Jem: Nyaa! I'm in a writing fanfic mood! Yay! I bet my fans are so happy about that. :D This chapter is real long since I am in such a writing fanfic mood. Oh and Kami has a rather dirty mouth in this chapter. Just warning yah.
Chapter Four
Kami yawned as she walked down the halls of Ouran. She decided to go with a punkish look that day. Her hair was now pitch black with vibrant blood red highlights. Her top was a black tight tank top with a skull and crossbones that exposed some of her pale stomach. Her bottoms were bleached jeans with multiple holes in them and a pyramid three-row studded belt that matched the bracelet on her wrist. Around her neck she wore a red and black diagonally stripped tie. The top of her black combat boots could be seen through the holes at her knees and the bottom peeked out from under her jeans that were a bit to long for her. Of course you are probably wondering why she would dress like that after Tamaki made a big deal about how he didn't like how she was a bad influence to his 'daughter', but that was the reason Kami dressed like a punk for her look, just to attempt to piss Tamaki off (to bad she didn't know yet it was impossible to piss the idiot off).
The teen poked her head into the room and saw Kyoya sitting on a sofa, obviously waiting for her. "Hiyas Glasses-Freak!" Kami said with a smile as she jumped onto the sofa across from him.
Normal people wouldn't have noticed the small twitch in Kyoya's eye when Kami called him 'Glasses-Freak', but Kami wasn't a normal person and her smile grew wider when she noticed the twitch, she enjoyed pissing people off that pissed her off.
"So Glasses-Freak-" Another almost undetectable twitch. "Can I have my camera back? Or did you have more reasons to wake me up so early?"
"I have a job offer for you." Kyoya pushed his glasses up and set Kami's camera on the table along with the photo book collections he had sold not to long ago. "The host club needs better quality photos(1) and since you are going to be stuck hanging around with us quite often you might as well have a purpose." Kyoya knew Kami knew he knew that she used to be in the Photography Club in her high school. She even had some of her pictures entered in contests they were so good. He didn't have to bother explaining to the girl, which made her a little less annoying.
Kami picked up one of the albums and burst out laughing. "These suck! But what do I get out of it?" She quickly grabbed her camera as she asked so the deal wasn't she took them and she got her camera back.
Kyoya smiled slightly. He found it amusing how Kami didn't beat around the bush like many people did when talking to him. "You get to join the host club on any trips we take, free of charge and I've heard you have a liking to Japanese manga?"
Kami nodded, liking where everything was going so far, and asked, "And?"
"For every picture you take when not on a trip you get the equivalent amount of money to one of your manga, with tax." The rich teen crossed his legs and rested his head on his arm that was propped up on his knee. "Will you accept the deal?"
Kami mimicked his position and a lopsided smile spread across her face. "I must admit you do do your background checks real well. I accept."
Kyoya smiled coldly and said, "Good and I expect you know how to ski because we are going on a ski trip next week."
"Ski? Oh I can do much better than ski." Kami grinned a genuine grin, not one of Kyoya's icy pretend grins, and stood up. "Nice doing business with ya gov'nah(2)."
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Haruhi walked into her classroom and looked around for the twins, who surprisingly weren't there yet, but there was a very familiar girl sitting behind Haruhi's seat.
Haruhi decided that the girl had to be Kami; no one else would be sprawled out on their desk, dead asleep, out of uniform, and using a stuffed dog as a pillow.
A couple of the girls in the room waved and said hello to Haruhi. The brunette smiled and waved back, but didn't stop to talk to them. Instead she sat down in her seat and stared at Kami, not really sure if she should wake her up or not. She opened her mouth to start talking when someone else said exactly what she was about to say, only in double.
"Kami!" The twins walked into the room and sat down on the desks on either side of the teen.
Kami opened her eyes groggily and looked at Hikaru then Kaoru. "I'm seeing double. I must still be dreaming." She yawned and set her head back down on her stuffed dog.
The twins both grabbed a cheek and pulled both pulled back then let go. Kami's eyes opened slowly again and she glared at the two. "I would think you two are smart enough to know when someone telling you to go away."
Two pairs of golden eyes stared back at Kami, obviously annoyed about something. "Where were you this morning?"
The teen's blank tired face grinned, "Were you two planning on pulling a prank in revenge for me leaving you alone to deal with Coco? Sorry to break it to you, but I'm not that stupid. I'm on the lookout. Super spy man. I'm a super spy."
The twin's frowned and sat down at their own desks with their arms crossed, it was really starting to annoy them how she kept outsmarting them at things.
Haruhi watched the two and sighed, "You should ignore those two, Kami. They don't like it when people make fools out of them."
The twins twitched and forced themselves to stay quiet so they didn't prove Haruhi's point.
Kami laughed and set her head back down on her dog, staring at Haruhi. "What'd you do anyways to get stuck doing all that host stuff anyways?"
Haruhi sighed again and muttered under her breath, "Rich bastards had to have the vase in the middle of the room." She then said so Kami could hear her, "I broke a vase by accident and have to work off the debt."
"Haruhi was working simple chores for a bit before we saw his eyes and realized he could be a good host." Since they were in the class the twins couldn't chance it by saying she even thought it was just the four of them. "And speaking of eyes you have odd ones too. We bet if you were a guy you could be a good host."
Kami stared at the two with her gray and green eyes. A lot of times when people talked about her eyes they said that they didn't like looking at her directly in the eyes because they started getting unsettled. The teen did have a faint idea why though, gray eyes were real uncommon already and having two different colored eyes naturally was even more rare. Most of the human kind finds things they aren't used to unsettling, which Kami personally thought was pretty stupid.
"Oh, I never noticed your eyes." A kinder voice than the twins said, "They are actually rather pretty."
Kami looked way from the twins and had almost forgotten Haruhi was there. She was a bit shocked by what the cross-dresser had said and was about to say something along the lines of how no one had ever told her that, but she was cut off by another girl's voice.
"Wow Kami-chan your eyes are cool! A bit unsettling, but cool none the less." One of the twin's regulars was standing next to Haruhi staring at Kami's eyes as well.
Soon a whole group of girls (and a couple guys who were curious on what the commotion was about) was surrounding Kami and talking about not only her eyes but also her look in general. They all seemed to find it interesting and amusing when Kami told them how she liked something different at least every day. Then they started asking tons of questions about living in New York. Then they changed the topic againto living with the twins. Around that time the teacher came in and yelled at everyone to get to his or her seats and that class is starting. Everyone did sit down but since the teacher was writing something down on the board they continued talking.
Haruhi turned around again and asked Kami nonchalantly, "What inspired your punk look today anyways?"
Kami smirked and tipped her chair backwards, her feet propped up on her desk. "Well Drama-King said I was a bad influence so I'm only proving his point."
"But wouldn't you want to disprove Tamaki-senpai's point?"
Before Kami could reply the teacher yelled at the class again and class really did start that time, after the teacher yelled at Kami to sit like a proper lady and not like some American punk. The class got a laugh out of that, after Kami burst out laughing herself. Only a bit after their homeroom teacher left and the next teacher came in (English teacher) Kami was dead asleep, as she was before the twins woke her up, with her stuffed dog as a pillow. The English teacher yelled at her a couple times when she noticed the teen sleeping in the back of the classroom, forgetting that English class was pointless to the American, and finally had to walk to the back of the classroom and whack Kami's desk with a ruler to wake her up.
Kami had simply sighed, looked up at the teacher, and said, "I probably know my English better than you do. I do not need to pay attention in a language class of my own language. Now if you would excuse me I was enjoying my nap."
Not the whole class caught everything Kami had said since she said it so fast and fluently they had either not heard all of it or understood the words, but the twins (thanks to the fact that A) Kami had actually helped them a lot with their English homework and B) Talking to a girl that couldn't speak more than five or six words of Japanese and was 100 American that talked non-stop for three whole hours really helped you understand English better) understood every word that Kami had said and started cracking up.
The teacher huffed and continued teaching, but kept glaring at the teen (who went back to sleep the second the teacher left her alone) and at the twins who had told people what Kami had said so that the whole period was full of snickers. During third period (Literature Class) Kami was a little angel since it was her favorite class. After third period it was lunch.
What happened during lunch deserves to be told in detail…
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"It was hilarious! And I'm telling you the truth word from word! A lot of the girls in the class are saying she is immature and rude, but everyone knows they like her as much as we do. The American is hilarious, spunky, and did I mention that she is drop dead hot?"
A group of guys stood in one of the many hallways of Ouran High School. It was lunchtime and they had finished early so they went out to a deserted hall to talk better.
Two of the guys in the group were from Kami's class (Class 1-A). The others were guys from the other first year classes, but there was one guy in the group we all know very well.
Kasanoda Ritsu stood among the group as well. He had been dragged into the gossip circle (which was what it seriously was) by one of his new friends. The redhead could care less about some smart-ass brainiac American that was supposedly 'hot'.
"She's living with the Hitachiin twins and has been hanging out with them and Fujioka since she got here. I hear that Suoh-senpai doesn't like her. Heard he thinks she's improper and that it's real rude how she doesn't use any proper honorifics, but hey she's American of course she's not used to Japanese culture. Also it seems like that Fujioka might have a crush on her. He talks to her differently than he does to other girls, the only reason is that he must like her!"
Kasanoda rolled his eyes and thought to himself, 'I really need to get better friends.' There must be some other reason Haruhi talked differently to the American girl because he knew that Haruhi wasn't a lesbian (he cringed at the thought). Even though the redhead had been turned down so brutally he still had a crush on her. The more he thought about it the more he was coming to believe that Haruhi had no idea that he 'like' liked her and completely mistook what he said for something else.
"How do we know you're not making all this up Saito-kun(3)? Everyone knows you also have a horrible taste in girls and can't tell apart a blonde babe and a fat-ass nerd." One of the guys in B class asked.
The other guy from Kami's class came to his friend rescue, "You guy's know I have better taste then him and I completely agree! She's real short for an American, but man, I wanna get the twins to invite me over to go swimming to make sure those things on her chest are real!"
Of course, since guys are vulgar idiots, at the mentioning of chests the whole group, excluding Kasanoda, got more interested.
The other guy continued, "Yesterday she had a whole cutsie style going on, but today she has a hardcore punk style. She says that her looks change often and she doesn't stick with one style for more than two days in a row. But I'm telling you now, she's hot no matter what style she's in."
"But her eyes creep me out a bit." The Saito guy muttered under his breath. "Nothing like yours Kasanoda-san, no offense or anything, but they are still creepy."
The other guy rolled his eyes and whacked the Saito guy on the head. "Who cares about her eyes? Just don't make eye contact you dimwit. But I do have to agree though; I wouldn't want to be the twins who get death glares all the time. They seem set on pissing her off as much as they can, but then again she seems set on pissing off as many people as she can, but that my friends is hot. She's totally different than all the girls here."
'Haruhi isn't one of those clones,' Kasanoda thought to himself as he sighed. He really needed new friends. 'The American girls sounds a lot like the twins, annoying as hell.'
"Damn rich school!" The clunk of someone walking in combat boots sounded through the empty halls. "I didn't have lunch yesterday since I slept through it so I didn't see what it was like yesterday, but I mean really. How classy and rich can a stinkn' school be? What ever happened to good old fashion pizza for lunch? I barely knew what any of the foods were!" The voice paused as if listening to someone.
The group of guys froze during the pause and looked at each other. "There's only one person in this school that talks so fluently like that." The Saito guy said smugly. "Now you guys can see what I mean about her."
They heard the English talking voice come closer as the person was rattling off some of the menu items, but then the clunking suddenly stopped and the voice yelled, "Of course you know what all of them are! You're a frickkn' spoiled rich kid too." The clunking started up again and then a short teen with black hair and red highlights dressed as a punk came from around the corner. She was talking on her cell and stopped talking and walking as she stared at the group. "I'll call you back later Coco. Continue having fun at your convention."
The group of guys stared at Kami as she stuffed her cell into her pocket and started walking over to them. "She's walking over here." The guy from B class said in disbelief.
Another guy, from C class, muttered to Saito, "I apologize. You actually do have good taste."
Kami walked right up to the group and then walked right through them, straight towards the unsuspecting Kasanoda leaning against the wall. "Oh my gawd." She said as she walked right up to him.
The guys in the group let their jaws drop and didn't bother closing them. What was she doing going straight up to Kasanoda like that? He'd probably go yanki on her and attempt to kill her.
But actually Kasanoda was as shocked as the group was. He just stood there staring at her, not doing anything at all.
"Why isn't she running away shrieking in fear of his face?" The other guy in A class asked. "Almost all girls try to avoid Kasanoda-san."
Kami suddenly reached up and grabbed a fistful of Kasanoda's hair. "Is this your natural color? It's beautiful! I would die to have a natural red color like that!"
"How'd she know it is natural? Most people automatically think it's dyed, not the other way around." One of the guys whispered to the A class guys. "You act like you know so much so explain that."
"I'm guessing she dyes her hair a lot. Yesterday she had neon orange hair and I overheard the twins talking about how she had blue hair with pink highlights when they picked her up from the airport." The Saito guy whispered. "She must be able to tell apart natural and dyed hair easily since she dyes hers."
Kasanoda stared at Kami and kept staring as a single thought ran through his head, 'Why did a girl just walk up to me on her own free will?'
Kami looked up (and had quite a ways to look) at Kasanoda with an eyebrow raised. "Hello." She let go of his hair and started waving her hand in front of his face. "Yo, home planet to space cadet you gotta land back on earth sometime soon."
The group of observers winced and waited for Kazanoda to blow, but he didn't. "He must be in shock she went over to him." A guy whispered, close to cracking up, "I guess I would be too if I was him."
Kami stared at Kasanoda with a smirk on her face. "Obviously you aren't much of a ladies man." She started jumping up and down in front of him while waving her hand in his face. "Hello! I asked you a question. Even though I already answered my own question you still should answer. HELLO."
Kasanoda finally snapped out of his daze and thought to himself, 'She just admires your hair. All she thinks is that your hair is beautiful. Wait a second. Beautiful?!' It finally sunk in that she had called his hair beautiful. He was embarrassed(4) now and said, "Beautiful?"
The group of guys took a step back and all were thinking the same thing, Kasanoda was angry (since his embarrassed look made him look like he wanted to kill somebody even though he's blushing) and that they felt sorry for Kami.
Kami grabbed a fistful of his hair again and nodded, but slowed down her nod as she realized something. "Oh wait that's the wrong word." The teen thought for a bit then said, "Ack I can't figure which word it is. Sorry, still new to Japanese, but what I'm saying is that I like your hair color. It's ummm… Oh! It's cool!"
"Could you let go of my hair?" Kasanoda mumbled, not entirely so that she could hear him. He could feel himself turning red and there was the fact (also just sinking in) that there was a girl closer than an arms length away from him.
"Oh sorry," Kami let go and giggled. "I have a friend with a hair color like that back at home, well more like had you're hair color before he bleached it pure silver, the idiot. You sorta remind me of him too."
Kasanoda blinked and stared at the girl. He noticed a gray and green eye staring back at him and could easily take a guess on who she was, but he didn't want to jump to conclusions (even if the answer was obvious). "Who are you?"
The group of guys sighed and rolled their eyes. "He's an idiot." One of them said. "If I was him I would have so totally asked her out by now."
"Even after becoming friends with more people girls still don't talk to him with out being all timid and shy. You can't blame him from being an idiot around a outgoing girl."
"More like fearless girl. I have an older sister that always brags about how tough she is, and I admit she is tough, but when I showed her a picture of Kasanoda she said real quick that she would never ever want to meet him."
"I'm surprised he hasn't bitten her head off yet."
Kami laughed and looked over her shoulder at the group of guys, who froze under her gaze. "You're friends seem very concerned about you and I'm Kami." She held out her hand for Kasanoda to shake. "Nice to meetchya Redhead."
"It's Kasanoda Ritsu." The redhead muttered as she shook her hand, it was small and petite and very pale. Now that Kasanoda looked closely Kami herself was real pale. 'That's weird I thought Americans were tan. Well I guess it's just a stereotype.'
A smirk crossed across Kami's face. "Ritsu?"
It startled Kasanoda slightly hearing someone call him by his first name, practically no one did. "Yeah that's my first name. What about it."
The smirk turned into a grin and Kami held back laughter, but didn't bother to try to hide the fact she was trying hard not to laugh. "It's just hard for a Furuba fan to picture someone who looks like you as a Ritsu." She couldn't hold back her laughter anymore and she burst out into hysterics.
Kasanoda stared at Kami laugh, a bit hurt that she was laughing at his name, and was wondering what the heck Furuba was when suddenly two elbows appeared on Kami's head.
The elbows belong to the twins, who were leaning on Kami as if she was an armrest, and they looked rather bored. "There you are Kami. Why'd you leave the lunchroom so quickly? We'd have thought that you would enjoy stuffing yourself silly with all the food."
Kami's laughing face suddenly froze and was suddenly replaced with an icy glare. "Get you arms off me right now if you know what's good for you and your manlyhood."
The twins quickly backed away from Kami and both seemed to just Kasanoda standing there. "Oh hey it's Bossa Nova. Kami why were you talking to Bossa Nova?"
"Bossa Nova?" Kami stared at the two then laughed. "What? Only the host club goes by their first name?"
The twins shrugged and opened their mouths to start to say something when Kasanoda cut in, "What was so funny about my first name?"
Kami giggled and shook her head. "Sorry sorry. I knew that a lot of the names in my manga were real names people had, but some characters have such strong personalities it's impossible to imagine someone who isn't just like them to have the same name." She giggled again and said, "In a manga called Fruits Basket(5) there is a character named Ritsu(6) who is a nut job crossdresser."
The twins burst out laughing and the group of guys that were Kasanoda's 'friends' started snickering as well.
Kasanoda glared at the twins then the group of guys and then Kami as well. The twins ran over to the group of guys and hid behind the terrified idiots. The guys in terror stared at Kami as if she was a grand attraction at a freak show circus as she started laughing.
The redheaded yanki was also amazed, never had anyone started laughing when he glared at them. He was amazed the fact she wasn't running away like the twins (only other person who never ran away from him when he glared was Haruhi, though he had never directed one of his glares directly at her so he wouldn't completely know), but the fact she was laughing stupefied him even more. Kasanoda glared again at Kami and said, "What's so funny."
Kami uncontrollable laughter dwindled down to a giggles and she said between the giggles, "You're acting as if the look on your face could part seas of people."
The twins and the group of guys they were hiding behind looked just as Kasanoda did, completely and utterly speechless.
The black haired teen looked at the guys around her and stopped laughing, "W-w-w-woah. Don't tell me you actually think you could part a sea of people with a glare." Kami looked over at the idiots who were huddled together as if to protect themselves and she felt her laughter coming back. "Oh lordy!" She burst into giggles again and the guys still stared at her in disbelief.
The twins were first to recover. "Are you saying that you don't find him scary?"
"Not at all." Kami said between giggles.
"Not one bit." Hikaru said, resting his elbow on her head again.
"Not one bit." Kami repeated.
"No thinking it over? Just not one bit?" Kaoru said as he assumed the same position as his twin.
"Why would I have to think? Someone is either not scared or scared. There's no thinking to it."
Kasanoda couldn't believe it. She was completely unafraid of him. Sure Haruhi hadn't been afraid, but Haruhi wasn't exactly you're average girl. Kami on the other hand was a pretty good example of a normal girl. Her hair was done in a girly style, even if it was dyed to look punk, and even thought she wore the punky look she still looked completely like a girl. No one could ever mistake her a guy, ever. The more Kasanoda observed the differences between Kami and Haruhi then more he realized that Kami was, in fact, actually kinda cute (Nothing comparable to Haruhi), if one would look behind the arrogant attitude and tough shield of course.
Kasanoda opened his mouth to say something, but the bell signaling the end of lunch ran through the halls.
"Aw shit!" Kami cursed, not caring at all that for some odd reason a lot of people at Ouran found cursing girls odd, and then elbowed the twins in the side. "Now I didn't get any lunch, again. Nice meeting you Ritsu-unlookalike." The raven haired girl waved and started walking down the hall in the direction of class 1-A. "Hey why wasn't Haurhi with you guys? He's usually stuck like glue to you two." She asked the twins as the three went around a corner and disappeared from view for Kasanoda and the group.
"She's beyond hot." One of the C class guys said. "She's unbelievably scary though, I can't believe she laughed at Kasanoda's glare."
Another D class guy, the one who dragged Kasanoda to the gossip circle in the first place grinned. "I think 'Ritsu' needs to go to the nurse and I already know his diagnosis. Forming A Crush Disease."
The rest of the guys looked over at Kasanoda and snickered as well. The yanki stood, leaning against the wall, in a daze and streaks of pink could be seen on his face.
"To bad for him it seems like Kami finds him funny. I wonder if she has a crush on Fujioka, didn't you hear her asking the Hitachiin's about him as they were walking away? Another FAC disease if you asked me."
"No one asked you." A gruff voice said. Kasanoda was standing right behind his friend from D class and was staring at the group. "And if no one noticed the bell rang. We have to get to class."
The guys laughed and scattered off to their classes. The guy from D classes laughed hesitantly and followed his friend down the hall. "So do you regret coming with me now?"
There was no reply from the redhead as he walked down the halls of the school.
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"You brought Aka-chan!"
"I promised didn't I? Would you like to hang on to her for a bit for me though?"
Hunny looked up at Kami, his eyes wide, and asked, "Why?"
Kami laughed and placed her stuffed dog on Hunny's head. "Because I missed lunch and I want something to eat that's why."
Hunny smiled and nodded. "Okay I'll take good care of her!"
"Where are you going Kami?" Haruhi was walking past the two stuffed animal lovers that were sitting criss cross in the middle of the room, Mori sitting on a chair close by, when she heard Kami talking about going out to eat.
"Some random fast food restaurant I find. I really did not feel like eating all of that rich food for lunch. I like my good old-fashioned pizza for lunch. Pizza and fries were my lunch everyday back at home."
"You're going to get commoner's pizza?" The twins 'just so happened to walk by' and matching grins were slapped across their faces. "Bring back some for us!"
Haruhi walked away at that time, rolling her eyes and muttering something about rich bastards.
Kami opened her mouth to protest, but Hunny cut her off saying, "Oh pizza? Kami-chan! Kami-chan! Can you please bring some pizza back for us?"
Kami would have purposely said no just because the twins asked, but since Hunny wanted some too she guessed it wouldn't hurt to buy and extra box for the Host Club.
"Okay then I'll be going then, I'll be back after the club is over. All the fangirls creep me out." She shuddered and stood up. "I'm not adding anything extra or fancy. It's gonna be just extra cheese got it?"
Hunny and the twins nodded.
"Okay cool see you later then." Kami walked out the door just as Tamaki walked in. "See yah Drama-King." She said with a laugh and a wave.
Tamaki pointed at the door and asked Hunny, "Hunny-senpai where is the American Black-Berry going?"
"To get pizza." Hunny said with a smile.
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Kami yawned as she looked up at the sky. "Looks like it's gonna rain." She mumbled to herself as she listened to the sounds of the city. Children crying, laughter, shouting, talking, dealers yelling about sales, the occasional sound of a stray animal, birds chirping, cars whizzing past on the street, and everything else you can hear in a city. "Reminds me a of home." The girl said with a small laugh.
Another car whizzed past her and the wind it created blew her hair around into her face. Kami stopped walking and watched the cars go by. As each car whizzed by an image replaced the car.
Her apartment door wide open and it being pitch dark inside.
Light filled the room.
Her mom lying on the floor in a pool of blood, barely breathing.
A dark figure by the window.
The figure jumping out the window into the busy streets below.
The curtains flapping in the wind coming through the open window.
Her just standing there at the doorway frozen with fear.
A note hanging from the wall above her mother that read, 'Are you afraid of the dark?' It was being held up by the bloody knife that had stabbed her mother.
Again her mom flashed by. Then again and again and again and-
Kami screeched and jumped as someone tapped her shoulder.
"Kami?" A gruff voice said behind her.
Kasanoda stood there with an eyebrow raised and covered in scratches. "You shouldn't space out like that. A car could loose control and run right into you and you wouldn't see it coming."
"Well that's a pleasant thought." Kami said, rolling her eyes. "What are you doing out here anyways? Actually here's a better question, why are you covered with scratches?"
Kasanoda embarrassed look appeared and people walking past walked faster when they saw his face, but Kami was unfazed by the look and continued staring at him for an answer. "There's an injured cat in the alley that won't let me pick it up to help it."
Kami forced a laugh and shook her head, trying to hold back the tears that were threatening to come. "Where is it? I can try."
Kasanoda nodded and pointed over to an alley almost directly across from where Kami was standing. 'No wonder he noticed me standing here.' She thought to herself as she walked over towards the alley.
There was an injured cat, a badly injured one at that. The poor black cat wouldn't put weight on it's front left paw, his tail was bent in an awkward position, he had three deep cuts, one on his side, one on his cheek, and then one running down his back right leg, there may have been more injuries, but Kami wasn't sure since that cat was hiding under a dumpster.
"Oh you poor baby." Kami said the second she saw the little cat. 'He looks like how I feel.' She thought darkly, but quickly pushed the thought away. "Come here boy. I'm not going to hurt you. I want to help."
Kasanoda watched Kami attempt to lure the cat out from under the dumpster it was hiding under and couldn't help but notice she seemed a bit different than earlier that day. He knew that he shouldn't be thinking he knew the girl already, but even if this was the second time talking to her he could see something was different. Earlier she was laughing at any little thing she found amusing and even when she wasn't laughing it seemed like her odd eyes were bubbling with joy, the gray was almost a joyful silver and the green looked like a spring meadow basking in the sunlight. She just seemed so carefree then. Now, when he caught a glimpse of her eyes they looked sad, the gray looked dull and almost like storm clouds and the green looked like the murky waters of a small pond that wasn't cleaned regularly. Not many people would think that the redheaded yanki was so observant, but since people had avoided him for as long as he could remember he could never talk to them, he only watched, and became quite good at watching. There was more to Kasanoda then he people to believe.
"Come on now. No one is going to hurt you anymore. We'll help you just come on out." Kami slowly reached out and held her fingers in front of the cat's face.
"Be careful. He's going to scratch you." Kasanoda said, warning Kami, who he was sure, was going to get scratched up like him.
But instead the cat licked her and let the girl pet his head. "See you're okay. I'm not going to hurt you." Slowly Kami reached her other arm under the dumpster and pulled the cat out. "There, there, everything is going to be okay now."
The cat meowed and watched Kasanoda cautiously.
Once in the light Kami noticed that the cat had a big white patch on his back in the shape of a star and then a smaller white patch between his eyes that also resembled a star. "Ritsu-nonlookalike is gonna look after you now okay Star?" Kami looked at Kasasnoda and asked, "You were planning on helping him right?"
Kasanoda nodded and held out his arms so he could hold the cat, "Are you naming him Star?"
Kami slowly started to place the cat in Kasanoda's arms when he suddenly yowled and dug his claws into Kami's arm so he would stay in Kami's hold. The teen winced slightly, but didn't do anything to try to dislodge the claws and nodded, "Morning Star, a bringer of hope, and I guess I have to go with you to wherever you were going to take him. He doesn't seem to like you very much."
Kasanoda sighed and nodded, "Animals never seem to like me. Follow me, I'm going to take him home I know how to mend animal's injuries." He looked away from Kami, to hide the forming blush on his face, and headed out of the alley towards his house. The simple minded girl he met earlier was so much deeper than he thought, a mistake that people often made about him.
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"Welcome home master!"
Kasanoda nodded to his workers and noticed that the giggling Kami, the odd storm cloud that had been over her disappeared soon after they started walking towards his house, had stopped giggling. He stopped walking and turned around to see what she was doing. Kami was staring at the line of people, bowing, but very badly because they all wanted to see who the girl was that came home with their master, with her jaw wide open. "Damn." She said, thought not very quietly because a couple of the workers standing near her raised their eyebrows and obviously became even more interested in who she was.
Kasanoda sighed, walked over to Kami, grabbed her arm and started pulling her to the kitchen where he kept all of his animal medical supplies, as he did so Morning Star (or Star as Kami nicknamed him) dug his nails into Kami's arm again.
"We are going to have to clean up your arm as well." He muttered as he dragged her through his house into the kitchen. "I'm not disrupting you from anything to important am I?" He asked as the thought occurred to him.
Kami laughed and very gently pulled Star's claws out of her arm and set him down on the countertop. "I was going to go get some pizza and then bring a box back to the Host Club, but that's hardly important. If they want some 'commoner' pizza they can just order it themselves. Besides I highly doubt we could have separated Star and me for you to hold him with out injuring him even more."
Kasanoda could feel the eyes of almost every worker in his house watching the two through the small little window on the kitchen door, but didn't dare check to see. "Let me see your arm." He said as he pulled a first aid kit down from a cabinet.
"Oh I'm fine. It's just a couple little scratches, I can wait until we take care of the one who's more hurt than me." Kami pet Star gently and stared at Kasanoda, "So you gonna start helping him?"
Kasanoda nodded and pulled down another kit that was self-labeled 'Pet Aid'. He could see the that claw marks were real deep and were bleeding a lot and he could see that she must be in a lot of pain, but he could also see that she knew he knew she was lying and that he couldn't do anything about it. You can't help an unwilling patient.
"I need you to comfort Star while I wash and disinfect his wounds and then bandage them. He'll stay still if you keep him calm."
After a very long annoying half-hour Star was finally all bandaged up and eating some fish as Kasanoda took a look at Kami, who ended up getting an identical wound as the one on her right arm on her left arm thanks to the cat. The first once stopped bleeding a while ago, but she still bled a lot and her other arm was bleeding still. "You're a mess." He said with a sigh as he set to work on bandaging her arm.
"Pft. This is nothing." Kami said rolling her eyes. "Barely feel i- yeow! Why'd you just poke at- yeow! Why are you poking- yeow! Stop it!"
"Star's claws went down deep so I have to make sure I disinfect everything." Kasasnoda said casually. "You said it didn't hurt anyways."
Kami rolled her eyes and let Kasanoda wrap some bandaging around arm and then move on to the other one. "Why does everyone think you're scary?" She asked to keep her mind off her throbbing arm, of course she had lied about the pain, it hurt like hell, but she didn't have to burden him with the problem.
The poke that followed was harder than the others and stung more too. "Yeow! Okay okay touchy subject we'll drop it." Kami paused then said, "But seriously I don't get it. You're nice and aren't exactly like what I would picture a yanki and I don't get what's so scary about your glare either. It's just a look." She shrugged and winced involuntarily as her arms throbbed at the movement.
"Because people find it scary." Kasanoda said simply as he dropped the supplies he could reuse into the first aid kid. "There, all fixed up."
Kami stretched her arms to test how far she could stretch with them hurting when Kasanoda's gruff voice said, "If you do that you will open the wounds again." He stood up and reached for Star, who hissed and tried to scratch him. "I hope you can take him home with you. He doesn't like me at all."
Kami picked up the black cat and rubbed her nose against it's. "I highly doubt the twins mom won't let me keep him." She looked back over her shoulder and smiled happily, "Thanks a ton Ritsu-nonlookalike." The teen opened the kitchen door, but couldn't walk out because a mountain of people spilled into the room. "Okay that's not something I see everyday."
Kasanoda looked over at his workers (with his extremely embarrassed look) and the men jumped up and ran off shouting apologies and what not. Only a blond man was left and he waved at Kami. "Nice meeting you."
Kami laughed and waved back. "Nice meeting you too nameless person. I'll probably see you tomorrow, see you later Ritsu-nonlookalike." She hugged Star and headed out the house.
"Master who is she?" Tetsuta(5) asked.
"Just a friend." Kasanoda mumbled as he reached up and put the boxes away, he was blushing and had no idea as to why. Kami was cute, but Haruhi was way cuter.
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"Kami-chan! Kami-chan! Where were you? Where's the pizza? Who's the kitty? What happened to you're arms?" Hunny came bounding over to Kami right as she opened the doors to the Host Club.
"I was helping the kitty. I was helping the kitty so I didn't have time to get pizza. The kitty is Morning Star, but Star for short. And Star got nervous so she dug her claws into my arms." Kami laughed and shut the door behind her. "Sorry Hikaru. Sorry Kaoru. I know you two were looking forward so much for that pizza."
The twins rolled their eyes and walked up to their houseguest. "How'd you get the cat?"
"It's probably an excuse to cover up the fight she got into." Tamaki seemed to have appeared out of nowhere and looked like a ghost. "She's a bad influence to my daughter I say. Look at how she exposes her skin so carelessly. Girls should be more modest."
"Then your concept of girls is real shallow." Kami said as she sat down on a couch. "Damn I'm hungry, but anyways I was on my way to get some pizza-" She paused and then said, "I spaced out for a bit and Ritsu-nonlookalike noticed me when he was trying to get Star out from under a dumpster so he could bandage his injuries." She told them her little story and shrugged at the end. "So I have Star since he doesn't like him."
"Can I pet Star-chan?" Hunny asked as he held out his hand to the cat. He hissed and Hunny quickly drew back and jumped into Mori's arms. "Star-chan doesn't like me either." He said on the verge of tears.
The twins swooped down and started to pet the cat as well, but they weren't as smart as Hunny(He was smart enough to reach towards the cat slowly) and they both got scratched. "Demon cat." They said together.
Haruhi, who had joined the group in the middle of Kami's story, held her hand out to Star. The cat licked Haruhi's outstretched hand and nuzzled his head under her hand. The brunette smiled and scratched Star behind the ear, which caused her to start purring like crazy. "He's a nice cat." (The twins and Tamaki were all thinking one thing as Haruhi pet the cat, 'Cute!')
"A lady's man my Star is." Kami hugged the cat and laughed. "Seems like he has something against guys, smart kitty."
The twins snapped out of their trance and each locked on of their arms to Kami's. "We almost forgot. Mom wants us home early today. Bye everyone. Come on Super Spy." They easily picked Kami, who started screaming at them, up over the sofa and carried her out the door, but her screaming could still be held as the door slammed shut.
"You idiots! Let go of me! You're dead when we get home do you hear me? D-E-A-D. DEAD!" Then a long string of colorful curses could be heard and Tamaki muttered to himself, "Bad influence. Very bad for my daughter."
End of Chapter Four
(1) The host club needs better quality photos: It's more like in the anime where most of the pictures and blurs and stuff. Not like in the manga where they actually look good.
(2) Gov'nah: Kami is just being Kami with an attempt of humor with Kyoya
(3) Saito-kun: Just some random name I made up for the dude
(4) Embarrassed: If you've seen the episodes with Bossa Nova or read the chapters you know his embarrassed look I scary
(5) Fruits Basket: If you haven't heard of Fruits Basket you live in a hole. It is also the real name of Furuba
(6) Ritsu: A character in Furuba who has major mental problems
(7) Note I know Kasanoda is a bit OOC, but I'm considering the fact that the only girl that has really talked to him normally is Haruhi and she turned him down with out realizing it so he of course isn't used to girl's coming up to him. Just thought I should clear that up
(8) Another Note I know in the prologue Yuzuha had said that Kami's mom had died in an 'accident,' but she was just saying that because it hurt too much to say she was murdered. Just though I should clear that up too.
Jem: Yaay! I'm so happy! Hopefully Chp.5 will come out soon! :D oh and tell you're Ouran fan friends about Mattiod! I love new fans!
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