When we last left the Ouran host club:
"No wait! Secret princess! You shouldn't be using your feminine hands to clean up my mess! Let me help you!" What Tamaki didn't realize was Nibira, and Eniko were still in the room. And Nibira was watching them.
"Well, well, well." She said. Though they weren't the only two in the room. Eniko was the only one listening. "It seems we have another female in our midst."
EPISODE 4: Secrets
"What? Nibira what are you talking about?" Eniko had been too distracted by the twins trying to recover from their 10 straight minutes of laughter. And Mori who was trying to keep Honi from making himself sick eating all the treats. To notice Tamaki accidentally revealing Haruhi's secret.
"I'll tell you once we're out of here. Let's go." Eniko was wise enough to know not to argue with her best friend when she used that tone. She was pissed, and she probably had a good reason for it. Honi stopped stuffing his face in time to see the two girls trying to flee.
"Eni-chan! Nibi-chan! Where are you going?" He asked his mouth still halfway full. The girls stopped in their tracks. They tried to remind themselves that Honi had lied to them too, along with every other host club member. But he had been their very first friend there. And it was his birthday.
"We're really sorry Honi." Nibira said near tears, though Honi couldn't see because the girls had their backs to him. Nibira grabbed the present they were giving him and tossed it on the couch next to him. Careful to make sure he didn't see them crying.
"We hope you have a happy birthday." Eniko finished. With that they ran off.
Honi looked at the bag curiosly. He tossed the tissue paper aside and took out the first item. He pulled out a wide box, and opened it to see a large muffin sampler from Nibira's family's bakery. Honi beamed, and reached in for the second item. It was a picture of Honi, Eniko, and Nibira. Honi's smile was huge, and he had one arm wrapped around Nibira, the other around Eniko. Nibira was winking for the camera like she almost always did, and Eniko was laughing at something Honi had said. He remembered that picture. He looked at the frame, all around it were pictures of Bun-bun. Honi's eyes filled with tears, he sensed that something bad was coming.
When Eniko, had arrived at Nibira's house with her. The first thing she saw her best friend do was run to the nearest couch jump onto it, and stuff her head into a pillow.
"We've been played!" She was just able to make out those muffled words. Eniko's eyes widened, she fell into a chair nearby.
"What?" She said, getting even more pissed off by the second.
"For the first time ever," Nibira said more calmly, sitting up. "we have been played."
"By who?!" Eniko yelled. It was like their moods were switched.
Nibira sighed. "The Ouran host club."
"What?!" Eniko screeched jumping up. Her hands were clenched, her nostrils flared. "Those lying, backstabbing little trolls!" She screeched again, and started walking towards the front door.
"Eniko just calm down a second." Nibira said, rubbing her temples. "You're giving me a migraine." Eniko sat down again.
"Wait. How exactly were we played?"
"Well. We've been a part of the host club for almost 2 weeks now, and all this time they've been lying to us. Right under our noses."
"Lying? Wait, was that what you were talking about earlier, about having another female in our midst?" Nibira nodded. "Then who? Who were you talking about."
Nibira swallowed, and took in a deep breath. "Haruhi."
Eniko's eyes narrowed, then widened again. "No, No! That can't be right!"
"Just think about it Eniko!" Nibira said. "It makes perfect sense. That first day Haruhi was the only one you thought we wouldn't be able to make fall for us. And when we talk about cosplay ideas, about half the time Tamaki says something about Haruhi dressing up like a girl along with us. Plus, when you were watching the twins practically suffocate from laughter, I heard Tamaki call Haruhi their "secret princess" and he was talking about her "feminine hands". I think those are pretty big hints if you ask me."
"Damn it. They were lying to us. Even the twins… Even Honi!" She said genuinely hurt. And even though Eniko had only met the host club about 12 days ago. She had never expected they would've done this to them.
"What are they thinking we're going to do, if we find out? If it were really important to them, do they really think we would do anything?"
"What are we going to do Nibira?" She looked up to see her green eyed best friend with tears down her face. Oh my god. Nibira said inside her head. Eniko may be the shy role of us two. But she really only cries unless something has really hurt her. Suddenly Nibira was fuming again.
"I'll tell you what we're going to do! Eniko. We are done. We are done with the Ouran host club!" Eniko looked up at her, and nodded.
The next day the host club was open for business. But Eniko, and Nibira never showed up. Kyoya was fuming the whole day, because the girls never even asked him. Mori was Mori as always. Tamaki just kept agitating everyone by bringing it up, over and over again. The twins were more bored than worried, and resulted to teasing Haruhi as their way of entertaining themselves, now that two of their friends were supposedly missing. Haruhi thought nothing of it at first, then when the twins came to play with her, she prayed in her head that the two girls would come back soon. But Honi's reaction to all of this surprised the host club the most, he was mostly silent, and had a depressing exterior around him all day.
Finally Haruhi got tired of seeing him act miserable, and said, "Honi, are you alright?"
"Uh huh. It's nothing really. Kay?"
"Are you sure?" Just then Mori picked Honi up and put him on his shoulders.
"Let's go Mitskuni." He said flatly. Honi's face perked up a little bit.
"Oh, are we getting ice cream Takashi?"
"Yeah." In an instant Honi was then completely himself again. Humming a tune as Mori walked him out the door.
When Mori and Honi arrived at the ice cream place Honi was still humming. Then he saw two familiar faces in the window of the parlor.
"Ooh look Takashi! It's Eni-chan and Nibi-chan!" Honi squeaked, he ran inside, and Mori quickly followed.
"Oh no." Eniko groaned looking out the window at Honi who was running towards the entrance.
"What?" Nibira asked, the response was from Honi.
"Hey! Eni-chan! Nibi-chan! Why weren't you at the host club?" Honi asked, jumping up and down from the sight of his two friends. Nibira looked the other way, so she wouldn't have to look at Honi's face full of anticipation. Eniko looked down at the table top.
"Honi, we aren't really in the mood to talk to any of you right now." Eniko said cold and hard. Honi froze.
"W-what? What are you guys talking about?" Nibira gave a slight chuckle and looked at Eniko.
"You see? Tamaki's even more of an idiot than I thought he was. I bet he hasn't even realized what he's done wrong yet.""What did Tama-chan do?"
"It isn't just him, its all of you Honi. And maybe after awhile you'll figure out what we were talking about, and find out why you've been feeling so sorry for yourselves." Honi grew even more stiff as Eniko and Nibira got up at the same time, pushed past him, and walked out the door.
"Takashi?"
"Yeah?"
"Can you take me home now? I'm not really in the mood for ice cream any more." Mori knew, that Honi would never say anything like that, unless he was really upset.
"Sure thing."
The next day was pretty much the same, with the host club. Eniko and Nibira never showed up, and each member's reaction was pretty much the same. Except Honi's who was even more depressed than the day before. Whenever someone would so much as say a word to him, he burst into tears and ran to the other room. Then he would come back 5 minutes later, his face red from crying.
Throughout the day the host club grew more, and more tired of Honi acting this way. At the end of the day Honi was headed towards the exit. When two identical red heads blocked his way.
"Hika-chan? Kao-chan? What are you doing?" Honi asked sounding tired and depressed.
"Sit." Mori ordered from behind him, he pulled up a chair and put Honi onto it. The rest of the host slid in.
"Honi. Would you please tell us why you're so sad. Maybe if you talk about it, you'll feel better?" Tamaki said, kneeling down by Honi.
Instantly Honi burst into tears, but stayed in his chair, he blubbered. "It's Eni-chan, and Nibi-chan!"
"Huh?" The rest of the host club responded. Honi continued to talk through his tears.
"T-they w-were mad at me! M-mad at the entire host c-club!"
"Huh?!" The rest of the host club said again.
"Alright! Who is the culprit here?! Who did that to Eniko and Nibira?" Tamaki demanded standing up.
"T-they said something about y-you Tama-chan. H-how you had p-probably n-not even figured out yet w-what you d-did wrong." Honi said, starting to calm down.
"Huh? What?!" Only Tamaki this time. Mori stayed with Honi to help him stop crying, while the twins trapped Tamaki in a nearby corner.
"Start talking!" The twins yelled, while the rest of the host club joined them.
"I-I had no idea! I swear!" Tamaki yelped.
"Well they were right." Hikaru said turning his head to Kaoru.
"Well it's not like we shouldn't have expected this from him. Eniko and Nibira knew that Tamaki was an idiot from about the beginning. We should've known they would be right about this." Kaoru responded, Honi joined the host club then, wiping away his last tear.
"If I really think hard enough, I really noticed their change at the beginning of my birthday party two days ago."
"Now that we think about it." The twins said together. "They did leave pretty early that day."
After a few minutes of silence, Hikaru asked. "Wait. Did we tell them about Haruhi yet?"
"No. I don't think we have yet." Tamaki said, all of them still unaware that what they were talking about just then, was exactly why the two girls had gotten so mad.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door, Haruhi went to get it. All of the members were hoping it would be Eniko and Nibira.
But it sadly wasn't them. Haruhi opened the door to see a mail man walking the opposite direction. She looked at the ground to see a small package, addressed to the ouran host club.
"Huh." She said and picked up the package.
"Who was it?" A member asked.
"This." She said lifting up the box a little bit. Soon the host club was gathered at a counter, watching as Kyoya carefully opened the box.
When the box was opened at last, it looked like it was just full of bubble wrap. Tamaki reached out to grab a sheet of it to play with, but it was slapped out of the way. Under the first sheet of bubble wrap was a note.
We were going to throw these away, but that would just be a waste of our money.
- E & N
The members looked at each other confused. And Haruhi took off the second sheet of bubbled wrap. The twins gasped, and all the other member's jaws dropped, even Kyoya's. Though still not Mori. They all looked into the box to see two identical bracelets. Both with a pattern of orange, and bright blue elephants. Each twin picked one up, their eyebrows shot up.
"How did they…?" Hikaru started to ask then stopped.
After what seemed like forever, Tamaki broke the silence. "Haruhi, Hikaru, and Kaoru. Get your things, you're going to see Eniko, and Nibira. And clean up this whole mess."
"What?" The three said together.
"Boss, I don't think that's such a good idea." Hikaru started.
"Yeah direct contact this soon, may put all three of us in danger." Kaoru finished.
"They're not going to hurt you." Tamaki said. "If they really did not care about you two at all, they would've thrown the bracelets away, anyway."
"But why do I have to go senpai? If you're the reason they're mad at us, then why don't you just go and apologize?" Haruhi asked, thoroughly annoyed.
"Because of what we were talking about earlier. If they are really mad at us, we should do something to make it up to them, I'm not saying that just letting them in on your secret is going to fully pay them back, but it may help? Come on we have nothing to lose."
Haruhi's head sunk, she couldn't help but think, we have our well being to lose senpai. But she agreed.
The twins knew where they would most likely be. Even though each of the two's family was just as rich as the other, they almost always went to Nibira's house because the food was better.
"This is it." Kaoru said jumping out of the car. Haruhi looked up at the huge mansion that looked entirely made out of granite. These damn rich people. She thought.
"Hello, can I help you?" A maid dressed in green asked once they had entered the house.
"Yeah, are miss Nibira and miss Eniko here by any chance?" Hikaru asked.
"Yes, they're out back in the pool." She gave them the directions.
While they were walking to Nibira's pool, they passed the house's kitchen. Even the twins noticed it was about triple the size of their's. Though they weren't surprised seeing her family owns an entire baking branch. When they all got to the humungous pool owned by Nibira's family they saw the two girls swimming laps in one of the lanes. They were fast. They're swimmers? All three of them thought, they sat by a nearby bench to wait for them. The girls didn't notice them until they had both finished about 5 more laps.
"Ha, I win." Eniko teased, she looked up and saw the three of them watching with bewildered expressions. "Well, well, well." She said and dipped her hair under water, it was dark brown now that it was wet.
"I suppose we should have expected this from you sooner or later." Nibira said, her hair was also dark brown from the water. She started climbing up the steps out of the pool and went to grab a towel, Eniko did the same.
"Look you guys. We still are not sure what we did to make you guys so mad at us, but uh, maybe if we tell you guys a secret, it will soften things up a bit." Kaoru said. The girls responded by giving them two identical looks in between mocking, and amusement.
"Okay, you guys promise not to tell anyone?" Hikaru asked. Haruhi rolled her eyes, not that she had paid off her debt she didn't really think of her secret as that big a deal. Eniko and Nibira both made a slash sign over their hearts with their index finger, Hikaru nodded at Kaoru.
"Alright, well the thing is… Haruhi is actually a girl." The two girls were silent and expressionless for a few moments. Then they both burst out laughing.
After a few minutes of watching the two girls laugh Kaoru said, "Oh, I see. You two don't believe us? Well alright, don't say we didn't tell you." The girls instantly stopped laughing and stood up.
"It's not that we don't believe you Kaoru." Said Nibira stepping in between Hikaru, and Kaoru. Her hair wrapped up in a towel.
"It's that you guys are just a tad bit too late." Eniko finished, stepping in between Hikaru and Haruhi, her hair also wrapped into a towel.
"What are you guys talking about?" Hikaru asked both of them. Eniko sighed and rolled her eyes. Nibira shook her head, and pressed her hands to her forehead.
"Ugh. You morons." Nibira said.
"You can't piece two and two together?!" Eniko asked.
"We already know Haruhi's a girl!"
"That's why we've been so angry at you for the past two days!" Eniko finished. The twins eyes widened.
"Oh, um.. This is a bit awkward." Haruhi said running a hand through her hair.
"Oh, sorry! What was that? Miss?" Eniko said mockingly turning to Haruhi.
"Hey, it wasn't Haruhi's fault! It was all of ours!" Hikaru said. Nibira looked at Kaoru while he watched them. She noticed that Kaoru looked a bit sadder than she thought he should have been looking at his older brother. She was confused.
"Look we're sorry! Alright!" Hikaru said, Eniko scowled at him. "We're sorry we lied to you." Nibira groaned, and Hikaru turned away from Eniko to look at her.
"It's not that you lied to us! It's that because you lied to us, that meant that you were worried we would do something to hurt you guys!" Nibira yelled.
"That's not true!" Kaoru yelled back in response. He took a step to the side, unfortunately he was too close to the pool. Kaoru lost his footing and started falling towards the water.
"Kaoru!" Hikaru yelled, and reached to pull his brother up, he didn't quite reach him, and Hikaru lost his footing as well and started falling. The twins braced themselves for the cold water just below them, when one strong hand each grabbed their arm and pulled them both back up to the concrete.
When the twins opened their eyes again, Hikaru looked to see Eniko holding his arm, with Kaoru it was Nibira. They were holding just as surprised expressions as the twins were, and when the two girls realized what they had done, they threw their arms down like they were vicious rattle snakes.
They all looked to Haruhi who was holding an even more shocked expression. Eniko realized that her towel had fallen off her head, and quickly started putting her hair into a ponytail.
Eniko and Nibira stalked off to two lawn chairs next to each other, the both laid down on one. The twins suddenly started laughing.
"What?" The girls asked together, annoyed.
"The boss was right! For once!" Hikaru said laughing.
"They really don't hate our guts!" Said the also laughing Kaoru."What are you saying?" Nibira asked. Once the twins had stopped laughing, them and Haruhi started walking towards the two sitting girls.
"If you really do hate us, like you claim you do." Hikaru started.
"Then why didn't you just let us fall into the water?" Kaoru continued.
"And why did you send us each one of those bracelets we said we liked?" Hikaru finished.
"Humph." The girls said crossing their arms. Haruhi sat in one of the chairs, and the twins squeezed into a nearby lawn chair.
"Look, we're sorry we lied." Kaoru said.
"But it really has just become a regular thing with us now." Hikaru said. "Haruhi has dressed like a guy for so long it's become natural."
"Thanks." Haruhi said, rolling her eyes. Hikaru laughing mischievously.
Nibira sighed, "We actually have something we need to tell you guys too…" she said.
"..We sent those bracelets to you guys for a reason…" Eniko continued.
"..We thought, if you guys actually had played us like we thought you did…"
"..You would just throw the bracelets away, and think nothing of it…"
"..But if you really did want us back at the host club…"
"..You would do something like this…"
".. And you did…"
"..So we're coming back to the host club." Eniko finished.
"Yay! Ha, ha!" They all heard some on squeal from farther away. Honi opened the back gate and started running towards Eniko and Nibira. Once he got there, he jumped onto them, and pulled them in for another one of his hugs.
Next time:
"Eniko your family has a boat?" He asked.
"Sure. We go to the lake all the time."
"Yeah. And Eniko usually drives. She's pretty awesome. She even has a license!" Nibira added eagerly.
"Maybe this weekend I could ask my dad if you guys could go on the boat."
"Do you have kneeboards?" The twins asked excitedly.
"Sure we have everything. Kneeboards, tubes, wakeboards, skis."
"Yay! We're going boating!" Honi squealed.