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27/9/13
The Host Club is spending the weekend at Tokyo Disneyland.
Amu’s parents begrudgingly let her go along, with the condition that she be in disguise (and, of course, followed by “inconspicuous” bodyguards). She is operating under the persona of Amanda Haddon, an anything-goes kind of sassy blonde from America(?).
After the incident with her mother, Strawberry’s emotional state has been very unstable. After dinner on the first night, this manifests in Strawberry dragging Panda out onto the dance floor, getting more wild and suggestive than she ever normally would. Soon after, she bolts out the door and is followed by Kyouya. In her meltdown, she makes a blatant advance at Kyouya, who rebuffs it, knowing she isn’t herself right now. Grateful, Strawberry eventually breaks down crying and is comforted by the Shadow King.

28/9/13
In the morning, Shiny is let in on at least some of the details of Strawberry’s relationship with her mother.
The club set out to go enjoy some of the rides, when Renge suddenly calls everyone to the castle. It turns out her uncle works at Tokyo Disneyland, and as a result, Renge has managed to set up that the Host Club (and the guests tagging along) got to be the Princes and Princesses on a float parade. The casting is organised as follows:
Renge - Auroua
Kyouya - Prince Valiant (Snow White’s prince)
Strawberry - Snow White
Panda - Tiana
Hikaru - Prince Navin.
Tamaki - Sleeping Beauty's prince
Honey - Belle
Mori - Beast
Kaoru - Simba
Haruhi - Merida
Yanagi - Flynn Rider
Thistill - Jasmine
Shiny - Mulan
Lone - Ariel
Shiemi - Cinderella
Amu - Rapzunel.
Lunar – Tinkerbell

29/9/13
More rides! It’s A Small World-induced trauma, (mostly) cured by pizza. A bit of shopping, a fireworks show, and then it’s time to go.

30/9/13
The Host Club returns home. Shiny delivers the giant lollipop she bought to Honey, and it’s love at first sight.
Yanagi reveals having spent the weekend at Disneyland with Joel. Hilarious innuendos ensue all over the place.
The whirlwind romance between Honey and his giant lollipop comes to a tragic end two hours later when there is nothing left to the confectionary but the stick.

1/10/13
Joel stops by for the morning and trades gossip information with Kyouya. His fabulousness combined with Tamaki’s flamboyant personality overwhelms a shy Juni who bolts when Tamaki offers her a rose. Honey and Mori then lead the club out for a picnic in the school gardens.

2/10/13
The twins are up to mischief in the kitchen. Amu comes back from a disaster of an omiai, disgruntled.

3/10/13
Honey convinces Kyouya to let the club go to a country fair, then goes about baking a cake in stealth mode. Shiny ends up tripping over him and gets cake batter on her sleeve and glove—which Honey then takes off in order to wash it, to Shiny’s panic. Flustered and guilty at the reaction he roused from Shiny, Honey hastily returns the glove. In her struggles to get the wet glove back on, however, it rips. The crisis is averted when Kyouya suggests she borrow a spare set of gloves left over from previous cosplays.

4/10/13
The Host Club goes to the fair: cotton candy, carousels, and mysterious plotting from the Shadow King. Honey finds paradise in a dunk tank filled with cake. Tamaki, Strawberry and Kyouya each have a go in the ordinary, water-filled dunk tank.
After some snacks, they head over to the ferris wheel.

5/10/13
80s cosplay! Tamaki is dressed as Jareth from the Labyrinth, Kyouya as Ferris Bueller, Mori as Freddie Mercury Moricury, Mia as Freddie Kruger from Nightmare On Elm Street, Shiny as Jem, Honey as Marty McFly.
Raiden says goodbye to Amu, leaving her with a necklace, a tonfa, and a kiss on the forehead. He hopes she won’t be married by the time they meet again. She’s more than a little overwhelmed.
Shiny, overcome with fangirl urges, glomps Jareth!Tamaki, who proposes that she would make a good Goblin Queen and plants a chaste kiss on her cheek. This elicits an interesting reaction from both Honey and Mori. Their slightly menacing aura terrifies Tamaki as Mori offers a dazed Shiny a hand out of the Prince’s lap.
The twins, appalled by the gaudy 80s fashion, take it upon themselves to relieve their classmates of said fashion by setting up various traps involving slingshots, buckets of water, and pudding. And pelting them all with paintballs. Kyouya fixes (??) the situation by strolling across the room and pulling on the fire sprinklers.

6/10/13
Panda comes back from more modelling adventures with her mother, exhausted.
Commoner Ben Kasack wanders into the club, and causes a bit of a stir by blurting out his opinions on what the club must be (and is gently corrected by both Strawberry and Shiny, who hope he’ll stick around long enough to learn the hosts are just people like anyone else, not a snooty elite). Honey launches himself (literally) at the opportunity to make a new friend, much to the alarm of Ben when he finds a small boy hanging off him demanding they eat cake together. He settles into (or resigns to?) the idea, though, and sits down with Honey, Tsukuri, Strawberry and Shiny while Panda sets about catching up on her baking in the kitchen.

7/10/13
A pretty quiet, ordinary day at the club. Ben returns, seeming much more at ease in the club than the day before, and proves himself to be quite the charming young man as he talks with Shiny again. Honey is not amused.
Honey is also conspiring to sneak into Lobelia Academy to attend a cake-making class.

8/10/13
Juni helps Shiny with her math studies. Commoner and elite gamer Quin Ritcher enters the club.
Honey is trying to get help from Shiny as to how to sneak into Lobelia. Shiemi, curious since the day before and surreptitiously listening in to the conversation, offers an idea.
The twins are in a slightly vindictive mood later that evening, and decide to take it out on Panda, first making her skirt flip up, then making fun of her panties, and upon finding out she’s the chef of the club, complaining about food poisoning. Panda is unimpressed, leaving with some slightly ominous words about them not knowing what she punishment she dealt her brother.

9/10/13
Panda seems to be coming down with a cold. Shiny and Juni help out in the kitchen under her supervision. Amu requests a fashion consultant to find her some clothes in more bold colours than her usual black and white; Kyouya schedules an appointment with the Hitachiin twins.
Honey’s sweets senses start tingling, and he storms the club (Mori in tow), and interrogates Kyouya film noire style as to the whereabouts of the cakes. A deal is struck – a cake and two cookies – in exchange for Honey not devouring the entirety of baked goods currently being made in the kitchen.
Shiny mentions not being able to go on the mystery train ride on the weekend; she’s going home to “Calais” for a week, to seek help for her… dermatological condition. Mori hopes it will go well for her, but manages to choke out that he likes her as she is. Shiny says she likes Mori as he is too. So much friendship.

10/10/13
Excitement is budding for the upcoming train ride. Renge stayed up all the previous night baking things as a delicious sacrifice to appease the cake god Honey and ended up burning herself, to Kyouya’s disapproval.
When Akane arrives, Honey jumps at the chance to ask her about Lobelia, and she agrees to help, having a few more ideas of her own to help him blend in. As she’s about to leave, though, her prosthetic leg catches on the carpet, and Akane falls, her prosthetic coming off to reveal the stump underneath; it’s clear by the scarring that the loss of her leg was no accident. Flustered and a little upset, she soon gets escorted home under the care of Honey and Mori.
Honey then turns to Shiny to learn the ways of being a dignified lady. After some initial robot impressions stiffness, she soon has him walking about the room delicately with a textbook balanced on his head.
A girl named Midori enters, a little gloomy and frustrated about an impending arranged marriage. She brightens up a bit after talking with Mori.
Emi Harte enters, having mistaken the club for an actual music room, and ends up staying for tea.

11/10/13
The club gathers at Tokyo Station to board the mystery train ride.

12/10/13
Mark mentions going to look for Renge after breakfast, during which time Renge’s “body” is discovered. Detective Honey and his partner Mori investigate the scene and interview witnesses. Mark seems like a likely suspect – even more so after his phone is discovered nearby, the lock screen code replaced with newspaper-cutting-style text reading “Catch me if you can.” After a moment of inspection, Kyouya presses the letters i, c, a, and n. The phone unlocks, revealing a series of (staged) texts between Renge and Mark about someone named Eleanor (who is actually Mark’s car). A motive?

Mark has been gone a while, now, and the team set out to find their suspected murderer – only to find him sprawled on the floor of his room, one hand clutching at a “stab wound” in his abdomen, the other holding onto something: Kyouya’s wristwatch.
While they scour the rest of the room for clues, Panda receives a text telling her she’s “next”.
Emi makes the connection that both victims so far, while a couple, are also otakus. There is one more otaku aboard this train…

Shiemi’s “body” is discovered in her room, lying on her bed with the small trickle of blood from the corner of her mouth being the only indication of foul play. On the table beside her is an empty glass with traces of a white powder in the bottom; on the floor is a note. It reads “Without him, I am but half of the whole.” A suicide?

Outside, Kyouya is joining dots out loud – when he’s suddenly cut off as the lights flicker out, and flicker back on moments later to reveal him “strangled” on the floor. As Honey investigates, he stumbles across a notebook, which bares a striking resemblance to the one his partner Mori was using…

Kaoru has disappeared. Hikaru goes to search for his twin, when the lights flicker off and on again to reveal both twins in a pool of (fake) blood in the passageway. Soon after, one of the twins gets up off the floor, having faked their (fake) death!

In Mori’s notebook, instead of police notes, there are plans. Mori is the a murderer!

Honey hurries to the scene with the twins, and identifies the one still lying on the floor as Hikaru. Kaoru is confronted by Detective Honey, and confesses to “killing” the otakus to protect his brother from the otaku madness, only to have “killed” Hikaru in the process.

Mori encourages Kaoru to give up now, since they have both lost what they cared about most. Kaoru says it isn’t over – yet. If he has to live without Hikaru, Mori has to live without Honey! He rushes forward with a (fake) knife. Mori jumps in front of his cousin, and is “stabbed” in Honey’s stead. Clutching the knife in his stomach, he falls to the floor.

Kaoru comes to his senses in a “what have I done?” moment, and commits “suicide” with some skittles pills from his pocket, “dying” next to his brother. Honey cradles his cousin, genuinely upset. Mori tells him not to blame himself, and that he’s sorry. There’s a lot left unspoken as the knife finally clatters to the floor. Many a tear is shed all around.

13/10/13
The morning is uneventful, with a lot of the club sleeping in after such an emotionally taxing day before.
Commoner Adrian Skywood sneaks onto the train in the afternoon, and is confronted by a couple of Black Onion officers. They clear him with Kyouya (who seems to be enjoying the opportunity to scheme).
Tamaki has been composing all weekend, but now is playing in the dining car. Apparently Renge has been up to more scheming of her own, too, since she promptly bursts out of the floor on one of her rotating platforms and declares a party. Kyouya sweeps aside some blinds to reveal balloons, confetti, and a mountain of cakes and other confectionaries (courtesy of Shiny, Juni and Panda) that had been hidden away from Honey for days. It’s a Welcome Back to Mori and Honey after their time away at tournaments. A party Shiny is just in time for, despite having said she’d have to be back home in Calais. Her arms are exposed, and barely sparkling!
Shiny trips after being knocked off balance by the suddenly appearing piñata, and is caught by Kyouya. Honey and Mori are happy to see her.
When the party begins to die down as people start heading away to bed, the conversation between Mori and Shiny about her skin condition and subsequent treatments retreats to a more private part of the train when Shiny decides to show Mori the untreated skin of her hands. They not entirely smooth (kind of scaly), and iridescent – almost opalescent – like the inside of a seashell. There are lots of ~friendship~ vibes as Mori takes her hand in his own to examine it gently.

14/10/13
Emi is eager to interview and write an article on the club. Juni brings in a big box of quality coffee from her family’s estate back in Columbia.
Commoner Adrian is accosted (ever politely) by Kyouya about his having snuck onto the train, not having enough points to cover the cost of the trip.

15/10/13
Kyouya initiates a long overdue game of hide-and-seek with Honey (and Mori), which leads them into the school’s theatre. A trip in the dark sends the cousins colliding in an accidental kiss and falling headfirst into a prop cannon. The predicament of being stuck in the cannon is made worse by unexpected feelings stirred up by the kiss (if it can be called that, the accidental bump of lips that it was).

16/10/13
Emi returns to the Host Club to retrieve the iPod she thought she lost, and ends up conversing with Kyouya about literature.
The club is quite quiet throughout the day. Emi returns after her afternoon classes to continue her interviews with the hosts.

17/10/13
As the school starts the celebrations for Halloween, so does the Host Club. Hosts and guests alike filter into the music room dressed in colourful costumes. They soon had out to explore the Haunted Temple (a tearoom put together by third-year class-C) in the school gardens. The Host Club is specially attended by a group of girls – who seem to be rather… possessive fans of both Honey and Mori. Shiny is a particular target of their nastier sides, though Juni, as a foreigner, cops some less-than-professional service, too. Shiny, however, once she understands their motivation for being prickly towards her (jealousy!), is amused more than anything… until the third-year girls’ over-the-top attentions to the cousins finally take a step over a line Shiny probably hadn’t known existed. Confused and a little upset, she excuses herself – only to be followed by both Kyouya and Honey.

When Honey starts spouting phrases that start to exceed the realm of ~friendship~, Kyouya makes a deliberate detour to refresh the tea, like he’d originally excused himself as going to do, and returns to the tearoom, giving the other two space. The heartfelt conversation culminates with a hug, and Shiny plants a kiss on the tip of Honey’s nose. Shiny calls the others outside to witness a rare astronomical phenomenon – three shooting stars cross the sky together in quick succession. How did Shiny know that was about to happen? No one thinks to ask, just enjoying the moment.

18/10/13
The club receives a mysterious delivery of tea that no one ordered.

19/10/13
TAM comes looking for his sister Panda, who is hiding in a closet from him. TAM seems determined to have someone to give a makeover to, though, and targets Emi, who is confused and not entirely impressed. Juni is entirely unimpressed. TAM eventually tries to forcibly drag Emi away with him, which causes Panda to burst out of hiding to stop him. When Juni trips trying to go after them, Panda redirects her attention to helping the other girl and TAM gets away with Emi.
A while later, Kyouya and Emi bump into each other while strolling in the gardens. They talk for a while before going their separate ways.

20/10/13
The morning is quite quiet, though those who are present are dressed up Harajuku fashion style.
In the evening, Benio shows up, apparently hoping to change Haruhi’s mind about Lobelia. Since Haruhi’s already gone home, she contents herself with stirring up the remaining hosts and fawning over a couple of female guests.

21/10/13
Emi is pursued by three boys as she runs to the Host Club. It’s the newspaper club, unimpressed that Emi’s website has been stealing their readers. Shiny returns from her ballet competition. Brief bits of ~friendship~ happen between Shiny and Mori, and Kyouya sees all (even if the party in question does not).

22/10/13
Honey initiates another game of hide-and-seek with Kyouya.
Juni’s still incapacitated after getting her kneecap fractured when she tripped a few days before. She asks Honey for help to learn martial arts, feeling helpless in that she couldn’t stop Panda’s brother taking Emi. Honey is happy to help, after she heals, of course.
After reviewing footage from hidden cameras, Kyouya makes it clear TAM should not be welcomed back.

23/10/13
Panda starts on the small packets of some kind of appetite-suppressant drink her mother told her to take. After her second cup, Kyouya asks what she’s drinking – and becomes concerned when he sees the dosage is only half a packet daily, and Panda’s had two whole packets – not to mention the possible clash with her seizure medication.

HALLOWEEN EVENT 2013
The Host Club is mysteriously zapped to Halloween Town after an ominous chanting can be heard from the Dark Magic Club next door. After some initial panic at the sudden transportation, guests and hosts band together to make their way through the fog towards what looks like a town in the distance. On the way, they meet a girl with her severed head carried in a basket, Tsuki, a ghost named Evelyn, another human girl called Loki, and antiquarian/supernatural investigator Eunica Chambers, who seems to have been zapped from another realm entirely.

When they make it to the town, they discover Honey has been appointed the new Pumpkin King after going on something of a rampage after being initially denied candy. The former Pumpkin King is “on vacation” and no one seems to know where he is.

Halloween Town seems to be having strange effects on many of the group: Shiny has reverted to her true form, and is a glowing beacon in the mist; CC has turned into a vampire cat; Yanagi has turned into a Siren; Honey and Mori swap sizes; Emi fluctuates between changing into some kind of superhero and having scary hallucinations.

More faces start popping up when Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke and Charlotte E. Yeager (of the Karlsland Luftwaffe and United States of Liberion Army Air Force, respectively) appear from another realm, soon followed by someone calling herself Aigis.

Halloween Town seems to be changing Honey; he becomes increasingly more distant and preoccupied with his “kingly duties”, pushing even his cousin away. This is troubling for everyone, and genre-savvy Kyouya initiates Operation Dethrone-Honey-And-Bring-Back-Jack-So-We-Can-Get-Home-Before-It’s-Too-Late by spreading rumours of the new king’s love of cute things (scandalous!), and investigating the whereabouts of the true king.

Renge has been missing for a few days, apparently having tripped through a door into another realm – St Patrick’s Town – where she saw Jack. The currently assembled party splits off into three groups – Mori and Shiny make their way to St Pat’s, Panda and Renge to Christmas Town to find Santa and deliver a request from Kyouya to him, while Kyouya, Loki, CC, and Tsuki’s head go off in search for Tsuki’s body, which has been snatched by Lock, Shock, and Barrel.

Santa approves the request, and over in St Patrick’s Town, alcohol proves to be a remedy to magical problems as Mori returns to his normal size after a pint of beer. Shiny and Mori find Jack in a pub, and explain the situation in Halloween Town. Jack joins them to return and set things right.

Kyouya’s group successfully get Tsuki’s body back, and he convinces the three little troublemakers to help him, instead: to bring down the Pumpkin King by “exposing him as the Easter Bunny”.

The following morning, the last day before Halloween, the final plan is in motion; screens and speakers (courtesy of Santa) have been set up all over Halloween Town, strategically placed so as to maximise the audience. When the Pumpkin King wakes and leaves his castle to inspect whatever plan the Host Club is unrolling, Juni greets him with a goblet of black coffee. After a moment of suspicion, he downs the drink, thanking her. Juni alerts Kyouya to the update of events, and the countdown starts ticking.

Screens all over town start blaring videos from the previous Easter, with Honey dressed up as Usa-chan and being adorable. The townsfolk are horrified, and the Pumpkin King begins to grow angry. At this point, Shiny, Mori, and Jack arrive (although Jack is in disguise), and Mori confronts his cousin, trying to reach the part that is truly Honey underneath the other oppressive consciousness that has taken him over.

A duel begins, light against dark as neo!Honey draws a dark purple flaming sword and Shiny arms Mori with a celestial one she draws out of the air. It’s tense, and neo!Honey is strong – until the caffeine crash kicks in. Mori pushes on, encouraging his cousin, and Honey – the real Honey – forces his body to give in to the crash, subsequently forcing the darkness out to disappear in a burst of purple flames. The townsfolk begin to grow restless and angry.

It’s then that Santa arrives. It’s time to go home. The members of the Host Club present board the sleigh, and so does Tsuki. She wants to leave Halloween Town, and Santa grants her that wish, turning her human (or at least human-enough – her head is reattached seamlessly, at any rate). Shiny makes sure to take the little doll, Tigerlilly, with her too. The ride home lulls most of the Host Club to sleep as Santa collects the stragglers, taking them all back to Japan.

31/10/13
The Host Club is back at Ouran for a reassuringly normal day, strangeness of their little excursion put behind them (or shoved into the deepest darkest recesses of their minds, brushed off as a dream). Planning begins for the Masquerade Ball on the weekend.
Tsuki visits the club as a new student at Ouran – Shiny is the only one who seems to remember her (more than a vague feeling of déjà vu, that is). A boy named Kurohi stumbles into the club while looking for a place to nap. Another boy with blue hair gets knocked through the doors by Shiny (thanks to an inconveniently placed banana peel).
Mori asks if Shiny would like to adopt a couple of kittens, and she accepts with delight. They set a date for her to come over to his place and meet the kittens.

1/11/13
Emi agrees to become manager for Panda’s brother TAM’s band. She and Panda organise a sleepover at Panda’s place so she can get a feel for TAM’s band and how it can be improved.

The preparations for the masquerade ball are under way, with the fountain being delivered to the club (and subsequently alarming a few people who’d seen one startlingly similar in a certain spooky town). CC’s a little out of sorts thanks to nightmares about the week previous, and ends up fleeing the club after Mori makes an attempt to comfort him with a pat to the head. He comes back a little later, white wig, ears and tail put away, hoping to find an escape route through the club to get home. Mori apologises for before, worried he overstepped a boundary.
Emi talks with Kyouya about her dilemma of the ultimatum her mother has given her: she can continue to chase her dream career in journalism if she goes through with an arranged marriage for financial security’s sake, or she can give up her dream for a more safe, stable career.
Shiemi emerges from the Black Magic Club, having attended a séance (which she hadn’t taken seriously at all).

2/11/13
Tamaki wakes Kyouya up in a panic: he doesn’t know what to wear to the ball. Reluctantly, Kyouya wakes up enough to help him make a decision from the enormous, seemingly-unending rack of outfits Tamaki has wheeled into Kyouya’s room. With Tamaki’s outfit settled (dressing as the Pumpkin King), he leaves Kyouya to get dressed (but not without intruding into the bathroom while the Shadow King is showering).

Later when everyone has changed into costume, they head down to the ballroom and courtyard to begin the ball. The room and the courtyard are all decked out in Halloween finery; there are various games set up for the guests to enjoy, and, of course, a full orchestra playing the music to dance by.

CC, dressed as a female nekomata, gets mistaken for a girl and asked to dance by Tamaki, before the Prince takes a turn to dance with Emi (who is dressed as Belle from Beauty and the Beast – though mistaken for Christine from Phantom of the Opera more often than not).

Meanwhile, Mori is playing the games with Tsuki, and Kyouya (dressed as the Phantom Red Death) dances with Renge. Mori then dances with Tsuki, and Kyouya with CC before the ball winds down to an end for the night.

3/11/13
Panda spends the morning baking masquerade-themed cupcakes to make up for not getting to the ball the previous evening. Shiny asks Tsuki how she’s adjusting to being at Ouran, and invites Tsuki over to her house, so that they might talk about… things.
After visiting Mori’s house a couple of days before to meet the kittens before she took them home, Shiny has realised that the feelings she has for not one of the cousins, but both, is a crush.

Out in the gardens, Yanagi has set a bonfire and is in the process of burning millions of yen worth of clothing. Emi, spotting the fire, makes her way down there to see what’s wrong. She discovers that there’s been some kind of emotional bust-up with Joel, but doesn’t press the issue, just sitting with him for a while, talking about costumes and other idle distractions while the two of them roast marshmallows over the fire.

As the ball starts up again, Kyouya finds Juni – looking much more cyberpunk than anyone else, and sad for not being able to dance as her knee is still healing.

Later finds Mori dancing with Tsuki again, and Kyouya dancing with Shiny (who is a vision in lavender). CC invites Renge to dance while Honey dances with Massu. Kyouya invites Shiemi to the dance floor, and Mori intercepts Shiny as she’s being chatted to (or babbled bashfully at) by one of her classmates, and asks her to dance.

Kyouya and Shiemi use the dance to observe and quietly discuss the couples around them (and the likelihood said couples will leave together tonight), one couple in particular not escaping their notice; Mori and Shiny seem to be enjoying the anonymity offered by the masks, and are getting bolder with the remarks they make to each other.
Mori and Shiny’s dance ends with Shiny planting a kiss on his cheek, and then fleeing.

4/11/13
The ball continues for its final night. CC dances with Tsuki, and Shiny with various young men until Kyouya cuts in while she’s dancing with one of particular ill repute (unknown to the fallen star, of course), sweeping her away for another dance. When the dance ends, he hands her a note, reading: “Meet me alone at the gazebo in the rose garden. I'll be waiting for you there my angel. Signed OG”

As instructed, Shiny makes her way out to the gazebo, where she finds Honey, dressed as the Phantom. The two of them dance alone together in the candlelight to the music supplied by the trio of string musicians amongst the roses. Honey ends up revealing the part of his feelings where she means a lot to him, and Shiny plants a kiss on his cheek.

Inside, Mori and Tsuki are playing the horseshoes game together. With Mori’s help, Tsuki manages to score one of the far stakes, winning a cute bat plushie. Elated, Tsuki forgets herself for a moment and kisses Mori on the cheek. Mori is a little surprised, but doesn’t think negatively of the sudden display of affection, to Tsuki’s relief.

5/11/13
A normal day at the Host Club. Aiko returns, and a girl named Adrianne enters.

6/11/13
A boy named Dominic Makarov enters the club. CC is dressed as a female student, going by the name of Hisoka.
Later in the evening, a young lady by the name of Sledge enters the club, soon followed by the blue-haired boy who was knocked over by Shiny once before while loitering outside the doors – his name is Nau.
Shiny receives some mysterious text messages (with romantic quotes about… rocks) from who Mori theorises must be a secret admirer.

7/11/13
Nau visits the club again, hosted by Honey (after his insistence that Mr. Observer Man join in and have some cake). Nau ends up feeding the lolita cake, and when Shiny joins them, she feeds Honey too – for a little while, before becoming flustered and having to excuse herself to the kitchen where Mori is. After she asks if there’s anything she could help with, he remembers the natto he brought her to try – which she does, and finds it strange, but not bad.

8/11/13
A quiet day at the club. Emi seems to have something weighing on her mind, but isn’t in the mood to share.

9/11/13
The Host Club catches a train into the mountains overnight to start their weekend at the onsen.

10/11/13
Everyone sets about enjoying their environment, from the hot springs to the massages to the surrounding mountain landscape and nature trails. Shiny discovers that the mineral waters of the springs help with her skin!
Shiemi and Akane experience the onsen apart from the others, since Akane is self-conscious about her leg. Friendship vibes.

The group from the Host Club enjoy a round of karaoke over dinner, graced by the voices of Massu, Tsuki, Shiny, Kyouya, Honey, and Mori. After an… interesting choice of song from the Shadow King, CC ends up fainting.
While the karaoke is under way, Shiny is officially declared a host!

Overnight, Shiny and Kyouya end up having an awkward encounter when Shiny, planning on having another skinny dip in the onsen to help her skin, finds said onsen is already occupied. She ends up slipping on the rocks in her panic and grazing her knee. Kyouya goes to fetch a medical kit to patch her up and finally catches a glimpse of her "skin condition".

11/11/13
Honey and Mori have an awww-worthy sentimental feelings session and a hug under the stars.

12/11/13
Last day at the onsen. Shiny, Panda, and Kyouya pay a visit to the shrine. The hosts get a quiet boys-only bath.

13/11/13
The Host Club is back at Ouran for another ordinary day.
They are joined by new guests Tanja Williams, and a boy named Matsu, and another girl named Kay. After Tanja makes an alarmingly perceptive comment about Shiny being far away from home, the new host suspects Tanja may not be just the normal student she seems.
Later, an eccentric boy called Lucas enters the scene, and is displeased with the lack of sparkles – and demands “Sparkle Girl” Shiny fix it.

14/11/13
Massu brings in his enormous collage of photos he took during the onsen trip, featuring many candid shots of the hosts.

15/11/13
Strawberry returns to the club. Shiny is the new target of school bullies after the nickname “Sparkle Girl” has spread, coming into the club as the victim of a glitter bomb.
Plans for the Steampunk Ball are underway.

16/11/13
Yanagi’s falling apart; he’s taken up smoking, looks like he hasn’t slept in months, and his usually pleasant self has turned into something bitter and dark. Strawberry spots him down in the garden and hurries over to see what has happened to her friend after her time away, and gets a very bitter and cynical reception…

17/11/13
Shiny has another unsettlingly cryptic conversation with Tanja.
Loki and Zerk start noticing each other.
The Steampunk Ball begins. Most people tend to lean towards socialising through words, rather than dance – except Lucas, who does a majestic rendition of the chicken dance before getting… a little too into it, at which point Kyouya intervenes by draping a tablecloth over the boy, making him promptly fall asleep.

18/11/13
Yanagi seems to be getting back on his feet. The rose-petal generator is chucking out charcoaled petals, thanks to a mishap with the spark generator set up in the spirit of the Steampunk ball. Kyouya sets about fixing it; turns out one the top-hatted vest-wearing mice Tamaki had ordered for the ball got loose… The little culprit is captured, and put temporarily in a little box in the kitchen.

Lucas is back, and loud-mouthed and air-headed as ever. He ends up mistaking Mori for a girl

19/11/13
The Steampunk ball continues for its last day. Lucas makes his grand confession to “Mary” who promptly rejects him outright.
Later, Kyouya sends a photo of Mori and Shiny together to Mori’s phone, prompting him to acknowledge the nature of his feelings towards the fallen star.

20/11/13
A quiet day at the club. A few new guests arrive, including an exchange student from the UK, Michael.

21/11/13
Michael returns to the club, and during his conversation with Shiny, he asks her what she personally finds attractive in guys. Naturally, this sets Honey and Mori alert, and Shiny carefully dodges the question – before Lucas arrives and “helps” by adding that Shiny is into girls, being the rival for his beloved “Mary”.
Soon after, it suddenly dawns on Lucas that “Mary” is in fact a guy. Scandalised at having been deceived (and at the “blonde fetish” he’s convinced Mori has), he quickly declares that Mori will no longer be his bride, and starts muttering about how manly Kyouya is. Mori decides to “help” by telling Lucas that Kyouya is into light-haired, princely, sparkly and talkative people.

22/11/13
It’s Kyouya’s birthday. Strawberry leaves a gift for him on his desk, while CC delivers his in person, very red in the face. CC’s gift is a series of very high-quality watches.

Strawberry’s younger twin brothers, Erin and Alex, visit the club. Shiny is becoming convinced that all twins might be slightly evil.
Furi, who’d bonded with Strawberry previously after telling her about an abusive fiancé, returns to the club. The two set off together on a walk around campus, arm-in-arm. Soon, Furi breaks down in tears, saying she’s lied to Strawberry, who insists she won’t be upset, and just to tell her. Furi’s name isn’t Furi Kuri. It’s Furikokucho Kasuka. A small, Chinese girl called Bao Mei storms up the hall looking for Kasuka, and Kasuka flees – after pecking Strawberry on the lips.
A flustered Strawberry insists to Bao Mei that she hasn’t seen anyone called Kasuka, and the girl eventually storms off again.
When Kasuka returns, Strawberry asks who Bao Mei was – and what was the kiss about? Bao Mei is Kasuka’s betrothed. The kiss was because she thought she might not get another chance, with Bao Mei now living in Japan. And Kasuka is a boy.
Kasuka decides to leave while he gets the situation with Bao Mei sorted out – after talking to Strawberry, he’s convinced that he wouldn’t be able to stand the loveless arranged marriage, and would rather be cast out by his mother – and promises not to ask to kiss Strawberry while the situation is still unsettled. He hopes when he returns, she might be the one to ask him.

Later the same day, Tsuki blurts out her feelings for Mori, to which he responds with silence (like always), and hopes she’ll understand he can’t return her feelings for various reasons, the most prominent being his devotion to his cousin. Tsuki is, naturally, a little down about the rejection, but holds out hope.

Lucas shows up with his hair dyed blonde and starts doing his best to flirt with Kyouya. Kyouya is unable to resist the opportunity to yank his chain a little. He invites Lucas to lunch with him and Tamaki the following day.

23/11/13
I-I forgot to summarise this ;w; Did anything important happen?

24/11/13
The bullies who’ve been after Shiny lately chase her to the corridor outside Host Club, where they get caught at last after Mori catches one in a headlock, Tsuki punches another in the nose, and the third faints. Their identities are taken note of before a team from the school infirmary arrives to ferry them away.
During the scuffle, Shiny was thrown and hit her head; dizzy and slightly out-of-it, Mori decides to escort her home rather than let her be alone overnight.

25/11/13
Kasuka returns, his mother having agreed to adopt Bao Mei as the heir to her company, leaving Kasuka disowned and looking for work. He’s still suffering from heart problems, but says that for the rest of his life, however long, he’ll wait arms open for Strawberry. She makes him promise.

After spending the night waking Shiny up every couple of hours to check she wasn’t suffering from concussion, Mori is sleep-deprived, and a lot more talkative than usual as a result.

26/11/13
(I didn't have time to go back ;A; Again, did anything happen?)

27/11/13
Renge cooks up a storm in the spirit of Thanksgiving.

28/11/13
A girl named Angel comes to the club.

29/11/13
A third year, Ren Wakahisa, visits the club.

30/11/13
A game of truth or dare, complete with Elvis impressions.

1/12/13
Second year Toshiro Roka visits the club, as does a sweet girl called Mey-Rin, who seeks out Shiny for advice.
Then Lucas arrives… and announces his wedding to Kyouya, unveiling the dress he intends his bride to wear, kissing Kyouya’s hand twice.

The Ootori responds calmly that their fathers don’t approve of the match, but Lucas isn’t fazed, suggesting his father doesn’t meddle in his affairs anyway. Kyouya suggests that maybe if it were the other way around (Lucas joining Kyouya’s family) perhaps his father would find it more agreeable – provided, of course, that Lucas could think of a way his Candy empire could mesh appropriately with the Ootori’s medicine one.

CC suddenly intervenes by kissing Lucas full on the lips, stating how dull the Candy Kid is. Again, unfazed, Lucas playfully chastises his “darling yarn ball chewer” that his bride-to-be may become jealous if he continues with such displays of affection!
Lucas is perfectly fine with joining the Ootori family instead, but expresses doubt as to whether he could successfully give birth, saying that’s more Kyouya’s area, what with him being the club’s “mom” and all.

CC ups his game by insisting he can handle Kyouya’s jealousy, and pins Lucas to the couch. Lucas is, again, completely oblivious. CC opts for another angle, suggesting that Kyouya would go much better with Tamaki anyway. Lucas only says he’d marry Tamaki too (and something about Tamaki giving birth to more beautiful androids…).

Finally, Kyouya manages to get a rejection to actually get past the filters of Lucas’ mind, and, after some more dramatics, the Candy Kid ends up under a table chewing on a rose.

2/12/13
The day starts off quietly, with a few guests filtering in and out of the club. Mey-Rin returns for more lessons in confidence from Shiny, but before Shiny arrives, she’s greeted by the flirtatious Ren, and ends up a little flustered.
Loki’s childhood friend, Aki, has arrived from Korea to celebrate her upcoming 18th birthday. Shiemi’s been sick with a cold, and is still a little dazed.

Lucas arrives (loudly as ever) and proposes that everyone must play this game of his – he has candy ornaments that react to different body temperatures by different levels of sparkling.

4/12/13
Shiny has come down with a cold.
Lucas asks Mori for advice on wooing Honey (which is promptly ignored), and asks how much more he needs to transform into Tamaki to be able to get people to love him. Mori asks who Lucas wants people to like – Tamaki, or him? Lucas confides that his parents wanted a charming son, but that he grew up on a farm, with his best friend being a hen. He thought that ego was the way to fit in with the posh academy, and has been trying to emulate that, as well as the charm of Tamaki (which he sees as being the ey to the world of romance). Mori tells Lucas that there is someone out there looking to be with him, but that they won’t find him if he’s running around trying to be someone other than himself.
So Lucas says he won’t run! He’ll be a lazy Tamaki! He thanks Mori and leaves.

When Honey returns to the club, so does Lucas – and launches into courting-mode. Honey thinks he’s joking and laughs – which turns out to be a bad idea. Lucas wails about being doomed to be forever alone, and flops onto a couch, chewing on a pillow. Honey realises he was being serious, and says how much of a bad idea marriage is for them right now – they’re in high school! And Lucas would put himself in danger from the fangirls. Plus, the only marriage Honey would consent to right now would be to cake.
Lucas rambles something about marrying the fangirls, too, to pacify them, and turning himself into cake – before saying that, maybe, after all, he still loves Kyouya the most. He invited him to lunch, after all!
Honey says Kyouya does that with friends all the time, and surely didn’t mean anything by it – plus, he’s not into boys. Lucas jumps to the conclusion that Kyouya is, like his beloved Mary, also a lesbian angel on the inside. Honey asks Mori what a lesbian is as his younger carries him out to go home. Mori says nothing.

5/12/13
Ren brings a small garter snake he found in the corridors into the club with him, startling first-year Ayano as she makes her first visit to the club.
Lucas arrives, and announces that his father has decided to send him away to military school after all, because his frivolity has resulted in appalling grades. Lucas declares that one day they’ll meet again, and Kyouya will fall for him. He bids his “dear ex-fiancé” goodbye with a blown kiss.

6/12/13
Lucas’ younger brother Leon marches into the club. Their father sent him to inspect the club, since Lucas – while already useless – has become especially useless since hanging out there. If he determines the club to be the cause, Leon will see that his brother is never allowed back.

Needless to say, Leon does not approve of the club – and the club does not approve of him. Leon’s distaste at the apparently frivolous nature of the club and his negative comments about his brother are met with a backlash of defensive arguments from… pretty much everyone present, hosts and guests alike. CC and Ren are ready to pick a fight, while Shiny is trying to maintain calm and civility. As it turns out, Leon is terrified of ghosts and spirits. So after the suggestion that CC is a nekomata, Leon ends up running shrieking back down the corridor about how the club is fattening Lucas up to feed him to the cat demon.

7/12/13
Roka is on a bit of a sugar high after three ice cream floats. He brings enough soda and ice cream for everyone else to join in.
Tsuki has lost her sketchbook, and suspects someone might’ve taken it during class. It turns up in the corridor outside the Host Club, unharmed.

8/12/13
Izaya Orihara pays the club a visit, and starts stirring up CC, with references to information of CC’s that should be sealed by the US government.
A student representative from the vice principal’s office comes to investigate a complaint about possible demonic disturbances in the clubroom (from Leon, no doubt). A bored Izaya decides to poke the representative in the back with his switchblade – and as Kuromoto jumps in surprise, he gets pierced with the blade – just enough to draw blood, which, as it turns out, is just enough to make the boy faint at the sight of it.

9/12/13
The school’s Newspaper Club is quick to blow the events of the previous day out of proportion (including reports of demon kittens and a mysterious disease, ‘Parasitium Izayaum’).

Kyouya sets a challenge for Panda for the winter festival: to build a life-sized gingerbread house.

10/12/13
Kaoru returns to the club, and starts the day by pranking Juni by adding copious amounts of sugar to the coffee.

11/12/13
Izaya (under the guise of “Hanejima Yuuhei”) fawns over Massu, who seems oblivious to the slightly sinister nature of his conversation partner. Elliot brings a bag of presents for everyone at the club.

12/12/13
Renge decorates the clubroom in the spirit of Christmas overnight.
Later, Heiwajima Shizuo visits the club. Izaya is there. Chaos ensues.

13/12/13
Hosts and guests gingerly set about cleaning up the destruction of the night before, replacing some of the broken decorations with origami and paper snowflakes.

14/12/13
A mostly quiet day.

15/12/13
When Shiny confronts Mori in the kitchen about his changed behaviour towards her, eventually, after a frustrated hug on Shiny’s part, the two end up confessing their feelings for each other.
The construction worker finally comes to fix the broken ceiling under Kyouya’s watchful eye.
Kaori Shizuma visits the club, as does Lucas, announcing that he has started up another Host Club at Bunkyo. And then introduces his brand new “Ceiling Plaster Fondant”, demonstrating the product by climbing the worker’s ladder (to his protests) and slapping the confectionary over the hole in the ceiling. The construction worker gives up and storms out. Honey steps up (ha) to the job.

16/12/13
A boys vs girls snowball fight starts up outside.
During the battle, as the girls advance towards the boys’ fort, Kaoru counterattacks, opting for the element of surprise as he kisses Kyandii full on the lips. It works, before she promptly downs him with a judo throw. The ever-resourceful Ootori calls in a snowblower from one of the groundsmen, before being tackled by Shiny, playfully reprimanding him for not playing fair.

17/12/13
The Winter Festival begins. The Host Club has set up a procession of swan boats in the (heated) pool outside, along with a life-sized gingerbread house made to look like Santa’s workshop – a surprise for Honey.

18/12/13
A quiet day of chatter by the poolside.

19/12/13
The festival continues. Out of boredom, the twins become the Hitachiin Winter Pirates, “kidnapping” Loki and Shiemi to sail away with them on their ship (a swan boat). The boats are only made for two passengers, however, so the whole trip is a little precarious, with Hikaru spending most of the time hanging off the swan’s neck.
Shiny spots the rascals, and is a Princess in Shining Armour as she valiantly rushes to the girls’ rescue. Joined by Mori as her crew, they set out in another boat to pursue the pirates.

Enter Kyandii. Still without her revenge for the surprise kiss a few days before, she jumps into a boat of her own, hot on their trail.

Enter Lucas, who, stirred into action by talk of pirates and booty-stealing, promptly starts bombarding the twins’ boat with marshmallows – and frosted cakes.

Hikaru very unsubtly addresses the budding romance between Shiny and Mori, leaving Shiny flustered and Mori speeding their vessel towards the pirates (to rescue the girls. Yep).

Out-numbered and surrounded on all sides, the Hitachiin Winter Pirates change tactics: their captives become hostages! Kaoru holding Loki bridal-style over the water, and Hikaru doing the same with Shiemi, they try to bargain the girls’ safety for the surrender of their foes.

Captain Shiny stands down, and, begrudgingly, so does Kyandii. Lucas, however, does not bargain with pirates! During the tense negotiations, Shiemi (who can’t swim) panics at being held over the water, and her flailing sends both herself and Hikaru into the pool. Lucas comes to the rescue with a pair of duck floaties that he apparently just habitually carries around with him.

As Hikaru and Shiemi climb safely out of the pool to dry off, there is much confusion as to why Lucas has a pair of Kyouya’s pants (Honey lent a spare pair of Kyouya’s after Lucas had an incident with his Ceiling Plaster Fondant that left him stuck by his pants to the floor). During said conversation, Mori ends up tripping backwards into the pool – and Shiny, in an effort to stop him, ends up falling in, too.

Hikaru slyly offers to help Shiemi warm up – and she’s baffled. Not that she hasn’t heard worse, but to be flirted with in real life is entirely different than in games! The older twin calls out to his brother to come help warm them both up – right as Kaoru is in the middle of a… peculiar conversation/argument with Lucas concerning ‘roosters’ and ‘stamina’, in which Kaoru is invading Lucas’ personal space (and leaving him somewhat ruffled). Somehow the conversation has to do with the twins proving they’re not evil. Hikaru mentions how he valiantly saved Shiemi – who unhelpfully adds that Lucas helped. At which point Lucas offers to let her keep the floaty, or, if she’d prefer, he has one of a male chicken in his pocket, too.
Shiemi is convinced he’s a pervert.

Kyandii interrupts the conversation by trying to drag Kaoru away to “have a talk” (here meaning “throw him into the pool”). Kaoru stalls for time. The conversation has somehow jumped to the subject of kissing, and Lucas’ self-professed prowess in the area. Kaoru challenges him to kiss Kyandii, then, since she already knows how he kisses. Lucas misinterprets his instructions, and plants one on Kaoru instead – before flopping onto the ground in convulsions from having “kissed pure evil.”

Hikaru and Kaoru make a break for it, leaving Kyandii to drag Lucas off to the infirmary.

20/12/13
The Fairytale Ball begins, the ballroom decorated as a magical forest.
Shiny is dressed as a Siren, Kyandii as a unicorn, Kyouya as a wicked vizier, Lucas as a Chicken Prince, Loki – an elf, Aiko – a fairy, Massu as a konpeito princess, Ren as a Chimera, the Hitachiin twins as elves (or imps? Hmm), Strawberry as a knight, and Shiemi as a sugarplum fairy.

21/12/13 - 30/12/13
?? More Ball stuff. Nanase Haruka, Hazuki Nagisa, Ryuugazaki Rei and Matsuoka Gou (from Iwatobi High School) visit the famous Host Club while touring the school’s winter festival.
(I was super busy with holiday stuff and didn’t get time to write everything down. If there was something important anyone feels should be included here, please let me know!)

31/12/13
A quiet day of mingling in the clubroom.