"Come on, I need to check the fit on the dress and then we need to work on the project," Hikaru yelled impatiently as he paced in front of the dressing room door.
"There is no way in hell I am walking out of here in this thing" Haruhi yelled from the other side.
It was a little over a week since the incident at the Host club. Kaoru had gone to find his brother, and upon locating him he fought back the urge to roll on the floor laughing. After all the sight of a completely soaked Hikaru as he muttered angrily to himself, as Haruhi handed back the now empty water gun and ammo tubes also completely wet, was one of the funniest things Kaoru had seen since both he and Hikaru had stashed frozen frogs in a model's dress during a show and as she walked down the runway the frogs defrosted and jumped out of her dress. Needless to say both boys were banned from being backstage for over a year due to that. Neither he nor Renge had been able to wrench out the details of what had happened out of the either of them.
"It's a Hitachiin original; it will look stunning on you," the elder twin hissed as he stomped his foot.
"It looks like a Halloween costume that lady Gaga would wear," the brunette groaned.
"I don't know if that was a compliment or not," Kaoru said quietly as he pinned a dress on Renge to finish off the garment as she giggled quietly.
"It's not," Haruhi's dry voice filtered through the door as both the younger twin and his client laughed.
"If you don't come out right now, I will go in there and drag you out," Hikaru hissed in anger.
"You wouldn't dare," Haruhi called as the elder twin began rolling up his sleeves Hikaru marched behind the curtain, "Hey get out of here!" the girl behind the curtain shouted in panic.
"You have this on wrong," Hikaru growled as Kaoru and Renge stared at the curtain as thumping and banging noises came from behind it.
"Don't touch me there!" Haruhi shouted in rage as Renge chuckled at her friend expense.
"Now get," Hikaru hissed as Haruhi was pushed out from behind the curtain.
"um…" Kaoru said as he looked the design up and down.
"yeah…" Renge said awkwardly scratching the back of her head nervously.
"Well its perfect right?" Hikaru asked as he finally stepped out of the curtain.
The dress was rather form fitting, the main portion was black with red accents. The strapless dress clung to what little chest the girl had as the sweetheart neckline lay on her chest but just under her breasts her two large cut outs that seemed to go from just under her chest giving a flash of under boob all the way down to her hips where the tight pencil skirt like bottom constricted her movements. The two pieces where connected by a piece of fabric about four inches wide that was sewn in to the top part at the neckline and went all the way to the bottom just covering Haruhi's stomach. Once the girl turned around you could see that the back had a thick strap that helped hold up the top but the rest of her back was bare.
"You're an idiot," the younger twin muttered. It truly was a Hikaru Hitachiin design, edge and a little risqué and that was its main problem.
"Kaoru!" Hikaru shouted in offence.
"It's a good design but…" Kaoru said trying to find the words to make his brother understand his mistake.
"But?" Hikaru growled at his twin waiting for a response.
"Does this look like me?!" Haruhi growled as she refused to look at herself in the mirror.
"No it's supposed to look like I designed it," the elder twin said smugly as he tried playing with the girl's short hair causing the brunette to swat his hands away as she walked a few feet away from the elder twin.
"True but you are supposed to design for your client and I think you missed the mark," Renge said tactfully saying what Kaoru was having trouble doing.
"Now way it fits her like a glove," Hikaru said confidently, that much was true the dress required no other alterations. Now if only it was something Haruhi would actually wear, Kaoru thought as he quickly snapped a picture of the girl in the dress before she removed it.
"Do you want to know what I think of this dress?" Haruhi shouted as she glared over at the elder twin, once she had his attention she grabbed the top of the dress right at the bust line and tore.
Hikaru looked on in horror as the dress he had spent a lot of time on was ripped from the top to the bottom, as the scrap of now ruined fabric fell to the floor around her feet. Haruhi kicked the offending garment in to the elder twins face. Turing on her heel Hikaru's face inflamed the moment he realized that the small girl in front of him was stomping back to the changing room in nothing but a strapless bra and some panties.
"So I take it she didn't like it?" Mrs. Hitachiin's voice filled the stunned silent room.
"Grr... that ungrateful…. She… her… I….AH!" Hikaru growled out before he screamed in frustration stomping out of the room with a distinct blush on his face.
At the three others in the workspace tried to figure out what had just happened Haruhi flew out of the changing room and soon the door.
"Well I guess it is back to the drawing board for my little imp," Yuzuha said flippantly as she walked out of the room.
"Do you know what just happened?" Kaoru asked as Renge chuckled knowingly.
"Here!" Hikaru shouted as he flung down several sketches on Haruhi's desk the next morning at school.
The nearly full class only half paying attention, after nearly two months the entire student body had seen so many interactions between the elder devil type host and the only girl not to fall for any of charms that it had become repetitive. Hikaru walks in, goats Haruhi, the girl says something blunt, Hikaru becomes a blubbering mess and repeat. It was almost as expected as Tamaki's princely personality or Honey's ability to melt almost any heart with just one look.
"What are these?" the brunette asked evenly as she looked down at the drawings that now covered her notes for the next class.
"I am not making another dress just to have you rip it apart, so pick out the sketches you like then I'll make the dress," the elder twin growled in annoyance as he leaned against the chair of the desk in front of Haruhi's. Sighing in defeat the girl began looking at the sketches.
"No, no, no…" Haruhi spoke as she came to one picking it up and ripping it in half "No way in Hell!" she shouted as she threw the pieces of paper in the air.
"Hey!" Hikaru growled as he tried to catch the falling paper.
"No, no, no….. This one's not so bad," the girl spoke surprised as she looked at the dress, "I mean there are too many accessories but the dress is okay,"
Shock filtered on to the elder twins face as he left the torn paper on the floor interested to see what the frustrating girl actually approved of.
"This isn't on of mine," Hikaru said quietly as he looked over the design,
It was a simple cocktail length dress the top half was a square neckline that clung close to the top half of the body and just barely flared out at the waist. The skirt had little volume but still had a few layers of crinoline underneath. The light blue dress was accessorized with a large black hat wide brimmed hat sat on the head, three gold bracelets, a gold belt that sat just at the waist, two charmed anklets both on one foot, and a pair of strappy white stilettoes.
Looking in the left hand corner the elder twin recognized his brother's hand writing, right Kao was playing with designing a line of vacation wear, the elder twin thought as he wondered how it got in to his stack of designs.
"Well I like it, but there are too many accessories," Haruhi said firmly.
"But that's the point of this look," Hikaru said as he took the sketch out of the girls hands.
"So, just take out the hat, the anklets, and trade in the heels for flats and I guess this could be okay," Haruhi shrugged as she returned back to her notes but before she could she heard a voice she wasn't expecting.
"There you are I was wondering where you were, my precious Haruhi!"