*A/N ;A; Thank you so much for all the reviews, story/author alerts and story/author favorites! Happy New Year! We're not going to die! Chapter 14! Yes, the previous chapter, (I don't want to say the number) is now done and over with. Now, may I present to you, the Festival Episode of this story. °w°

HIKARU'S POV

The school had arranged a festival, and anyone could go. Most of the people attending would be students from the academy, although there was a commercial on the T.V. about it. When I had asked Tono why the festival was so important, he told me that all the money that was collected would be donated to a children's hospital. We were at the Host Club when this happened. So as you can imagine, the customers went, "Awww! I'll definitely be attending, Tamaki-kun!"

The whole Host Club arrived together. We were all dressed in our kimonos (*A/N Or was it yukatas?) from before (anime episode 4 reference). Apparently, Kyoya-senpai said it would save us money. That penny pincher.

ARINA'S POV

"Woah, there are so many people!" Ayumi exclaimed, staring in awe at all the activity of the festival.

Ayumi was wearing a pink kimono, with cranes scattered all over it. It had a white flower line design around the edges. She had a darker pink sash tied around her waist, and her hair was straightened. I had a red kimono, with cherry blossom designs coming up from the bottom, stopping around my waist, and on my sleeves too. There were little birds also. I had a gold sash tied around my waist, and my hair was put up in a bun, and chopsticks were added to it. I swear, I feel like a peacock in a crowd of penguins.

"What are we going to do here?" I asked Ayumi.

"Hang out, and check out the booths, of course!"

"Fine then, let's go look at the booths." I sigh.

"Yay!" Ayumi cheered, and linked arms with me.

We passed a few booths that looked uninteresting, until we passed the Black Magic Club's booth.

"Reiko! You guys have your own booth?" I asked.

"Yes, indeed," She replied. "Is there anything you request from us? A request to curse someone, a voodoo doll, or perhaps a gaze into the future?"

"That last one!" I said.

"Alright, just give me a moment," She replied. Reiko closed her eyes, and started to hover her hands over a crystal ball. "Hmm, interesting, quite."

"Umm, is there anything that has to do with my parents?" I asked sheepishly. She already knows about my parents, and what's going on between them.

"No." Reiko answered, opening her eyes. I felt disappointed. "Tonight, you will be in a very cliché situation."

"Huh? No...I don't want that to happen..." I whispered, hiding behind Ayumi.

"You never know, maybe it will be something that you would enjoy." She replied.

"No, certainly not." I deadpanned.

Reiko shut her eyes again, and hovered her hands over the crystal ball. She opened them again, and pointed at Ayumi. "You will be falsely accused of something."

"What?" She exclaimed.

"Um, let's go look at the other booths then," I said. "Thanks, Reiko, bye." Ayumi handed her $6.00. The rule of this festival was to be cheap–probably since there were so many commoners–and that everything must be under $15.00.

"Farewell." Reiko replied, waving her hand.

As we started to walk away, I felt someone grab my wrist, and start dragging me away. I saw Ayumi was in the same position I was in, too. "What the?" She muttered.

"Um...are you part of the Jail Booth?" I whispered.

"Mhm!" The two boys replied. Of course, how could I forgot about the Jail Booth?

"Why were we captured?" Ayumi asked.

"We're capturing everyone wearing pink right now." The boy dragging her replied.

"Ahh, I see..." She said.

When they put us in the jail, we saw several other people there already. Fujioka and Haninozuka were in there.

Suoh was banging against the bars. "Haruhi! It's alright! You'll be with father in no time!"

Morinozuka was standing in front of the cage, in front of where Haninozuka was. Haninozuka was playing with his stuffed rabbit that I believe he calls Usa-chan...

"Okay, to get out, you need to answer a math equation. If you don't want to, you pay 50¢ to get out. If you don't want to pay, then you can wait 3 minutes until you can go." One of the Jail Booth people said.

They gave everyone a sheet of paper with the equation on it. What the heck?

How do you find the area of a trapezoid?

"What is this, elementary school questions?" Ayumi commented.

"The questions are like that because little children are here at the festival, miss." A boy replied.

All the high schoolers were out in no time. The little kids took a little bit longer, but made it out. No one had to pay for that question.

Fujioka was the first one out. As soon as he stepped out of the jail, Suoh screamed, "Haruhi!" and glomped him. Haninozuka was out right after Fujioka. Morinozuka set him on top of his shoulders and walked away, with Fujioka trailing behind them, and a very dramatic Suoh.

"Arina, I need to go to the ladies' room." Ayumi told me.

"Okay, I'll meet you outside." I said.

We went to the washroom, and Ayumi rushed inside. As I waited outside, I tapped my foot unconsciously.

Then I felt cold metal wrap itself around my wrist. "Huh?" I turned to see that a girl had put a handcuff around my left wrist. Oh gosh...how could I have forgotten about the Marriage Booth?

The girl rushed away, dragging me with her. She led me to see who I would be handcuffed to. Oh dear. I was being lead to the Hitachiins. They were handcuffed together. One of their customers probably paid for that.

More importantly, who paid for me to be handcuffed to one of them for 30 minutes? Ayumi? I'm going to kill that girl. Ayumi is the worst.

"Um, may I ask which one Hikaru is?" The girl that handcuffed me asked.

The one on my left pointed to the one on my right. "That's Hikaru."

The girl handcuffed me to the other side of Hikaru, and went away. Ayumi is really going to get it.

Hikaru and Kaoru were whispering to each other. I stepped away from them as far as the handcuff would let me. They noticed this.

"Don't be shy; come join the party!" They said, as Hikaru pulled me closer to him. I gave a deep red blush, and my face turned red. They snickered at me.

I desperately tried to free myself, but his grip was strong. Or maybe I'm just jelly. I don't intend to be involved with a super evil villain! I'm sure if Ayumi knew I thought that, she would punch me.

I started to walk. I didn't care what they thought, I just needed to get my revenge on Ayumi. I dragged the Hitachiins to the Marriage Booth, and slapped down $5.00. "Higarashi Ayumi, and Kasanoda Ritsu. Oh, and Fujioka Haruhi." I said, my usual shyness now replaced with how I usually act around Ayumi. I glared at the clerk. He whimpered quietly and ordered the others to chain Kasanoda, Haruhi and Ayumi together. I gave a warm smile. "Thank you very much."

I started to walk away, dragging the Hitachiins behind me.

Then, a girl was clamped to Kaoru's wrist. And as the time passed by, more and more girls were being clamped onto the twins. I felt claustrophobic. However, they started to go away also, until I was the only one left. Even Kaoru was free from Hikaru. Why? I was the first one there, so that should mean that 30 minutes was already done. When I confronted the Marriage Booth about this, they said that the person paid them extra to keep me and Hikaru together for an hour and 15 minutes. I had stomped off. Ayumi, you suck.

I started to walk around, looking for a booth that sold food. I was hungry. I came across a booth that sold sweets. I quickly stopped to admire all the candy. Hikaru bumped into me. "What the..."

"Uh, um, can I...please have some cotton candy...and a chocolate milkshake...please?" I mumbled.

"Right away, miss! That will be $10.00 please." I slid the money onto the counter, and the person gave me the cotton candy and milkshake.

"Um, since you're here...make yourself useful, would ya? Hold this for me, please." I said, handing Hikaru the chocolate milkshake.

"That's rude." He frowned.

Ignoring him, I munched on the cotton candy contentedly. After a few moments, I asked Hikaru for my milkshake. He gave it to me wordlessly. I must have been really thirsty, because I finished the whole thing.

"Oh yeah, I hope you don't mind that I took a sip." He smirked, as I choked on my final sip.

"What?" I muttered, blushing. Afterwards, I wolfed down the rest of the cotton candy, to earn a weird look from Hikaru.

After a while, I looked over at Hikaru, who seemed bored. I started to walk to the game area of the festival. I looked around, observing my surroundings. Suddenly, I felt Hikaru dragging me off somewhere.

"Um...where are we going?" I asked.

He smiled down at me. "You'll see." He led me to the rides. I stared in awe at all the hustle and bustle. I was interrupted when I felt a tug on my wrist, and soon, I found myself in line for the merry-go-round. What the hell?

As soon as we could go on, he realized we were still handcuffed together, and his smile disappeared, but was quickly replaced with a smirk. "Heh, no worries!" He picked me up and placed me onto a wooden horse, earning a yelp, and blush from me. He hopped onto the horse behind me. How cliché. Is this what Reiko meant?

Oh gosh, I was feeling dizzy. After the ride was over, I ran to the Marriage Booth and said I needed to go to the washroom. They unlocked the cuffs, and waited outside the washroom.

I threw up in the toilet. Probably because of the food, I guess? Afterwards, I saw a window. I quickly climbed out of it, and jumped down. Free! I'm free! I'm-

"Arina, what are you doing?" Came a male voice. I froze to the spot, and slowly jerked my head towards the voice.

MAKOTO'S POV

I was walking around when I saw a girl hop out of the washroom window. I fixed my glasses, thinking it was just my imagination. But I was wrong. When I looked closely, it was my sister. What the hell was she doing?

I walked up behind her. "Arina, what are you doing?"

She stopped in her tracks, and slowly turned to face me. I kept a poker face.

"Makoto! Why are you here?" She exclaimed, giving me a hug. I pried her off of me.

"I came to enjoy the festival. Now don't change the subject." I replied. "Now, what were you doing?"

"Um..." Arina twiddled her thumbs. "See ya at home, bye!" Then she ran off. What kind of sister do I have?

ARINA'S POV

I ran away from Makoto. I don't need him to know what was going on. I glanced back, to see if he was chasing me. Nope. I turned my head back to bump into someone. "Ah, sorry..." I looked up. Oh gosh.

"Going somewhere, Sakamoto-san?" The person from the Marriage Booth said.

Behind him was a bored looking Hikaru. Once Hikaru saw me, he smirked and said, "Were you trying to run away from me?"

"Uh, um..." I coughed.

The person locked the cuffs again, and walked away. "You still have 15 minutes."

Once the person was gone, I glanced back again.

"Sakamoto," I turned my head to face Hikaru, and gave a small nod as a reply. "Who was that man with the glasses?"

"Um...my brother." I said.

"Oh, I see." He replied. "Hmm, let's go on the Ferris Wheel!"

"Wha...no!" I exclaimed, as he dragged me back to the rides.

KYOYA'S POV

I observed Hikaru and Arina from a distance. Hmm. I wrote down some notes in my notebook.

I watch as Hikaru and Arina get off the Ferris Wheel. She looked very dizzy. A hand flew to her mouth. She rushed towards the girls' washroom, with Hikaru in tow.

"GYAHH! SAKAMOTO, THIS IS THE GIRLS' WASHROOM!" Hikaru screamed.

She ignored him and ran inside. I heard barfing noises. Disgusting.

As they came out, Arina began to bow and apologize. "I'm sorry..." She mumbled.

"Um, it's okay...just don't drag me into a girls' washroom just to see you vomit, kay?" He said, in a slightly irritated tone. His face was slightly red.

"Ah...right..." She said, oblivious to the fact that he was irritated.

I began to write down more notes. This was worth paying extra just to see them alone for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Hmm, this will certainly be a very interesting development.

*A/N YUHS. Sorry for another 2 day wait. I know the update is still quick, but I usually still update a day after. One of the delay reasons is because I was typing this out on my iPod, and I turned it off, then when I turned it on again, the screen was black, and all you could see was the keyboard. I exited out of the app a few times to see if it would work. Nothing did. I thought I had lost my data again. After a while though, I finally got to continue writing this chapter! Oh yeah, keep expecting later updates...I have homework. On break. D: Anyways, yay for Makoto and Kyoya's POV! I had trouble keeping Hikaru in character. I wonder if he seemed a bit OOC? If some of you didn't get it, it wasn't Ayumi who paid. It was Kyoya. Anyways, thanks for reading, please review! ^^