Jem: Mwuhahahaha! I'm on a roll! I could have uploaded this on Tuesday (the day I'm writing this now, but I'm going to upload on Sunday) but I had just uploaded chapter four like… on Monday! 0.o I don't know if I'm going to have chapter six written as quickly since I'm away on Wednesday, Thursday, and half of Friday at Universal. But yeah anyways here's Chapter Five of Mattoid!
Chapter Five
"Be a good boy while I'm gone okay?" Kami pat the small black and white kitty on the ground and stood up. "I know he doesn't like you much, but thanks so much for watching over Star while I'm away for the week! I'm glad I've made such great friends at Ouran already."
Over the remainder of the week(1) Kami had been hanging out with Kasanoda during club hours and then hanging with the Host Club during their free time after their customers left. The fangirls still creeped her out.
It was the Sunday the Host Club and customers (plus Kami) were leaving to go on the weeklong ski trip over winter break. (Kami was lucky enough to start going to Ouran the week before their break) On the first half of the week the Hosts will be entertaining all their guests and Kami will be busy taking pictures, but the last half of the week will be all to the Hosts and Kami (Kyoya was holding up his side of the bargin) to do anything they want to. It was the last half of the week Kami was looking forward to.
"Have fun." Kasanoda said as he looked behind his shoulder and glared at the workers hiding behind trees, bushes, or whatever they could find to hide behind. He had given up on intentionally glaring at Kami since all it did was send her into a laughing fit. "Tell Haruhi I said hi."
Kami nodded and pet Star one more time before she ran off. "See yah in a week when I come to pick up my baby!"
Kasanoda waved a small wave as he watched the teen run off. He looked down at Star and scowled. "Don't try to murder me in my sleep. You're a cute cat, but you're a devil."
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Kami lay across four seats in the back of the Limo/bus thing the Host Club had gotten to transport everyone to the ski resort. Her now snow white hair, to get into the feeling of the winter, was pulled back into two pigtails on the side of her head. (The white headphones to her iPod blending in almost perfectly with her hair.) She was wearing a gray t-shirt with a tan bunny holding a snowboard that had goggles on its head. Below the bunny there was and English sentence that read, 'Skiing is for sissies.' Underneath her t-shit Kami wore a white long sleeved shirt and on the sleeves there was a snowboard pattern. She wore light brown snowboard pants and on her feet she wore black winter boots. Around her neck she wore her snowboarding goggles, black strap with a white K and a white rim around the tinted goggle part.
The white haired girl's one bag was being used as her pillow and her snowboard (A neon green board with a gray K) was leaning against the side of the Limo near her head. Her snowboarding boots (Neon green and black boots) were attached to the board so she wouldn't have to pack them.
All throughout the Limo the teen that was attempting to sleep could hear the squeals and screams and god knows what else from the girls on the Limo, she could hear them above the music from her iPod and it was at the highest volume it would go. Why couldn't they just shut up?
Kami could feel the vibrations on someone walking towards here, more like two someones walking in perfect unison. There were only two people like that. She sighed and rolled over to her back was facing the rest of the Limo. "Let me sleep." She muttered as she felt the two stop in front of her.
"Oh but Kami." She heard one of them drawl out.
'Probably Hikaru.'
"You're missing out on all the fun." The other drawled out as well.
'Definitely Kaoru now.'
"Oh sure let's have fun watching the 'brotherly love'. Sounds like a ball." The white haired teen rolled over so she was facing the two and glared at them. "Don't you know what leave me alone means? It means I want to sleep. S-L-E-E-P."
The twins smiled and bent down so they were both eye level with Kami's gray and green eyes. "What if we miss you? Kami-chan has been so cold to us."
Kami stared at the twins, unfazed, and asked, "Sure and I'm the Princess of Wutai(2). Get rid of those water guns behind your backs if you want to keep your pretty faces in tact."
"Our profits would decrease dramatically and you would be in dept to the Host Club for destroying out products." Kyoya, who no one ever noticed, was sitting in one of the seats in front of Kami, writing in his notebook.
"Products?" The twins said with their jaws hanging open. They glanced at Kyoya then whispered to Kami, "We knew he was a heartless cold bastard that was obsessed with money, but we didn't know he was that obsessed with money.
"I heard that." Kyoya said loud enough for the three of them to hear.
The twins shuddered and stood up. "We'll see you later Kami." They pretended to walk away and hoped Kami had forgotten about their water guns, which she did. When she didn't say anything they whipped around and soaked her with the water guns.
The now dripping wet Kami glared at the twins and stood up. "YOU GUYS ARE DEAD!" She screeched as she chased after them through the Limo.
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Kami sighed as she dumped the remaining items in her bag out onto her bed. She had remembered everything except the most important items, her hair dyes. She was so sure she had packed all of her colors, she even remembered Coco reminding her to put them in her bag. She had put them in her bag; they were the last items she packed so she was positive they were there. Someone had taken them out.
'More like some two.' Kami thought to herself with a scowl. Ever since the cake fight they seemed set on pulling as many pranks on her as they could. What'd they take her for? A pathetic little girl that'd be fun to tease?
"Those two really piss me off." Kami muttered as she stomped out her door and down the hall of the lodge and banged on the twins door. When no one answered the white haired girl sighed. "I was hoping I could hold off my prank until later on in the week, but this calls for revenge." She tried the door and it opened right up. "Idiots." She said with a grin.
The teen walked into the twin's room and headed straight to their bathroom. "I never thought I would ever need this color." Kami said with a smirk as she opened their shampoo bottle (she guessed they shared it) and poured the contents of a small container into it. "Didn't get all of them." She smirked and stared at the empty bottle, it was labeled with her name and then under her name the words 'No touchie unless emergency' were written. "No use hiding the fact I was here since it'd be obvious anyways." She shrugged and set the bottle on the sink, with the blank side facing away so they would only see the label when they picked up the bottle. "My work here is done."
The next morning….
"Kami you little brat!" The twins were pounding on Kami's door, very pissed. They were so pissed they didn't bother changing into normal clothes and were still in their pajamas(3). "Kami you better open up this door right now!" The two's red hair was completely gone (the only trace of their old hair color was their eyebrows) and a light brown with a hint of auburn replaced it.
Haruhi, whose room was right next to Kami's, opened up her door and looked over at the twins (She was wearing an over sized gray t-shirt and sweat pants). "Hikaru? Kaoru? What happened to your hair?"
"That brat did something to our shampoo and ruined our hair!"
"She didn't even bother hiding the fact she did it!" Hikaru yelled as he showed Haruhi the bottle they found that morning.
Hunny's door, which was across from Kami's and on the right side of the twin's room, opened and Hunny stepped out in his silk bunny pajamas. Mori (his pjs were just sweat pants like the twins') followed behind Hunny since they were sharing a room. (Keep your minds out of the gutter Yaoi fangirls) "Hika-chan? Koa-chan? Why are you being so loud so early in the morning?" He yawned and rubbing his eyes, that grew wide when he saw the twin's hair. "Hika-chan! Kao-chan! You're brownies!"
"Thanks to Kami." Kaoru said, yelling Kami's name.
"I swear if she is ignoring us she is dead." Hikaru grumbled as he banged on Kami's door again.
"What is with all this racket?" Now it was Tamaki's turn to open his door (on the other side of the twin's room) and step out into the hall. He was the only one who was actually not in his pajamas still even though it was still real early. "And what happen to your heads?"
"Kami-chan did something." Hunny said for Hikaru and Kaoru, who were busy banging on Kami's door again.
"I keep telling you guys that she's a bad influence!" Tamaki said with a dramatic twirl. "My daughter must be horrified and finally agree with me."
Haruhi stared at the group (excluding the twins) blankly and said, "I highly doubt she didn't have a reason for doing that to the twins. They probably did something first."
Tamaki sighed and tears filled his eyes. "My daughter has been brainwashed. It's so sad!"
"KAMI!"
"OPEN YOU'RE DOOR!"
"OPEN IT ALREADY!"
"It's a good thing I made sure Kami's room wasn't on the guest's floor." Kyoya (wearing navy blue silk pjs) stood behind Tamaki (who knows when he showed up) and pushed his glasses up his nose. "Mornings at the Hitachiin Mansion are very loud. I was correct to suspect the three wouldn't change while on vacation."
"Kyo-chan, how'd you know Kami-chan, Hika-chan, and Kao-chan's mornings are loud?" Hunny asked as he bounced up to the sanest member in the Host Club.
"I have my sources." Kyoya said simply.
"Kami if you don't open this door-"
"Right now we are breaking it down."
"Can't a girl sleep in on her vacation?" A groggy voice said from behind the door. "One sec lemme unlock the door." Kami's door swung open and Kami stood in her doorway and yawned. "Is the building burning down or something?" Her short white hair was messy and didn't seem to know which way it wanted to go, up, down, right, left, it was a complete mess. She, too, was in her pajamas, but they were not the type of pajamas a girl would wear in front of guys. Her pj top was a black tank top that was a couple sizes to big for the petite girl and the straps were close to falling off her shoulders. Her bottoms were black short shorts that fit better that her top, but they looked like they could be a size too small they were so short.
The guys standing the hallway had mixed reactions. Mori and Kyoya appeared uncaring, Hunny had his hand covering his open mouth and was in shock, Tamaki's eyes were blank circles on his head, and the twin's were blushing and took a gigantic step back. They were the ones closest to the half dressed girl.
"Well since I get no answer I guess I can go back sleep again." Kami yawned and turned around only the movement was too sudden for the girl who was still half asleep. She tripped on her own feet and fell first face onto the carpeted floor.
"Kami?" Haruhi, being the only other girl there she was the only one who dared approach her, walked over to the white haired teen and crouched down next to her. "Kami are you alright?"
There was no reply from Kami so Haruhi shook her gently. "Kami?"
This time the brunette was responded with very heavy breathing, the way people breathed when they were asleep. "She's asleep already." Haruhi said, standing up.
She looked over at the group of guys and asked, "Do you want me to wake her up?"
Tamaki walked away, quickly into his room, muttering something about how girls should be more modest.
Hunny was the first to recover and stepped into Kami's room. "It's no fun to wake up on the floor." He said matter-of-factly. He placed Usa-chan in front of Kami's face and said, "Wakey wakey Kami-chan! Usa-chan wants to eat pancakes with you."
The twins snapped out of their daze and an idea came to them. "We'll wake her up." They said as they walked into Kami's room as well. They both got down low and said, loudly, into Kami's ears. "Kami. There's food downstairs. It's a whole feast and it's not just tons of rich people food. There are commoner breakfast items too. There's even Count Chocula cereal."
The teen on the floor stirred slightly and her head slowly lifted up from the floor to look out in front of her, at nothing in particular, and asked, "Really?"
Hikaru and Kaoru snickered and stood up. "Really." They stepped over Kami and out of her room.
"She's way to easy to read." Hikaru said with a laugh.
Kaoru nodded and joined his twin in the laugh, "Seriously. She's only been at our house for not even a full week and we already know he weaknesses."
"Kami-chan are you going to get up?" Hunny poked Kami, whose eyes were closed again.
Kami opened her eyes slowly and asked, "What time is it?"
"6:30." Haruhi said as she glanced up at the clock on the wall. When she looked back down at Kami she looked dead asleep already.
"Too early to wake up and process anything. Good night." The white haired teen mumbled as she curled up into a ball on her side and started breathing heavily again.
Hunny poked Kami again and said, "Kami-chan aren't you going to at least get into your bed?"
The blonde boy was responded with Kami slapping his hand, still looking like she had been asleep the whole time, and mumbled. "Mom just five more minutes. I'm never late to class even if the five minutes turn into ten. It doesn't matter-" The rest of her sentence was impossible to understand since it became so slurred and quiet.
"Just leave her." Hikaru said with a scowl.
"She deserves it for ruining our hair." Kaoru added with a matching scowl.
Haruhi shrugged and stood up. "She'll wake up on her own when she starts feeling sore."
Hunny frowned, but stood up. "Okay then." The two walked out of Kami's room and shut her door.
But not before Kyoya noticed something. In Kami's hand there was her small digital camera and even though her eyes appeared to be closed her thumb was slowly clicking the next button to view the pictures she had taken. 'I was right to have the twins bring her to the host club. Kaneko Masami, you are more then you appear to be.'
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"You two shouldn't be so mad at Kami-chan!"
"She's right! You two look so cute as brunettes, but I wonder if the auburn is from you're hair or if the hair dye had the hint of auburn to it."
"Well if you princesses think it's cute then I think it's cute too." Hikaru said with a smiled to the two girls sitting next to him on the chair lift.
"Does my opinion not matter, Hikaru?" Kaoru looked away and tears filled his eyes.
"No Kaoru! Never think that! You're opinion means everything to me!" Hikaru grabbed Kaoru's head between his hands and stared at him. "You always matter to me Kaoru."
"Hikaru!"
"EEEEHHH!! The brotherly love!"
"This is sickening." Kami said rolling her eyes as she snapped another picture of the twins and their customers.
The girls were wearing yellow ski jackets (As were all the other girls from Ouran. Kami wondered if they seriously were clones) and their pink skis dangled down from the lift.
Hikaru was wearing an orange ski jacket and his skis were blue. Kaoru's jacket was the same blue as Hikaru's skis and then his own skis were the same orange as his brother's jacket. All four of them had ski poles, the girls had pink plastic handles and the twins had black handles.
Kami was in the chair in front of the group and had been snapping pictures for the first few minutes of the ride, but now she was bored with taking pictures of the 'brotherly love' and turned around in her seat so she was facing forward again. Her leg attached to her snowboard dangled down and Kami was sitting on her free leg. Her jacket was a dark mossy green with a white sequencey K on the back. Her detachable hood had fake animal fur around the edge so it surrounded her face. The inside of the hood was another fake animal fur, a soft white fake fur. The white haired girl had her hair up in pigtails and since her hair was so short they were real little pigtails so she could wear her hood without it weighing her hair down. Her pants were a shade darker than the green on her jacket and had as many or even more pockets than her jacket.
Her goggles weren't resting on her neck like they were the day before, they were over eyes and they would stay that way until she got inside. She still remembered the first time she ever went to a ski resort with her mom. She had refused to wear goggles and also refused to learn how to ski, she would only board. The boarding went find, it was pretty easy since she already knew how to skateboard, but she had hurt her eyes real bad from the reflection of the sun on the snow. Ever since then goggles were on until she was inside.
Underneath her outside layer of clothing Kami had two more layers, but she bet that others had more than three layers in total. It was real cold up on the mountain and the snow was fairly fresh. Kami was used to the cold though, she embraced the cold. She enjoyed it better than being hot.
A few yellow figures accompanied by a pink one and a dark navy blue one started coming down the mountain and Kami got her camera ready. She didn't even have to guess who the pink figure was. As Hunny, Mori, and their customers whizzed by Kami snapped pictures of them and sighed. She needed something more exciting to take pictures of.
She had pictures of everyone in the club and their customers multiple times and in multiple different poses. "Need something fun to happen, but I can't start anything with the twins cause they're with their customers." She sighed again and rested her head in her free hand. "Glasses-Freak would probably get all mad at me."
The drop off was coming up and Kami smiled. "I'll go full speed this time." She jumped off her chair onto the snow mound and slid down the small mound onto the level snow area that split in different directions to the different slopes. She snapped her other boot onto the board and watched the twins and their customers turn down one of the amateur slopes. The teen sat down on one of the benches and waited a minute before going down the slope the twins had taken.
"Let's see. This slope takes me about 2 minutes when I'm at half my maximum speed so with going 3/4 of my max speed I can pass them easily and halfway up here by the time they get to the chair lift. Sweet." Kami laughed and shuffled over to the downhill slope (that beginners would think was steep). "Cowibunga!" She yelled with a laugh as she jumped over the edge and sped down the hill.
Since there were barely any people on the slopes, only the Host Club and Co. was there, Kami didn't have to control herself and slow down any as she gained speed. Slowing down she held back until she was only a few yards away from the chair lift. Already, after a half a minute, she could see the twins and their customers on the trail. There was a gap between the twins big enough for her to whiz through.
Kami grinned and leaned forward to cut back on wind resistance. The twins didn't notice her coming until she was already past them. She turned around and waved with a smirk at the shocked faces. "Hello!" She yelled as she turned around again and sped down the rest of the slope.
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The Host Club was spread out across the lounge/living room area in the lodge and all of the girls were already gone and had been gone for a couple days. The next day was the last ski day of their trip.
Kami was lying in the snow (only she would be lying in the snow with only one layer of clothing on and no gloves or shoes) under the window of the lounge. The first half of the week had been real exhausting for Kami, not only was she stuck with the same hair color and would still be stuck with it until she got back to the Mansion, but she had been so bored. She wasn't allowed to bother any of the Host Club members until they weren't hosting anymore, but then they just wanted to go to sleep.
The night sky up in the mountains was so pretty. It wasn't smoggy and there were barely any artificial lights to block one's view of the stars. Up in the wilderness of the mountains there were millions stars. A shooting star shot through the sky and Kami quickly made a wish. 'Let them find that sicko.'
"I'm going to bed early." Haruhi yawned and stood up from her spot on a couch. "See everyone in the morning." She walked up the stairs yawning.
Kami rolled over onto her stomach then knelt and peeked into the room. The twins were half asleep, Kaoru had his head resting on Hikaru's shoulder and Hikaru's head was resting on Kaoru's head. They looked peaceful.
'That's cute.' Kami thought for a split second then scolded herself, 'You crazy Kami? They're annoying as hell. Not cute.' She grabbed a handful of snow and pat it into a snowball. She smirked and threw the snowball at their faces, with a perfect bull's-eye. The white haired girl took a quick picture and then ducked under the windowsill, giggling.
The twins jumped and spat out the bit of snow that went into their open mouths. "Kami!" They yelled and jumped up off the sofa. They heard her giggling and saw the top of her white head on the other side of the window. "What was that for?" They yelled as they ran over to the window and each grabbed one of Kami's arms. "Wasn't ruining our hair good enough to last the whole week?" They pulled her up into the room and carried her over to the cake tray Hunny was munching on.
"Hunny."
"Can we borrow a cake?"
The bunny boy nodded and started to reach for a cake when Kyoya's icy voice said, "No. You aren't starting another cake fight."
The twins slouched, disappointed they wouldn't be able to stuff Kami's face into a cake. They would have to find some other way to get back for the snowball as well as their hair.
"Fine by me!" Kami said cheerfully as she started wiggling. "Now let go of me!"
The twins looked at each other then Kami. "Are you ticklish Kami?"
The squirming teen froze and rigidly shook her head. "N-no. O-of course n-not."
Hikaru grinned and grabbed Kami's other arm so he was holding her up. Kaoru started wiggling his fingers and they both grinned evilly. "Revenge is sweet."
Kaoru started tickling Kami's tummy and she started giggling like crazy and tried to kick the two away since Hikaru immobilized her arms, but they both easily avoided the kicks since she didn't put much power into them she was laughing so hard.
"Stop-" She giggled and gasped out, "Tickling me!" She giggled again and started kicking again. "I can barely brea-" She burst out into giggles again and her kicking ceased as she tried to actually breath between her giggles.
Kaoru stopped tickling her after a while and Hikaru dropped her onto one of the couches. Kami lay on the couch and hugged her belly as she tried to stop laughing. "You guys are evil." She said when she had a break in her giggles.
The twins smiled and sat down on the arms of the sofa. "Yet you're laughing when you say that."
"Oh shut up. I'm gonna get you back for this. You better watch your asses."
"Girls shouldn't curse." Tamaki suddenly popped up from behind the back of the couch and was staring at Kami. "Girl shouldn't curse." He said again.
Kami rolled her eyes and stared up at the blonde idiot. "Oh and what's next? Girls can't laugh?"
"Girls shouldn't have attitudes." Tamaki mumbled as he sunk down into his pouting position and he added, "You're a bad influence for my daughter! A bad influence!"
At first Tamaki's 'bad influence' stuff had been amusing to Kami and had played along as the 'bad influence' but it was starting to get real annoying. The constant talk of what girls should and shouldn't do reminded the teen too much about her family. They were always so talking about what a proper young lady would be doing in place of what ever Kami did. "Why are you always so concerned about everything Haruhi does anyways?" She asked looking over the back of the sofa.
Tamaki looked up at Kami as if she had just asked him why he had ten fingers. "Because she's my daughter! Daddy has to look out for his daughter!"
Kami's eyes narrowed and she asked, "Sure that isn't just a cover? Sure you don't like Haruhi as an actual girl? Sure looks that way."
All of the guys in the room froze. All of them figured as much, but none of them ever thought about sharing the thought with Tamaki. It wasn't like he was so much of an idiot that he actually loved Haruhi as a daughter.
What came next shocked everyone, even Kyoya.
A look of disgust showed on Tamaki's face, there wasn't a flash of shock or realization, just immediate disgust. "How can you even consider that?" He stood up with his hand covering his mouth. "How dare you suggest incest in my family!"
"What do you call the twins then." Kami said trying to keep a straight face as she folded her arms.
"The twins are an exception because I don't care about those ruffian children. Now shoo you American White-Berry! Shoo! Shoo! Out! Out! Shoo for suggesting something so disgusting!"
Kami stood up with a shrug and headed to the stairs. Before she went up she looked back at Tamaki and asked, "So then how do you like Haruhi?"
"As a daughter!" The blonde said dramatically with a twirl. "But shoo! Shoo incest suggester!"
--
"He really said that?"
"Yes. Oh my gawd. I knew Drama-King was an idiot but to be that idiotic." Kami laughed and jumped up on her snowboard. "Well that's just sad."
Haruhi smiled and shook her head. "Tamaki-senpai is a rather odd." She was slowly going down one of the intermediate slopes with Kami. That week had been the very first time Haruhi had skied, but unlike snowboarding she learned quickly and could graduate from the bunny slopes after the first day.
It was the last run of the day for both of them so Kami decided to hang with the only other girl on her last one. She had been hanging out with Hunny and Mori in the beginning of the day and then started racing the twins later on. She could feel Tamaki's piercing glare on her back all day. She had obviously succeeded in making him halfway pissed at her.
The reason Kami was just now skiing with Haruhi on her last run was because Haruhi went so slow. With Hunny and Mori she could go at a nice normal speed and then with the twins she went as fast as she could to beat them.
"Pft. I'd say completely odd. He's a nutjob." Kami muttered to herself as she saw the twin's colorful jackets go inside the lodge. Her and Haruhi were the only ones left on the slopes.
The white haired teen looked beside her to start talking to Haruhi when she realized that the brunette was in front of her and gaining speed. Kami raised and eyebrow and caught up to Haruhi. "Should you be going that fast? You should slow down."
Haruhi's eyes were wide and she pointed rigidly at her skis that were in the biggest V(4) she could make. "I'm not slowing down."
Kami smiled and shook her head. "So start doing a zig zag on the way down. It'll slow you down better than staying in a straight line."
Haruhi nodded and slowly pulled her skis out of the V and directed herself to the side. Once she got to the other side of the slope trail she turned around and tried to direct herself across the trail again. Only this time she had her right ski pointed downward to far and she started going diagonal towards the woods on the left side of the trail.
"Snowplow(4)! Snowplow!" Kami yelled as she went after Haruhi on her board, but no matter how much Haruhi snowplowed she wouldn't stop.
The brunette skied into the woods and somehow avoided the trees until she reached a small clearing. She started snowplowing again to stop, but she kept going until she stopped on top of odd looking snow. Haruhi looked down and suddenly realized she was on top of ice, thin ice. The brunette gulped and slowly tried to turn around and go back to the solid ground. The sickening sound of cracking ice sounded all around Haruhi. She gasped and started shuffling across the flat, slippery surface as fast as she could, but not fast enough. The ice gave way beneath her and she tumbled into the frigid waters.
Kami had followed Haruhi as fast as she could through the trees and had taken a wrong turn by accident once so she had to turn around and follow the ski tracks again. When she reached the clearing all she had to see was the hole in the ground and she automatically knew what happened. She jumped off her snowboard and ran, as fast as one could run in snowboarding boots, over to the hole. She could see Haruhi's brown ski jacket in the water and dived in.
Kami could feel the cold of the water ever through her 3 layers of clothing. She could see Haruhi was holding her breath, but was close to her limits. The teen swam deeper, to Haruhi's feet that were stuck to her skis that were weighing her down to the bottom of the small pond lake thingy. She pulled Haruhi's ski boots off the skis and dragged the other girl up to the surface. The smaller girl struggled with getting Haruhi up over the edge of the hole, but succeeded nonetheless.
Haruhi crawled across the small amount of ice that was separating her from solid ground, coughing. When she was positive she was off the ice Haruhi sat down and turned around to thank Kami, but the white girl wasn't there. "K-Kami?" Haruhi asked, her teeth chattering. She saw bubbles coming from the hole and then a white head popped up out of the water. Kami pulled herself out of the water, dragging Haruhi's skis out as well. She laughed at Haruhi's shocked face as she dragged them over to her.
"I figured Glasses-Freak would try to blame you and add the price of the skis to your debt. Now can you stand?" The teen pulled her goggles off and placed them on top of her head. A worried gray eye and green eye watched Haruhi attempt to stand, that didn't go to well.
As soon as Haruhi stood she felt as if she was made of ice and fell back down to the ground. Her teeth were chattering and wouldn't stop.
"Thought so." Kami said with a sigh. "Looks like we gotta make a fire somewhere before we head down again." She bent down and grabbed Haruhi's legs. "Hang on to my neck. I'll carry you."
Haruhi wrapped her arms around the other girl's neck and Kami stood up so she was carrying Haruhi piggyback way. "Are you sure you can carry me?" Haruhi asked, trying to stop her teeth from chattering. "I'm larger than you."
The brunette felt Kami shrug as she picked up her board and then Haruhi's skis. "I noticed a small little cave when I took a wrong turn when chasing after you. It's not that far. We can stay there until you can move."
Kami carried Haruhi without a single complaint all the way to the small cave and then set the brunette down gently. "It's not good if you start falling asleep so if you start feeling drowsy slap yourself. Freezing to death in your sleep is not the most preferable way to die." She propped the skis and snowboard against the wall of the cave and walked out to find some wood. Once she found enough fairly dry wood to make a decent fire Kami walked back into the cave and set the wood up into a pile. She unzipped one of her pockets and her cell phone out. "Oh I forgot I had that." She said with a grin as it clattered to the ground.
Haruhi looked over to her and smiled. "You can call them then."
Kami flipped her phone open and her grin fell. "The water got to it. It's dead."
The brunette sighed and rubbed her arms. She was wearing four layers of clothing and even her first layer was fairly damp. She was wet through and through. Haruhi wondered if Kami was completely soaked like she was, but when the cross dresser watched Kami she seemed unfazed by the cold.
Suddenly a fire sprung up from the wood and Kami shouted in joy. "Yay! It worked!" She laughed and looked over at Haruhi. "Take off those wet clothes. You can wear mine. I have a super waterproof ski jacket and another waterproof jacket under that. I'm probably three times dryer than you."
Haruhi shook her head and said, "I couldn't."
Kami rolled her eyes and took off her jackets then dropped them onto the ground. "Guess they'll just sit there with no one using them then."
Haruhi stared at Kami then sighed. "You seem prepared for swimming in a frozen lake." She pulled off her first two layers and lay them down next to the fire. The bottom two layers were only damp.
Kami threw her waterproof jackets over to Haruhi and grinned, "It's a tradition I was thinking I wouldn't end up doing this year. Oh and I know they are a bit damp and small, but they are real warm." She grabbed Haruhi's soaking jackets, put them on, and sat down next to the fire. It was a small fire and didn't help much, but it was better than nothing.
Haruhi slipped on Kami's jackets and automatically felt warmer. They were real warm, but then she wondered why Kami was giving up her warmth for her. "Tradition?" She asked trying to keep a conversation going. She was afraid if she stayed quiet her lips would freeze shut.
The laugh that followed sounded sad and Kami's smile didn't reach her eyes that looked rather depressing. "Every year at winter time I go to the same ski slopes with my mom. Every year I want to stand in the middle of one of the lakes and every year I get closer to the middle before I fall in. My mom would always pull me out and drag me back to the lodge. She'd dump me into the heated pool they had, clothes and all." She laughed again and held back the tears that were trying to break free. "Every year since I was eight."
Haruhi watched Kami and wondered why she was so upset. Wasn't her mom just away on a business trip? She could always try to get to the middle of the lake next year. "Sounds like you two have a lot of fun. I wish I had been able to have fun moments like that with my mom."
Kami looked over at Haruhi with her brow raised. "You're mom died?"
Haruhi nodded and said, "She died when I was real young so I barely remember her. I always wonder what it would be like if she lived a bit longer so I could remember her."
"You're lucky." Kami said as she pulled her knees up and tucked them under her chin. "You never knew her. You'd miss her more if you were real close."
Haruhi shook her head and said, "No, I would rather I knew her."
"No you don't." The white haired girl said as she felt another surge of tears threatening to come pouring out.
The brunette stared at Kami and was starting to get a little mad. "A lot of people at middle school would tell me that. They would say I'm lucky I don't have an annoying mom. They didn't know what it was like never knowing what their mom."
"It hurts more when you're close to her and then she slips away." Kami whispered as she bit her lip. She was afraid that if she started crying she wouldn't be able to stop.
That's when Haruhi realized that Kami wasn't teasing her or trying to make her mad like she did to other people. She was simply telling her the truth. "Kami, your parents aren't away on a business trip are they?"
The teen shook her head and whispered, "My dad never married my mom and I don't even know if he knows that-" She gulped and wiped away the forming tears in her eyes. She wouldn't cry anymore. She promised herself that. "If he knows that she's. Gone."
Haruhi frowned and didn't know how to comfort her new friend. She wondered why Kami had told everyone her parents were away on a trip instead of the truth. "What happened?" Haruhi asked as she crawled over to Kami and gave her a small hug, she didn't know what else to do. "You don't have to talk about it though."
Kami shook her head and muttered, "If I can't talk about it without bawling I'm just pathetic." She took a deep breath and started telling Haruhi about what happened.
"That day I had plans with some friends. I was going to hang out with them all day and then come back home real late at night. My mom was real protective since I am-was her only child. She didn't like the idea of how we were going to be all alone without supervision, but she let me go anyways. I didn't tell her I loved her before I left that morning." She paused and stared at the fire. "That night I came home and the front door to our apartment was wide open. It was pitch black inside and I could feel a breeze blowing through the room. I flipped on the light switch and-" She paused again and the continued, "And I saw her lying in a pool of blood in the middle of the room on the floor. I saw a person jump out the window as I turned on the light. That sicko was laughing. Laughing! On the wall there was a bloody knife holding up a stupid scrap of paper and he had written, 'Are you afraid of the dark?' on it. I had just stood there at the door screaming until a neighbor heard me and saw what happened. She called 911 and at that time I finally had the courage to-to go over to her. She was still breathing and she grabbed my hand when I was sitting next to her. She was trying to say something, but I couldn't hear her. I bent close to her and I heard her say, 'I love you.' She stopped breathing then. She just died right there in front of me. I wasn't able to tell her I loved her before she died! I couldn't-" Kami felt something wet trickling down her cheeks and looked up at the ceiling. She didn't know when she had started crying, but she felt better after finally talking about it with somebody. She didn't have to tell Coco about it since she already knew everything. "I told myself I wouldn't cry." Kami said with a laugh as she buried her head into Haruhi's shoulder. "She always cried with me whenever I cried. She was such an idiot. I don't want her to be crying with me anymore. I promised myself I would smile just for her. I promised myself." She burst into tears and couldn't talk anymore.
Haruhi hugged Kami and pat her back as if she was comforting a child. "Your mom sounds like she was a great woman."
Kami sniffled and nodded. "But why her? Why kill my mom? She was the nicest person I will ever meet. She would stop and help a mother with her kids pick up her groceries when she dropped them. If she saw a poor beggar sitting on the streets she would hand them a dollar. She was always there for me." Another wall of tears Kami had been holding back for so long came out and she said between sobs, "She can't be there for me anymore."
Haruhi could feel Kami shivering and frowned. "Kami why did you give me your jackets? You're getting cold yourself."
Kami lifted her head and looked up at the brunette with a sad smile. "All of them down there are probably real worried about you. None of them would be too happy with me if you got hurt. They have probably already realized that you're missing and are all running around in a frenzy. They probably forgot about me anyways." She yawned and quickly slapped herself. "Jeez I had to start crying. It always makes me so tired."
Haruhi watched Kami silently and was shocked how different she seemed. She seemed so mature and calm now. "I'm sure Hunny or the twins have noticed your missing as well."
"Coco said he was a serial murder." Kami was on the subject of her mom again and shook her head. "But that's no reason for him to pick my mom! Coco said that she was his second... kill. Authorities said that he was some nutjob that watched his own mom die and started killing other moms that were like his. Single moms, protective, had a daughter, and real nice. I just hope they find that sicko soon before he ruins someone else's life." Fresh tears ran down Kami's face and she sighed. "Sorry. I'll shut up now."
--Meanwhile--
"WHERE IS MY DAUGHTER YOU HOOLIGANS?!" Tamaki was shaking the twins by their shoulders. "You were on the same slope as she was! So where is she!"
"We don't know!" They yelled trying to get away from the worried Tamaki.
"Okay then we will send out a search party! Mom! Get the snowmobiles! We are going to go find my daughter!"
--
Haruhi was worried about Kami. The white haired teen was shivering like crazy and would not accept Haruhi's offer of giving her jackets back. She was also slapping herself constantly to stop herself from drowsing off. She started pacing around the small cave, but after a bit she just collapsed onto the ground and started slapping herself again.
Things weren't looking too good.
The brunette cross dresser had stood up and started pacing around to see if she could walk better, but she was only able to stay on her legs for a minute before she fell back down. Haruhi sighed and rubbed her legs. She really wanted to get back for Kami's sake. She looked over to Kami and saw that her eyes were closed and she wasn't slapping herself.
"Kami!" Haruhi stood up and walked (to work her legs some more) over to Kami. She shook Kami by the shoulders and her eyes fluttered open and the green and gray stared back at Haruhi.
"Sorry. Sorry. I lost myself there for second." Kami smiled a small smile, she couldn't move her face that well since her tears had frozen on her cheeks. She yawned and rubbed her eyes. "Don't worry I won't fall asleep again." Even as she said that her eyes drooped and she looked like she was about to fall asleep again.
Haruhi was about to shake her again when she heard the distant whirring noise of snowmobile engines. "Stay awake Kami. I'll be right back." She couldn't assume the Host Club would notice the tracks going off the trail. She would probably have to flag them down. The slowpoke ran as fast as she could up to the trail and just in time too. Three snowmobiles were coming up and saw Haruhi standing there. They stopped and she watched the Host Club members jump off and start running to her.
Haruhi's leg gave out and she fell down onto the snow.
Tamaki came running to her and pulled her into a big hug. "Oh my wonderful daughter! We were so worried about you!"
Hunny and the twins ran over to Haruhi too and joined in the hug. "Haru-chan! Haru-chan! We thought you were a goner!" Hunny said.
"What happened anyways?" Hikaru asked.
Kaoru stared at Haruhi and thought her jacket was a bit odd. She turned around to speak to Hikaru so her back was to Kaoru and he saw the sequence K on the back. He just then remembered about Kami. "Haruhi! Where's Kami? She was with you wasn't she?"
Haruhi nodded and started walking in the direction of the cave, but she tripped and fell into the snow. "Just tell us where she is." Kaoru said gently as he helped her up.
Haruhi told them about the cave and stared walking forward again when Tamaki sat her down again. "Hunny. Mori. Watch over Haruhi. The twins and me will go get the American White-Berry." He turned around to tell the twins to follow him, but the two were already running to the cave where Kami was.
They didn't show it, but they both had grown attached to Kami and enjoyed her company. Kami herself probably didn't realize it, but she was a lot Haruhi in the way people liked her so easily. It wasn't like Haruhi's cuteness. It was the fact that her smile was so contagious. When she laughed people can't help, but to laugh with her. Her playful personality made her fun and lovable. And even though she was set on pissing them off it just made her all the more fun. They had never been challenged at their own games and found it rather fun. They both were worried, they had noticed Haruhi was damp and in Kami's jacket so they both assumed Kami was wearing Haruhi's and it was probably wetter. Also the fact that Haruhi had run out alone worried them even more.
Hikaru and Kaoru saw the cave and dashed over to it. "Kami!" They yelled as they ran inside. Kaoru bent down and picked up the small white haired teen bridal style. "Kami?" They asked. Her eyes were closed and she was shivering.
"You're soaking." Kaoru said as he shook her lightly.
"Kami we came for you." Hikaru said as he shook her as well.
Kami snuggled closer to Kaoru and muttered, "You guys didn't forget me."
"Why would we forget about you Kami?" Kaoru asked quietly.
"No one ever wants to remembers about Kami." She mumbled before she fell back asleep in Kaoru's arms,
"What does she mean by that?" Hikaru asked.
Kaoru shrugged, "Who knows. Anyways lets get this idiot inside."
Tamaki watched the three from the outside of the cave and started feeling a bit guilty. The fact that Kami was wearing Haruhi's soaking jacket and Haruhi was wearing Kami's dryer one obviously meant Kami gave Haruhi her jacket. Surely someone so selfless couldn't be that bad, could they?
"Milord! We're talking to you!"
The blonde blinked and noticed that the twins were standing right in front of him.
"Can you get Haruhi's skis? We're heading back now." Hikaru was holding Kami's snowboard and Kami was still in Kaoru's arms. She was clinging to his jacket and sleeping.
Tamaki nodded and grabbed the skis. "Let's get going then."
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"Kami-chan's Mommy died. That's so sad!
"We already knew that, but what we can't believe the idiot went back under just to get your skis."
"I want to know how I didn't have that piece of information. I would think that information like that would be easy to find."
"Oh it's so sad! The Kami-Berry is without both parents! Alright then it's decided!"
It was morning and the Host Club was in the lounge and Haruhi was telling the boys about what happened the day before. Neither she nor Kami were able to tell them what happened when they got back because they were so tired and fell asleep almost instantly. Kami was still asleep in her bed so Haruhi was stuck with the task of telling the group. The twins had asked what they had been talking about so Haruhi told them about that as well, but she didn't tell them about how Kami's mom died. For some reason she felt that the telling of how was something Kami should decide on.
"What's decided Milord?" The twins asked boredly.
"I shall adopt Kami-Berry into the family!"
"What the hell made you come to that conclusion?" Kami stood in the doorway into the lounge dressed in a t-shirt five sizes to big for her and faded jeans. Her white hair was pulled into two short braids on either side of her head. "Wasn't I a bad example of a girl?" She yawned and plopped down on the sofa the twins were sitting on.
"Oh but Kami-Berry!" Tamaki started doing very dramatic poses while he talked. "If you were like my image of how a girl should be my daughter wouldn't have been pulled out of that lake! You even gave up your dryer clothes for her and wore her soaking wet ones!" He bowed dramatically in front of Kami and rose petals seemed to fly out of his palm. "I would be honored to have such a selfless daughter!"
"Yeah that's nice I'll-"
"Accept." The twins wrapped their arms around Kami's shoulders and grinned. "Welcome to the family Kami-Berry." They snickered.
"Now that I am Kami-Berry's Daddy you two must take your mitts off my daughter!"
The twins' grin grew wider and they looked at Kami. "Protective of his new daughter already. That's amazing." Hikaru planted a kiss on Kami's right cheek and Kaoru planted one on her left cheek.
"Hooligans!"
The twins jumped up and ran over to Haruhi and did the same to her.
"How could you do that to your sisters? You two are grounded!" Tamaki chased after the twins as they dashed out of the room laughing.
Haruhi sighed and sat down next to Kami, rubbing her cheeks. "At least I'm not alone anymore." When she didn't hear a reply from the loud teen Haruhi looked over at Kami then raised an eyebrow.
Kami had her hands covering her cheeks where the twins had kissed her. "Those two are so dead when we get home." She muttered as her face turned a light pink. "They both are dead."
End of Chapter Five
(1) Remainder of the week: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. (Japanese school schedules have half day on Saturdays.)
(2) Princess of Wutai: That's Yuffie from FFVII. She's the princess of her country Wutai
(3) Twins' Pajamas: Fwi there pjs are smexy. They don't have shirts on XD
(4) V and Snowplow: Snowplowing is technique in skiiing where you make a big V shape to stop or turn.
Jem: Hope you enjoyed! R&R!
Thanks to SS-lover06(Maybe not the OC you're thinking of :D), Kinoshita Kristanite(Damn you must've been really bored. Since you were talking to yourself the first half I'll just say that personally I think "Stand in the Rain" by Superchick is better for Kami), fanxforever(He is a smart kitty), maple the wacky tree(Seriously. I laughed so hard when I realized his first name was Ritsu), and Uchiha Sasha!
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