The Most Beautiful Seventh Day

Description – Tamaki accepts a challenge—to earn 30000 yen in 7 days all by himself, without relying on relations, to prove to Ranka-san that he can take care of Haruhi even without his family background. Spin-off of, Drama in the Host Club, for how Haruhi and Tamaki got together. Hope this makes up for the ridiculous 2-paragraph explanation in the original story. Also, readers do not have to have read the first story to get this one, all new readers have to know is that the Host Club was doing a play (sleeping beauty) for OC, Amaya (a.k.a., Aya). Tamaki and Haruhi accidentally kissed in the scene, and sparks flew.

Disclaimer – This author does not own Ouran High School Host Club. (Refer back to this disclaimer in following chapters)

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Chapter 1

Accepting the Challenge

Day 0

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"Her beauty is a hundred times more than that of a rose. Her stunning golden hair frames her flawless face. Her lips, a luscious pink, dare I, steal a kiss?" Tamaki acts out his lines, making fan girls in the audience scream with excitement. He leans closer…and closer, but their lips did not touch, he didn't want her to think he was taking advantage of her while acting. Perhaps timing wasn't right, and Haruhi thought Tamaki has already raised his head, so she slowly raised, and their lips met.

The same scene played repeatedly in Tamaki's mind. He sat backstage, gazing almost stupidly at his own reflection. Thoughts were flying at him ten thousand miles a minute but his facial expression left no trace of emotions.

Haruhi left immediately after the play, costume and all, making Tamaki's imagination run wild. Did she think that he did that intentionally? Does she think that he was actually a perverted creep who only agreed to perform the play because he wanted to take advantage of her in that one scene? Did she think his breath stink? He could not quite remember if he brushed his teeth right after breakfast, but he's pretty sure he doesn't have halitosis, I mean come on, when you're rich your breath seems to automatically smell sweet. He exhaled with a 'ha' and sniffed—just in case. Breath doesn't seem to be the problem...

WAIT!

What the heck is he thinking? This is wrong! Unnatural! He always saw Haruhi as his 'daughter', right? He couldn't have actually, secretly enjoyed that kiss, could he? He shook his head vigorously, slapping the back of his head with his own hands, as if trying to get the impure thoughts out.

Somewhere near Tamaki…

"You think we should stop him? He might hurt himself…" Aya offered, seeing that he has been sitting there for a whole hour and a half, making sudden movements ranging from exhaling deeply to smacking himself.

"He'll be fine," Kyouya assured, slightly annoyed not only because he had to play a 'bad-ass wizard', but also because he was tired, and the group was keeping him from napping.

"How boring…" the Hitachiin twins yawned.

Back to Tamaki…

…Maybe she didn't think he was a creep…Maybe she actually, secretly enjoyed it too…

…Maybe she…dare he even think…actually have feelings for him? He broke into a smile and his expression showed harmony. He drowned himself in his imaginations, going into Tamaki inner-mind theatre mode…

They were on stage again, but this time, without an audience…

"Tamaki-sempai…" the Haruhi of Tamaki's imagination, blushed shyly, sitting up on the 'bed-prop'. Tamaki in his own dream walked over to her, and lifted her chin up slightly, giving off a loving gaze. "Tamaki-sempai…kiss…" He inched closer…and closer…

"SEMPAI!" the twins placed their hands on Tamaki's shoulders, bringing him out of his dream. God, he hates them…

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Day 1

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The next day Tamaki sat in his limo, and strangely enough, as if fate was playing its crazy game, a tire of the limo went flat…right in front of Haruhi's house. Coincidentally five other fancy cars appeared, and out came the rest of the host club, and the sole member of the drama club.

"Oh, will you look at that, he came without us asking," Aya looked at him peculiarly.

"Then we can see Haru-chan together!" Honey cheered, dragging the hesitant Tamaki to the door.

Tamaki wasn't sure he was ready to see her so fast. What should he say when they see each other, 'Hey, how's it going'?

Honey rang the door bell twice. Before Tamaki could chicken out, the door opened revealing none other than Ranka-san. He pushed Tamaki aside as if he didn't see him at all, which in fact he did, and greeted the Host Club. Ranka-san wasn't too happy about his 'enemy', Tamaki, stealing his daughter's first 'male to female' kiss, making Tamaki so sad, he could grow fungus. Ranka-san revealed that Haruhi was at the supermarket. Now he was staring intently at Tamaki. Somehow, Ranka-san's gaze seems to shout out, 'What's up with you and Haruhi?' and 'You better take responsibility' at the same time.

What was Tamaki supposed to say? I'll marry your daughter and take full responsibility? It's not like he got her pregnant, it was just a kiss…

"Ah, Tamaki-sempai, what do you think of Haruhi," Aya broke the unnerving silence, finally bringing up the guts to ask.

"I…" Tamaki wanted to say he liked her, but 'like' seems so vague. Does he like her like a daughter, or does he like her romantically? Oh well, they might not notice, "I like her."

"Like my daughter? Did you ask my permission?" Ranka laughed half-jokingly, half serious. Tamaki tensed up. Ranka-san seemed to be in thought for a minute. Suddenly he seemed to have thought of something. Then he whispered something to Kyouya. Kyouya's glasses glinted, and a smirk played along his lips.

"Ranka-san says, if you can earn 30000 yen by yourself in a week without relying on family relations, he'll allow you to like Haruhi," Kyouya transmitted the message. Tamaki looked taken aback.

"I accept that challenge!" Tamaki declared bringing back his old determined self. Ranka-san whispered something to Kyouya again.

"Ranka-san forgot to mention that today counts in your seven day time limit."

Tamaki seems to have frozen in the spot, as if deep in thought.

"Uh, Tamaki-sempai, I think it's a good idea to start looking for a job now…" Aya reminded, poking him a few times.

They looked through the want ads, and eventually, they came upon one job that seemed suitable…Waiter, 20000 yen a week. That wasn't enough though, so eventually Ranka-san picked him another part-time job, a construction worker—pretty high-paying.

Eventually, Tamaki got both jobs. It's a good thing they're on vacation. In the morning Tamaki works as a waiter until 11 am. Then he goes to his other job as a construction worker. Tamaki never thought he'd see the day he work part-time jobs…

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A/N-

Okay, so this is the first chapter of the spin-off. I hope readers enjoyed it. As I said before, this story explains how Haruhi and Tamaki got together in "Drama! In the Host Club". This story is also written to make up for the vagueness of the 2-paragraph explanation about them in the last chapter. This story should be more or less around 7 chapters. Should be a short story, so don't expect much. Once again, I would like to clarify that, if you didn't read my first story, it's okay to continue reading this one, because this story only makes a few references to the first one.

Do you think the characters are a little OOC here? I don't know, maybe I should re-watch Ouran…but anyways… hope my readers enjoyed reading this. It actually gets more interesting later on. I've just been dieing to get this chapter finished.

Hope to hear from you.

Stay tuned for, Day 2 – Co-workers and Customers