I'm trying my best to get these chapters out asap, but times are busy. I am updating pretty quickly and I'm very proud of that fact! This is another filler/bond-creating chapter. Enjoy!

Ouran Private Academy

by samisweet

Chapter Four

"Oh no! I'm gonna be late!" Usagi screeched as she bolted down the hallways of Ouran. Her first class was at the very end of the building, almost a fifteen minute walk. Too bad she was already five minutes tardy. Being late had become a ritual for her in the past few years, and she knew she could probably make it there within the next five minutes. Screeching at stragglers to get out of the way, she was merely a blur. "Ah! I thought I gave up waking up –OUCH!" Usagi rammed into someone and tumbled onto the ground, crying out in displeasure. Usagi closed her eyes tightly and lay on her back, the person she had knocked into sprawled on top of her. Taking in a deep breath and opening her eyes, Usagi shrieked and tried to scramble away, but the person was heavy.

"Kyouya-san!" Usagi snatched the glasses that were next to her hand and placed it on the Host's face. "I would appreciate it if you got off of me, please. You're heavy and I'm late!" The dark-eyed young man blinked before pulling himself off of her and gathering his scattered books. "I'm really sorry for knocking into you!" Usagi said as she pushed his books into his arms. "I'm really clumsy like that; you should have seen me when I was in junior high! Oh no, I bet the teacher's gonna give me detention!"

"Thank you," Kyouya stated calmly as he stood. He extended a hand for Usagi and the blonde accepted it warmly. Swiftly pulling her to her feet, he handed Usagi her books and book bag. "Since I'm headed in the same direction, how about I excuse you? After all, it is partially my fault that you're late."

"You'd do that for me?" Usagi asked incredulously. When Kyouya gave a curt nod, she promptly glomped the poor guy. "Oh, thankyouthankyouthankyou! This makes my day!" Kyouya was startled as the blonde let go of him. No one at this school really treated him like, well, an actual person, other than the Host Club that was. He was highly riveted and the only attention he ever received was from fawning girls. He grunted in reply to Usagi's bubbly response, walking silently. She was like Haruhi in a way, but brighter and more open. Where Haruhi had quiet sarcasm, Usagi possessed an infinite amount of cheeriness and innocence. The blond was currently walking beside him with her hands around her back-pack straps and her books under her arm, a goofy grin on her face and a bounce in her step. She began to hum a happy tune.

"Which class are you headed to?" Kyouya asked as Usagi reached an intersection.

"Math!" Usagi's face fell. "I suck at math. But that's ok! Can you believe I'm actually passing now? With a B no less! Where are you headed, Kyouya-san?"

"Advanced calculus," was the short answer.

"Wow, you're really smart, ne Kyouya-san? You must be really good with numbers," Usagi grinned. "I bet the girls are all over you cause you're so smart!"

"I'm the 'cool' type," Kyouya answered. Usagi smiled at that.

"Well, I guess I can see where they're coming from! You're all quiet and mysterious, like those shojo characters. You remind me of Sestuna-chan! Hey! Are you two related, somehow? You guys kind of look alike."

"The fashion designer?" Kyouya frowned slightly. Usagi's friends were all extraordinarily famous. How did a middle-class girl become best friends with a group of celebrities? Not only that, but they kept referring to her as 'Princess'. Kyouya dismissed that notion as an endearment. "No, I'm not related. How did you guys meet?" Usagi fell silent, her eyes radiating pain.

"We've been through a lot together," Usagi said shortly. "My friends and I met at different instances, all within a year. I'd rather not go into it. Some are happy memories… but some were meant to never be brought up again. Well, enough about me! How did you and Tamaki-san meet?"

"We were officially introduced long before school, but we became friends during my first year here, when the Host Club was created."

"You guys are really close, like me and Haruhi-chan and the girls, aren't you?"

"Yeah."

"That sounds awesome! It's great to have close friends. People you can always rely on, you know?" Usagi gave a sweet smile and stopped in front of a door. "Well, here I am!"

Kyouya gave a brief nod before knocking thrice and opening the door. The females in the class instantly sighed in a dreamy way. "Hello, Hadaka-san." Kyouya addressed the teacher with a slight, respectful bow. "Usagi-san was with me, thus creating her tardiness. It would be appreciated if you could excuse her." Usagi stepped in and fell into a bow. The girls in the class gave out incredulous noises, sending daggered eyes towards the young blonde, who shifted uncomfortably under their gaze.

Hanada-san, the teacher, quickly nodded and looked sternly over her glasses. "Well, Tsukino-san, you're excused for today, but I would not advise it to happen again."

"Yes, Hanada-sama," Usagi bowed again before turning towards Kyouya. "Thanks a bunch, Kyouya-san! It was really nice of you. See you later!" Usagi waved before going to her seat and settling down amongst girls sending her loathsome looks.

Break

Usagi had her brow furrowed as she backed away, hands clutching her backpack. A tall girl with auburn hair in a half-ponytail advanced on her. Usagi let a small gasp escape her mouth as her heel dipped with the neatly mosaic-laden sidewalk ending. Her hands tightened around her backpack and she stood firmly with two feet planted on the edge of the sidewalk.

"Commoners should be exempt from the Host Club! It was created for the mere purpose of our participation! And now, you think you can come anytime you want with special privileges out of nowhere?" the girl spitefully bit out, her eyes ablaze with anger.

"I-I'm sorry," Usagi whimpered. The taller girl stood nose to nose with her, face twisted into a scowl.

"Sorry doesn't cut it around here," she spat in Usagi's face before shoving the younger girl as hard as she could into the two-foot deep pool behind. Frogs croaked and leapt into the man-made pond as Usagi splashed into the water and skidded three times, soaked from her head to her toe. The girl laughed before walking off. "That should be enough punishment for today."

Usagi didn't bother to cry as she slowly pulled herself to her feet, slipping on the algae on the bottom and falling back into the pool a few times. Her backpack and all textbooks were soggy. Her notebooks lay scattered across the bottom of the pool and Usagi pulled them out as quickly as she could, taking care not to rip the delicate, wet pages.

"Oh no! The pens Rei gave me, and Makoto's rose, and Ami's bracelet, and Minako's chain!" Usagi whispered, searching desperately. "My wallet… with the pictures… the last allowance my parents gave me…" The pool was wide and the objects could have fallen anywhere. Usagi went on her knees, the water reaching her shoulders and she searched the bottom of the pond for her items. Her hands got caught on water lily stems and she bumped into frogs and fish more than once. She triumphantly held up a silver bracelet with ice blue sapphires and diamonds set in it along with a golden necklace with a heart-shaped locket and the astrological symbol for Venus hanging below it. She found the pens and the glittering pink designer rose pin ten minutes later. Her wallet, however, was nowhere to be found.

"Looking for something?" a voice perkily asked behind her. Usagi whipped around in surprise before sighing in relief.

"Oh, Tamaki-san, it's just you," Usagi shivered slightly as a chill wind blew and returned to her task. "My wallet fell in here and I'm trying to find it. It's really important to me. I've got an entire month's allowance and pictures in there…"

"Need some help?" Tamaki watched her slopping around in the water, arms blindly grabbing for her things.

"Oh, no, it's fine! I wouldn't want you to get yourself dirty and wet because of me," Usagi gave a cheery grin, which was quickly erased off her face when she slipped on algae and fell into the water once more. A hand appeared before her and she gratefully accepted it. She was pulled to her feet in a quick, swift motion. "Thanks! I'm sorry you got yourself wet." Tamaki merely smiled before rolling up his sleeve and looking in the water. The two searched in an amiable silence, which was broken five minutes later.

"Is this it?" Tamaki asked, holding up a sopping wet pink wallet with a bunny keychain on it. Usagi gasped before launching herself into Tamaki's arms, giving him a warm embrace.

"Thank you so much!" she cried out as she snatched the wallet from his hands, quickly opening it and pulling out three wet pictures. "They're ruined." Usagi managed to whisper. The ink had become blurry around her family, causing her mother, father, and brother to become faceless while her smiling face stood out in perfection. Usagi bowed her head, her eyes becoming shady. The one with her and Mamoru had become ruined beyond repair and was fell apart when she pulled the picture out of her wallet. The last one, one with her senshi, was ruined beyond repair as well. As for her last allowance, the bills were stuck together, but Usagi knew it could be restored. She couldn't help it. Anger coursed through her veins with ferocity. She was beyond rage.

"Usagi-chan?"

"H-Haruhi-chan!" Usagi held out the pictures, her face in a hard scowl. "They're ruined."

"Oh, Usagi-chan, it's alright," Haruhi gave a slight smile. "I've got a whole bunch of those. You gave them to me, remember? So that I wouldn't forget you, your parents, friends, or Mamoru-san."

"But these were special. They gave it to me themselves," Usagi's forehead was knit into a frown.

"Well, ask them to give them to you again," Tamaki smiled and tried to comfort the younger girl.

"Th-they can't… but that's alright! I-I guess it's fine if Haruhi-chan gave me a copy of her pictures!" Usagi smiled through her anger, knowing best that the dark feeling would do nothing positive for her.

"Alright, Usagi-chan, which spoiled brat did this to you?" Usagi looked up to find Rei with her arms crossed.

"Oh no, Rei-chan, I was being my clumsy self and I fell, that's all," Usagi gave a reassuring grin. Rei didn't look the least bit convinced, and Usagi could tell. "Rei-chan, please, I don't want to start anything while I'm here. I'm fine, see? I'm not hurt at all."

"But your parents gave you that picture," Rei insisted. "As did Mamoru-san."

"There are more pictures out there, ne, Rei-chan?" Usagi replied softly. "I'll go get dried off."

"Here, I have a change of clothes in my bag," Rei held out a pair of shorts and a red halter-top. "Go change."

"Thank you, Rei-chan! And thanks Tamaki-chan, for helping me out!" Usagi called out over her shoulder with a large grin. "Take care of my stuff, Rei-chan!" She went into the first bathroom she found and quickly changed her clothes. The halter-top was way too revealing for her tastes but the Bermuda shorts suited her fine. It was lucky, she supposed, that all four of her inner senshi had the same figures as her, excluding bust size and height. Holding her sopping wet clothes in her arm and away from her body, she quickly made her way over to where she had left her friends last.

"I'm back!" Usagi said with a wink and a smile. Haruhi gave her a warm grin.

"Lookin' good enough to eat, Usagi-chan," Rei winked and licked her lips seductively. Usagi blushed a bright red.

"Rei-chan! That's disgusting. And how do you wear such slutty clothes? I feel naked," Usagi pouted cutely. Rei let out a silvery laugh, Tamaki joining the brunette. Rei turned towards the blond.

"Thank you, Tamaki-san, for helping Usagi when I wasn't there."

"It was nothing," Tamaki shook his head.

"Haruhi-chan, I think we should come to school dressed in nothing but lingerie!" Usagi squealed. Haruhi laughed loudly.

"I can imagine what the school would do," she replied amid Tamaki's shrieking about a massive nose bleed. Rei responded with a loud laugh, hooked her arms with the two girls, and steered them away from the perverted-when-it-comes-to-Haruhi man.

Well, how'd you guys like that? I've decided to end each chapter with a little Tamaki silliness since he is one of the main characters. He's so fun :) Well, let me know what you guys thought. Next chapter is already half-done!