched as the twins had their height and weight measured and to the crowd's amazement, both measurements were exactly the same. When it was Usagi's turn, all the girls just crowded around her and watched anxiously as her height was measured to be 5'2" and her weight was only slightly higher than 110 pounds. All the girls gasped about that being not fair, the lightest girl in their class was only 125 pounds, and that was with carefully selected diets and exercises from their homes.
"Tsukino-san, can you come over here? We need to take other measurements," a nurse told her.
Usagi followed after the nurse, not noticing Mori and Hunny disguised as doctors trailing after her or Tamaki hiding in the shadows watching her carefully. Holding up a flexible tape measure, the nurse and Usagi went behind a curtain and the minute they vanished from sight, several of the boys nearby just leaned closer to hear the measurements.
Tamaki's eyes narrowed as he stood up straight. He quickly stomped over to the area, shouting, "Hey!" The boys all jumped up and with one glance at him, they all took off. All he had hoped to do was just to stop a few feet away from the curtains, but due to the scurrying about, Tamaki tripped and landed face first into the curtain with a loud thump. "Ouch," he muttered, rubbing his head. He slowly pushed himself up to see that the upper half of his body was on the other side of the curtain. He noticed a pair of familiar black shoes standing just a few inches away; he nervously glanced up to see Usagi glaring at him with her arms around her waist. "Wait…it's not what you think!" he said, moving his hands back and forth, trying to prove his innocence.
Usagi just rolled her eyes as she muttered, "I can't believe that I just jinxed it. You were the one that I had to be more worried about."
The nurse giggled slightly but coughed louder to cover it up. "I've been told that if this happens, that you should be taken into another room. Shall I tell Mizuno-sensei and Chiba-sensei?" she said.
"Yes, please," Usagi said politely. Glaring at Tamaki at the corner of her eyes, she added, "I really can't trust some people, can I?" Then Usagi and Kasui stepped out of the office to enter another one. Minako just laughed at the predicament Tamaki had placed himself in as a nurse led her away to get her measurements done. Mamoru shook his head as he muttered something like, "Great, another peeking tom."
Tamaki turned to stone as he stared at the wall in front of him with a blank stare. Several of the girls all ran to him, asking if he was all right, but the minute that they saw him crumble into gravel, they couldn't help but look on in amazement.
"You know, you could've just had the nurse take Usagi to another room to begin with," Hikaru said, "I mean, it's pretty obvious that that would've happened regardless due to dono's personality."
Kyoya just smiled as he glanced through his clipboard. "Think of it as an act of revenge for thinking that I'll be a suspect of a sexual predator," he said with a cheery tone.
Just then a loud scream from one of the girls caught everybody's attention. The whole group turned to see their female classmate looking all distraught. "A doctor just jumped out the window," she shouted, replaying the whole scene when he grabbed her shoulder to ask a question, but due to the abrupt motion, she screamed, causing him to leap out the window.
Hikaru and Kaoru shook their heads, making a 'tsking' sound. "Spring time really does bring out the sexual predators," they said, "But that scruffy old doctor will be caught pretty quickly." As they thought back to the doctor that looked disoriented and haven't shaved for days who had bumped into them not too long ago.
"Scruffy doctor?" Kyoya repeated, thinking back to the same man as the others were, "He's not one of ours." Everybody just stared at him in shock that he could be so calm in a situation like this.
"Then why the hell didn't you say so in the first place?" the twins asked annoyingly.
"So, where did that doctor head off to?" they heard another student ask the girl.
"Towards the empty nurse's office that says 'Emergency'," she replied, much to the others' shock.
"Usagi!" the host club members shouted as they quickly rushed over to the room where Usagi was now getting ready for her exam.
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After the incident with Tamaki trying to spy on her discreetly, at least to her point of view, Usagi was brought over to another room which was labeled 'Emergency', according to Mamoru, they had put up just in case the same thing did happen. Usagi reached behind her dress and began to pull the zipper down. As she pulled the dress down to her shoulders, she heard the curtain open and close. She turned around to see a tall raggedly man standing there and felt her heart quicken, not from excitement, rather from fear.
Thinking that he was a regular pervert, she opened her mouth to get ready to scream when he turned around and covered her mouth with his hand. "Please, don't scream," he said frantically, "I don't mean any harm."
"Really, it seems more like you do mean harm with the way you're acting," Usagi said sarcastically in her mind.
Just then Hunny jumped up and kicked the man off of her, screaming, "Bun-Bun Kick!", causing the man to fly across the room and into a wall.
Usagi's jaw dropped open as she saw the impact it made on the wall. It was then when the other members of the Host Club came out and appeared to be intimidating the older man as he gazed on in fear. Just as he got petrified with fear, he shouted, "Please spare my life!", bowing to the ground like a servant would do to a king. "All I wanted to do was to see my daughter, that's all."
Usagi felt something being placed on her shoulders and turned to see Mamoru standing behind her, draping the white lab coat over her. "May I ask what happened with your daughter?" he asked, standing close to Usagi, just in case another pervert comes along.
"Well, you see, my name is Yabu ("A yabu(4), no way!" the twins shouted). Just last month, my wife left me and took our daughter with her. I just wanted to see her again so I set off to find them. But then I ended up getting caught in the rain, then I got lost, and the minute I reached this school, they mistaken me to being a physician examiner," the man said, "I asked one of the girls about my daughter, but she just ended up screaming, as if I was attacking her. Then…I ended up being a fugitive from the law." He cried out with tears streaming down his face.
"How unfortunate," Tamaki cried, kneeling in front of the man.
Kyoya just looked unimpressed and, not to mention, bored. "Could it be that you're looking for Ourin High School?" he asked. Yabu nodded his head in reply. "I'm sorry to say, but you're at the wrong school. This is Ouran Academy." The doctor's body froze and turned to stone as the twins began to berate him for not knowing the school which his daughter goes to.
Hunny turned to Kyoya and asked, "Kyo-chan, how did you know that this wasn't the school his daughter goes to?"
"There's no way that a daughter from a small clinic can come to this school," Kyoya replied, causing Usagi to glare at him.
"Kyoya, prepare a map and directions for Ourin High School for him," Tamaki said.
Kyoya smiled and nodded his head. "Very well," he said as he walked away to get it done.
"You sure this is okay?" Kaoru asked as Hikaru finished for him, "There's a chance that his daughter might not want to see him."
"Well, that's for him to find out, don't you say?" Tamaki replied.
Usagi just listened on and smiled gently as Mamoru began to change his mind about Tamaki being an idiot. When Usagi asked them all to leave and Tamaki began to cry about her being angry at him still, Mamoru shook his head and muttered, "Never mind, he's an idiot," as he left the room.
"Well, I still have the examination to take, you know," Usagi said.
Tamaki's face turned red as he watched Usagi smile gently at him, like it was a sign that she forgives him. Too happy to think about anything else, Tamaki jumped over and wrapped his arms around Usagi, forgetting that her dress wasn't properly fastened on still.
The twins then shouted, "Look, the real pervert has revealed himself!" They grabbed Tamaki and tried to pull him off of the struggling girl, only to find all three of them were pulled off and dragged out of the door by Mamoru.
Mamoru waved his hand at Usagi and Kasui, who was laughing from the events that had happened, as he dragged the three with his other hand. "Honestly, she talks about all of you leaving the room and yet you're too busy trying to play cops and perverts(5)," he muttered.
Kasui smiled at Usagi and said, "Looks like he hasn't changed one bit, right Usagi-chan?"
Usagi smiled back and said, "Yeah, Mamo-chan's still my protector." But then she sighed and complained, "Now I've got four overprotective dads here in Japan," much to Kasui's amusement.
(1) Some people didn't really like the idea of Minako coming to Ouran, fearing that it might interrupt the events between Usagi and the members of the Host Club, but her role is only similar to Hotaru and Shingo's. Those two will show up a lot more, but Minako will only show up probably once in a few chapters since she's already in her own club.
(2) For those who had read "Ayamari", Kasui was the name I had given to Ami's mother.
(3) In this story, Mamoru only plays a brother role towards Usagi. He does love her, but only as a sibling since they grew up together.
(4) In Ouran High School Host Club, yabu meant a phony doctor.
(5) Cops and perverts is a variation of cops and robbers, a game played by children. The twins were playing the form of cops, Tamaki was playing the pervert, since that was how they portrayed him.