Yuki answered the phone.

"I've called to tell you that I'm not going to your last softball game tomorrow. I wasn't even going to come anyway, but Michio won another award." She said. "I'm at the hospital right now because of Akina getting dehydrated again, so I probably won't be home until tomorrow morning. You know how to cook and take care of yourself, so I'm sure it wouldn't bother you at all." Yuki swallowed down her sadness and fury.

"Of course, mom. They'll be other games, anyway. This is just the Championship, so I'll be fine. Don't rush home at all. Send Akina hugs for me." Yuki said truthfully.

"Why the hell would I do that? I don't need to hug Akina for you." She spat back. Yuki looked down.

"You're right mom. Stupid me. I'll hug her when she gets home. I'm sorry." Yuki apologized. She hung up the phone before saying goodbye. Yuki sighed and returned to the others. Yuki began entertaining some girls, and then she noticed Kyoya go into another room.

"As I was saying, princess, I ran to the finish line, after catching the ball all the way down field. Some guys came at me, asking me for the ball, but I had to get the ball into that goal." Tamaki said dramatically.

"Wahh! What happened after that, Tamaki!?" A girl cried.

"I scored the goal right through the net! Slam dunk!" He replied. Yuki sighed.

"What sport are you talking about? You don't even know how to play football and you don't know the rules. You get the ball past the goal. Not through a net like soccer. And you don't say 'Slam Dunk' in football like in basketball, you 'Touch Down.' It's not nice to trick poor girls in something that they don't know very well.'" Yuki scolded like an older sister. Tamaki was suddenly in the familiar corner of woe. Yuki sighed.

"Wow, Yuki! You're so smart!" Yuki looked down at her feet.

At the end of the day, the club had a meeting.

"Are the preparations for the ball ready, Kyoya?" Tamaki asked.

"Why must I be here?" Yuki and Haruhi muttered to themselves. "I know I'll regret asking this, but what ball?" Yuki asked.

"It's our annual ball. We host it every year. It's tomorrow night. I assume you'll be here, or else your debt will be doubled." Kyoya answered, typing on his laptop.

"TOMORROW NIGHT!? DOES IT HAVE TO BE TOMORROW NIGHT!?" Yuki cried, jumping up from her seat.

"All the invitations have gone out, Yuki. Looks like your calendar has been cleared for us!" The twins said.

"I can't go tomorrow night! I'm sorry, but I can't!" Yuki protested.

"Why can't you?" Haruhi asked.

"I-I have a softball game tomorrow night. It's the last one of the season. It's the championship! I can't go to the ball! I don't even have a dress!" Yuki cried, "I-I mean tux! I don't have a tux! Sorry, I've been thinking about my little sister, Akina. It's her birthday next Saturday, and I need to get her a new dress." She lied.

"Hmmm, sounds suspicious. We better go to Yuki's sister's birthday party to investigate!" The twins exclaimed, leaning in on Yuki.

"Will there be cake there, Yuki-chan!?" Hunny asked, squeezing in between the twins. "I wanna come too!"

"Well I'd love to have you, but," Yuki trailed off.

"But what!?" Tamaki said, pushing away the others, getting in Yuki's face.

"We don't allow strangers come to a little girl's party. It's called being a creep." She finished bluntly. Tamaki turned completely white and his body anime shattered. Then he was in the corner of woe. "I'm outta here. I got to go to the hospital." Yuki walked out of the room. She has no bike to get there, so she'll just have to go home instead. The hospital is on the other side of the town, and there was no way she could drive there because her mother has the car. "It's for Akina. I'll walk." She muttered to herself.

"Do you need a ride to the hospital?" A voice asked. Yuki turned around, facing Tamaki and the others.

"No, I'll walk. I got strong legs." Yuki turned down the offer, looking away. The twins jogged up and each one grabbed one of her arms. "Hey what are you-!"

"Come on, Yuki. We've got to get you to the hospital." They spoke in unison. They carried her off and into a limo. Everyone was packed inside. Yuki sighed, and rested her head on the window.

"Tired?" Kyoya asked. He was sitting next to her.

"No, I'm fine." Yuki huffed. They arrived at the hospital moments later. Yuki let herself out of the limo quickly, and the others followed. She pushed them back into the limo. "Go home!" She snapped. Yuki rapidly walked into the hospital and found the room Akina was in. She was in a bed, wearing a hospital dress. She looked very pale, and there was an IV in her arm. Yuki's mom was in the corner, drinking a beer while reading the sports section of the newspaper. She didn't look up when Yuki entered. Akina did, though.

"Hey, Akina! How are you doing?" Yuki asked cheerfully, coming over to her sister.

"Fine. I just got a little dehydrated." She replied. It pained Yuki that her five-year-old sister knows what dehydration means.

"A little!? Akina! You're not okay! You're in the hospital!" Yuki cried. Her sister giggled at Yuki's overreaction.

"I'm fine. But I won't be home until the morning. They want to keep me overnight for observations." Akina said. Yuki smiled, at her little sister, but there was such pain in her eyes to see her here. Yuki went over to her mother.

"Do you want me to work a double to pay off the hospital fee?" Yuki asked.

"Oh, no. It's going to take a lot more than a double shift. You got to pay me back for all fifteen years of your life. Those years were hell." She said, putting down her paper, looking at Yuki.

"What are you talking about? You didn't parent me like you should have! Why should I pay you back!?" Yuki cried.

"Hey! You had a roof over your head and food on the table! I have to work two jobs to fill your bottomless pit!"

"The only reason there was food on the table because Michio won another award! He shared the food with me!" Yuki snapped.

"So this is Yuki's mother." The twins' voices said. The sound of their voice sent chills down Yuki's back.

"Who the hell are you?" Yuki's mother asked.

"Shallow rich stuck-up snobs who entertain and trick poor girls to gain money." Yuki growled.

"Oh! So these must be your friends!" She said cheerfully. Yuki anime fell.

"Nice to meet you Ikeda-sama!" The twins and Tamaki said.

"Hi! My name is Hunny! You're Yuki's sister!?" Hunny said to Akina.

"I'm Akina, Yuki's little sister!" She replied back cheerfully.

"I'm sorry your in the hospital. Would you like to hold Usa-chan?" He asked. He handed her the pink bunny.

"Oh! He's so soft!" She hugged him tightly. Yuki and Mori smiled at the innocence. Yuki gasped, remembering that she forgot her Mokona doll! Yuki remembers when she was ten and Akina was being born, she needed to get her something. She got her a black Mokona doll. She carries it around everywhere. Yuki was a little jealous that she had a black Mokona doll, when she wanted the black one (that was all they had at the store she got it from).

It was a selfish thought, and Yuki hated thinking like that. She just couldn't help it.

Yuki left shortly after that, needing to start her homework (when she got home, she ended up playing video games the whole night). Yuki walked home. On the way out, she shoved the Host Club back into the limo and she told the driver to drive away as fast as he could, away from her.

"I only take orders from Master Kyoya." He told her.

"It's Kyoya's request." Yuki replied with a smug look on her face. Yuki started running away from the limo quickly, only to be stopped by the limo. The limo was suddenly in front of her as she crossed the street. She didn't stop in time and she hit it dead on.

"Wait, Yuki! You tried to run away!" Tamaki, the twins, and Hunny cried.

"Hmmm… I wonder why…" Yuki heard Kyoya mutter. Yuki giggled lightly at the comment.

"I'm going home." Yuki said, stepping around the limo and hurrying down the sidewalk.

"Yuki's trying to get away from us!" The limo followed Yuki.

"This is called stalking. And go home!" Yuki snapped.

"Why can't we see your house?" Tamaki, Hunny, and the twins asked teary eyed.

"Because I said so!"

"That's not a very good reason." Hikaru and Karou bluntly said in unison. Yuki rolled her eyes. "Let us come to your house!"

"Why won't you let us?" Tamaki asked. It all came at her like bullets. She didn't understand why they wanted to where she lived! The questions continued to go at her to the point where she would go crazy.

"Because I don't want you to see where I live!" She snapped, tears brimming her eyes. She ran, jumped over the trunk of the limo, and then ran home between houses.

When she got to her home that was falling apart, she slams the door shut and leans against it. One tear was shed. Michio and Daichi were at work. Yuki was home alone, and hopefully they didn't follow her. She climbs up the short, old staircase and goes to her room. She had the smallest room, but she was lucky to have her own. There was enough room for a bed, dresser, and two nightstands. She had a closet, a big one. It was only what Yuki needed.

There was enough room for her to walk around, and it was enough when she was little to play on the floor with her dolls she made herself. She had her stuffed animals and pillows. After changing her clothes, she climbs into bed and falls asleep.