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I had never been so happy to start back at school when I was in England. Sure, it was slightly strange that when I started back, I was in the same year group, but 'cos we only started a year in the spring over here, I suppose it's okay.

We'd all been called to a host club meeting after school.

We'd only been back a few days when Tamaki had jumped up and down with the idea for our next cosplay thing. He wanted to have masquerade thing, so we would all dress up like whatever, and wear funny masks, and the guests could join in.

"It's going to be so much fun~" he laughed, twirling around with Honey, who had jumped for the idea... he loved dressing up too.

"If you're going for masquerade, why don't we just have another ball?" I asked, looking up from the physics textbook I had been looking through. I forgot how to calculate the magnification of a telescope. It had something to do with focal length of the objective lens and something else, but I needed to know what that something else was.

"A masquerade ball?" asked Tamaki, astounded for a moment, before he let out a shriek of happiness and bounded over to me.

"Saori! That's a very good idea, I'm so proud of you!" he pulled me into a hug, smothering me with his excitement, and only releasing me when he realized I'd stopped breathing.

"Saori? Are you okay?" asked Kyouya, who'd actually stood up and was leaning forward to inspect my probably blue face.

"Fine." I wheezed, trying to get my breath back. "I'm okay."

"Tamaki, you are banned from touching her from now on... you come too close to killing her." snapped the bespectacled boy.

"Wha-? No! I promise I'll be good, tell him Saori! Tell him..." the blond went about sobbing on the floor, so I rolled my eyes and shrugged at Kyouya.

"If he stops smothering me, I'll be fine."

In an instant I regretted it, as Tamaki jumped up and hugged me again.

Kyouya said the meeting was over, and we could all go home, and just in time, because I think Tamaki was out to crush my ribs.

* * *

"Seriously? A masquerade ball?" muttered Haruhi.

"Mhmm... you know, I thought you would have warmed to the idea by now, you've had all night to think it over."

"Yes, but I bet he's gonna make me wear a dress again... just to see me look 'cute'." she emphasized the last word with her fingers, making quotation marks in the air.

"Yeah, probably."

I reached out for the door, when I heard a voice behind me.

"Excuse me, are you two members of the club here?"

I turned to see a boy with mousy brown hair and large brown eyes looking at me and Haruhi. He also had large blue rimmed glasses on... ugly glasses.

Should've gone to Specsavers...

"Yeah..."

"I'd like to ask for the senior student, Haninozuka Mitsukuni, please."

"Honey sempai?" asked Haruhi, looking perplexed. Then it clicked, I knew he looked fairly cute...

Those two were so brothers.

"Oh, Chika Chan!" laughed Honey, popping up from around the doors on Takashi's shoulders. "Wazzup? It's rare to see you around the high school section!"

Chika only pushed up his glasses, making them glare like Kyouya's did so often, and then scowled.

"Mitsukuni, prepare yourself!"

He then lunged and tried to kick Honey, but the smaller boy jumped and dodged the kick, landing on the floor quite safely.

"W-wait! Mori sempai!" stammered a shocked Haruhi, turning to Takashi for help. He just shrugged.

Then Renge came up on her podium, and started commentating on the fight.

The others came in, and while the twins and Tamaki watched in mild amusement, Kyouya grumbled about them fighting in the wrong place... 'could've chosen a better location'.

"Why are you guys being so carefree?" yelled Haruhi looking at all of us. Sure, I was wondering what the heck with all the fighting, but letting them work it out is best.

Then Chika pulled out a long metal stick thingy... I'm no good with technical terms in martial arts, all I knew was this was some form of Karate.

"That can't be allowed..." I muttered, looking up at Takashi, again he shrugged, so I took it as a yes, it is.

Chika used some fancy moves, swinging the stick and jabbing it, but Honey kept dodging until one hit him firmly on his side and he was sent flying... I think...

I saw some flashes of black, and small cracks.

Honey was sprawled on the floor, tush up in the air, and he wasn't moving.

"Has Chika won?" I asked Takashi. He looked at me, then nodded to Chika... A quick look over, and I could see what he was looking at. There was large spiky things stuck in Chika's pants holding him down.

"Ah."

Renge stood up.

"Victory... belongs to Honey sempai."

"What she said." Takashi said after her, confirming it. "It's a kage-nui."

The literal translation to English would be... shadow sewing. Cool.

It was then that Honey got up, dusted himself off, and Renge dropped a screen to show exactly how Honey did it. He'd deflected the stick thing, flipped through the air, thrown the shuriken, and landed funnily to trick people... naughty naughty.

"And Chika can't even move anymore! That was a great match."

She went back into her hole laughing haughtily.

Honey stood over Chika, looking at him, and Haruhi turned to us all.

"I'm confused... but to begin with, who is he?"

"Can't you tell by his face?" asked a shocked Tamaki, while Kyouya pushed up his glasses and smirked.

"That's Honey's younger brother." I finished, looking at the bow glowering on the floor.

"What?!"

* * *

I was sat with Honey, Takashi leaning on my chair from behind, eating cake while Haruhi got the story from Chika, who was staying away from us. Tamaki offered him cake, but he rejected the offer.

"I don't like sweet things." he grunted. "The basic principle of the Haninozuka style, is to control our self-interests and attain a state of selflessness. To let oneself indulge in joy and desire... is out of the question."

I looked up at him.

"What a freaking kill joy..."

Honey smiled slightly, before shaking his head...

"He's right Saori... that's what dad always told us."

My mouth was agape... what a strange father...

Hikaru and Kaoru pointed out that Honey ate cake, was very indulgent and a loli-shota boy, and he was the next master of the Haninozuka family, to which Chika tutted.

"I will definitely not admit someone as half assed as Mitsukuni as the next master of the family."

Honey's face dropped, and so did his fork... I almost wanted to launch at Chika and kill him, but he'd easily whoop my ass.

"My brother is strong indeed, but he has quit disciplining himself. For taking this decadent road, he no longer has the right to call himself a Haninozuka. Someone that capriciously quit the Karate club one year ago, to escape from reality by indulging himself with plush dolls and cakes... cannot be called a Haninozuka."

He stopped, and glanced our way.

"Even if he is my brother."

I scoffed and glared at him, while he stood from his seat.

"I've wanted to say this to you for a long time. And Mitsukuni... I've always been saying this, but don't come near me in school."

He walked to the door, and unable to contain myself, I said loud enough for him to hear;

"But wasn't he the one to come here in the first place? What an ass if he only wanted to pick a fight."

He didn't reply, but the door closed, and I glared at it for a straight ten minutes.

I hate that kid... I don't know him, but I really do hate that kid.

* * *

"He's been there since Chika left..." said Haruhi, looking over to Honey where he was stood staring out of the window.

"Yeah, and Saori's been staring at the door since he left..." said the twins, waving their hands in front of my face, but I didn't so much as blink. I was too pissed of to blink.

The others coaxed Honey from his gloom with cake(yes, even though I wasn't looking, I was listening intently) and they went on to explain to Haruhi about how Honey was told to act more manly, blah blah blah... and all the girls thought it was cute when he was being tough, and then they made a fan-club, and Tamaki went and bribed Honey to join the host club, and Takashi heard it all so that's why he joined, and then Honey had a fight with his dad... and there was something about the UN... and weapons of mass destruction...

"And Chika-Cha hates me completely now." said Honey, rather sadly.

"Okay, my fellow subjects! We will now commence the great 'Haninozuka Brothers Get-Together" battle plan!"

The twins jumped for it, Kyouya sighed audibly, and Haruhi mumbled something. The blond and the redheads skipped out, dragging Haruhi and Kyouya with them, while Takashi and Honey walked out after them, at a much slower pace.

"Coming Sa-Chan?" asked Honey, turning on Takashi's shoulders to look at me. Takashi looked back too, with a slightly worried expression on his face.

"I'll catch up..." I muttered... I needed some coffee first to chill out...

They left, I had my coffee, and I had to send Takashi a text asking where they were.

The dojo... brilliant. One place I hadn't been, thus had no idea where it was.

Time to get walking...

* * *

What's the best word to describe my present situation?

Lost?

Yep, sounded right.

I was stood in the middle of a field... not far away from school. It had a little hill with a tree, and I was on my own.

But these are the directions Takashi sent me, so I should be in the right place... right?

Then I saw everyone else.

"Thank GOD!" I yelled running up and glomping Tamaki, the first person I had seen.

He yelled and fell to the floor, and we became completely disorientated.

T'was quite funny... especially when Takashi picked me up and put me on his shoulders. I clutched tight to him, 'cos I was afraid of falling off.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"They're having another fight. The first one to win a match... wins. Honey stops eating as much cake, or Chika just learns to accept him." muttered Haruhi.

"Ready? Then, begin!" said Takashi.

They started fighting, but one thing just seemed out of place...

"Is it me, or is this fight turning out exactly like the one they had earlier?" asked Tamaki, voicing my question.

"Yes, but this time their roles are reversed." said Kyouya.

Then surprisingly, Takashi spoke... to everyone.

"Mitsukuni's already planned how this entire fight is going to pan out. Yasuchika will attack with the Shuriken any moment now."

And amazingly enough, he did. Honey deflected them easily, and watched as Chika landed, regained his balance, and continued. I slid down Takashi's back, and stood between him and Kyouya.

"I've seen their matches for many years... Yasuchika will always incorporate moves that Mitsukuni used in a previous fight. Mitsukuni realized that and would always give his brother the opportunity to practice those new techniques."

What the hell?

"As a fellow Martial Artist, Yasuchika admires Mitsukuni. And it's obvious that he wants to get closer to him in that respect. They are still connected where it's important, and personally I think a little sibling rivalry is perfectly normal."

Wow... monologue or what?

"There's no reason to worry about the outcome of this match, I can already tell you that Mitsukuni is planning to throw the fight to let Yasuchika beat him. Trust me, I know everything there is to know about him."

I turned from Takashi to the two brothers, who were sparing viciously. Then Honey kicked Chika and sent him flying, and when the younger boy didn't get up, Honey jumped for joy proclaiming that he had won.

"Hm..." grunted Takashi, looking pretty distant for a while, before he started sulking.

"Don't let it get you down... Mori sempai?"

I watched in mild amusement with Kyouya as Takashi went down on his knees.

"I think that's a little over the top..." I giggled quietly, just so Kyouya could hear.

"I... am going to say nothing." he replied, but I could hear the smile in his voice without even looking at him.

"Wait, so he loves came more than his brother?" asked Haruhi, to which the general reply was...

"Yeah..."