The Sun, the Sea, and the Host club!
Well, we arrived at the beach but Kyoya surprised us; we had to host while we were there. I didn't mind too much, but I could tell that some of the other Hosts were disappointed. I was sitting next to Haruhi under the shade, we both observed the other Hosts. Tamaki was on a rock in the water with a customer, he had a line of other customers waiting for him actually. Kyoya was managing Tamaki's line, the twins were playing volleyball and running around, and Mori and Honey senpai were doing funny stretches. I chuckled to myself. Arashi was playing in the water with a group of girls, and he was wearing a T-shirt of course. He hated showing off a lot of skin, and his explanation sent a lot of girls squealing "Tsundere!" A couple of girls approached us.
"Akari-senpai, Haruhi, aren't you two going to swim?" Three girls wearing bathing suits stood in front of us.
"No thanks, I like watching the sea from a safe distance," said Haruhi.
"I'm afraid I can't swim! It's so embarrassing huh?" I smiled at them.
"If you aren't going to swim, would you two mind if we sat next to you and talked with you?" One girl asked dreamily.
"But why? Why don't you swim? You guys got cute swimsuits on you should show them off," Haruhi said. The girls went all blushy when Haruhi worked her natural charm. I smiled at them while winking, and gave them a thumbs up.
"I agree! You girls look adorable!" After a few minutes of blushing, they left.
Haruhi and I discussed miscellaneous topics for a good fifteen minutes, before we both decided to walk around a bit. We were surprised to see a bunch of shellfish crawling around, and while Haruhi and Honey were gathering them Mori senpai and I decided to approach some voices we were hearing behind a rock. We saw a truck with Kyoya's police force handing out shellfish. He told us that the police force wanted to make up for attacking Honey senpai and his friends and brought the shellfish.
"Heh, well Haruhi's really happy about them," I glanced back at Haruhi, she was having a really good time. Mori grunted in agreement. We walked back towards the others, and we saw Tamaki holding a crab.
"Tell me Haruhi, doesn't this crab look...crab-tivating?" I chuckled a bit at Tamaki's joke. Just then, a tiny, adorable centipede crawled out from the crab, sending all the girls and some host screaming and running away.
"But it's so cute!" I walked towards it, but Haruhi got to it before I could. Before I could stop her, she threw the poor thing away from everyone.
"No! The poor baby!" I ran towards where it went, and I searched for it. It was smashed against the rock, and it was dead. I put on my sad face and turned around to the rest of the group.
"It died..." Arashi came out of nowhere and patted my head.
"It's just a bug," he said reassuringly. The twins were saying something to Haruhi but I wasn't really paying attention. We should hold a proper funeral for the poor thing. The crowd all came back saying how brave and manly Haruhi was, and how sweet I was. That made me smile a bit. I couldn't believe they were scared of such a cutie-pie...
The twins had made their way to Tamaki after the crowd surrounded Haruhi and Akari, some girls trying to comfort Akari regarding the bug. The twins and Tamaki discussed how abnormal the two girl hosts were, and how they didn't seem to be afraid of anything. The twins then came up with a game. The game's objective was to figure out the fears of the girls, and Kyoya joined and said the prizes would be pictures of Haruhi in middle school and baby picture of Akari. All the Hosts ended up playing, excluding Arashi and Kyoya. The other hosts tried getting Arashi to talk, but he claimed that he didn't know either. And the game began.
I walked in a cave with the twins, Haruhi, and some customers. The twins were telling us this really lame scary story, I even yawned a couple of times. Haruhi was unfazed as well. Then, they had to send the customers screaming after taking out a fake puppet. I comforted the girls by patting their heads.
"There, there, the twins were just being naughty you girls are perfectly safe." The girls calmed down a bit, and I walked them out of the cave trying to cheer them up. What were those two trying to do? They were supposed to entertain the clients, not scare them!
Later...
"Uh Honey senpai, why are we going to sit inside the trunk of a truck?" Haruhi and I gave him the same, perplexed expressions.
"Is it okay to drive a truck like this on the sand?" Haruhi asked in a bored tone.
Honey ignored both our questions and dragged us in with him.
"Well, we're ready when you are private police people!" The doors shut, and all three of us just stood in dark silence for a little bit. After a moment or two, Honey lost it and we all had to get out again. Haruhi and I tried calming him as best as we could, who knew he would be claustrophobic?
Later, Mori held a sharp harpoon at out faces.
"Uh, Mori? You're my senpai, not Sentai." I think Haruhi was trying to crack a joke. I poked the sharp part gently.
"Do you fish with this thing?" I asked.
Later...
I accompanied some girls up a cool, tall rock thing when the sun was setting. The breeze felt nice, and the view was awesome. We all enjoyed ourselves, and we called the attention of Haruhi below us who was collecting more shellfish. After a few moments, I heard some footsteps approach us. I turned and saw two men walking towards us. I frowned slightly.
"Hey! There are chicks up there man! Aren't we lucky!" The first one said. I stood in front of the girls, shielding them from the men. Straightening my back, I slightly towered over them.
"Do you girls want to hang out with a couple of the locals?" They ignored me and kept staring at the girls while inching closer and closer.
"This is a private beach, and that is no way to talk to a lady," I said calmly.
"Ever heard of sharing?" The other one sneered and tried to get around me. I firmly put my hand on his shoulder, and said in a cold voice.
"If you fail to leave at the count of three, I'm afraid I'm just going to have to teach you a lesson. Girls, get away before things get messy, and tell Haruhi to get the others." I gave the men a stony smile. The girls started walking around the men cautiously.
"You little runt!" The guy was about to punch me in the face, but I dodged easily.
"One," I said. The other guy lurched toward me trying to knock me over, and I tripped him. He crashed onto the ground and swore.
"Two," I caught the first guy's fist as he attempted to punch me again. He tried punching me with his free hand, but I caught that too.
"Three." I kneed him in the stomach, then I swiftly high-kicked his face, sending him crashing backwards. The girls screamed, and ran off. The two men stood and glared at me.
I punched, dodged, flipped, kicked. I delivered blows to their faces and torsos, but they were getting angrier and faster by the second. The two eventually had brought me closer to the edge. The two attacked me at the same time, one went for my head the other for my stomach. I was only able to dodge and protect my face, but the first guy kicked my stomach. I crashed onto the ground and grunted.
"Teach us a lesson eh?" He spat. The second one grabbed my arms and held them behind me. The first one seized the opportunity and kicked me couple of times while I was down. I gritted my teeth, and my vision was blurring from the pain. The first boy grabbed me by the collar of my shirt, and jerked me up to his eye level. He walked to the edge, I was hanging on to his wrists so I wouldn't fall.
"I've got an idea," he snarled.
"You wouldn't!" My eyes widened as I realized what he was going to do.
"Why don't you go for a swim!" He released me, and I fell backwards. I inched closer, and closer to the surging waves. I couldn't scream, I could only stare in horror as the jagged waves lurched towards me. My body slammed against the water, leaving me numb, I felt the cold and darkness enveloping me. I closed my eyes.
"Akari?! Akari! Can you hear me?" Whose voice was that? Was it Arashi? He sounded muffled...and angry...
"Open your eyes, now!" Commanded the voice, I obeyed and slowly opened my eyelids. Someone was holding me, their body was warm...I'm so tired. I saw a blurry mouth moving. Squinting, my vision cleared up a bit and I could hear the ocean waves.
"Akari!" Two pairs of hands touched my face, and I looked up to see Arashi looking at me.
"Arashi." my voice was a rasped whisper.
"You're alright..." His voice quieted, and his face smoothed over.
"I...I thought you were a goner..." his voice was shaky, I could tell he was trying hard not to cry. I hadn't seen him cry since kindergarten...His usually blank face was contorted with worry and sadness, then relief washed over his facial features. He wrapped his arms around me, and whoever was holding me before released me. I limply rested my head on Arashi's shoulder, who kept his strong arms wrapped around me.
"I'm okay now," my voice sounded pretty weak, but it was better than before. I felt a throbbing pain in my stomach. I winced and clutched it. Arashi released me, and I sat steadily on my own.
"You..you're an idiot," his face turned cold all of the sudden. The panic and worry that had laced his facial features were gone now. He now glared at me coldly.
"What do you mean?" I glared back.
"You shouldn't have tried to fight those two, they were two boys. What would've happened to you if we weren't there to save you?" His eyebrows furrowed. He tensed up. Tamaki also added,
"Don't forget Akari, you're a girl!" Tamaki wore an angry expression on his face as well.
"Tamaki, it doesn't matter if she's a girl. She was there and she did the right thing and helped. I would've done the same thing," Tamaki and Haruhi had their own argument now. I answered Arashi.
"Well what was I supposed to do? Run away and leave the girls by themselves? I had to do something! Are you saying that because I'm a girl I should just wait for some prince charming to save me?! I'm not some damsel in distress and you're not my knight in shining armor! And I did a good job beating those punks up. " My voice was laced with annoyance.
"Shut up!" Arashi yelled. Yes, he yelled at me. I widened my eyes in shock, he has never raised his voice at me or at anyone before. Never. His face was shadowed in a dark rage, and he stood up and stormed away from me. I was in shock. The other Hosts didn't know what to say either, so we all just stared at Arashi for some moments in silence.
"Akari, how badly are you injured?" Kyoya broke the silence; he was dripping wet and sitting right behind me. I also looked around to see all the Hosts looking at me in concern. I looked down.
"Not horribly," I said blankly. Arashi was mad at me...
Later...
Kyoya was helping me with my bruises, everyone else was watching with concerned eyes.
"I'm fine guys, really." I gave them a half-hearted smile. I saw Arashi in the hallway, it was time for him to go. He looked at me with a blank expression for a couple of moments, then walked away while dragging his suitcase. Even after he left, I kept staring out the door.
"All done. Try not to move around and apply this tomorrow," I snapped my head towards Kyoya, he was handing me some medical cream.
"Thanks Kyoya..." I took it from him, then I looked down, refusing to look at any of the Hosts.
"You all had us very worried Akari-chan," Honey senpai said with a serious voice.
"I didn't mean to...I'm sorry..." I grumbled.
"I don't think you should apologize to us," said the Hitachiins.
"I'll apologize to Arashi after he comes back...I think he just needs a little time away from me." I smiled at the twins.
"Don't worry about us, we'll be fine. This is my problem so I don't want you guys worrying about it." I gently stood up and brushed down the shirt and shorts Kyoya lent me. Haruhi only had frilly dresses(her dad repacked her bags), and no way I was ever going to wearing those.
"I'm starving, what's for dinner?" I gave them a bright smile. Their faces still looked worried, and very solemn.
"Crabs," said Haruhi.
Dinner...
Man, Haruhi could eat. A LOT. I looked in shock as Haruhi continued devouring more crab legs. I was still eating my first leg.
"Whoa, slow down a bit Haru," I patted her back.
"Don't you think you should go a little easy?" Tamaki said, he wore the same expression as me on his face.
"Excuse me, I thought you weren't talking us" Haruhi said to Tamaki. I sighed, and continued eating. Tamaki refused to speak to either me or Haruhi. Haruhi had sided with me earlier and defended me, while Tamaki had defended Arashi. Tamaki stood, and asked Kyoya to escort him to his room. The two boys left, leaving Haruhi and I with Kaoru and Hikaru, Mori, and Honey senpai. Haruhi stopped eating, and wore a pensive expression on her face for a little bit.
"He's partially right," Haruhi said. I put down my crab leg, and Haruhi did the same.
"Yeah...I was pretty reckless, and I caused a lot of people to worry about me. I shouldn't put myself in that type of situation, but I wasn't thinking straight." I looked up and looked at the faces at everyone.
"I'm sorry guys, and I'll apologize to Tamaki later. And to Arashi..." I trailed off. I remembered how coldly he glared at me earlier, we never fought before. I was still pretty shocked actually...
"Aww, we already forgave you a while ago!" The twins, Honey, and Mori gathered Haruhi and I in a group hug. Haruhi then said she felt sick, and so I rushed out with her to the nearest bathroom. I was in there patting her back while she puked into the toilet, I'm not going into much detail on that. She cleaned off, and we got out of the bathroom. Apparently, it was Kyoya's bedroom. Haruhi and I apologized for barging in, but he didn't seem to mind. I think he just came out of the shower or something, he wasn't wearing his glasses or his shirt, and he had a towel around his neck.
"Dude, my living room even isn't this big." I looked around his huge room.
"Rich people..." Haruhi muttered under her breath. She left the room, leaving Kyoya and me alone. Kyoya got back onto his laptop and started typing away. After a few minutes of me not saying anything or leaving, Kyoya got annoyed.
"If you don't want something get out," he sounded a bit grouchy.
"Um...Thank you very much...For earlier..." I said quietly. From the corner of my eye, I saw Kyoya turn his head.
"You're a great friend to me and to everyone else. I know you may act all cold and mean but, I can tell you're a great guy. If you weren't, you wouldn't have saved me." I looked at him and gave him a genuine smile. He looked kinda surprised for a moment, but he reverted back to his old self in just a second.
"That's an interesting notion, in its own way..." he continued typing something into his laptop.
"Don't work too hard, goodnight Kyoya." I smiled and walked out of the room, closing the door behind me. I owed him one, I guess I'll bring in more customers. I headed towards the room Haruhi and I were going to share. I heard a clap lightning and jumped a bit in surprise. I heard Haruhi squealing from our room. I was about to enter, but I heard Tamaki's voice.
"Haruhi...Are you afraid of thunder?" I stopped myself from going in, and I heard some doors opening from the inside. I heard Tamaki's voice, but his words were muffled from the next roll of thunder. I took a peek inside from the slight crack, and I saw Tamaki and Haruhi hugging each other. A hand grabbed me. I stopped myself from squeaking, and saw Mori staring down at me. I raised a finger to my lips and pointed at the crack. He leaned over a bit to see what was inside, and nodded his head after seeing Tamaki and Haruhi. We both quietly tiptoed away back to the dining room.
"Where's Haruhi?" The twins asked in unison.
"She's making up with Tamaki, I wouldn't bother them," I smiled at them, then I grabbed hold of them both between my arms.
"Wanna play a game?" I asked them mischievously.
"Sure," said Hikaru.
"But could you let go? Our necks hurt," finished Kaoru. I released them, and suggested that we play truth or dare.
"Sounds like fun!" Said Honey.
All of us picked truth for the first round, and we all asked very easy not-embarrassing questions. After a few rounds, and after the thunderstorm cleared away, Haruhi and Tamaki came down to join us.
"You two should join us! Come sit!" I patted the empty chairs next to me. Tamaki sat happily while Haruhi looked unamused.
"Truth or dare Hikaru?" I asked.
"I'm Kaoru!" Hikaru lied.
"Very funny Hikaru. Pick!" I said. He grumbled something to himself, then he picked dare. I grinned.
"I dare you to grab an orange from the fridge and pretend you're madly in love with it for a minute." Kaoru laughed.
"Propose to it too!" I laughed with Kaoru. Hikaru huffed in annoyance, but got up to retrieve the fruit.
Tamaki, Honey, Kaoru, and I were all laughing at Hikaru when he pretended to be in love with the orange(convincingly).
Later on, Mori had to do the chicken dance for his dare, and Tamaki had to stand in a timeout corner for the rest of the game. We all had a lot of fun. Later, the twins asked me what I was scared of(of course). I told them that I was terrified of goldfish, but they wouldn't believe me. I ended up ranting about how horrible they were. I mean, they had HUGE GOOGLY EYES that just stare at you, and when they die they float to the top! I shuddered as I explained, and everyone sweat dropped like in anime when they realized I was seriously scared of goldfish. And I had reveal that I slept with Curry every night(my stuffed cat). The twins laughed at me of course, but I just shrugged it off like it was no big deal. Honey slept with Usa-chan, and he let me hold him later! I glomped on him afterwards, he is so adorable(even though he's older than me...)Tamaki said something about me being a girl at heart, but when he hugged me he accidentally hurt my bruises so I had to shove him off. We all went to bed later on, and I fell asleep as soon as I hit the bed.