A/N: I want to thank Dessi16 for your help on this chapter, and AnimeApprentice for giving me the idea of the prank. I honestly would not have been able to finish this chapter if not for both of your help! I also want to thank everyone that has reviewed this story. I love reading what you think and your support has been great. To all of my followers and readers… THANK YOU! I hope you enjoy this next installment. Let me know what you think.
Chapter 4 – Dinner Crashers
"Hi Hunny-senpai, I think we need to reschedule dinner. The three musketeers just showed up at my house with dinner," Haruhi grumbled into the phone. It was 6:30 and the wannabe men brought her and her father dinner. She could tell they weren't leaving any time soon.
"They did? Why?" Hunny was curious as to why they would show up unannounced, but then he did a face palm for even asking that question. Tamaki was involved and when he was involved there was no telling what would happen. "Never mind, don't answer that question. Ok, I will call Takashi and let him know. Satoshi had to cancel anyway because Chika-Chan wanted to do something with him tonight. How about tomorrow? You can ride home with me and Takashi. Just bring clothes to change into at my house. That should stop those three from interfering again. Let me get off of here and call Takashi. Good Luck with those three."
"Ok Senpai. Thanks for understanding. I will see you tomorrow," said Haruhi as she hung up the phone smiling. She was grinning over Hunny-Senpai's final words.
The three teens were listening to her conversation and noticed the dreamy smile alighting her face as she got off of the phone convincing them further that Hunny was her boyfriend. They believed that although she said she would have said yes to Tamaki if he would have asked first, Hunny her boyfriend and that was the reason for what they assumed was a wistful look on her face.
"I'm sorry that we burst in on you Haruhi, did you have plans with Hunny-senpai?" Hikaru asked trying to sound innocent. In his mind he was thinking it was a good thing they had shown up early or they might have missed her. Tamaki always the worry wart had called the twins and told them to be ready two hours sooner than they previously scheduled.
"Yes, I did. We had dinner plans tonight, but we rescheduled them," she said looking at her three friends.
"Ok, I have to ask, why Hunny-senpai?" Kaoru asked. He was trying to understand why she chose to be with the shortest host, and he knew Tamaki and Hikaru were curious also.
"What do you mean why? He asked and I said yes. End of story," she defended. She felt like she had to explain why she was helping a friend and that was stupid and pathetic, "Why not Hunny-senpai? Am I not allowed to make my own decisions and be around whomever I choose?"
"Well, yes you are, but I can't believe you are dating him over one of us!" Hikaru fumed jealously.
"What?" Haruhi screeched. She did not hear what she thought she did coming from Hikaru's mouth. It is not possible. They thought she was dating Hunny-senpai?
"Now Haruhi don't be mad at your daddy or your brothers, we just want what's best for you. You don't know how Hunny-senpai is and we feel that he is not the right man for you. You need someone more like your daddy," Tamaki explained calmly. He thought he was doing a good job of it too.
"What do you mean by that Senpai?" Haruhi inquired angrily. First they make assumptions about who she is dating and now they are telling her who she can and cannot date. As if she would ever date Tamaki or the twins for that matter.
"He means that Hunny-senpai is not the man for you and you can do much better," Kaoru said trying to instill an air of serenity.
"The man is shorter than you for God sakes and he acts like he is still in grade school. You need someone more mature and taller!" Hikaru injected.
"And let me guess, you are that man?" Haruhi tested clenching her fists. She had moved from mad at her friends to very pissed off.
"Well, yes, I could be that man!" Hikaru said raising his voice.
"Enough! All of you, I want you out of my house now!" Haruhi bellowed.
"B-b-but Haruhi, you love daddy. You don't want to kick me out. It is only the evil twins, right?" Tamaki asked hopeful.
"No, all of you get out or I will call Kyoya-senpai to send over his police. Then I will call Hunny-senpai to come over and help take out the garbage. And in case you didn't get it, you three are the garbage tonight!" She watched the color drain from her three supposed friends' faces. They all jumped up and ran to the door. When they had finally left, she then slammed it shut and locked it. She was fuming and could relax.
As Haruhi was pacing in the living room, an idea came to her. Smirking, she decided it was time for a little pay back. If they wanted to tell her what to do, it was time that she showed them she could do what she wanted. She needed to make a call, "Hunny-senpai, I was wondering if you had a few minutes to talk."
"Sure Haru-Chan, what's up?" Hunny was curious as to why he was getting a phone call from Haruhi since they already had their plans set. "Tamaki and the twins must have done something to her," he thought to himself.
"I just kicked those morons out of my house. They think you and I are dating, and made some wild accusations. Then those bakas told me I was not allowed to date you," she ranted still furious.
Hunny laughed over the other end of the phone, "Date me? But I don't think of you like that at all Haru-chan. Besides you have…"
Haruhi had to laugh also. She knew that he didn't feel that way about her and she didn't feel like that for him. He and Mori were like the brothers she never had, "I know Senpai. So I was wondering if we could maybe get them back a little bit." She really hoped that he would go along with her plan.
"Sure Haru-Chan, what is the plan?" Hunny wanted in on this. He had a feeling that he missed an interesting night at his friend's house tonight and he agreed with Haruhi, those three needed to be taught a little lesson.
"I was thinking that we actually pretend to be dating and drive them bonkers. If they ask, we tell them we are dating and are blissfully happy. Make sure Mori-senpai and Kyoya-senpai also know what is going on. I will take care of you know who."
"Ok Haru-chan. This is going to be fun! Now I wonder if they weren't spying on us last night. They could have been the ones following us in that car. I bet it was! Yah, we need to make sure they learn their lesson. This will be an enlightening experience for them, at least I hope," he smirked and then gave the most maniacal laugh Haruhi had ever heard come from her small friend and giving her chills.
"Ok Senpai, we will start this tomorrow then. Idiots will learn not to tell me what to do!" She declared and then got off of the phone after giving her senpai a brief good bye. When she hung up, she sent a message to the one person she needed to handle on her own. The text read, "Pranking three idiots. Hunny helping by pretend bf. Don't worry. Xxoo."
After he got off of the phone with Haruhi, Hunny conferenced called Mori and Kyoya in order to explain the plan. They were both on board. Mori was alike Hunny and Haruhi and was surprised by the assumptions his three friends had made about the relationship between his cousin and the only female host. He knew that he should not have been surprised because they all had feelings for her, but he was. Kyoya on the other hand wasn't surprised at all. After the conversation he had with the three of them this afternoon, he didn't think there was anything they could do to surprise him. The plan was in motion and the three idiots were about to play right into the trap.
Haruhi received a call an hour later from Hunny; he would pick her up in the morning and drive her to school. Arriving together would be the opening act of their little prank on Tamaki, Hikaru, and Kaoru. She couldn't wait.
In the morning, Haruhi got up and ready like she normally did each morning, but there was a spring in her step and a smile on her face. She was in a good mood and could not wait to get to school. Receiving the call she had been waiting for to tell her that the limo was waiting for her downstairs, she ran down the steps and into the car. Excitement charged the air around the occupants of the car.
Once the limo pulled up to the school, the driver opened the door to let all three students out. The first person out of the car was Mori and he was soon followed by Hunny. Turning back to the car once he was completely out of it, Hunny reached in and helped Haruhi out of the car. The girls that were present screamed moe and some fainted. The three hosts that the spectacle was staged for showed varying degrees of shock and various colored faces. Haruhi smiled and looked down at Hunny-senpai whispering, "Strike one."
Hunny giggled and nodded to Haruhi, "I think Tamaki actually turned purple."
"Mitsukuni, Haruhi, they are coming this way," Mori said quietly. He wasn't expecting a confrontation so early in the morning and wondered where Kyoya was before mentally face palming. The shadow king was probably still on his way to school since he liked to sleep in as late as possible.
"Daughter, if you wanted a ride, why didn't you call me? You know daddy would have picked you up," Tamaki said while he was trying to hold in his panic and theatrics.
"You know why I got a ride with Hunny-senpai. Now if you will excuse me, I have to go to class and review my study notes. Hunny, Mori, I will see you at lunch." Haruhi turned away from the group and walked to her first period class.
If she would have turned around, she would have noticed a dumbfounded looking trio. "I think you lost boss," the twins said together.
"How can I lose? She said that if I had asked her first she would have said yes, so I have not lost yet!" Tamaki cried. Luckily the crowd of girls had moved away and had not heard this conversation.
Hunny and Mori heard everything that spewed from Tamaki's mouth and wanted to laugh, "Oh Tama-Chan, I think you have. You see we are together and we are very happy. If you try to get in our way and break us up again, you will have to deal with the consequences." A threatening Hunny was a scary Hunny.
The three conspirators gulped and then turned to run away. Mori and Hunny could have sworn they heard "retreat" as the three disappeared.
The twins arrived at the classroom about 10 minutes before the bell rang and tried to talk to Haruhi, but she was ignoring them and no matter what they tried, they could not get her attention. "Come on Haruhi, you can't keep ignoring us," they cried together.
She looked up from her notes and into her friends' eyes, "I can do what I want, when I want, with whom I want."
"Fine we get it, you are with Hunny-senpai now," Kaoru said in defeat.
"But that doesn't mean we give up on trying to win you over to our side," Hikaru added.
"You can do what you want, but understand you cannot expect my heart to follow your demands," Haruhi said as she looked back at her notes. The morning classes passed in a blur and soon Haruhi was rushing out of her class to meet Hunny and Mori for lunch.
Kyoya had been hearing it all morning, Tamaki's incessant whining about how his daughter didn't love him and had shown up to school with that bad short man. He also heard about how Haruhi really wanted him, but was afraid to leave Hunny because she was fearful of what he would do to her. Kyoya thought it was laughable, and didn't understand how Tamaki made some of the leaps he had about Haruhi and her real feelings. Starting to get a headache from the constant wailing, Kyoya snapped, "Tamaki, did you ever think about the fact that her feelings for Hunny-senpai were genuine?"
"But Mommy, she told me if I had asked her first she would have said yes!"
"Yes, but now that she has Hunny-senpai, would she still say yes if you asked her right now?"
"She is too afraid because of how he can be! He must be drugging her somehow, but how? It has to be in the cake!" Tamaki was in his own little world again and there was nothing Kyoya could do to stop him. This was making the whole situation funnier, although Tamaki was getting more annoying as the morning wore on. Finally it was time for lunch and a much needed break from the blonde king.
As they were leaving the classroom, Tamaki asked Kyoya, "What do you have to do with this Mommy? Do you have a private jet waiting for them ready to whisk them away to Las Vegas? Do you already have the wedding planned?"
Kyoya couldn't help it and he knew that it was odd for him to do, but with this latest accusation he couldn't hold it in any longer and found himself laughing at his best friend. When he was able to control himself a little more, he then turned around and continued walking to the lunch room still chuckling at his friend.
Tamaki was shocked for the second time that day. Kyoya laughed at him, really laughed at him. He didn't think he ever heard Kyoya laugh like that. Regaining his senses, he ran after his friend and quickly caught up with him.
The two friends entered the lunch room together with the twins were right behind them, and they all saw Mori and Hunny sit down with Haruhi. Hunny had sat down right next to the female and when he saw the other hosts entering the lunch room, he leaned close to his friend and brushed her bangs out of her eyes. It appeared he as if he was looking deeply into her eyes, but he was actually looking at his friends with his periphery vision. Watching all of his friends, he witnessed Kyoya smirk and push up his glasses (he was in on the plan so he knew it was just for show), Tamaki turned to dust, Kaoru's eyes bulged and his mouth popped open, and Hikaru turned red and fisted his hands, a scowl forming on his face.
Once Tamaki had gathered his wits and his body back, all four of them obtained their lunches from the lunch counter and sat down at the table with Hunny, Mori, and Haruhi. Hikaru and Tamaki both had tried to sit between the small senior and Haruhi, but it didn't work. They would not move and would not allow anyone to move them. Snippets of conversation that happened between Hunny and Haruhi that were heard by the table's further fed the assumption that the two were very much together.
"Do you have what you need for the thing in a couple weeks?" Hunny asked Haruhi.
"Yah, I think I do, but if not I will let you know. Do your parents know I am staying the weekend?" Haruhi replied.
"Yep, they are very excited about you staying and my mom said that she helped pick out your dress for the tea service with Takashi's mom."
"Ok and we are still on for dinner tonight?"
"No, we are moving that dinner to tomorrow night. I forgot that we are supposed to have a family dinner tonight, but my parents told me to tell you that you are invited and to come over after school. I wasn't sure if your dad was working tonight, but if he isn't, he is invited also."
"Ok Senpai, I will let my dad know the change of plans and ask about dinner," she smiled down at her friend and knew they had eavesdroppers. Serves them right if they misunderstood the conversation she had with Hunny-senpai. "Are you going to be at dinner tonight Mori-senpai?"
"Yes and so are my parents and Satoshi," Mori responded.
She smiled at her friends and finished eating her lunch. Once she was finished she bid her friends farewell and left the lunch room to head to her next class so that she could call her father before it started.
"What is in a couple of weeks Hunny-senpai?" Kaoru asked.
"A couple of things actually, my mom and aunt are doing a tea service with Haruhi, and there will also be a celebration dinner for Chika-Chan. Everyone at this table is invited to the dinner and you should be getting your invitations in the mail soon. Don't let Chika-Chan know though. It is a surprise for him. We are celebrating his championship. If he finds out, I will find out who spilled," Hunny threatened and gave everyone his serious look until received nods of assent from everyone at the table. Once he had everyone's agreement, the switch flipped and he was once again cute Hunny, Loli Shota of the host club. Continuing, he said, "With so much going on that weekend, Haruhi is going to be staying with my family."
"Are we invited to family dinner tonight? We are family too!" Tamaki said loudly.
"No Tama-Chan, it is only for the Haninozuka and Morinozuka families. Besides you said a Haninozuka was not good enough for Haru-chan. Why would you be invited to the Haninozuka house for a family dinner?" Hunny asked looking at Tamaki straight in the eye. Another reason not to invite Tamaki and the twins…he was not sure they could keep their mouth shut around Chika. They were very much not welcome tonight.
Tamaki tried to come up with an answer for his senpai, but couldn't think of one. He knew he wouldn't be able to go to the dinner or get anywhere near Hunny's house tonight and that meant his daughter was going into the lion's den without him. She would be utterly alone and without protection. He wondered if he could call Ranka and let him know to watch the little man, but he didn't have his phone number. Kyoya did however and he decided he would ask Kyoya to call Haruhi's other father when they headed to their next class.
Kyoya listened to Tamaki spout more nonsense about his daughter being unprotected tonight and begged Kyoya to call Ranka. He finally agreed to call and he did, but not with the intent that Tamaki had. Instead, Kyoya let the older man know about Haruhi's plan and how it was progressing. He never actually told Tamaki that he would warn Ranka to be on guard around Hunny, he just said that he would call.
Ranka laughed at the scheme concocted by his daughter and praised her brilliant mind. He believed Tamaki was a world class idiot and deserved everything that was coming to him. Before he and Kyoya hung up, he agreed to go along with everything just in case Tamaki showed up and tried something. He wasn't going to be able to make it to the dinner tonight and he was now disappointed about that, but had a feeling he would get plenty of laughs in the near future.
The rest of the day flew by and seemed to be done before it really began. It was now time for the host club to open for business. Haruhi decided to host with her "boyfriend" and his cousin for the day, and the customers did not seem to mind. In fact, they were in moe overload and flocked to the trio. Kyoya didn't mind the slight change since it seemed to bring in extra profits and exaggerated the prank that was being played on the other three unsuspecting hosts.
Tamaki and the twins tried to sweep Haruhi out of the club room after club hours were over for the day (aka kidnapping), but they were stopped by Mori before they could make it out of the door. Grabbing Haruhi away from her abductors, Mori sat her down next to Hunny while he went to the back room to get his, Hunny's, and Haruhi's bags. Tamaki, Hikaru, and Kaoru did not dare try another grab and go while she was at Hunny's side. That was too dangerous. They had lost this round and would have to regroup and try again tomorrow.
Once the trio of body snatchers left, the four remaining hosts laughed at their friends' antics. The plan was working better than they ever expected. Hunny had already called home and told them to be on the lookout for Tamaki and the twins in case they tried to crash the family dinner like they did the previous night's plans. No, they wouldn't be able to get through the front gate if they showed up and with that call Hunny, Mori, Haruhi, and Kyoya knew that the trio was done for the day.