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Kyoya needed a wife. Not just any wife; she would have to be worthy enough to join his family and also mesh well with his personality. The second condition was the harder one to meet. Kyoya was a serious Type A personality and he knew it.

He demanded perfection from those around him. He saw most people as tools to be used to his advantage. There were some exceptions to this, such as his friends from High School, especially Tamaki. This of course did not stop him from using his friends to his advantage; he just knew that they were people and not tools.

His problem with finding a wife was that there were only six people he did not see as tools. None of them were suitable to be his wife though. Five of them were men and the sixth was the girlfriend of one of the men. All he could do to narrow down his search was to make a list of woman who would be worthy enough to join his family.

There were only fifteen women on this list and he only personally knew three of them: Chikae Numata, Namiko Umesaki, and Alianore Roux.

Chikae Numata was the daughter of one of the most prominent lawyers in all of Tokyo. Marrying her would give his family some very good connections, but she didn't feel right to him. She seemed to look down on everyone around her; no one was quite good enough for her. Kyoya knew that she would agree to marry him, but if she did his life would be a living hell.

Namiko Umesaki was the daughter of a businessman that specialized in owning and running shopping malls. Again, she would bring his family some good connections, but there was something not right. Namiko was big on charity work. Which wasn't such a bad thing, in and of itself, except that she pitied everyone that was below her station. If Kyoya married her she would most likely end up insulting everyone that worked for him. This would be severely detrimental to his family in the long run.

Alianore Roux was the daughter of the French Ambassador to Japan. Kyoya knew that she had been good friends with Tamaki when they were growing up in France together. She would bring some good connections to his family if he married her, particularly some strong international ones. Alianore had some faults though; she appeared to be rather flighty and immature. She showed her immaturity by trying to break up Tamaki and Haruhi.

Kyoya fingers paused in their note-making, hovering over his laptop as he started forming an idea. Maybe he should email Haruhi and ask her opinion on Alianore. After all, Haruhi was very honest and subjective. She would give him the true inside scoop on whether or not Alianore would be good enough for him.

Kyoya quickly and carefully wrote an email to Haruhi.

Haruhi,

I would appreciate your opinion on something. My father is pressing me to find someone worthy of the Ohtori name to settle down with. At the present moment the only person I know of that is worthy is you. This is problematic since you are practically engaged to Tamaki and I cannot do anything to hurt him, despite how annoying he is at times. I am thinking that, as a substitute for you, I may ask Alianore Roux to accompany me to a few events. I would like to know your feelings and thoughts on this because of your closer relationship with her family. Her brother Zackarie is doing well in the Host Club and her father is a respected ambassador. I know all of this and I also know that a relationship with her would be a good alliance. What I want your opinion on is whether or not we would be compatible.

She seems to be rather flighty and silly, like Tamaki is. Yet, like Tamaki, there seems to be something else there. You are much better at reading people then I am, after all, you were able to understand the twins and tell them apart so easily. So, all I ask, if you could tell me your thoughts on her. If you do so then I will attempt to distract her enough so she stops trying to take Tamaki away from you. Whether this is by pursuing her with the thought of marriage as a goal or with the intention of merely placating my father.

Kyoya

P.S. I do find her rather likeable and beautiful, but this is nothing special in and of itself.

To distract himself while awaiting a reply Kyoya began looking over his stocks. He always felt more relaxed and comfortable when he saw that his stocks were staying strong. Once Kyoya had finished that he glanced up at the clock. It had been fifteen minutes since he sent the email. Kyoya stood up and stretched, then walked around his bedroom a few times. He was just about to do some stretches when his computer dinged.

Walking over Kyoya saw that Haruhi had replied to his email. He sat down, opened the email, and began to scan it.

Kyoya,

If what I have to say here in this email makes you unwilling to marry Alianore, then please don't lead her one. She is a very sweet and nice girl who has already been hurt by what Tamaki's grandmother has put her through.

Alianore may seem flighty and silly, but that is merely because she is extremely excitable and passionate. Once she has put her mind to something she doesn't give up. Even now, with her distractions over trying to break Tamaki and me up, she is passing all of her classes and making connections to help her enter international politics. I believe she would be an asset for the Ohtori family. But I believe more, that she would be an asset to you. If you could fall in love with her and get her to return your love, she would be the one.

If you want an idea on how to have her agree to date you, here's one: Convince her by doing it she will make Tamaki jealous. She won't by the way, he would be happy she found someone, like he did. But if she believes it she will agree and then you can convince her to choose you.

I hope this helps you. I need to go now, Tamaki is picking me up for dinner in about ten minutes and I'm still in clothes he would deem 'unacceptable', which would of course make him pout…and we can't have that can we?

Haruhi

P.S. Good luck, I think the two of you would work well together.

Kyoya let out a little chuckle at Haruhi's last line. Of course she would be dressed unacceptably; clothes were not a big thing for her.

Kyoya put this out of his mind as he turned back to reread what she had said about Alianore. The more he read it the more he felt that Alianore might be the one for him. After all, is she was able to work on destabilizing Tamaki and Haruhi's relationship, while still maintaining good grades and making connections, she just might be a match for him. True, he would have to help her curb her extreme displays of emotion, but that could be worked on.

Kyoya leaned back in his chair and thought on whether or not he should pursue Alianore. It only took him a few moments to decide. He would actively and honestly pursue her, with the realization that if she proved unacceptable at any time he would immediately break off their relationship and work on looking for a wife somewhere else.

Kyoya began working on his laptop again. Now he needed to look up more information on Alianore's likes and dislikes. After all, he had to make her fall in love with him.

Author's Note: Here it is, as per cjnicole's request. The story of how in the world Kyoya ended up with Alianore. I hope you like this, more will come, I just wanted to get this started tonight. Thank you everyone that has been reading and reviewing my stories so far. Don't worry, I will get back to Continuing and HunnyxReiko at some point. I just don't quite know what to put for them. If anyone has any requests, suggestions, or ideas please let me know, I love input and feedback.

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