I opened my eyes sleepily feeling that they were puffy from crying. I was warm... really warm... I rubbed my eyes and saw that all of the Hosts were sleeping on couches and chairs, and looking up, I turned red seeing myself inches away from Kyoya's sleeping face. I got up, and walked over to the sink, feeling thirsty. On my way, I tripped.

"Oof! Owie..." I groaned, holding my elbows. I heard multiple gasped, and squealed when four people tackled me in a hug. I laughed. "What are you guys doing? Silly." The looked up at me with teary eyes, making be go 'Awwww' mentally.

"Chi-chan! Are you ok?" Hunny sobbed. I blinked, before remembering what had happened before. I smiled gently, giving them all a big squeeze.

"I'm fine, don't worry guys."

"Natsu..." I saw Haruhi standing away with her head slightly down and her hand on her arm. She looked like she was about to cry, which made me go 'Awwww' in my head again. She's so adorable. She looked up.

"I'm really sorry... you had a panic attack because of me... and if I didn't bring it up then you..." I brought her into a hug, rubbing her back.

"You have nothing to be sorry for. I was the one who wanted to tell you. I guess I caused a lot of trouble, huh?" I laughed slightly. Her lip trembled, but she smiled slightly, and nodded. I rubbed away the tears. "Don't cry Haruhi. I'm not mad. If anything, I feel kinda embarrassed." I felt a large, warm hand sit on my head, and I looked up to see Mori smiling slightly down at me. I smiled back at him.

"Thanks Mori-sempai." I took a piece of cupcake and popped it in my mouth, before washing it own with a cup of punch. "Ahh! That's the stuff!" I looked over at Kyoya, and he was still asleep. I grinned.

"Kyoya-sempai isn't really a morning person, is he?" I asked. The club shook their heads. I walked over to him silently, smiling. "Kyoya-sempai~" He did nothing. "Kyoya-sempai, wake up!" Nothing. I shook him slightly.

"Sempai!" Nothing.

"Seeeeempaaaai!" Nothing.

"Dude!" Nothing.

"...This seems like a serious case of déjà vu..." Nothing. I grinned, before putting my hands on the side of his face and tilting his head towards me. I leaned forward, and the rest of the hosts gaped as I pressed my lips to Kyoya's. His eyes snapped open, and I smiled slightly, pulling away. "Yay! You're awake — Uwah!" He pulled me down, pressing his lips to mine again. The other host's eyes rolled back in their head and they fainted. I smiled, accepting the kiss as I straddled him. My first and second kiss taken by the Shadow King.

I wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

-η-

"That was certainly an interesting way to wake a person up..." Haruhi said. I grinned.

"I'll have to keep that in mind!" She sweat dropped. I was over at Haruhi's house. Her dad was working, and it was a break from the Host Club. "You know, there were times when I was hosting I completely forgot I was a girl..." I sweat dropped. She laughed.

"I could tell. You would get into your character so well, then look awkward at the end of the club." I rolled my eyes.

"At least you're a natural. It's a lot easier than keeping the 'Innocent type' act up. But..." I smirked. "I think I over did it when we were cosplaying as vampires." She nodded.

"The vampire act you did was anything BUT innocent. And Tamaki-sempai was upset you stole some of his customers." I grinned.

"I also got more customers in though~!" I did a little dance, making her smile. We made lunch together, and we were cleaning up when the doorbell rang. Haruhi and I looked confused at each other, before we went to the door. When it opened, we yelped out in shock as the Host Club glomped us, sobbing loudly.

"Whoa! What the hell!?" Haruhi shouted. I laughed.

"What are you guys doing?"

"We couldn't find you Natsu! We wanted to play a game at your house!" The twins whined. I sighed, moving out of the way to let Kyoya and Mori in.

"You could have just called my cell phone."

"We don't know your number!" They sobbed. I blinked, taking it out and showing them the number.

"Oh hey Kyoya-sempai." He looked at me. I grinned. "I hope you have that black notebook of yours, because I've decided to tell you guys all about myself. He nodded, and we all sat at Haruhi's table. And it was really crowded...

"Hm... where to start.. you already know about my eye... and my parents... I live alone, yada, yada, yada... I really like to draw, I like sweets, savory things... mildly spicy foods, sleeping in on the weekends, hanging out with you guys, my favorite color is purple... I hate leeks and brussels sprouts... my favorite class is art and science, I failed a history test last year in my old school... I moved here from Kyoto... I knew Haruhi was a girl..." I rattled off facts one by one, and Kyoya wrote them down as the others listened intently.

"I thought you guys were a bunch of weird perverts the first time I saw you..." I pointed to Tamaki and the twins.

"She's brutally honest..." They muttered, growing mushrooms in Haruhi's closet.

"Hey! Quit growing mushrooms!"

"There's a voice in my head that scolds me for being late, it's really annoying at times."

(... Hey...)

"And I can't really think of anything else.." I said, settling my arms on the table and laying my head on them. "Oh well... but I guess I get distracted easily... my parents used to call me Natsuki... I have no idea why..." I mumbled, looking at a particularly large mushroom.

"Hey, Tamaki-sempai! Are you growing edible mushrooms? If you're not, you might want to get rid of them in case Haruhi decides to pick and eat them. You wouldn't want that, would you?" He gasped.

"I'm so sorry Haruhi! Daddy didn't mean to grow poisonous mushrooms in your closet!" I laughed as he shook her shoulders. Mori had to pull him off after a few minutes though. She got up and staggered over to the kitchen. I stood up too.

"I'll help make tea!" I smiled, cheering. She shot me a wearily glance and I laughed, rubbing the back of my head. She got out the cups and I got the water boiling. When the pot whistled, I turned the heat off and poured it into cups as Haruhi added the tea. We took them out on trays and gave everyone a cup.

"Sorry they're not all the same..."

"It's alright!" They chanted. We talked a little, before deciding to go to the park.

"It'll be fun! I've always wanted to know what commoners do I their free time!" Tamaki clapped his hands together, giving Haruhi, the only person against it, the puppy dog face. She sighed; trying to look away, but eventually gave in. The twins, Hunny, and I cheered as we ran ahead of the three lagging behind. Mori pushed Hunny on the swings, and the twins were on the monkey bars while Tamaki wanted to push Haruhi on the swings as well.

"No Sempai." She sighed. Tamaki pouted.

"Please? Let your daddy push you on the swings! It'll be fun!"

"I've already got a dad Tamaki-sempai." She mumbled, giving him a blank stare. He anime cried and shuffled away. The twins took that opportunity to take a frisbee and throw it at him. It hit the back of his head and they laughed as he fell down. They ran away from him, while he shouted at them and threw the frisbee at them. I laughed, sitting on top of the monkey bars.

Soon, all of the ladies, young and old, went to ogle at us, and some of the young teenagers came to ogle at Haruhi and I. I mentally laughed my ass off. These morons. How can they not tell we were girls? Even if we were both earing t-shirts and shorts. I laughed as they all went into 'Travel Host Club Mode.' The grown-ups cooed at how cute Hunny was, and some hormonal raging teenagers got nosebleeds at Hikaru and Kaoru's 'Forbidden brotherly love act.' We had a great time.

"Do you want us to take you home?" the twins asked. I shrugged.

"My house isn't far from Haruhi's I can just walk—" Kaoru tossed me over his shoulder, and they sped off to their car. I yelped, waving hurriedly at Haruhi and the other, laughing and hitting his back.

"Put me down!" They grinned.

"No way." They set me down in the car as their chauffer drove off. As we got closer, the heat must have been turned on too high or something. I stepped out.

"Thanks for driving—" Something in the glossy coating of the car caught my eye.

Flames.

The twin's expression was one of pure horror. Knowing what I'd find if I turned around, it made me want to jump back in the car then and there, but I whipped around, letting out a shocked and horrified cry.

My house was up in flames.

-η-

The sound of police and fire truck sirens filled the air as I sat on the sidewalk, frozen. Hikaru and Kaoru had called the police and fire people, and the rest of the host club members. They had come first, but their comforting words fell deaf to my ears. I was staring wide-eyes at the pavement as inspectors looked for fingerprints. Everything, everything in my house had been burned, and everything looked like it had been torn or shattered, even the walls separating the rooms had been knocked down. My brain seemed to stop functioning, until my head shot up and I ran to the front door where two inspectors were talking. Fire fighters reached for me, saying it was too dangerous, but I shrugged them off, as well as the rest of the host club.

"Everything is destroyed? Everything?" I asked, he nodded regretfully.

"We're sorry, ma'am, but everything in there was either shattered or torn to shreds. Everything was burned in the fire." I shook my head numbly.

"No... no, no, no! That can't be true! Something MUST have survived!" He shook his head, staring down at me with pity. I don't need pity. I screamed.

"The picture of my parents was in there! In a trunk! Were the contents of that burned!?" I shoved my way in, kicking up ashes as I ran into what used to be my room. I found the trunk at the foot of the pile of ashes and burned wood that was my bed. The trunk itself was blackened. I fumbled with the lock, but it was melted together. I smashed the top and rummaged through the contents. I found it. The wood was slightly burned, but other than that it was fine.

It was the only thing that survived.

-η-

"Natsu... are you awake?" I said nothing; the light in my eyes was gone. I was at Haruhi's house again, lying on a futon. My body was numb and my eyes were red. I stared dully at Haruhi and closed my eyes. The rest of the hosts were in the living room. I could hear them whispering, but I didn't care.

'Why is it always me...? What did I ever do to deserve this...?' I thought to myself. Haruhi set down a bowl of broth by my futon, and I sat up, taking it from her and taking a sip.

"Thanks, Haruhi..." I mumbled. She smiled.

"I know it's not as comfortable, sleeping on the floor..."

"It's ok... I can't really feel anything..." I mumbled, taking another sip of broth. My home, my treasure, was gone, and so was my soul. Everything I had of my parents was there. Haruhi said that they could get a new frame for it, but I declined. The frame, however painful it was, would be a reminder. And it was the only photo of my family I had. The other pictures had been destroyed that winter evening. Haruhi sat by my side for a few minutes, before getting up and gently closing the door.

I let out a quiet sob.