Rain Rain Go Away chapter 9 by blackdragonflower

Summary: The mysterious photographer revieled! Who could the mysterious person be? How will the Host Club deal with their newest threat, a tabloid newspaper article?! Tension is rising, princesses are questioning, it's about time I ended your suspense so here it is!

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"Guys! We have an issue!" Kaoru yelped clearly worried.

"Look at this!" Hikaru finished as the twins slapped a school newspaper on the table. On the front cover was a catastrophe, it was summarized in one word, scandal. A picture of Mori and Haruhi was on the cover of the newspaper. It was blurry so you couldn't tell who the second figure was. Plus, with the angle of the shot Mori covered up most of Haruhi anyways with his stature. Haruhi and Mori looked at one another worried.

"It's all over the school!" The twins cried together biting their lower lips. In big bold letters the newspaper read, 'Ouran Host Club Love Affair! The real deal.'

"How did this happen?!" Tamaki cried glancing worriedly at Kyoya. The shadow king was stumped as well. There was pictures, in all of them Mori was clearly distinguishable but Haruhi was hidden or blurry.

"Well, it's hard to tell that's Haruhi... If we all keep our mouths zipped tight no one will be any the wiser..." Kyoya stated intelligently.

"Yes but what about the customers?" Haruhi questioned, "Won't they be asking Takashi questions all day?"

The group shared a sigh. This was definitely a no win situation. Hunny looked over the article, "The author isn't on the committee... he or she remained anonymous see?! If they were on the newspaper committee they would have to put their name on their article..."

"Alright. So the newspaper club didn't write it but who did?! Someone had to take those pictures!" The Hitachiin twins frowned, their arms crossed over their chests. "What are we going to do?" Takashi massaged his temples. This was going to be a long day.

"The business day starts soon… everyone act natural…if anyone questions you about the article say you know nothing or make it sound like a joke." Kyoya pushed the frames of his glasses up the bridge of his nose. The whole Host Club nodded. Takashi was worried about Haruhi, even though she was keeping herself together this was still a huge pressure. Then again, this was a huge pressure on him too. Haruhi was blurry in the photos, he stuck out.

Fangirls poured in, those for Takashi were blushing and shy. Everyone was a little on edge. Takashi worked fathfully beside Mitsukuni. Then the first question came. "Takashi? H-have you seen the school n-newspaper for this w-week?"

Mori nodded 'calmly'. "W-well... we," she looked around herself and the other girls nodded, "w-we were wondering if i-it was true..." Mori had to slightly think about what he was going to say. Now, Mori didn't like to lie but he couldn't exactly tell the exact truth and break these girls' hearts so he fudged it. The whole Host Club turned to stare at him with wide eyes.

"I was with Haruhi. I was helping him with various things." The fangrils seemed to accept this and sighed. There was a loud screech.

"NO! That ruins my article!" Renge sstomped her foot obviously frustrated. "I could've sworn you were in a relationship with a mysterious woman!" Suddenly Renge rushed over and began to stare closely at Haruhi. "You look like a girl...but you're lacking something... I just can't imagine what it could be! If you were a girl though it would be just like 'Girl Got Game' except, you don't play basketball Haruhi." Haruhi could feel an unexplanable anger that welled and formed a throbbing vein on her temple. Her right fist slightly curled. The Host Club had become an awkward standstill between the princesses and the Host Club members. The twins plopped down their elbows on Haruhi's shoulders. Their fists went under their chins, they cocked their heads towards one another.

"Renge..."

"You're silly."

"Haruhi's a boy." they finished together. Thankfully Lord Tamaki hadn't jumped in right when Renge began to suspect Haruhi for being a woman or it would have tipped Renge off even more. The Lord has a tendency to, blow the situation out of proportion.

Under the combined wonder twins staare Renge seemed to shrink a lttle. She was however, not fully satisfied. That's why they just changed the subject path her mind was on, it was another point for the shadow king!

"Renge... isn't there a new episode of Death Note you said you were going to watch?" Renge's hand flew to her mouth.

"Oh! I forgot! I have to see what happens to Light!" Renge went on what could typically be classified as a Otaku rant. Kyoya somehow gracefully managed to remove her from the Host Club. He looked back at everyone.

"Well, that was exciting. Please resume and enjoy yourselves!" His smile was interesting, though sweet, it was fueled by his desire to gain power to please his father. For the rest of the day the Host Club was a little unsettled but compared to the chaotic mess it could have been it ran rather smoothly.

Inside of our couple though tension and stress was building up with every minute that passed on the face of the ever ticking clock.