An Ouran Wonderland (Continued) -
"The game will be contest to see who gets to study with Haruhi." said Hikaru.
"You have to build the best snow fort, equipped with all of the necessary means to win a snowball fight. The fort must be able to fit three people with room to spare. You will have three hours to complete the fort and then we will do the snowball fight." Kaoru laid down the rules with a sly smile; obviously confident in his and Hikaru's ability to win.
"Takashi and I are in!" Hunny declared, piece of cake in the air.
"Um, where did you get that cake?" Haruhi asked but Hunny did not answer since Tamaki announced.
"Why would I want to do such a foolish game? Haruhi would most definitely choose her adoring father to study with instead of you two troublemakers!"
"Actually Sempi," Haruhi said, "I really just want to go home. Why would I study with you since you are not in my class anyways?"
Tamaki went into the corner, darkness falling on him as he sat sulking in a dejected pose.
"Will this help to up the competition?" Kyoya said holding up a picture of Haruhi at the beach as a little girl.
"Where did you get that picture of me Kyoya?!" Haruhi yelled, trying to snatch the picture from his hands.
Kyoya just smiled a halfway innocent smile, "I have my sources."
Tamaki instantly snapped out of his depression and urgently tried to look at the pictures that Kyoya kept hidden once again in his notebook.
"Well since Tamaki isn't in the competition I guess that we get the picture." said Hikaru and Kaoru; purposefully inflaming Tamaki. Tamaki looked from twin to twin and then made a mad dash for a pile of snow; rapidly trying to build an igloo although Tamaki was not succeeding though and his igloo was nothing but a pile of snow. Tamaki looked over at the twins, who were quite the experts on igloo building, with their first three blocks already set up. Even Mori and Hunny were on their second or third block. Hunny was not doing much though to contribute to Mori's igloo building efforts except for his eating his usual sweets.
Tamaki sank back into his depression and began to beg Kyoya for his help.
"Moron." Kyoya said, "Why are you asking me to help? Haruhi is the commoner after all." Kyoya pointed out. Tamaki craned his head towards Haruhi's direction then began to carefully tip toe over to her.
"Haruhi, will you help me with my igloo?" Tamaki asked innocently.
"No way Sempi."
"But Haruhi! Come and help Daddy to build an igloo for you!"
"No way. And you are not my father Sempi!"
Tamaki then went to sulk in a corner, but was not yet finished with his tactics. Carefully and perfectly timed Tamaki donned his irresistible puppy eyes that not even Kyoya could completely say no to. By the time the third wave of the puppy look was dished out to Haruhi she finally gave in; but not without conditions.
"Okay fine, I will help you out but only with the shaping of the blocks, you have to do the rest yourself." Haruhi said reluctantly.
Tamaki immediately began to smother Haruhi in 'Fatherly Affection'. "Oh I knew you would help Daddy out Haruhi! You are such a wonderful daughter!"
Haruhi struggled out of Tamaki's hug and began to head towards the building site of Tamaki's igloo.
The Twins were making great progress. Kaoru was stacking the building blocks while Hikaru shaped them. While working on the fourth row one of the building blocks fell on Kaoru, squishing him a small coat of snow.
"Kaoru!" Hikaru cried, rushing to his aid. "Kaoru are you okay?" Hikaru began to take the small mounds of snow off of his brother.
"Of course I'm fine Hikaru, I am sorry that I smashed that block; now you will have to make a whole other block!"
"Don't say that Kaoru! You are much more important to me then a block of snow." Hikaru said with brotherly affection. "Be more careful next time."
Kaoru nodded his head and then after a moment or two got back to work.
Do they do this all the time? Haruhi thought, I thought this was all reserved for club hours. She shook her head and then got back to helping Tamaki with his igloo. He had only got the first row down and was ruining the second one. Tamaki is pretty helpless in the art of igloo building. Haruhi observed, But then again he is pretty helpless with almost everything he does other then charming other people.
"Here Sempi, I have another block for you." Haruhi said pushing the block out of her way.
"Will you let Beary take that one, I……kind of…….busy?" Tamaki was unable to lift a block onto the beginning of the third row.
Haruhi looked at the straight faced stuffed teddy bear. "C'mon Sempi there is no way that this bear could do any work!"
Tamaki finally managed to set the block in its place. "Sorry Haruhi, I guess I am just not used to all of this commoner's work. It would be much easier if someone who had commoners strength would help me out." Tamaki hinted, attempting to work some of his charm on Haruhi.
Haruhi kept a completely straight face and handed Tamaki the next block before turning to begin on another block of snow.
Haruhi looked towards Kyoya who was now typing once again on his laptop, sitting by the fire.
"Why are you still here?" Haruhi asked Kyoya, "Wouldn't you rather go back home where it is warm?"
"Not really, while I am still here I can watch the sales auctions closely. We wouldn't want anything to be under priced." Kyoya said, pushing up his glasses.
How much money must he make for the club before he is satisfied?
"You must be wondering why I am watchful of money since the clubs account is not lacking in money." Kyoya said, still typing.
Haruhi's brow twitched as she looked away. Great! He reads minds now?
"The answer simply is that auctions keep our customers happy, satisfied, and spending. They must think that since we provide them with lavish gifts we can also provide them with tokens of our appreciation that way the club is thought of all of their day."
"That's fine and all; just as long as you quit selling my stuff."
"Why wouldn't we sell your stuff Haruhi?" said the twins looking up from their igloo.
"After all it goes for almost as much as the Boss's items." said Hikaru.
"Yeah, and it's easy to get since you drop stuff all the time." Kaoru followed.
Haruhi glared at the twins, "Don't you have an igloo to build?"
The twins took no hesitation in returning to their project.
Haruhi looked at the clock, anxious to get out of the freezing cold. I hope I can still make it to the supermarket tonight. I heard there was a sale on some nice tuna.