I was so lucky that Mom wasn't home last night. I was able to easily slip through the house and up to my room. It was strange sleeping alone. I had gotten used to Amaya being in my bed with me. Waking up without her feet in my face was even weirder. I literally rolled out of bed when my alarm went off. I laid on the floor until I heard my door open. "Wake up Kiyomi! You gotta get to school."

"Shut up Gabriel. I'm tired!" He picked me up off the floor easily and placed my on my feet. I glared up at him, I hated that he was half a foot taller than me.

He put his hand on the top of my head. "You're so cute when you're trying to look intimidating."

I pointed toward the door. "Get. Out." He did, but not before giving me one last chuckle. I slowly made my way into the bathroom to take a shower and get ready for school. After I was dressed in my yellow uniform, I made my way downstairs. The first thing I heard was my mom yelling. Not a good sign.

I entered the dinning room with a smile on my face. "Good morning Dad." I hugged him and kissed his cheek. "Mamá Buenos días." I did the same to her. I took my seat and began eating the scrambled eggs that were on my plate.

"Would you care to explain to me why you have two boyfriends?" She didn't look at me. I placed my fork down and looked at Dad. He was giving me a sympathetic look. Gabriel came into the room and even he could feel the tension. I only knew because he didn't make some wise-ass remark like he uausally did.

"Um... I love you?" She looked up at me then. Her eyes showed just how angry she was. "Why is it such a big deal? It's not like I'm sleeping with them!"

"You know, that thought wasn't even going through my mind, but now, how can I be so sure?" I stood up from the table and left the room. If she didn't know me better than that by now, she never will. I left the house and went to limo and told the driver to take me to Amaya's house.

Amaya growled as her little sister came in the room and jumped on her. "Waddya want?" she asked incoherently as she tried to roll over and dislodge the little girl from her.

"It's time for you to get up! I've been up a hour already!"

"Kirara! I want to go back to bed!" Amaya complained before the girl pushed her off the bed. "You're such a morning person" Amaya grumbled shoving her little sister affectionately. Getting up she jumped in the shower and changed into her Ouran uniform. She was downstairs eating when Kiyomi got here, and the girl was attacked by Amaya's eight year old sister.

"Kirara get off of me!" Kiyomi shouted playfully as she pushed the girl away after giving her a hug.

"Your mom?" Amaya asked knowingly, sighing as Kiyomi nodded. "Let's go to school…" Amaya said rolling her eyes as she kissed the girl goodbye.

"Gah…What fun…" Kiyomi said smirking.

"Hey at least we have the host club right?" Amaya teased.

"I never thought I'd hear you say that" Kiyomi said teasingly as they walked to the limo and got in the car to leave for school.

I didn't want my mom's words to hurt, we had never gotten along and I understand that we probably never will, but I couldn't believe that was really how lowly she veiwed me. Amaya was trying to help, I honestly wasn't listening to a word she said. I just wanted to get through this day and pretend this morning never happened.

I sat so quietly in class, I noticed that the teacher kept having to check to make sure I was still there. Tamaki asked me what was wrong. Kiku asked me what was wrong. Hell, even Kyoya asked me what was wrong. I smiled and told them I was just tired.

The final bell rang and I was in no hurry to go anywhere. I waited in class for Kyoya and Tamaki, so we could walk up together. Even then, I walked behind them with my arms crossed over my chest. All day, her words had played over and over. My head felt like it was in a soap opera.

We stepped into the room and the first thing that happened, was Tamaki turned around and put his hands on my shoulders as he faced me. "You are too quiet. Tell us what's wrong." I shook my head.

"Nothing's wrong, Tamaki. I told you earlier, I'm just tired. Gabriel woke me up this morning."

Amaya growled as she heard her friend lie walking in with the twins. "She lies!" Amaya shouted dramatically grabbing her friend from behind and pulling her close. "She never had daddy troubles! It's her bitch of a mother!" Amaya said still over dramatically as she held Kiyomi to her.

"You don't have to be so Tamaki about it…" Kiyomi muttered making Tamaki look upset.

"Sorry….I thought it'd be cool to be dramatic," Amaya said looking not very sorry.

Kyoya raised an eyebrow at Amaya but otherwise kept quiet as he wrote something in his book. Amaya of course narrowed her eyes at him as the twins pulled her off Kiyomi to hug her themselves.

Kiyomi watched her friend. "Wait a second I thought you two liked each other?"

"Huh? Yeah we do…" Amaya said still glaring at him as she stalked over to him. She stole the book from his hands as he continued to watch her and stuck her tongue at him. "HA! I've so been wanting to that for the longest time…" She taunted before flipping to where Kiyomi and her profiles were. "I am not overdramatic!" She yelled making Kiyomi laugh until she saw what he wrote about her.

"AND SO WHAT IF I HAVE MOM PROMBLEMS?" She hollered, glad the twins were holding her back.

"I'm simply stating the facts…" Kyoya said smirking.

"Why I otta…"

"Ought to what?" Kyoya asked Amaya clearly amused.

"You're going to regret that Ootori" Amaya warned.

There were things written in that notebook that I didn't know anyone other than Amaya knew about. "How do you know all of my nationalities? I only ever mentioned two of them." I wanted to say I was upset about what he wrote, but I didn't care. I was just curious.

"It wasn't hard to figure out," he stated simply. "They all show."

I turned to Kaoru. "Name of the four nationalites that make me... me."

"Um... Japanese, Spanish. I don't know other than that." I looked at HIkaru. He shrugged.

I turned back to read the notebook. "The other two aren't obvious. Portugese and Italian."

"I do not swear a lot!" Amaya said just as I also read over that comment. I looked at her with a raised eyebrow.

"Have you ever actually listened to yourself?" She glared at me and I only smiled. I was glad that I was here. These crazy people took my mind off of my mom and this morning. I'm glad that no one actually asked what had happened. I left Amaya's side and hugged Hikaru, he hugged me back. I sighed and felt Kaoru also join the hug by wrapping his arms around me from behind.

Amaya rolled her eyes as she handed the book back to Kyoya whispering "Thanks" Softly in his ear making him smile at her kindly. She smiled as Kiyomi was hugged by the twins before turning back to the problem at hand. "You're still in trouble Mr…" She said making him smirk.

"I look forward to whatever punishment you can come up with," He teased.

"…Really now you do?" Amaya asked before riffling through her purse and finding her money. "That should cover our debt…Kiyomi and I no longer officially work for you!" She said making his mouth twitch.

"I'm sure you'll just break something else…" He trailed off.

"WE WILL NOT!" Amaya and Kiyomi shouted together.

"But we don't want you to leave the host club" Hikaru and Kaoru whispered in her ears.

"Ssssh we aren't really going to stop working..But he doesn't know that" Kiyomi said smirking.

"Amaya, you can stop being mean now," I said to her as she still stood in front of Kyoya.

"He's the one who said he looked forward to the punishment."

"Giving the guy a minor heart attack is probably not the best idea." She stuck her tongue out at me and I smiled. I really did love my best friend.

"Way to suck the fun out of everything Kiyomi."

"I can't believe you just called me a fun-sucker!" I said pretending to be offended at what she said. I dropped my arms from around Hikaru and faced her fully. It would have been more effective if they had let go of me too, but I didn't really want them too. "That's probably the nicest thing I've been called today."

Hikaru and Kaoru's arms tightened around me and they each kissed my neck. "You're not a fun-sucker," Hikaru said into my ear.

"Yeah, do you know how boring this weekend would have been without you?" Kaoru said into the other.

Amaya laughed at the look of relief that washed over Kyoya's face. "Don't think that means you're off the hook just yet…" She warned him laughing as glared at her and pulled her into a hug.

"You still would have broken something…." He whispered in her ear chuckling as she glared and narrowed her eyes at him.

"Baka!" She hissed making him laugh again.

"And that is what you call a love-hate relationship" Kiyomi announced as Amaya pulled away from him to advance on her friend.

"What's that supposed to mean Kiyomi?" Amaya asked glaring again.

"That you express your love through anger?" Kiyomi asked.

"I DO NOT!" Amaya said tackling Kiyomi to the ground as she said so. "I LOVE YOU KIYOMI!" She shouted tickling her best friend without mercy.

"H-h-ey! Stop that!" Kiyomi shouted through fits of giggles.

"NEVER!" Amaya shouted happily.

"Please!" I tried again still laughing from her merciless tickling. She shook her head.

"Say it." She said as she dug her fingers into my sides making me laugh harder. I wish she didn't know where I was most ticklish.

"No!"

"Say it," she said more sternly. My ribs and my cheeks hurt, but I refused to say it. I shook my head and held my mouth shut. "Come on Kiyomi, you know you want to."

"I love you too!" I said as she tickled my stomach. She jumped off of me and I just laid on the floor, still laughing, but trying to calm down. "I hate you so much right now." I said when I finally sat up.

She smiled and I rolled my eyes at her. "You're too easy Kiyomi." That reminded me too much of my mom. I stood up and went to sit at my table, even though there was still quite a bit of time left before anyone was supposed to show up. "Kiyomi?" Amaya walked up behind me and placed her hands on my shoulders. I tried to quickly wipe away the tears that had begun to fall. She sat down next to me and pulled me into a hug. "Talk to me Kiyomi."

"That's basically what my mom said to me this morning. That's what she said before I left to go to your house." My voice was cracking, but I didn't care. This was Amaya, she's seen me worse.

"You're staying at my house tonight," she said with a tone of finality. I went to object, but the look she was giving me made me keep my mouth shut. I hugged her back and started laughing. "What?"

"Kirara's going to love that."

Amaya laughed as she explained. "Kirara's my little sister….She just adores Kiyomi…" Amaya added still holding on to her friend protectively, glaring at the twins as they tried to come near her friend. She was in 'mother mode' now as Kiyomi would call and she would not let anyone near this girl until she positive Kiyomi was okay.

Her friend meant everything in the world to her and more, and anyone that would try and hurt was trash in Amaya's opinion and that didn't exclude the own girl's mother. Even Amaya didn't like that woman. She was always worried about money more than she was her own daughter.

It really pissed Amaya off too, that Kiyomi's dad would put up her mom's crap. He was so nice, she never understood why he allowed himself to be controlled by her. She supposed it was because her mother did truly love the Kiyomi and her dad, but that didn't mean she wasn't a bitch. So telling Kiyomi she was staying the night was perfectly normal.

Amaya just wished there was something more she could do for her friend. She bit her lips in thought, not realizing she was still glaring at the hosts, and biting her lips at the same time which made the expression kind of cute looking in a weird way.

I laughed when I looked up at Amaya's expression. It was a mix of her motherly face and her thinking face. She looked at me and the expression was replaced with concern. "If that sister of yours wakes me up, I won't be happy." She smiled and placed a small kiss on my cheek. I sat up from where I had been leaning against her.

"That's what you're thinking?" She asked only slightly amazed. I shook my head.

"No. I was also thinking that I don't like when you call her a bitch. She's still my mom."

Amaya stood up from her chair, nearly knocking it over. "But she is! Who tells their own child that? And all the other things she's done in the past. I think you try too hard to please her."

"Sounds like Kyoya..." The twins said. I looked at them and then at Kyoya. I knew he did everything he could to please his dad, but I didn't really realize it was similar to what I did.

"Not exactly," I said. "My family has no company for me to take over. Even if we did, I wouldn't want it. I just don't understand why she likes Gabriel and hates me." I shrugged and felt Amaya grab my shoulders.

"I've told you, it's because she's a bitch!" I sighed. I may not like when she says it, but I couldn't say it wasn't true. She was and the only reason my dad put up with it was because he loved her. He's tried so many times though to talk to her about treating me as she does Gabriel, but nothing gets through to her. Or she just doesn't care.

Amaya pulled Kiyomi back into her grasp continuing to glare at the hosts as Kyoya tried to approach her this time.

"Amaya. Don't you think you're taking this a bit too far?" He asked sounding concerned.

"Kyoya you might not want to get to close when she's in mother hen mode" Kiyomi warned smirking.

"Amaya, we aren't going to hurt Kiyomi," He said as if talking to a wounded animal.

"Kyoya… You're stupid if you think I'm going to let anyone near Kiyomi after what that bitch of her mother did to her. Back. Up. Now."

"Kiyomi she's scary!" The twins called from behind Kyoya.

"…You two will never touch my baby again!" Amaya shouted glaring at them and standing up as if she was going to carry Kiyomi right out of the room and steal her away somewhere.

"Amaya! Let go of me. I'm fine and you're starting to sound like Tamaki!" I saw Tamaki give a pained look and slink over to a corner. "No offense Tamaki." He didn't move from his corner. Amaya started pulling me toward the door and I looked of anything to grab on to. I wasn't paying attention to what it was that was in my hand, but a few steps later, there was a crash and whatever had been in my hand was now on the floor. I look and saw a shattered tea set. What's with me and tea sets?

Amaya stopped moving and looked back toward the sound. "I think you broke it," she said comming out of "mommy mode" for a few seconds. I rolled my eyes at her.

"Brilliant deduction, Watson," I said in my best cockney accent. She looked at me and was once again in "mommy mode". She started pulling me out of the room again. "You're so confusing Amaya!"

She nodded, but didn't stop. I knew one way she would. I dropped to the floor and just sat there. She wasn't going to pull me along the floor. "Get up." I shook my head. I felt like a child, but it was funny for me. "Kiyomi." I shook my head again. "You're acting like a child."

I smiled. "You say that like it's a bad thing." I stood up quickly and ran from her right into Kaoru's arms. I wrapped one of my arms around him and the other around Hikaru.

"Didn't I say not to touch her?" She said.

"I want them to touch me!" I said loud enough for her to hear me. I probably could have chosen better words.

Amaya sighed as she was about to go and smack the twins she felt arms circling her waist and pulling her back so she couldn't attack them. "…Then I'm soooo not helping you when they do touch you" She said smirking as the twins pulled her close and Kiyomi blushed.

"It seems you're back to your usual self…" Kyoya said in her ear.

"Yeah so you can stop holding me now" She replied.

"However, I like holding you so I don't think I'm going to" Kyoya said smirking as he did so.

"Gah! You really do have multiple personalities.," She teased, but knowing the way his dad was with made her want to pull him into a hug and protect him from the world like she did Kiyomi. Of course… She was pretty sure he wouldn't exactly like that too much, so she held back.

Instead she leaned back in his arms, turning her face to look at him as he spoke. "Is that so? Then perhaps I'll just have to show another one…" He whispered huskily.

"That wasn't what I meant…But you're welcome to join Kiyomi and I's annual pillow fight tonight…So are the rest of you!" Amaya added making Kyoya roll his eyes and chuckle.

"I think I'll take you up on that offer, but that wasn't what I had in mind…" He said making her blush.

"You're as bad as the twins!" She said laughing at the look of horror that appeared on his face. "Just kidding!" She added teasingly, watching him glare at her.

"Amaya, that pillow fight was just supposed to be for us," I whined.

"I think those twins of yours are rubbing off on you, Kiyomi," she said from Kyoya's arms. I laughed and pulled them closer to me -if that was even possible.

"You say that like it's a bad thing," I replied with a smirk.

"I can't believe my precious daughter was so easily corrupted!" Tamaki stated more dramatically than usual. I watched Haruhi through his entire act. Annoyance. The only emotion on her face at that moment. The first stage of love. I glanced over at Amaya, she caught my look. We both smiled and nodded.

"Tamaki, I've been corrupted for many years now. It is nothing new." He grabbed onto Haruhi's shoulder as he said something about defiant children. I watched her face again. There was a hint to a blush, but the annoyance was still clear. This time, my eyes met Kaoru's he wasn't paying attention to the same thing I was though. He was staring at me.

"So about this pillow fight...?" He began. I just gave him a sly smile.

Amaya smirked as she looked at Kiyomi. "I'll make sure the maids get the room set up" She stated thoughtfully.
"You have a room for a pillow fight?" Hikaru and Kaoru asked looking at her.

"We didn't always have it. But after destroying a guest room mom and dad thought it best if we had one made" She said glaring at Kyoya as he chuckled.

"Coming from you it doesn't surprise me at all" He laughed.

"That's not nice!" She murmured.

"I never claimed to be" He retorted "My claim is being cool"

"Yeah well you aren't cool either" Amaya muttered darkly making him raise an eyebrow at her.

"Then what am I?" He asked.

"…A sexy pain in the ass" She retorted laughing.

Kyoya chuckled as well, smirking at her in a way that made her know she was probably going to regret he choice of words.

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