Chapter 13

"Miyu, Saya, how long do you plan to be in that state?" Margarette asked the two girls who had been quiet and depressed. They had been like that for the whole day, waiting for their mother to arrive. They even refused to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. They had actually been like that since Maya e-mailed Margarette but this was by far the worst day.

"She didn't come," they heard Sayaka muttered.

Margarette sighed and sat beside her. "You read her e-mail, right?"

"But a promise is a promise," Miyuki pointed out.

Jinny walked in holding a tray of food for Miyuki and Sayaka but the two took no notice.

"C'mon guys, you have to eat," Jinny said. "It's only your pets, you can make other plans."

Then, Zurich entered the room. He, too, tried to cheer them up but nothing of his capabilities even caught their attention. It was like he didn't exist. That made him kinda depressed and hopeless.

Tiffany came in, breaking the silence that had grown for a while.

"Miyu, Saya, there's someone looking for you," she said even though she knew she would be ignored…again.

"Who is it?" Zurich asked for all of them, except the twins who seemed uninterested.

Tiffany didn't answer but she had a look on her face that was hard to figure out.

Feeling slightly annoyed by the charade thing, Jinny retorted, "Who is it?"

Tiffany said nothing. Instead, she signaled them to follow her. Jinny and Zurich followed her while Margarette was left in the room. Approaching the living room, Zurich could sense that the visitor was not someone welcomed for the moment.

After a few more paces, they finally reached the living room. In there, someone was they saw someone sitting at the sofa. They caught a little glimpse of the visitor's blond hair. At first, they had doubts on who it was but it became clear to them when the said visitor faced them with a goofy smile on his face.

"Are you surprised?" Tamaki asked exuberantly.

"Do you mean that we are surprised that you suddenly visited?" Jinny asked but did not wait for any answer. "Well, that would be a yes but if you mean that we are surprised that you would actually have an idea of visiting at night, then that would be a no."

"Jinny..." Zurich said with a warning look but Jinny only rolled her eyes.

"So, what are you doing here?"

"I just came from a party nearby. Then, on my way home, I saw this house and decided to visit for a while."

"Fascinating," Zurich said monotonously.

"Well, you visited enough so, bye!" Jinny said, as she tried to show him to the door.

"But, I haven't seen Miyuki-chan and Sayaka-chan!"

"They're already asleep. You don't wanna disturb them, do you?"

"No, but-"

"No buts, bye!" Jinny said as she gave the blond a final push to the door.

"Be sure to say hello to them for me!"

"Yes, bye!" Jinny said as she closed the door behind her. She let out a sigh of relief. "Well, that was fun," she said sarcastically.

~The next morning~

It would have been a wonderful morning. A morning when everything would have turned back to normal. A morning when the Sugimoto twins were done being depressed. However, there would always be a big but. It seemed like one thing or person was gonna ruin it. Well, maybe not.

"Good Morning everyone!" Tamaki greeted gleefully yet there was no reply from any of the people he greeted. Three of them were blushing. One wasn't sure how he would react. And, two of them weren't being specific with their emotions.

If you would be asking why these people would be reacting in different ways when they were only being greeted happily, well, they had their reasons. The very common one was Tamaki was wearing a mawashi*.

Zurich looked at the three girls who were blushing. It could not have been Tiffany for she had no reason to do it. At all. His eyes then, landed on Jinny. She had always hated Tamaki for some reason but it was no reason to embarrass him and to make him look even more stupid.

"Jinny, did you-"

"I didn't," the said girl interrupted.

"How did you-"

"You always accuse me."

"Are you-"

"Yes, I'm pretty sure. And for the record, I would never want a blond man almost naked in front of me."

Well, he was now sure that it was not his sister. The only one he could think of was Margarette. She always loved to see people in their natural beauty and that may include seeing their body. Moreover, out of the three girls, she was the only one who could be doing this, insisting that it was for her designs.

"Marga, by any chance, did you-"

"Nope. And I'm telling the truth. I may always want to see the natural beauty of a person, but I do not fantasize on what's under the clothes."

Zurich said no more for she answered all the questions he had. He had already disregarded Tiffany but she might just be-

"Don't even think about it, Zurich," Tiffany said.

Sometimes, it was amazing how these girls knew him so well. But, it gave him the creeps too.

"Ok Suou, could you tell us why the heck did you think of wearing such?"

Tamaki blinked. Once. Twice. He tilted his head to the right. "But, you were the one who told me to do this. You even said that it was to cheer up the twins."

The twins. Why didn't he think of that? Who else but those witty chicks would have thought of it!

"Oh, so it was Zurich..." He flinched as Jinny looked at him accusingly.

"I really apologize to you, Tamaki, for this unbelievable behavior of Zurich," Margarette said, completely ignoring Zurich. "He really doesn't know when to stop with the jokes."

As if rehearsed (which it was), Tiffany pulled out a neatly folded boy's uniform from her bag. It was one of Zurich's. "We're really sorry for this."

Without another word, Tamaki took the uniform from Tiffany. Now, he seemed embarrassed.

"Okay, tell me, what is this all about?" Zurich asked menacingly after Tamaki left.

All girls looked at other directions except him. They even pretended that he wasn't there.

"Guys, it's not funny!" Still, there was no reaction from any of the girls.

"What's with the joke?"

The girls sighed and looked at him.

"It was just for fun," Sayaka confessed.

"Well, it's not funny."

"Are you mad at us?"

"No." Sayaka looked up at him hopefully. "As a matter of fact, I am more than mad!"

"Sorry."

"Not working."

"…"

Zurich looked at Sayaka and was surprised when he saw her smirking. You have got to be kidding me.

"Well then, see ya!" Miyuki and Sayaka said as they pinched his cheeks. The other girls had walked away moments ago. He touched his cheeks. The other night, those two girls couldn't even be useful in conversations and now they're pumped up. AS much as he wanted to know what had happened, something told him it was better off that way.

~Flashback~

"You girls are acting dumb right now," Margarette said as soon as the other three had left to see the visitor. She settled herself on the bed between the two. She had just switched to jerk mode.

The two blonds just ignored her... again. It was as if she didn't exist.

"See? You don't even see the advantage of this! This is like a ticket to a sweet taste of revenge."

This time, two crimson eyes looked at her with slight interest. "What are you trying to say?"

Margarette knew they were on to it already but she had got to have a little fun too. "Now I think I'm losing interest in this conversation."

"MARGA!"

"Fine..Fine.. No need to make it look like you're gonna eat me alive!" Margarette said irritably. "If you have noticed, Hikaru and Kaoru don't trust you yet. So, this 'delay' of Maya's is not really a bad thing." She stopped the two time to realize what she meant.

"We don't get you."

Margarette face-faulted. She rolled her eyes. She took two heavy books from their shelf. The two girls looked at her in confusion but she went on. She hit them with the books. Both girls cried in pain.

"Now that you had your head hit, maybe you'll get me this time. So, what advantage do you think Maya's delay can give you?"

The girls still weren't themselves so she hit them again. This time, it was harder. Then, it really did hit them.

"Oh my-" Margarette held their lips before they could utter another word.

"Now, what do you have to say?" she asked.

"Who are you and what have you done to our sweet, gentle and shy ol' Marga?"

Margarette matched their smirks with one of her own. "Why not ask that to yourselves?"

~At Music Room Three During Club Hours~

"Let's play the 'Which one is Hikaru?' game!" Hikaru and Kaoru said as they put on their hats and shuffled themselves.

Their patrons squealed as they chose the wrong one each game, losing.

Miyuki and Sayaka rolled their eyes but no one saw it. 'This is such a stupid game.'

"Sayaka-san, why don't you try too?" one of the girls beside them told Miyuki.

"Me?" Miyuki asked. The girls nodded. She looked at the twin boys and tried to observe. Now that she faced them, she realized she did not even know who's who. She just randomly pointed at one thinking, 'They wouldn't even care if I was right or wrong. Haruhi told us everything about it.'

"Correct!" the Hitachiin twins announced but something was weird 'cause they were smirking. "Now, your reason."

"Wh-What? What reason?" she asked the patrons.

"You know, the reason when you got it right," one of the twins asked. She was now sure he was Hikaru since they removed the hats and his hair was parted to the right.

"I-uh…Well.." Miyuki looked at Sayaka but she was no longer in sight. "I-It was a lucky guess?"

~o~

"I can't believe you couldn't tell them apart!" Margarette scolded Miyuki.

"I can't believe I'm the only one you're scolding," Miyuki said.

"I can't believe this is really happening," Sayaka said.

"I can't believe Marga is really serious," Zurich said.

"I can't believe we'd have to be troubled by this," Tiffany said.

"I… I can't believe the cafeteria didn't have tacos today!" Jinny said.

Everyone looked at Jinny. "What?"

"What? You're the ones who started their sentences with exactly the same words. I was only trying to fit in!"

"What are you talking about?" Margarette asked.

"Nothing," Jinny rolled her eyes. 'Great. The one who started it doesn't even know a thing!'

Margarette was now explaining something to them. Jinny didn't even see the point of staying there when Margarette only needed Miyuki and Sayaka.

"Okay now, you'll be learning how to tell Hikaru and Kaoru apart," Margarette said, holding up a stick like a strict teacher would.

Sayaka cupped her chin. It was getting really pointless. "Do you even know how to tell them apart?" she asked.

A smirk suddenly made its was on Miyuki's face. "She couldn't even tell us apart properly," Miyuki chuckled.

Margarette slammed her stick on the white board, making a sound shut Miyuki and Sayaka up. "I don't need to know how to tell them apart. I have all the information I needed right here."

"In your pants?"

"No, not that!" Margarette pulled out the flash drive from her pocket. "This."

"And where did you get that?"

"I…uh…have my…sources."

"Like Haruhi or Kyouya? Or maybe-"

"Shut up!" Margarette slammed her stick between Miyuki and Sayaka.

"Gosh, be careful with that stick!" Sayaka said as she touched the mark it left. It was a really deep one.

"Yeah, you could really hurt someone with that thing," Miyuki said.

"I told you to shut up, didn't I?" Margarette pointed her stick on them.

Miyuki and Sayaka were shocked so they put their hands in the air.

"Put your hands down!" Margarette ordered.

"Yes ma'am!"

"Now, we shall start our lesson."

Miyuki and Sayaka tilted their heads to the right, and looked at her innocently. "What lesson?"

Margarette's eye twitched. "The lesson on telling Hikaru and Kaoru apart!"

Zurich and Jinny rushed to her with some stress reliever while Tiffany put duct tapes on Miyuki and Sayaka's mouths.

After all the shenanigans, Margarette tapped her stick on the table to catch the twins' attention. "Now, try to tell who's this.." A picture of one of the Hitachiin twins flashed on the screen.

"Why aren't you answering?"

The two pointed at the duct tapes that were on their mouths.

"Remove that!"

They rolled their eyes and did what they were instructed to do. This time, they were able to answer but Margarette still hit them.

"Ow! What was that for?"

"You got zero out of twenty correct answers!"

"So?"

"So?" Margarette repeated. "You have no improvement at all and you couldn't even guess correctly!"

"Marga, you do know that that stick really does hurt," Zurich reminded her.

"Fine, I won't use this anymore." Miyuki and Sayaka couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. "Then, just give me the rolled newspapers."

~ After a sack of newspapers~

"Now, I'm gonna give you a homework," Margarette said.

The twins looked at her skeptically. "But we are at home."

Margerette shrugged. "Might as well do it now."

"But we're exhausted!" the twins complained as they slid comfortably on the chair. For a moment, they thought they saw Margarette give a sharp look.

"What did you say?"

Afraid to lose their lives, both of them sat up straight. "Woah, this homework is wonderful!" And they started to do it like there's no tomorrow.

Everyday of their day miserable lives went on like this. They'd go to school, face the Hitachiin twins with a sweet smile planted on their faces and treat them like they made the world. After that, they'd go home and face the wrath of Margarette-sensei. As much as the other wanted to help them, they couldn't because this was all part of Margarette's plan that could be of help (I think) for Miyuki and Sayaka. This went on for two weeks.

~o~

"This isn't gonna work," Margarette said as she examined the answers of Miyuki and Sayaka. Two weeks had already passed since they started this craze but there had been no improvement. Not even a tiny bit of improvement. She felt tired already. In fact, she was so out of it that she fell of her bed with the papers falling on her.

"What's not gonna work?" she heard a voice asked. She did not get up but she removed the papers that were on her face to see who it was.

"Oh, it's just you, Zurich." She said dully as she got up not caring whether the papers would mix themselves up. "What do you want?"

"You haven't answered my question," he said as he picked up the fallen papers.

"Oh, that," Margarette said monotonously. Zurich thought he had just seen the former Margerette spoke to him. It gave him something to worry about. "This help I'm trying to give them. They don't appreciate it at all."

Zurich sighed. "Fine, I'll help. After all, you're not the only one who wants to stay here longer." He started to walk away when Margarette caused him to halt.

"Wait! What are you going to do?"

Zurich looked back at her with a blazing smile. He, unconsciously winked at her. "I will make magic happen."

For a moment, Margarette thought that for once, he was reliable but it did not take her long enough to really comprehend what he had just said.

"What the hell did he mean by magic?"

-End of Chapter-

*mawashi – (according to my source which is wikipedia) is the belt that sumo wrestlers wear in training or during competition.

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