The mood was unusually low amongst the host club. You could almost hear the sad violins in the background. Nobody was excited about Haruhi's commoner coffee today.
"What are we going to do?" Haruhi broke the silence.
"We could put up missing posters." Honey suggested. He was holding his Usa-chan very tightly. At this point in time, everyone agreed it wasn't a bad idea.
Kyoya Ootori, the person who really ran the host club, had been missing for a few days now and everyone was starting to get anxious. Who knows what could have happened to him?
They were all working hard. Mori, Honey and Usa-chan were all having a tea party, Tamaki was growing mushrooms in a corner, Hikaru and Kaoru were doing their usual twincesty things and Haruhi was busy being a commoner.
At this point, Kyoya had only been missing for a couple of days. Everyone was getting a little worried, especially Tamaki. Kyoya never missed a single day of school or the host club. They were all just hoping he'd come back soon and everything would be all right.
It wasn't.
They were running out of tea-sets and their financial situation was getting worse and worse. Things had become so grim they even had to close the host club.
They'd asked around if they'd seen him, but no one knew anything. Not even his parent's did, not that they noticed him before he went missing.
That brings us to the present. The school plastered with missing person posters. What was left of the host club waiting by the telephone on the edge of their seats, waiting for it to ring.
That usually obnoxious ringing sounded like heaven on earth to them. It couldn't even ring twice before it was picked up by Tamaki.
The call was over just as quickly as it had started. Tamaki's face was fearful, everyone else looked concerned. "They said they know where Kyoya is." He begun. No one cheered, they knew there was a catch. "They'll give him back if we do what they say."