Secret
By Ai Usagi
Disclaimer: Seriously? If I did own the manga of Ouran High School Host Club, would I be posting fanfiction?
Author's Note: This is set after chapter 74, so of course there are spoilers; I'm just not going to tell what they are.
It was Lunch and Haruhi decided she just wasn't that hungry today. Besides, the same thing happened every day. Tamaki promises to sit with her, then decides he can't, leaves a note why, and gives her a whole week worth of quizzes. So, to get away from the dreaded quizzes, she just decided to wander around Ouran, and then she realized she had to go to the bathroom. "Crap" she thought, not sure on which one to go to. She looked back and forth between the two and thought why she could not go into the girl's, A) because they all thought she was a guy, and that would ruin her reputation as a host, meaning she couldn't pay off her debt. And if she entered the guys' room, her eyes will be scarred permanently. 'Either way, I'm screwed.' thought Haruhi. AS she started to get deeper into thought, she felt something nibble at her ear, which deeply surprised her making her throw all of her textbooks in the air with the grace of a 3 legged blind horse. She also felt a weight on her shoulders. "Your secret is getting harder and harder to keep, isn't it" said a teasing voice. Haruhi automatically felt chills go through her back. "You think everyone will find out eventually?" Haruhi gasped and raised her hand to her in a rather feminine way, blushing, thinking about her other secret that the stranger did not know. "Ha ha ha, Haruhi, you're so cute." said that teasing voice, no longer teasing, but seemingly happy. She turned around, and it was, "Sempai?" she said, wanting to kill him at the moment. "Someone has to take over for Hikaru and Kaouru, right?" He said with a smile, still making Haruhi want to punch him in the stomach. "You know Haruhi, everyone has secrets, and it's just natural right? To have one thing you can't tell anyone else?" There he was smiling that smile of this that would make even Kyoya (a.k.a. Shadow King) calm down. Haruhi lowered her guard, still not too happy about Tamaki scaring her like that. "Sempai, aren't you supposed to be at lunch right now?" she asked, trying to change the subject. "Well, I did promise the Host Club sit with them today, but then I couldn't find you, so I looked all over. Kind of silly, huh?" He said, with an ever bigger smile, but one that seemed so sad. It almost made Haruhi want to cry. "Sempai?" she said, in a much softer tone, but he just kept on smiling that sad smile. "Hey Haruhi, would you mind if I told you a secret?" He said, still smiling. Haruhi had no idea what to say, but "Sure…" Tamaki laughed a nervous kind of laugh and became all red all of a sudden. He bent down and whispered something in her ear, but she just couldn't quite hear it. But then it came again, that sad smile. "It felt so good to get that off my back, thanks Haruhi!" he said before going completely red. Just before he was about to walk off, he turned around back to Haruhi, bent down, and gave her a quick kiss on the forehead. Haruhi had no idea what was going on at all. She just stood there, not knowing what to do or think. As he waved her goodbye, he smiled. Not just that sad smile, but a rather true genuine smile, the type that almost wanted to make her cry. Is she had heard Tamaki's whisper she would have known that he loved her, but atlas, the whisper was too delicate, and broke the instant it hit her ear, meaning she'll probably never hear it.