Because it was requested uwu
Disclaimer: I don't own Ouran High School Host Club, or any of the real-world things used in this fanfiction. I only own Sora Kawashima and other OC's
PS: Sora's faceclaim is "Takumi Mukai" from idolmaster :)
PSx2: Shouta Kawashima (Sora's brother) looks like "Miyamura Izumi" that's his face claim
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-Two years later-
The pristine, elite school was just as magnificent as Sora remembered. Spacious, bright, with a dash bourgeoise in every nick and cranny of the academy. The lights, the colors, the jewels; they all work together to make the overall essence of the school perfect. It was as if god himself built these halls... and built them beautifully he did! Everything from clean floors, to the top of chandeliers hung on the ceilings was just pure art. Even the crowded hallways were aesthetically pleasing with-
"Sora-" a male voice whispered out from behind the girl "I get that this is his school and all...but could he stop babbling about it?"
"Sshhh" his sister hissed back, "Cause if I have to get another lecture because you wanna talk shit I will have your head on a spike!"
The boy sighs, speed-walking to catch up to the girl. This boy is none other than Sora's own brother, Shouta Kawashima. The two siblings share the same sleek, dark hair and are around the same height, but that's about it. Shouta got their fathers deep blue eyes, while Sora inherited her mothers brown eyes. And while Sora keeps her look rather simple, Shouta stands out with his multiple ear piercings and overall body language in order to differentiate him from the other elite boys of Ouran.
The headmaster of Ouran, Yuzuru Suoh, had offered to show the two returning students around the high school. Albeit awkwardly, he did remain standing still and smiling patiently, waiting for the Kawashima siblings to stop their bickering. Sora, noticing his growing-weariness, murmurs apologies to her new high school principal.
"If memory serves me right, you were an active member of the photography club, weren't you Ms. Kawashima?" Suoh asked, giving Sora a gentle smile. She felt a little awkward due to him ignoring her apologies, but attempted to return his friendly smile. "Yeah, but it was just a hobby of mine to pass time..." she scratched her cheek, "Something's telling me I won't need to join it again...high school is a pretty busy time, after all."
Shouta snorts "Plus you weren't any good at it" he chimes, causing a vein in Sora's head to pop. She slapped the back of her brother's head but before their bickering could escalate, the headmaster clapped his hands together happily.
"Though it is true that high school is a busy time, I would still encourage you to join whatever club your heart desires~ You're such a bright young woman, I'm sure you'll thrive anywhere. Who knows? Maybe if you join the photography club you'll be Daguerre* in no time!"
Sora scratched her cheek, embarrassed by his praise "Awww, Merci?"
"Speaking of clubs-" Shouta suddenly interjects, "Can we go off to see some?"
Yuzuru nods, "Of course! Since we are still early in this semester most, if not all, clubs are fully active! You are much more than welcome to stop by any room you please." And like a mother dropping them off at their first day of school, Yuzuru walks away from the two siblings with a smile and wave goodbye.
"Wow, check that out. We must've annoyed that poor guy half to death" Sora laughs, watching the headmaster (rather quickly) walk away from the two. Shouta merely snorts in response.
"I want to check out Ouran's black magic club, you down?" He asks. Sora quickly shakes her head, "I'm good, thanks. Ghosts aren't really my thing."
He shrugs, "Same here. Should be a laugh though, if nothing else."
The two siblings quickly split up. Sora likes music, art, food... Shouta likes... Laughing at people, bothering people, and most of all: girls. Their different interests were gonna collide sooner or later.
Sora yawned, walking up a long flight of stairs. Two years ago, in her last year of middle school school, her family had to relocate to South Korea for business purposes. Her father, Akio Kawashima, owns the largest entertainment industry in Asia. K-Entertainment was just debuting their new division in Korea, which he needed to be for until things were running smoothly. Luckily for Shouta and Sora (who ended up hating her school and experience) the Kawashima family got to return to their home in Japan, since Akio was no longer needed in Korea.
"Nice short-shorts~" A guy far behind Sora whistles, his friends laughing along with him "Fit you real well!"
Sora gives him a quick, sarcastic finger gun back, "Thanks man."
Anyways
The performing arts school Sora attended back in Seoul was amazing, but so much drama happening in her life at the time sullied what would've otherwise been pleasant memories. Though she was happy to leave at the time, she did truly miss Ouran. After all, what's not to miss?
….
….
Sora scratches her head in thought, "I seriously never made any friends here, huh?" she frowns
Sad- but it is true.
Sora was always out-shined by the much more energetic and popular Shouta in Elementary School, and by the time the two were in junior high she had just became content with her being by herself and people-watching. Her goal was to become more extroverted when she started high school in Korea, which ended up massively-
The black-haired girl slaps her cheeks and frantically shakes her head. No bad memories! I'm not worried about that stuff anymore
...Honestly, at this point of her life, she doesn't care anymore about gaining a 'loner' status. As long as nobody actively dislikes her, which no one ever did during her time at Ouran, she can manage. And-
The memory suddenly strikes Sora like a bullet. Those twins! Sora's eyes flash as she recalled the events of her last day at Ouran. "What kind of idiots were those two?" She laughs, walking down a long hallway. The memory of the two Hitachiin twins attempting to deceive and humiliate Sora was somewhat entertaining for the now second-year high school girl to think about now.
It would be a lie to say she had thought about that day at all since it happened. The twins were just fun for Sora to observe due to their identical physical appearance. But they never particularly...interested her? At least, not in the way they interested the other girls. They were a whole year younger than she is, for crying out loud! Who has time to be bothered by a couple of first-years?
"They weren't even that cute~" Sora muses aloud. She always thought their hair color was odd, and she didn't like their bowl-shaped haircuts either. Sora suddenly stops walking and looks up at the door she almost found herself running into. She hadn't even realized she had been walking towards a classroom.
Correction; a music room.
Despite this music room being so far into the school and despite it being after class hours, there was a lot of noise coming from the inside.
The noise must mean there's a club in there, right? Sora figured it would be better to see a light music club rather than to just keep walking nowhere... Or getting hit on again. Sora pushes open the door, squinting once she is attacked by the blinding amounts of lights and... flower petals? She furrows her eyebrows and squints in confusion, but continues walking into the strange room out f sheer curiosity. She looks around once her eyes adjust to the lights and setting
The room isn't necessarily overly populated. There was just... a lot of girls? The ratio of girls to guys couldn't possibly be less than 4:1. Definitely not a music club. Hell, there weren't even many instruments in this music room, just one grand piano that was left lonesome back further in the room. Everyone is loud and clearly busy, so Sora turned around in order to walk right back out of the room
"Why hello, mademoiselle. Going so soon?"
Sora peers over her left shoulder and turns right back around. A guy with neat, dark hair and glasses was smiling over at her. She nods a greeting at him, accepting his hand as he went in to kiss hers. "I don't believe I've ever seen you before Ms..."
"Kawashima, Sora" She answered, returning her hands to her jacket pocket. Sora's action came off to the boy as a bit rude, but it was an unintentional habit of hers. "I actually attended Ouran during both my elementary and middle school days, but I left before I entered high school."
He smiled, "Ah, I see.. And now you've returned to us?"
Sora smiles and shrugs in response "Seems like it."
She looks around the room. Currently, the girl's were all crowding around a blond boy holding a laptop; his expression shell shocked and angry. Sora tilts her head, "What exactly is this?" Sora waves a hand around, motion towards all the people in the room. The boy in glasses smiles back at her, causing Sora to shiver slightly.
His polite smile was too... fake. Sora could tell that his politeness and 'lovely gentleman' persona was artificial the moment she walked through the large doors. It was extremely clear that he didn't want to answer her questions, but to his credit, he kept up the act smoothly
"Ms. Kawashima, since you are new to Ouran's high school I should explain what we are doing in here. This is Ouran Academies elite host club."
...Host Club?
Sora fought off the urge to laugh and simply nodded, "Oh, I see... That makes perfect sense. May I have a look around?"
He returned to his work, annoyed with the tone Sora had. She swiftly takes his silence as a yes. Usually, she would continue to stand near him until her presence demanded a proper answer, but she really didn't want to be near that guy (and the feeling was mutual). She just had to get away even if it meant ignoring her confusion.
Why would Ouran have allow a host club? Furthermore, a HIGH SCHOOL host club? Sora had only seen hostess bars before, and her step-mother would always make a snide comment if they passed one during a car ride, so the young girl didn't really have a positive view. A host is just a... PG version of a gigolo, right?
Looking around... The swooning girls, the charismatic guys; Sora figured she had he right idea.
"Okay so..."
Sora almost finds herself wishing she had joined Shouta in his terrorizing of the Black Magic Club. The glasses-dude didn't explain much (though in his defense; Sora didn't really give him the chance to) and all these people was a bit much for the second-year
"..Which one of us is Hikaru!"
Huh?!
Sora's eyes nearly popped out of her head, but they instantly locked on a pair of auburn haired twins. She was shocked by the sight of the two; who had now fixed their hair since middle school and no longer rocked the awful bowl cut they once had. Sora shakes off her surprise by literally shaking her head, red veins popping in irritation. They continued rambling, unaware of Sora's presence…. and anger. "They still keep us this whole stupid switch-a-roo shenanigan?!" she mumbles, "did they seriously not learn from the past? How annoying!"
Sora has been told throughout her whole life she has one foot in the mouth*. "Mind your manners, Sora" or "Just be quiet, Sora" is said to her so often she can predict when someone is about to say it to her.
Well, whatever. It's not like the Hitachiin brothers don't deserve this
"You two seriously still do that!?" She loudly hissed, startling (and accidentally interrupting) the brunette boy talking to them. She placed her hands firmly on her hips, ready to give them the mental beat-down of a lifetime.
The girls all around them looked on in confusion, and the Hitachiin twins stared at Sora with wide eyes. Finally, after what seemed like hours, Hikaru glared back at Sora "I've waited two full years to tell you this!" He marched up to her and leaned in. His nose basically pressed up against the older girl's.
The girls around them all gasped, all either squealing or dreamily gossiping. However, before she could even imagine becoming flustered, Hikaru flicked Sora's forehead "You're a real jerk, you know that?!"
"I'm a jerk?!" She scoffed, (gently) shoving Hikaru back from her. Unbeknownst to the two, Kyoya had began ushering the girls out of the room, much to their disappointment. The remaining 'hosts' all stared at the two bickering students. "Sorry you can't handle eating what YOU put on the plate, sweetheart."
Hikaru didn't step down, even if the "sweetheart" comment had pissed him off almost beyond words "You said I had a some weird fetish for tears!"
Sora raised her arms up in mock surrender, "Hey- some guys watch porn; you make girls cry and pretend to be your brother! We all have our turn-ons, honey."
The other host club members just stared in awe. The one with glasses was intently listening despite him playing the part of the disinterested one, the short one stood jaw slacked and scared, the brown haired boy just stared on in confusion, the blond-
Oh wait.. that blond boy was there the day she first told these twins off….Tamaki was his name. Sora just knew she had seen him somewhere before. Chairmen's son, huh...? Go figure
"Uh, Senpai?" The brunette says, looking up at Tamaki Suoh "Who's that girl?"
Tamaki shook his head, "..So... Vulgar... Mean... Ruthless..." He mumbles to himself, growing more and more dramatically pale and small. Kaoru, who was unexpectedly happy, kept a small smile on his face, eyes glued on the pair of arguing old… friends?
"Stop calling me names, it's pissing me off!" Hikaru yells, poking Sora's shoulder while slightly hunched over to meet her height
"Good!"
Suddenly, a fit of erratic laughter burst out as the floor shifted. Sora shrieked, watching as a girl came... out of the floor, sitting on a chair as she was pushed higher and higher up. The boys in the room merely sighed, as if this was a completely natural occurrence. The girl dabs her eyes with a yellow handkerchief, sniffling and mumbling sweet praises. "Awesome, this is just perfect!" Sora blinks furiously, tilting her head to express her confusion. Was this school always so peculiar? How come nothing like this happened when she went here in the first place?
Honestly... she never would have left if they had.
"Oh, I'm just a sucker for a good old-fashioned tsundere relationship!" The girl coming out the floors clasps her hands together, eyes sparkling "A female from Kaoru's past coming in, spark still strong, fire still burning on both sides; disrupting the peaceful romance between the two brothers!"
Sora blinks, "The… romance? I-" She peeks over at Kaoru, who shakes his head to signal there was no real incest going on. Sora, relieved, rolls her eyes at the frantic girl, "Well, regardless...This is Hikaru Hitachiin, not Kaoru Hitachiin." She pointed her thumb at the annoyed boy beside her. "If you're gonna say weird shit at least have your story right."
Although it may have been only for a split second, Hikaru smiled at Sora's correction. The erratic girl ignored Sora, instead twirling around on her tall pedestal and rambling. "While it would have been much better if you were boy, I guess you'll do~!" She squealed as she lowered back down into the floor. Sora's mouth has gone dry from keeping it open for so long, but she still couldn't move from all the shock.
Tamaki took this as his chance to break up Sora and Hikaru's arguing, running in between the two. "Please, this is no place for this madness!"
She pointed a finger at Tamaki's face "You were there when I first told off Ass and Wheezie*!"
The brunette accidentally lets out a snort, covering his mouth instantly to avoid the looks he'd get from his* other fellow hosts. Tamaki shook his hands feverishly, "No no no no! No more insults, let's all just get along!"
"By the way, you dress like how the cat-fishers online sound." Hikaru looks Sora up and down, making his voice higher "Oh~ I'm a dark haired, long legged girl, in short shor-"
Sora suddenly steps on Hikaru's foot, "You are the human embodiment of a menstrual cycle."
She quickly turned away from the twin, tired of arguing and not wanting to continue in case she'd lose. "Look, it's been a long day. I still have to pick my classes, get settled in, and make sure Shouta isn't already expelled" Sora storms away, turning her back towards the amused and confused host club members. Suddenly, Sora stopped at the door.
"Kaoru?"
The younger of the Hitachiin twins flinched, "Y-Yeah?"
Sora looks over her shoulder, smiling. "I feel like I only ever get to yell at your brother, so-"
She sticks up a middle finger "Fuck you too. Nice to see you again!" She twirls back around and jogs out of the room, hoping to catch up with her brother.
The seven members all stay in place, deadpanned due to the shock. Tamaki, to the knowledge of nobody, had knelt on the ground, sulking due to once again being ignored. And by the time Sora was out of sight, Hikaru had returned to Kaoru's side, ignoring the different sets of looks everyone (minus Tamaki) was giving him. After a few moments of silence and reflecting, the brunette first year finally spoke up
"I liked her jacket, it looks warm."
I can't write :-) Let's just say it' supposed too feel rushed, imagine it being in the anime! Lot's of things happen at once!
*Louis Daguerre was an old, famous, french photographer
*having one foot in the mouth means you're saying something tactless or rude
*Referencing Zak and Wheezie, the conjoined twin dragons from Dragon Tales
*Narration is from Sora's point of view, which why her thoughts and what she's hearing is occasionally mentioned through it. Haruhi is referred to with he/him pronouns because she doesn't know Haruhi is a girl yet
SesshyxKagomeLover- Sora's patience is, as she describes, "as thin as Hikaru's hair"
Guest- :-)
Wendy Imouto Chan- lmao when I first wrote this chapter, Kaoru was also as shook as Hikaru. But it honestly didn't fit, he was just happy to see this bitch
DarkSideOfWonderland- Things Sora needs: Air, food, water Things she doesn't need: A man
fifirdbk- Idk about a "full story" hahaha and yes, it was Tamaki! The idea of it was that Tamaki, remember in the twins episode he was near when that girl confessed to "Kaoru" and he comforted her when she started to cry? Well, Sora took that girls place! First confesses, first served.
Love you all! Mwah!