It took a whole piece of strawberry cake to calm down Momiji which they think is Hunny. They decided not to open the Host club at the moment because they wanted to help out their 'host club member'. "You still want cake, sempai?" the twins offered him a chiffon cake. Momiji shook his head slowly and said shyly, "This cake's enough for me. Thanks for the offer though."
The others were shocked by his reply. "He's okay with one cake?!"
"It's only natural. He doesn't remember much." Haruhi sighed, watching the young shota closely.
"Haruhi's right. It's best if we let him do the things he wants. We don't want to pressure him." Kyouya agreed, turning his back from them.
"Wow. I never think that Kyouya would care this much for other people." Tamaki whispered to Haruhi and the twins.
"Yeah. We thought so too." They nodded.
Kyouya didn't say anything to them and muttered to himself, "It will decrease the today's profits if Hunny-sempai doesn't remember what this club does. It will be troublesome for me."
Haruhi can tell instinctively what the Shadow King is saying to himself. I should've known better than to think that he cares. Rich bastards.
"Well, we can't just close the Host club for a few days. People might think badly of us if we did. That'll be a handful." Kaoru piped up. Hikaru nodded to his twin's statement.
Momiji heard what they're talking about and interrupted them, "You're doing this because of me?"
They nodded to him, looking serious.
Momiji's eyes became watery again. "I'm sorry! I've caused you a lot of trouble! I'll do anything to help you guys out! I promise!" Mori sat beside him and patted his head to calm down.
"Aw don't push yourself Hunny-sempai! It's okay for us!" Tamaki tried to calm down the young boy.
"No wait Tamaki," Kyouya said suddenly.
"What is it, okasan?" he looked at him curiously.
Ignoring what he called to him, he moved his glasses up and told them, "If we let him work, even for while, he might remember something unconsciously. That way, it will not affect today's profits and it will benefit him."
Tamaki thought about what he said and grinned. "That's a great idea Kyouya!"
"Obviously."
"Stupid rich bastards." Haruhi muttered.
"This will be interesting." Ht twins said enthusiastically.
"I hope it works." Mori said deeply.
"So you'll let me help you?" Momiji looked at them in anticipation.
"Of course!"
"Yay!" he jumped, looking really happy and excited at the same time. He stopped abruptly and asked them, "What does this club do anyway?"
Tamaki, and the twins fell anime-style. Haruhi sweat dropped. Mori and Kyouya stared at him. "So, what does this club do? Tell me tell me!" he insisted.
"Well, this club…" Kyouya decided to tell him himself.
Wow this is a commoner's school. It's really small compared to my school, Hunny thought to himself as he walked in the hallways, being accompanied by Hatsuharu. "Let's go see Tohru-cahn!" he suggested.
"Sure, let's go then." Haru agreed and the two of them went to where Tohru's classroom is. While walking, they saw her standing in the hallway, talking to Kyo and Yuki and they seem to be having fun. "Tohru-chan!" Hunny called as he jumped towards her.
"Momiji-kun?!" Tohru gasped as she was about to get hugged when it stopped because Kyo and Yuki went in front to stop him.
"You idiot! You can't hug her while we're at school! What if someone see you transform?!" Kyo hit him on the head again, looking annoyed.
"He's right, Momiji. It will cause a lot of commotion if someone did see you." Yuki told him.
Hunny looked at the two of them, looking confused. What are they talking about? Transform? Commotion? I don't get this at all.
"Promise me that you won't hug her in public, okay?" Yuki looked at him seriously but gently.
"I promise, Yuki-chan." He swore.
"Other than her, don't hug the other females here or the others outside. And don't let them hug you or embrace you even the slightest or we won't know what to do to cover you up just like last time." Kyo added hastily.
"I'll keep that in mind, Kyo-chan!" Hunny agreed even though he doesn't quite understand what they're talking about.
"Anyways, when will you start wearing boy's uniform? You look ridiculous in that outfit." He looked at him from head to toe, looking freaked out. "Haru wearing too much jewelry is okay but you're a different case."
"Why? I think it looks great on me! It made me a lot cuter!" Hunny told him.
"As long as he looks good on them, it's okay." Haru interrupted him.
"That's not right! You're a boy dammit!" Kyo growled at the two of them. Yuki and Tohru didn't react or say at all at their argument.
While they were arguing, a male's voice spoke loudly few feet away from them. "That's right Souma Kyo from class 2-D!"
"What the--?" Kyo and Haru looked from behind and there they saw a guy with glasses accompanied by two females with glasses. Yuki sighed. Tohru looked at what's happening and Hunny just took out a banana and chocolate flavoured lollipop from his pocket.
"A boy wearing girl's uniform?! I won't accept that in one bit because…" he stood up high and said honourably, "I am the student council president of this school! Takei Makoto! Also known as the school protection squad team captain!"
"Another idiot came…this is getting annoying." Kyo grumbled, looking really pissed.
"So it may seem." Yuki sighed deeply.
"He does look like an idiot." Haru agreed.
"Souma Hatsuharu, aren't you?! Why is your hair white?! And wearing too much jewellery as if the rules are nothing?!" he raised but Haru did not seem to care and just stared at him dully.
"Makoto-san, his hair is naturally white, I promise you." Yuki told him.
"But surely at birth it's black, right?!" he bellowed, looking at him in disbelief.
"Yes, it is natural, I assure you." He insisted.
"It's impossible! That's illogical!" he turned to Hunny's direction and barked, "And what about this young boy's outfit?! You think it's natural? Aren't you a boy, don't you have any pride at all?"
Hunny's eyes became watery because of what he said. "But…my classmates told me that it look good on me…and I look better in a girl's uniform." He said shakily.
"That's still not a good reason to break the rules! Souma Momiji!" he continued to rant. "As men, we hold pride and dignity and all of us should be role models, don't you know that?! Wearing what you want is unacceptable!"
As he continued to lecture, two voices spoke, "Why don't you mind your own business, dammit." Tohru, Kyo and Yuki froze, recognizing to voices. It was Hatsuharu and Hunny and the two of them were surrounded by a dark aura that caused the student council president back away from.
Momiji changed all of a sudden and Black Haru appeared, The three second years gasped.
"Why is that you mind other people's business, huh? Don't you know that's intrusion of privacy?" Hunny said roughly, his eyes narrowing.
"That's true. I don't like jerks acting all high and mighty to everyone just because they're some part of the stupid council." Haru added, walking in front of the president.
"I-I'm just telling you what's right from w-wrong! What's so wrong about that?! It's my duty as the student council president to keep peace and order in this school!" he bellowed, looking nervous as they come closer to him.
"SO WHO CARES IF YOU'RE THE STUDENT COUNCIL PRESIDENT? WE DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT IT." They glared at him. Hunny went to him first and hissed, "Okay, I'll ask you very nicely, Mr. President and you should be honest to me."
Makoto nodded out of instinct because he felt that if he doesn't agree, he might end up worse than death.
"Do I look good in a girl's uniform?" he asked nicely.
He thought for a moment and stared at him closely. Then he nodded. "Good. Ne, oneesans," he called the two other companions. "I know you think that I look good in a girl's uniform, but if I wear a boy's uniform, what do you think about it, then?" he asked them politely.
The two girls imagined him wearing a boy's uniform while holding a lollipop. "You'll be gorgeous…"
"See? They said so themselves! I look good in these! Yay!" Hunny said triumphantly.
Kyo coughed at their answer, looking shocked. "That's how great he is when he is in boy's uniform? And I thought he would look like baka nezumi here."
"He would be." Yuki sighed.
"So, are the any problems would you like to point out, mr. student council president?" it was Haru's turn to interrogate.
"O-of course! Your hair! Yuki-san insisted that it's natural but I don't think it's true! I won't believe it until you give me evidence!" he stammered.
"I'll prove it you, then." He smirked and he dragged him from behind and went inside the girl's comfort room.
"H-hey! That's the--!" Takei gasped as they both entered the room. After 30 seconds, the two of them came out, looking calm and clear. The student president didn't change his expression until he faced them. "There are still other things that are yet to be found here in this world…" he said shakily.
Did he just--? Yuki and Kyo thought.
"Well, you may win this round Souma Hatsuharu and Momiji, but you two won't be so lucky next time!" he told them indignantly as the three of them retreated until they're out of sight.
"Glad that's over!" the blonde shota grinned.
"I've never seen that other side of yours, Momiji." Kyo said, looking surprised.
"Anyways, Haru-san, how did you manage to convince him that your hair is natural?" Tohru looked at him, looking curious.
"You really want to know?" he said huskily, holding her chin up to face him, their bodies close.
Kyo and Yuki snapped and hit him hard on the head, causing him to fall on the floor. After a few seconds, he regained composure and asked himself, "Why do I feel so tired…?"
"You're the one who tired us." Kyo breathed.
"Haru-chan, class will resume right now! Let's go back!" Hunny said happily.
"Ah. Let's go back." He nodded.
"Bye Tohru-chan, Kyo-chan, Yuki-chan!" Hunny waved at them and walked back to their classroom, together with Hatsuharu.
"You know guys," Tohru muttered. "Momiji seem a bit different from usual, don't you think?"
Yuki and Kyo looked at each other and said, "Yeah, kind of."
"I wonder what's gotten into him?"
"The Host Club is now open."
Everything that is happening in the Third Music Room seems okay for the moment. The customers who entered did not know the incident that happened to 'Hunny' because it will cause a commotion from them. They were doing the usual stuff: entertain the ladies. Doing this, they were watching Momiji closely just to be sure.
Speaking of the young shota, he was sitting in the far left of the room, accompanied by Mori and the two of them were with 3 female students. "Taka-chan, let's have some more sweets!" Momiji said in a sugary tone which caused their female companions to squeal at his cuteness. "Do you want some cake as well?" he looked at his customers, with his cuteness rubbing their faces.
"Well, Hunny-sempai, I'm on a diet you see." One female student named Ayame Tsukishiro explained.
Momiji's eyes became a bit watery, "But I'll tell Taka-chan to give you sugar-free cakes and pastries with no calories if you like. I just want to eat with someone like you." He sobbed.
The girl named Ayame and her two companions couldn't take it any longer and said quickly, "O-okay! I'll eat cake with you Hunny-sempai!"
The young shota's expression changed and became happy. "Really? That's great!" he gave them a cute smile that made Ayame faint in happiness. "I'm so happy for you Ayame-hime!" the other two girls giggled.
Flashback…
"Hunny-sempai," Kyouya called. Momiji frowned by his calling because it was not his name but he ignored it. "This club has one goal: to entertain the ladies who come here."
"Entertain them? How?" Momiji said questioningly at him.
"By using our own advantages: our looks, our words when we speak to them and our actions towards them. Example is Tamaki, he is a prince type." He explained. "You can tell that his looks and appearance are already an asset so all he needs to do is to entertain the customers by using poetry and other sorts of sweet words and at the same time interacting with them as simple as holding their hands or more. Do you understand, Hunny-sempai?"
"Yeah. Kind of. So you're saying that all I've got to do is to act cute and all to the customers to want us?" he nodded slowly.
"Precisely."
"That's easy! I do that all the time!" He said cheerfully.
"Are you sure you can do this, Hunny-sempai?" Tamaki looked at him closely, his expression in deep concern.
"It's okay! I'm sure I can!" he gave him a v sign.
"That settles, then."
After a few minutes, Mori came back with a trolley with all sorts of cake and pastries to choose. Momiji took a slice of apple pie and Ayame chose a Belgian waffle with calorie-free whipped cream, while the other two took mango tart. While eating, Momiji said to her, "You've got whipped cream on the left side of your lip."
"Oh. Thank you for telling me." She thanked him, looking really embarrassed.
"No--I'll clean it for you." He told her as he reached to her face. Ayame's face became red all of a sudden and couldn't move an inch. He removed the whipped cream by using his forefinger and he licked it off his fingers. "There! It's gone!" he grinned at her.
Ayame was stunned, so was her two companions. The next thing that Mori and Momiji knew, Ayame fell on the floor, lying unconscious but her expression was really happy. "Kyaa! You're so lucky, Ayame-hime!" the two girls screamed in delight.
"She fainted again, Taka-chan." Momiji said.
"It's natural." Mori nodded.
Few feet away from them, the rest of the host club were watching. "Wow that's surprising, ne Kaoru?" Hikaru muttered, looking amazed.
"True. I never seen Hunny-sempai do that to one of his customers." His twin agreed.
"Nevertheless, it will increase today's profits." Kyouya smirked, writing a note from his notebook.
"Well, I just hope that his memories would come back, that's all." Tamaki sighed.
"Me too." Haruhi piped up.
"But at the moment, let's just let things happen for a while." Kyouya suggested and the other nodded in agreement.
Haruhi checked at her watch and gasped. "I need to go home now. I promised to my father that I'll be home early."
"Really?" Tamaki and Hikaru looked at her in disappointment.
"Yes and I'm sorry. I'll make it up to you guys tomorrow." She bid them and took his bag, went to her customers that she had to leave, and walked towards the door but she didn't notice that there was a banana peel in her way. "Haruhi! There a banana peel--!" Tamaki tried to tell her but she did not seem to hear him.
She was about to step on it when Momiji, hearing what Tamaki is saying from afar jumped out and tried to catch her but then realized his mistake. Haruhi was caught of course but not by Momiji but by Mori who came first. "Wow nice catch Taka-chan! I'm sorry I couldn't catch you Fuji-chan." Momiji apologized to her.
"Oh that's okay. It's my fault I didn't hear what Tamaki-sempai is trying to tell me. Also, thank you Mori-sempai." Haruhi bowed.
"It's nothing." Mori said deeply.
"Well, I'll be going now. See you guys tomorrow!" she waved at them and went out of the room.
"That was close." Momiji breathed, his hands shaking.
"It is." Mori nodded.
Good thing that Taka-chan got to her first or everyone will know about the curse, he thought to himself and said to his companion. "It's great that you're here!"
"Ah."
Okay, chapter three done!
Well well, I took one scene in the manga or anime fruits basket. The episode when Momiji and Hatsuharu entered high school on their first day of school and the student council members entered the scene and got enraged by the two first year students. If you know that scene, then good for you!
I changed it a bit since Momiji switched places with Hunny. Hmm…I know this chapter kinda lacks something but I don't know what it is.
Ah well. At least I'm done in this chapter.
I edited it a bit but it's somehow the same. Momiji's secret about the curse will be revealed soon enough, I promise you! Muahahahahahahaah!
Again, please review.
