"She owes $90,000 for that vase. It was one-of-a-kind. We could have made a large profit off of it." Said Kyoua
"Poor Marcelle-san" thought Haruhi. "That's $10,000 more than me. At least she's rich."
"Mori-Sempai, what's wrong with Marcelle-san?"
"Kagekiri?" asked Mori.
"That's her last name." said Haruhi.
"I don't know."
"Go get her Haruhi!" said Tamaki.
Haruhi looked at Tamaki. To her surprise he looked worried. Haruhi ran in the direction that Marcelle ran after her. Marcelle was running as fast as she could towards what she thought was the gates.
"Marcelle-san! Wait up! Slow down" yelled Haruhi
Marcelle stopped running and collapsed onto the ground. She was panting and shaking. Haruhi stopped running and sat down next to Marcelle.
"Marcelle-san you don't like Mori-senpai?"
"It's a little more complicated than that Haruhi."
"Well explain it to me."
"Well…"
"Well what?"
"It's not like I hate him or something. My family and his are more like
enemies. Personally I like them. Their funny and friendly and very caring.
This foolishness between my family and theirs goes far back hundreds of
years. Mori-kun and I met by chance years ago when I was down visiting
with my fathers family and I snuck out."
"Snuck out?" Haruhi asked
"Well I was bored and they give you lessons, Haruhi! Lessons! On every little thing like eating, walking, and sleeping! They teach you the proper way to sleep! It gets very aggravating!"
"It does sound very aggravating. Continue with the story."
"Ok, well after I got out I was walking around and saw this beautiful place. It was almost as pretty as ours! Well being the curious little girl I was I snuck in. You should have seen it, Haruhi! Beautiful flowers, Sakura trees, clean cut grounds and every thing! It was as pretty as ours. While on my little adventure through the grounds I ran into a boy. Literally ran into him, I wasn't watching where I was going. He looked a few years older than me but not that much. He was startled as I was. He asked me who I was and as taught I introduce my self as proudly as I could as 'Kagekiri, Marcelle' The look on his face was priceless! He was shocked, confused, and startled. When I asked him to introduce himself he said ' Morinozuka Takashi' I probably had the same look on my face. We each had been told about the 'evil Morinozuka' or in his case the 'evil Kagekiri' but never seen one up close and personal.
The way they were described I thought they were evil ugly creatures. Mori probably was informed about us in the same manner. But it was like, who would've thought they look like normal people. Well after the initial examination of each other we got close. We would talk to each other often. We would sneak out to see one another. We knew if we were discovered we would be in big trouble. It was like that for years. In a way we grew up together. I would go away during the school year to America or France and come back here for the summer. Well one year we must've been 10 or 11 and we got caught. It was all my fault. One of my cousins had noticed I'd go missing during a special time of day and decided to follow me. Well when she recognized Mori as a Morinozuka, all hell broke lose. Our families fought more and more I even caused Mori to get hit! They just smacked him right in front of every one. It was all my fault!" Marcelle started shaking when she said this. It was like she was going to burst into tears. "The one thing that was made especially clear was to never speak to him again. I just…don't want to cause that kind of trouble. Again."
"Why do your families even fight like that?" Haruhi asked.
"They won't even tell me! I think the truth is that they forgot over the years but they like to fight too much." She giggled
"Umm, Marcelle-san, your family is rich right?
"Yeah, I guess you could say we have some wealth."
"One of the richest in Japan is what I heard."
"Well I guess."
So let's say $90,000 isn't much money to pay off…right."
"For my family, no. But for me…completely I only get 1/3 of that in an allowance. And I need that money for rent…"
"Rent?"
"I don't live in the main house anymore. Too much drama for me. I live in a condo in Omotesando towards Harajuku. It's near the main house and I visit often." She shrugged.
"Well…let's see…how should I put this… You owe $90,000 for a vase that you knocked over when you bumped into Mori-sempai" Haruhi said with a sweat drop and a shrug.
Marcelle just smiled then turned to stone, and crumbled away.
"Marcelle-san?! Marcelle-san?!" Haruhi said.
In the Club room
Haruhi came into the room with a blue backpack in her hand. Tamaki was the first one up.
"Haruhi, where is Marcelle?!" She's by the gate here is her bag."
"Why did you leave her by the gate?! Someone might come by and snatch her up!"
"Tamaki-senpai no one is going to steal Marcelle-san. She went into shock after I told her about the vase."
"Ok!" said Tamaki with fire burning in his eyes. "Operation rescue Marcelle who has gone into shock by the front gates, has started!"