Disclaimer: I don't own Ouran (cause if I did I wouldn't have killed Kyouya off)


Five days

He got the message during school the next day.

'What do you want?' Hunni messaged back, and waited for a reply. "Takashi, I got another one." he handed the phone to his cousin, "I asked him what he wanted."

"Is that a good idea?" The phone rang in his hand. The message had been returned.

"What does that mean?" Hunni asked.

"Nothing good."


Tamaki scrolled through Kyouya's cell phone for the millionth time, looking for something, anything to point to who had killed him. All of his guilt and sorrow seemed to have washed away, now he was consumed with figuring this out. He had to figure this out before he had to bury another precious friend.

He paused at the recent calls, the killer warned through text messages, not phone calls, so he doubted he would find anything. But he clicked it anyway. The very last call this phone received was from an unknown number, just minutes before Kyouya's death. He called it, but the number had been disconnected. Just another dead end.


Someone knocked quietly on the door to the Fujioka apartment. Haruhi pulled away from her school work to answer it. School work seemed to be the only way to keep her mind occupied from thoughts of Kyouya.

Mei was standing at the door, a solemn look on her face, "I heard about Kyouya-kun." she gave Haruhi a hug.

"Thanks for coming Mei-chan."

The two girls sat and talked for hours and by the time Mei left, Haruhi had almost forgotten she was going to take flowers to Kyouya's grave. It was getting dark but she figured she had enough time to get back in time to cook supper for her father.

When she got there, she saw another person setting flowers at Kyouya's grave, "Tamaki-sempai?" she called out. The man didn't look at her, just turned and left, 'Who was that?' she thought, but shrugged it off when she stood in front of Kyouya's headstone. "Hey Kyouya-sempai." she said, setting the flowers down, "I know you wouldn't like that I spent money on these, but you would still appreciate the gesture. Everyone misses you. No one really feels up to doing the Host Club now that your gone. Besides, without you, it wouldn't be profitable at all." she laughed a little, "I'll be back later, but I have to go cook for dad."

'Who was that man?' she thought as she walked away.


"Hikaru?" Kaoru asked, his twin had been so distant lately.

"When do you think tono will come back to school?" he asked.

Kaoru sighed, "I'm not sure we should call him tono anymore. There probably won't be the Host Club anymore."

Hikaru looked at him, "Why would Kyouya do this?" he stood up, "Kyouya wouldn't do this. Tono must know something that we don't."

"Hikaru, calm down. Tono is just greiving."

"We're going to Tono's house." and he pulled his twin out the door.

When they got to the Souh mansion, they found Hunni-sempai and Mori-sempai waiting outside too. "What are you doing here sempai's?" Kaoru asked.

"We have to talk to Tamaki." Hunni said.

"So do we." Hikaru said.

Tamaki looked disheveled when they got to his room. His hair looked like he had been pulling at it, there were dark circle under his eyes and his clothes were the same ones he had worn yesterday when he had gone to the Ootori mansion. "Why are you all here?"

The twins and the cousins exchanged glances, "Well," Kaoru said, "Hikaru and I came to see if you knew anything about Kyouya-sempai's death that we didn't know." then they looked at Hunni and Mori expectantly.

"We came about this." Hunni handed Tamaki his phone.

Tamaki read the message, "Did you do anything?"

"I replied back but the message got returned because it wasn't a valid number."

"What are you talking about?" Hikaru burst out.

"Hunni-sempai has received text messages from someone counting down days." Tamaki said, "We think the messages are from Kyouya's murderer."

"Mu-mu-murderer?" Hikaru stuttered, "You think he was murdered?"

"I don't think Hikaru, I know he was murdered." he said it with such conviction that they couldn't help but believe in it too.

"How do-" Kaoru started to say, but everyone's phones went off.

They were text messages from an unknown sender.

"What do yours say?" Tamaki asked.

"2nd." Hunni read.

"3rd." Kaoru said.

"5th." Mori said.

"6th." Hikaru burst out in surprise.

"Last." Tamaki added, "Wait, Mori-sempai, did you say 5th?" he nodded, "And Kaoru said 3rd. That means. . . Haruhi is 4th."


When the phone rang that a text message was coming in, Haruhi was surprised. When the twins had given her the phone, she had told them it was unnecessary, but now she was glad to have some contact with the outside world. Usually the twins sent nonsense, but when she read the text message she was confused.

4th

They had never sent anything like that. So she simply deleted that, her want for contact was gone.


"Wait, I saw something earlier." Tamaki pulled out Kyouya's phone and scrolled through it. "Here, the day before the original text messages started. First."

They all looked at the message, then at each other. "What does it mean?" Hunni asked.

"Isn't it obvious?" Kaoru said, "It's the order we're all going to be murdered in. Kyouya-sempai was first, then Hunni-sempai who's getting text messages, then me, then Haruhi, Mori-sempai, Hikaru and Tono last."

"But why would he tell us this?"

"He's playing with us, leading us on. Psychopaths do that!"

"Calm down Kaoru." Mori said, placing a hand on his shoulder, "This is what he wants."

"Takashi's right." Hunni said, "Someone wants us to panic, you're just playing to his wants. Calm down and we'll get through this."

"If we don't die first." Hikaru muttered.

Hunni ignored him, "We need to tell our parents and see what they can do."

Everyone agreed, and left the Souh mansion to inform their parents on what had happened.


Well that's all for now, I'll update again when I have time! Now just for a little reader address:

Spider9x- Sorry for killing off your favorite character, it pained me to write it. You'll just have to wait and see if Kyouya comes back or not ;)

Meganes Ultimate Fangirl- Thank you for not riping me limb from limb, I appreciate that. You have some very interesting theories but you'll just have to wait and thanks for reviewing!

Milky Mentos- Thanks for reviewing and hey, more power to you since you're younger! I think it's geat that there are younger-than-teenager people here on the site.

~Cloudy