Chapter 8; Popularity I Can't Handle

12/28/08

"Mr. Hitachiin, I want to ask you to take care of my sister when she enters school. I know for sure that she won't be able to get along with people that much, first because of her lack of Japanese and second because she also lacks the social trait." Kaoru laughed as he patted my head. "So I please ask of you to take care of her."
"As you wish, I will take care of her as if she was my own sister. Just leave it to me." They laughed at each other. I did not understand why, I guess it was what people called 'Male Bonding' or something. In all too all, things were okay, at least for now that is.
Hikaru left this time through the door but not before winking at me. I smiled, knowing exactly that it meant he would be back soon. Kaoru left to his room and I stayed alone sitting on my bed, trying to once again catch my breath. 'That was Close.' I thought as I slammed my head on the pillow and letting out a small sigh. 'Argh and I didn't even get to give Hikaru-Kun my reply. Aah what a mess of a family I have!'

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-Haruhi's P.O.V-

I couldn't wait to see Hikaru again… I wanted him to come up my balcony oh so bad. I wanted to give him my reply… to finish the sentence I was saying before Kaoru came in my room, interrupting everything. I looked outside my balcony, waiting for Hikaru to just appear out of nowhere, giving me that playful smile that I loved so much.

And as in on cue, he appeared. "Miss me?" He said with that playful smile I had been waiting for.

"Not at all" I said with a serious look on my face.

"Ah, is that so? Then I guess I have nothing left to do here… I'll be going then." He was about to jump off the balcony.

"Wait, I was just kidding…"

He stopped and turned back to look at me. "And I was just messing with you." He said as he winked at me. "So, if I do recall correctly, you were just about to tell me something before your brother interrupted."

"I was? Really, I do not recall such happenings." I said playfully.

"Ah, but I do. So my lady, what were those words that your beautiful lips were about to murmur?" Hikaru said as he walked closer to me, sitting down on the bed next to me.

"Well… I can show you better than I can tell you." I said as I grabbed him by his shirt's collar and pulled him closer to me, giving him a gently kiss on the lips.

As we parted, he had a serious look on his face, and then with a smile said "It seems I didn't quite understand that." I smiled too as I gave him another kiss.

"How about this one, did you understand it?" I questioned as we once again parted.

"Oh, quite well" We stayed together for a while longer, just talking and laughing, of course quietly so that we wouldn't cause another incident like the one from earlier. It was already getting late and both of us had to go to school tomorrow, Hikaru-Kun as a teacher and me as a student. "Ok, my sweet-heart, its time for you to get to bed and for me to leave."

"Aww, I wish you could stay with me all night." I said with a depress look on my face. Truth was I didn't wanna part from him. He was everything a girl would want in a guy and more. I was falling for him by the second. I wanted to just stay by his side all the time, but I knew that for now that was not a possibility… actually we both knew that.

"I wish so, too… but I'm afraid that if I do stay, I will cause trouble for you. Besides, we'll see each other tomorrow at school; I'm your teacher after all."

"That is true… Hitachiin-Sensei."

"Now, now, come on; get under the covers and go to sleep. Tomorrow will be a new day, and new surprises will appear for you." He helped me under the covers, and kissed me good-night. "Oyasumi, Hime-Sama." He said as he left my room through the balcony.

"Good-Night, My Prince." I whispered as I closed my eyes, and fell fast asleep.

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-The Next Morning-

I woke up to the sound of a cell phone ringing, yet I didn't recall ever having a phone. It was nicely placed next to my pillow with a red bow on it and a card that said 'From Hikaru.' It kept on ringing, yet it wasn't a call, it was actually the alarm. It read, '7:05am'. "Oh snap, school starts at 8:30… I gotta get ready if I wanna eat some break-fast." I turned off the alarm as I walked into the restroom to take a shower.

I changed into my uniform, put on a bit of make-up and left my room, down into the kitchen. "Dad, what's for breakfast?" I called out as I walked into the kitchen, only to find. "Hikaru…"

"Good Morning, Haruhi. Ready for school?" He said as he drank a cup of coffee.

"Uhm… Yea, but, where's my dad?" I questioned as I went to the fridge, taking out some orange juice and pouring it in a glass.

"Oh, he and Kaoru already left." He said as he took a sip of his coffee.

"Oh, ok." I sat at the table in front of Hikaru and drank my orange juice

"By the way, did you like the present I left you?" He questioned with a smile.

"Oh you mean this?" I asked as I took the cell phone out of my pocket and showed it to him

"Yep, that's exactly what I was talking about. So, did you like it?"

"Actually, I did, thank you, and purple is also my favorite color." I placed the phone back in my pocket and I finished my orange juice and Hikaru his coffee.

"Well, should we get going?" Hikaru said as he stood from his place and walked towards the door.

"Hold on a minute…" He stopped mid-way. "We're going to school together?" I questioned in surprise.

"Yea, is there a problem?" he asked confused

"Ah, well… I thought the reason why you showed me the way yesterday was so that no one would see us together…?" I confusedly said.

"Yea, that's somewhat the reason… but it's a long way to school and the way we took no one of my students take it. Besides, we are going the same way, so why not go together."

"Uhm… okay, but if any of your students do see us together… Then I'll blame it all on you." I said with a playful smile on my face.

We left the house, and walked side by side to school.

"Are you nervous?" Hikaru questioned as he grabbed my hand and kissed it.

"Yea, a bit, I was just thinking, what if I can't really get along with any of my classmates, or what if I understand absolutely nothing, because of my lack of Japanese. I think I'm gonna make a fool of myself."

"Sweetie, don't worry too much about it. That's why I'll be there whenever you need me."

"I know, Honey, but do remember that I won't be able to go with you every time I need help." I gave him a peck on the lips.

As we were getting closer to the school, we came to a stop.

"This is where we separate." Hikaru said as he kissed my cheek. "I'll see you soon, so while we're apart please take care."

"Honey, you're starting to sound like my father instead of my fiancée."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It seems that I'm also really nervous. Okay, we better hurry, or we'll both be late. You go on first."

"Okay… see you soon, Sensei" I said as I started walking towards the school, Hikaru walking a few feet behind me. I could feel his sharp stare from behind me; it actually made me even more nervous.

I reached the school's gates and saw a bunch of girls running my way. 'What the…' They pass right by me; some of them even pushed me out of their way. "What is all the commotion about?" I said to myself as I looked towards the running girls' direction and saw none other than… "Hikaru…" He was right in the middle of the crowd. 'I cannot believe my soon to be husband is actually this popular with the girls.' I sighed at my own thought and walked away from there… if I stayed a bit longer I didn't know what I was capable of doing to get those girls away from him.

As I walked away, the screams of those girls started to fade. 'All those girls screaming MY Fiancée's name… argh, what did I get myself into?'

I soon clamed down as I walked my way up the stairs to the third floor in which all my classes where located at. Once I reached my homeroom class, I stayed outside, catching my breath for a second. Not knowing what to expect I slid the door open. Fortunately, the teacher was already there, and only a few students were already in their sits'.

"You must be the new transfer student, please come on in." I was amazed by her well spoken English and not to mention dazed by her beauty.

"Yeah, that would be me. Haruhi Fujioka, nice to meet you" I said as I walked in the semi' empty room.

"Everyone is still outside as you can see… the girls are all greeting Mr. Hitachiin and the guys are all playing some sport out in the school's yard." She said as she sat on her chair. "My name is Kasumi Niwa; of course you'll have to call me either Ms. Niwa or Niwa-Sensei." She finished with a smile

"Of course, then is Niwa-Sensei okay?" I questioned with a smile

"That would be okay. Uhm, since most of the students are still missing I still don't know where I should sit you, so for now please just grab a chair and sit on the side." She pointed to the chair on the back of the room. I was about to get it and take it to the front, but one of the students stood up and got it for me, placing it on the side.

"Here you go; a girl shouldn't be doing these sorts of things." He said with a smile on his face, and I had to admit, he was a really handsome guy. "My name is Tamaki Souh; it seems we'll be classmates for a semester, a pleasure to meet you."

"Thank you, my name's Haruhi Fujioka, nice to meet you." I said as I sat on the chair. "Hope to make good friends with you." I said with a smile

"Me, too." He replied as he went back to his sit.

Class finally started and all the students started to walk into the classroom, a few staring at me as they walked in. Everyone took their sits and the teacher began to speak… and of course, no surprise, I couldn't understand a single word she was saying, it was all in Japanese. I sighed… I heard my name being called; the teacher was calling me over. "Please introduce yourself, I already told the class that you don't speak Japanese, but that is why you're here." Ms. Niwa said in a whisper

"Thank you." I too said in a whisper. "Uhm, hello everyone, my name is Haruhi Fujioka; I'll be your classmate for today on-ward, nice to meet you all. I hope we can all be good friends." I finished with a sweet smile.

"Alright class, please welcome her with a friendly attitude." The teacher said in English. She looked around to find an empty space. "You may go sit next to Souh-Kun"

"Ok." I simply said as I walked towards my new desk. I could feel everyone staring at me as I made my way to the desk, as I looked around I could see people giving me all sorts of expressions. Some of them I was scared of some of them I was ok with. I took my sit.

"Hey, lucky uh, we get to sit next to each other." Souh-Kun said with a smile on his face.

"Ah, yeah, how lucky am I." I too said with a smile.

"Souh-Kun, since your English is really fluently please be a sweet-heart and help Fujioka-Chan as much as you possibly can." The teacher said from her desk.

"Sure thing, Niwa-Sensei, you can count on me."

"Alright class, since we have a new student in class, I'll make this a free period so you can all get to know each other." The teacher said as she walked out the room.

'OMg! What was she thinking leaving the room just like that!?' I thought as I saw everyone just looking at me, other I could hear them whispering, and laughing as soon as they saw me.

"Hey, don't worry about it, not everyone in the class is bad people. Take me for example, here come with me, I'll introduce you to my friends." Souh-Kun said as he grabbed my hand in order to make me stand.

I walked towards a group of people as they received me with a smile. The group was consisting of three guys not including Souh-Kun and two girls. "Uhm, hi everyone, it's really nice to meet you all. I'm really sorry I can't really speak Japanese, although I come from a Japanese family, I've lived my whole live in the US." I explained myself to those around me

"Don't worry about it; it's really no big deal because all of us are really fluent in speaking English." One of the girls said as she signaled me to stand besides her.

"Thanks."

"Yeah, besides if Tamaki-Kun says you're ok, it means something." One of the guys besides Souh-Kun said with a laugh, the other girl just slapped him across the head.

"Sorry for Chun-Kun's statement, he's just an idiot. By the way, my name is Kiara Tsumiya, this idiot is Chun Imai."

"Yeah, and I'm Nunnalie Saitou, and this quiet guy over here is Takumi Kyomasa."

"And well you already know my name, Tamaki Souh."

"It's very nice to meet you all, hope we can all become really good friends." I said as I gave them all a really warm smile.

"Ah, I'm so glad we have another girl in our group. Now we are even! Being only two girls and three guys isn't as much fun as you can possibly think." Nunnalie said with a smile on her face as she placed her arm around my shoulder.

"That's right. You seem pretty cool, so I know for a fact that we can become really good friends. We can have sleep overs and make overs and go shopping and what not!" Kiara said as she too placed her arm around my other shoulder, leaving me of course in the middle.

"That sound super fun! I can't wait." I said with laughter. I couldn't believe that I had made friends on my first day of school and to top it all of they were super really nice people.

Homeroom ended before we knew it, we were having so much fun just talking, and laughing. I was telling everyone about me living on the other side of the world and why I had all of a sudden just come to Japan, just like me everyone thought that it was weird. Of course I didn't tell them about Hikaru or the fact that I was living so close to him.

Niwa-Sensei came back into the room and we all went back to our sits. "Alright class, I hope you all gave Fujioka-Chan a nice and warm welcome and made good friend with her."

"We sure did." Nunnalie-Chan said with a smile on her face as she turned to look at me.

"That's nice. Ok class we we'll be starting soon…" Niwa-Sensei was cut off by the opening of the door.

"Sorry to intrude."

"Hikaru-Sensei, what brings you here?" Niwa-Sensei questioned.

"Oh I'm sorry, since you weren't on the meeting last week you don't know. During Japanese Lit, I'll be taking… Uhm, Ms. Haruhi Fujioka…?" I could tell that he was faking that he didn't know me as he read my name of a piece of paper in his hand.

"Oh ok. That's okay by me…" They talked about the arrangements of how it was gonna work out with me, and while they did that I could hear the girls whispering.

"Oh man, I hate to admit this but they do make a cute couple, Niwa-Sensei and Hitachiin-Sensei. I'm so jealous."

"I know, ah, I wish I could be Niwa-Sensei, she's so lucky. I heard that they were gonna get married and have two kids."

"Where did you hear that from? I heard that Niwa-Sensei confessed her love to Hitachiin-Sensei and that he accepted her with a warm welcome into his life."

"Ah whatever the story is, they sure do make a happy and cute couple."

I couldn't help but be jealous, what sort of relationship was going on between those two. I mean these rumors couldn't have started just because, something must have caused them. I sighed; I was getting all worked up over nothing, besides he is MY Fiancée after all.

"Ms. Fujioka, please go with Hikaru-Sensei." Niwa-Sensei said as she signaled me to Hikaru

"Sure thing Niwa-Sensei, I'll see you guys in a while. Bye." I said to Souh-Kun and my other new friends. They waved me good bye as I left the room

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End of Chapter 8!!

I finally finished Chapter soooo long I've finally written Chapter 8. I'm really sorry it took sooooo long, but I just couldn't think of anything to write and then College was taking most of my time and well right now I'm on my summer vacations so, I'm gonna try to get as much of this story done. By the way, "Oyasumi, Hime-Sama" Means "Good Night, Princess."