Chaper 5

Another day of the Ouran Host club...I was beginning to believe that I would never be able to bay back my half of the debt. I walked around the club in my maid outfit again, serving drinks and refreshments to the guests. Haruhi was with me as she had no customers at the moment.

"Maria, how's home? Is eveything ok?"

I stopped and looked at her. "We're managing, remember I work as a waitress and a peformer at the weekends so I'm making some money."

Before Haruhi could reply we heard the twins with their customers.

"Let's all play the 'which one is Hikaru?' game."

The girls applauded as the twins continued "So, can you tell which one of us is Hikaru?"

The girls looked at them and confessed "Well, it's hard to say."

"You are identical."

Hikaru and Kaoru grinned "Many ladies have tried to tell us apart, but so far none have succeeded."

Haruhi and I walked past as Haruhi said "That's the dumbest game I've ever heard of."

"Me to." I nodded in agreement.

The twins looked at us "What? Have you got a problem with it?"

We turned to face them as Haruhi replied "Not really. I just don't understand why the two of you are so popular."

I nodded as the twins moaned "That's not very nice."

Hikaru began "I'm disappointed."

Kaoru continued "Apparently, you don't understand the merits of having a pair of twins as members of the host club."

"Listen up. Having a couple of good-looking guys with homosexual tendencies earns the club high points. It also helps that the two struggle between their attraction and their friendship." Hikaru explained.

Kaoru continued "And in our case, because we're twins, our relationship is taboo and therefore more intriguing."

Suddenly Hikaru went over to a girl who was sitting down and pulled her close by the chin "And besides, who hasn't fantasized about twins? Having two loves is better than one? Don't you think?"

Kaoru came over and pulled the girl close as well "It's a young woman's romantic fantasy."

The girl squealed "Well, uh, yeah, you're right. I can't take it!"

The twin gave us smug looks as we heard the angry shout of Tamaki.

"Hikaru, Kaoru! When I gave you control of the club's website, I did it so on one condition that you take it seriously."

Hikaru looked at Tamaki "We take our job very seriously, boss."

"In fact, last night we worked on it till dawn." Kaoru stated.

Tamaki opened up the laptop that he was holding and shouted "Is this what you worked so hard to create?"

I looked at the screen and saw Haruhi...with a man's body?! She looked great but that's not her body. Everyone came over to look at the picture as Hunny said "You look great, Haru-chan."

I looked at Haruhi and laughed "when did you do this?"

Haruhi growled "I never did!"

Kyoya grabbed the laptop and smiled "don't get too confident Maria...there's one on here of you to."

My eyes widened as I looked at the picture...I was sitting on one of the host club's sofas wearing a beautiful gown.

Hunny smiled "you look so pretty Mari-chan!"

Haruhi looked at me and grinned "so, when did you have this done?"

I stuttered "I-I never posed for that picture!"

I suddenly heard the cry of Tamaki...he was probably imaganing the twins taking pictures of us.

Just then the twins said "You're imagining things."

Hikaru stated "It's obvious that the photos have been altered."

Tamaki stopped crying and looked at them "It was photoshopped?"

Hikaru grinned "We did a pretty good job, huh?"

Kaoru added "We've got some major photoshopping talent."

Well that explains that...I'm gonna have to kill them later I can't believe they did that!

I stood in the emo corner with Haruhi as Tamaki yelled "You idiots! That's a waste of your skills! Have you no shame? But if you are going to do it anyway, can you photoshop Haruhi into this idol photo book?"

Say what?

I didn't even want to turn around as I heard Hikaru say "Don't be ridiculous, boss. Why don't you just..."

"ask her if she'd wear an outfit like one of those?" Kaoru finished.

I didn't hear what Tamaki said after as I just zoned out but I saw a dress behind Haruhi...being held by none other than Tamaki.

"What are you doing with that dress?" Hunny asked.

That's what I wanna know.

I heard the girls as they looked at Haruhi's photo.

"He looks so handsome."

"Yeah, he does, but I have to agree with Tamaki. I'd love to see what Haruhi would look like if he dressed as a girl."

"Oh, he's so cute. I'm sure he'd look great no matter what he put on."

Me and Haruhi turned around to Tamaki and gave him an evil glare, causing him to shuffle away. We then looked at the twins as Haruhi said

"Now, cut it out. No more making weird pictures of us. You got that? Just what do you guys take us for, anyway?"

Hikaru and Kaoru grinned "Isn't that obvious? You're our Toy."

We're their what?!

"As we were saying, in order to entertain oneself in the otherwise boring life," Hikaru began

"one must find himself stimulating toys." Kaoru finished.

I am not someone's toy and neither is Haruhi. I yelled "We am not your toys! Okay?"

Just then a creepy voice come out from behind a black door and a hooded boy said to us "You want a toy? Toys... toys... If you like toys, then you should come visit my black magic club. We've opened a marketplace that boosts black magic items from across the globe. We're also holding mass around the clock. If you visit right now, I'll even throw in a free curse doll. You can have Belzenef as your free gift."

Haruhi just turned to me and said "Why is he talking to us through a crack in the door?"

I shrugged as the twins stated "Wait a second. Has that door always been there?"

Now that I think about it that door hasn't always been there...

Kyoya then popped up out of nowhere which made me jump "Nekozawa senpai likes to hide. He doesn't really care for brightly-lit places."

I looked at him "you've gotta stop doing that! You keep on making me jump with your sneaking around."

He just grinned as Tamaki came over to me and Haruhi "Don't get involved with that guy you two. If you do, you'll end up being cursed."

Haruhi looked at him nervously "Do you have any basis for that?"

Now I wasn't one to believe in curses and ghosts and what-not but I listened to Tamaki's story anyway.

"Yes. It happened during final exam at the end of the last school year. Oh, it's terrifying just to talk about it. On that fateful day, I accidentally stepped on that weirdo Nekozawa's cursed doll, Belzenef. Afterward, I took my exam and entire test was written in some strange lettering. I looked at the others around me for help and I realized I knew none of them. I was all alone in a different dimension."

Hunny started crying "Scary!"

I picked Hunny up (cause he was that small) and hugged him "there's nothing to be scared of Hunny, I'm sure there's an explanation for this."

Just then Kyoya proved my point "That only happened because you were so scared you accidentally walked into the beginning Greek class and took their exam."

I smirked in triumph and Tamaki yelled "No! It was a curse! I know because three days later, I woke up and my legs were as heavy as lead! Just how do you explain that?"

Kyoya calmly replied "Your legs were heavy because you ran a marathon the day before, remember?"

I put Hunny down and smiled "see there was nothing to be afraid of."

Nekozawa suddenly popped up behind me and spun me around to face him "You shouldn't underestimate the dark powers of Berzenef, the curse doll. All you have to do is write the name of someone you hate on his back, then that person is certain to come face to face with misfortune."

"No thanks" I bluntly replied.

He was going to try and persuade me but a bright torch light shone in his face, curtosy of the twins. He screamed "You murderers!" Before running back behind the black door.

And that was another WTF moment.

Tamaki screamed to the twins "How on earth could you do such a thing? Obviously the two of you don't know the true terror of black magic."

They ignored him as Hikaru yawned "I am so bored."

Kaoru complained "Isn't there anything fun we can do around here?"

Tamaki went into his emo corner and whined "My dignity as the club's leader is being ignored."

Well I'm not suprised...you're the one that believes in that black magic crap.

Me and Haruhi went back to serving drinks as the twins asked "Hey, Haruhi, we've got a favor to ask you."

She turned to them "What is it?"

Hikaru began "The next time we get a day off..."

"can we come over here to your place to hang out?" Kaoru finished.

Haruhi looked at them puzzled "Why would you want to do that?"

"We're curious. We want to see where you live." The twins said.

But Haruhi just shook her head "No way."

"Oh, pretty please." They begged but Haruhi wasn't giving in

"No way. You guys are just gonna make fun of me."

The twins then turned to me and asked "can we come over to your place then Maria?"

I instantly froze and knew I couldn't let them see how I live. "Not a chance"I replied.

"No matter how much we beg you?" They whined.

Tamaki then emerged from his emo corner and said "I too have been thinking that it's about time I pay my respects to our beloved Haruhi and Maria's families."

Haruhi and I just quickly said "No way in hell, senpai."

Which made him go back into his emo corner. The twins came up behind us with their green hats on and said

"We can settle this with a game. If you can't pick up which one of us is Hikaru, then your penalty will be the two of us coming over to your house later tonight."

They moved around to try and confuse us. Then they stopped and said "Okay, so which one of us is Hikaru?"

Haruhi pointed "This one's Kaoru. This one's Hikaru."

The twins shouted "Oh oh, you got it wrong."

Haruhi knew she was right and I did as well, so I said "No, evem I know she's right. You guys may look alike. But you're very different."

They stared at is for a moment as a group of girl surrounded us and asked "How did you do that? Whenever they wear those hats to cover which way they part their hair, it's practically impossible to try and figure out which twin is Hikaru and which one is Kaoru."

"How can you tell them apart?"

Haruhi put her hand to her chin and said "Hmmm, how do I put it? It's kind of difficult to explain, but Hikaru's speech and actions make him come across a little more mischievous than Kaoru."

I nodded in agreement. I could hear Kaoru laughing behind me

"I'm Sorry, Hikaru. I don't mean to laugh." He continued laughing as Hikaru said

"Well, I don't see why it's so funny. I'm honest. I speak my mind, and I don't hold back. It's sneaky people like Kaoru who are the trouble makers."

I have a feeling this isn't gonna end well.

Kaoru stopped laughing and glared at Hikaru "Don't turn this on me, Hikaru. After all, I'm the one who's always going along with all of your selfish games."

Hikaru argued "I may suggest them, but you are the one who really gets into them, Kaoru. If you hate it so much, then why don't you just stop?"

"Because I hate to see you make an ass of yourself in front of everyone. It was your idea that call Haruhi our toy, but I noticed you were quick to make a pass at her. Admit it, Hikaru. You're actually in love with Haruhi, aren't you?"

What did Kaoru just say?! There's no way...

Tamaki was also shocked. Hikaru gasped slightly and replied "You've got it all wrong, Kaoru! Man, you're such a freaking idiot."

Tamaki cried "Yeah, there are some things in this world you must never be said."

Hikaru ignored Tamaki and continued "Why would I fall for her? I mean, she looks like a tanuki."

Tamaki screamed "How dare you call her a raccoon dog! You're gonna pay for that!"

But Hikaru wasn't done there "Besides you're one to talk Kaoru, you also suggested calling Maria our toy and whenever we're with her your always flirting with her...you're in love with Maria aren't you?"

What?! If I had a drink in my mouth right now it would be halfway across the room. Kaoru doesn't flirt with me...does he?

Kaoru growled "Shut up Hikaru!"

Just then a familiar voice come from underneath "Awesome, this is just perfect. "

Renge then popped up from under us on a giant machine. She went on to say something but I didn't pay attention...I wanted to know where that machine came from. The twins just looked at Renge and blankly said

"Oh, butt out, otaku."

Renge pouted "You guys are mean. You shouldn't say something like that to your manager."

Tamaki looked at Renge and asked "But, Renge, I thought you had a feeling for Haruhi, as well."

Renge smiled "Oh, I do. But, I have no problem with Haruhi having a homosexual relationships on the side."

Oh yeah Renge doesn't know that's Haruhi's a girl...I wonder why?

Haruhi bent down to her and asked "I'm confused. I thought you decided to go back home to France, Renge."

Renge blushed "Well, I was going to start up a host club on my own, but I don't think France is ready for host club just yet."

I turned to the twins who were still fighting.

Hikaru yelled "Cut it out, already! You're the one who's always crawling into my bed. Talk about annoying."

Kaoru yelled back "I only do that because you look like lonely. I wouldn't choose to sleep in your bed, you idiot."

"Who are you calling an idiot? You're the one who sucks at math!"

"Oh yeah, well you're failing your foreign language class, you big dummy!"

"The way you grind your teeth is definitely..."

"At least I don't toss and turn so much that I fall out of bed."

"Sex pixie!"

"Sicko!"

Finally they both yelled "Your mama wears too much makeup! That's it. We're over."

In any other case bringing someone's mother into an argument is offensive...but they have the same mother so how does that work?

They both stormed off as we all looked at each other, wondering if they were gonna make up by tomorrow.

The next day came quickly as me and Haruhi sat in class ready to begin. Hikaru came up to us and waved

"Hey haruhi. Hey Maria Good morning."

Our eyes widened as Haruhi asked "Hikaru, what in the world happened to your hair? Why is it dyed pink?"

Hikaru smiled "Because pink suit me. Don't you think it's cute? From now on, I'm the pink haired twin. I didn't wanna be mistaken for the Kaoru for the rest of my life, you know."

Just then I looked at Kaoru who had bright blue hair. "Good morning, Haruhi and Maria."

He said. Hikary made his way to his seat as I asked Haruhi "So, Kaoru's the blue twin?"

She shrugged as Kaoru said "I was finally able to sleep all by myself last night. But I ended up having a nightmare. I dreamt that my stylist dyed my hair pink. It was so garish and ridiculous looking I woke up screaming."

Ouch...I think we all know what his intention was.

I could see the irritation on Hikaru's face and just before Kaoru sat down Hikaru knocked his chair away causing Kaoru to fall to the floor. They both stood up and glared at each other while me and Haruhi were sat in the middle. They then started throwing everything they had at each other.

Apparently you can through anythingat each other...including chairs and tables.

After an eternity of awkwardness it was lunch time. "Maybe we should follow the twins to make sure they don't break anything."

I suggested to Haruhi. She nodded as we went to the hall. We got there and saw the twins trying to order lunch.

"I'll have the A lunch. No give me the B pasta and the D salad! I'll take the F cappellini with the barbarie duck! Hold on, make it a foie gras in perigueux sauce! Stop copying me! Why don't you just leave me alone?"

Haruhi just shook her head "Amazing. Perfect unison even when fighting."

We then turned to find Tamaki pointing to the twins with the others behind him "I was wondering what all the fuss was about. I can't believe the two of you're still fighting. You're a disgrace to the host club."

A boy said "Hey, look who it is."

Then some girls said "Oh, I love them."

"I've never seen all them together like that."

They're not celebrities you know!

Hunny come up to them with a piece of cake "We've had enough of this. You're both to blame for this fight. Hika-chan and Kao-chan, I want you to make up and go halfsies on this cake, okay? But I want to have a piece too. So I guess we're going to have to go thirdsies. We're not going to be able to split the strawberry on top, though. What should we do? Maybe I should just take it. After all, strawberry is all my favorite. Oh, I forgot to ask. Hika-chan, Kao-chan, do you like strawberries?"

Mori went over to Hunny, picked him up, and carried him away from the irritated twins "You're just making it worse. Leave them alone."

Tamaki saw Haruhi and clasped his hands together "Oh, Haruhi! How do I expect to run into you at the dinning hall?"

Kyoya came up and looked at me "this is also rare we never see you two in the dining hall, why are you here?"

I replied to them both "We were worried about those two. So, we followed them here. Haruhi and I always bring a box lunch and we were just gonna eat it in the classroom."

Tamaki's eyes widened "A boxed lunch?"

Uh-oh...he's gonna have another fantasy about Haruhi.

I pulled Haruhi to a table as Tamaki shouted "I don't care if my box lunch is in an embarrassing heart shape. I will eat it."

Kyoya picked up his lunch and said "I have no idea what you're talking about. But it's evident that your fantasies are completely incoherent."

I chuckled as Hikaru came up to us "Haruhi, Maria, do you wanna sit here with me?"

We agreed and Haruhi sat next to Hikaru while I sat next to Haruhi.

Hikaru looked at Haruhi's lunch and asked "So what's that? What did you bring for lunch?"

Haruhi replied "Yesterday's leftovers and rolled omelet."

Hikaru asked "You wanna switch with me? I had ordered different than Kaoru, so I ended up with stuff I don't really like."

He swappd over their lunched as Haruhi shrugged "That's fine with me."

Me and Haruhi both looked at the magnificent lunch as Haruhi took a bit and put it in her mouth. Her eyes sparkled as she dazed into her dreamland. I could heard Tamaki slide over to Hikaru and said

"Well played, Hikaru. As a reward, I'd like to trade you my lunch for your box lunch."

Hikaru shook his head "No way."

Tamaki poked "Come on, trade with me."

"Forget about it." Hikaru repeated.

Kaoru sat next to me and said "So, Maria, I bet you want to try some. How would you like to taste mine? Here."

He grabbed my chin and gestured the spoon to my mouth. I opened my mouth slightly but Hikaru came over and ate what was on the spoon.

"Quit butting in. Get lost, Kaoru."

Kaoru put the spoon down and picked up his plate of custard...and he threw it at Hikaru. But it didn't hit him...Hikaru had pulled Tamaki infront of him to avoid being hit. Hikaru let go of Tamaki as the twins threw stuff at each other again. I saw Hunny go after his rabbit as he was thrown as well, Mori went in after him and casually came back down.

Ok then...random.

Haruhi and I picked up our packed lunch and said "I think we're gonna go eat in the classroom after all."

So we went back to class and ate our lunch there. Haruhi told me throughout the time how amazing that lunch was.

She's such a glutton.

After class had finished Haruhi and I went up to the host club where Tamaki, Hunny, Mori and Kyoya were sitting at a large table in silence. The twins were nowhere to be seen so we sat with them.

Kyoya stated "Looking at the numbers, if the situation isn't resolved, I'm afraid we're going to have to stop offering our brotherly love package. We're down one pair of loving brothers. Oh, Haruhi, I just want you to know there's no reason for you to feel responsible. Even though it was your tackless comment that started the whole feud between the twins in the first place, right?"

He does have a point...he obviously blames Haruhi for this.

Hunny then spoke up "It's weird for Hika-chan and Kao-chan to be fighting like this. It's never happened before."

Haruhi and I looked at him "They've never fought before?"

Hunny nodded "I've known Hika-chan and Kao-chan since we were in pre-school. We weren't in the same year, so I never really got to talk to them. But I remember that they, two of them always played together."

Tamaki added "Yeah, that's true. I mean, I've only known the twin since they were in middle school, but they definitely stood out. It seemed like they kept everyone at a distance except each other. Believe it or not, they were even more warped back then. When you stop and think about it, maybe this fight is good thing for them. Maybe it means that the twins are expanding their horizons a bit. We should just leave them alone and let them work it out."

It was so weird that they had never fought before, I mean even Haruhi and I have had our disagreements but our friendship became stronger because of them. But if this really is the twins first fight, they probably need someone to tell them when it's time to give in and call it quits. And if they've never fought before, do they even know how to make up?

An hour later the twins came back in and had just finished their throwing war...with a mountain of crap behind them and Hunny sitting ontop of it. Tamaki asked in annoyance

"Don't you guys think that maybe it's time you give up all this fighting? It's driving me insane."

Hikaru glared at Tamaki "What did you say? It's driving you insane. You've gotta be kidding me. How do you think I feel right now? Every time I look in the mirror, I see his face. I'm sick and tired of constantly being mistaken for you, Kaoru! The truth is I hate your guts!"

Kaoru growled back at his brother "You took the words right out of my mouth. In fact, I hate you so much I bought this, Belzenef, the curse doll."

Tamaki gasped and backed away scared.

Kaoru continued "I'm going to complete the curse, Hikaru. I'm going to write your name on his back. From this day forward, you're going to experience nothing but misfortune and sorrow!"

That had done it for Haruhi, she went over to them and punched their heads. "You guys, knock it off. What do you think you're doing? You don't bring something like this into a petty fight. Both of you are at fault here but what's really sad is that you brought everyone else around you into your big mess! Now apologize to each other! If you don't make up right now, I'll never let you come over to my house. Have I made myself clear?"

They both looked at Haruhi and grinned "So then what you're saying, Haruhi, is that if we make up, we can come over to your place?"

They put their arms around each other and stood next to Haruhi. She looked at the back of the doll and all it said was 'blank.' I stared at it in shock.

They tricked us! They planned the entire thing!

Haruhi screamed at the twins high fived each other and held each other. Hikaru said to Kaoru

"I'm so sorry, Kaoru. Even though I was just following our script, I said such awful things to you. I'm not fit to be your brother."

Kaoru cried "Don't say that, Hikaru. I was so worried. I couldn't live with myself if I ever thought I had hurt you."

"Kaoru, I'll never let you go again."

"Hikaru."

Haruhi dropped the doll and fell to her hands and knees, as did Tamaki. Hunny waved his arms frantically

"You gotta be kidding. You mean you guys were faking it this whole time?"

Hikaru and Kaoru replied

"We didn't have anything else to do. We were bored."

I tightened my fists and started walking over to them. "You assholes! You tricked us to make Haruhi invite you to her house!"

The twins looked at me and laughed nervously, backing away. "It was only a joke."

I clicked my knuckles "You better start running because I'm going to break both of you in half!"

They screamed and ran away, I chased them all around the room, out the school until they got into their car and drove away. I growled and knew I would get them back tomorrow. The next day arrived and before our customers came in I went up to the twins and punched them hard on their arms.

"Ouch! That hurt!" They cried.

I smirked "well you should think next time before you pull a trick like that on us."

I walked away smiling as the girls came in. The twins played their game with them.

"Okay, it's time to play the "which one is Hikaru" game."

A girl said "I know, the twin with the pink hair is Hikaru."

The twins smiled "We have a winner!"

Another girl asked "So are you two gonna keep your wild hair color even though you've made up? It's much easier to tell the two of you apart now."

Haruhi and I walked past as we said "No it isn't."

They looked at us as I said "Today, the pink one is Kaoru, and Hikaru's the blue one. You swapped colors for today, huh?"

We smirked at the speechless twins and walked away. I stopped and realised that the twins would want to come to my house as well. I began shaking as Haruhi held my hand, knowing what I was thinking

"I won't let them into your house. Not until you're happy to let them in."

I smiled. Haruhi is really my best friend in the whole world...what would I do without her?

A/N: Ta da! Another chapter for you sexy bunch! Thank you for reviewing, adding this to your favorites and so on. It always makes me smile :D Cyber cookies for everyone! I hope you liked it and please review if you can :)