Succubus Ties #1 (Ouran High School Host Club)

Chapter Five: The Seductive Type ... Seriously?

"Good job Sutton," Kaoru says, crossing his arms.

"Why thank you," I say, grinning at him.

"I was being sarcastic."

I gape at him as Kyouya walks over to the dead Philipe, eyes him, surveys the damage and starts writing in his black book. Hikaru and Kaoru groan and turn to each other.

"One," Hikaru counts, holding up his index finger.

"Two," Kaoru puts in, holding up his index and middle fingers.

"Three," they finish together, turning to me with identical evil smirks on their faces.

"Huh ...?"

"Accessing the damage done to multiple tea sets and chairs, plus a dead Poltergeist to hide, the total cost of everything is 20,000 yen." He looks at me with the same look as the twins. "Until you can pay us back you have to work as a host."

"Why do I have to pay it back?" I whine.

"Well, you are the one that killed the Poltergeist," Kyouya says, flipping through the black book again.

"Athena, are you okay?" Kaoru asks as he, Hikaru, Honey and Mori lean towards me, Honey poking my cheek.

"I think she has the case of the boss*," Hikaru tells his brother as if he were a doctor.

"Wow, you're taking this well even though you just witnessed something supernatural," Kaoru says to Hikaru, Kyouya, Honey and Mori. Tamaki and Haruhi were sitting against a wall, bubbles flying out of their mouths as they made funny noises. They looked like they had just eaten a whole block of soap.

"I guess I'm fine now, but I bet I would be all like WTF later," Hikaru answers.

"The Haninozukas and Morinozukas are Vampire Hunters!" Honey puts in, jumping onto Mori's shoulders with flowers flowing around his head.

"The Ootori group are Fay doctors as well as human doctors," Kyouya puts in. He than turns to me. "Now that you are a host we have to find you a type."

"But what?" Tamaki asks, having quickly recovered because no one seemed to be worried about him.

"MAYBE I CAN HELP WITH THAT."

"Oh, please no," Hikaru and Kaoru mutter.

A loud bang is heard and I look around, finally seeing a girl rising from the floor on a motorized platform, laughing manically. She had orangey hair with a red bow and brown eyes. Wait - why did I not notice that there was a motorized platform in the ground?

"Who is she?" I whisper to the twins, who answer, "Renge."

"IT SEEMS THAT WE HAVE A NEW HOST," Renge says, looking down at me from her spot on the platform. "AND SHE NEEDS A TYPE." Renge looks like she is observing me quite closely even though she is far away, and her brown eyes lit up. This can't be good. "LET'S SEE ... YES, YOU HAVE THE LOOKS ... THE POTENTIAL TO BE A HOST ... I'VE GOT IT!" Renge clicks her fingers for no reason at all. "YOU WILL BE THE SEDUCTIVE TYPE." And with that the platform goes back to the ground, looking as if it was not there at all.

"Please tell me she didn't do that because I'm a Succubus," I groan, sitting next to Kaoru on one of the couches. The host club session was finished for the day and it was decided that I would be officially starting on Monday until the host club get enough male guests to sign up. Right now Kyouya was doing the profits, Honey was eating cake, Mori was sitting beside him, Tamaki was chasing Haruhi around the club room trying to get her to put on a dress and Hikaru was sitting on the other side of Kaoru, staring into space.

"Looks like Hikaru has finally gone into WTF," I comment, looking at him over Kaoru's shoulder.

"Yeah ..." Kaoru answers, looking like he was thinking hard. "Athena, can I ask you something?"

"Yeah."

"Not here," he said, standing up. Hikaru didn't even blink.

I followed him out of the club room and leaned against the wall.

"What is it?"

"Is Hikaru a ... you know ..."

"Incubus? No."

Kaoru looked at me, confused. I sighed and said, "When a Fay and a human have a child the child is always half Fay, half human. But when a Fay and human have twins, one is full human and the other is full Fay. Don't ask me how because I'm not a scientist."

"If that's the case than why isn't Hikaru the Incubus and I the human? Hikaru was the first born."

"Being born first or last has nothing to do with it."

Kaoru bangs his head against the wall behind him so hard I thought he would give himself a concussion. Finally, he says, "I'm never going to get my full powers."

"Are you saying that you will never have sex?"

"Yep."

"What about having your bloodline go on?"

"Hikaru can do that."

"What if Hikaru dies?"

"I'll make a Warlock bring him back. They do exist, right?"

"Of course, but they can't bring back the dead."

"Damn. Are there any types of Fay that can bring people back from the dead?"

"Well, there are Bodysnatchers," I admit. "They're normally self-conscious of their real bodies so they possess the bodies of dead humans. They're really strong but total whimps."

"Okay, that's just disgusting," Kaoru says.

"I know," I say, giggling.

We stare at each other for a while before Kaoru presses his lips to mine. I close my eyes and kiss him back, not even having the urge to suck his Chi out. We pull apart, resting our foreheads together.

"Athena?"

"Yeah?"

"Can you do me a favour and not tell the host club that I'm an Incubus."

"Sure," I answer. "As long as you don't tell them that we're together. We are together, right?"

Kaoru looks at me, blinking his ember eyes before nodding. "Yeah, we are." And he leaned in to kiss me again.