"It's been almost a month since Tamaki learned about me and Ichigo," Zakuro thought to herself as she pulled her long red hair away from her diamond blue eyes, "he's acting as if it doesn't bother him. Duke told me that I need to watch my back in case he ever decides to turn against me."

She finished doing her hair just as she got near a bay window with green curtains overlooking the beach.

She looked up at the ocean, rolled her eyes, and turned around to grab a shirt to put on over her bathing suit.

"Now let the troubles begin."

Peirre looked around at the scene as he lifted his head up from a book he was reading, and as he looked he saw the Host Club without any fans have a relaxing day at the beach. He heard a light sound as he moved his eyes towards the sun and saw Zakuro standing over him with Duke on her shoulder.

"You don't want to be here?"

She narrowed her eyes as she folded her arms in front of her chest as Duke got down to rest in the sand.

"Zakuro doesn't mind being here since Tamaki-chan knows about us. But she worries that something will happen since the rest of the club is here. Ah … kero, kero, kero."

Zakuro shifted her gaze towards her father, blinked once, then walked off towards an open umbrella.

"I worry about her sometimes Duke," Pierre said as he watched her pony tailed hair trail in the wind behind her, "but then again you do know more about Chocolat and her mother than I do."

Duke looked up at Pierre and into his eyes. They were a brilliant blue color, but all the shine was of worry and doubt while the pupil read love and hope. Duke looked back down at his own frog like hands and feet as he remembered the life he once had as a human by Cinnamon's side.

"I worry about her too Pierre, I'm afraid that her fate will be like that of her mother and grandmother before her," he was able to say before he hopped away for the shade of a tree.

Zakuro walked up behind Haruhi and turned her gaze to her.

"Oh Zakuro-san," she said looking up, "Tamaki-sempai was getting worried about you for some reason."

Zakuro moved her eyes to fix on Tamaki as he played water gun with the twins.

"Demo Zakuro-san …"

She looked back down at Haurhi who turned towards her, "… the twins say that you hate going to beaches and whatnot. So why are you here?"

Zakuro looked back up and saw the ripples on the waves on the shore.

"I could ask you the same thing," was her reply back. Haruhi looked towards the guys for a moment then back at Zakuro whom just stared off into space.

"What do you mean by that sempai?"

Haruhi watched as Zakuro slowly sat down next to her while still looking ahead while she answered back to Haruhi, "I've come to understand that your mark as a host was way past due. You can leave at any given moment like the others," she said as she looked at her with a smile, "but like the others you just can't seem to break away from him."

Haurhi noticed that Zakuro was serious when she said that when she suddenly spoke about Tamaki.

"It's in everyone's human nature to stay close to one you care about the most. Besides, if you didn't go after him then there would be no Host Club."

Haruhi thought back to that time when the Host Club almost did break up, she lowered her eyes as she turned back around and hugged her legs close.

Zakuro closed her eyes for a moment then opened them back up to see Haruhi's heart. "A brilliant blue …"

Pierre put his book on the table next to his chair then looked back at the other chaperone sleeping soundly with a book over their face.

He got up and began to walk back to the house when he stopped to look back at his daughter.

"She's not going to like you if that's what you intend to do Pierre-san."

He turned back around to the other chaperone that took the book off his face, "it's her choice to like and hate no matter what happens."

Pierre was standing near his chair again while he stared down at Yuzuru while he answered back, "my daughter understands the rules of her country while keeping in mind what her duty is while we're here."

Yuzuru looked up from his seat with a faint smile, "I rather say she is dignified for her age. Now if only my son can be like that, then maybe his grandmother wouldn't hate him so much."

Pierre looked back up at the boys as the twins and Tamaki pulled Zakuro and Haruhi to their feet as they begged the girls to join them.

Pierre smiled as he saw Zakuro grab one of the water guns and hit all three boys on the head while dragging Haurhi off somewhere else.

"But the only difference between your son and my daughter, Yuzuru-san …"

Yuzuru looked over at the boys as they cried about the girls leaving them while the other three boys pulled them away towards a volleyball net.

"… is that one has more friends than the other and an open-carefree-heart."

Yuzuru stood up with a smile, "so I've heard from them."

Zakuro rubbed her forehead as Haruhi picked up a seashell and handed it over to her, "do you like seafood Zakuro-san?"

Zakuro stared at the shell for a bit with a confused look to her face, "do I like what again?"

Haruhi held the shell close to her chest while having a smile to her face, "seafood. Do you like seafood or do you not like it at all?"

Zakuro cocked her head to one side as she just started.

Haruhi was about to say something when she noticed that Zakuro had turned her head up at the sky as she followed her gaze and saw a crescent moon in the sky without a single cloud anywhere.

"It's going to be a nice night is what I heard."

Haruhi turned her head back towards Zakuro and saw how focused she was on the moon. The wind blew a little as her red locks and the outfit she was wearing trailed while she looked back at Haruhi then her calm nature picked up as her eyes changed.

Haruhi turned around and saw an oversized snake, "woah!"

She felt an arm grab her as Zakuro pulled Haruhi towards the rest of the group as the snake followed them close at hand.

"Zakuro-san seems to know just when to stop and let that snake hit so we can keep going," Haruhi thought as the sight of the boys and the two only parents made her feel better just as the snake got her ankle and made her fall into the sand.

Zakuro turned around and saw the snake was about to attack Haruhi as she looked down and saw a long rod as she took it and blocked the snake's mouth as Zakuro turned back around, helped Haruhi up, and pulled her to everyone else again.

"Haruhi, hurry up!"

Zakuro knew all to well that the snake was about to attack again when she pushed Haruhi into the boys' arms and took hold of her pendant.

"Sugar Sugar Rune! Zaku Rune!"