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A New Family
Previously in chapter eight: He bent over and kissed his daughter. "By the way, we'll be landing in about half an hour to refuel and then we'll only have another 6 hours until we reach our destination. While we're refueling, we're deal with the customs people, so that we don't have that delay once we get to the final destination."
Chapter Nine
The rest of the travel was uneventful. They chatted and discussed how they were going to handle the events to follow. Haruhi would watch the baby during most of the day while Kyoya was in meetings. In the evenings the three of them would sightsee and have dinner together. The baby would sleep in the room with Kyoya and Haruhi would have the other bedroom in the suite. The maid would be a room on the floor below, but would be there to help Haruhi during the day. Near the end of the time there, Kyoya would need Haruhi's legal expertise, so the maid would watch the baby the whole day when that was the case. There would also be two or three dinner parties that he would need to attend, and he much preferred to take someone than to be set up with a blind date by his business partners. He wouldn't admit it to her yet, but he would rather take Haruhi than anyone else. Even Mitsumi, when she was alive, had not gone to these types of dinners with him. The only person who had was Haruhi during their college days.
Once the jet landed, they were taken by limo to a grand hotel. The lobby was wide open, the outer wall being all glass making it like a green house, potted plants adding to the feel. The grand staircase was at least fifteen meters wide leading up to a grand shopping mall. After they checked in and were shown their suite, Kyoya told Haruhi that they had nothing going on until dinner, which she and the baby would both be attending with him. He suggested that after the clean up, they should go shopping to get the things that he wouldn't have thought to get her, and a few things that he thought about, but wouldn't presume to purchase for her at this time. She knew exactly what he was hinting at. He had forgotten to get her under garments. "Plus it will give us a chance to spend time together just the three of us before I get involved in business. Even though you are currently under my employ, you're still my friend that I haven't gotten to spend a lot of time with lately. I've missed getting to spend time with you on a daily basis like we did in high school."
She finally agreed and got cleaned up. She walked back into the living room of the suite to find Kyoya struggling to get a pair of tights on the baby who didn't understand his instructions. Babies aren't usually the best at staying still in the first place, but to hear him try to reason with her send Haruhi into a giggle fit. She walked up to the couch he was on and took over the task. Haruhi made dressing the squirming little bundle of limbs look easy. She finished by putting the baby into another one of the outfits that she had bought her namesake. Kyoya looked approvingly at the sight. "I didn't know she has so many clothes. I didn't think that Mitsumi had bought her so much stuff. Her spending budget didn't seem that large."
"Are you kidding me? Seriously? I looked through the baby's bags when I was checking everything for the trip. Everything that you brought her is stuff that I bought her. I've been coming over almost every week bringing new things for this precious little girl. I think the only thing I didn't buy out of what was brought along was the shoes. I didn't know what size to buy her. I offered to take Mitsumi shopping a few times, but like I have said before, she didn't really like me. So, naturally, she declined."
"Oh really? That's interesting. Do you have any proof of your claim?"
"Not with me. Why?"
"Mitsumi claimed that she chose most of the clothes. When I would return from business trips, she would show me something new, and if I liked it, she claimed she picked it out just for me. If I didn't like it, she would claim that you brought it over."
"Really? Well, ok. I am not going to argue. So we'll just go with that. Maybe what I bought was returned because she did actually buy the same things before I did. It doesn't matter. I don't want to speak ill of the dead, so can we just drop it?"
"Haruhi, you really don't understand the relationship I had with her, do you?"
"No, and it's not my business. I don't want to know about your marriage, Kyoya. It doesn't really matter anyways. She's gone. Out of respect for the dead, I won't argue. If she claims that she bought the clothes, then she did. I didn't mean to cause problem."
"You didn't cause problems, Haruhi. You opened my eyes to the truth. She was lying to me in order to build a relationship with me. No real relationship can be built on lies, and you know it. No disrespect to the dead, but your right, she's gone now. She isn't here to defend herself. But I believe you when you tell me that you chose these outfits, even if they are a little bit more ruffled than anything I would expect from you."
"Not fair. I don't wear ruffles, but that doesn't mean that I don't think that such a beautiful little angel shouldn't wear them. Personally I think she looks adorable in the outfits that I bought her. And when she is old enough to voice her opinion, Auntie Haruhi will let her tell me what she wants me to buy her. But until then, I will keep buying her the cute little dresses and fluffy frilly stuff that would never look good on me."
"That's true, you don't look good in ruffles, you look better in sleek sexy outfits." With that comment he walked to the door to leave. "Are you going with us, or am I going to buy your under garments myself. Or maybe you would rather me have Hikaru send you some. They will probably have ruffles on the butt, but if that's what you want."
She rushed over with the baby in her arms, "Oh no you don't. I am not going to wear anything that Hikaru sends, except maybe nightgowns. He tends to make really luxurious and nice nightgowns while Kaoru tends to make sleazy slinky nightgowns."
"Well damn, I wish I had known that. I would have told Kaoru to send the nightgowns. But they told me that you preferred Hikaru's designs on nightgowns, so I had them send what you preferred. Damn, I need to check my information better next time." He smiled a wicked smile before his signature move of pressing his glasses further up the bridge of his nose in order to hide what he was thinking.