Our hands are tied

sorry for the long awaited update i've been a bit busy as of late. but here it is.

Chapter 3

"Um…Sempai, I need food…." Haruhi whispered as they reached the cafeteria. Kyoya looked down a Haruhi, confusion set in momentarily. Then his eyebrows rose in realization.

"Ah, yes that would be a problem wouldn't it. We should get you some lunch shouldn't we?" he led her to the main lunch line. Kyoya ordered two trays of food and led Haruhi to the club's usual table. Haruhi groaned.

"Do we have to….?" She whined, Kyoya sent her sneer.

"Yes, we do, Tamaki will through a fit if we don't." He replied. Haruhi rolled her eyes, of course she forgot that Kyoya needed to be there, even if she didn't. The two sat down and waited for the other hosts to arrive. "It would be good for you to stop whining at act like the young woman you are, if you choose to keep acting this way, then I'll add each incident to your debt, are we clear?" Kyoya hissed as Tamaki approached with the twins not far behind, Haruhi paled and nodded, prepping for his expected response when Tamaki's eyes lit up at the sight of her sitting at the table waiting for him.

"Haruhi, you're eating with us?!" Tamaki squealed in delight. The twins looked over confused and saw the scarf tied around the two's wrists. Kaoru shot a look of "Oh right." to Hikaru who in response nodded and rolled his eyes.

"Why wouldn't she be Boss?" Hikaru asked as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Yeah you tied them together, remember?" Kaoru asked tilting his head in mock confusion. Tamaki's eyes widened at the realization.

"Yes! Of course I remember I was simply excited to both of them seeing as Kyoya wasn't in class today, speaking of which our fourth hour sub missed you dearly, be sure to send her flowers when you get the chance. And here are your notes from the last three classes, Sensei Tanaka is looking forward to seeing you after school today. Although I think it has more to do with your presence than the test you'll be taking." Tamaki teased with a wink, Kyoya rolled his eyes. Haruhi began to wonder just sort of effect the boys of the host club had on the young female teachers, she guessed that in the twins case they were either annoyed or found the act so endearing that they gave the twins passing scores. Tamaki probably flirted his way to the top of the class, and Kyoya most likely was every young female teacher's dream student, smart, a good student, and extremely attractive (not that Haruhi thought that way about her boyfriend's best friend, not at all) Honey and Mori than likely got all their good grades off of hard work because that's just how her graduated sempais rolled.

"Nonsense, you know she just wants that test out of the way-"

"And to get you alone-"

"Not that you would be with Haruhi tied to your wrist-"

"Damn you Kaoru!" Hikaru yelled. Kaoru merely shrugged and continued eating. Kyoya and Haruhi looked at each other confused.

"Are you two okay?"

"What's wrong with you guys today?" the two teens asked in unison.

"Yeah you two seem a little tense." Tamaki interjected. Hikaru and Kaoru looked at the three as if they had all grown extra heads.

"Nothing-"

"Kaoru's been contradicting me all day."

"Have not, I'm just point out flaws in your logic…"

"That's contradicting Kaoru."

"No it's not, contradicting is saying the complete opposite of what you are saying, I merely disapproving of some of your comments verbally, I do it all the time in my head." Kaoru said, crossing his arms in a defiant manner. Kyoya raised an eyebrow at the display. Haruhi looked oddly proud. Tamaki wasn't quite sure what to feel, why was his host club fighting to so much lately?
"You've been disapproving of my comments mentally our whole life and you never said anything?!" Hikaru yelled in outrage.

"Well….I'm telling you now aren't I?" Kaoru pointed out nonchalantly. Hikaru huffed and refused to acknowledge his twin anymore that day (At least during lunch anyway).

"Sempai, do the younger female teachers flirt with you?" Haruhi asked suddenly, both the twins and Tamaki zeroed in on what she said to Kyoya. Kyoya raised an eyebrow.

"What brought up the topic, might I ask?" Kyoya countered. Haruhi scrunched her brow in thought.

"Well I noticed that Sensei Tanaka seemed to be quite taken with you in the hallway this morning and the way Tamaki-sempai seemed to talk about the sub missing you struck a chord, so do they?" Haruhi asked again after clarifying her thought process. Hikaru smirked finally happy he wasn't the only one to notice those interactions. Kaoru hummed quietly next to him as if drawing his own conclusions. Tamaki's eyes twinkled as he watched his well-spoken girlfriend in awe.

"I suppose so, I've never really noticed before but I guess they do." Kyoya said humbly. "Why do you ask?"

"Because I know my dad flirts with you so I wanted to know if that just happens everywhere you go or just the weird places."

"Like a hallway or a classroom, or on the phone?" Kyoya specified. Haruhi nodded. "Well I wouldn't call those weird places to flirt, Haruhi. Flirting happens just about anywhere, whether or not it's intentional. Besides I'm sure that their attentiveness towards me is more of an unconscious attraction rather than a forbidden infatuation." Kyoya explained simply, Haruhi nodded and continued her silent musings.

"Okay." she replied and munched happily on her lunch. Tamaki loved this, his best friend and his girlfriend were already getting along again, and just by watching the conversations between them he could easily tell the tension that been building since they met was breaking down into a simple friendship. Or so he thought. "Ow." Haruhi mumbled as Kyoya reached into his bag for his laptop so he could get some work done. Kyoya ignored her quite protest and continued rummaging in his bag.

"Ah, here it is." He muttered as he pulled out the device, setting it down on the table and opening the device to his home screen. Haruhi pouted and looked at Kyoya intently waiting for his apology. He sighed and continued working, "Yes Haruhi?" he asked impatiently.

"You hurt my wrist." She said mutely. Kyoya pinched the bridge of his nose, Oh of course I did and here I thought were getting along finally. He thought angrily.

"No I didn't you are just being overly sensitive." He hissed, Haruhi's eyes glowed in anger now.

"I'm not lying, beside you would be able to tell!" Haruhi snarled back, Tamaki sighed and slumped in his chair, he spoke to soon.

"Yes, good we've established that I am in fact observant and seeing as I am sitting right next to you I can tell you are indeed lying Haruhi, a slight tug on the wrist is nothing to complain about when there are hundreds more people out there dying of disease and sickness that is incurable." Kyoya replied sharply. Haruhi could not believe he just said that to her of all people.

"All I wanted was an apology Sempai, is that too much to ask?" she prodded, her tone dark with anger and hurt. Kyoya blinked, of course it was too much to ask, he never apologized for something so trivial, if she felt any ounce of pain from a small tug of cloth on her wrist than she clearly deserved it for pulling against him when he moved. "Fine, sempai. I guess I just won't talk to you anymore." Haruhi said quietly, Tamaki blinked.

"No. you two must work this out." He demanded.

"He knows what I expect Sempai, if he's not willing to apologize than I'm not willing to comply with his wishes." Haruhi replied. Tamaki felt terror fill him. What if Kyoya had to go to the bathroom, would Haruhi with hold that right?

"Kyoya apologize or she won't let you go the bathroom." Tamaki pleaded, Kyoya looked up at the absurd thought, of course she would, right?

"I won't comply with any of your wishes today if you don't apologize." Haruhi warned, Kyoya swallowed, this was unfair and a low blow on her part. Haruhi's gaze was unwavering, well he really didn't need to go the restroom anyway so her threat was invalid. He merely turned back to his work ignoring the silent and verbal protests.