"Are you sure you don't want some cake?" Honey asked as he gobbled down fat slices of strawberry shortcake.
"Hn."
"It's really good though! Isn't that right, Takashi?"
"Mm." Mori looked at the reluctant member their group project, a Fuyuki Ichikawa.
"I guess we should get back to work…but it's so much better with cake!" Honey chirped. "We've already analyzed the hypocrisy in Holden's character, wrote the paper, and created the PowerPoint. All that's left is the visual display."
"Hn," both Mori and Fuyuki grunted in response.
"Wow! It's already 4:30!"
Fuyuki jolted up from his seat.
"Is there something wrong, Fu-chan?"
"I have to go," he muttered quickly. He scrambled around the room gathering his folders and papers.
"Oh! Okay, how about you meet us in the Third Music Room tomorrow after classes to work on the project?"
"No."
"It's no intrusion, Fu-chan!"
"No."
"Are you embarrassed? It's okay, boys are allowed to enjoy the host club too!"
"No," he repeated insistently.
Honey wanted to press more, but Mori shook his head.
"Okay, then I'll call you and we can arrange something," Honey suggested.
"Hn."
Fuyuki continued to scramble about the room and ran out with his folders cradled poorly in his arms. As he ran, papers fluttered out of his folders.
"Fu-chan! You're dropping your papers!" But he was already out of sight.
Mori and Honey remained in the room, gathering the fallen papers.
"Fu-chan is certainly very busy," Honey said. "He always disappears at 4:30. You think he has a secret job that he's hiding?"
Mori shook his head. As he reached down to pick up the last piece of paper, he couldn't help but notice how it wasn't Fuyuki's handwriting.
"Isn't that a girl's handwriting?" Honey asked curiously. "Is it a love letter?"
"Ichikawa-senpai has a secret girlfriend!" Hikaru and Kaoru both shouted in shock before bursting into laughter.
"That's impossible!" Hikaru said as he laughed.
"He's the most boring person ever!" Kaoru added.
"Who'd want to date him?" they chimed together.
"You know nothing, about love you two devil twins!" Tamaki cried out. "Fuyuki-senpai and this girl are forever separated! Read this longing in her letter!"
"You read someone else's love letter?" Haruhi said with her eye twitching.
"Why, of course, Haruhi!"
"You know that it's a felony to read other people's mail, right?"
"Oooo, senpai's a criminal!" the twins teased.
Hikaru leaned towards Tamaki, "Were you looking for something juicy?"
"Tamaki's a pervert! Tamaki's a pervert!" they chanted as Tamaki flailed his arms and chased after them.
Nonetheless the letter was passed around to each host and read, Honey sighed into his chocolate cake, "This poor girl and Fuyuki, having to be apart."
"That's right, Honey-senpai!" Tamaki said. "We must reunite the couple! Time for Project: Reunite Fuyuki-senpai with his Princess!"
"Yeah!" the twins cheered as they posed with Tamaki.
"Isn't it problematic that we don't even know her name?" Haruhi noted.
"Mother! Who is this young maiden?"
Kyouya looked up from his Pineapple laptop with little interest. "If all we have to pursue this case is a letter with feminine handwriting, there is little I can do without using an unreasonable amount of money. I'm not interested in learning about Ichikawa-senpai's love life. This mission is not very beneficial to me. Therefore I will not waste my valuable resources to pursue this case."
"How could you be so cruel?! A young couple forced be apart because of their family, status, schools, but their pure love cannot be penetrated by this separation!" Tamaki cried out. "A real life Romeo and Juliet!"
"Did he just make all that up?" Haruhi asked.
The twins shrugged their shoulders.
"How are we so sure that this girl and Fuyuki are even a couple?" Haruhi asked. "Her letter seems to just ask how he is doing, wishing him good health, and hopes that he can visit."
"Haruhi, you have such little understanding of the purity and fragility of young maidens in love!" Tamaki cried out.
As he explained the delicacy of young maidens, he painted the imagery of a young girl leaning over a balcony of a lighthouse, basking in the light of sunset with crashing waves below her, writing a yearning letter.
"Why don't we follow Fu-chan tomorrow after school?" Honey suggested. "He leaves at 4:30 everyday after school.
"Great idea, Honey-senpai!" Tamaki chirped. "Tomorrow at 4:30, we begin Project: Reunite Fuyuki-senpai with his Princess!"
"Aren't we being extremely suspicious if we're tailing him in A GIANT LIMO?!" Haruhi cried out.
"Our mom has a giant fashion show in Tokyo and needed to use all the other cars as decoys," Hikaru said as he laid back down.
"She's always getting swamped by the paparazzi and fans," Kaoru added as he moved his controller rapidly, playing his video game.
It seemed almost like a normal host club outing. Hikaru and Kaoru were playing video games. Honey was eating boxes of cake, while Mori wiped his face and served the cake. Kyouya was writing in his black ledger book. Tamaki was as usual, all over the place.
"We're slowing down!" Tamaki noted. He placed sunglasses on his face to be more conspicuous as he rolled down the window. He stuck his bright blonde head out of the black limo.
"Fuyuki-senpai just got of the car," he whisper-shouted. "He's walking toward the gate of this house."
"We all know!" the twins cried and pulled his head back in.
Everyone except Kyouya pressed closer to the window and watched as Fuyuki spoke on the intercom and entered the gate.
"Why is he not driving up instead of walking up to the house?" Kaoru asked.
"Yeah, that walk must be over a mile long," Hikaru commented.
"They must be having a secret rendezvous!" Tamaki cried. "With the gatekeeper serving as Juliet's nurse!"
Haruhi shook her head as the limo pulled up to the gate after Fuyuki and his car had disappeared into the distance.
"Wait, we followed him to the wrong place!" Hikaru shouted.
"Where are we?" Honey asked.
"The Ichikawa Summer Home," Kaoru read.
While everyone else was in a state of confusion, Kyouya stopped writing in his ledger.
"Why would someone visit their summer home every day?" Kaoru asked.
"Because Fuyuki-senpai is BORING!" Hikaru answered.
Kaoru sighed, "Just when we thought he'd be interesting."
"He had to disappoint us," Hikaru finished.
"What does he do in an empty summer home every day?" Tamaki pondered out loud. "AHA! It's empty! It's the PERFECT rendezvous location!"
"That's right!" the twins cheered.
"Let's go and tell them not to hide their love any longer!" Tamaki cried.
As Tamaki began to open the limo door, Kyouya reached over him swiftly and slammed the door shut loudly and firmly.
"What's wrong, mother? We have to help Fuyuki-senpai and his princess!"
"He's not dating anyone," Kyouya said affirmatively.
"Of course, he is! The letter was from a girl!"
"Yes, but the girl was his sister."
"HE HAS A SISTER!" Tamaki and the twins cried out.
"I never knew Fu-chan had a sister," Honey mused. "He never mentions her. There isn't another Ichikawa in all levels of Ouran Academy."
"Natsuki Ichikawa, 16 years of age. Second child of the Ichikawa Hotel Group. Considered a musical prodigy. She attended Ouran Elementary until the age of 4. Then she was removed and homeschooled."
"What happened when she was 4?" Tamaki asked.
Kyouya hesitated before continuing, "She got into a detrimental car accident."
The car became silent.
But the question on everyone's mind was finally asked by Haruhi, "What is she doing in a summer home all by herself?"