This is rather a longer filler chapter than planned- but it can turn into some good mush for you all! Hope you enjoy it- the sports theme will return with a vengeance next chapter- with more races :D

Disclaimer: still not owning these amazing characters-otherwise this would be an episode!

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Chapter 10- Results of the Diary Incident

Previously…

"Haruhi's diary?" Kyoya said sceptically.

"It's time to question the twins," Haruhi said to herself.

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(Third Music Room- after school)

If you had been standing in the Third Music Room in Ouran Academy, you might have felt a sudden drop in room temperature just as the large doors were flung wide open.

If you had been standing in the Third Music room, you may have even seen the many icicles starting to grow from the high ceilings while the blustery snow swirled around the floor.

And if you had been standing in the Third Music at that very moment, there could be the slightest possibility of you feeling the arctic breeze flood in, squeezing out the heat from the very blood of any person unlucky enough to be caught in that very room.

Namely: High School Freshmen Hikaru and Kaoru Hitachiin.

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"Hikaru and Kaoru Hitachiin," was the chilling voice that met the twins.

Both young men in question flinched simultaneously, while rubbing their arms furiously against the sudden invasive chill. One look was exchanged that only meant one thing, 'We're in for it'

Placing sweet innocent smiles on their faces Hikaru and Kaoru turned together to face the Fujioka Inquisition.

"Haruhi- what's the matter?" Hikaru asked with concern. "It's a bit…chilly in here isn't it? Strange weather for spring hey?"

"Are you not feeling well?" Kaoru asked, "We have a first aid kit in the Music Room- I can go fetch you a jumper if you need one-"

"Sit. Both of you. Here." Haruhi commanded, pointing to one of the sofas.

Meekly, the twins sat down blinking apprehensively staring up at the enraged young woman.

"Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to hide it in my algebra book…" Hikaru mused quietly. "Why did I leave it in there?"

Kaoru nudged him, "It's a bit late for regrets like that now. And so the questioning begins…"

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"You what?!"

"We wrote in the diary…and gave it to Kyoya-senpai?" Hikaru managed weakly.

Both twins cowered under the growing anger and might of Haruhi Fujioka who seemed to tower over them as they sat, shivering together, on one of the sofas. Haruhi had her hands on her hips. Thankfully, the Music Room had been empty when Haruhi had entered, 'diary' in one hand, leaving her able to question the twins without interruptions from anyone else.

"You wrote it and…showed it…to Kyoya-senpai?" Haruhi repeated.

Hikaru nodded.

"The bit with his name in hearts?" Haruhi tried again, brandishing the very diary page.

Kaoru nodded.

Haruhi felt her legs go slack. Stupid twins! Kyoya saw that! He must have thought…he does think that! That must explain his behaviour over the last few days! Realisation pouring over her like a cold shower, Haruhi took a step backwards.

"Haruhi- are you alright?" Kaoru asked.

"Of course not! You showed Kyoya-senpai…he thinks…he thinks…" Haruhi could not finish the sentence. "How did you even arrive at the conclusion that I…? I never said anything…" She quickly cut off that sentence as irritation began to bubble inside her; those twins had been behind it all along…the embarrassment yesterday in front of everyone…

"We didn't honestly think that he would believe it!" Hikaru protested, "We thought that he would just dismiss it as a joke! Come on it's Kyoya-senpai! Whatever happened to the detailed analysis of the writing, carbon dating, ringing up various agents to check its authenticity! He's as much at fault as we are surely?"

Haruhi glared at him and Hikaru shrank back into his seat. "First, that was a dirty trick to play- you should not mess around with people's emotions! Secondly, I have no idea why Kyoya-senpai did believe it but now it's gone and affected his behaviour to me which is also unfair. Thirdly…you're not getting off lightly I assure you!"

I need to find Kyoya…set everything to rights…be cool Haruhi…cool, calm and collected and then you can do this! Go Haruhi! She mentally encouraged herself to take on the Shadow King.

"I'll deal with you two later!" she promised. "You two are going to regret this prank immensely. Don't you even think I'm going to forget this-you're in big trouble!" Leaving the twins behind her, she hurried from the room, a look of determination on her face.

Where could he be? I have to show him that it is not my diary- that I did not write these things! He'll have to believe me!

"Yes mom," Hikaru pouted as he folded his arms huffily as Haruhi left the room. Thankfully, the warmth in the music room rose by a few degrees at her departure, lifting to slightly above sub-zero temperatures.

Kaoru elbowed him, "We can't go and upset her any further. What if she refuses to come to our house next time you want to invite her round? What will we do then?"

Hikaru paled, "Is that what she meant? By dealing with us- she'll punish us that way?"

"We're going to find out one way or another. Then we have Kyoya-senpai's wrath to face too no doubt," Kaoru leant back into the soft cushions.

Hikaru's fingers fumbled about to find Kaoru's hand resting lightly on the sofa seat and squeezed it, "Together like always?" he suggested.

Kaoru grinned, "I wouldn't have it any other way."

(One of Ouran's Libraries)

Kyoya-senpai slid the library book carefully back onto the shelf, making sure that it was in its right place. It was one of his "pet hates"- it annoyed him intensely whenever he tried to look for a book and they were not arranged in alphabetical order correctly on the shelf, so he made sure that he always put a book back where it belonged.

He glanced at his watch. Nearly four o'clock, host activities would be starting soon and it was not like him to be late. Picking up his briefcase, he exited the silent library and headed up towards the music rooms. More ignoring Haruhi…I wonder how long it will take her to realise? To realise something is not right? Taking her perceptiveness into account…

"Kyoya-senpai!"

Kyoya stopped in his tracks. Not long then. He couldn't do it again, but he had to. It was for her good as much as it was for his own. That surprised him. Here he was, Kyoya Ootori trying to do something for another, without the hint of any financial or moral gain for himself? Did he really value her that much?

"Fujioka I -"

"Kyoya-senpai wait!" Haruhi said, breathlessly arriving at his side.

Kyoya looked down at her, and his eyes immediately caught sight of what she was holding in one hand. The diary… "I don't have time for this Haruhi," he said, his voice low. He made to start walking again, but he felt a hand grab hold of his sleeve.

"Kyoya-senpai please!" her pleading eyes locked with his dark ones that were rapidly losing the will to ignore her. "Just hear me out!"

He paused, looking back at the hand hanging on desperately to his purple blazer.

"This…is not mine!" Haruhi began, shaking the diary for emphasis. "Not mine. The twins…it was a hoax right from the beginning. Whatever is written in this I did not write! Why would I? I don't like you! I would never write anything like that! Ever!" Haruhi's words were spilling out over one another as she urgently tried to make Kyoya see the truth.

Kyoya blinked. She would never like me? Like that? He shook himself mentally. Of course she wouldn't-that's what we thought before. However, something in that comment still stung him, him - the cool host.

"Some people might be offended by a comment such as yours," he said intensely. "Learn to think before you get stuck in a hole that you cannot climb out of."

Haruhi grasped what she had just said. I just said I didn't like Kyoya-senpai…to his face! Could this actually get any worse! Stupid lies just keep falling from my lips like rain from the clouds! It's not even true!

"Oh! I mean," Haruhi tried to rearrange her muddled thoughts, "I do like you Kyoya-senpai, it's just this diary…I wouldn't want you getting the wrong idea! The completely…wrong idea…" she broke off again.

Kyoya took a step towards her and Haruhi backed into the wall, the hand holding the diary falling limp to her side. "So, do you want to try again?" he asked, almost amused at the slight blush that rose in her cheeks.

Haruhi averted her gaze from the piercing eyes boring into her, seeing nearly into the depths of her soul. "Try again Kyoya-senpai?" she said tentatively.

"Yes, you seemed rather muddled with your statements. And you did just offend me," Kyoya pointed out. "Which probably wasn't your smartest move."

Haruhi gulped and looked up at Kyoya who seemed to tower over her. "I'm sorry…I…take back what I said about not liking you…I do like you…you're a… " Nothing more could or wanted to come out.

Kyoya grinned. "That sounds acceptable- for the moment Haruhi."

Haruhi felt her heart hammering inside her chest nearly painfully. For the moment?

Kyoya leant towards her again and grinned inwardly as Haruhi's breathing hitched. Having Haruhi fainting from a lack of oxygen would raise some awkward questions… Gently, he took the diary from between her slender fingers and raised it, taking a step back to allow her to continue breathing.

What is he doing? I don't like that smile…Haruhi thought as she leant back against the wall, struggling to control her breathing. Calm down Fujioka! It's only Kyoya-senpai! She sighed and almost rolled her eyes. 'Only' Kyoya-senpai…

She felt him lightly prying her fingers away from the small diary clutched tightly in her hand with his own cool fingers, a crooked smile playing on his lips. What's he thinking about…she fretted.

Kyoya opened the diary and flicked briefly through its pages; to his surprise the sheets were almost all blank with no writing whatsoever, except for the page where his name was inscribed neatly at the bottom. "So you're saying this isn't yours?" he looked back at her.

"No! It was one of the twins' pranks-they confessed everything to me a few moments ago. It was all their doing." Haruhi said fervently.

Kyoya pushed his glasses up his noses; his other hand tightening into a fist. Those meddlesome twins…I'm going to… He took a deep breath, calming himself down and spotted Haruhi's expression.

"What?" he asked irritably.

Haruhi bit her lip and looked down, "You looked like you wanted to…murder someone Kyoya-senpai," she admitted.

Kyoya felt one corner of his lips twitch into a smirk, "Maybe two certain individuals." Those Hitachiins won't know what's hit them…

Haruhi blinked. Scary Kyoya-senpai…he hasn't changed…

(Third Music Room)

Blissfully unaware of what had previously just occurred, Tamaki strolled happily into the Third Music room, to find Hikaru and Kaoru sitting huddled on the sofa together, wrapped in large puffy jackets, matching hats and gloves and large thermoses in hand.

"What are-why is it so cold in here?" Tamaki asked, rubbing his arms to ward off the sudden chill. Portable radiators had been set up near the sofa, their orange rays dancing in the twins' eyes. "I'm sure it was sunny outside before I stepped in here…"

The twins exchanged a glance and said one word precisely in time, "Haruhi."

"Tama-chan! Tama-chan! It's snow! Christmas has come early!" A delighted Honey scampered over, a bobble bouncing precariously from his hat, a multi-coloured scarf tightly wound around his neck with large mitten gloves on his small hands. In his puffer jacket he looked like a green snowball.

Mori was a few feet behind, a scarf wound messily around his head like a bandana, from Honey's attempts at warming up his cousin before being interrupted by the thought of snow. He had a snow shovel in one hand where he had been shifting snow away from the door where it had accumulated.

"Haruhi? Why what happened?" Tamaki asked.

"Scary face…"

"Those eyes…"

Tamaki glanced at one twin and then the other as they both muttered gibberish into their warm hot chocolates. He surveyed the room in its arctic conditions, snow drifts piling up against the windows. The Christmas tree Honey had hopefully set up in the corner.

"Haruhi did this?" Tamaki said doubtfully. "Have I missed something? Is it the commoner day for celebrating snow and all things cold?"

Honey shook his head, brushing his hair out of his eyes with his over large gloves. "No, Haru-chan was just mad, that's all!" he said brightly.

Tamaki shivered, both from the cold descending on him and the thought of Haruhi's anger. "My benign daughter? Mad? Never!" he protested.

"You weren't here…" Hikaru quivered.

"You didn't see…" Kaoru sneezed.

Honey meanwhile was busy making a snow angel on the ground, moving his arms and legs in vigorous scissor movements. He stood up, shaking himself down as he surveyed his handiwork. "Look Takashi! Snow Honey angel!"

"Ah. Mind you do not catch a chill Mitsukuni," Mori warned calmly, brushing snow from Honey's shoulders.

"I'll be very careful!" Honey assured his cousin, shifting his bobble hat before it fell in his eyes again.

"So who is Haruhi mad at?" Tamaki asked the twins. "Who are the vagrants who have deeply displeased my daughter- roused her seldom seen temper- verily vexed her to such lengths?"

"Well," Hikaru started,

"That may," Kaoru continued,

"Could just have been," they said together,

"You two," a new voice joined the conversation, its tone striking fear far deeper than the freezing freak weather inhabiting the Third Music room of Ouran Academy could have ever possibly achieved.

"Why…Kyoya-senpai," Tamaki said uneasily as his friend walked in, Haruhi trailing behind him.

"Tamaki," Kyoya acknowledged.

"Haruhi what's the meaning of this weather?" Tamaki questioned, peering around Kyoya.

Haruhi looked just as surprised as she gazed around the winter wonderland. "I'm sorry Senpai…I didn't realize…"

"Don't fret my darling! It's perfectly fine! Winter in the middle of summer! It's revolutionary! We shall celebrate with the Australians!" Tamaki declared immediately, for fear of the temperature plunging even lower as Kyoya frowned.

"I need to talk to those two," Kyoya stared specifically at the twins cowering in their sofa. "In private," he declared.

"We're too young, too beautiful, too rich!" Hikaru offered.

"No don't kill us!" Kaoru broke out.

Kyoya's look left little room for arguing. The twins stood up slowly, like those condemned and forlornly shuffled out of the room in the direction Kyoya had pointed to. Kyoya still stood beside Tamaki's side.

"I think I need a doctor Tamaki," Kyoya muttered in an undertone to the lord.

"What have you got Kyoya?" Tamaki asked seriously. "Haruhi-itus?"

Kyoya raised an eyebrow. "Now what would make you say that?" he asked rhetorically. With that, he strode from the room from whence the twins had moments ago exited.

"Do you think we'll ever see Hikaru-chan and Kaoru-chan alive again?" Honey asked desolately, looking up to Mori.

"Come on, it's Kyoya!" Tamaki laughed uneasily trying to lighten the mood.

"Exactly." Haruhi said.

Scary Kyoya-senpai! Watch out Hikaru and Kaoru! But who could ever harm them…they're just too cute! Honey in the snow- I've always wanted to see that- so I added it! Ha!

For those curious to wonder how it snowed indoors and at the time of year this is set (late spring I think) the snow all spans from a rather long winded story, literally and metaphorically, I happened to write for my English teacher a few years back. It was set in the middle of the summer holidays…and somehow it managed to snow! Fortunately, my English teacher did not seem to notice! (Glock you get it- don't you?!)

Anyway- that was the last bit of the filler chapter I put in between the sports theme. So don't fear there shall be more sports chaos for the Hosts of Ouran in the next installment, which will be hopefully quite soon! That all depends with how nice my new sixth form teachers are deciding to be- if I'm bogged down with work it may take a little longer!

Thank you for all the reviews! 80 from the last 9 chapters! I am astounded! And the hits just keep on coming! Please keep up the excellent work and I shall reward you with more chapters! Such bribery!

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