Tale of two Hikaru repost 1
Well i didn't realize that some how i forgot to post the finished story for the cross over of DOOM a few years ago. It got a Title - Teaching is Dangerous or a Tale of Two Hikarus. So here is the first part
Title: Teaching is Dangerous or Tale of Two Hikarus
Author: therhoda
Fandom: Hikaru No Go / Ouran Host Club
Rating: K
Disclaimer: I Own nothing no where no how
Summary:
Bets are dangerous things to the poor innocent bystanders. Not that Hikaru is all that innocent but the twins teach the teacher new things.
Notes: This has two accompany stories. If this is well received then I will probably post them.
The third music room was unusually quiet given the presence of the Hitachiin brothers. The two red heads seem to be fiddling with something in their hands as Kaoru occasionally looks over at their lap top's screen.
"I think we should get Touya 5-dan."
"No we should get Shindo 3-dan."
A lot of mutual stares and raised eye brows conducts a whole conversational argument in total silence. Till finally one says, "Here look at their pictures," pulling up the respective Go Association web page on the computer. Showing the serious face of Touya 5-dan and the more more comic side picture with the title Shindo 3-dan under it.
A sigh then, "You're right lets go with Shindo." The answer is a concession and a vote all in one.
In an apartment building near the Tokyo Go Association building a phone rings. "Moshi moshi, I am busy, really two brothers. They asked for me? I don't know my schedule... They offered that? For how long... In a month? Really... give me the contact info at least I will call them. Yes. Yes, I will call them, geeze forget one time to call a client... okay so maybe it was a few times but I am getting better. What do you mean just not taking clients doesn't count as better? Just give me the information please." A hasty scribbling sound can be heard as the man writes on a grocery receipt. "Thank you so much for calling."
Standing next to his phone Shindo Hikaru's yellow bangs swing back and forth as he shakes his head. 'What could these,' looking down at his notes 'Hitachiin brothers want with me?' Before he turns and starts punching in the numbers for these his newest clients.
Shindo's first visit to the Hitachiin estate starts off not quite perfect. Shindo looks down at his watch, 'Crap I'm late.' As he runs down the street of what is supposed to be the neighborhood of his destination. There are no houses visible from the road just gates with numbers and the occasional monogrammed iron lettering. '51, 53.' Looking down at the receipt in his hand with its address scrawled on it. '55, this should be it.' He takes a deep breath before walking up to the gate and pressing the intercom button.
"Hitachiin residence, may I help you."
"Shindo 3-dan, I have a tutoring session scheduled."
"Yes Shindo-sensei you are expected, you will be met and brought up to the house. The young masters are very excited to meet you. Please enter the gate to you left." A small metal gate to seem to appear in the wall as it opens invitingly.
Stepping through the discretely marked gate Hikaru is met with a lush green landscape. A drive seems to circle up towards where the house must stand but nothing of it is visible. A silver car is purrs down the drive to stop in front of Hikaru. A man in a gray drivers cap gets out and with minimum fuss settles Hikaru into the back seat. Whisking him up the drive to what seems to be an immense building.
Getting out of the car Hikaru is shown into surroundings that seem to echo with wealth and taste. The efficient staff briskly escorts him into a room with rows and rows of books. In the middle of the room is a classic goban set up with places for people to sit two on one side and one on the other. Hikaru is still looking around the room when the door opens again to admit two red haired mirror images.
They look at him carefully before looking at each other. Hikaru sees an unspoken conversation going on before him.
"Hello Shindo-sensei we're Kaoru and Hikaru Hitachiin" is said in unison greek chorus.
"Um hello." Looking at the teens who have to be his own age. "Which of you is which?"
Another quick eye brow conversation then they step apart. The one on the left
chimes, "I am Kaoru, sensei."
The right one then continues seamlessly, "and I am Hikaru."
Shindo looks between the two, "So what may I help you with?"
"We need to learn how to play Go."
"You mean improve don't you?"
The twins smiles seem to widen and glow a little, "No we need to learn it."
"In a month!" comes flying out of Shindo's mouth before he can stop it.
"Yep we have a bet."
"That we can beat the sneakiest person we know at a game none of us had played till this month."
"We think that the two of us have a chance. As our sensei we need you to explain it to us the basics then we will work from there. Our advantage is there are two of us to one of him."
"Only one of you can play at a time, how will there being two of you be an advantage?" Shindo questions.
The twins seem to entwine around each other and they start to talk, "Well one of us will be playing true," "But the other will be watching," "the player will take direction if it is necessary from the watcher."
"How? There is no talking in a go game." Shindo questions almost instinctively.
Instead of answering him verbally the twins just look at him then turn to each other the fleeting amusement that are getting out of this is loud and clear to Shindo at least without them ever saying a word.
Shindo thinks to himself, 'Well they are paying me about six months worth of bills for one month work. With this I not only get the association off my back for tutoring but I can get that new goban i wanted to the apartment.
"This might work if you two really can learn Go. I am willing to tutor you, if you are willing to learn."
The chorus again of "Thank you Shindo-sensei," seem to be some sort of cosmic joke that Shindo is sure he is missing.
Three weeks after entering the Hitachiin residence for the first time Shindo yet again gets into the silver car to be driven to his destination. Although the twins have long since stopped depending on him to arrive on time with out a personal pick up. The sight of the silver Mercedes outside his apartment as he arrives home is starting to become routine.
Going straight into the library that has become an intense go study over his repeated visits. Inside playing a round of speed go our his students, if that is what you can call them. Shindo's silent approach is unnoticed as he observes what they are doing with out him.
"Hikaru you can't go there!"
"Why not it blocks you from taking this part of the board."
"Yes but it leaves me the ability to do this." Kaoru says as he places a stone on the board.
"And?" his brother questions.
"That stone will let him split your formation in three turns," Shindo says from the side lines.
Both brothers heads whip around, "Shindo!"
"Yeah, who were you expecting?" Walking closer to the board so he can see the board easier. Shindo is again struck at how different the two boys styles are. Kaoru sees deeply into the stones with a mature outlook on how it should be. While Hikaru is just as quick but has a lighter grasp of the stones with a more original idea of when to attack. On the whole that meant that Kaoru won most of the time. When Hikaru did win it was normally because he had thought of some trap that Kaoru fell into and couldn't recover from. In the whole of it these two monsters had learned the game and were quickly become almost as strong as some on the insei.
"Kaoru, this is a very solid game." the blush from Kaoru is only as bad as the scowl from Hikaru. Shindo proceeds to pick the game apart from the beginning. Neither boy took criticism well and they seemed to react even worse to the other being criticized. It had taken them the first week to work out the method where he could teach them with out one or the other leaving in a huff half way through the lesson.
The key he had found was to treat them as one unit, you don't say "Kaoru did this and Hikaru did that wrong." Instead you have to say, "see this stone it is wrong," or "you can't place this formation like this it will shatter." After that milestone was passed they seemed to soak up the kifu he left with them to study, their intensity was beginning to scare Shindo a little.
Shindo wasn't sure what drove his pupils to such lengths but he was sure they were unpredictable and smart. He also wasn't sure some days if he was their teacher or a kifu research assistant. His mental rummaging is interrupted by a question.
"Shindo-sensei who do you think the greatest go player of all time is?"
Shindo's brain freezes for a second, he can't think his brain cries out 'Sai' but he knows no one knows that name. He rallies with, "Shuusaku Honninbo."
The double stare he receives has become common place in the last three weeks so he then continues. "I brought you that collection of his kifu the second week I thought you to had devoured it by now."
"We did, but he is so old how can he be the best?"
'Because he was a eight hundred year old ghost, who only cared about go thats how.' Shindo thinks snidely. Then says out loud, "because he has never been surpassed in his artistry. If you learn nothing else from me you had better learn to respect this game and to do that you need to respect Shuusaka as the master he was."
The look in Shindo's eyes is so hot the twins both hold out their hands in a surrender motion. Looking at each other then back to Shindo. "We weren't meaning any disrespect Sensei."
Shindo's head shakes like a wet dog coming out of the water, before he comes back with, "Look Shuusaku is a sensitive subject for me. You couldn't know. Just don't disrespect him and we will get along fine for the rest of the month."
The eyebrow discussion the twins have after that is quick but their looks seem to turn wolfish. "Okay Sensei if you say so, we won't touch Shuusaku. How about we discuss Touya Akira instead?"
"Touya? What about him? I have bought you a few of his games." 'Like the one where he got into the Honninbo league.' Shindo questions, "what do you need about him?"
"Is he the greatest go player alive?"
"What? How in the hell do you get that?"
Hikaru pulls out an issue of Go Weekly, "well this week they have been saying that he will be the youngest Honninbo in history if he wins it from the title holder next year." Looking up as if this would be breaking news to Shindo.
"He won't win, that old troll will chew him up and spit him out." Shindo answers vehemently.
This causes a wondrous look between the brothers. The veritable 'Got him' is said to themselves. The following hour is much to Shindo's distress a barbecue for his ego, man hood and anything else he may hold sacred. The mental chant of 'six more days' holds him together. Till one goes a little to far.
"We should have gotten Touya as a tutor, I am sure he would be able to handle us."
"What did you say?" growls Shindo.
The return of the more mature tone to their victims voice brings the attention of both Hitachiins right to Shindo. Eyebrow cocked up to inquire Kaoru take up the line, "that we should have got Touya."
"Sit down." Shindo orders. "I think it's time we play." The tone brooks no denial from the twins. Kaoru sits down at the board.
"Kaoru right?" Hikaru questions.
"Maybe."
"If you're Kaoru put down your five stones if your Hikaru put down six."
Hikaru to the side pouts, "Why does he get five?"
Shindo's answer is the most diplomatic, "Cause he's a better player."
The twins don't like that answer at all. Having admitted to who he is Kaoru puts down his five stones.
"Lets play." Shindo says with that certain tone. "Onegaishimasu." Shindo looks down at the board then his eye snap up to meet Kaoru's. What follows is not a particularly professional game of Go. "Does that answer your questions?"
Kaoru looks over to his brother then back, "yes sensei," so cheeky that Shindo cracks up.
"Man does anyone stay angry at you two?"
Two smiles of mischief are his only answer.
"Well we have three more days of me here would you like to discuss where you went wrong?" Shindo offers cheerfully.
The final day of Shindo Hikaru's tutoring of the Hitachiin brothers doesn't start as brilliantly as he could have wished. The somber feeling of an approaching storm is felt even in the back seat of the silver vehicle.
Muttering to himself, "who ever heard of a school that isn't near any stations, where is this place, the outer edge." Shindo still can't believe he is here for a students match. Thinks back to the conversation from yesterday.
"I think you two will do well if your game tomorrow. If your opponent truly has never played before." Shindo reassures his charges gallantly.
The whine of "Shindo-sensei you have to come for the game." from both red heads is instantaneous.
"Wwhaat? Why would I come to your game? Isn't it at your school?" Shindo incredulously asks.
"You have to." one twin chimes, "Yes you must!" The other continues, "we must insist."
"No, I am not doing it."
A twin steps forward "We have one day left in the month of our contract are you going to break it?"
The other twin leans gently forward onto his brother's shoulder, "Will we have to call the Go Association, Shindo-sensei?"
"Call them?" Shindo stutters.
"Yes of course as you aren't fulfilling your part of the contract, right!" the duo continues. "So we must seek reparation for the last day." The two twins turn to each other still wrapped up in on another. "It really is only fair Hikaru." "Of course Kaoru I mean we did pay for a whole month, we are being shorted. It must be redressed."
"I could get to hate you two do you know that." Shindo capitulates, the go pro is out done and knows it. "What time is your game?"
Shindo comes back to himself as the car pulls to a stop at the front of a pink monstrosity of a school. The clouds do nothing to cut the glints of glass and polished metal from the building in front of him. Shindo glares more then looks down at the piece of paper that had been waiting for him in the seat of his ride.
3rd Music Room
4 o'clock
Shindo moves forward from the groomed and impressive drive way into the pink marble campus. Standing out in his sneakers and pull over shirt with the number 5 fanned across the front, if not his signature hair. Among the uniformed and polished students leaving their school for the day. Walking up to a group of girls that are looking at him like cats.
"Excuse me, could one of you tell me how to get to," Looking down at the paper then back up, "Music room three?"
There is a rustle among the girls till one steps forward, "Are you a Host?"
"What?" Shindo stammers looking down to see if it was something he was wearing. Seeing his normal clothing was still there and had not transformed into a ruffled shirt and a pair leather pants when he wasn't paying attention.
"Shindo sensei!" Comes from his immediate right then an echoing "Your here sensei," from his left. Is all the warning he gets before two red haired devils descend on him. Suddenly supporting the weight of two more people while they loudly pronounce.
"Did you ladies meet our teacher," the devils chant in unison.
"He has been oh so helpful don't you think Hikaru?"
"He has taught us so many things Kaoru."
"But not as much as you teach me Hikaru" Is crooned over Shindo's left ear setting off just enough bells for him to shake of the two devils.
"What the hell!"
"Now Shindo-sensei is that anyway to talk in a school?" comes from one devil. Followed quickly by, "You have taught us so much sensei," from the other one.
"What are you to lunatics doing?"
The soft "ohh" of wonder from the gaggle of girls is over powered by the evil glint the twins develop as they slide back together to lean into one another. "We're here to get you sensei."
Shindo's temper frays a little bit, "Ever heard of maps?"
Not deflated in the least the duo flanks Shindo again then each grabs an arm they start pulling him towards one of the pink mausoleums, "Welcome to Ouran high School, Shindo-sensei."
Shindo's sense of unreality begins to become even more pronounced. As he is dragged past libraries and sitting rooms full of teens in uniforms. The pink marble of the building combined with what looks to be crystal chandeliers gives the building an air of refinement that is really out of place for a school. His escort continues to pull him up the stair to the front of a door with the sign, Third music room, above the door. There they stop, turn towards him, one inspects his hair as the other dusts off his shoulder.
"Ready Sensei?" is all he gets before they propel him through the door. Inside is a huge hall like room with what seems to be stands on one side. Walking down its length he looks to the left and right. A girl with a red pony tail seems to be selling t-shirts with slogans of, "Twins for the win," "Shadow king forever," at a booth beside the seats.
Shindo looks around, "What is this?"
"Its Go." is answered from behind Hikaru. "We are showing that we are not just pretty faces."
The twins turn one looks put out, "Your royal painess what are you doing out here?"
"A father must root for his children, even if they face their mother in combat."
Shindo stares at the starry eyed blond listening till he gets to the Mother comment. "Mother? Hey I thought you jokers were playing some super smart guy?"
"Super smart guy, you two do me to much credit."
"Kyoya!" comes from the twins.
Shindo turns again to see a dark haired boy with a note book standing a few feet away. The boys looks up and Shindo's sense of danger suddenly peaks when a flash of green draws his eye to the left of the boy. "Touya! What are you doing here?"
Part 2 next
Title: Teaching is Dangerous or Tale of Two Hikarus
Author: therhoda
Fandom: Hikaru No Go / Ouran Host Club
Rating: K
Disclaimer: I Own nothing no where no how
Summary:
Bets are dangerous things to the poor innocent bystanders. Not that Hikaru is all that innocent but the twins teach the teacher new things.
Notes: This has two accompany stories. If this is well received then I will probably post them.
The third music room was unusually quiet given the presence of the Hitachiin brothers. The two red heads seem to be fiddling with something in their hands as Kaoru occasionally looks over at their lap top's screen.
"I think we should get Touya 5-dan."
"No we should get Shindo 3-dan."
A lot of mutual stares and raised eye brows conducts a whole conversational argument in total silence. Till finally one says, "Here look at their pictures," pulling up the respective Go Association web page on the computer. Showing the serious face of Touya 5-dan and the more more comic side picture with the title Shindo 3-dan under it.
A sigh then, "You're right lets go with Shindo." The answer is a concession and a vote all in one.
In an apartment building near the Tokyo Go Association building a phone rings. "Moshi moshi, I am busy, really two brothers. They asked for me? I don't know my schedule... They offered that? For how long... In a month? Really... give me the contact info at least I will call them. Yes. Yes, I will call them, geeze forget one time to call a client... okay so maybe it was a few times but I am getting better. What do you mean just not taking clients doesn't count as better? Just give me the information please." A hasty scribbling sound can be heard as the man writes on a grocery receipt. "Thank you so much for calling."
Standing next to his phone Shindo Hikaru's yellow bangs swing back and forth as he shakes his head. 'What could these,' looking down at his notes 'Hitachiin brothers want with me?' Before he turns and starts punching in the numbers for these his newest clients.
Shindo's first visit to the Hitachiin estate starts off not quite perfect. Shindo looks down at his watch, 'Crap I'm late.' As he runs down the street of what is supposed to be the neighborhood of his destination. There are no houses visible from the road just gates with numbers and the occasional monogrammed iron lettering. '51, 53.' Looking down at the receipt in his hand with its address scrawled on it. '55, this should be it.' He takes a deep breath before walking up to the gate and pressing the intercom button.
"Hitachiin residence, may I help you."
"Shindo 3-dan, I have a tutoring session scheduled."
"Yes Shindo-sensei you are expected, you will be met and brought up to the house. The young masters are very excited to meet you. Please enter the gate to you left." A small metal gate to seem to appear in the wall as it opens invitingly.
Stepping through the discretely marked gate Hikaru is met with a lush green landscape. A drive seems to circle up towards where the house must stand but nothing of it is visible. A silver car is purrs down the drive to stop in front of Hikaru. A man in a gray drivers cap gets out and with minimum fuss settles Hikaru into the back seat. Whisking him up the drive to what seems to be an immense building.
Getting out of the car Hikaru is shown into surroundings that seem to echo with wealth and taste. The efficient staff briskly escorts him into a room with rows and rows of books. In the middle of the room is a classic goban set up with places for people to sit two on one side and one on the other. Hikaru is still looking around the room when the door opens again to admit two red haired mirror images.
They look at him carefully before looking at each other. Hikaru sees an unspoken conversation going on before him.
"Hello Shindo-sensei we're Kaoru and Hikaru Hitachiin" is said in unison greek chorus.
"Um hello." Looking at the teens who have to be his own age. "Which of you is which?"
Another quick eye brow conversation then they step apart. The one on the left
chimes, "I am Kaoru, sensei."
The right one then continues seamlessly, "and I am Hikaru."
Shindo looks between the two, "So what may I help you with?"
"We need to learn how to play Go."
"You mean improve don't you?"
The twins smiles seem to widen and glow a little, "No we need to learn it."
"In a month!" comes flying out of Shindo's mouth before he can stop it.
"Yep we have a bet."
"That we can beat the sneakiest person we know at a game none of us had played till this month."
"We think that the two of us have a chance. As our sensei we need you to explain it to us the basics then we will work from there. Our advantage is there are two of us to one of him."
"Only one of you can play at a time, how will there being two of you be an advantage?" Shindo questions.
The twins seem to entwine around each other and they start to talk, "Well one of us will be playing true," "But the other will be watching," "the player will take direction if it is necessary from the watcher."
"How? There is no talking in a go game." Shindo questions almost instinctively.
Instead of answering him verbally the twins just look at him then turn to each other the fleeting amusement that are getting out of this is loud and clear to Shindo at least without them ever saying a word.
Shindo thinks to himself, 'Well they are paying me about six months worth of bills for one month work. With this I not only get the association off my back for tutoring but I can get that new goban i wanted to the apartment.
"This might work if you two really can learn Go. I am willing to tutor you, if you are willing to learn."
The chorus again of "Thank you Shindo-sensei," seem to be some sort of cosmic joke that Shindo is sure he is missing.
Three weeks after entering the Hitachiin residence for the first time Shindo yet again gets into the silver car to be driven to his destination. Although the twins have long since stopped depending on him to arrive on time with out a personal pick up. The sight of the silver Mercedes outside his apartment as he arrives home is starting to become routine.
Going straight into the library that has become an intense go study over his repeated visits. Inside playing a round of speed go our his students, if that is what you can call them. Shindo's silent approach is unnoticed as he observes what they are doing with out him.
"Hikaru you can't go there!"
"Why not it blocks you from taking this part of the board."
"Yes but it leaves me the ability to do this." Kaoru says as he places a stone on the board.
"And?" his brother questions.
"That stone will let him split your formation in three turns," Shindo says from the side lines.
Both brothers heads whip around, "Shindo!"
"Yeah, who were you expecting?" Walking closer to the board so he can see the board easier. Shindo is again struck at how different the two boys styles are. Kaoru sees deeply into the stones with a mature outlook on how it should be. While Hikaru is just as quick but has a lighter grasp of the stones with a more original idea of when to attack. On the whole that meant that Kaoru won most of the time. When Hikaru did win it was normally because he had thought of some trap that Kaoru fell into and couldn't recover from. In the whole of it these two monsters had learned the game and were quickly become almost as strong as some on the insei.
"Kaoru, this is a very solid game." the blush from Kaoru is only as bad as the scowl from Hikaru. Shindo proceeds to pick the game apart from the beginning. Neither boy took criticism well and they seemed to react even worse to the other being criticized. It had taken them the first week to work out the method where he could teach them with out one or the other leaving in a huff half way through the lesson.
The key he had found was to treat them as one unit, you don't say "Kaoru did this and Hikaru did that wrong." Instead you have to say, "see this stone it is wrong," or "you can't place this formation like this it will shatter." After that milestone was passed they seemed to soak up the kifu he left with them to study, their intensity was beginning to scare Shindo a little.
Shindo wasn't sure what drove his pupils to such lengths but he was sure they were unpredictable and smart. He also wasn't sure some days if he was their teacher or a kifu research assistant. His mental rummaging is interrupted by a question.
"Shindo-sensei who do you think the greatest go player of all time is?"
Shindo's brain freezes for a second, he can't think his brain cries out 'Sai' but he knows no one knows that name. He rallies with, "Shuusaku Honninbo."
The double stare he receives has become common place in the last three weeks so he then continues. "I brought you that collection of his kifu the second week I thought you to had devoured it by now."
"We did, but he is so old how can he be the best?"
'Because he was a eight hundred year old ghost, who only cared about go thats how.' Shindo thinks snidely. Then says out loud, "because he has never been surpassed in his artistry. If you learn nothing else from me you had better learn to respect this game and to do that you need to respect Shuusaka as the master he was."
The look in Shindo's eyes is so hot the twins both hold out their hands in a surrender motion. Looking at each other then back to Shindo. "We weren't meaning any disrespect Sensei."
Shindo's head shakes like a wet dog coming out of the water, before he comes back with, "Look Shuusaku is a sensitive subject for me. You couldn't know. Just don't disrespect him and we will get along fine for the rest of the month."
The eyebrow discussion the twins have after that is quick but their looks seem to turn wolfish. "Okay Sensei if you say so, we won't touch Shuusaku. How about we discuss Touya Akira instead?"
"Touya? What about him? I have bought you a few of his games." 'Like the one where he got into the Honninbo league.' Shindo questions, "what do you need about him?"
"Is he the greatest go player alive?"
"What? How in the hell do you get that?"
Hikaru pulls out an issue of Go Weekly, "well this week they have been saying that he will be the youngest Honninbo in history if he wins it from the title holder next year." Looking up as if this would be breaking news to Shindo.
"He won't win, that old troll will chew him up and spit him out." Shindo answers vehemently.
This causes a wondrous look between the brothers. The veritable 'Got him' is said to themselves. The following hour is much to Shindo's distress a barbecue for his ego, man hood and anything else he may hold sacred. The mental chant of 'six more days' holds him together. Till one goes a little to far.
"We should have gotten Touya as a tutor, I am sure he would be able to handle us."
"What did you say?" growls Shindo.
The return of the more mature tone to their victims voice brings the attention of both Hitachiins right to Shindo. Eyebrow cocked up to inquire Kaoru take up the line, "that we should have got Touya."
"Sit down." Shindo orders. "I think it's time we play." The tone brooks no denial from the twins. Kaoru sits down at the board.
"Kaoru right?" Hikaru questions.
"Maybe."
"If you're Kaoru put down your five stones if your Hikaru put down six."
Hikaru to the side pouts, "Why does he get five?"
Shindo's answer is the most diplomatic, "Cause he's a better player."
The twins don't like that answer at all. Having admitted to who he is Kaoru puts down his five stones.
"Lets play." Shindo says with that certain tone. "Onegaishimasu." Shindo looks down at the board then his eye snap up to meet Kaoru's. What follows is not a particularly professional game of Go. "Does that answer your questions?"
Kaoru looks over to his brother then back, "yes sensei," so cheeky that Shindo cracks up.
"Man does anyone stay angry at you two?"
Two smiles of mischief are his only answer.
"Well we have three more days of me here would you like to discuss where you went wrong?" Shindo offers cheerfully.
The final day of Shindo Hikaru's tutoring of the Hitachiin brothers doesn't start as brilliantly as he could have wished. The somber feeling of an approaching storm is felt even in the back seat of the silver vehicle.
Muttering to himself, "who ever heard of a school that isn't near any stations, where is this place, the outer edge." Shindo still can't believe he is here for a students match. Thinks back to the conversation from yesterday.
"I think you two will do well if your game tomorrow. If your opponent truly has never played before." Shindo reassures his charges gallantly.
The whine of "Shindo-sensei you have to come for the game." from both red heads is instantaneous.
"Wwhaat? Why would I come to your game? Isn't it at your school?" Shindo incredulously asks.
"You have to." one twin chimes, "Yes you must!" The other continues, "we must insist."
"No, I am not doing it."
A twin steps forward "We have one day left in the month of our contract are you going to break it?"
The other twin leans gently forward onto his brother's shoulder, "Will we have to call the Go Association, Shindo-sensei?"
"Call them?" Shindo stutters.
"Yes of course as you aren't fulfilling your part of the contract, right!" the duo continues. "So we must seek reparation for the last day." The two twins turn to each other still wrapped up in on another. "It really is only fair Hikaru." "Of course Kaoru I mean we did pay for a whole month, we are being shorted. It must be redressed."
"I could get to hate you two do you know that." Shindo capitulates, the go pro is out done and knows it. "What time is your game?"
Shindo comes back to himself as the car pulls to a stop at the front of a pink monstrosity of a school. The clouds do nothing to cut the glints of glass and polished metal from the building in front of him. Shindo glares more then looks down at the piece of paper that had been waiting for him in the seat of his ride.
3rd Music Room
4 o'clock
Shindo moves forward from the groomed and impressive drive way into the pink marble campus. Standing out in his sneakers and pull over shirt with the number 5 fanned across the front, if not his signature hair. Among the uniformed and polished students leaving their school for the day. Walking up to a group of girls that are looking at him like cats.
"Excuse me, could one of you tell me how to get to," Looking down at the paper then back up, "Music room three?"
There is a rustle among the girls till one steps forward, "Are you a Host?"
"What?" Shindo stammers looking down to see if it was something he was wearing. Seeing his normal clothing was still there and had not transformed into a ruffled shirt and a pair leather pants when he wasn't paying attention.
"Shindo sensei!" Comes from his immediate right then an echoing "Your here sensei," from his left. Is all the warning he gets before two red haired devils descend on him. Suddenly supporting the weight of two more people while they loudly pronounce.
"Did you ladies meet our teacher," the devils chant in unison.
"He has been oh so helpful don't you think Hikaru?"
"He has taught us so many things Kaoru."
"But not as much as you teach me Hikaru" Is crooned over Shindo's left ear setting off just enough bells for him to shake of the two devils.
"What the hell!"
"Now Shindo-sensei is that anyway to talk in a school?" comes from one devil. Followed quickly by, "You have taught us so much sensei," from the other one.
"What are you to lunatics doing?"
The soft "ohh" of wonder from the gaggle of girls is over powered by the evil glint the twins develop as they slide back together to lean into one another. "We're here to get you sensei."
Shindo's temper frays a little bit, "Ever heard of maps?"
Not deflated in the least the duo flanks Shindo again then each grabs an arm they start pulling him towards one of the pink mausoleums, "Welcome to Ouran high School, Shindo-sensei."
Shindo's sense of unreality begins to become even more pronounced. As he is dragged past libraries and sitting rooms full of teens in uniforms. The pink marble of the building combined with what looks to be crystal chandeliers gives the building an air of refinement that is really out of place for a school. His escort continues to pull him up the stair to the front of a door with the sign, Third music room, above the door. There they stop, turn towards him, one inspects his hair as the other dusts off his shoulder.
"Ready Sensei?" is all he gets before they propel him through the door. Inside is a huge hall like room with what seems to be stands on one side. Walking down its length he looks to the left and right. A girl with a red pony tail seems to be selling t-shirts with slogans of, "Twins for the win," "Shadow king forever," at a booth beside the seats.
Shindo looks around, "What is this?"
"Its Go." is answered from behind Hikaru. "We are showing that we are not just pretty faces."
The twins turn one looks put out, "Your royal painess what are you doing out here?"
"A father must root for his children, even if they face their mother in combat."
Shindo stares at the starry eyed blond listening till he gets to the Mother comment. "Mother? Hey I thought you jokers were playing some super smart guy?"
"Super smart guy, you two do me to much credit."
"Kyoya!" comes from the twins.
Shindo turns again to see a dark haired boy with a note book standing a few feet away. The boys looks up and Shindo's sense of danger suddenly peaks when a flash of green draws his eye to the left of the boy. "Touya! What are you doing here?"
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