Disclaimer: No.

Warning(s): Shounen-ai, AU, incest

Pairing(s): subtle KaitoXShinichi, HeijiXSaguru/SaguruXHeiji, and KazuhisaXShigeo (twincest), and a lot of one-sidedness and not-soserious pairings

Summary: .AU. When honor student Sera Masumi first stumbled into their club room, they hadn't expected that she would give them the first push to each of their stories with another. She hadn't expected it either. Although she would only play a small part later on, she played a big one in their first steps.

A/N: I just felt like it. ((Inao) Kazu and (Nagashima) Shi are from Third Base Fourth, if you didn't know) Hopefully, it won't be so bad. Think 13 for Shinichi (he skipped like, three grades or something), 16 for the twins, 17 for Kaito, and 18 for Hattori and Hakuba.

.:::.

Teitan Academy: Open My Eyes

Chapter 01: Are You Ready?

It started with that one fateful day.

The day started out normally enough. The club members had met up right after last period, and prepare for the opening of the Teitan High School Host Club.

"I am not wearing that!"

The outburst came, and scholarship student Kudou Shinichi glared outright at his messy-haired look-alike. Kuroba Kaito pouted, dress still held firmly out in front of the other. "But it fits you so well, Shin-chan!"

"But it's a girl's costume!" he protested, a pink flush dusting his cheeks delicately, "Juliet's, no less! What am I supposed to do, get in that cosplay and play love story? Why can't one of you play it?"

"I'll cut a fourth off of your remaining debt," Hakuba Saguru spoke up from his corner, and Shinichi sighed and sagged.

"Fine."

Hattori Heiji snickered. "Man, he got you good there, Kudou! Who's the Romeo? I call first dibs!"

Inao Kazuhisa and Shigeo glared outright at the Osakan. "Who gave you permission to call first dibs? Love triangle is so much better!"

"Hey!" Kaito cut in, "I'm the king, so I get to call Romeo!"

"Calm down," Saguru cut in smoothly just as the four were about the bite each other's throats off. "Play a game of Evolution or something andresolve it."

Three members turned abruptly towards him. "That's not fair for us!" Kazuhisa and Shigeo chorused. "Tono always wins those games of chance! You have to think of something else that doesn't require chance!"

"If you want it that way," the half-Brit shrugged. Analyzing them for a moment, at last, he spoke. "Kuroba can have Romeo – he is king after all, Hattori-kun, you be Juliet's cousin who gets killed. Inao, you two do that part from Macbeth or something, decide on that yourself – I'll be the priest that marries Romeo and Juliet."

"You always make me the one that gets killed!" Heiji glowered angrily, but submitted anyway. The twins had already disappeared off to who knows where to prepare.

"This fits surprisingly well," Kaito commented offhandedly when most of the club had gathered back in the main club room. He was dressed, almost casually, in a barely off-white dress shirt with a gold outlining, ruffled slightly in front of the next. Matching dress pants and a leather shoes completed the outfit. "Where did Shin-chan go?"

"Still in the dressing room," Saguru made a note in his notebook, pushing up unneeded glasses. The half-Brit was wearing a set of old-fashioned priest robes that fell all the way down, concealing his shoes. Heiji snickered outright, clad in his own outfit, complete with a fake sword on his belt.

"You should wear those more often, Hakubaka. What, did Holmes not marry people back in his day?"

"He had much more important things to do than that."

"I meant you, ahou. You, unlike your crazy beliefs, are not, in any way, related to Holmes. Maybe Kudou, but not you."

"I'm related to who?"

The Hosts jumped at the voice, spinning around only to stare at the scholarship student that just appeared, staring in awe. Clad in a borrowed off-white dress with a soft gold lining that barely revealed his plain flats, and bunched up at just the right places to create the impression of breasts, he was a sight to behold. His bangs had been swept off to one side, and the hair extensions just reached his shoulders. All in all, he look very pretty has a girl, and his fellow members didn't hesitate to say just that.

"Shiiiiiinnn-chaaaaaann, you're so cute~!" Kaito easily glomped the other, making the honor student blush, trying to push him off with delicate hands, but nonetheless, did not succeed. "Get off!"

"Can we kiss you?" the twins teased, and was rewarded with spluttered rejections and a bright red blush of embarrassment. Heiji snorted.

"Why would he want you to ki – " he was cut off when the door creaked, signaling that someone was about to enter. In less than half a second, all six Host Club members had taken their places, just when that person entered.

"Welcome –"

They stared.

"...Princess."

.:::.

Sera Masumi was not having a good day. At all. She had expected this school to have at the very least to have some place quiet for studying. So far, none of the school's five libraries were not just that. And she would really need to study if she wanted to stay in this school. The courses were really challenging.

So when she stumbled across the Third Music Room down the third corridor on the third floor of the school, you couldn't say that she was particularly surprised. But, this was not what she was expecting...

"Welcome..."

She stared.

"...Princess."

What the –?

"Oh, look, it's another boy," two voices chorused. She frowned. What did they mean by 'another' boy?

She was not a boy!

"If I recall correctly, wasn't this one in your class, Inao?" A heavily British accented voice spoke next.

"Yeah, and he's also a new scholarship student, but this time, he's actually our age," the first two voices chorused once again.

When the flower petals that had been blown into her face finally cleared, she got a good look at them.

There was six of them: two of which she recognized from her class, and another from word of mouth. The twins in her homeroom were Inao Kazuhisa and Shigeo – two natural-born pranksters, though Kazuhisa, being the elder one of the two, was more refined than his twin, who was usually the mastermind of their pranks.

The other was Kuroba Kaito, who she had never really seen, only heard of from the many gossiping girls in her class, by means of not-really eavesdropping, of course. Apparently, he was a real charmer, a magician that always presented the girls with roses – though she hadn't heard any stories of any girl getting a red rose yet, though there were rumors that a scholarship student in his sophomore year did get them, but she had brushed them off. She didn't think she would stumble across them anyway.

Until now...

Talking about that, that girl over there seemed familiar for some reason, though she was almost positive she hadn't met her before.

"Can you not talk as though I am not here?" She put up an annoyed face, crossing her arms in front of her chest. Attention was finally drawn. The sole girl, or so she believed, of the group blinked. "Wait...that isn't a –"

'She' was cut off by a pointed look that was sent her by the blonde with the British accent, to which she tilted her head, in confusion, but realization dawned when the blonde nudged his head the jade-eyed boy's way.

"Well, it wouldn't be good to ignore our first customer, would it?" The messy-haired boy sitting in the middle produced a yellow rose. "Especially when that student is our second scholarship student, Sera Masumi."

She gaped. As far as she knew, no one talked about her much around the school. "How did you...?"

"Oh, please," the twins rolled their eyes. "Everyone on campus has at least heard of your name, though you're not what we would call insanely popular unli – "

"Don't be discourteous to our guest," the blonde scolded the two. Masumi silently agreed with him, but jerked away when two jade-green orbs appeared inches from her face. Backing away slowly, she was regretting ever stepping foot into this room.

Crash.

Oh. Shit.

Slowly, she turned her head to inspect what she had broken. A vase. An antique vase. A vase that looked like it was worth millions, to be exact. Great. Just great. She obviously didn't have enough money to pay this.

How was this going to turn out?

She was interrupted from her thoughts by a loud groan. "I swear, you guys put that vase there so it can get broken, and people have to pay their debts." She didn't even have to look to know that there was now a whole array of innocent looks."

"Why, Shin-chan, why would you say that?"

"We would never do something like that!"

"Kudou, do you really think so lowly of us?"

"There is absolutely no merit in doing so, Kudou-kun."

"But that's not the matter at hand now," the blonde sighed, before smiling unnecessarily sweetly. "Since it seems as though you, too, are a commoner, welcome to the Host Club. You're our newest member."

When her mind finally caught up with her ears, it, once again, came to a screeching halt when it processed what she had just heard.

What the hell?

.:::.

When scholarship student Sera Masumi first knocked down that vase, they had to bite their lips hard enough to almost draw blood to prevent bursting out in hysterical laughter, and therefore let the honor student escape from their clutches. But for now, they had another debt on their hands.

"Wait, join your club? Why?" The boy – girl, Shinichi corrected himself, spluttered. Almost like him when he first made the same mistake. He tugged absently at his hair extensions. Why did these things have to be so itchy?

Saguru sighed exasperatedly, before explaining the obvious. "You broke the vase, which, may I add, is worth eight million yen. And you obviously don't have the money to pay it since you can't even afford a school uniform."

Shinichi's eye twitched. That was the exact same speech he got when he broke that vase last year! He glared up at the half-Brit. "Can't you be any more creative? Though I suppose I should applaud you on your memory..."

"I am much complimented."

"Is Kaito rubbing off on you?"

"I would prefer not."

.:::.

Masumi sighed in boredom as she watched the Host Club members. Why was she here again? Oh, yeah, because she accidentally broke that vase, and would have to join their club until a thousand customers requested her.

But for today, she was just watching.

She refrained from the urge to cover her ears as the room erupted into squeals. The 'king' of the Host Club, Kuroba Kaito, and Kudou Shinichi, whom she discovered was crossdressing – making her the only girl – not that she minded much though, she needed to pretend to be a boy anyway, to repay her debt, where apparently doing a scene from 'Romeo and Juliet'. The balcony scene, to be exact.

"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Shinichi is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief..." The two exchanged words in old English, Kaito in a flawless accent and imitation of what Romeo was supposed to sound like.

Shinichi was embarrassed for life. He had especially put on makeup to hide his flush, though it made his skin seem even paler than it already was – unnaturally pale – when he wasn't blushing.

"Do you do this every day or something?" Masumi asked Saguru, who was taking notes right next to her.

"That the club's budget would not allow."

Jeez, she thought, annoyed, doesn't he know how to say no like a normal person? "You know, it's so obvious that those two like each other." She blinked at the 'look' that was shot her way. "What? Is there something on my face?"

The blonde didn't reply, instead turning away, though she was sure that she would be analyzed more in the future. Really? Was it about Kuroba and Kudou liking each other or something? It was so obvious, even a blind person could see it. The way the 'king's' fingers lingered unnecessarily longer on the other's skin, how Kudou pulled away, flustered, every single time it happened.

For some reason, this sparked a faint sort of jealousy within her. It had never happened before...

She supposed that she would wait it out. After all it was only a thousand customers to serve, and it could've been worse...right?

.:::.

As days passed, it didn't take a genius to figure out that she was totally wrong in her initial guess that a thousand was going to be a breeze. Her average was around two or so customers a day, which was probably good enough for someone who didn't receive any training at all. Because, it seemed, that everyone else in the club had some mutual attraction to Kudou Shinichi, whether or not that was really the case.

Shinichi himself, however, seemed oblivious to it all. All of their flirting were just harmless teasing in his eyes, and meant nothing really serious. Was there anyone that could be possibly more oblivious than him?

And the way they interacted – the others had obviously known each other for quite some time, and she was relieved to find out that Shinichi, too, had been forced into the club, for breaking the same vase.

But it seemed as though their social standings, especially apparent in the Club, was far apart. Shinichi himself was far more popular, both among club members and the ladies. His around seven customers a session was enough proof of that.

As for the club members...

.:::.

"SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNN-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAANNN!"

The shout echoed throughout the Club Room. Shinichi barely had time to brace himself before Kaito rammed into him. "Kaito! Don't do that!"

"But, Shin-chan!" the magician whined. "You promised to act with me in club activities today~! Don't you remember?"

As if just remembering that Masumi was also in the room, he grudgingly – well, sort of – added, "Oh, and Masumi-chan, when you put down the cup for the customers, don't make such a loud sound!"

"Well, I'm sorry, but none of you decided to teach me," she ground out, but Kaito ignored her in favor of cuddling his 'Shin-chan'. Behind her, Hattori Heiji snickered, covering his mouth to muffle the sound, but she heard it nonetheless. She glared. "And what do you find so funny about this?"

"Nothing, nothing," the Osakan snickered out. "Just remembering the first time Kudou stumbled into this room. Almost like you, really, but Kuroba really took a liking to him that time. We all did. But...you're sorta different."

"Well, duh. Talking about it, you guys aren't dressed up today. What, going out to play hide and seek with the ladies?"

She received a blank look in return. "Hideandseek? Kudou, what's hideandseek?"

Honestly, these rich people as so infuriating. How was she going to survive without sending a kick into their faces?

.:::.

For now, probably the only people that she could hold a decent conversation with was Shinichi and Saguru. The rest of them...were just, to say plainly, too crazy for her tastes...Not that Saguru wasn't crazy himself.

But for what happened after this episode of her breaking the vase, she was only a side character, and Shinichi, the main, of the proceedings...

What she hadn't expected was that her own blunt way of doing things, startwire with the offhand comment about Shinichi and Kaito liking each other would set off such a road of possibilities...

.:::.

A/N: So I decided to use song titles for this series. The overall title is "Open Your Eyes" by the Rasmus (the bestest!). Chapter title is "Are You Ready" by Three Days Grace. I would've wrote Eisuke and Makoto, but since I can't write them for the life of me (and for future purposes), I chose Kazu and Shi. They are Gosho's characters, after all...has anyone read 3rd Base 4th? Lucky me, school starts next week...I won't promise anything, but you should look for the next chapter starting next Thursday.

Tell me what you think (pretty boring, I know, I don't even deserve your comments)? What should Shinichi's fear be?