Hello everyone! I've been getting so many wonderful comments from everybody! It's really been making me get into this story! I'm already working on the next chapter, so hopefully I'll be able to update again soon! I just wanted to get a few things cleared up before I went on. For those of you who kept up with the manga, I never read it, so you'll have to forgive me if I base the characters off of what I saw in the anime. For those of you who followed the anime...treat it as if Eclair never happened. They decided to keep Haruhi's secret just a little longer. Treat it as time went by normally to the next year. By now, Honey and Mori would be in the university section of Ouran. So, if there are any questions, let me know and I'll try to answer them as best as I can. Now, on to the story!___________________________________________________________

What time was it? She looked at her clock and almost fell out of bed; her wonderfully soft bed. As she examined it, she smiled...then she remembered that she didn't know who the gift was from. She didn't have school today so she couldn't ask the guys unless she called them, but then she'd probably have to commit to spending the day with them. It was tempting, but she had some serious studying to do, plus if she didn't play this game that Renge gave her she had a feeling that she'd be in trouble with the self-proclaimed "lady manager".

She got ready for the day and then decided to go ahead and set up her new gaming system. She got it ready pretty easily and sat down to put in Uki Doki Memorial. Alright, what now? She needed to make a profile, okay, that should be simple enough.

Name: Haruhi

Age: 16...oops...17 now.

Hair: Brown

Height: 155

Why did this game need to know all of that about her?

Hello Haruhi, could you tell us about your ideal man? She read the screen and frowned. Her ideal type of man huh? She'd never really thought about that before. Is he taller than you are? Well, if she thought about it she probably wouldn't want to date someone shorter than she was, so yes. Is he older than you are? ...Ugh...was there a skip button? She didn't want to answer a million questions when she wasn't even sure if she knew the answers to them herself!

"What!" The first person she was going to get to know in the game based off of her answers was HIM! Ugh, she had to be cursed or something; that was the only way to describe this turn of events. She didn't know if she could play this game with the spitting image of Kyouya on the screen. When she looked at the game, she could really see the similarities between this Ichijo Miyabi character and Kyouya.

She sighed and almost turned the game off, but then again she had a feeling that Renge wouldn't stop pestering her until she played. In fact, it may be lucky for her that she got Ichijo Miyabi first because then she could tell Renge what she thought about him; he was probably the only character in the game Renge wanted to hear about anyway.

FIVE HOURS LATER

"Is that the time already!" Geez, she could see how it was so easy for Renge to be addicted to this game! You just sort of lost track of time! She had to get off this game and finish up some homework. She had a test coming up too! She should have studied first and then played the game after that! Ahhh this was terrible...she wanted to play the game some more!

Wait...was she turning into some closet otaku? She should have played enough to satisfy Renge by now...she'd just put it away and forget about it. It wasn't like she had wanted to play it for any particular reason other than to satisfy Renge anyway right? She nodded her head, convinced that that had been her reason for wanting to continue playing the game...to satisfy Renge.

Just in case some of you are unfamiliar with the term, I've listed the defination of otaku below. Oh, and yes...in this story (as with the anime) it is an insult.

Otaku, meaning probably "venerable house," refers to someone who has a devotion to a subject or hobby (not necessarily anime) to the point of not leaving home. For instance, an otaku fan of a particular movie star could quite possibly know all of the films s/he has been in, their birth date, time of birth, shoe size, favorite toothpaste, etc. Generally speaking, calling someone an otaku in Japan is an insult, implying that their social skills have atrophied or never even developed, due to their manic involvement in their chosen fandom.

In America, the term is used to denote a zealous fan, usually of anime and/or manga. Due to its introduction to most people's vocabulary through its tongue-in-cheek use in Gainax's film, "otaku" tends to have a much less dire definition overseas.

When dealing with Japanese people, however, it may be best to keep in mind the modern Japanese image of an otaku -- Someone who only leaves their home to eat or shop, if at all, with an overwhelming and unhealthy obsession about something. It can as easily refer to a stalker or sociopath as it can to a harmless anime buff.