A reminder that kare is the Japanese third person pronoun for boyfriend (he). Translations for the more complex French are bold in parenthesis and are marked as translations.


Tamaki was sitting with Haruhi in his arms and watched her sleep due to the medicine the doctors were giving her through an IV in her left arm. Not once since the onset of the pain, did Haruhi open her eyes and Tamaki didn't bug her about it. Tightening his hold on her, he raised her body up slightly and leaned down to kiss her forehead causing her to stir. Lowering her body back to his lap, he watched to see if her sleep was ending. She stirred again and clutched his shirt, signaling that she was awake. "How are you feeling?" Tamaki asked.

"The pain is still there," she said softly as a nurse came in bearing a washcloth.

"I was going to ask you that," said the nurse softly. "The doctor wants to see if something cold will help the pain. Let's get you into the bed."

Hearing those words, Haruhi's gripped tighten more on Tamaki's shirt and Tamaki knew she wanted him to be in a distance to be able to grab him. "Miss, would it be okay if I sit down on the bed with her?"

"Oh that should be fine," said the nurse before helping Tamaki lay Haruhi down on the bed before he sat down beside her. "I'll put the washcloth over your eyes and if it helps and it starts to get warm, send the young gentleman beside you to get a cold one," the nurse said to Haruhi before placing the washcloth over Haruhi's eyelids and then leaving.

Silence enveloped the room, but it was comfortable. Putting one of his legs on the bed beside her leg, Tamaki took her hand into his, giving it a squeeze to make sure she knew he was holding her hand. With his other hand, he run it through her hair causing a sigh to escape from her lips. "Tamaki, could you take the washcloth of for a moment?" Haruhi asked after several minutes had elapsed.

"Is it not helping?"

"It is...," Haruhi started before getting cut off by Tamaki.

"I understand now," said Tamaki as his hand that was in her hair to pick up the washcloth and lift it off her face.

Once the washcloth was removed, she felt the pain start to slowly intensify, but she didn't allow it to bug her as she opened her eyes to see only white and slight bit of brownish-blond hair. Reaching out with the arm that had the IV in it, she grabbed Tamaki's arm that was holding the washcloth and tugged on it causing the white to move out of her vision, which only had a small little area where it was not shadows while the rest was shadows. Seeing Tamaki's concern face, she knew he was still the same slow idiot that she knew. "My vision is...," she started before getting cut off again by Tamaki.

"You can see!" Tamaki said lighting up like a child would.

"Not quite. I can only see directly ahead of me while the rest is still shadows," she said as she closed her eyes. "The pain is starting to come back. Put the washcloth back on."

Tamaki did as commanded. "That's good news. Is it still cold enough, ma amoura?"

"Yes."


When dinner time rolled around, Tamaki had left to change out of his school uniform and grab a bite to eat, but before he left, he had taken off the washcloth and after her eyes had opened, gave her a short kiss on the lips. When her dinner arrived, five minutes after Tamaki had left, the other members of the host club had showed up and Kyoya told her that had crossed paths with Tamaki, who explained everything to them. They watched her eat and talked about what had happened to each of them after since she saw them during club. After eating, she placed the cold washcloth that she had taken off before eating back over her eyes. "So having a cold washcloth is helping?" Kyoya asked her.

"It is."

"The Headmaster contacted me," said Kyoya, pushing up his glasses.

"What for?" She replied back removing the washcloth for a few moments only to study the shadow king's face.

"About next year. Turns out you will not be the only scholarship student at Ouran," said Kyoya, pausing to see if he could make her squirm, "and the board has decided that it would be worthwhile to create a genderless uniform. You will be wearing it when you return to school."

"Genderless?"

"Yes. The board considered it to be too much expensive for uniforms designed for a specific gender, especially since there are so few students to wear it."

"Has senpai found out about this?"

"He hasn't been told by us," said Hikaru.

"As for how this will effect you, don't act any differently, but don't be surprised if you will have more people start asking questions and I will raise your debt if you don't answer those questions truthfully," said Kyoya, glasses glinting in the life.

"I will not tell anything about kare and myself," she said calmly.

'She's using that word. Gah, I can't believe she in love with him,' thought Hikaru, 'but if he dares hurts her feelings, then I will have the chance.'

"Kyo-chan, maybe Haru-chan and Tama-chan shouldn't say much about their relationship, Kyo-chan?" Honey said.

"...Yeah," said Mori.

"Ah, yes, that might be something I should've considered. Thank you, Honey-senpai," said Kyoya before looking back Haruhi. "Anything dealing with you and Tamaki is left for you decide exactly how to answer and white lies are always good." (AN: white lies- somewhat true, but not entirely. Great technique to use in creative non-fiction life when you can't remember exactly.)

"I don't think I could straight out and tell them," said Haruhi.

"If you let Tamaki tell them, who knows what trouble he will bring to all of us," said Kyoya as the other boys all nodded in agreement.

"Hey, Haruhi, do you have your laptop?" Hikaru asked.

"No."

"Well, that ideal is no good at the moment," said Hikaru.

Before silence had a chance to fall upon them, Tamaki had returned and immediately walked over to the chair he had been sitting in before he left to eat. "Kyoya, why don't you tell him," said Kaoru.

"Has your father told you anything?" Kyoya asked after sighing.

"No, why mon ami?"

"Seems like he and others decided that since there will be another scholarship next year, Ouran needed a genderless uniform for all scholarship students," said Kyoya with a slight smirk.

"What do you mean, Kyoya?"

"Then we shall go elsewhere and I'll explain it to you in more detail," said Kyoya as he grabbed Tamaki's arm. "Haruhi, get some sleep while we get through his thick head what will be happening."

Before she could say a word to protest at all of them leaving her, they had all left with Kyoya somewhat dragging Tamaki out of the room. "They didn't need to all go," said Haruhi softly to herself, "but maybe Kyoya is probably right with his advice."

Taking Kyoya's advice, she tried to sleep while it was quite in the room without the noisy boys, but as she drifted asleep, she couldn't help to think that it would be nice to have Tamaki holding her.


After a long two-hour explanation of the genderless uniform, Tamaki finally made his way back to Haruhi's room and tossed himself into the chair next to her bed. Removing the washcloth from her eyes, she gave him an understanding gaze and then placed it back over her eyes. "Is it cold enough?" He asked.

"Yeah."

"How do you feel about the new uniform that you will be wearing?"

"I really don't care," she answered causing Tamaki give her one his bone crushing hugs. "Let go of me."

Upon releasing her, he gave her a kiss on the forehead before sitting back down and taking her hand into his. "What do you want to do?" He asked.

"Something that's not boring."

"How about me teaching you more French?"

"That should be good."


Getting so far ahead in school work was only entertaining for so long for Haruhi and being more than a mouth ahead made her realize that she would have to go back and review the material again. After two days in the hospital, boredom was starting to plague her now that she wasn't willing to get farther ahead in her class work that she was looking for ways to relieve her boredom.

Sure she wasn't bored when her dad came to visit her for several hours, but once he left to get ready for work, she was alone without anything to do until the host club finally got done with club hours and came to visit her. Once on the Thursday after she was admitted to the hospital, she demanded Tamaki to leave her laptop with her, he only told her that he didn't have it with him and that she should ask her dad (something she wouldn't do). It was after her out burst with Tamaki that Kyoya asked her if she would mind if Renge and Kassonova would come and visit her. She agreed and here she was the next day with Renge and Kassonova talking to her a mere fifteen minutes after classes had ended at Ouran.

Haruhi had draped her green blanket (her father had brought it when he first visited her) around her shoulders sometime before Renge and Kassonova came in. When they had come in, she was sitting on her bed, lazily double checking her work and didn't notice the two until they had sat down in chairs on either side of her bed. "Hello, Renge, Kassonova," Haruhi greeted.

"Kyoya asked us to come visit you, Fujioka," said Kassonova as he rubbed the back of his head.

"So, how are you doing, Haruhi-kun?" Renge asked.

"I guess you could say okay," said Haruhi as she raised her arm with the IV in it, "but having this in my arm is getting annoying."

"Do you know when you are going to get released?" Kassonova asked.

"They have been trying to reduce the pain medicine, but so far every time they tried, the pain has come back ten times worse."

"Your vision?" Kassonova asked.

"Dark shadows in some parts of my vision, but from where you two are sitting to in front of me is normal," said Haruhi before leaning against the bed (it was raised into a sitting position) pulling the green blanket around her.

"That blanket is special to you," said Kassonova

"It was given to me by my mom," she said as her eyes took on a look of remembrance.

"Renge, I need to go use the restroom," said Kassonova as he got up before leaving.

"Haruhi-kun, why does Tamaki act so different when he hears your name?" Renge asked.

"That will require some very long explanations, but...there's no way to give you a white lie," said Haruhi as she slipped the green blanket off her shoulders to reveal herself more in the somewhat baggy T-shirt she was wearing.

Renge was looking at her with a more scrutinizing eye than she had ever had. "Do you always wear baggy clothes outside of school?"

"Yeah, at least after I get home from school. So what? It really doesn't matter about appearances and such," replied Haruhi noticing that a light bulb moment had come upon Renge.

"Then why do you were the guy's uniform?"

"Tamaki-kun took the longest of the host club to figure it out, but by then I really didn't care because they had already given me the uniform. They have bribed me. Kassonova actually knows as well."

"He loves you!" Renge exclaimed in surprise.

"You really don't need to say that," said Haruhi as she pulled the green blanket over her head to hide her blush.

Then Renge did something that surprised Haruhi. She hugged her. "I can eat three more bowls of rice knowing that you are a girl makes things so interesting," said Renge as she pulled back from hugging the androgynous girl.

"Thanks, Renge," she said as Kassonova came back.

"Otori-senpai told me about you having to wear a new uniform for being a scholarship student," said Kassonova

"What about this new uniform?" Renge asked starting a conversation between the three about the new uniform.


Around noon on Saturday, Haruhi was eating lunch while the doctor was talking to her father and her friends about things that she hasn't been told about. As she finished her lunch, she laid back and began to wonder what the doctor was talking about. She was starting to get bored when her friends finally came in with her father in tow in addition to the doctor. For a moment, as everyone staked out a place they could stand or sit at, there was no talking, but once they reached their spots, the doctor, standing near the foot of her bed, coughed to gain everyone's attention.

"After talking to your father," started the doctor, directing his words at Haruhi, "I have determined that we could release you since your friends have volunteered their private doctors to be the one to administer a dose of pain medicine through IV once a day. We will not attempt to reduce it anymore until your vision is fully back. If you need pain relief between IV doses, you will have pills to take. Any questions before I continue?"

"None," said Haruhi.

"Good then we will get started on trying to get you home with your friends sometime this afternoon," said the doctor. "First, we are going to make sure the two people who you will be around the most will know how to take care of area around the IV."

After he told her that, he shooed out host club except for Kyoya and Tamaki. The doctor then disconnected her from the IV bag and then showed Kyoya, Tamaki, and her father what to do to her arm. As he was showing them, she tried to relax as best as she could, but settled for listening to the doctor telling the three men around her how to take care of her arm. Once he was finished, he had her dad wrap her arm, but he wasn't gentle enough for her to feel comfortable with him doing it alone. When Kyoya and Tamaki did it, she felt at ease and the doctor was happy that her two friends would be the best ones to take care of her arm.


Within a few more hours, she was at Tamaki's mansion with the host club surrounding her as Tamaki's private doctor gave her the first dose of pain medicine through an IV. While the medicine was dripping, her friends were talking around her, but they soon got bored with that and begged her to teach them a commoner's game. "Truth or dare," Haruhi said as she leaned against Tamaki.

"What's that?" Kaoru asked.

"You either chose truth or dare and the person who asked you will ask you to tell a truth or make you do a dare," said Haruhi. "Kyoya-senpai, truth or dare?"

"Truth," said Kyoya calmly.

"What do you exactly write in that little notebook of yours?" Haruhi asked.

"And what would happen if I don't answer that?"

"Double-dare."

"I write down everything that I see going on around me," said Kyoya before grumbling under his breath about raising someone's debt.

"How do we continue, Haru-chan?" Honey asked in his child-like voice.

"The person who was asked will ask the next person of their choosing," said Haruhi regretting bringing up this game for Kyoya was smiling mischievously back at her.

"Then Haruhi-sama," Kyoya started, trying to irk Haruhi with the honorific, "truth or dare?"

"Damn rich bastards," she muttered under her breath before answering Kyoya. "Truth."

"Then tell us the most embarrassing moment you ever had," said Kyoya with a smile of pure cunning, "and no lying. I can use my sources to make sure of that."

"You sure know how to blackmail someone, Kyoya-senpai," said Haruhi before muttering something that only Tamaki was able to understand.

"What was that? Could you speak a little bit louder?" Kyoya asked still with his cunning smile on his face.

"Before the surgery, couldn't let go of senpai," she said. "Hikaru, truth or dare?"

"Eh...d-d-dare," said Hikaru a little fearful now that Haruhi was slightly irked all due to Kyoya.

"I dare you to hit Kyoya-senpai on the side of the head," said Haruhi.

Everyone in the room became dead silent and almost all them were making mental notes to never to get on Haruhi's bad side ever again. "Uh...can I pass on that one and take another?" Hikaru asked somewhat scared of the demon that Kyoya had awakened.

"You are going to be carrying around my stuff for a whole week if you refuse."

"I will carry around your stuff for a whole week. Geez," said Hikaru. "Truth or dare, Kyoya-senpai?"

"Truth," said Kyoya.

"What is the most embarrassing moment that you had around Tono?" Hikaru asked.

"We were riding a children's ride," muttered Kyoya loud enough for everyone to hear.

"A children's ride? Come on Kyoya that has to be the least embarrassing," said Hikaru.

"I think you're wrong, Hikaru. By the time he got off, he was all hunched over and pretending not to know me," said Tamaki.

"Tamaki, truth or dare?" Kyoya asked.

"Dare," Tamaki said without hesitation.

"I dare you to prove to us that you love Haruhi," said Kyoya with a smirked. "A kiss would be best."

Haruhi muttered something about 'damn rich bastards' before whispering something into Tamaki's ear which caused him to nod curtly. "I will do it," said Tamaki before turning to Haruhi and lying back on the couch he was sitting on with Haruhi.

She scouted closer to him and he wrapped his arms around her before pulling her down on top of him. Then he pushed her up on him further and took her hand that was connected to the arm that had the IV in before placing his lips on top of hers in a kiss. Kissing back immediately, she forgot the rest of the host club was around them. For a moment, their lips parted from each other before she kissed him once more before pulling back and placing her head on his shoulder. "Well, well," said Kaoru. "You two really are two lovebirds."

"Kaoru, truth or dare?" Tamaki asked.

"Dare."

Tamaki whispered something in French to which Haruhi whispered back in French causing Tamaki to smile while the grin that Kaoru fell of his face. "I dare you to kiss Hikaru on the lips," said Tamaki.

"What?" Kaoru uttered in shock.

"You can do it, Kaoru," said Hikaru.

"If you're fine with it, I will do it," said Kaoru before turning to Hikaru and kissing him on the lips for a short few minutes.

"He actually did it," Haruhi muttered loud enough that Tamaki could hear.

"Yes," said Tamaki before looking at her. "Are you tired?"
"Can I sleep on you?" She asked, her voice tired sounding.

"Not right now," said Tamaki as he saw his private doctor coming to him, "but you can once I wrap your arm."

He sat her up and once his doctor had disconnected the IV(before leaving again), he wrapped her arm just as gently as he had before at the hospital. Laying back down, he wrapped his arms around her petite frame to keep her from falling off of him. "A blanket would be nice," Haruhi said tiredly.

"Hikaru, would you get it?" Tamaki asked and added. "You are going to be carrying around her stuff for a week."

"Don't remind me," said Hikaru as he left the room.

"Since Haru-chan wants to sleep, me and Takashi will go eat cake," said Honey.

"Ah," grunted Mori before he and Honey left to go eat cake.

"I'm going to plan Monday's club activities," said Kyoya as he got up and left.

"Once Hikaru gets back, we are going to leave, but we are coming back for dinner," said Kaoru.

"That should be fine," said Tamaki as he gazed back at Haruhi sleeping on him.


After dinner, Haruhi was saying she was bored and the twins had decided to suggest several things she could do, but when Tamaki said that he would play the piano, she immediately wanted him to do that. While following Tamaki, Hikaru and Kaoru found out that Haruhi was a month ahead in her school work. "How did you get a full month ahead?!" Hikaru asked somewhat shocked.

"I was bored and that was the only thing I had to do," she said nonchalantly as they continued walking.

"You could've bugged us earlier for something to do," the twins said in unison.

"You would've did some prank," said Haruhi before walking a little faster so she could catch up with Tamaki.

The twins sighed. For them, it was become more and more obvious to them that Haruhi was becoming the sister they never had. It made them sad, but it wasn't all that sad once they realized that maybe they should treat her like a sister. They turned towards each other and smirked knowing what the other was planning. "Haruhi, would you mind...," started Kaoru.

"That we treated you like a sister?" Hikaru finished.

Haruhi stopped and turned around to look at them, making sure both were not in the shadows of her vision. Seeing that they were not lying, she sighed before replying, "I wouldn't mind, but really you can't take it too far."

"Okay, Haruhi," they said in unison.

Haruhi smiled before turning around and continued to walk behind Tamaki.


"Help me get her to her room," said Tamaki to the twins as he held Haruhi in his arms.

"Will do, tono!" Both twins said in unison before heading towards the door of the room they were in.

It was well past ten o'clock and Tamaki had played the piano until Haruhi had fell asleep between the twins. When they realized it, Tamaki had picked her up and they started their way to her room next to Tamaki's. Upon arriving there, the twins pulled back the covers and Tamaki gently laid Haruhi down on the bed, careful not to disturb her. The three boys then covered her up and sat a stuff bunny rabbit that was light purple in color next to her head. Before leaving, the twins laid kisses on her forehead and Tamaki gave her a light kiss on the cheek.


Staring at herself was an odd thing for her to be doing, but Haruhi took this as the exception. She was wearing black pants and not quite fancy white shirt underneath a pale blue jacket with a far more simpler designed tie done in dark purple. In all, the uniform, the genderless uniform, was half the price of the male uniform and when Haruhi first saw herself in the uniform, she was surprised by how much it brought out her androgynous features. Lost in thought, she didn't hear someone calling her to breakfast or the door opening and someone slipping in until he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close to his body.

"Tamaki," she said after being pulled from her thoughts.

"Are you going to come down and eat breakfast? Everyone decided to come over," said Tamaki as he tightened his grip around her. "And why are you staring at yourself in the mirror?"

"I couldn't believe how I look in this new uniform," she said.

"Has your vision changed?"

"It is still the same, but at times I can something besides shadows to the sides without having to look towards there."

"Enough of that," said Tamaki as he left go of her and took her hand. "We need to get to breakfast before everyone else decides to leave."

"Okay," said Haruhi as she allowed herself to be lead away to breakfast.


It was an exhausting day for Haruhi. Everyone was complementing her on her new uniform and most was quite accepting of it being genderless. Of the complements, there was a few about how she looked very androgynous in the new uniform. Now that hosting was over, she was sitting in the window seat watching the world while mulling over what she was going to do with her troublesome boyfriend. He was still not getting the ideal that she still wanted to be just as independent as ever and look to him when she needed someone to be dependent on.

While she was sitting there mulling things over, Tamaki was pestering Kyoya for relationship advice. "Geez, Tamaki," said Kyoya as he pushed up his glasses, "you have to realize that she has been very independent and that is probably not going to change. You need to let her control the situation or wait for her to give you control. And about that kiss I made you do, what did she say?"

"That it couldn't be French no matter what and she was only willing to do it to stop you from doing something more devious," said Tamaki.

"She will probably won't like if you kiss her in the presence of others. Try to tone down your reactions, she will probably appreciate that, but don't give her everything," Kyoya advised.

"Kyoya's right, tono," said Hikaru from one side of him.

"Yeah, she's not that kind of girl," said Kaoru. "That may be why she is ignoring you, but I think she did like that stuff bunny rabbit that you found for her."

"Bunny rabbit?" Kyoya asked as he raised his eyebrows.

"I got her a light purple bunny rabbit for her, but I had Hikaru and Kaoru get it for her while I watched over her sleeping."

"Ah," said Kyoya. "What changed those two's attitude?"

"Haruhi told me last night that they want to consider her as their sister," said Tamaki.

"Did she accept it or not?"

"I think she did," said Tamaki before looking at the time. "It's about time for us to head home so she has time to get her medicine and to take a nap before we take her out to dinner tonight."

"How is she liking getting her medicine?" Kyoya asked.

"She is starting to not like it because I won't let her sleep until after I wrap her arm," said Tamaki before leaving Kyoya, who was smirking at the thought that Haruhi was starting to not like taking the medicine.


"Do you need another blanket?" Tamaki asked as he was looking at Haruhi, who's arm with the IV was exposed to her shoulder where her white shirt laid partially taken off.

"No," she replied as she tugged her green blanket up her side to cover up what her partially taken off shirt was not.

"Or I could get another blanket and you take off your shirt fully?" Tamaki suggested stopping Haruhi from tugging on the blanket and giving him a glare. "What?...Oh, you're thinking about that. I promise to try not to do anything that you don't want."

"Okay, you can," Haruhi said after her glare had softened.

Tamaki gave her a big joyous smile before leaving and then when he returned with another blanket, he helped her out of her shirt leaving her in the bra she had on. Quickly, he covered her up with the second blanket and pulled back from her. "Comfortable?"

"Yeah," she said. "So what should we talk about for next fifty minutes?"

For a moment, Tamaki thought about it, but launched a conversation about what they were doing in their classes. Twenty five minutes into their conversation, Tamaki noticed that tears was streaming out of the eyes. However, nothing in their conversation currently told him why she was crying and when he had talked to Ranka, he didn't have any clue why she would be crying without knowing it. "What are you thinking about?" Tamaki asked once he had a chance.

"Hmm...my mother. Why?" Haruhi asked confused by why he would ask such a thing until he framed her face with his hands and brushed away the tears she didn't know about with his thumbs. "Oh...."

"I don't like it when I see you crying without knowing it," said Tamaki as he tried to control his desire to bring her closer to his body and comfort her. "When I see you cry, I can't help, but want to comfort you in my arms."

Trusting the honesty in his eyes, she leaned against him laying her head against his chest with one ear over his heart. "You can now, Tamaki," she said softly before he wrapped his arms around her.

"Can I rub your back?" said Tamaki as one hand hovered over the edge of her blanket.

"I don't care," she said, closing her eyes, "as long as you don't give anyone wrong ideals."

With her words, she unlocked the desire he was holding back, and he allowed his hand to dart under the blanket before gently rubbing her back. For the rest of the time that had to wait for the medicine to be finished given, Tamaki rubbed her back and occasionally her stomach. When the private doctor disconnected her from the IV, Tamaki quickly wrapped her arm and carried her up to her guest room.

Laying her down on the bed, he covered her up before lying down on the bed next to her and started to play with her short hair. "I'm going to clean your face once you are asleep and when you wake up, we can find some way to wash your hair only before we go to dinner," said Tamaki still playing with her hair.

"Hmm...oh yeah," she said before fully drifting off to sleep.

Tamaki smiled once seeing her asleep before rising from the bed and grabbing a wet washcloth to gently clean her face in a way not to wake her up. Once finished, he placed the light purple bunny in her arms before giving her a kiss and leaving to do his school work.


Haruhi was enjoying watching videos on Tamaki's computer while he was combing her hair out. As soon as she had awoken, he immediately had her put on her pajama shirt before leading her into the bathroom and having her lean over his western style tub while he washed her hair. Now, that he finished combing her hair, he pulled her away from his computer and paused the video she was watching before scooping her up bridal style. Surprised, she stayed tensed in his arms until he laid a gentle kiss on her forehead causing her to relax and bury her head into his chest.

He carried her away to her room and helped her pick out clothes for dinner, having told her that dinner was going to be at a fancy restaurant with their friends, Kassonova, and Renge. When she was dressed in her clothes for the night, an outfit somewhat similar to the one the host club saw her in when they had first visited her at her house, Tamaki pulled her into a gentle hug before exclaiming how cute she was. After his exclamations, he took her back to where his computer was at and then re-comb her hair while she watched the rest of the video.

Then it was time for them to go out for dinner and once in the limo, Tamaki fidget with his hands until he looked up at Haruhi. "Um...I want to talk to you about somethings," Tamaki started, "and I am sure we are going to have to talk to our dads about some of this."

"Okay, spill then," said Haruhi as she turned her head to be able to see Tamaki within the area that she could see.

"Could you please be a little more open about what you expect of me, ma amour?"

"I could try to, but I don't think I can promise anything."

"Then tell me when not to do things," said Tamaki before giving her a short kiss on the lips.

Haruhi surprised by the kiss soon began kissing back before allowing his pleading tongue to enter her mouth. Moments later, she pushed his tongue out and slipped her tongue into his mouth making him wrap his arms around her pulling her closer while she wrapped one arm around his neck and allowed her hand to lay on top of his head. Pulling herself up, she reduced the distance he had to leaned down, but he placed one of his hands in a helpful spot to keep her from sliding away from him. When the kiss ended, she laid her head on his chest. "Did that help?" Haruhi asked before turning on to her back so she could see his facial expressions.

Immediately, he cradled her head in his arms and brushed a few strands of hair from her face. "Yes. Without words would be best for everyone around us. We can't have our friends worrying about us," said Tamaki.

"You're right about that," said Haruhi as the limo stopped.

"We are here," said Tamaki, "but let me comb your hair so it isn't so obvious of what we were doing."

She nodded in affirmation and allowed him to comb her hair before they exited the limo.


A table in the back was abuzz when the host club plus Kassonova and Renge, that were all sitting at that table, saw Haruhi and Tamaki enter the restaurant. "Fujioka-san does look cute in that outfit," said Kassonova.

"She really does look like a girl," said Renge eying the couple that was waiting for a waiter or waitress to show them to their friends' table.

"You should've seen her when she first step into the third music room," said Kaoru. "Hikaru, do you notice her hair?"

"It is more nicely kept. Usually she doesn't worry about it being such after school," said Hikaru.

"What did Fujioka-san look like?" Kassonova asked.

"Her hair was not at all comb and since she couldn't afford the uniform, she was wearing a white collared shirt, un-tucked, under a brown sweater with black pants," said Hikaru.

"That was how she fooled all of us except for Kyoya," said Kaoru. "Actually, one time when we were with her at her apartment, I saw how she actually picks out her clothes."

"How does she pick out her clothes?"

"Proximity. Whatever is closes she chooses it and puts it on," said Kaoru.

"Her dad does like to see her dressing a girl, but Haruhi is more of a tomboy. Remember Kaoru that one time we took her out shopping before that freak accident? She only would buy capris and shirts even though we were offering to pay for the more expensive dresses and such," said Hikaru.

"I do," said Kaoru as he saw Tamaki and Haruhi were starting to be lead towards them. "We should stop talking about her. I don't know how she'll take it if she finds out."

Everyone nodded in agreement and started to talk about other things, but once Haruhi and Tamaki came up to the table and sat down, they grew silent. "Tamaki, Haruhi, we're glad you two can finally make," greeted Kyoya.

"When will there be cake?" Honey cheerfully asked after the two had acknowledged the greeting.

"After dinner, Mitsukuni," said Mori.

"You look quite nice, Haruhi," complimented Renge.

"It's nothing. At least, it is covering my arms," said Haruhi.

"Long sleeves would be preferred considering everything," said Kyoya. "Has anything changed regarding your vision?"

"No. I still see shadows to the edges," said Haruhi.

"So where does the shadows end?" Hikaru asked from across the table with Hikaru on his left and Kyoya on his right.

Haruhi looked directly at him for a moment before closing her eyes. "I can see a little bit of the two on either side of you," she said before opening her eyes.

"Isn't it wider than what you could see last Monday?" Tamaki asked.

"Hmm...now that you said that, I think you are right."

"It is probably getting better, but at such a slow rate that you probably will not notice it. However, I think you will probably notice when all the shadow are gone," Kyoya said before a waiter came up to them and to took their orders.


As they were done talking with friends after dinner, Tamaki took Haruhi back to her apartment and Tamaki help her unpack her stuff. Once that was done, he had left her to get dress for bed while he would pull out her futon and the extra futon that he had used the last time he stayed over with her. When she was done getting dressed, the two of them unrolled the futons out putting both close enough so that when both of them were in them that they could reach out and hold the other's hand in between the two. As soon as they finished unrolling the two, Haruhi leaned against Tamaki. "Could you hold me, Tamaki?"

Tamaki grinned widely upon hearing her only say his name before doing as she requested. Once she was in his lap with one of his arms supporting her head and the other under her back, he leaned down and placed a kiss on her forehead. "Is this okay for you?" Tamaki asked.

"Yeah," she said as she closed her eyes and leaned towards his warmth.

Tamaki watched her as she fell into a light state of sleep before gently putting her into her futon, which made her make a sound of protest of him no longer holding her. "Once I get in, I'll hold your hand. I'm going to turn off the lights and do you want me to turn on your alarm?" Tamaki asked and once he saw her nod yes, he covered her up before doing what he told her.

Once he returned to be beside her side, he got into his futon and took her hand. Then he draped her green blanket between them before he closed his eyes and smiled.


It had been three days since the dinner on Monday and Tamaki was doing his school work occasionally looking up to see how Haruhi was doing with Renge, Kassonova, and three of her regulars. Of the ten people, besides Renge and Kassonova, that knew Haruhi was a girl, the three regulars currently with her were the only ones who could stand to see someone have an IV in their arm. Watching them, Tamaki smiled seeing that Haruhi was doing well at trying to stay awake like he asked (actually he blackmailed her saying that he would tell everyone that she had called him after 1:00 A.M. on Wednesday because she had a nightmare).

As it was getting nearer to when the last of the medicine had entered her body, he looked up and noticed how tired she was. Debating whether or not to go to her and do something to keep her awake (likely annoy her), he made his decision when he saw her yawn. He got up and walked over to them causing everyone except for Haruhi to look at him. Walking in front of her, Tamaki leaned down and placed his forehead against Haruhi's. "Que voulez-vous?" She asked, slowly in French. (Translation: What do you want?)

"Afin de vous ennuyer," he said in French. (Translation: To annoy you. ))

"You being here in front of me is annoying and you don't need to annoy me any more," said Haruhi switching to Japanese for the more complex sentence.

"But I can do something not annoying, if you let me," said Tamaki in Japanese as the three regulars of Haruhi's squealed at seeing Tamaki being a romantic towards Haruhi.

"What are you proposing?" She asked, slightly resigned.

"Je t'aime," said Tamaki in French for the millionth time to her before putting his lips against hers.

She obliged to his kiss and kissed back, never hearing the others making sounds of approval. Once the world around her was far from her mind, she licked his lips begging him to let her tongue in, but he pulled back in surprised. When he saw her pouting face, he returned his lips to her and licked her lips trying to apologize for pulling away. Accepting the apology, she licked his lips back causing him to part his and allow her to have full control of the kiss. Wrapped up in what they were doing, neither noticed that Tamaki's private doctor was standing waiting for them to pull apart until he made a loud coughing like noise. Pulling apart, both blushed out of surprise that they went that far with a kiss. "Master Tamaki, you will need to be more reserved next time," said the doctor before disconnecting the IV.

"Ah, yeah," said Tamaki as he turned to Haruhi. "It was worth it since I was able to keep you awake."

As Haruhi was about to answer, she let out a yawn and her three regulars bid them good bye wishing her good dreams. Tamaki wrapped her arm while Kassonova and Renge tried to keep her entertained after the three girls had left, but as soon as Tamaki had finished wrapping her arm, she had fallen asleep. Sighing, Tamaki scooped her up into his arms bridal style and began to walk out of the room, but turned around to look at Kassonova and Renge.

"Will you two help me get her to bed? I probably shouldn't have allowed that kiss to draw out as long as it did. Usually she's able to stay awake until I get her to bed," said Tamaki, softly.

"I would love to," said Renge. "After all, you two are a cute couple."

"You think so?"

"Yes, it makes me want to eat three more bowls of rice," said Renge.

"She really does seem to like you," said Kassonova.

"It took both of us to figure it out," said Tamaki before walking out of the room with Renge and Kassonova following him.


Tamaki was waiting for the twins and Haruhi, but he was starting worrying when they didn't show up at their usual time. As he was about to go looking for the friendly first year trio, Hikaru opened the door of the music room and rushed in. When Tamaki and everyone saw him, they were surprised by how out of breath the elder twin was and were curious why he was not with Kaoru or Haruhi. "Tono, please don't blame us," pleaded Hikaru.

"Blame you for what?" Tamaki asked.

"While we were walking up to here, we were climbing the stairs when Haruhi missed one of the steps and fell the stairs. We tried to catch her, but we couldn't," said Hikaru as he began to cry. "Kaoru is with her in the infirmary trying to see if he can get her to wake up."

For a moment, Tamaki was frozen, but then he went up to Hikaru and grabbed him by the shoulders. "Hikaru, did she do something that seemed odd before she missed that step?" Tamaki asked causing Hikaru look up at him with a look of realization.

"Yes," said Hikaru. "She looked like she was going to rub her forehead, but why...oh, she was feeling pain."

"Probably the case," said Tamaki releasing Hikaru's shoulders. "I going to see if I can be of help, Kyoya."

"I'll call her father and tell him what is going on. I will tell him that we will call him if he is needed," said Kyoya before Tamaki walked out.


After Kaoru had left, Tamaki had brought Haruhi in to his arms after gaining the permission of the nurse in the infirmary and was currently rubbing her forehead. When she stirred slightly, he looked at her with hopeful eyes that she would her own eyes, but was instead blessed with her gripping his jacket hard. "Haruhi, are you okay?"

"Pain," she muttered.

"Do you have the pain medicine in your bag?"

"Yes," she said as Tamaki laid her down and forced her to drop the grip on his jacket.

Tamaki then left her side and returned with a pill and some water a few minutes later. Helping her sit up, Tamaki placed the pill in her mouth before placing the glass of water he had to her lips. Once she had finished with the water, he laid down on the bed and held her in his arms. Then Tamaki began to rub her forehead again and began hoping that the pain medicine will take effect as soon as possible. Then the nurse came and told him that the doctor wanted to a CT of her head at the hospital. Nodding, he lifted up Haruhi and carried her to his limo before


Tamaki was rubbing Haruhi's back as she continued to lay her head against his chest, which she had done since she had gotten dressed in what the hospital gave her. Currently, they were waiting for the doctor to come and take her to get a CT of her head. As they waited, a nurse came in and hooked up the IV for her daily dose of pain medicine. Before leaving them, the nurse told them that it wouldn't be much longer and that the doctor had given the okay for Tamaki to carry her there.

When the doctor and another nurse came in, Tamaki knew it was time for the CT, but tried not to tell Haruhi it was. After the nurse injected some medicine to make Haruhi sleepy, the doctor asked him to pick up and follow him while the nurse held the IV bag. As soon as the CT was done, Tamaki, with the help of the nurse, carried Haruhi back to her room. Then it was back to waiting: waiting for Haruhi, who was sleeping due to the medicine they had given her, to wake up; waiting for the doctor.

"Tamaki," said Haruhi softly after ten minutes.

"How are you feeling?" He asked back in response.

"Better."

"Will you open your eyes for me?" Tamaki begged. She complied opening her eyes for a moment before closing them quickly. "What's the matter?"

"Hurts."

"I'm assuming to have your eyes opened," said Tamaki before receiving a nod from her. "Would you like it if you have to stay the night here that I stay with you?"

"Yes."

"Once I find out if you are staying here, I will ask my dad about staying," said Tamaki before kissing her forehead.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome, ma amour."


The sound of a piano playing a beautiful melodic melody washed over Haruhi calming her as she tried to get to sleep. Laying on the couch, she thought about what the doctors told her. They had decided to let her go home with Tamaki, but wanted her to come back tomorrow afternoon if she couldn't open her eyes due to pain and if there was no pain, to call them and tell them how she is doing. Never noticing that the piano had stopped playing, Haruhi was surprised when Tamaki came and gave her a gentle hug. "Haruhi, we should get to bed, " said Tamaki before placing his face into her hair. "Your dad is coming over for breakfast and I really wouldn't want to make him anger by still sleeping when he arrives."

"You have a point," said Haruhi as she wrapped her arms around Tamaki. "Hopefully, he remembers to bring my clothes."

"I'm going to call him in the morning to make sure," said Tamaki as he placed one arm under her legs and the other behind her back before lifting her up.

"Thank you."

"I'll do anything for you, ma amour," said Tamaki before he began to walk out of the room. "Let's get to bed then."

Haruhi nodded and allowed him to take her up to the guest room that was next to his. She didn't really care that she would be sleeping in bagging pants and shirt that Tamaki had loaned her because they didn't realize that she would be staying with him.


When Tamaki entered Haruhi's room the next morning, he didn't have to put too much effort to wake her up, but was surprised to see her open her eyes and kept them open. Seeing her eyes open, Tamaki couldn't stop himself from pulling her into a bone crushing hug, but she didn't struggle. Instead, she returned the hug and he immediately pulled back from her to look at her. "How are you?" He asked.

"Much better," she said.

"That's good," he said before pulling her up into a sitting position. "Would you, my one and only princess, like to hear me play more piano pieces for you?"

"Do you really have to call me that?" She deadpanned before continuing. "It was quite nice last night to hear your playing."

"I'm glad you like it, ma amour," said Tamaki ignoring her question. "Let's go so I have time to play the whole piece for you."


"Play it again," she requested.

Tamaki had finished playing as soon as she requested it and he had looked at her to see the doorway that lied some distance away to find her father. Deciding not to tell her that he was here and make him come to them, he focused on what he had been asked. "Why don't I show you how to play?" Tamaki asked.

"I don't think that would be easy...," she said trailing off.

"I'll prove that wrong," said Tamaki as he lifted her up causing her to squeak in surprise before putting her between his legs. Then he whispered into her ear, "Relax and watch."

Tamaki took Haruhi's hands and placed them on the keys positioning each finger in the proper place. Done with positioning her fingers, he placed his hands over her hands and began to play. It was like normal except for it being slower and his hands were pressing gently against Haruhi's fingers, which were playing the keys.

In the middle of the simple song, he glanced to Ranka-san and saw he was starting to come over to them. Giving him a smile, Tamaki turned his attention back towards helping Haruhi, but when she stiffened slightly, he stopped and leaned down to place his chin on her shoulder, the shoulder facing away from the door. "What's the matter, Haruhi?" Tamaki asked.

"What is moving on the other side of me?" She asked with a guess in her mind.

Tamaki smiled and pulled her into a bone crushing hug, causing her to close her eyes. When she was about to open her eyes, she felt the piano tilt back to fall to the ground and another weight upon her. Once the bench finished its descent and she was laying on Tamaki, she tried to squirm away from his grasp, but realized that he wasn't the only one who had their arms around her. She had finally gotten her answer.

"Dad, let go," she said rather forcibly before opening her eyes and giving Tamaki a glare as well as one directed at her father. "You, too, senpai."

"I don't think you will find it easy to get up on your own," said Tamaki as her father let go and pouted.

"Whatever. I don't care as long as you release me soon," Haruhi said with closed eyes not noticing that Tamaki had brought her into his arms and was rising to his feet.

Tamaki smiled and nuzzled her hair at the displeasure of her father before gently kneeling down making sure Haruhi's feet were touching the ground. However, minutes past by and Haruhi had yet to stand, but Tamaki noticed that she was leaning towards him. "You can stand up. I'm holding you near the ground," whispered Tamaki into her ear before pulling back and continuing in his normal indoor voice, "or would you like me to stand you up?"

"Yes, after this," said Haruhi before leaning up to lay a kiss on Tamaki's lips.

Once Tamaki realized what she was doing, he wrapped his arms around her and supported her whole body so that she could kiss. When their lips met, Ranka rolled his eyes, but no one saw that because Haruhi and Tamaki quickly deepened the kiss into a French one. After two minutes, they pulled apart and Tamaki stood Haruhi up on her feet before going over to the piano bench and sitting it up. "We should go eat breakfast," said Tamaki after sitting up the piano bench.

"Dad, you did bring me my clothes?" Haruhi asked pointedly.

"I did and one of the maids took them to your room," said Ranka before being caught off guard by Haruhi hugging him before she left the room. "What was that?"

"That I have not a clue, but she has never initiated a kiss before," said Tamaki quite stunned by what he had seen, "but since it seems that her vision is fully back, maybe that's what up."


Breakfast went by without incident, but afterwords, Tamaki's dad show up wishing to talk to Ranka and take them all out to eat for lunch. While the two fathers were talking, Tamaki had called the doctors and told them how she was doing. When they heard that her sight was fully back, they wanted her to come and have the rest of the IV line taken out. Overhearing it, Haruhi shivered remembering how painful it was to have to put in when they did, but once Tamaki got off the phone, he pulled her into a hug. "Remember they told you that it would hurt less when they take it out," he whispered into her ear. "What do you want to do until lunch?"

"Can you show me around?"

"My pleasure, ma amour."


"What do you think of this restaurant, Haruhi-san?" Yuzuru, Tamaki's dad, asked.

Taking a few minutes to gather her thoughts before speaking, she responded, "It is very nice."

They were at a very decent restaurant that wasn't too expensive (Haruhi knew that if her dad stopped buying those expensive clothes that she would never wear and saved some more money that they could possible afford to eat here). When they had sat down, Tamaki sat next to her while her father sat across from her next to Yuzuru, who had asked her to call him by that name. After ordering their drinks and food, they had settled into an easy conversation. At one point, Haruhi had asked her dad if Tamaki could stay with them which he said yes to begrudgingly.

Before their food arrived, a new topic entered the conversation and caused for some very embarrassing moments for both Haruhi and Tamaki. "So, you two are in a relationship?" Yuzuru asked opening up the topic.

"Yes, father," said Tamaki as he held Haruhi's hand under the table, stroking it with his thumb.

"Ranka-san and I had a lengthy discussion about that and there are some rules that we decided that you should follow for allow you stay over at the other's place," said Yuzuru.

"What might those be?" Tamaki asked giving Haruhi's hand a squeeze instead of stroking it.

"If you want to sleep together in the same bed, you must have a sheet and your clothes separating you from the other. No closed doors. No sleeping together in the same bed when you are completely alone," said Yuzuru before letting Ranka picking up.

"Both us must be notified forty-eight hours ahead if you are going out alone on a date or staying at the other's house. No public displays of affection outside of either of your houses. Hmm....am I forgetting anything, Yuzuru-san?"

"I think that is it. Ah...if either of you don't notify us before any date that you are alone, you will have to have a chaperone and it can be your friends that chaperone you two. As for holding hands, you can do it, but be very discrete about it in public like now," said Yuzuru with a playful smirk on his face.

"D-d-dad! Why do we have to go about this so old-fashioned?!" Tamaki whined letting go of Haruhi's hand and expressing himself with his hands.

"Tamaki," said Yuzuru turning serious causing Tamaki to also settle down and be serious. "Although I do trust that you two will not do what I did or Ranka-san did, your grandmother, Tamaki, does not and these rules are there to guarantee that you will not commit the same mistakes. Should we scare them now, Ranka-san, before they eat or after?"

"Scare them now," said Ranka causing Haruhi to slump in her chair until Tamaki took her hand again under the table and began to stroke it.

"We will not get too graphic with this discussion, but if you do go against the rules, we will get more graphic about your origins," said Yuzuru as his playful smirk returned causing both Haruhi and Tamaki to gulp quite audibly. "One night after finding the perfect woman (not some cheating girl called my wife), we went to bed together. It started out with kissing, then somehow, caught up in the moment, we were both lying in bed without our outer clothes. Soon the underclothes came off before...."

"DAD!!!!" Tamaki yelled (he didn't attract attention for they were in a private dinning room) cutting off Yuzuru.

"That was where I was going to stop at," said Yuzuru. "Ranka-san, would you like to add anything?"

"Of course, Yuzuru-san," said Ranka before a smile came to his face. "It was similar with me, but not the cheating part. However, it wasn't an ah-heck-let's-cause-some-commotion-kind-of thing, but we didn't get too caught up in the moment...Looks like the food is final here."

"You're right," said Yuzuru as he glanced at the waiter and waitress that were coming to their table.

Once the waiter and waitress left, Yuzuru spoke the traditional greeting before they began to eat leaving all conversation about the past behind, which Haruhi and Tamaki were extremely grateful for. When they ended their meal, Haruhi and Tamaki stood up and told the two fathers that they were going back to the Sou Mansion #2 and wait for their friends to show up before going out with them for dinner. Both men gave their approval before the two were allowed to leave.


Hikaru and Kaoru were the first to arrive and found Haruhi sleeping in an also sleeping Tamaki's arms. Smiling with two equally devilish grins, the two twins pulled out a black marker each and went over to the two lovebirds and drew on their faces. Done, the twins snapped a picture (the last such devious picture, but they didn't know that now) and went to sit on some chairs to wait for the rest of the group or the lovebirds to wake up.


When each of the host club members entered the room, they all (including Mori and Honey) couldn't help but chuckled lightly to themselves at the sight of Haruhi and Tamaki together with scribbles all over their face. Once everyone was there and the two still hadn't waken up, the twins smirked devilishly before sneaking out and returning with a bucket of mud. As they were about to grab some of the mud, Tamaki happened to stir stopping them at that moment causing both to stop. "Oh, everyone's here," he said after opening his eyes before shaking Haruhi gently, not noticing the scribbles on her face.

"Hmm...Tamaki," she said upon opening her eyes, but then noticed what was on his face. "You need to look at yourself in the mirror."

It was her comment that caused him to look at her face and see the scribbles that were on her face. "You do too," he said right back at her before glancing at the twins, who were trying to hide the bucket of mud.

"Oopsies...," the twins started before running off, not crazy about sticking around for Tamaki's wrath.

From behind glasses, Kyoya rolled his eyes and got up, but when he noticed that Haruhi"s eyes had darted to looked at him, a true smile came to his face. "Your vision is fully back, isn't it?" The shadow king merely asked.

"Yes."

"That is good," said Kyoya as he pushed his glasses up. "I'll take care of those two and you two can wash your faces."

After Kyoya had left to go show his wrath to the twins, Haruhi got out of Tamaki's arms and then Tamaki sat up. The two upperclassmen gestured for them to leave and to not to worry about leaving them alone. Tamaki nodded at the gesture and lead Haruhi away to get both of their faces washed.


"What are we going to do with our friends?"

Tamaki chuckled lightly causing Haruhi to lift her head off his shoulder. The two were riding in his limo to her apartment and once Tamaki had stopped chuckling, she laid her head back on his shoulder while he wrapped his arm around her. "They are our friends, but I think Hikaru and Kaoru will cause the most trouble," said Tamaki.

"They didn't have to laugh at the rules," muttered Haruhi causing Tamaki to chuckle lightly again, but this time, it was lighter, not enough to make Haruhi lift her head again.

"They made up to you by having you choose were we were all going to eat at tomorrow for dinner."

"Really I don't know of anywhere that I want to go to."

"We have all day tomorrow for you to decide. Maybe we should get up early so we can go to the hospital soon so we don't have to worry about it later," said Tamaki as the car stopped. "Do you want me to carry you?"

"No way," she said as she lifted her head from his shoulder, "but getting up early sounds good."

"Then I will do as you command," said Tamaki before sliding out of the car and holding the door open for her.

"Good," she said before sliding out and then walking up the steps.

"Hey, wait up! I have your keys." Tamaki yelled at her before turning to his driver. "I'll call you half an hour ahead of time," said Tamaki before rushing up the stairs.

When he reached the place where she was waiting for him, he gave her keys to her and she unlocked the door. Both walked in and took off their shoes before sitting down and turning on the TV. At the night grew older, Tamaki and Haruhi went from having a gap between them to Tamaki having his arm around Haruhi to Haruhi resting her head on his shoulder. By the time the clock signaled it was 9:30, Haruhi was drifting into sleep, and Tamaki decided it was time for them to get ready for bed.

First he shook her awake and telling her to get ready for bed. As she padded off to get her clothes and head to the bathroom to get dressed, he wrote a note to Ranka-san, just in case that he didn't remember where they were going in the morning. Placing the note in plain sight, he went to pull out the futons for both him and Haruhi and took them to her room. After he finished rolling them out, Haruhi entered fully dressed in pajamas, and he immediately pulled her into his arms and began to rub her back, lulling her into a light sleep. He kissed her on the forehead and laid her down on her futon before whispering into her ear that he was getting dressed himself.

When he returned dressed in his pajamas, he kissed her on the forehead before whispering those French words that always made her show she was indeed a girl no mater how she looks. Then he laid down and whispered good night to her.


Haruhi buried her head against Tamaki's chest as he held her while the doctor was gently trying to take out the rest of the IV-line. As the sensation of pain crawled up her arm, she tried to jerked away, but Tamaki was fast enough and stopped her arm. He looked down at her and upon seeing her scared, he wrapped one arm around her and began to pet her hair. She finally relaxed a little more against him causing him to smile, but then she saw a nurse with a huge needle and she tensed up again. Tamaki sighed before giving her a kiss on the forehead, calming her. "You need to have two stitches," said the doctor. "You'll feel a prick and that will be all you feel."

"Okay," Haruhi muttered into Tamaki's chest and then, with her free arm, wrapped it more tightly around Tamaki's body.

Tamaki smiled and nodded to the doctor that she was ready. Accepting the nod, the doctor continued on, and when she felt the prick, she clung more to Tamaki. Then when the doctor finished and was putting bandages on her arm, she didn't let go and Tamaki realized that she had fallen asleep. "She looks quite tired. Did she get a good night of sleep?" The doctor asked.

"Yes," Tamaki said as he petted her hair.

"Might as well look at her head to make sure everything is healing properly," said the doctor before kneeling down and gently placed a finger on a small, light pink line.

As the doctor examined her, Tamaki watched and kept a firm hold on her. Once the doctor was finished, he told Tamaki that she didn't need to be seen again because he had put in absorbable stitches. Before leaving them, the doctor gave Tamaki some paperwork and after the doctor left, Tamaki called his driver to pick them up at the door. He carried Haruhi into the limo and told his driver to take them to her house.


When Ranka opened the door to let in his daughter and her now-boyfriend, he was quite surprised to see that Tamaki was carrying her in somewhat of a bridal-style. The differences were her having her face fully against his chest and an arm wrapped around his body making it for him to hold her mostly in one arm, but he was able to deal with the current situation. "Um...Ranka-san, I don't think I can hold her like this any longer," Tamaki spoke pulling Ranka from his stunned state of mind as he shifted his weight and the girl in his arms.

Realizing that the boy was getting tired of holding her, Ranka moved out of the door way and allowed the boy to step inside. He watched Tamaki remove his shoes before he knelt on the rug and took off the still sleeping Haruhi's shoes. Seeing how gentle the boy was with his daughter made Ranka almost forget the nickname he called the boy, but then he remembered probably needed to help the boy. "Do you need help with her?"

"She is not letting go of me and I don't think she will let go if you try," said Tamaki as Ranka came over him and try to pull Haruhi away from Tamaki with little success.

Understanding that his daughter did not want to let go, Ranka sighed and helped Tamaki to a spot to sit at the low table. Once Tamaki was seated, the two of them was able to get Haruhi to lay against Tamaki's side, giving the host club's king's arms a much needed rest, and Ranka had brought out her green blanket and draped it over her. The two talked quietly (not wanting to wake the sleeping girl) and for once, got along with each other once Tamaki realized, and stated such realization, of why Ranka was so desperate to keep Haruhi to himself and away from any would-be suitors.

When she started to stir, the two stopped talking to look at her and waited to see if she would wake up. She yawned, letting go of Tamaki to pull her blanket around her more, but Ranka wrapped his arms around her, effectively pulling her away from Tamaki. "Dad,"she said turning her to glare at her dad.

"Why doesn't my daughter accept any of my love?" Ranka whined never noticing that Tamaki had leaned over and kissed Haruhi until she relaxed in his grasp. "Wha....Kyaaaa!!!" Ranka yelped once he saw Tamaki was pulling away after kissing Haruhi.

"You're annoying, Dad," she said as she wiggled out of his grasp and got up. "So annoying that I really don't feel like helping you cook lunch." Then she walked off to her room and came back without her blanket. "Senpai, will you walk with me at the park nearby?"

"What ever you want, ma amoura," said Tamaki after standing up and offering her his hand, which she accepted.

"We will back for lunch," she said as Tamaki lead her out.

"B-b-but Haruhi~," Ranka called after them before the door closed behind them.

"Did you really need to that? Especially to your dad," Tamaki asked.

"It's for his own good, Tamaki," said Haruhi as she started off to go towards the steps.

"Why do you still call me senpai?" Tamaki whined as he followed Haruhi.

"You're number two in your class, you should be able to figure that out," she said in a monotone as she continued to walk away from him.


When Tamaki and Haruhi had come back from their walk, Ranka had the food on the table and was already eating. Both sat down on the side opposite of him and picked up their chopsticks before beginning to eat. As they continued to eat, Ranka gazed at them scrutinizingly while he continued to eat. Seeing his gaze, Haruhi nudged Tamaki, who looked towards her to see that she was offering him a piece of food that he took with his mouth. Once he swallowed the piece of food, he picked up a piece of food from his plate and offered it to her in a return of the gesture. She took it and ate it. Now Ranka started to fume. "Will you two stop it!"

"Will you stop being annoying?"

"What? Does my daughter not love me any more?"

"Haruhi, don't cha think it's time to stop?" Tamaki said somewhat worriedly.

She let out a sigh and leaned against him. "What is worrying you?" Ranka asked in a softer voice.

"Nothing in particular," she said.

"Are you concern about choosing a place you want us to take you to eat at tonight?" Tamaki asked as he looked down at her.

"A place to eat at? I will tell you something if you come over here," said Ranka ignoring Tamaki.

Haruhi sighed and gave in to her father. Getting up, she walked to the other side, plopping down next to her father rather unceremoniously before he began to whisper something into her ear. Listening to it, Haruhi couldn't believe she had forgotten about the place he was telling her about which she had only been to when she was three. Mid-way through his description, he whispered one embarrassing thing causing her to blush and pull away from him before quickly going back to Tamaki. "I don't need anything more. I've decided, dad," said Haruhi nibbling on the last piece of her lunch.

"So are you going there?" Ranka asked with a glint in his eyes that only Tamaki saw.

"Yes," she said between bites.

For the rest of the lunch, the three finished it in quite and once they did, Haruhi and Tamaki went to her room to watch videos on her laptop while Ranka made a call that would later be found out by the host club at their dinner.


Haruhi was enjoying Tamaki rubbing her arm that had the stitches in it, and just the motions were lulling her into a light sleep. Not caring about the host club watching her, she leaned against Tamaki, allowing the light sleep to over take her as they continued to drive to where she told their driver to go. When the car came to a stop, Tamaki gently shook her fully awake again and they proceeded to get out. "You said you were last here when you were three?" Hikaru asked.

"That's what my dad told me," she said as she got her first good look at the place. "At least, it does look familiar to me."

"Why did he tell you about this place?" Tamaki asked as he opened the door and held it open for everyone.

"He said I enjoyed it back then," said Haruhi as walked in, but was stunned when saw six people at table with seven empty chairs turned around and began waving at her.

"Why are those people waving at you?" Tamaki asked after entering the door with the rest of the host club behind him.

"I think I've seen them once or twice before," said Haruhi, pondering about the group waving at her.

"Hey, Haruhi-chan, it's been so long since we seen you," one of the four men at the table called out at her while still waving. "Hasn't it been more than ten years since the last time?"

"Oh...it's them," she muttered under her breath before calling back out to them. "Did my dad have anything to do with this?"

"Come on over here with your friends. We've been waiting for you and yes, your dad called us up," said the same man who spoke earlier.

"Who are they, Haru-chan?" Honey asked while the group started to walk towards the table.

"They are right about not seeing them for ten years," said Haruhi as she took hold of Tamaki's hand and squeezed it before continuing. "They were my mother's co-workers."

"Oh, but why would your dad call them?" Honey asked.

"I really don't know," said Haruhi before sitting down next to the man that had spoken before addressing him. "I can't remember your name or the others' names."

The man leaned over to her and hugged her, surprising her. "I bet you get this a lot, but you do look exactly like your mother," he said before letting go and looking around the table to see everyone seated. "Since everyone is seated, let's introduce ourselves. I'm Shigeru Yamamoto."

"I'm Yuudai Suzuki," said the man to the right of Shigeru.

"I'm Ayano Inoue," said the woman to the right of Yuudai.

"I'm Hina Yamamoto," said the woman right of Ayano as she glared at Shigeru.

"I'm Daichi Wantanbe," said the man to the right of Hina.

"I'm Akira Tanaka," said the man on the right of Daichi.

After they introduced themselves, the host club members introduced themselves except for Haruhi, who had taken to holding Tamaki's hand under the table. Following their introductions, they ordered their food and drinks before Shigeru and the rest of them began talking. In the conversation, Shigeru let it slipped that Hina was his wife and all six of them all expressed, towards Haruhi, their longing to see their favorite friend and lawyer, even though it had been ten years. Before the food arrived, they slipped into a conversation of how they had begged Kotoko to bring her family along to one of their gatherings and how it was this restaurant that they finally got her to give into to their pestering. When their food arrived, the conversation didn't stop, but kept going because the host club were telling their own stories (some of which caused Haruhi to roll her eyes).

At the end of the meal, their two groups said good by, but Shigeru and Yuudai came up to Haruhi and took her to the side. "Your mother made us promise to keep an eye on your dad to make sure he didn't do anything too stupid, but he hadn't. She did give us something for us to give to you for when you found some guy to be with," said Shigeru as he placed a necklace into Haruhi's hands before whispering into her ear. "I never expected that the first case I would send her to do that she would find your dad and later give us a shock of our lives."

"You do know that your parents were not official planning on getting married so quickly," said Yuudai causing Haruhi to blush. "Now go off with your friends! If you need help chasing that dream of yours, we are more than willing to answer your question, but you have to speak up."

Haruhi nodded before going to Tamaki's limo and sat next Tamaki. As the limo started to drive to her house to get her things (she was mad at her father and thought it was only fair for her stay at Tamaki's to get back him with Yuzuru knowing this), she opened the locket to find a little folded up note. Unfolding it with Tamaki watching, she read it and then threw herself at Tamaki, burying her face into his chest before she began to silently cry. Tamaki surprised by the wetness on his shirt looked over to the note and read it.

To my dear daughter,

As I write this, I know for sure that I will never be able to help you when some boy comes by and makes you confused, which your dad did for me. For that, let it happen, but there's something else I must tell you. If you cannot cry for me before anyone, please cry when you must or cry before the boy that confuses you. Shigeru-san and Yuudai-san are coming by and I will tell them to watch over your dad for me so you don't have to so much. I will miss you as much as you will miss me. Love, Mom.

Tamaki smiled and began to rub Haruhi's back in an effort to soothe her, knowing why there was wetness on his shirt. At least, Tamaki thought, maybe now he wouldn't be seeing Haruhi crying when she didn't know she was.


For the first time in a long while, the Ouran High School Host Club was having a normal day until a question was asked. "Haruhi-kun," one of her regulars started, "why do you sometimes call Tamaki-san senpai while other times you call him just by his name?"

Haruhi looked at the one who asked and began to think about it. Out of her options, explaining it or showing it, she didn't have a clue which one she should do, and the choice was much more harder because she was trying to avoid having to take a nap during the day. (Her body was still use to having medicine telling her to take a nap in the middle of the day and so her sleeping schedule was still off.) "I will show you," she said before turning around to look in Tamaki's direction. "Tamaki-senpai, will you come over here for a minute?"

"What is it?" Tamaki asked as soon as he was standing next to her.

She rose to her feet and leaned upward on her toes to be able to whisper into his ear. "Please kiss me, but stop when I do," she whispered.

"Are you sure? I don't want to ruin your efforts of not taking a nap during the day," whispered Tamaki back.

"I'm fine with it now. Beside that's what the weekend is for," whispered Haruhi before pulling away, no longer standing on tipi-toes. "Tamaki, you can do it now."

Tamaki smiled upon hearing his name alone, knowing now that she was serious about displaying their affections in front of everyone. Stepping closer to her, he wrapped his arms around her and lifted her slightly off the ground before placing his lips on hers. He didn't hear the girls around him squeal in delight as he careful kissed Haruhi with gentleness and tenderness. She was kissing him back, but then she had stopped, and he realized that she had fallen asleep during their kissing. "Tamaki-sama, is she okay?" One of her regulars asked him.

"She's just asleep. I was worried that this would happen," said Tamaki.

"Why?" Another girl asked.

"She is trying not to take a nap during the middle of the day. The medicine she is no longer had messed up her sleeping habits," said Tamaki before looking at the girls around him. "I wouldn't mind if you were entertained by me while I watch over her."

"It's no problem, Tamaki-sama," a few of the girls said.

Then Tamaki walked back over to his customers and told them the same thing, receiving the same response again. After laying the sleeping Haruhi on the couch, he went and found a blanket and pillow for her. When he returned, the girls around him held the blanket and pillow until he situated himself with Haruhi laying on top of a good portion of his body. The girl holding the pillow handed it to him and once he placed it under her head, he directed the other girls how to cover her with the blanket. As soon as they were done, Tamaki noticed the tears that were coming from her sleeping eyes. Gently, he brushed them away with his hand.

"Why is Haruhi-kun crying?" Someone asked.

"Don't tell her that I told you this, but she is probably dreaming of something related to her mother," Tamaki replied softly.

"What have you guys been doing?"

"Good question, princess," said Tamaki before he started a conversation about what their past weekend was like.


Haruhi began to stir and when she realized that Tamaki was holding her, she turned over laying stomach to stomach against Tamaki, but because his height out stripped hers, her head was laying on his chest right over his heart. "Haruhi, did you have a nice nap?" Tamaki asked her.

"Yeah," she said before stretching in his arms.

Dropping his arms to his side, he allowed Haruhi to stand up before getting up himself and hugging her. "Were there any good dreams?" He asked placing his chin on her shoulder.

"I can't remember the dream I had, but I remember it was very happy."

"Let's go home," said Tamaki smiling as he realized that the tears earlier were joyful ones.

"I want to walk today."

"You, two, going home together?" Two voices asked from behind them in unision.

"Yes. Why do you ask you, two devils?" Tamaki asked.

"Oh, we wanted to give you two something," the twins said again as they held out a black photo album.

"And Haruhi gets to keep it, tono," said Kaoru.

"Because it is more about her than it is you," said Hikaru with a grin.

"Why do you say that?" Tamaki asked as Haruhi took the album and open it up the first page allowing Tamaki to see the picture displayed. It was of them. He was in her hospital bed sleeping with her and since she had her eyes covered with bandages, Tamaki knew when it was taken. "How did you do this?"

"Oh, we were sly about it, but hopeful the two of you will have something to laugh about in the future," said the twins back to talking together.

"This is a lot," said Haruhi as she looked at the two twins.

"We tried to get the most out of it," they said. "We couldn't ignore you guys being in such interesting postures."

"I don't want to walk home today," said Haruhi closing the album. "This album is more fun to look at."

"I will call my driver," said Tamaki as he followed Haruhi out of the Music Room Three.

"Don't you think they will be more mad at us tomorrow," said Kaoru.

"Naw, it's a Saturday, so they should be able to cool off before we see them back on Monday," said Hikaru before high-fiving Kaoru. "Mission accomplish!"
"Operation: Embarrass Tono and Our Toy is completed," they said together.


And there is the end of Through Blindness. I will be posting a short epilogue that shows what the future is like and tell what else is in that photo album. Well, it's too late now for me to up load this on and get it edit.