Don't trust first appearances

Chapter 5

~Let the Competitions Begin~

It has been a few weeks since Haruhi discovered Kagome's secret. Haruhi didn't understand at first and took Kagome a lot of explaining, but over the few weeks she has know, she has gotten adjusted to the idea of her being a girl.

Opening the door to classroom 3-A she was suddenly glomped. "Kago-chan!" It was her classmate Mitsukuni Haninozuka. Ever since Kagome started warming up to the Host Club members (just a tiny bit at the amusement park), that had been her typical morning. Honey glomping her to welcome her good morning. Kagome had tried asking him to stop, but he won't listen! "Good morning." The worst part is he looked so innocent doing it as if nothing was wrong.

Kagome's eyebrow twitched as she noticed everyone staring yet again. She was relieved when the bell rang to announce the beginning of class. Couldn't she ever get peace at Ouran Academy?

The obvious answer: NO

To prove her point all she needed to do was go to the third music room.

After school Tamaki was yelling during club time. He was taking a short break from his customers. "Mommy!" Tears were building up in the corner of the King's eyes. "Why'd they go to him?" He pointed at Kagome who was currently surrounded by girls, but didn't seem the slightest interested. He was upset because he had just lost more customers to Kagome who didn't even want to be there.

Kyoya didn't even titled his head a bit. He was still focused on his laptop screen in front of him typing away. "He's new, unattainable, and has been wanted by several girls before you even moved here daddy." He couldn't believe he was having this conversation. "Besides in or out of hosting hours he is more..." He searched for the right word. "Well-rounded."

He finally glanced over to Tamaki who had been shot in the heart several times before heading towards his corner of woe.

The twins entered the scene smirking. "Yeah Tono. He's better than you in every department."

Lightning hit Tamaki. The twins were adding onto his rage. He pointed a finger up at the sky. Full of determination he announced, "That's it! I will find something I am better than Kagome-senpai at!"

That was how the Host Club temporarily closed, and the competitions began.

Kagome's eyes were half lidded with boredom. "Not that I'm not glad to get away from those swooning girl, but what is this all about?"

Tamaki pointed over-dramatically at Kagome as everyone watched the interaction from the sidelines. "You're too- too- too perfect! I'll defeat you in something and find your flaws.

Kagome was deadpanned. That was one of the stupidest things she has ever heard. On second though, she would rather participate in his stupid event than go back to the Host Club.

They were just randomly go to some of Ouran Academy's clubs. Did he really expect to win that way?

The first club was tennis.

"So who do you think will win?" Haruhi was the one to asked.

Kyoya snapped his black notebook shut. "Seeing as Tamaki doesn't know how to play tennis..." He didn't even need to finish his explanation to get his point across. The host sweatdropped. Their King obviously didn't think this through first. When did he ever?

Throughout the game Tamaki ran around and swung his racket aimlessly. Kagome quickly finished the match with a love game.

"Wow! Kago-chan was amazing!" Honey was smiling brightly as the rest of the hosts on the sidelines sweatdropped. It wasn't much of a match if only one of them knew how to play.

Tamaki's yell could be heard from where they stood. "It's a fluke!"

They saw a blur that was Tamaki dragging Kagome to another location. If they could have seen better, they would have seen the annoyed, murderous expression that was placed on her face.

The next club they were at was the art club. They were making flower crowns from freshly picked flowers.

The other hosts were looking through the school halls in search or Kagome and Tamaki. As they were passing the room to the art room they heard an all to familiar scream. The doors shot open. Tamaki ran out ignoring them.

Kagome sighed coming out of the room as well.

"What was that about," asked the twins in unison.

Kagome wanted to sigh again. It seems she was loosing her sanity with the Host Club. "The next competition was with the Art Club. Today they were making flower crowns." Kagome showed the two that she made. They were beautiful. It was an activity that she liked because it reminded her of Rin. "Tamaki grabbed a rose not knowing the thorns were still on them."

The scenario played through the hosts' head. It did sound like Tamaki.

Kagome looked down at the flower crowns that she made. She had an idea. She took one of the crowns and place it on Haruhi's head. Kagome smiled truly. A rare genuine smile that the hosts rarely ever got to see. "There you go Haruhi-chan. It's suits you."

Honey jumped in with his arm raised wanting attention. "Oh! Me too! Me too! I want a flower crown made by Kago-chan too!"

"Sure Mitsukuni." Kagome didn't really have a need for them anyway, so she placed the second crown on his head.

He twirled around. "Does it make me look cute?" He then stopped and looked at Kagome. "And it's Honey," he whined.

Kagome shrugged. "I've known you three years already. Never called you that and I'm not going to start now."

Tamaki came running back. He had gotten a bandage around his finger. Did he really need to do that for a thorn? Was it because he was rich, spoiled, or just because it was Tamaki. She was going to go with the third option.

"This isn't the end," declared Tamaki.

The next activity was a trivia club. They were concentrating on History that day. That being her best subject, she obviously won.

Next was the karate club. People looked at him like he had grown a second head. He didn't fight, so why did he expect to win.

"Well it's been a joyful competition. Since I haven't won yet once I decided to try a different approach." He suddenly ran to Honey and threw him in front of Kagome. "You shall face Honey-senpai! He is a master of Karate."

Tears built up in the corner of his eyes. The short blond said, "But I can't hurt Kago-chan." That resulted in him glomping Kagome and crying into Kagome's shirt. Tamaki was speechless yet another plan failed.

The last competition was the archery club. Tamaki tried one final approach. If he loses, he will admit defeat. The King's idea was to play in teams. It was going to be three on three with two keeping track of the score and such. More so because Kyoya refused to participate and Haruhi... well Haruhi doesn't have any real athletic talent.

A determined expression passed his facial expression. It was Tamaki, Kaoru, and Hikaru v.s. Kagome, Mitsukuni, and Takashi.

It was clear that Honey should stick to hand to hand combat or weapons that didn't come in two. If he threw the arrow he could hit the mark but that wasn't allowed, so the arrows went everywhere. One actually going onto the opponent's target given Tamaki's team more points.

Haruhi blinked from the sidelines. They altered rules for this competition compared to how archery normally worked. Each ring representing a different number of points. Each person only gets three arrows. With how the first few rounds went Tamaki's team was in the lead 58 points to 0.

"It appears that Tamaki will finally win a round," concluded Kyoya. Haruhi glanced over to the shadow king. "The only one that hasn't shot there arrows is Kagome. Unless he hits three directly in the center then he loses."

Haruhi smiled which confused Kyoya. "It doesn't seem that you understand." Kyoya looked confused. Where had he made a miscalculation? "If it's Kagome then surely he'll win because archery is one thing that he has taken so much time and effort to perfect over the past three years." Haruhi radiated. She had complete confidence in her friend. "In a way I guess you could say that it is a large piece of his life." Haruhi was glad that she hadn't slipped Kagome's gender.

"It's your turn Kagome-senpai," stated Tamaki who stood with a grinning twin on each of his sides. Not only did they think that they won, but they had an audience as well. The archery club was in session after all.

Kagome slowly opened his eyes. "Is it that important for you to defeat me at something... at this?" Kagome remains in his seat refusing to have eye contact with Tamaki. She seemed... solemn.

"Yes!" Not only Tamaki said but Kaoru and Hikaru as well. They didn't like losing.

"In that case," lowly muttered Kagome. Not only was she going to beat them. She was going to utterly humiliate them. "Haruhi." Her ears perked at her name. "Bring me a blindfold."

"What! You're just going to let us win."

Kagome looked into Tamaki's eyes. She was serious. Dead serious. "I am not letting you win." Haruhi came with the blindfold which she gratefully took. As she tied it around her eyes. "I'm going to put you in your place!"

More of the archery members came to watch. It was so exciting. Not only were the Hosts there, which the girl were extremely happy about, but Kagome was doing it blindfolded.

"Bow and arrow." Mitsukuni brought her just what she wanted. He watched her get into place with admiring eyes. Though he was also confused. Why was he so serious?

Kagome got into a perfect stance. One that she had used so many times in the Feudal Era. Memories of all her friends flowed through her mind. Most of the hosts, including everyone minus Tamaki and Hikaru, saw a lone tear travel down his face as he released the arrow... hitting the direct center. He did the same twice more before removing the blind fold.

They moved back into the third music room. Tamaki looked down while Kagome looked enraged?

Kagome broke the awkward silence. "As much as you want to believe, I'm not perfect. Honestly I think I am far from it. I won't say my weaknesses because at some point they will probably be used against me." The hosts all looked at Kyoya. "Besides shouldn't it be more important who you are and what you're good at. You have several qualities. Like playing the piano for instinct. I can't do that. However that is one of the reasons I hate the Host Club. It is filled with fake people. I like to know the real people and not all these cover shows you do. To put it simply I don't know you and you don't know me."

She seemed to strike something deep within some of the members.

"Now I must go. There are arrangements I must take care of." Kagome left just like that.

Tee Hee sorry for the month wait. Had exams and I am leaving to go camping on Sunday so for a week starting on sunday I will be gone. Too bad too because I already have the next chapter planned out. Overall I think this will be 15-25 chapters.

I am also trying to use my own ideas. It might refer to some of the manga/anime things but I am trying to avoid the canon line because once I get in it I probably won't get out so it is taking more time to come up with ideas. Actually that is how this chapter came to be. I had no ideas what should happen next then I got really competitive with my sister so voila! But I do have a few ideas now though your ideas are always welcomed.

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