Hey all! I'm back and I'm in a good mood! I was sick as a dog yesterday, so sorry if the last chapter was kind of... weird... but for like the first half I was ill, then I had to take out my contacts and put my glasses on DX (I hate glasses)
Anywho, on with the show!
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Chapter 6- Stress reduction, one game at a time!
Hikaru opened his eyes and looked around. "Haruhi..." He stood and wavered, dizzy before falling back to the warm, soft bed. He looked down, dressed in a fluffy robe and sighed. She wasn't here. "Hikaru!" He heard and turned to see Kaoru run at him, hugging him. "Thank god you're alright! I was scared out of my mind!"
"So was I. How's Haruhi?" Kaoru shook his head. "Kyouya said that he'd tell me what was going on, but that was an hour ago. I haven't seen him since." Hikaru stood again, the dizziness not there this time. "Hikaru, you should rest. You had a little bit of an accident."
"What kind of accident?"
"Honey, Mori and myself went to get you out of the limo, but you were soaked, and you slipped. Your head hit the car pretty hard."
"YOU DROPPED MY HEAD?!" Kaoru grinned, stepping back. "It was an accident! Your hair was soaked, and it was hard to hold onto!" Hikaru shook his head. "What room is Haruhi in?"
He knocked at the door and it was opened promptly by Tamaki. "Oh, hey." He looked tired. "How is she?" Tamaki sat on the chair beside the bed and reached over, grabbing his coffee. "She's a lot better than the last time you saw her. She's seen a doctor. They say she'll be fine."
"She needed a doctor?" Hikaru stilled, afraid. "She'd been so badly waterlogged that by the time we got back here she was cold. Her lips had turned blue. Hikaru, what in the hell happened? Honey told us he'd seen you safely exit the cave, but because of the speed he couldn't help you out in time. Kyouya found your capsized boat and by the time I found you, you were mumbling almost nonstop."
"We were in the cave when the thunder started. By the time we got out Haruhi was near traumatized by the thunder, I had to duck to keep my head from hitting the top of the cave. The rain was filling the boat, so I had to jump with her. On a boat during a flood it's a lot harder to jump than you'd think. We didn't quite make it, but I was able to pull us up. I ran into you shortly after that." Tamaki's eyes widened. "I was right, then." Hikaru looked up, curious. "About?"
"You saved her life. Hikaru, thank you." Tamaki's eyes looked softly on the sleeping girl and Hikaru sat on the bed beside her. "Tamaki, I'm sorry I've been making such a fool of myself. She told me what was going on." Tamaki nodded. "She told us she was going to." Hikaru smiled. "I made an even bigger fool of myself just before that. I knew she was going to tell me something, I thought she was going out with Kyouya. I wanted to stop her. I confessed my feelings to her." Tamaki looked on, frowning. "You really do love her?" Hikaru nodded, sighing. "I have for a while, but I couldn't tell her. I'm such a coward sometimes." Tamaki smiled and nodded. "I didn't confess before she told me at all. At least you're less of a coward than me." Hikaru looked up and smiled before looking down at Haruhi, who nuzzled up against Hikaru and smiled, mumbling. Hikaru leaned down and listened for a second before looking over at Tamaki on the verge of laughter. "What's she saying?"
"She's dreaming that she's cuddling up with Usa-chan." Tamaki looked at him for a second before they both burst into laughter.
It was about an hour later that Haruhi woke, sitting up and looking around. "It's so soft in here..." They turned to her, as they'd been sitting at the table chatting merrily. "Haruhi!" Hikaru ran over and grabbed her, holding her close. "How do you feel?"
"Soft." She looked down, feeling the bath robe that she was enveloped in and sighed, happily. She looked up at Hikaru and realized he was wearing a robe as well. "I'm glad you're alright. I was so worried when we got out of the river." His smile was almost infectious.
"Hikaru, are any of the maids here?" He shook his head. "Only the hotel's normal staff. Why?"
"Who changed me?" Tamaki held up his hand. "I did. You'd fallen into the river. By the time I got you back here you were cold as ice and your lips had turned blue. I had to get you into something dry before you got hypothermia." She turned crimson and curled up a little. "Don't worry, I was a gentleman the whole time." She nodded, and as much as she felt that she should be a lot more disturbed by this, she didn't. "I'd have helped, but I blacked out before the car reached us." Haruhi looked up. "What?"
"Pulling us out of the raging river with one arm then carrying you to the road when I'm freezing cold took a lot out of me. It didn't help that Honey, Mori and Kaoru dropped my head." Tamaki's mouth dropped open. "They what?" Hikaru turned, a look of exasperation on him. "Can you believe it?! When they got me out of the car they dropped me! They dropped my head on the door frame!" Tamaki started laughing. "At least it wasn't somewhere that would hurt you!" Hikaru's tension from everything finally broken he burst into laughter. Haruhi smiled at him. She knew that everything had been bothering him, but he was recovering. He was finally lightening up. She looked over at Tamaki, sipping his coffee and chatting happily with Hikaru and giggled. It was refreshing to know that they weren't going to be fighting.
Then Kyouya came in. "Haruhi!" He walked over and felt her head, grabbing her wrist and took a pulse. "You seem to be doing fine. How do you feel, is there anything you need?" She nodded. "I need you to lighten up. I know you're just as nervous as the rest of us, but look. These two are talking as if nothing was happening. It's so nice." She smiled over at the two and they just looked at her for a moment before returning the smile. "You're asking the impossible, Haruhi. Asking Kyouya to lighten up is like asking a tanuki to fly. It just doesn't work that way." Kyouya frowned. "I know, I'm being too uptight about this, I'm getting to the point of being downright mean, and I do apologize. It's just..."
"I know. We all know." Hikaru smiled at him. "But if you're acting like this, you're never going to get on her good side." Kyouya froze then sighed. "I'm sorry." Haruhi smiled at him. "Don't be sorry, just act more like yourself."
"So you want to consider marrying the Demon Shadow king, huh?" Hikaru grinned and Haruhi smiled. She reached over and took Kyouya's hand and looked him in the eyes. "I'm sorry I worried you. I know you. You were probably so tightly wound that I bet you haven't sat down since you got back."
"I have, once." He sighed and she nodded. "Less than five minutes?" He looked down. "You really are getting to know me, aren't you?" She sighed and nodded. "Remember the day in the expo? When Tamaki accidentally left you alone and you ran into me?" He nodded. "I knew from then that even though you're the Demon Shadow king, you're also really sweet." He looked at her, sighing. "Even though I'm the Demon Shadow king?" She nodded and he cracked a smile. An honest smile. Haruhi's eyes lit up. "What?" He asked and she cocked her head to the side. "I think that's the first time I've seen you sincerely smile." He looked at her for a second, trying to remember the last time he'd actually smiled.
He couldn't. "That's sad, isn't it?" His eyes closed and he sat on the bed next to Hikaru. "I'm sorry, everyone. I was trying to be impressive and I ended out being the one to blame for this turn of events."
"I blame Tamaki." Hikaru said, catching everyone's eye. "What? Why?" Haruhi asked and Hikaru turned back to her. "He's the one that checked the weather this morning. He told us it wasn't going to have bad storms, but he didn't look north on the map when Kyouya mentioned coming here before he packed up breakfast."
"That doesn't make it his fault that the storm hit here." Hikaru grinned at Kyouya. "I didn't say it was his fault, I just said I'm blaming him." Kyouya just stared at the lack of sense in what was said, but he looked over as Tamaki started laughing. "I'm blaming you, then for me getting stuck sitting with the maid in the tunnel. She kept rambling about her fingernail polish! It was terrible!" Hikaru smiled. "You usually like talking about girls."
"Yeah, when I'm in the club! Not when I'm on vacation and the first thing out of her mouth is 'Do you think this color goes well with my uniform?'" Hikaru, Tamaki and Haruhi all burst into laughter.
Kyouya watched the three of them. He, for once, was interested in them. Their actions, their responses, to him it seemed normal to interact like that. It seemed normal for OTHERS to interact like that. He didn't interact, and if he did it was because there was some merit, some boon for the action. He knew HOW to have a nonsensical conversation, but he never did. It didn't seem amusing, till now.
"Hikaru, can I ask you a question?" The young man looked over, eyes glimmering. "Hm?"
"What happened to Tono?" Hikaru shrugged. "I can't call him something cool like that now. He was just talking with a woman about fingernail polish." Kyouya looked over, smiling lightly, wickedly. "Was it at least a good color?"
"It was horrible! This deep red, like she'd been tearing people apart!" He shivered, leaving Hikaru laughing and Kyouya smiling. Tamaki looked over with a roar. "I'M NOT GAY!!!"
Haruhi laughed at the gentle smile that graced Kyouya's face.
The limo arrived with their cloths about twenty minutes later. Tamaki and Kyouya were considerate enough to go get the items (well, order the wait staff to get them) and return. Haruhi smiled before going into the bathroom with the outfit she'd chosen. She held it up and smiled. A gorgeous pink short yukata with blue and green butterflies with a yellow obi and a pair of white leggings with a short pair of pink leather combat style boots. She disrobed and reached into the bag for her undergarments, but slipped on the robe and fell back, hitting the wall. She stood and rubbed her back before stretching, her arms over her head.
This was the time when the boys ran in. "Haruhi! Are you hurt?!" She turned to them, lowering her arms and staring for a moment, noticing that Hikaru was wearing about what she was. "I'm fine." She just stared, surprised, but beyond that, completely calm. "Hikaru, please get dressed." He reached down, covering himself and backed away from the door. "Can I get dressed please?" She asked the others. Kyouya grabbed Tamaki's arm and dragged him from the room, closing the door. "Sorry about the intrusion." She shrugged and went back to the bag, this time hanging the robe on the hook on the wall.
Hikaru just stared. Tamaki walked over, seeing he'd at least gotten his pants on. "You alright?"
"I can't believe I just did that... I wasn't wearing anything... If she'd gotten hurt you two would have told me..." Tamaki just stared. "It happens. All the time. Every second people see each other naked."
"Usually it doesn't involve people bursting into bathrooms without knocking." Hikaru sighed. He reached back, sliding on his shirt. He looked at it, thought about buttoning it, but didn't bother.
She came out a few minutes later, catching everyone's eye. "Well? How do I look?" She spun around and Hikaru looked at her, staying back. "You look beautiful, Haruhi." She looked at him through the ranting Tamaki, the sudden sad look in his eye wasn't normal. Kyouya walked over and smacked Hikaru on the back. "You may have acted a fool in a moment of panic, but look at Tono. He's doing it for no reason at all." Hikaru sighed and nodded. "You're right." He stood and walked over, grabbing Tamaki by his arm and turned him around. "Let's play a game."
They got down to the limo. Everyone sat around, this time in a single limo and headed out to where there was some nice restaurants. Haruhi stared at the menu, surprised when Tamaki started talking to the waiter. "What do you want, Haruhi?" She shrugged. "I don't understand any of this." He looked at the menu then nodded. "I apologize. I'm not used to others not being able to read the same things that I can. Does anyone else here read French?" Kyouya nodded, as did Honey. "Can you translate the menus?" They nodded and looked to those around them.
Kyouya frowned at Tamaki, laughing with Haruhi. They'd ordered, the drinks had been brought out. It would soon be time to sit back and watch.
The waiter brought out the food and Tamaki talked with him for a moment, then smiled as the waiter nearly danced away. Haruhi stared for a moment before turning to Kyouya, as if begging for forgiveness for whatever she'd done. He just smiled viciously. Kyouya thought back to the last moments before they'd left.
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"What kind of game?!" Tamaki blanched. "It seems that all of our current problems are happening because Haruhi's too darn cute. We're going to spend the next month trying to impress her, to make her the happiest she's been in her life. I think tonight should be payback." Haruhi turned paper white. "Payback?" Hikaru smiled, taking her hand and holding it to his chest. "Haruhi, if guys get too pressured they have a tendency of doing stupid things. This is one of those things. It's pre-payback! Whoever can embarrass Haruhi the most wins!"
"Wait, Hikaru, is that the best idea?" He turned and nodded. "Haven't you ever wanted to do something, no matter how stupid it is just for the sake of stress relief?" Kyouya took this in the wrong sense and just stepped back. "No! God, and I thought Tamaki was gay! It'll be a great release for us, and Haruhi gets to tell the one that was the least embarrassing what to do for a day, the middle one for eight hours. The one that's the most embarrassing also gets to tell the one in last place what to do for eight hours. Haruhi, what do you say?"
She looked around, terrified. "I- I guess if it's for your sanity..." Hikaru grinned. "Contest starts at the beginning of dinner, six o'clock, and ends at midnight." They all nodded.
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Haruhi was still looking around, terrified. She knew that the contest was only known by the four of them but that only made her more afraid. If any of the guys told anyone, she'd get to control them for an extra hour per person told, but if SHE told they each got to control her for an hour per person told. She watched, bemused as the band came to play at the table. They were playing a rap song. With violas and a short French man rapping. "That's horrible, Tamaki."
"Oy! Haruhi! Dance with me!" He grabbed her hand and dragged her to her feet, waltzing around the table.
Haruhi was terrified.
Dinner came and Hikaru didn't use his silverware to eat. Or his hands. Just his face. He ordered something spicy. And got it in his eye. And screamed out for Haruhi to save him. From the monster in his soup.
Afterwards he went to the restroom. And grabbed someone else's cheesecake. With his bare hands. Off of their plate.
She looked over at Kyouya and shivered. The smile on his face let her know that he was going to blow them out of the water.
Then they heard the screaming. Hikaru had gone into the girl's restroom. Kyouya just leaned back. Smiling was something he was getting to be good at.
And it absolutely terrified Haruhi.
Muahaha! It's till midnight, and it's only what, seven? The next chapter is going to be the good one.
Yes, I have many more of these moments planned, as well as the punishment! Muahaha!!
Hope you all enjoyed!
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Ja~ne!
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