Chapter 3
Mission

Kyouya's POV

"Ootori-sama," I heard Tachibana-san say. "Should we…" He hesitated to finish that sentence. And I knew exactly why.

I seethed. "Ignore them."

School already ended and we were heading towards my apartment in the car that sends me to and from school. And by we I don't mean me and the rest of the host club, but me and Tachibana, Horita, and Aishima.

I glanced once more at the rearview mirror. I saw a gray car; it had transparent windows so you could clearly see whose inside. Unfortunately I saw six oh-too-familiar faces inside the car "secretly" following me.

"Idiots" I said quietly.

Half an hour earlier, as the host club was about to close, Tamaki called the others for a special meeting, excluding me of course. Tamaki said that I shouldn't come to the meeting because I should be getting ready to go home since I would be going to my new home for the first time. He was obviously lying.

Their meeting took place in the club room because Tamaki couldn't find another room in such a hurry. So in order for me not to hear, they were huddled up against one corner of the room. Tamaki made no attempt to whisper, thinking I was too far to hear them. He was wrong, as usual. I could clearly hear Tamaki saying that they would "secretly" follow me on my way to my apartment and pretend that they got lost and didn't know that I lived there. Then they'd come in to my apartment and "secretly" check it out. Idiot.

The twins just laughed and said something simultaneously but I was too annoyed to listen to it. Haruhi just stood there irritated by Tamaki's idiocy. Mori-senpai was as stoic as ever. And Hunny-senpai was ecstatic and jumped around the room. Or maybe he was on a sugar rush.

As I was walking towards the gate, the others were "stalking" me. And we all know how discreet the host club can be. I tried my best not to roll my eyes at their stupidity. Tachibana opened the car door for me and I went inside. Tachibana saw the rest of the host club tailing me and he gave me a questioning look. I ignored him. When our car had already moved, a gray car followed us. In fact, the car was right behind us.

"Baka" I muttered.

If they were going to follow me they should have at least been discreet. But they were doing the opposite. I could faintly hear Tamaki's whining and pleading, the twin's mockery of Tamaki's whining and pleading, and Hunny jumping around on his seat.

I sighed. We arrived at my apartment building. It had six floors. I would be living on the third floor. As I was riding the elevator up to the third floor, I mentally prepared myself for the trouble the host club is going to make. Once I made it to my apartment, sooner or later the host club was going to arrive and do something predictable and at the same time unpredictable. Then I'd have to fix whatever they did. I sighed again, a small smile appeared on my face. Maybe this could be interesting.

Meanwhile…

"Tamaki-senpai, are you sure it's all right for us to do this?" Haruhi asked a worried look on her face.

"Of course! We're doing this for his own good." Tamaki declared. "We have to look out for one another don't we? We're family and families stick together." He said as he posed dramatically. The wind blew his hair adding to even more dramatic effect.

Haruhi rolled her eyes. 'Why am I here?' She thought. Then she remembered.

Tamaki was obsessed in finding out what Kyouya's apartment was like. He wanted to make sure that his 'Okaa-san' would have a safe place to live. Even if it meant going through hell, since it was Kyouya there was an extremely high possibility. How did Tamaki convince Haruhi to go with them? He begged and begged and begged, Haruhi wouldn't budge. She was used to Tamaki already. Then the twins said something even the strong willed Haruhi couldn't resist.

"Haruhiiii! We'll give you ootoro if you come!" The twins said simultaneously.

'Oh yeah.' Haruhi thought, remembering how she was convinced on going with them. Her short reverie was interrupted when Tamaki called them over.

"Everyone, we must be discreet in order for our mission to be successful. So hide!" Tamaki said.

The host club hid behind the car that Tamaki called over for their "mission". The so-called mission was to check on Kyouya's apartment to make sure it was safe, even though Kyouya didn't approve of any of them to do so.

Tamaki took out a pair of telescopes and eyed the small blue moving figure on the third floor. The figure was Kyouya, their target. Tamaki saw Kyouya open the second door to the left with a sign above it that said "Room 07". There were only two rooms on every floor in that building.

After Tamaki saw Kyouya go inside the room, he smiled.

"Kyouya is inside room seven on the third floor. It's time for us to commence phase two of the plan!" Tamaki declared.

A couple of bystanders stared at Tamaki like he was a crazy person. There was even giggling from a passing group of teenage girls. And yet Tamaki didn't even notice.

The host club (minus Haruhi) dashed towards the building to start their plan. Haruhi sighed. 'Kyouya is never going to be fooled by this.' She thought as she slowly walked. 'Tamaki is such an idiot.'


Miyuki's POV

Classes ended and I went straight to the library. That wasn't an unusual thing for me to do, but this time I won't go to the library for leisure. I needed to borrow some subject books to study. And since the entrance exam for Ouran would include the subjects Science, Math, World History, English, and Latin I had a lot of books to borrow. It was a good thing I already studied Latin because if I didn't I'd be in big trouble. From what I've been told I needed to study the lessons of the subjects that were taught from the first year to third year in high school. In other words, not only do I have to review my previous lessons I needed to study the lessons for third year students.

I went to the school's library and borrowed a dozen books. They were heavy but not as heavy as the goal that I must achieve. So I dashed home even with the heavy load.

The building that I lived in came to peripheral vision and I was relieved. I was already panting and sweating once I was walking towards the elevator. I put down the books on the floor to catch my breath. The metal doors of the elevator reflected my figure faintly. Then I saw a familiar figure walk towards me. I turned around. It was Kaya.

"Hey there Miki, what's with the bricks?" Kaya said referring to the pile of books that weighed the same as bricks. You remember Kaya right? My editor/guardian/sister figure. Kaya, though my closest friend, was my exact opposite. She was funny, sociable, cheerful, and smiles a lot (a lot, though I'm not complaining). Kaya always looks gorgeous, she works hard to do so. Today she was wearing a pink sweater and a knee length skirt. Her long black hair was tied to a loose pony tail.

"Miyuki," She said, waving her hand in front of my face. "come back to Earth already." The thing about Kaya is that she's really witty. She also knows that I drift in and out from space a lot, which is a good thing.

"Sorry about that Kaya." I said.

"It's okay, I'm used to it." She said, smiling. "Now what's with the books? Normally I'd see you with novel sized books, but these," She touched one of the books. "look more like subject books or something."

"They are." I said. Kaya raised an eyebrow. "I'm going to study, Kaya."

Kaya stared at me for a while. Then she burst out laughing. I stared at her, dumbfounded. Was it really that surprising?

It took a while for Kaya to calm down. She was still holding in a laugh when she faced me. "I'm sorry Miki," She said, laughing a bit. "But you just caught me off guard there. I mean come on, study? I thought you only study at night. It's still early."

I took a deep breath and told Kaya that I would be studying for the entrance exam for Ouran. She seemed skeptical at first but realized I was serious when I told her that I needed to study there in order for me not to go to St. Lobelia. I inwardly shuddered.

You might be wondering why I dislike St. Lobelia girl's High so much. Well you see it all happened five years ago. There was a famous teenage novelist, back then she was my favorite author, her name was Ryoko Ishido. What made her famous was her novel "Frozen", the book that I absolutely adored. The book was a combination of mystery, thriller, psychological and horror. I loved it. I even brought both the paperback and hardbound edition.

Ryoko was only fifteen back then, which made her even more famous, so she still needed to go to high school. And she went to St. Lobelia. She was on hiatus for three years. Then a month after she graduated she published a novel. It was horrifying! It won the Teen novel of the year. Teen! The book was about romance and comedy. It wasn't like her at all. It was as thought Dr. Jekyll transformed into Mr. Hyde. Only, the change was permanent!

And since then she became a writer for teen novels. She changed genres because of her experience in St. Lobelia. That's when I swore to myself that I would never ever go to St. Lobelia.

"Miyuki?" I hear Kaya say, snapping me out of my flashback.

I blinked. "Did you say something?"

Kaya sighed and shook her head. "So I'm guessing you won't be submitting your latest work for a while huh?" She said. "When is this entrance exam anyway?"

"Well a week from now, it would be one month." I answered her.

Kaya nodded then she looked at me and smiled. "So I hear you've got a new neighbor." She said in a gossipy kind of tone.

"Yeah" I said, dimly remembering what the guy I hit said about his boss or something.

"I also hear he's a guy."

"Ah."

"So is he cute?"

"I don't know."

"Tall?"

"Maybe" Aren't most guys tall?

"Smart?"

"I'm not sure."

"Miyuki, you sound like you've never met the guy." Kaya said, still smiling for some reason.

"I haven't."

And with that Kaya did an anime fall. I blinked. "Kaya?"

"I thought you already met."

"Why would you think that?"

"Because you know that you have a neighbor and he just arrived today."

It took me couple of seconds to answer. "He has?"

Kaya face palmed. "My God Miyuki, you're really late with the news aren't you?"

I shrugged. I pushed a button for the elevator and started to gather my books. "I need to go now Kaya, I've got some studying to do."

Kaya suppressed a laugh. "O-okay."

The metal doors opened and I went inside. I bowed to Kaya and she smiled. "One last thing Miyuki, you should really meet him I'm sure you'd get along pretty well." The doors closed and I felt the elevator moving up. I was standing there pondering on what Kaya meant.

'How can she be sure we would get along well? Does Kaya have E.S.P. or something? Because if she does that would be really interesting. I could probably make a story about-

I shook my head. 'No no no. I can't get distracted. I need to focus or else I'll end up in St. Lobelia.' I shuddered. 'No way. I don't care how hard I have to work I need to get in Ouran. Even if it means being on Hiatus for a month.' I took a deep breath. The elevator doors opened and I walked out. The books were still as heavy as before.

I walked towards the door of my apartment. I put the books on the floor and looked for my keys in my bag. Then I heard noises coming from next door. 'My neighbor.' I thought as I stared at the door next to mine. The noise was really loud. Laughing, screaming, running around, and even jumping.

'I hope it will quiet down soon, I really need to study.'


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