Ouran High School Host Club Fanfiction

Chapter Two: And So They Met

Word Count: 2, 162

Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran High School Host Club or any of its characters, even Usa-chan. What I do own though are my OCs.

Warning: There will be slight cussing.

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It's been a month since Isa-chan got lost was "replaced" by Usa-chan. Unfortunately though, I still haven't found "Mitsukuni Haninozuka", no matter where I go. I even took the early morning shift that starts at 4:00 A.M. so that I could go to other places at the afternoon. I even go to the bakeshop every day to look and see if Isa-chan is there (and to eat cake too). I also take a daily stroll at the park after work to see if she is there.

Because of this, I am so breaking my promise to never withdraw anything or any amount of money from my bank account, unless it is important. But then, Isa-chan is lost! She may be with another person, abused and worst of all; maybe she's in pieces already. Just thinking at that alone makes me cry, so I'll just exempt this case for now.

I'm so stupid. I should've just asked my parents to make a search party, or I could have at least made print-outs about Isa-chan and put wherever my feet could take me. But no, I ignored those options and followed my "independent" mind to wherever it takes me. So here I am, one month later and Isa-chan's still nowhere to be found. Maybe Mitsukuni feels the same way as I am. I'm starting to get really tired right now.

But just because I'm starting to get tired; it doesn't mean I'm already giving up. No, I won't give up, not until me and Mitsukuni had our bunnies back in our hands. So for now, I'll just stop blabbering to myself and go back to work; I might as well work to make my Isa-chan proud at me, right?

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Right. After working at the bakeshop for one month, the store manager told me earlier that I was fired. Well, ever since Isa-chan got lost and was replaced by Usa-chan, my performance level decreased. And the next day after that, I woke up at 9:00 A.M. because I forgot to buy a new alarm clock. It surprised me though, for I was an early riser. Anyways, I hadn't had breakfast and lunch that day; I just worked so that I could finish off early. Good thing I still arrive at my apartment and cook for brunch, though. The next days after that didn't go well, too; and it got much worse after I took the early morning shift. So yeah, I'm fired.

So here I am right now, at the park sitting at a bench, trying to realize what just happened after one month without my Isa-chan. If someone would ask me what I'm feeling right now, I would say: "I feel like living at shits."

"Okane-chan! Could you please explain to me what the heck is going on?"

I quickly turned my head to where the voice came from and saw a panting Mizu-chan who was still on her working uniform.

"Mizu-chan! Why are you here? You should be wor-"

"Not until you tell me what's going on!" she yelled. "What's wrong with you?! Do you even know what's going on?"

I looked at her with wide eyes. "Yes. I know what's going on. I got fired at my current job at a bakeshop, you know."

She stared at me with disbelief. "No! Would you look at yourself?! Your face is so haggard! Could you tell me what's going on?"

I sighed. "It's been a month since my Isa-chan is lost and I still haven't found her."

"Isa-chan? Your Isa-chan? Who's that?"

I ignored her and continued. "Instead of founding her, I saw Usa-chan. Since Usa-chan was so lonely, I decided to keep him with me for a while; his owner might be worried sick too. At least Usa-chan has a frien-"

"Okay, okay. Stop," Mizu-chan started. "So all of this happened just because you lost your pet and found another pet and decided to keep him while his owner's somewhere out there looking for him? Is it a pet dog, pet cat, or maybe even pet goldfish?"

Wait, what? Pet? "No! Isa-chan's not my pet; she's my bunny stuff toy. And Usa-chan's a bunny stuff toy too, he's only male."

When I finished the last part, Mizu-chan started to laugh hard.

"…H-hey! What's wrong with that?!"

She still ignored me and continued to laugh, ignoring the stares that the people we're giving us. I began to blush in embarrassment, and just want her to stop. After what it seems like forever, she finally quieted down, and she's trying to catch her breath.

She was the first one to talk. "Stop kidding around, kid. I thought that you were just pretending this whole cute act, but right now, you just went overboard!"

"…"

"I knew you were just faking! You're acting has really gotten in my nerves, you even managed to remove yourself at work just because of a fucking stuff toy!" she yelled. Geez, I never knew large girls could have those voices hidden in them; I'm glad to be short and small. A shriek from her might probably destroy my eardrums. She then pouted childishly, batting her eyelashes attempting to be cute. Um, that is such an epic fail. Honey's way cuter than you. "Are you lost little girl? Do you know what the name of your mommy is?"

…My head's beginning to get dizzy right now, what's with the sudden change of attitude? Well then, two can play this game. "…Um, excuse me? But I am seventeen years old. Yes, I may be short and little, but that doesn't mean that I don't know the name of my "mommy". Oh, do you want to know her? Her name's Touko Okane."

Her fists clenched and she threw one of them at me. "Why you little-"

I just blocked her hand and swatted it away harshly. She winced at the pain but still had her eyes on me. I laughed a bit.

"Didn't you know that even lost little girls know how to do tricks?"

She just growled at me and charged herself to me, which I just easily dodged.

"Come at me, Mizuki! Stop acting like bullshit who keeps on charging anywhere!" I said as I dodged swiftly another wild charge from Mizuki. Since I realized she's not a real friend, I might as well stop giving her nicknames.

"How about you come here and battle me, you little pipsqueak?!"

"Oh! So this is a battle huh?! Challenge accepted." I said as I went straight towards her and low kicked, causing her to fall down to the ground. She started to stand up again when she fell down once again and screamed in pain. I had to cover my ears because, gosh, her voice can make me deaf!

My mistake. When she saw me cover my ears, she quickly got up and screamed towards me. Damn, I shouldn't have done that! I decided to run, since I've got no other choice. We were like this for minutes, until she started to get tired of screaming and just ran towards me. I just noticed that she was about to head butt me and wasn't even looking at me. A light bulb quickly came up to my head. I'm really at advantage. I just waited for her to be close enough until I kicked her in her private part.

She let out a ear-piercing scream and fell down. I reckon I won this match, since she still hasn't got up yet. I approached her and examined her to see if she was okay, because hey, it's not like I'm a heartless person, and I really don't want to shed any blood. And my kicks were already eighty-five percent weakened, so what could possibly go wrong?

I only saw some a couple bruises. Yeah, she's good. I was about to carry her back when she started to wake up. I took this as an opportunity and stepped at her back, though not hard, with one foot and the other foot near her.

"I win, you lost! Now you see that I'm not the one who needs to be messed up, do you want to try again?"

She shook her head and I stopped stepping at her. Instead, I just carried her so that we could go to a nearby clinic to tend her bruises up.

"H-hey! What are you doing, brat?! Let me go!" she said as she got off me and started to walk/limp away from me as fast as she could.

I just watched her go then suddenly I realized something. Why do I keep on forgetting stuff? I ran towards Mizuki who was not so far away.

She jumped slightly in surpise. "What do you want?"

I giggled. I also won at the changing emotions department! "Well, Mizuki, here's Usa-chan! Isn't he cute?" I said as I showed her Usa-chan who just appeared into my hands out of nowhere.

She just stuck her tongue and disgust. "Who would want that? That's so bratty, and it suits you."

I suddenly had a dark expression. "You know, Mizuki, I really despise people who still don't learn after a lesson. Do you want me to put your tongue back to your throat?"

"Yes! I-I mean n-no! Okay, goodbye!" she said frantically as she left.

I just watched her run/limp out of the park until she went inside the bakeshop. I sighed. I can't believe that Mizuki would turn out to be a fake friend. I suddenly felt lonely and just went to the subway station.

Hey, Kai-chan, there's no need to be lonely! You have me!, Usa-chan suddenly beamed.

I smiled. "Well at least you're still here. I don't know what would happen if I didn't have you or Isa-chan."

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When I got off the subway train, I was headed straight to the supermarket, which is quite near at my apartment. I decided to buy ingredients for strawberry shortcake, because it's been a while since I've gone baking.

When I arrived, I quickly got all the ingredients and I also bought a big Nutella so that I have something to eat when I'm craving for sweets. I was about to go to the counter when I checked my cart. It has no strawberries! Oh, how silly of me. How are you supposed to have strawberry shortcake when you don't even have the main ingredient: the strawberry itself?

I went to the fruits corner while rolling my cart, only to be shocked that the strawberries are at the top of fridge-like thing (I don't know what to call it). When I looked closely, I saw that there is only one pack left that the strawberries are just enough to make only two strawberry shortcakes. Ugh. Sometimes I don't like it when I'm short. This is gonna be embarrassing. I tried to reach it with only my toes to support my body, to only have another girl to reach it first. Aw shucks. Damn me and my height! Sigh. I guess I'm just make strawberry shortcake next ti-

A soft voice interrupted my thoughts. "You were reaching for it, miss?"

I looked at the person who just spoke to me. It was a girl, who's taller than me; maybe about 5"1, has round chocolate brown eyes, and had long, brown hair with bangs. She was wearing a plain white shirt and brown cargo pants. She was also wearing a bead necklace and had a long white sling bag. She was also using a cart.

I realized that I was staring at her and blushed. "I'm sorry for staring!"

She blinked for a second then just laughed. "No, it's okay. As I was saying, you were reaching for it, miss?"

I looked at the strawberries then looked at her and smiled. "Kairi! Kairi Okane! Thank you so much! I couldn't reach it and I thought that you were going to get it!"

"No problem at all."

"By the way, what's your name?"

"Haruhi. Haruhi Fujioka."

I beamed. "What a beautiful name! Say, I know this might be rude but can I ask you where you live?"

She just nodded. "Of course. I just live at an apartment that is just quite near here."

I smiled brightly and squealed. "Really?! I also live there!"

"Oh! So you're that new girl that I always heard of. I just live next to you."

"Yay! Can we be friends?"

"Sure. I can't see why not."

I squealed in delight. "Thank you Haru-chan!" I then showed Usa-chan to her. "Usa-chan wants to be friends too!"

She looked at me uncomfortably before finally facing at Usa-chan. "Sure thing, Usa-chan."

Yay! We're friends now!, Usa-chan cheered.

"Hey, Haru-chan," I started. "Let's go home together, shall we?"

"Well, we shall after we go to the counter, okay Kairi?"

I blushed from embarrassment. "Oops! Okay then~!"

And that's how I met Haruhi Fujioka, my first real friend since I moved here.

I hope Isa-chan's still okay somehow.

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Hi guys! I just placed the Disclaimer. I forgot to put it at chapter one, but since it's done, let's just start it here. Also, I have been editing chapter one a couple of times already, for I saw some mistakes. Well, you can't blame a sleepy person. It's almost midnight here! Anyways, this is also my first time making a slight action-ish and drama-ish thing, so I know it sucks but please bear with me. I will try to improve my handwriting skills for you guys! So for now, sayonara!

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