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Chapter Seven Tamaki's really big surprise
Tamaki had been practically bouncing off the walls the entire day. This was it. All their training, arguments, he could finally reviel it to them.
"Tamaki?" Honey asked, "What's the really big surprise? "as he walked with Mori.
Tamaki only smiled as he waved a hand in the air, "You'll have to wait and see."
"Kyoya?" The twins asked glancing at the shadow king, who didn't bother to return their look. Aloof as ever as his glass tinted in the sun.
"He's been planning this for weeks." Haruhi commented beside them as her bag banged against her hip.
"What do you mean?" Hikaru asked, as they glanced down at her.
"He's been studying her for days now, haven't you noticed?' She asked, "And why he asked us to get out the old teacups."
Hikaru and Kaoru only exchanged a puzzled glance, and Haruhi shrugged, "I suppose you'll see what I mean in a moment." As they walked on.
"Alright family." Tamaki stopped them in front of the double doors, "It has come to your mother's and I attention that our family is missing something, something that makes it whole, which is why we got you-
He swung wide open the doors gesturing his arms, at-
"Air?" The twins laughed together leaning on each other for support.
Tamkai opened his eyes. She wasn't there. She wasn't there.
"Tamaki-sempi is confused." Hunny whispered to Mori as Tamaki began to tear through the clubroom, crawling on the floor to check under the couches and chairs and tables.
"Kyoya! Where is she? You said she would be here!" He whispered as he ran to Kyoya dragging him away from the group so they wouldn't be in on what the big surprise was.
"Yes, I know . It seems that she'll be a little late today." Kyoya answered coolly as he scanned through the text messages on his phone, "It appears she had to talk to her psychical therapist about her sechulde. She should be here soon."
"Oh." Tamaki answered as he turned back to the others, "The surprise is coming. There was a problem with delivery. In the mean time let us prepare."
The twins laughed again as they plopped onto to the couch, "Off you go dog." as the waved Haruhi away.
Haruhi grumbled as she set down the bag and pulled out the teacups and teapots from a cabinet in a corner of the large room. She needed to get the water, and the tea. She checked it off in a mental list in her head. They were all hooked on the commoner's tea now, so she had to keep buying new containers.
"Oh here let me get that."
She glanced behind at the voice. It was Mikan. Only she looked a lot different. She had on a blue dress that mirrored the color of the school's blazer and a large fluffy apron that resembled something of Alice in Wonderland. She took the teacups, dumping a little tea at a time glancing at the container.
"Gross, they like this stuff?" She asked as she set it back down on the counter, "And why are you over here pouring?"
Haruhi was speechless for a minute, "I was a dog. So they think it's still fair for me to have to do menial chores."
"But you're a host, so how does that work out?" She asked slowly as she yanked on one her tightly curled ponytails, "Why are staring at me?"
"I'm just wondering what position they've assigned you." She answered slowly as she looked at the ears and tail, "You're wearing ears?"
"Oh do you like them? Just something I added to make it more interesting." Mikan answered as she touched the fuzzy brown ears on the headband, "My sister help me make them last night."
"Oh." Haruhi nodded, "Did Kyoya force you into working for the club?"
Mikan laughed as she waved her hand, "Oh god no. I never even thought of coming to this place, until he offered to make me, I guess the "maid" or "Puppy " .
"Offered?" Haruhi questioned suddenly finding herself very annoyed at the fact she had been offered a position. Who in their right mind would want to work with them?
"He's paying me, well actually it's more of exchange to work here." She explained, as she began to stack the teacups on the tray, "You would not believe what he made me do. Three days just on the etiquette and how to set and remove cups. ."
Haruhi felt her eye twitch, trying to imagine spending that much time one on one with Kyoya, "You are in charge of setting out tea. That takes care of my chore."
Mikan smiled, "Yeah of course. " as she carried the tray over the tables setting the cups out.
Haruhi made her way back over to the couch were the other club members sat, lazily waiting for when the customers would begin to arrive. Honey was munching down on his cake beside Mori, the twins were looking bored, Kyoya was involved in his phone and Tamaki seemed to be incredibly anxious.
She plopped down in the nearest chair, happy not to be stuck with the menial chores anymore. None of the other club members seemed to be aware of Mikan's presence, so she didn't bother to tell them. There was no point if Tamaki wanted it to be a surprise.
"Where is she? Where is she?" He was muttering as he paced back and forth. It was actually quite funny that she was in the back setting up and they were oblivious to the fact that she was there in the back setting out teacups.
"Tamaki we have to get ready."
He glanced over at Kyoya defeated. Kyoya shrugged, and Tamaki woefully dragged a chair to the center as he sighed.
"No surprise Milord?" The twins questioned as they stood behind, "Though the air was rather nice."
"No there is a surprise. Just not today." He answered
Haruhi rolled her eyes as she shook her head standing in her usual place just as the doors opened, "Welcome." They greeted.
Tamaki stood up all signs of his grief gone as he greeted the flock of yellow giggling ladies.
"Welcome. Welcome. Please have a seat, enjoy some tea." He ushered them as they took their positions at the tables. Haruhi glanced around, to see where Mikan had gotten to, but she was gone.
Probably filling up tea, she decided as she sat at the table and her first costumers sat by her.
She glanced down there was already hot tea in the glass. She sipped it, as the girl giggled and chatted about this and that.
"I wish MIkan hadn't been in a hurry today." One of them was saying to her friend who sighed, "I know, but she said she had to go see a therapist and then she said something about a club."
"A therapist! I didn't know she had to see a therapist! Do you think it's because of her sister?"
"Yui, not that kind of therapist. It's a physical therapist." The girl's friend reprimanded as she turned back to Haruhi smiling, "How are you?"
"Oh, I'm just fine." She answered with a smile, "I think I did see Mikan earlier."
"Really?" They inquired leaning closer, "Where?"
"Oh, in the club room." Haruhi shrugged, "Here she comes now."
The girl's mouths dropped in awe as Mikan came over carrying the teapot, as her brace clunked against the floor.
"I brought you a teapot." She smiled as she sat in on the table, before moving away again.
They stared after her before turning to Haruhi.
"Is she working for the host club?" the one with black hair whispered.
"I think so." Haruhi started slowly, they all turned to look at each other as smiles and giggles broke out once more.
She shook her head, watching as no one else seemed to notice that Mikan was wandering about even as her cast made a thinking sound against the floor. Tamaki was much to busy entertaining his customers, even though Mikan bent right in front of him to pour more tea from the container and water for the various ladies.
He is oblivious, she noted turning back to her own costumers, maybe that was the point to let Mikan blend into the background, so no one would be jealous. Things went on as usual, she had five more costumers, who chatted amongst themselves. She tuned in once in a while, but none of them mentioned the fact that a curly haired girl was wandering serving tea until there was a blood-curling scream that echoed in the large room. There was total silence and collective gasp as everybody at once tried to locate the source.
Loud choked sobs and heavy gasping replaced the screams, like someone was having trouble breathing. Haruhi glanced over, there was now a yellow mob, but none of the girls seemed to be taking action to help whoever was in trouble.
"Move." Haruhi ordered as she shoved her way through the mob of yellow, to Mikan who laid with her cast leg askewed and covered in brown liquid. She most have fallen and spilled hot tea all over herself. The twins seemed to stare down gawking with the rest of them.
What's wrong with them? Haruhi wondered to herself.
She grabbed her arm lifting her up as the girls quickly dispersed to let the host through. "Mikan you'll be okay." Haruhi told her as she steered her across the floor.
The girl only nodded as she continued to cry her cheeks burning red, and her cast thunking across the floor. Haruhi didn't bother to announce where she was going to the other members, Mikan needed to get to the nurse now. She held her arm tightly steering her through the halls and through the door as they rushed down the hall. Behind them the room filled with chaos as girls screamed Kya and Tamaki's voice could be heard above the rest screaming for had just happened. She continued, though, Kyoya would be able to figure it out quickly enough. She pushed open the door open to the nurse's office.
"I'm sorry, but she burned herself." She announced, as Mikan now was simply gasping for air, as she tried to calm herself to stop crying.
The nurse nodded taking Mikan's arm, leading the pink headed girl away behind a curtain, as ripping sounds could be heard and her blue dress and apron suddenly appeared outside in a heap.
Haruhi sighed, that was scary. She glanced out the double doors as a mob led none other by the great king, Tamaki, who ran through gasping for air. He had sprinted.
"Haruhi what happened?" He was asking, "What princess was hurt by our negligence?"
"None." She shrugged, "Well, not by your standards. It's Mikan."
He seemed to turn to ash, "Mikan-? Mikan was hurt?"
"Mika-chan was here?" Honey asked sleepily as the rest of the host club appeared behind Tamaki shutting and barring the doors behind and the girls peered in from outside through the tiny windows..
"Yes. She's been here the whole time, serving tea. She served tea right at your table." Haruhi clarified.
Tamaki ducked into his corner of woe, as he began to cultivate mushrooms muttering the whole time of how stupid he was not to notice her and how she most despise them.
"Well, since this seems to be a shock to most of you. Mikan was hired on as our new "Puppy", to serve the customers tea and take over menial tasks that used to be Haruhi's." Kyoya explained as he pushed his glasses up his nose, "The plan was to introduce her today, but as you can see that did not happen, since you all failed to realize that she was even here."
They glanced sheepishly at each other, as Tamaki cried out as he spun around the room sobbing, "We've done it again! We've hurt her again!"
"Tamaki I'm sure she's fine. She was just burned by some tea." Haruhi explained
"Then the host club shall from now on drink no more tea! It's much too dangerous! We will serve only juice, like the commoners. We shall try some of Haruhi's finer offerings-" He paused as he realized that there was no one was listening to him.
"They're visiting your friend." The nurse smiled as she pointed to a small room to the side. He thanked her, as he pushed back a curtain that allowed for a small amount of privacy. She was sitting on the cot sitting on top of the sheets her head under a pillow .
"KYA! MIKAN PLEASE FORGIVE US! WE WANTED TO MAKE YOU FEEL WELCOME AND YET WE HAVE SHAMED YOU! I HAVE SHAMED MY FAMILY! I AM NOT WORTHY TO BE IN THE SAME ROOM AS YOU!" Tamaki cried as he spin round and round in the back round.
"Mikan are you okay?" Honey asked as he lay on the edge of the bed. Her dress had been ripped off, and now she sat in an oversized tee shirt and a pair of shorts with bandages on her arms with her cheeks red from the tears.
She nodded, looking down at the blanket, as the twins leaned on either side by the head of the bed, "We're sorry we didn't react fast enough."
"It's okay." She murmured, "I'm just so clumsily. Sprained leg and burned hands."
"Poor poor puppy." The twins sighed as they patted her head. She only shook her head as she slapped her hands to her face sighing, "So. Do I get the job?"
"You've had it." Kyoya answered simply as he stepped out taking Tamaki with him as he continued to babble nonsense and apologies, "Come on. We have costumers to attend."
Mori lifted up Honey who waved good-bye, as he laid his head against Mori's chest yawning, "I need some more cake."
It was only Haruhi and the twins now.
"You guys don't have to stay." She told them, "I'll be okay."
"We're bored." They shrugged as they yanked Haruhi over as they took over the edge of the bed forcing her between them as they sat on either side.
"But your costumers-" She started
"They can wait a minute, we have a few till we start our next shift." They answered.
"What caused you to slip?" Haruhi asked as she yawned glancing at her watch.
"Uh-" Mikan blushed, "Well. I was carrying the tray, and was passing by their table, and saw them just about to uh-cough-suck face with each other, and I happened to slip."
"Ouch. That hurt." The twins smacked her upside the head as they reached across the bed, "You should not insult our talents."
"Yes making out with your brother, counts as a talent." Mikan answered shuddering as she rubbed the side of her head, "Girls pay to watch this play out?"
They shrugged, "Their wild over it."
Haruhi smiled, at least she wasn't alone in thinking their behavior was something out of the ordinary.
"I warned you yesterday." She told Mikan who laughed and answered, "I didn't know that it would be that."
"Oh brother, she's so hurtful." Kaoru cried as he held onto his brother, who lifted up his chin ever so lightly to face him crushing Haruhi in the middle, "It's okay brother. I'm here."
"MAKE IT STOP!" Mikan yelled as she covered her face with the pillow chucking a second one at them, hitting Haruhi square in the face.
"Violence is not a good attribute for a lap dog." They warned wagging a finger in her face.
She snapped as she lowered the pillow from her face, "Neither is biting, but that hasn't stopped me before. "
They laughed, "Aww cute puppy. Thinks she's so tough."
They gave her another pat on the head as she pulled out her pigtails letting her curly pink hair out in a tangled mess as she tried to comb it with a hand.
Haruhi sighed, at least they seemed to take her in, in their usual mean snarky way.
"Come on. I don't think club activities have stopped just because Mikan is in the nurse's office." Haruhi warned grabbing each of their arms and hauling them off the bed.
"Aww, but Haruhi." They whined. She glared pushing them out of the small room, as Mikan called after her.
"Haruhi. Thanks again. I probably would have had a lot worse of burns if you hadn't reacted."
She turned and shrugged, "No problem. See you tomorrow."
Mikan waved as the door swung shut. Haruhi sighed walking out of the nurse's office, only to be greeted by a riot scene. The girls had surrounded in a giant semicircle as Tamaki tried to force them back.
"Please ladies. She's in a critical condition to see anyone." He warned as he pushed them back.
'Aww." They cried in unison as they pushed harder to get through. Haruhi glanced around, but there was only Kyoya standing near by glancing at his pad.
"Shouldn't we help him?" She asked the shadow king, "I don't think Mikan wants all these girls seeing her-"
'Of course." He answered, as he let out a loud whistle. The entire place suddenly went quiet.
"You may leave your well wishes with the club and we will make sure that our new resident puppy will receive them. She is however, very unwell at the moment and for you to try and visit her would cause unneeded stress." He announced with a smile. They went crazy again, screaming to get down the hall and most likely to their cars.
"You make a profit with everything you do." Haruhi commented
"It's our exchange." Kyoya answered, "In the end both of us are benefiting.
Mikan stretched as she walked down the now empty halls. She had extra clothes in her locker by the studios. Her stomach growled, she could still grab that stale pack of chips in her bag.
What a day, she had managed to make an idiot of herself only 2nd week in school, and further injure herself. IT was like the universe was screaming at her to quit while she was ahead.
She shook her head as she yanked out the extra coffee shirts and camee, throwing on her mom's hoodie, and ragged pair of pumas.
The bandages could come off in a day, because the burns had not been severe, but she was supposed to keep them on for now.
She touched the rough fabric, feeling the tender skin beneath. It really hadn't been her fault. She had just happened to look over, and get really distracted, really distracted. She wondered if that was even legal for them to doing things like that, but of course, they were rich. And from what she had seen of the rich so far, they were a lot different the average person on the street.
It was a lot to get used to. Momo, Rai, and Yui were talking about going to mountains to ski for the weekend, or to Tokyo after school on Thursday for a shopping trip. She used to think going to the bookstore and sucking down frappuchino's was cool, while she and her friends took over the fiction section and talked about fanfiction or drew.
Well that had changed, she was in Japan, half a continent away, and as much she hate to say it, she had lost contact with most of them. It wasn't like it hurt, well okay it hurt enough, but she did miss them. The same thing would have happened in a few years besides, because of college and her ballet career.
She pulled out her phone. No new messages. She clicked it shut, and pocketing it into her purse grabbing her duffel over her shoulder as she walked down the hall.
She yanked out her ipod, and plugging in the buds, as she bobbed her to the beat down the hall as the sun shone through the huge windows. She clicked a button taking the elevator the ground floor. The main lobby always made her gawk in amazement with its huge marble columns, and gilded oaky floor with cushy chairs, and hand crafted table in small sections to either side.
She pushed open the double doors, stepping out into the main path that led to the front gates. There were trees blowing leaves on to either side, as she thunked down the cement, turning left down a smaller path that would take her to the parking lot.
Her sister was waiting by the entrance, under the stone arch as Ivy climbed on either side. Her long black hair was pulled back a few clips today, as she hadn't bothered to change out her farm clothes. She probably had come from the field, as she wore her dirty jeans and ragged button up with the sleeves rolled up.
What really gave her away was the scuffed up cowboy boots that had at least five inches of cake dirt on them.
That also meant she had probably taken the jeep.
"Hey kid." Kagame greeted the usual smirk on her face.
She waved, making sure the bandages covered her hands, and yanking out a bud, "So how was your day?"
"Fabulous." Kagame answered as she walked with her to the car, waiting for her to throw her bags in the back, before easing into the passenger seat and starting the engine, "This your new school. Fancy stuff."
"Yeah." She nodded, "Did the twins have a good day?"
"You mean terrorizing the public school system of Japan?" Kagame raised an eyebrow as she spun the car in a semi circle spitting gravel out the back, and heading onto the main road "Yes. I told them that if mom saw them come home with one more angry note from the principal she put them in your school."
"Amazing to think that it can be considered a punishment." Mikan snorted watching as the outside flashed by in a blur and the wind blew through her hair, "Is mom home?"
"She was for a few hours today." Kagame answered, "She had a couple book signings and a dinner in Tokyo, so she'll be gone for a few days."
"Course." Mikan nodded, "We ever going to get invited to one of these dinner's?"
"I do. But it's not really for kids." Kagame explained, "You know all adult, bull shit talky talky."
"Ah." Mikan answered, "I just would go for the food."
"You and your stomach." Kagame shook her head, "So how was your day? Anything exciting happen."
"Well I started my job today-." She answered.
"Oh the man whores I forgot. Am I ever going to get to meet the men who enslaved my sister?"
Mikan raised an eyebrow recalling some of Kagmes past experiences, but thinking better than to bring them up she shrugged, "Yeah. Anyways they uh totally didn't even notice I was there. Until I slipped, spilled tea on myself, and then only one noticed enough to get me to the nurse."
"Who was that?" She asked as she thrummed the wheel turning on the radio.
"Oh, uh Haruhi." Mikan answered, "Nice guy. Anyways he helped me out, and the rest of them felt really bad about it."
"They should." Kagame snapped, "What kind of club doesn't even realize it has a new member?"
Mikan shrugged, "I'm just the maid, not a host. Anyways I got pretty burned, so I have to wear these bandages for a day."
"So it was a good day overall. Glad to hear it." Kagame laughed, "We're lucky that Aya has had less eventful days. I don't think I could take two set of drama."
"Where is Aya?" Mikan asked as she gathered her pink hair into a messy bun.
"Hanging with at her new friends house cross town. She took the limo over, and probably will not be back till late tonight."
'AH. In that case do you mind giving me a lift to my dance class tonight?" Mikan asked
"Sure. Why are you going? You can't even dance with that brace on.' Kagame questioned
Mikan shrugged, "I need to go. Even if I can't dance I can still sit in on the class and help out. Take notes on all the routines."
"Oh speaking of which how's the psychical therapy?"
Mikan shuddered, "Painful. My therapist refuses to go easy on me. I'll be more toned after I get this brace off then before." as she flexed her sore arms and leg.
"It's easy to maneuver in that thing isn't it?" Kagame asked as she glanced over at the heavy black brace.
"More or less. I'm able to move a lot faster than last week." She answered yawning, 'Gah. I have so much to do before tomorrow."
"Welcome to wacky world of high school." Kagame laughed as she made the car go faster.
"I forgot how much harder Japanese schools are compared to America." Mikan muttered as the gates opened as the jeep made it's way up to the Victorian house bumping along the gravel road/ .
She heard the horse's knicker from the fields, as she waved over in the general direction. There would be no riding for a while.
Kagame pushed open the door, as Mikan staggered by adjusting the straps on her shoulder in greeted by Cho who yipped.
"Hey honey. I see that Godzilla didn't get a hold of you." Mikan smiled as she picked up the small puppy.
"Hey my Iguana, hasn't eaten anything but crickets." Kagame argued, "It's the boys Banana Python you need to worry about."
'That thing is more lazy than you during your senior year of high school." Mikan snorted as she thumped up the stairs, Cho in hand. Her room was the last on the stretch of hall, though none of the other doors led to bedrooms, to get to the other bedrooms was a maze in itself.
She pushed the door open, with the pictures she had clipped out from Google, of wolves and horses. She threw her things on to the floor as she plopped down onto the bed, lifting herself up and laying against the pillows. Her big bay windows over looked the south fields, but no horses were grazing out there, as Cho yipped out at the panes sitting on the window seat.
She laughed, pulling a novel onto her lap. Homework could wait a half hour. IT was 4:00pm now that gave her an hour till night classes, which would be from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. That was another thing she was not used to. Time. There was tons of time to do anything.
Yes she complained about homework, but that could be done quickly, a few hours at most. It used to be that they would have games to carpool to, and dance class and friends houses. Now it was they had a limo, and a jeep to take them where ever. Now it was feed yourself unless there was a rare day when they could sit down have a meal.
No one seemed to be missing the old life. Aya actually spent more time out of the house, it used to be she was brining home friends. Mom, who always made sure she was there to greet them when they came through the door of the big yellow bus, was in Tokyo or at some fancy dinner.
Kagame, well Kagame had always been a free spirit.
Of course, she hadn't really stayed the same. Now she had dance classes in the middle of school, psychical therapy after, and host club. Then of course there were the night classes every other day that were three hours.
She had wanted this though, she knew she would have this much dance in her life, the only difference is she didn't have to worry about paying for it. Not even for supplies now, she just whipp out a card that had all her earnings from host club.
Her phone rang on the stand as she flipped it open and the excited voice of Momo babbled to her.
"Mikan, hi-oh hold on. I'll connect Rai and Yui."
There was a click as all three of them suddenly came on.
"Hi Mikan." The two greeted.
"Hi guys. What's up?"
"We just wanted to make sure you were okay." Momo started
"Did they have to perform surgery?" Yui asked her voice dripping in worry. Mikan smiled to herself, "No. Yui. I just have some bandages."
"Aww, Mikan. I'm so sorry to hear it. " Rai cooed, "Would you like us to come over?"
"Uh why?" Mikan asked
"Well you can't use your hands? Can you?" Momo asked
"No. I can use them. You guys could come with me tomorrow after host club." Mikan offered, as there were sudden shrill giggles.
"Mikan why didn't you tell us your were working for the host club?" Rai scolded
"Uh, well Kyoya asked me to keep it a secret. It was supposed to be a surprise for the rest of the members, you know Tamaki was going to introduce me, but they ended up ignoring me-"
"We didn't even realize you were there until you dropped off the teapot." Yui gasped, "It's like your invisible."
"Thanks Yui." Mikan answered rolling her eyes.
"Yui!" Rai scolded, "Please. Mikan is just very-"
"Stealthy." Mikan offered as she glanced at her nails.
"Yes, thank you. " Rai answered, "Listen the girls and I were wondering-"
"If you wanted to come with us-" Momo continued.
"SHOPPING!" Yui finished, "I hear their releasing the latest line in Yum-Yum wear."
"OHH" The other girls squealed.
"Depends."Mikan answered, "What time?"
"Well it would be like tomorrow night, and we'd leave right after school-" Rai explained.
"Can't I have dance class." Mikan explained, "But I'm free on Sunday."
"SUNDAY?" They yelled in chorus.
"How much dance do you do?" Yui questioned, "It's like you dance every day."
"Three hours of day classes, hour of psychical therapy, and every other night three hours of night classes." She answered as she glanced at her nails. "On Saturday I have one to four rehearsals and psychical therapy and in the morning form five thirty to nine I have chores on the farm, and then lunch or cleaning the house."
"You have to do all the cleaning yourself?" Momo asked amazed," We have a whole staff of maids."
"I have maid who makes my bed every morning." Rai commented.
"Nope. Do it yourself at my place." Mikan answered, "But Saturday nights I'm free and Sundays all day."
"Aww, Mikan it's like we only see you in school." Yui sighed
"Well maybe you all can come over on the weekend, like on Saturday for a sleepover." Mikan offered
"I can't." Yui explained, "I have to go to France for a party my parents were invited to."
"Yes I'm afraid I can't either." Momo chimed in, "I have to go to Tokyo and see my Grandmother."
"I thought she passed away two years-" Yui started
"YUI!" Momo hissed
Mikan rolled her eyes, "It's cool guys. I know you're all probably really busy."
She talked to them a while more, before she finally clicked the phone shut as she reached for her notebook to start her math homework. Yep, life was defiantly different.
"Going to a party in France." She murmured to herself. What a life.