"You may now kiss the bride."
The six little words that I knew changed Haruhi's and Tamaki's lives as they embraced in a kiss. Actually married together, and three months pregnant. I smiled as they separated from each other and walked back down the aisle, hand in hand. Then Kyoya and I stepped to each other and followed them inside. His tux matched Tamaki's, except for the purple rose that was attached to his pocket. Haruhi had decided to go change into a different dress for the reception so she could move around and breathe. We sat at a table with Tamaki as we waited for Haruhi and everyone else began to come in.
"I'm so happy for you two! We're officially siblings now!" I squealed, hugging Tamaki from the chair I was sitting in next to him. He laughed and hugged back.
"Thank you. We're happy too. Really glad you two agreed to be up there with us," he said.
"Why wouldn't we be? We're all family," I smiled, letting go of him. Haruhi came back in a light red dress and sat on the other side of Tamaki. She smiled.
"I can finally breathe," she laughed. Tamaki leaned over and kissed her and I smiled. They were just so adorable, and I was glad that they were happy. It was like seeing our parents be happy all over again.
They received their gifts, cut the cake, and ended up leaving before anyone else to go to. People were laughing, talking, and dancing. Once it got time where everyone was gone; I stayed back to help clean up. I was taking trash out and ran into Mori.
"Hey Mori. Did you have fun today?" I asked with a smile. He smiled back and nodded.
"You look nice too," he said, taking the bags from my hands to put them in the dumpster.
"Thanks. Hikarou and Kaoru picked it out."
"I wouldn't doubt it."
"So, how are you dealing with being away from Honey?"
He froze for a second and looked at me a little astonished.
"You're the first person to ask me that," he said quietly. I blinked and raised a brow, confused.
"Really? I would have figured everyone would have been asking you."
He nodded, "I'm doing fine. Rieko is taking good care of him so I'm not that worried. He's happy with her."
"I see. Why don't you find someone then?"
"Dunno," he shrugged. I put my hand on my hip and smiled.
"Maybe if you weren't so hard to walk up to and talk to someone might actually come along. Try and smile a little when you greet someone. You don't have to say anything, just give them your small 'hello' smile like you always give me. It's not that hard is it?"
"I guess not. So do you and Kyoya have plans for later?"
"Well, I need to bring my things back from Tamaki's apartment to mine."
"I see your cheek is better."
"Yeah…"
"Weren't you scared? Sorry, I shouldn't be asking," he said, shutting his mouth quickly. I smiled and shook my head.
"No; because I knew if Kyoya wasn't drunk, he wouldn't have really done that. When you're drunk, you don't realize how much strength you're using or even what you're doing."
"Glad you don't over think things like that."
"People have downfalls too you know. Nobody is perfect," I told him, before turning to walk away. First week of May, and I knew I had a busy month ahead of me with the company. More meetings and planning on expanding to America. When I found Kyoya, he was talking with one of the twins. Kaoru; who also handed him something. I raised a brow and stepped closer, putting my chin on his shoulder.
"What do you have there?" I asked, folding my hands behind my back. Kyoya held the bundle he had in his hand away.
"Oh; just something to use as a way to get what I want," he smirked.
"Blackmail? I like that idea. For who?" I asked.
"You," Kaoru snickered. I felt my face get hot when I realized that those were the pictures I helped the boys with. I stepped back.
"Why would you need blackmail on me?" I asked, trying to stay confident in this scenario.
"You have some on me, now I have some on you," he said. I tilted my head to the side.
"I have blackmail on you?"
"Yes. You do but you don't realize it yet, which is a good thing."
"Kaoru come on!" Hikarou shouted from a car.
"Coming! Bye guys see you later," Kaoru said before running off. Kyoya took my hand and we got into his car. He put the pictures in my bag in the back.
"I'd hate to see something happen to that dress," he said with a slight smirk.
"It's cute isn't it?' I giggled. He had the same look in his eye all day when he saw me in this. Maybe just a little more teasing once we got home and he'd snap. He may have a lot of self control; but I know exactly what to do to make him just forget it and lose it all.
"It is. The twins knew exactly what they had planned before they even talked to you about it," he said, his hands gripping the steering wheel a little tighter. I tapped his knee.
"Don't act like you're going to choke the wheel now."
"You got everything from their apartment you had over there last night right?" he asked.
"Yeah, most of it. What I was in last night is in the bag in the backseat."
"Good."
"Why?" I asked teasingly. He glanced at me from the corner of his eyes and exhaled deeply.
"No specific reason."
"I can't believe it's almost eight already. It'll be dark by the time we get home," I smirked. He was stopped by a red light and looked at me, a tint of darkness in his eyes.
"Must you be so tempting right now? I'm trying to drive," he growled. I smiled wider and nodded.
"It's fun to see you struggle. Green light," I told him, looking forward and rubbed under my eye.
"But must you want to tonight? I was up since five because Haruhi couldn't sleep. She was stressing about today; and I told her it's not good for her nor the baby."
"You're the one who's doing the teasing."
"I'll end up paying for it later won't I?"
"That depends. If not later, in the morning."
"Ugh, so persistent."
"You started all of this."
"Actually the dress was because of the twins. I either had to agree, or they'd make it worse. You know that."
"Yes; but now you're going along with what they planned out."
"I guess you have a point there. You don't have classes tomorrow though," I smirked. He raised a brow and looked at me when he got to another light.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Only twice since I got back? Twice over the three years we were separated? I shouldn't really be able to count how many times Kyoya," I smirked.
"That's obviously the commoner in you speaking."
"You'd be surprised how much more fun commoners have than the rich."
"I'm slowly learning."
"My knowledge in being a commoner and your natural 'talent' as some of the guys I used to hang around with would call it makes a good thing to have with a relationship like ours and Tamaki's and Haruhi's so we don't get bored."
"You have a point. Ever since Tamaki met Haruhi and you he's been having a lot more fun than he thought could happen."
"You can't deny you haven't."
"I'm not. I'm just saying."
"I'll hold off on the teasing till we get home," I said, finding his hidden message. Mentioning Tamaki as a reference in a conversation at times like these usually meant to try and avoid something that started the topic.
When we got home and inside, there was no hesitation of Kyoya pulling me along with him to the bedroom. I giggled at first, and ended up moaning like usual. He always had his ways, and he liked it that way.
He laid next to me and pulled me close to him; pulling the sheets over us.
"I know I have no classes tomorrow, but I planned on spending the day doing something different with you. A day out of the apartment. How about a beach day?"
"Beach day?"
"Yeah. I noticed when you came back from Florida you got a few new bathing suits too," he smiled, kissing my cheek. I smiled back and nodded.
"They were cute so I decided to get them. I'm just glad the scars on my back are fading away finally."
"The scars will, but the burns won't go away so quickly; be glad they were minor burns."
"Minor? They lasted nearly fifteen years."
"Major wouldn't be going away," he said, kissing my nose. I yawned and he smiled as I put my head onto his shoulder to fall asleep.
-Kyoya's POV-
Mitsuki soon fell asleep and I held her closer. I couldn't help but think about what Ryuki had said to me during class last week after he heard what had happened on Tamaki's birthday.
"Hey Kyoya, I heard about the little fight you had with Mitsuki," Ryuki said, pulling a chair next to me in the library.
"Fight?" I asked.
"Well, I guess you don't exactly remember what happened since you were drunk," he said slyly with a smirk.
"That was an accident," I corrected him, keeping my voice down and calm.
"Really now? Is that what you call it when you try to choke your girlfriend?" he pushed. I bit my tongue and glared at him from the corner of my eye. I could see a sly smirk on his face. He was toying with me.
"What kind of game are you trying to play at?" I asked, looking back at my book to study. He chuckled lightly.
"Game? Oh, it's hardly a game when it's the truth. Just be glad you didn't say something you didn't mean," he said, his face completely serious when I looked at him.
"Why?" I asked, slightly puzzled.
"Being a psychology major, I know that drunken actions and words are just sober thoughts," he told me. I noticed a small hint of a smirk. Then he sighed and shrugged and partially frowned at me.
"We wouldn't want her to find that out now do we?" he asked, getting up.
"Is that all you wanted?" I asked. He smiled as he walked away.
Mitsuki sighed in her sleep and shifted, turning onto her other side so her back faced me. I laid on my side as well and held her closer, hoping that Ryuki wouldn't bring up that conversation to her.
~Mitsuki's POV~
I woke up to Kyoya's alarm clock beeping. I sighed a bit and was about to turn over when I felt Kyoya move and heard the alarm clock hit the wall and pieces hit the ground.
"That damn annoying thing always waking me up… Damn Tamaki for programming it and not telling me how to turn it off," he muttered, laying back down. I let out a breathy laugh and rubbed my face.
"You could have just unplugged it when you weren't using it. Or unplug it in the first place and it'll go back to its original settings and tell Tamaki you broke it," I told him.
"Either way I'm tired of it."
"It's broken now."
"I know. That's the whole purpose of throwing it at the wall after he left and you came back."
"I hope you wouldn't throw a kid like that."
"Now you bring up kids?"
"Don't start with me."
"You started it this time," he muttered as he pulled the blanket back over himself and rolled over. The blanket came off of me and I turned to him, yanking on it.
"What?" he asked harshly.
"We're both naked moron. Be glad no one else lives here and can just walk in, or would you prefer someone to walk in and see me laying here naked?"
"It's five in the morning. I don't think anyone is going to walk in. No one else has a key here anyways. Just go back to sleep."
"I would if you weren't being a blanket whore Kyoya."
"Maybe if you weren't so demanding in the morning," he started and stopped, rolling over and pinning me to the bed; his lips on my neck nibbling lightly. I bit my lip and tried to push him off.
"Don't start a sentence like that and then do something like that. I just wanted the blanket, not a full body cover."
"You know, rejection hurts sometimes from you."
"Well get over it."
"Fine. Pillow whore," he smirked and rolled off and pulling me to him under the blanket.
"Maybe if you weren't always moving around in your sleep I'd use you as a pillow."
"Well then, get over it."
I sighed and closed my eyes with my head on his chest, "You can be so rude at times."
"As can you."
"Just go back to bed."
"Actually I have some things to do before we go to the beach today," he muttered. I groaned.
"You were being serious?"
"It's not like I'm asking you to jump in a pool."
"I still can't swim idiot."
"I know. I just thought it'd be nice to get away from others. They wouldn't suspect us to be at a beach don't you think?"
"Genius. I'm going back to sleep," I said, cuddling under the blanket as he got up. He stumbled a bit at he walked to his drawers for clothes.
"Don't fall," I giggled lightly. He looked back at me and rolled his eyes. He walked to the bathroom to take a shower and I yawned. I got comfortable again and realized it was kind of weird to be sleeping alone now. I shrugged it off as I fell asleep again.
I was woken up by someone tickling my feet. Instantly, I kicked.
"Ow," the person muttered. I sat up and looked to see it was Mori with Honey in the room. I held the blanket up and to me as I felt my face warm up.
"What the hell are you two doing here?!" I yelled. Honey jumped back a bit and Mori stood, holding his nose.
"We wanted to see how you're doing cause you weren't answering your phone," Honey said.
"Oh… It's on silent when I sleep these days," I told him, trying to smile a bit; but ended up yawning. Honey crawled up into the bed and sat with me.
"Kyoya says you two are going to go to the beach soon. Don't get burnt okay?" he smiled. I nodded and rubbed my eyes.
"I'll be sure to put sun screen on," I said tiredly.
"Let's go Mitskuni. She needs to change," Mori said, stepping half way out the door. Honey jumped off the bed and followed him.
"Let's go see if Reiko is awake now!" Honey squealed as they left. I heard the door close and Kyoya stepped in.
"I knew if it was Honey waking you, you'd be in a good mood," he smiled, sitting on the edge.
"Will you get me clothes?" I asked, laying forward; pretty much folding my body. He nodded, leaning over to kiss my shoulder quickly before getting up to find me some clothes. I wrapped the sheet around me and stood up, stepping up behind him to put my arms around him.
"You can't keep me up all night tonight. I have a meeting tomorrow with your dad and Tamaki's dad."
"That's fine. It's only seven, so we'll be back say around nine? Have more than our usual three hours at the beach this time since we won't be with any of the others," he said, handing me a blue and white floral designed bikini and one of his shirts to use as a cover. I slipped on the bottoms, blushing slightly when I dropped the covers; but I had no reason to really be embarrassed. When I went to put the top on, he helped me. I felt his finger lightly trace the old scars before I put his shirt on and grabbed some shorts to put on.
"So why the sudden interest in the beach Kyo-kun?" I asked teasingly as we walked out to his car.
"Not much of an interest in the beach than the interest of having you alone to myself in a place where no one knows who we are," he told me. I smiled a bit.
"Don't be getting any funny ideas about proposals and stuff again. Like I said, not until after you get out of college," I told him. He smiled back as we got in the car.
"The commoner in you has really come back out since we all graduated from Ouran. My father is surprised by you. Someone who spent her last year at Ouran, and only went for half a year because she already had her credits. Went to other public schools, and hasn't even taken a business class; and owning the entire Takashi Toy company. And to top it all off, to have a past like that and be a woman who's as bright and strong as you are."
"Sometimes your dad can be really sexist, you know that?"
"I know; but in all honesty you'd surprise anyone with your background."
I just nodded and looked out the window.
"Anyways, I wasn't planning on proposing. Not yet anyways. It's at least good to be thinking and talking about it. Surprisingly, you brought it up this time. Slowly talking yourself into it?" he teased. I glared playfully.
"Oh shut up. Things may not be different at first, beside the fact I'll have your last name; but when a baby is involved…"
"That's what you're worried about the most?"
"It's a 'what if' situation. Like, what if I start getting sick during winter again? What if the company crashes? What if I'm not a good mother?" I asked, saying the last part quickly.
"We'll find a way to make it better, or we'll move for you to get better. If the company crashes, then you still know how to get by as a- a normal person. And as for being a mother," he said, looking at me, "You'll be fine. It's an instinctual thing, not something you have to worry about it. Once again, you brought it up."
"Oh just shut up and drive why don't you?! Jeez, get off my back about it. You have about five months till you graduate. I'm sure you can wait."
"Actually, they cut it. I got ahead in the weeks Tamaki was staying here."
"So how long now?"
"A month per week, so about two months now I'll be graduating."
"And you didn't tell me this until now?!" I shouted at him, looking at him with a death glare. He stopped at a red light and smiled charmingly at me, the smile I hadn't seen in a long time. Probably since before I left, which meant he had something up his sleeve; and now I was worried.
"I knew you'd react this way. I wanted to surprise you with it."
"If you knew I was going to react this way… Why the hell would you surprise me with it?!"
"Because, then I get my way a lot quicker than you think. Which obviously pisses you off. I want to know why," he said, pulling into a parking lot of a convenient store. His smile was gone, and his eyes hinted of seriousness. I swallowed and looked down at my hands on my lap.
"Well… I just… I don't know, I don't want to rush into anything so quickly."
"Rush into anything? Mitsuki Ren Takashi, you really think that's something to worry about? We've been together for how long? Answer me," he ordered me. I looked at him, realizing that his apartment number was our anniversary date.
"You ass! Three and a half years, and you specially requested that apartment didn't you?! I should hit you!" I shouted, slamming my fists against the arm rest that was also a holding compartment to the car. He put his hands over mine, and held them tightly. I could tell he was slightly angry and scared at the same time.
"Mit-Chan, calm down. I didn't know you hadn't figured that out yet. It's just two days after your birthday remember?" he asked.
"I'm not stupid… I knew that…. Let go."
"You blew up on me, I'm not letting go until you calm down."
I just smirked at him, "And you showed me a small sample of your old selfish side. I must say, seeing you say such things surprises me."
"It does? If you haven't noticed, I've been selfish a lot more than you've noticed."
"What do you mean by that? Besides the fact you constantly try to force yourself on me," I teased.
"I know you're teasing, but that's actually a factor in it. I'm taking you away to the beach to have you alone to myself. I made you move in with me when you got back home to keep you with me instead of at your parents. Also, I had asked Tamaki to find you after class to make you join the club… I knew you wouldn't say yes to me; but he'd force you into it until you said yes, I'm just glad you met Haruhi before hand."
I stayed silent for a minute and then fake smiled and kissed his cheek.
"Sometimes, I want to hit you; but then I remember that I love you. Now, drive to the beach."