EPISODE 2: Welcome
Today was the first day that both Eniko and Nibira were open for business. Yesterday when they were officially welcomed as hosts Kyoya decided to end the host club early that night. As to how the twins were handling all this. The next day was a little different, the twins wouldn't speak to any of the host club members. That is except for Tamaki, who they still thought didn't approve of this idea either.
"Boss!" Kaoru yelled over to Tamaki, he took his time coming over to the twins.
"What is it you two? We have to get ready, we have guests coming any minute now!"
"Don't tell me you're still just going to keep going along with all this with a pout on. You've got to have some kind of master plan? You're famous for those things!" Hikaru said, annoyance and eager blended in his voice.
"I probably would have some kind of full proof plan. If I were still opposed to this whole thing that is."
"What are you saying?" The red haired twins said together.
"I'm saying that maybe female members of the host club isn't such a bad idea. I mean men deserve to be treated the same as women right? Now that I think about it the host club may have been a little bit sexist without even realizing it. Those two girls may have helped us already."
"What are you talking about boss?" Hikaru exclaimed.
"Ugh, Hikaru, come on! It's obvious they've just brainwashed him." Kaoru said. Tamaki simply shook his head brushed his hair back and went back to the rest of the group.
"No not us Kaoru! We will never give in despite what the rest of the club thinks."
"You're absolutely right Hikaru!"
"This is just another game. And so far Eniko and Nibira are just about to win. They've won over every club member but us. If we let them get us into their feminine grasp, we lose."
"I don't why you guys are so angry. I mean Eniko and Nibira are probably the members that are the most like you." Haruhi said grabbing something off the counter.
"Ah! We're not listening!" They said covering their ears and humming loudly, they starting running away from her still humming in unison.
"Hey! Come back! We've got to get ready!" Haruhi called after them, but the twins were fast. They were already too far away to hear.
The twins were still running when they both hit a wall. Or at least, it felt like a wall. They both fell on their backs and opened their eyes just in time to see Mori, and Honi picking each of them up and carrying them over to where the rest of the club was waiting.
"You guys are being silly! Eniko and Nibira are nice! I think you would really like them!"
"Yeah." Mori said.
"Easy for you to say, Honi senpai. You were practically their fist victim!" Hikaru said disgust drenching his voice.
Honi sighed, he was tired of all this. "Kay. Whatever you say. But we have guests coming soon and you've got to get in your positions." By that time Mori and Honi had reached the rest of the club and they plopped Hikaru and Kaoru right where they needed to be.
The twins took a look where everyone else was standing. Of course, they were both next to each other they quickly linked their arms like they almost always did. Next to them was Mori, with Honi on his shoulders, next to them was Kyoya, then Haruhi on the other side. In the center was Tamaki sitting in a regular chair which he called his "throne". And sitting on the floor at each leg of the chair cross legged were Eniko, and Nibira. The host club was obviously trying to make it painfully clear that they had two new members. The twins didn't like this, not one little bit. Kaoru who just then realized besides Tamaki, he was the closest to Nibira. And had the sudden urge to kick her, but he resisted. That would not go over well with the rest of the host club.
The doors to the host club were opened, and as always they said.
"Welcome." And though the twins would probably never admit to it. They were both hoping that either of the girls would mess up, and embarrass themselves in front of the entire host club and their guests. But their hopes were not met, when Eniko and Nibira both recited it like they had been doing it their entire lives.
"Uh, is this the Ouran host club?" Two boys walked in, they looked in between the ages of 16 and 17. The host club members were confused.
"Why yes it is." Kyoya said. "Are you here to request Eniko, or Nibira?" He finished. No way. The twins thought. There's no way they could be that popular. At least not this quick.
"Uh, yeah. I'm here to request Nibira." The light brown haired boy said.
"And I'm here to request Eniko." The dark brown haired boy said.
"Well duty calls." Nibira said. Eniko silently followed.
"Uh….." The rest of the host club said. Though the twins were the only two members who didn't like the girls. None of them were expecting this.
"Hey handsome." Said Nibira. She wrapped an arm, around the boy's neck and hoisted herself up so he was carrying her to a spot.
"Hello, Eniko." The dark haired boy said. Eniko looked to the side with a small smile and a blush. The young man became a little flustered and held out his hand. She gently took it. And they both walked off to the open spot nearest to Nibira's both of them gazing at each other.
One by one more, and more boys filed in. Either requesting Nibira, or Eniko. Here and there a few girls came in. But already two hours into the day, Kyoya, Haruhi, and the twins were left without a guest. While Eniko and Nibira both had 3 to 4 large couches absolutely stuffed with guys.
"I don't understand. How could they possibly get so popular so fast?" Hikaru asked clearly annoyed.
"Yeah. If Haruhi had this many requests when she started. She would've paid off her 8 million yen debt in a matter of weeks." Kaoru said.
"Well," Kyoya said, pushing his glasses up. "I must admit that I may have something to do with that fact."
"Huh?" Haruhi said this time.
"It's easy enough to predict that if I didn't do anything what Kaoru and Hikaru expected would most likely be the case here. After I ended the host club early yesterday, I took Eniko and Nibira aside and asked them to do me a favor. And in 3 to 4 hours. We had created some flyers to post up. Attracting male customers."
He held up the flyer that he was talking about. It was talking about the host club now being open for guys. And that they now had two new irresistible members. In the middle was a picture of Eniko and Nibira, they were holding hands, and their other hands were on each of their hips, their heads were tilted slightly toward each other, and they were smiling warmly for the camera. In one corner was a picture of just Eniko, the camera was slightly above her you could see that she had one hand on her opposite shoulder. The other arm was wrapped around her waist hugging herself. She was looking up at the camera, her deep green eyes full of some sort of depressed longing. Hikaru remembered her giving him that kind of look yesterday, just after she had calmed down from him putting her hair down.
In the other corner was a lone picture of Nibira. She was leaning towards the camera hands on her hips. Winking with a huge smile on her face. Both pictures completely matched each of the girl's personalities.
"Looks like the flyers we put up worked extremely well." When Kyoya looked up Haruhi was the only one there. Staring at him a little bit frightened. Where did Hikaru and Kaoru go?
They were walking towards the entrance of the host club. But they weren't planning on leaving.
"We'll show them Kaoru. We'll show them that we can get customers just as easily as they can."
They opened the doors to see girls just casually walking past them. Like they couldn't even see them.
"Let's do this Hikaru." Kaoru said grabbing both an orange and a light blue rose from a vase. They had noticed that already some girls were stopping to watch them. Which just brought about more attention from more girls. The twins loved this part of the job, the chain reactions.
Hikaru proceeded to start a classic brotherly love act by wrapping a strong arm around his brothers waist pulling him closer.
"Hikaru?" Kaoru asked. Showing his innocence role. Hikaru took a sniff of his rose.
"Smell this Kaoru." He put the rose near Kaoru's face. He took in a deep breath. And sighed, a calm smile now on his face. He rested his head on Hikaru's shoulder, and put one of his hands gently on his older brother's chest.
"It's beautiful, Hikaru." Hikaru leaned his head now on top of Kaoru's. They both heard loud female gasps from where their audience was standing. The twins opened their eyes to see a mob of girls running towards them. And they ran to some open couches. The girls that weren't chasing them were whipping out their cell phones to call their friends, and telling them to come. Then they joined the rest of the mob.
Meanwhile still entertaining their guests, Eniko and Nibira were watching that scene unfold. Their couches were back to back, and Nibira leaned over far enough so that she could whisper in Eniko's ear.
"Looks like we have ourselves a challenge."
Suddenly the room was filled with a high pitched cackle. And the sounds of numerous motors running filled the room. Soon Renge appeared from apparently underground. Her hand was clenched into a fist that she brought up and help up high.
"Ha, ha!! You hosts don't know how I've waited for this moment." Her eyes filled with tears. "It's a host off!"
"Uh, who is she?" Nibira asked. Kyoya appeared.
"Oh, don't mind her she's our manager." Renge popped up near him.
"Managers, are critically important parts of any business!" She shrieked snakes forming in her hair.
"Renge-chan!" Honi said suddenly appearing right next to her. "How many times do we have to tell you, we're not a business. We're just a host club!"
"But look! Just take a look at everything going on here!" She said, pointing to where Eniko and Nibira were sitting. Both girls had stopped listening to them and went back to their guests.
"Did anyone ever tell you that you have gorgeous eyes?" Nibira said to the blonde haired boy beside her. He blushed.
"Well, uh. Maybe? I'm not really sure." Eniko was watching this. She turned back to her group, looked at the floor, and sighed.
"What's wrong Eniko?" A boy across from her asked.
"Oh, it's nothing." She looked back at Nibira who was now rubbing her fingers gently under the blushing blonde's eye's. "Nibira is just so confident around guys. And whenever I'm around cute boys…" She looked up at the boy she was talking to, then quickly looked down again. "I always get all flustered." Sweat beaded the foreheads of every guy watching her.
Meanwhile the twins were still secretly watching the girls every move. Getting even more agitated every time they saw another boy drooling over them. One of the girls caught the twins glaring at them.
"So Kaoru." She said, he turned his head towards her. "Who thought of the idea to put girls in the host club?" He grimaced, but he remembered that they couldn't lose their cool. At least not completely.
"Oh, those girls thought of it. Apparently the rest of the host club thinks it's a great idea." Looking at the floor. Kaoru felt a hand on his face that turned his head around to look into Hikaru's identical hazel eyes, both his older brother's hands were cupping his face now.
"I guess we're sadly the only sane ones in the host club. Aren't we Kaoru?" He said, bringing his face closer.
"Maybe you have it opposite Hikaru? Maybe the rest of the host club is sane, and we're the crazy ones?" He said. Fake tears filling in his eyes.
"Well," Hikaru said, a small smirk forming. "at least then I know the person I go to bed with every night…..is just as crazy as me."
"Hikaru…" He trailed off and just stared at him putting the finishing touches on that moment. The girls watching starting squealing.
The twins heard something a long the lines of, "Ah! They're doing it! They're doing it! It doesn't get much hotter than that!! Ah!" They had to work hard to hold back a laugh.
Soon every single couch was crammed with guests either requesting, Nibira, Eniko, or Hikaru and Kaoru. But the day had to end at some point and the guests reluctantly left the host club for the night.
Kaoru was talking to Hikaru when the last of the guests had left. "That was fun."
"Yeah! Did you see their faces when we pulled another punishment game act?" Hikaru said laughing.
"Oh, I could get used to pissing them off like this." They both leaned side by side on a column. Closing their eyes, enjoying the peace and quiet at the end of that hectic day.
Eniko and Nibira were just about to leave when Eniko said, "Oh, Nibira I left my bag on that counter, come with me to get it." She ran off and Nibira quickly followed. They both noticed Hikaru, and Kaoru at the column and stopped at the counter where Eniko's bag was just a few yards away from them.
"Uh-oh. Do you think their going to come out from behind us with knives and murder us?" Nibira asked fake concern in her voice. But what they didn't know was that Kaoru over heard them running past them, and was eavesdropping. He smirked at was Nibira had said just then.
"I wouldn't be too scared Nibira." Eniko said slinging the bag over her shoulder, and walking away. Nibira followed. Kaoru was just able to see them when Eniko stopped.
"What is it Eniko?"
"I forgot to put on my lucky bracelet. It's right here in the top of my bag." She said looking into the opening of her over-sized purse.
"Odd."
"How could we get so many customers today if I wasn't even wearing my lucky bracelet?"
"Well just put it on now to be safe."
"Ok." She pulled it out of her bag, and slid it on her wrist. Out of curiosity Kaoru looked closely to see that it was a charm bracelet. And all the charms were either of green, or yellow elephants. Kaoru gasped when he realized this. He tapped Hikaru.
"Hikaru. Hikaru!" He said.
"What?"
"Look closely at Eniko's bracelet." He said.
"What? Why would we care what-" Hikaru was cut off when he noticed what the charms were. "You like elephants?" He yelled over to them. Eniko and Nibira spun around to face them.
"Well duh. They're like our favorite animal." Eniko said, she turned her head to Nibira who nodded. By then the twins had walked over to them. They looked at each other. And smiled.
"You know what?" Hikaru said him and his brother walking with the two girls now.
"I think we might have been wrong about you two." Kaoru continued.
"I'm not so sure that we'll be enemies." Hikaru started again.
"I'm thinking that we're going to be good friends." Kaoru finished.