Eyes Blue

The Rein of Renge

The next day
"Ahh! My precious piano!?" I slipped into the room unnoticed as the rest of the host club took in the scene of last night's feud. Tamaki searched around furiously for an answer but Kyoya's eyes stayed firmly on me as I moved into the window seat and stared out into the view without a word

"What happened to the piano?!" I looked down at my knees recalling the moment my mother had smashed my head into the three keys on the left side which were now splattered with dried blood, my hand pulled part of my fringe over the cuts on my forehead hoping no one had seen

I didn't even look up when a girl burst into the room smothering Kyoya in adoration as they tried to fix the room and hide the blood stains. A sad smile came across my lips as she stated that he was her spouse or something before they finally sat down and spoke like civilised people

A tear rolled down my cheek as she proclaimed she was the manager, the girl really just stole my job from under me! "Wait, but Kai-" I felt Kaoru's eyes drift over to me seeing that I wasn't exactly acting like I usually did "Kaida wa-is our manager, sort of" out of the corner of my eye, I saw her finger shoot my way

"You! Creepy girl staring out the window, you don't have a use in our world! You're free to go!" I wasn't exactly shocked but it seemed everyone else was "Then I'm also free to stay" this was the first time I fully looked at the french girl "with freedom to leave, also comes the freedom to leave the outside world which means coming in here?"

Her mouth moved to form words but none came out "fine, while you think on that - try not to do anymore damage, Kyoya likes his debts" all she did was stare up at me as if I was insane but she just didn't understand my way with words...yet

On my way out, I felt a hand grasp each shoulder "What's wrong Kaida, you're acting different than usual?" It didn't scare me when the twins spoke in sync, it just made it hard to tell who really cared because it was their game

"I'm fine...it's just been a long week" Of course I was acting different, I'd just been replaced, and by someone we'd never met! I mentally pictured what state the room would be in by the time I got back

For most of the day, I left the club room alone trying steer clear of everyone but when I was taking a walk around outside, I found everyone practically on the floor
"Why don't you ever call that girl a pest?! She was a manager too!"

It seemed she really had failed to keep the peace "Yes but Kaida kept to her own and assisted from afar, to be honest - we know very little about her...Kaida, would you be a dear and come over here a second?"

It felt like they hadn't realised I had left, but tomorrow would be the day where I start afresh, Renge was here to take my place forcefully so I was out of the club by position theft "Yea Kyoya senpai, what's up?" His hand gestured to me "see? Kaida was always more of a friend than a manager yet she never invaded or barked orders like a rabid chihuahua...she was just there"

As Kyoya strolled away patting my head "Not so easy, is it? I got an idea - why don't we share the role? Then neither of us have to leave?" She seemed to contemplate it for a second then fly off the handle "You just want your old job back don't you!?"

I clasped my hands together excitedly "Yes, yes I do" the sudden feeling of something looming over me dawned on my soul before I looked up to see Mori-senpai who temporarily lifted up my fringe to see the cuts rendering me speechless "the piano..." I let my hair flop back down "is a long story I'm not quite ready to share yet, just use baby wipes or something, it should come right off!"

I helped Haruhi off the floor with the help of Tamaki "you would tell us, if you were in danger...right?" I sighed deeply "I wish the situation was that simple, but it's over now"

I realised that this was getting a little too close to the host club for their own safety "Kyoya, we need to speak in private, please" I wasn't going to tell him everything, just that I needed to leave the host club permanently

"Of course Kaida" my fingers toyed with each other as he led me off to the side out of earshot of everyone else "You remember that time we spoke about? When it would be no longer safe for me to participate in the host club? That time has come"

"I see, do what you must to stay safe. I'm sure the others will understand, although you're always welcome in the club room" I nodded searching around one last time as a member of the host club, I was gonna miss this but I'd rather it was this way rather than the alternative where we were all in trouble

I made my way to the music room and finished cleaning up the mess I'd caused before packing up my belongings taking one final look around the music room I'd come to my 'home', it felt like moving out of an apartment you'd lived in forever but I think this hurt more but...

It was for the best...