I have a bad feeling that Tamaki is OOC in this chapter. But it just felt like he would get sidetracked in his head a lot, thinking many paragraphs at a time.
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It was the day after Wanaka had asked Tamaki to sneak her friend, who was obviously Izumi, who had no idea what was going on, into the Dark Magic Club. Wanaka had told Izumi that she found a way for her to do magic without anyone knowing (aside from her, Wanaka, and Tamaki) and to meet her in a hallway near the Third Music Room in a few days. Izumi had almost burst upon hearing that.
…Though Tamaki was a different story. He had it all set up by the time set by Wanaka, but once in a while he would start about how Nekozawa was evil and would curse them, Wanaka quickly putting a stop to it by telling 'Tama-kun~' (Much emphasis on 'kun') about how much it meant to her friend, who still really only knew she would get to do magic, not knowing the rest.
Finally, when Wanaka saw Izumi walk into the hallway, the arrangement would be revealed to Izumi.
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"Suzu-chan," Izumi glittered, she was in such a joyous mood that nothing could bring her down. Or so she felt. "I'm here! So where am I going that I get to do my (whispered) witchcraft at?"
Wanaka smiled politely, explaining to situation. "I have a-" Wanaka almost paused wondering what Tamaki was to her, a friend? Was he a brother figure? Someone who sat with her at lunch? "-acquaintance who has influence on a club that has an entrance to the Ouran Academy High School Dark Magic Club. I have-" Tricked? Manipulated? "-persuaded them to make it appear to your parents that you are at a more excepted club, while really being at a club that would happily allow you to practice your magic as I have set it up. All you will need to do is follow my acquaintance until he leaves you off, then tell Nekozawa-senpai, the head of the Dark Magic Club, as you know, that Suzume sent you." Wanaka explained to Izumi, who almost squealed out in excitement.
"And here I thought you had an empty room for me!" Izumi squeaked out happily, twirling around as quietly as she could in her daze of amazement. "But being able to be with the Dark Magic Club? Okay, sure dark magic isn't my first choice of magic, it is close enough that it should do perfectly~!"
Wanaka's polite painted on smile almost cracked into a slightly bigger one that at Izumi before she realized that, if they wanted Izumi to actually have more than a few minutes at the club, they would have to hurry, as the Host Club had already opened some time ago (though Wanaka would have to admit she only noticed because of several loud squeals of 'MO-E~!').
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Tamaki's P.O.V.
"Tamaki-san, if I were to disappear what would you do?"
"I would search until death took me, Princess."
"Kya!" "Tamaki-san!" "Chiko-chan is so lucky!" The sound of my princesses basking in my princely charm filled the air after I gently held the chin of the lovely red-headed princess in front of me. I was entertaining my princesses as I waited for Suzu-hime to get here with her friend.
As the princesses went on to ask me about a possible cosplay, including something that Renge-san had suggested (An anime she liked, something called Hatila, or Hetaly, I think, I lost her when she started talking. Renge-san has a real problem with going on about things, especially when overdramatizing them), I saw Suzu-hime and a princess I had seen request Hani-senpai a few times enter the clubroom briefly before I had to turn back my attention to my exquisite princesses, or else I my lose my place in the conversation.
"So, Tamaki-san, what do you do on the days you eat lunch away from the club?" One of my princesses asks me, they had just been conversing on how atrocious my sons were the other day while I was gone. I mean, really, how could they get commoners Jell-O stuck on the ceiling!?
"Well, princesses," I begin, flashing them another princely smile of mine, "some days I just feel I must separate myself from your wonderful company, lest I do something less than princely~." I act almost oblivious to the way they blush, keeping my smile even and shy.
Kyouya once told me that if, every once in a while, I pull out my 'dark side', the awkward prince with a hint of lonely prince, who spends his time acting princely, when really being a prince who feels overlooked, simply being known for his princely looks and thinking everyone only sees him for the prince character he is, when really he is just a shy lonely prince who is hoping to let everyone see him for his real self, someone who really is a prince of loneliness and sorrow, that I would attract more customers. Haruhi almost has more requests than me!
"Tamaki." Mother appears next to me, Suzu-hime must have gotten our appointment settled with Kyouya. "You have some princesses to entertain. Please except my sincere apologizes, maybe I could make it up to you with some 'Host Club Moe-Moe All Season Notebook Covers'? Currently for you ladies they are five percent off." Kyouya adds cheerfully to our wonderful guests as I stand giving them a small bow, as they crowd around Kyouya, buying our absolutely wonderfully greatly amazingly awesomely completely totally perfectly named notebook covers that had my club's faces covering it- everyone designed for a different season, the evil twins as summer, Kyouya and Mori-senpai as winter, my wonderful daughter and Hani-senpai as fall, and myself as spring.
I walk quickly to my normal table for when people pay money for my attention and see Suzu-hime and her friend, Kita-hime, sitting there, Suzu-hime smiling that smile she wore when I first joined her at lunch and Kita-hime glowing with happiness, a lot for someone about to be with Nekozawa-senpai. How can they not see the growing danger that is almost guaranteed? He works in dark magic for Haruhi's sake (Not that my daughter has any sake, she's much too pure for that just yet!), HOW DOES THAT NOT TIP THEM OFF!? Never mind, my kind Suzu-hime is simply doing her best to bring happiness to those closest to her- her best friends, and she trusts me enough to ask for my help, so I must help her out or it would feel like kicking Kuma-chan!
I sit in the chair across from Suzu-hime and Princess Kita, smiling, "Ah, Suzu-h- hnm, Suzume-hime, Kita-hime, how lovely it is to make your acquaintance." Suzu-hime had told me to act as I would with any other of my princesses, and had planned out a basic script, which I edited lightly to fit my Princely persona, for me to use to get her to ask me to show them around to the other hosts, sneaking Kita-hime to the creepy dark door that leads to Nekozawa-senpai's club, then telling Kyouya, should he ask (which he will), that Kita-hime left early to enjoy some tranquility before arriving home. It let both Kita do whatever it was that she wanted at the Dark Magic Club, and with the way Kyouya writes the appointments, when it started, who it was with, and when it ended, it would not mention that one of the Princesses left early, as there would be no time to go along with it! It was absolutely flawless planning!
"So, Tamaki-san, are you very close you everyone in your club?" Suzu-hime asked, motioning for Kita-hime to be quiet, as she started the script.
"Of course, I have known Kyouya for the longest; he helped me found the club, princess." Yes, it feels like yesterday that I was at Kyouya's house, sitting there after telling Kyouya my wonderful idea, his foot striking my head down…
"And you know all about them, you could tell us about them?" Of course, I know my family as well as I can speak French!
"I could tell you as much about them as I could about your beauty, princess." Suzu-hime had that in the script, not me! I would normally never say something to someone so much like a sister. Though from the blush that was thankfully fake on her face (she had shown me that she could will a blush onto her face), you could never tell.
"Oh, Tamaki-san~! Tee-hee, well would you mind possibly being able to introduce us to some of them? See, I'm really shy, but I really wanted to meet Fujioka-san, everyone says such nice things about him, he sounds like a wonderful gentleman, tee-hee~!" SUZU-HIME LOOKS SO CUTE~! THAT BLUSH, THAT SHY TILT OF THE HEAD, SUZU-HIME LOOKS LIKE AN INNOCENT SCHOOLGIRL WITH HER FIRST CRUSH~!
"As Host Club King I shall make it my job to introduce you to Haruhi-kun!" I declared, standing, pulling Suzu-hime and Kita-hime along, only stopping for less than five seconds for Suzu-hime to motion to Kita-hime to go towards the door less than a foot away, heading towards my daughter, who was currently between guests. SHE LOOKS SO CUTE WHEN SHE'S READING!
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Wanaka P.O.V.
I was being pulled along by Tamaki-san, after I pushed Izumi-san towards the strangely shadowy door to the side, heading towards Ouran High School's only non-rich and or famous (outside of the academy, anyways) student, Fujioka Haruhi, the Natural Type Host, a boy who was somehow pulled from his studies (which he had been absorbed in at the start of the year) in to Ouran's High School Host Club.
"Haruhi~! Suzu-hime wanted me to introduce the two of you; she was a bit too shy to come up to you by herself." Tamaki-san and I had been less than a foot away when he burst out to Fujioka-san. He quits pulling me to scoot out a chair for me at the table Fujioka-san is reading at.
Setting his book aside, Fujioka-san lifts out a hand for me to shake. "Nice you meet you Suzu-san." Oh no, now Tamaki-san has got him thinking that that is my name. Never mind, neither of them meant any harm.
"It's nice to meet you as well, Fujioka-san." I say, pulling my hand back for our handshake, smiling, Fujioka-san having a similar one. "I've heard many great things about you from Ta- Hm, from my friends. They say you are the nicest and most interesting with your commoner ways."
After I finish speaking Fujioka-san makes a small face, did I upset him? Did I say something insulting to commoners? Do they not like being called interesting? Is it wrong to commoners that you say nice things about people when they are not around? Oh, how could I do that?!
Panic fills my head for several moments, though it doesn't show, before his smile returns.
"Well, I'm glad people like me. Everyone here is kind as could be, and they seem to be taken with everything commoner, tell me, are we truly that interesting?" Fujioka-san asks, his smile becoming even more charming than it had been, him tilting his head a slight bit.
'FUJIOKA-SAN LOOKS SO CUTE, ALMOST LIKE A GIRL, SORT OF LIKE HOW PEOPLE ALWAYS DESCRIBE HANINOZUKA-SENPAI~! KYA~!'
Those are my thoughts at how Fujioka-san looks, though I did not let out a single sound or response other than a small blush and nod (tilting my head to hide the small blush).
…I will never admit to letting out that squeak of 'Uke doe eyes'. Even though Tamaki-san and Fujioka-san had looked at me like they had no idea what I said. No, I did not say a thing.
"Erm, I mean, you seem to know right, everyone here, myself included, simply finds the life of a commoner amazing." I pause before continuing. I have no reason to attempt to intentionally not insult Fujioka-san (as in being extremely cautious), though I would not intentionally insult anyone, so why not just relax and let my guard down for a while? This club is meant to entertain you, and what is more entertaining than causing Tamaki-san to squirm by acting extremely cute when he cannot comment on it?
Even I need a break sometimes.
"So," I begin, facing Fujioka-san once more, "do you enjoy your time in the Host Club Fujioka-san? My friends are always teasing me about not ever coming. I normally am too shy to go somewhere so- bold." I giggle, fluttering my eyes a slight bit, putting my small amount of acting skills to the test.
In the corner of my eye I see Tamaki-san squirm a slight bit. Not enough Moe, I guess.
Fujioka-san replies to my question without missing a beat. "I enjoy most of my time as a host, but, yes, coming to a host club is indeed a bit bold. If I may inquire, if you wanted to meet me, why did you request Tamaki-senpai?" Why does he get to add senpai? Not fair, last time I tried to call him Tamaki-senpai he started towards his Bench of Despair before I called him back, calling him Tamaki-san!
I do my best to arrange the annoyed flush on my face into an embossed blush. "Well, I wanted to come with someone else, but only Izumi-san was able to make it, but she was planning to request Tamaki-san, though she has left early due to something that she rather not be disclosed." I had had this story made up in my mind in case someone inquired about Izumi-san.
"By the way, Fujioka-san," I begin, hoping to make Fujioka-san forget what I said about Izumi-san, so he did not bring it up to anyone, "I have heard several rumors about your cross-dressing as a girl. Would you mind explaining why everyone adores it? I mean, I like a cute girly-guy as much as the next girl, but the extent they take it, the said something about how your 'almost girl-like features and handsome smile cause the biggest Moe ever'. Someone said that they had a nosebleed from picturing you in a girl's bikini, but when I asked what that meant everyone clamped up. Did I say something offensive, was asking that supposed to be rude? No one would tell me what I did…"
The small tears lightly gathering in my eyes were real, as most of what I said was true; Izumi-san and Airi-san had been talking about it when Naoko said she had a nosebleed. I had not known what they meant, still don't, but they refused to tell me. When I got home I almost broke down, thinking I had upset them somehow. Thankfully the next day after I did not bring it up they seemed to forgive me for whatever I did.
I was so absorbed in my thoughts I almost did not see the large flinching Fujioka-san did, or the extremely flustered face on Tamaki-san, bright red, him almost choking on the tea that had been set out on the table.
"W-well, Suzu-san, you m-may call me Haruhi if you w-want. Erm," I was confused by the look on his face, he looked annoyed and like he was trying to pick between ignoring a hurt puppy and being the person who hurt said puppy. Why is he acting like this?
I turn to Tamaki-san, with a hopefully confused face. Why was he facing away, and his face was so red, did he have a fever, was it anger? Embarrassment? Shame? But from what?
"Tamaki-san? Haruhi-san? What's wrong?" The small tears in my eyes suddenly grow a bit, I bite my lip, holding them back. "Did I say something wrong? Did I offend you? I'm really sorry if I d-did!" I quickly apologize, hoping to fix whatever I did. Tamaki-san quickly turns back towards me and hugs me tightly, cooing about how he didn't mean to make his lovely 'Suzu-hime' think he was angry.
I turn my eyes towards Haruhi-san, hoping that he will be willing to explain what the deal is with nose bleeds. All I get is a small sigh and a sorrowful smile, I think it means he would tell me, but he doesn't think he should for some reason.
I let a small sigh of relief, my face relaxing, my tears quickly being erased from existence.
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Haruhi P.O.V.
"-Did I offend you? I'm really sorry if I d-did!" I almost feel like telling her what it means at the look on her face. I'm almost happy when Tamaki-senpai traps her in a hug. I sigh when Suzu-san looks at me, still with a bit of confusion; I give her a smile, hoping she decides to leave it at that.
I feel that she does from the look on her face.
"Hey, Tamaki-san, does getting a nose bleed has anything to do with dental issues? I overheard someone say they had one when Morinozuka-senpai pinned Haninozuka-senpai down when he had a cavity. Or is it something to do with wrestling? Tamaki-san? Why is your face red? I think you are getting a fever, you were red before as well."
…I briefly wonder if she's acting as I stare, deadpan as Hikaru and Kaoru would say, at her face that hold confusion (about her question), worry (about Tamaki-senpai's 'fever'), and, almost hidden by everything else, a touch of panic. For what, I wonder as Tamaki-senpai tries to (Failingly) explain it is for her own good that she doesn't know.
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I was going to post this earlier today, but I kept feeling like I should not cut it off right when Wanaka asks about nose bleeds. Poor Haruhi and Wanaka, Haruhi has to deal with a girl who has no idea of nose bleeds (though she knows about Ukes) and Wanaka is overloaded with panic that she messed up. I'm killing these girls. Well, at least Izumi's having a good time...