Ouran High School Host Club Fan Fiction ❯ Curse of the 'Flu ❯ Fall of the Onigiri ( Chapter 5 )

CHAPTER V: “Fall of the Onigiri”

 

And then he was gone, leaving his twin to the capable hands of Haruhi. He was confident Hikaru would take better care of her, especially since his feelings had grown - yet what made Kaoru hesitate as he walked away? His love for Hikaru was far greater than the love he had for anyone else, and yet, here he was, entrusting Hikaru to another. Should Kaoru have felt jealous about that, perhaps even to the lengths that Hikaru had when they discovered Haruhi still kept in touch with old friends? But Kaoru had never been the jealous type; he found himself welcoming more and more people into their world…

And he felt guilty about this. He was not abandoning his twin. He was trying to help his twin. He wanted his twin to be happy… and so occupied was he in these thoughts that he missed Tamaki leaning casually against a wall, looking his very cool and enticing best.

`You're late, Kaoru!' Tamaki scolded him. `You're so late that I had to enter the convenience store and browse the interior for fifteen minutes! And when my browsing became suspicious to all who worked there,' (insert Tamaki staring at the top shelf of the magazine section) `I was forced to purchase these - these things!'

He thrust out a bag full of onigiri, each labelled in various colours. Kaoru took one out and examined it closely.

`Onigiri? My mother makes these; they're nothing special.'

Tamaki sinks into a hole.

`Well, I've never had them… I've never had them in my life…' Kaoru held out an onigiri. `They have to be unwrapped first.' The onigiri was unwrapped and then stuck gracefully into Tamaki's mouth.

Kaoru gave Tamaki a pat on the head. `Good boy,' he said.

A commoner walked past.

Woof!

`So what is it that we're doing again?'

`I don't know. This was your idea.'

`Actually, it was yours.'

`Afternoon, gentlemen.'

`Kyouya!' cried Tamaki. `Look at what we bought!'

`We?' said Kaoru.

`Here! Have one! Have two! Have three! Have another!'

Kyouya now embraced an onigiri collection. `I've had these things before,' he said. `They're nothing special.'

Arrow strikes Tamaki.

`You're no fun…'

`So is Haruhi at your house?'

`Who is at what house?'

Kaoru groaned - it was meant to be a secret! Tamaki had no idea how close he was to winning Haruhi's affection. This meeting was supposed to give Hikaru a chance. Now Kyouya was stepping in and Kaoru did not wish to fight with Kyouya…

Tamaki tapped a fist to his palm. `I understand!' He became starry-eyed with a portrait of Haruhi dressed as a harp-plucking angel.

Kyouya blinked.

Kaoru sighed.

Did Tamaki have the 'flu?

Tamaki coughed, embarrassed. `Well, on to our next agenda: the state of the Host Club. It may have been sensible to suspend all activity until everyone is well, but that does not mean we strong and healthy ones should just sit around not planning ahead. I realise that the absence of any host from the club results in less designations and therefore less money entering the club funds…'

Kaoru noticed the cue cards; Kyouya smiled encouragingly.

`…so what I propose to do, with the aid of members hereby present, is to create a new type of host!' He pointed at Kaoru. `You and I know that when one twin is down, the whole brotherly love act is down, but no more!'

`Sorry?' said Kaoru.

`When one of you is ill, you've got to host alone - understand?'

`But-'

`And you,' said Tamaki, pointing at Kyouya, `you shall host in the absence of others! You shall do - You shall host -' Tamaki faltered. `Kyouya, I can't read your handwriting.'

`It says that I should team up with another host, if working alone doesn't help.'

`Ah yes!' Tamaki pointed at Kaoru again. `Exactly!'

`Ha?'

`I pronounce you man and wife!'

Onigiri avalanche.

`What!'

`Partners,' translated Tamaki, `you and Kyouya.'

`Yeah, I got that part!' snapped Kaoru. `But what do you mean by `man and wife'? I'm not marrying Kyouya!'

`You could, if we went to Europe,' said Tamaki, folding his arms and thinking… thinking… thinking about marrying Haruhi in Europe…

`Oi!' yelled Kaoru, destroying the Tamaki Mind Theatre.

A commoner walked past.

Tamaki coughed. `Meeting adjourned! No more questions! No more discussions!'

`But you can't do this!'

Kyouya smiled. `I think he just did.'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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