Author's Note: Hello! Thanks for all the well wishes, they mean a lot. Just a note, I am starting a job and part-time school in the next week, so forgive me if chapters are not super long starting then. So, yeah. Story time!
Chapter 57
Steph wanted to start off by getting as many pictures and interacting with the land before a lot of people crowded the area. Only a few people were in the land and they chose to go on the nearby rides and into the houses that lined the street. Katie agreed with her sister, asking Manuel to take as many candid shots as possible.
"Are we going to do any formal posed shots?" Tamaki asked, striking a dashing pose.
Katie led them to a building labeled POST OFFICE as she answered him. "There will be plenty of time for that later when meeting characters, but exploring should be about discovery first and photos after."
Manuel stayed outside
So they walked into the post office, with the taller host members ducking their heads down, and saw that the post station was 'closed', but they did see six mailboxes, each labeled with a resident of Toontown.
"That's cool." Kaoru said, smiling at it, before tried to walk around the corner. Katie just managed to wave him back over to the boxes.
"Listen, I told you that Toontown has interaction features, didn't I?" She grinned at Honey, who was closest to the boxes. "Turn the first knob, please."
Honey's hand hovered over the first handle, a mailbox that belonged to Mikey Mouse!
He turned the knob a bit and they heard a famous voice. "Hey there! I'm Mickey Mouse. Betcha never had a mailbox talk to you before."
Everyone gaped at the mailbox in surprise before almost everyone tried to grab a different handle spastically. Steph stayed their hands, explaining that they wouldn't be able to hear one voice over all the boxes at once. Honey was invited to turn the same knob a few more times.
"Ha ha, mail's here, oh boy!"
"Gosh, that tickles!"
"Is that you, Minnie?"
Honey stopped there and looked to the next box, which was Minnie Mouse's mailbox. Steph gestured for Kaoru to step forward and turn the knob.
So he did, hearing the melodious voice of Miss Minnie Mouse.
"My name is Minnie Mouse, what's yours?" The mailbox asked.
"I'm Kaoru Hitachiin, from Japan." He responded with a grin. He turned the handle again, and everyone listened.
"Yooo hooo, mail's here!"
"I'd love to get letter from you!"
"Have you see my house yet? It's so much fun!" Kyoya looked at Katie as everyone looked surprised.
"She has her own house?" He asked his guide. She nodded and grinned.
"Its one of my favorite places in Disneyland, it has a lot of fun things and now it looks like we got a formal invitation." Katie responded with a huge grin.
The Hikaru reached for the next dial, but Steph stopped his hand, saying that it was Haruhi's turn. Haruhi picked a different mailbox, one that had the face of a duck on it.
She turned the knob to Donald Duck's mailbox.
His muddled voice responded. "Hiya, toots!" Haruhi blushed as Tamaki let out an indignant sputter.
"Lucky guess, I suppose." Steph was choking with laughter along with the twins as Kyoya tried to comfort their king.
Haruhi simply rolled her eyes and turned the handle a few more times.
"For me? Oh boy oh boy!"
"Hey! Who did that?"
"Hey, what's the big idea?" He seemed irritated now, so Haruhi decided to stop.
Tamaki, smarting from Donald's sass, and not wanting to be outdone, decided to turn an upside-down mailbox that could only be Goofy's.
"HELLLOOOO OUT THEREEEEE!" He laughed loudly, causing everyone to laugh along. Tamaki laughed, forgetting his earlier thoughts.
"Nothin' in here but us letters!"
"Hey, how'd I end up in this mailbox?"
"Are you having a good time?"
"This is fun!" Tamaki laughed as Hikaru went to turn the knob he was desperate to hear belonged to a funny, famous toon by the name of Roger Rabbit.
"Jeepers, look at all these bills in here! Hey, wait a minute…" Everybody frowned except for Steph, who was sniggering again, waiting. "I don't know anybody named Bill!"
The twins stared at the mailbox in shock before erupting in laughter. Haruhi, Tamaki, Honey laughed too as Mori chuckled and Kyoya face-palmed. Katie motioned for Hikaru to continue.
He did, with a grin.
"Why, I was born at the post office. I was a special delivery!" Again, everyone laughed as Kyoya groaned.
And again, with, "Hey, you know how come there aren't any girl letters?" Everyone leaned in, waiting for the punchline. "Because they're all MAIL! Haha, get it?"
"OH, SPARE ME!" Kyoya grumbled as he face-palmed once more as Katie laughed at his distress. Everyone was choking with laughter as Hikaru turned the knob again.
"How do I love thee, Jessica, let me count the ways! One one-thousand, two one-thousand, three one-thousand." Everyone aww'ed and Hikaru turned the knob again.
"I hope I get a letter from my beautiful wife, Jessica." Everyone had to smile at that and turned to the last mailbox.
"Who gets to do this one?" Steph asked with a spark in her eyes.
"Mori? Would you give Jessica's box a tweak?" Katie asked with an evil glint in her eyes. Kyoya laughed at Mori's extremely red face. He did, with shaking fingers.
"Oh, I hope I get a letter from my darling husband, Roger." A sultry voice floated up from the mailbox, causing everyone to smile.
"My mail's not bad, it's just written that way." Everyone chuckled when they heard a new take to her famous line.
"Oh, I hope I get some strong mail today…" Tamaki choked on air as he heard that as Kyoya, Katie and Steph howled with laughter.
"Mori, sounds like a delivery job for you!" Katie teased. Mori smiled shyly and turned the knob again.
You should really drop me a line sometime. I'd like that." Mori's face blushed deeper and turned the knob one last time.
"OH! This is much better than playing patty-cake." Jessica's voice purred. Mori's face should have been charred from blushing so much. Honey was patting his arm sympathetically as everyone else roared with laughter as they began to walk around the corner and deeper into the building. They passed a window and found themselves behind rubber bars!
"Is this the prison? Haruhi asked, shaking the bars.
"Nope!" Katie grinned as she simply walked between the bars to join Manuel, who was waiting there. "It's the dog pound!"
Steph had hopped out as well, leaving Manuel to capture the looks on everyone's faces when they found where they were.
They took a few minutes doing some photos there, one of which became everyone's favorite.
In the photo, Steph was on the right side of jail, pretending to be a guard, while Katie was on the left side doing the same. Tamaki was flirting with Steph, as if trying to charm his way out of prison. One who didn't know Steph would think that the Host King was succeeding, but everyone knew that she was immune to his charms.
Next to Tamaki were the twins, trying to break the bars and faking biting the bars. They knew that they could go through the bars, but it was really funny to look at as Hikaru pulled the bars and fake nibble on them with Kaoru pulling out a nail file and poising it above the bars in a comical smile.
On the other side of the jail was Kyoya, putting on all his charm into his face, as he tried to bribe Katie out of prison. He was looking very cool and collected, but Katie was laughing as he tried to bribe her with Japanese Yen. She had her arms crossed and was laughing, but her eyes was playfully scolding her friend.
Next to Kyoya was Honey and Mori casually playing cards, which Mori had in his pocket. Everyone was surprised to learn that he was an exceptionally good card player, favoring Solitaire and Emperor, but Honey had convinced him to play Blackjack. Honey was currently winning, but Mori was close behind. They seemed calmly oblivious to the mayhem around them, which was very comical.
In the middle of it all stood Haruhi. She, who was wearing fairly gender neutral clothes so they could show their guests back in Ouran their pictures, had her arms crossed and one hand on her face, palming in exasperation at the craziness around her.
Anyone who knew the host club knew that this is exactly how the club's time in the slammer, which caused everyone great delight. The last photo they did there was a great escape one, with Haruhi pushing the twins out of the way to get out first, the twins tripping over themselves to get out quickly, Mori trying to gather Honey and the cards ending up letting cars scatter around the jail, Tamaki grabbing Steph's hand and galloping away, and Kyoya taking his money back and carrying Katie in his arms as he broke out. Manuel managed to get a perfect picture of the scene, causing everyone to laugh.
Steph was cleaning up the cards as Katie led them across the little street and towards the gift shop. She invited everyone to do as she said, first by inviting Tamaki to open the door to the ACME Power House. He put his hand on the doorknob and slightly opened it up. A huge noise came from the door, as if something was being electrocuted and light came from the upper portion of the door, which caused Tamaki to shriek and jump away as everyone laughed.
They came to the Glass Factory next, and this time Katie asked Kyoya to ring the doorbell, he did so, causing a huge crash and sounds of glass shattering, much to everyone's amusement. And on they went, ringing doorbells, opening crates, and more, each providing new and interesting things as Manuel caught their reactions.
The next thing that they did was by the window they passed before and saw, embedded in the ground was huge dumbbells. They took a few pictures of each Host Member trying to lift them up off the ground. From Honey's cute trying, to Tamaki's eager pulling, to Mori's sheer determination. They also took a few funny pictures, such as Mori trying to pull up the weight with Honey and Haruhi on his shoulders, or Kyoya desperately trying to pull the dumbbell as Katie, who had snuck under the flexible bar to look as if she was trapped under the weight, was trying to help. They all did funny poses next to it and had a great time.
"This has to be the best photo shoot ever." Kaoru whispered to Kyoya, who agreed and decide to make photo books of this trip to sell to their guests back home and wondered if Katie would help him with it.
The next thing they did was approach the firework factory. In front was a starter, one where you push down on a lever towards the box. The first one to try to set the fireworks off was Mori, but nothing.
"It takes several times with this one." Katie explained. "Who's next?"
So next was Honey. Nothing. Hikaru and Kaoru. Nothing. Then came Tamaki, and the building let out a pitiful squeak, leaving everyone laughing at the failed attempt. Next was Kyoya. Nothing.
Then Haruhi tried and they heard a huge explosion from inside the building, leading everyone around her to cheer.
"You are wonderful, Haruhi! You yourself are a beautiful firework, I am so proud of you!" Tamaki swung Haruhi around in his arms, again to the amusement of everyone.
Katie, Honey, and Kaoru all noticed that, even though Haruhi's face was red, she did not protest this treatment like she normally did, nor did she try to escape his frantic grip on her. Honey and Kaoru shared a significant smile, one that Katie did not miss. She guessed what they had in mind and swore then, to herself, that she would help them with their plan to get the Host Club Prince and Princess to live happily ever after.
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