Chapter 4-(Blessed be the loving sister)
Insert Disclaimer: really? Do I still have to do this?
Now remember people that this is still Haruhi remembering back to her wedding day and why she was marrying Kazuma in the first place.
The boys looked to Lei and started to blush in his own way. Lei giggled again and straitened out her skirt. Out of the corner of her eye she noticed someone coming their way. It was a young woman who looked about Lei's age. She had long brown hair and the same demanding eyes as Kazuma, she wore a long Chinese dress that hung on her hips and flowed to the floor. She stopped in front of the group along with someone who looked like an advisor or an assistant.
In a most demeaning yet soft voice she said, "You must be the friends of that harlot who stole my brothers heart!"
The boys had been surprised by the outburst of this total stranger concerning their best and closest friend. Mori immediately recognized the girl and stepped forward while Kyouya and Lei tried to calm the others down.
The young woman was about to speak when her attendant came forward.
"Ms. Daisuke, please don't run like that in the hallway. It isn't becoming of a lady with your upbringing to just run away and start screaming at people." The attendant says as she finally catches her breath.
"My apologies Ms. Yumeria-san but I had to see for myself what was keeping Kazu's attention."
"My lady, as your attendant and person in waiting-it is my job to educate you in how a lady should act and the responsibilities that you hold in being apart of the Yukiro family. Please keep that in mind before you wander like that again." Ms. Yumeria says as steps next to her charge. As the young woman scans the group, her eyes stop on Mori.
"Morinozuka-san?" She questions.
"Hello Mayuri-san," Mori says as he bows to her. The young woman does the same.
"It's been a long time Morinozuka-san it's good to see you." The attendant looks to her mistress and then the Morinozuka heir.
"My lady do you know this gentlemen?" She asks.
"Yes Ms. Yumeria- we met while he and Kazuma sparred together. I mean before uncle made him quit."
"I thought that Kazuma was an only child. Why did you call him brother?" Hani asked as he stood next to Mori.
"Kazuma and I grew up together. He's the only other child in our family besides me. He is my cousin and I have a particular interest in who my cousin is intending to marry. When I had first heard that he was marrying a common girl I almost cursed. He deserves better and should be marrying someone of equal status and wealth. To be honest I don't know what he or his parents were thinking. I only came by to see this girl and then I'll leave." Mayuri says as she answers Hani.
"Her name is Haruhi and she is our friend. Mayuri-san, I'll tell you only once-don't disrespect her like that ever again. " Mori says as he glares at the Daisuke heir.
The group looks to Mori and then to Mayuri. Hani looks to Mori with worry in his eyes, he tried to keep in mind that Mori knew these people before . Mayuri on the other hand didn't like his tone.
"You can't talk to me like that Takashi Morinozuka!" Mayuri yelled at the dojo heir.
"You shouldn't yell in a hospital. One may question your upbringing" Kyouya says calmly. A curt eye was the only response he received from Mayuri.
"Yes Ms. Daisuke, please calm down, your being too loud." Ms. Yumeria says as she tries to calm down the excited Daisuke heir.
"What's going on out here? " Haruhi says as she comes out of her fathers room.
"Haruhi Fujioka." Mayuri says as she looks Haruhi over with a disapproving eye. "
"Yes, that's me, and who may I ask are you?" Haruhi asks as she closes her fathers door.
"My name is Mayuri Daisuke. I am the cousin of Kazuma Yukiro and heir to the Daisuke zaibatsu. I wanted to see what you looked like and I must say that your just as I thought. . . .simple and common.
Tamaki couldn't take anymore of this and neither could Lei.
"HOW DARE YOU!", The both of them yelled.
Haruhi put her hand on Tamaki's shoulder and did the same with Lei. Without looking at either one of them she said, "Tamaki, Lei thank you but I've got it." She looked to Mayuri.
"I don't know why you feel that belittling me will somehow make everything go away but it wont. The silly thing is that the only one being simple is you. We've never met before today but if you don't like me then that's your problem. You must be a real lonely person to waste your time to come down to this hospital just to be disrespectful towards me. Its truly sad the you have to talk down to me even though you know nothing about me. Is talking down to others a part of your training to become the heir of the Daisuke zaibatsu or is it just the way you are?" Haruhi says as she comes closer to Mayuri.
Mayuri looks to Haruhi and without warning brings her hand up to slap Haruhi, but before her hand comes down it is caught by Yumeria.
"Yumeria, what is the meaning of this!" Mayuri says as Yumeria keeps a firm grip on her wrist.
"Ms. Daisuke that is enough. I agreed to take you to this hospital because you said that you wanted to talk but you obviously had no intention of that. You only wanted to come here to belittle this young lady. Obviously you are mad at not knowing about your cousins situation and I understand but that doesn't give you the right to do what you were about to do. You still have a lot to learn about controlling that temper of yours. I wont stand for this rude behavior. I'm taking you home as of right now and if you leave without anymore indiscretions I will not report this incident to your uncle." Yumeria says as she lets go of Mayuri's wrist.
Mayuri looks to Yumeria and then to the others. She eyes Haruhi and then bows.
"Ms Fujioka, I am sorry for the way that I acted towards you and I apologize to you friends. It will not happen again." With that Mayuri turns to leave. Yumeria looks on as the young girl reaches the exit.
"I truly am sorry for her outbursts, she and the young master haven't kept in touch in many years. Her uncle told her earlier today about the situation."
"She must have felt very left out." Mori says.
"You are very observant Morinozuka-san." Yumeria says as she bows to the group. "It was very good to meet you." Yumeria leaves towards the front exit.
"Well that was a colorful experience." Lei says as she rubs her head.
"Really, I mean I don't want to say that I was gonna hit her but. . . I was gonna hit her-okay maybe not hit her but something." Hikaru says as he drapes his arm around Haruhi.
"I know. What she was saying was ridiculous." Kaoru said as he mimicked his brother.
"She only said those things because she was hurt. I don't think Kazuma or anyone else told her about the arrangement that was made. She and Kazuma were very close once. Like Mori-sempai said she must have felt very left out." Haruhi said as she slips out of the twins reach and sits down on a bench.
"At any rate its been a long day and I really don't want to meet any more of Kazuma Yukiro's family for today." Tamaki says as he joins Haruhi on the bench. "How is your father Haruhi?"
"He heard all the commotion and told me to come out here and quiet everything down so he could sleep. He looked very drowsy and not just because of the medication. I don't think that dad's been sleeping well in here." Haruhi said as she puts a hand to her head. "He did fall asleep after I left the room though ."
Tamaki looks to Haruhi and then to the floor. He tries to think of something to say but can't come up with anything.
"Kyouya-sempai, how is the graduation party planning coming along?", Haruhi asks.
"Well, Misuya and I have squared away any last minute changes"-Kyouya looked to Tamaki and Tamaki looked to the floor-"we're just waiting for the invitations to come back from the printer.
"Kyouya, you've been spending a lot of your free time with Misuya-chan is something going on between you two?" Hikaru asks.
Kyouya almost immediately coughs as if to catch his breath.. The others notice this but don't say much.
"Misuya is a classmate who has been helping with the party planning as well as helping to curb most of Tamaki's extravagant ideas. Our relationship is strictly professional." Kyouya says as he heads for the door.
"Haruhi, if you like we can take you and Ms. Lei home." Tamaki says as he stands up from the bench.
"I'd appreciate that a lot Tamaki-sempai, thank you." Haruhi says as she gives him a smile that he immediately blushes at.
As the group goes to their respective vehicles Lei pulls out her cell phone.
"Hold on boys, I have to let my husband know you're taking me home." Lei says as she dials her husband. She tells her husband that she is getting a ride from the boys so he doesn't have to worry about her. While they walk outside the hospital,.
"You know Haruhi, I just realized something. You graduate in another year don't you?". Lei asked as she wrapped an arm around Haruhi.
"Well yeah next last year will be my last year in school, its almost unreal." Haruhi says as she looks to the boys. Even though Mori and Hani sempai had already graduated, they still made it a point to visit when they could. Tamaki and Kyouya were graduating this year and Haruhi couldn't help but feel that slowly everyone was slipping away. She knew that the boys would never let her forget them though but she did feel that they each had to do their own thing and grow up. The host club still went on but it wasn't the same when Hani and Mori left, it'll totally be different when Kyouya and Tamaki leave this year.
"Haruhi would you and Ms. Lei like to ride with Kyouya and I." Tamaki asks as he holds the door for the two ladies."
"No thank you Tamaki-sempai, Lei and I will ride with the twins." Haruhi said as she grabbed Lei's hand.
"But Haruhi. . ." Tamaki pleaded as he held the door. Kyouya took this moment to get in the limousine. "Moron." , he said as he sat down. "
On the drive back to Haruhi's house the boys were talking amongst themselves about the up and coming party that Haruhi would be attending with Mori sempai. Tamaki and Kyouya however were riding in silence, which was bliss for Kyouya but annoying to Tamaki. The half French half Japanese blonde sighed so ridiculously loud that Kyouya couldn't stand it any longer.
"Tamaki is there something that you would like to talk about?", Kyouya asked as the driver rounded a corner.
"Kyouya, do you realize that Haruhi will be attending that dinner party with Kazuma Yukiro and we wont be there to support her.?" Tamaki said as he looked to Kyouya with teary eyes.
"First of all Tamaki, she wont be there alone-Mori will be with her. Second of all, we each have family business to take care of. You have to go with your father to your grandmothers grave(yes I killed her off, but I let her die peacefully in her sleep. FYI, before she passed away she forgave Tamaki's father for his indiscretions and finally acknowledged Tamaki as a part of the Suoh family.) and pay your respects, then you have to attend that unveiling of the new resort with him. Tamaki how would it look if the heir to a fortune five hundred company couldn't make it to such an important event?" Kyouya said as he looked to the blonde heir.
"Yes well, I thought for sure that Hikaru and Kaoru would be able to go." Tamaki said pouting.
"They will be gone the longest, a week remember? They have to help their mother open her new line of Hitachiin wear in Italy and she'll need them to know the ropes when she's gone. Honestly Tamaki we were all in the same room when we told each other this, how could you forget?" Kyouya says as he takes his glasses off and rubs his eyes.
"Yeah, your right, I guess I forgot." Tamaki says as he looks out the window.
"(chuckle) You're a year older but not wiser. Tamaki I wish that I didn't know what was going on with you but I do." Kyouya said as he looked to Tamaki's lavender eye.
"What do you mean Kyo?" Tamaki said blankly.
"What I mean is that you love Haruhi. And not as a daughter. You love her as a person. . . .no a woman. You were so upset that she agreed to marry someone she didn't know, you barley talked about her and that is rare for you. You want her for yourself, which is understandable- she is an amazing person. She completes us all in a way. You however have different intensions with Haruhi. I completely understand though, you are a man with urges" Kyouya said as he looked back to the window.
"Kyouya please!" Tamaki interrupted. "My intentions with Haruhi are. . . . ."
"Of the girlfriend variety. Well at least they would be if you would just grow a pair and tell her how you feel about her. What are you afraid of Tamaki. . .rejection?"
"It's too late for me. She's already getting married to Kazuma Yukiro and . . . ."
"Too late you say?" Kyouya said as he cut Tamaki off. "I don't think that I have ever heard you say that. Don't give up Tamaki. At any rate, I have been looking into that contract that Kazuma made with Haruhi and there may a loophole but don't quote me yet. In the mean time they are not married. We only see him at the hospital, and it isn't like he's at our school. Now with that being said since we're at our destination I suggest that you grow that pair that I told you to grow and tell Haruhi Fujioka how you feel about her."
"What if she doesn't feel the same way?" Tamaki said with his head down.
"So what if she doesn't, are you going to care about her any less?" Kyouya says as he glares at Tamaki through this glasses.
"Of course not." Tamaki sighed. "I would still love her even if she didn't love me the same way. I would still care and I would never stop."
"I thought as much. Now we need to see Haruhi off with a smile because we don't want her to think that we were thinking of a plan now do we." Kyouya says as he steps out of the limousine.
"Right." Tamaki says with a bright smile as he leaves the limo as well.
As Kyouya and Tamaki came to Haruhi's front steps they heard the others talking.
"So Haruhi, what are your plans for the rest of the day? Kaoru asked as he laid an arm on his brother.
"Well, I would have liked to stay at the hospital with my dad but he looked very tired and he kind of kicked me out of his room. Something about him not wanting me to see him like that. I am hungry though." She started as she made her way up the stairs.
"Haruhi, I don't mind making you and your friends something to eat. If you gentlemen can't stay though, I understand." Lei says as she heads up the stairs as well.
"Ms Lei." Tamaki started as he took Lei's hand into his own. ". . .My companions and I would be delighted to spend the day enjoying your cooking."
"Stop it Tamaki sempai- Lei isn't a high school girl that you can charm with fancy words." Haruhi said as she came to the door.
"Tamaki you are a charmer aren't you." Lei says as she unlocks her door.
"Lei-chan can we have cake?" Hani-chan asked as he came into her apartment.
"Well of course. I can make a cake and you can help if you like." Lei says as she her jacket off.
"WOW! I would love to help you make a cake Lei-chan." Hani says as he follows Lei into the kitchen.
"If you guys want to help too- I need one of you strong gentlemen to go and get the extra futon from the closet in the hallway." Lei says as she gets out her supplies.
"I'll get it." Mori volunteers.
"Lei do you need me to help in the kitchen?" Haruhi says as she pokes her head in the kitchen doorway.
"Ummm. No Haruhi you can just sit down and take it easy for a while. I know for a fact that in your house you're the only one who cooks. You don't have to worry about that here. If you need something to keep you busy then you can play some old videos of mine."
"Oh alright." Haruhi looked to the collection of DVD's that occupied Lei's storage case and came across one that seemed to catch her eye. " Hmm. . .The case of the Old Time Bandit, one of my favorites."
Mori had brought in the extra futon and everyone gathered around to sit down. Haruhi placed the DVD in the player and as the screen came on the boys were introduced to a surprising sight. If they didn't know better then they would suspect that the teenage sleuth on the screen was Lei herself.
"Haruhi this girl seems familiar, is she someone that we've met before?" Tamaki asked as he sat next to her.
"Well yes, I would have to say so. Tamaki that's Lei when she was younger." Haruhi answers as she looks to the surprised faces of her friends.
"That's Ms. Lei?" Tamaki asks as he does a double take at the screen.
"Yes that's Lei when she was about 14 or 15 years old-I think this was her second or third movie." Haruhi answered as she turned the volume down a little.
"Ms Lei, you're a movie star?" Tamaki asks as he steps into the kitchen.
"I was a movie star Tamaki years ago and a real good one. I made three sleuth movies- I've been in four action movies and I did all of my own stunts." Lei answers as she finishes mixing the vegetables' for the soup. She the got the meat ready for frying, along side the chicken strips. Hani was still mixing the cake batter with a big grin on his face.
"Well how come you live here instead of a mansion or condo?" Hikaru asks as he sits down at the futon.
"Hikaru, your being rude." Haruhi warned as she shot a glare at the Hitachiin heir.
"Oh, sorry. I guess that was kinda rude wasn't it?" Hikaru answered.
"(giggle)That's okay Hikaru. Well I should start from the beginning. I was done with my last movie when I was about 18 years old and a producer came to me with a proposition. He wanted me to star in a new movie about a teenage streetwalker who has sex for money and ends up killing herself. I was against the movie but it turned out that the company that I had been working for had okayed it way before the producer had asked me about it. My parents were so upset that we ended up breaking my contract-getting sued and basically never doing another movie again. The company really took my name to the cleaners, but I'm not mad though. I was against the movie and voiced my opinion. I kept my integrity and positive attitude. I wouldn't have been able to do it if it weren't for my parents standing behind me.
"Lei you have been done a grave injustice!" Tamaki yelled as he grabbed Lei's hands into his own. " . . .but fear not, I will fight to make sure that you are a movie starlet once more."
"Tamaki calm down." Lei said as she took her hands back.
"Yeah boss, if your too loud someone might call the cops on us." The twins said as they rummaged through the DVD collection. Tamaki blushed at the comment and covered his mouth.
"Thank you Tamaki but I'm comfortable right were I am and I'm not bitter about not being famous anymore. I'm happy here with my family and I wouldn't want any other way." Lei says as she pats Tamaki on the head with a smile. She then went back to check on the food.
"The food will be ready in five minutes people." Lei says while giving the soup a last stir.
At that same moment a key turns the lock and Saisho comes into the house with Abi straddling his hip.
"Wow I guess we came in at the right time didn't we." Saisho says as he puts Abi down. Abi giggles and heads over to his mother in the kitchen.
"Hello everyone." Saisho says as he bows to the group.
"Good evening Saisho-san." Haruhi says as she bows to Saisho. He grins as she sits up.
"Haruhi, remember that I told you that you can call me Saisho, its not like I'm that much older than you." Saisho says as he walks toward the kitchen.
"Well I'll try to remember that." Haruhi says she blushes a little. Tamaki notices and so do Hikaru, Kaoru and Kyouya.
"Alright the cake is ready!" Hani says as he brings the cake to the futon.
"Well Hani-chan, you did a really good job on the cake. "Haruhi says as she clears the flowers off of the futon. The twins and Mori sit on either side of Haruhi while Tamaki and Kyouya sit next to Hani-chan and Lei. Tamaki pouted a little at the distance between him and Haruhi.
"Honestly Lei did most of the real work of baking, I did the icing." Hani-chan admitted while he grabbed a knife to cut the cake.
"You did a nice job with the icing Hani-sempai but aren't you going to eat the food first?" Haruhi says as she hands out the plates.
"Don't you worry about me Haru-chan, I'll be sure to leave room for everything else." Hani-chan says as he cuts a big piece of cake for himself.
"Remember that you should brush afterwards Mitsukuni." Mori says as he cuts Hani's large slice of cake in half.
"I wont forget Takashi." Hani says as he digs in.
"Everyone, dinner is served." Lei says as she brings a tray of food to the table. Saisho comes behind her with a tray in one hand and soup in the other. As the trays are laid down and the food is being eaten, the twins notice that Haruhi isn't eating as much as she should. The food is delicious and everyone including Kyouya cant believe that they have eaten anything better-save to say Haruhi's cooking.
"Haruhi, how come your plate isn't full- you should eat." They said in their creepy twin unison.
"I just don't have that much of an appetite right now guys." Haruhi says as she picks at her chicken with chopsticks.
"Well if you don't want to feed yourself . . . . . "Hikaru started.
"Then we can feed you ourselves." Kaoru finished as he grabbed a spoon and caressed Haruhi' cheek. While he did that Kaoru went to wipe Haruhi's mouth. Hani was busy with his cake and Mori was watching to make sure he didn't eat too much of it. Lei giggled while covering her mouth as Saisho covered Abi's eyes. Kyouya notices everything and takes video with his surveillance/eyeglasses while Tamaki turned red with anger. He couldn't take their displays of indecency anymore.
"That will be enough!" Tamaki yelled as he slammed his fist into the futon and stood up in a red faced rage.
"What is it boss?" The twins asked while still hovering and trying to feed Haruhi.
"What is it?" Tamaki mocked. " The way that you are trying to harass and seduce Haruhi is wrong."
"Do you mean to say that there is a right way to harass and seduce Haruhi?" the twins say as they look to Tamaki.
The blonde turned completely red from head to toe even his clothes were red with embarrassment. Lei giggled louder while Saisho chuckled. Mori almost spit out his soup while Kyouya chuckled as well and leaned to the side a little. Hani continued to eat his cake with a bright grin on his face.
"That's not what I meant to say and you know it! To use such language in the presence of a child is inexcusable and the way you are treating Haruhi is demeaning. I wont stand for it!" Tamaki says as he steps forward to the twins. The twins begin to stand up as well. Everyone else looks on.
"Sorry that you feel that way boss." Kaoru said as he wrapped an arm around Haruhi.
"Yeah we were only trying to get Haruhi to eat more." Hikaru says as he puts the spoon down.
"That does it. I don't want the two of you touching on Haruhi or licking her face like you did that one time, or any of the other inappropriate things that the two of you are known to do with her. I wont stand for it any longer!" Tamaki yelled as he looked to Haruhi.
"Tamaki calm down, they didn't mean anything by it, you know how they like to play around. Its okay." Haruhi says as she pulls the twins off of her.
"That's not it. I need to talk to you outside please." Tamaki begged
"Sure Tamaki." Haruhi answers as she steps towards the door with him.
"What do you think is going to happen.?" Hani asks Mori.
"I don't know." Mori answers.
"Do you think that he'll finally tell her?" Hikaru asks as he sits back down, Kaoru joins him.
"He had better cause if he doesn't, I'm totally gonna kick his. . ."
"Now Kaoru we are in the presence of a lady and child." Kyouya says as he continues to eat. "Besides, I think that he finally grew a pair."
"A pair of what Kyouya-sempai?" Kaoru asks as he continues to eat as well.
"Nothing. Lets just enjoy this wonderful food that Mrs. Sumarra has prepared for us." Kyouya says as he fills his bowl one more time.
While everyone was eating inside, Tamaki and Haruhi were standing in silence outside of the apartment door. Tamaki looked to Haruhi who was looking up at the stars and being silent.
"Haruhi there's something that I need to tell you. Its something that I have been needing to tell you for a long time now."
"Yes, what is it?" Haruhi asked as she turned to him with those eyes of hers.
Tamaki took a deep breath and thought his words through. This was going to be one of the most important things that he would ever say to Haruhi.
"Haruhi. . .I" Tamaki was interrupted by a horn beeping in the street. It was a limo but neither of the two recognized it until the passenger came out.
"Haruhi!" the figure yelled.
"Who is that?" Tamaki asks as he comes a little closer to the railing.
"It looks like Kazuya." Haruhi answered as she recognized him.
He came to the staircase and made his way up.
"Kazuya, what are you doing here?" Haruhi asked.
"Its you father. I had just gotten a call at home saying that he isn't doing well." Kazuya starts.
"What do you mean?" Tamaki asked.
"They told me that he woke up and started having those headaches that he was having before. The they said that he went back to sleep but he wont open his eyes." Kazuya says as he tries to catch his breath.
"What does that mean?" Haruhi asks.
"He's in a coma." Kazuya says as he lowers his eye to his contract bound fiancé.
"Coma. . . . . Oh my god, dad!"
Its been a while people and I apologize for taking such a long time with this chapter-but I will try my best to keep this fanfic going. Please keep all of the reviews coming. And thanks to all who support and favorite me.
Chapter 5(Blessed be the loving cousin) is up next
