Author's Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran High School Host Club or characters, if I did, the video game that's out over in Japan would be here in America. But sadly, I don't.
Chapter Four: A Circle is Circle, You Know…
" Do you know how boring that gets? I mean nothing is biting." Just then, he heard something splashing about and noticed Haruhi reeling in a fish. "How did you do that?" He looked down in embarrassment.
Haruhi smiled, unhooked the fish and placed it in the bucket. "Patience."
Hikaru laughed a bit. "Yeah, that's kinda difficult to have if you're me." Haruhi looked at the water and back at Hikaru. "I should leave you alone so you can fish." She gave him back the pole. "Have fun and don't worry if you don't catch a lot of fish, three should be plenty and you have one already."
Hikaru nodded. "Yeah."
She walked off in the direction that the water was flowing. Hikaru watched her and sighed. 'What is this feeling that I'm getting all of sudden? It's like it only appears when Haruhi is here.'
Hikaru was suddenly shaken out of his thoughts when he felt a tug on his line. He reeled it in and had caught his first fish. He turned to call Haruhi back and show her, but she was already out of sight. He placed in it the bucket and went back to fishing.
Somewhere else where
Hunny's arms were piled with sticks and Mori's with stones, carrying Usa-chan on his shoulders. "Takashi, I was watching the weather channel before we left this morning and they said that there might be a thunderstorm tomorrow night. What's Haru-chan going to do?" Hunny was obviously upset, the host club knew how Haruhi got when it came to thunderstorms.
"Mitsukuni, she'll be fine. Don't worry. She has us." Mori smiled softly and they both headed back to the campsite.
They both returned to the campsite and saw Kaoru holding a basket full of fruits, berries, and leafy vegetation. "Mori-Senpai, Hunny-Senpai, you're back. Did you guys run into Hikaru or Haruhi yet?" The two cousins shook their heads. "No, we haven't."
Kyouya stood up and spoke. "She went to explore the area and Hikaru is most likely still fishing. You guys shouldn't worry about them." He pushed his glasses up again and looked at the tree where Tamaki was last seen. He was gone. 'He must've retreated to his tent.'
Back to Haruhi
Haruhi had followed the flowing stream for a while and she was wondering when it was going to end. Just as she thought of it, the stream ended at a small water area with waterfalls and a small spring next to it. 'Wow, this is so perfect. A nice place to relax and I'm sure the others would like this place too.'
Haruhi smiled and turned around to head back to campsite. She pulled out her cell phone that the twins gave her. She wanted to make sure that everyone made it back safely. She called Hikaru first, to see if he had finished fishing and made it back.
Ring. Ring. Ring.
He answered. "Haruhi? Where are you? Did you make it back to the campsite?" Hikaru was asking more questions than she could answer. Haruhi followed the stream back. "I'm coming back now, did you make it back yet?"
Hikaru followed the stream in its flowing direction. "No, I decided to head your way because you really shouldn't be out here alone, you know." Haruhi could hear the trace of worry in his voice. "Yeah, but I found something that everyone will like." She informed him about the place she had found. "Hey. Look, I'll meet up with you in a few, okay?"
Hikaru hung up the phone continued to walk through the woods, carrying his pole and buck of fish. Not too long after walking, he was able to Haruhi walking towards. He didn't know but he was really happy to see her.
Haruhi had seen Hikaru and had picked up her pace a little to see him. "Hey, did you catch anything since I've been gone?" She asked him as they approached each other. Hikaru looked at her and showed her the bucket.
"Yeah, but will this be enough?" Haruhi took a glance in the bucket and noticed that there were about five fish in the bucket. "Wow, Hikaru. How did you manage to catch that many fish?"
Hikaru smiled. "Patience." Haruhi smiled and started walking again. "Let's go. We don't want Senpai going crazy and worrying about us." Hikaru nodded and followed suit. When they both reached the campsite, it looked like Tamaki had assembled a search squad to find Haruhi and Hikaru.
"Alright, Men. Formation A, which is Kaoru and Hunny-Senpai, you go and search the east woods while Formation B, Kyouya and Mori, search the west woods." Tamaki was pointing in all sorts of directions and barking orders. Hikaru and Haruhi walked up.
"Uh, Boss? What the hell are you doing?" Hikaru asked him. Tamaki turned around and saw Haruhi and hugged tightly. "Oh Haruhi, my precious daughter! Did that sly, devil Hikaru hurt you?" Haruhi was being squeezed so tightly she couldn't breathe.
"No, but you are Senpai. Let go!" She wormed her way free of his intense hug. She took a few breaths to get her breathing regulated again. She glanced at him. "I see you're back up and running like usual."
"Haru-chan, are we going to have lunch now? I have cake!" Hunny held up at least three different kinds of cakes. Haruhi nicely dismissed him. "No, that's all right, Hunny-Senpai. You can have cake. Anyways, do you guys collect the stick and stones?" Hunny nodded and pointed to a huge pile of sticks and stones. Haruhi was too shocked for words
"Wow. That's a lot of it." She looked at Tamaki. "Since you didn't do anything, Senpai, you can set the stones in a circle and put a few sticks in the middle. Think you can handle it?" The twins smirked and drew something on a piece of paper and gave it to Tamaki.
"Here, Boss. This is the right way to make a campfire." Hikaru said assuring him. "Yeah, Boss, it's a campfire circle, so it's not supposed to look like a real circle." Kaoru smiled, "It's the commoner's way." Tamaki looked at them. "Really? This is what it looks like? Thanks for the help." Tamaki went over to the stones and began setting them in the form as it was on the paper.
Little did Tamaki know, the twins were playing another one of their tricks on him and he was too oblivious to take notice. Circle is a circle. Period.
Hikaru gave Haruhi to bucket fish. "I take it you're going to need these, aren't you?" Haruhi nodded. "Yeah, thanks, Hikaru." Hikaru walked over to Kaoru gave him his signature smile. Kaoru walked over to Haruhi. "So do you need any help with cooking?" Haruhi smiled a bit. "Kaoru, can you even cook?"
"Uh, does burning down one of our mansions interfere with me learning how to cook?" Kaoru laughed sheepishly. Hunny came over hugging Usa-Chan. "Yeah, Kao-chan and Hika-chan are horrible cooks. They both burned down a mansion each." So, in other words, the twins destroyed two mansions. Kaoru shrugged his shoulders. "But still, that doesn't hinder the fact I want to learn how to cook," Kaoru and Hikaru smirked and looked towards Tamaki, "Especially, with beautiful girl such as you, Haruhi." Hikaru held her hands and gave her a sincere, yet devilish smile.
Tamaki glared at him. "You shady doppelgangers… How dare you speak to your sister in that tone!' he was having one of his spazzing moments again. "Kyouya!! Tell them not to harass their sister! Send them to bed without dinner!" Tamaki pleaded to Kyouya, who was back to being on his laptop again. "I have to be honest with myself, where has my youth gone?" Tamaki sulked and continued to set up the stone circle and sticks.
Kaoru and Hikaru both put an arm around her. "So, Haruhi, when does the real fun start? Like truth and dare?" They both said in unison and grinned. Haruhi looked at them as she cleaned the fish that Hikaru caught. "Funny. I thought the game was called truth OR dare?" The twins smirked, "What fun would that be if you were able to chose truth or dare," Hikaru started, "then people would choose what they prefer to by all means avoid humiliation." Kaoru finished.
Haruhi had set the fish on sticks after she cleaned them. Tamaki came over with teary eyes. "Haruhi, you're not really to play such a horrible game, are you? Especially not with these two idiots?" He pointed to the twins accusingly. "It couldn't hurt to try, Senpai. I mean, it's just a harmless game." She shrugged a bit. "'It's just a harmless game' she says." Tamaki looked as if he were in despair. "Hey Senpai, did you finish the circle?" Haruhi asked him.
Tamaki jumped up with joy and pride. "Why, of course! It's the best circle I've ever created with laboring hands." Haruhi looked at the circle and looked back at Tamaki. "Um, Senpai, that is a square with rounded corners." Tamaki looked at his 'circle.' "No, Haruhi, that is a circle that is used by commoner's when they go camping." Hunny and Mori came over and looked at Tamaki's creation. "No, Tama-chan, that's a square with rounded corners, right Takashi?" Mori nodded in agreement. "Yeah. It's a square."
Kyouya looked up from his laptop. "Only a dummy would not know that it was square from the beginning." Tamaki suddenly felt as if his face was temporarily replaced with a donkey's face. He turned to look at the twins who were laughing their heads off. "I can't believe he actually did it!" Kaoru was doubled over, dying laughing along with his brother. "He really thought it was a circle!" Hikaru was in tears from laughing so hard.
Tamaki stormed over and picked up both twins by their collars. "Why would you do something like that?! You told me it was commoner's circle! And now you two idiots made me look like an idiot!" he yelled at the two twins , who were still in laughing state. "We were bored, Boss," Hikaru toned down his laughing a bit to explain. "Yeah, we needed something to do." Kaoru finished Hikaru's sentence.
"Tamaki-Senpai, you should've known. Circle is a circle." Haruhi told him. Hunny was sitting in a chair eating cake with Usa-chan. "Yeah, Tama-chan. A circle is a circle." Mori also added his input. "A circle is a circle." Tamaki looked at Kyouya. Still busy on his laptop, without looking, he spoke to him. "A circle is a circle." Tamaki would have usually went to his corner of despair, but he wasn't in a room, so a tree would have to do for now. He crouched into fetal position and sulked to himself. "Damn shady twins…"
The twins laughed and fixed the square and made it into a circle. Haruhi had a lit a fire with the sticks within the stone circle and carefully placed each fish stick (ha ha, get it? fish stick? The fish is on a stick. Nevermind. Continue.) in the ground and leaned it ever so slightly so that the fire would cook it. After a few minutes, the fish were done and completely ready to eat. The host club had finally eaten lunch together after a day full of chores and humiliation or just on Tamaki's part.
When the host club was done eating, everyone started to get chairs and pulled them up next to fire. Kaoru was carrying two chairs, obviously one for himself and one for Hikaru. Haruhi noticed that the sun was getting close to setting. She went to go get her sleeping bag ready to put in her tent when she noticed another figure carrying all of the sleeping bags. It was Hikaru and he was helping everyone with their sleeping gear. "Hey Haruhi, were you looking for your sleeping bag? I have it right here if you want it." He smiled softly and walked towards her. "Do you need help carrying any of that? It seems like a lot, Hikaru." Haruhi offered to help him as he handed her stuff over to her. "Nah, I got it. If you want you can help me place the sleeping bags in everyone's tent." Haruhi's nodded and helped him out. She dropped her stuff off in her tent and went to help Hikaru.
Kaoru was watching them secretly from the corner of his eyes. He was kinda interested in what they were doing. Haruhi helped put the sleeping bag in everyone's tent and in no time they were done. The only one who needed to put their stuff in their tent was Hikaru and Kaoru's. Haruhi looked at Hikaru. "Do you still need help with that?" Hikaru smiled. "I wouldn't mind the help."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~**~**~*~*~*~*~*~*A/N: Okay, that's chapter 4 for you. I had really bad writer's block over the weekend, so I wasn't able to post up when what I wanted when I wanted to. But it's here. I'm slowly but surely adding more HikaHaru moments, slowly. I don't want it to go too fast, but not too slow either. It's getting there and once again, a little out of character for everyone. I'm still trying to get better but it's all good. Stay tuned for chapter 5, coming soon to a computer near you. Remember, read and review.
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