Disclaimer: I do not in any way or form own Inuyasha or Ouran Highschool Host Club.

Hello minna! Some have been asking if Haruhi knows if Kagome is a girl or not. Yes she does. There is also another host member who knows.

Kagome though, does not know if anyone knows of her gender. She suspects that Haruhi does, since she did not have to hide what she was before joining the Host. I hope this explains a few things :))

Important Message!

I also wanted to say that I have updated the story so soon is because unfortunately I do not know when I will update again. I will be going out town for Xmas and won't be back almost till new years. Hopefully I will update on the first Wed of the new year if-finger's crossed-not sooner. Also I have been wanting to ask my beloved readers if they have anything they want to see in the upcoming chapters. I do not guarantee that I will add it but I know there are some that are not very happy with the progress of the story so if you would like to see something, please tell me.

Also to those that are following Actions and Memories, there will be two 'stories' added to it that are connected to these. They do not derive from this story so it is not necessary to read.

If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask!

So without further ado Chapter 8!


Chapter 8: Meetings and Confessions


I was running. Running away from all the girls that seemed to be demons.

Well they weren't real demons, but you get what I was trying to say. They had the same tenacity as the demons that would go after me when I had jewel shards. I finally managed to run a bit further ahead of them, managing to lose them on the 3rd floor of the school. The bad thing was…

I was lost. Completely and utterly lost.

How the hell was I suppose to go home if I couldn't even find my way out of this place? Why? Why does this always happen to me?

Searching around to see if I could find something familiar, I actually managed to find it.

Haruhi's aura. It's right in that room.

Weird. There are many other auras in there as well. What's that about?

Seeing as I wanted to get out and away from the horde of females-demons in disguise I was sure-I pushed the door open and quickly shutting it behind me.

I was panting, trying to breathe.

"Ha" I panted, "ru," damn I still couldn't get air! "hi!"

"Kagome," I could hear over my harsh breathing. Sucking in one last lungful I ran over to her, hugging her to me.

"Save me Haruhi! I don't know what's going on at this school! Everyone's gone crazy I tell you."

Yes, Haruhi was smart, she would know what to do. She had to help me.

"Kagome?" Another voice said softly. Searching out I could feel the other surrounding the entire room.

Once again I asked myself why Haruhi would be around these people, who were neither human nor youkai.

Yes, Aniki had a lot of explaining to do when I got home.

"What's wrong Kagome?"

Remembering the nightmare I had escaped, I let out a whimper.

"They came out of nowhere," she said in a frightened voice. "I never saw them coming. It was horrible, I was surrounded in a way I never had before, asking me the same question."

I was so in my mind that it didn't register that I was holding onto a poofyfied Haruhi. All that I could see were the girls that had followed me ruthlessly. All the tugging and yammering they had subjected me to.

"Who was Kagome?"

"The girls of Ouran, obviously!" she yelled out, leaning away from her small friend. "They were all asking me the same thing and-"

Oh, my Kami. She was wearing it. The thing of my current nightmares. I was buried under all the weight of it, with no exit in sight. Backing away from her I tried to rid myself of it.

"You're wearing it," I whispered in horror. "Why are you wearing it?"

Catching the familiar auras of the twins from the side of my eye I walked over to them. Seeing as they had other, I had to control myself in not zapping them with my rising reiki.

"You devil twins!" I yelled yanking the more rowdy of the two by the tie. He had the look of being the instigator of all this. "What have you done to Haruhi? Why are you torturing her? Is this because of what I said of you two?"

She softly heard her name being called out, but at that moment it was her vs. the twins. Two against one not the best situation. Then again she had always best the odds when they were against her.

The one she held onto looked into her eyes unblinkingly. "What are-"

"you doing here?" Continued the other.

"You're not welcome here." They said in unison. The one she had by the tie tugged it away from her with a hard pull.

"Huh?" she asked in confusion. "Why not?"

"I think if I wasn't allowed to come in to this room then you wouldn't be either right?" she asked rhetorically. "So that must mean that you two don't want me here, which means you can't really kick me out because of that. That would be stupid, immature, and childish wouldn't it?"

Three arrows could be seen piercing both of the twins before they fell to the floor.

Baka twins. Who did they think she was to take orders from them. It's not like they owned the school or what ever.

"Higurashi-Taisho-san," said an unknown boy, smoothly pushing his glasses up. "If I may ask, why exactly are you here?"

What?

"Ano..." Tilting her head to the side, eyes wide in curiosity she asked, "Who are you?"

This boy was definitely interesting.

There were two beautiful women right next to him, who seemed to be starring at her at first with a searching gaze and then with amusement and acknowledgement. One had white ash like hair, down to her waist while feathers cascaded down in intervals, skin so pale it made her seem more ghostly than she really was. She was tall so her reed-like frame made her seem longer as well as extremely thin. So thin that it seemed like a stiff wind could blow her away. Wearing a floor lavender length dress, it was molded to her body. It had long and dragging arm sleeves, a thin slash from shoulder to elbow showed slightly muscled arm, pointing out that she had been a warrior. So while she seemed fae-like and somewhat weak the strength I could see in her arms said not to be deceived by her looks. Eyebrows were nobly arched over blood red eyes that made me think of Kagura, with a small button like nose. Cheeks were so pronounced they seemed like they were poking out of her face in a painful manner. Aura flared ever so slightly before it calmed down to a light purple that was mixing steadily with the person next to her.

Tall as the other, her frame was more buxom than her companion. Her hips flared out, her breasts seemed to almost be popping out of her intensely green floor length dress. It was the almost exact replica of her companion, but where the other had a more high quality material, hers was much more practical. It seemed that it would last against the elements. It seemed to be coarser and something that would keep body heat. Her ears were almost like Sesshomaru's, but one was pierced with a chain from the tip of it to the lobe. The other had an industrial piercing with a solid bar of iron that flickered when the sun from the window hit it.

Whereas the one before was pale, she seemed sun-tanned from being out doors. Her face almost had the word warrior painted on it. Her startling pale blue eyes were filled with an inner fire that looked in to you with an intensity that they could almost rival Aniki's. And while she was buxom her face was thin, her nose slightly pointed up in a superior way, almost condescendingly. But when we met eyes she seemed to evaluate me before a smirk made it's way to her face. She had black onyx hair, contrasting greatly with the other and making them seem like an Angel and a Demon, that devious smirk not contradicting my thought at all. Her aura though was a mixture of the purple her partner had with and intense black interwoven into it.

Disconcerting. A black aura was not evil per se, but having only encountered evil 'people' with that colored aura instantly made her wary of the black-haired woman.

They both turned to face one another, then nodded before turning to look at me once more. Both had a true and enchanting smile that made them more radiant than what they already were.

They bowed their heads at her before slowly making their way to a small sofa. It was almost like they were waiting for something.

Or maybe someone?

The boy? Why? What could this boy possibly be?

He seemed human. While his aura had pointed out as other as soon as they both moved away, his true aura slipped out. He was definitely human. They also seemed to know what she was, while the boy didn't seem to notice she was anything but normal.

"Hm?" he asked looking closer at her. "My name is Otori, Kyōya, 2nd year here at Ouran."

"Oh," she said bowing in respect. Seeing that his companions were not interested in what going on she focused on the living people in the room. "Pleasure to meet you Otori-senpai, and to answer your question I am hiding from them."

"Them?" asked a cutely child-like voice next to her.

Turning to see whom it could be, she looked in to adorable brown eyes with a mop of blonde hair that looked silky soft.

In short the sort of thing that pushed her button.

"Kawaii!" she yelled.

Before she could stop herself she scooped him up.

"You're so cute! Haruhi how could you keep this cute little boy all to yourself?" rubbing her face on top of the small boy she confirmed that his hair was indeed silky soft. "You remind me so much of my Shippō-chan when he was little and adorable."

Although he still does turn cute and adorable when he knows he's in trouble. I thought with an inner scoff.

Soft giggling brought me back down to Earth and I turned to see Haruhi holding her hand to her mouth, before lowering it and looking at me. "Kagome we still don't really understand what you're trying to say."

Holding tight onto the adorable boy in her arms, she tried to remember what had caused her being here in the first place.

"Hm," she said, brushing against the small boys aura in order to calm him. "Oh, well I guess that's true."

"Well I was just leaving school, walking towards my car, when all these girls suddenly came up to me. I mean they had been all day. Asking me to join some club or whatnot, but never really understanding what they were saying I put it off my mind. So when they came up to me afterschool I just thought they were going to say goodbye or something like that. Then all of sudden they started to surround me and trying to take me somewhere. I tried to tell them that I had something to attend to but they were insistent in taking me wherever they wanted to go. They started crowding into me and just cornering me at the entrance of the building. It was so scary," she said slightly shivering.

"It must have been terrifying for you to be surrounded that way," said the small boy in his arms.

"Hm," replied the taller man that had been eyeing her and the small boy in her arms.

"What we don't understand though is why you are here," replied the twins, standing up from where they had been on the floor.

"Well I just kept running until I lost sight of them and somehow ended up here." The taller man seemed to be impatient for her to let go of the small boy, so she reluctantly put him down. It wouldn't do to make enemies of these people.

"But what I don't understand is why are you here Haruhi, wearing it and surrounded by all these boys."

It was truly the question of the century.

Looking deeper in her aura, she could tell that Haruhi was indeed human.

So the question that would not leave her mind was what was she doing around other?

Seeing her friend's deer-in–the headlights look, almost made her want to laugh.

"Oh you poor, poor child!" yelled out another. "They must have frightened you with their show of affection, scaring you off of women and ruining any chances you can have in having a normal conversation with the princesses of Ouran! Men, we have to do something to regain this man's honor! We will help you! You will not be afraid to speak to any more females. We will talk to the princesses to see why they have followed you to the point of scaring you away from them."

A hyper and dramatic blonde boy made his way towards her. He was waving his hands every which way and seemed to be in his own world. But what really caught her eye was that while he was beautiful, he was also other. His aura though was something that she had never seen in her life. It was almost like the clean and pure wind, the unpolluted air of the Feudal Era. It was like nature personified. As well as somewhat familiar.

But what was he talking about? Scaring me away from the girls? Where the heck did he get that idea? Was she supposed to have stayed and talked to the crazed females?

Wait. Princesses? Was he serious?

It was almost like he was another Mirouko or something.

"Huh?" I asked confused. Hoping that Haruhi could explain this to me I turned towards her. What I saw though made me narrow my eyes.

She was slowly inching her way towards the door, still wearing it, and holding onto a fancy bag.

"Haruhi~" I sing-songed. "Where are you going? You weren't planning on leaving me hear with these strangers were you?" Especially with this really crazy and melodramatic teen right?!

"Heh," she said turning to me at once. "Of course not Kagome, what would make you think that? Ha ha ha. "

"So is anyone going to explain what is going on? And why is he going on and on about princesses?" jabbing a finger towards the blonde who had brought out a white board out of nowhere and was surrounded by the twins and the cute blonde, with his guard. They were nodding at whatever it was he saying. Otori-senpai, was writing something in a black notebook, while glancing every once in while in both Haruhi's and I's direction as well as where his friends were. Talk about multitasking.

"Ano," she started before she was interrupted.

"Higurashi-Taisho-san," pushing his glasses up he closed his notebook in a quick flick. "If I may have a moment of your time, I think I can clarify why you were being chased."

"Really?"

"Yes." He stopped in front of me, looking down at me with a searching gaze. His dual spirits, looking over at their host.

Looking away from them, I turned to Otori-senpai. "Of course. If you can explain why I am being followed, I have all the time in the world."

A smirk made it's way to his face, almost as devious as the black-haired spirit. "Well it seems they want you to join our Host Club."

Cricket. Cricket.

Huh?

Did he just say-?

"A-Ano," I stuttered. "H-host C-club?"

"Hai, our Host club, with Haruhi."

"Haruhi!?" I yelled out. "Haruhi's in a host club? Why?"

"Well now, that's because he was extremely clumsy, I beg your pardon, unlucky and broke a very expensive and valuable vase." He said, his expression not changing once. It was like he was enjoying this complete and utter shock we were all exhibiting.

"Oh, my Kami."

"Hey!" Haruhi marched over to us. "What the hell gives you the right to be telling Kagome what happened?"

"I assumed since you were both close friends that you would tell him sooner rather than later." A flash of his glasses before he continued. "Or was I wrong?"

Silence reigned throughout the room. All of us holding our breath to her response. Seeing that her aura was all over the place though, I could tell that she had not wanted me to find out.

"I get it," I said softly with a small smile. "You didn't want to tell me right? You didn't want me to try and get involved with all them ne?"

A soft blush made it's way to her face before she nodded once.

"Why though?" I asked confused.

She whispered so low I think only a demon would have been able to hear her.

"What was that?" I asked, walking closer to her.

"They're annoying!" she said in loud voice.

"Oh," I blinked my eyes. "Really? I knew about the twins but I would have thought the others were better."

"Well you're right not all of them are annoying, just the twins and the tall blonde over there."

The three mentioned went pale faced, before they started writhing on the floor in supposed pain.

"Yeah, I can see how that could get pretty annoying." I said in a serious manner. Shippō always pulled things like that so it wasn't a shocking thing to see.

"Well now that, that's been settled. I guess we could work something out Otori-senpai."

"Of course Higurashi-Taisho-san." The smirk he had now into a charming and obviously fake smile.

He was devious mind, I'd give him that.

It was unnecessarily quiet at the dinner table that night. Each of us in our own thoughts. While it was not unusual for it to be quiet affair-at least until we got to dessert, then all bets were off-the air then felt heavy. Pushing my food around in my plate, I thought about what I had learned that day.

There was an honest to Kami host club in my school. Not only that, apparently the one friend I had in the whole school was in it. All because of an 8 million yen debt.

Lets not forget the reason I was chased down in school was for me to join in.

I sighed. I really thought that I would have a normal high school experience.

Guess not.

Then again when was anything normal in my life lately. I was living with a more than a thousand or so year old demon, and had a five hundred year old kitsune son.

But now. Now I was actually in a host club.

The fork scraped against my plate, sounding loud in the tense room. Ignoring the booring looks of both demons, I continued contemplating the talk I had with the very devious vice-president of the host club.

I would join the host club, if he followed my conditions.

One: he would make the girls not attack me like they had earlier in the day.

Two: I would not officially join until the upcoming week, which was why I had told him to get the girls off my back.

Three: whatever I made from hosting would go towards Haruhi's debt, seeing as she had rejected my offer to pay it off.

Four: any other conditions that I may add to the first three.

The small smirk that previously been on his face had been swiped off with that.

I wasn't dumb.

I didn't know him, but by the way his aura was I knew that he could be as manipulative as any demon when it came to getting what they wanted. I had to have some type a safety net.

So that wasn't what was causing my brain to go into overdrive.

What was actually making me so anxious were the two demons next to me.

The two demons I could never hope to deceive.

Another sigh left me.

"This Sesshomaru grows tired of your sighing Imōto."

Tensing, I moved my eyes over to him.

Both their eyes were on me. One in worry, the other in a searching narrow eyed look.

Swallowing harshly I sent them a smile. "I'm sorry, just thinking about the homework I have to do. Well then I'll be leaving first, hm?"

Scooting the chair back I stood up.

"Sit," his voice broke no argument.

Slowly seating my self back down, I looked at the two."Well then I guess not," I softly whispered.

"You will tell this Sesshomaru what is really wrong with you."

"Wrong?" I asked tilting my head. It was pointless, but I had to gather my thoughts. There had to be a way to soften the blow. "What makes you think there's something wrong?"

"Hn," his aura was steadily rising.

Shit.

"Well, there was something," I said hastily. "My friend has a problem, so I just decided to join her in her club to help her out."

"Hn."

His stare never wavered.

Fidgeting in my seat at looked towards my son, pleading with my eyes.

"How did your meetings go today Otō-san?" Shippō broke in.

"Who is this friend Kagome?"

Double shit. He used my name.

Oh kami's save me!

"Actually you're the one that told me about her," I said softly. "The scholarship student."

"Hn," his eyes finally leaving mine. His aura though never wavered. He was definitely not satisfied with me answers.

"She's very nice and very dedicated to her work."

"So then what is it that she has a problem with?"

"Um," poking my fingers together, I took the plunge. "Well you see, she kind of broke a vase and she owes 8 million yen. So now she has to work with the host club. The girls in the school somehow got it into their heads that they want me to join as well, chased me across the entire school. So the host club offered me a position as a way to sort of protect me from the girls. I accepted the position as a way to keep the crazy girls from overwhelming me again and to help pay off Haruhi's debt."

All was said in one breath.

Shippō's face was one of shock. Sesshomaru though was just steadily looking at me.

"You joined the H-host club?" Shippō stuttered.

"Was that all Imōto?"

"H-hai?"

"Well then this Sesshomaru will like to meet this Host club in the future," he ordered.

I blinked at him.

"Hai Aniki."

"Training at dawn." With that he stood up from his seat.

Shippō and I just stayed staring at his back as he left the room without looking back. Did he just accept that I would be joining the Host club?

"Host club Okaa-san?"

"Hai."

"Are you really joining?"

"Hai."

"How are you going to hide the fact that you're a girl?"

"I don't know." I sighed. Yet another thing that had been on my mind.

"I hate that you won't wear the Ouran female uniform," my face turned down in distaste at that. "But I guess I could help you with that."

Eyes widening in surprised I turned to look at him. "Really?"

"Hm," he smiled like the cat that got the canary. "For a favor."

Fudge. This was not good.

"So is it true?"

"Yes."

"You always have to do things liked this huh wench?"

Laying down on my bed I was currently talking to my best friend in the world. It was a bit surreal to tell the truth. To be able to talk to him on the phone, to know that he actually even knew how to use it. It was very much mind-boggling. This at the same time only made me appreciate the world he was in. To know that I hadn't lost my friend was something of a relief. One of the many people I dearly loved, was with me even after all this time. "Well what else did you expect me to do? Haruhi is the first friend I made in school. I wasn't going to let her handle all this on her own. How did you even find out about this?"

"Kikyou." He said laughing. His mate's name no longer hit me like it used. It was what always should have been, something that always was and always would be. Friendship. I loved Inuyasha and he would always be in my heart, but there was no feeling of anger or pain to know that he had truly made a life with the person he really loved and always would. "I heard the runt asking her if she had any books that he could borrow on transformations and the like. When she asked him why he said-!"

With that he began to laugh uncontrollably.

"Shut up!" Sitting up I hugged the pillow tighter to me. "It isn't that funny."

"It sure is wench! I can already imagine the proud and lecherous look on that baka hoshi." Though there was laughter on his voice I could also hear the tinge of grief too.

"Hm," I said just as softly. "He would have been proud ne? Afterwards he would start giving me unnecessary advice."

There was silence on both ends. Each of us in our own thoughts and on the memories of our beloved friends.

"Sango would have hit him with the hiraikotsu just to get him to shut up."

"Yeah, although she would have been blushing that I would be entertaining the female population."

Once more he started laughing, dispelling the last of the heavy atmosphere.

"So why did the kit want any transforming spells for?"

"We wanted to see if we could find something to hide the real me. I don't want to have to be discovered when I barely even begun."

"Yeah, it'd be pretty stupid if it was found out before the wolf even knew his 'woman' had joined a host club."

"Inu! You say one word and I will it you until you get to the center of the earth!"

"Yeah, yeah," he muttered. "Always gotta ruin my fun."

Small bursts of screams could be heard in the background from his end. The sound of laughing was distracting but very nice. It was the sound of a home filled with happy children, of a happy family. Occasionally I would hear some of his older pups reprimanding the pups before they too joined the fray. I guess they had all gotten Inuyasha genes of being as loud as they could.

"Anyways how's everyone doing? They sound pretty rowdy this late."

"You know how the pups are. They're all over the place. There's no peace in this house. I don't know where they get it from."

"I sure as hell can." I said deadpanned. It was a no brainer where they got their energy from.

"What'd you say?!"

"They got it from you! Don't know why you act like some innocent schoolboy. I can already imagine the vocabulary they've been exposed to because of you."

"K'eh."

This only proved my point. Kikyou must have a halo from dealing with the twenty or so pups they had. How they did it? I had no clue. Remembering the smallest of the pups I warned him.

"My godson better not be using your words Inu!"

"What do you take me for wench? He's barely learning how to crawl, he won't talk for another ten years."

"I just hope that you control yourself during those ten years Inu, or else."

A harsh swallow was my only reply.

Feeling an aura rub against me, I moved the phone away from my ear.

There was something familiar about it but I couldn't put my finger on it. Concentrating, I could feel it on the furthest edges of the property. It was almost like it was calling me out. Wary, I pulled in my powers in. I could feel a chill of something running down my spine. My breathing began to pick up, sweat lining my brow.

"-ench!"

Who was it? I had never felt anything like this since before Naraku's defeat. Sesshomaru was in the house; there was no way anything dangerous was going on. Right?

"Kagome!"

Inuyasha's voice broke me out of my thoughts. "What?"

"Jeez wench, I've been calling you for ten minutes straight. What the hell is going on?" Concern filled his voice.

"I don't know." I said a bit shakily. "I think I have to go."

"Oh no you don't. Tell me what's going on over there."

Silence was on both ends. The kids were completely silent. I was unsure if they had been kicked out by their father or if he had simply moved somewhere else.

"I really don't know Inu. I have to go. There's something going on and I have to go and talk to Aniki."

"K'eh tell that bastard to take care of you or else!"

"Okay Inuyasha." I said softy, a small smile on my face. Even after 500 years he was still the same. "And stop calling Aniki a bastard!"

"K'eh."

"I'll call you another time yeah?"

"You better."

A click, and then the sudden tone dial. Putting the phone on its stand I stood up from my bed. The door to my room slowly opened. Freezing, I checked to see if there was another aura even near the door. There was none though. It was suspiciously silent. Sure demons could be as silent as death but there was something almost clogging the air. Tightening. Grabbing some of the small blades I had near my desk, I slipped as many as I could in to the band of my pajama bottoms.

I would not be caught unawares. I had to do everything to keep my family safe. Even if I had to go against the Kami's themselves.