Title: Simple Words
Word: Valentine
Request by: bookpirate
Author note: thank you very much everyone for your reviews on the last chapter. I tried my best to make the quotes match up with the different pieces of the story.
And in other news, I have reached 100 REVIEWS! That's something I was not expecting at all. I didn't even think my idea would turn out this good. Thank you very much dears. Still working on a long list of words sent by all of you, don't be afraid to share more.
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11 Days Remaining
It was February in Ouran High School. And we all know what February means. Yup, that's right...
"Valentine's Day," Nekozawa muttered as he looked out into the hall.
Needless to say, like any other holiday or event, Ouran was decked out with all the words. Pink, red, and white streamers hanging from the ceiling going from window to window. Papers hearts and cupid every where, girls giggling as the boys passed. What a horrible holiday. But he did have to admit, apart from Halloween, Valentine's Day brought the Black Magic club's biggest profit of the year. Love spells in particular from girls who wanted to catch the attention of a certain boy or destroy a certain relationship, etcetera...etcetera. They were willing to buy just about anything. Why was that?
As he was about to close the door Nekozawa noticed some thing on the ground and reached out for it. It was a small basket woven in a black and purple pattern that contained four cupcakes with blood red icing. The tiny card read Nekozawa in neat handwritting and nothing else. There was nothing to indicate who it was from and he could not fathom who would even give him a gift let alone a basket of sweets.
Meanwhile, inside the third music room, Kyouya was busily typing away at his computer. Valentine's was a little more than a week away and as it seemed, Valentine was also one of the most profitable holidays for the host club as well. So many girls had lined up to request their favorite host for the date that the host club had decided to make a party outside in the gardens instead. Well, Tamaki decided anyways and as usual Kyouya was left to plan everything and keep Tamaki from going overboard.
As he typed at his laptop making the necessary preparations he heard the door open and he looked up just in time to see a white object flying towards him. The object, which turned out to be a paper airplane, landed a foot short of the table where he was working. After inspecting the object he walked towards the door of the music room and looked out into the hall. There was no one there, it was completely empty all except for a white rose that lay on the floor with a card attached to it bearing his name in print and nothing else. He didn't recognize the handwriting and had absolutely no clue who would leave him something like this, much less throw a paper airplane at him. Still, he picked up the rose and brought it back inside with him laying it on the table next to his laptop as he typed.
And in another part of the city, a certain twin by the name of Hikaru Hitachiin had gone through about five shops looking for just the right thing for a certain some one for valentine's day. Yes, he could possibly as his brother for help but he was out buying his own gift for who knows who and he felt some what embarrased about admitting to his brother that he actually liked this certain commoner some one. Hikaru looked into the window of a nearby bakery to find Hunni and Mori at a table. Mori silently reading a book while Hunni stuffed himself with so many pastries that he wondered how the older host never got sick. Even he couldn't manage to eat that much. He gave a sigh and continued on still searching for a gift to give Haruhi on valentine's.
10 Days Remaining
Kyouya typed at his laptop, an normal every day occurance. Well, at least this picture would look normal if it were not for the four foot teddy bear with a red bow he had found on the table with a card bearing his name that he chose to ignore. The thing had been there when he arrived at the third music room that afternoon and he took it simply as some thing left by some crazy fan girl and began to work. After about a half hour of complete silence, Kyouya's daily headache appeared causing the bear to tip over as he read the card and fall on Kyouya's laptop.
"A secret admirer?" Tamaki asked as he picked up the bear which his friend had tossed to the floor to be less of a disturbance.
"Tamaki, i'm trying to work here. Could you please put that thing away some where?" He responded.
Tamaki looked from the bear to Kyouya and quietly said, "Okay."
After that Tamaki disappeared and the room was quiet again, that was, until the twins barged in dragging a struggling Haruhi who yelled at them to let her go because she had homework to do.
Meanwhile, next door, Nekozawa had just returned to the dark magic club room after a long search for Beelzenef who he had not seen since the twins had run off with him that morning. They refused to tell him where he was hidden and quickly disappeared before he could put any kind of curse on them. He sighed as he closed the door. Where could they have hidden him? That was when he noticed a tiny lamp on at the end of the room illuminating an object on the table. That was strange because Nekozawa seldom used lamps, he preferred candles.
It was then that he noticed the object that the lamp was illuminating. It Beelzenef silently waiting for him atop a neatly wrapped package. He picked him up and hugged him before noticing the card that was attached to him.
He was in the art room. I'm afraid he got a little paint on him before I found him, but don't worry I washed it out. You can hardly tell now. By the way, you are almost out of candles.
Nekozawa put Beelzenef gently on the table and picked up the package. He carefully tore the tape off the sides and took the lid off to reveal about twelve purple candles each with a different symbol etched into them. Life. Love. Peace. Dark. Light. And for some reason, it made him smile. He had to find out who ever this person was.
9 Days Remaining
Kaoru looked up from his book to see his brother barge into the room and flop down on the bed looking rather frustrated. He carefully placed the bookmark in the book to save his page and set it down on the desk before walking over to poke his brother on the side.
"Not now Kaoru. I'm trying to think," Hikaru responded.
"Well don't strain yourself," he said with a smile. "Any thing I can help with?"
"I want to get Haruhi something for Valentine, maybe then she'd go out with me. But I just can't find what to get her."
"She's simple. She doesn't need expensive things and doesn't care for them." Kaoru said thoughtfully.
"I know that. That's why I can't think of any thing!" Hikaru buried his head in a pillow and sighed.
"Make her something. She'll at least appreciate the effort," Kaoru said as he went back to his desk and picked up his book. He heard the squeaking of the bed springs as Hikaru got up and left the room. Upon hearing the door close, it was then that he remembered, he hadn't even gotten his girlfriend any thing yet. And there was only nine days left!
"Hey Hikaru! Wait up!" He called as he hurried out of the room to catch up to his brother at the front door. What did one get a teen model for Valentine that she couldn't so easily get herself?
Meanwhile, Nekozawa was in the midst of figuring out who had been leaving him gifts the past four days. That day when he had entered the dark magic club room he had found another box of candles and a strand of what looked like burgandy hair. That at least narrowed down his choices of at least twelve girls. But he could not fathom why any of the twelve would even pay him any attention. Most of them just thought of him as some what scary.
Except...Nekozawa felt someone crash into him sending them both to the ground. He could feel the weight of someone on his back. Not exactly light, but not really heavy either.
"Oh I'm so sorry!" She said as she moved a few inches away to allow him to stand. "I'm afraid I was distracted and wasn't really paying attention to where I was going."
"That's...okay..." Nekozawa stared into apple green eyes partially hidden by her burgandy hair that had escaped from the clips that held it back before they collided.
(Oh yeah, I decided to seperate it into two since my idea seemed to be getting pretty long. Hope you all enjoyed the first part. Don't forget to tell me what you think.)