A few days later everything seemed back to normal. After the wedding Iku and Daichi immediately went on their honeymoon. Someone's excited Teehee. So after that everything was the same, Rin caught a frog she was pretty excited about that, Santo made a hobby of bartending after seeing the one at the wedding. So all in all it was pretty quiet around the host club…until…
"WHAT?! YOU IDIOTS!" Rin was peacefully reading a book, almost asleep, until Tamaki started shouting, now she was unpeacfully jumping into the air like a cat sprayed with water struggling to catch her book that had jumped with her. "YOU'RE THE ONES THAT BUMPED INTO IT RIGHT?"
"Only because Haruhi kept running away." Hikaru defended
"We were trying to catch her because we wanted to have some fun and dress her up in cosplay." Kaoru explained as if that were a completely reasonable explanation.
"And since Mori won't let us touch Rin…" they sighed together "Haruhi is our plan B!" earlier Hikaru and Kaoru tried to get Rin to dress up in that scandalous Bunny costume, she took one look at the thing and ran for the hills. Eventually Rin hid behind Mori who sent a death glare to the twins, warning them not to get any closer. So feeling that the twins would leave her alone if she was near Mori she decided to read with him as Kyoya typed away at his computer.
"So what we cosplay all the time!" Tamaki shouted. It was then Rin noticed that usa-chan had been soaked in an orange tea. Weird. When I go to bed I always sleep with Raffy. Rin thought to herself. Yes, she still slept with a stuffed animal, that giraffe that sits on her bed. Haruhi already knew about it, Rin was kinda embarrassed when she found out but Haruhi could care less. Although Rin did make her promise not to tell anyone. Especially the host club.
"We weren't going with the usual host club costumes." Hikaru said
"We wanted to see Haruhi in bunny cosplay." Kaoru paused mischievously "Disguised as a girl."
"Disguised?..." Haruhi asked herself. "Rin please help me…" she whined
Hearing her friend plea for help as she tries to escape the ginger devils, Rin closed her book quietly and set it on the table. She walked over sighing knowing that this would take effort. She didn't sleep very well last night and she was tired. But that wouldn't stop her from helping her friend escape ginger devils.
"Guys…no…stop." Rin tugged on Haruhi's foot weakly to free her from her trap. Yes, this is Rin's maximum effort.
"I CANT THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW!" Tamaki yelled at the top of his lungs "You two are just trying to distract me from the mess you made!" Tamaki pointed at the twins who were squishing Haruhi's face making her look like a bunny
"Stop…no… bad gingers." Rin groaned out in her sleepy stupor now just cuddling Haruhi's foot.
"GET AWAY FROM HARUHI YOU PUNKS!" Tamaki cried out almost pleadingly.
"No way!" The twins refused with evil smirks on their face.
"Let me go~!" Haruhi Whined out.
"No… the bears…" Rin sleep talked as she snuggled further into Haruhi's foot "They…they know how to read... don't give them… the pancakes…"
"Excuse me." Kyoya interjected still typing away at his computer "We don't have any guests at the moment so I don't mind if you make a racket but please be careful." Kyoya took an unnecessary dramatic pause and looked towards the quarrel "You don't want to wake Honey-Sempai." He warned
"DEH!" Tamaki's voice got tight as he froze every muscle in his body tense as he looked over at the sleeping 3rd year student.
"WHA! THE BEARS! THEY HAVE INTELLIGENCE! WARP SPEED! WE MUST ESCAPE!" Rin sprung up from cuddling Haruhi's foot. The twins flashed over to her and pressed their hands on her mouth shushing her frantically.
"What did I miss?" Rin asked through the Twin's hands which came out as inaudible muffled voice.
"He's a 3rd year who still takes afternoon naps?" Haruhi asked no one in particular but unintentionally specifically offended Rin.
"What's wrong with naps huh?" Rin squinted.
"Well were gonna have to tell him eventually." Haruhi ignored Rin "Let's just wake him up and apologize."
"No wait, don't get any closer to Honey Sempai!" The gingers and the blonde all yell-whispered simultaneously.
"Come back! It's safe over here!" Tamaki yell whispered.
"What are you talking about?" Haruhi asked crouching to meet the eyelevel of Tamaki who was currently kneeling on the couch.
"Honey-Sempai wakes up in a very bad mood after napping!" Tamaki choked out
"Don't most people in general wake up in a bad mood after sleeping?" Rin asked herself "I know I do."
"Yes! But Honey Sempai is 10x worse than everyone else!" Tamaki yelped "Now this may just be a rumor but the Haninozuka family? Once visited a us military base to give combat training, supposedly Honey sempai slept through most of it because of his Jet lag…and then a soldier came in and carelessly tried to wake him up since he had been sleeping for so long." Rin could just barely picture the adorable Honey-Sempai rising up from bed like the girl from the grudge and scaring the shit out of some poor soldier. "On that day, he whipped out 2 entire platoons of soldiers, and not just any soldiers green berets! And I've heard we've had diplomatic issues with America ever since that day…"
"How terrifying!" the twins gasped.
"That so did not happen." Rin corrected "I would have heard about it."
"And we've got a bigger problem…" Tamaki started completely ignoring Rin's statement. "Usa-chan was hand made for Honey sempai by his deceased gramma. You see the way he carries that thing around it's his most prized possession. I can't imagine how he's gonna react when he sees his precious usa-chan has been ruined."
"I doubt it's ruined…." Rin said while simultaneously yawning. "It's just tea right?"
"HES GONNA DO TO US WHAT HE DID TO THSE GREEN BERETS!" the trio shouted in horror.
"I just said that didn't happen." Rin said sleepily resting her head on her hand her eyes half closed.
"You're exaggerating…" Haruhi said annoyed "Rin lived in America and she just said it didn't happen."
"Yeah…" Rin yawned leaning her head on Haruhi's shoulder. "I lived in America…"
"It's impossible for that story to be true… I mean come on."
"It is! And theirs other evidence that honey sempai has an evil side to him." Tamaki leaned in close whispering "listen to this… his blood type is ab how do ya like that?"
"Yeah so what?" Haruhi asked as Kyoya typed in the background
"But Haruhi…. That means he has the same blood type as Kyoya.
This woke Rin up right away. Haruhi and Rin clutched each other like life preservers. This information was so shocking it felt like they were being struck by lightning.
"What's the matter you've got a problem with my blood type?" Kyoya asked seeming uninterested.
Haruhi suddenly twitched looking towards the viewers "For those of you watching with type AB please don't take any offense to this."
Rin poked her head in from the side with a brow raised "Who are you talking to?"
Honey sempai rolled in his sleep like he was close to waking up. This freaked out the little group who formed a safe spot behind the couch. Rin was now full of adrenaline and ready for action.
"This is bad…" Tamaki rasped "We have to do something quick before he wakes up! Hikaru Kaoru!" Tamaki snapped his fingers calling the two ginger devils to attention.
"Sir!" they saluted like soldiers.
"Get you folk's jet." He turned around dramatically his fingers spread in dramaticy-dramaticness…ess. "Fly to Osourizan! And bring back a medium! We'll channel his grandmother who will guide us through it! We can make a new Usa-Chan for Honey sempai!" he held out a tourist map (which is not really intended for navigational use just show) that he kept on his person. You know, just in case he needed a fake map of Osourizan to give to Hikaru and Kaoru so they can bring back a medium to channel Honey's deceased gramma to make a new usa-chan. "And don't forget to bring back apple juice! Apple jam! And nebuta souvenir dolls!"
"But we don't have that much time." Hikaru protested
"We're used to your crazy ideas boss but you should think of something more practical." Kaoru suggested.
Tamaki growled in frustration or in disappointment that there would be no applelicious souvenirs coming his way. It was hard to tell. "Alright how about this? We'll take Usa-Chan to the cleaners. Haruhi!" Tamaki held up a less scandalous bunny suit for Haruhi "You're going to have to wear the bunny suit." He said as if it were a great burden on everyone. But everyone knows it's for perverted perv reasons.
"Yeah good idea boss!" Hikaru and Kaoru gave them a thumbs up.
Haruhi twitched angrily "Forget about it…" as she turned to escape Tamaki grabbed the back of her jacket "I'M NOT WEARING THAT STUPID BUNNY COSTUME ITS NOT GONNA WORK HE'LL KNOW ITS ME!" she shouted in protest.
"No he won't! He won't tell the difference if he's just waking up from a nap!"
"Well then why don't you wear it sempai?!"
"It won't be as cute if I wear it!"
This little quarrel went on for a few more moments before Rin noticed out of the corner of her eye that Honey was waking up. "OHMYGOD HES WAKING UP!" Rin alerted
"WE HAVE TO USE A SUBSTITTE! WEVE GOT NO CHOICE!" Tamaki cried in panic.
Somehow with lightning speed Tamaki managed to get his bear and place it at Honey's feet. The pentapanic of hosts took cover behind the couch. Honey picked up the bear, looked at it, then slammed it on the ground.
"WAHHHH! THAT'S MY TEDDY BEAR!" Tamaki screamed
"He's gonna come after us next!" Hikaru cried
"WAHHHHH! He just spotted his bunny rabbit!" Kaoru observed
Slowly and terrifyingly, Honey approached Usa-chan. He inspected his tea covered rabbit then slowly turned his head to the rest of the hosts.
"Who's responsible for this?" He growled his bangs hiding his eyes. "Who got Usa-Chan dirty?"
Rin refused to look at Honey as she buried her face in Haruhi's shoulder. She caught one glimpse and she never wanted to see something so scary ever again. She even peed a little.
"SOMEONE HELP! MORI SEMPAI! DON'T LET HIM HURT US!" the trio cried
"He wanted tea. So Usa-Chan decided to have a drink." Mori said simply and without fear.
There was a long pause before…"I see! So that's why is face is all dirty isn't it?" he held his rabbit up to Mori to show him "Hey do you think he wants some cake to?"
"Uh… Rin?" as the trio fell to the ground in exhaustion Haruhi poked her friend who had been unresponsive and still hanging off her. Rin had fallen asleep on Haruhi. Her adrenaline faded and she simply could not take staying awake one more second.
"I'm sorry I have to leave early Rin, but I really need to study for my test." Shizuka, one of Rin's newer customers said sadly "I can come see you again tomorrow right?"
"Of course you can. I'd love to talk more about music with you." Rin grabbed her hand and held it to her heart "Don't keep me waiting too long my little wildflower."
The girl could not comprehend words as she squealed and floated away like a leaf on the wind. Fortunately Rin had managed to wake up so Haruhi could force some sugary sweets down her gullet, so she had gained a sugar rush that could keep her tired body at a normal functioning level.
"Hey Kyoya? Do I have any more clients today?" Rin asked the shadow king as he conspicuously watched everyone on the nearby pillar.
"No that was your last appointment today." Kyoya said adjusting his glasses. "I'm impressed you got Shizuka Doumiouji to come, we've never seen her here before."
"Huh, I just talked to her in study hall and she likes some of the same music I do so I invited her" Rin explained
"But you may not want to keep having gaps like this in you hosting time Rin." Kyoya smiled evilly ask his glasses flashed "keep this up and you'll never pay off your debt, and we'll have to think of some other way you can pay off your debt."
Rin's face turned blue. What other way could I pay it off… I hope he doesn't force me into some weird Ootori slave group for the indebted! Rin shivered at the thought
"Rin." Suddenly a deep baritone voice called out to her. Rin turned to see it was Mori sitting at a table alone.
"Hey Mori." Rin sat down with him "Where's Honey I thought you guys kinda tag teamed?" he pointed over to where Honey was having a private session with three other girls. Some of the girls were only interested in Honey-Sempai so they scheduled private sessions with just him, but Mori was never too far away. "Ah so you get to relax a bit? That's cool." Rin smiled.
Mori nodded then silently slid a book over to her. Rin picked it up and looked at it and quietly gasped.
"This is the next book of witch marks! It hasn't even been made available in japan yet! How did you get it?" Rin asked in complete awe
"Internet." Mori deadpanned
"Oh my god thank you so much!" Rin wanted to Hug him but she thought that would be weird in front of everyone "I don't even know what to say I'm so excited!"
Mori smiled slightly and patted her on the head firmly. And Rin Beamed happily then had a lightbulb go off above her head.
"Oh! Here!" Rin dug around in her bag and pulled out a tin container of strawberry macaroons. "I didn't have very many customers today so you and Honey can have the rest." Rin handed him the tin and he opened it looking at the small pink macaroons. "You like the strawberry ones especially right?"
"Yeah." Mori grabbed the small French dessert and ate it in one bite. He blushed slightly at the incredibly sweet taste of the macaroon. He always loved Rin's macaroons.
"Good?"
"Hn." He agreed and popped another one in his mouth.
"Good. I was afraid they would go to waste." Rin smiled happily "Anyway I-" Rin's sentence was cut short when she heard a small muffled yelp from Honey.
The entire club looked his way. Even Kyoya seemed concerned. It seemed the room was so quiet if a fleck of dust fell off the ceiling it would sound like a bowling ball falling on a pile of grammas antique china.
"Honey-Sempai…is it?..." Haruhi started carefully.
"Na it's nothing…" he whimpered sadly his tiny hand on his cheek "Kay?"
Hikaru and Kaoru cam on either side of him to hold him still as Haruhi leaned in to look in his mouth.
"Lemmie just… take a look inside your mouth." Honey immediately started squirming worse than a worm on fishhook whining and fussing.
"Hold still." Hikaru said harshly
"Honey-Sempai please stop squirming!" Kaoru pleaded
Rin Yelped as Mori Harshly stood up his chair scooting back violently.
"There's nothing wrong! Quit messing with me! Leave me alone!" Honey whined not noticing the intimidating shadow that Mori created. Honey didn't realize he was there until he was already pouncing on him. He pinned him down to the couch trapping his hand in his and clamping his fingers down on his jaw trying to force his mouth open.
"Yes! Yes that's it! That's what's missing its MOOOEEEEEEEE!" Renge screeched in fangirl joy.
"What?! When did you get here?!" Rin yelped at Renge's sudden appearance. Even though she had a mic and had been there for a while now Rin still did not notice her. "Where's you giant entrance platform?"
Mori managed to force Honey's mouth open peering inside.
"Is it…a cavity?" Tamaki asked fearfully
"Yeah." Mori grunted as he observed the tooth with the little black dot on it.
"It's alright…I'll be okay…" Honey said tearfully.
Mori ignored him and turned to the host club president "Tamaki."
"Yes…alright. I'll take care of this." Tamaki stepped to the center of the room and cleared his throat. "Until Honey sempai gets over his cavity, I'm afraid he can't have sweets."
"Wahh?!" Honey cried out.
"Therefore… we will be supportive and ask that you kindly refrain from eating snacks in the club room until then."
Honey was on the verge of tears "No…no don't Takashi! Please don't take my snacks away. You can't. Don't do it! What will I do without them?"
Mori said nothing but merely took away the slice of cake.
"I can handle it!" Honey chased after Takashi "Please don't take away my cake!"
Takashi turned to him and said heartlessly "No more cake."
"WAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" these words stuck honey like lightning as he seemed to fall into a pit of despair.
"And that's how it all began. One little cavity and suddenly Honey-sempai's life became a living hell. Not to mention-" Renge was cut short as Rin grabbed the mike away from her.
"Renge now is not the time to narrate." Rin scolded her
Mori and Honey had left the host club early that day. Kyoya had called both Mori and Honeys drivers to come pick them up early. And despite the fact the girls were disappointed that Honey and Mori left so early they couldn't blame them. The tension in the air was so awkward all the girls just decided to leave. Leaving the host club to wait out the rest of the time with their thoughts.
Kyoya approached Rin as she lay on the couch flat holding a book in front of her face one arm holding up the book as the other dangled off the edge along with her leg. "Rin I just wanted to remind you that the no eating sweets rule applies to everyone so I would ask you to refrain from baking anymore sweets." Kyoya adjusted his glasses.
"Yeah I know." Rin sighed exasperated not tearing her eyes away from her book "I'll figure something out."
"Why don't you just make a salad?" Hikaru suggested
"Yeah I bet-"
"No" Rin said seriously sitting up and shutting her book "no salads."
"Why not? I thought girls loved salads..." The twins asked tilting their heads to the side.
"I can't make a salad."
"How can you cook crab but not make a salad?" The twin squinted at her Suspicion evident in their aura.
"There are just some things I can't cook." Rin shrugged "no matter how hard I try or how many techniques I use it just turns out awful."
"Oh I see what this is." Hikaru smirked crossing his arms
"You just don't wanna give up on sweets eh?" Kaoru added
"Way to be a part of the team Rin." They said dully
"Guys I'm serious I can't-"
"Prove it!" Suddenly they ripped a cloth off the table revealing a bunch of lettuce and various dressings and vegetables, all fresh and very lovely ingredients to make salad.
"Where on god's green earth did that come from?" Rin pointed at the salad table her eyes wide.
"Stop dodging the subject and make a salad!" The twins ordered harshly pointing at the table.
"This isn't a good idea." Rin shook her head smiling nervously as sweat dripped down her forehead "I'm sure there's other healthy things I can make... What about a fruit and veggie plate?"
"Tch tch tch." They wagged their fingers at her "still so naive Rin" they patted her head as if an innocent child earning a miffed look from Rin.
"Fruit plates and veggie plates are not nearly exquisite enough for a club such as this." Hikaru sniffed
"Salads are much more refined and classy." Kaoru shoved her over to the salad table.
Rin sighed "fine. But you can't sue me for whatever might happen." She frown grabbing an empty bowl and some lettuce, she began cutting it up into smaller easier to eat pieces.
"See that's not so hard." Kaoru praised
"I want mine with extra croutons." Hikaru requested
(Oh you just wait...) Rin furrowed her brows in concentration, after the lettuce was cut up she dumped it in the bowl. Then she reached for the carrots.
"We don't like carrots." The twins stopped her "use tomatoes, those are better."
"Hey! I'm the one making the salad so I'll put what I like in it!" She scolded pointing the knife at them.
"But carrots are nastyyyyyy." They whined "just put in some clementine's it's basically the same thing."
"How are carrots and clementine's even remotely related?" Rin asked annoyed
"There both orange." They said simply
Before Rin could say something in return the salad spontaneously burst into flames.
"AHHHH!" The twins screamed holding each other as if that would keep them from catching on fire
"I TOLD YOU!" Rin yelled crossing her arms throwing the knife down on the cutting board so it stuck in there "I CANT MAKE SALAD!"
"RIN GET AWAY FROM THE FIRE!" Tamaki dove in caring Rin away from the flames "DADDY WILL PROTECT YOU."
"PUT ME DOWN WE NEED A FIRE EXTINGUISHER!" Rin yelled, she didn't understand why he suddenly went into panic mode, the fire wasn't that big.
"EVERYONE OUT!" Tamaki picked up Haruhi in his other arm and threw her over his shoulder while Rin dangled at his side "CALL THE FIRE DEPARMENT WE MUST EVACUATE!"
"TAMAKI SEMPAI PUT ME DOWN!" Haruhi complained
Before everyone could go into complete panic mode Kyoya came over with a fire extinguisher and put out the fire.
"Tamaki put me down the problem is resolved..." Rin grumbled
"What happened here?" Kyoya approached the scene speaking as if he were more impressed with the fact a salad caught in fire than concerned that everyone could have caught on fire.
"Rin lit the salad on fire." The twins dead panned
"I didn't mean to! I told you I can't make a salad!" She defended wiggling out of Tamaki's grasp
"How did you even manage that?" Haruhi asked peering into the bowl of burnt salad
"I would like to know a swell." Kyoya adjusted his glasses "I have to admit I'm quite impressed."
"I don't know." Rin shook her head "that's why I couldn't work at the same bakery my sister worked at, because I couldn't make some of the stuff on the menu."
"You know I noticed you don't make some of the request the girls make." Haruhi put a finger to her chin in thought "like you'll make strawberry macaroons but not strawberry cupcakes."
"We'll first off I hate strawberry cupcakes their rancid..." Rin almost gagged in her mouth "and second yeah, strawberry cupcakes will catch on fire... For me anyway..."
"I wonder why that happens..."
"The world may never know..." Rin looked out the window dramatically as a spotlight hit her and the rest of the room darkens.
"How is this happening?" Haruhi asked looking around the now dark room.
"I don't know but it really fits the moment." Rin decided to not question this event of weirdness for once and continue her dramatic stature
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After the host club had officially closed, Rin had a very short math review with Haruhi and started towards the bus stop. It was a little ways away seeing as that Ouran really had no need for a bus stop so she had a bit of a walk ahead of her. But she wanted to throw away her candy bar wrapper, knowing that if she didn't do it now it would remain at the bottom of her bag…forever
During her trek to the nearest trashcan she saw Mori at the drinking fountain near the trashcans getting a drink of water. She decided to go say hello.
"Hi Mori." Rin approached him casually "How…how are you doing?"
"Hn." He grunted
"So did…Honey's Limo come to pick him up?" Rin asked
"Hn."
"And I'm guessing your limo isn't here yet."
"Hn."
"Well… I just wanted to see how you were doing." Rin gave him a closed eyed smile. When she opened her eyes he was holding her tin out to her.
"Here." Mori handed Rin back her tin.
"Oh thank you." Rin took back her tin happily "Did you eat them all already?" Rin looked up to see Mori had already left. "…oh." Rin tucked her tin away in her bag. After a quick drink from the drinking fountain she tossed her candy wrapper in the trash. But something insanely pink caught her attention.
Under further investigation she saw that the pink mass…was the macaroons she gave Mori earlier that day
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Oooooohhhh! Why do you think he did it? would you be upset if you were Rin?
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