Scappa's POV

Whoo! Second day of school. I was so happy that I could just randomly start dancing, which I almost did. Yesterday, the doctors had told me that I might not be able to go to school the next day, in case the enviornment had done any major damage to my immune system—what was left of it, anyways. But I wasn't sick, so I was allowed to go! I was only a little shaky, but I wasn't about to tell any of the hospital staff about that. Heck, I wasn't even going to tell Natanya about that.

I buttoned up my shirt (I'm blind, not useless) while Natanya chattered on and on about some guy named Shiro. I rolled my eyes. If I knew Natanya—and I did—she would date Shiro for a week and then throw him away like a smashed toy. Hey, I'm not mean; it's just that its always happened before. She's never kept a guy for more than a week and a half.

I heard footsteps in the hallway. "Here comes the Host Club," I told Natanya. I heard her run to the door and open it as I smoothed down my hair. Earlier that morning, Natanya had told me that I looked, and I quote, "like a dissheveled porcupine". I would've hit her if her arm wasn't all bandaged up from the cactus needles.

"Hey, Tamaki!" she called down the hallway. Her voice was still scratchy, but it was starting to sound better; slightly. I winced as I moved my arms back to my sides. We'd both had to get an IV after school for our normal medicines. Nurse Aomi had simply jabbed the needle into our arms; that was why we didn't like her.

The Host Club traipsed into our hospital room a moment later. I could hear the feather-light footsteps of Hunny running across the room, with the slower, heavier footsteps of Mori right behind him. Hunny slammed into my side, and I winced slightly, stumbling back a step. I felt Mori's hand between my shoulder blades, steadying me, and I grinned up at him. "Hey, Smiles," I greeted. I turned my head back to Hunny. "Hey, Tiny," I added.

"Ready for school?" Hunny chirped.

I nodded. "All set," I said. I looked up at Mori again, grinning. "What about you, Smiley?" I asked.

"Hn," Mori replied. He sounded amused. I wondered why…

Mori's POV

Scappa's hair was sticking up all over the place. It was very funny. I could see Hikaru and Kaoru trying not to laugh as they looked at her. Apparently, Natanya noticed too, because she reached over and smacked them in the back of their heads angrily. "Don't make fun of Scappa," she pouted.

Scappa's head turned slowly to face Natanya. "Why would they be making fun of me?" she asked slowly.

"Well…remember what I told you about looking like a porcupine?" Natanya fidgeted. "Well, it's sort of gotten worse."

Scappa's hands clamped down on the top of her head. She glowered in the direction of Hikaru and Kaoru, who were, once again, stifling laughter. "It isn't funny," she growled, stomping out of the room with her hands still clamped over her hair. As soon as she went into the hallway, the twins started howling with laughter.

"I don't think you two should have laughed at Scappa-sempai," Haruhi scolded, fists planted on her hips.

"It's not our fault she looked like a hedgehog," Hikaru chortled. Kaoru nodded in agreement, his hand over his mouth.

Natanya scowled. "If you two don't quit laughing," she threatened, "I'm gonna knock your teeth down your throats. Let's see how well you guys host then." With that said and done, she turned on her heel and ran to get Scappa.

Haruhi watched her go, and then she turned back to the twins. "What is the matter with you two?" she demanded. "Scappa is blind; she can't see how her hair looks. Besides," she added, sounding annoyed, "you don't make fun of a woman when she has a bad hair day. Saying something like that could very well end with you in a hospital."

"Yeah, right," Hikaru muttered. I hovered beside him, undecided about what I should do. Three girls had threatened him, and he hadn't taken any of them seriously. Deciding quickly, I raised my hand and thumped him in the back of the head. Hard. He yelped and raised his hands to cover the back of his head.

"Don't make fun of girls," I growled, narrowing my eyes at him. He looked shocked. Emotion was a rare display in me, and we had known each other for a long time. I looked to Kaoru to find him backing away from me, his hands up by his head in a gesture of surrender.

"We should get to school," he said nervously, backing straight out the door.

Hunny latched himself onto my leg, grinning madly. "Watch out, Hikaru," he chirped. "Scappa's got herself a protector."

I know, this chapter is relatively short, but Scappa and Mori's relationship hits off from here, I promise.