Chapter 4 –Taken

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My jaw was still hanging, grazing across the round as Kyoya's glasses shifted to white, the light glaring off of them harshly. "Hello there, Haruhi." His voice sounded amused, but I couldn't see his eyes, so that made me feel a bit uneasy about him. Hunny leapt off of me, only to reattach to Kyoya, piping, "Kyo-chan, are you going to live with us too?" Tamaki joined in, glomping the now slightly annoyed Kyoya.

"Yes." Kyoya muttered to Hunny. "Apparently it's necessary." I shook my head. "Kyoya-senpai, you know how to fight?" That question only seemed to heighten his mysterious aura as his smirk came back to life. "Of course, I'm learning how for your sake." He replied. "It is part of the deal, after all." I stared at him, curious. "Fighting with what? Hunny has dynamite, and Tamaki has those darts…" Kyoya's glasses finally stopped reflecting light, showing me that he looked slightly surprised. "Whose idea was it to give that idiot darts?"

Faige spoke up, still in Tamaki's arms as a waterfall of tears slid off his face as he cried "Haruhi… Mommy's being mean to meeee…..", "Me. I'm training him, so there'll be no problems." A smirk appeared on the young girls face. Kyoya began to smirk again as well. "I see. That's fine then." I was slightly taken aback, since it WAS certainly unreasonable to give someone as dangerously stupid as Tamaki darts, but Kyoya just agreed. It was odd to see him give in that fast…

Faige began talking again before I could say anything to Kyoya. "So, we should be getting home now. I'm hungry and Haruhi has to cook me some dinner." Kyoya raised an eyebrow. "We're rich, Faige. We can order the highest quality sushi." He whipped out his phone but Faige stopped him. "No. You must learn to live like a commoner, like your Boss." She pointed towards me. Kyoya sighed, then a slight smile appeared on his face. "Yes, of course."

The whole limo ride home, Hunny was singing some song that included the words, cake, cheese, bunnies and explosions, (yeah, I have NO idea.), Kyoya was typing on his laptop that had seemed to magically appear out of nowhere, and Tamaki was rambling on to me about how tragic his life had been after he noticed one of his hairs was out of place that morning. Completely, absolutely normal. I guess.

As soon as we got to my small apartment, everyone made themselves at home, Faige leaping onto the couch, yelling with Hunny that she wanted cake for dinner, Kyoya sitting down somewhere to use his laptop, and Tamaki claiming he was going to 'help' me make dinner. I went into the kitchen with him clinging to my arm, and pushed him in front of a counter after removing him from myself. I handed him a small knife and a cutting board before pushing a bowl of vegetables towards him. "Cut those."

He grinned like a child excitedly. "Okay, Haruhi!" I watched him cut for a few moments, to make sure he knew how to, and as I guessed, he had no idea whatsoever. He clumsily fumbled with the knife, knicking his finger in the process, He immediately dropped the knife onto the cutting board, crying out. "H-Haruhi, I'm bleeding!" I sighed and put down the spoon I had been holding, before going to find some band aids. Kyoya stood at the doorway, sighing. "You're causing trouble again, Tamaki." I could hear him say as I looked through a first aid kit I had in my room.

Tamaki sounded dejected as he replied. "I'm not trying to…." I grabbed a band aid, then put the first aid kit in its rightful place as I walked back. Tamaki was sitting down, and Kyoya had disappeared. His hair covered his eyes as he looked down, his expression sad. "Tamaki-senpai?" I asked softly as I approached him. "Am I causing too much trouble, Haruhi?"

Part of me wanted to tell him just how dangerously stupid he could be, but I shook that off quickly. I grabbed his hand, gently putting the band aid over the small cut. "Not at all, senpai." His face brightened slightly. "Really?" I nodded, and he looked up at me from his chair, smiling. "I'm just trying to help, Haruhi." I smiled, and patted him on the head again, as he mumbled something gently in approval. "I know."

Dinner was finally finished after a while, and as I served it, everyone was gathered around the table. Tamaki was boasting to a not listening Kyoya that he'd helped me make dinner, and Hunny was grinned from ear to ear, cheering, "Yay, Haru-chan's cooking~"

"Itadekimasu!" we all said, before digging in. Hunny giggled between spoonfuls of food, exclaiming how my food is almost as good as strawberry cake. Tamaki made a dramatic pose, while smiling a saying, "Well of course, she's my daughter! She's perfect~" I shook my head. "No one is perfect, senpai." Tamaki looked at me innocently, a spoon hanging out of his mouth as the legendary puppy eyes came forth. "But you're perfect to me, Haruhi."

I sat there, dumbfounded for a bit while Tamaki returned to normal, eating more food. Kyoya noticed me after a while, blank faced. "Do you not like your own cooking, Haruhi?" Snapping out of my daze, I smiled and shook my head. "No, I just spaced out for a second there."

After dinner, Kyoya helped me clean up, and thankfully, there were no broken dishes, thanks to him.

I began washing the dishes, and after showing him how to dry them, he began to help me. "Why did you agree to doing this, senpai?" I asked, as I passed him another dish. He stared down at the dish as he dried it, amusement dancing in his grey eyes. "There's a profit. The Fujioka family is very rich actually. I never found that in my data." I smiled. "I see. Well, that makes sense, considering it's you, senpai." Kyoya's expression turned blank, and he put away the dried dish. "There are two other reasons too." He added, as I passed him a bowl.

I focused on washing a particularly dirty plate before answering, "Really?" Kyoya nodded slightly. "The first reason was for information exchange. The Fujioka's database is enormous. There's almost nothing that they don't know." I hummed in response, alerting him to continue. "The other reason is that I'm interested in you, Haruhi." I finished washing another plate, with a confused look on my face as I gave it to him. "Interested in me?" A smirk appeared on Kyoya's face. "Yes." He then put away that last plate before walking out the doorway. "Thank you for the meal, Haruhi."

A few hours later, I was in bed, with Hunny and Tamaki sleeping on the floor on a futon near mine. Kyoya was sleeping on the couch in the living room, and Faige had disappeared after dinner.

I was still confused about what Kyoya had said. Interested? Like, financially interested? Just curious? Or even, romantically interested…? I shook my head slightly, laughing at myself. Now I was just being silly. Knowing Kyoya, he most likely meant, financially interested.

I was still wrapped up in my thought, until I heard a rustling in the room. Then suddenly, the lights flickered on, blinding me for a few moments, and I was whisked into a sitting position. Once my eyes got used to the bright lights, I saw Tamaki and Hunny, frozen in place, standing up, eyes serious. There was a girl dressed in all black, with bright red fiery hair at the light switch, grinning with pearly white teeth. Behind me, someone strong was holding me against them, with a knife grazing against my throat.

Hunny stared at my captor. "…." He looked like he was about to say something, but it seemed to have died on his lips. Thankfully, Tamaki continued for him. "H-Hikaru..?" I froze. Hikaru…? The person behind me laughed. "Yeah." The knife began to move against my skin lightly, making nerve wracking shivers go down my spine. "Boss told me that Haruhi would be in danger if I left her here. So don't move, or I might hit a vein." He taunted. Tamaki's eyes widened, as he looked terrified. "Y-You wouldn't dare!" he sputtered. Hikaru just laughed again. "Try me."

I felt another hand sneak discriminatingly onto my neck, placing itself somewhere where Tamaki and Hunny couldn't see it, but it was under the knife's blade. Confusion ran through my mind. If he was threatening them, why was he bluffing?

Hunny gritted his teeth. "Let Haru-chan go, Hika. Why would you do this to her?" Hikaru emitted a low growl from his throat. "I'm saving her, you idiots. Now don't move or else she gets stabbed." Hunny jumped forward, but the girl who had been a the light switch jumped in front of him with some sort of small gun. "N-No, Hunny-sen-" I screamed, but then a gunshot rung through the air. I sat there limply as Hunny's eyes widened and he fell to the ground, a cry dying on his lips before it left him.

Tears began to blur my vision as I cried, "H-Hunny-senpai….." Hikaru was trembling behind me, and I noticed that the knife had moved. Tamaki stared at me, horrified. "Hikaru…..!" Then I saw blood dripping down my shirt, streaming from my neck, where Hikaru's hand was. He… He stabbed his hand?

Hikaru feigned being fine a laughed. "Now don't move or else we'll do worse at our base." He beckoned towards the red haired girl as opened the window as he had me in a princess carry, "Come on Cecilia." He placed himself on the windowsill, getting ready to jump out. I was too surprised to say anything as he turned back before jumping out into the pitch black night, "Dispose of the other one too."

I couldn't hold back anymore tears.