Alex Conners: 5'0, Virgo. Positive traits of Virgos: brave, sincere, dynamic, freedom loving, spontaneous, adventurous, takes initiatives, inspiring, and child-like enthusiasm. Negative traits of Virgos: rushing into things, ego, demanding everything immediately, and reacting. Theme song? Probably So in Love with Two, by Mikaila. I don't own any anime or their characters. I only own Alex and I deeply apologize for all the Black Butler references.
March 2. 6:50 A.M.
Alex snuggled into her sheets happily, her bed soft and inviting. And her bed wasn't too soft-no, it was just the right amount of soft for her to consider it comfortable. The blankets were a black silk-damn rich people- and the sheets were a TARDIS blue. The pillows seemed to be combined of the two colors. She sighed happily, stuck in a happy dream land that she rarely gets.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP- Alex groaned and slammed her hand down on the clock, pressing each button slowly to turn off the wretched noise. After one or two minutes of fumbling about, she turned it off and face-planted back into her pillows and stuffed animals. Hugging close to a stuffed bee, she sighed happily as she started to enter back into her dream state...
The door slammed open with a half-dressed Hikaru and Kaoru charging towards her and jumping onto her bed, causing her to scream and thrash about. "Wakie-wakie, eggs and bakey, Alex!" They sang as they tried to pull the cover off of her. She cried out in protest and quickly threw the bee at him, screaming,
"No! Let me sleep!" Kaoru quickly got off the bed with a grin and moved over to open the curtains, which happened to be a light see-through blue, and let light pour into the room. Alex groaned and quickly shoved a pillow into Hikaru's face, grabbing another and smothering it on her own. "Shove off-!" She whimpered and curled into a ball, going into defensive position.
"Come on, Alex, you need to get ready for school!" Hikaru told her, smirking as he poked her side and caused her to jump, reaching out with a foot to kick him in the face. He squeaked and quickly ducked, reaching out a hand to catch her foot. "Ticklish?"
Alex froze and grounded her teeth together, narrowing her eyes darkly as she removed her face from her pillow and glared at him darkly-mood soured by the morning. "Don't. You. Dare." Hikaru noticed the dark aura surrounding her and tensed, a small twinge of fear passing through him.
Kyoya's been rubbing off on her... That was when he realized; everywhere Kyoya was seen, Alex was there next to him. You never found one without the other except for class time. Kyoya worked with the club's budget and making sure that they never entered debt, and Alex helped him alongside to make sure the rest of the Host Club didn't screw everything up. Somehow, one way or another, Alex managed to get onto Kyoya's good side and followed him like a shadow-No, not a shadow... He observed Alex intently, trying to figure out what it was.
Alex's hair, always tangled as it was so thick, was all over the place. Her eyes were narrowed and glaring at Hikaru-only to widen and let out a shriek when Kaoru tackled her and startled to tickle her sides, sending her into laughter fits as she thrashed about, trying to get away. Hikaru was trying to figure it out.
If she wasn't a shadow, what was she?
"Let-let me go! I-I can't-I can't-breathe!" Kaoru released her with a grin and she gasped for air, panting as she laid sprawled across her bed in her pjs. She glared at the twins after she caught her breathe, "You two are jerks, you know that?"
"What; and the Shadow King isn't?" Hikaru asked, merely teasing her. Alex sat up straight at that, looking at him intensely and straight in the eyes.
"He isn't evil. Just manipulative. Besides, evil people generally have more fangirls then the bad guys," She raised her arms up in a shrug, grinning as she was now wide awake, "I mean, look at Loki for instance. He's evil but hot as hell and freaking adorable and sorry, that was from a fanfiction I read. But, point being," She pointed at them, trying to act serious but failing as a smile spread across her face, "He's got loads and loads of fangirls. Oh, my god! Remember Sherlock Holmes and Watson and Ironman? Yeah, they're awesome." She grinned goofily at that and the brothers' shook their heads at the girl.
"Otaku..." She pounded her fist on her chest a few times before giving them a thumbs up,
"Proud of it!" She barely had time to blink before Hikaru went through her closet and threw one of his uniform blazers at her, including the shirt, tie, and pants.
"Just get dressed." He told her, rolling her eyes as he hid a chuckle, heading out of the room. Alex's face went red at that and she growled, glaring,
"Says you! Put a shirt on! Same thing to you, Kaoru!" Kaoru gave her cheeky grin, mock-saluting on his way out,
"Yes, ma'am, right away, ma'am!" And the door. Alex huffed and gave a loud yawn, stretching before falling onto her bed on her back.
"I want to sleep..."
Her "Personal" maid from before entered the room, grey eyes glinting mischievously when she caught sight of Alex stuck in the sheets. "Ah, Miss Alex, I'm afraid that it's time for you to get your shower." Alex looked up alarmed at that, eyes wide. She quickly scuffled backwards on her bed and pressed her back against the bedframe, eyes wide in fear. Don't get her wrong, Alex loved taking baths and showers and having someone else wash her hair, but...
"N-No, I'm good! I can do it! Stay back! No! Back! Don't-Don't touch me!" She started to scream, standing as Misaki neared her. "Noooooo!"
...
"Alex!" The brunette almost dropped her tray as a pale of tan arms wrapped around. "Where have you been!? I haven't seen you in ages!" Alex squirmed slightly in Daichi's grip, the male brunette not that taller than her.
"Um, the cafeteria?" Alex replied in confusion as she tried to worm out of the boy's grip, "Can you let go, please?" She had to remind herself to be polite, otherwise she may end up sounding rude-wait, too late. Alex flinched at her words.
Daichi refused to release the girl, arms wrapped tightly around her shoulders, "Never! I haven't seen you in ages!"
"You saw me, like, five minutes ago in the classroom." She just wanted to head to the lunch table with Kyoya and Tamaki and the twins' and eat. She then froze and her whole body tensed at a memory that flashed through her head.
It was for profit. Profit, profit, profit-nothing more, nothing less. Profit. She tried to calm her racing heart and the stupid bubbly excitement feeling that was twirling around in her stomach. Okay, no. No, no, no, I don't like Kyoya and damn it Daichi, "Let go of me!" She exclaimed, trying to walk forwards but was being held it place. She grounded her teeth together in annoyance, "Daichi..."
"But I never got to hug you like this before!"
"Yes, well," Alex never got to finish for Daichi released her almost instantly and she stumbled, headfirst into a very familiar chest that was accompanied by that freshly-showered and mint scent. She tensed, only to quickly relax. She was just...comfortable. Ooookay, bad thoughts! Very bad thoughts! "Hello!" She greeted, raising her voice slightly at the sudden rescue. "What's up?" She almost flinched at the squeakiness of her voice. Don't like him. I will not like him. No way.
"The "King" was getting worried so he sent me to come check on you," Kyoya replied and Alex ignored the slight sting in her chest at the words "King was getting worried" and "he sent me". So Kyoya wasn't worried about her at all, then... "I must say, it was a rather good thing that he did. Otherwise who knew how long he would have kept you in that position," He looked down at Alex and gave her shit-eating grin, clearly irritated about something. For a brief moment, Alex wondered if it was about Daichi hugging her, then took the thought of her head.
No way, he doesn't-wouldn't like me that. And I am NOT going through this again-Brain. Shut up. Alex sighed, ignoring the smell of the heavenly food.
Daichi responded in slight annoyance, "'He" happens to be in the room and "he" doesn't appreciate being talked about as if he was not here!"
Kyoya barely seemed to pay him any mind as he released Alex, before placing a hand on the small of her back and making her jump slightly, ticklish. Kyoya looked at with slight wide eyes before gaining his trademark smirk. Storing that bit of information in his brain for later, he started to lead Alex away towards the lunch table, calling over his shoulder to Daichi, "My deepest apologies if I have offended you," leaving a fuming Daichi Yoshida behind.
Alex merely blinked and sat down, oddly missing the warmth from Kyoya's hand being pressed against her back. Quickly trying to distract herself, she grabbed her fork and stabbed a piece of steak, quickly sticking it into her mouth and chewing, looking only down at her tray.
She could feel the gray-brown eyes staring intently at her.
...Music Room #3-3:12 P.M...
"I still think it turned out great," Alex commented to Hikaru and Kaoru, talking about the photoshop manip of Haruhi. "Though, when you used Tamaki's body it made her look a bit taller..."
"HIKARU! KAORU!" Their conversation was cut off when Tamaki barged straight into the club room, fuming, "I left you both in charge of the Host Club's website because you promised to do it seriously!" His fists were shaking in barely controlled anger.
Hikaru, who sitting at the free-use computer at the desk, looked at him with a raised eyebrow. He propped an elbow up on the desk, his other on his thigh with his chin resting on his fist, "We take out job very seriously, boss."
Kaoru nodded as he waved a hand dismissively at the blonde, "In fact, we worked on it 'till dawn."
"They would've stayed up longer if I didn't wake up in the middle of the night and force them to go to bed." Alex said, scowling at the memory. They took their revenge this morning when they forced her to get up. "I still think the body and head are proportioned wrong since Haruhi has a smaller body than the one they used. She looks too tall and too muscular in the picture."
Tamaki continued to fume, shaking furiously as he glared daggers at the twins.
"To create," Hikaru continued, completely ignoring Tamaki's anger, sitting up straight and pressing a button on the keyboard, "this masterpiece-Haruhi's composite photograph." Haruhi was shirtless and surprisingly muscular in the photo, smiling as she held up her unbuttoned pants.
"We even gave her a retro-phrase." Kaoru added, grinning.
Around Haruhi, it said, "I'm great when I take off my outfit" and she had a blooming red rose background.
"And, to top it all off," Hikaru continued with a mischievous grin, "We even did one for Alex." Alex looked at them alarmed with wide eyes,
"Wait, what? You're joking, right?"
"Nope," The twins told her with grins, about to show her the picture when Haruhi and Mitskuni ran over to gap at the picture, Haruhi turned to stone.
"Haru-Chan, you look so cool!" Mitskuni declared, eyes wide as pink flowers bloomed around him, pressing his hands against his cheeks in awe.
"Alex, I believe this is what they were talking about." She turned her head to look at Kyoya, who had his laptop turned around to face her. Red quickly formed on her face in embarrassment and complete, and utter, horror.
She had her arms out to her sides as if she was running, wearing a sleeveless green sundress that flared out at her waist and stopped at her knees. Due to her position of running, the dress was spinning around her and moved like it would in a breeze, flying up and spinning around till it stopped at mid-thigh. She was smiling with a small blush on her face.
It was terrifying. I look terrible-I mean, I knew that I always looked bad in pictures but with the scars I look even worse, add to the fact that I'm in a dress! Alex almost flinched at how bad she looked. She felt a tick mark form on her head and growled, clenching her fists as she grounded her teeth together, "Hikaru, Kaoru...what the Hell is this!?"
"You, obviously."
"Yeah."
"That is not me!" Alex argued, pointing at the screen, "I look worse in that picture than I usually do!"
"You look fine to us," They replied and Alex faltered, not really having a comeback to that. Still...
"Well, just-just don't-Don't go photoshopping pictures of me!"
"Or me, for that matter." Haruhi added in her ten cents, "I'd rather not get naked pictures of me plastered everywhere on the internet."
"Haruhi! Can we go over to your house and play?"
"No."
"Please?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"You'll only make fun of me." She replied easily, knowing the twins well enough.
"Then can we spread rumors of you being a girl?"
Haruhi sweatdropped, stress lines forming on her face, "Just what do you guys take me for?" They both grinned, eyes flashing mischievously,
"Isn't it obvious? You're our 'toy."
Alex was still glaring at the picture that Kyoya brought up on his laptop when they said that. She lifted her head up, eyes wide in surprise as she turned her head to look at the twins, "Seriously? Yes!" She pumped a fist in the air, grinning widely, "That means you can't make fun of me anymore! I'm no longer your "toy"! Woo!"
Haruhi looked at Alex briefly, wondering if she should be worried for her own wellbeing or not at the prospect of being the Hitachiin twins' "toy".
Kyoya pulled his laptop back to him, turning off the image and moving back to the documents he was working. He barely cast Alex a look as he spoke, "You realize that Hikaru and Kaoru still consider you a toy, seeing how that they will refuse to have just one?"
"I'm not that entertaining, though!" She protested, turning around to look at him. Kyoya, with his trademark smirk and his eyes hidden behind his glasses, replied easily,
"I beg to differ."
"I am not a toy!"
"Toy? Toy?" She blinked. Everyone turned their heads to look at Nekozawa who had peered in through the Black Magic Club door that was connected to the Host Club room. "If you like toys, you should come join my club." Alex grinned madly at the sight of the blonde.
"Nekozawa!" She exclaimed, rushing over to tackle the blonde in a hug. He tensed at the people-contact and greeted awkwardly, not very sociable with people and just plain bad at talking with people,
"Hello, Alex...Have you reconsidered my offer?" Alex released him, ignoring Tamaki's frantic screams to move away from Nekozawa, and shook her head apologetically.
"Sorry. Honestly, I would join your club," Tamaki screeched like a banshee at that, "but I'm already in the Host Club. How's your club going?"
"Horrifically wonderful," He replied, grinning creepily as he made Beelzenef move his arms. She looked at the puppet and grinned, "Beelzenef says, "Hello"."
Her grin widened; Beelzenef was adorable! "Well, tell Beelzenef I say "hi" back."
"Alex~! Get away from him! You'll be cursed!" Tamaki shouted, stretching a hand towards the girl from his spot next to Kyoya. "Quickly-Alex!"
"I'll be fine!" She waved him off. Nekozawa tilted his head and turned to look at the rest of the Host Club, his creepy grin growing.
"Currently we're organizing the world's ancient magical artifacts exhibition." He told them, attempting to convince them to join his club, "If you join now, we'll also throw in a wonderful cursed voodoo doll. I am waiting for all of you..."
"Why must he come out of the shadows?" Haruhi questioned as she sweatdropped, slightly frightened by the strange behavior. How was Alex chatting so easily with him-?
"Nekozawa-Sempai doesn't like the light," Kyoya said as he stood and walked over to stand next to the short brunette, "it's said to shorten lives."
Haruhi didn't notice when Tamaki walked up behind her and whispered, his breathe tickling her ear and neck, "You must not partake in his life. If you do, you're sure to be cursed." Haruhi jumped, startled as shivers ran down her spine. She turned to look back at him, only to find him gone and trying to get Alex to back away from him. "Get back here! You'll be cursed!"
"Will not!"
"Will too!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"Never!"
"Yes!"
"Oh, yeah! Nekozawa," The dark-clothed man turned to look at her curiously, "I'll visit your club later, kay?"
Beelzenef clapped his hands together, a small smile on the puppet's face. Nekozawa spoke, still grinning creepily, "Of course..." He dragged it out a bit for a dramatic effect, "The Black Magic Club will always welcome you... We'll thrown in a free Beelzenef as a welcoming gift? All you have to do is write the name of someone you hate on the cursed doll's back and that person will be sure to come face-to-face with...misfortune."
"Wow, this person really is dark," Hikaru commented in slight surprise, arms crossed as he stood, "And in more ways than one."
Kaoru, a hand on his hip, said, "Supposedly he hates bright lights...I wonder what he'll think of this." He held up a red flashlight and turned it on. Nekozawa screamed in pain and fear when Hikaru and Kaoru shined their red flashlights on him.
"AHHHHHHH! YOU MURDEEEEEERRRRRRSSSSS!" Nekozawa screeched as he quickly back into his club room, slamming the door behind him. They looked at each other and shrugged, Alex looking at them irritated.
"What was that for? He didn't do anything to you."
"We were bored." They replied and looked at her suspiciously, "You like Kyoya, why are you being so buddy-buddy with Nekozawa-Sempai?"
Alex clenched her fists in aggravation, pissed off at the constant accusations, "I don't like Kyoya!" Yes, I do-No! Stop it! I don't! "Nekozawa is a friend! Get your facts straight!"
They stared at her with blank faces, unconvinced. Tamaki quickly cried out in horror and anger,
"Hikaru! Kaoru! What did you just do!?" He stopped shouting and held a hand up to his mouth, stress lines forming on the side of his face, "Clearly you two haven't experienced the true terror of Black Magic!" Sweat beaded down in his face as he recalled his, rather unfortunate, plights.
"Do you have any basis for that?" Haruhi questioned, trembling slightly. She swallowed, trying to calm herself. It wasn't real, right?
"Yes! It happened during the end of the exams in the last school year! It's terrifying just to talk about it!" He cried out and hugged himself, shivering from fear. He was truly terrified, "It was on that very day that it happened! I accidentally stepped on his cursed doll, Beelzenef! Afterwords, I went to take my test and the words were all in some strange lettering! They were illogical incantations, probably a curse! Realizing how suspicious it was, I looked around me in the classroom at the students, and realized I knew none of them! I was all alone in a different dimension!"
Alex tensed at that and Kyoya noticed, glasses flashing slightly at he observed her behavior. He remembered Reiko's words...
"She's not from here."
"She said herself that she is from the eight realm. The crystal does not lie; the girl tells the truth."
Kyoya quickly pulled out his book and wrote something down, telling Tamaki, "That only happened because you were so scared, that you accidentally walked into the beginning Greek Class and took the exam."
Tamaki shook his head frantically, fingers curling at the horrifying memory as he protested loudly, "No! It was a curse! I know because I woke up three days later and my legs were as heavy as led!"
Alex sweatdropped and rubbed her left arm nervously. This conversation is going nowhere...
"Did that really happen to you?" Haruhi questioned, voice trembling ever-so-slight.
"Scary!" Mitskuni cried out, tears in his eyes.
Kyoya held his index finger up as he said, "That's because we ran a marathon the day before, remember?" Haruhi knew straight away that she didn't want to be associated with Nekozawa. Alex, walking over to Haruhi, asked in confusion,
"Am I the only one who isn't afraid of Nekozawa?"
Haruhi eyed her strangely for a moment before nodding, "Possibly."
"Come to think of it," The twins began, faces completely serious, "All those who speak ill of Nekozawa-Sempai, their ***will change to ***."
Tamaki started to freak out instantly, tears streaming down his face, "WAAAAAAHHH! HARUHI! QUICK! CHECK DADDY'S ***! DADDY'S GOING TO DIE!" He started to take his clothes off and Mitskuni shrieked.
"WAAAH! TAMA-CHAN, YOU CAN'T STRIP HERE!"
"OVER MY DEAD BODY!" Haruhi shrieked, covering her eyes as tears formed. Mori stood their in the background, completely silent.
"You're completely moronic." Kyoya stated, not knowing what else to say. Tamaki sniffled as he put his jacket back on, still freaking out about dying.
"That's impossible, you know." Hikaru and Kaoru deadpanned, "Kyoya's right, you're moronic." They sighed as they moved over to the window, sitting down. "There's really nothing to do these days..." Alex grinned, muttering,
"Light bulb..." And moved over to Hikaru and Kaoru, whispering something to them. They looked at her for a brief moment, interested. The brothers' looked at each, having a silent conversation with their eyes, before nodding. Alex grinned.
"Haruhi has also gotten used to all the club activities." They added in unison, thoughtful and bored.
After six months, Alex added in her head.
"Hikaru, Kaoru," Tamaki spoke, "Come here."
...Hikaru and Kaoru were quickly forced into the Ouran sweaters and were handed mops and brooms. Hikaru had a piece of paper that was taped to his chest that said, "No talking allowed. No movement." Kaoru's read, "Prohibited from having customers for two days. By King."
Alex and Haruhi sweatdropped, not sure of what to say. Haruhi looked at the twins and questioned, "When are you two going to stop throwing tantrums?" They were sulking, stress lines on their faces.
Alex looked at the brunette with raised eyebrows, "Um, you do realize that's impossible, right? Their middle name is tantrum."
"Then let us go to your house and play!" They argued, trying to persuade Haruhi.
"Never." At Tamaki's explanation of the ingredients of Bufforin, Alex felt her eyebrow twitch.
"Wrong." She muttered to herself. He has it all wrong...
"Haruhi! Alex!" A guest called over. "We all know that the twin with the right parting is Hikaru, and the one with the left parting is Kaoru, but are there any other differentiating factors?"
"Kaoru's more friendly?" Alex suggested, though let Haruhi answer most of it.
"Let's see, how do I put it..." Haruhi figured it out and held up her index finger, "Hikaru's speech and actions make him a little more mischievous than Kaoru."
Kaoru snorted and quickly placed a hand over his mouth, trying to hide his laughter at Hikaru's shocked face. He tried to apologize, still snickering, "I'm sorry, Hikaru, I don't mean to laugh!" He ended up bending over as he laughed, arms resting on his legs.
Hikaru closed his eyes as he lifted his head up indignantly, a hand resting on the armrest, "Well, I don't see what's so funny. I'm honest, I speak my mind, and I don't hold back!"
Alex made a gesture with her head as if saying, "That's true..."
Hikaru then added, causing Kaoru to stop laughing abruptly, "It's sneaky people like Kaoru who are the trouble makers."
Kaoru sat up straight, giving his brother a dark look, "Don't turn this on me, Hikaru. After all, I'm the one who's always going along with all of your selfish games."
"I may be the brain behind the plots, the one who deeply planned every execution is you, Kaoru. If you don't like it, then don't do it, fool." Hikaru replied, leaning back against the couch and resting his arms behind it.
Kaoru crossed his arms and legs, not looking at his brother, "You're so silly, it's pathetic. I can't take it lying down. I'd hate to see you make an ass of yourself in front of everyone. After all, it was your idea in the first place to call Haruhi and Alex our toys."
Alex looked slightly surprised at that, not expecting herself to get put in the argument. Then again, she did suggest they mock-fight... Okay, either they're fighting for real, or they are really good actors.
"I also noticed you were quick to make a pass at Haruhi," Kaoru continued, "Admit it Hikaru, you're actually in love with her. Aren't you?" Hikaru gasped, a red blush coating his cheeks as he looked at Haruhi alarmed.
"Huh!?"
"What!?" Tamaki demanded, not liking the way this argument was turning.
"You got it all wrong, Kaoru! Man, you're such a freaking idiot!"
Tamaki agreed wholeheartedly, running over to the back of the couch and looking at them with wide eyes, "Yeah! There are some things in this world that must never be said!"
"I mean, why would I fall for her? She looks like a tanuki."
"How dare you call her a raccoon dog!" Tamaki fumed, ready to sock Hikaru in the face.
"And what about Alex? I mean, you're always touching her!" Hikaru continued, causing Alex to groan and drag a hand down her face.
Kyoya looked up at the twins, his eyes hidden behind his glasses, so one could not decipher his true expression. Alex stormed up to the twins, though not really angry just playing along.
"I'm sorry, but I'd rather not be brought into this argument!"
"Tell that to him!" The twins growled, turning their heads to glare at each other. "He started the whole thing!"
"You both started it!" Alex fired back, acting angered. "Now stop being idiots and make-up already!"
"No!"
"Awesome! Just awesome!" Renge cried out into a microphone, the sound of a powerful motor echoing around the room as Renge appeared on a stage, "This is just perfect! Our lovely Haruhi and Alex are both in the middle of love triangles-and it's a quagmire plot that two of them are twin brothers! Just the thought of it could make me eat three giant bowls of rice!"
Alex looked at her strangely and said, "Renge, sweetie, as much as I love you-no. Hell no. I don't like Kyoya, I don't like Kaoru-Kaoru sure as hell doesn't like me, and Kyoya most definitely doesn't like me." Though sometimes I wonder... No. No way. He wouldn't. Get those damn thoughts out of your head! No way in hell would anyone like someone like you.
"Butt out, Otaku." Hikaru and Kaoru growled at her.
Renge burst out crying, "You guys are so mean! You shouldn't say something like that to your manager!" She whined.
"But Renge," Tamaki said with a slight sweatdrop, extending a hand to the young girl, "I thought you had feelings for Haruhi and Kyoya as well?"
"Oh, I do-for Haruhi at least. I gave up on Kyoya." She told Tamaki as she gained stars in her eyes, "But I have no problem with Haruhi having a homosexual relationship on the side!" Tamaki's sweatdrop grew more prominent.
"I'm confused," Haruhi spoke, slouching as she looked at Renge, "I thought you decided to move back to France, Renge."
Renge looked at Haruhi with a slight blush, embarrassed at being caught, "Well, I was going to start a Host Club up on my own, but...I don't think France is ready for a Host Club just yet." Haruhi sweatdropped, stress lines forming.
"Cut it out already!" Hikaru demanded, causing Alex and Kaoru to glare at him. "You're always the one crawling into my bed-talk about annoying!"
"I only do that because you look lonely!" Kaoru argued.
"Will you two stop arguing already!? It's giving me a headache!" Alex demanded, a tick mark forming on her face.
"It's giving you a headache!?" They demanded before glaring at each other, "Stop that! Stop it! Quit! RAAAARGH!"
"Stop mimicking me!"
"You're the one who started it!"
"You both started it and I'm ending it!"
"Shut up, shortie!" Alex fumed at that, grinding her teeth together as she frowned deeply, before screaming at them,
"Gingers!" Everyone paused at that and looked at her in surprise. Alex almost flinched at the insult she came up with, I used to call Liam that...
"Klutz," Hikaru spoke, scowling at her.
Kaoru grimaced and glared, "Midget!"
"Baka!" She paused, realizing she just insulted them in Japanese when she was speaking in Japanese... Okay, different insult, "Ah-Freak!"
"Your math skills are pathetic!" Hikaru insulted, glaring at both her and Kaoru.
"At least I'm good at English, you freaking tall-stick!" Alex was trying her hardest not to curse at them.
"Yeah, you're the one failing your foreign language class!" Kaoru glared at Hikaru, nodding in agreement with Alex. "And-and tall-stick, really?" He looked at her incredulously, as did Hikaru. Alex shrugged, smiling up at them sheepishly.
"Would you have rather me called you and asshole?"
"He would deserve it!" Kaoru snapped, starting up the whole argument again.
Kyoya stared at them intently for a few moments, eyes hidden behind his glasses, before writing something down in his deathnote-He's not gonna kill us, is he? Was he memorizing our faces!? Shit.
"The way you grind your teeth is definitely-"
"At least I don't toss and turn so much that I fall out of bed!"
"Hikaru and Kaoru's appearance." Mori spoke briefly and calmly. Mitskuni nodded in agreement, awed.
"It's exactly the same, even when they're fighting." Haruhi sweatdropped, not understanding just one thing...
"Why is Alex fighting with them?"
"Guys, come on-" Tamaki tried, raising a hand up, only to get cut off.
"Sex-pixie!"
"Sicko!"
"Gingers!" She inhaled deeply, ignoring the feeling of excitement that grew as she shouted, lightning flashing between all three of them,
"Your momma wears too much makeup!" It was really hard to keep a straight face during all of this, but Alex managed. Her voice almost cracked from held-back laughter when she shouted, but she managed to look and sound angry, "That's it! We're over!"
The three glared heatedly at each other before whirling around and storming away.
"Did..." A guest started uncertainly, "Did the three of them just break-up?" A boy looked at the girl in confusion.
"They were never dating..."
"They live together though, it became a known fact that Alex was, with a bit of disagreement, a part of their brotherly love." She replied, causing several other girls to nod in agreement, "There's rumors about her getting adopted by Yuzuha Hitachiin and her husband." The boy blinked.
The stormed into the limo, Alex sitting in the middle angrily with Hikaru on her right and Kaoru on her left. Flames and lightning continued to crackle and everyone watched them worriedly as the limo drove off. Once they drove away, Hikaru and Kaoru looked at Alex with raised eyebrows and questioned,
"Ginger? Really?" Alex felt her face heat up in embarrassment and exclaimed, covering her face with her hands,
"I don't know! I don't-I-I just-I don't know! Okay? I had a friend who was a ginger and I called him "ginger" when he called me "short" or "clumsy", okay!? I also sometimes called him "Glasses" or "Glasses character" only to have him throw back that I also wore glasses."
They glanced at the girl confused. Hikaru stated, "You don't wear glasses."
"I did. I also sometimes wore contacts when I wasn't being lazy. S'what happens when you isolate yourself in your room 24/7 with your laptop." She smiled at the memory, "So much fanfiction...Shit! I still need to catch up on Psych! I wonder what happened during the musical episode...?" That was the only episode she has not seen. "
Kaoru nodded, "We still need to figure how far we're going to go with this." Alex felt a grin sneak away onto her face.
"How good are guys with hair dye and a pair of scissors? Oh, and can we stop at the eye Doctor? 'Cause I need some new glasses." Alex has never actually did a prank before, other than when her baby cousin, both of them-though the calls were at least four years apart, called the police. She was also going by fuzzy memory of what was supposed to happen.
She remembered that Hikaru and Kaoru died their hair, and she also remembered her favorite lines-for the most part. She also remembered the basis of what happened in each episode, though not exactly in chronological order.
Hikaru and Kaoru looked at each other, than down at Alex, and smirked, "Leave it to us."
"Great, now, quick question...What color shoulder I dye my hair? I have a feeling that you two already know what you two are dying yours?"
NEXT DAY
"Why is everyone dying their hair?" Haruhi questioned no one as she stared at Kaoru, who had blue hair, and Hikaru, who had pink, then Alex, who had flaming red.
"I was finally able to sleep all by myself last night," Kaoru told Haruhi, causing Alex to roll her eyes and snort. She turned her head away from him, looking at the wall as she spoke sarcastically.
"Oh, congratulations then, would you like a trophy?"
Kaoru sent her a rotten look and said, "I had a terrifying nightmare! I dream that my stylist had dyed my hair pink and curled it! And that my eye-doctor gave me glasses!" Hikaru and Alex gained tick marks, "It was so garish and ridiculous looking, I woke up screaming!" He laughed as he made to sit down in his chair, only to have Hikaru reach over with his long legs and kick the chair out from beneath him, knocking his ass onto the floor. Alex burst out laughing, pointing at him.
"Ha! Serves you right, sky-line!" Haruhi sweatdropped at the oncoming argument and watched as Hikaru drew his leg back, smirking. Alex was grinning widely at all the commotion. Alex sat behind Haruhi, so she practically had front-row seats. "Whoa!" She leaned back when Kaoru shot out with his hand and lifted Hikaru's chair up, causing his head to bash into the window. She clamped a hand over her mouth to hide her snickers. She paused when they looked at her with dull faces on and she tensed, giving them the best glare she could muster.
She calmly reached her right hand into her desk, grabbing one of her text books-by the feel of it, it was her science. They stared at each other through narrowed eyes and within moments they were throwing things at each other. Alex let out a small shriek as she ducked, a Harry Potter book almost making home on her face. She quickly reached over and grabbed a pencil sharpener, decking it towards Hikaru's forehead. Luckily it hit-unluckily Kaoru made a jab at her with a chair. She screamed and lunged to the right, almost face-planting into a window. Reaching into a poor students desk, she grabbed a book and lunged at Kaoru, who decked it towards Hikaru.
Haruhi sat in her desk, eyebrow twitching as stress lines formed on her face.
Alex grabbed a stuffed pink bunny and threw-only to regret a second later, "Usa-Chan!" Mitskuni ran into the room to fetch his rabbit, alarmed. Hikaru latched onto Mitskuni's arm-who grabbed his rabbit, and threw him. Mitskuni blinked in confusion when he was suddenly sent sailing through the air.
Haruhi sighed, hanging her head. She briefly wondered when the next seat change was.
For the next few days it continued, on and on and on and on, never ending. There were students who got in the way of the pranks, mainly Hikaru and Kaoru as Alex was more the passive aggressive, so they usually ended up soaked with a bucket on their head or a blow dart stuck in their arm or sailing past their head.
"I'll have the A lunch," Hikaru and Kaoru spoke, standing the lunch line in the cafeteria four days later. "No! Give me the B pasta meal and the D set salad and coke! I'll take the F cappalini and the Barbarie duck! Hold on! Make that a foie gras poele in pariguu sauce! Stop copying me; why don't you just leave me alone!?"
Alex felt a tick mark form on her face as she grounded her teeth together, "Can you two shut up? Your giving me a damn headache."
They turned to glare at her, pissed.
"Amazing," Haruhi commented dryly, "Complete unison even when fighting."
"I was wondering what all the fuss was about," Tamaki commented, walking up with the rest of the Host Club. "I can't believe the three of you are still fighting. Your a disgrace to the Host Club."
Alex tore her gaze away from the twins and Tamaki actually flinched at her appearance. Alex refused to wear the uniform and decided to dress as ridiculously and horribly fashion-tasteless as she could. She wore a green sweater with a yellow scarf that wrapped around her neck a few times with pale blue polkadots on it. Her jeans were blue with multiple rainbow patches on them and she also wore a pair of hot pink sneakers.
"Alex...What are you wearing?" She replied with a cheeky, yet slight snarky grin,
"I got bored."
Daichi paused in his walking and commented in surprise, "Hey, look who it is!"
"Oh, I love them!" Yuki exclaimed with hearts in her eyes.
"I've never seen them all together like this before!"
"We've had enough of this!" Mitskuni declared, holding up pink sumo sign. "You're all to blame for this fight!" He walked up to the trio and put the sign away, instead pulling out a strawberry cake, "Hika-Chan, Kao-Chan, Lexi-Chan, I want the three of you to make up and go thirdies on this cake! Kay? But I want to have a piece, too, so I guess we'll have to go fourthsies."
Alex felt a sweatdrop coming on, That isn't even a word...then again, I have bad grammar myself when it comes to speaking. Writing however...
"Oh, we won't be able to split the strawberry on top though," Mitskuni continued thoughtfully, glancing at it uncertainly. Alex sighed and ran a hand through her flame red hair.
"Eat it, I don't like strawberries that much anyway." It was true. They were a bit too...sour, for her. She was a straight up chocolate fan, but still rarely ate sweets.
"Alex..." She stopped walking and paused, looking up at Kyoya through her glasses in surprise. Now that she could actually see correctly, she could make out every single detail on his face. "Why on earth did you change your appearance so drastically?"
She shrugged carelessly, "I was bored and the twins just ticked me off. Simple as that." Kyoya's eyes hid behind his glasses as he pushed them up.
"You're not lying, are you?" She looked up at him with raised eyebrows.
"Name one time I lied to you?" She dared before walking off and not giving him a chance to respond. She quickly sat down at a table and started to eat.
"I don't care if my boxed lunch is in an embarrassing heart-shape, I will EAT IT!" She paused when she heard Tamaki scream. Kyoya calmly grabbed his lunch tray and said,
"I have no idea what you're talking about, but it's clear that your fantasies are completely incoherent." He said as he walked away, sitting at the same table as Alex. Alex paused in her eating to look at Haruhi, who had the look that one gains after tasting heaven. She felt a grin cross her face and ignored the scratching of paper and pencil.
Remind me to sneak some food from the house and head over to Haruhi's later. She thought to herself with a grin. She saw the scene between Haruhi and the twins happen and she resisted the urge to squeal, "Okay, it's official, I'm rooting for Haruhi and the twins to get together!" She clapped her hands together, unable to hide her smile.
"I though you were fighting with them?" Alex jumped and glanced at Kyoya surprised, completely forgetting he was there.
"I-I am," She stuttered. Okay, calm down. Calm down-just calm. Down. You can do this. Just-Just don't focus entirely on him, "They're severely annoying."
"How so?" She felt stress lines form on her face as she sweatdropped.
"Do I really need to answer? Haven't you seen their behavior the last few days? I ended up with a dart stuck in my arm because of them!"
"I'd appreciate it if you tell the truth."
"I am! I even got a mark; see-?" She barely had time to blink before her wrist was grabbed and she was forced out of her seat, being led into the hallway and out of the cafeteria. "H-Hey, what are you doing-" She found herself pressed up against the wall, Kyoya looming over her dangerously. She blinked and felt her glasses trying to slide off of her nose.
"I'm not talking about that. Is the fight staged or not?"
"What, no!" She protested instantly. Damn it-I really hate it when he's right. "No way! I'm sorry, but I hate fighting in general," Unless it's "staged".
"You're lying."
"Am not!"
"Are so."
"Am not!"
"I am not participating in this childish banter."
"You said that the last time, too. And look, you already are." She grinned up at him, trying to act like he wasn't affecting her by being this close. He sighed, irritated, before walking away. Once he was out of sight, she breathed a sigh of relief. "That was close..." She walked back in only to find Tamaki being reprimanded by the Vice Principal.
Which of course led the entire Host Club to clean the cafeteria of the mess Hikaru and Kaoru made.
...
Alex leaned against the door, eavesdropping. Hikaru and Kaoru were already in the courtyard, ready to start fighting again.
"If this situation persists, we'll have to cancel the brotherly love settings-and the sarcastic, childish type." Alex, for a brief moment, wondered if that meant she would be able to join the Black Magic Club. Heh, I'd get a free Beelzenef-wait, I still need to purchase one from Nekozawa for the rest of the act. "I can assure you that the request rates will certainly drop. I'll think about all three of their penalties later." Alex tensed, wondering for a brief moment if Kyoya knew she was eavesdropping. "Oh, Haruhi...I just want you to know that there's no need for you to feel responsible, even if it was for your tactless comment that started the feud between the twins and Alex in the first place. And we don't mind cleaning up the cafeteria at all..."
Alex could almost feel Kyoya's order of murderous intent from behind the door.
"It's weird for Hika-Chan and Kao-Chan to be fighting like this." She heard Mitskuni comment, "It's never happened before."
"They never fought before?" Haruhi asked.
"I knew Hika-Chan and Kao-Chan since we were in pre-school. We weren't in the same year, so I never really got to talk to them. But I remember that the two of them always played together."
Tamaki spoke next, "Yeah, that's true. I mean, I've only known the twins since they were in Middle School, but they definitely stood out. It seems like they've kept everyone at a distance except each other." Alex frowned at that, somehow saddened by that statement. It almost made her want to run over to the twins and hug them, stop the mock-fighting. "Believe it or not, they were even more warped back then. Maybe when you stop and think about it, this fight is a good thing for them."
Alex chose that moment to leave, running towards the courtyard, only to scream when she nearly got stabbed by arrows that shot out of the columns.
The doors opened, revealing Tamaki and the rest of the Host Club. Tamaki screamed as he almost because sushi himself. He quickly chased after Alex into the courtyard, figuring that she'd lead him to the twins so he could kill them.
...
"-and?" Tamaki questioned, arms crossed angrily. He was covered in eggs and bruises, birds sitting on his head and shoulders. "What'a amazing is that you have all set identical traps, and what's more, all of them have hit me." Hikaru and Kaoru's hair as moved to their natural position, though still ridiculous colors, because of all the running.
"Hi-Kaoru-Karu, ask him." The twin brother glared at each other, and Alex snapped,
"Make up already!"
"Make up? Make up!?" Hikaru was pissed, "You want me to make up with that-that thing!? Every time I look in the mirror, I see his face!" He turned his glare onto his brother, "I'm sick and tired of being constantly mistaken as you, Kaoru! The truth is-I hate your guts!"
"You took the words right out of my mouth, "Brother"." Kaoru mocked him, "In fact, I hate you so much, I bought this! Beelzenef the cursed doll!" Alex felt her face pale, realizing she forgot to buy it from Nekozawa. Good thing Kaoru thought ahead. Tamaki shrieked and backed up a few feet. "I'm going to complete the curse, Hikaru. I'm going to write your name on it's back!"
Hikaru braced himself, shoulders tensing as sweat beaded down his face.
"From this day forward," Kaoru continued, writing on the doll's back with a marker, "you're going to experience nothing but misfortune and sorrow!"
Alex laughed loudly, crossing her arms around her stomach, "Oh! This is gonna be good-!" She shrieked in pain when Haruhi ran over and clocked her, Hikaru, and Kaoru upside the head.
"Will you three knock it off!? What do you think you're doing!?" Haruhi demanded as she stood, yanking the doll away from Kaoru. Everyone, even Kyoya and Mori, looked surprised. "You don't bring something like this into a petty fight! You're all at fault here, but what's sad is that you brought everyone here into this mess! Now apologize to each other! If you don't make up right now I'm never going to let you come over to my house! Have I made myself clear!?"
Alex, thoroughly intimidated, nodded shortly, "Yes, ma'am." Haruhi paused when she saw the twins smiles, then looked over at Alex who seemed to fighting back a grin. She froze, gaining a bad feeling.
Hikaru and Kaoru stood, hands on their hips as they walked around the girl, "So what you're saying Haruhi, is that if we make up we can come over to your place?" Alex grinned widely, arms crossed. Feeling the aura of murderous intent looming behind her, she froze. Swallowing, she looked behind her slowly to see a smiling Kyoya who had a very tight grip on his black book.
"Alex..." She swallowed, clearly and very much so frightened. She heard Haruhi's scream in the background and figured that she saw "blank" written in kanji. She also must have seen Hikaru holding up the packet that read "script" on the back.
"I'm so sorry, Kaoru, even thought we were following the script, I said such awful things to you! I'm not fit to be your brother!"
Kaoru quickly took Hikaru's face into his hands, "Don't say that Hikaru! I was so worried, I couldn't live with myself if I ever thought I had hurt you!"
"I'll never let you go, Kaoru!"
"Hikaru!"
Alex felt a small grin slip its way onto her face as she backed up nervously, trying to hide from the angered Shadow King. "N-Now, Kyoya, I think it's safe to say that it was entirely the twins' faults that you had to go and clean the cafeteria..."
"It was your idea to start the fight in the first place," Hikaru spoke, placing the blame on her. Alex flinched when Kyoya's murderous aura grew.
"Yeah, don't go placing the blame on us!" Kaoru added. She swallowed, completely terrified.
"You gotta be kidding!" Mitsukuni freaked, "You mean you guys were faking it the whole time!"
Alex quickly made a break for it behind the twins, barely escaping Kyoya's hand. She quickly grabbed onto their arms, speaking at the same time as them with a sheepish grin, the twins merely frowning, "We didn't have anything else to do. We were bored!"
"Kyoya! Stay back! I have a pair of demonic twins and I'm not afraid to use them! And look! They're also ginger, so-so-yeah! Stay back!" She swallowed, backing up again as Kyoya walked calmly towards her.
Two types of anger. The loud anger and the quiet anger. The quiet anger is by far more scary.
And she was facing it right now.
...Next Day...
Alex, back to being a brunette, sported contacts along with a few bruises from Kyoya's black book.
"Okay, it's time to play the "Which on is Hikaru" Game!" Hikaru and Kaoru still sported the blue and pink hair, though it was back to its original style and they swapped colors.
Alex leaned her head on her arms, sitting at the same table as Kyoya as he typed away on his laptop. "I hate you..."
"No, you don't."
"Shut up and let me mope in my self-pity." Kyoya sighed and looked up from his laptop at the girl, raising an eyebrow.
"Now, what fun would I have if I let you do that?"
"Absolutely none."
"Correct."
"I know!" A girl exclaimed, raising a hand as she looked at the twins, "The one with the pink hair is Hikaru!"
"We have a winner!"
Alex mumbled to herself, "Nope", which caused Kyoya to look at her with raised eyebrows, eyes hidden behind glasses.
"Are you two going to keep your wild hair color, even though you made up? It's much easier to tell you two apart!" Haruhi laughed as she walked by.
"No, it isn't." She stopped and looked at them with a smile, "Today the pink one is Kaoru and Hikaru's the blue one."
Alex sat up straight, clapping as she raised her hands in the air, "Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner! Woo!"
"You swapped colors for the day, huh?" Haruhi asked, casting Alex a slight glance out of the corner of her eyes. She smiled as she turned and walked away.
Hikaru and Kaoru, very much like when they were children, held each other's hands. Kaoru glanced at his brother from the corner of his eyes, realizing that for the second time, someone has crossed the barrier into their world.
"Ow-stop hitting me with your book!" Alex shrieked, causing the brothers to snap out of their trance and look at the commotion. Kyoya could, apparently, hold a grudge, "You're worse than Nico from Percy Jackson and the Olympions-Ow! I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I was bored, okay! I didn't mean to make you clean the cafeteria!"
"It was your plan in the first place."
"I didn't know you would end up cleaning the cafeteria!" Okay, lie. "Stop it!"
Hikaru eyed the two of them closely, trying to figure it out. She's not a shadow, she's not a companion, but...friend? Could she have really befriended the Shadow King? Maybe, maybe they were right when they constantly teased her about Kyoya. He watched as she tried to avoid Kyoya's book.
This chapter really disappoints me...Just sayin'.