I do not own Ouran High School Host Club or any of its characters!
You know I forgot to add the titled theme song in these past chapters. So here we go!
-Kiss Kiss Fall in Love. Maybe you're my love!
P.s. ever heard it in English? It's really good.
Also I apologize for such a slow and late update. I, too, was surprised when I decided to use Benio as the kidnapper. So I had a hard time figuring out how they would rescue Reiko and stuff, which I'm still figuring out. Here in this chapter there will mostly be a lot of drama. Plus school has started and I need to start studying. AS IF!!
"Benio? What on earth does that demented diva what from Reiko-chan!" Tamaki shouted.
"I don't know," Nao replied. "We need to save my little oneechan! She's all alone with no one on that ship she can trust!"
"Well if someone answered us sooner we would've been able to catch up to them by now," Kaoru scolded Nao, who cringed down and began to whimper.
"It's not my fault," he sobbed. "Tamaki-kun strangled me and I couldn't breathe. I have respiration issues."
"We noticed," said the group all together.
"Stop talking!" Kyouya demanded. "What we need is a plan how to save Reiko off a huge cruise ship and safely bring her back."
"Waaahhh poor Rei-chan!" Honey cried out.
"We should have seen this coming," Kaoru said softly. "What do you think Hikaru?" He rotated his head to see his twin brother absent. "Hikaru? Hikaru where'd you go!"
Hanging onto the anchor of the ship
"What I'd do for a fellow Host amazes me," complained Hikaru. "Just gotta hang on tight! They'll raise the anchor eventually! They always do, or usually."
Back with the rest of the Hosts
"He must've gone after Reiko!" Haruhi affirmed.
"Great now we have to save 2 people," grumbled Tamaki.
"Quit complaining! First we need to find a way to how board that drifting ship."
Everyone thought for many moments. Honey suggested they could build a giant bunny shaped air ship and blow up the whole ship. 'It's both cute and deadly' were his words of describing it. Mori stayed silent. Though Kyouya did consider it and bringing in his military forces. Haruhi was the only one actually thinking of something realistic.
From the corner of Tamaki's eye he spotted some workmen delivering wooden crates onto another ship near them. "I have an idea!" he announced.
With Reiko
While on the ship Reiko, dressed in a large white T-shirt that covered her one-piece bathing suit she wore underneath it, rested on a stretched chair and basked in the sun's light. Unaware of the danger she was in she relaxed on the pool's deck as she watched other people on board splashing away. Already 5 girls had asked her out, thinking Reiko was a guy, and she declined them. Also 2 gay guys attempted to flirt with her. She had enough of talking to strangers so she packed up her belongings and headed towards her room she was assigned.
"These people really need to get a life. I'll finally be home with my mom. I can't say I'm enthusiastic to see her again." She thought.
She deposited the key to the door of her room and went inside. In her room was a queen sized bed with many sheet layers and a bulky decorative comforter, a cushy and girly pink sofa, a bathroom, 2 closets, and a glass door on the other end of the room which led to an outside deck with a pleasant view of the ocean. Not only were that, there was also someone sitting outside of the deck with his back head facing her.
Reiko guessed it was one of the members of staff slacking off. "How dare he come into my room and just lay there without my permission!" she thought furiously. She marched right up to the glassy door, swiftly slid it open, and strikes him on the noggin. He yelled in pain.
"What do you think you're doing here? You think you'd get away with this? Sleeping on my patio and you assume unnoticed! Well think again towel boy!" she shrieked.
She grabs his hair and makes him turn around so she could see whom this punk really was. After she'd done this an expression of surprise appeared on her face. "H-Hikaru? You're Hikaru right?" he grunted as his response. "What…what are you…are the others here as well?" she let his head drop.
"Waiting for you to return to your chambers. Jeez. Now I know how Tamaki and Nao feel when they're around you," he said while rubbing the back of his head. "I didn't mean to frighten you or surprise you or make you angry…anyway I have something important to tell you!"
"What is so important that you stowed away on this ship just to find me?"
"Uhh yeah. This ship isn't going to your mom!"
"Huh?"
"It's not headed towards America. You've been kidnapped by Benio, believe it or not."
"You're lying. You just want me to go back to that pathetic host club of yours. I choose not to believe you."
"Well she still has that stubborn attitude of hers," he thought. "Why would I lie to you about something like this? Come on! This is no time to argue with that big ego of yours. We need to get off this ship now!"
"I'm not going with you! Don't tell me what to do. I'm perfectly capable of handling things on my own. Besides why would that frog lady need me anyway?"
"I don't know and I don't want to stay and find out. Did you just call her a frog lady? I don't get it. Err…Come on!" he reached out and tugged on her arm, heading towards the door. Though she continued to refuse what he had informed her so she clung onto the side of the couch.
Hikaru pulled and heaved with all his might but Reiko wouldn't move from her spot, neither did the couch. "Quit pulling me! I'm not as stretchable as laffy taffy!" Reiko screeched.
"Then let go of the couch!" he ordered.
"I'm not going with you!"
"Fine." He released her arm and Reiko plopped onto the ground.
"You couldn't be a little more gentle?" she complained as she began to stand up. "This is why I don't like you. You're so…uhh something!" she said, trying to avoid her swearing habits. "Leave me alone. Why can't you do that? I don't ever want to see anyone of your faces again!"
"Listen to me if there was a day to trust me, today is that day!"
"I would never trust you. After all those pranks you pulled on me and for almost sneaking into my home, you expect me to trust you?
"I'm sorry. I really am. Please…"
"Shut up! Why would you care what happens to me?"
"Because you're a host member. Host members always stick up for each other," with this he began, what seemed to Reiko, an endless lecture about how the whole Host Club member works out.
-15 Minutes later-
"And that is how we are like a giant chocolate cookie baked with the ingrediants of love that help us stick together. Got that, Reiko?" he turned around to see her asleep on the couch. He moved over to her and gave her a soft push. She nudged.
"I-is that stupid…" she yawned, "stupid speech over yet?"
"Don't you understand Reiko? We need you to come back."
Her eyes fluttered open. Once they were wide open she saw him staring back at her. The intensity in his eyes made her feel different. "His eyes…I've never noticed how…amazing they are. Filled with such determination as if he really means it." Then she stood up. As she did the expression in her eyes. "I want to go home to my mother," she murmured.
Hikaru raised his voice. "Why Reiko! Tell me why!"
"Heh. I've got a list of reasons why!"
"So tell me them."
"For one…for one…" she paused and caught her breath. "Because I'll miss you too much!"
Hikaru's eyes jolted wide open. "Y-you…you really do care."
Reiko collapsed onto her knees and tears began pouring down her face. "I-I've never…" it was hard for her to pronounce words through her tears, "its just that…no one ever cared about me so much! My own mom disowned and my father regretfully took me in after the divorce. I was never a perfect child! No one ever wanted me. I was all alone!"
"When my parents were together they always wanted a good son, even if he was gay," she said as Hikaru continued to listen. "Nao was always the perfect one. Well behaved, obedient, attentive…shall I go on? But that's not me. I didn't want to become my own damn parents' dog. I only wanted them to accept me for who I am. I am not their property. I'm their daughter!"
"I…I never knew…" Hikaru said, astonished.
"I know," she whispered.
"I see you have reasons why you would want to keep this private to yourself. Now…" unexpectedly he got down and wrapped his arms around her, pulling her closer next to him. "Now you're not alone. The Host Club is family. You're in our family."
Shocked, Reiko didn't know what to do or say. "Go on and cry," Hikaru whispered softly. "I'm here for you. Cry as long as you want until the pain leaves." And that's exactly what Reiko did. She rested her moist hands, from the tears she cried, on his chest and buried her face.
"The pain will never leave. Unless my parents finally accept me," she said tiredly.
"Done?" She feebly nodded. He got up, lifting her up too, and headed towards the door for the last time. "I won't force you to follow me." He looked back at Reiko, "I truly am sorry." With that he was gone.
Reiko thought for many moments, telling herself whether to go or not. To believe him or not. In conclusion reaching her decision she shot her head up and dashed to the door. She peeked outside and saw no one there on either side. "Hikaru-san!" she shouted. She ran out to the back of the ship where the extra life boats were stored, assuming he would be there to escape from here. She was right.
Hikaru already had released the small boat in the ocean water. He waved at her. "What took you so long?" he joked.
"Traffic."
"Alright, ready to leave this showboat?"
"You bet."
First Hikaru climbed down the ladder to the boat and next went Reiko. Hikaru offered to steer the boat to shore. Then they set sail on their small boat. Just when they had passed the huge ship, behind it Reiko detected another ship that looked exactly same the as the one they were just on.
"Hikaru-san, look over there!" Reiko pointed out towards the ship.
"Hmm so what?" he asked. "Sure it looks the same but what makes that one so different?"
"I don't know. I just noticed it."
"Hold on a sec…" suddenly Hikaru brought out a pair of binoculars and peered through them.
"Where did you get those?"
"Found them laying around in here."
"Boy, that sure was lucky," a little while later Reiko was beginning to lose her patience. "Well what do you see that intrigued you?"
"At the tail or bow of that ship over there on it is…a some kind of white flower. Queen Ann's Lace maybe. A lilac?"
"Give me them!" he handed them over and she took a peek. "You're such an idiot. Can't you tell the difference? That's a white lily!"
"Oooh," he said in relief. "Wait a minute. A white lily? What's the insignia of the ship we just came off of?"
"Umm…It had the picture of the sun wearing sunglasses. Isn't that what all the cruise ships usually have at the end?"
"A cruise ship? This whole time we were residing on a cruise ship?"
"And you said we were being held captive on Benio's ship. I told you I could take care of things by myself."
"But-but-but that means…oh no."
"Hmm? What's wrong?"
"Tamaki and-and the others were planning a way to rescue you off this ship though I didn't see any of them when I came searching for you."
"So that means…"
"They climbed onto the wrong ship!" the two yelled at once.
Again I am really sorry for such slow update! I know there's a lot of dialogue in this chapter. At least I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Only one more left. Thank you for waiting patiently. I promise you that the next and final chapter will appear more quicker.