It had been a couple weeks of Natsu being in the host club. She had a ton of customers already. And everyone in the host club was getting used to her. Liking her was another story though. When there weren't customers she normally sat by herself. Even Kyouya and Haruhi left her alone. But today they were playing outside. Today Natsu had brought a soccer ball with her to school. The others were off playing simon says. But she was juggling the ball. It bounced off her knees or feet, or whatever other body part other than her arms and hands that she felt like using. She was lost in her own thoughts and what she was doing. She hadn't noticed that everyone had noticed her by now. They came over and started watching her. They all seemed kind of amazed at her soccer skills. Today it was just the host club, one of there many off days.
They all watched the ball bouncing from one part of Natsu to the next. She never lost concentration and the ball never hit the ground. Well that is before Tamaki decided to blurt out.
"You're really good." He stated.
But Natsu jumped some when he spoke and the ball had been over her head. It fell on her head and made her bite her tongue, hard. She instantly got teary eyes and her tongue pulled into her mouth and she covered her mouth with her hands.
Almost everyone had winced watching it. Tamaki attacked her with a hug.
"Oh Natsu I'm so sorry!" He blurted out.
She didn't reply, for fear of getting blood anywhere. She was definitely bleeding since she could taste it on the remainder of her taste buds. She still had teary eyes. It really did hurt something awful. Kyouya pulled him off her.
"I'll go take care of her." He said simply.
Natsu looked at him. He grabbed her soccer ball and put one hand on her back leading her away. Once the two were gone Tamaki blurted out with claimed that he didn't mean it, to all those around him that already knew that. Tamaki never purposely hurt anybody.
Kyouya got Natsu inside. She had been trying to keep her mouth dry since saliva kind of hurt the cut. But once they got inside he basically forced water into my mouth. It kind of stung but I had to drink it.
"You need to get rid of it, you know your dad doesn't like you playing soccer." Kyouya said with a stern voice.
Natsu pouted and couldn't reply because of the water. He knew she wouldn't be able to, so that's why he said it. She let her bit tongue get cleaned and slowly stop bleeding. Kyouya had her put an ice cube on it, which really did help.
We finally went back outside and everyone seemed glad they were back. But then unexpectedly the twins ran over to me.
"Let's play the which one is Hikaru game!" They said brightly.
And before she could say anything they put on hars and mixed themselves up. She looked at them and without a second of hesitation pointed to the right.
"That one is Hikaru." She said bluntly.
The twins blinked. Haruhi went wide-eyed. "You sure?" They questioned.
Natsu nodded some. "Positive."
The twins looked at one another and then turned and stared at Natsu. Haruhi looked at her with surprise as well. The other's had gathered that Natsu had gotten it right and looked at her strangely as well. Natsu blinked and looked at all of them.
"What? Was it supposed to be hard to figure it out?" She said simply.
Everyone practically fell over when she said that. She was confused not understanding what the big deal was.
"No one except for Haruhi could ever figure out who is who from that game!" Hunny said in his normal cheerful voice.
Natsu blinked. "Really?"
But suddenly the twins were in her face. They both stared at her. She blinked and watched them. Then they attached themselves to her. Kaoru's arms around her neck, and Hikaru's around her waist. She blinked and blushed some. She had seen them done them do the same thing to Haruhi, but never expected them to do it to her.
"I-I'm sorry." She stuttered out, not sure if she had done something wrong.
The twins smirked. They seemed to enjoy her reaction. Kaoru rested his chin on her shoulder and Hikaru nuzzled his face into her hair. She blushed more and started shaking, and breathing funny. They blinked and looked at her. Her breathing got more ragged, her cheeks red, but the rest of her face pale, and in pain or worried. They both slowly released her, staring at her.
"Natsu?" Kaoru asked quietly.
Kyouya blinked and looked over since he had been watching Hunny and Mori go off. He became quickly alarmed, alarmed enough even to just drop his clipboard on the ground.
"Get away from her!" He basically yelled going over to her.
The twins went wide-eyed and practically jumped back. They had never seen or heard Kyouya act that way to anything. He took Natsu into his arms and lowered her to the ground slowly. Natsu kind of clung to his shirt. Her breathing getting worse.
"Natsu breath… calm down… take deep breaths." Kyouya said to her quietly yet somewhat desperately.
Everyone was staring astounded. Even Hunny and Mori had come back. Tamaki even looked really surprised. Natsu's breathing got a little worse, before it started getting better. She still clung to Kyouya. Her breathing going back to normal, cuddling her face up to his chest as he held her. He sighed, glad she was ok. She had panic attacks. Some just randomly got triggered by something that shouldn't trigger them, but some were reasonable. This time it was a random one. Probably just a pile up of stuff and this small thing just made her crack. But this one was controllable. Sometimes they were unable to stop and you had to bring her to the hospital, or she could crash or something. They were really scary.
He held her close as her breathing became completely normal again. She had fallen asleep. Everyone had been watching silently.
"What was that Kyouya?" Tamaki asked quietly.
Kyouya shook his head. "Panic attack… luckily it didn't result in a trip to the hospital." He said simply.
Everyone kind of went wide-eyed.
"T-the-" Hikaru started.
"Ho-hospi-ital?" Kaoru finished.
They almost burst out into apologies but Kyouya got up picking up Natsu at the same time. "It was a random attack. Probably from a pile up of stress. Even the tiniest thing would have triggered it."
The twins blinked and nodded some. They'd keep that in mind for next time. Since they did plan on doing it again. Haruhi and Tamaki nodded some, both surprised at how Kyouya was acting. Hunny was watching with curiosity, he had been serious when the situation was serious, but was back to blissfulness now. Mori's expression never altered from it's normal one.
"We should get her inside to rest." Kyouya said walking off. "Haruhi get my clipboard please."
Haruhi nodded and went and picked up with clip board. Everyone went to follow him. She followed them very soon after. Kyouya was just thinking. Not about much. Just mostly about what just happened. He was sure at least one or some of his fellow hosts would piece together his strange reaction and how he's treated Natsu the whole time, and figure out he had prior interactions with her before her joining the host club.
And in fact a few had figured it out. Hunny and Mori had figured it out. And Haruhi had pieced it together as well. But now she wanted to know more about it. How had they been connected? When had Kyouya ever been introduced to a commoner on such a personal level? He obviously was quite close to her, and much have known her a considerably good amount of time to tell just from the sound that she was going into a panic attack. Plus to have such a dramatic reaction to it happening. He was even allowing someone else to hold his clip board. Haruhi never thought it was possible, but she was holding it.
Kyouya just carried Natsu inside. He didn't plan on telling anyone his connection to Natsu. Even though he was sure someone would ask, and once everyone in the club knew, he wouldn't be able to ignore it. He'd then have to tell them, or maybe Natsu would tell them everything. But he highly doubted that because Natsu didn't tell anyone anything. Well tell them anything except for what they want to hear, or the complete opposite of what they wanted to hear, it counted on.
But surprisingly to him, she had gotten better with the host club. Not to her customers, she still treated them all the same as on the first day she was there. But her relationship with the hosts had changed considerably. She was now being nice to them. And they were all soon becoming fond of her. Even the twins who really did not like her during the first week.
Kyouya sighed. He didn't know why Natsu made her own life so difficult. She didn't have to, but she insisted upon it. She always took the hard way, or made something easy, difficult for herself. Like making friends. Kyouya knew she was perfectly capable of quickly making friends with people. She was really rather charming when she wanted to be. But she never took that road. Instead she was a jerk to people. Making them not like or trust her. She shut out the world. But he knew the reason as to why.
