Chapter 5: A friend?
Author ramble: I haven't read the manga (will, someday, some way) so…yeah I guess this is A.U-ish. Sorry for the slight delay… went to a place where internet connection was not available... sheesh, imagine my condition. I dunno why but I'm always hungry when I write this xD food keeps getting mentioned.
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15 years earlier| Ootori Mansion
The Ootori mansion was decorated in all of Fuyumi's favourite colours— purple flowers, white balloons and various other decorations embellished the mansion walls. Decorative ribbons hung from one end to the other on the ceiling, careful not to tangle when faced with the chandeliers. The words "HAPPY THIRTEENTH BIRTHDAY FUYUMI!" hung high on the widest wall of the ball room.
Misa Ootori hadn't had proper birthdays. When she was of her children's age her parents had been too busy with making money to indulge in celebrations, birthdays had been ridiculously trivial matters to them. On her birthdays, she and her two older sisters would lock themselves up in their room and her sisters would dress her up with all their prettiest clothes, she would blow candles and make wishes on muffins and then they would eat pizza. Yes, Birthdays weren't really important, but following the silly tradition with her sisters used to make her happy. And since then she knew she wanted to make her children even happier. Hence, birthday's of Ootori children were always a grand affair.
Misa would always try to organise the best parties for her children, she was strict as ever on this day to the servants. Her stern voice could be heard from the kitchen where she instructed the cooks on everything from the apetizer to the desert to the presentation of the food. The cooks only nodded after each sentance. No one would mess with Misa when it came to Birthdays, her O.C.D on birthdays would be at its peak on the eve, no one, not even Yoshio, would try to mess with her on this day, she would yell at you if you even came closer then one metre. The children knew this well and would stay away from their mother on the day.
"It's her thirteenth" Misa said her gaze moving in a'Z' at the line of cooks who stood in front. "Everything has to be per-fect, remember Fuyumi likes prawns, they should NOT be fried in oil of any sort, strictly in BUTTER, SALTED butter" The cooks nodded, they knew this already but it was obvious that Misa would throw a knife at them if they interrupted her, moreover a knife was kept at grabbing distance.
"There will be 700 guests, the food should be MORE than required, not less, not just enough, MORE" Misa went on. The cooks nodded.
"Chocolate fountain should be placed in the middle of the ball room, RIGHT at the CENTRE" She paused to remember if she had forgotten to say anything, when convinced she looked at her head cook.
"Itsuka! I hope you will see to my instructions" She glared at the head cook, for the rest of the people in the room this sentance was a melodious sentance to their ear as this was a cue that her speech had ended.
"Hai!" Itsuka said and bowed. The other cooks bowed after him in unison. They pitied the maids who would be next, the ones on the decoration. Misa was stricter than ever on those.
At Fuyumi's room, everything was relatively more peaceful, she was still asleep nuzzled against her blanket and mumbling in her sleep something that sounded like "Fwaiing Wunnies", she was lightly drooling and her body seemed to be fully relaxed, her chest softly rising and falling with each breath she took. Completely contrasting the commotion out her room.
Three figures tiptoed into her room. Hushed whispers were exhanged as the three boys climbed onto their sister's bed.
"look at her" Yuuichi commented Once settled down "does she look like a teenager to you? Still dreaming of bunnies"
Akito and Kyoya only nodded, Akito wasn't really interested but he came along because he wanted to see the outcome. He already missed his chocolates that he'd left in his room. The smell of food downstairs was tempting, the smell of food was stronger here in Fuyumi's room. Akito was definitely hungry.
They silently sat there staring with interest at their sister's sleeping form. Yuichi sighed "Isn't it lovely when she sleeps?" Kyoya nodded at his big brother, his sister looked almost angelic when she was asleep... less annoying too. As much as he didn't want to awake her, he had to disrupt her sleep in order to carry out his brother's mischievous plan. Kyoya unsurely looked at Fuyumi's face.
"Go on" Yuichi egged his baby brother, Akito merely looked blankly at Kyoya
Kyoya stared at his sister's face for a long moment. He lightly poked the tip of Fuyumi's nose to which Fuyumi mumbled "waughty wunny". He then looked at Yuichi with big baby eyes. "Aniki?"
"You want daddy's pen? See? I have it" Yuichi said taking out a glittering fountain pen making Kyoya slightly wide-eyed. Yuichi didn't know why Kyoya was so fond of this particular pen, it wasn't all that special, it was a simple gold plate fountain pen which once used to be Yoshio's, well babies were babies, stupid.
"Get it over with, I need to eat" Akito complained
Kyoya went back to staring at his sister's face. He hesitated for a moment and looked at Yuichi "But is dirty" he said with a frown.
"I'll give this to you~ little brother" Yuichi waved around the pen, Kyoya's eyes widened, he wanted it badly.
"Promise?" Kyoya asked
"Yes" Yuichi nodded.
Kyoya breathed in and brought his thumb close to her nose. He grimaced, tightly closing his eyes. With a push, his tiny thumb went into Fuyumi's nostrils. Yuichi had anticipated this moment, Akito looked interested.
"AH!"
Present Day | 'Burger Queen'
"Your… Fiancé?"
Whenever a unique situation arose, much like the current one, Kyoya liked to think that he had seen it coming all along. In fact, he did see it coming when they'd parked in front of a restaurant with a familiar name. They would've found out anyway and it wasn't really a big deal, he'd decided, but Tamaki's horrified expression made him reconsider.
"Can I have a word with you?" Tamaki asked warily.
Kyoya raised an eyebrow but complied.
"Give us a moment" He excused himself politely to the two females who seemed to be engrossed in their own conversation and didn't seem to be paying attention to Kyoya and Tamaki.
Once alone, Tamaki faced Kyoya
"Isn't there a way around this?" He asked seriously
"Why are you so worked up over it? It would eventually happen and it's better when huge amount of profit is guaranteed" Kyoya stated calmly
"Business-business-business, Mommy's life is business "Tamaki rolled his eyes. He looks at the girl sitting with Haruhi "She's scary you know…"
"You're saying that because you got punched"
Tamaki shook his head tsk-ing "You don't even know her! For all I know she's still a stranger. There's this thing called love! Marriage is the intertwinement of two souls. It is a lifelong commitment of two lonesome beings for the company they crave! If you don't even know her how can you be sure of good company? This is a crime! Without love, marriage is destruction of life" Tamaki said dramatically not once breaking eye-contact with Kyoya.
Kyoya looked at him blankly "what?"
"Mmhm" Sonya nodded as she bit into her burger. "He was really standing near the cat, I'm not an expert but he was probably trying to save it"
Haruhi's lips tugged into a smile, so Kyoya-sempai wasn't stone hearted after-all, well she had known that already. "what happened to the kitty?" She inquired
"Probably sleeping, its really lazy" Sonya answered
Haruhi found Kyoya and Sonya to be a … unique pair, but placing herself in Sonya's current situation, she knew it wasn't easy for either of them, nor fair. "Aren't you nervous about getting married to a guy you just met?" she asked biting into her burger.
"Yeah, but I'm planning on running away on the morning of the marriage" Sonya paused to swallow. "With the fancy wedding dress and all… I'm thinking of selling the dress and the other stuff I'll be wearing. I'll have enough money to find my father with that"
Haruhi nodded remembering the school festival and the attire of the women. If they wore such expensive things for a school festival, one could only wonder how much money would be spent just on the clothing of the bride and groom. "They will have you dressed up in the most ridiculously expensive things" Haruhi paused to estimate "You'd have enough money on yourself to buy a comfortable apartment house"
Sonya's mouth opened with a small 'O' "the plan seems functional then" she grinned "will you come with me?"
Haruhi smiled at Sonya. She knew views could change after a course of time and Sonya would probably have changed her mind by next year, and it wasn't really a proper 'plan' however Sonya seemed to be a tenacious girl, she might as well stick to whatever she thought was right.
Haruhi nodded with a smile "I'd love to, Sonya-chan"
Sonya smiled nodding, she sipped on her smoothie. After a moment of comfortable silence Sonya spoke
"Can I ask you something?" She asked looking at Haruhi with slightly bigger eyes, vaguely similar to the expression Tamaki used when expectant.
"Sure" Haruhi smiled
Sonya looked unsure for a moment, but she asked anyway.
"Are you…." Sonya looked away pouting adorably "… a friend?"
Haruhi blinked
"you're so cute Sonya chan!" She laughed.
Sonya frowned. Maybe she did mistake their relationship after all? She admitted she felt a little disappointed... and a little heartbroken. While she rushed her brain for something to say Haruhi spoke.
"Of course we're friends!" She smiled brightly reaching out to pinch Sonya's cheeks
It was Sonya's turn to blink through pinched cheeks. All her life she had lived in a neighbourhood which consisted of drunkards and gamblers, people society considered lowly. There weren't many kids around... the first ever friend she had made was an old stray dog whom she would feed, it soon stopped coming to her house, Sonya wondered if it had died. She used to play in the playground with some kids, she didn't particularly like those kids, they would bully weaker kids in the playground and she didn't consider them 'friends' She'd hung out with them only because she was lonely. Well, she got beaten once when she tried to protect the kid they were bullying and since then she never really met those kids. When she was in her early teens, she preffered being alone, the only person she talked to was the newspaper boy...he was nice, until he lost his job and stopped coming.
Sonya's lips spread to a warm smile (with her cheeks still pinched). "Thank you, Haruhi"
Haruhi removed her hands. Sonya was positively glowing at the moment. She realised this probably meant a lot to Sonya. She was about to reply when two identical old men interrupted.
"What are you speaking about?" they chorused. Haruhi recognised the voices immediately.
Sonya looked surprised "Sorry?"
"Apology accepted eyebrow-girl, for whatever you're apologising for" one of the two said dismissing her uninterestedly.
Haruhi glared at them "stop it Hikaru, Kaoru" she said, standing up.
She pulled off their beard and mustache with a painful 'Praack'
"Ow!" they winced, surprisingly in sync.
Sonya's fist hit her palm with a slight thud "Oh! Its the incest twins" she said knowingly.
"pfft" Hikaru said "we're not incest"
Sonya laughed with a wry motion of her hand "if you say so"
Hikaru narrowed his eyes at her, she nodded knowingly at him. Their exchange was interupted by a cry of "Its the devils!" from Tamaki who was fast aproaching.
Kyoya followed close behind, unsurprised at the twins' sudden appearance, he'd known they'd be here too.
"You've been spying!" Tamaki accused with his index finger pointing at them.
"Relax, m'lord" Kaoru said "we didn't hear anything you guys said"
"we grew interested when Kyoya and eyebrows entered" Hikaru shrugged "speaking of which, why did you come here with eyebrows, Kyoya-sempai?"
Sonya wrinkled her nose, obviously unhappy with the nickname.
"Ah, yes" Tamaki replied as if the question was directed to him. "This lovely lady, could possibly be our beloved shadow king's soul mate"
Hikaru and Kaoru blinked, first looking at Sonya then at Kyoya who only looked back at them blankly. They laughed
"Interesting" Kaoru said
"You bet" Hikaru added.
"why?" Haruhi interjected "I don't think they would make a bad couple"
"You'd make a horrible couple" Tamaki whispered into Kyoya's ears.
Kyoya rolled his eyes.
~see you in the next chapter~
A/N: Flashback will be continued ._.
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