Aya was about as scary as Kyoya was. She didn't show emotion. She could be a sadist, as Tamaki would surely tell anyone who would listen to, his bear being on the bad side of Aya. She scared people, and she tried to act like she didn't care. Haruhi just thought she was like everyone else. Weird, but with a heart of gold… buried somewhere deep… where on had yet to find… maybe.

Haruhi took Aya in stride. She even liked her every once in awhile, although sometimes it was hard. Haruhi wasn't aware of her looks for the most part. She was girl but she dressed as a guy even though no one really believed it anymore, the part about being a guy, but Haruhi still dressed like one, she was more comfortable in the male uniform and so she wore it. Her hair was just as short as always. It had been over a year since she had joined the Host Club and while she couldn't pass for a guy anymore she didn't have the body that Aya did. Sometimes Haruhi thought she might like Aya more if she didn't have sex appeal dripping from her pours. It shamed her to admit it though.

Haruhi liked Aya when she was around Kyoya because he finally calmed down. He had someone who wanted to help him with the work, and everyone else was glad to hand it over. If there was a screw up then Aya took the hit. And for the most part people stopped hiding in corners when Kyoya came in a bad mood because Aya could handle it. She was just as much attached to her computer and Kyoya was to his and the two of them could work for hours grumbling to one another and getting things done.

Aya was a creature that fit into the Host Club. She was the first member to bring males into the club, and she brought them in by droves. When Aya walked into a room the thought of sex came to mind. She was perfection, with not a hair out of place. She never got upset. She flirted with everything. And she could smile and be thinking about killing you at the same time. She dressed in the female uniform and fit it like it was made for her. She knew how to talk to everyone and she knew how to act.

She also got Tamaki out of corners when he was in a snit and for that everyone wanted to promote her.

Haruhi thought that nothing better could have happened to the Host Club.

And still when she saw her approach she had to stop a sigh that built up.

"Haruhi."

"Aya."

"I love what you do with your hair."

"I blow dry it."

Aya sighed and sat down next to her. "I wanted to talk to you about something."

That was just fine. Haruhi could finish her homework and talk about hair all at once. "What did you need to talk to me about?"

"It's something important."

Haruhi paused and looked at Aya, but of course there was nothing on her face that would give her away. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing really. I just really have to talk to you about something."

Ever the one with common sense Haruhi couldn't see why Aya kept telling her that they had to talk and then not saying anything.

"What do you need to talk about?"

Aya smiled, "I think it would work out better if we talked about it in private. The boys had a tendency to listen to others conversations."

And sure enough even now Kaoru and Hikaru were trying to act like they weren't listening by acting like they were cleaning up a spill under the table. Haruhi wasn't sure how they had gotten there but she was sure of two things. They didn't know what to do with a spill even if there life depended on cleaning it up and there was no spill to clean.

A year ago she might have questioned what they were doing under the table. A year ago she might have… "I totally understand you're need to kill anyone who trying to listen to a private conversation. I get really moody when I get my period too. What brand of tampons do you think is best?"

The two of them took off like their butts were on fire.

Aya was thrilled. "I wouldn't think that you would stoop to such measures to get rid of them."

Neither would Haruhi, but sometimes you needed to get work done. "I learned a long time ago not to get squeamish about some things. If you want a private conversation talk about child birth, woman problems, or living in a small apartment with almost no money to spend anything on, and the boys will have other things to do."

Aya looked thoughtful. "I would have thought that a conversation about poor people would keep Tamaki to you like glue."

Haruhi went back to working on her paper. "Yes, it should. Only Tamaki gets so depressed hearing about it that he has to sit in a corner for the rest of the day. That idiot cost me a lot of money too. Kyoya made me eat his profits for the day."

"I would have thought you would have told Kyoya off before you let him cost you anything else."

"I would have but I made enough money that day that Kyoya didn't bug me about it and I didn't have to threaten to kill him. It worked out."

Haruhi worked on her paper and Aya sat next to her and drank her tea. Haruhi found that Aya could in fact sit still for two seconds and you didn't always have to keep her occupied with something. She was scary enough that everyone stayed away from her when she sat there with a thoughtful look on her face because she usually snapped at anyone who tried to talk to her.

Haruhi had to wonder sometimes what she was thinking about when she got like that. Not today though. Haruhi needed to get the paper done by the end of today or it would be late. Usually she wouldn't have left things until the last minute, but things still were piling. Kyoya knew and was letting her get her work done. So it was up to the idiots to plan for the next couple of days…

She didn't even want to know.

She really didn't.

The rest of the day passed in blur of words for Haruhi and before she knew it everyone was packing up to go home for the day. Haruhi didn't know what shocked her more, the fact that she was almost done with a ten page paper, or the fact that she didn't have to kill anyone to get it done. What shocked her was that Aya was exactly where she had been almost an hour ago.

Didn't really matter.

Haruhi went back to typing and was once again caught up with her homework. She was startled when someone tapped her on the shoulder. "What's the matter?"

Kyoya looked down at her. Or at least she figured that Kyoya was looking at her. His glasses hid his eyes.

"We're all done for the day. Would you like one of us to drive you home?"

It would be smart of her to take Kyoya up on it but she really wanted to get her paper done at the library before she had to go home and make dinner.

"No that's okay. I'm sure I can get a ride from Aya." She motioned to where Aya still was sitting lost in thought.

Kyoya wrinkled his brow. "She's been like that for almost an hour."

Haruhi shrugged. Either Aya was one those people who slept with her eyes open or she just had a lot on her mind.

"I've got her."

"Okay."

Kyoya nodded and left, closing the door to the library behind him.

Aya hadn't moved from her spot but as soon as the door closed she spoke up.

"I need to talk to you about Kyoya."

"And what do you need to talk about?" Haruhi assumed the worst right away.

"You do know he has feelings for you."

Haruhi was so shocked that someone could have knocked her over with a feather. That wasn't what she thought would come from Aya.

"You realize that you have feelings for him, don't you?"

Aya smiled and shrugged her shoulders. "Who do I matter? I'm just a random person who came in the middle of it all. I'm no one."

Haruhi didn't know why but it hurt her to hear Aya say that. "You shouldn't talk like that, you know."

"I know a lot more then you think I do. What's with the reaction to my news huh? I thought you would be overcome or something? Instead you just start in about me."

Haruhi laughed and went back to finishing her paper. "It's just not what I thought you needed to talk to me about."

Aya sighed. "You don't believe me do you? He moons over you and yet you can't even see it. They told me that you were dense but really…"

"I'm seventeen. I haven't been quite as dense as the rest of them would like to think. They just like to think I am because it makes a better story. I've known for awhile."

Now it was Aya's turn to look like she could be knocked over with a feather. She must have heard the stories.

"What do you mean you've known?"

Haruhi paused in the middle of a sentence and leaned back into her chair. "I dated Tamaki for a couple of months last year you know. It seemed like it would work out but it didn't."

"Yeah so…"

"It's like you said. You walked in the middle of something and for the moment it doesn't feel like you have a place, but then you get to know that idiots and before you know it their important to you, and you don't want to hurt them. I hurt Tamaki."

"I still don't get it."

"When things ended they didn't end badly but everyone felt like they had to take a side and some of them sided with me and some of them sided with Tamaki and it was ugly and uncomfortable."

Understanding dawned.

Haruhi could understand how one moment one thing could be confusing and the next second it couldn't make more sense.

By acknowledging any feelings for Kyoya she was opening herself and him up to another ugly scene, and her friends were too important to her that she didn't want to risk it. Not again.

A/N: this took me a whole lot longer to get up then I thought it would. I've been really busy and everything. That and when I got to writing this chapter I couldn't figure out where it wanted to go. I wrote this about sixty times before I got it right. I wouldn't start anything new before i got this out. It twas a pain in the butt to write. And I'm not so sure how I'm going to like the end. I shall see. It will be one more chapter. I hope.

Anyway, I have major issues with Aya. Mostly I know what kind of character I want to make her, but I don't know where to put her into a story. The ideas. They come to me and then I want to run the other way because it means a long story is coming and I'm having enough issues with those.. I know you really don't know a whole lot about her. I should try and fix that. I'll get around to fixing that. Anyway, tell me what you think of her and if you want to see her in another story or not. Tell me you're idea's if you like her.

Here's the chapter and the really long A/N that i just had to write. I leave you now. until next time which shouldn't be half as long as this turned our to be.