Disclaimer: I don't own Ouran High School Host Club, Bisco Hatori does.

2

The Prince's Quest

When Haruhi tucked Aya into bed, on the toddler's futon, the golden haired toddler asked her mother the same question as she did every night; "Maa... Daa story?" Aya would often ask about her dad, even though she didn't fully understand what a dad was, other than the fact that she knew Haruhi had one.

"Of course!" Haruhi replied. Each night, she would tell Aya the same story, the one of the day Haruhi told Tamaki that she loved him.

There once was a handsome prince, the most handsomest man in all the land. Despite his handsomeness, he had a heart of pure gold. He was always quick to jump to aid of anyone, often saying that it was his job to make every guest to the kingdom happy. But, the wicked witch, his own grandmother, had told him that he couldn't see his friends anymore.

So, his friends came to his aid, to rescue him, including the shadow knight, the cute ninja, the stoic knight, the twin jesters, and a maiden dressed in men's garb. The maiden had fallen in love with the prince, and she knew he felt the same. Along with her friend's help, the maiden broke into the castle, to rescue the prince. The wicked witch wasn't so wicked, you see, once the prince's father was now king, the witch had nothing to do during the day. She had heard the melody of the prince playing the piano, and it softened her cold heart. Allowing herself to get to know the prince, she realised that he wasn't as wicked as she thought, even found that she had some things in common with him.

She released the prince, so he could go see the queen - his mother, that was leaving the kingdom to return to her own kingdom. With the help of all of their friends, that they had made in the kingdom, the prince and the maiden made it to the airport in time, to see the queen. Afterwards, the maiden confessed her love for the prince.

"Happy ever after?" Aya asked, like she did each night.

"Yes," Haruhi lied.

By the end of the story, Aya usually forgot that she had asked for a story about her father, and always wanted to know if they had a happily ever after, like the princes and princesses in her story books.

Aya smiled. "Love you," she muttered before falling asleep.

"Love you," Haruhi replied. She kissed her daughter on the forehead.

...

The golden haired princely boy, Tamaki, was awake at the crack of dawn. He had dreamt of Haruhi again last night, they were at a ball, and Haruhi disappeared into the crowd. Tamaki woke up screaming her name. All of the house servants were worried about him, he was like a ghost, enduring each day, refusing to move on. Every couple of days, he would call Kyoya, to see if he had found anything. Kyoya had not. He was just as in the dark to where Haruhi was, as Tamaki. Some of the other hosts had carried on with their lives, but still thought of Haruhi from time to time.

After breakfast, Tamaki headed to Ootori residence, hoping to see Kyoya, but he was turned away, because Kyoya was at work. Because of his excellent book keeping and leadership of the host club, his father had made not only handed management of the health & relaxation facilities, but also gave him the job as the hospital's finance book keeper. Kyoya was quite good at it, because he would take into consideration each person's preferences.

That evening, Tamaki returned, and was lead directly to Kyoya's room. Kyoya was going over some possible blue prints for the remodeling of the swimming pool.

"Kyoya," Tamaki said, as soon as he laid eyes on the former shadow king.

"I haven't found any information on Haruhi's whereabouts," Kyoya said at once, anticipating what Tamaki might say next.

"I wasn't going to ask that," Tamaki replied. He sat down on the sofa, without invitation.

"Then what is it?" Kyoya demanded. "Some of us have a business to run."

"I wondered, would you come with me to Ranka's apartment?" Tamaki said.

"And, why would I do that?" Kyoya replied, seeing no reason to go there.

"I thought, that if anyone knew where Haruhi was, then it would be him. He doesn't exactly like me, so I wondered if you would come with me?" Tamaki even flashed Kyoya the puppy dog eyes.

Unable to resist them, Kyoya said, "if I'm not busy."

Tamaki yapped with joy, like always did, when he got his own way.

...

Haruhi was awake early, because she had to not only get herself ready, but also get Aya ready to. Like every week day morning, Haruhi would drop off Aya at daycare, and go to work. Haruhi was working in a law firm, but not as the lawyer that she dreamed of being, as a office assistant, which meant she was in charge of making coffee, photocopying documents, and taking the verbal abuse of stressed out lawyers, that needed someone to vent on.

"This is not good enough, Haruhi! I asked you to print ten copies on white paper, and 10 copies on beige! Can't you just once do what I ask you to do?" one of the lawyers, Akimi, shouted. She had all twenty copies in her hands. There wasn't any beige paper in the office, Akimi was just going through a very stressful case, where a couple was getting divorced. Instead of shouting at the client, and getting sacked, she shouted at Haruhi instead for no reason.

"I'm sorry, Akimi-sama, I will gladly redo them," Haruhi said, like always.

"No, it's alright, I'll use them for now, but do better next time," Akimi replied. She walked back to her office, massaging her forehead.

Haruhi continued with the photocopying, she had three reports to photocopy, and one court case minutes to make thirty copies of. Once she was done with that, she had to make the lunch run, by collecting some money from the receptionist, and going out and getting lunch for everyone. It was a job that she would love to quit from, but she needed the job to support herself and Aya, it also gave her a possible opportunity of working her way up to lawyer within the company.

A/N: For Kyoya's job, I was talking about the place the host club visit in Jungle Pool SOS.