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So, I give you chapter twelve. Please enjoy!

~ Chapter Twelve ~
~ Host Club Vacation Pt 1 ~

(About Three Days Later? Yeah...)

"Whoa." Mori said simply, taking in the sight of the resort from where we had just gotten out of our limo. It got Mori to talk, so it obviously must be nice… I thought a little smugly.

"It's… it's freaking huge." The twins gaped.

"You sure picked an interesting resort, Tsubasa." Tamaki said, a little speechless.

"Wow, Tsu-chan! That really is a big cake store!" Hunny exclaimed, jumping onto my back. I swear, that Usa-chan is out to kill me, because every time Hunny glomps me Usa-clan tries to get in my mouth and suffocate me.

"Told you so." I replied happily, grinning. It's even better then the pictures… and more expensive.

"And the festival is tonight!" Kaoru added, grinned at his brother with a thumbs up at me.

"Cant wait." Kyoya groaned, already anticipating the huge bills he'd be getting later on.

"Why so glum, Haruhi?" Tamaki and I asked in unison. Somehow we'd been doing this a lot lately, and I was getting annoyed by it.

"Deluxe sushi parlor closed." She mumbled, looking crestfallen. I smiled.

"I'll just order in, so it's no big deal!" I grinned. Nothing could ruin my awesometastic mood right now! (It only was made better because my bruises had pretty much gone away, even the ones on my face! What can I say? I bruise easily and heal quickly. Plus, all that Umi girl did was hit me with her book bag. It wasn't major!)…

I looked up at the resort, my mind racing with the possibilities of what fun we could have over this weekend—most of these plans involved complex games of Twister, violence, and a lot of money (why miss a chance to mess with my cousin's best friend? No reason at all that's why!) needing to be spent. Bwahahahaha.

The resort was 43 floors of dark brick exterior. There were hundreds of windows up and down with large balconies. Where there was an absence of a window/balcony, there was a neon, multicolored waterslide. Also, there were glass tubes with flat bottoms that popped out of a few parts of the resort, that connected to other buildings. I knew that one building was the water park, one was an indoor beach, one was a mall, and the other was a spa I think.

This made Kyoya's family's little indoor beach of doom look like Tropical Barbie's beach house, that's for sure.

"Okay everyone, no need to just stand around." Tamaki said, clapping his hands dramatically as servant people bustled around to get our luggage. I sweat dropped as he did a spin, and sparkles appeared around him—by the way, those sparkles must be working with satanic Usa-chan, because as soon as they appeared I fell on the ground choking on them, and no one made a move to help me of course, they just ignored it. "Now! We only have a weekend, so lets make it awesome! I've even made a schedule so that there is so way we don't get to do at least everything once!"

I stood up, recovering from my death, and sighed. "You made sure to work in some time for breathing and sleeping right? And… the spa?"

Tamaki nodded. "Yes, yes! I got in EVERYTHING!" Insert another dramatic spin here, as well as a pink sparkly background. "Now, lets see how the rooms go! Mom, please tell everyone the sleeping arrangements!"

Kyoya rolled his eyes.

"Each of the rooms we requested are basic two-person deluxe rooms, except for me and Tamaki's, which is a suite—that will be like a living room, or a base." Kyoya explained in a bored tone. "Tamaki and I are sharing the suite, obviously. Tsubasa and Haruhi, you two share a room a few doors down from us. Hikaru, Kaoru; your room connects to theirs—but of course, on Tamaki's orders, the lock is on Haruhi and Tsubasa's side so you two cant get in without their permission." I chuckled a little at this. Tamaki is so overprotective of us two host club girls (or girl plus girl-in-disguise). "Hunny-senpai and Mori-senpai have the room right across. All rooms are on the top floor." He then told us the room numbers and gave us keys. "Is everyone clear now?"

"Yes sir!" Me, Hunny, and the Twins said in unison, saluting 'Mommy'. Of course, my salute was more sarcastic and lazy then the others.

And with that, we walked into the resort.

It was just as amazing on the inside as the outside. The floors were perfect white tile, with red carpeting occasionally. There was a bar, a lounge, gift shop, drug shop, indoor garden, and several small fountains all around in the lobby. I sweat dropped.

These damn rich people.

Yes, I am rich as well, but my family was always pretty simple with our décor and we never really flaunted our wealth like the other's did. Also, I had to work to get extra money, and did chores for allowance. I even went to an average-wealth privet school back in France.

Maybe that is why me and Haruhi get along so well. We both know the hardships of the world—or at least, the basic ones; unlike a certain princely character I know. Hint hint.

Once we rode up the elevator, me and Haruhi went straight to our rooms, incredibly excited for what we would find.

***

"It's amazing!" We both gasped as we ran into our room.

Near the sliding glass doors to the balcony that connected with the twins' balcony, there were two small loveseat couches, and then a coffee table. On the other side of the room was a small kitchenette that was hidden by a bamboo divider thing with sakuras printed on it. Then on the other side, there were two twin beds that had canopies over them, and then a door that went to the bathroom. There was also a big screen TV with all the extras (DVD player, VHS player, Stereo system, etc) and then the dressers and stuff like that. Oh, and lamps too.

The color scheme for this room seemed to be like a sunset on the beach. The colors were pink, orange, yellow, salmon, and the plush carpeting the room was white and clean. I grinned and plopped on the bed near the window. "This is the coolest place ever!" I exclaimed, giggling.

Yes. I was giggling.

"I gotta agree!" Haruhi smiled, plopping on her bed. "I don't even like resorts and water parks, but this place is actually pretty cool."

I nodded, and jumped up, running to the door that led to the twins room. I unlocked it, and opened it, almost screaming when I saw they were leaning at the door as if waiting for me to open it. I could see that their room was identical to ours, except that the colors were like midnight; blacks, blues, occasional yellows or whites or even grays.

"Yo!" they said together, grinning, as they came in. "Nice room, ladies. Are you settled in?"

I rolled my eyes. "We just got here, how could we have settled in?" Haruhi asked, a little annoyed. I turned to see why, and felt a weird feeling in the pit of my stomach.

The twins were on the bed, sitting beside and behind Haruhi (who was on the edge of the bed), and snuggling her. I couldn't believe it. I was feeling jealous of Haruhi because Kaoru was teasing her.

I'm insane! Who would want to be teased by those two shady twins?! I shouted inwardly, walking to my bed and pulling my iPod and cell phone out of my bag. If they are going to be all snuggly with her, I don't want to be here and risk blowing out that I have a secret crush on Kaoru!

I rolled my eyes a little. "I'm going to go see Tamaki and Kyoya-senpai. See you." I said in monotone, holding in my slight anger as I walked out into the halls.

I did not notice that as I left, a certain twin's eyes followed me the whole way…

***

I shouldn't get so easily pissed off, I grumbled inwardly as the music blasted into my ears. I shoved my hands in the pockets of the baggy jeans I was wearing, looking around as I fiddled with the volume adjusters on the oversized headphones I wore. I know they are clunky and kind of weird, but I love those oversized huge headphones—especially when they can discreetly plug into an iPod.

Itsu datte kimi no koto o Bokura wa koko de matteru kara
Ya na koto ga atta no nara Bokura ni hanashi o kikasete yo


Sakki made naite ita (Nakanai de) Kimi no kanashii kao mo (Sugu ni)
Hora bokura nara Itsu no ma ni Egao ni kaeru



Mata ashita!
Hohoenda kimi ni aeru you ni

Sumikitta aozora ukabu kumo no yo ni
Muneippai Hi no hikari abite Arukidasou

Boku to

I shivered a little. Maybe I should have grabbed a jacket? All I had on as a shirt was a black tank top and a baby blue tank top.

I looked around again. "Wait a sec… which direction was their room again?" I mumbled to myself. Suddenly, an arm slinked around my shoulder, and I gasped.

"Hey girly, wanna come hang out with us?" A man asked. I mentally smacked my forehead. I'm such a danger magnet… Just call me Bella Swan and pin me to a vampire why dontcha! Gosh!

"I'd rather hang out from ceiling rafter, thank you very much." I hissed, glaring at him as I tried to get from his grasp. Which was proving to be quite the challenge. "Seriously, let go, mister. I'm not interested."

"C'mon, just for a little bit lets have some fun!" he laughed, hugging me.

"Hey, only Tamaki, Kaoru, Hikaru, and Hunny-senpai hug me! And I don't even like it then!" I growled, squirming around to try and get out. But this guy just wouldn't let go. "Let go! I'll scream rape if you don't!"

"Just try…" he whispered. I elbowed him in the ribs but it didn't work.

"You might find it wise to let go of her right now." A smooth voice said. I looked up and gasped. It was Kyoya! "Or else I'll be forced to—"

He didn't even get to finish. The guy ran.

Yup. I always knew Kyoya was scary.

I took a deep breath, and looked up at him.

"For that, I'll leave you alone and be nice. Truce." I said simply, grinning. He stepped forward, and put a hand on my shoulder.

"You are such… a danger magnet." He said, staring at me. I just stared back, confused. "I must say, you're much harder to watch after then I thought, Tsubasa."

"Nani?" I asked, staring up at him.

"You aren't naïve enough to believe that after what happened to your family, Tamaki wouldn't ask his most trusted friend to keep an eye on you?" He chuckled lightly, before side-stepping me to walk across the hall. I smiled a little. "Well, come now, lets take you back to our suite. That was where you were headed originally, correct? You were going in the completely opposite direction. Good thing I was speaking with the admissions office and was returning to the room when I saw."

"Yeah. Really great." Maybe he's a nicer guy then I thought…

"Of course, I will be charging you for it…"

I should have known. -.-+

"Asshole."

"I'll take that as a thank you, I suppose."

"Suppose all you like, just because you're Tamaki's best friend that doesn't mean I'm going to be treating you special." I shrugged, smirking as I walked beside him to the room.

"I know that. Should it bother me?"

"Depends. You're not in love with me, are you?" I asked, only half-teasing.

"Maybe. But that is for me to know, and you to probably never find out."

I blinked a few times, before a small blush on my cheeks. Kyoya! You jerk! Don't just say those things and then leave me hanging! But… if… if Kyoya does like me…

I watched him for a second before looking away. No, he would never like me.

***

"Wow, this is one heck of a festival!" I smiled as I looked around happily.

After spending a day at the water park, followed by a few hours at the indoor beach and a quick trip to the cake shop, we went to our rooms and put on yukatas so that we could go to the festival.

I wore a black yukata with silver flowery patterns and red trim on the sleeves and ends. The obi thing was also silver, but had a red butterfly on it. Tamaki had wanted me to wear the traditional geta shoes, but I insisted on wearing my black converse sneakers. Comfort is something I strive for.

Haruhi had on a baby blue kimono with light pink and pale yellow butterfly and rose designs on it. She also wore a plain, hot pink obi, and had those chopstick things in her short hair (how she kept them in however was a mystery).

Hikaru and Kaoru's yukatas were matching. They were navy blue with yellow and grey designs on them.

Mori's was brown with gray, and looked like dragon scales almost.

Hunny's was bright, lime green with dark blue swirls on it.

Kyoya's was plain black with red snakes on it. I think.

And Tamaki's? His was red with those bold white flower designs and cranes on it. I sweat dropped at him, and chuckled a little. I'm pretty sure he was wearing a woman's yukata, but didn't say anything. He didn't need his ego crushed at the beginning of the night.

"Takashi, let's go look at the koi! And then the cake! And then everything else!" Hunny exclaimed happily, grabbing Mori's hand and jumping up and down while pointing.

"Ah." Mori replied as the little blonde senior dragged him off. I smiled. They have such a nice relationship.

"Har~ru~hiiii!" Tamaki sang, spinning around and jumping at poor Haruhi. "Lets go look around and have fun!"

"No way I'm taking Haruhi!" Hikaru said, grabbing Haruhi in a very 'mine' sort of way. I smiled a little. A fight broke out between Tamaki and Hikaru, and finally Haruhi suggested that they all three just go together. I chuckled. Those two boys should have thought of that earlier.

"Neh, Kaoru, are you coming with us?" Haruhi asked as they began to walk. I looked at Kaoru—when did he move to stand beside me?

"No. Kyoya-senpai already left, and since Tsubasa is such a danger magnet I should probably go with her."

I looked around. So, Kyoya really did ditch us… heh heh…

"Okay, well, see you later…" they said, waving as they walked off. I looked at Kaoru, and smiled at him.

"So what do you want to do, Kaoru?" I asked, looking around. On the outside I was pretty calm, on the inside I was spazzing out. I was alone with my crush—my first crush at that, and at a really awesome festival. What more can I ask for?

"Want to go buy masks? And then we can look at koi, and some of the games too?" he suggested, smiling back at me and making me blush a little.

"That sounds awesome! Lets do it!"

***

"Hey look Kaoru!" I exclaimed after we'd been wandering the festival for a few hours. "The fireworks are starting!"

He grinned at me, pulling the fox mask to the side of his head. I had suggested the fox mask, because I thought that the twins were like foxes; clever, sneaky, and liked to trick people. "Yeah! Hey, do you want cotton candy?" he asked. I nodded.

"Sure, lets go get some!" I said.

I was about to turn when I tripped on my yukata and started to fall forward.

But the pain I expected never came.

I looked up, and realized Kaoru had managed to grab me around the waist, and pull me into him. So now, my back was against his chest, and his arms were wrapped around my stomach from behind. It made my stomach do psychotic flips, and my heart was beating like crazy—my face must have been the same red as a tomato or one of those darned roses Tamaki loved pulling out of nowhere.

"You okay?" Kaoru asked. I blushed even more if possible as I felt his warm breath tickle my cheek; his lips were almost touching my ear.

Is he doing this on purpose to tease me?! He couldn't know I like him! And besides, teasing is more like Hikaru's thing! Kaoru is a nice guy when he's away from his brother! Not that he's not nice usually but really!

"K-kaoru?" I asked, looking at him from the corner of my eye. He was still holding me, even though I was now perfectly balanced.

"Yes?"

"Why are you still holding me?"

"Oops." He whispered, letting go. I turned to face him and give a reassuring smile, and couldn't help but notice he was blushing too.

"Oh, you dropped your panda mask." He said, picking my mask off the ground and shaking it a little to clean it off, then putting it on my head gently. I smiled a little.

"Thanks." I said, blushing. He looked over, and smiled.

"I guess we're leaving now." He said, sounding sad. Then he did something I didn't expect.

He took my hand, and we began running to meet the others.

I was really deep in thought though.

Cant he tell I like him? A lot? I asked myself. Does he feel the same way? Can he feel the same way? I really like Kaoru, but… I cant be thinking about boys! I have to put my life together! But… maybe… Kaoru could be the one to help me rebuild myself?

Ugh! I sound like a cheesy anime girl!

***

We went back to the hotel room, and I immediately jumped into the shower.

Where Kaoru's arms had touched me… there was a tingle.

My hand still was tingling.

I had no idea what was going on with me. Is this how it is when you get a crush? I sighed as I got out after rinsing my hair, dried off, and then put on my white sweat pants and black t-shirt.

I touched my hand to my face, and sighed as I looked out of the window. "I will never forget tonight…" I whispered to myself, smiling a little.

Kaoru holding my hand… those were the best two minutes of my life.

An amazing memory.

Eeep! She likes him! So, do you think Kyoya will get a crush on her? I haven't decided, but I put a moment in there for fun. Do you think Kaoru likes her yet? Hmm...

I can't do facts right now. Oh well, I'll do them next time! I'll update soon! Bye!

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