Chapter 6

A Plan Set in Motion

Kyoya's Point of view

I sit quietly back stage pretending that I am ignoring my friends on stage while working on my laptop instead, but really I'm secretly watching. You could say that I am always watching, heh. At the moment I'm secretly watching one in particular, my beautiful Kaoru. His singing is enough to put a smile on anyone's face, including the shadow king's. Oh, how I want to make you mine and mine alone, Kaoru. I would give up a lot just to have him. If only it wasn't for that god damn Hikaru! He is always getting in the way and waisting Kaoru's time, time that he could be with me instead! Funny how I can have such lust for one twin, while I absolutely loath the other. There is no way I can get close to Kaoru with Hikaru practically clawing all over him. It's pretty obvious that Hikaru has feeling for his twin, but it looks like Kaoru is pretty oblivious to the whole thing. From what I can see, Hikaru is head over heels in love with Kaoru, but he is too afraid to confess his feelings. Hopefully it stays that way, it'll make my plan go over smoothly. I take in a deep breath as they near the end of their song,

"All in good time" I whisper quietly to myself. My plan was about to be set in motion. I look down at my glowing computer screen in my lap and the file that I've just opened,

How To Get Kaoru Part I

Step one: Find power hungry, simple minded, beautiful girl

Step two: Offer her power, fame, and money

Step three: Put her in a band with other beautiful, simple minded girls

Step four: Become manager secretly, so you can have power over them

Step five: Turn her into a girl that Hikaru won't be able to resist

Step six: Make her and her group popular, to establish trust and promise more

Step seven: Have them show up "coincidentally" everywhere the Host are

Step eight: Get her to slowly seduce Hikaru, tell her it's for her benefit

Step nine: Get Hikaru to spend more time with her to distract him

Step ten: Have Hikaru fall in love with the girl and out of love with Kaoru

Then with a love struck, distracted Hikaru and alone Kaoru I can then proceed to part II of my plan. Honestly I have not made a step by step plan for part II, but I can tell you that the end result will be that Kaoru will be mine. Either my boyfriend or, if he'd rather keep it a secret, a secret lover. Either way I'll be happy. So far I've completed steps one through four, I'm currently gathering information for step five. Tonight I will be presenting the girl on stage. Her name is Haruhi, a model who until recently was living pay check to pay check. Although she is very power hungry, she is not simple minded at all. Lucky for me she understands my goals and doesn't seem to care as long as she gets what she wants, so I have a devoted minion. Her little group of girls, her "band members" are very simple minded and are easy to manipulate, so they are easily controlled, which is very good. Anyways, tonight I hope to give Hikaru a little taste of my newest project and temp him a little.

My friends walk off stage towards me, in the little back stage wing were they can take a water break and watch their fellow performers. Perfect. I watch as Tamaki walks over to me with a water bottle in hand and sits across from me, "Hey Kyouya, how was it? As perfect as you dreamed?"

I smile at my best friend, "As long as you are happy." He smiles back at me. He can be so 2-D sometimes, but thats probably why he is my best friend. I glance over at Kaoru, who looks a little lost as he takes a swig of his water bottle. I watch as he pulls the bottle away from his lips and slowly licks his wet pink lips, lost in thought. I can't help but also lick my lips and imagine those lips press against my own. Sadly I'm not the only one watching the show, Hikaru is staring at Kaoru, hypnotized by his fluid motions. I can't wait to get rid of the competition. I'm so lost in thought that I almost didn't notice that the announcement of Haruhi's band. I look around, where is that girl? I find her quickly and we make eye contact, she winks a glittery eye at me and I smirk. I told her to not talk to me when I was around any of my friends otherwise it would look suspicious. Our business relationship was a secret one, that only my managing company knows about. I couldn't have Hikaru or any of the others thinking that I set the whole thing up, which I have, but they didn't need to know that.

My friends had just settled down when the announcer announced Haruhi's group. This was going to be one heck of a show, I made sure of that. She was only getting one song in tonight, so it had to be amazing. That included costumes, makeup, lights, and of course dancing. Believe me when I say this will be a show to remember.

She was dressed perfectly, just Hikaru's type! Sweet and girlie, but also unique and individual; bubblegum punk. Her dark brown hair was smoothed down neatly in he front, but spiked out in the back, giving her a formal slash punk look. Around her neck she wore a pink lace bow with a skull charm. She wore a white laced corset top with a light blue mini jacket that had little white laced bows and frills. It was a colorful modern version of a french aristocratic 1800s dress top. The bottom was a thigh high skirt with a bunch of yellow, light blue, pink and white shredded lace, giving her skirt a very tutu like effect and on the back of it was a big white bow. On her arms she had on black fingerless gloves. For her legs she had on a pair of thigh high black and white stripped tights, the tights were just short enough that you saw a bit of her thigh between the tights and her skirt. Just enough to tempt *smirk. The for shoes she wore knee high black platform boots with light blur laces and a big bow at the top of each one. As for make up, it was colorful, glittery, and punk. I loved it, she had done better than I thought. She basically looked like a girl version of Hikaru, but sluttier.

As planed the whole auditorium went black, and you could hear a soft flute playing sweetly, then some sweet chimes. Perfect for a sweet girlie impression right? A couple spot lights turned on showing some gold glitter as it fell into the from the stage. It gets better, as the music continues you hear an electric guitar come in, adding a bit of an edge. Then the drums started in as Haruhi walked up to the mic, picking it up and holding it to her glittery mouth as she got ready to sing. A single spot light hit her as he began to sing, keeping the rest of the stage in darkness. As she song out the first line she swept her arm in front of her as if to present her self.

Then in perfect allusion with the music she shook her finger "no" then flipped her hand to the side in a "whatever" sort of way. Then she turned around and the rest of the stage lit up brightly with all sorts of colors. She walked to the center of the brightly lit stage now covered with glitter and continued to sig the next part, tipping her body like a tea pot. She continued to sing as she pranced around the stage, doing her little hand gestures along with the music.

I looked back at my friends, Tamaki was drooling with wide eyes, even Honey and Mori looked completely transfixed on the girl on stage. I looked over at Hikaru as he watched awe. As I smirk knowingly at him I turn my head to look at Kaoru, he's staring up at the bright, colorful spotlights above the stage, lost in his thoughts. As the song ends Haruhi flings out her arms and curtsies cutely before smirking at the crowd rebelliously. She turned on her heel and walked off back stage as the goes dark once more. Now that the cat has been tempted with the toy, it's time for the cat to chase the mouse.

~Aki Autter

I just wanted to say thank you to all of the wonderful readers who have read my story. I will make sure to do my best to write a great story! Also, sorry it took me forever to upload this pass chapter ^^