Chapter 4.

"Check-It-Out-Girls in Japan? Nah, too ordinary. So Random! on Mars? Improbable. Then what do we do?" Sonny sighed as she chucked another piece of paper at the trashcan. Her comrades still weren't back from the Host Club so she was left to think of ideas for sketches by herself. She scribbled a little more on a piece of paper. Suddenly there was a loud crash and Sonny looked up to see Zora standing in front of her holding a pair of binoculars.

"They left you, huh? Typical," she strutted around to the side of her bed and sat down, pulling out some little trinkets afterward.

"What do you mean?"

Zora turned. "They said they would do a sketch then you said let's get it done and they said no. Now you're left here to figure it out by yourself. You really have got to learn to be meaner."

"What do I do?" Sonny grumbled.

"I don't know. What will you do?"

"I could sing a song!"

"How does that prove that you can act?"

Sonny murmured a sigh. "It doesn't. This is tough! It's not like we can just act like we just came to Japan and tell about our adventures...or, maybe we can."

"I'm outta here. I'm not joining in any of your weird Japanese sketches...especially at a Host Club."

Sonny looked over at Zora who was heading for the door. "You seem to have had some bad experiences with this sort of thing. What happened?"

"None of your business. You'll start 'Sonnying-It-Up' and that will make it worse," the small girl closed the door behind her.

Sonny sighed again then sat down and worked on the skit.

(Meanwhile somewhere at a Japanese airport, a young person walked around the unfamiliar place. Taking a glance at a little piece of paper in his hand, he walked out and hailed a taxi asking the driver to take him to the hotel on the paper.)

"I have the sketch!" Sonny announced as the rest of the group returned from the club.

"Good, let's see it," Tawni said taking the papers away from her companion. As she read she nodded her head then looked up. "Okay, we don't need much in the way of props or costumes, we just need to memorize these lines.

Nico and Grady also looked the sketch over.

"So, we're just ourselves? That's original," Nico said with a sarcastic shrug,

"I like it!" Grady commented. "It's easy to do."

After rehearsing during all the time they had, they entered the Host Club prepared to show off their skills. A few things were set up then the Hosts and the guests formed a semicircle to watch. The curtains were pulled back and the play began.*

The result of the performance was a standing ovation from all except Kyoya who pushed up his glasses and after the noise had died down peered up and said, "Well, you are actors. I prefer drama and tragedy myself, however this was an impressive performance. You are welcome."

The group broke up and Haruhi walked over to Sonny.

"That was a quick change of mind," Sonny remarked.

"If I know Kyoya-sempai, he probably though better of have professional American actors here. It could be good for business."

Sonny didn't reply immediately the she turned. "Does he see everything as a benefit in money?"

"No, and the things he doesn't he generally ignores or is against it."

"Oh," Sonny thought for a moment. "do you know how to convince someone to do something without it causing trouble or they calling you a meddler?"

Haruhi gave Sonny a sideways glance. "No, I'm the worst actor you can get! I can't trick someone. But I know who can."

"If you're thinking the twins, they can't. I think they're scared of her."

"What about Tamaki?"

"He's tricky?"

"Yeah, you're right, he can't even carry his own plans through. Kyoya wouldn't do it, Honey's too nice...(I say that loosely) and Mori won't do it if Honey won't. What about your friends? And what is it you wanted to do?"

"I wanted to get Zora to come here and have fun, but I don't know why she won't come!"

"Maybe she doesn't like to be fussed over by boys. I can understand that."

"Maybe. Or maybe she's been to Japan and she met someone here that she liked! Oh who could it be!" Sonny whipped her head around looking for some likely person. "I know! The twin I think was Kaoru seemed to be interested...maybe like he knew her!" Sonny turned. "Do you know what this means?"

"No."

"She has an unavailable love! We have to get them back together!" Sonny exclaimed using Tamaki's signature 'I've-got-a-plan' pose.

"You're starting to sound like Tamaki-sempai. Oh well, I can't help that. How can I help?"

"We need to lure Zora and Kaoru into a restaurant together to have dinner!" Sonny announced.

"Wait, isn't Zora-chan around the age of 12? unless she's like another Honey-sempai."

"Yes, and?"

"Kaoru is 16. That's a four year difference, plus I think Hikaru would know. Why don't we just ask?"

"That's too direct! If you're direct it makes people nervous," Sonny replied.

"Check that, Renge and Tamaki," Haruhi muttered under her breath. "That's fine," she continued, speaking up. "I'll just ask them, have you tried asking Zora?"

"Yeah, she told me that I would 'Sonny-It-Up' if she said anything so I have to know so I can help her."

"Well, good luck with that," Haruhi turned to go find the twins, leaving Sonny behind to figure out what to do.

(At this point in time the strange person had arrived at the hotel and was checking into the room next to the So Random! cast's room.)

Haruhi walked up to Hikaru and Kaoru and cleared her throat. "Hey guys, have you ever met Zora before yesterday? Especially you, Kaoru?"

The twins started and looked at one another then back at their classmate.

"Well um..." began one.

"You see we..." continued the other. Then both perked up, "Is that his majesty calling? We'd better go." The two slipped off without ever answering the question.

"Well that was unhelpful," Haruhi mumbled to herself she looked back to see if Sonny had seen the encounter. She had. "I guess she was right."

Sorry for this taking so long! I had a little writer's block.

*I didn't tell you the whole skit because that would take way too long and I couldn't think of anything.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter!