Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran High School Host Club.


Sorry for the delay, I got caught up in a lot of other stuff. This had been written for about two months and it was just sitting on my computer. There is another chapter already written as well that I hope to have completely edited by the end of this week.

Tetsuya whimpered groaned, moaned and prayed that Kasanoda got bored soon. Three weeks out of the hospital and he already felt the need to return to his comatose state. Tetsuya could not seem to speak without angering Kasanoda.

The two were sitting in his living room. Kasanoda had been steadily yelling for the past half an hour. "I get it already I am impulsive!" Tetsuya yelled, giving in to his growing frustration. Kasanoda quieted shocked by his normally submissive partner's outburst. Tetsuya continued tears evident. "It always comes down to control with you doesn't it. I try I can't help my tendency to do stupid things occasionally, hell that's what makes me who I am."

"Exercising commonsense and caution periodically would probably save you from getting into all these mess." Kasanoda growled before he added in an undertone. "Particularly the one with Ayame."

"You know what I give up!" Tetsuya screamed pulling on his hair and pacing. "Take your commonsense and caution somewhere else. I am tired of fighting so much and always having to defend myself to you." Tetsuya felt the tears coming, opening his bedroom door, he refused to face Kasanoda again as he spoke. "Just leave and maybe in the morning we can talk. Right now I don't give a damn." Slamming the door Tetsuya passed a hand over his eyes hurriedly.

Picking up his phone, he dialed Ayame.

"Tetsuya it is 11:00 at night." Ayame answered sounding sleepy.

"Do you think I don't know how to exercise caution and common sense?" Tetsuya asked cutting right to the chase.

"I think you like make up sex." Ayame responded wistfully.

"A relationship is more than make up sex!" Tetsuya exclaimed flopping down on his bed, staring at the ceiling.

"Yes it is." Ayame agreed hurriedly.

"I mean we are volatile people or at least he is." Tetsuya spoke thoughtfully.

"I think you need to use some introspection." Ayame laughed lightly. "Also think about all the pressure he has on him with the two groups combining and all those expectations of him to be a great boss."

"I guess…" Tetsuya sighed vowing to mull over Ayame's thought later. Scratching at his ribs and wincing. "How did your parents take the news?"

"My father was horribly excited," Ayame paused. "At least as excited as a Noh performer can get while my mother was just horrible and terribly traditional about the whole thing."

"Your parents aren't married so I don't see how your mother can judge." Tetsuya retorted. "Wait your mother didn't want to marry your father even when he asked."

"This is my mother we are talking about." Ayame responded rubbing her stomach lightly. "Now that I think about it you and Kasanoda remind me of them."

"Tell me I'm your father…" Tetsuya groaned as he realized the truth in that statement.

"Nope, you are my mother through and through." Ayame laughed.

"Great it has been confirmed, I am the woman in my relationship." Tetsuya grumbled.

"Look at Sato and Chika." Ayame paused. "What is better to be the obvious uke or the surprise uke?"

"Don't say another word." Tetsuya grumbled. "I get the point about your parents that you want to make."

"Didn't know I had one." Ayame spoke evenly trying to figure out when she had slipped in a life lesson.

"On the important things Kasanoda and I are a team. So don't sweat the small stuff." Tetsuya reasoned.

"If you say so…" Ayame trailed off. Trying and failing to find where he got that out of the conversation. "I have to go I am being given that look."

"Ootori is typing nearby I take it?" Tetsuya smiled as he pictured Ayame in her sleigh bed and Kyouya typing away at the desk at the foot of her bed.

"Got it in one." Ayame laughed. "Get some sleep; arguments are always easier to deal with when you are well rested."

"Know this from experience." Tetsuya teased.

"No, my mother actually gave me that little pearl of wisdom." Ayame stated serenely.

"I am not your mother!" Tetsuya snapped angrily.

"Good because then it would be hard for me to be pregnant by you wouldn't it?" Ayame chuckled at Tetsuya's grumbling. "Now go to sleep and rest well."

"You too, love." Tetsuya responded. "We can't have you falling over from sleep deprivation can we."

Ayame snorted as she hung up. Kyoya looked at her thoughtfully.

"I didn't realize you were part horse."

"Yes and if you are an ass then we can have a mule for a child." Ayame retorted snuggling down into her bed. Studying Kyoya, she wondered what their child would look like.

"Does that combination make a mule?" Kyoya paused in his typing to eye her calmly.

"I don't know but it sounds good to me." Ayame smiled faintly as the light glinted of his glasses. "Thank you by the way."

Kyoya closed his laptop and leaned back in his chair expectantly. Ayame wondered if he would ask for what but he stayed silent. Ayame yawned delicately but refrained from speaking.

"Your parents are practical people." Kyoya shrugged.

"Yes but you didn't have to say you knew all along what was going on or smooth the way for everything to go smoothly." Ayame argued.

"I didn't." Kyoya stood and sat next to her on the bed.

"Keeping secrets is a geisha art." Ayame shrugged shifting pillows to get more comfortable.

"So it is." Kyoya pulled the blankets up more tightly.

"For all your evil reputation you are a good man Kyoya." Ayame felt herself beginning to drift towards sleep. "It will be an honor to marry you."

Kyoya smiled but Ayame missed it, as she was already fast asleep.

Tetsuya changed into his pajama pants and contemplated the ceiling. In the next room, he could hear the television going that let him know Kasanoda was still there. Getting up, Tetsuya padded into the next room. Kasanoda sat sprawled on the sofa staring at the television.

"If you want I can make up the spare bed for you." Tetsuya offered shifting from foot to foot nervously.

"I should head home." Kasanoda sighed wearily dragging a hand across his face.

"I think you need to sleep and not listen to the gang arguing and fighting." Tetsuya held out his hand. "Let someone else play peace maker." Kasanoda studied Tetsuya's face thoughtfully before accepting the hand. As they lay down, side by side facing each other but not touching, Kasanoda wondered how things had gotten so confused between them. He fell asleep contemplating the way and reasons things had been changing.

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