lumigo akvo9504: Yeah, I saw the grammar mistakes when I read what you wrote, and I'll fix it when I start editing. Thanks for telling me about it getting obvious, though, I'll do my best to not comete that same mistake again. And don't worry, I don't wanna show the 3-E class just yet, I'm waiting a bit, but you'll get a bit soon. And about the Hosts meeting the 3-E, I assure you It will happen, just not too soon, at least not all of them. I have some things already sorted out, so you just have to be patient. And thanks for the tentacles, they made my heart explode in happiness *insert Korosensei's in-love face*
'Will he kill me if I ask him to stop?' were Nagisa's thoughts, as she just laid on the floor after being beaten up by Honey-senpai. For the thirtieth time. In seven minutes. Absently, Nagisa wondered if that was a record. She thought it may be, as she'd never heard of someone been so horribly crushed in so little time.
'I don't know whether Karasuma-sensei would be pleased with me for training with such a formidable fighter, or disappointed with how easily I was defeated.' probably the latter.
"You ok, Nagi-chan?" the bluenette distantly heard the reason behind her sore muscles saying, and she just managed to nod once. There was no way in hell she was able to talk. Too much of an air waste. "Alright, then get up! We still have some time before you have to head home!" how he managed to sound so cheery when he was practically mopping the floor with her moments ago was something Nagisa wasn't sure she wanted to know.
"Mitsukuni." said Mori-senpai as she laboriously stood up. "She's tired. Wait." thanks to all leaving creature in heaven and hell for creating that kind soul! Nagisa could swear she may have found her new best friend at that moment. Honey-senpai was sweet, and he was like the kindest thing ever—not counting Haruhi, of course. But sometimes he was a little bit to oblivious for his own good. And violent.
'Thinking hurts...'
"Oh..." Honey-senpai seemed to just realize his new pupil was practically dying. Way to go, Mitsukuni. "You can rest, Nagi-chan, don't worry." and even if she had just stood up, she let herself fall again on the floor unceremoniously. "Are you really alright? I might get a little crazy when I'm in fighting mode. You have to tell me if I'm being too hard on you." lectured Honey-senpai, somehow seeing pretty serious with his hands full of cake.
'You could have said that a bit earlier, senpai.' Nagisa thought, rolling over so she could curl up in a ball as Karasuma-sensei had taught her. I was a good pain relieve technique, and it seemed to be working as she slowly felt better. She breath in and out a few times, and then she stood up again.
"I think I can do with one more sparring." she said, and thankfully her voice didn't sound shattered by tiredness.
Mori-senpai handed her a bottle of water, and she thanked them, drinking at least half the liquid inside in one go. She then finished the other half in little gulps.
"Thanks, Mori-senpai. I kinda really needed that." Nagisa told her new best friend, putting the bottle down, far from where they were gonna be sparring, so there wouldn't be any accidents.
Her hair wasn't on her usual pigtails, as she thought using a bun may have been a more confortable option, but now half her hair was down, so she tied it again, even if some of her hair strays fell down. They were too short, so trying to tied them up didn't usually work.
She then nodded at Honey-senpai so he knew she was ready. Not that she really was, but still, it was the best she would be until she got to her house, specifically, her shower. And her beeed, she really did want her bed right now.
Honey-senpai, as always, waited for her to make the first move. And so she did, that kick was very beautiful. That is, until Honey-senpai just took her feet and turned her over so she would hit the ground. However, he did not expect Nagisa would do an arm-triangle-choke, which she had perfected since that time she used it on Karma. That was one her best moves, cuz Karasuma-sensei had made her do it to several dummies and other agents, even himself.
Mitsukuni soon found he didn't have as much air as he usually had. When did she had the time to do such a thing? He didn't recall her knowing that move. It was a pretty difficult technique, and she seemed to be scarily good at performing it.
Takashi, watching at the side, was looking at Nagisa with new eyes. He had already figured out she was good, as she had survive thirty of Mitsukuni's consecutive attacks, but to do an arm-triangle-choke? That was an entirely different thing.
He wasn't worried about Mitsukuni, though. Well, no more than usual, that is. He knew Nagisa wouldn't hurt him, and even if he didn't surrender, in the end the blond would just past out because of the pressure on his neck.
Nagisa, on the other side, was bewildered. She had managed to actually maintain Mitsukuni pinned to the floor for more than half a second! That was something she was definitely going to celebrate later. That's why she didn't notice the sudden change on Honey-senpai's face, nor his panic.
The blond senior wanted to dye. Well, not really, but close. Maybe more like crawl into a hole and hope to stop existing. Everything was fine until she did that lethal choke on him. Even that wasn't the problem, but Nagisa herself. Specifically her chest. It was like, so close to his face, and Mitsukuni could feel them.
He tried to ignored it, he really did, but their presence was still there, messing with him. It was like they were saying 'oh, well make you look at us, but you cannot touch!'. That's why he did what he did next, before he could pass out.
"I give in!" he choked while saying so, but Nagisa still heard him, and release his neck. Oh, joy! Air was almost as good as strawberry cake.
When Nagisa stopped choking him, and she was at a prudential distance from him, Mitsukuni was able to do some more... uh, not-embarrassing thinking.
Maybe he thought what he did because of the lack of air and blood circulation in his bran? Yeah, that certainly seemed like a more logical explanation, better than the one he was thinking before. Cause there was no may in hell he was... that he was... for Nagisa...
Right?
'No, of course not!' he told himself, a bit hysterical. 'Stop trying to put those weird thoughts into your head, Haninozuka Mitsukuni! Bad! That's a total no-no!'
Unaware of what was going on inside his head, Nagisa looked at Honey-senpai with concern. Why wasn't he standing up? Maybe she had used too much strength into that arm-triangle-choke? She was used to people able to withstand it, her first try had been Karma, after all. Not every agent could take it, but she did train with Karasuma I'm-a-strength-monster Tadaomi. Her definition of standards strength was not the real standard.
"Honey-senpai? You alright?" he didn't say anything, too caught up in his mental debate, so Nagisa, who knew nothing about it, looked at Mori-senpai instead. "Mori-senpai, I think I broke him..." she said preoccupied, and Takashi was soon by her side. The senior was kneeled in front of his cousin, checking his pulse to determinate if he had passed out or if it was just some inner thinking of his. Takashi easily found it was the latter, and he decide to let Mitsukuni be. It was better to let him think when he needed to.
Nagisa looked at the taller guy, waiting for him to tell her what was wrong.
"He's fine. Just thinking." he answered the unspoken question Nagisa made with her eyes, and her blue orbes filled with relieve. He was alright. She didn't messed up again. Ok, she could calm down now.
"Oh, thank Kami. For a minute I thought maybe I pressed to hard." sighed the bluenette. "Is he alright, though? He's not moving. Does he do this often?" she just got a nod from Mori-senpai, but it was enough for her. "Alright then. I think I must get going. I don't want to walk home in the dark." Nagisa explained, watching as the sun lowered down. Soon it would be dark, and Nagisa wanted to be already at her home by then.
"We'll drive you." Mori-senpai was saving her again, as she soon realized she wouldn't make it on her own. The Haninozuka estate was almost at the outsides of the city, as it was the Morinozuka estate. Nagisa would never get to her flat in time, as the car ride took twenty five minutes without too much traffic.
Damn those rich bastards and their stupidly big estates away from most civilization.
"Oh... well, thank you, Mori-senpai." she bowed a bit in recognition, and Mori-senpai just nodded. He then picked up his cousin, and he carried him to the car with Nagisa behind them. Mitsukuni didn't move. When he was having those kind of internal debates, he usually disconnected from the world, a technique he has learnt for possible kidnappings, as a way to dissociate from the real world. Not that he would ever need it—he would beat every one of his so called kidnappers before the actual kidnapping even happened—, but still.
The ride was spent in silent for the first fifteen minutes. Then Mitsukuni came to an agreement with himself. 'Nagisa it pretty hot, and cute, but I don't like her as anything more than a friend'. Being honest, Mitsukuni was kinda proud of how that debate turned out. It could have been a lot worse.
That was the moment he noticed they weren't at the dojo anymore. When did they entered the car? And where were they going?
"Takashi? Nagi-chan? What are we doing?" Nagisa quickly explained his cousin had offered her a lift to her flat, as it was late and she lived far from his house. Mitsukuni contented with that, and the rest of the car ride was filled with his non-stop chatting.
When they finally arrived at their destination, Nagisa's apartment, the bluenette thought about something. Weighting the pros and cons, she decided it was worth it, but she had a feeling she would end up regretting it soon.
"Do you wanna come in? I baked you a cake Honey-senpai, as a thank you for the training, but it was still cooling off so I couldn't bring it with me today. If you want I can give it to you now." she offered, and Mitsukuni beamed happily. Cake? When had he refused to that? Well, apart from his years in the karate club, that is.
"You baked me a cake? That's so sweet Nagi-chan! Can I try it?" he asked, already stepping out the car, Takashi following him.
"Sure, I asked a friend how to do it, because she's way better at that stuff than I am, and she gave me a couple of tricks, so I hope you like it." she said while they entered the building's lobby. She said hi to the guard at the desk, and then the three of them walked to the elevators. She lived in the penthouse, so she had her own elevator. It was pretty cool actually.
"Wow, you have your own elevator! That's sooo cool!" said Honey-senpai, and Nagisa chuckled a bit. Sometimes she had a hard time remembering his rial age.
Nagisa then opened her flat's door, and intermediately knew something was off. The cake was still intact, so that was a good thing. Her stuff wasn't trashed, so she could discard a robbery and half of the E Class popping up as they sometimes did... then what was it?
"Hey, Nagisa, you're out of strawberry milk." of course. She should have imagined.
"Hey, Karma." said the bluenette when she spotted her redhead friend walking out of her kitchen, with a glass of juice in his hand. "It would be nice if you warned me when you're gonna visit, that way I could actually know when to buy you your stupid milk." she said before hugging him.
Karma looked behind her, and Nagisa remembered she wasn't alone.
"And who are these guys?" he asked her, examination the two senior hosts with his mercury eyes. The cousins straightened up, feeling he was measuring them.
"Oh, this are some of the guys I've talked to you about. They're part of the Host Club. Haninozuka Mitsukuni and Morinozuka Takashi." she presented the hosts to Karma. "Honey-senpai, Mori-senpai, this is my best friend, Akabane Karma."
"Just call me Karma." he greeted them, and the two seniors did the same. Karma then turned to Nagisa. "And you know I never tell you if I'm coming. You gave me the key so I could come and go as I want to, right?" he teased her, and Nagisa just rolled her eyes.
"Come on in, guys, the cake should be ready." she said, smiling at the hosts, who just nodded and followed her.
Mitsukuni and Takashi exchanged looks. From where did Nagisa knew that guy? He seemed so... unlike her, a complete opposite.
And yet, so were the two cousins, and they got along perfectly well.
The four sat around the isle in Nagisa's kitchen, eating the cake. It wasn't strawberry cake, because Nagisa didn't have any strawberries when she was baking it, but Mitsukuni was in heaven anyways.
"This is good. Very good." he said, his mouth full of cake. How he managed to seemed adorably cute while talking with his mouth full, was something Nagisa would probably never know. And the flowers, Kami, the flowers. Where did they keep coming from?
"So... how did you become friends with little shy Nagisa, here? She usually squeals like a mouse when unknown people try to talk to her." asked Karma, his own piece of cake almost gone. 'I'll have to ask Hara for the recipe, this stuff is great!' he thought, moaning in pleasure. Yep, he really liked chocolate cake.
"Karma! That's not fucking true, you jackass!" she complained, and the two seniors whistled under their breath. They didn't see that language coming, specially from sweet innocent Nagisa.
"Yeah, sure, whatever lets you sleep at night." the redhead didn't even flinch when Nagisa punched him hard in the shoulder, as he was more than used to it. Instead, he just laughed at her. And then he ate her piece of cake. Her. Piece.
No. He didn't just freaking dare to do that, didnt he? She was gonna make him pay... cake was a sacred thing, you couldn't just eat someone else's cake, that's not right.
"She got lost." answered Mori-senpai, and Nagisa dropped the subject for the moment. But it wasn't over, they were going to have words later.
"Why am I not surprised to hear that?" said Karma, obviously mocking her.
"You make it sound like I'm some useless girl that's scared of everything and everyone." she sweat dropped, looking slightly annoyed. But the cousins could tell she cared deeply for this Karma guy. She had said they were best friends, after all.
"You kinda are." this time Nagisa hit him hard enough to knock him out his seat, and he fell to the floor. "I was joking, I was joking!" he said, yelling a bit. That had hurt a little. "Crazy, aggressive woman." he muttered under his breath and Nagisa glared at him.
"Did you say something, Karma?"
"Just that I love you." answered the redhead. When had she become so strong? He was gonna have a talk with Karasuma-sensei, maybe inviting him an ice cream or something. To make a little squeaky thing like Nagisa strong enough to knock him off... yeah, that wasn't just anything.
"You're pretty close, ne?" said Honey-senpai, eating his fifth piece of cake. The both just nodded. "When did you two meet?"
"We were at the same class during middle school. We even got moved to the same class last year." informed Nagisa, and this time it was her who got a piece of Karma's cake. Because he didn't just take Nagisa's, but also took another piece. Like, what the hell? He didn't make any sense. "Last year we made a deal to not distance ourselves during high school, because we knew we wouldn't attend the same school. He stayed in Kunugigaoka High School, the weirdo, and I applied to other schools, Ouran included." explained the bluenette, and Honey-senpai seemed to be satisfied with what she said.
"Wait, how am I the weirdo?" Karma felt honestly insulted by that. The nerve of that girl... she of all people could not call him a weirdo!
"You chose to stay at Kunugigaoka." Nagisa answered like it was obvious, and Karma just huffed.
They spent some more time talking, and Karma seemed to get along with the two hosts pretty well. Nagisa didn't know what to think about that. Should she be scared? Yeah, maybe. One Karma was enough, but a Karma who was friends with those two? At least it wasn't the twins. That would have been a disaster. She made a very important mental note about not letting Kaoru and Hikaru meet Karma. If they did, then Earth was definitively gonna explode.
'Yeah, I'm not fun at all. That actually was a bit masochist...'
After a while though, Honey-senpai and Mori-senpai had to go, promising they would meet again. 'Not if I'm alive.' though the bluenette before closing the door. She then sighed and went to sit on her couch, next to Karma.
"So? What do you think?" she asked him after three minutes had passed and he didn't say anything.
"You said those where the normal ones in your club?" he asked carefully, and Nagisa nodded.
"Yeah, they along with Haruhi... Kyoya-kun maybe counts as normal too, but he's the Shadow King, so I'm still not so sure about that." she explained. Ootori Kyoya seemed to be very calmed, composed and normal, but he was Tamaki-kun's best friend, and he was indeed the Shadow King.
"Huh... I'm sorry." he said, and Nagisa looked at him puzzled. "I mean, if they are the normal ones... you sure you don't wanna transfer to Kunigigaoka?" she knew Karma was joking, but she still rolled her eyes.
"Like you were better." she teased, turning the TV on. "How's everyone?" she wasn't really asking about anyone in particular, but Karma knew what she meant.
"He's good, still trying to cope with it. He said he'll pass by at some point at the weak, that he needed to get out of his house." he explained. That meant Karma was gonna give him his keys.
"Ok... just tell him to bring some snacks, 'kay?" she said, resting her head on Karma's shoulder, and she heard him made and agreement noise. They then started their movie marathon.
So the twins were having a fight. Ok, it wasn't Nagisa's problem, and she supposed the twins were the ones responsible of making peace, and nobody should step in and do it for them. It would be a good thing for them, taking into consideration what Nagisa had found out. It was their very first fight, which somewhat didn't surprise her at all, but that didn't do it less concerning either.
Nagisa wasn't about to follow them around and try to make them talk to each other in a civilized way. Even though she did tell them they looked ridiculous with the new hair style, and that Kaoru should be more original and not just copy her hair color. At least it made them agree in something, as they went to Tamaki-kun's corner of woe.
But her plans of no-interfering went directly to hell when she heard him talking. Thinking back on what she did, Nagisa thought maybe Sugino was right and she was spending too much time with Karma after all.
"So, you think they bought it?" Nagisa wasn't snooping, but that seemed suspicious, so... she just sticked around to hear the conversation. Nope. That wasn't snooping at all.
"Of course they did! Our acting skills are marvelous!" Nagisa made a face at the word choice. Just who used 'marvelous' anymore?
'Well, this is a school for filthy rich people... damn this rich bastards and their unnecessary complex words.'
"I'm sorry for hitting you with that chair though..." those sneaky bastards...
"Oh, so I get it now." Nagisa walked into the conversation as she owned the world, a very useful technique Bitch-sensei had taught her. That way the enemy thought you were more powerful, even if you weren't. Nagisa was, in fact more powerful than the twins at the moment, as she knew some very valuable information, but the skill was of use anyways. "You were faking this fight thing the whole time, weren't you?" the twins didn't say anything, but Nagisa knew she was right. "Yeah, I think I'm gonna tell the others about this, you're driving them crazy." it wasn't a prominent change, but the eye-twitch let Nagisa know she was gonna triumph that one time. "Or... I'll could just shut up and let them find out themselves."
"What do you want for it?" they said, completely synchronized.
"I want you to stop acting as each other when you're with me. It's not healthy, and you'll feel better just being yourselves.." she smiled, and the twins looked at each other before nodding.
"Deal. But you have to tell us how can you tell us apart too." said Hikaru, and Nagisa's smile widened.
"Haruhi already said it. Even if you look alike, you're two different beings, with different thoughts, ideas, and dreams. You just have to be observant enough to notice which one of you wants what, and how that reacts with your personalities. It's ok to not be completely alike, y'know? Nobody will judge you if you decide you wanna do different things." Nagisa said before starting to walk again. She didn't want to be late to class.
She was already a few feet from them, but Nagisa turned around and looked at them again.
"And just for you to know guys, Hikaru's voice it deeper. That's how I could tell you apart on the phone."
Nagisa left the twins standing there, watching her with amazement. Nagisa was really someone special, wasn't she? Maybe they would let her in.
Maybe.
When the hosts realized they've been totally pranked by the twins, Nagisa just couldn't keep it together, and started to laugh so hard she ended up on the floor. The twins were smiling smugly, and the other guys were just trying to process everything.
"Thanks, Nagisa. Their faces are priceless." said Kaoru, helping her to stand up.
"Yeah, we couldn't have done it if you didn't help us." Hikaru winked at her, and Nagisa tried to suppress her giggling with not that much success. They were pretty fun when you weren't the one they were mocking at.
"It was nothing. A picture would have been good too, but you can't have everything in he world, can't you?" she sighed, amused by the club's surprised faces. They didn't see that side of Nagisa coming, huh?
'Wait 'till you find out about my job and the 3-E.' she thought with a smile, before correcting herself. 'No. They'll know nothing about that. Not now, nor ever.'
Nagisa was willing to take some risks, but that one was out of question. Her past and job would remain a secret. She was gonna make sure of that.
So, did you like that Karma time? I wanted to include him from chapter one, and now he's here! I have plans for our little redhead, so you'll be seeing him more. Now, I have a question. Do you know who was the person Karma and Nagisa were talking about? And if you don't, who do you think it is? Spoiler alert, he'll appear soon.
I'm sorry if some of you wanted more of an Ouran approach, but I didn't want to go too deep with the twins just yet. As you can see, they have formed a relationship with Nagisa, so when the time comes they'll have their part. But don't forget this is a Mitsukuni x Nagisa pairing story, so... that's it.
I hope you liked it!
Patolemus.