Title: My Past, Our Present

Chapter 1: A Mother by any other name

Haruhi looked through out the rooms checking for any dirt she had missed when cleaning. It was a beautiful Saturday that she was dedicating to cleaning and catching up in her own home. Almost every weekend she was pestered by someone, but this weekend she was excused by her host club members. While they all went over to Tamaki's house to think up new themes for their meetings, she was free to do as she wanted for once. Even Akira was going to be at the meeting which meant she was definitely free for at least one day. After looking over her clean home, Haruhi checked the fridge for things she needed to get at the supermarket today. When she was sure she had everything she needed written down, she put her shoes on and left for the supermarket alone for once…

Meanwhile, at Tamaki's everyone was accounted for except for the excused Haruhi and the non-excused Akira. She had promised to leave Haruhi alone and come to the meeting, but she was already an hour late. Everyone was sitting around in the living room thinking to themselves quietly until Hunny spoke.

"Maybe she's late cause something came up. Maybe she'll come over later." suggested Hunny optimistically

Everyone looked over at Hunny before thinking that he was giving Akira too much credit. Yet, no one wanted to say something since they didn't want to crush Hunny's hopes. Usually their meetings were always were noisy when Haruhi and Akira were present. Akira disliked silence so she would purposely cause some kind-of noise or havoc that caused Tamaki or Haruhi to yell at her. The twins would just laugh and encourage her with some more ideas. Hunny would just laugh, Mori would silently smile, and Kyouya would look up from his computer or notebook and smile as well. Today, though, was quiet and it seemed like no one had a good idea. Then the silence was broken by the sound of a car driving up the to the house. When they all looked out the window they noticed it was actually a limo driving towards them and its dark windows concealed the passenger in the back. This seemed to be a lot more interesting than a quiet meeting so they all rushed outside to take a peek at the passenger.

"Since I'm the one who lives here, I shall greet them personally." Tamaki said as he waited with the others on the driveway

When the car came to a stop they noticed the passenger ,opening their own door, was a young woman. She had dark brown hair, brown eyes, and she was wearing a stylish black and white floral dress. The woman looked around at the house before fixating her eyes on the host club and it's king. When her gaze was on Tamaki, her eyes grew big like his customers' did when he flattered them. When Tamaki noticed a smile appearing on her face, he naturally assumed his looks were overwhelming for her.

"Hello, I am a resident here at this wonderful home your visiting. I'm Suou Tamaki and these are my friends. How may I help you?" Tamaki said sweetly as he approached the woman

The woman's sweet face suddenly turned to stone as her smile disappeared and her eyes became cold. She quickly grabbed Tamaki's chin and drew extremely close to her and stared at him with her piercing eyes. The host club members just stared as their king didn't try to get out of the woman's grip, but instead continued to smile.

"Where's Akira?" the woman asked as she tightened her grip on Tamaki's face

"Akira? There's no Akira here." replied Tamaki as he winced from the hold

The woman pushed Tamaki away before replying "She has to be here. Well, at least know this. She goes to your school and if you see here tell her she needs to come home. By the way, here's a picture I have of her, but don't be fooled by her appearance. For some strange reason she's dressed like a boy, but she's really a girl." and then she flicked a picture at Tamaki

Tamaki caught the picture as the woman returned to the limo. Then he overheard the woman mutter "Damn that old witch" before she got back in and drove away. Then he walked back to his fellow host club members and they all took a look at the photo given to them. It was a recent picture of Akira sitting on a bench reading a book somewhere on the school grounds. It looked as though she didn't know she was being watched and it looked as though this woman meant business with Akira…

On Monday, before their customers arrived, the host club members relaxed on the couches. Everyone was accounted for this time even though Akira still hadn't told them her excuse.

"So how was your day off Haruhi? And Akira?" asked Tamaki as he looked from Haruhi to the guilty Akira

"Umm…fine I guess. I got a lot of things done that day thanks to you. I appreciate the day off." replied Haruhi as she thanked them

"I'm sorry I didn't show up to the meeting. I was asked to do something at the last moment so I'm sorry I didn't call." apologized Akira before adding "It also seems like because me and Haruhi weren't there, you guys weren't able to come up with anything for today."

Hunny stopped eating his piece of cake to say "I had a lot of ideas, but the others didn't like them."

"That's because yours were somehow involving cake!" the twins interjected

"But! Who doesn't like cake?!" cried Hunny as his eyes filled up with tears

Akira ran over to Hunny and hugged him saying that cake was good and that he was just so cute. The twins just shook their heads thinking that Akira had fallen for his crocodile tears. When Akira returned to sitting next to Haruhi, she pulled Haruhi close to her, and just started hugging her.

"Oh Haruhi! Your also so cute! You and Hunny are just the cutest things ever!" Akira cried out with a big smile on her face

Haruhi tried to free herself from Akira's hold until she got help from the ever observant Tamaki. "Don't be so friendly with her while we're still at school! People might start thinking something weird!" scolded Tamaki

Akira just stuck her tongue out at Tamaki as she stretched herself out on one of the couches and replied "Don't worry so much. Besides you should let go of her too before our customers come running in."

Tamaki remember that he still had Haruhi in his own arms as he also heard the doors open. He panicked and pushed Haruhi away from him, but Haruhi ended up landing in Kaoru's lap. As she looked at Kaoru, Kaoru and Hikaru smiled at her sweetly before she stuck a and into each one of their faces.

"What is this?! Pass Haruhi game?!" yelled Haruhi as she got up and dusted herself off

"No way! Haruhi I would never let these guys pass you around!" replied Akira as she sat up

Customers were standing and staring at them wondering why they hadn't started entertaining me. When they finally noticed the girls they quickly started on flattering and entertaining them. After some time passed, the twins grabbed Tamaki and pulled him off to the side to ask him something.

"Tono, I thought you said you were going to ask Akira about that lady?" reminded Hikaru

"Yeah, how come you didn't ask?" Kaoru also asked

"I couldn't while Haruhi was sitting there. I was going to ask her privately since Haruhi doesn't know anything about this. So you two better not tell or ask in front of Haruhi, got it?" explained Tamaki

They nodded their heads before returning to their customers. Tamaki then took the chance to grab Akira and take her aside to ask before he forget all together. When he grabbed her she came along quietly until he finally stopped at his corner.

"What do you want? By the way if it has to do with the disappearance of your teddy bear, then I blame the twins." Akira said as she pointed over at the eavesdropping twins

"Huh? No its not that. I wanted to tell you that a woman came by my house on Saturday looking for you. She had a face similar to yours, but her hair and eyes were brown. Was she your mother?" asked Tamaki

"A brown-haired woman? Hmm…maybe it was my aunt. My dad is the one who has brown hair and my mom has black hair like me. Yeah, it was probably her so I guess I'll all her tonight asked why she was looking for me. If that's all then I'm going." replied Akira before she walked away quickly

The others came up behind Tamaki and looked at Akira confused. She had denied that the woman was her mother, but it was obvious she was lying to them.

"Remember guys. Don't tell Haruhi about this." Tamaki restated to the guys

"Don't tell me what?" asked Haruhi as she walked up to the group

They all jumped before turning around to face Haruhi. Haruhi crossed her arms and put on a stern face to get some answers from them. Everyone was silent as they waited for someone to speak up.

"Its nothing really! We were just asking about Akira's mother. that's all!" reassured Tamaki as he was abandoned by the other club members

On the other side of the room, Akira was slumped over in a chair by the window. In her hand was a photo of a man and woman smiling at the camera. Your not her! Why are you here?! Akira has to be the one lying there dead! Tell them the truth! Don't touch me you lying child!

"Akira, is that your mother and father?" asked one of the girls looking over her shoulder

Akira sat up straight before looking at the group of girls that were interested in the photo. "Yeah, these are my parents a couple years ago."

The girls looked at the photo before one commented on how beautiful Akira's mother was. Another said that she would love to have had brown hair like Akira's mother and many agreed.

"If you look carefully, you'll notice he has his mother's face and his father's eye and hair color. Akira's father is so handsome too! I hope Akira becomes this handsome when he gets older!" commented a girl as she fantasized about a much older Akira

Akira just laughed before she noticed Haruhi talking to Tamaki. He's getting really annoying thought Akira as she saw Haruhi approach her.

"Akira is that really your mother and father?" asked Haruhi as she stood among the group of girls

Akira took Haruhi's hand and face it palm up before laying the photo in her hand. Then she curled her hand up, almost crushing the photo as she did. Then she got up and disappeared to the changing rooms. Haruhi unraveled her hand to take a look at the picture. She guessed that she was right about the man and woman in the picture being Akira's parents. They looked like such a happy couple as they posed together like they were doing it for a magazine or something. She then took the picture to Tamaki and told him that these wee Akira's parents. He took the photo and took a look at it. The woman looking up at him was the same one who had gave him a cold look and that same warm smile on Saturday. The others were gathered around to look at the photo and agreed that the woman from Saturday was really Akira's mother.

"Did she say anything about the photo?" asked Hikaru

"No, she just put it in my hand and then she quietly went to the changing rooms. Maybe I should go ask her some questions." replied Haruhi as she left the group to go talk to Akira

They all watched Haruhi leave before they (finally) heard Kyouya speak, "It seems that Haruhi is the perfect one to go and talk to Akira. So with that why don't you guys return to the girls. We are still hosting you know."

With that, everyone returned to their guests as Haruhi walked closer to the changing rooms to confront Akira…

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ok, so you haven't read the first story then you probably won't get much of this. Anyways read and review! Thanks alot!