Chapter 3: Introducing Ouran Host Club
Watching as a couple of girls passed her in the hall she looked down at her new companion,
"Looks like its safe to go pick up Haruhi huh"
"…"
"I don't know why I thought you would be more talkative", she looked away from the strange bird and up at the door that stood before her. Quietly opening the door and quickly shutting it behind her, she looked around the large room. She located all of the members of the club situated around a circular table with the exception of the tall blond who seemed to be sulking by the window- drowning his sorrows with ramen.
'Why ramen of all things', she thought sadly, memories of her grumpy companion coming to the forefront of her mind. Shaking her head vigorously to help her get rid of her sad thoughts, she turned her attention back to the the group sitting at the round table. Seeing as they hadn't noticed her entry, she smiled slyly. Perching the Toucan on a decorative coat rack and shushing it when it started to grumble, she began to sneak up behind Haruhi, all the while casting wary glances to others in the room.
Springing forward when she was close enough she quickly wrapped her arms around the girls neck as she leaned down towards the brunettes ear,
"Haruhhiiii~"
"uwah!"
The multiple yells of surprise had her chuckling as the members all turned towards her in shock at her sudden appearance before blanching at her relative closeness to the girl. Haruhi recovered first from being startled by Kagome's surprise greeting and know sported a light blush across her cheeks.
"Takashi!" glancing away from the girl in her grasp she looked at the small blond who had began crying from being startled. She looked up from the small blond to the boy now deemed 'Takashi', who was patting his cousins head trying to comfort him. Rubbing the back of her head in guilt she let out a puff of air before walking over to the blond. Kneeling down she gently grabbed his shoulder and turned him to face her before turning her back to him. Catching the mystified glances of the others she reached behind her, grasping the blonds legs and pulled him to her as she stood up, with him riding her back. Looking back at the unknown blond she smiled gently.
"Its fine, I'm sorry for scaring you. I was just trying to have a little fun. My name is Kagame Higurashi, whats yours?", looking at the boy who was now carrying him, Honey giggled before wrapping his arms around the boys neck,
"My name is Mitsukuni Haninozuka but everyone calls me Honey!", Laughing Kagome began to walk around in order to entertain him as she gave him a piggyback ride.
"Kagome?", Haruhi tried her hardest to ignore the scene before her, which seemed to be sparkling for some unknown reason.
"Oh hey Haruhi! I came early, figured you would probably need me".
"You didn't…-"
"Stay away from my daughter you ruffian!", Tamaki once again grabbed Haruhi and held her tightly in his arms.
"You know this is harassment Senpai", Haruhi said with an even tone and blank eyes.
"Harassment! Daddy is just watching over his baby girl!", looking around frantically to try to see if the others understood his reasoning. Catching Kagome's eyes he foze at the look the boy gave him, and his mouth dropped open at the next words uttered,
"Is this pervert bothering you Haruhi?"
"What! Haruhi?" Turning to look at his 'daughter' in hope of her denying the accusation for him, he was promptly met with an irritated looking Haruhi. Tamaki quickly retreated to a corner with a dark aura coming off of him as he drew circles on the floor with a finger while muttering to himself.
'He didn't deny it' was the unifying thought around the table.
"So you are the other scholarship student are you not" heads whipped around to look at Kyoya before turning back to Kagome.
"Yeah, and what of it", she narrowed her eyes at the boy with glasses.
"You're the other scholarship student!", yelled Tamaki who had somehow amazingly recovered from his self exile gloom corner.
"Yeah…"
"That means your a hero like Haru-chan right" turning her head so she could glance back at the small excited blond riding her back she smiled,
"You have no idea" she winked at the blond who giggled some more.
"If I'm not mistaken you are in the same class as Haruhi and the twins", Kagome watched with some amusement as Tamaki suddenly turned to stone. Walking over to Haruhi, she kept her gaze on Tamaki and replied to the question.
"Yes, I'm in the same class as Haruhi", she slung her arm around Haruhi's soldier and watched as the stone Tamaki fell over and began to form a spider web of cracks. Sticking out her foot she nudged his body with the tip of her foot.
"Wait I thought this school-"
"-only offered one scholarship" looking up at the twins she opened her mouth to reply to them,
"Yes this school only offers one academic scholarship-" Kyoya interjected
"Then how Is he here?" the twins said peeved. Pushing his glasses up, catching a glare from the light, the twins quickly silenced themselves.
"As I was going to say, there is only one academic scholarship, but the school also know offers one athletic scholarship as well". Everyone looked at her and all she could do was nod. Hopping to to change the topic of conversation she looked over at Kyoya,
"Anyways since you all know my name, what might yours be?" she looked around at the members of the club, but her face suddenly got serious
"And why are you forcing Haruhi to dress up as a boy and participate in your… host club"
She said the last part with something akin to distaste.
Silence enveloped the room before the twins and Tamaki proceeded to start shouting.
"He knows!" Tamaki began flapping his arms in panic while jumping up and down.
"What are we gonna do boss?!"
"Its a Code Red, Code Red! Initiate plan: Haruhi Is a Boy!"
"What plan is that?", Hikaru and Kaoru looked at each other with question marks appearing above their heads.
"Takashi do you know the plan?" Honey looked at his cousin from Kagome's back
"No Mitskuni"
"Tamaki" the members of the host club stopped what they were doing when the shadow king spoke, waiting for him to talk
"Calm down", Tamaki suddenly fell face first to the floor, muttering something along the lines of "why does everyone pick on me". Kyoya turned away from Tamaki and then spoke to Kagome,
"Haruhi is working off a debt she has owes us, which requires her to work as a host in the club until further notice, or until she receives 1000 requests". Surprised by his quick answer she looked over to Haruhi then back to Kyoya
"How much does she owe?"
"Eight million yen", blanching at the amount she looked back over to Haruhi, shocked at the amount the girl owed the club.
"Moving onto more pressing matters, because of Haruhi's situation, it is necessary for her to pretend to be a boy. Unfortunately we cant stop you from telling others… but just for your information, my family happens to own a private police force, which we can use at our own discretion…", The members of the club shivered at the not so thinly veiled threat
"Kyoya-" Haruhi began to protest to him but stopped when- to everyones surprise, they heard laughing. Turning to Kagame they watched as she laughed out loud while kneeling down to let Honey off her back. Turning to Kyoya while still chuckling a little she walked up to him, but then put on a more serious face. Staring at him for a few seconds she quickly grabbed the front his shirt and pulled him down so he was forced to look at her.
"Nice try, but I'm not intimidated by a prissy little rich boy who doesn't even have the courage to straight out threaten me", pausing to take in his shocked features she pulled him closer and leveled him with a look she had only ever used in the Feudal Era when dealing with enemies.
"And even if you could send your families 'police force' out after me, who would be there, to protect you", noticing the slight trembling in his hand and his quickening heart beat she let go of him roughly, causing him to fall and land on his backside. Waving her hands around as if it was enough to cut the tension in the room she turned around,
"That aside I never got all of your names!", she smiled brightly at the other members of the host club who all seemed to be huddled together looking at her with a hint of fear, both at her threat at her seemingly personality change.
'perhaps I went a little overboard?'
-The Introductions-
After recovering from their stupor the Host Club members looked around at each other. Tamaki realizing she asked for introductions excitably stepped forward, forgetting his fear of the 'boy' due to the prospect of talking about the club.
"As you already know this is a Host Club! I am Tamaki Suoh, Preseident and creator of this Club! I am also known as the princely type." he waved his arms dramatically then gesturing towards the group,
"this is Takashi Morinozuka also called Mori, he's the strong silent type" Mori nodded towards her and she looked at the boy intensely before looking back at Tamaki. Mori somewhat reminded her of Sesshomaru with his intense look, stoic demeanor, and tall stature. Continuing with introductions Tamaki gestured to Honey who stood next to Mori,
"You've already been introduced to Honey Sempai, he's the boy lolita type", Honey laughed while hugging Usa-chan which made Kagome smile.
"Where the Hitachiin brothers~", the twins said in unison suddenly before Tamaki could introduce them himself,
"I'm Hikaru"
"and Im Karou"
"And we're the mischievous type" the two boys let out somewhat eerie grins, which reminded her of Shippo.
"Lastly there is Kyoya Ootori, the Vice President of the club! he's the cool type", said boy pushed his glasses up when Tamaki introduced him.
"And this is Ouran High's Host Club!", Spinning on his foot he faced her with his arms wide open, sparkling- as if expecting to receive applause.
"what exactly do you guys even do in this club?" Tamaki once again rushed forward to answer her question,
"Its expected that a commoner wouldn't understand the intricacies of a magnificent club such as this one and-" Kagome's heated glare made Tamaki shiver and sweat bullets. He continued nervously in his speech,
"The Ouran host club is where the school's handsomest boys with to much time on their hands entertain young ladies who also have to much time on their hands. So welcome to our world… of beauty!" he finished his speech with one hand stretched out while clutching a rose to his chest.
'where'd he pull that out from?' Kagome stared with blank eyes as she watched the scene
"Im sure you must be impressed by us yes?" Tamaki leaned down and was smiling with his eyes closed seemingly ready to receive her praise.
"Why would you create a club like this? All you do is flatter girls with false platitudes of love and devotion." she looked away from the group and set her gaze out the window, "Theres nothing more hurtful then false love…" Unbeknownst to her despite what she said the club could only stare at Kagome as 'his' body seemed to glow in the afternoon sunlight stunning the members.
Looking back over to the group after coming out of her trance she looked at the stunned group. Misinterpreting the look they were giving her as one of shock for insulting their club she gave her form of a gruff apology
"sorry about that, but that just my opinion", she looked away with a slight blush hoping she didn't make things to awkward.
"Haruhi had a similar reaction when we explained the club to her the first time" Kyoya said aloud which earned snickers from Hikaru and Kaoru.
"Do you want to hold Usa-Chan Kagome!", looking down at Honey she gave a small smile at the pink rabbit he was offering her.
'Is he trying to cheer me up?', Putting her hand on his head she ruffled his hair making him laugh.
"Im fine Honey, I don't want to take Usa-Chan from you. Besides I have my own little friend that I should probably go get"
"Really!" honeys eyes sparkled at the thought.
"Yeah let me go get him" looking at Host Club members she felt kinda bad for intruding on their club time,
"Why don't you guys get back to your club activities while I go get my friend" she told them before looking by the entrance where a coat rack sat with a bird perched on top of one of it's hooks. Sensing a gaze upon itself the bird looked up and stared her down making her pause while walking towards it.
'I wonder if that Toucan likes me or not?'
Sitting down while petting the Toucan she had retrieved from the coat rack she looked around at the newly introduced host club. After her suggestion the club had began planning their party once again. Honey sat next to her petting the bird and was trying to feed it sweets.
"No Mitsukuni", Mori stopped his cousin from feeding the bird, causing him to pout at his cousin.
"Is no one going to mention why he has a bird…" Everyone stopped what they were doing when Hikaru and Kaoru suddenly shouted
"Its a Toucan", Kagome replied back to them as if it was obvious. The brothers looked at her waiting for her to say more but all she did was give them a 'WTF are you stupid' look. Sighing they returned to planning the party but were interrupted by the sound of loud slurping from Tamaki as he ate another bowl of ramen.
'Do the members of this club just have the ability to make things appear out of thin air? Maybe its a rich thing' she thought briefly before turning her eyes to Hikaru and Kaoru.
"Hey Boss!" Kaoru shouted to Tamaki "Why don't you stop eating that commoner's ramen and come over here to help us with the party planning."
"Does it really bother you that Princess Kasuga has taken a liking to Haruhi?" Hikaru asked looking at their simple minded leader.
Still typing on his computer Kyoya put in his own thoughts about the situation
"He shouldn't be surprised, she had the illness for a while now hasn't she", question marks appeared above Kagome's head and
upon seeing the curious look on Haruhi's face she had to ask,
"One of your customers is sick?" Kagome asked
"She's got the host hopping disease"
"AKA the never the same boy twice disease", she promptly rolled her eyes at the twins answer.
"Usually our customers choose a favorite host and see them regularly, however Princess Kanoko tends to change her favorites, on a regular basis."
"Thats right because before she chose you she was with Tama-chan" Honey suddenly appeared next to Haruhi to add that little tidbit of information.
"Oh so he's upset that I took her from him?" Kagome looked away from Haruhi to look at Tamaki with disapproval
"How petty" she said aloud,
"Shut Up!" Tamaki's sudden outburst scared Honey and the bird in her lap. Before he could continue his tirade the bird in her lap proceeded to squawk at Tamaki indignantly before getting up from her lap and quickly perching itself on the edge of the table nearest to Tamaki. The group watched as the host club leader began to… argue with the bird
'Is this for real?'. Looking away from the ridiculous scene before them they turned to Kyoya when he asked a surprising question.
"By the way wasn't that bird-"
"Toucan", Kagome interrupted,
"-Part of the exhibit today?".
Kagome froze when his question registered in her mind. What should she tell him? She had technically stolen the bird-
"I found him after I left the host club yesterday. He must have escaped the room…" she blurted out before she could even think about what she was saying.
"Hmmm interesting", looking away from Kyoya she caught sight of Mori and the knowing look he was giving her despite still looking very stoic. Glaring at him to insure he would keep his mouth shut, she turned back to Kyoya in order not to seem guilty. Laughing nervously she stood up hoping to get out of the room and thus remove herself from the scrutiny of Kyoya-
"Anyways I'll leave him in your care" she pointed to the bird which was now on Tamaki while he was crouched on the floor crying and shouting, pecking at the blonds head in anger. A sweat drop appeared on the back of her head at the sight.
"I'm going to head home, it doesn't look like your going to finish anytime soon" she gestured to the table and the plans they were making for their party. Walking towards the door she ruffled Honey's hair along the way- making him smile, and handed something to Haruhi.
"It was nice to meet you all, but before I go, can I request Haruhi?"
"WHAT?!", Tamaki suddenly appeared in front of her and seemed about ready to have a meltdown.
"Well she needs 1000 requests and theres no rules as to who can and can't request a host right?", Peering around Tamaki towards Kyoya, she smirked at the slight frown he gave her.
"Yes you are correct" was his curt reply, sending a smile towards Haruhi she opened the door,
"Oh and Haruhi I wrote down my phone number on that paper so call me when you get the chance, I'll add your number to my list after that." Walking out the door she left the Host club in chaos after her announcement with a smiling and blushing Haruhi in the middle of it all.
Walking down the hall away from the Host Club Kagome looked back where the door to the club was
"I think I'm going to miss that bird, he was so pretty" sighing she let her mind wander, completely forgetting or not caring that the Host Club still thought she was a boy. Oh well~
Authors Notes
Thanks for reading everyone! This chapter was hard to write and I wish it could of been more humorous, I just needed to introduce Kagome to The Host Club/establish a relationship between them. Think of it as creating a foundation to a house I guess. Since I'm not the best writer its the only way I could think of in order to continue the story. I don't know perhaps I'm being hard on myself
Anyways feel free to message me or write a review… (: