Okay, last night, I started writing the next chapter while I was in bed; I had the most marvellous idea, but now that I read the reviews and the idea's other people had, I started thinking to myself that it was a bit stupid... but I'm going to stick with a bit of the idea, while taking some of the idea's given to me :)
Thankyou to HikaruHiitachin, LadyofDragons089, and the 2 anonymous reviewers Wendy and Keith for their wonderful ideas'. (To Keith – LOL! I'll try my best to save Hati, I promise :P)
And thankyou to JenovaJuice97 for not taking my story off your alert list, heehee
And a REALLY big thankyou to Lakoma for letting me use what you said at the end of your review!
To everyone: I'm sorry if this part of the chapter is a little fast paced... I seriously need to learn to write a plot for fanfic, coz they never get anywhere in the end...
Okay, here's chapter 10 now :) (OMG O.o) Hope everyone enjoys! xD
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Chapter 10
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Haruhi breathed in the beautiful scent of lilies as they grew in the garden. It was now early spring, and all of the flowers and trees were in full bloom. It was a beautiful sight, given the circumstances, and Haruhi decided it best to let it all in and swarm her memories.
Tatsuki exited the house into the small backyard and saw her mother standing in the 'cold'. "Mum!" she snapped. "Get inside! You could get super-sick!"
"Don't worry," Haruhi smiled her cute smiled. "I love this time of the year most. You can smell the flowers and the barbeques in the air, and you can hear the laughter of the angels as they touch the flowers to give them life once again, enjoying their time and spending it wisely, not making a single stupid mistake and ruining the rest of their life over something as small as work or money." She sighed.
Tatsuki sat beside her and tries listening for the angels. "I don't hear anything..."
"Listen carefully," Haruhi whispered, closing her eyes at the thought of the little winged humans, jumping and playing around in the flowers.
Tatsuki closed her eyes too, but other thoughts filled her head.
"Don't think," Haruhi said softly. "Relax. Listen. Ignore everything around you; imagine the fairies and angels playing together as one."
She tried getting rid of the thoughts in her head and tried listening warily. No noises came to her for a moment, and when she was about to say that this was stupid, a small giggle was heard. Then another. And another. "Can you hear them?"
Tatsuki nodded. "I do."
"Don't they sound like they're having fun?"
"Yes..."
They stay quiet a moment longer, until Haruhi started coughing heavily into her fist. Tatsuki opened her eyes and stared at her mother while she clutched her chest in pain. "Mum, are you okay?"
Haruhi nodded, but it was obvious she was lying. She coughed harder and fell off the step they were sitting on and to her knees. She pulled out her asthma pump from her pocket and breathed in, with no effect. "Call someone," Haruhi wheezed between coughs, then collapsed to her knees.
Tatsuki stood quickly and ran inside to the phone. She remembered her mother telling her not to call Uncle Tama-Chan or Hati again, so she decided to call someone else.
She picked up the phone book and flicked through till she found the name she was searching for. She dialled in the number quickly and waited for an answer.
"Hello, Ohtori Kyouya speak—"
"It's me, Tatsuki," Tatsuki said quickly. "Come over here, quick! Mums having a coughing attack!"
"What?!" Kyouya burst. "I'll be there soon!" He turned the phone off quickly, forgetting completely about the phone he was using and how it wasn't one of his private ones.
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Kyouya pulled his coat on quickly as he ran out of his office.
"Where are you going?" Kazuna asked as he ran past her.
"I'll be back soon!" he called over his shoulder and slammed the front door behind him as he ran out.
He didn't want to go by limousine, seeing as, a, he would be noticed and it could cause trouble for him and Haruhi, and b, there wasn't time to wait for it to arrive. So he pulled the hood of his coat over his head and ran. It was quite a sight to see him run, but nobody recognised him, and the rout to Haruhi's house went swiftly, with no interruptions.
Until he got there, anyway.
Swarming the outside of the house were cameras and news reporters, and when one of them saw that he was coming towards them, they all screamed and fell over him. He cursed himself under his breath and ignored all their questions.
"Ohtori-Sama, is this the lady you've been disappearing to see?" "Are the rumours true?" "Who is this lady and what is she to you?" The questions kept coming out and they irritated the living day-light out of him, but he only moved on without a word.
When he got to the door, Tatsuki opened for him quickly. He entered swiftly and closed the door in the reporters' faces. They ran to the windows and peered in through the curtain-less glass as he picked up Haruhi from the backyard and brought her to the couch. When he sat beside her and tried to comfort her, the camera's started to flash, and people started to talk into microphones and into the screens of other peoples' homes. "It's true! Ohtori-Sama is having an affair with another of poor standing!" "People have identified this person as Fujioka Haruhi, a friend of Ohtori-Sama's from Ouran Academy." "Nobody knows the facts as of yet, but we can now see Ohtori-Sama sitting with the lady as she must have an illness. Is she an old companion of his?" "And who is that child standing beside them?" "What's really happening in there?" "Who is that woman?" "How long have they known each other?"
Haruhi looked over her shoulder, still coughing, at the large crowd that surrounded her house.
"Ignore them," Kyouya said, pulling a loose strand of hair behind her ear and laying her head down. "Don't worry. I'll make sure they won't annoy you."
"I can't breathe," Haruhi coughed. And for once in his life, Kyouya didn't know what to do. He could have called for an ambulance, but there would have been no way that they could get out and arrive at the hospital in one piece. There were people swarming the whole of the house, and only the inside was secure.
Haruhi looked like she was in pain. Her face was starting to go dark purple, and she seemed out of breath. He sighed. He had to get her to the hospital, and fast. His brothers' hospital was the best one. "Tatsuki, call an ambulance."
"But how are they going to get through?"
"I'll deal with the press. Go call an ambulance. Now."
She nodded and ran off to find the phone.
He got Haruhi sitting up and the coughing lessened, but not by much. And then, she started coughing up blood and that got Kyouya really worried.
"Tell them to hurry up!" he yelled to Tatsuki as she talked on the phone. "Don't worry, Haruhi," Kyouya said, hugging her as she bent over and spurted more blood over the browning carpet. "I won't let anything happen to you."
The ambulance arrived 10 minutes later. Kyouya breathed in and told Tatsuki to keep her mother company while he tried to get out the house. "Everyone, out of the way!" he barked at the reporters. "We have a sick lady in here that is in dire need of a doctor! Move out so we can get her to the hospital!"
"Who is this lady?" a reporter asked. "Is she the rumoured Fujioka Haruhi?"
"What connection do you have with her?"
"I said move!" Kyouya roared, shoving the people out of the way. When the people at the front fell back, the others went silent and watched him with astonishment. "Now, I want you all to have this clear in your heads. You are not to follow us. You are not to bother Haruhi again. You are not to ask any questions, and you are to clear a path so we can get her to the hospital. Understood? If anybody here does not agree to these conditions, know that I have power over all your jobs." That got everybody moving away and making a clear path for him to the ambulance. "Thankyou very much."
He ran back inside and picked up Haruhi from the couch, then moved to the ambulance parked on the road. The nurses took Haruhi and put her inside on a stretcher, and Kyouya and Tatsuki moved in and sat beside her as they tried to ask her questions. After a moment, when they knew there was no way they were going to be able to get any answers out of her, they pulled out an oxygen tank and put it over her mouth so she could breathe.
"Will you be able to take us to the Ohtori hospital?" Kyouya asked the nurse as he got into the drivers seat.
"I will, sir," he nodded, and drove off.
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"Uncle Tama, its Tatsuki."
"Where are you?" Tamaki yelled into the phone. "I saw everything on the news! Which hospital are you at?"
"The Ohtori hospital," Tatsuki answered calmly.
"Okay, I'll be there as soon as I can!" He put the phone down and ran down the stairs so he could get to the hospital.
"Dad, can I come?" Hati asked. Tamaki nodded without a word and they ran together to the limousine that waited outside for them.
"Tamaki!" Éclair came out the house to see him entering the car. She walked towards him and took his hands, then smiled. "Tell her I wish her well."
Tamaki smiled and nodded, then hopped into the limousine quickly beside his son, closed the door and told the driver to drive – fast.
When they got to the hospital, Tamaki took Hati by the arm and ran in quickly to the front desk to ask about the room in which Haruhi was staying. When they found out the room number, Tamaki ran to the stairs and jumped over the stairs, 5 by 5.
Outside Haruhi's room, Kyouya and Tatsuki waited silently. Tatsuki was sitting on the chair and watching a show on the television, while Kyouya was standing and pacing, worry burning in his eyes.
"Kyouya," Tamaki nodded at him as he walked towards them.
Kyouya stopped pacing and eyed his friend. "Tamaki," he nodded back. "Good to see you again," he added sarcastically.
"You too," he sneered. "How is Haruhi doing? What happened?"
"She had a coughing attack at home," Tatsuki said absent-mindedly, not looking away from the television. "Her asthma pump didn't work, and she told me the other night that I should call you anymore, so I called dad." She pointed at Kyouya with her thumb. "Then called the doctor, and here we are."
Hati moved away from his dad and sat beside Tatsuki. "You don't look too worried."
She looked over at him and shrugged. "I've said it before, I don't care what happens to her."
Kyouya didn't hear what the kids were talking about, as he had his eyes on Tamaki.
Tamaki sighed and walked towards him. "Listen," he grumbled, his eyes keeping away from making contact with the cold silver ones. "I had a talk with Haruhi the other night. She said that we shouldn't be fighting like this."
Kyouya blinked. "Fighting like what?" he asked sardonically.
"Like this," he said. "Not talking with each other and trying to stay as far away from each other as possible. And you know what? She's right." Kyouya stared at him without a word. "We'd been friends for so many years and we broke away because of one stupid fight..."
"I don't understand what you're trying to say," the dark man said, crossing his arms.
"I'm trying to say that I'm sorry about all those years ago."
Kyouya blinked at the bolding man, then burst out laughing. The kids looked up from their conversation and saw him clutching his stomach.
"It wasn't that funny," Tamaki snapped. "I'm talking the truth!"
"You think that only an apology would make me accept you as a friend again?" he laughed. "I would never—"
"Kyouya." He turned quickly to see his brother come out of the room Haruhi was staying in. He indicated for Kyouya to go inside the room with his head and bowed down to Tamaki. "Good to see you again, Suoh-Sama," he said once straightened up.
"Good to see you too," Tamaki nodded. "May I see her?"
"Ah, sorry, she asked for my brother," he apologized as Kyouya walked past him and inside. "You can see her after him." He bowed again then turned and walked away.
Tamaki sat down on a chair beside him and crossed his arms. He knew it was a stupid idea.
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Kyouya walked towards where Haruhi lay and sat on the chair beside her. She looked up when she heard him approaching and smiled.
"How are you?" he asked.
"Better," she nodded. "Thankyou for your help. I'm sorry about the news leaking out."
"It's not a problem," he shook his head. "I can deal with them. It's you I'm worried about." He took her hand into his and kissed it. "They won't leave you alone now, and you're too sick to have to worry about them now."
"I'll be fine," she smiled. "I have you, Tatsuki, Tamaki and the others watching me."
He shook his head. "I can't let you go through too much trouble. When my brother says you are well enough to go home, you'll be welcome to live in the spare room at my mansion."
Haruhi laughed. "You know I won't accept to those terms," she smiled up at him, taking her hand back. "But I think Tatsuki would like it very much if she can stay with you for a few days, just until I get better."
Kyouya nodded. "Okay," he said, then bent down and kissed her on the top of the head. "But I want you to promise me you'll get better."
"I promise."
"And if you need an operation and you don't have enough money, I want you to come to me."
She looked up at him with a dull expression. "You know I won't."
"Haruhi, don't be a fool," Kyouya sneered. "I know you don't have enough money, and it's my fault, so to make up for it, I want you to come to me and take the money. Understand? If you don't, I'll just give the money to my brother."
"I won't take it," she said stubbornly. "You know I can't. Whatever I take from you isn't mine. I didn't work for it, so I can't bare myself to use it. So I'm going to stick by my decision and say no – continuously."
Kyouya glared at her steadily. "Do you want to die? Do you have a death-wish already? Haruhi, you're only 34 years. You're still young. You have a whole life time ahead of you, and you have people who care for you. Do you want to cause them suffering?"
"No..." she answered with a small voice, looking away from him.
"Do you want to break their hearts?"
"No..."
"Do you want to—?"
"No, okay!" she snapped. Kyouya stay quiet and watched her as she sighed. "I don't want to die... but I'm not afraid of it either. I'll welcome it with wide arms if I have to." She looked up at him from the corner of her eye. "And you're right. I am young. But here I am, ending up with a child, not even when I was 20. My life has been hell for the last 15 years, and why? Because I ended up with a child who grew up hating me; I was never able to do my own mother proud. And because of that, she's punished me. I'm living hard, working at a cafe that doesn't pay much while Tatsuki's at school, then cleaning my home when she's at home. And Kyouya, you know what? I hate it." She looked up with cold eyes that had fire burning inside them. "I hate it all, and it's all your fault."
"Don't say that."
"It is. It's your fault I'm here."
"Everything is my fault, huh?" He stood up from his chair and looked down at her pitiful body, then back at her face. "I'm taking Tatsuki with me. Call me when you feel better. I'll be coming in and checking in on you frequently." Before she could say anything, he turned around and marched out.
Damn it! Kyouya thought to himself when he got out. He felt like punching the wall, but Tatsuki, Tamaki and his child were watching. She was getting really good at pissing him off.
I guess that's something I've missed most about her...
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Tatsuki gapped up at the big mansion that stood before her. This was a dream... surely this couldn't be real. She wasn't going to be living in the presidents' house, was she?
The chauffeur opened Kyouya's door first before opening hers. When he opened it, she was still awe-struck and move. She only sat there and goggled at the house she was going to live in.
Kyouya came to the side of the car and saw her still sitting. "Tatsuki?"
She looked up at him. "Hm?"
"Are you coming?"
"Oh, right!" She pulled out the suitcase from behind her (they'd gone over to her home so she could collect her things) and stood out of the black limousine. The chauffeur closed the door, moved back to the drivers' seat and drove off.
"I hope you like it here," Kyouya said to her as they walked up the stairs to one of the guests bedrooms. "I'm sorry I didn't arrange your own personal bedroom, but you can use the guests-bedroom however you wish."
"This is so cool!" Tatsuki beamed when the door was opened and a large white paradise bigger then Melanie's room was revealed. She ran into the room and jumped onto the bigger-then-king-sized bed and threw her suitcase into one corner of the room. "Thankyou so much!" she waved at Kyouya. He only watched her with astonishment, although kept the fact hidden from her behind his glaring spectacles.
"I hope you enjoy your stay," he smiled after a moment. "If you would like anything, just press the button on the wall beside you and a maid will come. I'll have someone come soon and take you on a more enlightening tour of our home, but until then, you are free to do as you wish."
She sat up on the bed and looked up at him. "Where will you be?" she asked.
"I have a few things I have to do, as they were delayed because of..." He paused. Because of your mother? Well, that sounded harsh. "Because of interruptions," he cleared his through. "I'll come and see how you're doing later."
"Can I go into your office?" she asked. "With you?"
"Uh," he stammered. "I don't like to be interrupted."
"I'll be a quiet little angel," she said with large onyx eyes.
He couldn't resist her eyes. They were exactly like Haruhi's, if you dismissed the colour. He sighed. "Okay, but you have to be as quiet as a mouse. Understand?"
"Sure," she grinned.
In his office, she sat at a chair and plonked her feet up on his desk. "It's nice in here. Smaller then I imagined."
He looked down at her feet warily as he walked to the other side of his desk. "As you promised, not a sound."
"Okay," she yawned.
He sat down and pulled out a few pens and a folder from a drawer beside him. She pulled her feet back down and watched him as he wrote some things into the folder and read through the files inside. He then opened the lid to the laptop that sat on his table and typed in something. His fingers moved quicker then that of a normal person.
"Woah, that's fast," she blinked. His fingers looked like blurs as they moved and touched the letters. "How do you do that?"
He sighed. "It's a natural talent."
She laughed. "Seriously? That's cool. Could I be able to type like that?"
"Maybe one day, if you practice."
Everything was quiet once again, apart from the clicks of the keys and the mouse on the laptop. After a minute or two of typing into the computer, Kyouya turned away and wrote into the folder again.
"What are you doing?" Tatsuki asked.
Kyouya gripped his pen firmly and looked up from his file. "I have a business meeting in a few days and they need facts about something."
"Ooh, what's it about?"
"It's..." He sighed. "It's hard to explain. I don't think you would be able to understand."
"Oh, come on, I have your brains. That should mean I'm smart, right?"
"Your mother is also smart."
"Yeah, but not like you. She's probably a pigeon compared to you."
He shook his head. "Actually, she came second in line in a competition we'd had in school. She wasn't accepted into Ouran for her looks." He smirked. "Matter of fact, she didn't have any looks back then. She was mistaken for a guy by all the students and teachers. Only the Host Club and an exception knew of her true gender. But she was something... something different..."
He caught himself mumbling after a moment and looked up to see Tatsuki laying her head on his desk and looking up at him with a face he couldn't put into place. It was a cute face, one of those ones where she looked confused, yet not confused at the same time. (Leave me alone, I'm tired lol.)
"I thought I told you not to bother me," he said with a dull expression.
"Sorry," she sighed. "I'm just bored."
"Do you want to take a tour around the mansion?"
"No, I want to stay with you," she smiled.
He stared at her a moment before turning back to his file.
A half hour of silence went by before Kyouya finally put the folder away. He stretched his arms and pulled out another file.
"Another one?" Tatsuki asked. He looked up at her over the top of the glasses. "Don't you ever relax?"
"To me, this is my relaxation."
"Hah! Yeah right! That's so boring! I mean, relax, as in, move around, rest, sleep, play games, watch TV – you know? Relax."
He lifted up his glasses. "I'm used to this kind of thing. I've been doing it since..." He put a finger to his chin as he thought. "Practically forever."
She blinked. "You've only been working for your whole life?" He nodded. "You're kidding, right? I mean, you've had to have done something else."
He shook his head. "No, I've been planning and filing things for my entire existence. You could ask your mother or one of the other Hosts. They would all agree."
She blinked again. "Seriously?" He nodded again. "Wow, that's sad..." He glared at her evilly, but she didn't seem to take notice, so he turned back to his file.
And every few minutes, she would say something to him, making him look away from his file and distracting him for 3 minutes, the least. It started irritating him at first, but he sighed, gritted his teeth and let it go. But he wouldn't get used to it. This was definitely the first and last time he was going to let her into his office with him.
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Sorry that chapters long. I won't keep you all long anymore Its 3.57AM and my dad'll be home any time now, so I have to get a move along and get to bed.
So, HOW WAS THAT CHAPTER!! xD I actually quite liked it :) I'd been writing it for a while, and I have to thank everyone who reviewed and gave me ideas for this chapter
I had an idea at the start, but this seemed to be getting a bit too long, so I decided that I'm going to add the idea into the next chapter :P but I'm still a bit lost at what I should do after that... I know what I'm going to do with Haruhi, but I don't know how I'll get Tamaki and Kyouya back together (yeah, I know, I spoiled it, sorry) or Haruhi back with Kyouya, because that would be a whole different story... NO WAIT! I GOT AN IDEA! I am so smart sometimes, I astound myself xD (okay, half of the idea is by LadyofDragons089, but I also have something else to add to it :P)
Again, I want to thank everyone who reviewed :) I don't know how much longer there is till the end of the story – actually, I have no idea what I might do next O.o – so if you have anything you want to happen (other then Tatsuki dying...) then please feel free to tell me, and I'll add it in :) if I can...
To Lukkiester – WELCOME ABORD THE MOTHER TRAIN! Lol, sorry, I just had to say that :P
Okay, now I'm finished with the chapter and the authors note, it's time again for random notes! xD I've only got one today, coz I'm tired, so yeah, don't hate me T.T lol you probably already hate me because of the randoms and Tatsuki, but meh, I don't care if people hate me X) I just hate them back heehee
Okay, random note: today, I was reading a story and then all of a sudden I see this black thing on my bed-sheets (I'm on a laptop on my bed...) so I move in to see what it is, and it's a baby lady-bug O.o so I pick it up and throw it out, and then I remembered I didn't feed my cat today (oops) so I went outside and I looked around (without my glasses) and could see these huge slugs just sliming around. So I went back inside, got my glasses, put some shoes on (coz I HATE slugs!) and tried my best not to step on one... but the cat came under my feet and I stepped on one lol my dads gonna have a hell of a surprise on his slippers when he gets home :P anyway, so after that, I went into the kitchen coz I got hungry and I wanted to see if we had anything to eat (which we don't because of our pathetic-home-lifestyle T.T) and instead, I found a caterpillar on the floor O.o now, caterpillars are cute, so I picked it up and threw it out, and then, an hour later, there was a fly flying in my room lol INSECTS HAVE CONTAMINTATED MY HOUSE! ARGH! I HATE BUGS (other then butterflies, lady-bugs and caterpillars, everything else freaks me out . even moths)! GO TO HELL INSECTS! AAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!
Okay, that was the end of the authors note :P I'm going away now. I hope everyone enjoyed that chapter :) sorry for the little mistakes and the OOC-ness (except I think I did a pretty decent job of Kyouya towards the end O.o) and just a hint: there will be smacking soon to come, so don't go away! ;D MUAHAHAHAHA!!
Yallah, bye everyone, I love you all :) MWAHZ (I LOVE JAMAL! BFFL!) Please review again or I'm going to send the bugs that are in my house at the moment to your house and they're going to eat you alive xD and if they don't, ill just ask Darren Shan for his spider, Madam Octa, to tranqulize you with her venom and kill you in your sleep heeheehee
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