Shiro Takaoji: Age 13 now
Having graduated the elementary school, and is now sense the new school year started, in the Ouran Academy's middle school, gets a devastating phone call, the caller announcing to him that while his parents were off on a business trip their plane went down due to a malfunction and crashed killing them along with dozens of other passengers who were flying on it.
Shiro due to the call had been in nearly complete shock that entire day, having gotten the call only a couple of hours after his school day began. He had though promised Tamaki at the beginning of week that he would come by and participate in the host club activities one day this week and he hadn't done it yet. So he starts heading over to the high school, sort of halfway in a blank daze.