An Ultimatum

Music Room 3 was beautifully decorated today as it normally was. There was no special theme today, but that didn't stop the steady flow of customers. Tamaki sat at a table with three young ladies. He sat with them, flirting as he usually did and made the three girls giggle.

Across the room, Haruhi shook her head. She never understood why these girls swooned. It was obviously fake affection. Haruhi always prided herself of her ability to keep a calm head in most situations, especially when the host club boys tried to flirt with her for fun.

Tamaki caressed the cheek of the young girl who sat on the chair nearest to him. He put on a pained expression and said softly, "Oh, my beautiful princess. You are the light that brightens my world."

Behind him, Haruhi rolled her eyes. The whole charade made her feel like being sick.

The other two girls let out great squeals of joy and blushed, each hoping they'd be next.

Haruhi sat at a table with a glass of water and put the glass down so hard, a great deal of it slopped out.

"What's the matter Haruhi?" Hikaru asked draping himself over the back of her chair.

"Yeah, you seem more annoyed than usual." Kaoru chided in while leaning on the arm of the chair.

"Nothing. It's just been a long week." Haruhi put her hands on her temples and started to rub out a headache that was beginning to rage. Tamaki glanced up, eyes narrowed at the scene behind him.

"That's right. Exams are this week aren't they?" Hikaru looked bored out of his mind just thinking of them.

"You have to stay at the top or you could lose your scholarship, right?" Kaoru didn't bother looking concerned.

"Get off me guys!" Haruhi ducked out from their arms as the two made to hug her. "We've talked about this before; we don't need to keep bringing it up."

Haruhi was on her last nerves. She had been studying all week, and coming back to the frivolous host club was frustrating. She hated the huge difference between the two areas.

"Do you need help to study?" Haruhi jumped at Tamaki's sudden involvement.

"Where did you come from?" Haruhi jumped up out of her chair and clutched her chest and breathed heavily trying to slow her heart down.

"What are you studying? Do you need help?"

"Hey, we're in her class. We'll help her if she needs help," the twins chorused.

"Yeah, but I've already done it and I was top of the class with Kyoya."

"Then why not tutor us too! We need to study!"

"But if you don't stay at the top, you won't be kicked out. So I'm only helping my daughter!"

The twins rolled their eyes. They wondered when he'd finally get off this 'father/daughter' thing.

"Shut up Tamaki-sempai! I don't need any help to study!" Haruhi sat down on the chair she'd jumped out of.

"Fine, don't help us," the twins chimed in, "but you'd better get things done right." The two waltzed away.

"Done right? What does that mean Tamaki-sempai?" Haruhi looked up at Tamaki confused.

Tamaki shrugged. He wasn't about to bother trying to figure out what they meant.

Haruhi sighed again and started to rub her temples again.

"Are you okay? Do you need to go to the infirmary? Are you sick?" Tamaki's questions began to get more and more frantic as more possibilities appeared in his head. "Did they infect you with something? Are they stressing you-?"

"Tamaki-sempai!" Haruhi blushed as everyone turned toward her. Speaking a little more quietly she said, "Tamaki-sempai, calm down. I'm fine. I'm a little stressed out, but I'll be okay. I just need to relax or something."

Tamaki nodded, and seemed like he understood.

"Okay. You just go take a break today and relax."

"But what about my customers?" She looked worried despite the fact that she'd been mostly forced into the job.

"I'll tell them you aren't feeling well. They'll come back, I promise!"

"Good. I can't afford to lose any customers." Haruhi stood up and walked out so she could go somewhere quiet to relax and study.

Tamaki felt his chest tighten. He knew this wasn't her choice of club, but he didn't want her to hate it.

Tamaki sat in a lone chair and started thinking of all the possible outcomes, for some reason only seeing those that ended in Haruhi hating him.

"Looks like the boss is upset again." Kaoru and Hikaru looked at Tamaki over the back of one of the couches where they sat across two young girls staring hungrily at the two, waiting until they did something with each other.

Kyoya, walking by, overheard the twins before they started hanging over each other for their customers' benefits.

Making his way over to Tamaki, he noticed that Haruhi was gone. He'd have to talk to her about that. He imagined it was because of Tamaki though, since Haruhi almost never shirked her duties.

"What's the matter Tamaki?"

"Mommy? What if Haruhi decides to leave when she meets her quota?" Tamaki sounded somewhere between fearful and sad.

"Well…Daddy. It's still a long way before she gets there. I wouldn't worry about it until then." Kyoya studied Tamaki for a moment, wondering how serious he was this time.

"Yeah, but still. I don't want her to want to leave!" Tamaki curled up, pouting.

"You're going to be upset for a long time, aren't you?"

Tamaki's response was to curl up tighter. Kyoya just shook his head.

"I'll come back when you're going to talk again."

Meanwhile, Haruhi was in an empty classroom with her head on the desk. She hated this time of the year. Her exams were piling up again. She couldn't really say all that much since she was the one taking all of the extra classes. But this year was worse.

She had host club duties to worry about and she had to stay at the top of the class. But just the other night her dad had told her some of the worst news yet; they were going to have to move at the end of the year.

So, this is my first Ouran fanfiction. I'm sorry it's short an uneventful. I promise to make the rest better! I just needed a little set up. Let me know what you think or what you want out of this, okay? ^^

Also, I've already edited it a little bit.