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They had her call him, and say that she had a job for him. Her voice was shaky, but she pulled off fooling whoever it was because they where headed for a meeting place right now.
All through the car ride was twenty questions. They asked her his name, how long had he been working for her, how he came to be in her employment. All of the answers being recorded by the shadow King for future evidence.
They where still tense, no hint of their normal playfulness. They where getting mentally prepared for the worst in case it came to it. But they where not unprepared, Kyouya had his private police following them, ready to spring into action.
Haruhi sat next to Hunny, her hand in his as they all sit in tense silence. The man they where going to see was the one who beat her up what seemed forever ago, and he was the one that missed Haruhi and her father by a few hours. If he arrived a little later... they all shivered at the thought of what could have happened.
They pulled up in front of a small park, there where not many people around, and the little patch of land looked lonely. There was only one person here, and his back was turned as he sat on a bench.
They all pile out of the car, the man turned as they approach him. A look of livid resentment crosses his face as he takes in all the faces in front of him, his eyes lingering on Ajanokoji a little longer before coming to rest on Haruhi with frightening intensity.
He stands and takes a threatening step forward, his eyes never breaking contact with Haruhi's. They could see the rage burning beneath his skin, and where wary of the crazed look in his eyes.
He began to mumble to himself his eyes seeming distant and glazed now as his face contorts in fury. "It's all her fault" he says in a slightly louder voice as it begins to rise. "It's all her fault!" he is trembling now as his fists shake with his intense anger.
The Host club moves in front of her, as if to protest her if he made the slightest hint of attacking. It was touching, and Haruhi might have been moved if the situation was not so tense.
The man now had his hands in his hair as he pulls, his vancant expression hinting that he was remembering something from the past. "Yes, it is all her fault I was locked up for 11 years. 11 YEARS!"
By now Kyouya had called in his secret police, and they where swooping in from every where. There was no reasoning with a crazy man. He seemed to come out of his daze when he noticed the people that now had him surrounded, a sneer on his face.
"You look just like her" the leer deepening. "That damn mother of yours." He spat the words out like they where poison.
Realization struck them all as they pieced together the last of the puzzle. He was only too willing to help Ayanekoji because he had something against her mother. A defensive look plants it's self on Haruhi's face, "What about my mother?" her tone as hard as her expression.
The sneer never left his face as he was dragged away by the privet police.
"What was that about?" Hikaru looked to Kyouya as they got back into the limo.
Kyouya was reading something on his computer with a concentrating look on his face. Everyone is silent to allow him to concentrate.
After a moment he spoke, "11 years ago he was a stalk broker that was convicted of fraud. The accuser was a couple that had to file for bankruptcy because of his dealings. Their lawyer was you mother, Haruhi."He finished as he looked up into her eyes.
"So that was why he was so eager to do the job." Hikaru pondered.
"He wanted revenge against Haruhi's mom." Kaoru said in a similar tone.
Haruhi did not have an expression on her face, it was strangely blank.
Hunny tightened his grip on her hand, a worried look on his face. "Are you okay Haru-chan?"
She snaps out of her daze to squeeze his hand back "I'm fine Hunny-senpai, It's just a little sad."
Kyouya seemed Farly pleased with how things turned out. They where getting a lot more business, a scandal always attracted attention, and Haruhi was in the middle of it. She sighed as another round of questions came about her relationship with the other hosts, and what where they like when they where not hosting. So far she had done her best to avoid the questions, but they where becoming more insistent. Her old regular customers respected her silence, and did not ask again, but the ones that came out of curiosity... Well, they where very persistent.
"Which one is your favorite Haruhi-chan?"
"Do you have a crush on one of them Haruhi-chan?"
"What is it like to be the only girl Host? Haruhi-chan"
Haruhi's eye twitched in irritation as she tries to think of a gentle way of brush off their questions.
She almost felt relived when Tamaki gave her the perfect opportunity. Almost.
He was peering over the top of his seat with a pout on his face, looking at the girls at her table that usually go to him.
"What are you doing Senpai?" irritation coating her voice.
He turns his puppy eyes to her, "I don't understand Haruhi" he wined as he shuffles over.
"What don't you get?" she immediately regretted asking.
He begins his rant about it not natural for a girl to host girls, and that her numbers should be going down, not up. "It's not right!"
Kyouya comes over, pushing his glasses up his nose, "actually, it is better than expected, it makes sense that her numbers go up because she is a mystery, and that is always interesting." He says as he scribbles in his note book. "At this rate you will be free of debt by the end of the year, and you are only 20% behind Tamaki" he says with a smirk on his face.
The twins came over with Chester cat grins on their faces, " wow, Tono has competition with a girl!"
Tamaki's eyes glisten with denial, "No, no one can beat the King!"
"Are you sure you don't feel threatened that she will take all your customers?" sly looks on their matching faces.
"No!" he takes a dramatic pose, "There is no way I will lose to a girl!" he said in an arrogant voice.
The twins put on a fake look of shock "What, is she just a 'girl' now?" Hikaru said in a scandalized voice.
"And here I thought she was your 'precious daughter'!" Kaoru mocked. "did you hear that Haruhi?"
"Your just a girl now." Hikaru said with a look of disappointment.
Tamaki rushes up to her and grabs her shoulders in earnestness "Don't listen to them Haruhi! You will always be my sweet daughter!"
"Get off me Senpai" she said in a flat voice sending him to the corner of woe that had recently been neglected.
Ah, the joys of normalcy.