At school the next day, the Sisters seemed just as close together as the day before. They came in the doors donning all new dresses that they had also taken the liberty to 'edit'. The sun glinted off of a big ring on Vipera's finger, casting emerald green on the school's main hallway.

It was the color of their family; the color of great emerald snakes.

"Sister," Pitone sighed, casting a minty green glance across the students at their lockers. "I think we should talk to those boys today. You know, the brothers."

Vipera nodded, biting the inside of her cheek. "To me they seem like nothing but flirts. I don't like it… not ONE bit."

"That is true enough," Pitone agreed with a flip of her two-toned hair. "But still. Maybe they're deeper than that-"

"Maybe not." Vipera almost snapped at her sister. "You have always been bad at reading people; You are usually much more dominate in our sisterly relationship… But I don't like it when boys stare at you like they… they…" her fists clenched. "They OWN you."

Pitone blinked, a little shocked. "This isn't like you!" she whispered in an urgent voice, stepping an inch closer to her younger sister.

"Only one other person has looked at you like they OWN you before, Pitone." Vipera's teeth clenched and she spoke through her teeth with a rattled voice. "And you know she never deserved to."

Pitone stopped walking, just staring at her sister.

Just staring, with a wide eyes expression.

Did those stupid boys really scare her little sister that much?

Then they deserved none of her interest.

Vipera stopped and looked back, raising a brow. "S-Sorry for snapping. You just know how I feel about M-"

"Don't say her name." Pitone caught up, sighing. "I won't make you. We hate her."

Vipera just nodded, and her hand opened. Pitone instinctively let her fingers wing around her little sisters- she was comforting her. Like she should… as the big sister.

Yet… It wasn't always this way. They hadn't always been so dependent upon each other.

It was because of /her/.

"Thank you." Vipera sighed, resting her head on her sister's shoulder as they continued to walk. The incident had gone un-noticed by most of the other students.

"Let's go to class." Pitone assured, resting her hand on her sibling's head and speeding up slightly. "Today we have gym for the very first time; you said you couldn't wait, remember?"

This made a competitive smile tug against the corners of Vipera's heart shaped, deeply colored lips. "I forgot about that." She admitted before her smile widened. "I'm excited all over again."

"Good!" Pitone cheered, her hand still rested on her sisters soft, dark colored hair. "You're no fun when you're pissy."

Vipera swatted at Pitone playfully as they neared the end of the hall. Gym class was first, so they had to hurry to get to the other side of campus before the bell rang.

As they scurried out of the building and across the campus, the clock tower chimed once. Two more times and they would be late.

"Lets hurry." Vipera took her head off of Pitone's shoulder and they sped up. The gym was in sight now.

The bell tolled again.

"Geez! These people don't mess around with their bells." Pitone huffed, and they broke into a run.

Just as they broke through the doors into the gymnasium, the clock tower tolled the last time. The gym class looked at them and raised brows. The teachers gave un-happy glares. Not that any glares where really happy.

A teacher that looked rather manly for a woman with black hair approached them, looking over a list. "I presume you are Vipera Serpente?"

Vipera frowned and Pitone cleared her throat. "Uh… My name is Pitone Serpente?"

The teacher gave her another nasty look. "You're class has been changed. You have gym in the gymnasium across campus due to this class being too full."

Pitone's jaw just dropped. "T-The… The BOYS gym?" Vipera went rigid beside her sister.

The teacher nodded, waving her off. "Yes, now shoo. Your new uniform is waiting with the teacher there."

"Wait, but where am I supposed to change in a boys-" The teacher cut off Pitone.

"Well," she began with a irritated expression. "At the restroom down the hall that the female teachers that teach the boys class use. Now SHOO."

Vipera, looking devastated, stepped away from Pitone as she turned for the door. Pitone bit her lip so hard it began to bleed, but she was already out of the door.

Vipera turned back to her class to hear hushed whispers from the female students, like;

"Oh! She is SO lucky!"

"With all of the boys? I deserve that! Not some silly new kid!" Vipera shot that girl such a evil looking glare the girl noticeably stepped back.

"With the whole host club too!" another girl bubbled, and Vipera stopped breathing.

"W-What?"

The girl turned to her with a friendly expression. "Yeah! Your sister is so lucky! She has gym with the entire host club!"

Vipera nodded, muttered a quick "Thank you." Then turned to get changed. As she entered the bathroom and locked herself into a stall she looked at herself in the mirror.

This was the first time they had ever been separated.

Ever.

And her big sister was all alone with… the Host Club.

~Meanwhile~

Pitone walked silently across the school grounds, the sidewalk she tred on next to a vast piece of dark woods.

As she walked, she was already edgy. This was like the first time EVER her sister had been separate from her… Her little sister. What if those stupid girls where jerks to her?

She would make sure they never messed with her sister again, if that was the case.

The hair on the back of Pitone's neck stood up and she looked around, her eyes resting on the woods next to her. She felt like she was being watched.

Sighing, she kept walking, her eyes glued to the sidewalk ahead of her.

A rustle came from within the trees, and she whipped around. Her green eyes narrowed with a deathly cold hate. "Who's there? Show yourselves!"

Silence.

Paranoid, she slowly turned around and began to stumble forwards. She kept her ears strained so that she could hear anyone sneaking up behind her.

Suddenly something came hurling out of the depths of the forest, right towards Pitone.

She screamed… LOUD.

As the thing jumped at her she yelped and fell back, trembling. Her eyes set upon the thing and her eyes narrowed.

It was…

A squirrel.

Huffing, Pitone jumped to her feet and kicked dust at the small furry animal. It scurried away quickly, jumping to a tree trunk and gripping the bark with its nails before scurrying into the higher branches.

"How did I let such a stupid creature scare me?" her eyes look venomous as the small girl whipped around and started down the path to gym again.

She felt embaressed. Big time. Even if no-one had seen anything, it was embaressing that she had gotten so freaked out over a squirrel.

Stupid furry little bastard.

Pitone sighed, a frown etched into her features. "I'm so stupid sometimes-"

Suddenly a hand wrapped itself around her mouth, forcing her to breathe through her nose. She screamed, but it just came out a muffled cry for help as she began to be dragged into the woods.

"Shhh, Shhh." A gruff voice whispered directly into her ear as she vanished from sight deeper into the trees. Her hands clawed frantically at her attacker, but he would not loosen his grip. Her heels dragged at the leaves as she kicked hard, sending dust flying into the air.

She was suddenly hurled by the strong arms that held her, sending her flailing. She slammed into a tree, coughing hard before limply sliding back down. Tears of pain and raw, untamed fear filled her eyes.

The stranger loomed over her and she finally got a good look at his face. He was a strange looking man with expensive looking clothes on, along with sunglasses to hide his eyes. His hair was an odd red and tussled…

His hair reminded Pitone of blood.

He stepped closer to the small girl bleeding against a tree, but as he reached for her wrist her foot shot out and made impact directly to his chest.

Pitone filled her lungs with air, then let out one long, ear piercing scream. Before she ran out of breath his hand was over her mouth again and he picked her up by the hair, slamming her into the sharp bark again. She felt it cut and scrape the back of her neck, her head looked away from him.

"I'm going to have to teach you manners." The man grunted, before his hand was felt on her waist. Pitone cried out but it was no use, the tears now spilling over and dripping down her cheeks. This only made the man laugh.

"Oh, come on. Look at me!" he grabbed her chin way too tight, forcing her to meet his eyes. She saw her own reflection in his sunglasses. Tears spilling out of her eyes and blood soaking from her neck into the back of her shirt.

It made her feel weak and stupid.

Suddenly his lips crushed into hers and her tears came harder as she tried to squirm away. She was only hurting herself more, scraping the back of her legs in the process and hitting her head against the bark more and more. It made her dizzy.

Finally he pulled back and left her lips bruised but free to speak. She tried to pull together the breath to scream again but her ribs hurt too much.

"Say you can't escape. Say you are a weak little b-tch!" he commanded of her. She shook her head but he kneed her stomach with no mercy. "SAY IT!"

In a thick, shaky voice she cried out "I-I-I can't e-escape! I'm a weak b-tch." She was crying so hard she could barely see, her heart was throbbing in her throat and she was bleeding. It seemed like everywhere hurt from struggling to no prevail.

The man grinned. What an evil man. "Good girl."

As his hand began to creep up her shirt she lost and she knew it. In tears she did not protest in fears of being hurt again.

"Stop it, you big bully!" A small voice came from behind the man, and Pitone saw a flash of blonde hair before a foot was planted into the man's face. He went flying and Pitone sank to the ground, not looking up to see who her savior was. She simply lay limp and stared ahead of her to the woods, where the sidewalk must be beyond the trees.

Two pairs of identical feet carried what looked like big sticks and rushed past her, to where the man had disappeared to. Then a worried looking voice came from above her.

"Which one is it? Is she okay?"

Oh. Pitone knew that voice. It was that boy from lunch… he had said his name was… Haruhi, right? He was the girly boy.

"I believe she is okay, yes. This must be… Uhm…" A smoother, more intelligent sounding voice sighed above her. "I can't tell which is which, to be honest."

There was silence for a moment, before a handsome boy about Pitone's age crouched down next to her, adjusting his glasses as he asked in a soft voice to the sobbing girl on the ground, "Would you like us to find your sister?"

Rawly Pitone nodded. "P-Please… I need my sister…" her voice was thick as butter, and somehow afraid. TRULY afraid- the kind of thing that made you want that man who had hurt her to die.

The boy with glasses stood for a moment, before turning to Haruhi. "Haruhi, stay with her while I pull the twins off of that man. He looks like a bloody pulp." Kyoya turned, his glasses flashing, to try to separate the Hatachiin twins off of the man. They where beating him nearly to death with the giant sticks in their hands.

Haruhi bent down next to Pitone and frowned, obviostly worried. "Hey, which of th-"

Pitone cut her off with a cough, looking oddly unstable as tears streamed form her eyes. "Pitone. Not Vipera."

Haruhi looked like she might say something else, but was cut off as two almost identical voices came from behind Pitone. Haruhi looked up at them and stood as a pair off strong arms picked up Pitone as gently as possible from the ground.

Hikaru frowned down at the girl in his arms, still just itching to go back and clobber that scum bag some more. He could sense his twin felt the same way. "Where do we take her?" he asked, raising a brow to Kyoya.

"To the girls gym; I believe her sister is there."

The Hitachiin twins nodded and took off down the path, silent so as to not hurt the silent girls feelings by saying something stupid.