Okayyyy here I aaaaammmmmm! Time for the kiddies to go home! Nothing but somewhat entertaining intro and dialogue again, sorry if you're not into that. And YES, before you read, Kaouru is gay. NO HATING ALLOWED. OR I'LL GET ANGRY. GRR. Kay. I think that's all.
Matsuko gave one last wave to his friends as he stepped into the car. "Weird that it's the limmo today instead of the town car." He thought to himself.
The reason became clear as he sat down to find his mother and aunt sitting across from him. "Hello." He said, raising an eyebrow.
"We're going to pick up your father and uncle from the airport!" Hanako said happily.
"Oh." He said with a smile, pulling out his homework.
The car drove on a while in silence before his mother said anything. "So how was school today, Matsuko?" she asked cheerily.
"Good." He said, nodding.
"Anything exciting happen?"
"We started a club." He said.
"What kind of club?" his aunt Reiko asked.
"And who's we?" his mother added.
"Ariana, Kotoko, Taylor, Zura, Miroki, Akhiko and I. And it's just to have fun."
"That's good." Hanako said. "You kids need to take a break every once in a while. And I'm so glad that you're including the younger kids!"
"They're fun. They've grown up." He said with a smile.
When they got to the airport, Honey and Mori were already waiting at the gates. Honey immediately jumped into the care and onto his wife's lap. "Reiko!" he cried happily. "Didja miss me?" he asked, giving her a sweet peck on the cheek. She nodded in response and gave him a hug.
Mori followed quickly, ruffling his son's hair and giving his wife a kiss on the forehead before sitting down next to her and buckling himself in. He looked like he was going to say something to Honey, but Reiko beat him to it.
"Mitskuni," she laughed. "You have to buckle up."
"Aww…okay." He said, getting off her lap and strapping in as the car pulled back into the road.
"Takashi, guess what?" Hanako said, smiling. "Matsuko and the rest of the kids have started a club to have fun with at school."
Mori nodded. "Sounds like fun." He said.
"Woooow, Suko-chan, that's great!" Honey exclaimed. "You guys can be just like we were in high school!" he paused, then frowned pensively. "'Cept not…cuz you guys are mostly girls…" he smiled again. "Oh well! You can still have lots of fun!" he gasped. "I wonder if anyone will fall in love…" he looked at Reiko. "That seemed to happen a lot, huh Reiko?"
She giggled. "Guess so."
Mori smiled. "Let's not get carried away, Mitskuni."
Meanwhile…
"We're home, mom!" Ariana said as she stepped in through the front door.
Miroki pushed passed her. "Gottapeegottapeegottapee!" She ran up the stairs. Ariana rolled her eyes and shook her head, then wandered into the back sitting room. "Mom?" she asked.
Kyoya entered, presumably having come from his little office nook. "Sorry to disappoint, mom's not home. She went out shopping. I'm afraid I'll have to do." He smirked. "Where's your sister?" he asked, looking around.
Ariana shrugged. "She ran upstairs the minute we walked in the door."
Kyoya nodded. "So, anything of interest to report today?" Occasionally, Ariana and Kyoya would exchange information on the people in their lives: Just like Kyoya, Ariana had that habit of finding out everything about everyone around her.
"We started a club." Ariana said absently, rummaging through her bag to find her homework.
"Oh really?" Kyoya raised an eyebrow. "What kind of club?"
She shrugged. "Beats me. Some kind of "helping people, good of all, just for fun" club. It was Miroki's idea."
He chuckled. "Naturally. Sounds just like something your mother would do."
"Or Tamaki." She chuckled as well. "He went gaga over the idea of it."
"Of course he did." he laughed.
"Of course, her ideas, as well as Kotoko's, are bound to get extravagant."
"I'm presuming you're going to be in charge of all that?"
She nodded. "By the way, how did you manage with the Host Club?"
Kyoya laughed and shook his head. "With very meticulous planning and budgeting. Plus some promotional items on the side. Remember: you don't always have to run everything by the president." He cocked his head. "Incedentally, who is your president?"
Ariana laughed. "Who else but Kotoko?"
He nodded, smiling. "Who else indeed."
"Oh, and as another matter of interest, she thinks Akhiko has a crush on Miroki." She looked at him above the tops of her glasses."
He chuckled. "Well, I can't say I'd be surprised, it was bound to happen sooner or later."
"How so?"
"Well, they are a boy and a girl, and they've known each other from infancy. Given that neither of them turned out to be homosexual, that kind of intimacy was bound to spawn amorous feelings upon the onset of their hormones."
Ariana nodded. "You're right; I suppose that does make sense." From then, no other words were spoken: Kyoya went back to whatever he had been working on, Ariana went back to her homework.
Meanwhile…
Miroki peeked into her little sister's room to find her at her desk, surprise surprise. Her wavy black hair was pulled back into a low ponytail, and she was still wearing her pajama bottoms.
"Watcha workin' on, Aiko?" she chirped, making her sister start and turn around.
"God, don't do that, Mimi." She said, gray ceyes wide behind her large black-rimmed glasses.
"Oops, sorry." Miroki giggled. "Looks like somebody didn't bother getting dressed today."
"How was your first day of high school?"Aiko asked, turning back to her writing and ignoring the jibe.
"School itself? Boring. But we're all gonna start a club! Me, and Ari, and Kiki, and Taylor and Zura and Matsuko spent after school organizing it all and cleaning up the old Host Club room."
"Wow, that sounds like fun." she said, sighing. "I wish I could start high school already."
Miroki smiled. "One more year." She said, patting her sister on the shoulder. "Anyway, at least the middle school doesn't start for another week. You get to sleep in. Lucky."
Aiko turned and glared at her sister. "Except when certain people wake me up."
She rubbed the back of her neck. "Hehe, sorry." She said. "I was just really excited."
"So how is everyone?" Aiko asked. "I mean, Kotoko was over here last week, but I haven't seen Akhiko or the twins since before we went to Florida, and I haven't seen Matsuko since Kotoko's birthday party."
"Well, you know Kiki, he's just been studying all summer." She giggled. "He was still nervous about today, but then look at him, he got elected class rep. He was the only one who was surprised." She rolled her eyes. "The twins are the same as always, but Matsuko acts different in school. He doesn't treat me like a little kid anymore, it's weird. But cool!"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I guess it's not just him. It's kind of everyone. But I just noticed with him. I came up with a good idea, and instead of patting my head like he used to, he gave me a high five. I dunno what it is, but it's like now that we—Kiki and me, that is—are wearing these uniforms, we're one of the older kids.
Aiko pouted. "I'll never get to go to school with Matsuko."
Miroki shrugged. "Does it matter? We practically live with all these guys."
Aiko smiled and shrugged. "Guess not."
Meanwhile…
The twins opened the door silently, looking at each other and grinning. For their prank to work, nobody could know they were home…
Suddenly, once they were inside, they were ambushed by three different sprays of water, coming from all sides. They squealed and laughed, putting up their hands as useless shields.
"What gives?" Taylor exclaimed, laughing.
"Gotcha!" they heard a very familiar voice say.
"Uncle Kaouru!" They cried, running to give him a hug (and grinning mischeviously as they did, knowing they would soak him).
"Ha-ha, yes, now I'm all wet too. Don't act like you didn't both just see me last weekend." He chuckled.
"Of course, you haven't seen me in a while." A very well dressed man with neatly cut and styled dark hair and a bright grin stepped out from the left hall. He was taller than the girls, but shorter than their father and uncle, and was somewhat skinny. He wore gray suit pants and a vest, with a purple button down with the sleeves rolled up, and had a pink mechanical pencil stuck behind his ear and a tape measure around his neck.
Taylor and Zura smirked at each other, then ran over and hugged him too. "Masaki!" Zura exclaimed.
"So good to see you again!" Taylor added.
Masaki laughed. "Great to see you guys again." he said.
"You do realize you're still wearing your work, right?" Zura pointed out.
Masaki looked down and laughed again. "So I am." he said, removing the tape measure and placing it on a nearby table.
"How was the shoot?" Taylor asked him and Kaouru excitedly.
"It was great." Their father's voice came from behind them. "No hello for your old dad, I suppose, the uncle and his boyfriend get all the attention?"
The twins turned around and smiled dramatically. "Hello daddy!" they said in unison. "How was work today?"
"Oh, you know, same old same old."
Taylor glared then turned back to Kaouru and Masaki. "No but seriously was it great or what? What was the shoot for today?
Masaki chuckled at her enthusiasm. "It was the new spring collection."
Both girls opened their mouths in excitement, but before they could say anything Kaouru cut them off.
"And YES, we brought you something." he rummaged through his bag and pulled out a sparkly pink bubble skirt with a purple waistband.
"YAY thanks!" Taylor hugged the skirt.
"Ahem…" Zura coughed.
Kaouru chuckled. "Calm down, Zura." he pulled out a flowy, mint green, off the shoulder, see-through shirt with a blue and green tiger-striped tank top.
She grinned as she took them. "Thanks."
"Maybe you wanna go put those on, and change out of those soaked uniforms?" Hikaru said.
"Soaked and god-awful." Masaki commented, making a face. "Girl, those things are a disgrace."
The girls laughed in agreement. "Hey, maybe that can be the club's first order of business, changing the uniforms." Taylor said.
Hikaru and Kaouru cocked their heads to the side. "What club?" they asked.
"Oh, our little family-friend-group-thing started a club together." Zura said. "I'm not really sure what exactly it was for, but whatever it was, Tamaki loved it."
Hikaru rolled his eyes. "If the boss loved it, there must be something sappy about it."
"Duh." the girls said, starting up the stairs to change.
"Wait, girls! You forgot to give your dad a hug!" Kaouru said, laughing.
Taylor and Zura grinned. "WE LOVE YOU, DADDY!" they said, hugging their father before bolting up the stairs laughing.
"Very funny." the now wet Hikaru said to the laughing Kaouru and Masaki.
Meanwhile…
"Home!" Kotoko yelled as she walked in the door, Akhiko trailing behind her.
"We're in the family room!" they heard Haruhi say. They entered the room to be ambushed by a strangling hug from Tamaki.
"THERE are my wonderful children! Oh Daddy's so proud of you, starting a club and following in your parents' footsteps! And Kotoko the president, just like me!"
"Mom! You couldn't warn us?" Kotoki asked.
She chuckled. "Like that would have made a difference?"
"How was court, mom?" Akhiko asked, still encircled in his spaced-out father's arms. "You're home early."
Haruhi sighed tiredly. "My client didn't show up, we had to reschedule. Again."
"Ooh. Rough." Kotoko said.
Haruhi nodded. "I don't know why I took this case."
"Because you're a good person!" Tamaki cried, flying from his children to hug his wife. "And a good lawyer!"
She smiled. "Thank you Tamaki." she stood. "I could use some coffee, I think I'll go make some."
"I was going to get some tea, I'll come with you." Akhiko said, following her out of the room, leaving Tamaki and Kotoko alone.
"I really am proud of you, Kotoko." Tamaki said seriously. "You and your friends are going to do a lot of good with this club, I can tell already."
Kotoko smiled earnestly. "Thanks, dad." she said.
"I can't wait to see what you'll do first!" he said, going back to his silly grin, making Kotoko roll her eyes.
"Neither can I, dad." she said.
Meanwhile…
"So, your dad told me all about this club you guys started." Haruhi said. "Sounds like fun, but joining a club doesn't sound like you." she said, shooting him a sidelong glance.
He chuckled. "Well, I really just went cause Miroki wanted to, and cause Kotoko was there and everything.
Haruhi nodded knowingly. "But do you think you'll have fun?"
Akhiko nodded. "I mean, those guys are practically family, so it'll be nice to spend so much time with them. And I guess it's nice to have a place to fit in already." he smiled.
Haruhi smiled to see him happy. They were so similar, she had been afraid that he would spend all of school studying, instead of making friends and having fun the way the Host Club had forced her to.
"Just be careful." she laughed. "You may find out more about yourself and each other than you ever expected to know."
He chuckled. "I doubt that."
"You'll see." she thought.
WOOO yay. It might be a while before I post again, just a warning. My dad is like SUPER naggy about me taking my online driving course more often. Bleh. I hate driving. Kayyy byeee! Thanks for all the reviews they warm my soul!
~FeatherSong