Disclaimer: The Ouran series doesn't belong to me.
A/N:… Happy BDay babe. Heh, I just woke up now.
Anyway, second chapter and it like 1.5K. I wrote it all yesterday! WHEEEEEEEEEEEE
"A photo shoot?! I thought you were just teasing about that!" Haruhi's voice rung through the halls of the prestigious school that was Ouran. Passerby's stared in wonder as the walls shuddered with sound.
Back in the third music room, Haruhi was red faced with anger. Kyouya leaned against the wall, a small smirk placed upon his face. Tamaki whimpered and whined and the twins just stared at Haruhi in shock, along with Honey and Mori. She yelled. Haruhi just lost her temper…The world was ending. Okay- Maybe not.
Tamaki winced at the angry look his to-be-future-wife-that-he-still-had-not-proposed-to-yet-but-will-eventually-by-using-the-matress-trick-again. "Umm…I thought it would be a good idea...We could have pictures on posters and such…"
"Oh- So the customers don't already know what we look?" The rhetorical question hung in the air as Haruhi dished it out. Everyone was silent, looking at the girl in mixtures of fear, and amusement on Kyouya's part.
"Why is Haruhi yelling?" Honey asked out loud, pouting. Small grins broke out on everyone's faces, including Haruhi…well, maybe not on Kyouya's face.
"I just need to go home. My father is waiting for me. We were supposed to go out today because he had a day off," Haruhi replied, her face taking on a sad expression.
Kyouya was the one to reply. "If you don't come, there will be roughly 2,000 yen that we won't be able to raise due to a lack of your pictures. So unless you want to add that 2,000 yen to your debt, come along to our little photo shoot." He passed Haruhi a calculator, showing the debt added up. Haruhi's eyes bugged out before she bit her lip in thought.
"Fine."
"You rock Kyouya! Now we get nude pics!" Hikaru exclaimed, jumping up in joy. He turned around to high five his twin, who was beaming.
"THERE WON'T BE ANY NUDE PICS FOR YOU!" Tamaki cried, enveloping Haruhi in his arms and cradling the struggling girl to his chest. "It's okay my love. I'll keep the bad perverts away from you," he whispered into her ear.
Haruhi just put her arms against his chest and pushed him away. "Then who's going to keep you away from me?" she answered, sending a light glare his way.
"Boss is a perv! Boss is a perv!" The twins started chanting, earning their own glare from the blond haired teen.
"What does 'nude' mean?" Honey's question rang out, interrupting the quarrel that had started between the twins and Tamaki.
Everyone stared at him in shock, for the second time that week. First it had been because of yaoi, which was understandable. But how could he not know what nude meant? Even Haruhi, who was oblivious to most things, knew it.
This time, it was the twins who rose to the bat.
"Umm. Nude is…" Kaoru started.
"It's-" Hikaru started at the same time.
"How should I explain this?" Kaoru wondered out loud, hesitating in his explanation.
"Nakedness…" Hikaru finished, looking at his brother suggestively, licking his lips. A blush spread across Kaoru's cheek's at this. "Right Kaoru?" Hikaru asked, lacing his fingers with his twin's and leaning closer.
"That's enough. You don't need to put up an act ing front of us," Haruhi announced, covering Hikaru's lips and pulling the teen away from his twin. "You sit here," she demanded, pointing to the couch. Hikaru just sighed and plopped down and crossed his arms over his chest, grumbling to himself. "And you," Haruhi turned to Kaoru, "stay there." The younger twin pouted and made a show of sending goo-goo eyes at his brother.
Then, Haruhi turned to Honey. "Nudity is nakedness, as Hikaru so brashly put it. Understand?"
"OK! I understand!" Honey yelled happily, snuggling his bunny to his chest. Haruhi gave a sigh at the Déjà Vu. "OH I got an idea!" the cute boy announced, sticking his hand up into the air and jumping up in the air impatiently, waiting to get called on.
Kyouya nodded his head to the teen, motioning for him to go on.
"We can take pictures of cake!"
Once again, everyone was left staring at Honey in mixtures of amusement and shock- though they should have been used to the cake obsession by then.
Hikaru broke the silence with an, "Okaaaaaaaayyy…."
Kaoru joined in with his own, "That was random.."
"Yes. Now, let's get ready for this photo shoot."
XOXO
The days passed like water flowing through a river- constant and never turning back.
Claps thundered through the theater and Haruhi's shoulders slumped in both satisfaction and fatigue. This was it- what they'd been preparing for for so long. She crossed her fingers and hoped that it'd actually work out fine.
The curtains separated with a flourish, revealing to the fangirls, their star for the night. Cinderfella.
For the next two hours, this was their world. And as Haruhi scrunched on the floor, dressed in rags and scrubbing the floor, she fought the satisfied smile form her face and forced a scowl. Her fingers tingled as she scrubbed endlessly, Renge's voice ringing through the hall with the role of narrator.
"His name was Cinderfella, for he was forced to sleep in the cinders since he was watched over by his evil step brother. As orphans, they lived, Cinderfella doing the work and the stepbrother thriving."
Out of the corner of her eye, Haruhi noted Honey stalking into the room with a huff. She had to fight a smile at the screwed up look on his face that was his attempt at being angry. She carried his rabbit along with him as he 'towered' over Haruhi's hunched over figure.
"Hey Haru- Uhh.. I mean Cinderfella! You look nice today," Honey said with a grin before realizing that that wasn't what he was supposed to say. "OH! Ummm. Hurry up with your cleany thingy!"
"I will soon," Haruhi whispered with a bowed head. Her microphone magnified her whisper enough for the audience of fangirls who immediately 'aww'ed.
"Kay! Bye! We can share some cake later, okay?" Honey yelled as he exited the stage. He had seen Kyouya sending him furious looks and Tamaki waving madly at him to come over.
Haruhi pretended she didn't hear him as she scrubbed on, her bangs sticking to the glimmer of fake sweat on her forehead which she made a point of wiping in the crook of her elbow.
"Cinderfella had a horrible life, with barely any cake," Renge said through the voice speaker, playing along with Honey. "He dreamed of a new life of friendship and love."
A poof brought Haruhi's attention up as she watched the smoke fade. "What's going on?" she asked outloud, playing the part of a curious Cinderfella.
"HI!"
"Hey!"
Two redheads appeared.
"I'm Hikaru."
"And I'm Kaoru."
"And we're your fairy god parents!" They exclaimed together, stealing the chant off of some commoner TV show that Haruhi had mentioned.
Haruhi stared at them, schooling her face into a look of confusion. "Uhh…"
Kaoru rubbed his chin wistfully while looking at cinderfella. "You know. I don't have to be your fairy god parent. I could be your lover too." He added a wink into the mix.
Hikaru pouted. "NO! I want him."
"Well you can't have him," Kaoru added, "He's mine. I called him."
Haruhi sighed. "I wish to be all princey like so that I can woo the prince and get married to him instead of having you two fight over me all day."
Hikaru wrinkled his eyebrows. "Can you repeat that?" He had a waiter's notebook out and ready, with a pen in his hand.
Haruhi sighed again. "I wish to be all princey like so that I can woo the prince and get married to him instead of having you two fight over me all day."
Hikaru smiled weakly. "Umm again? My pen wasn't working."
Kaoru groaned. "Forget this! Bippadee Boppidee Bo."
The curtains closed for a moment, letting Haruhi shed her costume and don a striking suit. Kyouya somehow got a limo onto the stage and it served as Cinderfella's escort to the 'ball' which was two inches away.
The dance came quickly- between Haruhi and Kyouya. They twirled on a nonexistent dance floor to the techno music that somehow ended up on their sound track. The song was supposed to be 'So Close' but now, it was more of So Disgusting.
Tamaki interrupted the dance, saying that as the Prince's father, he needed a dance with his son's to-be-groom. Kyouya glared him away.
The clock struck 12. Haruhi ran away, shedding her watch along the way.
And the play went on, each scene wrecking itself unto shreds as everything fell apart. Literally. The scenery broke and fell on top of everyone.
The fangirls still loved it though.
In the end, the group felt like ripping out their hair in frustration. Most of all, Kyouya and his perfectionist nature.
Haruhi was just glad it was over.
"Hey Haruhi? You wanna do a Jack and the Beanstalk play?"
She groaned.
A/N: Yeah… HAPPY BDAY MISS MARY SUE! Heh, I bet you forgot about this, didn't you? I know I did. And few days, I was contemplating your prez and I thought of this. I didn't get time to finish it off earlier this week due to a lot of homework and stuff. But… yeah. I hope you like it.
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And here's a universal message to everyone! Go wish Miss Mary Sue a Happy BDay. She deserves to have as much happiness as can fill her heart. Love you babe… So sooo much. You rock.
XOXO
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