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? I'm Alive from Black Butler. I don't own any anime or their characters. I only own Alex and I deeply apologize for all the Black Butler references...and others. CHANGED HER THEM SONG

April 3

Alex was really grateful that Mitsukuni was the way he was-he helped her take her mind off things with his childish nature. Mori also helped, as he let off a small aura of protection. It told her that he really cared about his cousin and wouldn't let anything happen to him. It was nice, Alex deducted as she shoved another piece of chocolate cake into her mouth. Holding back a wince at the amount of icing that was on it she chewed and swallowed. It took at least five or six minutes for the girl to finish her cake and when she did, she picked it up and excused herself from the table, heading into the kitchen to place it in the sink.

Turning on the faucet, she rinsed the plate off before sticking it in the sink with all the others. Looking at the all the dishes, she shook her head and sighed. These people are insane...Do they expect the janitor or whatever to wash the dishes? She let out another sigh before turning the water back on and reaching over for the sponge and soap.

...

She was in the middle of washing a plate when a voice spoke up behind her, causing her to jump and nearly drop the plate, a small scream escaping her lips.

"What did they say to you?" Whirling her head around, she looked at Kyoya with wide eyes. His eyes were dark, his lips turned down in a frown. She took note of a barely noticeable dark purple aura behind him. For a brief moment, she had a flashback to when she was challenging Kyoya. It was only a few months after she arrived and there was the Christmas Party that was coming up. She refused to wear a dress unless it looked like the one she used to have and she challenged Kyoya to get someone to make it. Clash of the auras. Kyoya repeated himself when Alex didn't answer, "What did they say to you?"

She blinked, placing the plate and sponge back in the sink, and rinsed her hands off before drying them with a towel. Placing the towel back onto the oven handle, she turned to face Kyoya as she stuck her hands into her shorts pockets. She said, nervousness bubbling up in her stomach as she recalled the shaky event, "Um, well, Yuuichi commented on how I learned "Manners" after I called him Doctor Ootori after a few moments of rambling and stuff, asked me how you were doing-Told him you were keeping everything in line, making sure Tamaki didn't do anything too stupid and kept the twins from killing me," She swore Kyoya's eyes just flashed in amusement for a short moment. She continued, confused as to why the song Love is War popped in her head, "That was when Akito popped up."

Kyoya's aura grew and Alex almost wanted to hide, but refused. For some reason, being around Kyoya gave her comfort. It made her feel like he wouldn't leave her-he wouldn't hate her and leave her to be alone. She felt safe. Despite that nagging doubt in her mind that said he would leave to her rot by herself, she trusts him with something she wasn't sure she understands fully.

"A-Anything, her started barraging me with questions, asking about your academic grades and stuff, if the twins have been causing you trouble, if you quit the club and finally decided to focus on your studies-I told him that if you ever quite the club I'd march up to your all's house and drag you out of your bed while you were still in your pajamas and bring you to the Host Club. And I also told him not to insult the club, as I was also a member and that we all rather enjoyed being in the club."

"You honestly believe you'd be able to drag me from my house to here?"

"Yup. I'd have the twins help." Kyoya almost felt a smirk form on his face, but he held it back as the situation with his brothers was far more serious than Alex was understanding.

"Wake me up before eleven and there might be some problems."

"Oh, right, the "Hypotensive Shadow King"...You don't scare me. My dad was AB, too. So was my sister." Pausing when she realized what she said, she swallowed, a small numb ache in her chest. It had been a while since she thought about her family.

Kyoya noticed and decided to get back onto subject, saying, "What gave you the impression that my brothers and my father didn't like you?"

She started to lift her fingers as she spoke, "One, the cold looks in the their eyes. Two, the false smiles. Three, the auras. Four, the fact that when they surrounded me I wanted to run out of there as fast as possible. That feeling of a caged animal that one gets? Yeah, I had it. Five, when my eyes locked with your dad's, I just gained this feeling that he really didn't like me." She inhaled deeply before sighing and shaking her head, turning back to finish the dishes. "Don't blame 'em, though. I wouldn't like me either." She gave a small laugh, but Kyoya detected the bitterness hidden in it.

Kyoya didn't know what to think. Her encountering his family members like that...If it was Fuyumi she ran into, he probably wouldn't be thinking about it so much, but his brothers and father... His brothers weren't the friendliest of people, and his father was cold and calculating. Even the calm, much more mature then his brother, Kaoru Hitachiin didn't like his brothers.

Alex could feel Kyoya staring at her and it was making her slightly uncomfortable. Ducking her head down she stared intently at the dishes she was washing.

Gaining an idea, he smirked.

Alex jumped in alarm when a chest pressed against her back, hands placed on either side of her on the counter and trapping her, warm breathe tickling her ear as Kyoya questioned, "Need help?" Alex had tensed, frozen to the spot as her heart pounded rapidly in her ears. She tried to calm her breathing as her face flushed.

"N-No-No. I'm-I'm g-good, thanks." She flinched at her stuttering. Stupid, stupid, stupid! This is getting-This is getting ridiculous! Alex bit her lip as she attempted to finish washing the bowl, movements stiff and almost robotic. Kyoya took note of this and smirked, eyes hiding behind his glasses.

"What's the matter, Alex? You seem tense." She inhaled sharply when his warm breathe grazed her ear and neck, trying to resist the urge to reach a hand up and rub her poor sensitive neck. Her fingers twitched and turned the faucet back on quickly, hurriedly washing the bowl off and placing it in the stack with the others. J-Jerk! Damn you, you jerk!

"I hate you..." She muttered to herself, trying to ignore the chills that were being sent down her spine. She held back a shudder. Her grip on the faucet handle seemed to tighten considerably as she tried to fight off the reactions he was causing her to have. She could feel the warmth of his body radiating onto hers, as his chest was literally pressed against her back, his arms barely brushing against her own as he trapped her.

"For being considerate?" If Alex turned her head to look at him, she would see the amused and triumphant look he had on his face. He continued, clearly enjoying this, "I only asked if you wanted help with the dishes. You don't have to be so spiteful about it."

She whirled her head around to glare at him, crying out in protest as her voice squeaked, "I'm not!" She inhaled sharply, breathing hitching when she realized how close his face was to hers. There noses were this close to touching. She swallowed the lump in her throat, her mouth suddenly becoming dry. She licked her lips and opened her mouth to speak, only to find no words come out-her mind completely blank as she stared at him. She furrowed her eyebrows and blinked, confused as to why she felt like this before blaming it all on Kyoya. Finally getting her voice back, she said, "I just want to do the-the dishes, okay? So-So, e-either do something other than-than this," She attempted to make a gesture with her hand, only to find that she had to raise her arm so it was overlapping his and her hand just above her eyes. She continued, "or-or leave."

They were both momentarily blinded by a flash of light and Alex blinked, turning her head to look at the source of it while Kyoya pulled back from Alex. He stood up straight and pushed up his glasses, pulling out his book and writing something down before crossing his arms.

Alex's eyes went wide at the sight of Hikaru and Kaoru grinning at them, a camera in Hikaru's hands. Hikaru's grin was by far much wider than Kaoru's, as he sang with a devilish smirk, "Kyoya and Alex, sittin' in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-"

He screamed like a girl when Alex charged towards them, screaming as she attempted to get soap buds in Hikaru's hair, "What the fuck are you two doing!? Hikaru! What the Hell!?"

Hikaru barely dodged Alex's soapy hands and shrieked as he laughed, jumping onto a chair and over a table, "First come the baby! Then comes the carriage! then comes the-"

"What are you, kindergarten!?" Alex demanded, pissed as she ran around the table and quickened her pace, ignoring the pain in her ribs from running so long, "Get your mind out of the gutter!"

No one notice Kyoya slip out of the room with an amused smirk on his face.

"Then comes the unlucky miscarriage!"

"I'd like to see you have a miscarriage, Ms. Hitachiin! Kaoru can be your husband! He's much nicer than you are at any rate!"

Hikaru turned his head at there, stopping as he was a good bit away from her, and stuck his tongue out at her with a grin, "Alright, Mrs. Ootori!" Alex's face flared red at that and her eyes went wide, before narrowing dangerously and being enveloped by a dark green aura, which seemed to darken into midnight. "Hoh, shit..."

Kaoru sweatdropped as he watched, shaking his head, "If I didn't know better, I'd think Alex was an AB."

"Oh, Hikaru~!" Alex sing-songed, giving him a sickly sweet smile. Hikaru paled, staring horrified at the smile that was being given, "Be a dear and give me that camera, love."

"Kaoru..." Hikaru began, taking a step back as he started to fear for his life. Kaoru looked up at his brother curiously, all the way on the other side of the room, "I think...I think Kyoya created a "Shadow Queen."

Her aura darkened even more and she snapped, charging towards Hikaru at a rapid speed, screaming, "There's nothing between us!"

Hikaru ran out of the kitchen, screaming for Mori-Sempai.

Giving up on chasing him she sighed. Kaoru, popping up from behind and startling her when he asked, "Then what was with that intimate scene?"

"In-Intimate?" She demanded, whirling her head and around and looking up at him with raised, disbelieving eyebrows. Pointing a finger at Kyoya as she waved her hand up and down, she cried out with slightly red cheeks, "That was anything but intimate! He was just asking if I needed help with the dishes and was reaching for a dish when you two popped up!"

Hikaru, poking his head out from behind Mori's back, questioned incredulously, "You call that asking for help with the dishes?"

Kaoru, wrapping an arm around Alex's shoulders and pulling her towards him, her head resting against his shoulder now, said, "Yeah. His chest was pressed up against your back, your noses barely touching. You were about to kiss, weren't you?"

Soft lips pressing against her own, eyes widening as heat flared on her face. A tight grip on her arm. Soft, warm lips... Her face turned cherry red at the memory of the Black Butler cosplay day. Her fingers twitched and she oh-so desperately wished she could slap herself right now, but couldn't because that would make her even more suspicious. Okay, back off! Rewind! No! No, no, no, no! In all honesty, her flashback and thoughts were probably only three seconds in total, because before she knew it she was shouting at the twins.

Dark eyes frowned, noticing, but not noticing, that something was wrong in this picture. Alex's fists were clenched and she was raising her arms above her head as she rapidly beat the twin brothers, frowning in annoyance. Something was very wrong in this picture, but what? What am I missing? He wondered to himself, narrowing his eyes as they hid behind his glasses. Right underneath my nose... He froze, eyes locking onto her left hand-specifically, her fingers. They were curled into a fist, something she should be unable to do with the stiff muscle and nerves. And her arm...she was raising it high above her head... That isn't possible, Kyoya thought as he pushed up his glasses, crossing his arms. It's physically impossible...

"I died the moment that limo hit me."

"The person I like doesn't even exist anymore, so leave me ALONE!"She may have not said it directly, but it was still there. He continued through his memories of the past six months, but a week later she had said...," "More like I don't exist anymore...Stupid Akari, making a deal with that jerk and swapping places...I didn't want to die...Jerk." Kyoya had a very strong memory, and could almost remember everything of his childhood and past years. And then there was that time, , "Do you still think I'm crazy since I told you I "Died" when Hikaru and Kaoru ran me over with their limo?"

"Would he have let me die just so Akari could live!?"

" I can't because I'm dead! I died when that damn limo hit me and Akari stole my life from me!"

"She said herself that she is from the eight realm. The crystal does not lie; the girl tells the truth." Could she possibly be any more cryptic?" Reiko said that after Alex's visit at the Host Club... All the pieces were aligning together, and yet he still found it hard to believe them. How does one die and come back, only to say that they're dead? Who was-no, is Alex Connors? What is the mystery behind Alexandra Connors and the supposedly "dead" Akari Ayuzawa?

Her left arm was functioning, fully and properly, and he seemed to be the only one to notice.

There was a chiming of a bell, signaling the end of the Club.

...

Alex's grin faltered, her Iphone 4 staring her straight in the face. She blinked once, twice, then cried out in shock, "That's where you've been this whole time!? In my drawer!? Who the hell moves these things!?" Knowing that it was herself that did it, not wanting the twins to find her Iphone and mess with it, and lost it in the first place. "Wait...Great, two phones, lovely-Wait!" Quickly deciding that the green would be an emergency phone and the Iphone would be her regular phone, she pocketed the green and put in the passcode to her Iphone, quickly opening the "camera" and heading into pictures, smiling at the one of Kyoya's surprised face.

I remember that one... Took it when Renge first appeared-Oh. Oh.Quickly realizing why she was so annoyed back then she frowned, shaking her head. Great, so I liked him around that time, huh? Dude, that was like...three or four months ago... Damn.

"Alex!" She heard Misaki calling and blinked, walking over and opening the door. What she saw was not what she was expecting. What she was expecting was a dark haired, eighteen-year old in a maid outfit, smiling kindly at her with amused eyes, hands clasped in front of her to tell her if dinner was ready or something. She was not expecting said eighteen year-old to be accompanied by a tall man, around the height of 5'11, with neatly combed black hair and bronw-grey eyes, covered by thin-rimmed glasses with slightly pale skin. The man was dressed in a casual, but nice-looking, light blue shirt with a black jacket over it, a pair of grey jeans and sneakers to complete the look. On his wrists were a few bracelets. Misaki smiled at her, bowing, "You have a visitor."

"K-Kyoya!?" Misaki, standing up straight with her hands still clasped, smiled mischievously as she raised an eyebrow, taking note of no honorific. Guessing they were a couple and that they would rather be alone, she bowed again and started to make her way out, ignoring Alex's looks of confusion and desperation of her to stay there with them. Looking back at Kyoya with a slight red face, she stuttered, alarmed, "Wh-What-What-What are you doing here?" She flinched when she realized she repeated the word "What" multiple times. She sounded like a broken record. Opening her eyes, she found him with his trade-mark smirk as he looked down at her, his eyes hidden behind his glasses.

He was planning something. She knew he was.

And he was in her room...Her eyes widened and she quickly looked around, taking note of her messy desk and her laptop, and her eyes drifting over to the many stuffed animals on her bed. Her face turned so dark at that moment, she was sure she looked like a gummy bear. Alex didn't look like it, but she actually loved stuffed animals. Specifically bears. She swallowed as she turned her head to look at the man who was eyeing her room, observing it. She bit her lip when she saw the corners of his lips turn up in a small amused smile.

"I have a few questions to ask you, do you mind?" Alex frowned, not allowing him to enter any further to spare herself embarrassment by Shadow King.

"About?"

"Your arm." Her eyes widened and her heart stopped, before beating rapidly, realizing what was happening. She knew it. She knew it was going to happen. In all honesty, she tried to tell him before, before he knew knew her. But now that he did...what would he think?

He's going to hate me...He's definitely going to leave me-think me a nutjob and stick me in the insane asylum. No, another part of her brain argued, he's your friend. He wouldn't do that. Have more faith. But he might... Quickly racking her brain for a response, she remembered something her dad told her. Her trademark half-smirk half-smile formed on her face and Kyoya almost looked taken-aback, but quickly regained his composure.

She pointed at him, grinning with mischievous eyes, "That, my dear, is strictly confidential...buuut..." She trailed off, watching him raise an elegant eyebrow. Again with that elegance...How can an eyebrow be "elegant"? She wondered before continuing, shaking her head as she was easily distracted, "If you get me icecream or something, I'm sure I'll be willing to talk." I can't believe I'm doing this...This sounds like I'm trying to con him onto a date or-or-shit, I just went there, didn't I? Damn it!

Kyoya, quickly catching onto what she was doing, sighed before smirking, commenting, "You really are more trouble than you worth, you realize?"

She grinned at him, saying, "I've been told. But you wouldn't have me any other way, 'cause if you did, who would be there to bug you?"

"Tamaki." She pouted and complained, giving him a slight look,

"Jerk. You're mean."

"Do you want that dinner or not?" Quickly lurching forward she hugged the man, her cheek pressed against his chest as she exclaimed with closed eyes and a small blush,

"I love you!" Pausing at that, her heart almost stopping-once it continued she swore she could hear it pound, she quickly added, "I-You're my best friend! I love you-you're glorious, I love you!" Please tell me that sounds like something I normally say...

She relaxed instantly when his huge hand rested against her head, ruffling her hair slightly, "Moron."

"Jerk." She told him as she pulled back slightly and stuck her tongue out at him childishly. "You know you love me!"

"I wonder."

"Hmph!" Pulling away, she crossed her arms. She said, eyes closed, "Maybe I won't tell you anything after all?"

Her eyes shot open when something warm wrapped around her left hand, pulling her out of her stance and causing her to stumble as she was suddenly dragged along the hallway. Staring wide eyed at the big hand that covered her small one, she inhaled sharply. Kyoya was...holding her hand. His hand was in hers. It felt like electricity was racing through her body, making her even more alarmed and aware and active than before, her heart racing in her chest, pounding in her ears. Though...it was more like a him, as she was not really focusing on it, and more of the warmth that came from Kyoya's hand and how she felt...content, happy...safe. Cared for. She couldn't even remember why she was doubting him, she felt herself trust him more in this moment than ever. It was probably cheesy, but she didn't know how else to explain it.

"You'll tell me, because if you don't, I'm sure you'd look lovely in that maid outfit that Hikaru and Kaoru made a few months ago." She was confused for a moment, before paling considerably. Okay, maybe she didn't trust him so much in that moment.

"Sh-Shut up, jerk!"

Totally wore a white-button up shirt, red suspenders, and a red bowtie on my first day of High school yesterday...And I did NOT know that we only were supposed to go to Home room on mondays, so I had to break it to the Gym this morning. Fun. AH, gotta love Doctor Who. SO tempted to bring my sonic screwdriver though...XD