Note: I had to cut out a large section of the story to be under the world limit, sorry for making it so long. Also if you see a *, reffer to the bottom of the page to find out what it means if you are unsure. 3820 words.
The Ouran High School Host Club
Standing at the grand entrance into the fourth reading room, a short boyish person with glasses and short dark brown hair that could have been washed more often, stared hopelessly into the room. The persons clothing was not the best of clothing available, the person wore a white shirt and on top a dark purple jumper.
From the persons position he or she could see the whole grand room offering a large variety of books for anyone wishing to read them. However, the room was full of people who had no intention of reading but to chat with their school friends. The boys wore a light blue jacket with the school emblem stitched onto the breast pocket, a white shirt with a black tie, trousers and shoes. The girls wore a light yellow dress that spread out over the hips and had a white collar.
The person sighed and readjusted their grip on his or her books then closed the grand door cutting out the sound emanating from the room.
“There are like four reading rooms, but why is it noisy everywhere?” the person sighed to their self as he or she climbed the grand staircase which was covered in a rich scarlet red carpet. The whole school had expensive paintings, sculptures, carpets and chandeliers. It was more of a palace than a school. The corridors were wide and had large windows that let in vast amounts of sunlight. The person stopped in front of one of these and watched a flock of doves fly by. “
Mother in heaven” the person thought to his or herself “
Ten years have passed since then. Rich kids all seem like they’re just at school to play” The person reached yet another grand door on the far side of the school. There were no windows in that area but the lights still made it feel like as if you were walking in the sunshine. The person looked at the sign by the door which read The Third Music Room. “
A music room not being used...”
The person thought as he or she placed his or her hand on the handle pushing it slowly open “I guess this could be the only place I can study quietly” they sighed again. As the person opened the door the bright light from the windows obscured her view for a moment and rose petals blew in his or her face.
“Welcome” came from the light. As the person’s eyes adjusted he or she could see the grouped figures of six boys who were between sixteen and eighteen. One sat on a chair with his legs crossed. His blonde hair covered part of his right eye which he kept pushing back slightly. The boy was handsome and had a kind, caring look on his face. Behind him were perfectly identical twins, they mirrored each other’s stances, expressions even hair styles. Both had light ginger hair and brown eyes. Next to them was a slightly taller person with jet black hair and thin rectangle shaped glasses, he looked as though he could easily win the coolest person ever award, if one existed. Looming (at least 6ft 4”) over him was a boy showing no expression with his back slightly turned with his hands in his pockets. Below everyone was the person who looked the youngest he had a cutest face as well as expression and was only about 5ft.
“But after opening this door, I found the host club instead”“Ouran Private Academy is defined by one, prestigious families, and two wealth.” Said the boy sitting in the chair dramatically “And prosperous people have much time on their hands. Therefore this Ouran Host Club is about these handsome guys that have time to give hospitality to these lovely ladies who also have time and profit off of them. It’s an elegant game unique to this super-rich school.” He smiled. The person backed up against the door, a drop of sweat began to prick on his or her forehead as they became clearly worried.
“Ho-Ho-Host Club?!” The person stuttered and began to try and open the door to leave
“What? It’s a guy?” The twins said matching each others tone.
“Hikaru and Kaoru” Said the jet black haired one as he turned to face them “You two are in the same class as this guest, right?”
“Yeah but” The twins replied “This person doesn’t go along with others well, so we don’t really know him very well” They shrugged
“That’s quite rude actually” he sighed “Welcome to the Ouran Host Club, special student”
“What?” said the one sitting down who had now jumped out of his seat “So he’s that exceptional special student Fujioka Haruhi?” he said in shock. Haruhi stopped fumbling with the door handle and froze at the mention of his name.
“How do you know… my name” Haruhi said slowly with a worried and scared expression rolled into one.
“Well the way this school works makes it hard for commoners to get in” the Black haired one replied. The twins had turned their backs and the remaining two took some attention to what was happening. “They say that it’s pretty hard to be accepted as a special student unless you are a studious bookworm” he continued in an un-complementing voice.
“Ahh..Why…thank you…” Haruhi replied trying to resist the urge insult them back as his eye twitched slightly.
“Yes” The now-standing-up-one said slapping his hand onto Haruhi’s shoulder and leaving it there “In other words, you are a hero, Fujioka-kun. Even if you are the number one student in your class, you are the poorest student of the whole school.” Now seriously agitated Haruhi sidled away from the now-standing-up-one. He followed slowly with his arms apart as if showing off a room “Others might marginalize you as a lowly civilian”
“No, I’m not as bad as you make me sound” Haruhi complained and sidled back away still trying to avoid the persons hand being placed on him again.
“Come on, why not?” he replied “All hail Poverty” he said grinning and replacing his hand on Haruhi. He flicked his hair out of his face and looked down at Fujioka Haruhi “Welcome to our elegant world, pauper!” He said in a celebration like way.
“Please excuse me” Haruhi said as he walked towards the door to leave. However foiled again in his attempts to escape the small cute one Pulled him backwards making him stumble.
“Hey, Haru-chan! Haru-chan!” He cried in a high pitched voice, he couldn’t have been older than twelve Haruhi thought to himself, even if he was wearing the high school uniform. “Haru-Chan, you’re a hero? That’s awesome!”
“A special student, not a hero” He replied bluntly has he looked down at him and suddenly bursting out in anger he said “Wait…who’re you calling Haru-chan?!” the cute-one backed quickly away leaving Haruhi heaving in anger.
“But, I never expected the famous bookworm to be gay,” The now-standing-up-one said, Haruhi turned his head and looked over at him. The other members of the host club seemed to had lost interest and were now waiting for something else to get their attention.
“Gay?” Haruhi replied, clearly annoyed
“So what type do you fancy? The Wild type?” He said gesturing at the one who had yet to speak or show any emotion at all “The loli-shota* type?” Gesturing to the cute-one. “The little devil type?”, pointing at the twins. “The cool type?” He asked pointing at the one with jet black hair and glasses.
“N-No” Haruhi stuttered slowly backing away and now clearly panicking “I was just searching for a quiet place to study-“
“Or,” He interrupted placing his hand under Haruhi’s chin “…how about you try me” He said with an alluring tone and stared deep into Haruhi’s eyes “Wanna go?” Haruhi gasped and quickly took a few more paces back. He stumbled and hit a pedestal which had a large expensive blue vase. Haruhi turned around in sheer terror as he watched it fall off its stand. He quickly dived to catch it, but missed. Rooted to the ground, he watched it hit the floor and shatter into hundreds of pieces.
“Ahh” The Twins said over Haruhi’s shoulder, clearly not caring for the vase “Rene’s flower vase that was the target for our in-school auction” Said one of them.
“That’s not good” the other added “And we thought we could reap up to 8 million yen** off of this.”
“EIGHT MILLION YEN?!” He shouted, he collapsed onto the pedestal “Wait, how many thousand is that? How many thousands make eight million? …Umm, about paying for this...” He said turning round nervously
“Are you able to?” The twins replied sarcastically “Someone who can’t even buy our designated uniform.” Haruhi was close to giving up all hope of making it out of the room “Besides what’s with that stupid outfit?”
The Jet-Black-Haired on picked up a piece of the vase with a grin on his face and sighed. “What should we do Tamaki?”
The now-standing-up-one, Tamaki, returned to his seat and crossed his legs over gracefully but seriously. “Have you heard of this saying, Fujioka-kun?” He rested his head on one hand and pointed at Haruhi “’When in Rome do as Romans do’, ‘If you don’t have the money, then work it off.’” He said with a complete change to his earlier attitude, “Starting today, you’re… the Host Club’s Dog!”
“
This is terrible, Mom” Haruhi he thought as he sighed to himself. Haruhi had become stone and the Host’s members began to wave their hands in front of his eyes and poke him “
I’ve been captured by this bizarre host club” He continued to think before fainting onto his side.
Later that day when the Host club was open, it’s members were busy pleasing young girls emotions.
“What type of music do you like, Tamaki-kun?” One girl asked Tamaki.
“Of course,” He smiled picking up a tea cup from the table. He was surrounded by girls all dying to be with him. Suou Tamaki was the founder of the club and many of the girls at the school wanted him. “It is the song we share in our memories”
“I baked you some cake today, could you try it?” Another girl said gesturing at a well crafted cake. Tamaki leaned in close as if to kiss the girl and stared deeply into her eyes.
“If you’d let me eat it all…” He smiled gently
“Oh, Tamaki-kun” the girl blushed
“Tamaki-sama, I have heard about it” Another girl said interrupting the moment, Tamaki turned around. The other girl didn’t care; she was in a world of her own. “That you have taken in a little stray cat” she smiled. She was rather beautiful with a chestnut brown hair and eyes that could make anyone lose themselves in them.
“I wouldn’t call him a little cat but rather..ah” He said spotting Haruhi entering the room carrying a grocery bag “Well, speak of the devil” he said quietly, then called over to Haruhi “Little piggy, well done with your errand. Did you buy the correct items?”
“P-Piggy” Haruhi said to himself slightly annoyed. He placed the bag on the table, Tamaki reached in and pulled out a jar of instant coffee.
“And, what would this be?” he asked
“Coffee, as you can see”
“I haven’t seen this maker before. Is this one of those where it’s already ground?”
“No, it’s the instant kind” The girls surrounding Tamaki cocked their heads to one side, they had clearly never heard of instant coffee.
“Ohh!” He gasped “Is this the type where all you need to do is put hot water in it?! The so-called commoner coffee?” A larger group of girls had formed around them, all curious about the `instant coffee`.
“Oh my…so that’s the famous-“One girl started
“So it was true that poor people use this since they can’t grind coffee nuts with the little time they have” Another said in amazement. Now half the members of the club as well as customers had gathered around.
“Commoners wisdom I see…” Said the one-with-the-jet-black-hair.
“300 yen for 100 grams huh?” One of the twins said
“What an extraordinary price!” The other twin said
“I’ll go buy it again!” Said Haruhi in frustration “Sorry for not buying the expensive coffee nuts!”
“No, wait!” Tamaki said while reading the label “I’ll try this!” everyone gasped in amazement apart from the girl who had interrupted him earlier, clearly not amused. “I’ll try this out” he declared holding the jar above his head while the crowd applauded him. “Right Haruhi, Come over here and make us some commoner coffee!”
You rich bastards…he thought to himself.
“Tamaki-sama is dallying too much. There is no way a personal favourite coffee bought by a lowly commoner would suit his taste” said a girl who was clearly unimpressed.
“huh?” Haruhi asked
“Excuse me, I was talking to myself” she said turning to Haruhi.
“Haruhi!” Tamaki called
“Yeah, yeah” he replied wishing he was somewhere else. He then demonstrated the instant coffee to a crowd of amazed rich school girls, after pouring the water he announced slowly “Coffee is served…”
“Let’s enjoy” Tamaki said. Some of the girls took some cups and stared at the substance.
One said “I might be a little scared of drinking this” “Father will scold me if I drink this kind” another said
“Would you drink it if we went mouth-to-mouth?” Tamaki asked
“I-I would” she replied, the girls went wild at the thought of kissing Tamaki. Haruhi stood there looking unimpressed by what was going on but continued to take an interest.
“Great…” Haruhi sighed
The Twins had gone back to their customers and were busy entertaining them. “And then, he said he woke up shocked from a nightmare” Hikaru said mocking his brother
“Hikaru!” Kaoru gasped “Speaking of that…in front of others…is so mean!”He said as if he were embarrassed “Speaking of that…”
“Kaoru…” He replied shocked in realising he had hurt his feelings while the two customers watched on in fear of what might happen. “Sorry, Kaoru” He said as he leaned in close as if to kiss him. “You just looked so cute that moment…I Just…”
“Hikaru…” he gasped. The girls were in heaven seeing this brotherly love and were crying in joy. They didn’t notice that the twins had changed their expressions, they were clearly acting
“Why are you crying in joy?” Haruhi said as he walked by carrying a tray of empty cups. “I don’t get it”
“Sorry” said the loli-shota boy as he rubbed his eyes, he was carried in by the tallest one “I’m late”
“Honey-kun! Mori-kun!” said one of their customers in joy.
“We waited for so long!” another said
“Sorry!” Said Honey again “I fell asleep while waiting for Mori-kun at the kendo club. I’m still kinda sleepy though”
“Awww, He’s soooo cute!” The girls cried together
“Is he really a senior?” Haruhi thought to himself from across the room.
“Don’t look at his appearance” said the jet-black haired one walking up behind him “Honey-senpai is a brilliant student. And Mori-senpai’s selling point is his taciturnity”
They were interrupted by Honey who came running over and leapt onto Haruhi’s arm causing him to spin around several times “Ha-Ru-Chan! Wanna eat cake with us, Haru-chan?” He asked with a hopeful smile on his face.
“No I…really don’t like cake that much…” He replied still recovering from the spinning.
“Then I’ll lend you my bunny!”
“No, I don’t really like bunnies either…”
“You don’t like my bunny?” He asked as if it were the end of the world. He produced a pink bunny toy that was cute.
“I-it’s cute” he half lied
“Take good care of it okay?” He said now completely revived from Haruhi’s earlier comment and ran back to his customers.
“Our club utilizes everyone’s unique traits…” He continued from their interruption “As our policy is to satisfy our customers’ needs. By the way, Tamaki is our number one host – the king. 70% of the customers designate him as their host.”
“The end of the world is here, huh?” Haruhi said to himself
“By the way, your debt being eight million yen, you’ll be the clubs dog until graduation” He smirked “Ah apologies. You’ll be in charge of trivial chores. You are free to run away, but my family has around a 100 talented private police. Do you…” He pushed his glasses up his nose “Hold a passport?”
“Huh?” Haruhi replied, not knowing what to say
“That’s right” Tamaki joined in “Work like a dog, eh, Dasaoka-kun***” He blew on his neck causing Haruhi to jump forward in shock.
“Please, stop that!”
“You won’t be popular with the ladies if you’re so pathetic…” He sighed
“I’m fundamentally not interested in that” He replied
“What are you saying? It is a very important issue! A good man, making women happy is everything!” He smiled
“It doesn’t really matter though does it?” This wiped the smile off Tamaki’s face and replaced it with shock. “Men, women, or looks. It’s what’s inside that matter for a person. I’m clueless as to why this club exists”
“It’s such a cruel thing” Haruhi looked at him “God sometimes creates perfect beings with perfect insides and outsides” He beamed in his flamboyant nature.
“Huh?”
“I can understand the feeling of consoling yourself like that. You wouldn’t be able to live without doing that.” He moved away and began talking from several metres away “But think about this carefully. Why are these art pieces in the museums? Yes, beautiful things show themselves off because that is their duty!”
What word do you use for these people…Haruhi thought to himself.
“And so, for the people who crave beauty,” Tamaki continued
Let’s see…what was that word…“I stood up and established this club, working day and night in the pursuit of beauty! It may be unnecessary with your looks but let me pass unto you my elegant techniques.” The twins walked by, clearly looking bored and were drawn to what was going on. “When you put down a glass cup, you must always use your pinky as a cushion first.” He said while demonstrating it “That way there won’t be such a loud sound and you will find it where you left it easier” He was beginning to make little sense, if he ever did at the start. “Does it look classier this way?”
Troublesome? Nah…There was something more accurate for this…“A good man should not make ungraceful sounds, and I love to see my reflection on the glass! Finally at the best moment, a look for the lower angle is very affective” He said leaning over Haruhi’s shoulder to demonstrate his point.
“Ah I know!” Haruhi finally said, hitting his fist into his other hand”
“Did your heart pump a little faster-“he continued unaware that Haruhi said anything.
“Obnoxious!” Tamaki froze, he was completely drained his ego. He had been shot down and quickly sat in a corner sulking. “Ummm…Tamaki-senpai?” Haruhi asked. The Twins stood next to him laughing their heads off.
“You are a hero, after all!” The said together clearly impressed by what was just said.
Such a troublesome person…”I’m sorry, I was a bit touched…” Tamaki stood up his ego restored completely as if nothing had ever been said, “I see, I see! Then let me teach you more techniques!”
“He recovered fast…”Haruhi said under his breath. The Twins looked on disappointed that their amusement had just reversed.
“My lord…” one of the twins said
“Call me King!” Tamaki declared
“Even if you taught him the basics of being a host” One of them started
“In his case, he doesn’t even pass the most basic visual criteria, right?” The other finished “Well even for this type if you take the glasses off, his eyes will appear even small-“ He stopped mid sentence amazed at what he could now see.
“Ah, Wait!” Haruhi complained, both of the twins stood in front of him, dumbfounded at what they saw “I lost my contacts on the first day of school!” Tamaki barged between the twins and snapped his fingers.
“Hikaru, Kaoru!” He said
“Sir!” They saluted behind him and took Haruhi by the wrists and dragged him away through to a side room.
“Kyouya!” Tamaki pointed at the jet-black-haired-one “you call the hair designer!” Kyouya was way ahead and was already dialling the numbers onto his mobile. “Mori-Senpai! Get us some contact lenses from the nurse!” Mori-senpai quickly obeyed and ran off to the nurse’s office.
“Tama-Chan! What about me?” Asked Honey who was wide eyed with excitement?
“Honey-senpai, you…” He thought for a moment
“Yeah? Yeah?” he replied anticipating something important for him.
“…eat the cakes please” He said simply, Honey grudgingly did as he was told and sat at a small table with his bunny eating cake.
“You know?” He said to himself “He said everyone else is busy doing something”
Meanwhile Haruhi was tossed into a large changing area and present by the twins a boys uniform.
“Okay, put this on!” they said together offering it to him.
“What?! What!?” He replied no longer sure what was going on as the twins leapt onto him.
“No Questions!” they said
“No!” He shouted shoving them off him “Okay I’ll wear it! Both of you get out!” And they were promptly tossed out of the changing area.
A short time later Honey was full of cake and looked as if he were about to be sick, meanwhile back at the changing area Tamaki waited outside in anticipation. The others were dealing with other minor things.
“Um, senpai” Haruhi called from behind the curtain
“Oh you finished changing?” Tamaki asked
“Not exactly could you get me a slightly larger shirt?”
“Sure” He quickly ran off and came back with a shirt. He opened the curtain and for what he saw took him by surprise. Haruhi wasn’t wearing the shirt and clearly displayed a bra supporting a small pair of breasts. Shocked he tossed the shirt in and closed the curtain again quickly.
A few minutes later after everyone else had gathered he quietly he asked “Hey, Haruhi…you’re a girl right?”
“Yeah” She replied walking out of the changing room in her boys uniform. Tamaki began shaking at the realisation that Haruhi was in fact a cute girl “I thought it was fine for you senpai’s to take me for a guy. It seems that my consciousness for genders is lower than the average person”
“I knew this from the beginning…”Kyouya said smugly, he knew a lot about people as Haruhi was eventually to find out. “It was a very interesting turn of events.”
“Yeah” Said the twins
“Ah, but you looked a bit cool back there senpai” Haruhi said to Tamaki who suddenly stopped shaking band blushed slightly until eventually his whole head had turned scarlet.
*Loli-Shota designates a personality for boys (ages 0-17)
** 100 yen is like £1 to us so; 8 million is like £80,000
*** Dasaokoa-kun is a name modification from the word meaning pathetic, Dasa. It is meant as an insult (Japanese btw…and FTW!)
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