Jem: -ninja sneaky eyes- you don't see me… I'm not here… Please don't kill me… OH MY GOD YES! MATTOID LIVES! OMFG! I believe seriously CPR took place here, but it happened… I apologize to my wonderful fans (especially you Kace, I've broken a lot of promises related to this damned thing)! This past year has been hectic… First year of high school… This idiot decided to take two AP classes and take part in the drama production… Yeah, perfect equation for DISASTER AND NO TIME! Good lord. Very hectic year… So Mattoid just kept getting pushed back on the to-do list, but I'm back! I'm back and past this god forsaken convention! Oh how this convention has given me grief xP I can do other stuff planned now! Yay! But, before we get to that, gotta get past this! :o Get ready, MATTOID CHAPTER TEN!

Chapter Ten

Hikaru and Kaoru sat in their kitchen sulking. They were soaked head to toe thanks to a certain crimson haired teen. It was getting close to 12 and everyone was quickly eating breakfast. The majority of the group had awoken around 10 and 11. Kami, Zaire, and the twins, had still been sleeping at 11:30. Coco had taken the liberty of waking Kami and Zaire up. Kami felt that since she had to be awake no one else could be sleeping. So she dumped several buckets of water on the twins.

"Why is she such a brat?" Hikaru asked with a sigh as he took a bite of his syrup drowned pancakes.

Kaoru pushed his pancake around in the pool of syrup on the plate and sighed as well. "She was born o-" He paused and set his fork down. "Hikaru…" The redhead said thoughtfully, looking over at the American idiot trio that was arguing over which cereal was the best. "Isn't it Coco and Zaire's fault Kami is the way she is now?"

The little story from yesterday came into Hikaru's mind. No one had really dwelled on the initial meeting of the trio since the story time ended on such a depressing note. Hikaru looked up from his breakfast and met Kaoru's wide eyes with his own.

"IT'S YOUR FAULT!" They yelled, pointing at Coco with wild eyes.

Coco looked over at the two, not letting go of Zaire and Kami who were caught in a headlock. "What's my fault?"

"The birth of a brat!" The twins answered.

"Ah, it was gonna happen on its own eventually. I just quickened the process-"

Kami pulled away from Coco and stared at the twins. "Wait. Don't tell me that she told you that story."

"Oh yes she did!" Tamaki exclaimed, twirling over to the group. "And might I add Kami-Berry, you had a very foul mouth even at a young age!"

Kami turned beat red and turned on Coco. "You bitch!" She yelled, tackling the tall blond. "You always do this! How many times have I told you not to sprout your lies!"

"But Kami-Cakes!" Zaire squealed, scooping Kami off his snickering younger sister. "I was there too! That's how it happened!"

"I believe it." The twins said simultaneously.

Kami shoved Zaire away and turned her glare to the twins. Her face was still bright red. "Didn't I warn you before not to believe anything she tells you? She's a big fat liar! Hey…" She paused and realization came upon her. "That's why you guys took so long to find me! You were listening to her!"

"Guilty as charged." Haruhi muttered as she carried her bowl over to the sink.

"Gyaaah! I can't believe! What else did she say?"

Hunny giggled and raised his hand. "She told us about pranking your principal!"

Kami looked over at Hunny and burst out laughing. "Ah, that one is true though." She glared at Coco and asked the older boy, "Is that all she talked about? There's a whole shitload of crap she made up under her sleeves."

"That's all." Mori said from his chair next to Hunny. Coco and Zaire had sworn them to silence about the last tale. That is until the moment called for the truth.

"Thank the lord." Kami said with an exaggerated sigh as she sat in her chair.

"Shouldn't we be leaving soon?" Kyoya asked with a sigh.

"What for?" The twins asked boredly.

"THE DRR COMPETITION!" Kami yelled suddenly as she just remembered. "Oh crap! Coco, when does that start?!"

The tall blond was smiling as she casually shrugged and said, "Hmm well if we left right now, we would probably be able to get there 15, 20 minutes before it started?"

"GYAH!" Kami shrieked at the top of her lungs. The tiny teen danced around the room, picking up everyone's breakfast dishes and throwing them in the sink. "Let's go, let's go, let's GO! I need to warm up! We need to get in costume! I need to participate in the beginner competition to warm up! I need to kick some Lavi-butt! Grah!"

---

"Hey Ka-"

"Yu~uffie"

Hikaru rolled his eyes as he corrected himself, "Yuffie then. But you are winning an all, but it's not very impressive…"

"Yeah Yuffie-cupcake." Kaoru said with a quizzical expression. "How come you aren't beating everyone's butt and showing off on these easy levels?"

"Well duh! Double free-style is coming up and there is no way in hell I am going to show any of my cards so early in the game!" Kami sighed, as if it was common sense, and continued sucking down her giant bottle of Gatorade.

By some miracle, or perhaps Coco's illegal and insane driving, the group made it to the convention center. They ran off to the DDR room the second Coco stopped the car and made it right before the beginner level competition began. Zaire and Kami had competed in it, as well as the light and heavy competitions, and won. But, for some reason, their wins weren't all that spectacular. The two seemed to be only trying hard enough to beat everyone else, not do their best. It was rather boring to watch.

"Okay, here's a question you can't eat our heads off for asking." The twins said with exasperated sighs. "Why are only you and the puppy participating in this? How come the blond dictator isn't joining you?"

They paused for a second, and then a thought seemed to suddenly pop into Kaoru's head as he quickly added, "And who is Zaire anyways? Wasn't he supposed to be that guy that dictator was dressed up as on that webcam chat?"

"Coco decided that me 'n Zaire are enough to kick the fat head's butt. She's a lazy dictator to say the least. And Zaire was going to be Sephiroth, but Coco decided to change it last second so we'd go together better during the double freestyle."

"Eh?"

Kami sighed and rolled her eyes. "I can't stand non-otakus. It's so hard to explain such common sense stuff! Anyways, he's cosplaying as Kingdom Hearts Squall and if you cared to notice, my outfit is a tad different today. That's cause I have Yuffie's Kingdom Hearts outfit to mesh with Zaire as Squall better. You see, in Kingdom Hearts, the two are together and teach Sora about the Heartless and Keyblade."

"Makes total sense." They said sarcastically.

"But Kami, how could we not notice the change in outfit?" Hikaru asked with a smirk.

Kaoru nodded in feigned solemnity, "Hikaru is right, especially after Milord's almost heart attack when you came out from changing."

"This outfit is definitely much more revealing than yesterday." They finished with matching grins. "Not that we mind."

"Hey!"

The Reno and Axel cosplayers were bonked on the head as two silver haired boys came up behind them. "Stop harassing our Kamikins." The leather-clad boys said in sync.

Kami looked up to Jace and Aaron with a blank face. "Your?"

The American twins squished their way between Hikaru and Kaoru to occupy either side of Kami. "Why of course!" Jace said with a big grin.

"After all, we are the only ones who are allowed to harass you, aren't we Jace?" Aaron added as he stole Kami's Gatorade and started drinking it.

Kami was about to protest when the whole group of them got bonked on the head. "What the hell are you all doing over here?!" Coco screeched at the five stunned cosplayers. "I've been looking everywhere for you Yuffie! Squall and you need to get in tune with each other before the first round! Idiots the lot of you!"

The blond grabbed Kami's wrist and pulled her away from the pairs of twins. The slightly taller American brand twins looked down at Hikaru and Kaoru skeptically. Jace looked to his brother with a smug grin. "You'd think I'd feel at least a little challenged by these kids, but really, there's no ounce of threat in them at all!"

Veins stared bulging on two certain redheads…

Aaron laughed as they started walking away. "I know what you mean Jace. I was afraid Kamikins was going to replace us with new twins, but those two are nothing compared to us. I don't get how they go around selling 'brotherly love.' Pathetic really."

The veins started twitching, eyes too.

"I know, right? It's almost sad they try pulling the twincest act!"

Their wigs shaded Hikaru and Kaoru's eyes as they walked behind Jace and Aaron. The two were visibly twitching; though the Americans seemed oblivious to the fact the Hitachiin's could understand English.

"You trying to pick a fight?" The Hitachiin's demanded as they leapt in front of Jace and Aaron.

"Oh my Jace!" Aaron exclaimed with a surprised look. "They speak English!"

Jace's eyes were ridiculously wide and he covered his open mouth. "My god they do Aaron, they do!"

Hikaru and Kaoru glowered at the two and the two smugly stared back. Electricity seemed to flow between their eyes as they continued to stare. "Oh dear Aaron, I think these small Japanese boys are trying to challenge us here."

Aaron smirked and leaned on his brother casually, not breaking gaze with the Hitachiin across from him. "I don't know Jace, I don't think their small Asian balls are big enough…"

"That's it!" Hikaru yelled, throwing his arms into the air. "What's your deal, huh? We could take you any day!"

"Oh really? Well how about a fangirl off." Aaron replied with a cocky grin. "Who ever gets the most twincest fangirl numbers, emails, and photos by the end of the day will be declared the superior set of twins."

Kaoru seemed wary for a second, then matched Hikaru's defiant glare. "You're on."

Giant smiles spread across Jace and Aaron's faces. "Won~der~ful!" They exclaimed as they skipped around the redheads, linked arms, and skipped away. Not even seconds had passed before Hikaru and Kaoru could hear the "Kyaaa!" they now associated with fangirls…

"We gotta step up to the plate Hikaru…" Kaoru said, glaring at their retreating rivals.

"Yes, we must not afford to lose, we mustn't."

---

"We say that… yet…"

Jace bonked his head on his brother's shoulder dejectedly. "Why is Elena-chan so demanding Ka-chan?"

Aaron looked down at his twin with a sad smile. "Well, we must be kind to our friends and support Squall and Yuffie in their competition, right? But still… It's rather hard to defeat them with flying colors when we are stuck in one spot."

With a defeated sigh, Jace looked away from his to the red head twins sitting near then, obviously pouting. "Though, at least we dragged them down with us."

A rather evil look spread across Aaron face as he leaned on 'Yazoo.' Passing girls stared at the two, and then quickly snapped a picture before they continued walking. "I don't think they've ever experience true defeat before, luv. Look how they are handling our head start. Tsk, tsk, tsk."

Hikaru jerked his head up and was about to start yelling at them, Kaoru ready to calm him down, when a high-pitched voice filled the tense air.

"Uwaaah! Yazoo-chan! Kadaj-chan! Reno-chan! Axel-chan!" Hunny waved excitedly from the entrance to the DDR room. He was sitting on Mori's shoulders, so the kitty-boy we easily viewable from every spot in the room. "Where's everyone else? Where's Roxas-chan? Actually, where's Yuffie-chan?"

The four warring boys were petrified in the pure, adorable light that was radiating off of Hunny. Everyone in the room had their head turn to the adorable Cait Sith in tears. He was just too cute. Out of nowhere, millions of girls came up, taking pictures of Cait Sith on Vincent's shoulders.

Aaron blinked and shook his head. "I think we were out showed Ja-"

There was a large crash from the corner of the DDR filled room. A shout followed suit and a very flustered Yuffie burst out of the crowd, running away from a very scary Elena.

"What do you think you're doing?!" Coco yelled at the top of her lungs.

The crowd that had gathered around Mori and Hunny disappeared. Kami used the chance to jump behind the two with a pout. "B-But Elena… Cait is just…" Kami looked up at Hunny with wide eyes. She looked like Tamaki during one of his fantasies, her eyes sparkled and there seemed to be sparkles and bubbles floating all around her. "So… keyoot!"

"I don't care! We were in the middle of practice!" Coco stomped up to the trio and glared up at Hunny and Mori. Her eyes grew wide and for a second, her anger almost broke into loving mush, but she quickly caught herself. Even when Hunny started tearing up, she remained icy.

Kami looked up at Coco with an expression the Host Club didn't think was possible. She had tears in the corner of her eyes and a blush tinged her cheeks. "But Co… Elena-chan! He's just too adorable! I need to hug him!"

Jace and Aaron looked at each with blank expressions. After a moment of silence, they burst into laughter. They had to lean on each other to keep from falling over.

Hunny giggled and jumped down from Mori's shoulders to hug Kami. "Ka-Ah! I mean Yuffie-chan! You look so adorable with that face!"

Hunny's love made Kami blush even more as she averted her gaze. "Shaddup…"

"Kyaan! Yuffie-chan!" Zaire popped out from behind Coco and hugged both Hunny and Kami. "You and Cait Sith are adorable!"

"I wanna hug too!" Yelled a random girl and soon there was a huge dog pile with Hunny and Kami in the center.

Hikaru and Kaoru stared at each other with disbelieving eyes. "What the heck was that?" Hikaru exclaimed as he jumped up and pointed at the pile of people. "What was that?!"

"Brother... I think that might have been Kami…" Kaoru said as he stumbled onto his feet. "Maybe someone replaced her soul with someone else's…"

Jace and Aaron skipped over to the two with matching smirks. "Come now, surely you are jesting!" They said simultaneously. Aaron placed his elbow on Hikaru's shoulder while Jace did the same to Kaoru.

"That there would be one of the many adorable expressions on the Kami Face Bank. One that never ceases to send us into uncontrollable laughter from the sheer cuteness." Jace said with a definite nod.

"B-b-b-but!" Hikaru stuttered incoherently, rendered to stupidity from his shock. Kaoru took over quickly to save his brother from embarrassment and finished his line of thought. "The only faces in the Kami Face Bank are demonic and sadistically nice. But, that look didn't have an ounce of demon."

"Whatever do you me-"

"Get off of my prize DDR player!" Coco started flinging people off of the dog pile in a rage.

Screams of terror and shock filled the DDR room and officials started joining in the mix. Somewhere in all the chaos, Kami was able to climb out, Hunny in tow. They both were breathing heavily, Hunny probably scarred for life and Kami from laughing too hard. "That was great great great!" She kept saying as the two shorties came up to the pairs of twins.

"Why my fair lady," An idiotic voice said as a spiky haired, eye patched, redhead stepped in Kami's path. Lavi had made his entrance.

It was as if the rival DDR player had just thrown the Yuffie cosplayer in a freezer. Her eyes turned ice cold and her jaw firm, glaring furiously at Lavi. Then, a toothy smile spread across her face and her eyes seemed cheerful, she was anything but. "Get out of my way lover boy or you'll never have a woman to stay with you long ever again."

The Hitachiins looked up at the Americans with satisfied smirks. "That."

Lavi took a few horrified steps backwards as if he had been physically attacked. "Oh Yuffie luv, what, what a horrible thing for you to say!" He regained the ground he lost and a little bit more as he pulled his body up to close to Kami's and tilted her chin so she'd look up at him. "Is it possible you are suggesting I'll never have another woman other than you ever again?" His eyelashes were batting and a seductive grin was placed on his face.

The twins and Hunny froze, staring in horror at the bravery this otaku cosplayer displayed. Kami would have no regret destroying his manhood… Though, the American twins looked at each other exasperatedly. Coco wasn't going to like this.

Kami stared up at Lavi, her grin still frozen in place. "Why luv, of course I couldn't be as so selfish as to try to tame such a gift to women and keep him to myself." She grabbed his pinky and bent it back, forcing him to let go of her. "And I really do believe I should stop associating with the enemy. Elena-chan wouldn't like that at all. Perhaps I can render you useless to all women after the DDR tournament, see you around Lavi."

With a wink, Kami let go of the redhead and headed back to the where she and Zaire had been practicing. Lavi sighed dreamily as he rubbed his throbbing pinky. "Lucky bastards you lot are." He said with a cocky wave as he skipped off to a group with similar outfits to his.

"What just happened?!" The Ouran students present demanded with eyes as wide as saucers. "Was she just flirting with that guy?" The twins practically yelled in disbelief.

Jace and Aaron sighed heavily as they leaned against each other. "Yeah… Don't mention what just happened here to Coco. There'll be nothing left of Kami and no way to prove Coco guilty… She really hates that guy…"

"Why didn't she kill him?" Kaoru asked.

Jace rolled his eyes and stared at Kaoru as if it was the most obvious thing ever. "He's a hot cosplayer who's good at what he does and not to mention better at DDR than Coco. Of course Kamikins would be interested in him! Who wouldn't?"

With a humpf, Jace linked arms with his brother and stomped off to where their friends were. Hikaru looked at Kaoru skeptically, pointing at Jace. Kaoru shrugged and leaned against his brother. "Axel, brother, I believe the reason those two are so good at selling the twincest is because at least one of them is a true fruit…"

Kaoru looked to Hikaru with a wicked grin. "How much do you want to bet that Jace was rejected by that guy?"

Hikaru laughed. "You're on! The usual it is!"

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"Aaaaand now! The two contests we all really have been hanging around here!" Cheers erupted from around the room as the host - dressed as Rage from the 5th mix – ran out onto the small stage in the back of the room. His assistant, a cute little girl dressed as Emi (also 5th mix version) followed the loud man out. She waved happily and grabbed a mic of her own. "Now lets have a little recap, ne? So far, the we've only had the technical basic, standard, and heavy contests and each time, coming in first and second were cosplay pair Yuffie and Squall!"

The KH/FFVII group cheered loudly in support of their friends, making Emi giggle.

"And look at their support! Now as we all know, it wasn't really all that fair that these two took place in those easy competitions! Squall, that was heartless, you could have chosen not to. But, Yuffie who couldn't even help it did the true slaughtering! Sorry to you beginners that tried the contests, we had to force her to take part in those to make sure she was good enough to go on to our final contests of the day! It's the rules!"

"Pah! Rules shumles Emi-chan, we should have just made her do one song to impress us so she didn't have to destroy the lower competitions!" Rage laughed and pointed to the crowd. "Are you guys ready for the ultimate DDR showdowns in the history of Yukicon? We have returning champion, who today is now, LAVI! And the ever obnoxious gaijins(1) that we all love and adore, the Mission Otaku group, bringing along the last installment to their group, their composer and lyricist, Yuffie!"

Everyone was screaming and Emi had to wait for less noise so she could be heard. As the screaming lessened, she brought her mic up to her mouth. "Now are you ready to hear how these two contests are gonna work? First up, we're having the technical challenge competition! Who's ready to see some serious skill as our contestants pull their machine partners and pick their songs?"

The crowd was cheering like a bunch of banshees and the group of DDR players gathered at the table next to the stage. Lavi was first in line and stuck his hand in a box full of plushies, whoever pulled a plushie from the same series would be his machine partner. Out popped a miniature of him. He laughed and moved to the side to write down his three song choices. And so the process continued, plushies being pulled out, song names being written down, and players looking for matching series.

Zaire had been second in line since it had been organized based by past performance. He had pulled out a Sasuke from Naruto plushie and went to Kami to keep her company in line, hoping she'd pull another character from Naruto. As they got closer to the table, there had yet to be someone to pull a Naruto character. Zaire was getting extremely excited. "Kamikins! We're gonna be together! I can smell it! Smell it!"

Kami rolled her eyes and stepped up to the table and stuck her hand in the box. Zaire stood next to her, jumping up and down excitedly. There were only two other people behind them, there was a real good chance she'd pick a Naruto character, so close so close so- Out came Allen, from -Man, who paired up with Lavi, both of them.

Zaire collapsed to the floor and looked to the ceiling yelling, "Nooooo!"

Kami rolled her eyes and pushed the idiot out of her way with her foot and wrote down her song choices, then turned to Lavi, who had promptly been standing at the end of the table watching who everyone pulled. A giant grin grew, making him look like the Cheshire cat, as Kami scowled.

"More nooooo!" Zaire screamed as he started rolling around on the ground. Rage leaned over the table and playfully yelled, "Yo! Crazy gaijin! Quit making a scene and go back to America!"

Kami rolled her eyes and stopped off to DDR machine seven - the number that was pinned to Allen's hand. Lavi followed after the rampaging otaku, chuckling smugly to himself. "Lu~ucky!" He called playfully as he danced out of the way of Kami's flying fist.

The sound of Zaire's dramatic pouting followed the two and Lavi's grin fell slightly as the Squall cosplayer and his machine partner positioned themselves at station eight. Zaire looked to Lavi and stuck out his tongue, muttering nonsense about stealing his Yuffie.

Kami crossed her arms and leaned against the back bar, staring at the stage praying for the singles competition to hurry up and be over and done with. The sooner the DDR competition was completely over, the sooner she could safely talk to Lavi. Coco would go murderous or possibly genocidal since it would be the killing of all otakus in the area… Kami wasn't sure on her terminology, but she was sure that it would not result in good things.

"So Yuffie, what's your real name?" Lavi was leaning over the bar, his head inches away from resting on her shoulder. "You tell me yours, I'll tell you mine."

Kami glanced at Lavi in the corner of her eye and moved to the other mat with a forced sigh. She had to keep acting for Zaire. He was a tattletale. He'd report everything she said and did to Coco without a second thought. "Patricia Parker, you?"

Lavi laugh and shook his head. "Oh, so you're the female Spiderman? Great real name Yuffie. In that case, I'm Clark Kent."

"Can't help but be impressed Lavi. You know some American nerd stuff. Guess that makes you a super geek, hm?"

"Well, if you think about it, you're American and specialize in Japanese nerd stuff, so I think we're even on the nerd level here."

Kami giggled quietly and looked away from the stage. This guy was great! But… "Wait a sec, how'd you know I'm American?" She pointed to her eyes and pulled on her face. "I'm ethically Japanese to the max!"

Lavi burst out laughing and pointed back to the stage. "Looks like your question is going to have to wait luv. Seems we're starting now." He winked as Rage and Emi bounded back onto stage…

…

And so, several sweaty, musical, energetic, and bouncing hours later, the DDR competition was coming to an end. Much to Lavi's dismay (and to Coco's inflated ego), Kami won the challenge singles competition. Lavi fell in second and Zaire third. It was a big deal apparently, because it took a long time for everything to settle down again to start the double freestyle competition.

The freestyle contest took even longer since everyone went one at a time. It had to be that way or else it wouldn't be as good a show. Sure, everyone was ookaay, but nothing could prepare Yukicon for the amazing-ness that was Zaire and Kami paired together. They danced to Honey Punch, on difficult, freestyle, and still somehow succeeded to score an A, despite the unnecessary of the high score. What truly matter in freestyle was staying alive and performing as many cool tricks in sync with the song as possible. The crazy gaijin pair succeeded in that completely. Between handstands, flips, cartwheels, and nameless maneuvers, Mission Otaku won its first Yukicon DDR competition.

Celebrations ensued and that equaled chaos. The twins were released from Coco's evil leash and they went about trying to win their twincest challenge. Coco and Zaire clung to Kami for a while, but soon left her alone to chat with Kyoya and Tamaki. Haruhi was sticking with Mori and Hunny, for they seemed to be the safest people to travel with. Since no one was paying attention to her anymore, Kami slipped away from the group to the dealers' room. Not only did she feel like browsing more, but also she was hoping she'd run into a certain redheaded cosplayer.

Luck was on Kami's side. Barely minutes after she stepped foot into the dealers room, Lavi was linked arms with her. "Why hello luv, fancy meeting you here!" He said in a chipper tone as he directed her to a crowd of people by the wall to sit in. He wasn't taking chances in the crazy Elana – aka Coco – finding them.

Once settle against the cold cement wall, Kami broke into a huge grin and glomped Lavi. "Oooh I wanted to do this the second I saw your cosplay! I love you so much! Your costume is amazing! You depiction of Lavi is amazing! Eeee! Why'd you have to piss off Coco so muuuuch!"

Lavi chuckled and pried Kami off of him. "Woah ninja girl, I know the Lavi is irresistible, but I can't be letting the other girls getting the wrong idea!"

Kami giggled and sat crisscross, staring at the cosplayer with serious eyes. "Enough with the cosplaying mumbo jumbo. How'd you know I was American!"

"Luv," Lavi twirled on his knees and fell over with his head in her lap. "Not only do you have an adorable accent, but couple that with these lovelies and it is quite as obvious as one plus one."

Kami looked down at Lavi, not totally comprehending his meaning for several minutes. Suddenly, the light bulb clicked and she shoved him away. "Pervert!" She exclaimed with a huff as she crossed her arms and turned her back to him.

Lavi laughed and lay back down, propping his head up with his hand. "I'm a gentleman Yuffie-chan. Lavi is a ladies' man, he has a reputation to keep up and pervert isn't part of it."

She was going to make a snide remark in reply, but the theme song to Karin started playing from Kami's pocket. With a sigh, the teen pulled out her cell phone and flipped it open. "Yes Coco?"

"Where the hell are you?! We need to get ready for the Winter Wonderland Ball! Where are you? Where. Are. YOU?! You better not have snuck off with some Japanese boy and left your best friend to fend for herself!"

"Oh yes Coco," Kami said, rolling her eyes with a sigh. "Because you're the damsel in distress, having frequented this exact convention for three years running now."

"I am, I am, it's horrible. I need a strong knight like my handsome Kamikins to guide me through this foreign land!"

Kami couldn't help but laugh. She sometimes forgot why she was best friends with a dictator. "I'll meet you at the van, don't worry hun." With a grin, Kami pocketed her phone and began to stand up.

Lavi grabbed her hand with a, "Awww!" He used her to help himself up and then pulled the petite girl into a hug. "Yuffie-chan needs to go now?"

"Yeah, sorry we couldn't chat more Lavi. What's your email?"

Lavi pulled away with a wicked grin. "I have a better idea. Yuffie-chan, you wouldn't happen to not have a date for the Wonderland Ball, would you?"

Catching on with his line of thought, Kami pretended to think about the question. She tapped her lip thoughtfully as she spoke. "Well, Vinnie is occupied by Cait Sith and I'm pretty sure Reno will be busy with his Nobody and their yaoi fans. Squall is no fun; he's never in character! Always following around Elena like a puppy! Roxas will probably be forced into cross dressing and be pulled into the Reno and Axel mess… Yazoo and Kadaj will also have the yaoi fangirls… Marluxia pisses me off… Tseng is scary… Yeah! I totally do not have a date to the dance, are you suggesting something fine Akuma hunter?"

"That I am fine material huntress," Lavi said. He held her hands in his with a pleading look on his face. "Yuffie Kisaragi, will you be my date to the Winter Wonderland Ball?"

"Why, Lavi, I thought you'd never ask!" Kami giggled and gave Lavi a hug. "Sounds fun, I'll meet you in front of the ballroom, hm?"

"Wonderful! See you there Yuffie."

---

As predicted, Haruhi was put into a Roxas-esque dress as Axel's 'official' date. Reno was the Nobodies 'unofficial' date, making them a threesome. Everyone was dressed in his or her cosplay finest. The guys were all in tuxes; except for Hunny who was pretty much dressed the same. Coco was in a dress suit, saying that gowns simply weren't the thing for Elena. Kami found herself decked out in a ridiculous emerald green dress. It was an elegant piece, but Kami felt so awkward in it. The Ouran twins teased her nonstop about how she 'actually didn't give off a commoner vibe in rich clothing.' If Coco wasn't there ready to kill her if she hurt the dress, Kami would have killed the twins. The rest of the Ouran group made Kami feel a little better about her outfit. Tamaki wouldn't stop bragging about his beautiful daughters (was he ever an idiot) and Kyoya complimented her, though it was almost an insult at the same time…

But, despite the reactions of her friends, only the look on Lavi's face when he saw her made Kami feel like she was the princess of Wutai. She'd never seen a boy so obviously shocked by her appearance in an unweird-ed out sense. Without a second glance back at her friends, Kami ran off to Lavi.

Kaoru looked to his brother with a small frown. "Hikaru, isn't that the DDR rival cosplayer Kami is running to?"

Jace popped between the redheads with a sigh. "We told you they had a thing for each other-"

Aaron leaned over his brother with a heavier sigh. "Didn't we? Best to leave them to each other. Kami can take care of herself. On another note-"

"I believe we're winning!" Jace sang as he linked arms with Aaron and danced into the ballroom. "And we're going to keep winning. Bye-bye small balls."

"I hate them. I really hate them Kaoru. We need to defeat them."

"Oh, I'm with you Hikaru, I'm with you… Haruhi, you're going to help us here…"

"Fifty four, fifty five…"

"Sixty three, sixty four…"

The ball turned into a rave, calling for yet another costume change, and the group of teens spent the whole night partying the otaku way. They finally left the convention center as the time was getting close to three in the morning. Hunny had fallen asleep hours ago during the rave and Mori watched over him against a wall dutifully. The sleepy kitty attracted a lot of pictures, but the cute boy continued to sleep. Through both the ball and rave, the twincest battle continued. The twins collected bags full of evidence of fangirlism and were currently counting their proof on the floor of the moving van on the way back to the Hitachiin mansion. So far the American twins were winning…

"So, Kami." Coco slid next to the half-asleep crimson haired girl with a soft smile. Kami opened her eyes lazily and looked up at the blonde quizzically. The blonde's smile became forced as she wrapped her hands around Kami's neck. "Please don't tell Mama that you were hanging with the enemy all night long."

Kami frantically tried to breathe as she shook her head. "Nononono!" She gasped out as her lungs strained for air. "You're-you're killing me Co-Coco."

"You were with that little piece of Jap-"

"AAAAAARGGG!"

Coco released her grip from around Kami's neck to look at the four teenage boys on the floor of the van. All off them had their heads clutched in their hands in agony. "What's wrong with you freaks?" Coco asked as she moved on from terrorizing the traumatized Kami.

"We're tied!" The four shouted at the same time.

Everyone in the bus came to consciousness to look at the piles of papers and photos that belonged to the four twins. Haruhi rubbed her eyes sleepily as she asked, "Tied in what?"

"Our twin contest!" Hikaru exclaimed as he swat at a pile of phone numbers. "We're freaking tied! Neither of us are the better twins!"

"It's unbelievable!" Jace cried as he fell into Aaron's lap. "A tie! A true tie! How is this possible?"

"This is ridiculous," Kaoru said with a defeated sigh. "It's not possible Jace, we're all dreaming right now."

"I agree Kaoru!" Aaron exclaimed as he threw his hands into the air. "We must be dreaming! Especially since I'm thinking of you two like friends now!"

"Aaah! You're right you crazy American!" Hikaru yelled in shock. "Why am I thinking of you two like friends? ARG!"

"H-Hikaru, you aren't replacing me, are you?" Kaoru looked up at his brother with wide eyes.

Hikaru instantly pulled Kaoru into his arms. "No Kaoru, you know I would never do that. No one can replace you Kaoru."

"Oh quit it you two! There's no audience right now!" Jace yelled, but clapping interrupted the beginning of his rant.

"Oh, oh!" Coco sniffed as she wiped away tears. "That was so beautiful. You have my vote Hitachiins, I think you guys are the better twins."

"HA!"

"NO!"

"Aaah!" Kami jumped up and made an X with her arms. "Nuuh! They don't need the ego inflate! I vote for Jace and Aaron!"

"I vote for the Hitachiins!" Tamaki yelled at the top of the lungs, deciding suddenly to join in the fry… Thus chaos began.

And in the end, it still ended with a tie and there was no better pair of twins decided…

---OH MY GOD ALMOST DONE---

Because of their late night, Coco decided that they didn't need to bother trekking out to the convention center again for the last day. Nothing exciting was happening anyways. So, everyone was left to pass out in the Hitachiin house for as long as they wanted to. It was around three in the afternoon that Kami finally came to consciousness. She looked around groggily, wondering why Coco and Zaire hadn't bugged her awake yet… They were nowhere to be seen.

The small teen rolled out of bed and slowly made her way into the twins' room. Hikaru and Kaoru were there, working on their computer at their desk. "Heey! The monster is up! Morning cupcake!" Hikaru said with a laugh.

"Everyone is already gone you lazy otaku. Good job. Didn't get to say bye to anyone." Kaoru said with a roll of his eyes. He reached over Hikaru and picked up an envelope from the desk. "Dictator told me to give this to you." He explained as Kami took it from his hand.

Confused, Kami opened the envelope and read the letter inside, veins visibly popping as she read further. Finally, she finished reading and she threw the paper to the ground, stomping on it for good measure. "THEY'VE ALREADY LEFT FOR THE AIRPORT?! YOU IDIOTS! WHY DIDN'T YOU WAKE ME UP! GET ME TO THE AIRPORT NOW!"

The twins looked at each other and stood without protest. Kami was kinda scary when she was seriously mad…

She grabbed their hands and pulled them through the house to the limo that was waiting outside for them. "We can make it… We can make it, I know it. The plane leaves in an hour… We can make it… I'm going to kill that stupid blonde. Kill. Murder. Watch me."

And so, after completely insane and illegal driving, the three made it to the airport in record time. Kami raced through the crowd, loosing the twins in an instant. It didn't take her long to find the group of tall Americans. How could they leave without saying goodbye? They were getting ready to board the plane… "I hate you, you idiots!" Kami screeched as she flew into the group of them, close to crying.

Jace and Aaron grabbed the furious midget and hugged her tight. "Oh Kamikins! We knew you'd wake up in time and chase after us! Coco was horrible! You know how she is with saying goodbye, she hates it so she doesn't let any of us say bye! It's horrible horrible horrible! Oh Kamikins! We're going to miss you so much! We miss you already! We're sorry we left you asleep!"

Kami found herself crying as she hugged the idiotic duo. Of course they'd blame it all on Coco. They were just as bad as her when it came to goodbyes… The small girl was suddenly pulled away from the twins and almost killed in Zaire's embrace.

"Kami-cupcakes! I love you so much! I'm so sorry! I'm going to miss you! Talk to me on webcam every single day! Text me in class! Call me in break time! Come visit me! I'll pay for the plane fee!"

Kami laughed and ruffled Zaire's hair as he gently set her down to face Coco. Sniffling, Kami timidly made her way to her best friend's side. "Coco… Are-"

"IDIOT!" Coco yelled as she smacked the back of Kami's head. The blow would have sent the midget flying in Zaire wasn't there to steady her. "I left you asleep because I hate goodbyes!" The blonde was crying uncontrollably as she bent over to hug Kami. "Promise me you'll keep kicking those Ouran kids butts and promise me you won't hook up with that Lavi. Promise me you'll do all that stuff Zaire said for me, not him. He doesn't deserve it, I do. I'll pay for all your fees, don't worry, just don't make me miss my best friend so much!"

"Flight 4562, you are now boarding. Flight 4562, please start boarding."

By this time, Hikaru and Kaoru had caught up and were watching the spectacle of blubbering American idiots. They would have started laughing if Jace and Aaron didn't suddenly pull them into the mess. "Listen up you two." Aaron said seriously as Coco, Kami, and Zaire hugged.

"We've decided we trust you-"

"So please,"

"Please take care of our Kami-"

"She's like a little sister-"

"But more!"

"She's the basis of this crazy friendship…"

"We owe everything to her, kay?"

They glared at Hikaru and Kaoru with firm eyes. "So take care of her and don't let anyone break her heart or we'll break your faces!" They smiled cheerily and grabbed their bags. "Bye Kamikins! We love you!" They yelled as they hugged Kami one last time before the boarded the plane.

With a few more parting hugs, Coco and Zaire finally made their way into the plane as well. Wiping away stray tears, Kami walked over to the twins and hugged them. "Thank you Hikaru, Kaoru. Thank you for helping me make sure those idiots didn't get away with idiotic acts." She sniffed and hugged the redheads tighter. "And I just want to say, I'm glad of all the idiots in Japan that could be the sons of my mom's best friend, I'm glad those idiot are you…"

End of Chapter Ten

Gaijin- Japanese for foreigner. It's a word like otaku, just better untranslated

Jem: Okay, well, I'd reply to all those comments left, encouraging me to keep writing, but I'm tired… I love you all… I'm past the convention. I think you might be able to expect another chapter sooner than later…

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