Ouran High School. In this world, it trains the wealthiest members of society to use their gifts of manipulating the elements of Light, Darkness, Lightning, Fire, Wind, Earth and Water. But this year scholarship student Haruhi Fujioka is thrown into the middle of the Host Club, a clean version of the real thing that also doubles as a secret tutoring session. After breaking a PricelessMingVase filled with orbs of elemental energy (increasing its worth exponentially), Haruhi begins working for the club and ends up a host after a duel between the Club and some of their rivals nearly goes wrong...

So you think you know this story? You would likely be wrong. After the hosts and Haruhi become close, they forge an illegal Circle, permanently binding them and their powers together. And then it goes FromBadToWorse, what with deaths, blackmail and all sorts of nasty things.

Can be found [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3581116/1/ here]]

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!!This fanfic contains examples of:

* ActionMom: Haruhi's mother while she lived since she and her Circle were the defenders of a certain section of the city.
* BerserkButton: Threatening Haruhi, just as in canon. [[spoiler: In the blackmail incident mentioned above, Haruhi's payment is supposed to be becoming the blackmailer's lover. All of the hosts FREAK, complete with Mori outright stating ''[[NotSoStoic "He will die for this dishonor]]."'']]
* BigBrotherInstinct: Mori is LIVID when [[spoiler:an exchange between Haruhi and a blackmailer goes wrong and Huni ends up unconscious]].
* DarkIsEvil: [[spoiler: The Darkness Elemental of the Circle that's been murdering Circle hopefuls.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: Kyouya is living proof of this trope in this [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]].
* ElementalPowers: Basically the point of this [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]]. They include:
** BlowYouAway: Held by Huni.
** CastingAShadow: Held by Kyouya.
** DishingOutDirt: Held by Mori.
*** HealingHands: An Earth Elemental trait.
*** GreenThumb[=/=]TheBeastmaster: Earth in this universe doesn't just encompass rock and soil, which is part of the reason why they can heal.
** LightEmUp: Held by Tamaki.
** MakingASplash: Held by Haruhi.
** PlayingWithFire/ KillItWithFire: Held by Hikaru.
** ShockAndAwe: Held by Kaoru.
* TheHeart: Haruhi, oddly enough- so much so that [[spoiler:despite their Circle-forging instructions stating that Kaoru should be the center of the Circle as the Lightning, he objects, saying that it feels wrong and that Haruhi should switch with him. EVERYONE agrees with him]].
* LightIsGood: Tamaki.
* LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler:The Light Elemental of the Circle that's been murdering Circle hopefuls.]]
* PowerIncontinence: All of the hosts get hit with this after [[spoiler:their Circle-forging]] but Hikaru worst of all since [[spoiler:his Fire powers are so strong that he burns Kaoru with a simple touch]].
* TeacherStudentRomance: [[spoiler: Haruhi and her Circle-forged-Elemental teacher develop mutual attraction to each other though it's unclear just how much he likes her exactly.]]
* TrueCompanions: The whole point of Circles.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: A higher-level Earth Elemental skill.
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:The Circle responsible for all of the misforgings of Circles. They were shown to be willing to let Kasanoda misforge his Circle, were responsible for numerous deaths of teenagers and were willing to let Hikaru bleed out during their duel with the Host Club.]]

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