I have one-shots I want to do, but I wanted to make sure I got a chapter of this in first. Also, Nekozawa wasn't meant to be in this chapter but after I found out that his VA is playing Germany I had to put him in. Plus it added some drama and an extra chapter. This was meant to be the last one, but when I did the scene I wanted to do it just kept rolling until before I knew it, I ended it there and planned to have the date in another chapter. So you guys lucked out.

Enjoy!

Tamaki waited anxiously, like he was waiting on some sort of medical results that could mean life or death for him. He shut his eyes tightly, thinking maybe if he couldn't see anyone that they couldn't see him, either, so this would all go away and be a figment of his imagination. Yea, that's exactly it. He was daydreaming in class and all he has to do is snap out of the daydream. Why else would he be able to ask her on a date so easily? It was the only logical reason he had for why this was going on. Finally, there was an answer.

"Sure," she replied in a dull tone, not looking up to him.

"BUT WHY? I really like you..and..and...we'd have a fun date and..and..just give me a cha-...wait...did you say...'sure'?" he opened his eyes and blinked at her.

"Yea, I said sure. Is that surprising?" she looked up at him.

"Well..uh...yea...actually it is," he scratched the back of his head.

"Well do you not want to go? I could always change my mind," she went to her phone again.

"N..No..it's fine...how does tonight sound? I heard there's a fair in town, that could be fun..." he suggested, "I can come pick you up around 6 and we can walk there."

"We're walking? How quaint," she replied, "Fine, I'll be ready." Excited, Tamaki floated to his desk and sat down, staring blissfully at the back of Haruhi's head.

"Ahh Kaoru, what did you eat this morning? Your breath reeked..." Hikaru headed back to his desk, his brother following behind him.

"It does not.." he held up his hand to his mouth and blew out, then tried to sniff the air.

"Trust me, I got close enough to know," Hikaru sat down on one side of Tamaki, and Kaoru on the other.

"So, how did it go? Did she let you down easy or crush your hopes?" Kaoru asked.

"Sure...she said sure...isn't sure a wonderful word? Sure...it's the most wonderful word in the world I think...sure.."

"Wait..what? She actually said yes?" Hikaru blinked at Kaoru, who blinked back at him.

Meanwhile, Renge was having the same reaction to Haruhi. "WHAT?" she screeched, "YOU SAID YES? WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO THAT?"

Haruhi shrugged, "I dunno, I have nothing better to do tonight."

"So? He's..he's...gross and poor..." Renge cringed, "Why would you go out with him?"

"Well for starters, he's made more of an effort than anyone else has. And all the 'typical' boys I've gone out with are all the same, and only want me for one thing. Maybe if I try someone who I don't typically go out with it'll be different. He seemed sincere enough, after all, I may as well give him a chance. It seems he only wants one date, anyways, so it's not like I'm getting into anything hot and heavy."

"But..but..but...reputation!" Renge waved her hands in the air, "It'll ruin you!"

"It won't ruin me, and it'll boost up him. I don't see how this isn't a win-win situation," she put her phone in her purse as the teacher walked in. Renge, unable to argue with such logic, stormed around the desk and into her seat, sulking the entire time.

"I wonder what it'll be like to be next to Haruhi.." Tamaki mumbled, still staring at the back of her head.

"Geeze, you'd think she was some sort of foreign supermodel the way he's going on about it.." Hikaru whispered to Kaoru.

"He must see something in her," Kaoru whispered back.

When lunch time came around, Tamaki seemed to be back to his old self. He would talk to people in the halls even if he didn't know them. This new found confidence seemed to attract a lot of the women more than his new look had. He still didn't notice, he just figured he was being himself. He and the twins headed to the usual table where Hunny. Mori and Kyouya were waiting there for him.

"Tama-chan! You look so good! What happened?" Hunny asked, and was nudged by Mori. "What? I just wanted to know what happened!" Hunny pouted.

"Don't worry, Mori-senpai, he wasn't being rude or anything. Something must have had to happen for him to look this good," Hikaru sat down and so did Kaoru.

Tamaki sat on the other end of the table, "I'm so excited I can barely BREATH! What should I wear, how should I act? Oh the pains of trying to impress a woman! Why is this so difficult?"

"She obviously liked you the way you are or else she wouldn't have said yes," Kyouya replied simply.

"Wait...how did you know?" Tamaki blinked.

"Well, first of all you wouldn't be talking about this or acting like this is she said no. And two, news like this spreads fast. Everyone knows about it," Kyouya stated matter-of-factly, then going back to the book he was reading.

"Yea, and it looks like someone we don't want to know has found out.." Kaoru pointed to a very angry looking Nekozawa walking towards their table. He picked Tamaki up by the collar and rammed him up against the wall. Even if this was a strange alternate universe, Tamaki wondered how someone so lanky could be so strong.

"How'd you do it?" he demanded.

"D..Do what? I wasn't aware that I had done anything!" Tamaki stuttered. Had Nekozawa always been this scary?

"I've been trying since the start of the year to get with Haruhi! Yet you casually ask one and she says yes? What's up with that?" he kept demanding. A crowed had formed around them chanting for them to fight. "So, the crowd wants to see you beat up, eh?" Nekozawa smirked, "Very well." He began to roll out the bunches. Between them he noticed a familiar face above all the heads. He could see Hunny was sitting on Mori's shoulders.

"Oh no! This is terrible! He's beating up Tama-chan!" Hunny wailed.

"We have to get in there somehow!" Hikaru gasped, "He may be stupid but we have to help him."

"But how? There's a huge crowd, we'll never get in!" Kaoru pointed out, in as much of a panic as his brother.

"I don't think we'll need to do anything," Kyouya pointed out, and everyone stared. The crowd parted as if it was Moses parting the Red Sea. Haruhi walked through the gap and slapped Nekozawa, who was staring at her and wondering what she was doing.

"This is exactly why I never went out with you," she said. She didn't say it with any emotion, which made the impact even greater. "You're a nothing. You use your strength and looks to get whatever you want, even if it means hurting people just because you couldn't get your way," she continued, "I don't need someone like that." She pushed him off of Tamaki and helped him up. Tamaki felt something on his face and wiped it with his sleeve. Was that blood? What had he done to his beautiful face? When he came back from his thoughts, he was Haruhi was leading him out by the hand.

"Er..uh..what are you doing?" Tamaki asked her, confused.

"I'm taking you to the nurse, dumbass," she replied, "You're bleeding."

"I think I gathered that," he laughed nervously.

"Doesn't it hurt?" Haruhi looked back at him.

"Well..yea, I just chose to ignore it until now," he thought about it. He hadn't noticed before because he wasn't thinking about it. Now that the reality struck him of what just happened, he could feel the pain rushing through him.

"You don't look so good...we should get you there quickly," they headed to the nurses office and went in. Haruhi registered him in while the nurse tended to him.

"My my..that was some fight you must have gotten into.." the nurse commented.

"Well..it wasn't really my choice to be part of it.." he admitted, "He sort of just beat me up while I laid there like a coward."

"That wasn't cowardly," Haruhi commented.

"What do you mean?" Tamaki asked, looking back and forth between her and the nurse.

"It's simple, really. Would you have been any better if you had fought back?"

"I guess you have a point..." Tamaki replied, although in truth he didn't fight back because Nekozawa was bigger and stronger than him and he just would have had even more injuries if he'd tried.

"Alright, I'm all finished. He hit you in the head pretty hard, you might have a concussion. I suggest you rest for tonight, and if you still feel bad take tomorrow off from school," the nurse ordered him.

"B..But..I have a date! That's what the whole fight was over! I didn't get beat up for nothing!" Tamaki cried.

"Well, if you do go out tonight then take it easy. It wouldn't be wise to get hurt anymore than you already are," she advised him and walked away. He frowned and watched her go, but lightened up when he saw Haruhi walking towards him.

"Look..I'm sorry about all that. I swear I didn't want that to happen..." Tamaki said to her as she sat down on the chair by the bed.

"I believe you, who would want to get beat up? I don't know why he'd want to beat you up over me, though. I'm not anything special..." she shrugged.

Tamaki just stared at her for a long time. It seemed that on the surface she was confident, but on the inside she had a lot of insecurities. "Well...if it means anything...I think you're special..." Tamaki replied quietly.

Haruhi laughed, "Oh? How's that? Because I'd really, really like to know."

"Well..." he stopped ot think for a moment, which probably didn't help Haruhi's opinion much. "You're really smart...you always know all the answers in class."

"So? There are other smart people. Next."

"And you don't act like most rich people. You don't look to others to do things for you, you want something done you do it yourself. And you're confident, who else could stand up to Nekozawa like that?" he went on. Haruhi didn't answer. "And...you're pretty. No, not just pretty, you're beautiful," he finished.

"Heh..." Haruhi finally began. Tamaki knew she was trying to hide it, but he could see she was flustered, "You know all the lines to tell a girl, don't you?"

"Well it's the truth...I don't lie to people," he admitted.

"Maybe my suspicion that you were different was right..." she stood up, but before she left she planted a kiss on his cheek, "See you tonight lover boy." WIth that, she left to go to class. Tamaki blinked. He blinked several times before he melted into a puddle of goo on the cot, making nothing more than some 'ahhhhh...~' noises. After Haruhi left, his normal group walked into the nurses office.

"Whoa..what's up with him?" Hikaru asked his brother, who shrugged.

"He's probably on some medication," Kyouya gave the obvious answer.

"But look at him..he's all...noodly..." Kaoru poked Tamaki, who again only went 'ahhhh...~', "Ahaha lookit Hikaru, he's like jello..."

"I wanna try I wanna try!" Hunny asked, but Kyouya put a stop to that with his death glare. Everyone immediately backed away from the bed.

"I wonder if she blew him," Hikaru seemed to be thinking, and Kaoru snickered.

"Blew him? Like he was hot so she blew on him?" Hunny asked.

"Yes Hunny-senpai, he was hot so she blew on him."

~END CHAPTER 4~