The ginger with the hair parted to the right, deadpanned with a face, "You're late, Haruhi." The twin with the left parting, Kaoru, stated matter-of-fact,
"I thought Rin was going to be here when the door started to opening, so we positioned ourselves, but they came already. So we were about to greet you again, but it's just you." Rin raised an elegantly arched eyebrow at that and resisted the urge to roll her eyes and sigh. She repeated in her mind slowly,
Emotionless Doll, like Grandma Shiki taught you.. She once again made her face blank and bored-looking. She barely noticed Rei's frown or a certain ginger's confused look at her change of face. Be a good little marionette and do as told... She held back a flinch at those words.
Haruhi took out her calender and muttered, "My calender says it's the middle of December..."
Rin felt her mouth twitch upwards slightly at the thought that popped into her head, Loki Month...Hehe... Rei saw her sister's look and smiled, commenting,
"Thor is so much better." Rin felt her lips twitch downwards for a slight second, but she quickly reverted and eyed her sister suspiciously, stating,
"I said nothing."
Tamaki straightened his back, and turned his head to look at Haruhi from his spot in front of the Shiki twins, and smiled, "It's only a commoners' feeling of being afraid of the cold and stuffing yourself inside a kotatsu!"
Rin and Rei shared a look, both thinking, There's nothing wrong with a Kotatsu, and Suoh-San is an idiot. Tamaki continued ranting however, making ridiculous movements and gestures with his hands and body,
"Why do we have this perfect air conditioning system!?" He started to stroll over to Haruhi, who stood and blinked in annoyance as a bird landed on her head. Tamaki then placed a hand on her shoulder, causing the bird to fly off in a panic, "A good man cannot hide his beautiful body by wearing lots of clothes! It's winter, that's why we welcome all those little kittens with warm southern country aura!"
Rei let out a small shriek when said bird came flying towards her face and ducked, kneeling on the ground with her hands over her head. Rin grunted as the bird outstretched it's claw and scratched her on the cheek, unable to dodge in time, and start to maliciously attack her head. Rin and Rei knew why the bird chose to attack them; It sensed them as danger. A threat and seeing how they were in it's view, it flew at them. Rei just got lucky with her timing, Rin, however, was not.
"Rin!" Rei cried out and tried to grab the bird, only to shriek when it clamped it's beak on her hand and scratch her wrist. She hissed, eyes turning slightly pink, and retracted her hand. Rin now had multiple scratches on her face, which were bleeding profusely, and the bird had yet to let up.
"Hey, bad bird!" A voice scolded and roughly gripped the parrot. The parrot screeched loudly and struggled a few more times, before realizing that it would not be able to escape and relaxed. If possible, it probably would've huffed, "Stop attacking our guests!"
"Kaoru, Kaoru, are you hurt!?" A deep voice asked loudly in worry, running over. Rin blinked and flinched at the stinging pain in her face, blood streaming down it. She stood, standing up, and pressed her hands against her wounds, flinching as pain flared at the contact.
The voice, Kaoru, released the bird and handed it to Hikaru, saying, "I'm fine Hikaru, you should be more worried about them." And speaking of our favorite mahogany haired protagonists, Rin was currently being cradled by a worried Rei.
"I'm so sorry, Rin, if I hadn't dodged the bird or if I pushed you out of the way-!"
"I'm fine," Rin cut her off swiftly, already feeling the wounds heal. She resisted the urge to shiver though, at the feel of skin closing over the wound, and glared at the bird that Hikaru was holding. The ginger blinked in surprise at the hostile look he was receiving, only to blink realizing she was looking at the bird, "Injuring a model's face, how low can you go?"
"Are you alright?" The voice came from her right and Rin turned her head, basically saying "Hello" to a bare shoulder. She lifted her head and her lilac orbs made contact with amber. She blinked and frowned, stating bluntly,
"I'm fine." Kaoru frowned at her and raised a hand, pressing a three fingers gently against her right cheek, on a bleeding scratch, and argued,
"No, you're not. You were hurt." Rin narrowed her eyes, anger and pain surging through her slightly, and leaned back, but never moving her gaze from his,
"It was only a few scratches, I. Am. Fine."
"No, you're-" He cut himself off though, nearly retracting his hand in surprise, when her wound closed up instantly. "-perfectly fine..." He finished slowly, eyes going wide. Rin felt her throat get dry and she soon found herself staring blatantly at his bare neck. The sound of his blood surging through his veins, pulsing loudly, echoed in her ears. She swallowed thickly and turned her head, moving back to Rei, her eyes turning an even darker pink,
"Yes, I said that. Now, Rei, let's-"
"I think not." A voice stated and the sisters' froze, recognizing that tone of voice anywhere. Rei stuttered, frightened at the dark haired man,
"K-Kyoya-Kun...H-Hi?"
"What do you want?' Rin asked bluntly, getting straight to the point. Ootori Kyoya, a man with a square head and sharp, narrow, brown eyes, thin lips, glasses, and onyx colored hair, smiled at them and said, almost smirking,
"I'm afraid that our dearest parrot has taken a liking to you both, and it comes to my attention that you both are models for two of our Host Club members', Hikaru and Kaoru's, mother, yes?" Rin narrowed her eyes at the challenge and stated,
"Yes, why? What do you know of it?" He smirked and pushed up his glasses, a black book tucked neatly by his side,
"I know quite a bit about the two of you. In fact, I happen to be engaged to a level B." The sisters' tensed and Hikaru and Kaoru could only watch in confusion, "I also know about your condition, Shiki Rin-San." The brunette tensed and looked up at him, but showed no emotion other than the slight widening of eyes, "And your family, who your sister is engaged too, who your parents are, their jobs, their relatives, and what happened at Cross Academy a thousand years ago." The girls' demanded in unison,
"How'd you get that information, Ootori-San?" He was crossing boundaries that should not have been crossed. He smirked darkly at them, his eyes flashing, and said,
"Now, that, I'm afraid, I can't tell you. But let's just say I have my resources." He then smiled a shit-eating grin and told them, "Now, if you don't want this information getting out to the public about who and what you are, then I suggest you join the Host Club, or at the least, visit regularly. You can help out with the Club, if you so wish, but I high suggest that you do not refuse."
Marionette, Marionette, my love doll, be a good girl like Daddy and be my marionette? Make grandma Shiki happy and give blood to me? Rin's breathing became slightly uneven and gained a few glances of concern and confusion. Be my little Doll...you know I love you so...Rin, Rin, Rin, Rin...your grandma is so thirsty...
"You're so greedy, grammah," A little Rin replied quietly, looking down at her trembling hands. Her mahogany hair was close to a brown at this age, and stretched down to her shoulders, tangled and messy, but she was the exact image of her father. She bit her lip, careful not to prick it with her little fangs, and continued, slowly lifting her head up to glance at the mentally unstable grandmother, whose mahogany hair was all over the place, "I-I dun wanna go sleep 'ight now..." The little girl flinched when the Vampire woman, who was unstable, but still beautiful, leaned down, gripping Rin's shoulder loosely and nosing Rin's hair away from her neck, breathing heavily. Her breathe sprayed against her neck and Rin tensed, squeezing her eyes shut in fear and lifting her head up to give better access, as something warm and wet slid against her neck, and like that...
...it felt as though two inch-thick needles pierced her neck and was draining her of her blood, quickly. She could hear the woman, the former actress, drink hungrily and greedily, the gulps of her blood that went down her throat... Rin felt herself getting weaker and weaker by the moment. Black dots started to dance in her vision and tears pricked her eyes. She prayed for her sister, or her father, to find her and stop her from doing this to her. But they never came.
Rin fell limp in the woman's greedy arms and she could feel her smile madly against her skin. Blood trailed down Rin's neck, onto her collar bone, and stain her recently bought pink, ruffled dress. Rin never knew what she did, what she does or is doing, to make her grandma treat her like this. She felt her eyes slip shut and her head dangle awkwardly off the woman's arm. Her breathing became shallow, and she felt as though she was going to scream in pain as the woman removed her fangs from her neck. The skin quickly closed over the wound and she could hear the breathy words of the woman, words that would haunt her mind for years to come,
"Be my little marionette...my little Doll. Be like Daddy and make me happy..." And like that, she started to slip into unconsciousness.
"Rin..." Rin blinked and inhaled sharply at the feel of someones arms wrapping around her. She closed one of her eyes as Rei lifted herself up and licked some of the blood off of Rin's cheek, gaining some faces from Hikaru and Kaoru. "She's not here, she won't hurt you." She whispered this quietly, so that no human would be able to hear.
Rin spoke, only a volume louder than Rei, but loud enough for Kyoya, Hikaru, and Kaoru to hear, "We'll visit. Help out with the Club, but we're also going to need to take days off when needed, despite what you think. We are models, we have schedules, and we need to take care of our work. You're an Ootori, engaged to Chiyo-San, you should understand." Kyoya nodded and wrote something down in his little black book,
"Very well, I will agree to your terms, as long as you agree to mine. You shall help out with the club and get days off as you request, but only for work, nothing else, unless a family member becomes ill or to visit a grave site. But you will also have to cosplay with the rest of the club and greet guests, but if requested, you must attend to those guests. No slacking off, understood?"
"Yes." Rin said, finally lifting her head. Rei opened her mouth to protest, but Rin cut her off, saying, "I speak for the both us, our brother, however, is a different matter." Kyoya let an amused smirk grow on his face,
"Ah, yes, Shiki Takuma-San. He was...an interesting matter to deal with."
"Tried to get him to join, didn't you?" Rin almost jumped in surprise when she felt someone latch onto her lower arm and she looked down to see a boy with a round head and cheekbones, small lips, and childishly round, honey colored eyes. His hair was a golden blonde that curled around his forehead slightly and he clutched tightly to a pink rabbit. He smiled brightly up at her and in the back of her mind, the very back, she had an urge to squeal and hug the boy, but resisted. She was a rose covered in blood, controlled by the very strings of her family, she was a marionette, to be used and controlled as taught and told, she was the Bloody Rose in this life...She can't be herself.
The little boy giggled up at her and Rin felt her eyes soften a fraction, "He and Tama-Chan got into a funny argument earlier! He doesn't talk much, but he's really funny! Plus he likes sweets! Like me!" He grinned widely up at her and Rin caught sight of some fangs.
This must be Haninozuka Mitskuni, She thought, but still could not shake off the memory from earlier. Her childhood had been stripped from her and, for the might of her, could not smile a true smile, ever again. All her smiles were fake...Maybe that was why Rei always tried to make her smile.
"Hey," Kaoru spoke up, tired of staying quiet, causing his brother to look at him surprise, "do you need to go to the bathroom? To wash off your face, I mean." His face gained a light pink to it at his slip up, but he quickly forced it down.
Rin through for a moment, gripping Rei's arm tightly, and said, "That would be greatly appreciated, Kaoru-San." And just like that, both gingers' tensed. She however, didn't miss the shocked, confused, and slightly angered look she received from Hikaru.
Kaoru laughed nervously, and said with a forced grin, "Whattya mean, "Kaoru", I'm Hikaru!" Rin didn't feel like arguing, so she just sighed and said,
"Whatever, Kaoru-San, just show me the bathroom."
"I'll come with!" Rei volunteered quickly, noticing the bloodlust that was forming quickly in her sister's eyes. She saw the confused look on Kaoru's voice and quickly added, "I mean, she needs help with the wounds, so...! Yeah!"
X.X
After an argument, Rei was allowed to come, and on their way up back to the club, Rin asked curiously as they passed a stair case,
"Is that a room in the staircase?" Kaoru blinked and turned his head, as Rei questioned in confusion,
"Like in Harry Potter?"
"Yeah."
"Um, yeah, that's a room. No one ever goes in there though, too scared."
"Have you?" Rei asked and Rin felt like face-palming.
"He just said no one went in there, Rei, obviously not." Kaoru cracked a grin at that and looked at the sisters', telling them,
"Well, just because I say no one, doesn't mean that me and my brother might not have. We got bored one day, people were talking about the staircase with the room underneath it, and we were curious. It's nothing to exciting, just a bunch of books on shelves and tables and a small bed in the back. It's kinda cramped." Rin "Hmm'd" to herself in thought as they walked, "There were cobwebs and stuff everywhere though, so I don't suggest going in there anytime soon. Hikaru-"
"So you admit that you're Kaoru?" Rin asked him, raising an eyebrow. The brother tensed, before laughing slightly.
"Y-Yeah...But, anyway," He'd question her later. "Hikaru and I went back to the classroom a few minutes later, and apparently the entire class of 1-A was searching for us!" He laughed, stuffing his hands into his pockets, "It's was great. Boring, hilarious, but great all at the same time."
"How can something be boring and great at the same time?" Rin questioned, confused. It didn't show on her face though-no, only in her eyes. Rei frowned sadly, glancing at her sister. Kaoru blinked and looked down at the brunette in surprise, "It makes no sense. It's either great or boring. It can't be both. It's not emotionally possible."
Kaoru was confused, does this girl not know anything about emotion? But judging by her actions earlier in the day, he'd guess not. He tried to explain, "Well... That's not true. It could be something that bored you completely, but...I don't know how to explain. Like, class is boring right? But something happens in that boring class that makes it exciting? But you're still slightly bored, but happy at the same time? It's...It's something like that."
Rin merely blinked as they walked up the staircase and down a hallway.
Kaoru then question, "By the way, are you going to go to the Winter Dance at the Christmas Party that the club is hosting?" Rin blinked,
"Dance?"
"What dance?" Rei wondered. "Formal? Or is it casual? When?"
He smirked at them, his gaze lingering on Rin for a moment longer than it should've, and said, "I'll tell you we get back, promise."
Rin would've let out an annoyed huff if she wasn't trying to be emotionless.
X.X
This is what the sisters' gained so far. The Host Club is for the Rich and Beautiful, who have to much time on their hands, who also have too much time on their hands. The Host Club is filled with five guys, one girl, who is thought to be a guy, and "hosts" for girls. The Host Club is also relatively beautiful, some enough to be Vampires themselves, but in truth, only Suoh Tamaki and Haninozuka Mitskuni are Vampires. Kyoya knows about Vampires, as he is engaged to one-not by his choice, mind you. As he put it,
"The marriage between me and Chiyo-San is strictly business. It is to expand our companies and join them together. I have had no say in the matter and neither has she. Our fathers' were very clear on that matter." The rest of the Host Club, however, are Humans.
Rin, however, was tense. She could clearly remember her and Rei's situation in the bathroom, plain as day.
"He saw, Rei, he saw." Rei was confused and questioned,
"Saw what? Who saw?"
"Kaoru-San. He saw my wounds close up." Rei's lilac eyes went wide and she demanded, voice squeaking slightly,
"What!? Why didn't you slow down the healing!?" Rin snapped, raising her voice ever-so slightly,
"You know I can't control my powers! You know I'm different from all the other Vampires! The only powers I can control is my blood whip and erasing peoples memories!" Rei gained an apologetic look and said,
"I'm sorry...But, what if he gives us away?" Rin grew silent for a moment before saying quietly,
"I'll erase his memory. I'll...I'll bring him into the back room and erase his memories, rendering him unconscious,"
"And I'll replace them." Rei finished, frowning sadly. She didn't like it when they had to do this, they prefer letting people keep their memories. But after Rin nearly attacked a Day Class student at Cross Academy... "I'll make it seem like it was his blood on his face. After he falls unconscious, I'll cut his palms with my nails." She wiggled her fingers for emphasize, showing off her relatively sharp, Vampire nails. "He won't feel a thing, believe me."
"Yeah, that would be preferable." Rin stated, feeling slight sympathy.
She was snapped out of her reverie, due to Tamaki's strange ways. She turned her head to see him flirting with a brunette, and raised an eyebrow as he said, "-the Bali Emperor outfit which looks very good on me...Everything is just a faithful servant who kneels in front of thy Goddess, you." And just like that, the poor girl's face lit up red, all the juicy blood gushing up into her cheeks... Rin swallowed the lump in her throat and resisted the urge to roll her eyes at his behavior. She turned her head, sitting at Haruhi's table, and sighed, muttering,
"I can't believe that idiot is the son of a Pureblood." Tamaki was grade eleven, along with Kyoya.
"Ne, Rinny," Rei nudged her sister slight, gaining her attention, and gestured to the Hitachiin table, "it's time for us to switch tables." Rin felt like complaining, but decided against it.
"Fine." She stood up, Rei trailing behind her, and strode towards the gingers' table. The way their arms swung, they way their hair bounded, the way their hips swung and just the way their feet clamped quietly against the ground as they walked, screamed model. They could hear the twins' talking with their guests.
"What're you doing for the Christmas party?" A blonde asked curiously. Hikaru started, smiling,
"Well, we reserved the entire large hall in the central campus, so there will be a dance." Kaoru smiled identically to his brother, slightly warmer though, and said,
"And we're thinking of having some casinos. Of course, there will be rewards." They were both grade ten, along with Haruhi and Rin and Rei. The sisters' have just arrived at the table when Hikaru pulled Kaoru to him, lifting his chin up and leaning close to him, noses barely touching, and whispered,
"Actually, I wanted to spend some time alone with you, Kaoru..." Kaoru's eyes went wide as his face turned red slightly. Rin tensed, eyes turning pink for a split second, before quickly hiding her thirst. Kaoru's eyes went slightly watery as he said,
"D-Don't say that Hikaru, I wanted it too!" The sisters' merely stared, unsure if they should be disgusted or not. Rei was the first to speak,
"What...What was that!?" Her voice squeaked slightly, horrified and disgusted. Rin just stood there, face blank.
"I...I'm not sure. I know I don't want to find out though. Let's go back to Haruhi's table. My ears are starting to bleed." She gripped Rei's hand and started to lead her back to Haruhi's table.
Of course, she was only joking when she said her ears were starting to bleed. She was more than used to the screaming and fangirling of, well, girls, seeing how they were unnaturally beautiful and in the Night Class.
They almost escaped to freedom when arms wrapped around their shoulders, preventing them from leaving.
"Now, come on," Hikaru spoke, an arm around Rei's shoulder. She resisted the urge to flip him over her shoulder and beat him to a pulp then and there.
Kaoru had an arm around Rin's shoulders, grinning, and said, "Don't tell me you didn't enjoy that?"
"If this has anything to do with your comment on me and my sister being together, then no, we didn't. And if it didn't, then no, we still don't." She deadpanned, "It's disgusting."
The brothers' smirked and shook their heads, tsk'ing at the sisters'. "Now, now, you're missing the whole point. You obviously don't see the perks of having a pair of male twins together."
"Yes, we we do." Rei said, frowning. "Taboo relationship, blah, blah, blah, viola, you get fangirls. Congratulations, you two are brothers and are totally gay for each other, I'll be at the wedding." Rin looked at Rei and smirked, saying, reaching over and pulling her sister to her, wrapping her arms around her waist,
"Don't tell me you're jealous of them, Rei?" If she was going to be at this Host Club and if she had to work with that, then she was gonna beat them at the act. She quickly forced down her prideful smirk and gained an emotionless face. But the brothers' and Rei caught it. It was only on her face for a split second, but she saw it. Kaoru released Rin and let her pull Rei to her, Rei answering with a pout,
"But, they're so proud of it, Rin! We're always hiding how we feel about each other..." She sniffled softly and made her shoulders shake. Dad's a Model, mother's an actress, yeah, they kick ass. "Why can't we be like them?" She turned her head, purposely not meeting Rin's intense gaze.
"You know why, Rei... What would father say? Daichi-Kun?" Rei slouched slightly, tears pricking her eyes, and she buried her face into Rin's chest, wrapping her arms tightly around the Tsundere,
"I-I can't leave him, Rin! I-I love you both way to much! I-I-I don't know what to do! They all say the s-same thing to us!" Rin allowed some emotion onto her face, softening her features and giving her the look of a sad mother,
"Rei..." She placed hand on the back of Rei's head and whispered softly, "You know I can't make that decision for you."
And Que the ear-splitting squeals and the plaudits of Hikaru and Kaoru, who were shocked.
"That was..." Kaoru began, unsure of how to express how he was feeling at that moment.
"Impressive?" Hikaru asked in confusion.
"It's seems like the guests' tension is higher than usual today," Haruhi noted, carrying a tea tray. Kyoya, grade eleven with Tamaki, smirked and pushed his glasses up as he explained,
"Being naked is slightly popular. We had another plan too, though. Santa Clause' Costume play." Rei and Rin overheard this and the younger of the two commented in confusion, asking her sister,
"Why didn't they just do one for Frozen?" Rin blinked and gave a lazy shrug.
"...I'm glad I put that Bali book in front of Tamaki; I don't have any say in the cosplay plans, of course," He smiled a shit-eating grin at the Fujioka girl, causing her to sweatdrop. The twin sisters thought in complete unison, tensing,
Holy shit, it's Kaname-Sama all over again!The sisters glanced at each other from the corners of their eyes and felt an invisible shiver travel down their spines as they spoke in unison, quietly, but still looking at each other,
"He's a Shadow King."
And not far away, you could hear a girl squeal as Haninozuka Mitskuni placed a flower necklace around his neck, explaining with bright smiles, giggles, and little pink flowers blooming around him,
"It's Bali's National flower-We imported it!"
Rin counted down in her mind, 3... 2... 1...
"Kyaaa! Honey-Kun, Kawaii!" The blonde Vampire seemed to notice the very human Mori walking by and exclaimed with a smile and mischievous eyes, not that the girls could see through his cute kid facade,
"Ah! Takashi, Takashi!" Mori paused in his walking, stopping almost instantly, and looked towards the blonde who was grinning wide enough that you could small fangs (Not bloodlusting, so they were not at their full elongated size) and charged at Takashi at break-neck speed, fast enough to appear human, and tackled his legs, quickly climbing up and wrapping his legs around the taller man's waist. Honey giggled as he placed a flower necklace around Morinozuka Takashi's neck. Honey gigged and hugged Takashi around his neck, nuzzling it, and cried out, "Yaay! We match now!"
Grades Twelve, Haninozuka Mitskuni and Morinozuka Mitskuni. Cousins by marriage, and the Morinozukas' have been serving the Haninozukas' for generations. The entire Haninozuka family is made up of Vampires and the Morinozukas', human they may be, are trained in combat to protect the heirs.
"Hey! Hey!" The sisters' snapped out of their thoughts when they heard Hikaru and Kaoru calling their names with smirks. "What about your costumes?"
They blinked and watched as the brothers held up two completely identical costumes. They looked at Kyoya and almost groaned in protest.
Not long they left the changing rooms and stood, low and behold, in front of a couple of boys, guests, that the girls' were supposed to be "Hosting". The dresses were white in color, but decorated with the regular gold bracelets and necklaces. There was a gold band wrapped around the dresses waist and accented their slim, athletic model bodies. The top was held up by a red jewel, connected to a gold necklace that moved up from their collarbone and wrapped around their necks. Intricate, gold bracelets dangled off of their wrists, and they both adorned a gold ring with red gems on their middle fingers. The dress slit at the sides, up to their waists, and the fabric itself stopped at their knees. There were also red cloths that was tucked underneath the gold-waistband and wrapped around their hips, before just dangling in their front. They wore tan sandles that had straps that wrapped around their ankles.