Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran High School Host Club, or any of the characters in it, except Tunare, Akita, & Veronica Naruo [yet to be introduced] in this story, because I made them up. I don't own Mickey Mouse either, or cell phones. I do however, own the plotline to this story & envy the geniuses who thought of the above. On with the story!!!!
Tamaki's Realization, Ch. 2
-True Colors
Haruhi POV"I'm just like them. Possibly inheriting one of Japan's top businesses, rich, and male." Haruhi had replayed that sentence in her mind millions of times. She understood the part about business, that meant he had power, rich, self-explanatory, but male… she knew Kyoya was too smart to sexually harass anyone, and also too popular to need to. So what did he mean? What was he trying to tell her?
"Haruhi?"
"Hm…?" she responded blankly.
"Are you feeling okay?"
"Huh? Oh, yes, I'm fine." She said, flashing her brightest smile at her concerned customer, apparently she'd zoned out during a conversation, in front of about eight girls, lucky Kyoya hadn't noticed, otherwise he definitely would've raised her debt… again.
"Are you sure? Because if you're not, you can always come stay with me until you heal…" said Tunare.
"No way! He's totally coming over my house!" Another girl, Akita, interrupted.
"Ladies, Haruhi is fine and she's not going anywhere." Tamaki said, coming up behind Haruhi, and placing his hands on her shoulders, looking a lot like a husband, and if the customers didn't know better they would've thought something along those lines.
"H-Haruhi, are you and Tamaki-sempi together?" Akita whispered, but the rest of the Host Club had gone silent at seeing the two girls begin to argue, and so they could hear every word. Okay, so they didn't know any better.
"N-n-no. I mean I wi- wouldn't…" Just then, Haruhi and Kyoya simultaneously burst out laughing, and everyone but Tamaki followed, but Haruhi was faking it, she couldn't get the words out, and she'd felt her face heating up the whole time, in full view of everyone. 'Oh, God, I'm never going to live this down.'
"It's okay, Haruhi. I understand." Tamaki whispered, then left, and all of Haruhi's panic from the past few minutes overflowed in a second, and she cringed and followed Tamaki into the hallway.
Kyoya POV"H-Haruhi, are you and Tamaki-sempi together?" asked a girl with black hair, dark eyes, and a skin tone to match Kyoya.
"N-n-no. I mean I wi- wouldn't…" Haruhi was turning scarlet by now, in another half-second her face matched a fire truck perfectly, and she was tripping over her words so much he just HAD to laugh. 'That was interesting to watch… Phase 1 complete. For Haruhi, anyway.'
"Well, are they?" asked a girl at his table, after they'd both run out into the hallway.
**POWERFUL MOTOR**
"MWAHAHAHAHA HELLO EVERYONE!!!!" Renge appeared atop the giant pedestal, in fake plastic, black glasses, a white top with slightly poofy short sleeves, a black bow tie, and a black and gray skirt, sitting in a school chair, with a copybook and pen. "So, today's question is, ARE HARUHI AND TAMAKI REALLY DATING?! Let's ask their best friends. **Spotlight moving around randomly** HONEY-SEMPI!!! **Spotlight stops on Honey** TELL US! What do you think?" Renge said, suddenly appearing next to Honey-sempi, with a microphone extended toward him.
"Uhm… na-no."
"HE HESITATED!"
"I don't like talk shows."
"Right…. So now we'll move on to MORI-SEMPI!" **Spotlight, microphone, & Renge shift four inches to the right**
"It's true." He said, making all the girls gasp and swoon.
"Confirmed from a best friend, TAMAKI AND HARUHI ARE DATING!!!"
"NO! Not that, I meant he really doesn't like talk shows."
"Hm… ok, so now we move on to THE TWINS!!!!!" **Spotlight, microphone, & Renge fly across room**
"Now, Kaoru, what do you think?"
"Maybe…. Maybe not, you'll have to find out from someone else, right Hikaru?"
"Okay then, Hikaru, there have been rumors of you and Haruhi dating, and of your feelings for her, are they true?"
"Um….I…" the surrounding girls began to lean in closer, and Kyoya began to calculate how many other rumors were flying around the school about the Host Club.
"Hikaru?"
"No comment."
"You have to comment!"
"I have the legal right to refuse to comment."
"How do you know that?"
"Haruhi."
"I think that says it all, folks, so let's move on to…. KYOYA!!!!" **Spotlight, microphone and Renge fly to the front of the room**
"The best friend of Tamaki, I saved the best for last, as usual."
"Ugh… Renge, you can't make me answer anything."
"Interesting you bring that up, because I happen to know something you wouldn't want getting out." Renge brings out a tape from her pocket, dangling it in front of him. The label says "Kyoya & Haruhi alone in hallway", though he doubted Renge knew he was blackmailing her at the time. 'Stalker.'
"Go ahead."
"Now, are they dating?"
"No. However, if they were, it would be strictly between them, so you should all be happy they aren't." Kyoya pointed out. "And you, should be ashamed of yourself spying on people." He finished after she moved the microphone away, taking the tape from her.
"Well, now we know, peoples. Goodbye for now!" Renge said into her mike after she got on top of the pedestal again, laughing manically as she went underground.
'Idiot… although I get the feeling she brought the tape to me on purpose.'
Tamaki POV"What was that? 'I understand', I wish I did." He asked himself, still running from the Host Club, and deciding to hide in a janitor's closet to grow mushrooms. It turned out to be surprisingly tidy for being so small, he noticed when he flicked the lights on before turning them back off. 'Then, again, it's a janitor's closet.'
"Tamaki- sempi?" It was Haruhi's voice, but she still sounded pretty far away. She couldn't find him here, stuffed in a closet! He went to leave while he still could, but the door handle was stuck, and after he let go, it was turning, and Haruhi walked right into him, knocking them both over, because of Tamaki's poor balancing skills. Haruhi landed right on top of him and, because of that, they wound up kissing. Then Haruhi's right leg, the only thing holding the door in place, involuntarily bent, and the door slammed so hard that the lock outside slid across, jolting her back to reality, and she broke the kiss.
"Wow…" Tamaki said, still in la-la land.
"It wasn't on purpose Sempi, and in case you haven't noticed, now we're trapped in here."
"Oh…" he went back to growing mushrooms, faster then he ever had before.
"Hello?! Somebody let us out!!!" Haruhi started screaming.
"Relax, I'll use my cell- whoops…." He said, reaching his hand into a now empty pocket.
"You left it in the Music Room didn't you?"
"Yeah…"
"I guess we'll just have to wait."
"Yup…"
"Is there a light in here?"
"Oh, yeah, it's right…. here." He said, flicking the lights back on, even though he thought better in the dark.
"That's better…"
Crackle, Pop, Zzzzzt. And with that, the lights were out again.
"Tamaki, stop doing that."
"Doing what?"
"Flicking the lights on and off, leave them alone."
"I didn't touch them."
"You're lying."
"No I'm not."
"Really?"
"Really. I left them alone."
"Okay, where's the switch?"
"Where are you? I'll show you."
"Follow my voice." Haruhi said.
"You need to keep talking for me to do that, you know." Tamaki pointed out, trying to follow instructions. But he found her in about twenty minutes. (A/N: Sorry 4 popping up in the middle of the story like this, but it's to give you an idea of why it took him so long. Try playing Marco Polo in a pool at like 10:30 at night in August, and you'll get what he was doing. It was REALLY dark.)
"Is that you?" he asked, he'd just felt a hand.
"No, it's Nekozawa. Die, die!" she said in her creepiest voice. "Yes it's me, Tamaki."
"Don't do that! Okay here, it's this way, I think." He said, taking her hand, and going on another twenty minute trek.
"Are you really scared of him?"
"Are you kidding? He's creepier then the Shadow King sometimes." Tamaki said, making Haruhi laugh for real for the first time all day.
"Speaking of him, are you thinking of taking the budget to the Math Club? Just out of curiosity."
"Yes, but I won't do it if he's against it."
"I think he is."
"Hm… okay then, at least I know what to do now."
Hikaru POV"Where are they?!" he asked his brother frantically.
"I… don't know Hikaru."
"That's not HELPING, Kaoru!"
"I'm sure she's safe, wherever they are…"
"No, hopefully THEY aren't together at all! If they are, I'm going to lose it!"
'You mean you haven't already?' he thought.
"SHUT UP!!!!!!!!! IF THAT BASTARD DID ANYTHING TO HURT HER I'M GOING TO KILL HIM!"
"Hikaru, calm down."
"I CAN'T!!!!!" Hikaru said. '….Because if Haruhi is with Tamaki, then he's probably winning her over right now with that retarded 'princely' act. ARRGHHH!!!!!!'
"Hikaru, I know what you're thinking, it's going to be okay. She's going to come back safe and she's going to come back exactly the same as when she left." Mori interjected.
"What?" Hikaru asked, tilting his head to the side. 'How can you read my mind? And Mori of all people….'
"I know why you're so frantic and what you're afraid will happen. Don't worry, I'm not in your head, I just watch people closely. And sometimes I see Auras." Mori assured him.
"Okay, so you know that I l-lo-"
"Yes."
"Woah…."
"That's one of the reasons why we're so close, I'm a cheery person, so it's a happy picture when he sees my Aura." Honey informed them.
"That's not really it, but almost. Anyway, you have nothing to worry about, okay?"
"Okay…. But if something happens…."
"I know, but do you really think that'd be a smart move?" Mori asked, referring to his martial arts skills.
"Mm… good point."
Kaoru's POVThe look of shock on Kaoru's face was even more so then Hikaru, he'd never seen anyone calm down his brother so fast, and he'd certainly never met this side of Mori, someone who could totally understand everyone he guessed, even them.
"Can we just go find them? I think that would help Hikaru calm down."
"Alright, let's go then." Honey said, excitedly.
Back in the Janitor's Closet….
"Hey… is your head feeling any better from the other day?"
"Oh… when you knocked me over? Yeah, a little. I guess we're even now."
"Haheh… here's the light switch." He said, placing her hand on it, beneath his.
"Oh, you were telling the truth. It doesn't work. Wow, it's really cold in here."
"Yeah, it is cold. Hey, you just reminded me, you never answered me before. Have you lost all respect for me?"
"Well… surprisingly, no." Haruhi said, as they sat down in a corner, and she found a blanket.
"That's nice to know…. Wait, hey!" Tamaki replied, taking some of the blanket, and Haruhi started laughing again.
"So, what does "unique Aunt" mean anyway?" she asked, stretching her legs.
"Oh, that's an easy one, Haruhi. "Unique Aunt" just means that you're Kyoya's sister, and you had the twins with your last husband, which is why they're the cousins, but you didn't love him anymore so you left him after 15 years, but the person you did love was getting married. But they ran away with you on their wedding day, which is why you're still happy all the time." He responded, getting kicked by Haruhi so that he also had to stretch his left leg out.
"Uh………. Okay. But I'm not happy all the time and that's not really unique."
"Okay, why you're happy most of the time, and for the unique part… well…"
"Yes?"
"Um… I…-"
SLAMM!!!!!!
"HARUHI!!!!! WE FOUND- WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!?!?!" Hikaru shouted, sounding extremely alarmed by something that neither Tamaki nor Haruhi could see and looking like he was going to kill them both then and there with the rest of the Host Club standing shell-shocked there behind him, and Haruhi swore she saw his eye twitching. It took the pair about ten minutes to catch on to what was horrifying Hikaru so much. It turned out that Tamaki's leg was sticking out from under the blanket and Haruhi was snuggled against him, because she was freezing, so out of instinct Tamaki had put his arm around her shoulders, and she was leaning on his shoulder. However, there was also the fact that there was only one knee where there should've been four, which, frankly, would've made Hikaru's voice sound like Mickey Mouse's if it hadn't been for everything else. Their confused, and later shocked expressions only made things worse.
"WELLL?!?!?!?!?!" Hikaru asked.
Hope you enjoyed!!! Please comment. Constructive criticism's welcome, etc, etc. Sorry it took so long, I went through 2 ½ chapters before I started this one, so I'm halfway through ch. 3. I'll post soon!