Hide Away

Chapter 13: The Twin's Fight!

A few days later, the host club was continuing operations like normal. Setsuko was sitting with a pair of girls who were two of her regulars as she sat and chatted while drinking coffee or tea. For the most part club activities were going by smoothly, until Setsuko heard shouting.

"Hikaru, Kaoru!" Tamaki shouted, bringing Setsuko's attention, "When I gave you control over the club's website I did so on one condition- that you'd take it seriously!"

"We take our job very seriously, boss." Hikaru said.

"In fact, last night we worked on it 'til dawn." Kaoru said.

Setsuko, curious on what was happening had excused herself from the table and walked over, seeing that Tamaki was holding his laptop open for the twins to see.

On the screen there was a picture of Haruhi looking over her shoulder with roses surrounding her. Though what stood out was the fact that she was shirtless. It wasn't like her chest was being shown, and by looking at it closely Setsuko could tell it was Haruhi's head edited onto a man's body, but still, it was kind of awkward to look at.

The girls suddenly started to fawn over the picture as Tamaki stood with a shocked look on his face and Haruhi completely shell-shocked.

"Tell me when!" Tamaki said, walking up to the twins, "When did you take naked pictures of Haruhi?!" He crouched down and placed his hand on his head, tears streaming down his cheeks. "You bribed her, didn't you?"

"Calm down. It's obvious they photoshopped it." Setsuko said. "If I'm being honest the two of you did a pretty good job. Almost seamless."

"Thanks!" The twins responded with grins.

"Don't encourage them!" He turned from Setsuko back to the twins. "You idiots, that's a waste of your skills! Have you no shame?" He suddenly pulled out a magazine and showed them pictures within it. "But if you're going to do it anyway, can you photoshop her into this idol photo-book? Please?"

"Don't be ridiculous, boss. Why don't you just-" Hikaru started.

"-ask her if she would wear an outfit like one of those." Kaoru finished.

Tamaki perked up, "I never thought to ask her." He disappeared for a second and came back holding a pink dress. Standing behind Haruhi who was still unresponsive from seeing the photoshopped photo he held it up. "What do you think about this, my dear?"

"What are you doing?" Honey asked.

"He looks so handsome!" One of the girls said, still looking at the computer.

"Yeah, he does. But I have to agree with Tamaki. I'd love to see what Haruhi looked like if he dressed as a girl."

"Oh, he's so cute, I'm sure he'd look great!"

"Now that I think about it, I'd also love to see Itsuki as a girl too!"

"I think I'd die if I saw the two of them dressed as girls. It would be so cute!"

Haruhi let out a sigh and turned to glare at Tamaki, fending him off, before she turned her attention towards the twins. "Cut it out. No more making weird pictures of me, you got that? Just what do you guys take me for anyway?"

"Isn't that obvious? You're our toy." The twins said.

And their relation to their mother shines through. Setsuko thought with a sigh. The two of them started talking to Haruhi, but Setsuko was too distracted by the sudden gloom that appeared in the club room. She looked over towards a door- that she wasn't entirely sure had always been there- to see a cloaked man poking their head through.