Yay! Another chapter! :) I kept forgetting to upload this so I hope you all are happy that I finnally remembered! :)

It's been a busy week for me-school just started and I'm trying to get used to my new classes and my teachers... I wonder if anyone else just started school.. *mutter, mutter*

Anyway-ENJOY!~~

Chapter 1

"Road trip~, Road trip~, we're going on a road trip~!" Hikaru and Kaoru Hitachin sang in unison as they whirled each other around in circles. Honey, as exited as the twins was throwing Usa-chan in the air as he bounced around the music room.

"What are you planning now?" Haruhi Fujioka asked looking up from her book, her dark brown eyes shining with curiosity.

"We, my darling child, are taking, as the devil twins so aptly named it, a road trip!" Tamaki Suoh suddenly appeared behind her brushing back his blonde hair dramatically.

"By 'we' I assume you mean everyone but me." Haruhi knew there was little chance of that happening but had to hold out the slim hope it did.

"Of course not Haru-chan, you have to come with us it wouldn't be any fun without you!" Honey shouted as he made an extra long bounce and landed beside Haruhi on the couch, wrapping his arms around her neck.

The twins followed suit as did Tamaki and soon Haruhi was the center of a very tight group hug which she bore with only minimal complaints of not being able to breathe.

Kyoya sat near the window writing in his black notebook as he silently observed the scene. He was not in a good mood. Therefore every other member of the Host Club had giving him an extremely wide berth as they went about their duties. Even his customers, which usually consisted of nearly thirty girls, had dwindled to only three brave seniors who had left rather hurriedly after about five minutes in his company. He glanced up as Tamaki began calling for 'Mommy' to come and force the twins to stop flirting with Haruhi.

Kyoya rose and slowly walked toward the group. He enjoyed how they all went still and stared at him warily. The twins released Haruhi and slid behind Tamaki as Kyoya put his hand reassuringly on her shoulder. He soon put her fears to rest about the 'road trip'. "It's just the Club taking a public train to the Suoh mansion. We will be staying there for the duration of break and Tamaki has already planned many activities for us. So will we be graced by the pleasure of your company?" While he made the request sound innocent he knew, as well as she, that Haruhi had no choice in the matter and would be going no matter what she said.

Haruhi sighed hopelessly and nodded despondently.

As soon as she had nodded Kyoya was on his phone and telling his driver to meet them at the front gates. The rest of the group grabbed Haruhi and dragged her from the third music room and to the gates. As they group left, Mori was thoughtful enough to remember the bag of clothes Haruhi's father had so considerately provided.

Nearly an hour later, about fifty miles away from Ouran High School, a vintage Rolls Royce was pulling up to a small near-empty train station. The Hosts piled out of the car and began unloading their luggage from the trunk. Of course Haruhi had insisted they do it themselves and the boys decided to oblige her.

The station was not in a very small town. Rather, it was the last remnant of a bygone era at the outskirts of a thriving metropolis. About 200 yards away there was a large park badly in need of a caretaker. Its trees were huge and forbidding and grass was poking up between the cracks in the concrete. The lawns were in utter disarray, with weeds growing where the flower beds had once been. And much further into the park there was a huge trestle bridge over a fast flowing river that creaked ominously whenever the wind blew. But for all that the park had a mysteriously compelling feel. It made one want to explore it, despite the probability of getting hurt.

A loud wail cut through the sleepy quiet of the train station as a long silver train pulled in to its stop. Mori casually moved closer to Honey, afraid that his hyperactive cousin was about to become entangled in the human stream emerging from the train as people hurried home from work.

"Haruhi where are you?" Tamaki's loud voice echoed around the station as he stared around wildly, trying to find his elusive 'daughter'.

"She's right here boss," the twins called as they wrapped their arms around Haruhi, who had been thoughtfully removing their luggage from the middle of the platform.

"Seriously Tamaki, calm down. I was barely twenty feet away," Haruhi said as she wriggled away from the twins' hug. She rolled her eyes as people began to stare.

Mori lost sight of his charge as Honey ducked to avoid a swinging arm. The tall wiry boy began shoving through the crowd, keeping his eyes locked on the spot where Honey's blonde head had disappeared. A small form slammed into his muscular body with just enough force to make him stop and look down. When he did, Mori felt his breath hitch.

She couldn't be here. But lo and behold here she was. With the same peacock blue eyes, so wide and innocent with a cunning gleam she couldn't quite conceal dancing in the corners. Her pink lips curved in a quick smile and she tilted her white neck back to stare up at him, revealing the gold locket engraved with her first initial; an S.

"Hey, watch where you're going Stretch, you could crush someone with those mammoth feet of yours." Her impersonal voice brought Mori back from his momentary trance as she squirmed around him and made her way further into the station. Mori watched her go; her thigh-length brown hair shot with hints of blonde waving for him to follow. She was one girl Mori always obeyed.

Mori found Honey and nearly but not quite dragged him back to the others and spoke in his deep rarely-used voice that made his customers flutter with puppy love. "Follow me, now."

Kyoya raised an eyebrow behind his glasses and adjusted them slightly as he gave Mori a sideways glance. "Well, maybe today will be marginally interesting-not just another day of complying to Tamaki's senseless, and occasionally disturbing, demands," he thought hopefully.

Honey was sulking for some unknown reason, and scowling at his cousin's back as Mori began to swiftly stride away from the group after a rapidly disappearing dark haired head.

They followed the girl into the winding pathways of the park, occasionally losing sight of the tiny figure as she slipped like a wraith between the trees. Soon they came to the edge of the park, but acting on Honey's advice they didn't leave the tree cover. Instead, they watched the girl from a safe distance.

She was apparently insane. The slender girl was climbing up the side of the bridge, jumping from girder to girder with a catlike ease and blatant disregard for her safety. Soon she was on top of the bridge where she stood still as a statue, with her hair buffeted by a sudden breeze and her jacket flying from her shoulder as she shrugged it off. The Hosts wondered why she had let her jacket fall, but Kaoru, ever the more thoughtful of the twin duo, grabbed it as it flew on the breeze's wing into the trees.

A squeal of tires cut the air and a long black car sped onto the bridge. The girl jumped off the bridge and down onto the car's roof. She leaned over the front and waved at the driver, who was pulling the car around in a wild and potentially dangerous circle. As the car came to a stop the lithe girl flipped off the roof and pirouetted neatly around to face the door as she smoothed back her hair.

A huge man emerged and glared down at the girl in front of him, who stared back with a disinterested expression. He topped Mori by at least six inches and had the hands of a boxer, huge and meaty with numerous scars.

"So good to see you again Christopher, but I thought it was the usual arrangement. Or is there another reason why you're here? I mean, if you're here for pleasure there are a few clubs I could suggest." She smiled at the man with a careless innocence.

"My boss has requested the pleasure of your presence posthaste." Christopher's voice was tough and gravelly and he had to think about his words before he spoke them.

"Scared of saying his name?" She switched to another language and spoke so quickly the Hosts were baffled. Who on earth could understand that?

Well Christopher obviously did. He gave an angry growl and charged at his petite adversary. She dodged to one side and punched him in the kidneys as he stumbled past her. A well delivered kick sent him sprawling as the girl crouched waiting for his next attack. She narrowed her eyes and gave a maniacal grin as she anticipated his next move.

Her body flipped backwards, landing on the hood of the car and reached into her left sleeve, pulling out a credit card. She threw the card at him. It slashed across his right cheek, drawing blood and disorienting him.

She then jumped off the car and kicked him in the knees but, even though she was moving out of the way of his falling body, like lightning Christopher managed to latch onto her long hair, making it impossible for her to twist free. Christopher got to his feet slowly and began dragging the slim struggling form to the guardrails of the bridge.

Mori made as if to charge toward them but Hikaru and Kaoru latched onto his legs and caused him to stumble. Tamaki and Honey latched onto his arms and helped hold down the boy, it was no easy task and Kyoya was not about to help, while Haruhi was too absorbed in the scene in front of her to do anything other than watch.

Christopher slammed the girl's head against the metal limb and lifted her by the hair over the rails. The girl grabbed his wrist and swung her legs back and forth like a pendulum. Christopher shook his arm back and forth trying to dislodge the girl's leech like grasp, but to no avail. The girl's feet connected with his chin knocking Christopher away from the rail. As she managed to get her feet back on the bridge the girl backhanded her captor with strength disproportionate to her small size.

As Christopher reeled back slightly the girl followed up her advantage and cracked him under the chin with her knee. His hand dropped from her hair and he loomed over her, pulling out two pairs of brass knuckles as he did. He swung out and came close to grazing her chin, but but again he misjudged her speed. The next few moves he did not and soon Christopher had her on the defensive as he forced her back with an effective barrage of punches that soon had her backed up against the rail. The girl felt the rail behind her and glanced over her shoulder. That was when Christopher pounced. He wrapped his hands around her slender neck and began squeezing.

Mori began struggling all the harder and it was all Tamaki, Honey, Hikaru and Kaoru could do to restrain him. Kyoya wanted to see how this would end without anyone's aid. Haruhi opened her eyes wide and stared in shock at the look of interest on Kyoya's face. He was such a freak.

"Well, can we help her now?" Tamaki enquired glancing at Kyoya.

"She does not require our assistance any longer," Kyoya said as he jotted down some notes in his black notebook, produced his laptop from thin air and began typing.

The Hosts turned back to the girl and stared. What was Kyoya talking about? She was still in Christopher's meaty grasp and turning blue as well.

Then she brought both feet up against Christopher's chest and pushed up. He flew over her head and over the bridge. But at the last second he grabbed some of her long hair and dragged her over the bridge with him. She gave a small yelp clawed desperately at the air and disappeared.

Mori jerked free of Honey's restraining grasp and ran to the edge of the bridge and leaned over, searching frantically for the girl. A noise behind him made Mori whirl around and take on a fighting stance. But it was it only the slim wrists of the girl appearing over the side of the bridge and hauling herself over the side and somersaulting to her feet.

She completely ignored Mori and the rest of the Host and stalked purpos fully to the car, yanking open the driver's door. She reached inside and threw the driver to the ground, pulling a gun out of his jacket as she did. She smirked as she pointed the gun at the cowering man before her and said softly, "Give me your phone and I'll let you live."

The man handed her the phone with no hesitation, then winced as she leaned down toward him. She whispered something and then watched in amusement as the man scrambled for the car and hit the gas. She hit a few buttons on the phone and spoke rapidly, frowning as she did.

After a moment of tence silence she stared at the phone, and without anymore though, closed her fist around it. She then dropped what was left of the crushed phone over the bridge and began walking away, a dazed expression on her china white face. She walked straight through the group without acknowledging their presence, though she did take her jacket from Kaoru's hand as she passed him.

"Wait!" Tamaki baratone voice called out. When she didn't respond the Host ran after her instead.

When he was only a foot away she whirled around and stamped down a small foot, placed her hands defiantly on her round hips and said emphatically, "Takashi stop following me!"

Oooohhhh! How do they know each other? I betcha wanna find out, huh? I hope you all liked this! Please review~!

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