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FREUDIAN SLIP

Haruhi had had enough.

No, really. She had had enough of the chaos, the insanity, the pretence - and pretty much everything else that was part of the everyday routine for the host club. She had reached the limits of her endless patience and was ANGRY.

"SHUT UP!!" Haruhi practically roared, pulling her right hand out of Hikaru's and left hand away from Tamaki (who had both just been in the middle of a very loud custody battle, almost tearing Haruhi in two while spitting insults at one another). Tamaki and Hikaru both stared at Haruhi, completely taken aback. Hunny jumped into Mori's arms, scared, and Kaoru backed away from the angry cross-dresser. Even Kyouya decided to finally lift his eyes from his math homework to see what was going on.

"I have listened to you idiots go on like this FOR WEEKS! ENOUGH, YOU SPOILED IDIOTS!" Haruhi was right; ever since Hikaru had told everyone in the host club three weeks ago that the twins were planning on adopting Haruhi once they were old enough to, Tamaki ("I'm Haruhi's father!") and Hikaru had been at each other's faces. "AAARGH!! God, I hate this!" Tamaki and Hikaru were starting to realize the danger they were in and slowly backed away from the girl with hands turned up, as if she was pointing at them with a revolver.

"Ha-Haruhi, this is an important -" Tamaki tried to explain, but Haruhi cut in using some words that made Tamaki wonder who had taught his precious daughter such horrible language. However, cleverly for once, he decided not to interrupt the girl's rant.

"This goddamn argument is POINTLESS! Though that shouldn't come as any surprise, because pretty much everything you do here is pointless! You put up a freak show for a bunch of air-headed, hormone-crazy girls -" the customers had already left, "- and act like you've never even heard of reality! The only reason I ever joined this - this insanity - was to pay off my debt! Not to amuse you IDIOTS and play along with your stupid whims and schemes! I wanted to quit ages ago, when they were going to find out about my gender, but you DIDN'T LET ME!!"

Haruhi was pretty breathless by this point. "And what good has it done me to stay? I'm STILL not even close to working off my debt, I have to listen to your fighting EVERY DAY, and I still haven't had any Ootori-"

It took Haruhi 0.65 seconds to realize her mistake and turn a tomato-ish colour.

Tamaki blanched and fainted.

The Hitachiins and the two oldest hosts stared. The countdown began.

5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 -

"COUGH! Cough..." The uncomfortable silence was disturbed by Kyouya, who - for the first time in his life - had snorted tea into his nose and was now in the middle of an extremely embarrassing coughing fit. Even then, he somehow managed to curve his lips into a smirk that no one else saw. This humiliation is worth it. Haruhi's in for one hell of a questioning for this later - oh yes, that's a lovely blush on her face now.

Having made sure that he wouldn't choke as soon he stopped coughing, he stood up, wiped his lower jaw with a napkin, and then turned to face the staring eyes that had been turned on him. Nonchalantly, he spoke, "I think that we should cease the activities for the day. Since Tamaki is unconscious and probably needs some medical attention, I propose we postpone the meeting until tomorrow and take our leave."

Mori put Hunny down and picked up Tamaki to take him to infirmary. The Hitachiin twins had already disappeared, and from the corner of his eye, Kyouya noticed someone else trying to slip out unnoticed. Too bad she failed.

"Not so fast, Haruhi," Kyoya said in a mocking tone. Haruhi jumped a bit and turned to look at Kyouya, who had his scariest cat-who-had-gotten-both-canary-and-cream-smirk on his face. "Since you are so unhappy about your stay here in the host club, I think you and I are going to have a little chat, and maybe do something about it." He turned to sit down again, but did not miss Haruhi's terrified shiver.

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