The Weekend is Full of Surprises

(I changed the writing to present time, just to let you guys know. I find it easier now to write like this.)

Ricko's POV

It's Saturday today so I slept in until about, twelve. It was heaven!

I sigh and drag myself out of bed and get ready for the day. I have to go to the mall to buy some warmer clothes since winter is coming next month. It's already starting to get cold so I put on jeans and and black sweatshirt with skull designs. I jog down the stairs, managing not to trip and fall on my face like Tohru does. I grab an apple from the kitchen and try to find Kyo. Eventually I find him on the roof.

I call up to him, finishing my apple and throwing the core into the woods for the birds. "Hey Kyo! Do you wanna go to the mall with me?"

He jumps down and shrugs, "Sure."

I grin and take his hand. "SHIGURE, ME AND KYO ARE GOING TO THE MALL!" I yell so he can hear me.

"ALRIGHT, COME BACK BY LUNCH, BUT IF YOU CAN'T, CALL!" He yells back.

"KAY, SEE YA!" We walk to the mall.

Haruhi's POV

Of course I have to go with the host club when they decide to go to the mall. And it's a "commeners" mall, so maybe I'll be able to slip away and buy some clothes for the winter.

Not likely, instead Tamaki-sempai manages to get us away from everyone else and we are getting kicked out of almost every store because he keeps breaking everything!

Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I see a flash of silver and orange. I tap Tamaki-sempai's shoulder, interrupting one of his stupid rants. "Sempai, I think I just saw Ricko and Kyo."

"RICKO?! YOUR DEAR SISTER?!" He whips out his phone.

Ricko's POV

Me and Kyo are in the woman's section of a small store trying find me some clothes when I hear yelling and cries of protest from the men's section. We exchange glances and shrug. It's not our problem so we'll let the employees of the store deal with it.

"Hey Kyo, you need any shirts?" I ask him as we walk out of the store, searching for a suitable next one.

"Yeah, that damn Kagura destroyed three of my favorite ones last time she came over." He seethes.

I laugh, "Well that's her way of showing you her love, she goes insane and wrecks the freaking house!"

"It's just so annoying, I never asked for her to care about me that much!" Kyo mutters.

I smile, "Well, it must be nice to have someone unconditionally love you for who you are, not your status or title." I sigh blissfully.

Kyo snorts, "It's not as great as you think."

I shrug, "Would be nice for everyone to have one of those, though."

'What's Hurts The Most' by Rascal Flatts comes on the overcom and I sing along.

"What hurts the most, was being sooooo close!" I sing loudly.

Kyo yells at me, "Shut up, you're attracting attention." I blankly stare at him.

"And you're not?"

His face starts to get red, "Oh you wanna go, wolf?" He rolls up his sleeves and his cats ears are sticking out of his head.

"Calm down Kyo, you're making a scene!" I snicker.

"Oh that's it!" He charges for me and sends a punch to connect with my nose. I dodge easily and trip him.

"Come on, Kyo! I know you can do better than that!" I taunt.

"YOU LITTLE BRAT!" He yells loudly and aims a punch to my face but misses again because I duck my head.

"Actually, I'm just a two months younger than you." I correct, weaving behind and pushing him into into a trash can. "You done yet? I still need to get a few things." I ask.

Suddenly, two patches of auburn hair come out of no-where and speed towards me. I jump up high in the air just as they where I just was I speed off.

"Kyo! Take the stuff back home! I'll be back in fifteen minutes!" I yell as I run.

"WHAT THE HELL?! WHY DO I HAVE TO DO IT?!" He yells after me but I'm gone.

I almost crash into Mori-sempai when I check behind me, but I leap over him just in time. "Hi Ri-chan!" Hunny-sempai bounces over to me.

I sigh, "What in the world do you guys want? I'm shopping and trying to relax this weekend with as much as no stress as possible."

"Well, Haruhi spotted you-" Hikaru starts.

"-so we had to come and see you!" Kaoru finishes, both grinning like the devils they are.

"Oh joy, thanks Haruhi!"

"Well, we were also shopping anyway." Kyoya-sempai puts in.

"Here?" I ask, drawing out the word.

"We created this journey to find out more and more of the commener way of life!" Tamaki-sempai rants.

I slap a hand over his mouth, muffling his words, "Yeah, okay." My phone starts to ring and I step away so they can't hear.

"Hello?"

"Ricko, you need to come home now." Shigure orders.

"But I still need to get a few things." I try to argue but be cuts me off.

"Akito is here and he wants to see you." My breath catches in my throat. "Just come home now." He hangs up.

I put the phone in my pocket and I feel sick. "I gotta go." I walk quickly away.

I reach the house and see Akito confronting Yuki, whispering things in his ear that no doubt are scaring him to death, joking aside.

"Akito-sama, you wanted to see me?" I walk up to him and ask timidly.

He smiles, but it's a dead cold one. "Yes, come." He grabs my arm roughly, digging his nails in and drawing blood. I wince but say nothing as I pass Yuki, keeping my head low to hide the fear that is probably written all over my face.

Akito sits us down in the living room, "So how is Ouran? Did you make any friends?" To most people he would sound generally curious, but I could tell there was a deadly tone behind that coverup.

"Yes, I became friends with three boys in my class and four others outside my grade." I tense up immediately after saying that. It was bad enough to tell the truth to him, but lying wouldn't get me anywhere, he would've probably found out anyway.

"With all boys?! Are you a fool?!" He yells, standing up, and pulling me up as well by my hair. I cry out when he yanks a large clump of it forcefully. "I knew you wouldn't be able to handle attending a normal school!" He sneers in my face. "Maybe I should just take you back to the estate and keep you there for a couple of years for some more discipline!" He yells, throwing me at the table. I cry out in pain when my head smacks against the hard surface and I fall to the floor. He picks me up by my hair again and I notice his hand is red from blood. Shit, my head is bleeding, that'll just make him angrier! "Well, should I?!" He roars, slapping me across the face. "ANSWER!"

"N-no, Akito-sama..." He slaps me again. Then smiles cruelly.

"I thought you loved being my slave?" His cool breath mixed with mine, since he's so close. "My pleasure slave."

My eyes widen as the memories of being taken out of my room almost every night and him forcing himself upon me. I start to cry, "N-no! Please!" He slaps me again, this time harder than before.

"DID I SAY YOU COULD SPEAK?!" He screams, throwing me on the ground and beginning to take his belt off.

My breath catches in my throat. He raises the belt above me and brings it down. I cover my face with my arms. I scream in pain as the white hot pain seeps through my upper chest and arms where the belt connected. I back to a corner and face the wall, covering my head in my hands, and sit curled up in a ball.

He must have whipped me nearly twenty times before I lose consciousness.

I wake up in my bed, extremely sore. I shake it off and haul myself out. I hiss as the white hot pain returns in my back, arms, and a little in the chest. But I can't stay home or else Shigure will call Hatori and I don't want Akito finding out and thinking I'm a weakling. I sneak into the bathroom and bandage up my cuts. I sigh as I look at myself in the mirror. Those will be more scars to add to my 'collection'.

I decide to just hang out around the Ouran campus in the rose garden. I lay down in the grass and fall into a restless sleep, tossing and turning. I wake up in a cold sweat and check the time on my phone. It's four, so I probably should go home now.

"Are you okay, Ricko?!" Tohru runs over to me once I enter the kitchen.

I wave her off, "I'm fine. A little sore but it's nothing compared to what Akito usually does."

"He let you stay you know." Shigure appears in the doorway.

I look at him, "What?"

"Akito wanted you to move back to the estate and stop school completely, but he changed his mind after an hour."

"Why?" I ask.

"He said you get one last chance and if you ruin it, then you're going straight back to the estate." I exhaled slowly and nodded.

I start to go up the stairs but Tohru stops me, "Don't you want dinner?"

I give her a blank look, "No thank you." I jog up the stairs and go into my room.

I lay in my bed on my stomach and close my eyes, listening to the sounds of the house. Tohru cooking, Kyo and Yuki arguing, and Shigure writing his novel.

I sigh and blank out everything in my mind, just seeing white.

Flashback:

I am bound in rusty old chains on the wall around my wrists and ankles. The door tho my dark room opens, letting in just fraction of light.

"Hello, slave." A cool, dark voice murmurs approaching me. I tense up and keep my head bowed, so I wouldn't have to look at him.

A hand cups my chin, titling my face upwards, ruining my plans of that. "What's wrong, my pet?" He almost purrs. I flinch when I noticed that he is not wearing any clothes, leaving his body bare. He must have disrobed at the doorway. My body shook in fear, knowing what the was about to do, as he had done many times before.

Akito roughly paced his lips on mine, biting my lip, and demanding for entrance. I whimper but obey, knowing I'll jus be punished later if I do not.

His hands then trailed down my sides to my waist and removed the rags of clothing there. He smirked into the kiss and-

End Flashback

I snap my eyes open, sitting up straight in my bed and breathing heavily. I hadn't dreamt about those days for a while now. I quickly get out of bed even though it's around midnight. I walk quietly down the stairs and go outside.

I get into a fighting stance in front of a tree, kicking and punching it as hard as I can until my knuckles and tips of my feet start to bleed heavily and it drips to the ground.

It's two o'clock by then but I'm still not tired enough to go back to sleep so I decide to jog around the woods.

I start out lightly then eventually go full blown out running and after a few minutes, I collide with someone walking on the path. We both fall back. I hold my head and get up, "Sorry!" I exclaim, looking at the girl. It must be a girl, since I didn't transform.

She smiles, "It's okay, I do that a lot too." Then she looks me up and down. "What're you doing this late out, honey?" She asks softly. Ugh, she must think I'm still in grade school or something because I look so young for my age.

"Couldn't sleep." I shrug. "Well, I should go home now!" I quickly jog off.

"Bye..." She trails off as I get farther and farther away.

I return to my bed and fall into a dreamless sleep, the exercise had tired me out enough for that.

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