A/N: Hey guys! So I haven't been posting for a while because I've been swamped with assignments to get done in my classes. Also I'm planning this road trip with my friend for the summer, so my time has mainly been occupied doing everything else. I would have posted this sooner, actually, but I never got around to it due to my schedule. I have some time to look over story chapters and post them now, which is what I'm doing.
So I hope you guys enjoy this! And I decided that after the 6 chapters are posted I'll probably be stopping this story. I already wrote it out, don't worry. All I have to do is post the rest of the chapters ^^. The extensive part is going over the chapters, but I only do so briefly. I barely notice any spelling/grammar errors, so if there are any Grammar Nazis out there just know that's why the chapters aren't proofread. Plus I write some of these parts late at night. So it's bound to sound… funky and off. Anyways, enjoy the next chapter and THANK YOU TO ANYONE READING MY STORIES! =D (and I need something fun to read 'cause I just finished a VERY depressing book for class and I just want to read something fun (and write something fun for that matter))
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A groan left your breath as you sat on a bench, going over your list. You've crossed off almost every single club and activity offered at Ouran Academy. You were starting to get frustrated. The very last club was called the Black Magic Club, but considering its black magic… yeah, you're not even going to go into that club. While you wouldn't mind giving it a good old try, you promised your uncle to not even look at the occult. To stay away from any form of dark magic.
You sighed. It was almost the end of the week, Friday. You still haven't found an after school activity. You're going to just have to accept your fate: you'll end up in the library with nothing to do except studying for an hour and a half. It wouldn't be bad, really, but all the time in the library will get boring after a while. You've grown accustomed to your classmates in your 1-A room, but that's about it. They're just that, classmates, except for Haruhi. She's actually been kind enough to help you navigate the school and, heck, even the town you were now living in. The city was just a train ride away, only twenty minutes away, but you still needed to get used to this place first before expanding your sights to other places.
So you decided to just head to the Host Club to see Haruhi and make sure your plans for the weekend were still going to happen. Yet the moment you walked in… you were greeted with red rose petals and the Host Club dressed up in butler outfits, old Victorian butler outfits, you realized.
An annoyed look crossed your face as the petals disappeared, revealing that blonde you learned to be Tamaki Suoh, the son of one of the chairman for the academy. You actually met his father before meeting his son, officially, but all of this seems to be… too much. Anyways, he reached out towards you and gave you a wink. "Welcome, my darling princess –"
"If I were a princess I would be sitting in a royal palace," you smirked slyly at him, noticing the two twins from your class, Hikaru and Kaoru Hitachiin, skipping over to you. "Hikaru. Kaoru."
"Trixie-chan~!" they sang, suddenly grabbing you as if you were a ragdoll. You groaned, swatting them away from you. "What are you doing here? Come to see us~?"
"No, I didn't –"
"Trixie-chan. You're back?" Haruhi, the very person you were looking for, asked, coming up to you in her butler suit, making you smile lightly. "Why?"
The four of you ignored the fact that the upperclassman, Tamaki, was whining in the corner, depressed that he is being ignored. "Since I've given up on finding something to do with my time I decided to come by and make sure our plans for the weekend are in order," you stated, your classmate's eyes widening slightly.
"Oh yes! I already told my father. You can come over if you wish."
"Great!" you chuckled happily, but you stared at the twins, startled, when they suddenly grabbed your shoulders.
"Eh? Haruhi? You're inviting Trixie and not us?"
"I want to go to your house too!" they whine and you snorted, pushing one of them off of you and the other off of you as well.
"Haruhi-chan is just going to help me orient myself around the town," you huffed, glaring at the one you think is Kaoru. "This is completely different from England. Plus I've already been to her house for homework help –"
"Haruhi~! Whyyyy?! –"
"I'm getting out of here –"
"We can go by the department store I was talking about," Haruhi spoke, just avoiding Tamaki as he jumped towards her, but fell to the floor behind her. "You were also looking for a nice tea place right? There's actually a great teahouse close to where I live. We can eat lunch there as well."
"That'd be great," you chuckled nervously, scratching the back of your neck. "Thank you Haruhi. You're definitely a life saver. I don't know what I'd do without your help."
"Of course. You're new here. It's understandable –"
"Trixie-chan," you heard one of the twins say, you think it was Hikaru, as he got rather close to your face. "You should stay for a while and talk about your life in England. I think we'd all be dying to hear about it."
"W-wha – No thank you –"
"Come on Trix," the one you think called Kaoru responded, the two of them getting a bit too close to your face. "If you have nothing~ to do you can stay here for a while, right?"
You looked to Haruhi for help, but she didn't seem like she could help you with this. You snorted, narrowing your unique crystal blue/silver eyes at the twins. "Fine," you growled under your breath, "but expect much and I'm not paying to sit down here."
"If you are going to give us information about yourself, not as a client, then that will be fine," the upperclassman named Kyoya Ootori, you think, spoke out, adjusting his glasses and you glanced at him curiously before sighing in defeat.
"Fine, fine. Whatever –"
"Come Trixie-chan! Sit with Honey-chan~!" the little blonde haired/brown haired boy spoke out, who you actually think is a higher up classman than the president and vice president of the club, jumping up and down in his chair. "I want to learn about England, right Mori-chan?"
"Hmm," the man beside him nodded and you glanced at Haruhi who gave you a nervous look.
"Sorry Trixie-chan," she responded, which made you smile lightly.
"It's alright Haruhi-chan. I guess I don't mind. I think I need to straighten out some rumors about me and this is the perfect time to do so," you huffed, walking over to 'Honey' and sitting beside him, giving him a curious look as he grabbed a piece of cake and began to eat it, acting like a regular child, even though he's in high school. You watched with a bit of surprise as the rest of the Host Club members gathered around and sat down, your eyes looking around nervously before your eyes found their spot, staring blankly at the tea set on the table.
"Where to begin? Ah… Well I once had a mother and father, but they are both dead now. My mother died when I was just seven, my father died just a few months ago, in June. My uncle was kind enough to let me stay here in Japan and go to the same campus as his son, but, well… it's a lot of changes at once for me, to be perfectly frank. Starting my first week of high school is a foreign place is overwhelming. Your customs and expectations here are completely different to my own." You paused, expecting for someone to say something, but no one did, everyone listening attentively, you continued.
"I have so siblings. I'm an only child. My father didn't want to remarry after my mother's death. On my mother's side there is my uncle, Mr. Starr, and his only son, Leone. My aunt-in-law had died while giving birth to the boy and my uncle, like my father, does not want to get remarried. At least not at the moment. On my father's side… Geeze this is a lot," you chuckled nervously under your breath. "There is my aunt who I had been living with as of late, but she has no children. However there are some other relatives from different families whom my father associated with, his friends and such. So if I count them my family is quite large, but if not I guess it's just small. I have no grandparents, at least any I know of, and my father only had a sister, my mother only a brother.
"I'm completely British. My cousin is British-Japanese. My aunt-in-law was the Japanese descendent and my uncle decided to settle here after meeting her. The Starr family has been around for a few generations, after WWII. The Underwood family, however, has been around much longer than that. A very long time. At least… a thousand years," you thought, and then nodded your head in agreement. "We've always served the royal family, and –"
"You hold a title of –"
"Okay sir," you huffed, turning to the black haired upperclassman. "I may supposedly have one, passed down to me now since I am the oldest, but that title holds no meaning to me because, a, it is not official yet. My father has only been dead for a few months, and b, I do not live in England anymore and thus I cannot fulfill the Queen's duties. Therefore, I cannot keep my title until I decide, or not, to continue my duty for the royal family. So don't say it," you finished in a darker tone towards the end, Kyoya frowning slightly at how you interrupted him, but you turned to the people sitting, mainly Haruhi across the table from you, and solemnly continued.
"However I have been in Japan before. Not every summer, but every other summer during my summer breaks my family and I would come over to Japan to see my relatives, and then during the rest of the years they would come to England. It was quite nice… but I was only allowed to do what my uncle had wanted and my time was limited. Now I have three years to tour around Japan so that's what I plan on doing," you shrugged, glancing around before sighing under your breath. "That's about it. I mean I may not know Japanese by heart, but it's my second language. The third being… hmm… I guess Latin, Greek? Any questions? Nothing to clarify?"
"So Starr-sama is British as well?" Haruhi asked and you turned to her, flashing a smile.
"Why yes he is, but he loves to travel around the world. That's how he met my aunt, eventually. My uncle had built his empire from the ground up, expanding it by buying other companies. My uncle is a large consumer/producer based company and imports and exports goods around the globe. They specialize in food and drink, but also import and export raw materials to be manufactured and medical supplies as well. Starr Industries is the biggest import/export consumer company in the world."
"Impressive! I didn't know your uncle had such a large company," Tamaki decided to say and you nodded your head.
"Yes, he does, but luckily he doesn't expect much from me. That's why I get to have a lot of leniency, but either way I do need to manage everything of my father's estates, now. It's not easy, but I'm trying. It's a lot of put on my shoulders on such short notice and it's hard that I'm so far away from my home, but in three years I can go back. Then I can polish everything I've set into place," you decided to respond, noticing Haruhi was looking at you a tad shock and curious, making you smirk slyly. "I may have lived the middle class sort of life, Haruhi-chan, but I'm certainly not shy from the upper class lifestyle at all. My father loved to hide the fact that he had any sort of noble title. It's just how my family operates for the longest of times –"
Your explanation was cut short as you heard a door opening, a strange door opening, heads now turning to look at the double doors, unsure or creeped out looks appearing on everyone's faces, you quickly realized. You couldn't help but look over, curious as to what could have everyone so spooked. What is it, a dead body or something? The thought made you smirk before you shook your head, wondering what was going on right now.
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Since it was a new semester, Umehito decided it was the best time to try to add some new recruits, or at least try to. He's tried almost everything, but Reiko suggested going to the Host Club. He knows deep down why~ she wants to go to the Host Club, but it's been a while since he's walked into the club as well. Plus there's a particular member that has been quite kind to him, even if he's seen by most as… odd and strange and creepy. He used to hate being called that, but now he's embraced it for the better.
However when he showed up to the Host Club with Reiko in tow, he noticed that there weren't a lot of potential recruits in the club at all. There were a few girls seated around some tables, but they seemed to be talking with each other before turning frightfully to the two dressed in black cloaks.
Except for one.
Like Haruhi, who he noticed was sitting beside the girl; she was looking at him with curiosity, not disgust or fright. But regardless he chuckled which did sound a bit creepy, which was the intention, and tried his best to ignore the vast sunlight seeping through the grand windows. "Hehehehe~~! We are the famed Black Magic Club! I am the president, Nekozawa Umehito, and this is my associate –"
"Kanazuki Reiko. Honey-chan~~!" she sang, running to the host member, her hood falling off of her head and her Victorian style dress becoming exposed slightly as she was about to grab the little one, but Mori-kun stopped her.
But suddenly he watched as that oddly particular girl stood up, stepping away from the couch and around so she was interacting with Haruhi instead of being squished by Reiko and the two host members. "What's this? A club interacting with another? That allowed here?"
"I suppose if clubs what to –"
"Then this is the Black Magic Club. Do you know if they use 'black magic' or just think they are?" the girl asked in a rather stern attitude, as if she knew what she was talking about.
"Huh? Trixie-chan I have no idea. You think magic is real?" Haruhi asked, but the girl, apparently named Trixie, sighed deeply in reply.
"Eh, I guess it's no matter," she shook her head, the man noticing her raven black hair catching the sunlight, and he noticed that her hair glistened a soft purple hue, like a violet or a deep purple. "Anyways, I'll come by your house tomorrow at eight, unless you want to get together at nine."
"Eight is fine Trixie-chan," Haruhi smiled as she grinned back, but confusing everyone, except for Reiko who was currently preoccupied, the girl walked briskly across the room, towards him.
"Mrs. Underwood don't get so close! They're cursed!" Tamaki shrieked from behind you, grabbing Kyoya from behind as a shield.
Umehito heard her say, "We'll see about that," before walking straight up to him, the boy looking down on her, wondering what she was going to do.
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You stared deep into the man's eyes. They were a soft blue, sparkling color, and you quickly realized the boy was wearing a wig, a small tinge of blonde hair being shown through the weave. You noticed a slight tint of pink in his cheeks as you stared at him, but upon your conclusion you actually realized this boy may actually have some magical properties in him. "Hmmm~…" you thought aloud, putting your hand on your chin as you circled him just slightly, the room growing quite hush, you noticed. "You call yourselves the Black Magic Group?"
"Club. Yes we do~" he crackled, holding up what looked to be a tan cat puppet, startling you just slightly, but it seemed completely harmless. "Every new recruit gets a fancy~ cloak and a Beelzenef~~ doll."
"Beelzenef? Never heard of it," you snorted, tilting your head to the side as you thought, "but it could be a Japanese thing… but it doesn't sound like it," you thought aloud once again, a huff leaving your breath as you suddenly pointed a finger at him. "If you call yourselves a black magic club that means you know the ways of dark magic, right? Well I don't see it," you shook your head, noticing a look of confusion upon the older boy's face, or at least he seems older. "So either you are pretending or your magic is par, at best. Are you some playing occultist group or something? That can be quite harmful if you do something wrong."
"You seem to know a bit more then what you let on, dearie~" he grinned, this president guy, and you narrowed your eyes, your hands on your hips.
"Maybe I do, maybe I don't. Regardless, I've wasted all of my resources when it comes to afternoon activities," you told the student, "and I saved your group for last because I'm not sure what you meant by black magic. It's misleading. Now that I do, I think I'm going to just study in the library," you sighed deeply, turning to the startled Host Club. "Thank you for letting me stay here for a while, but I must get going," you told them, walking past the one called Umehito, walking right out of the music room and up the stairs to the library.
Maybe this is for the best, you concluded. It took you a while to understand these Japanese characters and homework takes twice the time it usually does. Plus you have to translate what you are thinking onto paper, making it very hard. So maybe not being in an activity, spending your time in a study hall in the library instead, is a better waste of your time. Besides, tomorrow Haruhi will help you around the town, or really a small city. It seems like a city… but you suppose you're wrong. After that, you don't know. You're just glad to have at least one classmate you like, but this place still seems rather… dull and bothersome.