Poll results update:
Honey: 15 votes.
Kaoru: 12 votes.
Takashi: 3 votes.
Hikaru: 2 votes.
Kyoya: 1 vote.
So Kyoya has now entered uh? Interesting!
Do you guys have any ideas for the shipping names?
Happy reading!
Hatsumi had to learn that when the Host Club says 'next time' they literally mean 'tomorrow'.
She felt the warm sand under her feet and smiled, at least their impatient was somewhat regarding.
Like yesterday, she was wearing a skirt swimsuit, the twins realized that she was most comfortable with it so they offered her one with the same style as yesterday but instead of blue, it had a crimson color and it had a frilly skirt with a flower pattern.
She would be more comfortable if it wasn't for the fact that she was surrounded by girls with perfect bodies and pretty bikinis, why did Tamaki had the idea of opening the host club at the beach? He completely tricked everyone, well more the twins; they wanted to see Haruhi with the bikini that they chose.
Fortunately she could relax by doing what she loves the most when at the beach, shell hunting. She adored collecting the brightest ones and then create some art work from them, possibly sew them together and create necklaces or bracelets. Either way, she promised Fumiko to bring some to her.
Bittersweet memories of her spending time in the beach with him suddenly overloaded her mind quickly; she dropped a pink shell in shock and closed her eyes to hide her pain. Why did he have to be everywhere? She was fine just a few days ago, what did she do to reset memories of her lost love?
"Hatsumi-senpai!"
She blinked quickly and looked up to see Kaoru running towards her, behind him was Hikaru. My goodness they had huge grins on their faces.
"Senpai, do you want to play with us and the girls?" Kaoru asked, she now noticed the volleyball in his hands.
"Yeah, we didn't really play with you yesterday." Hikaru said.
She smiled, "Well you see," she pointed at the green bucket on her left hand, "I'm looking for shells. I have yet reached my quota. I'm really sorry."
Kaoru glared at her bucket, "But senpai…"
Hikaru patted his brother's shoulder, "Kaoru let's just go back, the ladies are waiting."
Kaoru nodded, "Fine." He smiled down at Hatsumi, "Have fun senpai!"
She nodded and waved as the two ran back somewhere in the beach.
A few minutes later, more steps approached her. Hatsumi was frustrated that she wasn't finding much shells; some were broken or too washed by the sea. She looked up and saw Honey and Takashi.
Honey was with his usual huge grin and lowers hovering in his head, he held up a bunny patterned pink buckle and two shovels, Takashi had another shovel on his hand.
"Sumi-chan, we're going hellfish hunting, you wanna come?" he asked brightly.
She looked down at her poorly filled bucket and sighed, "Yes, I'm not having luck with my shell hunting." She blinked when she realized that Honey misunderstood the word 'shellfish', the question now was: would she have the heart to correct him? He looked so happy.
"Aw that's too bad, but I'm sure you'll find them all in only one spot!" he patted her head.
No, she decided not to correct him.
Hatsumi smiled and with Takashi's hand to help her, she stood up and wiped some sand from her knees, "Thank you senpai." She smiled up at him and tried not to flush with his bare chest being so close to her face.
The three walked to the other side of the beach where it had a wall made of huge rocks, close to the seashore, Honey and Hatsumi kneeled down and stared to dig in the sand looking for shellfishes. Hatsumi looked at Honey, he looked so excited with the activity that he was using his karate and judo strength to dig really deep, but apparently he didn't had to dig that far because two shellfish popped right in front of him.
"I found two!" he cheered.
Hatsumi blinked in surprised, "Amazing senpai! Quickly put them in the bucket!"
He complied and giggled, "Dig Sumi-chan!"
And she did, to her surprise more started to pop up without even touching the sand, she smiled widely and started to put every single one of them inside the bucket.
"Haru-chan come see! We're hellfish hunting!" Honey suddenly yelled looking behind her.
Hatsumi looked and saw Haruhi approaching them.
"I'm pretty sure you mean shellfish hunting senpai. Besides, you're not going to find any, this beach doesn't have anything like…" her voice trailed as she looked at their bucket, she paled and screamed when she was suddenly surrounded by crabs.
A baby one crawled on Hatsumi feet and she grabbed it, with doe eyes and poked its body and stood up, gently she dropped it on the sea and walked back to her spot, careful to not step on anything.
Honey looked at her amusedly, "Why did you do that?"
"It was a baby senpai, you never eat the babies." She said horrified.
He chuckled, "I know~ Sumi-chan is so kind!"
She flushed and smiled at him, "Now, we have a job to do! Let's get as many shellfish as we can alright?"
"Yeah!"
Hatsumi was about to kneel down again when she noticed Takashi climbing the rocky wall behind Honey, she followed him and looked up with slight worry, she would never think of Takashi to be this adventurer.
"Takashi-senpai, please be careful." She yelled gently.
He stopped and looked down at her with soft eyes and a smile, "I got it." Then he continued to climb, when he stopped and looked to the other side it made the plump teen wonder what or who he was looking at.
She walked back to the crab zone and saw Tamaki hold up one of them, "Hey Haruhi, don't you think this is… crabtastic?" he held his finger up his chin.
Haruhi smiled brightly, "Haha, good pun senpai."
His face went red, but suddenly a centipede crawled from the crab and everyone froze.
"CEN…" the girls shrieked.
"TI…" the twins gasped.
"PEDE!" everyone ran from Tamaki, the twins were laughing at him of course, they dragged Hatsumi with them and she kept a surprised expression.
Everyone watched how Haruhi grabbed the insect and threw it away behind the rocks, the girls swooned how 'manly' Haruhi. Hatsumi worried for the think, the brunette did throw it away too harshly.
When everyone freaked out over the centipede except for Haruhi it gave the twins an idea for a game.
"Hey boss," they approached Tamaki with certain grins, Hatsumi was still being held between them, "Let's play a new game! It's called 'find out Haruhi's weakness' game!" they exclaimed.
Hatsumi gasped.
"That sounds like a horrible game!" Tamaki complained.
"Well said!" Hatsumi praised proudly. There was still hope.
"Oh right, senpai also didn't freak out, she's in as well!" they grinned evilly at her, making her wish to be quiet sometimes.
"It got worst!" Tamaki gritted.
"Yeah I guess you're right…" they started to walk away, once again still dragging poor Hatsumi like a doll, "They would probably only tell their weakness to someone really important to them."
"What are the rules?!" Tamaki instantly begged with a fierce fire.
"The first to discover their weaknesses by sundown wins!" they said, happy that their manipulation over the naïve king worked.
"And I have the perfect prize for the winner." Kyoya suddenly pipes; he whipped out a handful of photos of Haruhi and Hatsumi in middle school. Haruhi with her long hair, on her gym uniform and with her old school uniform and Hatsumi also with her long hair styled with two low twin tails, she was wearing her school's middle school uniform and also a maid costume, which was taken at the school's festival, her class was hosting a café.
Tamaki, the twins and Honey almost had an aneurysm.
Hatsumi absolutely had it.
"We'll play too!" Honey said with eagerness.
"W-Where did you get those!?" she squealed with a scarlet face as she tried to reach for her photos, but Kyoya was way taller than her, so as Tamaki tried to see Haruhi's he dodged the two and guarded the photos back in his pocket.
"I have my resources." He smiled evenly at her, possibly even amused.
She covered her face, "Have fun with your stupid game, you'll never find out about my fear!" she yelled as she ran away.
Kaoru frowned as he watched her go, "Maybe it wasn't a good idea to join Hatsumi-senpai…"
Hikaru rolled his eyes, "She'll be fine… perhaps you don't wanna win her photos?" he grinned teasingly at his brother.
He glared at him, "Of course I do, as much as you want Haruhi's!"
Hikaru grinned, "Then let's do our best!"
"Over my dead body will I let you two win!" Tamaki yelled.
A/N: I know it's very short but at the moment I'm not feeling so well, I need to rest. I just posted this preview of one of my favorite episodes. In here you'll find out Hatsumi's fear.
Guys, you have no idea what I have planned. Hatsumi's best friend will make an appearance, I'm not telling when. It could be after the anime episodes or sooner than you expected, because yeah, I decided to continue this story with parts of the manga after finishing the anime.
AND another person from Hatsumi's past returns! You'll notice that she'll be remembering of him many times. Who is he? And why is he returning to her memories? Maybe Hatsumi is starting to grow certain feelings to a boy?
Will she be scared?
God, I sound like one of those deep voices at the end of an episode, talking to create a dramatic effect to want you to see the next episode XD
Sorry! Review for more, you give me such lovely reviews, they all make me happy!
Thank you for reading and I'm sorry for any grammatical mistake you encountered.
More to come