Hikaru/ Haruhi

"The Final Straw"

Animals – Nickleback

In the end, it wasn't Tamaki's humiliating performance– which involved copious amounts of tears, declarations of fatherly love and mushrooms- or Kaoru's faux-depression as he sobbed to his sympathetic customers about how he 'just wasn't man enough for his brother anymore'. It wasn't even Hani's seemingly innocent comments that compared Haruhi to cake in quite graphic terms. (The metaphor using cherries had even made Takashi uncomfortable)

No, what pushed Hikaru over the edge was the piece of paper Kyoya handed him before doors of the Host Club opened.

"What's this?" he'd asked, frowning at the large figure he saw printed on the page.

"Your bill" the 'Demon Prince' said as he continued jotting down notes into his notebook (of doom).

"$1000 for the renting of the companies car, $200 for the refitting of the leather, $324 for the time Fujioka spent in your company instead for working off her debt-"

"Hey, wait just a minute," Hikaru growled incredulously, thrusting the offending paper under the Senior nose "What the hell is this? 'Refitting the leather!?'"

The dark haired boy smirked, glasses flashing.

"Well, you couldn't expect me to rent the car in the condition you left its interior. The lipstick alone was extremely difficult to remo-"

Later, Hikaru would admit that punching the Ootori heir had been a bit extreme. But as he'd told Haruhi later that night, it had made him feel a whole lot better.