Chapter 14: The Prank

In which a host gets very itchy.

"Hey Kaoru, I need your help."

It was the words Kaoru had been waiting for, for a week now. He looked over at his twin with a grin. "Time to prank a certain person finally?"

Hikaru grinned back. "Of course. You ready? I need you to pour the powder into her cosplay outfit. It will be the one on the far end. I'll do the rest when she comes out, itching and scratching."

Kaoru nodded. This would be fun.

Abby walked into the dressing room, fighting a massive headache. Her teacher really didn't get it…there was no way she could ever let Hikaru tutor her in math. It was impossible; as in never ever happening. First of all, an idiot like him should not be smart enough to tutor anyone. Second of all, even if he was able to tutor her in math, he wouldn't. It was plain as day that he didn't like her anymore than she liked him. As far as she was concerned, if he never spoke to her again, she would be fine. Why couldn't Haruhi tutor her? Oh right, she was a scholarship student as well. She couldn't afford to let her marks drop anymore than Abby could.

She grabbed her hanger and stepped into the nearest dressing room. There was just a simple cosplay today apparently. All the hosts were wearing Western style clothing today. Kyouya explained to her earlier that day that it was to showcase her as the 'New-comer Host'.

Though she would never admit it, she actually was having fun as a host. It was kind of entertaining to talk to the girls as a guy. There was no competition, no drama, no gossiping. Instead she could just talk to them, and flirt a little of course as was expected. She was more comfortable this way. Well…besides the googly lovey eyes they made. That was slightly disturbing. But besides that, they were all nice girls. Superficial, slightly shallow, and a tad obsessive, but nice.

She slipped into the simple red t shirt and baggy jeans. Kyouya had really gone for authentic. It was all American Eagle. He even gave her a pair of blue and red boxers to wear. She had to admit, it was all very comfy. She looked at herself in the mirror. She looked more like a guy than ever with the baggy clothes and messy hair. She actually smiled. It was kind of funny what some wrap, shirt hair, and clothes could do.

She heard some of the others changing as well. A giggling and jubilant humming told her that Hunny and Tamaki were both changing. A slight cursing to her left told her Haruhi was as well. She wondered if the poor girl was stuck in cross dress again, which wouldn't actually be cross dress, but still.

All commotion broke out in seconds as she heard a loud yelping sound. She, along with Hunny, and Haruhi all slipped from their change rooms and turned to face the still occupied one, where there was a loud rustling sound. Not a second too soon they all leapt out of the way as Tamaki came tumbling from his change room, half dressed, skin broken into an angry red rash. He was scratching his body with a zealousness that made Abby cringe. His face was bright red as he danced around.

"S-so it-ch-chy!"

She almost giggled. He looked positively…comical. Kyouya, Mori and dawn all walked into the room, already changed. They all stared at the red and scratching blonde. Turning even brighter red after seeing everyone staring, he bolted from the room.

Kaoru paled, watching from behind the change rooms. Crap. He had put the itching powder in the wrong costume. Instead of Abby's outfit, he had poured it into Tamaki's…but admittedly, the results were quite amusing. Tono's sensitive skin had even broken out as he danced around and scratched. He probably didn't know that scratching only aggravated it and spread the powder. This would be…interesting.

Tamaki wouldn't stop scratching himself, but it was only getting worse. The more he scratched at his flaming skin, the worse it got. He figured he was probably just irritating it, but he couldn't stop. Everywhere, his skin itched and burned. The only thing he could think of was scratching as he ran around, hoping the air was cool his skin.

Abby was staring at the half dressed blond running around frantically scratching his skin. His jeans looked very similar to hers. And after a quick peek in his dressing room, she saw he was also supposed to be wearing a red shirt, not unlike the one she currently had on. Slowly, this attack made sense. While she knew the twins enjoyed pranks, she highly doubted they would do this without a reason, and it was clearly their doing. She was willing to bet this had not been aimed for the unfortunate blond, but rather herself. Admittedly, it was an amusing prank, but she didn't think for one second it was over.

Hikaru heard someone coming out of the change room. They clearly were ion distress. perfect, he thought to himself. Now its time to get her back. as the figure went out of the change room, he pulled on a cord, and immediately a vat of cold, sticky gel was poured onto…Tono?

"What the-"

"Hikaru wait its not…oh…" Kaoru came running out just seconds to late as Tamaki was stopped dead in his tracks. The blondes itching went away instantly, and the look of relief was replaced by disgust as he assessed his now slimy covered torso. Before he could utter a sound, a large click was heard and a large fan blew an entire bag of feathers right onto Tamaki. The twins winced and shut their eyes monetarily as the wave of feathers rushed over the area. When it was done,. Tamaki stood, shell-shocked. He entire body was covered by a layer of feathers, even in his hair. The only left uncovered were his fingers and eyes. He was even sputtering feathers. The other occupants of the change room, the hosts already changed and the twins all stares silently at him, before all of them, excluding Kyouya, mori , Dawn and Haruhi who merely smiled and chuckles softly, burst out laughing. The twins were clutching each other for support. Abby herself was leaning against the doorway, killing herself laughing, Hunny giggled contagiously, and eventually had Haruhi and dawn giggling with him.

Tamaki huffed and whirled on the twins who had tears in their eyes. "You evil doppelgangers what have you done? You've ruined by beautiful body!" the blond went off complaining and whining and reprimanding the twins who weren't listening to him. Instead they slowly calmed themselves down and faced the irritated king.

"Oi Tono, if we were you, we'd smile." before he could ask why, Tamaki was temporarily blinded as the flash of camera went off. The twins smirked and tossed their camera to Kyouya who caught it with ease. "This should make a fun addition to the host club website don't you think Kyouya-sempai? His fans will like seeing him in this chicken cosplay."

Kyouya eyes took a wicked glint to him as he nodded. "I believe you two are correct."

Tamaki went absolutely pale and huddled into his corner, mumbling darkly of a betrayal. The rest of the hosts ignored him. As everyone went to finish getting themselves ready, Abby made her way to Hikaru and Kaoru. They both watched her approach.

"So, interesting prank. But it was really quite amateur. Tamaki should have seen the powder residue before he put the shirt on. And if you had wanted to be thorough, you should've put it into the top and the pants. And of course, the whole feathers thing is way over done. But a good attempt all the same." with that, she flashed them a smile and walked past.

Kaoru had no idea what to say. dam…she's good. he glanced at Hikaru who stood rooted to spot, clenching his fists. Kaoru could tell that his twin was upset. They hadn't expected the prank to go wrong in the first place, but then for her to so blatantly tell them that they were amateur pranksters? That was bold. It was actually kind of funny. She reminded him of his brother a lot of the time. Maybe that was why he could understand her. He guessed that she didn't necessarily dislike Hikaru. But rather, she just clashed against him because Hikaru clashed against her. And Hikaru clashed against her because he was scared. He knew his brother wouldn't admit it, but the fact that this girl had told them apart scared him. He just used his anger at her word choice to cover it up, but Kaoru saw right through it. The only other person who had told them apart was Haruhi. And now dawn as well. That reminded him…she had won the game.

He owed her whatever she wanted now. When he had made that bet. He didn't think she would win, even if he could admit to himself that he hoped she would. As he stood next to his twin, his gaze swept the room, until he found her. She was sitting on Kyouya-sempai's couch, writing something down in a simple notebook. Her eyebrows were furrowed in concentration.

"Hey Kao?" Hikaru's voice interrupted him. He turned and looked at his twin who wore a blue t-shirt that was the same design as his orange one, with low riding jeans that barely held to their narrow hips. Hikaru was frowning softly.

"yeah?"

"You okay? You seem spaced out."

Kaoru was actually somewhat surprised Hikaru had noticed. He loved his brother, but he was rather oblivious. He gave him a reassuring smile.

"I'm fine. Lets get ready, we can plot a better prank later."

"Yeah." they both smirked mischievously. They wouldn't let her get the better of them next time.

As the club hours began, Dawn worked on the budget Kyouya had given her. It wasn't that difficult but it was slightly challenging to try and cover up all the expenses that Tamaki had cost them. He was frivolous in his spending expenses that was for sure. Somehow he had gone three hundred dollars over his budget on commoner snacks…that made no sense. They cost a dollar or two a piece. How many had he bought? Thinking, she determined Haruhi was the only one allowed to purchase the snacks from now on. The twins would buy trick gum and stuff, Kyouya wouldn't do it, Tamaki over spent. Hunny would eat it all and Mori only went with Hunny. She made a small note of it and moved on, doing most of the calculations without thinking.

She really didn't enjoy this mindless task. It was so trivial. She could understand why Kyouya had foisted it upon her, but she didn't like it. Even a kid could do this math. Well…maybe not quite. She glanced over at her sister who sat surrounded by girls. It was strange how so many had flocked to her. She had almost as big a crowd around her as the twins. Tamaki easily had the most girls though, not that that was entirely surprising. He was 'The King'.

She found her gaze slip back to the twins. Since they were wearing different shirts today with their rose colors on them, she knew which one was Kaoru. She still had to tell him what she wanted him to do. Honestly, she didn't really know what she wanted. If anything actually. She hadn't really intended to make him do anything, but now…maybe she would. Who knew? She also remembered that she was supposed to be tutoring him in math. That would be interesting in itself. She had no patience to teach. So teaching him…she couldn't imagine either would enjoy it. But at least she wasn't in Hikaru's place. Her parents had tried to make her help her sister more than once before, and each attempt had failed worse than the one before. She really sucked at math.

From what Dawn could tell, Hikaru was rather good at math., he would have to be to be able to teach Abby. But she highly doubted he had the patience. Either way, the to should have fun.

As she turned back to the numbers on the paper before her, she found a pink bunny obstructing her view. Looking up, she saw Hunny standing in front of her with a smile on his childish face.

"Dawn-chan, why don't you come and eat cake with Takashi and I?" his eyes looked at her pleadingly.

"I'm sorry Mitsukuni, but I'm busy." she answered. Instantly, his face fell.

"Dawn-chan, I told you to call me Hunny. And pleaaaase? It would make Usa-chan happy." he held the bunny up so it was right in her face. She stared at the faded pink material before sighing softly.

"Alright I gue-" before should could finish her sentence, her hand was grabbed in a rather string grip ad she was dragged off her couch and over to the couch and table Hunny and Mori used for their hosting. As Hunny plopped onto his seat. He took her with him so that she was plopped right next to the small 18 year old. She rolled her eyes gently but sat. he handed her a piece of choclate cake and began eating his, chatting away to his other guests. One girl was no longer watching the little Lolita and instead was looking at her.

"Umm, your Dawn right?"

Dawn nodded. She didn't really recognize this girl, but she clearly knew her. "I am."

"Oh. Umm…do you maybe want to be friends with me?" the girl was blushing softly. Dawn blinked and looked at her. She was small, probably just barely five feet. She had soft blonde curls running down her back. She gave off the same kidn of innocence that hunny did, but in an older way, this girl looed to be 16. " Oh my names Natasha by the way," she finshed, casting her large brown eyes down. "I'm Hunny's cousin."

This didn't really surprise her. She looked a little bit like the Lolita. And dawn could detect a soft accent in her Japanese. She must have been a mixed blood. Hunny confirmed her suspicions.

"Tasha-chan is from Italy. She just transferred not long ago. She's in your class to Dawn-chan." Hunny looked up at her with his large caramel colored eyes. "Maybe you can be friends, ne?"

A/N:

And there you go! I am very very sorry to have left this for so long. But be proud! Its over two thousand words without the authors notes and suchness! I apologize profusely once again. But on the happier note, a quick tidbit as to why I haven't been able to update. I have a job which consumes many hours of my time in exchange for money, I am graduating in a few weeks time form high school forever, I fell in love with my bestest friend, whom some of you may know by the name of Littlestrawberryblondespazz, but I know as my Kelsey, and saddly her mom disapproves. But its alright because I will wait forever for her. That mushiness out of the way, I am also writing a new story for us, an Ouran one just to make it fun and interesting. I may post it, but it will contain multiple pairings, lemons, possible yaoi, most likely Yuri and who knows. So yeah. But that's the gist of it all . Now, the long awaited review replies! (sorry I'm only doing the previous chapter replies, not all the ones that I have missed. I hope you understand)

Kelsey: thank you so much for more reasons than one. You make me smile :D and I want the whole world to know it. You get a million cyber gifts!

Lightwolfheart: lol you made me laugh when I read this. Your welcome, glad you liked it and thanks

Abbyinunderland: yeah…sorry this is so overdue. I'm glad you liked it! Hope you liked this…of you even read it ^-^'

MoonDragonLove:…..seriously? Oh goodness….who loves trig anyways lol? Thanks so much! Hope you keep loving it.

Hushed Silence: thanks for your advice. I would have, but I was kind of rushing to just get it done. Love you!

TheDevils'DoubleTroubleAngels: thank you :D I'm glad you laughed. I like to try and make people laugh.

Bekajoysays: lol sorry it was a little boring and sorry that the tutoring hasn't started yet, but it will in the next chapter I promise!

Kura: ahh, well I hope it was fun doing your homework…yeah….thanks!

Dream Theme: a half identity is evil. Evil. And lol it does doesn't it.

DemonOfTheRain666 : I'm glad you liked it. Honestly, I enjoy Abby more, but I find it easier lately to write as dawn which is odd. I love writing as Kaoru though lol. He's fun. And here's the update finally!

Supergirl501: well I'm glad you approve ;) and thanks! And its fine. School is evil, I agree.

DeidaraRocks: lol them hating each other was how my whole story idea happened. I just thought, what if the hosts met a set of twins who hated another? And this is what happened. Honestly though, I had originally planned a Kyouya fic with another oc, but I pushed it back to be the finale of a trilogy called mirrors.

Violet579: I really have to thank you. It was your review that pushed me to update I had almost forgotten my story before that. So you get one of the 98 cyber surprise boxes I have left! Enjoy! And I am in no way liable for what come out of it. At all. Lol have fun. ;)

And there we go. Thank you everyone who has followed me so far. If a bunch of you don't read this story anymore, I understand. I have been a bad updater. But for those of you who still do, enjoy! I will have the next chapter out…I have no idea when. Probably this upcoming weekend so in a week I guess? I will try my hardest. Love you all and cyber milk and cookies to everyone! Oh and go check out my poll on my profile. Thanks a bunch. Au revoir!