DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN OURAN IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM
'I can't believe I'm going on a date today, with Kaoru none the less,' Haruhi thought groggily as she barely started to wake up.
"Good morning Miss Fujioka," she heard two female voices from inside her room
"Huh?" she said as she opened her eyes and the image of two robot servants came into view.
"Time to get ready," they both said grabbing at her. Haruhi was in such shock that she didn't really realize what they were doing until they released her and she got a chance to look in the mirror. She was wearing a brand new dress and her hair had been altered making it look longer like it was before.
'What the heck?' she thought.
"You must be going Miss Fujioka. You don't want to keep the master waiting," said the robots.
"Right, thanks," said Haruhi as she headed out.
"Oh Haruhi you look so cute! If only your father could see you now!" said Misuzu. He immediately started holographic images of her. "Oh he's going to be so mad that he wasn't able to see you like this in person."
"Yeah well, I should get going so I can meet Kaoru," said Haruhi.
"Have fun and be careful. I think there was a chance for rain," said Misuzu. Haruhi stopped in her tracks.
"Oh really?" she said.
"Don't worry honey it hardly ever thunders on this planet remember?" said Misuzu.
"Right, thanks Misuzu," said Haruhi before heading out. She walked to the local village and before long she was the village square sitting around for Kaoru.
She wasn't sure how long time had passed before she finally heard a voice behind her.
"Sorry to keep you waiting,"
She looked up and was surprised to see Hikaru instead of Kaoru.
"Hold on," she said, "What happened to Kaoru?" Hikaru pulled out an imagery card and showed her.
It showed Kaoru sick in bed and asking Hikaru to go in his place.
"Oh," said Haruhi after watching the image. She looked up and noticed Hikaru wasn't looking too happy. "What did you want to do? Did you want to go home?"
"No, I promised I would hang out with you today so I better," said Hikaru, "But what's up with that outfit?" Haruhi looked at the imagery card Hikaru had given her and saw it still had some memory on it so she pressed it so show what the robot servants had done to her.
"Do you think it's weird?" she asked.
"Uh well, I guess not," said Hikaru.
"Haruhi!"
"Did you hear something?" asked Haruhi.
"Hmm, kind of, Eh, it's probably nothing let's go," said Hikaru.
"Sure," said Haruhi as the two walked off together, neither one noticing the scene in the restaurant they were standing in front of.
"Be careful Boos they'll see us!" Kaoru shouted as he did his best to restrain Tamaki. Tamaki immediately turned and grabbed him.
"Why did you set Haruhi and Hikaru up on a date anyway? I don't understand! How does yesterday's event even relate to this!" he shouted at him.
"I wonder if this Haru-Chan's first date," said Hunny. Tamaki screamed as fire appeared out of his mouth.
"Tamaki, keep your dragon side down now," said Kyoya.
"You're going to pay for that! And look at what's she's wearing, it's so cute!" Tamaki whined.
"Look Boss I can explain," said Kaoru, "After we make sure not to lose them." He tossed each guy a pre-recorded memory card. Each guy played as they hurried to catch up with Hikaru and Haruhi.
"The only ones we've ever relied on were ourselves. I guess you could say we were being selfish and self-centered. Hikaru's still really immature. He really cares about Haruhi but he's not sure how to let him know about it. He selfish wants all of her attention for himself. He needs to learn to think about other as well."
"Hmm, interesting," said Kyoya.
"Hey look there they are!" said Hunny as the group finally found the two sitting on a bench together. Hikaru was holding an info card, surfing through the information.
"So where do you want to go Haruhi?" he asked.
"Well Kaoru said he planned everything so I didn't really give it much thought. Was there anywhere you wanted to go?" asked Haruhi.
"Well there's nothing I need to do here,"
"Hikaru, make sure you show her a good time!" he heard Kaoru say through his mind.
'Kaoru must be thinking that from the hoteru,' he thought.
"I know how about we go to that Merchant shop strip by the teleportation station. Some have some cheep clothes stores there," said Hikaru.
"Sure that sounds nice. Did you need to some cloths shopping?" asked Haruhi.
"I would never buy cloths from a place like that," said Hikaru.
"Then let's skip it," said Haruhi. She looked up at the sky and noticed some clouds forming.
"Misuzu said it might rain. I sure so hope there aren't any thunder storms today."
"I never knew you were so into the weather," said Hikaru sarcastically. He almost didn't notice Haruhi taking the card from him and star surfing through it herself. Haruhi could tell he was getting frustrated from all of this and figured they needed to do something fast if they were going to have a good time today.
"Ice cream, aisusumakku, get all your frozen treats here," they both heard a voice called up. Both looked up at what they thought was an old guy carrying around a portable merchant shop for frozen treats walking past. All too suddenly a big bluer came past and in an instant, the merchant and his portable shop was gone.
'Hmm,' Haruhi thought, 'Ice cream does sound like a good idea.' She looked down at the card and programmed it to show her an ice cream stand that had some really good ice cream that was nearby. She walked over to the little shop and ordered one.
"You shouldn't run off like that Haruhi," said Hikaru walking up behind her.
"This place is famous for its ice cream and aisusumakku," said Haruhi holding up the cone to Hikaru, "Here you can have the first lick." Hikaru looked at the cone then at Haruhi.
"If this sucks we're playing a penalty game," he said. Suddenly out of nowhere, a different merchant appeared and pushed Hikaru away.
"What a pretty young lady! Here's another ice cream for you on the house!" he said handing her another cone.
"Thank you sir," said Haruhi taking a lick, "It's not bad."
"Yeah you're right," said Hikaru.
From inside the shop Kaoru grabbed Tamaki by his shirt and shook him mad, making Tamaki drop his image correction card.
"What do you think you're doing?" he shouted at Tamaki.
"I couldn't let them share ice cream. That's indirect kissing!" said Tamaki.
"Oh," said Haruhi as they came to another shop, "I heard about these. They're called pickled yams. They were once used on Earth, pretty weird huh?"
"Come on, imitation Earth food is lame," said Hikaru.
"Here try it," said Haruhi offering him a sample. Hikaru reluctantly took a bite.
"I guess it's not that bad," he said.
"I'll take two bags please," said Haruhi.
"You shouldn't buy stuff until the last day of your trip," said Hikaru.
"These are for Kaoru since he couldn't come," said Haruhi. Hikaru was surprised by that comment. "Hey that gives me an idea? Why don't we do some more window shopping to find some other things for Kaoru? We can come back later with the others and picked them out later."
"How, how did you know I was upset about Kaoru?" asked Hikaru.
"I just can," said Haruhi. Hikaru smiled and walked off after her. The rest of the day went by happily for the two of them as they wondered around the different stores. Soon it was late into the day. It was then that Haruhi heard a rumble in the distant.
"Did you just hear something?" she asked looking up at the sky.
"No," said Hikaru, "But it is late. You want think we should head back?"
"Probably," said Haruhi trying to hide the nervousness in her voice.
"Okay, well let's go hail a hover cab," said Hikaru.
"Is that you Fujioka?"
Haruhi looked past Hikaru and saw Ari standing behind him.
"Oh hi Ari, I didn't expect to see you here," she said walking up to him.
"Well this is my uncle's store. You guys out doing some shopping?" asked Ari.
"We were but now we're about to head back," said Haruhi.
"Yeah well why don't you let me take you? We have a hover truck," said Ari.
"Don't bother, we're getting a hover cab," said Hikaru.
"Oh don't waits your money on that," said Ari. Haruhi suddenly could hear some rumbling in the sky.
"Uh maybe we should take him up on his offer. The sooner we get home the better!" she said still trying to hide the nervousness in her voice.
"Well then, I guess you'll be going home alone then," said Hikaru.
"But Hikaru…," said Haruhi.
"Just do whatever you want all right?" Hikaru shouted. "You two can catch up and reminisces, but leave me out of it!" He then took off running away from the shop.
"Not again, what's he got about you hanging out with old friends?" asked Ari, "I mean he has some of his own right?"
Haruhi thought about, and remembered what he and Kaoru had told her before. How the two of them had old friends before the host club. Could that be the reason he was upset and didn't like seeing her around other guys? In either case, it probably wouldn't be a good idea to leave him upset like that by himself, so she ran after him.
"Hey Fujioka, do you need some help?" Ari called out after as she ran off. Just then he felt rain coming down around him. It looked up and realized it was pouring.
"Hey Fujioka," he called out again, but by now he couldn't see her anywhere.
"I hope she and that Hitachiin guy are all right," he said walking back into the store.
Haruhi kept running on the pathway out of the village looking for Hikaru when she felt the rain come down around her. She looked up and realized it was staring to storm, and with it came thunder and lighting. A big one cracked through the sky. Haruhi shivered in fear.
'God what am I going to do now?' she thought as she wondered further down the path until she came to an old looking worship temple. It looked like the only other place to go so she ran in and hid under the altar. The thunder storm still range outside, making her whimper each time.
'God, make it go away soon!' she thought.
"Haruhi, hey are you in here?" she suddenly heard what sounded like Hikaru calling out. She was too afraid to look as the thunder roared again.
"Haruhi," she heard Hikaru again. She barley glanced up and realized he had found her before looking away scared from the thunder. Next thing she knew, she felt a cloth around and a pair of headphones on her ears with loud music playing. She barely had the cloth wrapped around her when she felt Hikaru's arm around her and realized her was sitting next to her.
"I'm sorry," he said, "I'm sorry for running off and leaving you and I'm sorry about the things I said about your friend Ari. I'm so sorry."
"Thank you Hikaru," Haruhi muttered as she felt herself falling asleep, "I forgive you." As she drifted off, she swore she heard Hikaru say again, "I'm sorry."
A few days later Haruhi was working normal at the hoteru with the host club still hanging around when they got a surprise visit from Ari.
"I brought you guys a watermelon. My uncle actually grows these instead of artificially making them. They're the best on the planet," said Ari holding up a big round watermelon.
"Wow it's so huge!" said Hunny.
"It sure is impressive," said Tamaki. Just then they all saw Hikaru walking up to them as well.
Ari smiled at him and held up the watermelon for him, "Here"
Hikaru smiled back, "Thanks a lot."
Up above Kyoya and Kaoru both watched the happy looking site.
"By the way about your strategy, did you ever think the plan might go too well and the two might fall in love?" asked Kyoya.
"Nah it's too soon for that. Hikaru's still too much of a dummy," said Kaoru.
"Well he's lucky since our flight team's full of dummies," said Kyoya.
"This meeting of the Ouran High Council is now called to order," said Suoh.
"So Suoh is he coming?" asked Ohtori.
"Yes and on his own free will," said Suoh. Just then the doors opened.
"Ah welcome and thank you for coming Mr. Ryoji Fujioka," said Suoh.