A/N: Welcome to my newest story! I will be updating all my stories from now on, on specific days of the week. This story is going to be officially published on Thursdays. But, since I posted this a bit earlier than the date, I'm skipping this upcoming Thursday and will publish on the following Thursday after.

Haruhi's Quest

Chapter One: Recommendations

It was just like any other day in the Fujioka household in Kyoto, Japan. Nothing was out of place as the second year high school student, Haruhi Fujioka, got herself ready in her awfully ugly mauve sailor style school uniform. She brushed her shoulder length raven black hair pin straight. Next, she applied her short brown wig. After tucking in every strand of the black hair under the wig, the young girl gathered up her books. School in a public school was always so boring, no matter how far ahead she was. Often times, she just wanted it to be a game. A chase, or a game of cat and mouse. She was the cat, the others were the mice.

With a sigh, the young girl turned on her heels and headed for school, but not before writing a quick note to her father stating that she had already left for school and that she loved him. The time read 7:30 AM. She was still going to be an hour early for class at the very least. Taking the subway early in the morning meant that the cars would be mostly empty. No one rode them for another twenty minutes. This generally pleased Haruhi, since she could be lost to her own thoughts. These generally circulated around what she wanted to do in the future.

Haruhi wanted to be a lawyer, much like her adopted mother, Kotoko Fujioka. Yes, Haruhi had known that she had been adopted all her life, but it had been confirmed for a few months now. Thanks to her first high school year's sociology class. Combining a project done that previous year, as well finding the adoption papers themselves in her parent's room when her father and her were doing some cleaning, lead to a bunch of questions. Unfortunately, her father just shrugged them all off, or even changed the subject completely. The topic never really came up again, though it was always lingering in Haruhi's mind.

She arrived 15 minutes later to the school. Since she had Sociology, Criminology and Law in the morning, she extracted those three books and began to sort through the vital information she had wrote down nearly two months ago. She had a test in each of those classes today after all. It was a bore to read these notes anyways, and she knew the content, since she always read everything over the course of the weekend.

An hour later, two of the three subjects were slipped into her bag, yet her Sociology course was still out. Other students greeted her as they started to file in. Home room and her Sociology course were in the same classroom, thankfully. Roll call was done, any announcements were read, and then students were generally dismissed to head off to their class. There was nothing really worthy in the announcements, which was not uncommon. The home room teacher, who was in her mid 40's and had reddish hair that fell to the middle of her back, finished the announcements and dismissed the students.

"Fujioka-san, may I have a word with you please?" The teacher asked.

"Sure, Tooya-sensei." Haruhi replied as she got up from the seat, leaving her bag behind.

"Fujioka-san, I have noticed on your report card lately that you have been excelling in every one of your classes so far. Not to mention that you have been taking enough courses for the law school you wish to go into. However, the law school you wish to enter into, is fairly wary of those people coming from a public school. They acknowledge higher privileged schools more. Therefore, if you so shall choose, would you be interested in attending a higher standing school, such as Ouran High School?" Tooya-sensei asked the young girl in front of her. The girl took some time to ponder. "You know what? Why don't you take up until Monday morning to think over your decision, which is two days plus the weekend from now. Talk it over with your father too. You may return back to your seat, Fujioka-san." The teacher instructed.

Meanwhile, a man with flaming red hair was just starting to crawl out of bed at the Fujioka residence. He got dressed in his restricting butler's uniform that all bartenders were required to wear. Oh, how he wished he could wear frilly dresses to work instead of the same suit. Grumbling inaudibly, he was thankful to read the note that his daughter had already left for school.

The young male got to work early, every time. Never had he been late. He only got to work three hours early since he generally took a drink for himself before the customers started to pile in during the middle of the day. Once his drink was downed, he started to clean up the previous shift's mess. He, on the other hand, always ensured that he never left a mess.

"Ryoji, before you start your shift today, we're going to have a quick staff meeting in five minutes. Boss's orders." His best friend, Isao called out to him. Ryoji just waved, indicating that he did hear the message. He would be coming right away. Five minutes later, everyone was gathered around the small table located in their staff room.

"As you all had been made aware last year about the building of a new bar in the Toyko area, we thought that we would let you know that the construction and furnishings have been completed. We are a bit over staffed here, so we are going to be transferring at least 5 of you over there within the next couple weeks. We are taking volunteers, otherwise we will have to lay a few people off. We don't really want to do something like that. Deadline ensure volunteer transferring will be Monday morning. Dismissed." The boss told everyone after the 5 minute meeting. Ryoji left, contemplating whether he should be transferred or not.

He was the most trusted part time worker here. Though, he hardly ever got the hours he needed. He barely made by in paying the rent and groceries for the two of them on his wages every month. He knew from the posting that the job was a permanent full time position, though there could be additional shifts that each person could pick up if needed as well. This was something he would have to discuss with Haruhi after all.