Miss Karuizawa

:: by Shirayuki Otoko ::

:: Chapter 10 :: Buzz (Tamaki version)

After a nice dinner cooked by Misuzu, Haruhi heads back to her room. As she relaxes on her bed, her cell phone begins to ring.

Buzz...buzz...buzz...

"Who could it be?" Haruhi reaches for the cell phone.

"My precious daughter!" A certain blond head screams over the phone. Haruhi sweatdrops.

"Senpai! Are you trying to make me deaf?!" Haruhi scolds.

"Oh my precious daughter! Daddy is so proud of your victory!" Apparently the blond head is high on something. Haruhi has the urge to strangle him.

"I don't need another father! And please lower your voice!" Haruhi scolds.

"Haruhi! Did the other girls bully you? Did you suffer any injuries? Did they sexually harrass you?" Tamaki could be such a pain sometimes. Well...most of the time. His constant drama is something Haruhi doesn't and will never appreciate. Yet for some reason she doesn't go all out to stop the blond head. Perhaps she's gotten too used to his antics that the best way to handle such misfortune would be ignorance.

"For your information, I'm still in one piece. And why would I be sexually harrassed?" Haruhi fumes.

"Oh daughter! Who knows...maybe there were some perverse humans around like the ones at Zuka-bu!"

All of a sudden, their phone conversation is interrupted abruptly by a familiar sound.

"Lobelia! Lobelia!! Lobelia!!!"

Haruhi sweatdrops. "Eh why do I hear that? Some kind of...supernatural phenomenon?"

"Oh my precious daughter! It's them! They are gonna kidnap you and force you into sex trade!" Tamaki wails.

"Please! Senpai, if you continue to act so stupid I shall end this call!" Haruhi threatens.

"Oh daughter! I..."

"Not even the word 'daughter'!" Haruhi fumes.

"Ha...Haruhi."

"That's better." Haruhi says.

"I'm so happy that you made it to the next round..." The blond head says.

"Arigato. I was nervous though. I never expected myself to qualify." Haruhi counters.

"You looked really wonderful today! Your outfit is so...uh...pretty." Tamaki praises.

Haruhi chuckles. "Did you like it?"

Tamaki blushes a deep red. "Uh...of...course! It looked really...uh...really marvellous on you!" He stammers.

"Arigato. The heels were hard to walk in though. I had to find a way to keep balance throughout the auditions." Haruhi says.

"You did really well." Tamaki praises.

"Don't flatter me, senpai. There were a lot of better girls around." Haruhi states matter-of-factly.

"You're the best of all." The blond head counters.

"Nonsense. They have boobs and I don't." Haruhi jokes.

"Uh...hmm...but you defeated them anyway! Your flat chest outshone the rest!" Tamaki declares.

"Haha very funny..." Haruhi rolls her eyeballs. Tamaki tries too hard to impress.

"Haruhi, I'm really happy..." The blond head says.

"Honestly, don't you ever get sad?" Haruhi is curious.

"Of course I've had sad times, but none of them are associated with Haruhi!" Tamaki declares happily.

"So desu ne..."

"Haruhi, no matter what happens I will always be here to protect you!" Tamaki says.

"Eh?" Haruhi didn't quite get that.

"Haruhi, you may think of me as ignorant but let me assure you that the father-daughter act is simply to conceal my true feelings!" Tamaki explains.

"Conceal? Your true feelings?" Haruhi is confused.

Then it strikes. Hard on the head.

"Oh!" Haruhi realizes what those true feelings are.

"Senpai, I didn't know..." Haruhi counters.

"No you aren't to blame. I just didn't want to overwhelm you. But I guess you have to know it someday. Ever since you came into the Host Club, I've never taken my eyes off you..."

"Is it just me...or does that line sound freaking familiar?" Haruhi sweatdrops.

"Anyway, no worries! I know you have a lot on your mind currently, so wait till you have sorted out everything..." Tamaki assures.

"Hai." Haruhi mumbles.

"Oh my, look at the time! I think I've better let you have a good rest! Talk to you another day!" The blond head says.

"Hai. Oyasumi."

"Oyasumi, my precious daughter!"

"Senpai!"

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