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Chapter 2 – A Plan of Action

Hunny did not like the fact that not only did his cousin take away his cakes, but he confiscated his candy also. He didn't think it was fair! He was on his second day without his sweets and although he lost the battle the first day, he believed he would ultimately win the war. He just had to play the game right.

Haruhi was sitting on a chair next to Mori and was watching Hunny walking around the club room and acting like nothing was out of the ordinary. She knew it was all an act, everyone did. He was plotting something, but she wasn't sure what it was. She looked to the tall man sitting next to her and watched him read his book. She had not had a chance to talk to him about that other girl yet because as soon as she walked in she started to prepare for hosting and she knew she couldn't ask him in front of all of the others.

The female host looked at the time and realized she needed to go get more tea and coffee for her next round of customers. She walked into the kitchen lost to her own thoughts once again as she gathered the items needed and as pushed the cart out of the kitchen; Kyoya was reminding everyone that no one was to give Hunny-senpai any snacks. He emphasized that the order came from Mori-senpai and not him. Haruhi rolled her eyes and went to her normal seating area where her customers were already waiting on her. "Hello ladies, I hope I didn't keep you waiting too long," she said as she plastered on her natural host smile and took a seat. She served her customers as they started to talk, and today the subject of conversation was Hunny-senpai.

"Haruhi-kun, how is Hunny-senpai doing? I know it must be so difficult for him. We wish we could do something to make him feel better," one of the ladies said and the others joined her in voicing their agreement.

"He is fine ladies. It is only a cavity and once the dentist says he can have sweets again, I am sure he will be back to his normal self," Haruhi said. "They almost act like he has a terminal disease. It is only a stupid cavity," Haruhi thought to herself.

"Oh that is good. We hope that the ban is lifted soon for his sake. He just looks so sad," the same customer replied. It appeared that she had been selected as the spokesperson for the Hunny topic.

"Don't worry about him, he is strong and it is only a few days. It probably is good for him to take a small break from all of the sweets anyway," Haruhi answered.

"And the way Mori checked his teeth and then took care of him it was so MOE!" her guest was getting louder and louder. Next all of the girls that were around her were screaming MOE.

Haruhi groaned inwardly, "I will never understand these girls. This is not moe!" She wasn't quite sure how the girls felt so strongly about moe and how it applied in this situation. Mori was just taking care of his cousin and someone he always looks after. He is a nice guy and she didn't expect anything less from him. "Mori-senpai always takes care of Hunny-senpai, so helping him yesterday when he found the cavity business as usual," Haruhi said trying to get control of the situation.

"It's just that the love that is held between those two is so amazing and wonderful. That is what makes this moe!" Another one of her guests explained.

"Are you jealous Haruhi? You know you are still our favorite host," the original girl spoke up again when she had herself under more control.

Haruhi smiled her host smile, "Not at all ladies, I just didn't understand your point of view and now I do." She heard all of the girls talk about how cute she was just then and Haruhi decided to try to get the attention off of her and Hunny and asked, "So how has your day been today princesses?" Her guests immediately turned the subject of the conversation about their day and what they had planned. Haruhi didn't have to talk much more the rest of her hosting time so she was able to observe everyone in the room.

As Haruhi was looking around the room, she noticed Hunny running around acting carefree and happy. She rolled her eyes, "He is going to act like he is completely fine until someone gives him a slice of cake." She wondered what his plan was; she knew she would be on guard.

Hunny knew that if he wanted his sweets back, he needed to be able to prove to his cousin that he was all better. He couldn't act like his mouth was bothering him. Everything had to be completely normal. It had to be just as it was before the cavity. He iced down his cheek to get rid of the swelling and then plastered on his biggest happiest grin and ran up to his cousin telling him that he was all better and asking for a slice of cake. Mori held the power over his sweets right now and that is who he needed to convince in order to get his cake back. He was not expecting what happened next.

Mori heard his cousin running up to him and since they didn't have any guests at the moment, he was reading his book again. "Are you sure?" His cousin persisted that he was fine and his cavity was completely better. "Positive?" Again his cousin insisted that he was fine and told him the swelling had gone down. Mori knew he wasn't better and decided to prove his point by shoving a popsicle into Hunny's mouth. The pain that registered on his cousin's face told him that Hunny was in more pain now than he had been the previous day. Mitsukuni Haninozuka had just been beaten at his own game, he was not better.

Haruhi watched the popsicle incident and knew that the pain Hunny felt had to feel like a knife to the gut. She couldn't believe that he tried to say he was better when that was just not possible. The dentist hadn't been able to finish the job the day before due to some sort of emergency and Hunny was supposed to go back tomorrow. He would need a few more days before he was feeling better. She noticed that as Mori walked away, Hunny ran out the door. She almost got up to follow him, but the ladies sitting with her brought her back to the present and she couldn't go after him without creating an uproar.

Hunny had run into the bathroom and rinsed his mouth out with warm water. That made it feel a little bit better. Well plan A (use the cute) had not worked, now it was time for plan B (the indirect method). He hoped that he could convince his loyal customers to share a small slice, and at this point he would settle for a bite, of cake. He waited a little bit and then wandered back into the music room. He immediately walked up to two of his regulars and asked them what they were drinking and what they would be eating with their tea. When he heard they were going to have sandwiches, he started on his plan, "You know what would go really well with that tea is some sweets. I think you need some cake to go with the tea. What do you think?" He watched with anticipation for the girls to cave and give in to his needs, but instead they ran away apologizing to him. Plan B was a miserable failure.

Haruhi's customers had left her area when their time was up and she had no more designates for the day. She got up to walk around and stretch for a bit. She looked around the room to see if she could find Hunny and saw his customers running away leaving him in their dust. "I wonder what he tried on them," she wondered to herself.

Haruhi turned away from the sad scene and looked around the room. Mori was sitting at the table with a couple of girls and all of the other hosts seemed to have customers with them also. She was beginning to wonder what Hunny's next move was and was not surprised when she saw him walk up to her. What did surprise her and made her feel extremely guilty was the fact that he was walking up to her without his normal happy and enthusiastic attitude. He seemed downtrodden and beat down, like a kicked puppy. His head was hung low and tears were in abundance. "Hunny-senpai are you alright?" She asked him when he grabbed her sleeve.

"Haru-Chan, do you think I am a bad person? Does God hate me? I just don't understand why nobody likes me anymore. Why is everybody mean to me?" Hunny cried.

Haruhi moaned. She felt so bad for him and when he turned on the water works, she could not say no to him. He made her want to cry with him. She knew he was being overly dramatic, but she couldn't help but feel his pain. She looked around to see if anyone was watching them and then reached into her pocket, "Ok I will give you something, but you can't tell anyone and it is just this one time. Ok?"

"You will?! Is it a snack?" Hunny said immediately starting to perk up.

Haruhi handed over the contraband, "It is a snack and it is the same color as chocolate."

Hunny looked down as soon as the package touched his hand, this couldn't be happening. He was staring at a package of Kyoto Kelp. It may be the same color as chocolate, but it was not chocolate or sweet. He heard Kyoya calling Haruhi away from him and he couldn't look up away from the "snack". Plan C (pulling at heart strings) could be considered a failure also. He should have picked someone else. Haruhi had given in, but kelp was in no way what he was craving.

Haruhi approached Kyoya, "What is it Kyoya-senpai?"

"I noticed you were talking to Hunny-senpai. You didn't give him any sweets did you?" Kyoya asked as he pushed up his glasses to create a glare.

"No senpai, I can honestly say that I did not give him sweets," Haruhi responded. "I may have given him something a little sticky and something considered a snack, but it was not sweet," she finished in her mind.

"Please make sure you don't in the future. He knows how to trick people and persuade them to give in to his desires. Don't get pulled into his trap. That is all," Kyoya said in dismissal.

"Uh ok senpai," Haruhi said and then walked off towards a chair near the window. She didn't have customers, but she couldn't sit with Mori since he was still entertaining a couple of girls and it might look suspicious if they sit together too much. "I don't know why I am fine with these girls throwing themselves at him and am bothered by that one girl. UGH! I shouldn't be upset. I trust him," Haruhi argued with herself.

When club was over for the day and the customers were escorted out of the room, Haruhi walked over to Mori's table and asked him quietly if they were still on for tonight. She saw his slight nod yes and then walked off to collect her books, but was apprehended by the twins before she reached her destination, "What do you two think you are doing?"

"Come home with us Haruhi. You can try on some new designs," they said together.

"No, I am busy tonight. I have to study and I promised my dad I would help him with something," Haruhi grumbled as she was made into the middle of a twin sandwich.

"Please Haruhi," they begged.

"I said no!" She hollered.

"You evil twins get your hands off of my daughter! Don't worry Haruhi, daddy will save you!" Tamaki yelled running towards the trio. He was able to pull Haruhi away from the twins, but they tried to get her back. "Haruhi will not be going anywhere with you heathens. If she goes anywhere it will be with her daddy. Isn't that right Haruhi?"

"You are not my father Tamaki-senpai and I am not going anywhere with any of you. Let go! I have to get home!" Haruhi shouted. She felt herself being pulled free and looked down to see her boyfriend. She smiled at him and was tempted to kiss him, but decided that was probably not the best course of action. She settled for thanking him before she grabbed her back and ran out the door. She needed to get home to get ready for her date and didn't have time to deal with the three idiot musketeers.

Mori gathered his bag along with Hunny's bag and went to find his cousin. It took him a few minutes, but he found him crying in the back room, "Mitsukuni?"

"I'm fine Takashi. Let's just go home," Hunny mumbled. None of his plans worked and he didn't know what to do next. He had gone two days without his sweets and he wasn't feeling very well. His head was hurting from the lack of sugar. He needed his cakes back.

"Hn," Mori grunted. He felt like a world class jerk for doing this to his cousin, but it had to be done. He would make it up to him after he was better; however, the guilt was really starting to get to him. He almost told Haruhi that he needed to cancel for tonight, but he had already done that once to her since the cavity appeared, he couldn't do it again. It looked like he had some things to make up for with two people.

Mori and Hunny walked out of the club room and climbed into their limo. Tomorrow and the dentist couldn't come soon enough.