Wow, this one is a lot shorter than the last one, the last one was seven pages long, this one's only four pages, anyway, you all already know the disclaimer stuff, so I don't want to bother with it, enjoy the story. .
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Hanataro sighed to himself; he was standing at the doorway of his mother's study, just watching her work. He had changed from hisschool uniform into a pair of regular blue jeans and a simple white t-shirt.Jack was off trying to convincesome of the maids to let her cut their hair, wouldn't they be surprised once they saw the excellent work she could do. "Hana-chan, whatis it?" his mother asked, putting her work to the side andlooking straight at him.
Emily Yamatowas a beautiful woman with long red hair like her son's,but withemerald green eyes and pale skin, she had a soft face, and her beauty was only matched by her kindness.
She smiled softly at him, "Hana-chan, how was your day at school?" she asked instead, she could tell she wouldn't get the answer for her first question any time soon, so she asked another one.
Emily was a very patient woman; in her youth she had only believed herself to become the manager of the book store she had worked at, but that soon changed after meeting a man in particular who had stolen her heart when he came to America so many years ago.
She was now instead the boss of one of the largest medical industries in all of Japan, but she would still always make time for her son and his friend who had become like a daughter for her.
"It was fine." he simply answered, not bothering to move from his spot at the doorway,
"Hana-chan."
"Alright, the teacher believes Jack to be a genius now, she's in for a surprise, and I also saw Ohtori-senpai."
She seemed to be thinking of something that made her amused, but then turned serious again "So, no incidents at all?" she asked, concerned for her son and his friend.
"Not one, although Jack did freak some people out andalmost jump out a window again."
Emily smiled, "Jack is rather the most entertaining of people."
"Yeah, I guess."
"I believe I can flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, like a strawberry piiiiiiiiiiie!" a voice sang, moreshouted actually,as a blue blur passed by the door, making a wind and causing Hanataro's hair tofly a bitwith it. After that some maids came following after the blur begging it to stop.
"She got into the apple juice again." Hanataro's mother sweat dropped,
"Yep, Jack definitely is a rather entertaining person." His mother started to laugh and he soon joined her. Hanataro had to admit, he loved to be at home because of things like this.
Jack and Hana-chan were once again at school, math had passed by rather quickly and now it was history, "So, Jack-chan, can you please tell us, who was the first Emperor of Japan?" expecting Jack to get the answer right.
"Ummmmmmmm...buttered toast?" Jack responded uncertainly, the whole class burst out laughing while Hanataro let his head fall against the desk.
"Um, no, Jack, we just finished discussing about the first emperor, um anyway." the teacher said, deciding to continue with her lesson and not ask Jack anymore questions.
"Jack, I seriously wonder how you're a mathematical genius." Hanataro told his friend as they walked out of class; she stared absently at him before saying,
"Ne, ne, Hana-chan need to cheer up, Jack-chan know, how about me, you, and Skelly-kungo get ice cream!" twirling said doll in the air.
"Ah, hello Hana-chan." Haruhi said to him,
"Ah, Haruhi-san, nice to see you as well."
"Hi, hi, Haha-chan." Jack said to Haruhi,
"You'll have to forgive Jack, she always gives people nicknames whether they want one or not." Hana-chan told the newly dubbed Haha-chan.
'"Iie, it's perfectly fine." Jack suddenly appeared beforeHaruhi
"Ne ne, Jack-chan no like Haha-chan's hair, it not pretty like you, you need it long, in a ponytail, no, curls." she then continued rambling about what she could do with his hair.
"Does Jack-chan do this often Hana-chan?"
"Unfortunately, yes, but she's actually a pretty good hair dresser, without her my ownhair would be a mess."
"Haaaruuuhiiii!" a new pair voices yelled, Hanataro and Haruhi both turned to see who it was, and they saw both Hikaru and Kaoru. "Come on, Kyouya-senpai is waiting." and with that the group of five left for the music room.
"Eh, why am I here again?" Hanataro asked, sweat dropping at the punkishly dressedpeople in front of him, of all theeight other peoplein the room he only knew five of them, Jack, of course, Kyouya, duh,Hikaru, Kaoru, and Haruhi, and that was only cause they were his classmates. Jack immediately turned to Hikaru and Kaoru after looking at the other people in the room,
"Are you two really that dumber?"
"Eh?"
"These hairstyles are all wrongs for this sort of style."
"And you would know?" they mocked
"Of course, I've been studying fashion magazines and peoples since I was fives years old." she said, holding up four fingers, with both hands,instead of five. This causedJack and the twins to go into a loud and heated argument about hairstyles.
'Wonder how long it'll take them before they give up, she's worse than a mule.' Hanataro thought, "Gomen, demo Kyouya-senpai, what exactly is this all about?" Hanataro asked him, gesturing to the punkish theme around him. The be-spectacled teen, wearing a black sleeveless shirt with a red dragon design in the middle, a black wristband with spikes on it, black, beat up, jeans, and his hair spiked up, responded by merelysaying,
"This is the Host Club." Hanataro nodded his head, he'd remembered his mother once telling him how she used to go to those when she was younger, it kind of creeped him out, imagining hismother going all gushy over some guy.
"And we wish for you to join us as a new member of our club!" a blonde with purple-blue eyes shouted, he wore a longblack sleeved shirt with a red plaid jacket on top, the sleeves rolled up,several bracelets, and clip on earrings, his hair was also messed up and made so it spiked up. Hanataro merely blinked attheobviously over-enthusiastic blonde,
"No thanks."
The blonde seemed to crack and disintegrate into dust, before reforming and reappearing in front of Hanataro, "Why not!"
"Eh, I'm not the right guy for the job, I'm not all that fond of girls crowding around me, kind of makes me sick actually." he answered. The blonde seemed to be shocked by this and suddenly went into a long winded speech about how you should not speak of girls in such a way and some other crap.
Hanataro merely sweat dropped, realizing that the blonde misunderstood him, he turned to the shorter blonde with brown eyes, that he just now noticed was there, "Um, what's his name?" he asked the younger looking boy, gesturing over to the still speaking blonde,
"Ah, that's Tamaki."
"Thanks."
"Um, Tamaki-senpai, I didn't mean it that way, I just meantthat people getting too close to me physically, makes me feel uncomfortable."
"So, we will just have to make sure you see only one customer at a time."
"Doesn't really matter, don't feel comfortable around people I don't know well, in fact my skin's been crawling since I enrolled here." Hanataro responded, he sighed before turning once again for the door, "Come on Jack, let's get going." he told his friend. Jack looked up from her argument with the twins, which had somehow gone from hairstyles to how much of an idiot the twins were, and looked towards her bestest buddy before turning back to the twins, sticking her tongue out at them, and running to Hanataro, before they could respond.
Outside of the school, Hanataro and Jack entered the limousine that had been waiting for them to come and take them to the institute for their monthly check-up. "Ne, ne,Jack-chan thought Hana-chan was okay with big crowds now." Jack said, confused as to why her friend would lie about something like that.Hanataro sweat dropped,
"Ah, well, yeah, demo, well, they don't need to know the real reason of why I can't accept that offer yet."
"Okay Hana-chan, Hana-chan is right, they might not want to have you only be there and not talk."she said, and looked as if though she was thinking about something, "Ah, I knows, how about Jack-chan go
there and convince them to let you be there and not talk, thenHana-chan canmake lots of friends!" Jack exclaimed, proud of her excellent logic.
"Um, how about no." Hanataro said, sweat dropping at how simple minded Jack really was, she always believed that things could be solved easily, but still, Hanataro would prefer to meet his dates at coffee shops and parties, as opposed to an after-school club. Besides, how could he work to serve girls, when he wouldn't even let them get close to him to any degree, or most anyone else for that matter?
Hanataro and Jack were now in the large institution that had oncebeen their home for a good number of years; they passed by familiar faces of staff and patients alike. There were a few new faces, but only a few, Yaledem's would accept anyone, but some people didn't want their family members or friends to be too far from them, so Yaledem's was rather spacious. Jack went off to another area of the large building so that the staff could run a few tests, and Hanataro went off to see Dr.Yaledemand speak with him. Dr.Yaledem was an extraordinary person with a bright and infectious attitude, he was a bit of a flirt, buthe was stilla brilliantdoctor as well, yet normal was something Dr.Yaledem did not know anythingabout. He had extremely light longpurple hair, usually held back in a lowponytail,red eyes that looked somewhat purple as well, and his usual attire consisted of a white lab coat,some randomconcert shirt, and black jeans, but hey, what more do you expect from a twenty-four year old?
The youngdoctor was in his office typing away at his computer and apparently humming along to some music playing on hiscomputer speakersthat Hanataro could hear from outsidethe door. He sweat dropped, still unable to believe that somehow this man had become the president of this facility, when he was only thirteen.
Hanataro merely shook his head before entering the room without as much as a knock. Dr.Yaledem looked up from the computer screen to Hanataro, "Hey, just a minute." the doctor requested, Hanataro heard a familiar ping that signified someone signing off of AIM, sweat dropped, then the doctor turned down his speakers till you couldn't hear the music anymore. "Okay, so what is it?" he asked Hanataro, immediately knowing something was wrong.
"Hey Will." Hanataro said and sat in the chair across from Will, and then stared off into space at a painting behind the older man. The two men merely sat there in silence until Hanataro finally broke it, "Do you think I should join a club?"
"Well, that depends; do you want to join the club?"
"Well, I'm not sure, I mean if I joined the club then I'd have to listen to girls talking all the time and do what they want since it's a host club." Hanataro answered, getting up and walking around the room, he merely looked at some of the items in the office, book case, shelf, pictures, books, until he finally pickedup a pressure ball from the desk and squeezed it and played around with it in his hands. Will seemed deep in thought about the questionfor a few minutes before responding,
"So basically you're still afraid of human interaction until you know the person well enough to be sure that they will not decide to just leave you." Hanataro stared at him before saying,
"Maybe yes and no."
ThenWill said, "It's the other thing right?" Hanataro nodded his head, "Then I can't really help you here, speak with your mother on this topic, she'll understand better than I do," Will said, "now if you'll excuse me, I've got twenty more levels to beat of this video game." he continued before cracking his knuckles, turning the music back up, and refocusing on the computer screen.
'Yet somehow he's older than me.' Hanataro thought before exiting the room to find Jack and then leave, so that he could think about this topic further.