Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran, depressing yet true.
When we last left the host club:
"We're any other secrets slipped today?"
"I don't think so." Nibira said laughing. "But speaking of that… what were you and Hikaru talking about back at the ice cream place?"
Eniko got a little nervous remembering Hikaru asking her. "Um, I have a feeling you'll figure it out in the near future."
"Mm, a challenge."
EPISODE 14: Magic
Yet another time the host club was open for business, and it relieved all the other members to see the twins and the girls finally not fighting anymore. Eniko and Nibira were entertaining their fans with Hikaru and Kaoru, something that the remainder of the host club members haven't seen them do in a long time.
"Eni-chan and Nibi-chan are a lot happier now, don't you think Takashi?" Honi piped sitting on Mori's shoulders
"Yeah."
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"Oh, Kaoru, sometimes you can be so naïve." Hikaru said, leaning his head towards his younger brother.
"What do you mean, Hikaru?"
"I mean that if you were really smart, you would see that I wanted this to happen." He leaned further in, and pressed their foreheads together. "You, see… now I have you right where I want you."
Kaoru became flustered, "Hikaru?" he gasped.
Their fans squealed, and Eniko gave a light chuckle to which she whispered something into Nibira's ear which made her laugh.
"What?" The twins asked together.
"Oh, nothing." Nibira said, airily twirling a strand of her hair with her index finger.
"Do you have a problem?" Said Kaoru, still in the position Hikaru put him in.
"Not at all."
"Then what?" They asked together.
"Like I said before, nothing." The twins growled, and suddenly the room was filled with a familiar high pitched cackle, and a platform was raised, Renge on top of it, hands on her hips.
"This is a perfect strategy for drawing customers! Just look how far these four have come! The last time I came up they were rivals now just look at this sweet relationship of friends!" She said, little hearts appearing around her.
"Renge, it's been awhile since you've showed up." Tamaki said, as the platform sunk lower into the ground again, letting Renge off.
"I know, but it's been so boring around here, I've never really had anything to say." The twins scoffed at this.
"Please. You had nothing to say?" Hikaru said.
"I can be a very quiet person you know!" Renge shouted, snakes forming in her hair, the twins laughed at this.
"That is the ultimate mixed signal." Eniko said to Nibira, she laughed again, as the twins snapped another smart remark, causing her to chase them around the room.
Nibira sighed, "We should probably get out of their way, unless we want to get run over." she told Eniko. She followed her to a door that seemed to go unrecognized from before.
"Nibira? Has this door… always been here?"
Back where Tamaki and Haruhi were standing watching Renge chase the Hitachiin brothers, Haruhi's eyes fluttered to where Nibira and Eniko were. She noticed something peculiar about where they were standing, and when she realized it, her heart turned to ice.
"S-senpai?"
"What's wrong Haruhi?"
"Do you see where Eniko, and Nibira are standing?"
The king of the host club, slowly turned to look at the large black door, with Eniko and Nibira talking next to it, he froze. "That's not good." He muttered to himself.
"Nibira! Eniko! Move away from the door!" All the members froze to look at the door where Eniko and Nibira were standing.
Suddenly a low slow laugh filled the room, and as the black door opened slowly sending an eerie dark, light and black roses trickling out, all of the guests fled the girls screaming.
"Huh?" The two oblivious girls asked.
"Why hello. It's been awhile hasn't it?" A dark figure said, appearing. Suddenly Tamaki shrieked and ran to the other side of the room, holding a flashlight as if it was a weapon.
"Who's he?" Nibira asked, turning to Hikaru.
"Nekazowa senpai. He goes to our school… although I have no idea how he found us." He said turning to glare at him.
"He's the president of the school's dark magic club." Kaoru explained.
"Dark magic club?" Eniko asked, arching an eye brow. It was then when dark magic prince laid his eyes on Eniko. And a peculiar thing happened. He became… flustered.
"Uh… hi." He said. She turned.
"Hi?"
"Do you want to join the dark magic club?" He yelled running up to her. "I'll even include a free curse doll, and black cloak!"
"Uh…" She said, a little nervous.
"No. She doesn't." The twins said together pushing her back and stepping between the two.
"Sorry, but I know my best friend. And she's not interested in curse dolls." Nibira said, going in front of the twins and glaring at the surprised teen in the cloak.
"You'll… you'll pay for this you three… You will!" He said, the twins rolled their eyes, as Nekazowa slid back through the door.
After he was gone Tamaki turned off his flashlight and ran over to them. "Ah! Why did you do that?! Did you hear what he said?! Why am I even near you three anyway?! Your cursed!" He squealed and went to hide behind Eniko.
"Do his spells usually work?" Eniko asked the twins.
"I don't know if he's even tried." Hikaru said.
"And if he has, he's failed every time." Kaoru said. He started walking back to his station, but a few steps in, he slipped on something. And fell to the ground with a thud.
"Kaoru? Are you oka-" Hikaru started to say, but he tripped on something as well, and also went crashing to the floor beside his brother. Hikaru reached down to see what they had both fell on. "When did this banana peel get here?" He asked, holding up said object.
"Uh, oh." Eniko responded.
"I tripped on one too." Kaoru said, holding up another.
"What? No way." Nibira said, but she too walking over to them tripped, once she was down she reached over and pulled another banana peel from where she had slipped. "I did not see that there before."
"This can't be good." Eniko said, slowly walking over to them, but she, unlike her three other friends, didn't slip on anything, in fact, she seemed as graceful as ever.
"Wait." Nibira said, "But you were always the most uncoordinated one." one by one the four of them, along with every other member looked towards the black door of the dark magic club in fear.
The next day Tamaki announced that the host club would have no business, that today was a free day. And its members gathered to take some time off together, but there was something strange. Eniko arrived alone.
"Eniko? Where is Nibira?" Haruhi asked, seeing her come in without her friend.
"Um, she called and said she was running late. Told me to come without her… Wait. Where are Hikaru and Kaoru?" She asked looking around the room.
"They're late too… you don't think..?" Haruhi asked, Eniko's eyes widened.
"There's no way." They both looked towards the door of the dark magic club.
Half an hour later Nibira arrived, soon after by the twins. They all looked like they were in pain. Nibira was rubbing her hip, Hikaru his arm, and Kaoru his back. The three groaned as they sat on a couch.
"Nibira? Hikaru? Kaoru? What happened?" Eniko said running up to them, and sitting in a seat across from the couch. The Hitachiins just groaned again. Eniko then noticed, the bruises and small scrapes all over each of their bare skin.
"I don't know. Ever since yesterday, it seems I've been tripping over things that I have never before."
"Are you serious?" Eniko asked, eyes widening more than ever as she watched them all nod.
"Us too." Kaoru said, and winced as he shifted on his cushion. "This morning, I tripped over my feet, and ending up falling all the way down the stairs."
"Well last night I walked right into a door I thought was already opened." Hikaru said.
"When I got home from the host club yesterday, I was walking in my family's garden when a huge gust of air came out from nowhere, and pushed me into my moms rose bush!" Nibira said, and hung one of her arms in the air to show the scratches from the thorns.
"I never thought that Nekazowa senpai could actually pull off a working curse." Hikaru said.
"What about you Eniko?" Kaoru asked.
Eniko shook her head. "No. I haven't tripped on one single thing since yesterday."
"I'm going to go tell Kyoya not to be mad if I miss host club next week because I'm in the hospital." Nibira said glumly standing up.
"I'll come with you. Someone has to be there to pull the other out of the way of slamming into a column." Kaoru said, following after her.
Once the two were out of earshot, "What about Haruhi?" Eniko asked, Hikaru across from her, he looked at her confused.
"What about her?"
"I've been thinking about what you told me for the past week, you know about Kaoru?"
Now Hikaru looked uneasy. "Yeah?"
"And I thought you liked Haruhi?"
"Where'd you get that from?"
"Um, I just noticed."
"Well, I guess I just feel bad that she's a commoner, so I may treat her nicer than I do the other hosts." Hikaru shrugged.
"Hmm.." Eniko said. Well, I guess that theory's down the drain.
"Ugh." Nibira said, limping back.
"What happened now?" Hikaru asked.
"She banged her knee on a table leg." Kaoru told him.
"What are we going to do?" Nibira asked them.
"Hey… Where did Eniko go?" Hikaru asked, looking at her empty chair. The three looked around, slightly alarmed.
"There she is… what is she doing?!" Kaoru asked, Nibira, and Hikaru turned to look at what Kaoru was talking about. Eniko was in front of the door of the dark magic club, she took a deep breath, and reached for the knob.
"Eniko! Don't!" Nibira shouted, but by then Eniko was shutting the door behind her, and it was too late.
"Why the hell would she do that for?" Hikaru asked, earning a ferocious glare from Nibira.
"Isn't it painfully obvious? She's going to Nekazowa to try and lift the curse!"
"What is she going to do now that she's in? Did she even think of that?"
"I don't know. But I'd rather not think about that."
Haruhi walked up to them, setting down a tray of commoners coffee for five. "Hey, where'd Eniko go?" She asked, sitting down, in the once occupied chair across from the three.
Nibira raised a shaky finger towards the black door, Haruhi's eyes widened. "No…."
"Yeah." Kaoru said.
"She went to try and lift the so called curse?" Nibira nodded.
"What do you mean, "so called"?" Kaoru asked.
"I don't know, but maybe you guys are just being paranoid."
"That can't be right. I mean, yesterday, those bananas came out of nowhere, didn't they?" Nibira asked.
"They did. I know they did, I would have seen them." Hikaru said.
"You better. Because if Eniko does this, and it's not even his doing, then,… then…" She trailed off.
"We should just go in after her." Kaoru suggested.
"That'll just screw everything she's already done. He might even make it worse." Hikaru said.
"But-"
"Hikaru's right." Haruhi said, sipping her coffee.
"Ugh. I swear if he does anything to her-" Nibira started.
"We'd kill him." The twins said.
Nibira groaned, "This is making me go crazy!"
"What's going on here?" Tamaki said appearing with the remainder of the hosts.
"Apparently Eniko just went in the dark magic club, to get the curse lifted off Nibira, Hikaru, and Kaoru." Haruhi told him.
"What?!" He said staggering back, then quickly composed himself again, snapping his fingers. "Honi senpai, Mori senpai, get as many flashlights as you can find. We're going in."
Before they could be stopped, Honi and Mori dashed out of the room. "Don't you think you should think this through?" Kyoya asked, pushing his glasses up.
"One of our family is in danger mommy! Don't you think we should do something?!"
"Well it looks like we don't have to. Look." He pointed his pen, and all the members followed his gaze to the dark magic club door, which was opening.
"Eniko?" Nibira asked, quietly. Eniko slowly came out of the door and shut it, leaning on the wood. Her hair was down, and she slowly took out her hair band and put it on, a expressionless look plastered on her face. Other than that, she looked unharmed.
"Eni-chan!" Honi said, appearing with Mori with buckets of flashlights in both their arms. Which he proceeded to drop and run over to her, but he was stopped by Nibira who was looking at Eniko uneasy.
Slowly she walked over to the host club, still with her blank look. She dropped herself into a chair, and instantly that blank look, turned to an exhausted one. "Eniko? Are you all right?" Nibira asked, tilting her head. Eniko nodded slowly, her eyes shut.
"Well… what happened?" Kaoru asked.
"He lifted the curse." Eniko said, while opening her eyes.
"But what happened?" Hikaru reworded. She just glared at him icily.
"I'm not so sure I want to talk about it, right now."
"Let's go Hikaru. Honi senpai. Hand us some flashlights."
"What are you doing?" Eniko asked, looking more tired than ever.
"We're going to go kill him." Kaoru said, simply.
"Don't do that." She said rolling her eyes.
"Why not? You came out with your ponytail down! He must've done something?!"
"I did that." Nibira, and the twins stared at her, dumbfounded. The rest of the host club just looked confused.
"What? But- but you never put your hair down." Nibira stated.
"Except now. You should've seen his face when I came in. All I really had to do was a little flirting and he caved."
"So… are you a member of the dark magic club now?" The king of the host club asked, now she looked confused.
"Are you kidding? I would've just let him leave the curse if he was going to make me do that." She looked back at the three sitting together on the couch. "Are you guys okay?"
Hikaru was the first to snap out of his shock. "Does this mean we don't get to kill him?"
Next time:
Among all the dust, Hikaru heard one familiar word, said in a cry. "Kaoru!"
Kaoru.
Author's note: Ah… it's nice to write those four as friends again. The finale is coming up! Reviews! I like reviews!