"What…. Are you doing here?" Haruhi hissed, staring at 5 teens in anger.
"We came to play!" Alix and Tammy cheered, standing just outside of Haruhi's apartment room. Haruhi slapped her forehead. These 5 were just like the host club!
"It's 7:50 in the morning." She announced to them, motioning towards the sun, which had barely peaked over the rooftops.
"The early bird gets the worm." Alice recited, placing a hand on Haruhi's shoulder. "So come play!"
"No." with that, Haruhi slammed the door shut, hoping to return to her bead.
"Haruhi, who was that?" her father, luckily on his day off, looked up from his bed, trying to rub the sleep out of his eyes.
"Some people from school." She sighed.
"The host club?"
"No."
"Oh!?" Ranka jumped to his feet, suddenly excited. "New friends!?" he bounced to the door, flinging it open. "They are new!' he cheered, glad to see that they were still standing there. "Come in, come in!" he motioned.
"Are you Haruhi's papa?" Tammy asked as she passed by him.
"Why yes, yes I am." He smiled at her. "Who might you be Ms.?"
"I'm Tammy Avilia!" she grinned. "Harumi! Your dad is nice!" Tammy laughed, running instantly to the small table in the middle of the room.
"My name is Haruhi." She sighed, rubbing her head.
"Alix Avilia!" Alix saluted to Ranka.
"Ah, so Tammy and you are sisters." Ranka nodded, closing the door when everyone entered. "Come sit, introduce the rest of yourselves." Once everyone sat down, the introductions continued.
"I'm Alice Kuruugi. This is my older brother, Ryu." Alice pointed to Ryu, who held his hand out to Ranka. Taking his hand, Ranka gave it a good shack.
"My, my, how nice to meet the both of you. It's relief knowing my Haruhi has so many friends!" he cooed.
"Dad." Haruhi sighed, getting up to make some tea for everyone. At last Ranka turned to Sarah.
"I'm Sarah Fare." Sarah explained, her expression blank like usual.
Tammy and Alix cheered, "She is our cousin!"
Ranka nodded. "How nice." Ranka smiled at Haruhi when she placed some tea on the table. "Have you all come to visit my precious Haruhi?" Ranka took a quick sip of his tea. He wish he would have had time to put on some make up and do his hair before all Haruhi's friends came over. Now that he looked though, some of them didn't seem very cleaned up themselves.
Sarah had large black lines under her eyes, her hair pulled back in a ponytail with several strands hanging loose. Did she get any sleep last night?
Tammy and Alix were a little better, but were wearing none matching cloths. Their clothing was a mix of all sorts of colors, making the two girls look similar to rainbows.
Alice and Ryu were dressed fine though, both having brushed their hair and wearing matching cloths.
"We came to ask her to play with us!" Tammy grinned.
"We are going to town." Alice explained, smiling at Ranka.
"Oh that sounds like so much fun!" Ranka clapped. "Come now Haruhi go get ready. Wouldn't want to keep your friends waiting."
"Early." Haruhi grumbled, leaving the room for a couple seconds to change.
"Yay! Fun!" The Avilia sisters cheered, running out of the apartment, reading for an adventure.
Sarah calmly followed after them, giving Haruhi an apologetic nod.
Once she was dressed, Haruhi said goodbye to her father and set off with the crazy group of five.
"ADW club, move out!" Alice commanded.
"Yes ma'am!" Tammy and Alix saluted.
Ryu sighed. Yesterday Alice had forced him to join her stupid club. It was bad enough to be stuck in the host club, now he was stuck with these morons.
Well, being stuck with Sarah wasn't bad at all actually. In fact it would probably be quite enjoyable-
Ryu felt himself blush. What in the world was he thinking!?
"So, where are we going?" she asked.
"All over town!" Alice answered.
"Eh?" Haruhi tilted her head. "Why?"
"Because it's fun." Alix explained, twirling around. "Since Sarah has a free day off, we thought we would go!"
"Free day off?" Haruhi glanced towards Sarah, who stared ahead blankly. Now that she noticed, Sarah always had large black lines under her eyes.
"Sarah works a lot." Tammy answered.
Haruhi blinked. "A lot?" Was that why Sarah always seemed to have black lines under her eyes? How many jobs did she work anyway? "I see. So then where are we headed first?" Haruhi gave them a smile. She might as well enjoy her time with the crazy group. They lived a similar life to hers, so it couldn't be any worst then going around with the Host club. At least with these 5 she wouldn't have to explain why common grocery stores sells things at such a 'cheap' price.
"Haruhi look!" Tammy suddenly grabbed her arms, pointing forward at a small toy store that seemed to have recently opened. "Can we go!?" the two Avilia sisters begged.
"Aren't you the ones who invited me?" Haruhi said. "You don't have to ask my permission to do something you want to do."
"But we want you to have fun too Haruhi." Alix grinned. "An adventure is suppose to be fun for everyone. If one person isn't having fun, then it's not an adventure anymore."
Surprised by her words, Haruhi slowly nodded. "Yeah… a toy store is fine then."
Alix and Tammy cheered, bolting towards the store, almost trampling a few kids as they passed.
Haruhi quickly followed after them with Alice by her side.
"Skateboards!" Haruhi jumped when there was a loud crash in the back of the store.
"Alix! Tammy!" Sarah yelled in anger, storming towards the end of the store.
Ryu laughed. "Ah-ha. Feel sorry for that girl."
"I feel sorry for myself since I have to watch you." Alice sighed, folding her arms.
Ryu turned to her, scowling. "I'll you know I haven't done anything wrong for a whole week."
"Oh." Alice let out a fake gasp. "How impressive!"
"What?' Haruhi questioned. What were they talking about?
"Ryu here is a delinquent." Alice sighed and her brother.
"I'm not a delinquent." Ryu argued.
Ignoring her brother, Alice continued. "You see, Ryu was in Juvey 2 years ago. He constantly ditches class, steals from stores, and even got arrested a few months ago. He was released a few hours later though when our parents picked him up. Since then it has been my job to watch him and make sure he doesn't do anything stupid."
"I wasn't actually arrested." Ryu muttered under his breath.
Shocked, Haruhi looked at Ryu. It was probably a good thing Tamaki didn't know any of this. Knowing Tamaki he would go on a giant rant about being proper gentlemen. Then again, Kyoya must have known about Ryu's background. Was he actually being kind to Ryu and letting him be in the club without letting Tamaki know of his past?
That probably wasn't it. He must have had others reasons for doing this. Maybe Tamaki already knew and just wasn't saying anything.
Nope that definitely couldn't be the case.
"Plus it didn't help that Ryu picked a fight with a cop. The chief of the police station too!" Alice slapped her forehead in dread.
"He was asking for it! He tried to butter me up with cookies and such." Ryu grumbled.
"Cookies?" Haruhi mumbled.
"Yeah. He kept going on about how precious his daughters were too. After a while I told him to shut up, and he punched me! A cop punched me!" Ryu yelled in fury, already feeling the pain in his cheek the cop had left.
Alice glared at him. "You deserved it honestly. I am glad that cop dragged you down to the station."
Ryu glared back at her, preparing to hit her if needed.
Haruhi paused. Why did this sound familiar? Letting out a soft gasp, Haruhi thought back to a few days ago. (This is from chapter 4 :D)
"Those are really good cookies Tammy." Kaoru mumbled, munching greedily on his own.
Tammy giggled, a small blush creeping on her face. "I'm glad. Papa will probably be glad too."
"What does your papa do anyway?" Haruhi asked, still busy with her cookie.
"He's the chief of police." Tammy answered.
"Eh, that's a pretty cool job." Haruhi blinked.
"Yet he makes cookies?" The twins mumbled.
Haruhi felt her back stiffen. It couldn't be…could it? The chief of police who makes cookies and has daughters.
Haruhi slowly lifted her hand up to her head, pinching the bridge of her nose. "How troublesome." She muttered.
"Eh? What is?" Alice asked.
"Ah, nothing, nothing." Haruhi waved it off, smiling nervously. She quickly left the two in search of the Avilia sisters.
"Clean it up!"
Haruhi turned the corner just in time to see Sarah yell at Tammy and Alix to clean up the mess they had made. After running through the store so much, the two accidentally tripped, knocking down a whole rack of bounce balls, scattering them across the floor.
-Later-
Later that day, after going through many stores and scaring many civilians, the small group took a break at McDonalds.
"I can't believe you made that man scream like a girl!" Alice laughed at Sarah, who shrugged.
The group was bored during their little outing, and wasn't sure what to do. That is until Ryu said "Why not scare some people?"
Since no one had any better ideas, the scarring began!
After many tries at scaring a certain civilian, with no success, everyone had begun to give up. That is until Sarah stepped forward, saying she would give it a go. She then approached the man, glaring at him.
Her glare was so horrifying, that the man jumped in surprise. It was only when Sarah said, "Seven days." That he ran off screaming.
"Why did we even do that?" Haruhi sighed.
"Cause it was fun!" Ryu cackled.
Tammy was confused however by how that scared the man so much. "Seven days till what?"
"Till he died." Sarah answered calmly.
"What?!" she gasped, covering her mouth. "That man is dying!?"
"Never mind Tammy. It didn't really mean anything." Sarah patted her head, making her feel a little more relieved.
Haruhi rolled her eyes. "So Ryu, are you enjoying the host club?"
"No." he muttered. "I don't know how to talk to any of the girls there. They keep squealing over the weirdest things."
Alice grinned, taking a bite of her sandwich. "You just need some pointers Ryu." She chuckled. "Maybe Haruhi could help you. She's popular amongst the girls."
Haruhi nodded, giving Ryu a smile.
Ryu slouched forward, sipping his coke. "That's cause you're a girl. You know how to talk with them."
Haruhi shrugged. "Sort of. I'm not exactly a normal girl, now am I?'
Ryu smirked at her. "I guess not, but neither are those 4" He pointed to Alice, Alix, Tammy, and Sarah who shrugged, guilty as charged.
Haruhi laughed. "That's for sure. I guess you just need to be yourself Ryu."
"Except without the delinquent part in." Alice added.
"Shut up Alice." Ryu muttered, folding his arms.
"You could try what Tamakuku does." Tammy suggested. "He always sparkles and is super nice."
"No thanks." Ryu instantly declined.
"You could try the delinquent approach. I hear a lot of the girls say they like that bad boy stuff." Haruhi shrugged.
"What, like the twins?" Ryu tilted his head.
"No, they are more like the devilish type." Alice answered, shacking her head.
"Just be you." Sarah finally butted in.
"Me?" Ryu blinked.
Alix nodded. "Yeah, we like you for who you are."
"You have a bad boy, yet sweet heart sort of feeling to you." Sarah agreed.
Ryu looked her in surprise. He suddenly turned his head to the left, covering his mouth with his hand, his cheeks a tint of pink. "N-Not really." He muttered, avoiding their eye contact.
Tammy covered her mouth, letting out a giggle. "Tsundere."
Alix and Alice began to laugh at Ryu's embarrassment.
"Just give them that Tsundere personality!" They urged.
"Shut up! I don't have a Tsundere personality!" Ryu slammed his hands on the table, growling at them.
"Yes! You do! You so do!" Alice cackled.
Haruhi chuckled a bit, smiling at the group.
Alice let out a sigh. "Come on Haruhi, show him some pick up lines or something."
Haruhi flinched. "I don't really use pick up lines." She admitted softly.
"Well, what about that chin thing Tamaki does?" Alix asked.
"Chin thing?" Haruhi questioned.
"Yeah, you know, he grabs your chin and stuff." She nodded.
Thinking back, Haruhi nodded. "Tamaki usually grabs a girls chin a lifts it up so they can have eye contact. Then he says some cheesy lines."
Alice reached over the table, hitting Ryu's arm. "There, you can do that."
Ryu scowled. "That's too troublesome. What would I even say? How would I even grab someone's chin?!"
"You would just grab it." Tammy grabbed her own chin. Alix reached of and grabbed Alice's chin, shacking it up and down.
"Like this?' she asked.
"No, no." Alice pulled her chin away. "You have to do it romantically. Like um… Ryu give it a go." She motioned towards Ryu.
Ryu flinched. "No!'
"Come on, don't be a baby. Practice on Haruhi if you want."
"I didn't agree to this." Haruhi announced, raising her hand.
"I refuse to do any such-" Ryu trailed off when a soft hand reached under his chin, lifting it up. Ryu's eyes widened in shock, his cheeks warming up when Sarah's face suddenly appeared only a few inches to his.
"It's easy." She said, her expression as blank as ever. "You just bring their face close, and stare into their eyes."
Alix, Tammy, and Alice suddenly squealed at the sight.
"We're in an adult world!" Tammy cried out, feeling like fainting.
"Go for the kiss!" Alix cheered, thinking of this as a perfect love scene.
Haruhi was honestly too shocked to speak. Yet oddly enough the thought "she would be a perfect host" crossed her mind.
Releasing his chin, Sarah sank back down into her chair, folding her arms. She acted as if nothing had happened.
Ryu on the other hand, was still shocked. His eyes wide, his cheeks similar to tomatoes. He hadn't expected something like that at all.
Alice began to laugh at her brother's face. He had his own adorable side to him after all. She had always known that Ryu had a soft side underneath that delinquent attitude.
Especially since he wasn't use to talking to girls other then herself, he must be having a tough time being in the host club.
Haruhi chuckled a bit, finishing off her meal. "I guess we should probably head off if all of you are done eating."
"I'm done!" Tammy cheered.
"Me too!" Alix nodded.
Ryu coughed nervously. "D-Done." He muttered, jumping to his feet, rushing towards the nearest trashcan.
As he was gone, everyone looked towards Sarah in shock.
"Sarah." Alice whispered. "What in the world was that?"
"I was just showing him how to do it." Sarah shrugged, not sure what the big deal was.
Haruhi leaned forward. "Yeah that's true, but it was a little surprising."
Alix and Tammy nodded. "You were really good at it too."
"That's for sure." Alice said. "He was like clay in your hands."
Sarah rubbed her chin thoughtfully. "I suppose. His face was pretty adorable."
"It was!" Alice laughed.
Sarah suddenly smirked, as if a new plan hatching in her head. "I think I'll have to do that again." She couldn't deny that the image of a blushing Ryu wasn't something any girl wouldn't wanna see.
"Please do. Take a picture next time." Alice covered her mouth, but silenced herself when Ryu stormed back to the table.
"Lets go." He grumbled, back to being calm and collected.
"Okay Ryu." Haruhi nodded, grabbing her trash to throw away. Everyone followed.
-Later-
"Ooh Eeh Ooh ah ah, ting tang walla walla bing bang!" Alix sang.
"Ooh Eeh Ooh ah ah, ting tang walla walla bing bang!" Tammy joined in.
"Dow dow dow dow dow dow dow." Alice said deeply, causing the three to laugh. "Haruhi take over!"
"Um… I told the witch doctor… uh."
"I was in love with you!" Tammy and Alix cheered.
"Dow dow dow dow." Alice made her voice sound deeper, singing in the background
"I told the witch doctor I was in love with you." Tammy nodded.
"Dow dow dow dow!"
"And then the witch doctor told me what to do." Haruhi chuckled.
"That a way Haruhi!" The three cheered, linking arms with her.
"Ooh Eeh Ooh ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang!" They sang in unison, swaying back and forth.
Haruhi let out a small laugh, swaying along. "We look like idiots."
"That's what makes it fun!" Alix pumped her fist in the air, causing some of the other citizens to look at them.
"I told the witch doctor you didn't love me true" Tammy frowned.
"Dow dow dow dow." Alice clapped her hands to the song.
"I told the witch doctor you didn't love me nice." Alix held her chest, looking depressed.
"Dow dow dow dow" Alice tried to deepen her voice even more.
"And then the witch doctor gave me this advice." Haruhi winked.
"Ooh Eeh Ooh ah ah, ting tang walla bing bang!" They all sang, kicking their feet in the air.
Ryu and Sarah trudged behind the four singing girls, trying their best to look like they weren't with them.
"They convinced Haruhi to join." Sarah mumbled.
"So it has begun." Ryu nodded.
Sarah smirked a bit at him, shoving his shoulder, making him smirk back.
"We're here!" Tammy cheered, stopping the song when they reached a small ground floor house.
"Is this your house?' Haruhi asked
The Avilia sisters nodded. "Come on, come inside!' they urged, grabbing her hands to drag her in.
"I really can't guys." She apologized. "I have to get going."
"Aww, but you're staying over here tonight." They whined.
Haruhi froze. "What?"
"Yeah, we asked your dad! He said you could sleep over at our house tonight!" they grinned.
Haruhi felt her shoulders slouch. "S…Sleep over? Wait a minute, when did you ask my dad if I could stay over?!"
"When you went to the bathroom at McDonalds." Sarah answered. "They used a phone near by."
"How did you know my house number!?"
"It's on your ID card." Alice shrugged.
"Why…" her voice was livid. "Were you going through my stuff?"
"We were bored." Ryu concluded.
"Jerks." Haruhi hissed darkly.
Ryu chuckled. "Well, I'm headin off. Have fun Alice." With that Ryu turned to walk out of the yard.
"Wait, you're sleeping over too?" Haruhi looked at her. Alice nodded, grinning widely.
"It's a 5 girl sleep over!"
"Yay!" The Avilia sisters cheered.
Haruhi let out an exhausted sigh. There was no arguing with these three though, was there?
Sarah patted her on the back, trying to give her some comfort.
Nodding in thanks to her, Haruhi let herself be dragged towards the house.
"Papa!" bursting through the door, Alix screamed into the building.
"My precious daughters!" The male's voice echoed back. Within seconds a large man, currently in a police officer's uniform, came stomping towards them. He had dark brown hair that had begun to thin over his skull, and calm light brown eyes. A short, very thin brown beard covered his chin, hiding some of the wrinkles he received by stress.
Scooping Alix and Tammy into his arms, he hugged them tight. "I missed you my beloved children!"
"Papa!" the two cheered, hugging him back with all their might.
"Hey Uncle Richard." Sarah waved.
"Well hello there Sarah, my precious Niece." Richard cooed, trying to hug her. Sarah simply held up a hand, saying. "No."
"Aww." Richard whined, putting his arms down.
"We brought some friends!" Alix and Tammy said as he released them.
"Oh really? Are these the friends you've told me so much about?"
"Yup!' Stepping aside, they motioned towards Haruhi and Alice.
Richard smiled at Haruhi, but froze as his eyes moved to Alice. "You." He hissed darkly.
"Eh?" Alice blinked.
"It's the delinquent!" Richard yelled, pointing accusingly to Alice, who jumped in surprise.
"W-What?" she stammered.
"How dare you come into my house!" Richard began to take come handcuffs out of his back pocket.
"Eh? W-Wait a minute, what?!" Alice screamed, panicked as she backed up a bit.
"W-Wait Papa, Alice isn't a delinquent!" Tammy argued, stepping between them.
"Hmm?" Richard looked at her, confused.
"She is right Uncle Richard. You must be confused." Sarah stepped forward.
Haruhi flinched. Her theory from before was coming right back to hit her in the face.
"Really?" Richard paused, rubbing his beard as he looked at Alice a second time.
"Yes I swear!" Alice sobbed. "Please don't arrest me sir!" Alice fell to her knees, holding her hands up pleadingly.
Richard paused, staring at Alice more closely. Now that he looked, this kid couldn't have been that delinquent child who mocked his precious children.
Though this one did have black hair and white bangs like that delinquent, the hair size was different. This one had smoother skin and different colored eyes too.
"Oh…oh!" Richard gasped. "I am so sorry Ms! I mistook you for someone else. Helping her up, Richard handed her a cookie of apology. "You just looked so much like him." He laughed nervously.
Alice stared at the cookie, her frown deepening. A cop who gave….cookies? Oh no, it couldn't be…
"Like who papa?" Alix asked, tilting her head, helping Alice to her feet.
"Oh, this delinquent boy. Something Kuruugi I think." He sighed.
Haruhi flinched. She was right after all! This was the same cop that arrested Ryu!
Alice slowly went pale as if realizing the same thing. "I…I'm Alice… Kuruugi." She mumbled slowly. Richard looked at her, looking confused. "Was this boy you arrested named Ryu by chance?"
"…Yes." He answered, folding his arms to stare at her questionable.
"Hehe… he's my brother." Alice admitted with a sigh.
"Oh! That would explain the identity mishap." Richard nodded. "Sorry, Alice was it? I didn't mean to mistake you for your brother."
"No, no it is okay, really. I actually get mistook for him a lot since we look so much alike." Alice grumbled.
Richard began to laugh nervously, handing a plate of cookies towards her. "Here, take as many as you like."
Taking his offer she grabbed a few. "Thank you sir." She smiled.
Richard nodded. "So um… my accusation aside, who are you both again?"
"I'm Alice Kuruugi." Alice nodded, stuffing the cookie in her mouth.
"I'm Haruhi Fujioka." Haruhi smiled. She blinked as Richard stuffed some cookies in front of her face. Taking one, her eyes beamed. These were the same cookies Tammy had given her before!
Instantly biting down on it, she inwardly squealed at the chocolate chip goodness!
"Well I welcome you all to my house. Please don't hesitate to say if you need anything." Richard placed his hat on his head, tipping it to the girls. "I'm afraid I have to head off though."
"Aww, work?" Tammy said, tilting her head.
"Yeah. Just got called in." Richard ruffled her hair, giving Alix and Tammy a kiss on the head. "I'll be back in a few hours. You two be good for Sarah now." Richard began to walk out the door, when he paused to look at Sarah.
Seeing the dark circles under her eyes, he frowned. "Have you… been getting enough sleep Sarah?" he asked slowly.
Sarah nodded meekly. "Be safe at work Uncle Richard."
He nodded, rushing out the door towards his car.
"You're dad sure is a busy man." Alice mumbled, staring out the window at him.
"Yeah. He is usually gone." Alix nodded.
Haruhi nodded, knowing how that felt.
"Well, lets have some fun!" The group cheered, pulling Haruhi towards their rooms.
Well everyone. Here is the next chapter. I hope you all enjoyed it! :D Ps, I have a question for you all.
How do you all feel about the couple: SarahxRyu?
What have we learned this chapter? :D
1)Everyone some how knows where Haruhi lives.
2)Tammy and Alix don't have good fashion sense
3)Adventures are meant to be fun for everyone.
4)Sarah's works a lot/has many jobs.
5)Ryu is a delinquent and was punched in a face, and arrested, by the chief of a police station, who has daughters and likes to give out cookies. (He didn't want to be a wuss so he didn't tell anyone about this…besides Alice)
6)They like to scare people in their free time
7)Sarah can easily threaten people 0.0
8)Ryu has a Tsundere personality
9)Possible romance between Sarah and Ryu?! 0.0
10)Sarah would be a perfect host!
11)Ryu is cute when he blushes :3
12)Witch Doctor is a good song
13)Haruhi has begun to be influenced by the group!
14)Everyone likes to go through Haruhi's stuff when they are bored.
15)Alix and Tammy love their papa very much
16)Richard, Tammy and Alix's dad, is a cop who gives out cookies -_-
17)Alice looks too much like her brother
18)Richard is (often) concerned for Sarah
19)Richard is gone a lot/works constantly
Well here is everything so far! :D