Hello! This chapter is the first of a omake story, which is like a bonus or an extra. It does go along with the main Shooting Star story, but this is mainly things that happen to Haruhi. You are welcome to skip it if you want even though I want you to read it.
I hope you enjoy it.
"Haruhi, you need to go to bed now! I'll be fine!" Ranka was doing a poor job of convincing that he was okay. He sneezed loudly.
He had caught the cold earlier that day at his other job, but he worked through it. But by time he got to the bar he also had a fever. They sent him home because they didn't want him sneezing all over the guests. He spent most of the evening sleeping.
"You don't sound okay." "Well, if you want to stay. You should try on this pretty dress I got you. You should wear it next time that handsome young man comes by again" He held up a cute purple dress with pink flowers on the bottom. He knew that this would turn her away.
"It'll at least let him know that my little princess is a cute girl. I don't get why you wear so much boy's clothes. Even at school you wear the boy's uniform. You got to let that cutie know you got the goods!"
Of course he knew why she wore the boy's uniform. Kyoya Ootori had kept him properly informed as of last week. He wished Haruhi would talk about it, but knew she wouldn't. Also he knew that his methods were working by the look on his daughter's face.
"I think I am going to go." Haruhi stepped out of her father's room and made her way to her's. She couldn't take her dad making weird suggestions about boys she had just met that day.
She yawned and looked at the clock on the wall. 'Two thirty already? I guess I should get to bed.'
Her bed room was very simple and small. It had her bed, a night stand, a desk, a closet, and a set of drawers off to one corner. She got dressed in her pajamas and got under the covers.
She stared up at her ceiling. There was a streak of pink paint from a time were her father wanted to 'beautify' her room, but didn't think to get more paint besides the sample size.
'Mother, today was strange'. She fell asleep soon after.
Dreams of Ouran Castle
-Part One-
Haruhi woke up to a breeze on her face. She didn't open her eyes yet because it was bright. It was all strange because she didn't have a window in her room.
'This can't be my room. This doesn't even feel like my bed.' It wasn't her bed. This bed was soft and she was sinking into it, which she didn't like at all. She liked her firm bed.
She opened her eyes and didn't see the one pink streak on her white ceiling. It was a straw ceiling.
"Oh. This is a dream." Finding herself in a dream didn't surprise her at all.
She sat up and looked around. It was a tiny cabin. There was a little kitchen with an old wood-burning stove in one corner, a little living space with a fire-place in the other corner, there was door that lead to a bed room. The bed she was in was small so it must have been the guest cot.
She was alone, but not for long. Haruhi heard voices from outside and got out of the bed to look. Outside there was a blonde woman hanging up white linen on a line to dry and 3 men standing in a circle talking in front of a beautiful carriage that had 2 horses. It seemed out-of-place.
Of the three men there was an older man with short brown hair, a bright blonde boy with long curly hair tied in the back and a very tall boy with dark wavy hair that reached his shoulders.
'For a dream this is kind of vivid. Weird.'
"Oh she is awake." The woman noticed her standing at the window. 'How did she know? She didn't even turn around.'
The three men now noticed her. The tallest one walked closer to the window. "Ryuken-senpai?" It was Ryuken, but different. He was dressed in dark blue clothes that wasn't fully covered by the silver armor and a long silver sword. He was like a knight. "Are you feeling better Princess?"
'Princess?' She looked down and she was wearing a dark purple dress that seemed like it was of royalty. It had awkward pink flowers at the bottom. 'That even haunts my dreams...'
"I am not sure if I do feel better." "You haven't recovered from your head injury?"
'How convenient.' This was probably the only time a head injury was convenient. "No, I think I have memory lost but I feel fine. Please explain everything to me."
Everyone gasped even the woman who never turned around. All three men went ran inside the cabin. "Please, Princess Haruhi, lay back down!" The blonde boy was inside first and he picked her up and put her right back to bed. "Maybe she should stay here for a few more days!"
'Tamaki...' Yes. It was him. This dream only changed the length of his hair and his clothes. 'If this is my dream why can't I have him not smother me?' She tried to think of him across the room, but it didn't work.
'I am surprised he isn't the one in a knight outfit.' Tamaki was in plain brown clothes that looked kind of poor. 'He would be the same even if was poor.'
Ryuken came in with what looked like to be Yuzuru Suoh, but poor looking. 'Oh so the woman outside must be Tamaki's mother.'
"Please little Suoh, let me speak with the princess." Ryuken pulled Tamaki away and sat next on the stool next to the bed. "My beloved, what can you remember?"
"Beloved?" "Oh dear, Princess do you not remember choosing me to be your betrothed?" Ryuken looked shocked.
"Like I said I don't remember anything."
"Let me start from the beginning then. You are Princess Haruhi, made by King-Queen Ranka."
"Made? And I don't have a mother? and how can someone be a king and a queen?" She didn't like dreams where her mother didn't exist.
"Yes, made. King-Queen Ranka made you with the magic that was granted by the Goddess Kotoko. He serves wonderfully as a King-Queen. It was the best decision the kingdom has made. He is so financially responsible."
'This sounds more like one of my dreams now.' "Go, on. More about the goddess."
"Goddess Kotoko was once a mortal who was a lawyer, whatever that is. She was so intelligent and bright that she ascended into the heavens and became a goddess. She grants magic to people who pray to her."
"Okay now what about the betrothal?"
"In a ceremony, made by the king-queen, you had to choose a fiancé at your coming of age ball."
"So 15 is of age?" "No, it was 17 till the king-queen changed it to 10 so you could "pick your boy while they are still innocent" as he said. But you stalled the ceremony for 5 years. The King-Queen couldn't wait any longer. You had to pick one noble out of the empire to be your betrothed and you picked me, a knight."
"Huh. He would do that. So what am I doing here?" "Well, unfortunately the our castle caught fire. Everyone is fine but we've all had to find separate livings while it is being repaired. Your father had us sent to Ouran Castle, which is like a community castle. No real business goes on there so any noble can use it."
'That sounds about right.' "So what happened on the way there? How did I get hurt?"
"We were traveling along till one of our wheels just broke and carriage went right into a ditch. Our coachman ran off too. In the mix of things you bumped your head. Luckily the Suoh's home wasn't far and I brought you here. They kindly let us lodge here with them and fixed our carriage. They even let you use little Suoh's bed while he slept outside."
"Speaking of which, we should be going now if you are all better. Your memories should be coming along too, surely." Ryuken held out his hand to her. "Okay then. Let's go."
They thanked Yuzuru and Tamaki's mother, who still didn't show her face, and left for the carriage.
"Wait! Princess, please let me go with you!" Tamaki ran out of his house. He was begging with his signature puppy eyes. 'Well this type of place kind of doesn't suit Tamaki-senpai'
"Fine. Whatever. You can come." "Are you sure? They might not let him in at Ouran. He looks poorly." At that moment Tamaki was poofed into white clothes covered in bright silver armor.
"Never mind what I said then. You're driving though."
"Yes!" Tamaki jumped on as the stagecoach and Haruhi and Ryuken went into the carriage.
With that the three went on their merry way to Ouran Castle.
To be continued...
So how was the first set of the Dreams series? For this the chapters are going to be shorter and in between regular chapter installments. I think since it is a dream series I'll post this during the night time. haha Tell me what you think about it.
I'll see you for the next installment of Shooting Star. See ya later. - SB.
