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Haruhi POV

I woke up from my dreams suddenly when the train stopped. I was home. The thought was bittersweet in a way. I had always missed home but I didn't feel like I was ever ready for what I was going to have to deal with once the truth came out. I had always felt horrible for leaving the way I did. I knew they would look for me, especially the twins but I had no choice. Dad told me how the twins, Honey Senpai and Mori Senpai had came often to visit and to ask about me and how he had made sure not to tell them anything that would give away where I was living. I thought of writing them and giving the letters to Dad for them but I never knew what to say so I kept putting it off. Then one day, last week, I got a phone call from Dad telling me that Kyouya had called to tell him Honey Senpai had been in a bad accident and was in the intensive care unit. No one was sure if he was going to make it or not. I knew I had to go see him. I'd been avoiding them for to long and I couldn't let one of my friends possibly die without seeing him and explaining why I left all those years ago. Maybe not tell him or any of them the exact reason but at least give an explanation and tell Honey and everyone that I still thought of them often and considered them my closest friends.

End of Haruhi POV

With those thoughts she got off the train and headed to her old apartment where her dad still stayed. She opened the door with her old key and went to unpack her stuff in her old room. Everything was basically the same as it had been 4 years ago.

She got everything unpacked and then went to start some dinner. When she got into the kitchen, however, she realized there wasn't much food there so she decided to go grocery shopping. She locked up the apartment and started on the familiar path to the market. When she got in she saw that the same people still worked there and smiled at how no matter what happened in life, things never really seemed to change. She bought what she needed for dinner and some food for the rest of the week and then headed back home. Stopping frequently to chat with old neighbors and friends on her way. When she got back to the apartment she saw a car parked out front that was to fancy for any of the people who lived there but it wasn't a limo so she didn't think it would me any of the hosts either. She continued towards her apartment and then froze. Standing in front of her door was a host she hadn't heard much about since his graduation. He was to scared, she assumed, to come see Ranka seeing as her father had never liked him but there he was in front of her door and there was no way he could have known she was back. "Ah well, might as well get this over with" She thought as she walked a few more steps towards her old senpai

"Tamaki Senpai" she called and saw him freeze at the door before slowly turning around.

"Haruhi?" He asked hesitantly

She walked over to him and placed one of her grocery bags on the ground so she could get her keys out and unlock the door. Tamaki stood there frozen got the door unlocked, picked up the grocery bag and walked inside, then looked over her shoulder. "Are you coming in, Senpai or are you just going to stand there with your mouth open a little longer to catch some more flies?"

Tamaki's POV

He shook himself and then walked into the small apartment. He had only been here once since she left and that visit did not go well. In fact it ended with him being called a no good pervert and being thrown out all because he asked where his darling daughter had gone off too. He had grown up since then. He had learned long ago that it was silly to pretend Kyouya was mommy and Haruhi his daughter. Things had changed a lot since Haruhi had left. The twins withdrew more into themselves again. Only coming back to life when someone brought up Haruhi. Mori and Honey had taken to training harder and longer than ever so they wouldn't have to notice their missing member, only taking breaks to go and talk to Ranka or to search for Haruhi. Even Kyouya had been affected. The cool demon lord had quit the Host Club, of course since they graduated people expected that but he stopped caring about the finances the Host Club brought in, stopped telling Tamaki he was an idiot and stopped trying to follow in his fathers footsteps. He just seemed to stop life all together. He refused to help find Haruhi even though the other hosts knew he could find her if he tried. Kyouya could do anything and find anyone if he tried. Tamaki had tried many times to talk him into helping him search for his lost daughter. After what seemed like the millionth refusal, Kyouya had snapped. He had told Tamaki that he was not anyone's mommy nor was Haruhi Tamaki's daughter. They had been friends, they had been co workers but they had not been family. He told Tamaki to grow up and until he did to leave Kyouya alone.

After that, Tamaki had not heard from the shadow king. In fact after that no one really heard from him. He had his own business to run and college to get through. Besides that no one knew what Kyouya did because he normally refused to see or talk to any of his old friends.

End of Tamaki's POV

"Tamaki Senpai?" Haruhi called snapping Tamaki out of his thoughts. When she was sure he had heard her this time she asked "Would you like a cup of tea?"

"Um.. Yes that would be great. It is kind of cold outside" He said with a shaky laugh.

She smiled at him and then went into the kitchen to make them some tea and to give herself some time to get her thoughts together. She hadn't expected to have to deal with any of them so soon. She should have remembered that nothing went as planned when involving the members of the old host club.

She came back in with their tea and motioned for him to sit down. They both sat there sipping their tea in silence for a few moments, which seemed like eternity to them both, before Tamaki broke the silence."How are you, Haruhi?"

"Fine, and you?"

"I'm doing alright. "

and with that small talk done they lapsed into another long silence until Haruhi broke it this time with "How is your dad? And Antoinette?"

"Antoinette is doing well for her age. She's still almost as hyper and healthy as ever. Dad, well nothing really has changed with him. He's still the superintendent of the school. Still busy as ever. How's Ranka?"

"Good, he's on a trip right now but he is doing really well"

The silence stretched on again.

Finally the question she had been dreading burst out. "Where'd you go? Why'd you leave without saying good bye? Why did you never write or call or anything? What did I do?"

Haruhi's mind was spinning. She didn't know how to answer any of those questions without giving away the secret she'd been holding for 4 years. She took a deep breath and then started doing her best to explain vaguely why she had left and why she hadn't contacted anyone.

"First, you didn't do anything. I didn't leave because of you. The reason I left is much more complicated and yet much more simple then that. I should have written or called I agree but I couldn't without letting you and everyone know where I was and I wasn't ready to do that yet. Dad told me the twins and Mori and Honey senpai used to come by often to see him and ask about me and he told me that you came by once too." She smirked as she remembered Ranka's account of that particular visit, "He kept hinting for me to write or something to everyone but I couldn't. I just couldn't Tamaki. I didn't want to be a burden on everyone once again. I figured it would be easier on everyone if I just let you all forget about me"

She took a deep breath and let it out slowly, hoping beyond hope he wouldn't realize she never once actually gave the reason she left.

"That doesn't tell me why you left""

well there went that hope, she thought bitterly to herself.

"Why did you leave? You still had a year left of school. What about your dream to become a lawyer?"

She sighed and then reached into her wallet and took out a picture and handed it to Tamaki 'This is why I left a year early, Tamaki senpai'

"You had to take care of someone's child? Why couldn't someone else in your family do it?" Tamaki asked confused as to why someone would ask a teenager about to graduate high school to give it up to take care of their child.

"No Tamaki, I had to leave because I had to take care of my baby. Akio is my son."

Tamaki's mouth dropped to the floor.