"Well, here we are."

"Here we are…"

"A-Are you gonna knock on the door, Kyoya?" Tamaki asked.

"I figured someone else should do it since it was my plan in the first place."

"I'll do it." Haruhi said, rolling her eyes at her friends.

Kaoru waved a white handkerchief at her.

"So brave! So true!"

"We will miss her." Hikaru said, sniffling.

Haruhi rolled her eyes again at the twins and rang the doorbell. She waited and the door seemed to open by itself.

"Come in, come in… I've been expecting you."

"I'm sure… uh, I have the rest of the host club with me including Tamaki. Can they come in too?"

"But of course…"

Haruhi motioned for them to come inside. Everyone moved as a single group as Beelzenef rubbed his paws together with slightly evil intent.

"What is it that brings the ever bright host club to my dark home?" Nekozawa asked, giving them a large grin.

"Well, Tamaki-senpai doesn't remember what he did to deserve what has been done to him, so he wanted to know if maybe he could work off the curse. Is there anything you need done that could help him with it?"

"There is nothing to be done to take the curse off of him. That's how the curse is made."

"So… he'll have to stay a kid and grow up again?" Hikaru asked, making a face.

"No. He must break the curse!" Nekozawa said, suddenly getting overdramatic.

"Aaaand how would he be able to do that?"

Nekozawa laughed a little. "That is something for Tamaki to figure out."

"But I can't! I don't know anything about curses." He said from Mori's arms. "I can't even remember what I've done so if you don't me about… about…"

"Tama-chan!" Honey yelled, looking over his leg from Mori's shoulders down at Tamaki in Mori's arms.

Haruhi went over to him and saw that he had passed out. His face was flushed and he was warm to the touch.

"What did you do to him, Nekozawa?" she growled.

"It's part of the curse. Most people who are turned back into children from a certain age will experience issues. This is one of the side effects. I cannot help you."

"Is it apologizing?"

"He already apologized. This is to teach a lesson. I cannot undo what has been done." He said as Beelzenef shrugged.

Haruhi made a face and went over Mori, grabbing Tamaki up. He was very warm to the touch and she frowned at Nekozawa.

"I hope you're ashamed, Nekozawa-senpai; picking on Tamaki-senpai like that."

Nekozawa said nothing as Haruhi stormed out with the rest of the members behind her.

"Can we take him back to your place, Kyoya-senpai?" Haruhi asked, looking at him expectantly.

"It was hard enough trying to get him out of the house and now you want me to try and get him back in?"

"Hikaru, Kaoru?"

"We would like to…"

"But if our mom saw us bring in a kid."

"She'd have a cow." They concluded together.

"Mori-senpai?"

"My brother would tell on me."

"Honey… senpai?"

"I would love to take in Tama-chan, but Chika wouldn't like it and he might do something." Honey said sadly.

Out of all of the host club, Haruhi felt that Mori and Honey were the two that actually felt bad that they couldn't take in Tamaki.

"So… am I supposed to take him?"

"That's up to you, Haruhi. You can take him back to his house or take him to yours."

Kyoya and the others began to leave and Haruhi looked down at Tamaki.

"What are you guys doing? You're not even going to help?"

They ignored her, except for Honey who made Mori turn around.

"Takashi and I could bring something for him, if you want." He said, looking sadly at Tamaki.

"No… I'll figure it out myself. I don't need their help."

"Aw, don't take them hard, Haru-chan. It takes them a while to see that people need help sometimes. Tama-chan makes them aware of it since he's always on the lookout for someone in need but without him saying it, sometimes it takes them a while to realize the same things Tama-chan would have thought of already." Honey beamed. "So do everything you can and if you need me or Takashi, we'll help you."

Haruhi smiled, very grateful for his offer.

"I'll keep that in mind, Honey-senpai. I should get him home and then explain to Dad who he is and what happened. This will be interesting."

Haruhi readjusted Tamaki to be held on her shoulder as he lay limp. This was going to be very interesting.

When Haruhi got home, as expected, she found her father just getting up and walking around the house.

"Oh, Haruhi, I was wondering where you went. What is that?"

"It's a long, weird story…"

"Oh? That sounds interesting, why don't you tell me?"

"I'll tell you about it in a minute; I need to put him in the bed."

Ranka made a face at the child she was carrying but went to her room and put him in the bed. He moaned and Haruhi put her hand on his forehead. She made a noise and went to the bathroom to get a thermometer. She stuck it in his mouth and pulled the covers up over his little body. She waited for the thermometer to go off and then pulled it out of his mouth. 100.1º… I'll have to get a cool rag to put on his head… She shook her head and washed off the thermometer.

She walked into the kitchen and started filling up a bowl with water.

"Are you going to tell me now what's going on?"

"That's Tamaki-senpai. There's a kid named Nekozawa that runs a Black Magic Club at the school and usually he doesn't mess with us or even cast real curses but… but Tamaki did something that he doesn't remember doing and he ended up a kid. We asked Nekozawa what was supposed to be done and he said he didn't know. Then everyone abandoned me with him but he's sick and I couldn't just take him to his own home and say, 'Here this is the heir of the Suoh family, have fun.'"

"Well of course you could, Haruhi." Ranka said with a look at Tamaki.

"Dad!"

"I'm kidding. It was very noble of you to take him in. Just what I'd expect from my wife's child."

That made Haruhi happy and she smiled at her father. He smiled a little at her as well and then looked at the clock.

"Oh, I have to get ready. I'll call later and see how you're doing with him."

"Thanks, Dad."

He went to get into his clothes as Haruhi got a rag and put it in the bowl.

"How's Tama-chan?" Honey asked over the phone later that day.

"He's still got a fever and is asleep. He's been sleeping since I brought him home from Nekozawa's."

"Are you hungry, Haru-chan? Since you had to take him home I'm sure you didn't get anything. Do you have food at home?"

"I'm not destitute." She grumbled.

"I know, I just mean that if you're hungry, Takashi and I can come over and watch Tama-chan if you need us to. If you're gonna cook then we'll even help! Right, Takashi?" She heard a grunt from Mori from the other end. "We don't mind."

Haruhi thought about it for a second and sighed, knowing she needed to get a couple other ingredients for what she wanted to make.

"Okay, that's fine. I thought I had everything here anyway for what I was going to make but I need to get it."

"Sure!"

Honey hung up the phone as Haruhi pressed the cool rag to Tamaki's face. The fever had spiked another half degree and if nothing turned around soon enough, he would have to go to the hospital. And how was she going to explain that?

Tamaki stirred for a second and opened his eyes, seeing Haruhi in front of him.

"Haruhi?" he said softly.

"Hey, Senpai, are you feeling alright?"

"I feel foggy."

"You have a pretty high fever. Honey-senpai and Mori-senpai are going to come over and watch you for a little bit while I go to the store in just a moment. I'm going to make some soup… it's commoner soup, I guess. Will you eat it?"

Tamaki nodded. "If Haruhi makes it, of course I'll eat it." he said tiredly.

She nodded as she went to replace the water in the bowl.

"Haruhi?" She looked back. "Thank you for helping me."

She nodded. "Of course."

HITACHIIN MANSION

"Hikaru?"

"Yeah, Kaoru?" he asked, looking at a magazine.

"I think we should have helped out the boss a little, don't you?"

"What do you mean? He can handle it."

"He looked pretty ill. Remember when I got a cold from playing out in the rain? He came over every day just to talk with me."

"And then that idiot caught a cold himself." Hikaru said with a laugh.

Kaoru frowned. "And… no one checked on him."

Hikaru looked at his brother and lifted an eyebrow.

"Well what do you want us to do?"

"I don't know but… I feel like we should at least do something for him. I mean, if one of us is sick, he's always here or if he can't be here he sends us something. The boss takes time out of his day to see us sometimes and, if it weren't for him, we wouldn't have the host club…"

Hikaru threw the magazine he was reading on the table in front of him.

"Well, what do you want to do then?"

"I dunno… Let's look it up?"

"Sure."

OOTORI MANSION

Kyoya began to make his bed and clean up around his room when he spotted Tamaki's clothes on the floor. It was his uniform. He looked at it for a second and then scoffed, folding it up.

"Damn you, Tamaki." He grumbled and put the clothes in a bag as he set it by the door.

He'd get it later after he picked up and when he headed toward Haruhi's house, remembering the rare times that he was sick and how that idiot would come to his house to keep him company. He owed Tamaki a lot and this was one small gesture that could be accomplished.

they all seemed so cruel at first and then they decided they should all help. well, honey and mori aren't like that. they seem like the kind to jump right in. the other three seem like they needed a little more persuasion