Hunny sprinted into the third music room, eyes wide and cheeks flushed with excitement. "Takashi! Takashi!"
Kyouya put his hand on the top of the older boy's head, halting his progress. "Hunny, I'm afraid that Mori's not here at the moment."
Hunny pouted, tears gathering in his eyes and his lower lip trembling so much that it should have been a crime. "Where is he, then? I only let him go on ahead because he said that he would be here if I needed him…"
Kyouya wasn't a woman. He adjusted his glasses and peered down at his notebook. There was the list of arrivals and departures. "He went to the library to fetch Haruhi. I suggested that Tamaki would have been a bad choice for the chore. I apologize."
Hunny shrugged, and held his right hand up. The other held his stuffed bunny rabbit's ear. But now he showed Kyouya a calculator. "Look at what I have!"
"That's astonishing," Kyouya said mechanically without looking up. "You should show it to Mori-sempai. He's just come through the door."
"Yay!" In seconds, Hunny was sitting on Mori's shoulders and talking quickly, waving the calculator around wildly. "I discovered something super awesome today!"
He held the screen of numbers upside down in front of Mori's eyes. "Look, look!"
Mori saw 0.1134, only upside down.
"No, look at it like the upside-down things are letters, in english!"
Well, the four looked sort of like a lowercase H. "Does it say 'hello', Mitsukuni?"
"Yeah! Takashi got it right!" Hunny cheered, and then took the screen away to fiddle with it more. "Okay, now what does it say?"
Mori saw 22376, only upside down. He said, "If the six is a G, and the seven is a backwards J…"
"No, it's a lopsided U," Hunny corrected.
"…and the three is an E again, and the twos are Zs…"
"Backwards S."
"…Then it says, 'guess'. What am I supposed to guess?"
Hunny shook his head happily. "I don't really know how to spell a lot of things. Just guess what I'll say next!"
"I have no idea, Mitsukuni. Please show me."
So Hunny showed him how to spell 'hAi' – 184, if the bottom line of the eight is covered up – and iie – 311 – in romanji.
Finally, Hunny slowed down, and Mori let him climb back down to the floor. "Okay, I have to go find out how to spell something else, now."
"What are you trying to spell?"
Mitsukuni grinned. "'I love you' in English. Do you think that I can?"
Mori smiled, just very slightly. "You don't have to."
The clients, which Kyouya had been leading in periodically to watch, finally lost control and squealed, "So cute! Hunny and Mori, you're so…eek, cute!"
