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When we last left the host club:
After a few moments of awkward silence, two shrill voices squealed, "Nibira!" Honi, and Tamaki ran over to her, and captured her in a hug.
"Ah! Get off!" She screamed, but neither would let go. Eniko breathed a sigh of relief as she watched her best friend at her side again. Well, thank god I actually do know her as well as I thought I did.
EPISODE 7: Lost
It was now only 1 day before school began again, and the host club was open for business. The men, plus Haruhi, of the host club all dressed in their male uniforms, to celebrate coming back to school. But the two other girls of the host club, were wearing white polo's under their maroon knit vests, they were also wearing tan slacks and black converse. They were both wearing a brown leather watch, and had their hair up in ponytails while wearing their back up glasses in place of contacts.
"What are we supposed to be again?" Nibira asked.
"Why, teachers of course." Tamaki said, brushing his hair back for no good reason again.
"But we're students." Eniko argued.
"Yeah but you are home schooled students, so you don't have uniforms." Hikaru said, grabbing her shoulder and smirking. Eniko groaned.
"You know, some regular schools don't have uniforms either." Nibira stated, now getting really frustrated, she hated her back up glasses, and her polo was making her itch.
"That's true. And if Ouran Academy didn't have uniforms, we would probably be wearing the same thing as you.
"Really?" The two girls asked together. Not convinced. Haruhi went out of her position and whispered in their ears.
"No. Probably not." Then went back to her original position. The girls rolled their eyes.
The doors were opened and in came a mixture of squealing girls, and drooling guys.
"Welcome." The host club said.
The day went on pretty normally after that. The king Tamaki had the majority of obsessive girls. Eniko and Nibira's couches were packed with their guests. Honi talked about how much he loved Bun-bun almost the entire time, and Mori was right next to him watching protectively. Kyoya was especially happy from the over average customer rate that day. Haruhi got a lot of girls to request her by being half trying to work, but also half trying to get her study time in for the upcoming school year. And the twins played up their brotherly love act even more than regular. Using the idea they had shown Eniko two weeks ago and resulting in having more customers than usual.
But the day had to end, and slowly but surely all the customers left. And the hosts were getting ready to leave after the last day of work before school started.
Eniko sighed. "Well, I guess we'll see you guys on Saturday." She said, she was just about to leave with Nibira when they both heard something they didn't expect.
"Kaoru? Have you seen my bracelet?" Hikaru's voice asked. The girls stopped in their tracks, and started walking towards where the Hitachiin brothers were standing.
"Um no why?"
"I can't find it anywhere. It's not on either of my wrists, and it isn't in my pockets or my bag."
"Well where did you last see it?"
"It was definitely with me when we came. One of our guests asked about it again remember?"
"Oh yeah. Well then don't worry then it has to be in this room somewhere, right?"
"Uh, even though it might have been abandoned, it's a pretty big room Kaoru." Nibira said the two of them now reaching the twins.
"And unfortunately the boss chased us around the entire room today, for harassing Haruhi. It could be anywhere right now. For all we know one of our guests found it and decided to keep it as a memento!" Hikaru said, giving a glare to Tamaki. The rest of the members were now watching.
"Okay, but it's no big deal." Kaoru said, Hikaru looked up at his brother from where he sat confused. "If we can't find it they can just make you another one right?" He finished looking at Nibira, and Eniko.
"Uh, sorry. We used up all the elephants making your bracelets." Eniko said shrugging.
"Alright gentlemen! Hikaru has lost a very important gift from two of his friends! It is our mission to find it!" Tamaki exclaimed pointing his finger in the air.
Eniko, and Nibira sighed. "It a bracelet with alternating orange, and bright blue elephants." They described together.
"Start the search men!" He declared and everyone started looking.
Each host was assigned to a certain part of the room. Hikaru, and Kaoru, looked in their regular spot where they would entertain their guests. Eniko, and Nibira took the entrance. Tamaki searched the middle. Honi was in the bottom right corner, Mori the bottom left where he could still get a good view. Kyoya took the top left corner, while Haruhi looked in the right.
Haruhi was bending over a desk chair, when she saw Kyoya leaning against the wall of his corner writing in his black notebook. He would occasionally scan his eyes over his area, then went back to writing. "Kyoya senpai." She said, he looked up. "You don't look like your working very hard looking for Hikaru's bracelet?"
He smiled, just barely. But smiled, and said. "Of course. A distraught brother, would be a very good thing to attract customers. Especially if the other brother becomes distraught also at the sight of seeing his dear brother so miserable."
"Miserable? I wouldn't go that far." She said getting up from under the desk.
"Well maybe not, but the twins are good actors, I would suppose they would eventually think the same as I and play it up to the fullest. But I must disagree with you at the moment. Even though Hikaru has only had the bracelet for a little over a month, I've noticed he's always been fond of it, I'm not sure why but it seems his bracelet is important to him." Haruhi watched as the shadow king walked in a small circle near the corner, looking at the ground and tables. She sighed.
"There isn't much in my corner." She said, lowering her head. "Let's just switch." Silently the two hosts went to their new corners, and Haruhi started searching in her new spot, while Kyoya simply got himself comfortable.
The host club king was frantically pushing over chairs, looking for the lost elephant bracelet. It took him awhile to realize that he was moving much too fast for his eyes to be able to see anything. He took in a deep breath, and started over again much more slower. From the corner of his eyes he saw some movement, a lot more than there had been before in that area. He looked up to see Haruhi lifting a pillow off the couch in a nearby corner. Odd, he thought I thought I put Kyoya in that corner. "Hey Haruhi! Come over here a minute!" He yelled to her, she looked up.
"Senpai, I have to keep looking!" She yelled in response.
"You can continue the search in a moment. Come here and take a break with me." He said with a light chuckle, she walked over to the middle of the room and sat down in a random chair.
"Senpai? Does Hikaru seem a little over protective of just that one bracelet?"
"A little?" Tamaki said with a laugh. "I'm not sure what is with the whole elephant deal, but I'm sure it isn't the only reason he's so frantic to find it."
"You think it's because Eniko and Nibira had given it to them?" Tamaki nodded, "But why?" she asked.
"Silly Haruhi. Just because they've only known them for a couple of months now, doesn't mean they haven't been through a lot together. You were there when the twins went to talk to the girls about coming back to the host club weren't you? They didn't waste a breath saving the twins from when they were about to fall into the water."
"So… you think they're in love?" She asked with a arched eyebrow.
"No," He said calmly, looking over to where the twins were looking. "not yet at least. It may just be my opinion in this case. But I'm thinking that nothing is really going to happen between the twins and the girls. Nothing except friendship."
"Yeah, right." Haruhi said with slight sarcasm.
Honi was looking around in his corner his Bun-bun tight in his arm. He looked over at the twins, and then at Nibira and Eniko. He sighed, and sat down on a couch.
"Are you tired Mitskuni? Do you want me to look for you?" A deep voice in monotone said from behind him.
"No thanks Takashi. I'm alright."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, I was just noticing how upset those four are looking over there, and it's making me kind of sad too."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, look over there at Eni-chan and Nibi-chan." He points over to where the girls were searching. "Eni-chan is searching everywhere, and even double checking where she is searching. While Nibi-chan is the opposite, she's just sitting there. Just staring straight ahead with a blank look on her face!" He now points his fingers to the twins. "And look over there at Hika-chan and Kao-chan! Hika-chan is looking around very, very well. Moving quickly and also double checking everything just like Eni-chan. And Kao-chan is also working well too, but not nearly as good as Hika-chan. He's moving a lot slower and every 1 or 2 minutes he looks over at Hika-chan. He's smiling, but I don't get the sense that he is very happy."
Mori just smiles. "Hm,"
"You agree with me don't you Takashi? Do you think it's just my imagination?"
"No, Mitskuni. I can see what you're saying."
Honi sighed. "I was sure hoping you wouldn't. I don't like seeing my buddies down like this."
Over where Eniko and Nibira was sitting, Eniko had just finished laying on the ground looking under a large couch. When she sat up she saw her best friend just sitting there staring straight ahead of her.
"Hey you know, you're not exactly being the best help here." She said sitting down in a chair nearby, Nibira said nothing. "Hey. Nibira?" She said snapping her fingers in her face. "Hello? Anybody in there?"
"Don't make me bite your fingers off." She said bitterly, although Eniko knew she was half kidding. There was that other half of her that was pretty pissed.
"You taking this pretty hard, huh?"
"I-I know I shouldn't be. I mean, I'm positive that Hikaru didn't do it intentionally right?" Eniko nodded, "It's just, that… I guess I'm taking this harder than I ever expected I would." she finished with a sigh.
"Why, I mean. You said our bracelets were easy to make?"
"Yeah but ours are charm bracelets. Don't get me wrong they are still just as important, but I knew that charm bracelets for guys is… kind of gay." Eniko laughed at the irony.
"Sorry to interrupt. But have you seen the twins open for business?" She asked still laughing.
"Yes, but that is an act. So I wanted to make these bracelets, well… as manly as could be achieved. So it took me a lot longer, weaving a small rope in and out of the elephant stones, it takes quite a bit of concentration. Still don't think that our bracelets don't mean as much to me-"
"Oh stop babbling Nibira I get it!" Eniko interrupted with an amused smile. The two girls sat in silence for awhile. "Nibira?" Eniko finally spoke up.
"Mm?" She replied, Nibira had her head back leaning against the top of the love seat with her eyes closed.
"Are you sure the twins brotherly love act… is really an act?""What do you mean?" Nibira asked looking at her, suddenly the best friends eyes widened. "Wait. You don't mean-"
"Oh no way in hell!" Eniko said grasping what Nibira was thinking. She saw the truth in her green eyed best friend, and relief washed through her. "Nah, I don't like them like that. It's just… I get the feeling… at least for one of them. That they're not acting." They both looked over to where the twins were searching and saw Kaoru looking at his duplicate smiling, but not with his eyes.
"Hikaru you're going to get hurt craning your neck like that." Kaoru said lightly, Hikaru looked up and smiled sort of sadly.
"I just… really need to find this bracelet. Kay?"
"Why?"
"It's common courtesy Kaoru. I can tell that they worked really hard on those bracelets, and we both really like them so I don't see a reason not to want it back."
Kaoru smiled somewhat astonished that Hikaru could actually be so… sweet. He looked around him and saw a loveseat that was in their area that he hadn't remembered either of them looking at. He walked over and inspected it and sure enough stuffed in between two of the cushions was the orange and blue elephant bracelet.
"Hey. Hey Hikaru I got it!" He yelled, Hikaru raced over to Kaoru.
"Oh yes! Thanks Kaoru!" He said grabbing his bracelet and pulling his twin into him. Kaoru willingly hugged Hikaru back.
"Hey Hikaru! Did you guys find it?" A familiar feminine voice yelled, from somewhere in the middle of the large room. Hikaru pulled away from Kaoru to face Haruhi.
"Yeah!"
"Great! Hey, could you come over here? Me and senpai need someone to help us put this couch right side up again!" She yelled, Hikaru started running over to her, his bracelet now tied tightly back on his wrist.
"Wait, Hikaru." Kaoru whispered to himself as he watched his older brother leave. What he didn't see though, was Eniko right behind him, watching, and hearing him. Her eyes widened, she understood.
Next time:
"Hikaru?""Yeah Kaoru?""I smell… rain."
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