If you haven't checked out the first part of this story, New Bad Girl at Ouran, head over to coauthor Tracy4t's page for the first half. Unfortunately there wasn't enough space to include that in the summary, but this story is definitely a joined effort. Writing work is split 50/50 so if you enjoy the story please be sure to also give her a shout out in the comments. We both hope you all enjoy the final half of Shiki's story.
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~Tracey4t and Mcfly
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As the taxi drove to head back to home they passed by the road that went down to Shiki's old house with her mother and stepfather. She made an ugly face, flipping it off.
"Don't know them by chance do you?" the driver snickered, noticing from the rearview mirror.
"If you did, you'd flip them off too." She muttered, slumping in her seat. Shiki hadn't bothered walking far when she decided to opt for a taxi instead. She told the driver to stop a small distance away from her house so that she could sneak back in through the window without being noticed. Hooch was there, and barked with delight upon her appearence.
"Shhh!" Shiki shushed, hopping down and hugging him as he licked her face. The door to her room burst open.
"Where have you been!?" Arata shouted mad.
"In here. Duh." Shiki said as if it were obvious.
"Funny, you weren't in here two hours ago when I first came to look."
"Well maybe you should get your eyes checked."
"Shiki you obviously snuck out why are you so blatantly lying!? Your window is even open!" He pointed to it
"Cant a girl get some fresh air around here without receiving accusations of escaping this hellhole?" She asked innocently.
"Maybe its because you do it all the time?"
"Me?"
"Yes, you!" his tone was becoming increasingly annoyed.
"Couldn't be. I never sneak out. Its too dangerous out there, and I have a broken shoulder."
"You're such a pain!"
"Arata, your temper!" Maki shouted from the other room. He turned to leave
"Don't let the door slam you in the ass on the way out!" Shiki warned 'sincerely' as the door slammed shut so hard the pictures on her walls shook a little.
'Stupid old man' she thought bitterly, holding hooch close to her. Or maybe it was the other way around? Dogs always gave the best hugs.
"Shiki can we actually talk?" her stepmother asked, walking in and sitting on the bed.
"What?" Shiki asked.
"Please, don't take this the wrong way, but how would you like to be on your own for a little bit?"
"What are you talking about?"Shiki asked.
Maki stood up and walked to the window. "I'm worried about you. It feels like that no one is giving you peace. That's why, if you wish I can arrange for you to stay at one of my family's private penthouses on your own. You can even take Hooch with you if you like. Would you like some time alone? Please just understand, this isn't an attempt to get rid of you, it's an attempt to help you."
Shiki was surprised, pleasantly surprised, but none the less surprised. "...what about the eyewitness protection?" She asked
"We'll worry about that when the time comes. In the meantime, I think you need some space and peace. However, I have two conditions. One, you keep going to school, driven there and back by one our drivers. And you have to have dinner with the family on Sundays for now. So are you okay with this?"
"I'm not doing dinner. I don't want to be around people who are blaming me for all their problems and pretending to be fine when really they all just hate me!" Her voice has progressed to yelling by the last part of her sentence. She pulled the covers over her head. "Stop trying Maki. Just leave me alone..."
She sighed. "Okay, no dinner, but I get to come check on you occasionally and you still have to go to school. Would you accept that?" Maki asked. "I'll give you a fair heads up and you can turn me away if you really want to."
Shiki didn't say anything.
"I'll leave you to think about it. " Maki got up to leave "but for the record, Shiki, I never blamed you. Not once." She closed the door behind her
'Why does this bitch keep trying?' Shiki thought as buried herself under her covers.
The next morning Maki woke up with overwhelming nausea. She ran over to the toilet and vomited several times. Arata came in and rubbed her back. "Are you okay?"
"What made you ask, don't you know I do this every morning ?" She growled bitterly
"I'm sorry I'm just trying to help-" He was cut off by another round vomiting.
"Well asking if I'm okay sure helped me not throw up anymore, I'm glad you were there!"
'I thought that Kumori was just a bitch when she yelled at me during pregnancy, maybe if Maki does it too it actually is hormones" Arata thought.
Shiki walked down the hallway sulking when she heard some shouting coming from her parents room.
'Now what are they doing?' she thought annoyed.
Nao hummed cheerfully as she walked past her.
"Whats your deal?" Shiki snapped.
"Oh nothing," Nao said, unphased by her sisters yelling.
"She's in loveeee" Zaruko said with a smug smile, making an appearance.
"How do you know?" Asked Shiki.
"I just know these things." She said, walking off.
'And I have acquired a vast amount of knowledge from Disney movies' She thought to herself smugly, sitting down at the table to eat.
"Shiki aren't you going to eat?" Asked a maid.
"Not hungry."
"But you need nutrition for your arm to heal," She tried to persuade her, but Shiki shut the door behind her without any aknowledgement.
"Take me to school." She told the driver.
"But what about your sisters?" She asked her.
"Does it look like I care about climate change? Come back and get them later I just want to get out of this hell hole why is that so difficult to understand?!"
"Alright," said the drive deciding not to argue. "Oh by the way, am I taking you to the family penthouse after school?"
"Yes."
...
"Hey Chika!" Nao waved to him in the hallway.
"Uh Nao, Hi." He said, waving awkwardly.
"How are you today?" Nao asked cheerfully.
"I'm, good," Yasuchika said as calmly as he could. "Um, so Nao um, I was wondering, if, you might want to...,"
"Hey Nao, Chika, good morning!" Satoshi said suddenly appearing.
"Good morning Satoshi," said Nao.
'Damn!' Yasuchika thought bitterly.
"Hows your guys training going for the tournament?" She asked.
"Yep, that's what I why I was looking for Yasuchika. We have to get going. Come on Chika!" Satoshi said pulling Yasuchika away.
'Damnit!' Yasuchika groaned in thought.
"Good luck!" she called out after them.
...
"Shiki! There you are!" Tamaki shouted in delight, running up to her.
Shiki immediately shot out her fist, hitting Tamaki in the face and knocking him down.
"Oops, sorry Tamaki, looks like you ran into my fist again. You really need to watch out for that. You never know when one's going to fly out and hit you," she said.
Tamaki held his face in his hands but still continued talking. "What was wrong, why didn't you come to the host club yesterday?" He asked
"This may surprise you, but there is a world outside of the host club. You might want to look into it sometime," Shiki said.
"Hikaru and Haruhi said you were sick though" He said, "Are you feeling better?"
"I was until you came along and ruined my day!" She snapped, storming off. She turned the corner only to meet eyes with Kyoya.
"Shiki-"
"Fuck off four eyes!" She warned. Kyoya sighed.
"Good morning to you too my dear," he said.
"Shiki?" Kyoya asked as Tamaki showed up holding his nose in his hands.
"How did you know?" He asked.
He rolled his eyes. "Call it Intuition."
"Why does she always punch me when she sees me?" Tamaki asked.
"Becuase you have a punchable face," Shiki called out to him. She walked onward until she happened to come across Hunny and Mori.
"Oh, hey guys," she said softly.
"Shi-chan, you never took your cake yesterday!" Hunny told her, and Mori held out the cake.
"Thanks, I could definitely use this right now." She said, taking it from him. She opened the cake box and pulled a piece off and started eating it right in the hall, not really caring about rich people etiquette or the strange stares she was getting. She went into the locker room and opened her locker, dully pulling out her stuff for the day.
"Wow, you don't even bother trying to hide the fact that you don't belong here do you?" Ayumi scoffed.
"You're just jealous that I have a bunch of guys giving me cake and you're repulsive bitchiness wards off everyone around you. Now go find someone else to bother before I rip out those hair extensions daddy gave you along with whatever hair you have left." She said as she continued to pull stuff out of her locker, referring to the time when Ayumi showed up at school with a horrible hair cut looking beat up.
"Oh now who's jealous. You wish you had my hair!" Ayumi taunted.
"Sure, why not?" Shiki said, pulling out a swiss army knife, "hold still."
"Aren't you tired of me already? Just give me back my locker and I'll leave you alone!" She yelled at her, less phased by Shiki's threats after such a long time of dealing with them.
"Hmmm let me think about- no." Shiki said. Ayumi groaned in frustration.
"Look, can you please let me have that locker for like five minutes?!" She asked. Shiki stopped what she was doing and looked at her.
"Why would you only want a locker for five minutes?" Shiki asked suspiciously. The two stared at each other in silence for a few moments.
"Whatever, you're such a pain." Ayumi muttered, storming off. Shiki shut her locker back, picking up her stuff again and heading out.
'Thats really weird' she thought to herself as she continued eating the rest of the chocolate cake.
"Did you just eat an entire cake?" Kaoru asked her as she sat down in her seat.
"No." Shiki said. She took two more bites. "Now I have."
"How?!" Hikaru asked in appall.
"Never underestimate a girls stomach capacity when it comes to eating chocolate while upset." She said.
"Why are you upset?" Hikaru asked.
"None of your buisness."
"You know if you're sick you shouldn't be eating so much junk." Kaoru commented.
"It wasn't that much." Shiki insisted.
"It was a two layer 8 inch cake." He rolled his eyes.
She let out an exasperated sigh, throwing her hands up in the air. "Well everyone's just a fucking critic today, aren't they?!"
"Hey you have some chocolate on your lips, want me to lick it off?" Hikaru grinned, putting an arm around her shoulders being careful to avoid contact with the injured one.
"I think this looks like a job for two," Kaoru joined in.
"Hell no!" Shiki said, shoving them away and wiping her mouth on her sleeve. "...did I get it?"
"No." They said in sync.
"Wheres it at?"
"Well tell you,"
"On one condition."
"You have to guess which one of us is Hikaru!" They finished together.
"This is stupid. I'll just go find a mirror." She rolled her eyes, about to get up.
"You're just saying its stupid because you know you can't do it." Kaoru taunted, tipping his green hat smugly. Shiki rolled her eyes and continued leaving before they blocked her way.
"Fine. Uhhh you're Hikaru." She pointed to one randomly.
"Sorry, you got it wrong!" They chimed.
"Better luck next time, eh Shiki?" Hikaru said.
"Wait, I did get it right." Shiki said, eyeing them suspiciously and smiling a little.
"No you didn't." Kaoru said.
"But you're lying. Whenever Hikaru is lying his voice becomes more confident like he's trying to compensate for the bullshit he's pulling over, like when he messes with Tamaki. Kaoru does something similar, but its more subtle. His eyes change expression when he's finished and he thinks that he's pulled one over on you. Hikaru gives it away immediately." She said as if it were obvious.
Both twins looked at each other confused.
"You're making that all up to mess with us aren't you?" they said.
"Hikaru, move, you're blocking my seat," Haruhi said suddenly come up behind one of the twins. Then she looked over at Shiki. "Oh Shiki, you have a little smudge on your right corner lip," she said pointing to where it was.
"Thanks." Shiki said as she wiped it again. "Did I get it?"
"Yep" Haruhi confirmed. Shiki looked at the twins smugly. Both twins groaned annoyed.
"What?" Haruhi asked.
"Nothing, nothing at all," Shiki said smugly.
"Do I really sound like that when I lie?" Hikaru whispered to Kaoru.
"Sound like what when you lie?" Haruhi asked, "like you're becoming more confidence, like you're trying to compensate for the BS you're about to pull? Of course, Kaoru's does something similar. It changes tone but it's sort of a "ha-ha, fooled them" sort of thing. That kind of makes it easier to to tell after you're done, but you Hikaru, you give it away real easily."
Hikaru groaned, slumping in his chair.
"This is why you're my favorite," Shiki said to Haruhi.
"Huh?" Haruhi said.
"Never mind," Shiki said, still acting smug. Some hours later when she'd already transitioned to her next period, Shiki stood up and ran out of the classroom without warning and straight for the bathroom.
'Oh dear god my stomach hates me but it was so worth it... ugh, maybe...' She thought to herself, clutching her stomach and groaning. 'Maybe I should just induce vomiting to get this pain over with?' she thought to herself. She sat in the stall for a while pondering over the notion, she heard the door of the bathroom open. Feeling cautious, she carefully pulled out a knife.
Then she noticed the shoes.
"Haruhi?" she said.
"Shiki?" Haruhi said back. She opened the stall door to see Shiki on the floor. "You okay?"
"Howd you know I was in here?" She asked.
"I didn't, I was taking something to another class and saw you rush into the bathroom." She said.
"Thats awfully coincidental, you sure you're not stalking me?" Shiki asked.
"I'm pretty sure."
And of course, who else but Ayumi would walk into the locker area only to hear two people talking. She recognised Shiki's voice instantly.
"You should get out of here before someone catches you in the girls bathroom." She heard her say. She looked around the corner to see her on her knees with some boy in the stall!
"Everyones in class, I don't think we need to worry." Was that... Haruhi?
She's in there with Haruhi!?
"That nasty little whore..." Ayumi mouthed quietly to herself, not believing what she was hearing. She hid behind the corner, listening quietly. No wonder the host club was giving her such special treatment! A thought struck her, and a grin spread across her face.
'This might just be my chance to get my locker back' She pulled out her phone from her pocket and hit the record button.
"Oh god..." Shiki moaned, leaning over the toilet bowl.
"I'll hold your hair back." Haruhi offered.
Shiki took a deep breath and stuck her fingers down her throat, gagging and choking but still didn't manage to actually induce any vomiting. She groaned again, hugging the seat of the toilet bowl, taking several deep breaths to recover her breathing.
"Shh, Shh it's okay, just take it slowly," Haruhi coxes Shiki.
"You're actually really gentle," said Shiki.
"Well, I just want to make sure your comfortable," Haruhi said.
"Oh," Shiki moaned, "come on, faster, just take away my misery!"
"Shh, don't rush it, we have plenty of time," said Haruhi.
"Well it kind of hurts but I know it'll feel better to get it out of my system." She said, "Besides, I don't want to keep you too long." She said, sticking her fingers in her throat again.
Ayumi shook her head. 'Right in the school bathroom, its disgusting...' She thought to herself.
"Ok I think its about to come..." Shiki said, and her moan heightened a little before finally purging.
"Oh shit..." She breathed. "Fuck... that definitely feels better... but damn its everywhere though..."
"Its okay, you couldn't help it. Besides, I don't mind" Haruhi told her, trying to make her not feel embarrassed. If Shiki was possible of such an emotion that is.
'Wait, did she just vomit? She was just sick? Hmmm... well if it was enough to convince me, I'm sure it'll be enough to convince the rest of the school' Ayumi smiled to herself wickedly. She stopped recording and slipped back out of the bathroom as she heard the two cleaning up and flushing the toilet.