A/N: Super vague spoiler (don't hate me for this): this isn't another enemy. See? Vague!
Disclaimer: I don't own OHSHC.
Sachiko
Third Person
With so many holes in Kaede's story, the host club constantly tried squeezing it out of her. All of the poking inquiries were met with a deathly glare, something that they knew might potentially kill them if glared at with both eyes. Every single time, they were forced to retreat.
"Wait, what happened back there with Justin?" Haruhi asked her best friend (she and Kaede had already acquired the title) Kaede, who was once again reading another huge book in the library, called the Iliad. You see, she already finished the Odyssey yesterday (and started it yesterday).
Kaede closed the book, done, and said, "Hmm?" Haruhi repeated her question. "Oh, I convinced him to go back to America."
"For some reason, I think that's not the whole story," Haruhi muttered, Kaede hearing her because of her sharp senses.
"That's right; it's not the whole story." Haruhi sweatdropped.
"So...why did Justin go on his knees when you gazed in his eyes with both of yours?" Kaede sighed, and Haruhi wondered if she had gone too far. To her surprise, though, she answered.
"My eyes have this weird effect on people," she confessed, aligning her bangs that cover her right eye as she always did. "When I was young, though, I didn't cover it. It wasn't as severe; if you didn't look directly at my eyes it wouldn't do anything. If I look into someone's eyes with both of mine, I can read their emotion and anything that is on their mind." Kaede paused, taking a breath. "Also, with my own emotion, I can affect your state of mind, like I did Justin. If I do it too much, it could potentially damage your way of thinking, like having intense paranoia."
Haruhi's eyes widened. "Whoa," was all she could say.
"I know? It's like a super power, almost," Kaede smirked. "That's why if you cross the line with me, you might get the evil eye!" She snickered at her joke, as Haruhi slowly inched away from her.
Kaede
"Katana-kun, you haven't been here lately!" one of my regular girls pouted.
"Yeah, Kyoya-kun's girlfriend has been here instead," another chimed in.
"Ootori's business is his," I said coldly, taking out my leather notebook. In the corner of my eye, the girls had hearts in their eyes. The main driving force in these women's lives seem to be yaoi...
My hand freely flowed, sketching the surroundings; which included an overexcited Mitsukuni-senpai and a rather gross scene of twincest in the corner. I gave it a special touch, shading and making intricate patterns, giving the girls hearts in their eyes and Mitsukuni-senpai flowers around him.
My guests peeked over my shoulder. "Whoa...," they all said, looking at my sketch. The others gathered to see my drawing.
"This... is professional work," Haruhi exclaimed in awe.
"Really? My classmates back in America always criticized it," I said. But they were jerks, I failed to add.
"We would, but we would be lying," the twins muttered.
"This is magnificent! We must frame it and put it on the wall!" Tamaki-senpai said grandly, snatching the sketchbook from my hands. He flipped through the pages.
With lightning speed, I grabbed my notebook before he could go into much detail. "Don't... look through my notebook," I said, glaring at him.
"MOMMY, KAEDE'S TRYING TO KILL ME...!"
He hid behind Ootori, who fixed his glasses. I cracked my knuckles.
"I suggest you move, Ootori..."
Tamaki-senpai, to everyone's horror, fainted after that brief episode with the notebook. We all sat in the infirmary, crowding the almost drunken like Tamaki on the bed. "It's not my fault the guy stole my notebook. With all of my private thoughts in it, it was a reflex for my to show both eyes at the time," I retorted, fighting off the wary glances I was getting.
"This is good stuff," I heard the twins say from the back of the room. I turned to them, and, to my surprise, I saw them looking through my ShiraiPad (thankfully not my leather notebook). I stood slowly from my chair as the other hosts watched. The twins, not noticing my black aura, were engrossed in my tablet.
"What the hell are you guys doing?" I asked, coming up from behind. They both jumped, stammering for an excuse. I pulled my tablet from their grasp. I sighed. "What was good?" They all were surprised at my reaction.
"Well, I personally liked the poems," Kaoru stuttered.
"I liked the story about the Heaven called Haven," Hikaru said.
"That's satisfactory," I replied, and they exhaled the breath that they were holding in. "But, the next time you decide to snatch this tablet, I suggest you read page 56."
"W-what's on page 56?" the twins stammered, holding on to each other tightly for the dreaded answer.
"'The Melancholy of the Twins Who Read Too Much.'"
I let my hair down, sighing after yet another day of the host club. It didn't seem like I had been at Ouran for only 4 weeks...
"What up, Haruhi?" I asked the brunette girl passing by in the room, carrying a bunch of heavy boxes.
"Hey, Kaede," she replied, barely having the strength to hold them any longer.
"What the heck are you carrying?" I said. "Did the idiots tell you to get that?"
"Yeah," she answered. She was caught off balance, and I rushed to carry the boxes. In the end of those five seconds, I was balancing the boxes on my head and hands.
"These aren't heavy," I told her, revelling on how good the pressure felt on my head. She looked at me like I was crazy.
"...Sure," she said uncertainly.
As I took the boxes into the Dark Magic Club's Room (I don't know why, though... Haruhi said it was because Tamaki-senpai was too scared to do it himself), someone other than the idiots came in. Actually, three familiar people.
"Sachiko?" I asked, my eyes glowing, seeing my friend and her two cousins. "Hoshi and Haruo?"
Third Person
"You're Kaede's best friend?!" Tamaki said in accented English. The host club was curious as to Kaede's nice life back in the States, but didn't expect her to just come up to the door.
"Yeah," Sachiko responded, a bit red in the presence of the host club. "And these are my cousins, Hoshi and Haruo. We're transferring here." I jumped up.
"Wait, really?!" Kaede said, glowing.
"Do you guys have a crush on Kaede-nee-san?" asked Hoshi rather randomly.
"Sh-she just spoke in Japanese!" the twins said in horror, pointing at the girl.
They didn't answer the question..., Hoshi thought, sweatdropping.
"Shut your mouths, you two," Kaede told them, sitting back. She changed to English. "Why did you guys suddenly transfer here?"
"Justin told us you were here," Haruo replied.
"When were you guys friends with that playboy?" Kaede narrowed her eyes and crossed her arms.
"He just...," he hesitated. "Rei told Sachiko, actually..." For a moment, a shadow was cast on Kaede's face. But it quickly disappeared.
"How did you guys get enough money for a transfer here in Japan?" she moved on.
"Hoshi's father, my uncle, is pretty rich. I'm going to Class 1-B here, and Hoshi and Haruo will be going to the middle school division," Sachiko said.
"Do you guys all know how to speak Japanese?"
"Yeah."
"Okay."
They continued with the introductions, and, soon, the three knew the host club guys' names.
Kaede left first, to go to a piano competition that afternoon, leaving Sachiko and her cousins to fend off the host club's questions themselves. Kaede knew of the prying questions they were probably going to ask after she left, but she didn't mind as it was a chance for her Japanese American friends to practice Japanese.
Haruhi, though, observed carefully from the sidelines. Even Kaede's friends from America are freakin' handsome, she thought with a sweatdrop.
Haruo could be a contribution to the club, Kyoya noted during the whole thing. The guy was handsome, no doubt. Hoshi and Sachiko were beautiful too.
"...So this is Kaede now?" Hoshi commented. "She seems intimidating."
"She used to tease people too much," Haruo winced, being a victim of it himself. "She played jokes and pranks and helped out everywhere."
Sachiko remained silent; she didn't know how to talk to ridiculously handsome guys, and, usually, Kaede was there to support her. She had barely survived without her in America, but, with the current circumstances, she thought she would die of blushing.
"Really? Kaede is more of a lone wolf, cool type here," the twins said bluntly. "Except for hanging out with Haruhi (and Kyoya-senpai but we'd die if we said so)."
The three new people reverted their gazes to the cute "boy" next to Tamaki.
"It makes sense though. Rei really messed her up," Hoshi scowled. "Middle school rumors didn't help either."
"We won't say anything else, though; Kaede's a private person," Haruo said. "A private and scary person, I might add." Everyone in the room silently agreed.
"Yeah, we didn't know she was rich until right before she left for Japan."
"How come you find ways to get money, even though you're rich?" Haruhi asked the next morning in the library. She referred to the many odd jobs that Kaede seemed to take on to get extra cash. She had just told her of her recent modelling gigs, as well the money that she acquired from piano competitions.
"My parents are rich, not me," Kaede said, not looking up from her new book, Emma. "I have the skills and reputation to gain money, so why not?" She paused, looking around."Hey... Do you think Sachiko got lost trying to find this library?"
"Where is library D?" Sachiko asked a passing girl. She had a terrible sense of direction, and had been circling around the school for the whole morning. She didn't want to bother anyone, but found herself having to resort to asking people.
"That way," the girl pointed to the right.
"Arigatou (Thank you)," she said with a somewhat thick American accent. She rushed to meet Kaede and Haruhi. To her surprise, she was stopped by a tapping on her shoulder.
"Look at your map, Sachiko," she heard a familiar low voice behind her. Sachiko turned to see Haruhi and Kaede. "The bell's ringing in a couple minutes. I'll show you to Room 1-B."
Haruhi and Sachiko struggled to meet Kaede's confident, steady strides to Sachiko's homeroom. The shorter girls wiped off their sweat as they entered the room.
The occupants stared in wonder at Kaede, practically ignoring Sachiko and Haruhi. "It's Kyoya-senpai's girlfriend; Miss Perfect!" they all cried.
Rumors had spread fast around the school about her and Kyoya, and she already was quite popular. She was known for being the cool type like Kyoya, and her intellect was already well known. Although, the "Miss Perfect" nickname was not exactly something Kaede liked. She didn't consider it being humble - she was rather arrogant, anyways - she just didn't like the name, for it was uncreative.
"I'm not Ootori's girlfriend," Kaede said. "And I'm not Miss Perfect either. I'm just here for my friend." They all nodded eagerly, wanting to know who it was. Sachiko came from behind her shyly. The eyebrows in the class were collectively raised.
"She's pretty..."
"Is she friends with Haruhi-kun?"
"As expected of a friend of Miss Perfect..."
The mutters of the room were unanimous in deciding that Sachiko was an impressive girl.
Sachiko exhaled sharply, "What are they saying, Kaede?" she asked in English.
"I just helped you get a good impression," Kaede snickered. "By the way, you need to learn Japanese."
Before Sachiko could retort, the bell rang. "C'mon, Kaede, we have to get to class," Haruhi beckoned.
"Ok," Kaede replied. "Bye, Sachiko! See you in the host club!" Then, the two exited.
"How come Kaede got to skip out on the math lesson?" Hikaru pouted.
"The math teacher is so strict; he makes us do so much work!" Kaoru complained.
The twins, Haruhi, and Kaede were all walking to the lunch tables, and Hikaru and Kaoru were whining again about the strict math teacher.
"Even Haruhi has a hard time in the class!" the two cried, looking to a serious Haruhi immersed in a math book.
"It's easy; you just have to understand it," Kaede yawned. "You won't learn by reading the book, Haruhi, you learn by figuring out how to do the equation yourself." Haruhi looked up from the textbook.
"It's easy for you to say, Kaede; you got to skip out on class and grade sensei's papers!" Haruhi said.
"I did my work early, like always," Kaede replied indifferently. "And it's not my fault I'm the 'go to girl' for sensei." When they reached the cafeteria, Haruhi and Kaede sat at their usual table and the twins went in line for a school lunch. Tamaki, Mori, and Honey appeared afterward.
"Where's Kyoya-senpai?" asked Haruhi, searching the group of people.
"He got a little delayed," Tamaki replied, showing them where he was. Kyoya stood at the corner of the cafeteria with a girl making a move on him.
Kaede chuckled. "Seems like that girl is hitting on Ootori," she said with an amused look on her face. "She's probably from 1-B, since I announced that I wasn't Ootori's girlfriend to that class."
The host club looked a bit confused. They thought that a romantic relationship had bloomed between Kaede and Kyoya, since they seemed rather close to each other. They never imagined that Kaede would be so calm and collected - oh wait, no, they expected that.
"Speaking of 1-B, where is Sachiko?" Kaede looked around for her short friend.
"I'm right here," said Sachiko, approaching the club. She was clad in the green uniform.
"Wow, you're stuck with the uniform," Kaede commented. "I got off the hook." She gestured to her collared white blouse and grey vest, skinny jeans, and a scarf that wrapped around her neck and draped her right shoulder.
The twins nodded in approval. "At least Kaede has a good sense of style," the two remarked to Kaede. Although, she wasn't at her previous spot.
"Where did Kae-chan go?" Honey asked.
Then, a dreadful shriek filled the air. "Kyoya-kun, you idiot!" a girl yelled. "So you are dating Shirai Kaede!" Kyoya's lips twitched in annoyance. He had no reason to be gentle in rejecting her (as her family wasn't very influential) but she had chosen a public place to confess, so the option was off the table. He hated girls like this.
All of the attention was now focused on the two. Murmurs were heard among the crowd, like, "So, the rumors are true?" and "Kyoya-kun is already taken?"
"I thought that this was a confession; not a drama show," Kaede came up from behind the girl. She jumped at the cold voice. Kaede snaked her arm onto Kyoya's shoulders, who in turn flinched at the sudden skin ship. "Face the facts; I'm not the reason he rejected you. Don't blame me for your problems," she whispered to her. The girl was flabbergasted.
"You can't talk to me like that!" she whined. Kaede aligned her bangs, looking like death herself. She scowled.
"Talk like what? I'm just stating the truth." She tightened her grip on Kyoya's shoulder. She hated girls like this. Like Rei.
Kyoya looked at Kaede's dark face, and sighed. She'd usually be smirking, but I guess all that Rei talk reminded her of her hatred. He put his hand on Kaede's, which seemed to snap her out of it. "That's enough, Shirai."
"I don't remember Kaede being like this," Sachiko mumbled as Tamaki, Kyoya, Kaede, Haruhi, and her walked to a table to eat.
"What can I say? She struck the wrong chord with me," Kaede shrugged. "And it's not my fault Ootori can't handle a girl." She glanced furtively to Kyoya, who was rolling his eyes.
"It's just because the girl can't handle being rejected," Kyoya retorted.
"You at least have to control her words," Kaede sniffed. All but Sachiko looked at her incredulously. "It made a huge commotion."
"I don't have your weird constitution, Shirai."
"We're not questioning that," they all said.
After School
[In the Hitachiin Mansion...]
"Can you believe this, Haruhi?!" Tamaki cried, glomping the poor girl.
"Believe what?"
"The right sources have fallen into our begging hands!"
"We can help Kae-chan, and then she'll share her sweets with me!" Honey exclaimed.
"Hn," Mori grunted.
Kyoya already knew the whole story, so he stayed silent, his glasses glinting.
"A chance-o!" the twins said in accented English. It was the remake of that "support group" for Kaede, except the objective was different: it was to find out the whole story that happened in the States. They had become relatively smart for their meeting place; they used the twins' mansion (a place Kaede can't go) this time.
"First we have to ask Sa-chan what happened!" Honey exclaimed.
"Yes!"
A/N: I admit, this chapter was all over the place. But... oh well.
Please review! I need feedback!
Oh yeah, Hoshi's a girl and Haruo's a boy. Just to be clear.
-AmbiWriter-
