Ok, I had this and another fic chapter almost finished... and then the internet stopped working. And my dad is way. And I don't like the new router; I was about ready to kill it. I need Google translate for my homework damn it! I fail at Spanish -.-;
By the way, was considering a pairing for the fic, would anyone be opposed to KyoHaru? Others pairings are still in consideration though!
Anyway I have finally got a second chapter up and am hoping to get them up more frequently, I'm sorry if it's been so long everyone's forgotten the story *cries* Here's the end of the last chapter to try and jog some memories.
PS: If anybody out there likes Soul Eater there is an awesome Ouran fic (not crossover) called Seishin Ripazu that you should check out by Spycier and Aro the Evil Demon, I recommend it!
'Of course Takimoto-san and we will also let Haruhi know you were concerned. We are going to visit him tonight as his father is working.'
'That is sweet of you Kyouya-kun, you don't want him to be alone, right?' a customer cooed. Kyouya nodded, exchanged looks with Huni and Mori, nodded once more and left, he made sure that Tamaki and the twins knew his plans. He would usually prefer to keep them out of things like this but it seemed a serious matter so he trusted them to behave for once.
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Haruhi waited until she was out of the school ground to start running, she stumbled a few times and twisted her ankle but kept going. Her heartbeat was getting faster and when the distant sound of thunder rumbled she focused on the pain in her ankle to stop fear from taking over. The rain was starting to soak through her shirt and she wished she hadn't destroyed her blazer.
By the time she opened the door with shaky hands she was soaked through and freezing, she stumbled into her bedroom, removing her shirt so she was only wearing a vest. She pulled the blanket off of her bed and hid in the corner, fear finally caught up with her and the adrenaline rush sent a now familiar sensation down her neck and over her shoulder blades, a moment later she heard the whoosh of wings and she curled herself inside them, inhaling the subtle scent of lilies.
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The customers had barely left the room when the hosts overtook them and piled into a waiting Aston Martin, the driver tried not to look startled as his young master all but threw himself in the car and his friends all followed.
'Ootori-sama, do you have something planned?' he asked hesitantly, eyes the twins who were shaking their heads like dogs, beads of water flying everywhere.
'Yes, we are visiting a friend, please put this address in the navigation system,' he handed the man a sheet of paper then turned to the twins, 'will you stop soaking everyone,' he hissed through his teeth. The twins stopped shaking their heads and fell silent before giggling behind their hands. Kyouya felt his pulse rising and his headache getting worse, maybe it would have been better if he hadn't told the fools of their plans. He looked around the seats at everybody, after the twins had calmed down everyone seemed strangely subdued.
Huni looked out of the window and the steadily worsening rain, Tamaki was doing the same but out of the opposite window with a thoughtful look on his face. The twins muttered quietly to each other and Mori seemed to be doing the same as Kyouya, just watching, thinking.
'Haru-chan!' Huni piped up, pressing his face to the glass. Everyone piled around the window to look at the figure blurred by rain, she was walking in the direction their car was going, almost at the same speed due to the slow traffic.
'How can you tell that's Haruhi,' Hikaru asked quizzically, squinting at the person.
'Only Haru-chan has those eyes,' Huni said cheerily, it was true the figure had turned to face them, Haruhi wide eyes staring at them from beneath a hooded coat.
'Stop the car,' Kyouya called to the driver, there was a flash of lightning and when spots stopped dancing in his eyes he looked straight into the brown eyes and she smiled at him in a way that was almost eerie, the car slowed to a halt and Huni and Hikaru, the two nearest the door stepped out as there was another flash of lightning.
The street was empty.
'Where'd she go?' Kaoru stepped out next to his brother, Tamaki following behind. Hikaru shrugged, searching the rainy blanket that was covering everything. Wherever she was they weren't going to find her in this weather.
'Get back in the car,' Kyouya instructed and the sodden teens slipped back into the seats, carrying the scent of rain with them, 'we'll just have to hope she makes it home, we'll see when we get there,' Tamaki shuffled agitatedly in his seat, not happy with the suggestion but knew better than to say anything, Mori sat unmoving in his seat, still holding that one petal between his finger and thumb. Kyouya looked from the petal to the university student's face and wondered just what was going on in his head, he seemed to understand the situation better than any of them.
'She looked at me straight in the eyes,' Kyouya's eyes slid over to the window again, looking at the dismal weather, the windows are tinted though,' his eyes moved to the ceiling, his headache seemed to worsen with each unanswered question being added to his mind. When the car stopped he stepped out of the car onto the pavement under the cover of an umbrella held by Mori.
'Would you like me to wait Ootori-sama,' the driver fidgeted and looked around the area in confusion, not understanding what his master was doing in this area.
'No, I'll call for another driver if it is necessary. You are dismissed,' he turned and led the others up the stairs to Haruhi's front door. He knew she wasn't heartless enough to send them away in the rain if they had nowhere to go.
'Do you think Haruhi's ok,' Tamaki hopped restlessly from foot to foot, soaking the bottom of his trousers in the process, 'the thunderstorms right above us,' as he said that a flash of light made them jump, followed closely but a deep rumble.
They all expected him to know the answer and it was frustrating him, he held his hand out to ring the doorbell.
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Haruhi lifted her head quickly from her cocoon, what was that noise? There was the sound of rain beating down on the roof but there was something else, a scratching noise? The doorbell rang shrill, Haruhi flinched and stumbled up knocking things off a shelf as she stood, and lightning flooded the room again. Haruhi's teeth chattered and she stood wondering what to do as the doorbell rang again.
'Have they found me?' she spoke but she couldn't hear her own words, had she even spoken?
'Haruhi? Open the door!' she was almost relieved to hear Hikaru's voice but she knew she couldn't open the door, she also knew that the host club were persistent and would most likely find and almost legal way to break in.
She turned to the window and heaved it open, clambering out and using her wings to vault onto the roof, lying flat on the roof she listened intently, her teeth chattering even more violently as her body started to shiver. She shuffled to the front of the building and looked down to see the entire host club assembled at her front door under an umbrella too small for all of them to stand under, she heard a jangle of key and they disappeared into her home.
'What a pathetic pair of wings you have, I doubt you can fly properly with those things,' a foreign tongue met Haruhi's ears and she froze, too scared to turn around, acid burned in her throat as all consuming fear fell over her in waves.
'Out in the thunderstorm probably isn't the safest place you know,' the terribly familiar voice continued. Hands grabbed her by the back of her soaking vest and forced her to turn around and come face to face with a duplicate of herself, larger wings almost blocking out the sky in her field of vision, 'your poor friend are so worried, they are stupid though, they thought I was you,' she laughed, 'we'll I guess I am.'
Swallowing the bile rising in her throat Haruhi held her chin up hoping the tears pouring down her cheeks were masked by the rain, 'you're going to kill me, aren't you?' her voice spoke in the same language, it came out quietly but she was surprised it come out at all. Her duplicate snickered from underneath her hood then laughed, her face twisting into an angry sneer.
'Kill you? What else would I be doing here? I didn't come for a nice little chat,' she fought to keep her voice on a level that could be masked by the rain, he hands moved from Haruhi's clothes to her throat.
Haruhi sagged slightly in the other's arms, 'get it over with then.'
'But that wouldn't be any fun,' she purred then her mood changed again and she hissed, 'I've waited years for The Authority to trust me enough to come and find you, I plan to make this as long and painful as possible.'
Haruhi frowned and sucked in a painful breath, 'why would you do that, it would hurt you too.'
The other laughed, 'there's more than one way to cause pain, nice to meet you, me, now if you excuse me I'm going to go collect my hostages.'
Haruhi's breath hitched and her eyes widened when she realised what she meant, 'no, don't you dare bring them into this, they're only human,' she had barely finished her sentence when she realised it was futile, maybe even only antagonising her duplicate further. But she knew this person and what she was capable of, there was no way in hell she was getting near Haruhi's friends or family.
With some effort she swung in her captors grasp and kicked her in the stomach, slipping past her to try and drop down into the open window, the other Haruhi swung around and grasped her neck with her hands, nails clawing at Haruhi's skin, she choked and scrabbled helplessly before heaving her weight over the side of the roof, bringing her duplicate with her.
'What do you think you are doing,' she hissed while clambering up, leaning on the rail that separated the small balcony outside of Haruhi's apartment and a drop to the floor bellow, Haruhi didn't reply, she pushed herself to her knees then slowly to her feet, the blow to the stomach she had given to her duplicate had just hit her, causing a strong throb that made the urge to be sick heighten again.
She heard people moving around in her apartment, looking for her no doubt, she half expected them to come running to where they had landed but the rain had masked the noise.
Without any warning the other Haruhi lunged at her and pushed her through the open window of Haruhi's bedroom, she grazed her wings painfully against the windowsill, petals tearing off and scattering, they landed with a heavy thud, hands closing around her throat yet again. Haruhi grabbed the arms that were chocking her and clenched her fists hard, trying to push them away.
'Stop struggling or I'll hurt your precious friends,' the other Haruhi spat. Haruhi stopped fighting, maybe she's provoked her double enough that she would kill her there and then, and everything would be a lot simpler.
The angry face that had been hovering above hers disappeared, her body flying to one side as a small person kicked the other Haruhi in the head. Haruhi lay on the ground, not really understanding what was going on until Huni tugged her into a sitting position.
Haruhi tried not to be amused as she watched Tamaki beat her duplicate in the head with a lamp, stunning her.
'Stop it!' she shouted, speaking in Japanese.
'But, Haruhi,' Tamaki turned to look at her in confusion, Mori appeared in the doorway, completely sodden and the twins closely followed.
'She said stop,' the other Haruhi said with a smile as wiped blood from her head and stood up shakily, she was speaking in fluent Japanese as well, not even a hint of an accent, 'you should listen to her like a good little boy.'
'Who the hell are you?' Kyouya spoke up, his mobile in his hand. Haruhi didn't know where he had come from; she was too overwhelmed by everything going on.
'Me?' the other Haruhi blinked innocently, 'I am Haruhi, don't you recognise me, I'm sitting over there,' she pointed to Haruhi.
'I don't understand,' Hikaru muttered, speaking what everyone was thinking.
The other Haruhi laughed, 'of course you don't, you're human. You can call me Yui then, so you don't get confused,'
There was still silence, Yui sighed, indifferently wiping more blood from one side of her face. Haruhi yelped as the side of head exploded in pain, blood dripping onto the floor. Huni's hand on her shoulder gripped tighter.
'Still don't understand I see,' something beeped on her wrist and she clicked her tongue in annoyance, she walked up to Haruhi and grabbed her arm, pulling her out of Huni's grip into hers, placing their heads side by side she smirked. Their wounds were identical, Haruhi looked at the faces of the host club with fear in her eyes, 'I am Haruhi and she is me, hurt me, you hurt her,' there was still silence.
She dropped Haruhi and Mori came forward and stopped her fall.
'If you excuse me, the idiots who say they're my masters are here, see you soon,' she waved casually and stepped up onto the windowsill, then she turned to Haruhi, changing language, 'you won't be so lucky next time, how would you like to see the walls painted with their blood?'
Haruhi sucked in a breath and then Yui was gone, leaving a heavy silence.
Tamaki sat down on the floor heavily; looking at the lamp in his hand, then at Haruhi's still bleeding head. Nobody else moved for what seemed like an eternity until Hikaru grew restless and whispered, 'what the hell is going on?'
'I'm guessing you won't settle with 'it would be safer if you didn't know',' Haruhi said, her teeth chattering as her adrenaline rush caused by fear and instinct started to subside, at least it meant the wings would disappear soon.
'No, we won't,' Kyouya muttered, it was difficult to make out what emotion was behind them.
'Thought so,' Haruhi gave a faint, humourless smile then passed out.
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Hikaru thought it was strange that they didn't notice Haruhi had two wings poking out of her back until they had disappeared, and it wasn't until the creepy not-Haruhi had left that hell really seemed to break loose. Kyouya was arguing with Huni about whether they should call an ambulance, Tamaki was wailing about murdering his daughter, Mori was moving Haruhi gently onto her bed and Kaoru was closing the window.
Hikaru stood in the doorway as he had for the last five minutes wondering what to do with himself, what the hell was happening and what the hell had Tamaki drugged them with.
'Am I high?' he muttered to himself, his brain didn't feel right but he didn't know if that was shock or drugs.
'Hm?' Kaoru turned.
'Wings,' Hikaru muttered.
'Yeah,' Kaoru frowned.
'Are we high?'
Kaoru would have laughed in another situation, 'I don't think so, this is all so weird though, do you think that girl was Haruhi's twin or something? The stuff she was saying was too...'
'Off the wall crazy?'
'Yeah,'
'It sounds crazy but Haru-chan is hurt, that's all that matters,' Huni said, shooting a glare at Kyouya who didn't even look at him.
'If we bring Haruhi to a hospital saying she got beaten in the head with a lamp by herself, not only will we be considered crazy but Tamaki's handprints are on the lamp so whether we lie or tell the truth it doesn't change the fact we won't like the outcome.'
Huni huffed and sat at the bottom of Haruhi's bed; Mori was putting blankets around her and trying to mop up the blood.
'Bleeding's stopped,' he informed them.
'I hurt Haruhi,' Tamaki muttered from the corner of the room, snivelling.
'After all that's happened in the last two hours all you can think about is that?' Hikaru shouted.
'Look what I did though!' Tamaki yelled back.
'Shut up,' Haruhi ordered from the bed causing everyone to jump, 'you didn't know it would hurt me, stop blaming yourself,' she muttered then swung her legs over the bed, stumbling but righting herself before Mori could help her.
'Rest,' Mori insisted.
'I need to call my dad first, I'll sit down after,' she left the room; the hosts stayed where they were as they listened to her dial the buttons.
'Hi, yes, I'm fine dad, no you didn't forget anything,' there was a pause, 'do you remember that promise you made? Yes, that promise,' there was another pause and a weaker voice continued, 'please, dad, you promised. You still have the bag stored at work don't you? You didn't spend the money? Good, go before I come and make you... Love you too,' the phone slammed down and almost a minute later Haruhi appeared into the doorway again, he face completely blank, her eyes were red rimmed though, eyelashes stuck together with drying tears.
'I will explain everything I know to you, I'm not going to ask you to believe me but I am going to ask you to do the same thing I've just asked my father,' nobody said anything, 'does anyone want tea while I talk?'
Next chapter will most likely be purely conversations. Sorry for any mistakes, my cat was attempt to sit on my face while I wrote this -.-
