Yay we're about half way through now :D I'm enjoying this way too much I hope you are too, also in this chapter here is the reason for why Mori talks so much (can't remember if they specify this in the anime or if it's just in the manga but either way)
"Why should Caesar get to stomp around like a giant while the rest of us try not to get squashed by his big feet?" Mori said in the class discussion the following week getting more and more animated the more he went on. "What's so great about Caesar? Brutus is just as intelligent and interesting as Caesar and people like Brutus just as much as they like Caesar. When did it become okay for one person to boss everyone else around because that is not what Rome is about. Everyone should just stab Caesar!" Mori had cracked.
"Well thank you Mr Morinozuka, that's certainly an interesting take on Shakespeare." Mr Norbury said after a very awkward pause as the bell rang. "We'll talk more about that next time."
"Are you okay?" I asked Mori as we collected our books together and left the room. Mori sighed.
"I'm fine." he lied. He looked so unhappy and I really felt for him. I placed my hand on his arm and nodded my head in the direction of an empty classroom.
"Come on." I told him. I locked the door behind us once we were inside so that we wouldn't be disturbed and sat him down on the edge of one of the desks. "Is this about Kyoya-Sempai?"
"If you only knew how awful he really is." he said shaking his head. "You know I've been sleep deprived pretty much since we started hanging out together so that he doesn't have to talk to Mitsukuni on his own."
"What?"
"I'm usually really quite." Mori explained. "I don't talk to people much unless I'm really, really tired. I haven't slept properly in nearly three years! And you know he's screwing over Tamaki." he added after a pause.
"What?"
"You know that girl that Tamaki has been seeing since the night of his Halloween party?" Mori asked.
"Vaguely." I replied although that was a complete lie I just hadn't been thinking about it.
"Kyoya's been sleeping with her while Tamaki's been doing extra curricular lessons." Mori said. "They get together in one of the old music rooms no one ever goes in every Thursday afternoon and I never told anyone this because Kyoya made me promise not to." Well I'll be damned. My mind was going at a mile a minute. With this information I could make Tamaki remember why he stopped being friends with Kyoya in the first place. I needed to talk to the twins.
"Hey Mori-Sempai, go home and get some sleep." I told him. "I'll tell the others you weren't feeling well and you just forget about everything for a couple of hours."
"Thanks Haruhi." Mori said looking relieved. He pushed himself off the desk, came over to me and hugged me. I must admit it did feel quite nice because he's mostly all muscle and I hugged him back. "I'll see you tomorrow." he said, giving my hair a ruffle and leaving the room.
I waited until I was sure that he was gone, I even waited until he had disappeared down the corridor before I left the classroom and ran to find Hiakru and Kaoru. They were exactly where I thought they would have been at this point – hiding out behind the school so that they didn't have to go to Health Class. Both of them looked puzzled when I came up to them panting and sweating slightly.
"The plan's back on." I told them. Hikaru whooped with delight.
We tried a few attempts to get Tamaki to 'accidentally' discover that Kyoya was sleeping with his girlfriend but all – much like our first plans to destroy Kyoya – were unsuccessful. All we had managed to find out was that the Physical Education teacher was having sex with one of the third year boys. I had pointed out that we should probably tell the school board about that but the twins said that would cause more trouble than it was worth.
"Why did we think we could do this? We are complete amateurs." I said to the twins after our third failed attempt. My dad was working late so they had come over to my house for the evening so that we could do some more planning although by this point I just wanted to go to bed. This whole thing was beginning to get exhausting and I wasn't sure that I hated Kyoya enough to keep going.
"We just need to regroup and think outside the box a little more." Hikaru said. I sighed. I though that was what we had been doing.
"Hey what are Kälteen bars?" Kaoru asked pulling a very old box of them out of the cupboard he had been looking through.
"They're these weird Swedish nutrition bars that make you gain weight. My doctor prescribed then to me a few years ago because apparently I'm 'too thin'." I said not really thinking too much of it. It was like a light-bulb moment and all three of us turned to stare at each other open-mouthed.
"Oh my god!" we all said in unison.
"Can you spin in so you can get Kyoya to eat these?" Hikaru asked.
"Of course I can." I replied. "He's going to notice after a little while though, he probably weighs himself more than most guys do."
"Oh there's a trick our housemaid learnt when our mother sent her off to fat camp!" Kaoru piped up. "You can rig a set of bathroom scales with some dental floss so that it always says the same weight."
"Perfect." Hikaru said grinning evilly.
"They're these weird nutrition bars my father eats when he has to work a lot." I told Kyoya after giving him the Kälteen bars at lunch the next day. "They fill you up so you don't have to take time out to eat."
"It's all in Swedish." he said looking up from the ingredients list.
"Yeah there's some ingredients in them that aren't legal in Japan yet." I said. I was making things up on the fly and, I'm horrified to say that I'm actually getting quite good at that now. I'm going to think of this as good practice for being a lawyer later in life.
"Interesting." Kyoya said opening one of the bars and taking a bite. "They taste like cardboard."
"Price you pay." I shrugged before carrying on with my own lunch, which was a lot more appetising.
The weird thing about spending time with Kyoya was that I could hate him and at the same time still want him to like me for some strange reason. It was the same with Mori. The meaner Kyoya was to him the more Mori tried to win back his affection. In his mind it was better to be with 'The Hosts' hating life that to not be with them at all because being with 'The Hosts' was like being famous. People looked at you all the time and everybody just knew stuff about you.
"Oh my god you're Fujioka Haruhi!" a first year girl squealed behind me.
"Um, yes hi." I said turning to face her.
"I heard you're so smart you're taking second year law classes," the girl said, her face bright pink. "and I was wondering if maybe you could tutor me."
"Sure thing." I replied while trying to work out how this girl knew me and if I was supposed to know who she was.
"Great." she beamed and handed me a small piece of paper. "Here's my number; give me a call and we can get together."
"Ok." I smiled politely. She blew me a kiss and walked away. Why am I doing this again?
