"OH HO HO HO HO OH HO HO HO HO

Chapter Eight

"OH HO HO HO HO OH HO HO HO HO!"

"What the hell is that?" Kami asked as she ducked out from under the death hugs of Coco and Zaire. "Is it like a whore call? You know like Oh ho ho ho ho. Hoes gather here!"

"Kami you're weird." Coco said with a laugh and a shrug. "Obviously it's a prep call."

"You're both wrong." The twins said with a sigh. "It's the laugh of a creepy self proclaimed manageress."

"Oh that sounds scary." Zaire said with wide eyes.

"It is."

The floor in the middle of the room stared rising and a circular platform rose above the ground. A girl sitting at a table drinking tea was sitting on it.

"Isn't this the third floor?" Kami asked shaking her head. "Rich people are so weird. How have you survived Haruhi?"

"I've gotten over being amazed and don't care anymore." Haruhi said bluntly before Renge's loud voice filled the room.

"Never! Never would I think that the words Uki Doki Memorial would even be muttered here! Who is this amazing person that has mentioned Uki Doki Memorial in this room?"

Kami and Zaire both pointed right at Coco then took two giant steps back. They did not want to be part of the fangirlism.

Fangirlism was exactly what happened though. The second Renge walked up to Coco they started squealing and yelling about the different characters from Uki Doki Memorial.

"What the hell is that anyways?" Kami asked the Host Club who had also backed away from the two fangirls.

"Renge Houshakuji. Whenever she is in Japan she is part of Class 1-A, but usually she is supposed to be at home in France." Kyoya said almost robotically as he pushed his glasses up his nose staring at his little notebook.

"What's with the platform thing?"

"You don't want to know." The twins said with a laugh. "And what were you so worried about anyways? You made it sound like Coco was going to kill you or something."

Kami froze over and zoned out. She had completely forgotten about running away. "SECRET NINJA ART OF RUNNING AWAY!" She yelled at the top of her lungs as she grabbed up all the candy on the table, popping a lemon head into her mouth in the process, and with her bag she dashed out the room.

Coco stopped talking with Renge then waved cheerfully. "Trust me. Gravitation is a great series. You'd love it." She laughed then glared at Zaire. "ZAIRE! YOU LET KAMI GET AWAY!" She shrieked at the taller boy, who shrunk away from her.

"It was a secret ninja art. How could I catch her?"

"How is it ninja like if she announces it? You idiot! I was going to make up for a whole months worth of teasing! Now we just gotta try again tomorrow." The tall blonde twirled away from her brother and pointed at the twins. "Tell Kami we are attacking again." She giggled and skipped out the door. She disappeared, but her voice could still be heard as she yelled, "ZAIRE GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE!"

"Oh ho ho ho! I like this Coco! I must come in more and get to know this Kami better! Farewell Haruhi-kun!" Renge waved cheerfully to the Host Club and her little platform disappeared along with her.

Zaire sighed and sulked out of the door. "Meany little sister." He muttered to himself.

Hunny overheard his quiet complaint and his hand went to his mouth. "Za-chan isn't Co-chan's little brother? Why is Co-chan bossing him around then?"

The twins laughed and shook their heads. "He's a wuss. Just like Milord." They trailed off as their eyes wandered to the table where they had been playing poker. "That brat took our winnings!" They yelled as they pointed at the table.

"Its just candy." Haruhi said with shrug as she picked up her bag. "See you guys tomorrow."

"That was our winnings though." The two said with a sigh as they picked up their bags. "See you Milord." They said in unison as the walked out the door after Haruhi.

--

Hikaru and Kaoru jumped out of their car and looked around the Ouran entrance. Kami had yet to be seen. When the two had woken up and gotten around to knocking on her door they found no one there. It only made sense that she had already gone to school, but it made no sense whatsoever to go to the school early when she knew that Coco was going to be waiting there. The twins were rather curious about her motives.

"Kami-cake's friends!" A shrill loud voice yelled as a tall silver haired boy came running over to Hikaru and Kaoru. "Do you two doppelgangers know where my Kami-cakes is?"

"Nope."

"No idea."

"She disappeared real early in the morning. We have no idea where she is."

Zaire's smile fell and he shook his head. "Wherever is my Kami-cakes?" He said with a sigh as he slumped over to Coco who was standing by the gate to the school tapping her foot.

Hikaru and Kaoru laughed and continued walking through the campus.

"You know Kaoru..." Hikaru said with a smirk as he stopped walking and looked at his twin.

Kaoru matched his brother's smirk and said, "You're right Hikaru. She's not much of a cake."

"She's to small to be a cake."

"Yeah that's right."

"I'd say she'd need to be something smaller than a cake."

The two got real close to each other and pressed their thumbs and pointer fingers together to form a triangle between the two. "She's more like a cupcake!" They said together with mock surprised looks.

"You guys are so annoying. Be happy I gotta lay low." A very exasperated voice said behind the twins. "Oh and that's old. You already made that joke yesterday."

Hikaru and Kaoru twirled around expecting to see Kami, but came face to face with a seemingly normal girl. She had long pitch black hair that reached her lower back. Covering her eyes were thick rimmed 'emo' glasses. She was wearing light make up, some blush and lip gloss, and the Ouran uniform. Her bag was a bit bulkier than other girl's, but the twins didn't notice that. "Who are you?" They asked together.

The girl rolled her eyes and pulled her glasses down a bit to revel a green and gray eye staring at them. "Like I said, I'm laying low. Coco saw the uniforms and wouldn't consider me wearing one. Keep walking and pretend I'm a girl from class. If you don't I will make your living hell real hell." She smiled brightly and pushed her glasses back up.

"Isn't everything blurry?" The two asked keeping in step with the short girl who was briskly walking to the buildings.

"No, they're mine. I'm just not wearing my contacts. It's really hard to jump around and be my usual self when I have to worry about my glasses slipping off and breaking." Kami said with a casual shrug.

"You wear contacts?"

"Since when?"

"Didn't you say that you didn't waste money on pointless things like contacts?"

Kami rolled her eyes and surveyed the hallway before walking through it. "I said colored contacts are pointless. Prescription contacts make perfect sense. Retards."

"We aren't mentally challenged, Kami-cupcake."

As they were speaking the three reached their classroom. Kami walked in and slammed the door in their faces. "I am not a frickkn' cupcake! Get that into your thick pathetic heads! Jeez!" With that said she stomped over to her seat and plopped down in her chair.

"She's acting rather calm today." Kaoru said with a raised eyebrow as he sat down in his seat.

"What do you mean by that Kaoru?" Hikaru asked not really following his twin's train of thought.

"Well I was expecting her to be running all over the place and just being even crazier than she already is. Heck, Hikaru, she didn't try to kill us when we called her a cupcake."

"Maybe our prayers have been finally answered and someone brainwashed her."

"Or MAYBE she's just scared out of her mind." A very exasperated voice said behind them.

The twins turned around to stare at Kami with confused looks on their faces. "What's there to be scared about?"

"Well I dunno. Maybe the fact that she's like a vampire only her source of nourishment isn't blood. Oh no, it's my complete and utter humiliation." Kami shuttered and her voice started rising in volume. "She just loves telling all of these exaggerated stories about me and she always tells them right there in front of me as if I'm not there! Sure, that doesn't sound too bad now does it? Well I'm not kidding when I say she exaggerates! She makes up practically everything! What doesn't help AT ALL is that people actually BELIEVE HER!" She took a deep breath then lay her head down on the desk. "And then Zaire is there right behind like a little puppy dog answering to her ever whim and call and clinging to me like I'm going to run off into the street and get run over by a car."

Hikaru and Kaoru started at each then smirked at Kami. "We'd love to hear some of those stories. We bet some of them don't need to be exaggerated."

"Haha. The bell rang now shut the hell up and let me sleep and think up an escape plan for after school."

--

It was after school and Kami was peacefully reading a book while listening to her J-Rock on her iPod. She was sitting on the window seat in the 3rd music room trying her best to act as inconspicuous as possible. Already Coco and Zaire had barged into the room looking for her and didn't even notice the mousy looking girl at the window. Her plan was working, but sadly when in Ouran plans never worked, unless you were Kyoya of course.

That day in the club the theme was the circus. Tamaki was dressed up in an extravagant Ringmaster costume. Kyoya was in a simple, yet strangely sexy, fire-eater outfit. Haruhi was dressed up as a classic magician. Originally Mori was going to be a clown along with Hunny, but when Kami arrived she quickly suggested something else, a mime! Tamaki took to the idea so Mori was a white-faced mime while Hunny was a cutsie pink clown, not a scary clown at that. The twins were dressed up as lion tamers and even had their own little stuffed lion prop sitting on the couch between them.

By poor planning the Twin's group was right next to Kami's window, mind you VERY poor planning.

They were talking about something, but one phrase made Kami look up and pause her music.

"You'd make a sexy lion tamer any day, Kaoru."

"Hikaru.."

Then… Hikaru growled.

"HOLY MUSHROOMS ON CRACK!" Kami yelled pointing at the two, her outburst was ignored by the squeeling fangirls, but not by the twins. "That was WAY too yaoi and twincestual! Man, I need a combined word for that.. I'll come up with it later, but growling? What the hell?"

Hikaru and Kaoru stood up with matching grins and went over to Kami in a few steps. "Oh, but Kami, animal noises are just as sexy as my brother is." Hikaru said with a devious grin.

The teen coughed and shook her head, closing her book and setting it down next to her. "Ew no! I mean, if you're having sex the last thing you want your partner to do is meow! Or oink, or neigh, or bark, or cluck, or make WHALE NOISES!"(1)

Hikaru and Kaoru almost died of laughter at her reply and barely said, before they burst out laughing, "Growling is a different story though, along with the occasional meow."

"Ugh! You gotta be kidding me! That's just sickenly wrong and-" Kami's voice had risen as she spoke and by this time almost the whole room was interested in what the yelling was about, but they wouldn't be able to figure it out before more craziness happened.

The host club doors slammed open and a loud voice yelled, "AHA! I knew you couldn't stay hidden forever! Found you now Kami!"

The whole room twirled around to see the tall blonde standing in the doorway with a smug grin spread across her face.

"Aw animal noises while having sex." Kami muttered. "This just sucks. Time for plan B." She pulled her wig off and the short neon purple of her hair burst out from the subtle black. She set her glasses down next to the wig on the seat then threw open the window.

"What do you think you're do-" The twins started to stay, but stopped talking in shock.

Kami grabbed her backpack and leaped out the window yelling something that sounded like, 'Toodles!'

"AH SCREW IT!" Coco screeched as she ran over to the window.

The whole room ran over to the window to see if Kami was dead, but instead saw a giant parachute with a smiley face sticking it's tongue out on the top.

Haruhi slowly walked away from the window shaking her head. "Why is this school so full of psychopaths?" She muttered to herself as the rest of the room was waiting for the drama to unfold.

Coco pushed herself between Hikaru and Kaoru with a smile. "Well I gotta admit that her disguise was good. Was not expecting her to actually wear the uniform, but the parachute has a counter attack."

The twins looked at the girl, who was almost taller than them, and noticed her brother wasn't trailing behind her like a faithful dog. "Where's the man servant?" They asked curiously.

"Down there." The blonde said with a laugh as a yell came up from the ground.

"AAAAGHHH! I hope Kefka takes his creepy clowness of doom and eats you!" Kami was on the ground once more, but not in the way she wanted for she was being held by Zaire. "Zaire put me down!"

Zaire simply smiled and pulled out something putting it around Kami's neck. Her protests were easily heard the three stories above and it was obvious why she was so pissed when the silver haired teen finally set her down. Latched around her neck was a leather collar with a chain leash attached to it. "Got her Coco!" Zaire yelled giving his sister thumbs up.

"Bring her on up!" Coco yelled down to him. She laughed and shut the window. Looking around she laughed again and shook her head. "You think that was crazy? That was nothing compared to normal. Ain't club hours over Ichijo?"

Kyoya, for some unknown reason, replied to Ichijo and said, "Yes, but customers are free to leave whenever they want."

Coco shrugged and said rather loudly, "Oh, well I hope all of them don't mind constant cussn' and loudness cause that's what's coming upstairs right now." She laughed rather maniacally which caused her to receive many scared stares.

The room emptied quickly after that.

Once it was just the Host Club and Coco, Kami and Zaire had yet to show up.

"What's taking the cupcake and wuss so long anyways?" The twins asked sitting down next to Coco on the couch she was perched on.

"He's a wuss. That should be enough. Kami has probably escaped from him a couple times, but he's a good little doggie. He knows how to fetch." Coco laughed then looked on either side of her. "What made her blow her cover anyways? If she hadn't started yelling like the idiot she is she would have gotten away today, again."

Hikaru and Kaoru told Coco about their little argument over animal noises.

"Oh I totally agree with her though! The last thing you want your sex partner to do is to start mooing! That takes the sex out of sexy. But I agree with you guys too. Growls and occasional meows are okay. That puts the sex in sexy."

The twins stared at Coco as if she was an alien. After a rather awkward silence Kaoru asked, "Is Kami usually so perverted? I don't think we've ever heard her make any reference to sex before."

Coco burst out laughing. "Are you serious? She hasn't cracked a single sex joke while here yet? Is this school full of 50-year-old virgins or something? Or is it a rich Japanese thing? I mean the topic of almost every conversation back home is somehow related to sex. Who's the biggest whore, who just slept with who, who just lost their virginity, who just got high and or drunk and got laid, oh the list goes on!" She stared at their blank stares and placed her fingers on her forehead. "Good god. You rich Ouran people are pathetic! What do you usually joke about?"

The twins shrugged and were about to reply when the doors burst open, again. Zaire walked in dragging Kami by the chain connected to her collar as if she really was just a dog. "Got the Kami-Cakes Coco!"

"All right!" Coco jumped up from her seat. "Listen up all you Hosts! Gather around!" She looked around at the boys with a smile. "You all are going to be in our cosplay group this weekend whether you want to or not!"

"I believe the correct question is, do you want to go to the convention in our cosplay group this weekend." Kyoya said pushing his glasses up.

"Oh no. Coco really does mean you're going whether you like it or not." Zaire dragged Kami over to the couch and sat down, pulling her into his lap. " 'Sides you'll want to! There's gonna be a DDR battle and we assumed you'd enjoy watching that. Oh yeah, Kami-cakes! You're gonna be entering too! There's this stupid stuck up ass that needs his ass kicked and despite how much Coco brags you're better than she is! You're also gonna be my partner for one of the double songs!" He pressed his check against Kami's and started rubbing is head around. "Cause I wuv my Kami-cakes."

Kami rolled her eyes and pushed his face away. "Paws off."

Coco smirked and passed Kami her glasses. "Also wouldn't it be great to have some pics of you guys somewhere other than the school all dressed up? Kami will obviously be taking pictures as well."

"I will?"

"Yes you are. Now our group is gonna be a Kingdom Hearts 2 and FFVII crossover. The outfits are funky and fawesome and totally up your alley. There's also a guy character for Haruhi to be since there's gonna be pics."

At first the loud members of the club didn't really register what Coco had just said. Then suddenly it sunk in and they all gasped loudly. Tamaki pointed at her with wide eyes and yelled, "How did you know my daughter was a girl?! How?! Did Kami-Berry tell you?" He ran over to Kami and hugged her tightly. "Kami-Berry how could you do that to Daddy?!"

"Hey! Off my Kami-Cakes!" Zaire said possessively as he pushed the drama king off the girl in his lap. "My Kami-Cakes doesn't snitch either. Coco is just weird like that and knows stuff like that."

"Hey!" Coco yelled whacking her older brother on the head. "You don't dis the queen."

Zaire muttered something under his breath and hugged Kami closer to him.

"Thank you." The blonde smiled and looked over to Kyoya. "Well Mister VP, but runs everything, what do you say? Sound good to you?"

Kyoya switched his gaze from the hopeful looks like Zaire's and Tamaki's to the seemingly could care less looks like Haruhi's or Coco's then to the horrid filled 'Don't you dare say yes' looks coming from the twins and Kami. An evil grin spread across Kyoya's face. He pushed his glasses up and said, "We could find some profit in this. I have no objection."

"Aw pixie sticks!" Kami yelled as she banged her head into Zaire's chest in defeat.

"I could be not as bad as it seems, even though the cupcake is going to be there." Hikaru muttered to his twin.

"So true Hikaru. After all, this is a convention full of people in a lower living class." A grin spread across Kaoru's face. "So that would make it-"

"A COMMONERS CONVENTION!" The two yelled, suddenly hyped up about the idea. "We're going to a commoners convention." They twirled around to Haruhi and linked arms with the girl. "We're going to a commoners convention with Haruhi!"

"Unhand my daughter you fiends!" Tamaki yelled jumping up from where he had been sitting.

"Make us." Hikaru and Kaoru said with a mischievous grin as they ran off, arms still linked with Haruhi's.

"Man, what a lively bunch." Coco watched the four running around the room. "You weren't kidding when you said they were crazy."

"Expect me to lie about that?" Kami asked with a roll of her eyes.

The blonde didn't reply to Kami's question, instead she put her fingers to her lips and whistled loudly.

Hikaru and Kaoru, holding Haruhi, stopped along with Tamaki and all four looked over to Coco. Hunny had wandered off to eat more of his life source, cake, but his, as well as his faithful shadow's, attention was now on the tall American. Kyoya was just being Kyoya and no one would ever know what he was doing.

"I gotta scats and gotta do some finishing touches on the costumes and Kami has to finish my song-"

"I do?"

"Yes you do."

"Drat thought I could get out of that."

"No 'course not. Hikaru, Kaoru, make sure she finishes that song tonight."

"We get to bug her if she doesn't?"

"Naturally."

"The twins are on the job!"

"Great. Now-" Coco pulled a key out her back pocket and unlocked the collar around Kami's neck. She grabbed Zaire's hand, pulling him off the sofa and Kami onto the ground. "We must say our good byes." Looking over to the twins she said, "I trust you two to make sure she doesn't slack off!" With a laugh Coco skipped out the room dragging her brother behind her.

"Well this is going to get interesting." Kami muttered to herself on the ground.

"Wonder who we are going to be!" Hunny bounced over to Kami with wide eyes. "Do you have any idea who we are going to be Kami-chan?"

Kami smirked. "Oh yeah."

"Who are we going to be Kami-Berry?" Tamaki asked twirling over to the two, well three counting Mori.

"You're probably gonna be Demyx, oh! Possibly Marluxia though."

"Who're they??" The twins asked, arm in arm with Haruhi.

"Demyx is a cry baby with a horrible catch phrase and hair style. Marluxia is a showy flower guy. "

"Both fit perfectly." Hikaru and Kaoru said with a laugh. "Who would we be?"

"Axel and Reno obviously. She must've picked a KH/FFVII crossover just so she could have Reno."

"What are they like?" Hunny asked curiously.

"Well actually I wouldn't be surprised if Axel was based off Reno. They both have long bright red hair and sadly their sexiness will be wasted on you."

"Hey!" The two yelled smacking Kami on the head. "What's Haruhi's character?"

"Do I really need to go to this thing?" Haruhi asked dejectedly.

Kyoya and Tamaki both looked like they were going to say something when Kami butted in. "Yes you do unless you want a rabid Coco after you. Trust me. No fun at all! Oh and you're either Roxas or Sora. Probably Roxas though."

"Who's me and Takashi?" Hunny asked jumping up and down in his seat.

"I'm not really sure whether she wanted to make you Cait Sith and Mori his Moggle or you be Cait Sith and Mori be Vincent. Probably Mori being Vincent. She loves Vincent."

"What about Kyo-chan?"

Kami stared at the older boy wearing glasses with a blank face. "My gawd. Coco must be a hidden genius if she thought of something for four-eyes."

"You don't have much a right to talk Kami. You are wearing glasses too." Haruhi pointed out.

"Pah. Minor details. No one needs them." The purple haired girl laughed and pushed her glasses up her nose as Kyoya did. "At least I don't bring attention to my blindness every 5 minutes."
Dark flames seemed to be flowing out of Kyoya. His glasses were practically glowing. A scary grin was forced across his face. "Oh do you think your friend is the 'devil'?" He asked. "You don't know what the devil is."

Kami's eyes grew wide. Her mouth started opening and closing, but nothing came out. Suddenly she jumped up and gathered all her things. "Comm'on Hikaru! Kaoru! I gotta work on Coco's song! Remember? Let's go! Let's go!"

With that said Kami dashed out the room as fast as she could in the dress she was wearing. Plastered across Hikaru and Kaoru's faces were very content grins. The two slowly waltzed out the room, waving to the rest in the room with a firm salute. "See you guys tomorrow."

The flames died down around Kyoya and her started scribbling things in his notebook. One thought was in his mind at the moment. He needed to find something to black mail Kami with. Oh how it bugged him when someone was out of his control and was around him a lot. Childhood friends were such great sources, especially when their timing was perfect.

--

"Oh hell. Oh hell no."

"-Isn't this just great Kami-chan? Your friends are so nice! I'm so happy they considered staying with us!" Yuzuha was sitting at the dinner table cheerfully chatting away to everyone sitting at the table. "I think it's just wonderful how you two flew from New York just to see Kami!"

"Oh hell. Oh hell no."

"Oh Hita-"

"Oh please call me Yuzuha, dear."

Coco smiled politely and corrected herself. "Yuzuha, we just couldn't believe we hadn't been with Kami in a whole month! Zaire and I were so used to seeing and being with Kami every day all day! When she left for here it just broke out hearts! I can't believe we waited a whole month before visiting!"

"Oh hell. Oh hell no."

"How sweet!" Yuzuha looked over to Kami with a bright smile. "Why didn't you tell me you had such charming friends? I would have told you to invite them over ages ago!"

Kami looked up from her spaghetti and stopped cursing under her breath. "Oh h-no! I didn't want to burden you with them Yuzuha!"

"Nonsense!" Yuzuha laughed and continued talking with Coco excitedly. "Are you a model dear? You have the most beautiful figure!"

"Oh no. I'm not into the modeling stuff. Me 'n Zaire are into composing our own music. In fact, one reason we decided to come now is because there's a convention in town. Our band has played there for the past few years. Kami is our lyricist and we are so happy she can come to see us this time!"

"How lovely! Kami-chan! Why didn't you tell me you wrote songs?" Yuzuha clapped her hands together and suddenly said. "Oh dear! I haven't asked the maids to set up rooms for you two yet. It's so late too."

"That's okay Yuzuha! We're gonna be camping out in Kami's room." Coco said with a large grin.

"Oh hell. Oh hell no."

"What a brilliant idea! But don't keep her up to late. Those three have school tomorrow!"

"Don't worry Yuzuha! We'll make sure she goes straight to sleep!"

"Wonderful! Now chop chop you five! Off to bed now!"

Hikaru, Kaoru, and Kami stared at each with wide eyes. At that exact moment a silent conversation was exchanged, as well as a promise. With Coco and Zaire in the house there was going to enough fighting and craziness. Until not necessary they were allies and would cease from attacking each, but only while the other two were there. Once Coco and Zaire were good and gone the prank wars would continue.

--

The next few days weren't as bad as Hikaru, Kaoru, and Kami had expected. Before school Zaire and Coco were still asleep and continued to sleep well past noon. After school Coco and Zaire were there waiting for Kami. Only Coco left with her though. Zaire had decided to learn more about the Host Club and wanted to learn from the 'King.' Tamaki had been more than pleased to teach him. The girls absolutely loved Zaire. Tamaki dubbed him as the 'Loyal Puppy Dog Type.' Back at the Hitachiin mansion Kami worked on Coco's song while Coco changed what she wanted. When the twins and Zaire got back home Kami and the twins quickly did their homework. Once that was done the group chatted and generally just hung out. Friday was coming up fast and soon everyone was excited about going to the convention. When the day came the Host Club made sure that everyone knew where they were going all weekend, "A COMMONERS CONVENTION!"

The second the bell rang signaling school was out the group was whisked away in Coco's bus to the convention, bus, of course, being the best way to call the strange vehicle. The otaku cosplaying trio knew this strange combination of a band bus and limo as "The Mystery Machine." Just to make it obvious why they called it that they stuck a giant Scooby-Doo and Shaggy in the passenger seat.

When the Ouran group were pulled into the bus they came face to face with two boys stretched out on a fluffy Scooby-Doo print sofa, in the bus thing. In fact the whole back of the bus thing was practically a room! There was a little changing area in the back and a closet and a couple more couches. Even for the richies of Ouran the bus thing was quite weird.

"Aaron! Jace! Come 'ere you two!" Kami, who was sporting a lime green hair color, yelled the second the bus sped off. She jumped between the two with her arms wrapped around their shoulders, dragging the two down being taller than her.

The two boys were similar in ways, but were easy to tell apart. The teen of Kami's right had long sandy blond hair that fell down to his shoulders. It wasn't the unkept long hair that most boys had. He obviously knew what conditioner was and brushed his hair. His eyes were a bright blue and were sparkling with the joy the smile across his face expressed. "It's the Kamsters! Long time no see you brat!" He laughed and pulled Kami into a noggie. "Well Jace, I must say Coco-chan wasn't kiddn' when she said a whole month away from Kamsters makes you miss her!"

The one called Jace had a subtle auburn hint to his long hair, just as well kept as the other boy's. His eyes were identical to the other's, and with the small fact it was made almost obvious the two were brothers. "Miss is a bit of a strong word Aaron. I'd say that life just seems a bit quieter without Kami around."

"Haha you two. Did you just get in today?"

"Of course. Unlike those two richies over there." Aaron glared at Coco and Zaire playfully. "We need to stay in school and can't afford skipping willy nilly."

"We considered not coming to this con, but the fact they asked for the band made it worth it." Jace added.

"Awww. You didn't even put into consideration you would get to see me again?"

"Of course not." Jace and Aaron said with phony grins.

"Ha! You two wussies! I didn't tell Kami, but she knows you two were close to going CUTTEHS while she was gone! Now shut up!" Coco's loud voice came from another couch, which had a bat pattern. She laughed then looked over to the Host Club, who were just standing there attempting to stay upright as the bus moved a bit confused as to what to do. "Hey you guys! Take a seat! I gotta give the run down of everything that's going on today!"

Looking around the Host Club timidly took seats. For a rich person Coco was very different. Though, Haruhi, was probably the most weirded out of the hosts.

"Now this is Jace and Aaron." She nodded to the two boys sitting on either side of Kami. "They're our drummer and bassist. They're going as Kadai and Yahzoo from Final Fantasy VII. I'm gonna be Elena from FFVII, and Zaire's being Sephiroth. Tamaki you're going to be an Organization member named Marluxia. I'm sure you'll do a great job playing him." She pulled something out of a bag that was lying in her lap and threw another bag to Tamaki, but inside was the cosplay costume to his character. "Go change. You all change when he's done. Now Hikaru and Kaoru. You two are going to Reno and Axel. Hikaru HAS to be Axel and Kaoru HAS to be Reno. I'm gonna check with Kami and Haruhi to make sure you don't switch." She threw them their costumes. "Kyoya, you're gonna be Tseng. Real simple outfit so I'm sure you will have no objection." His outfit was thrown to him. "Hunny and Mori. Hunny you're Cait Sith, a kitty cat, so a whole body outfit for you. Once you're dressed come 'ere to me so I can do the face paint on yah. Mori, you're Vincent." Their costumes were then chucked across the bus. "And lastly, Haruhi. You're gonna be Roxas. Make sure you pin your hair up real well cause the Roxas wig is short and blonde." Haruhi's costume was then thrown to her.
"Today is battle of the bands and Mission Otakuhas been asked to be a guest that won't participate. We've won the last two battles so they wanted to the losers a chance to have some limelight." The blond laughed cruelly. "Man do they suck. Anyways, once we get there you all can go off and explore, but you gotta meet up with Kami-Kams around 6 and head to the BOTB Arena."

"Why, whatever is this outfit?" Tamaki stepped out of the small changing room in the back of the bus in an all leather coat holding a curly magenta wig.

"Wow you look awesome in that Tamaki!" Kami yelled giving the blond a thumbs up. "Better keep the wig on though! Then no one will know who you are!"

"Kami-Berry thinks I look good?!" Tamaki yelled running over to Kami. He gave her a big hug, but was pushed off by Aaron and Jace.

"Now now you overexcited blondie. Kami simply said that you looked good as Marluxia. That doesn't mean that she thinks you yourself looks good."

"I should have known Kami-Berry's friends would be just as cruel as her." Tamaki dramatically said as he plopped down onto the couch to pout.

Hikaru and Kaoru grinned. "Wow Kami. You actually have some cool friends." They looked at Jace and Aaraon and asked. "Are you two brothers?"

"Twins actually." Jace said with a grin.

"Sadly not completely identical like you two." Aaron said with a mock frown.

"But when we wear wigs that look the same-"

"We look identical-"

"And we easily fool Coco and Zaire-

"But unfortunately it's very hard to fool the Kamsters." They finished together.

"Now it makes sense." Haruhi said with a smile. "Kami's used to annoying twins so that's how she can tell Hikaru and Kaoru apart so well and puts up with them."

Jace and Aaron turned their attention to the crossdresser, who they had not noticed earlier. "Well hello there gorgeous." Aaron said with a grin.

"What's a pretty girl like yourself doing dressed up as a guy and hanging out with this-" They stared directly at Kami. "Idiot?"

"Hey!" Kami yelled smacking the two on the back of the head. "More like what's she doing with that big group of idiots over there!"

The twins were about to yell back when a high-pitched voice interrupted everyone's thought process.

"Look! I'm a kitty!"

Hunny jumped into the middle of the bus thing dress up in a very peculiar outfit. He wore tight black pants that ran into large tan shoes. A black tail with a white tip ran out from the back of the pants. Covering the top half of the pants was a very long tight shirt with white fuzz making a tummy. The sleeves of the shirt went into big white gloves. Tied around his neck was a bright red cape. A black wig hid his bright blonde hair and poking out of the black hair were two black cat ears. In short he was just adorable.

"Kyaa! How keyoot!" Coco squealed, pulling Hunny into her lap. "Lemme do your face paint now."

"Takashi is cool looking too!" Hunny said proudly.

Every one turned to look at Mori, who had somehow gotten up and changed and sat back down again without anyone noticing, and barely recognized the guy. He was wearing an all black leather outfit, but the long red cape he was wearing covered most of it. His right arm was covered elbow down with a golden claw. Wrapped around Mori's forehead was a red cloth and long black hair fell across his shoulders. In short he was just downright sexy.

"OMG!" Both Coco and Kami yelled.

"Dude you're gonna have all the fangirls!" Kami yelled cheerfully.

"Damn right!" Coco agreed. She laughed and got to work applying the face paint to Hunny's face.

The Host Club was unusually quiet as Kami and her friends chattered away. After a bit Hikaru and Kaoru got up to change into their costumes. Laughter filled the bus.

The two stumbled out of the curtains shaking with laughter.

Hikaru was wearing the same coat as Tamaki was, but his wig was a bright flaming red and was so spiky it looked lethal.

Kaoru was wearing a suit, but it was real untidy looking, making him look like a drunk. His wig was the same color as Hikaru's, but not as spiky and had a long ponytail in the back. Resting on his head was a pair of goggles.

"Wow you two actually pull that off real well." Kami grinned from ear to ear. "I actually approve!"

"What's that supposed to mean brat?"

"Hey now you two!" Jace said loudly, standing up.

"Only we are allowed to call the Kamsters a brat." Aaron added standing as well.

"You barely know her so you have no right to."

"You haven't proven yourselves to us either." Jace yelled sitting down and hugging Kami.

"Until you've proven you two, heck all of you! Until all of you people prove to us that you are worthy of being Kami's friends-" Aaron plopped on the other side of her and wrapped his arms around her as well.

Jace finished the sentence for his brother, "You aren't allowed to tease her."

"But she's my daughter!" Tamaki yelled dramatically.

"Hey now! Who said you could steal my Kami?" Coco yelled, joining the conversation. "She's my best friend so I have the rights to claim her as my daughter!"

Tears formed in Tamaki's eyes. "B-B-but. Kami's my daughter! The world I have known has been torn to pieces!" Waterfalls poured out of his eyes. "Haruhi! Comfort your father!" He jumped next to Haruhi and buried his head into her shoulder.

"Sexual harassment!" The twins yelled pulling Tamaki away.

"How ever do you survive Kami-Cakes?" Zaire asked as he joined Kami and the brothers on their couch.

"I have no idea." Kami said with a dazed laugh as shouts and arguments ricocheted around the bus.

"Kamsters needs some female friends-"

"That isn't a cross dressing girl that comes with a group of guys"

"Yes! My Kami-Cakes is going to be stolen away right from under my nose! Get some girl friends! Stop being friends with so many guys!"

Kami looked up at the three with a cruel grin. "My, my, my. You three really shouldn't be talking about things like that. Aren't you guys too?"

Jace, Aaron, and Zaire stared at each other for a moment then let their jaws drop open wide. Their yells were added into the chaos in the bus.

"And this is why I'm so glad that land masses and oceans separate my two groups of friends." Kami said with a laugh to herself.

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"Uuugh. Where is Kami-Cupcake?" Hikaru asked the sky boredly.

"How ever should we know brother? Stop complaining. She'll show up soon. Then we can explore everything!" Kaoru smiled at his twin.

"Kaoru! You're so smart!" Hikaru grabbed his brother's face between his hands and peered into his eyes. "Might I add you make a wonderful video game character."

"Oh, Hikaru!"

"KYAAA! HOW KEYOOOOT! RENO/AXEL FLUFF!"

"Pictures! Can we have a picture of you two!?"

Hikaru and Kaoru were seated on the steps to the main entrance of Kami and Coco's convention. The rest of the Host Club was just talking and comparing outfits near the street on the lookout for their tour guide otaku. It didn't take the twins long to figure out that no matter where they went the girls loved the boy love.

"Why of course lovelies." Hikaru said with a dashing grin. He pulled Kaoru into a tight embrace and looked down into his eyes.

The click of a camera sounded and the flash blinded the two for a second. Then there came the annoying sound of a certain midget.

"Okay you yaoi fangirls! You can get enough of the Reno/Axel lovie dovie stuff inside. We gots a Roxas with us as well! Just look for the big group of squealing girls and you've found us. Now shoo!"

"Hee hee. They have a Yuffie in the group too! I saw that there was a Marluxia too!"

"Really? I saw that Yuffie was talking with Vincent! Kyaa! There's a Reno and a Vincent! That's the only love triangle I like in FFVII!"

The girls laughed and left talking about pairings they liked.

Hikaru and Kaoru looked up at Kami and were a bit surprised. The person standing in front of them didn't even seem to have the air as Kami did. Kami seemed taller than usual with her shoulders pushed back and her head held high. Her short lime green hair they had seen all day was gone. Her hair length and style looked a bit different, but what stuck out the most was that her hair was now pitch black. Tied around her head, covering her forehead was a black and white headband with the tips ending past her chest. Her outfit was most definitely weird, even by Kami standards. The main base of the top was a sleeveless majestic purple that ended way above her midriff. Then a black undershirt went a bit above her belly button, making the shirt somewhat presentable. Two black buckles made the left strap and giant yellow one made the right strap. The shorts were, well, short and bright orange. A yellow and orange belt rested on her hips and attached to the left short was a big yellow pouch. Grungy looking white stocks went up past her knees and then into large black boots with steel blue straps. Around her left wrist was a gray sweatband and on her left arm was a purple glove.

"What the heck?" The two asked staring up at her.

Kami shrugged. "Coco wanted me to wear Yuffie's Dirge of Cerberus outfit. She's the evil overlord. Gotta listen to what the evil overlord tells me to do. Anyways," She held out two tan wristbands to the twins. "Put these on or you'll get kicked out. The line to get the tickets was so long!"

"Ah! Kami! How did your hair change?!" Haruhi, who's own hair was hidden by a blonde wig and was wearing a rather odd outfit that Kingdom Hearts fans would know as Roxas, walked up the last few steps till she was next to the three with wide eyes. "I know you change your hair everyday, but surely you couldn't have dyed it just now."

Kami laughed and shook her head. "Nah. I'm not that awesome. I'm actually wearing a wig to change my hair color." She lifted a bit of the black hair and her lime green hair was obviously still there.

"Oh." Haruhi blushed slightly. "That was a bit dense."

"Ah, don't worry Haruhi." Hikaru said with a grin.

"We're sure it's just a commoner thing." Kaoru added with another grin.

A loud gasp came from behind them. "Why Kami-Berry! How did you change your hair color so fast?!" Tamaki yelled as he pressed his hands against his cheeks in shock.

"Now I feel like an idiot." Haruhi mumbled sitting down next to Hikaru on the stairs.

Hikaru didn't really have anything to say to make Haruhi feel better so he simply laughed and pat her on the back. "He's your father. What could you expect?" He said jokingly.

Kaoru glanced over at the two with a strange look in his eyes.

Kami noticed this little sequence in the corner of her eye and the devil in her mind smiled mischievously. She needed to look into some things, but that was for later. The Yuffie cosplayer turned on Tamaki and smacked the back of his head. "No you idiot! It's a wig! Jeez not only do you lack balls, but brains too. You're just an idiot through and through."

Tamaki ran over to Kyoya, who was wearing a suit much like Kaoru's and a long black wig making him look like Tseng from FFVII, and started complaining to him. "Mom! Our daughter is insulting her father's balls! Waah!"

"Stuff it Tamaki! I gots an announcement for all of you!" Kami yelled hopping up to the highest step so she was looking down on the Host Club. "From this moment on, until I say so, I am no longer Kami. My name is Yuffie! Hikaru and Kaoru are no longer Hikaru and Kaoru! They are Axel and Reno! Haruhi is now Roxas! Tamaki is now Marluxia! Kyoya is now Tseng! Hunny is now Cait Sith and Mori is now Vincent! Does everyone understand?"

The group nodded and looked up at Kami expectantly, they had no idea as to what they should be doing at this convention.

Kami smiled and spread her arms out. "Just explore the place and be immersed into the otaku culture. If someone asks for a picture make sure you agree! Go off and have fun! There's plenty for everyone, tons of good sweets too. Let's see." She reached into her giant yellow pouch and pulled out a watch. "It's 3:30 now. Mission Otaku comes on at 7… So meet me here by 6:30! Go off little duckies!"

"Come on Taka- Oh! I meant Vincent!" Hunny giggled and pointed at himself. "And I'm Cait Sith!" He giggled again as he skipped inside, dragging Mori behind him as he talked about wanting to try all the otaku sweets.

Tamaki posed dramatically and pointed at the entrance. "Come K-Tseng! We must explore this new commoner culture!"

Kyoya rolled his eyes and followed the dramatic blond silently.

"Why did it end up like this?" Hikaru asked looking from Kami to Kaoru and Haruhi. "Why do we get stuck with the cupcake?"

"Ha! You don't want me then? Fine then! You won't get the guide to having the most fun at a convention!"

"Hikaru!" Kaoru stared at his twin with wide eyes. "You shouldn't insult our tour guide!"

"Since we are already here we might as well have the most fun. Kami seems to know what she's doing." Haruhi added.

Hikaru smiled and shrugged. "Never said she should go away, but we gotta keep an eye on her. Since our usual marker, that bright hair, is gone it's going to be easy to loose that little cupcake in a crowd."

Kami glared at Hikaru and whacked him on the back of the head. "You aren't going to be with me right now anyways. There's a Kingdom Hearts talk going on in one of the rooms. You and Haruhi are going there to learn more about your characters."

The three stared up at her with open jaws. "What? Why?" Kaoru was the first to say. "Why can't we stick with them?"

Kami smiled mischievously and shrugged. "Well Reno isn't in Kingdom Hearts and I know all there is to know about it so it's pointless for us to go. 'Sides I have something else in mind for you." She laughed and grabbed Hikaru and Haruhi's wrists. "Now there's a map inside. Look at it and go to the room labeled 'KH Discussion.' Shoo now! Oh! And don't forget. You are Axel and Roxas!" She pushed them ahead of her and they walked on oddly.

When the two were gone Kami turned to the now standing Kaoru. "Well then, come on." She smiled and headed inside.

"Kam-"

"It's Yuffie, remember?"

Kaoru sighed and stepped up next to the ninja cosplayer. "Fine then, Yuffie, why did you send Haru-"

"Roxas."

"Roxas and Axel off by themselves?"

"Well-"

"Kyaa! Yuffie!" A group of girls dressed in strange color coded outfits and animal parts. One with a pink theme and cat ears ran up to Kami and Kaoru with a camera. "Yuffie! Reno! Can I have a picture?!" She asked chirpily.

"Of course Ichigo!" Kami said with a grin. She jumped up and wrapped her arm around Kaoru's neck, pulling him down to her level. "Cheese!" She yelled making a peace sign and grinning.

The pink girl giggled and one with a blue theme jumped up next to her. "To bad you don't have a Vincent."

"Actually, Minto." Kami let go of Kaoru and he quickly backed away rubbing his neck. "We do have a Vincent, but Cait Sith ran off with him. Our whole group will be out at the entrance from 6 to 6:30 before the Battle of the Bands."

"We'll be there!" A yellow and orange themed girl yelled with a laugh. The others nodded then waved as they ran off to ambush another cosplayer.

"What the heck?" Kaoru asked as he watched the girls run away.

Kami giggled and linked arms with Kaoru. "It's the first convention of the New Year! Of course the cosplayers are going to be crazier than usual. Get used to it."

Kaoru shook his head and looked down at their linked arms. Something was weird about Kami, she seemed a bit too nice. Then again, he wasn't around her alone that often. Maybe Hikaru pissed her off more than Kaoru realized. Unlike his twin, Kaoru tried to be a bit more civil to Kami. "You were talking about why you made Har-Roxas and Axel go alone."

"Oh. Yah." Kami looked up at Kaoru with a smug grin. "You like Haruhi don't you?"

The fact Kami just broke her own name rule flew right past Kaoru. He stared at Kami with a lump in his heart. How could she have found out? Thinking back Kaoru was positive he always made sure he treated Haruhi no different than before he realized he had a crush on her. Afraid his voice would betray him Kaoru remained silent and looked out ahead of them.

"Take that as a y-e-s."

"I'm trying to stop!" Kaoru quickly said. "Beca-"

"Hikaru likes her too."

"How do you know that?"

Kami lead them into a large crowded room with tons of booths with merchandise on them. She noticed Kyoya and Tamaki examining a plushie booth and smirked. They were probably going on how cheap the plushies were made. She stopped by a booth selling Pocky and bought a bunch of different flavors. After sticking them in her yellow pouch, keeping a strawberry box out, she looked up at Kaoru. "It's so obvious it's sad. But it seems that neither Haruhi or Hikaru realize it."

Kaoru couldn't believe his ears. When was Kami so observant? Well sure, she had figured out Haruhi was a girl in one day, but to figure out his twin liked Haruhi and that Hikaru himself didn't know it amazed Kaoru.

"H-how do you know all this?" Kaoru was finally able to stutter.

Kami had walked a bit ahead of Kaoru and looked over her should with a smug grin. "Really Kaoru, you should know me well enough by now to know that I read plenty of manga in different genres. Shoujo manga don't exaggerate love stories that much. Not to mention Hikaru isn't exactly as good as you are with hiding his feelings."

"But how did you know-" Kaoru paused and was tempted to lower his voice, but he didn't want Kami thinking he was that upset about her knowing. "Me?"

With a shrug Kami said, "Well I wasn't 100 percent sure, just like when I guessed with Haruhi and Kyoya confirmed it when I first met her. You confirmed it for me." Her triumphant grin made Kaoru want to smack himself, how could he have fallen for such an easy trap? "But I did have plenty of clues to help me out. Like whenever Hikaru talks to Haruhi you tend to pay attention mostly to them. And then when Hikaru says something really stupid you roll your eyes and look away."

Kaoru stared in disbelief at Kami. When did she ever watch them so intently? To gather all that in, what, a month? Surely she had other stuff to keep her occupied enough to not notice these small things.

"Yah. Yah." Kami said with a laugh. "I really do have nothing better to do you know. I don't exactly have any friends to talk during class, do I?"

When Kaoru thought about it he was surprised to realize she was right. Usually he, Haruhi, and Hikaru were talking and everyone else had their own friends. Kami did tend to be the quietest during class. Then again, everyone else was supposed to, too, but they were A class. The A class was smart and tended to have a lot of free time when they finished stuff early. So it would make sense that Kami would be free to observe them, but it was kinda creepy how Kaoru never noticed it before.

"Ohmigawd! Jem! Jem!" A girl dressed in a plain white long sleeve shirt, jeans, and messy black hair ran up to Kaoru and Kami. Another girl ran up behind her, dressed in a very gothic-lolita outfit with blond hair. "Can Alex 'n I have a picture with you two?" The blonde one asked.

"Course!" Kami chirped as she pulled Kaoru down as she had in the last picture and wrapped her arm around the blonde's shoulders. The black haired one stood next to Kaoru and she nudged him to do the same.

The blonde held a camera out and snapped a picture of the four. They both gave Kaoru a hug and ran off yelling thank you.

"This place is so weird." Kaoru said with a laugh.

"You bet it is! Now I haven't gotten to the point of my pulling you away from the lovebirds." Kami stopped walking at a stand stocked full of manga and a big sign said they were all half price. Of course she was going to get all she could. "You're going to tell Haruhi you like her." She said nonchalantly as she thumbed through a box.

"What why? You have no right to tell me to do that!"

Kami looked up from the manga to stare at Kaoru straight in the eye. "You can't let go if she never knows. Let her know that you like her, but you are giving up to give someone dear to you a chance to express his feelings. I've heard from Hunny that she's pretty dense when it comes to relationship stuff so you have no worry about her figuring out that Hikaru likes her before he realizes it."

Kaoru stared at the masses of manga and shook his head. "I don't think I could do that."

Kami grinned from ear to ear as she picked out some manga, by some meaning plenty to supply a kid with weeks worth of reading, and went over to the worker to buy them. "You will do that. Because if you don't you can't help me get Hikaru and Haruhi together."

"Get them together?" Kaoru laughed and shook his head. "Really, do you think that's possible?"

"Course. Stick them in tons of situations where they are stuck together alone doing something cool they're bound to figure out they like each other." She picked her manga up, stared at the large pile and started handing Kaoru some to carry.

The redhead didn't mind carrying the books. He was truly interested in this scheme Kami was obviously coming up with. The thought of Hikaru and Haruhi going out seemed weird, but Kaoru knew it would make Hikaru the happiest person alive. That would be enough to make Kaoru the second happiest person alive. "You aren't planning on starting this whole plan any time soon, are you?" He asked as he followed her over to a stand that seemed to be mainly accessories and bags.

Kami browsed through the anime bags and cheerfully pulled out one that said "Lovely Complex" in large letters across the top and a picture of a short boy and tall girl. She bought it then took her manga from Kaoru and stuffed it in the bag, along with the ones she was carrying. "Of course not. I'm gonna let the whole convention craziness die down and then it's your job to pull through with your part. If you don't want to join me in sticking the two together, that's fine, but I need you to give up on Haruhi so there's no love triangle crap going on."

Kaoru smiled and shook his head once more. Jeez, was Kami ever pushy? "I'll join you, don't worry, and I'll pull through with my part. Don't worry. I want to see Hikaru and Haruhi together finally." He paused then asked curiously, "Why do you care so much? Why should it matter to you if they go out?"

She laughed and headed out of the dealers room. "Reno, Reno, Reno. Really, you should be able to put two and two together. I read countless amounts of shoujo manga. Obviously, I'm a hopeless romantic and those two might as well be from a manga! Roxas and Axel! It's the prefect pairing!"

Kaoru took the hint, talk of Kami's mastermind plan was over. He laughed at the thought of Kami, the hopeless romantic. The ring to it didn't sound right. It was hard to picture her as a romantic period, but then again Kaoru was still getting to know her. Obviously she was doing a better job at getting to know them though.

As Kaoru's thoughts wandered about he failed to notice that Kami had fallen behind him, but did notice that she had disappeared. "Ka-Yuff-"

He was cut off by giggles and looked over to see Kami sitting on the ground, rubbing her knees and two people in very detailed extravagant outfits were laughing and leaning over to talk to the Yuffie cosplayer.

"Aw. Poor Yuffie. Was Reno walking too fast for you?" The girlier of the two in a pink frilly dress asked.

Kami laughed and looked up at the girl. "What? No one is too fast for the Great Ninja Yuffie! How could Karin-chan suggest such a thing? I simply tripped-" She stared at the flat floor and pretended to be flustered. "Well I tripped on a disappearing materia! I've been searching for it for a while and it keeps popping up out of nowhere and tripping me! Reno doesn't walk to fast for me, right Kazune?" She turned to the girly boy on her other side expecting an affirmative reply.

The boy she called Kazune shook his head. "What are you talking about Yuffie? Obviously men are stronger and faster than women!"

"Kazune-chan! You sexist pig! Yuffie is the best ninja there is!" The girl addressed as Karin yelled as she bonked the boy Kazune on the head.

Kaoru smirked and walked over to the group. Seeing how the three were obviously playing around in character he decided to give acting a try. Kami and Coco had given the group a run down on what their characters were like so Kaoru had a basic outline of Reno's personality. "Trip on nothing again Yuffie?" He asked with a cocky smile.

Kami looked a bit shocked Kaoru was actually playing along, but instantly covered it up with a scowl. "No I didn't Reno. You're as bad as Kazune." She stood up and started walk forward, but forgot her bag of manga was still on the ground. She tripped once more and fell face first onto the ground.

The Kazune and Karin started cracking up and attempted to help her up, but were overtaken by giggles and were unable to.

"Seems this 'great ninja' has become rather rusty." Kaoru grinned as an idea dawned upon him. He scooped Kami off the ground and swung her around so she was hanging onto him piggyback style. "Klutziness and ninjas tend to not go together Yuffie."

"Hey! I'm no klutz! I'm telling you, there is a Disappearing Materia! I swear it's that materia's doing."

"Sure, sure. Keep telling yourself that Yuffie." Kaoru leaned over and picked Kami's manga bag up. "Well then you two, have fun during the rest of the day."

"Wait! I need a picture of you two. You're great!" The Karin giggled and pulled her camera out. She snapped a quick picture of the two and waved as she walked off, giggling.

"That was great." Kami said with a laugh. "Now onward Reno! Off we go to the KH panel to pick up Axel and Roxas!" The pointed off in the direction they needed to go, but Kaoru didn't move.

"You don't really expect me to carry you, do you?"

Kami laughed and rested her head on his shoulder. "Yes I do expect you to. Fan service young one. It's all for fan service. Also Japanese internet fame sounds nice as well. We've gotten New York internet fame down."

Kaoru rolled his eyes, but headed off for the KH talk nonetheless.

As they walked they were ambushed by at least 5 groups with cameras wanting pictures and one girl followed them with a video camera, asking them tons of questions. Kaoru was actually enjoying himself though. It was a different type of attention he received from the Host Club.

At the Host Club there was just his and Kaoru's select customers that went on and on about their 'Brotherly Love.' Sure, it was entertaining, but it was a different type of entertainment then this. Here people just ran up asked for a picture hugged you said that you were awesome then ran away again. It was quick, brief, and hilarious.

When Kaoru and Kami reached the Kingdom Hearts talk room Hikaru and Haruhi were sitting by the door laughing and a couple girls dressed in KH costumes were sitting around them laughing as well.

Kami jumped down from Kaoru's back and ran over to the group. "Axel! Roxas! There you are! Me 'n Reno were afraid that you might've wandered away from here!"

"Yuffie!"

"Hey Yuffie!"

"These two yours Yuffie?"

"Hey, is that Reno?"

"Reno!"

"Get over here Reno!"

The girls were laughing as they jumped up and dragged Kaoru over to the group. When he was pushed down next to Hikaru they gasped.

"You two have the same face!"

"Oh my god! Reno and Axel are twins!"

"Kyaaa!"

"YAOI PICTURE!"

"Yes! Yes! Can we have a yaoi picture?"

"YAOI!"

"Of course girls." Hikaru said with a dashing grin as he pulled Kaoru into one of their signature 'brotherly love' poses.

The girls all snapped a picture and turned to Kami, still giggling. "Hey Yuffie, could you take a picture of all of us together?"

"No problem!" Kami said with a laugh as she took one of the girl's cameras and quickly snapped a picture of the group with her friends.

"Yay!" The girls yelled. The one who had given Kami her camera grabbed it and pulled Kami into a pose with them. "Now one with the Great Ninja Yuffie!" The squealed as the camera clicked.

"Thanks you guys! It was fun hanging out with you, Axel, Roxas!" The girls waved and ran off yelling, "To the dealers room! On ward!"

Hikaru stood, helping his brother up, and faced Kami with a wide grin. "This place is awesome Kami. I gotta say I've had fun so far. Right Roxas?" He looked down at Haruhi with a wider grin.

Haruhi nodded and stood up herself. "It actually is quiet entertaining hanging out with all these girls. It's amazing to see so many girls as guys though! But I see why they are. Most of the guy characters get more love from people." She laughed and shook her head. "This place is chaos."

"Which is why it's heaven!" Kami said with a laugh. She linked arms with Haruhi and Hikaru. Kaoru linked his arm with his brothers after receiving a look from Kami. "Now! Off to the DDR room! I gotta check out the battle field for tomorrow!"

The four went off to the DDR room and were stopped multiple times for many yaoi pictures as well as normal pictures. When they finally reached the DDR room it was getting pretty late. Kami sighed and checked her watch. "I only gots a half 'n hour to play around before it's 6. We're going to be the first ones there waiting for them. So you guys can play around on too. They're free." She laughed and skipped off to an empty DDR machine near the back of the room.

Looking around at all the really good people playing Hikaru, Kaoru, and Haruhi didn't feel like making fools of themselves so they followed Kami to watch her. When they walked up behind her she was simply playing on beginner.

"Kam-Yuffie, why are you playing on the lowest level? Don't you want to show off your DDR skills?" Hikaru asked curiously.

"Just getting a feel of the pad." Kami said with a laugh as she stepped the last few steps of the song.

The three watched Kami for a bit as she went up to Expert. After watching all the arrows on Expert flying by the three had to turn away in fear their eyes might be damaged. "How can she do that?" Haruhi asked with a small laugh.

"I think her head is so empty it's the only thing she thinks of." Hikaru said with a firm nod.

"That makes sense." Kaoru agreed with a laugh.

"Strike!" An arrogant sounding voice said from behind the three. They looked up to see yet another cosplayer, what a surprise.

This cosplayer was actually alone though. He had bright spikey red hair and a bright turquoise headband wrapped around his head to keep the hair out of his face, but a bit came out from under it in the middle. He wore a mainly black outfit with silver shoulders and lining. Then around his neck was a tacky bright orange scarf. He was leaning on a giant hammer, watching Kami play DDR. "Haven't seen her before. You guys new to Yukicon?"

"Our first convention actually." Kaoru said with a laugh.

"Don't know about the otaku though." Hikaru added looking over at Kami to show who he was referring to.

"Probably her millionth." Haruhi said with an amused sigh. "Which is why you call her the otaku."

"Oh dear. She's going to miss that next jump. Yuffie is jumping too high." The redheaded guy said with a cocky smile.

Kami heard this little comment and stomped down on the jump he claimed she was going to miss, turning around in the process. It was Love Shine near the end and Kami had it practically memorized. So she continued playing with her back to the screen. "Who are you to commentate on other people's playing Lavi?"

Hikaru, Kaoru, and Haruhi stepped out of the way shaking their heads. Of course Kami would know who the guy was cosplaying as. She was the otaku after all.

"Ooh! The Yuffie knows who I am!" The Lavi said with a smile. "And love, I am the reining champion of this contest. I am the master of DDR so naturally I find it from the goodness of my heart to help those below me." As he spoke he failed to notice Kami was still stepping on the correct arrows receiving perfects with her back turned to the screen. "I'd love to assist you though. Would you like some tutoring, love?"

Kami stomped down on the last arrow and then jumped off the metal mat. "Were you cosplaying as Daisuke last year and then Renji the year before?"

The Lavi seemed to be made of light as he nodded. "Why yes love! I was! Have you heard of me?"

Kami stared at him, obviously unimpressed, and said, "Then you're that arrogant SOB Coco was talking about." She smirked and jabbed her finger into his chest. "Be ready to see me in the finals kicking your ass tomorrow." She started to walk off when the Lavi quickly grabbed her wrist.

"How about you live up to your word here and now."

The twins and Haruhi looked to Kami expecting for her to automatically accept, but she did the exact opposite.

"Nope. See you tomorrow." She waved and walked out the room.

"What?!" Hikaru and Kaoru said in disbelief. They grabbed Haruhi and ran after Kami. Once they were in step with her they bombarded her with questions.

"Why didn't you accept?"

"You could have kicked his butt!"

"Surely you weren't afraid!"

"Why in the world did you decline?"

"Well there is no point in showing off all my mad skillz before the competition. 'Sides I want him thinking he can beat me and continue being arrogant through the competition. Then watching him being crushed is so much more entertaing." Kami laughed demonically and headed out of the convention center.

"You're cruel." Haruhi commented with no intentions of being mean herself. Natural knife at its best.

"I know! Aren't I?" Kami giggled and plopped down on the top step. "Now we just gotta wait for everyone. Good thing I have all my new manga to read."
But Kami didn't get a chance to even open up her back before the first group that had ambushed her and Kaoru walked out of the building.

"Kyaa! Yuffie's here like she said! Yay!" The one with the blue theme squealed.

"Ohmigawwd! Axel! Roxas! Kyaa!"

By the time Hunny and Mori arrived at the entrance already a small group was hanging out with the four.

"VINCENT!" The girls squealed, running over to the stoic guy and glomping him.

Then they noticed little Hunny sitting on his shoulders. "Kyaa! How cute! Cait Sith!"

"I wanna Yuffie, Reno, Vincent pic!" A girl yelled.

"Cait Sith! Take a picture with me!"

More pictures were taken.

When Kyoya and Tamaki finally arrived there was a large gaggle hanging with the Ouran students and the two were glomped just as Hunny and Mori were.

Once 6:30 finally came around Kami had to break up the party. "Sorry all of you, but our friends are in the guest band for the BOTB."

That was the wrong thing to say. All of the girls started yelling how they loved Mission Otaku and were so happy that it was a guest band.

"Then come see them you guys! We'll be here tomorrow! Don't worry! All these guys will be hanging out in the DDR room during the battle. You can love them to pieces there since they suck at DDR."

"Okay!" The girls chirped.

"Then toodles!" Kami yelled. "Come on you guys! We gotta stop by the bus to change before we can go to see Coco and Zaire! Run!"

--

Somehow the group changed out of their costumes into punk rock clothing Kami threw at them and left the bus with time to spare. The look actually fit the Host Club nicely and for once they matched Kami's clothing choice.

It was obvious why Kami chose to have her hair lime green that day when she stepped out with her outfit on. It was mostly black, but the words and designs were all bright neon green. In fact, the whole group wore basically the same outfit as Kami, just with different designs and colors. But the one thing that stayed the same were the large words Mission Otaku written in English across the backs of the jackets they wore.

When the group reached the BOTB room Kami waved the Host Club in. "I'll meet up with you guys during the battle. I'm going to be backstage with Coco 'n Zaire and Co. for now." She waved and skipped off down the hall to the room that was acting as backstage.

A big bulky guard was standing there and watched the small lime green haired teen skip up to him. "Do you have a pass?" He asked gruffly.

"Nope, but surely Mission Otaku has told you to let their dear Kami, Kamsters, Kami-cakes, Kamikins, oh, well any name with the name Kami in it in." She smiled brightly and started to go in, but the guy stopped her.

"No pass. No entry."

"Oh come on! I know they told you! Those idiots would never forget to get me in backstage with them!"

"No pass. No entry."

"Kami-cakes!" The door burst open and Zaire flew out, tackling Kami to the ground. "Hey guys! Kami's here!" He picked up his friend and skipped inside, the guard stayed silent and shut the door behind them.

"The Kamsters!" Jace yelled, grabbing Kami from Zaire to put her on the ground just to hug her himself.

"Did the Japanese con suit your taste?" Aaron asked, giving Kami a hug as well.

Laughing, Kami pushed the three guys away. "Yah, yah you big lovebugs. Where's our lovely Coco?"

"Already on stage." Jace said with a grin.

"You cut it real close Kami." Aaron said with a matching grin.

Zaire nodded and grabbed his guitar. "You almost missed the big debut of Fallen Angel! That would've been no good!"

"Don't you mean your big debut of the first song you sing?" Jace laughed and smacked Zaire on the back. "Stop trying to act all humble you baby." He grabbed his drumstick and winked at Kami. "Make sure you watch the whole thing. We didn't change a single thing with the tune and translated it to Japanese! It sounds just as good as the English version!"

"Still means the same thing and everything!" Aaron added as he grabbed his bass.

"You better still be here when we're done!" Zaire said with a laugh as he ran out on stage.

Jace and Aaron waved then ran onto the stage as well.

Coco's voice then filled the room, drowning out all the cheers that had erupted. "Hey there Yukicon! It's Mission Otaku here for the 3rd year running, but hey! We're so awesome we don't need to compete to perform anymore! What do you have to say about that?" She held her mic out to the crowd and cheers echoed across the room. She laughed and brought the mic back up to herself. "Thought so. Now we do read our fanmail and I've noticed tons of requests to have Zaire sing his own song! What if I told you that our awesome lyricist/composer has done just that?"

Suddenly it was as if the room was only made of girls. The only thing anyone could hear was the loud shrill squeals and screams of many fangirls.

"Well she has!" Coco yelled into the mic to be heard. She backed up away from the main microphone stand to let Zaire take her place. After he blew a couple kisses to the crowd Coco struck a cord.

Jace and Aaron leaned into their own mics and in a half whisper started the song,

"Hey Fallen Angel. You flew so high. So why, why are you my Fallen Angel?"

All four started playing the tune and Zaire leaned into the mic.

"Hey Fallen Angel; Your masquerade is over; Your mask has fallen; But you have fallen farther; Down down down; Hey Fallen Angel; Be mine."

The four broke out to majorly rock out before Zaire started up the first verse.

"I saw you fall; From the skies; They couldn't bear it; All your built up tears.

I saw you crash; To the ground; Reality crushing you; Down."

All music, except for the light tapping on the cymbals, stopped for a beat as Jace and Aaron said again,

"Hey Fallen Angel. You flew so high. So why are you my Fallen Angel?"

Coco and Aaron started playing again and Zaire started the chorus up again.

"Hey Fallen Angel; Your masquerade is over; Your mask has fallen; But you have fallen farther; Down down down; Hey Fallen Angel; Be mine."

There was slight break where Jace hit an intro to the next few verses on his drum.

"I took you in; Tried to take it all away; All the fears the lies all the sorrows built up inside; It dragged me down; And your weight just grew even more.

You wanted a home of your own; To save me from your broken soul; So we searched; Together; To find a place; Where you will finally belong.

We searched; We didn't find; What we were planning on; Instead we found; That your home was here; All along."

Zaire took a step back and Coco stepped forward. She played her solo beautifully, but instead of stepping back once more to let Zaire continue singing she let go of her guitar and grabbed the mic stand. Everyone in the crowd started cheering. Once again Jace and Aaron whispered into the mics and then Coco started singing.

"Never thought it could happen; Not for me not ever; So now I wonder; Maybe I held on to life for so long; Was just to meet you; Now I know; Destiny does exist."

She jumped back and Zaire automatically took her place. The twins did their thing and the music started slowing down.

"Hey Fallen Angel-"

Suddenly the beat quickened again and Zaire joined in playing on his guitar.

"-Your masquerade has ended; Your mask you wore gone forevermore; You fall no more-"

Jace and Aaron repeated the words 'no more' in the background.

"-Down no more; Hey Fallen Angel."

Everything fell silent. Zaire strummed alone as he sang.

"I caught you from a great fall."(3)

The second his voice stopped Coco and Jace jumped up and played the last few cords.

Kami cheered along with the large crowd at the top of her lungs. Their performance was impressive, better than she ever thought it could be. Personally she thought the English version, her version, was better, but they still did an amazing job.

"You guys know you love us!" Coco screamed out to the crowd chanting their name. "And we know it too, but there's no time for an encore now you silly otakus! If you still remember us after all the contestants play we'll come out again!"

Waving Mission Otaku ran off stage like the idiots they were. Pretty much throwing their instruments on the couch backstage they all ran over and tackled Kami to the ground.

"Did we do awesome Kami-cakes?"

"You know we were the fo shizzle!"

"It's all thanks to you-"

"And your awesome song writing!"

With all for on top of her Kami found it impossible to push them all off so she just lay there on the ground shaking with laughter. "You guys are idiots."

"Yes we are!" The four band members yelled in reply.

The actual host of the BOTB had come onto stage and was talking to the audience. The battle was going to start soon.

"Hey guys, get off me! I promised the host club I'd hang with them during the battle."

"Nope!" Jace proclaimed, dragging Kami into his lap.

"We haven't seen our Kamsters in forever." Aaron said with a dramatic sigh as he sat up just to fall over so his head was resting in Kami's lap.

"They get you all to themselves at school."

"So we aren't giving you up to them."

"Not at all!"

Kami sighed. "Fine, fine. I'll chill with you guys."

The BOTB went pretty smoothly, but really none were as good as Mission Otaku. Sure, they played well and all, but without good lyrics and tune good playing wasn't enough. The winners were announced and the first place band played their song again. The winner band's fame was short lived, unfortunately for them. Once they had gotten off stage to the loud cheers from the crowd slowly, but surely, the low chant for Mission Otaku started up.

"We have been summoned! Let's do our theme song!" Coco jumped up and grabbed her guitar. "These newbies need to meet Mission Otaku!"

The twins and Zaire jumped up and grabbed their instruments as well, in Jace's case his sticks. "Better not run away Kami!" They called to their friend before running onto the stage.

"Why would I run-"

"Hey there brat."

"We must admit, you are worth something."

"Writing songs must be-"

"The only thing though."

Kami turned around to see Hikaru and Kaoru standing behind her.

"How the hell did you two get in?"

The twins held up passes that were hanging around their necks that read, 'VIP-Backstage Pass.'

"Let me rephrase then. How the hell did you get those?"

"Coco gave them to us."

"To make sure you didn't run away."

"When she made her announcement."

"What announc-"

"-And guess what wonderful Yukicon! Our lyricist is here right now! Do you all want to meet her after this song and give her your L-O-V-E?" Coco's voice reached the backstage as loud as it did into the crowd.

Kami froze. "What?!" She screeched as she tried to run past the twins.

"Tut, tut tut." They laughed and linked arms with her. "You're staying with us silly otaku."

"Drat."

The music on stage started up and silenced any complaints Kami was going to make. As much as she wanted to yell and scream there was no way she was going to ruin her masterpiece, no way in hell.

"Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Out to do the impossible;

Gonna make it probable;

We're out to save the world;

With a mission;

That needs no permission;

Wake up to;

Mission Otaku.

Oooh

All those war generals;

Gonna wake up to silence;

Look out the window see no more fightn';

Cause all their soldiers are too busy;

Tradn' their Yu-Gi-Oh cards.

Out to do the impossible;

Gonna make it probable;

We're out to stop all you fights;

Wake up to;

Mission Otaku.

All those couples;

Gonna wake up with no more quarrelin';

From their lovers;

Cause all those lovers are too busy;

Trying to mimic shoujo manga.

Out to do the impossible;

Gonna make it probable;

We're out to stop all you love quarrels;

Wake up to;

Mission Otaku.

All those gays;

Gonna wake up to no more ridiculin';

Instead are going to find it;

Replaced with crowds of;

Yaoi fangirls.

Out to do the impossible;

Gonna make it probable;

We're out to stop all you ridiculers;

Wake up to;

Mission Otaku.

Now we know that some;

Just can't stop your fightin';

So all you stop your fist fights;

Go out and buy kunai knives;

We'll leave you to yourselves.

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

It's Mission Otaku time;

Need no permission;

Just you wait till the day;

When you wake up to;

Mission Otaku.(4)"

"You guys are such otakus." Hikaru said when the song ended.

"No wonder they named the band Mission Otaku." Kaoru added.

Kami laughed and shook her head. "Actually they wanted to make the song after they decided on the band name. They wanted a theme song."

"Now all you newbies know who we are!"

"And what we are out to do!"

"As if it'd happen-"

"But hey! There's no point in not hoping!"

Coco laughed and twirled her guitar around to it was against her back. "Now everyone, give a big round of fangirl/boy cheers for the person that makes Mission Otaku possible! Bring 'er out Hikaru and Kaoru!"

"Dammit." Kami cursed under her breath as Hikaru and Kaoru dragged her onto the stage.

--

"What's a game American commoners often play the most at sleepovers?"

"Hmm. Probably Truth or Dare or Manhunt. Possibly Hide 'n Go Seek if they're real bored."

"Oooh! Coco! This is a big house, Hide and Go Seek would be tons of fun here!"

"Why Zaire! That is a splendid idea!"

Kami looked over at the clock on her nightstand. It blinked 11:39 in bright red digital numbers. She sighed and twirled her crimson red hair tiredly. After the BOTB concert Jace and Aaron had gone off to the hotel they were staying at, they didn't want to intrude on Yuzuha's hospitality. But unlike them the Host Club found nothing wrong with accepting Coco's invitation to have a sleepover. Of course Hikaru and Kaoru's mom found the idea splendid, but the fact Coco proposed it just made it all seem real rude. Not that it mattered though.

After taking a quick shower, and having to explain how her hair dyes worked when she came out with a new color, Kami mainly read through her manga. But after everyone else had gotten all cleaned up Coco had stolen the manga and forced Kami to join the conversations.

"Hey not a bad idea." Coco leaped off Kami's bed and clapped her hands to grab everyone's attention. "We're gonna play Hide and Go Seek! The rules are simple. On person says and counts to 50 while everyone else runs away and hides somewhere. Stay in your hiding place until you are found. If the person who's it changes it doesn't matter. If you weren't found you obviously have a good hiding spot and you can stay. Everyone clear?"

The room nodded and stood up. A game of Hide and Go Seek sounded fun.

"Great! Now Zaire's it!"

"What! Why?!"

"Cause I said so! Now everyone! Run!" She dashed out the room and down the hall.

The others followed her example.

Hikaru saw his twin run off and was about to join him when he noticed Haruhi lagging behind. He ran over to her with a stupid grin plastered across his face. "Not gonna play Haruhi?"

"I don't really find the point of playing this game at midnight and I'll probably fall asleep and be forgotten about. Then I'll wake up in some strange uncomfortable place and get lost in this huge house."

"Then come with me!" Hikaru laughed and grabbed Haruhi's hand as he dashed down the hall.

Zaire looked over at Kyoya, who was inspecting Kami's computers, and asked, "You going to play Ichijo?"

Kyoya looked at Zaire with a look that said it all.

"O-Okay." Zaire inched away from the Shadow King and then started counting loudly.

--

Kaoru laughed insanely. He was having a blast for he had yet to be found. With Coco and Zaire's voices combined Kaoru always knew when someone new was it and moved on to a new place for the heck of it. So far his tactic of playing hadn't failed him. He hoped Hikaru was having just as good luck.

Out of all the people to be it Zaire had been it the most. Figured, the guy seemed stupider than a doornail. That was who was it at the moment and even several hallways away from him Kaoru could somehow still hear the idiot counting. The said idiot was getting close to 50.

Kaoru needed a place to hide, fast. Thinking hard Kaoru tried to remember where all the doors in the hallway led. Then he saw the door he was looking for. It was different than all the others because it had a light switch right next to it.

"Perfect." The redhead said with a grin as he flipped the light on and slid into the room. Leaving the door open just a crack he looked into the closet with a grin. He was about to hide among the junk when the small noise of a gasp and rustling clothes caught his attention.

Curiously Kaoru walked over to the far corner of the large closet and pulled a couple shirts off a pile to find a red eyed Kami staring up at him. Surprised he dropped the shirts and stared at Kami with wide eyes. "Were you… crying?"

"No." Kami whispered back stubbornly rubbing her eyes. "I just hate closets ever since Coco made me watch The Grudge 2." Her eyes grew wide as she motioned her hand as something inching behind her. "The head just slowly drops down behind her, the neck stretching, and it makes this really creepy noise and she can't open the door and." She stopped talking and quickly shoved her face between her knees. "I can't stand horror movies."

"If you are afraid of closets," Kaoru restrained from snickering as he spoke, "Why the heck did you hide in one?"

"Well I can't let Coco find me just standing in the hallway, now can I? Besides, I didn't know it was a closet until I opened the door and went in." She paused and looked up at the slightly open door. "And it- I'm saved!" Kami started to jump up when the sound of stomping feet came from outside the door.

"Shh!" Kaoru quickly covered Kami's mouth and pulled her down beside him.

"Come on Haruhi! We gotta hurry! Milord cheats and counts too fast!" Hikaru's voice came from one of the running people.

Then suddenly the sound of a body hitting the ground right outside the door drifted into the closet. "I tripped on the door. Someone left it open." Haruhi's voice said.

"Well that's stupid. They even left the light on. Probably someone in a hurry to get out and hide." The light went off and Kami whimpered quietly.

Kaoru shot her an annoyed look. He didn't want his new hiding spot being found by someone who wasn't it. That ruined the fun of the game, even if the someone was his twin.

Kami pried Kaoru's hand off her mouth and quietly whispered to him, "Kaoru I'm trying to tell you. The door locks from the outside!"

"Okay. Let's go. I'll just shut it first so no one else trips because it's open like that."

Kaoru stared at Kami with wide eyes. "What?!" He hissed.

"It locks the second it clo-"

Click.(5)

End of Chapter Eight

(1) Animal Noises and Sex: You all must thank the randomness of IM conversations where you are pretending to be Hikaru and Kaoru and then in comes someone(me) with a Kami account. Only craziness could possibly ever come out of it. (Yes this conversation does exist and I got a screenshot of it! Gimme a pm and I'll give yah the link! Links act weird here for me...)

(2) !!Note on all of the cosplayers!! If you don't know who they are Wiki them xD

(3) Fallen Angel- The Song: Yes... T-T I wrote those horrible lyrics.

(4) Mission Otaku-The Song: Wrote that too. But I like this one. ;)

(5) Click: Hmm... Closets locking on the outside... I remember this from an earlier chapter... ;)