Haruhi/Tamaki
Their Beginnings: Part I
He was over dramatic and she was pragmatic. Both were equally smart and dense. He considered himself her surrogate dad because he didn't know how he felt towards her.
She was annoyed by him. She simply didn't understand it. She came here to study, to be able to get into the best colleges she was able and now she was strung along in a host club? How did it even work? Haruhi didn't understand. But Tamaki Suouh caught her attention in his dramatization. However, Haruhi Fujioka did not do romance. She was more invested in her studies and following her mother's footsteps to ever pursue romance. If she was honest she held no interest in romance or even simple flirting. Yet she had been dragged into a club all about it in order to pay off her eight hundred million lien debt.
Tamaki didn't understand the new boy, or a week later he found out the new girl. It took him by surprise, but if Tamaki Suouh was good at anything it was taking things in stride. Including finding out their newest host was a girl. But he found himself fond of Haruhi. She brought a new perspective into the group that Tamaki appreciated. Not to mention she was good at hosting.
Tamaki, for all his observations, failed to realize how difficult it might have been for the honors student to keep up her grades and with the club activities. After all, he was at Ouran simply to have fun. Not to work or study. He was the heir apparent to the Suouh Enterprise, so he had his life planned out for him… no matter how little he wanted it.
At first Haruhi wanted nothing more than to get out of the Host Club. But as time went on, the Host Club endeared itself to her. Including the forever dramatic Tamaki Suouh. He was just so energetic and optimistic and positive and charismatic, to some extent she couldn't help but simply follow his lead. But over time, she realized that maybe there was something deeper to Tamaki than she knew….
