DISCLAIMER.. ouran isn't mine! TT kyouya: of course... (smirked at me)

enjoy!

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The sun was starting to rise when Ranka got home from work. He went straight to his daughter's room. Honestly, he was worriedly sick about Haruhi
last night, for he knew that his little girl's weakness was 'saying goodbye' to the people she cared for.
A pang of guilt hit Ranka as he watched his daughter's sleeping figure. Obviously, Haruhi had cried a lot again; her eyes, although closed, were
obviously swollen. Ranka had noticed that haruhi didn't even changed into her night clothes, so he wondered if Haruhi even ate dinner last night.
He walked towards his sleeping daughter and bent down on the side of her bed. He kissed her forehead and stood up.
He was ready to leave the room when a frail voice stopped him.

"Dad?"

"Oh! Haruhi dear.. How are you?"
"I'm okay dad". She started to stand up when she suddenly felt dizzy.
"Haruhi! What's wrong?" ranka asked as he put his hand on haruhi's forehead. "You have a fever Haruhi! Let's bring you to the doctor!"

"No need dad." She said as she leaned back to her pillows. "I just need a rest... besides, kyouya-senpai is coming for lunch.."
"Oh!! Kyouya-kun! You should've told me right away!" ranka said enthusiastically, as he giggled in delight. "Okay dear, just rest for now.. I'll prepare the lunch later.."

"I can do it dad. You are the one who should be resting. You just came from work.", the girl argued.

"Well at least I don't have a 'fever'..", ranka said pointedly. "If your condition gets worse, that would be a bigger problem for the two of us my dear!", he continued.

Haruhi knew that her dad would insist on her getting rest. She sighed, and then closed her eyes.

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Ranka was about to prepare the lunch when the telephone rang. It was Kyouya. Unfortunately, Kyouya had some things to settle so he told ranka
that he couldn't show up for the supposed 'lunch'. Ranka, being so obsessed with Kyouya, had convinced him to come for dinner instead. The
shadow king had agreed to that.

Lunch time came and Ranka went back to Haruhi's room to check on her. He brought some noodles for haruhi to eat. It was some spicy hot ramen
which was actually haruhi's favorite. Ranka had also informed his daughter that kyouya couldn't make it for lunch, but he will come for dinner.
After eating, the tired father and the sick daughter had decided to rest for a moment while waiting for their guest tonight.

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Haruhi's slumber was interfered by the chattering voices outside of her bedroom. She had looked at the clock and was actually surprised to see that she had
slept for almost 6 hours. Well, it was already past 7pm now. She had heard her father talking excitedly to the man which he practically worshiped. Haruhi stepped out of the room to see what was going on. She saw her father and the shadow king seated in front of the dining table with the foods ready.

"Good evening Haruhi" her dark-haired senpai spoke as he gestured for her to sit. "I see that you are not feeling well..", he added.

"Senpai.. I'm okay.." Haruhi knew that kyouya was just being a 'nice' guy because they were in front of her father.

"Of course you're not haruhi!" ranka butted in. "Good thing kyouya-kun agreed to take care of you while I work tonight..!!"

Haruhi's reverie was fully awakened when she had realized what her father just said. "But dad! No! I mean.. Kyouya-senpai is a busy person
you know! Dad you can't.." she then turned to kyouya and said, "senpai, please tell dad that you are not available.. You're busy right?"

The shadow king smirked a little. "I'm always busy haruhi.."

She was more than grateful with kyouya's response. However, when the shadow king continued speaking, haruhi had realized that she SHOULDN'T HAVE invited
him in the first place, "but I couldn't deny Ranka-san's request.. It's just one night haruhi..", he continued as he flushed a smile which haruhi labeled as 'fake'. Haruhi just sighed in defeat.

The three had started to eat dinner. Kyouya was actually uncomfortable with the foods ranka had prepared, but he wouldn't let the Fujiokas
notice that. He was hesitant to eat these 'commoners' foods at first, but when he finally got to taste one, he had realized that it wasn't that bad. Truth be told, he liked it.

The dinner went along well. Ranka's enthusiasm was consistent throughout the night. Kyouya, as haruhi had observed, was more talkative than
the usual. Well, she should've known by now that whatever kyouya was showing her father was only a facade - that she had told herself.

The small dinner was finished with the fruits that Kyouya brought.

"Kyouya-kun! These fruits are so tasty! They're really fresh!", ranka exclaimed.

"Thank you. I made sure that I've got only the best quality", the dark haired boy said smiling. "Those fruits are actually exclusive.", he added.

Haruhi just rolled her eyes, thinking that the shadow king's words actually meant "those fruits are expensive."

"Really? Wow! That's so nice of you!", the okama was obviously so impressed with the boy. He glanced at his wrist watch and took note of the time.
"Oh my.. The time sure is fast.. I have to leave you guys now.", he said as he headed to the door. The two teens followed him to bid goodbye.
"Haruhi, feel better okay? And kyouya-kun, thank you so much for this favor!", he finished.

"My pleasure ranka-san.", the boy said in a gentleman way.
"Bye dad. Take care!", haruhi said as he hugged her father.
"Okay then! Have a good night you two!", he said happily as we opened the door and started to walk.

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When Ranka was out of sight, Haruhi had closed the door and turned to kyouya. "Senpai.. You could leave now.", she said bluntly.

Kyouya's eyebrow twitched at Haruhi's words. Yes, he wasn't an emotional nor a sensitive person, but hey, haruhi's statement was more than enough
to break a normal person's heart.

"So, you wanted to kick me out now haruhi?.. If I'm not mistaken, you're the one who invited me here..", kyouya said.

"Iye. Senpai I didn't mean it that way.. Yes, I invited you. But that was for 'lunch', not for a 'sleep over'..", she said.

Well, it wasn't like she wanted to drive kyouya away. It was just that she didn't want to take some of kyouya's 'precious time'. Who knows? What if kyouya was
actually planning to charge her for this?

Kyouya had started to walk towards the living room. He settled himself on the not-so-cozy-couch. Haruhi followed him, watching him closely.

"You know me haruhi.. I do not do things without merits.. Besides, I wouldn't argue with you if your dad didn't ask me to watch you..", he said with a bored tone.

Haruhi, who was still standing up, walked in front of kyouya and bent down a little to see his eyes. "Then, what would you gain from this
senpai?" The girl was eager to know what would kyouya gain from taking care of her. She couldn't really help herself to trust Kyouya's motives.

"That's for me to know haruhi.", he said with a smirked. "Don't make such a fuss. I don't see why my stay in here would be a big deal..", there was a slight annoyance in his voice.

The little girl let out a heavy sigh. Kyouya was right, his stay in her house was not a big deal at all. Then, she had realized that her
headache was coming back again. Her hand automatically reached out comfort her burning forehead. When the shadow king saw this, he stood up
and touched haruhi's forehead.

"Your fever is not that high. But I would suggest for you to rest now.."
He calmly said as he directed haruhi to the couch. "Where's your medicine box? I'll see what I could give you."

"Oh.. It's on the third cabinet in the kitchen.", haruhi had weakly responded.

With that, kyouya walked to get the supplies. It took him a while to figure out the best medicine that he could give to haruhi.
Well, obviously, he wasn't familiar with the 'commoners' brands of medicine, some of which were even the 'generic' type.

When he came back to the living room, he saw that haruhi was now in the dreamworld. The unwell state of the sleeping girl could easily be traced
in her frowning face. Kyouya shook her a little and tried to get her to wake up for a moment to take the medication. She just moaned and stirred a little.
"Mmmmm..."
"Haruhi..", he tried again.
"Tamaki..?", she whispered.
"No. It's me, Kyouya..", he shook her again. "You have to take your medicine.. Unless of course you enjoy having a headache.."

Haruhi slowly opened her eyes and tried to escape the dreamworld. "Ah... senpai..", haruhi said as she carefully moved into a sitting position.
"Here.", the shadow king handed her the tablets and a glass of water.
"Arigato..", she said after she had took everything.

"Why don't you move in your room now haruhi?", he inquired. "I have no intention of carrying you over there you know.", he stated as a matter-of-factly.

"Of course.", haruhi answered plainly as she stood up and was about to go to the kitchen to put the glass on the sink. Kyouya stopped her
however. "Give me that..", he pointed to the glass. "Just continue your rest now.", he ordered her.

Haruhi was too tired to argue with kyouya so she just let the shadow king win this time. She went to her room and got back to her slumber.

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Meanwhile, Kyouya was stuck alone inside the fujioka's living room doing nothing. He was bored indeed. How he wished that he had brought his
precious laptop with him. Well, he didn't really expect ranka's request so he was unprepared.
He tried to find something to do to kill his time. His eyes wandered around the room. His attention was caught by something that looked like a photo
album. He walked over and took the rather old album. Kyouya knew that that could be considered as an 'invasion of privacy', but he reasoned
himself out that he couldn't stand the boredom anymore.

He started flipping the first few pages of the album. He carefully observed the fujioka family's happy picture. Ranka and his wife had
their brightest smiles on their faces while carrying a laughing baby-haruhi. Kyouya, upon seeing that picture, felt a bit jealous, although
he would never admit that to himself. Not once in his life did he saw a picture of him with his family smiling like that. He turned the pages
and looked at haruhi's developmental-stages-pictures. It was complete from the day she was born, to her 1st month, 2nd month, 3rd.. 4th.. and
so on..

A lot of those photos were candidly taken. He would have to laugh at haruhi's naked baby picture with chocolate pudding all over her
mouth. 'If I had discovered these pictures when we were still in highschool, I wonder how much those 'idiots' would pay for these.', he thought as the
businessman-kyouya was awakened in him. He was sure that his fellow hosts would die just to get these pictures of haruhi.
"Well, I could still sell this to tamaki..", he said softly as he took out that picture of haruhi and placed it in his pocket.

He continued to look at the pictures. When he had finished looking over the 10 photo albums, he had decided to look over them 'again'.. "Well, I
might had missed something that I could use in the future..", he told himself trying to justify why he needed to look at the 10 albums for the
second time.
After satisfying himself, and stealing over 27 haruhi pictures, Kyouya had decided to call this a night. He had settled himself into the
uncomfortable couch. He didn't know what position he would do because he was too long for the couch. To be honest, kyouya was tempted to sleep on
ranka's bed; however, he knew that that wasn't a good idea. Well, unfortunately, this apartment had only one bedroom, meaning that he
would have sleep on the same room with haruhi if he ever wanted to pursue a comfortable sleep. Even though there were two beds on that
room, kyouya was sure that ranka wouldn't like the idea of that.

And so, the night had ended with the shadow king sleeping in a sitting position on the couch.. "The 27 pictures from your album are the payment
for 'this' haruhi..", the the dark haired boy muttered in his sleep.
Well, it somehow proved that even in sleep, the shadow king was always into business and merits.. :p

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A/N: awww.. kyouya sure loved haruhi's picture ne? i kinda think that kyou-chan has a crush on haruhi! right kyouya?

Kyouya: No... You're delusional..

Me: aww.. no need to deny it you know.. is it really hard to admit it?

Kyouya: (glared at me.. with the purple background surrounding him)

Haruhi: Hey!! Why are some of my pictures missing?!

Kyouya: Well that's the payment for making me sleep on that rock-like commoner couch!

Haruhi: ugh! damn rich bastard!

So, what do you guys think? Is kyouya falling for haruhi now? No, I dont think so.. well, NOT YET, at least.. but we'll get to that later.. as for now, I would appreciate any advices and reviews from you guys, be it good or bad.. thank you!!

Oh, by the way, I would like to acknowledge SONATA HIRANO! she volunteered to beta-read this fic so, you guys might see a revised version of this one over the weeken.. okay .