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…..1 week later…..
Haruhi had withdrawn herself form the world and the host club could see it. She couldn't even tell them. They would surly want to protect her and then what would happen? Would they be a match for him, for his family?
Haruhi couldn't ask them to fight her battles. Yet she hated lying to them, to everyone.
"Haruhi, are you okay?" Honey sempai asked.
"Hm? Oh. Yes, I'm fine. Sorry. Why?" she didn't want to burden them further.
"Well that's good to hear because you have clients coming soon and we wouldn't want to disappoint them." The cold calculating shadow master, Kyoya, adds. Haruhi had never been much in his eyes; at least that's what she figured. Kyoya didn't pay her much attention to her and she really didn't mind that since when he looked at her, it felt like Kyoya was looking straight through her, reading her ever thought.
"Don't be so mean Kyoya, maybe she's having a bad day." The twins are standing behind her. Hikaru and Kaoru where amazingly fond a Haruhi, but then so was almost everyone in The Host Club.
"Thanks guys." Haruhi smiles and gets up to leave, bowing to Kyoya in apology. "I'm sorry I …. I just can't today. Please give the girls my apologies and I will make it up, plus interest." Haruhi leaves music room 3 before the tears start coming. She had almost let them slip, but thankfully no one had noticed.
She found herself a room no one used locked the door behind her, and let everything come out until the world went dark.
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He was pretty sure he was the only one to notice it but, for just a second, she was crying. Yes, Kyoya was sure of this. But why? Kyoya wasn't really concerned with women at the moment but how could he just ignore what he had seen; the darkness in her eyes and even more, the fear. Who was Haruhi afraid of?
Well… it's really none of my business anyway….
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I left my book bag in my last classroom. I will need it tonight so I guess I have to go get it. Kyoya laughed at the stupid mistake he had made but he had time to spend, so it was no big deal.
Once Kyoya reached the room he had left his school bag in, he realized the door had been locked. Great, now what?
Then he heard it. Crying from the other side of the door. He couldn't tell who it was but it wasn't long before the sound stopped.
I'll just slip in, grab my bag and leave. They'll never even know I'm here.
When he had finally got the door open using the trick he picked up from Tamaki locking him out of the music room whenever Kyoya didn't agree with one of Tamaki's crazy plans, he went into the room but he didn't expect to find Haruhi.
What is she doing here? I knew something was wrong earlier. She has been crying since she left. Tamaki will kill me if he finds out I left her here. And besides it wouldn't be right to leave her here in that state anyways.
Kyoya grabbed his bag in one hand and picked Haruhi up in the other arm. She's so light.
She didn't squirm much on the way out the school or while he waited on his driver. But when she was leaning on his shoulder in the limo Kyoya felt Haruhi stir a little. Not enough to wake her, but it was as if Haruhi was having a bad dream.
Please, I just want to go home. Why are you doing this?
The words escaped her lips, and yet when Kyoya's ear found the words he didn't know what to do with them.
What is she afraid of? What happened to her last week? The words she said where unsettling to Kyoya. He was cool and calm when it came to most things but he only dealt with his own matters. He didn't know how to help her.
When they reached her apartment, Kyoya had the driver wait while he found Haruhi's apartment key in her bag and carried her up the stairs to her door. Her dads not home so it should be okay if I just take her to her room. He opens the door, feeling the warm air inside greet him.
Kyoya walks till he finds her room at the end of the hallway. When he opens Haruhi's door, he sees something he didn't expect. Blood. Not a lot, just some on her clothes she must have worn recently.
Once he placed Haruhi in her bed he held the clothes in his hands.
This is the cosplay dress she wore last week during the host club meeting.
Why is it all bloody?
What happened to you Haruhi?
What the hell is this…?
Kyoya didn't want to be caught alone in Haruhi's room, so he took the bloody clothes and left. Once outside he locked her door and left the key he got out of Haruhi's bag under the welcome mat, and left.
Once in his car he could let the cold facade fade away. Kyoya didn't understand what happened to Haruhi…
… but I will find out.
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