That idiot's child

Chapter 4

"Dad... what are you doing here?" Haruhi asked casually while trying to cover the door opening with her body to prevent him from looking in. Ranka's jolly facial expression suddenly turned into a sobbing face that Haruhi thought looked scaringly similar to Tamaki's.

"Haruhi, you're so mean! I haven't seen my lovely daughter in weeks and then I'm greeted by a 'what are you doing here'? Whyy, I just wanted to see if you're okay! You know, you haven`t called me to tell me how you're doing for so long!" Ranka shouted with a hurt voice which Haruhi was so used to that it didn't really affect her.

"Well, eh... now you've seen me, and as you can see… I'm perfectly fine so... bye then!" Haruhi said quickly, trying to close the door but to no luck as Ranka stopped it with his hand and made his way into the little hallway, with a sudden return of the jolly expression.

"Don't joke around now, I want to hear how my daughter's doing. First off, are you eating prop..." Haruhi listened in horror as she heard how his sentence stopped in the middle of a word and watching his face drop into that of a mix between shock and disgust when he saw the person popping out from the kitchen with a big, goofy grin on his face.

"Ooh, Ranka-san! Long time, no see!" Tamaki said with a jolly voice while Haruhi stared at him in disbelief.

"I can't believe him! Acting as if nothing's out of the ordinary..." Haruhi thought but suddenly had her thoughts interrupted when Ranka turned his head around to stare down at her with a look that could kill, ignoring Tamaki's greeting completely.

"Ha..ru..hii..! What is he doing here?" he said without any effort to try and hide the anger in his voice. Haruhi felt herself left speechless for a few seconds, trying to come up with something to say, when Tamaki beat her to it.

"Ooh, Ranka-san! Did Haruhi tell you the wonderful news yet?" he asked with the same carefree jollyness in his voice that made Ranka turn his head quickly back to look at him with an angry "Ahh?". Haruhi could do nothing but to stare at him in shock as she felt as though her heart skipped three beats in her chest.

"You idiot! Shut up!" she thought franticly while looking around to notice the fruits basket standing on the shelf under the mirror.

"The news that Haru..." before Tamaki managed to finish the sentence, Haruhi had grabbed an apple from the basket and pushed into his mouth while giving him a stare while she sweatdropped.

"Ahaha, these apples are great, Tamaki! Have you tried them?" she said, pushing the apple onto him until she heard him biting into to keep it from falling down, while giving her a confused look. She quickly turned around again to meet her dad's even more confused eyes from watching the whole scenario.

"What he was about to say, dad, is that I just scored the highest score on my last exam! I just wanted to be the one to tell you, that's why..."

"Then what? You told him before me?" Ranka said with a tad hurt voice, but still having his annoyed eyes locked onto Tamaki. Haruhi flinched as she felt Tamaki tugging at her shirt from behind.

"Haruhi, why aren't you tell...YAAA!" he yelled as Haruhi pinched his hand with all her might, leaving Ranka to stare at them with a dumbfounded expression.

"Because... I just told Tamaki about the exam a few days ago, so he called me the day I got it back to ask me how it went. I'm sorry I didn't tell you as well, it's just... that if I got a bad grade I wouldn't want for you to find out. I'm sorry, dad." Haruhi said with a sweet voice, while still holding onto Tamaki who was bended over, crying a little due to the pain behind her back.

"Even so, that still doesn't explain what he's doing here! Aren't you an important business man, mister Suoh-san? Neglecting your job to terrorize an innocent girl, are you?" Ranka shouted while the blood veins on his face became more and more visible. Haruhi tried to brake in to defend him and explain that it wasn't so when he suddenly turned to look at her.

"And you, Haruhi! What's with you calling him so casually by his first name? What happened to 'senpai'?" he said with a mad glare while Haruhi could feel herself a little stunned from the question.

"W... well, that was kinda what I called him when we went to school, dad, I didn't think it was still necessary, I guess?" Haruhi said with a forced smile, hoping he'd believe it, when in truth she hadn't called him senpai ever since that day of their "separation", for a reason she couldn't quite understand herself. Seeing his dad give her a disbelief expression she sighed a bit before speaking up again;

"Listen, dad, I'm sorry if you're feeling hurt from this, but I have something I really need to do, so if you could leave now I promise I'll come by the apartment later toda..."

"Forget it. I have work to leave off to in an hour and until then I'm staying here to make sure this guy doesn't try anything funny like he did the first time I met him." Ranka stated resolute while gritting his teeth at Tamaki, making him sweatdrop and hide himself behind Haruhi, who rolled her eyes.

"Dad, I've already told you, that was an accident. Tamaki isn't the guy to..." Haruhi paused herself when she realized just how Tamaki in some way had seduced her that day three weeks ago.

"... to do anything suggestive." she finished the sentence in a low voice while turning her head slightly to look at Tamaki, who gave an apologetic expression back at her as he caught up on what she was thinking. A moment of awkward silence went by as they kept looking at each other, with Ranka giving them a stare that for a moment turned worried. However it quickly disappeared as he dashed forwards, pulling Haruhi by the arm away from Tamaki to give him the same nasty glare.

"A... anyways! Won't you show me around and tell me how your studies are going?" Ranka said in a surprising jolly voice that made Haruhi look up at him to notice he had an expression that matched his voice.

"Sure, dad..." she sighed before giving Tamaki a look, hinting for him to go and seat in the kitchen while she showed him around. Tamaki who seemed to finally have caught up on the seriousness on the situation just nodded in reply, but still tried to give Ranka another smile that got no respond but a piercing glare.

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After having showed him around and also having talked a little about how her studies were going, a relieved Haruhi finally showed Ranka the door, with the promise of visiting him later that week. Tamaki did his best trying to bid Ranka goodbye with a handshake, but again received nothing but a glare before he looked over at Haruhi, giving her the same kind of glare.

"It's getting late. There's no reason for him to stay much longer." he said in a blunt voice, saying the last three words while looking back at Tamaki, before he turned around and walked out the door. Haruhi faintly waved at him before closing the door and resting her back against it while giving a heavy sigh of relief.

"Thank God, I never thought he would leave. At one point I even thought he'd insist on spending the night here." she said when suddenly seeing Tamaki giving her a weird look that got her wondering.

"What?"

"Why didn't you tell him?" he said completely blunt while keeping his stare at her. Haruhi felt herself left a bit stunned but quickly shook it off, giving him a serious look back.

"Tamaki, please. I still haven't gotten used to it myself. How am I supposed to tell him that I'm pregnant under these circumstances? And then with you... in case you haven't noticed, you're not exactly his favorite person." Haruhi said, pushing herself away from the door and walking past Tamaki but stopped in her track as he grabbed her arm, giving her a serious but still gentle stare.

"Still, you have to tell him. What are you going to do when your belly gets bigger?" he said with a worried voice. Haruhi yanked her arm out of his hold and turned to walk towards the kitchen again.

"I don't know. Tell him I ate a bit too much junkfood?" she said with a blunt voice, while taking a carton of juice out of the refrigerator. Knowing Tamaki knew she didn't mean it serious, but just stayed silent behind her, she put the carton on the desk, just letting her hand rest on top of it, as she felt tears pressing on her eyes again. Knowing Tamaki noticed it from her holding her fingers over her nose, as to prevent the tears, she could pretty much predict the hug that came from behind. Pushing his right cheek onto her left, he tightened the hug and said in a low voice;

"You tell him when you feel ready for it. No rush, okay? For now, try to be happy." he said while loosening his hold a little, letting Haruhi turn around between his arms. Opening her mouth to respond, she suddenly got interrupted again as he had leaned forwards to kiss her. This time however, Haruhi felt as if something snapped inside her. Grabbing a hold of his head, she roughly broke free from the kiss, giving him an angered expression followed by a loud "Stop kissing me!" leaving Tamaki with a shocked expression that soon turned into a hurt one. Haruhi felt the same hurt expression cover her face when she immediately regretted it.

"Uh... I'm..." she said as Tamaki let go his hold of her and backed away a bit, giving her a dull expression.

"I'll be back in a few hours." was all he said before turning around and walking out into the hallway, taking his shoes and coat on. Haruhi slowly followed behind, trying to think of something to say, as she could sense how hurt he was. Although it wasn't like him to hide it like this.

"Um... where are you going?" was all Haruhi could say while watching him turning the door knob around.

"Not anywhere in particular." he answered with a blunt voice again, before walking out and closing the door after him. Haruhi felt as though she'd got hit by a brick wall again. Why was he acting like this? It wasn't like him.

"Really. Maybe being such an important business man has gone and changed him after all. The old Tamaki I knew would never react like that... he would have cried for two minutes and then it would all have been fine again. I never thought I'd feel this way but if he's really changed then... I miss the old Tamaki." Haruhi thought all this while heading back into the kitchen and pouring herself that glass of juice she had prepared. Taking a look at the clock she kept wondering when he would be back.

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"10.P.M? He's been gone for three hours already. Where is he?" Haruhi thought loudly while pacing back and forth between the hallway and the kitchen, feeling herself getting worried.

"Did he really get that hurt?"

Haruhi felt her heart stung a little of her regret, but decided to calm herself down with that he probably went back to the main residence, although it hurt her a little that he even couldn't have said so if that was where he really went.

"He really did change... Tamaki..."

Haruhi quickly shook away her thoughts and decided to just go to bed, even though she didn't have school the next day.

"Then I can finally relax a little..."

After having brushed her teeth and changed into her pyjama, she let her head hit the pillow with a thump, but couldn't help but to give the clock next to the bed a peek before shutting her eyes and turning the other way.

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Haruhi roughly woke up as she heard a noise coming from the living room. Turning around to see it was 11.P.M, she got up in a seating position, listening quietly. A bit worried for what it could be, she slowly got up and peeked out the door. Feeling a bit shocked to see it was Tamaki who was laid down on the couch, reading a book of some sort, she gave a little sigh of relief. Looking at him for a few seconds, she decided to come out from behind the door, slowly walking towards the living room. Hearing her footsteps, Tamaki looked up from the book and got up in a sitting position while he gave a smile.

"Haruhi? Sorry, did I wake you?"

"Um... I just heard a noise and I wondered what it was." she said quietly while positioning herself next to the couch and giving him a confused look, not noticing the books laying on the table.

"Where have you been?"

"Oh, these here..." Tamaki smiled and pointed towards the books on the table that Haruhi first now noticed and realized they were all books about children and parenting.

"I went out to find these books, but turned out it was a bit harder than I'd expect. Most of the stores that had them were a bit far away, and I didn't bring my cellphone so that I could call my driver to take me. That's why it took a while. I'm sorry, were you worried?" he said, while sweatdropping as he gave her a sweet smile. Haruhi felt herself left stunned at his explanation as she felt bad about herself in how she had thought about him earlier. Listening to Tamaki explain about the books, she slowly seated down next to him and couldn't help but to smile when she listened to his eager self.

"And look at this one! It includes some chapters about how you can take care of a child even when you're studying! Isn't that great, Haruhi? And this one..."

This time it was Tamaki's turn to be surprised by Haruhi who had leaned forward kiss him just as he had turned his head towards her. Pulling away from the soft kiss, Haruhi gave him a hurt look, while mumbling "I`m sorry..." in which Tamaki responded with a smile before kissing her back. The minute she felt his arms around her she regretted all the silly thoughts she had thought about him being changed. Slowly getting up from the couch, she lightly pulled his hand to hint for him to get up too, while she had a big blush on her face. Tamaki just let her drag him slowly towards the bedroom.

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Having been awake for the past 15 minutes, Haruhi laid on her side while once again staring at Tamaki's sleeping face.

"Can't believe it... we did it again."

Haruhi sighed while reaching out her hand to brush some of Tamaki's bangs away from his face, while she couldn't help but to think hard of the one worry and thought that kept racing through her mind ever since that stripe had turned blue.

"This isn't going to work, Tamaki... you have your job to do, and I have my studies. How do you expect me to raise a child next to that? I promised myself I'd never go in your way of you pursuing your dream. If I have this child, I'll break that promise..." Haruhi sighed while she rolled over onto her back, staring at the ceiling while she felt a tiny tear drop roll down her cheek.

"I'm sorry, Mei. And Tamaki... you'll hate me for this, but it can't be helped. I can't have this child."