AN: I promise that I am working on Luck of the Irish and Kamia... Anyway here's the start to a new fic, I have all the letters picked out so it's just writing the one shots now. A bit of a disclaimer i will only be writing this when I can't concentrate on Luck or Kamia so the updates are going to be pretty infrequent. Hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer!: I do not own OHSHC even in my dreams someone else had the rights to them! :-( Tamaki would have never sttod a chance of getting Haruhi if I was in charge of it.

A is for Arbitrary

The sound of drawers slamming shut filled the small spare kitchenette where Haruhi was cleaning up the dishes used by the guests that day. She was pissed; once again today she was informed of an increase to her debt by Kyoya. It seems that she was again at fault for Tamaki and the twins' antics. This time it resulted in the destruction of a rather beautiful tea set. She wasn't even near the tea set when it had been broken by Tamaki, but since the reason it was broken was from her allowance of the twin's hugging her and Kaoru nuzzling her cheek... Well let's just say Tamaki just reacted like Tamaki. The tea set an innocent casualty.

"Damn him, stupid rich bastard. It's not my fault, not like I ask for this to happen." She mutters to the dishes she's washed, and is in the process of putting away. She's too focused and missed hearing the sound of the door open.

Kyoya watched silently as the girl continued to put the dishes away; unaware of his presence. He noticed her stiff back and stumbling lack of grace in the task. Clearly her newest debt addition had made her angrier than any of the others had. It was a good thing she had no idea why he was so intent on keeping her in debt.

"Stupid twins, stupid Tamaki, they should just give up." That sentence caught his attention, and Kyoya felt the pressing need to know the answer. The thought matched his own. Those idiots should give up. She wasn't a plaything for them, or a daughter to the fool and their refusal to admit their true feelings was getting old. He could admit it; well to himself at least. What his father would say about the subject didn't bare thinking about.

"It's not like he even cares..."

"Like who cares Haruhi?"

At his voice she stopped. Turning slowly she noticed the one who currently occupied her thoughts standing there, his back leaning against the door, black notebook in hand glasses slipped halfway down his nose, the slightest ghost of a smile on his face, probably from her shocked look. She could feel the blush heating her face as her mouth refused to answer his question. "Kyoya-sempai I didn't know you were still here."

"Yes; well I was going over the latest figures for the club, when I heard some noise coming from in here. I would have thought you to be more careful. What with the damages from the china today you can't afford another setback in your debt." At this sentence she felt her control snap.

"I wasn't damaging anything and I don't think it's fair for you to keep arbitrarily adding on to my debt! I'm not the one at fault for today and you know it! All of the others I kept silent about since I actually had some hand in it or was touching the object that was broken, but not today! You may be obsessed with money and profits but why focus so much on me? You'll get the money back faster if you make the twins or Tamaki pay for what they break rather than increasing my quota!"

Haruhi stared defiantly into his eyes seeing a flicker of emotion before Kyoya pushed up his glasses creating the barrier. Emotion, what was it? A little like shock, then guilt?

"You are supposing then that I only care about the money," his voice had an undercurrent of hesitancy to it. As if something hidden was ready to slip out.

Haruhi shrugged, she hadn't noticed his tone change, "You are doing your very best to make me believe so. I remember what I told you at the exhibition, it holds true now. I still don't see how increasing my debt would be of benefit to you, in coin or otherwise."

Kyoya walked closer to her slowly step by step until they were face to face almost touching. "Be that as it may Haruhi, if I could incur towards my previous question. It's not as if who cares?" Haruhi still couldn't see his eyes; the glasses were pushed to an angle making it near impossible to see anything but the glare. She gulped and felt the blush run across her face. This was the last thing she had wanted to tell him. She opened her mouth to say something anything, she was terrible at lying though and her traitorous mouth spilled the biggest secret she had ever carried.

"It's not as if Kyoya-sempai cares, at least not enough for me to hope." Her face burned she broke eye contact; such as it was, glancing to the side. "Hope, for him to ever see me in the same way that I. That I see him." Waiting for the chuckle she knew was coming.

"Well then," she heard him breathe quietly almost to himself. Fingers reached out and grasped her chin, turning her head to face him. Surprised she saw his face closer than ever, and felt his lips press against hers.

Closing her eyes Haruhi melted into that kiss. It was everything she had been dreaming about, everything she felt wouldn't be hers. Soft and sweet, she could hardly believe that Kyoya was giving her a kiss like that. Scratch that, Kyoya was kissing her!

Kyoya pulled away, a blush lightly staining his face. He wasn't impulsive as a rule yet hearing her confession pulled him into unknown territory. He looked down at Haruhi, who seemed to be a little in shock, and blushed further. Why had he done that, it would have been much more logical to clarify first what she meant by her statement.

"if your question is answered then, answer mine." Haruhi said slowly, "Why the arbitrary debt increases?"

Kyoya looked away, "To keep you here," he said quietly, "I was certain you'd leave the minute your debt was paid. And you keep Tamaki and the twins in line..."

Reaching up Haruhi laid her hand against his cheek, "Well I won't go anywhere now, so no more debt increases for no reason?"

"No more," Kyoya looked down and smiled, "Now where were we?"

Laughing Haruhi lifted her head up, and kissed him again.

Short and sweet! Please review!

May the sun always shine golden

Goldpen