Sorry! I've been gone for sooooooooooooo long! but I finally have time to write again :) Anyways, this chapter continues off from the previous chapter (on the same day.) Enjoy! (I'm slowly going to start posting the rest of the story, I have everything written, I just need to add the ending and do some editing, which I've been neglecting lately. :( Sorry for my spelling anf grammar!
p.s has everyone seen the live action of ouran? kyoya is sooooooooo hawt in it :)
"Kyoya wake up."
Tamaki and the other host club members stood in a semi circle around around Kyoya's bed, bodies tensed as if to run at a moments notice.
"S-senpai?" Kaoru asked nervously edging forward, only to leap backwards with a shriek when he saw one eye open and glare at him.
"Give it up, you guys this is useless." said Haruhi, who was the only one besides Mori, not pale white and shaking."
"Y-yeah, she's right. I like life too much. I don't want to die just yet." said Hikaru clinging to a shaking Kaoru.
"Kyo chan sure is grumpy in the mornings." said, Hunny looking out from behind Mori's legs. "You have no room to talk." replied the stoned faced boy.
"Leave." growled a menacing, rough voice from beneath the covers.
"Aww, is somebody feeling a little cranky today?" asked a voice from behind them in a fake baby voice. The huddled group turned to see Shonali leaning against the doorway. Jackson, Rachel, Jason and Delilah followed behind along with a reluctant Matt who stood a good ten feet away from Rachel. The tension between those two could have cut through icebergs.
"Thank God!" the entire group chorused and all but Haruhi and Mori rushed to hide behind Shonali, pushing her forward. "You deal with him."
"What are you so afraid off? asked Rachel confusedly. "I don't see.." her voice trailed off as she caught sight of the Demon Lord's expression. "Oh."
Suddenly she and Tamaki were pushing everybody out the door. "You're right. We'll leave Shonali to deal with him."
"Wait, why me?" asked Shonali, but before she had even finished her sentence she found herself addressing an empty room. She sighed and sat down on the edge of Kyoya's bed, ignoring the dark flames that radiated from him and proceeded to pull out a small pocket mirror from her purse to fix her wet hair.
Kyoya rolled over, pulling the blanket further over his head. Shonali looked back at him and sighed, rolling her eyes. "I have all the time in the world Kyoya, I'm not leaving until you wake up." She looked back at the mirror, frowning slightly at a split end. "That, and also the fact that it's quiet in here. They're probably doing something stupid and noisy out there."
"How much noisier could it be out there than in here?"
Shonali turned and found herself only a few inches away from a pair of glaring storm grey eyes. It was a few minutes before she was able to think again and another few seconds before she could speak.
"Oh, ouch. So does this mean you'll get up now- eep!"
Kyoya fell back against his bed again, taking Shonali with him, "Please just be quiet for a few minutes."
"Um Kyoya..." She gasped a little as his arms tightened around her waist and pulled her closer, until his face was buried in her hair. She found herself frozen and unable to pull away or even open her mouth.
"Why is your hair wet?" he asked suddenly.
She answered with a small squeek.
"What, did the water get into your brain too?"
He was silent for awhile before he spoke again, this time just on the verge of going back to sleep, "You smell nice."
Shonali felt a sudden heat rush through her body starting at her waist where his arm was and her skin became flushed and heated. She wasn't sure how long she stayed frozen like that but eventually her heart stopped beating quite so fast and her head cleared sufficiently enough for her to roll out of his grip. She wasn't shocked anymore. From from it. Now, she was slightly irritated. "Why in the name of all that is holy did I react like that? A guy touches me and suddenly I turn into an unthinking, brainless, twittering, mess."
She looked down at Kyoya, who had rolled over and was sleeping quite soundly. Suddenly her irritation vanished and a small smile replaced her scowl. She had never seen him look so peaceful. She sat down on the bed beside him again. He wasn't normally one for displaying any emotions, his expression almost never deviated from that of cool indifference or the characteristic smirk that sometimes tugged at the corner of his lips when he found something amusing. (That something usually being Tamaki.) But, his eyes were another story. When not hidden by his glasses, she could see thoughts constantly flitting through them, just behind the surface. But when he was asleep his whole face seemed to relax. He looked so calm and kind of sweet.
Shonali shook her head, still smiling. "What is it about you that makes me so confused?" she whispered. Then, without thinking or knowing why she did it, Shonali leaned over and kissed him lightly on the cheek and left.
Everyone looked up as she entered the common living room between the six apartments. "Is he-?" Tamaki asked, looking at her expectantly.
She shook her head and smiled as she flopped down on the couch beside Mori. "No. He looked so cute, I thought it would be a shame to wake him up."
The entire host club blanched. "C-cute? Did she just call the Shadow King cute?" asked the twins simultaneously.
Tamaki tapped the side of his head and laughed nervously, "I must still have water in my ears from my shower. I thought I heard the word 'cute' and Kyoya used in the same sentence."
"Are you sure you're feeling okay Shona chan?" asked Hunny, looking at her with large, concerned eyes.
Shonali rolled her eyes, "I'm sorry. I didn't know I'd said something so completely outrageous. It's just that he looked...calm? I don't know, he's not so bad when he's asleep, I guess it's when he wakes up that scares people."
Kaoru suddenly nodded, "You know, maybe she has a point. I remember when Tamaki was going through that whole grandmother issue, I went over one morning to talk to Kyoya, only he was still asleep so I had to wait for awhile...but did you know he actually smiles in his sleep?"
Haruhi finished warming up her coffee and sat down between Hikaru and Tamaki. "I hate to think of what makes him smile though."
Shonali burst into a peal of laughter as everyone sweatdropped. "How awful!"
"That reminds me!" Haruhi said sitting up straighter. "I forgot to tell everyone about this dream I had."
For the next few minutes Haruhi recalled her dream. Hunny had grown to be as tall as Tamaki and seemingly overnight he'd aged about ten years so that he actually looked eighteen instead of eight. Then Mori suddenly became a lot less caring towards Hunny and started treating him just like he would Tamaki or the twins.
"Anyways, so it turned out that Kyoya senpai gave Hunny senpai pills to make him stay looking younger and small because if Hunny senpai grew up, he'd fill the dumb blonde role which was already taken by Tamaki and they would overlap."
"H-haruhi..." Tamaki whined. "What do you mean dumb? You think I'm-"
"That's an terrible dream to have Haru chan." Honey deadpanned as the twins choked down their laughter by pressing their faces into each others shoulders.
Delilah leaned forward, eyed wide, "You don't think he would actually do that would you? It sounds like him..."
"Haruhi. Let's talk. We need to have a little discussion about how your inner workings perceive my character. Okay?" Everyone jumped about a foot in the air as Kyoya came in and calmly sat down beside Shonali who was biting her lip, trying her best to hold in her laughter. "I'm glad you find something amusing about this." he told her somewhat coldly.
"You're actually up? What happened?" asked Tamaki, the first to recover.
Kyoya shot a quick glance at Shonali, whose face was slightly flushed. "I don't know, I had a strange dream."
Haruhi got up and brought everyone tea and during the ensuing commotion over cake, Rachel bent closer to Tamaki and whispered in his ear, "You saw it too right? That look?" Tamaki looked over into her wide blue eyes and smiled just a tiny bit, "Yes, but I think we should wait to see if anything else happens." Rachel nodded seeming satisfied and leaned back again, causing Delilah to shoot her a questioning look as Mori handed her the strawberry cake Hunny had insisted she have, in a fit of gallantry.
Hikaru looked around, "Hey, where's Caroline?"
"I'm sure she's coming." said Jason, inspecting the edge of a doily. "Hey Shona, have you come up with a song for the half time show? The game's coming up in five days and I'm a little worried about time."
Shonali languidly stirred her tea, "It's...coming together. I'll let you know." Jason exchanged looks with his twin, raising his eyebrows delicately before smiling at her. "If you say so."
Another fifteen minutes passed before Jason's prediction came true. However, Caroline didn't just arrive, she exploded. "Rachel!"
Rachel's blue eyes were the size of saucers as she stared at her fiery friend. "C-Care? Are you on drugs? I thought we agreed that-" Her words were interuppted by Caroline waving something in her face. "Look at this!"
"Caroline stop shouting and waving that in front of my face... I can't see what it is..." But Caroline was far too excited and was talking so fast and uncoherently that no one could understand what she was saying until Delilah quietly reached up and seemed to pinch her under the elbow, at which Caroline promptly fainted, falling onto a very startled Shonali's lap.
"She fainted." Mori observed. He and everyone else looked at Delilah.
Delilah shyly looked out from underneath her eyelashes, "There are 11 pressure points on the human body, that one just so happens to knock one unconscious."
"It's always the quiet ones." Shonali smirked at Delilah as she and Mori hoisted Caroline onto the couch between them. Haruhi went to get smelling salts to wake Caroline up as Rachel took the newspaper and read the front article, which turned out to be a letter from the Chairman of the school board:
"Dear students of McKinnley,
As you are aware, our school is one of the finest establishments for higher eduction in the world. Our unique approach to learning is world renowned and clearly one of the most successful. We divide students up into over twenty different departments where they will study all their subjects with a focus on the area of their interest. These departments include, as you all are aware, Literature, Architecture, Musical Theory, Business, Medicine, Social Sciences, Anthropology, Sports Medicine, Arts, Fine Arts, Fashion and many more.
Recently, we've been presented with an exciting opportunity from a Mr. Tom Wilson, the president of the National Education Corp., more popularly know as NEC. In order to promote students and investment in education, he is willing to donate 400 million dollars to the school. However, there is a catch. The money will only go to one department. Which department it goes to will be determined by Mr. Wilson himself. He asks you all to prepare a short ten minute presentation on why you think your department should get the money. After seeing all presentations, he will select a winner. You have one week.
Good Luck to you all!
Chairman W.B Smeeve
P.S Good luck to our football team next week. Lets hope all your hard work pays off."
As Rachel read the letter, a stillness had descended upon the room. Even Caroline, now fully recovered, sat perfectly still with an expression fit for sitting by the deathbed of a distant relative. There was an awkward silence and none of the Host Club with the exception of Haruhi and Kyoya understood.
"Why aren't you guys celebrating, you should be happy." said Hikaru, peering over at the letter from Rachel's left shoulder. Kaoru, on the right, nodded. "Yeah. 400 million? That's incredible."
Rachel cleared her throat and laughed nervously, glancing around at the others. "Well actually, all of us are in completely separate sections. I'm in literature, Delilah's in Medical, Shonali's in Business, Jackson's in Musical Theory, Jason's in Architecture, M-Matt's in Sports Med and Caroline's in Art."
Caroline stood up. "Even so. I think we all know who should get it. Clearly, it should be MY department. We all know the Art department is the most under appreciated. We have less funding than all of you guys." said Caroline matter of factly.
"Please," interjected Rachel. "You don't need funding, you get it by selling those stupid paintings and scupltures you make to snooty art collectors. The literature departement has nothing."
"Because you guys don't need anything." cut in Jason. "Books are already paid for by the school and its well know Lit students are the richest 1%, they are fully able to pay for everything else."
"Sports med-" began Matt.
"Has more than enough funding from football." interupted Shonali. Matt turned to her, eyebrows raised. "And I suppose you think buisness needs it? Don't y'all study how to make money? You of all people shouldn't need funding."
Shonali sweetly up at him, "Right but every buisness needs a preliminary investement and 400 million goes a long way. We really could use better computers and things. Either buiness or medical should get it." She looked at Delilah.
Delilah suddenly became very interested in the lace hemline of her dress. "Well, um we really could use a better lab." Shonali sighed and cocked her head, observing Delilah in slight annoyance, "You know it's okay to stick up for yourself once in a while."
Delilah just looked up at everyone, wide eyed as a deer, "Well I- um-um"
"Okay, fine." Caroline cut across her. "It's decided, since we're all going to disagree lets all compete against each other for the money."
Matt stood up. "Sounds good. May the best man, win- OW! Who threw that?" He rubbed the spot where an apple had collided with his head, sending Rachel into a fit of giggles. Shonali bit back a smile, winking at Haruhi, mouthing "Nice shot."
Jackson rolled his eyes. "Although I don't see the point if we're competing against Shona." He put his feet up on the table, ingoring the swirling cloud of doom and pain that appeared around Haruhi's head. "We're just going to lose."
Hunny looked up from his cake. "Eh? What does he mean Shona-chan?"
"It means she's never lost a competition. Ever." Jason said, walking around to put an arm around his twin so that they looked like a warped version of Hikaru and Kaoru.
"Never?" asked Hunny.
"Ever." nodded Shonali distractedly looking down at something she saw on her Blackberry. "How do you think I became captain of the cheerleaders? We've never lost a single competition in four years. But then again, I only stoop to this competing nonsense when it matters. Like now. Anyways. Excuse me, I have to go."
She got up in one fluid smooth motion and dragged Kyoya after her. "Kyoya you don't mind driving me do you? No? Okay Thank you." She had already pulled him through the door regardless of whatever his answer would have been.
"She really doesn't hold back does she?" asked the twins in perfectly unison.
Everyone eventually broke into general chaos again and nobody noticed as Caroline quietly slipped out of the room, clutching the newspaper message tightly.
