I was so frustrated, Shida-chan. That I talked to a friend about this during break at school.

PurpleSaruNinja: Hello, Flower Pianist.

FlowerPianist: ::Sigh:: Hello Sa-chan.

PurpleSaruNinja: Something wrong?

FlowerPianist: Well you see…

PurpleSaruNinja: ?

FlowerPianist: There is this boy I like at my school…

PurpleSaruNinja: Love problems, Flower Pianist? You can talk to me. I’ve told you of my own love haven’t I?

FlowerPianist: Yes, of the silver-haired young man you like…

PurpleSaruNinja: Exactly, and I have become quite successful in my love. We are both madly in love with each other. Tell me your problem and I can help you.

FlowerPianist: Well you see, Sa-chan. I recently fell in love with this boy. Before I didn’t know he even existed at my school. It was so sudden you see.

PurpleSaruNinja: Ahhh, yes, Flower Pianist. Love comes at the most unexpected times. Why for me, it came through a hole in the roof.

FlowerPianist: I’ve been thinking about him ever since and I really think this is love. But see…

PurpleSaruNinja: I don’t see. You’ll have to type it out.

FlowerPianist: Well, yesterday I found out that…that…he’s a host.

PurpleSaruNinja: GASP!

FlowerPianist: Yes!

PurpleSaruNinja: My silver-haired lover is also a host. He lives with two little kids.

FlowerPianist:…No, not that kind of house host. But a HOST.

FlowerPianist: As in...wooing ladies and submitting themselves for their happiness!

PurpleSaruNinja: My silver-haired lover…he…me…

FlowerPianist: NO. Not that kind, Sa-chan.

PurpleSaruNinja:……

FlowerPianist: Sa-chan, please don’t start daydreaming.

FlowerPianist: I’m being really serious.

PurpleSaruNinja: Sorry, Flower Pianist.

FlowerPianist: It’s okay.

FlowerPianist: Anyway, it’s just awful! I thought I had him all to myself! Had his undivided attention!

FlowerPianist: But it turns out he has many admirers within our school! He is a celebrity!

FlowerPianist: And the fact that he’s a host!

FlowerPianist: Wooing and flirting and whisking away the hearts of girls shamelessly for the fun of it!

FlowerPianist: Sa-chan! What should I do? I like him but I can’t stand such a flirtatious character!

PurpleSaruNinja: Flower Pianist.

FlowerPianist: Yes?

PurpleSaruNinja: There is only one thing you should do.

FlowerPianist: YES?

PurpleSaruNinja: The best thing to do at a time like this is to jump across roofs during the night and hope that you fall through the roof and into the room of this boy you like.

PurpleSaruNinja: Also hope that you fall down next to him as he sleeps.

PurpleSaruNinja: Make sure you cuddle up next to him and that he doesn’t realize this until he wakes up.

PurpleSaruNinja: When he does wake up, make sure he doesn’t remember anything from the night before and that the kids and dog he lives with don’t know anything either.

PurpleSaruNinja: Just watch them get crazy, and them start implying that something happened.

PurpleSaruNinja: And then just stay with him forever.

PurpleSaruNinja: Until you get word that your fellow ninja friends are in danger and then tell him that he needs to take responsibility for his actions and therefore should meet your father and then take him and make him go and rescue your friends.

FlowerPianist:…Sa-chan.

PurpleSaruNinja: Yes, Flower Pianist?

FlowerPianist: I think I would like an easier solution. Capable in the given situations of a 16-year-old student. Not a 20-year-old M Ninja.

PurpleSaruNinja: Well, Flower Pianist, then you should just pray to Buddah.

PurpleSaruNinja: And hand out 10,000 flyers that say Gintoki loves Sa-chan.

PurpleSaruNinja: It’ll work like magic.

PurpleSaruNinja: Gotta go now. I have ninja duty at 5.

PurpleSaruNinja: Tell me how your love goes.

PurpleSaruNinja: ;D Bye now~!

PurpleSaruNinja has signed off at 11:52 AM

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Good News Shida-chan!!...and bad. It turns out, Kaoru-chan isn’t sick at all! Which is very very good…but….Also, it turns out that he isn’t such a minor character at this school at all. On the contrary, Kaoru-chan is a celebrity. I was really, really surprised to find this out, Shida-chan, that I gurgled and fell over on the ground and just laid there for a very long time.

…You’ll never believe this, Shida-chan…But…Kaoru-chan is a Host—A HOST!!! Can you believe this? Yes, Shida-chan, you heard right, a Host like the lecherous, shameless, flirtatious, heart-wrenching, mind-boggling, heart-stealing form of life that eats away at the minds of young innocent girls and diminishes them into nothing!. I can’t believe this, Shida-chan. How could such a nice person like Kaoru-chan lower himself to such a low-level leech (LLL or LX3)?

Apparently, Shida-chan, we have a club at our school called the Ouran Host Club. I was really appalled (and curious). Oh, how did I find out? Well you see I was taking a quick nap in between classes right before Club hours began today, and from beside me I heard a bunch of girls rushing and giggling. I was slightly annoyed and was about to tell them to take their giggles outside when one of the girls squealed Kaoru-chan’s name! Well, then their entire conversation started sounding like a lot more than just foolish giggles, so I listened and……well, that’s how I found out.

You can imagine my surprise, Shida-chan, if you’ve ever read Fruits Baskets. I felt just like Tohru felt when Shigure-san, and Yuki-kun, and Kyo-kun turned into a dog, a mouse, and a cat! It was a very very very big shock.

I am really really very distressed Shida-chan…well, of course I can’t judge him just by such little information and…yeah, I shouldn’t be so disappointed…yeah, I know, I know, but…it’s just…too hard to comprehend. It’s just too much. How can I love such a person of lecherous nature? Oh why, oh why, has love forsaken us?

Kaoru-chan was not at lunch. I was so disappointed! Lunch is the only time when the entire school gathers in one place, and my one chance to see Kaoru-chan—but he wasn’t there! This is a problem. Something is wrong. Where could Kaoru-chan be? Is he sick? Is he at home? I would have asked someone although I don’t think many people know of him. Surely, if I had no idea of such a person at our school no one else does. Oh what should I do, Shida-chan? I’m in such a sticky situation! Will I ever ever get to see Kaoru-chan, again? 

IS THIS THE END OF MY UNREQUITED LOVE?!

...Yes that's right. Love.

I woke this morning from a dream. And it was such a strange dream too! It was a continuation of the same dream I had a few weeks ago. The one with Tetsushi Kaji-san from Ultra Manic. You remember--no, wait, I guess you wouldn't. I didn't have you then, Shida-chan. Oh, hm? Yes that's right. Shida-chan...yes, it does stands for SHIKURETTO DAIARI (Secret Diary). We all need a name, Shida-chan. It won't be fair if you don't have one.

Where was I? Oh yes. Well, Shida-chan, in this dream Tetsushi-san and I were having ice cream. It was very lovely. We were sitting outside on a very lovely day. Well, all of the sudden, as Tetsushi-san and I were enjoying our last spoonfuls of ice cream, something irregular happened!

Kaoru-chan appeared!

It was very strange at first. I didn't know how to adjust. I've never had anyone I know from school appear in my dreams before. Kaoru-chan was the first to ever visit me in my dream. Well, I was very flattered, you see.

"Kaoru-chan!" I said, surprised and happy. Kaoru-chan didn't say anything in reply, but he did shove Tetsushi-san off his seat. Tetsushi-san looked quite annoyed. I didn't know what to do. I felt sorry for Tetsushi-san but this was Kaoru-chan in my dream! It was so unexpected! I couldn't let such an unexpected joy pass, so I turned to Tetsushi-san. I said, "Sorry, Tetsushi-san. But Kaoru-chan is here." And what do you know! Tetsushi gave me this very irritated and disappointed look--which made me feel slightly guilty--and vanished in a puff of smoke! Just like Kyo-kun does in Fruits Baskets when he becomes a kitty!

"Kaoru-chan, this is very exciting," I said, turning to look at him. "I've never had anyone visit my dreams before."

Kaoru-chan laughed. It was a very nice laugh, too. And his voice was even nicer when he spoke. "So it is, so it is."

"Oh yes, I never got the chance to say, thank you for helping me yesterday. It was very kind of you to stop and lend me a hand." I ducked my head so low that it almost hit the table. "Thank you very very much!" I waited, for Kaoru-chan to say something. I waited for a good minute or two. Then, I lifted my head and--Kaoru-chan was gone! It was so sad! Well, of course I jumped to my feet and began searching for him everywhere. I met Kinomoto Toya-san on the way to Sano-kun's house. I thought of stopping to ask him if he saw Kaoru-chan, but he and Yukito-san seemed a bit preoccupied so I let them be. I ran and ran all the way to Sano-kun's house. I rushed up the steps and opened the door and shouted "SANO-KUN!" and.....!

......and suddenly I was prying my eyes open from sleep. Hubert was calling for me to wake up. I never did find Kaoru-chan. I haven't seen him at school yet either. But no matter, It's only 11:44. Lunch will begin soon and then I can go hunt searching for Kaoru-chan. Oh. The Philosophy teacher is giving me disapproving looks. He must have seen me writing. I do wonder how such an old man has good eyesight. Bye, Shida-chan. I'll write again as soon as I track Kaoru-chan.

Today I have met my knight in shining armor.

Or rather, my pink-haired love in periwinkle uniform.

It was all very sudden!! Even now it's still a blur--with the exception of my pink-haired prince who still glows are bright as the evening star in my mind's eye.

Like I said, it happened really really quickly.

So there I was, walking along the pink, flamboyant, excessively decorated halls of my school--Ouran High, if you must know dear, new, shiny, top secret diary--and once again it was a very ordinary, very boring, no good very bad day. I was getting tired of everything, see. I was exhausted. Life was getting so repetitive. Even the library of manga I have at home failed to entertain and capture me any longer. It was very tragic. The reality of it was just tragic. Very, very, tragic.

Anyway, I still can't remember what exactly happened next. All I remember is walking down the hall, pondering on what next to do to dwindle my boredom. I was minding my own business, and doing a very good job of it too, when suddenly several students--seconds years, judging from their lack of judgement not to run in the halls--came rushing towards me. They weren't even looking straight ahead, which is probably why they rammed right into either side of me and shot off without noticing. It was very annoying, now that I remember.

It didn't really hurt that much. When I fell, I mean. I fall a lot. Not exactly the most graceful girl in the school. Still, when I hit the floor I felt my eyes sting and an emormous rage swell up within me. I don't really know why, but I really really felt like crying.

I was so frustrated! I felt like kicking and crying and grabbing as many manga as I could and burying myself in them! But...yeah. I was at school and it didn't let out for a couple more hours. I was stuck. Knowing that, everything just seemed more ugly. I didn't really know what to do, though. So I just sat. Yes, that's right. I just sat. I sat and sat on the ground, furiously trying to wipe away the burning feeling in my eyes.

And that's when it happened. Him.

One second I was staring at my feet thinking, stupid, stupid, get up, get up, you're going to be late for class--and the next, I was staring at an outstretched hand. A hand. At first I didn't know what to make of it. I just stared at it for a while, blinking and thinking, but not knowing what to do with it. Then the hand reached down and took mine, and I suddenly felt myself being pulled up, off the ground, and onto my feet.

What is going on, what is going on--I kept telling myself this. I didn't really know until much much later, though.

When I looked up I saw this...this boy. Oh, he was slim and he was tall, very much like any other boy at this school. But what stood out was that he had pink hair. Yes, pink! It was so odd! Well...maybe reddish-pink, but it looked really pink in the sun. I also have some trouble telling colors apart. But that's not the point here! What was even curious was that he was looking at me, and when he did I saw his eyes. They were brown. Round. Soft. Nice. It was something you'd see in Hanakimi, only...more...well....REAL. Oh wow, I thought to myself, oh wow oh wow oh wow.

"Sorry. Be careful," he said--he actually talked to me! And then he offered this sort of half-smile and rushed off when someone--from the very same people who knocked me over--yelled his name.

Kaoru.

Kaoru, Kaoru, Kaoru, Kaoru.

Such a pretty name.

Anyway......so that's how I met my Pink Prince.