Hi, guys! Here it is! Chapter three of "Forget-Me-Nots".
Disclaimer: I do not own OHSHC. I only own my OC's
Dear Hayashi Chinatsu-san,
We are delighted to announce to you that you passed the scholarship test conducted by Ouran Academy. You are hereby entitled to a full scholarship for 2 years provided that you remain included in the top 5 of your batch. You will be reporting to school this Monday and we hope that you'll enjoy your stay at Ouran.
-Ouran Academy
For the tenth time, Chinatsu's eyes scanned the words printed on the ecru colored stationery.
'I can believe I'm going to Ouran!' she thought with contained happiness bubbling inside her. With that single letter, all of her aspirations to become a world renowned neurosurgeon became almost tangible. She could feel her happiness seeping down through every vessel and nerve on her body.
"Mom!" she happily called while hurriedly running down the stairs towards her mom who was cooking their breakfast. Chinatsu hugged her mom from behind which made her stop stirring the miso soup and a smile crawl up her face.
"What is it, darling?" her mom asked as she lowered down the fire of the stove.
"Mom, I've been accepted to Ouran!"Chinatsu brought down the news to her mother whose eyes widened in shock and the smile that was previously on her lips was now replace with a mischievous smirk.
Sanae, the mother of Chinatsu then turned around and hugged her daughter back with a smile on her face again.
"Oh! I'm so proud of you, Chinatsu!" Sanae exclaimed and hugged Chinatsu even tighter. Chinatsu responded with a laugh as she broke out of the hug.
"Finally, I'll have a chance to go to John Hopkins to be a neurosurgeon so that I can provide a better life for us!" Chinatsu said with a warm smile on her face. Her mother then smiled as she combed through her daughter's lush chocolate brown hair.
"You're really a blessing to me, Chinatsu. Who would have thought that I would have an intelligent, hardworking and beautiful daughter like you?" Sanae said in a motherly tone and hugged Chinatsu once more.
Chinatsu slightly laughed and hugged her mother back. "It's because I have an equally intelligent, hardworking and beautiful mother like you." Chinatsu replied.
When both of them pulled away, Chinatsu was surprised to see tears flowing down her mother's eyes.
"Mom, what's wrong?" she worriedly asked her mother.
Her mother just shook her head as she wiped the tears from her eyes and continued to cook.
"Nothing's wrong. Well, how about after breakfast, you and I head out to go shopping?" Sanae suggested with a smile on her face.
Chinatsu then nodded and kissed her mother's cheek before going up the stairs towards her room.
When Sanae was sure that she heard Chinatsu shut her door, another evil smirk crept up her face.
"Now, the game begins. Let's see who will utter 'checkmate' between the two of us."
(Fastforward)
Chinatsu looked in the mirror and slightly grumbled upon seeing her appearance.
"Mom, why do I even have to wear a dress? I can just wear my shirt and pants!" Chinatsu exclaimed to her mother who was combing her hair.
Chinatsu kept on fiddling with her knee length baby blue dress as her mother clipped on a blue barrette.
"Come on, Chinatsu! It's been a while since I dressed you up like this." Sanae replied when she finished combing Chinatsu's wavy chocolate brown hair. Chinatsu just mentally rolled her eyes, seeing a different person when she looked in the mirror.
"Let's go" Sanae said and grabbed Chinatsu's wrist.
"Tono! Is this the reason why you called us early in the morning?!" the twins exclaimed in unison as they looked around the people busily shopping at the mall.
"Come on, guys! We never get to hang out often!" Tamaki convinced while looking through various designer boutiques around the mall.
"But we just hanged out last week at our house!" the twins replied which sent Tamaki into a dark corner and grow mushrooms.
Kyouya felt his vein pulsating in anger as he rubbed his temples in annoyance. He's stuck with them again instead of doing his homework. Seriously, he still wondered how he managed to put up with these crazy people for a long time.
"Tama-chan!" Hunny exclaimed while going towards Tamaki who was still sulking in his corner. "Let's go eat some cake!" Hunny said as he practically bounced up and down.
"Hunny-sempai is the only one who wants to hang out with me…"Tamaki mumbled with a gloomy aura surrounding him.
Kyouya had enough of this and if he wants to go home early, then he better take care of this.
"Tamaki" he called towards the blonde as he pushed his glasses up.
"Yes, mother?"
"Let's go shop around, shall we?" Kyouya said with an inaudible sigh escaping his lips. In an instant, Tamaki went away from his corner and roses immediately sprouted around him . "Okay, mon ami!" he replied with a big grin on his face.
The rest of the host club members just sighed in unison as they followed Tamaki going through every boutique.
Tamaki decided to go inside a clothing shop and the members quickly followed him. Just when Kaoru was about to enter the shop with his twin, he accidentally bumped into someone which caused the person to fall down.
"Crap!" the person muttered.
Kaoru looked down to see the person and apologize but he was instantly mesmerized when the person looked up. He locked eyes with the person and it was the first time he saw eyes like hers. They were periwinkle in color but more than the hue of her eyes, it has depth in it. Something that he couldn't point out but it was like a magnet drawing him to drown in those perfect blue orbs of hers….
"Hey, I'm sorry. I wasn't looking where I was going" the girl who bumped into him said while giving a slight bow and then proceeding on her way making Kaoru feel strangely disappointed. As she passed by him, he had a chance to take a whiff of her shampoo. Her hair smelt like calming lavenders. Unknowingly, he glanced back at the girl with wavy chocolate brown hair and a smile crept up his face.
After a few seconds, he too entered the boutique with Hikaru asking him curiously why he was grinning like an idiot.
The host club members followed Tamaki going through shops from shop like an indecisive kid on a candy store. Finally, they stopped by a boutique next to a large wing at the mall which sells different brands of skin care and perfumes.
They followed Tamaki towards the boutique when something or rather someone caught Kyouya's eyes. It was a girl with chocolate brown hair and was wearing a blue dress. He couldn't see her facial features because her back was turned towards him and she was about a few meters away from him since she was with another woman at a skin care shop.
But despite that, he felt a sense of familiarity. He felt a resemblance with the way she moved and even the way she stood was like Akira.
'Snap out of it, Kyouya! That's just some stranger.' He mentally told himself and was about to ignore it and go towards the boutique where the other host club members were shopping when the said girl turned around and immediately, Kyouya's eyes widened at the uncanny resemblance of the girl to his late childhood friend.
"Hey, Kyouya! Aren't you going inside?" Tamaki asked his best friend who looked like he has just seen a ghost. Finally, Kyouya snapped out of his trance and turned his attention towards his best friend who was looking at him weirdly.
"Are you alright?" Tamaki asked worriedly. Kyouya just pushed up his glasses and nodded. Tamaki then gave him a final glance and smiled as he went back inside the store.
After Tamaki went back inside, Kyouya's eyes went back to where the girl was previously standing but found that she was already gone. His eyes had a confused look in them as well as a tinge of sadness.
'Maybe it was just my imagination' he thought to himself and smirked at his foolishness. He just shook his head and went towards where the others were, never noticing the girl in blue dress who went back to where she was just standing awhile ago.
"Mom, this is such an expensive place to shop!" Chinatsu whispered to her mom who just dragged her along. She glanced at the other people shopping around who looked like they were dressed in designer brands from head to toe.
"Chinatsu! Consider this as your reward for passing the scholarship test. Plus, I rarely get to buy you expensive stuffs!" her mother exclaimed while looking around various clothing boutiques.
Chinatsu just sighed knowing that it is pointless to argue with her mother.
"Mom, I'm going to the rest room, okay? I promise I'll be quick!" Chinatsu said and her mother nodded and pointed towards the boutique where she'll be going.
Chinatsu then went towards the restroom and gave out a sigh of relief as she turned on the faucet and washed her hands. It's been so long since she went on a girl bonding time with her mother. Chinatsu was so busy with school and her part-time job to even care about going shopping like other girls in her age do.
'Maybe mother is right. I do stress myself to much at times' she thought to herself and quickly grabbed a tissue from the tissue dispenser. She wiped her hands clean and threw the tissue into the bin before going out of the ladies' room.
'That's right! Today, I'll just enjoy shopping like a normal girl would! I won't think about my part-time job or any other things aside from being with my mother!' she mentally exclaimed to herself and repeated it like a mantra. She was so absorbed in her thoughts that she accidentally bumped into someone that sent her crashing down the floor on her butt.
"Crap!" she muttered to herself and stood up so that she could apologize to the person but she found him staring intensely at her.
'What's wrong with him?' she thought.
"Hey, I'm sorry. I wasn't looking where I was going." she said, making the person snap out of his intense gaze on her. Chinatsu then bowed in apology and quickly made her way towards the boutique where her mother was currently in. She was slightly crept out by that dude earlier but she just shrugged it off and proceeded on her way.
She then found out that her mom already bought her a gorgeous lavender chiffon dress that probably costs a month worth of her salary. She inwardly sighed as her mother dragged her to the skin care and perfume section next. There, they found various expensive skin care, cosmetics and perfume brands that made her mother squeal.
"Come on, Chinatsu! Let's buy you some cream for your skin!" her mother exclaimed and dragged her to some cosmetic and skin care brand that sells expensive skin care products.
"Mom, I don't need those." Chinatsu whispered to her mom who was busily testing out a facial cream into the back of her hand.
"Nonsense, Chinatsu! Hurry, just pick anything you like and I'll buy it for you." Her mother said with a smile. Chinatsu smiled back at her and started to scan her eyes at various skin care products that she never even knew existed.
'Seriously, who puts snail slime and bee venom into their skin?' she thought as she touched a weird product called "Snail Bee Essence"
She was looking at the products when she felt a weird feeling that someone was staring at her. She furrowed her eyebrows in confusion and turned around. She looked around to see if someone was indeed staring at her but there was none. She just slightly smiled and scolded herself from being paranoid.
She then followed her mom towards another skin care shop where Chinatsu, with her mother's persistent persuasion finally bought a "SKII Facial Treatment Essence".
But that was not all of it. Sanae dragged her daughter back to the previous shop they were in and bought her tons of products from facial cleansers to facial masks down to eye cream. It seems like Chinatsu's vanity table which only contained brushes and hair ties will already be filled with various things she probably wouldn't be using and instead, will just end up giving to Uncle Ranka, the father of Haruhi.
And as if reading her thoughts, her mother looked at her with a playful glare.
"You better not give those to Ranka, young lady." She jokingly scolded her daughter who just sighed and nodded.
Soon, they finished their mother-daughter bonding time and went home with a smile.
"Finally" Kyouya muttered and sighed a sigh of relief as he sat on his couch and opened his laptop. He roamed around the mall with Tamaki and the others for nearly half a day and his feet were terribly aching by now. He quickly ordered a maid to prepare him a cup of mint tea.
He turned his attention towards his laptop to work on his homework as well as the host club's finances when he suddenly remembered something.
Today was the day when the new scholarship students were determined. He quickly opened another tab on his Chrome and typed in a letters, numbers and symbols here and there as he delicately sipped on his teacup. It only took a few seconds until he cracked through the Ouran Academy site where all of the students' profiles were saved. Then, under the scholarship grantees list, he saw two names.
Fujioka Haruhi
Hayashi Chinatsu
He first clicked on Fujioka Haruhi's profile and saw that she was actually friends with the other scholarship grantee, Hayashi Chinatsu. Haruhi Fujioka was the top 1 in her batch and scored 93 out of 100 in her Ouran Scholarship Test.
After that he clicked on Hayashi Chinatsu's profile and instantly, his eyes widened as his hand tightly gripped the teacup he was holding. His grip was so tight; the fragile teacup might break any minute from now. Cold sweats broke from his forehead and dripped down his neck as his gaze was focused on the picture flashed on his laptop screen.
It was the girl in blue dress earlier!
He couldn't believe what he was seeing and suddenly stood up and rummaged through his dresser to find an old box which is yellowing from age. He opened the box and inside it were his fond memories of childhood.
All of the pictures and letters of Akira were inside that box. Quickly, he got a framed picture of a 6 year old Akira. He went back to his seat and looked back and forth from the picture of Hayashi Chinatsu to the picture of his childhood friend, Yamamoto Akira.
Everything was the same except for the hairstyle. It was like the picture of Hayashi Chinatsu would exactly be what Akira Yamamoto would have looked like if she were still alive.
They have the same hair color, eye color, two dimples whenever they smile, even that twinkle in their eyes were the same. The resemblance was so uncanny that even the great Shadow King shivered from the oddness.
Hayashi Chinatsu
Age: 17 years old
Gender: Female
Birthdate: November 24
Parents: Hayashi Sanae (Mother), Hayashi Haruko (Father: Deceased)
Siblings: Hayashi Kazuya (older brother)
Hayashi Chinatsu studied in Seisen High for one school year. She was the class president of 1-A and the top 1 of her batch. She had a part-time job as a skating instructor at a public ice skating rink in Tokyo. She currently lives with her mother and older brother at an apartment. Hayashi Chinatsu scored 98 out of 100 in her Ouran Scholarship Test.
Nothing seemed out of ordinary but when Kyouya stared at her face longer and deeper, there was no doubt that this girl could be Akira Yamamoto. Well, unless Akira had a twin but he knew that the idea was really absurd since he knew that Akira never had a sibling.
So, what's the answer to this abnormality?
For the first time since Akira's death, he wasn't so sure anymore….
So, that's it for the third chapter! Reviews, comments and suggestions are warmly accepted. Just hit the review button or send me a PM. Have a great day!
-SparkofMemories