Hello all! Here's my Easter gift to you all! I hope you all had lots of yummy chocolate!
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Chocolate Kisses.
'Come on Haruhi! This way! I found some more eggs!'
I sighed and followed Tamaki around the corner of the maze, whoever had the idea to do this stupid egg hunt…was probably crouching next to me. He had too much energy today, far worse than normal.
'Sempai how many of these things have you eaten already?' I inquired, attempting to find a reason behind his increased hyper activity. However he looked positively repulsed by my accusations.
'Moi?! Eat these before the competition has finished? No, I am a man of honour Haruhi, of course I would refrain from eating the eggs.'
I raised my eyebrow.
'Besides- we'd lose the egg hunt if I ate any of them!'
'Ah.' The real reason.
'But we're sure to win now, look at all of these!' I craned my head around him and saw three large eggs, I frowned at my already bulging wicker basket. Who would have thought these nearly weightless chocolates combined, could create a heavier load then any shopping bag I've ever carried?
As it was Easter time, the Host Club had taken all their customers out into the school grounds to have a special Host Club Easter Hunt and whichever to team found the most eggs would win a date with the Host of their choice. Kyoya was the referee and was also placing bets as to who would win. A lot of people were betting on Huni-Sempai's team.
It was a typical spring afternoon, the sun had been warming the Earth for long enough for the temperature to be comfortable, and cherry blossoms were dancing in the air such a light pink colour, one could almost be fooled into believing they were snowdrops.
The lively blonde scooped up our new found bounty and was about to drop it in our basket when he noticed me fumbling around with it, trying to hold it so it wouldn't dig into my palms.
'Ah, Haruhi- sorry for being so insincere! Here let me hold it.' He offered.
'No it's ok, I can handle it.' I grunted.
He rested his hands on mine and slowly unwrapped them from the basket handle, and I attempted to suppress a blush at this seemingly rather intimate gesture- he took the basket from my grasp.
'Ok! Let's go find some more! We have to win!' Tamaki-Sempai bounded off, seemingly unaffected by what had just past, and to my horror and confusion, I felt a little hurt by it.
'Sempai why do we have to win?' I asked following him 'we're both Hosts.'
It was then that he abruptly stopped and I crashed into his back, causing us to tumble to the ground, an assortment of rainbow-wrapped chocolate eggs cascading out of the basket and surrounding us.
I groaned at the pain of impact, my nose and ribs throbbing slightly, feeling quite out of breath and disorientated.
'Argh Sempai- what did you do that for?' I grumbled, panting slightly from having the wind knocked out of me. It was then I realised, I was lying on his back and his face was jammed into the grassy ground. He probably couldn't breathe. 'Oh'
I pulled myself off of him and sat on the floor, glancing at all the eggs surrounding us, I groaned- such a mess.
'Ahahahahaha' I heard from beside me, I turned my head to discover Sempai had flipped himself onto his back and was lying in the grass facing the sky laughing giddily. 'That was strange, falling to the ground like that.'
'Sempai, are you delirious?' I asked 'and you have grass on your forehead.'
'I do?' He sat up, grass still stuck to his forehead, and tried to see for himself, which resulted in him going cross eyed. It was a rather amusing sight and I chuckled under my breath.
'Here I'll get it.' Without thinking, which was unusual for me but still, I leant over and softly brushed the blades of grass away from his forehead. His skin was smooth over my finger tips.
Then I felt his hand reach up to mine and grab it like he had before. I looked down at him and realised, I wasn't the only one blushing, his eyes were averted- was he being shy? I had to wonder what on Earth was going on.
'I- I have something to confess.' Sempai began, still not looking at me, and for some reason- my heart began to race. I stayed quiet. 'The answer to your question…even though we're hosts…I wanted to win because-I wanted to go on a date with Haruhi.'
It was then that he looked me in the eyes. His own were so violet, so honest… and they had me completely thrown. It was like I had been flung violently into a gaping black hole, and I no longer felt in control of myself anymore- of my actions, of my emotions, of my thoughts. I was floating in a place (or was it an emotion? I was unsure) undiscovered by myself, where everything I did was a result of what he did.
It was awkward and uncomfortable , but at the same time- I liked the feeling.
'Oh…oh.' Was all I could reply, and it was my turn to avert my eyes. I found a few words rattling around 'well…you don't have to win a competition to do that Sempai.'
'I don't?' He sounded confused. He wasn't the only one.
'Well if you wanted to go on a date with someone, wouldn't it be easier to ask?' I prompted, not really knowing what I was saying. There was a brief silence between us.
'Haruhi?' I looked back at him, the nervousness in the atmosphere was starting to irk me.
'Yes Sempai?'
'W-will you?'
'Will I what?' When I got no reply but a blush, and a sigh of either shyness or frustration- or even both- I decided I no longer wanted either of us to remain in this limbo of vulnerability.
'Tamaki-kun.' I called staring at him intensely, he looked back at me- surprised I had used his name, but then smiled.
'Would you like to go out on a date with me?'
'…Yes' I replied smiling back 'I would.'
The world seemed to go in slow motion as I watched his face go from shock, to complete amazement, to absolute delight.
'YIPPEE!' The moment passed as he leapt into the air, and I found myself covering my face with embarrassment.
'Sempai.' I mumbled standing up as well 'don't do that.'
'Why not? I'm happy!' He replied spinning and laughing to himself.
'You're going to trample on the eggs- and then we won't win the competition.' I pointed out matter-of-factly.
He stopped and came over to me, bringing his hand to my chin and gently lifting up my face- his own an inch from mine.
'I won already.' He replied before kissing me. His lips were incredibly soft…and I couldn't help but kiss him back. The black-hole feeling came back to me and I finally understood why all those annoying customers swooned…not that I would ever do anything of the sorts- but I understood the reasons behind it. I felt a need for him to be closer to me, and so the appropriate course of action was to wrap my arms around his neck and pull him closer, deepening our kiss. When our kiss ended, he was smirking at me.
'You know Haruhi, it is one thing to accuse me of eating the chocolate eggs- when you clearly have been yourself.' He winked. Heat rose to my face once more.
'Hey! I only had one!' I cried, looking down at the floor, at the fragments of chocolate egg scattered around. He laughed.
The sound of a whistle cut through the air, signalling the end of the hunt.
'Hey Tama-chan! Haru-chan!' We heard Huni-sempai's voice as he turned a corner, followed by Mori-sempai and a girl from their class- both of who were carrying four baskets full of eggs each 'We got loads of eggs! We're definitely going to win! How many did you-' he stopped when he saw the broken eggs on the ground- a look of horror spread across his face.
'Why…why…WHO WOULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO SUCH YUMMY CHOCOLATE?!' He cried out despaired, tears streaming down his face.
Once we'd calmed Huni-sempai down, Kyoya determined that his team were the winners by a landslide and the girl from their class chose Mori-sempai to go on a date with. Tamaki and I came in last place.
But… I actually agreed with Tamaki. Both of us had won already.
And the taste of chocolate lingered on both of our lips that day.
Hehehehe I promised fluff, did I deliever? Or was it just pure cheese? XD please review! Thank you!
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