CHAPTER SEVEN
So after Tamaki was yelled at by 'his darling daughter', he retreated gloomily to the rooftop, where Kiyoko still didn't go to.
Somehow, being the stupid Host Club they were, they thought of a stupid idea. Well, it was mostly the twins and Tamaki who supported this idea, but Kyoya was the one who thought of it, surprisingly.
"Let's go to my family's private beach." He said, as usual doing the glasses-pushing thing. The blue-black haired girl sighed wearily, sinking down onto the floor. Knowing them, there was no use arguing, or trying to resist. They would use some blackmailing, or force, or some stupid scheme to get her to go.
"Yeah...fine...whatever..." She nodded, too tired to do anything else.
Haruhi raised her eyebrows. "Well, if Kiyoko goes, then I guess..."
"Yay! That was easy!" Honey grinned, dancing around in a circle happily, squeezing Usa-chan.
"Yeah, never would've thought..." Hikaru smirked. "That our wittle Tsun here would agree~" Kaoru added.
Kiyoko got up and gave them both a light punch on the shoulder. "God, I hate it when you join sentences like that. Irks me so much. And I'm not a tsundere."
"Tsun~" They both grinned teasingly as she turned her back to them.
The poor girls were thrown into this random building on arrival, and were told to pick out their swimsuit. Haruhi decided on this pink, ruffly one-piece, with a matching flowery cap. Kiyoko... well, as you might expect, she was ranting on and on about the 'beach' was artificial and fake, and about the fact that she would definitely not wear a bikini.
"Whyyyyyy? Aren't there a pair of normal bathers around here? Why are they all either flowery or wayyy too revealing? GROSS!" She wailed, really annoyed at the Host Club.
In the end, she managed to somehow discover a really plain and boring black one-piece at the back of the room somewhere, making the twin maids who were supposed to help her choose, sigh and shake their heads.
"Kosume-sama... You should really-" One of them began.
"Nup. No. Dun wanna hear it. Not wearing a bikini either way." She quickly retreated to the changing rooms.
After they finished getting ready and all that, they both walked out, Kiyoko with a gloomy face and Haruhi just looking blank as usual. Haruhi was quickly stopped by Tamaki and had a hoodie thrown over her, but luckily the other girl was already wearing a coverup...which just happened to be a black leather jacket with the collar turned up, and a pair of shorts.
"Huh?" She said when the Host Club asked her about it. "Oh, I just randomly found it somewhere."
Hikaru sniggered. "It makes you look like one of those tomboys... Oh wait, I forgot. You are one!" The twins laughed.
Said girl blinked, unimpressed. "Ha. Ha. Very funny." She said sarcastically.
"It was supposed to be." Kaoru grinned, not failing to make her even more annoyed, if that was even possible.
Seeing her face become darker with every second, Mori actually spoke up for once. "Let's go swimming." He murmured in his low voice. "Mitsukuni?"
"Yup! Let's go, Takashi! I wanna go to the current pool!" The childish blonde immediately danced away happily, grabbing Mori and dragging him away. The giant's face had gone back to its usual blankness, and he showed no emotion as he followed Honey to the pool.
"Should we go as well?" Haruhi bit her lip, thinking through the options. "But... it's not a real beach though..."
Kiyoko sighed. "Since we actually bothered to get changed, we should go, or else it would be a waste."
They took off their coverups and hopped into the current pool with Mori and Honey. Haruhi started swimming against the waves and current right away, but the other girl, being the lazy llama that she was, just clung to the edge and let the waves carry the rest of her body to one side, and just floated there contently.
"Ah, although this is all artificial, I guess it's still nice to relax and chill sometimes." Kiyoko said, starting to swim against the current too. "Especially since every night's dreams get worse." She whispered that last part to herself, sighing.
Life would be so much better if sleeping wasn't needed. Or better still, that those nightmares would go away.
"Ki-chan!" Honey called, resting on a deck chair with Haruhi and Mori. "Want some cucumber juice?"
The bluenette realised that she has been swimming against the current for a long time now, and the rest have already gotten out of the pool. "Oh... yeah sure whatever, I'm coming."
She climbed out wearily, kind of 'mentally exhausted' from thinking about the past.
"Man, Kyoya." She said to the creepy megane guy who was sipping on a drink a few metres away.
He turned to her, glasses glinting. "What? And it's Kyoya-senpai."
She huffed. "Kyoya...SENPAI, why does your family own at least one of every single type of business in Japan? Dude you creep me out."
Kyoya merely pushed up his glasses and said nothing. Kiyoko rolled her eyes and went back to Honey, Mori and Haruhi. She could hear the latter grumbling about this place.
"...I mean, what's so good about this overblown facility anyway? I'd rather lounge around at home than stay here. It's all fake." She deadpanned. By now, the twins have joined them and were shaking their heads.
"Agreed." She nodded, grabbing the drink from Honey and snuggling comfortably onto a chair loaded with fluffy cushions.
Kiyoko looked up at the fake blue sky. If she looked carefully enough, she could see white lines in the 'sky'. Tch, obviously some sorta expensive thingy that made it look like they were somewhere else. There were trees and lots of weird animal sound coming from the forest, and from a pool far away, out crawled...
"Woah, is that a crocodile?" She exclaimed, sitting up so she could see the creature better.
"Hmm? Yeah." Kaoru nodded. "There are all sorts of animals here."
Hikaru had a teasing grin on his face. "Scared?"
"Nup~" She grinned just as teasingly back, a hint of sarcasm in her expression. "Bet you are though, Hikaru."
He made a face, seemingly displeased. Then a creepy evilness appeared in both the twins eyes, and the girls sighed.
"I have a feeling I know what's in store for us..." Just as Haruhi said it, Hikaru and Kaoru went into brotherly love mode. Oh gawd, this is what happens when you annoy one of them...
"Oh Hikaru! Please don't be upset! I will-"
"OH KAORU, PLEASE DON'T BE ANNOYING OR I WILL PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE!" Kiyoko glared at them. They sniggered and went off, dragging Tamaki and Haruhi with them, as a part of another scheme.
Which turned out to be shooting water at each other.
"Oi, Kiyoko!" Kaoru called, as he dodged a blast from Tamaki. "Wanna join?"
She raised her eyebrows. "Might as well, since I'm bored. I don't actually really wanna play."
"What a tsundere." He pretended to sigh, shaking his head at her.
She took the opportunity to try ad shoot him in the face. He managed to dodge it skilfully, tauntingly calling out as he ran away. Kiyoko decided to try and target someone else, anyone but the twins, because, you know, they could be kind of creepy at times. She spotted Kyoya near a huge tree, and came up from behind it.
"If you're thinking of hitting me with that water, think again." He said, not even looking up from his laptop (why the heck does he have his laptop with him still?).
Poking her tongue out at him, she gave a mini-squirt anyway and dashed away, evil laughing at the top of her lungs. To be honest, she really wasn't afraid of Kyoya... yet. Apparently he could be really scary. Apparently.
Not being able to see anyone else who was playing, she approached Tamaki, water-pistol in hand.
"NOOOOOO!" He yelled, blindly spraying water out.
And that only resulted in a very wet and annoyed Kiyoko, and of course a screaming blonde (Tamaki duh).
I'm sorry for the late update and short chapter.
Very busy, since term basically just started. Probably not many updates, because I'm trying to work on my other stuff too, so don't be expecting much!
