Princess, I mean Prince?
Chapter Four: The world goes on while you're asleep
By Kaekoni (name changed from Kaeko-san)
Previously ...
Making her way to the rose garden she noticed that the white roses were slightly dried up, she touched one of them gently as a gust of wind blew up rose petals into the air swirling them as they danced on the wind, looking up to the floating petals she noticed a figure in the center of the rose garden, he gave her a smile as she walked over to him.
Making her way towards the center of the rose garden, the young girl had to dodge and weave through the thorns that had over grown and were now obstructing the path.
This is ... familiar
She thought as she finally made her way to the center, there standing there and offering her a small smile was Morinozuka Takashi, he patted her on the head before motioning to a small table. Tilting her head slightly she smiled and made her way over to one of the chairs and Mori sat on the opposite one.
There was a small breeze blowing which made loose rose petals dance along the ground in circular motions, the small brunette gave a sigh as she enjoyed the scenery. After taking a few minuets to take in the calm and serenity of the area she moved her attention to the stoic man sitting opposite her.
"So, Mori-senpai," she started as she watched him move his gaze to her, "what exactly did you want to explain to me?" she shifted her head slightly in curiousity staring into his dark grey eyes.
The uneasy girl gasped quickly as she was drawn into his eyes, she saw sadness, pitty, angst, anger, loss, confusion and betrayl. Unknowing to Haruhi a tear trickled down her face.
"M-mother?.." a small voice called out from the dark, cold room.
Using her hands for eyes, the small being felt her way around the room, silently sobbing.
- "W-where am I? Haruhi said looking around as she spotted a small girl, "whose that?" -
"Mother, are you here?," the small girl called out again, "father, where are you?" she started to call out in desperation.
"Where are yo-" she shielded her eyes as she made her way into the light, she squinted as faint shapes started to appear in front of her. The small girls eyes widened when her eyes finished adjusting to the sunlight.
- "What..." Haruhi's eyes widened in shock and she covered her mouth as she saw what the little girl saw -
The small girl fell to the ground clinging to the sides of her head as she saw her mother flung across the brambles and thorns cut up as blood was spilling out from her, eyes open but all the life drained out of them, she felt that her heart wrench inside of her. She screamed as she saw her father pierced through the heart with a bramble as he lay on the ground still and lifeless.
"Please, please make it stop," the girl begged as she crouched into a ball and screamed, "MAKE IT GO AWAY, BRING BACK MY FAMILY! ... please, please bring them back to me ..."
- Haruhi felt tears falling down the side of her face -
The small brunette came back to reality when Mori gently shook her shoulder, she looked up to him as tears streamed down her face, hands still covering her mouth she muffled her cries.
"I.. I'm so sorry," she said between sobs as she stared into his eyes, "I'm sorry that I forgot what you went through, I'm sorry you had to go through that, I'm sorry that you were left alone, I'm sorry..." she was cut off as Mori ruffled her hair and gave her a small but sad smile.
"Don't worry," he said as he lent back in his chair looking to the dancing flower petals, "...Don't worry because I was able to meet you"
"... make it stop, please, please stop ..." the small girl pleaded as she cried hopelessly.
- "This is horrible, I can't just watch this" Haruhi looked away from the pitiful girl crying when she spotted a figure walking through the brambles. -
The girl heard footsteps and she looked up in fright as a shadowed figure walked up to her. Acting on impulse she jumped up and stumbled backwards only to fall back down, looking at the figure with fear she covered her face.
She waited for something, anything, but nothing happened, she could hear her heart beating as if it were going to jump out of her chest. Slowly she uncovered her face and carefully peeked a glance at the person in front of her.
It was a young man, about the age of 17, he had chocolate brown hair which lay messed up around his face; his eyes were milky brown and stared at the girl with sad eyes. He moved his hand and the small girl shielded her face once again, but froze as she felt his hand patting her head,
"Its okay, I'm here," he gently cooed as he smiled at her, "Don't worry"
She looked at him with frightened eyes as she broke down into tears and plunged herself at the young man, she clung to his shirt as she cried endlessly.
"Its all my fault there gone, if I didn't fall asleep," she clung to his shirt tighter, "If I didn't fall asleep I wouldn't be left here alone..."
"Shh, if you weren't asleep you would have ended up like your parents," she cried when she heard this, "besides," he ran his fingers through her long blonde hair, "your parents wouldn't be very happy if you ended up like they did, I'm sure they protected you with all their might, that's why your here now" he hugged her tightly.
After a while she was only quietly whimpering in the arms of her savior,
"I'm Rose," she said in a raspy whisper, "... Thank-you ..."
The man chuckled a little and smiled down at her, "I'm Haru, its nice to meet you"
- Haruhi's eyes widened as she heard the man say 'Haru', "could that ... really be me?...its .. its not possible..." -
"Thank-you Haruhi," she looked to him in confusion, "Thank-you for being there for me, because of you I was able to pick myself up from the deepest depths of despair " he looked at her as he smiled slightly, "I've decided I'll protect everything that's important to me, everything that I wasn't able to save last time, everything that brings joy into my life..."
The small brunette gave out a sigh of relief and smiled as the last of her tears fell onto a wilted rose petal. He patted her on he head and told her not to worry, because he will also protect her. With that he left her staring at his back as he walked away.
The next day Haruhi was in the garden humming quietly to her self as she picked some new flowers for the dinning room; after she had finished picking the flowers she stood up and stretched slightly then made her way inside. She was Henata laying out the plates for breakfast, and she felt sad that with a table so big there was only her sitting there and eating.
"Uhm, Henata-san.." she called out as she started to arrange the flowers in front of her mothers portrait.
"Yes Miss Haruhi?" Her butler replied glancing up from placing down her plates and cutlery,
"Do you think that it would be okay if you joined me for breakfast this morning? ..." she looked away slightly as he raised his eyebrow in curiosity "Its just that, Its lonely eating by myself, with mother gone and father always busy with work ... Its ok if you don't want to .. I was just wondering .." she trailed off and busied herself in her flower arranging, only to find her concentration broken at the sound of Henata chuckling quietly.
She turned around to him and cocked her head to the side, he smiled at her.
"I would love to Miss Haruhi, its been a while since you've asked me or any of the house maids to eat with you," he said as he placed some more plates and cutlery onto the table, "You use to ask us all the time when you were younger, even your mother would ask us to eat with her" he looked up to her and smiled again.
After breakfast was through, Haruhi quietly apologized to all the house staff for keeping them from their morning duties but they all politely laughed and told her it was okay, they missed eating together like a 'family', She felt a tear fall down her face and smiled as she thought of how lucky she was to have them all there for her, they weren't just house staff, they were her friends and family. Some of the maids rushed to her side after seeing their mistress shed a few tears, but the brunette could only smile at them as they gave a sigh of relief realizing they were tears of joy.
Henata smiled at the scene and glanced over to Haruhi's mothers portrait,
"She's some girl, we're lucky to know her ... Miss Kotoko" he bowed slightly to the portrait when his eyes caught notice of the flowers Haruhi had brought inside, he smiled at her choice of flowers and went to join the group once again.
Pink carnations, caladiums, crocus, daisies, forget-me-nots, White Heather and a single poppy were gently placed in a vase in front of Kotoko's portrait, with a small photo frame with Haruhi and Kotoko smiling inside it.
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Pink carnations meaning "I'll never forget you"
Caladiums for "Great Joy"
Crocus for "Gladness"
Daisies for "Purity"
Forget-me-not for "Good Memories"
White Heather for "Protection"
Poppy meaning "Eternal Sleep"
A/N: WAAAAH, This chapter just ruined me, I had a writing block for soooo long ... if it weren't for "IU- The Story only I didn't know" playing on repeat I probably wouldn't have written this ...
This chapter was shorter than I expected .. mainly because Mori doesn't like to talk much and anything I did was OOC .. but it ended up being majorly OOC anyways ... SORRY FOR THE OOC HARUHI AND MORI!
Sorry for updating so late, I had lost my inspiration *cry* but its sort of back right now, I was a little sad as I was getting favorites and follows even though I wasn't able to update anything ...
This is the end of 'getting to know Mori', but worry not, he will be back in later chapters as I tell the back stories of more Ouran Characters.
Hopefully next chapter I will announce the new princess, or give hints at least ... I'm curious to know who everyone thinks each princess the Hosts portray is, so leave a review or message me.
Thank-you for bearing with me and not beating my door down telling me to update quq
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Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran High School Host Club ... sadly -sigh-