As each day passed, Taka and Haruhi got closer. Though they held off on the physical aspect of their relationship, they talked about everything and nothing. The only people who knew about a relationship beyond friendship were Hani, Haru and Kyouya. Well, Tamaki thought they would be cute together, but he couldn't allow his most precious "youngest son" to have his innocence taken, let alone by a "brute twice his size, who could barely speak."
Not only did this hurt Taka -not that she showed it- but it ticked off Hani, Haruhi, and Haru. Haruhi growled and grabbed his mate's and as Hani judo flipped Tamaki and Haru pulled knives from her sleeves, ready to do anything to protect her pack, even if it was only words that offended.
Again, being the idiot he was, Tamaki saw Haru and smiled. "See! Even Haru disagrees with Mori-sempai and her brother being together!" he said, getting up.
Growling, she slammed him into the wall, one of her blades at the blonde's neck, the other at the ready for anything. "If my brother and Takashi want to have a relationship together, let them! For the first time in his life, he has a friend who's not family or a friend of our family. If they want to take it a step further, so be it. At least Takashi's not a useless bastard who can only think of his own wants and is as narrow minded as a sewing needle. Thin what you want, but leave them, both of them, out of your delusions," she hissed, shoving him a little so his head bounced off the wall.
Upset, Tamaki did as he always did in these situations. "MOTHER! Haru's being inappropriate and Hani-sempai flipped me for no reason!" Kyouya regarded Tamaki coldly. Usually, he didn't take things this far. Knowing it would upset Tamaki worse, Kyouya turned his back to the blonde boy and continued to type at his laptop. The blonde went to 'his corner' and sulked while Haruhi and Taka talked.
"Haruhi?"
"Hold me back, Taka, or I'm going to kill him." She nodded and took Haruhi's waist, bringing him to her lap; encircling him in her arms. He relaxed into her embrace and took deep breaths to calm his wolf. "He's wrong you know," he whispered to her. She looked up as he spoke.
"Aa," she responded, though she looked unconvinced.
"Taka, have you killed before?" She nodded slowly. "To protect someone you love?" Another nod. "My wolf isn't like that. He kills to protect, sure. But he likes the thrill of killing. These hands have innocent blood on them. If anything, I'm a cold hearted killer. It took me months of therapy after the three months with the Death Eaters to acknowledge anyone was talking to me, let alone nod at them. It took a year to start saying the smallest words unless they were Harry or Haru. Even then I talked as little as possible." Taka was about to object, but before she could, Haruhi leaned forward and captured her lips with his. It was sweet, innocent, and sloppy, but it conveyed his love to her.
"Arigato," she whispered when they came up for air. Taka buried her face in Haruhi's neck, clinging to him as she tried to overcome her feelings of self-hatred and worthlessness.
No one had ever comforted her like this. No one had ever thought about her little insecurities unless it was to reprimand her for letting her femininity control her. She liked this feeling of comfort; gentle praise, convincing her of her worth to Haruhi. And she loved it. She loved him.
"Anytime, anywhere Taka. If I can, I'll do anything to make you happy and healthy."
"All I need is you. Your family, my cousin. That is all I need."
Their embrace was broken when Haru put a hand on her brother's shoulder. "Clients will be coming soon," was all she said. Before going to her station, she placed a kiss on Taka's cheek. Taka blushed at the blatant show of acceptance and affection that Haru gave her. Haruhi squeezed her hand and kisserd her on the corner of her mouth, then slid from his mate's lap to get into position. The doors opened.
"Welcome."
Just as they were about to close, the door opened to a little boy looking nervous. When he declared he wanted to make girls happy, Haruhi stared at him, then looked at his sister. Haru nodded, then went over to the boy and said, "The best way to make girls happy is to listen to them and spend time with them." The boy looked at her, bowed, and rushed out the door.
"Aww! Why would you tell him that!? It's obvious that you charm them!" Tamaki exclaimed.
Haruhi looked at him and shook his head. "That may be a way to get them to fall at your feet, but it will never truly make a woman happy. To them, you are saying that they aren't important enough to you to hear what they have to say. When you do that, you make them an object, not a person," Haruhi said. All the girls who watched the conversation nodded wildly and swarmed the twins to fawn over them. Haru stepped forward to deal with them while Haruhi drew back, trying not to panic.
Taka forced down her jealousy at the girls surrounding her mate and placed a hand on his head, lightly petting the silky locks. Haruhi leaned into her and took a calming breath. Still leaning on Taka, Haruhi reached down and took her other hand in his, twining their fingers together. He held it tight, squeezing hard, like he was in pain. Taka took their connected hands and pulled their arms around his torso, holding him tight; braced against her body.
When he got his breathing under control, he squeezed her hand one last time before he loosened his grip. They stayed like that until Haru got the girls under control. When the girls had gone back to previous club activities, Taka leaned down and kissed Haruhi's cheek, so close to his mouth. She let him go and they went back to their customers.
It wasn't the Host Club's first run in with the newspaper club, but Kyouya swore it would be their last. Tamaki had introduced the other club to "commoner games." He forced both clubs to play, but Kyouya managed to slip away to go through all his information on this newspaper club and the people behind it.
He had known their objective from the beginning, but needed to know how to stop them. In the end, Haruhi came up with that.
He and Harry had thought of this before, during their imprisonment, but couldn't go through with is because of their location. Most of this high bred society would do as Kyouya had, looking for and advantage. Death Eaters had been no different.
Because both were so reliant on their own tactics, neither thought to do something so 'underhanded' or a 'muggle technique.' Kyouya took their advice and searched the club room; top to bottom, in between the furniture, cushions, air vents, everything. Now he knew how to stop them.
While the Twins distracted Tamaki and most of the newspaper club, the Host Club cornered the rest of the newspaper club and shut them down.
Kyouya then invited all of the Host Club (once Tamaki and the Twins got back from playing the 'commoners games') to go out for dinner, compliments of the addition of funds from the newspaper club. As the night wore on, Tamaki, Hani, and Kyouya left and the rest continued to have fun.
The Twins, having never seen their Mori-sempai without Hani, were astonished when the twins included him in their conversations and were shocked when he answered back.
"Ne, Mori-sempai, why are you talking to the low class commoners?" asked Hikaru. Karou elbowed him in the ribs. Mori looked at Hikaru coldly, but Haruhi looked on calmly.
"Hikaru-kun, how long would you say you and all your family-extended or otherwise- would be able to live without working or continuing to invest," Haru asked.
"About fifty years," the selfish Twin answered, somewhat smugly.
"Hear that, Haruhi, only fifty years."
"If we never worked another day and pulled all our investments, up to our second cousins three times removed could live in luxury for the next three hundred years. As soon as the estate for our birth mother is settled, we can ass at least another century." Haruhi couldn't help the satisfaction that welled inside of him as he said this.
"Then again, after five wars and four hundred years of sitting there, it really lost us a lot of money. We could have gone for a couple more hundred years if not for that. Then there's your fiance, Haru, who has a lordship or two and about a thousand more years of freeloading there."
Taka cut in then, "Add the Morinozuka fortune there is two hundred years."
The Twins looked shocked, Not only were they more powerful than the old emperor, but Mori had claimed to be part of their family. Haruhi beamed, noticing the inference, and clasped hands with his mate. Taka smirked at the Twins and their expressions.
"So," Hikaru began. "How long until your dad adopts Mori-sempai too?" Karou galred at his twin while the others stared at Hikaru, two gave icy glares, the other was just as icy but was slightly confused.
"What our dad decides is none of our concern, let alone yours," they said in perfect sync and inflection with a tone of "you're in deep shit, now back off before we pound your face in."
"You're right. It is none of our business. I think it's time to go home now, Hikaru," Karou said yanking his twin up. "Thank you for the company and putting up with by brother."
The twins and Taka nodded at Karou and continued glaring at Hikaru. Haruhi turned to Taka and opened his mouth to answer the questions that Hikaru brought to Taka's mind. Before a sound could be made, Taka held up a hand.
"When you are ready, you will tell me. I can wait until then." The twins gave her a relieved and thankful look and said as one, "Arigato, Taka." She grinned at the and nodded.
"When is Teddy coming?" Taka asked a week later.
"Sometime next week. Harry's really excited and nervous, he's always worried about something. But I don't blame him." Haruhi gave his mate a sly, mischevious look. "It is his first, after all." Taka couldn't take it anymore, she laughed. She laughed so hard, she cried. She's done neither in years and it felt good to do it once again.
Everyone in the club froze. It was almost an hour until club started. Tamaki unfroze and brought forth his roses and glitter, dancing over to the tall girl.
"Mori-sempai, you simply must change your type! If you duplicated that, we would have even more happy customers!" Taka stared at him. She glanced around the room. As soon as Tamaki started talking, the twins stood defensivly in front of her. Surprisingly, Karou joined them.
"Ne, boss," Hikaru started. "If Mori-sempai did that, who'd be our strong, silent type?"
"I think," Haru said, "that Takashi should be whatever he wants to be. Why should he be anything other than who he is with the guests? Let him choose if he wants to change."
Tamaki turned back to Taka with pleading eyes. Kyouya was listening, prepared for war. Rather, he was prepared to run while the twins waged war, and pick up the ashes of whoever was left. Taka shrugged and walked to sit beside Mitskuni. The small boy grinned and held up a cupcake for his cousin.
Haru suddenly grabbed Haruhi by his face and rubbed her thumbs along his cheek bones. His amber eyes stared back at her. She placed an arm around her twin's waist and brought their lips together. Their lips and tounges fought for dominance and the right to come out on top. Finally, Haruhi submitted and his eyes calmed to their normal warm, rich brown
"Better?"
"Hai. Arigato nee-chan."
"If you two are done fighting for dominance," Kyouya said, making them stiffen, "guests will be here in twenty minutes." The twins blushed and tackled their cousin. The Twins looked stunned, not even they had taken their show that far...in public. Tamaki was a bit disgusted with the real incest shown.
Taka was slightly jealous and slightly turned on, while Hani was wide eyed. The twins began their torture of tickling Kyouya. Haruhi straddled his thighs while Haru kept his arms pinned above his head. The smaller boy began to mercilessly tickle his cousin's sides. Peals of laughter flowed through three mouths. Kyouya finally gave up struggling because, let's face it, one human against two werewolves? Finally they let him catch his breath and helped him up.
"Next time-" Haruhi started.
"We'll fight-"
"for dominance-"
"with you how-"
"we do-"
"with each other," they finished together. Kyouya groaned.
"Enough with the twin-speak! Fred and George are bad enough without you two pulling pranks on everyone." The twins looked up through their eye lashes and started whistling innocently. "Haru, Teddy's room will be done by Friday. He misses you three," he informed his cousins.
"Thanks for checking up on him Kyouya," Haru said quietly.
"You know our family," he stated just as quietly. "Pack first. I know I don't always show it, but you guys and the Host Club mean everything to me."
"We love you Kyouya," they said.
"I love you too," he whispered, drawing them into his arms. They wound their arms around his waist and clung to him. Haruhi whimpered.
"Everything will be fine, I know it." They nodded into his chest. They were safe here, all they needed was their pack.
