So far, it looks like Takashi is winning with about 6-1 (the poll on my page included).

Tamaki was ecstatic when he received the email from Haruhi inviting him over. He planned the entire day out before he even sent the email in return. Haruhi wanted to hang out with him! Alone! Maybe he did have another shot at her after all! He spent many times after Haruhi had broken up with him wondering what happened between them. They had gotten back from Boston and everything went smoothly. He graduated school, and she still loved him. He was beginning to think about asking her father for her hand in marriage, and then she said it wasn't working out.

At first, he thought she was joking...

"Haru~hi!" Tamaki called out, waving to her from his seat. She looked up at him and smiled, waving back. She headed towards him after getting a drink from the front desk. She held the steaming cup of coffee in her hands as he chattered away about his trip to Italy with his father. Occasionally she would smile and laugh at his antics, but the blonde wasn't stupid. Something was off. When he faded into silence after telling a joke, he watched as she stroked her cup with her finger. "Did you miss me?" he asked, pinching her cheek lightly with a smile.

"Yeah," Haruhi replied, looking up at him with a smile. "Tamaki...we need to talk."

Tamaki's heart jumped into his throat, her tone and she didn't say 'Sempai'. He nodded, moving closer to the table and staring over at her intently. She swallowed and then took a sip of the coffee. Her fingers moved over her lips uncertainly, her eyes flickered for something to look for. Her hair fell across her eyes, and she shoved it away.

"I think that we shouldn't continue this anymore," she said quietly, Tamaki fell silent. Not knowing what she meant.

"We could go for a drive-"

"I meant dating," Haruhi said softly, interrupting him. Her caramel eyes flickered to his, and he saw the sadness in them. He swallowed and then laughed awkwardly.

"You're just joking, right? Toying with me," he moved to kiss her cheek but she pulled away and picked at her fingers. He paused then and backed away from her. "Why?"

"I don't feel the same way anymore..." she explained, looking at him. "I think my love for you has shifted to that of a brother recently, not for a boyfriend..."

"I'll stop going on long trips!" Tamaki quickly said, hoping that she was just irritated that he kept going on trips with his father for business. He didn't want to lose her. She shook her head.

"That's not it," she replied, "I should miss you way more than I do; I should be aching to call you and jumping to the phone when you call. I don't...I wish I would but I can't force myself to..."

Tamaki was pulled from his memory and he sat in the back of the limousine. He wondered why she did break up with him. There seemed to be more that she wanted to say, but he didn't push her. He didn't want to lose her over their break up. Of course, at first it was awkward. However, Haruhi constantly contacted him trying to get over the awkwardness.

The limo pulled to a stop and the door opened. Tamaki climbed out and straightened his clothes. He had a small gift for her, nothing big and fancy. He couldn't be doing those things anymore. He had bought her a book that he knew she was interested in, but hadn't bought it yet. He climbed the steps into the apartment complex, took the elevator up to her floor, and quickly found her room.

He raised his hand and knocked. When she answered, he shouted her name and quickly hugged her tightly. She struggled for a moment, unsure of who it was, but when she saw him. She hugged him back and then closed the door. "Sorry, I thought you were coming over later," she said with a smile, tugging at her messy hair. His cheeks heated, she looked so cute with bed head. "I'll be just a second."

"Haruhi! I brought you something," Tamaki called out and handed her the book covered with some wrapping paper. Haruhi stared at it before carefully unwrapping it. She smiled when she saw the title. "I was going to bring you chocolates, but Kyouya said that I shouldn't."

"This is great, thank you, Senp- I mean Tamaki," she gave him a hug before placing it on the counter and heading into the bathroom. He looked around her apartment and instantly started to snoop. When she came back out, he blushed again.

She was wearing clothes he had never seen her wear before. A green dress with a black thin belt at her waist and black leggings. Her hair was pulled up into a ponytail and her bangs pinned slightly to the side. She smiled at him as she picked up a purse and looked over at him expectantly. "Where are we going?"

He grabbed her shoulders and his eyes went all starry. She knew he was having an inner fantasy and pulled away from him slightly. "Uh, Tamaki?" she spoke but he was still in the middle of imagining them dating again. She let out an impatient sigh and touched his shoulders. "Where are we going?" she repeated. It took him a second but he pulled himself out of his delusion and into reality.

"Oh! I thought we could go see that new movie that came out – The Hobbit! Then we'll go to the park and have a lovely stroll and then go shopping at the commoners market for a while!" Tamaki replied happily, grabbing her hand and pulling her towards the door. She nodded, agreeing with his suggestion. There was no harm in that. They were going as just friends, and if he tried anything, she would probably just either act as if he didn't do anything, or move so he became uncomfortable with the situation.

They climbed into the limo and drove on. Tamaki was excited the entire day. Clutching her and pointing things out. He was happy that he was spending time with Haruhi again, and everything was just so different now that he had an entire new outlook on the commoner things at the market. The movie was uneventful; Tamaki didn't try anything more than sharing popcorn with her. However, she made sure she ate before he came over so that she had an excuse not to share popcorn with him.

They walked through the park, eating ice cream and catching up.

"I have a big case coming up," Haruhi sighed when he asked her how her work was coming along. "A man is accused of killing his wife," she murmured, knowing that she couldn't give too much more information besides that to him. Her rival for this case was that of the Ootori law branch. Tamaki looked at her with disgust.

"Did he do it?" he asked quietly as they sat down on a bench to enjoy the afternoon sun.

"Not from the evidence my partners and I have collected," Haruhi replied taking a small bite of her ice cream. "How are you doing? Have you taken over your father's business yet?"

"No, I'm scheduled to start in the New Year. I'm a little nervous," Tamaki spoke, suddenly pulling out a sharpie and writing the kanji for 'Beauty' on his palm. Haruhi began waving her hands, trying to get him to calm down.

"Tamaki, I think you'll be a great business head!" she replied in her haste to get him to stop freaking out. Tamaki wrapped his arm around her waist and went into full host mode. He gave her one of his dashing truthful smiles. He spewed out some romantic nonsense, and Haruhi gave him a blank look. "If you keep this up, I might have to revoke my promise to keep in contact with you."

Before she knew it, he was sitting by a tree, cultivating a mushroom farm on the side of the tree. Haruhi let out an exasperated sigh and stood up. Smoothing her skirt down and walked over to him. "Would you like to join me for dinner?" Haruhi asked, knowing that if she didn't turn this around to be positive, Tamaki might be in a sour mood the next they hung out.

Tamaki instantly perked up.

Haruhi stood in the kitchen, mixing ingredients together. Tamaki stood up from snooping in her bookshelf. "Haruhi!" he called holding up a photo album, "Can I look at these?"

"Yeah, sure," Haruhi called over her shoulder, glancing back to see what he was asking. She went back to cooking and ignoring him as he opened the album. He shifted through the pictures. All of her in university. Most of them were clearly taken by the twins. There were plenty of her studying and a few of her on vacation with the twins, or the cousins.

There was a picture at the start of each of her university years with her holding her course textbooks, each year they got more plentiful. Tamaki noticed something, half way through her second year, Takashi showed up in the pictures more often. He stayed silent and when he flipped the page, he saw a picture taken by Mitsukuni with himself in the middle. Takashi had his arm around Haruhi's shoulder and he saw her hand clutching at his waist. A faint blush on both of their cheeks.

There was a picture of Haruhi and Takashi kissing that caused Tamaki's hands to quickly close the album. He sat there, looking at the album and Haruhi. Then he opened, to see if his eyes were deceiving him. He flipped through the rest, seeing more pictures that Mitsukuni had taken of the couple. Secretly at the time. Until he gave them to Haruhi before the end of her third university year. Tamaki closed the album and placed it on the table. Unsure of what to think of this information.

Haruhi called him for dinner and he quickly hurried over. Going back to his dramatic self. Halfway through dinner, Tamaki changed the subject suddenly. "Haruhi, did you ever date anyone after me?"

"Hm?" Haruhi asked, looking up from her noodles and pausing. She tilted her head to the side, in her cute way. Tamaki nearly blushed, but then thought back to the group gathering they had the other day. When Takashi had brought Haruhi home. Where they still dating?

"Did you ever date anyone after me?" he repeated the question, smiling at her. She paused and then slowly nodded. "Who?"

"Mori-senpai..." she answered truthfully. Tamaki choked on his noodles. Haruhi stood up and patted him on the back, "What's the matter?"

"I didn't expect you to answer me," he said truthfully, wiping his mouth with a towel. "Are you still dating him?" Haruhi shook her head after a moment. Unsure if she should really be talking to Tamaki about this. "Why not?"

"I'd rather not say," she whispered going back to eating her noodles. Tamaki stood up.

"Did he violate you? Oh, my poor daughter! Come here!" Tamaki hugged her tightly before pointing at her, "I shall get revenge for you!"

Haruhi was flustered for the first time in a long while, and she couldn't tell him that was not why they were dating as he grabbed his jacket, gave her a hug, and was out the door within a few seconds. She was half standing by the time the door slammed shut. Her arm extended out towards the door and a look of horror across her face.

"I shouldn't have said anything..."