Dealing with the Devil
Chapter One
1 year ago
"Everything has been finalized, is that what you are telling me?" Asked a bitter old lady to her conference call companions.
"Yes, that is correct, ma'am. Everything in regards to the papers you asked for should be arriving at your estate within the next week." Replied one of the voices on the line.
"Good. Now, that is all for now. We will convene again in eight months from now." The old lady replied back to her companions before they all left the conversation.
The old lady sighed after she had hung up. It had been a long and stressful four years for the old lady with short salt and pepper grey hair. She had been spending all her time on keeping up with the appearances of not needing a heir to her company, which in fact was a different kind of job than most people would think considering it was one job that expanded over various other employment related jobs.
Her thoughts were soon interrupted by a voice on the other side of her door. "Madam Tsuji, your tea is ready."
"You may enter." Said the lady to her servant.
Once the servant left the office, the old lady went back to resuming what she had been doing before the conference call. She was going to start the locating of her only granddaughter. It was nearly time for her to make that move anyways. Though she could not do anything legally until that following year anyways, since it had been her promise.
Present Day
Haruhi had just been getting to the school when she noticed that the host club was waiting for her outside the gate. Normally, they never did anything like this. The Hitachiin twins, Hikaru and Kaoru, always had their hands wind up on her shoulders and around her waist.
Tamaki Suoh, or the club president, was somewhat shouting that his daughter has finally arrived and then proceeded to giving her a too tight of a hug so that she nearly would pass out. This always made her groan internally. She just wished that he could be quiet for a change so that people would not find out her real gender. Though, there probably would be a time where she would have to tell them that issue.
The tall and silent host, Takashi Morinozuka or whom everyone just called Mori, had to extract the small girl from the clutches of their president. When that was done, Tamaki would often find a corner somewhere to grow mushrooms and pout.
"By the way, why are you guys meeting up here at the gates today?" Haruhi asked after thanking her senior for rescuing her.
Mitsukuni Haninozuka, or whom people just called him Honey, was off to the side eating a cake with his bunny named Usa-chan. Haruhi did not know how he would manage to eat so much. Though, it was Honey who had responded, "Haru-chan, we came so that we could walk you in today! Oh, and would you like to eat some cake with me? I can go halfsies with you on this strawberry cake if you want!"
"Maybe later, Honey-senpai? I will let you eat your cake this morning though." Haruhi replied.
No one spoke or moved after that until Kyoya Ootori, who is often referred to as the Shadow King of the Host Club, would often suggest that they should get going before they were all late. Haruhi was often relieved that they were moving on, though the smile that Kyoya gave was a creepy smile. She could not help but shiver.
The day went by in a blur, but soon it was time to head to music room three. Haruhi was even going to be relatively early for a change. She did not need to pick up anything at the library today, since she had gone yesterday.
When Haruhi got there, she was surprised that no one else was even in the room yet. Instead, she put her books in the back where she normally did. Next, she started getting all the tea sets ready. She would need enough for each of the hosts, as well as her group.
She did not know whether she was hosting or just serving tea first, so it was always best to get the tea in the teapots first, and then she could always boil the water later. The other hosts entered in small clusters, but soon it was also time to host. It turned out that Haruhi had not been hosting first, but she still was on time with everything.
After club time had ended, Haruhi quickly gathered and then proceeded to wash the cups. The other hosts had already left. Or so she thought. Kyoya had stayed behind to work on some of the club's budget tonight. He looked up to Haruhi when she came out.
He offered her a ride, which was nice because Haruhi had a couple things to do and was already running late. She gracefully accepted the ride and the two were soon on their way to Haruhi's apartment complex.
They had rode in silence. Before getting out of the limo, she made sure she thanked her senpai once again for the ride. Once they got to the apartment, Haruhi got a small surprise once she got out of Kyoya's limo. Parked outside was a four door black sedan sitting outside. She did not know anyone who drove one, and she had never seen it at the complex before today. She hoped that it belonged to someone else.
That was proven wrong. She opened the door, and then semi-hollered to her dad that she was home. Her father, Ranka, who was dressed up in his nicest suit, came out and told Haruhi that she needed to go to her room and change into something a bit more feminine since they had a surprise guest over.
She gave her father a surprised look, but she did as she was told. As she was going through her closet, she was thankful for the twins who gave her many dresses, both superbly fancy as well as some more that were cute but not overly fancy. It was one of these not as fancy dresses that she chose. The dress was a spaghetti strapped, two toned pink dress. She grabbed the matching sandals as well to wear, just in case.
When she walked into the kitchen, she really did looked shocked. Their guest was her grandmother. No wonder why dad was dressed up so nicely. Haruhi thought to herself.
"Good evening Grandmother." Haruhi greeted with a bow.
After looking at Haruhi, almost as if she was surveying her grandchild, the old lady finally exclaimed, "Goodness gracious child! What on earth did you do to your hair?!"
"I had to cut it on the first day of my second middle school year after some kid decided to stick gum in it." Haruhi replied.
The grandmother looked a bit shocked but then she recomposed herself. She was, after all, here on an important mission. Finally, after a few minutes of awkward silence, she finally spoke again.
"As you may or may not remember, next week is the fifth year anniversary, as per the deal we had made. The time has come for me to finally decide on who I want to have as my heir to the company. Haruhi, dear, I want you to be my successor. So, with that in mind, you will be undergoing some changes, considering how much of a boy you look like right now." With that, she left the apartment.