HELLO I HAVE RETURNED! I AM NOT DEAD HELLO IT IS I! Okay but for real I'm back in full force. Not really. This chapter isn't one of my best. I'm gonna be totally honest.

I've been on hiatus for a few reasons. 1-It's almost the end of the first semester so school has been waaay too crazy for my liking. 2-I am in the school musical so rehearsals have been sprouting up more and more often 3-I am so deep into Jeanmarco hell that all I do is focus on that nowadays. 4-I am currently working on six different pieces of writing (three of which are jeanmarco and tbh im not even sorry) and 5- I have had MAJOR WRITERS BLOCK FOR THIS DAMN STORY

But luckily I'm finally back with this chapter. Trust me. This chapter was a bitch to write. Seeing as I don't have small children that I'm around 24/7. But here it is with all it's cuteness. Enjoy the happiness while it lasts. Because ya know that huge angst chapter that will affect at least two chapters after it that I mentioned a while back? Yeah that's coming up in like one or two chapters. And I'm gonna be totally honest when I say I can't wait to post that baby.

Be prepared for one traumatic experience because I sure as hell am prepared for all the "Why that character?" "What did they ever do to you?" "They had such a perfect little life and you had to ruin it." and "I hate you"

So be prepared. We've all got a huge storm coming.

Chapter 25 - Burning Up

Haruhi walked into a relatively quiet house and brushed her feet against the doormat to get the snow off of her boots. She was carrying a multitude of boxes that she carefully discarded before taking off her boots and walking further into the foyer of the home.

"Tamaki?" Haruhi half shouted this to see if she could get her husband's response. The only movement that came from her call was that of a small brunet boy darting forward and clinging to his mother's leg.

"Hey Ant. What's going on? Where's Daddy?"

Antoine looked up as his mother spoke. "Daddy's upstairs with Kemi and I was playing down here 'cause I din wanna play tea party with Kemi and so Kemi got Daddy to play with her and so now I'm down here 'cause I din wanna play." The nearly five year old took a deep breath after his long drawn-out sentence was completed.

Haruhi laughed and brushed Antoine's hair out of his face. "Well can you go get Daddy for me? I need him to help me bring this stuff upstairs." She gestured to the boxes and bags next to her.

The small boy peeled himself from his mother's leg and went to peer into the packaging before Haruhi pulled him back.

"Mommy, what's this stuffs?"

"I can't tell you." Haruhi picked her son up and pulled him away from the bags and boxes.

"But why?"

"Because it's a surprise."

"But why?"

"Why what?"

"Why's it a surprise?"

"Because surprises are more fun."

"But why?"

"Because you get more of a reaction out of the person when they open it."

"But why?"

"Because they don't know what it is."

"But why?"

Haruhi sighed and ran her fingers through her hair after setting her son down. "Antoine can you please just go get Daddy?"

"But wh-"

"I'll make chocolate chip cookies for dessert."

Without hesitation, Antoine ran across the foyer and all the way up the stairs to go find his father.

Not even a minute later, Haruhi could hear three pairs of feet rushing down the stairs. The noise of the clunking feet was accompanied by a noise grand enough to rival a hundred piece brass band.

"Akemi, sweetie. We need to pause the tea party for just a few minutes okay?"

Akemi chased after her father while wearing transparent plastic heels, a Queen Elsa dress, and a crown. She also had a wooden spoon in her hand and spoke with a very poor British accent. "But Princess! The all mighty Queen did not dismiss you from the party!"

Antoine spoke up over his sister. "Kemi! Mommy told me to get Daddy because she needs his help with surprise thingies."

"Yes. Mommy needs my help so can we please go back to the tea party in a few minutes."

Akemi put her hands on her hips and stood directly in front of her father. "What did I say about Mommy?" She got no response so she stuck out the wooden spoon and poked it against Tamaki's stomach. "Mommy's a strong in'pendent woman that doesn't need help from a silly man like you."

Haruhi laughed and rounded the corner to see what was going on, which only made her break out into even more hysterical laughter. She looked over to where her two children were and saw Tamaki standing between them. He had two small fountain pigtails in his hair and one small braid sticking out from the back. He had bright pink lipstick all over his mouth and chin. He had one arm completely covered in bracelets and the other with flowers drawn on it with eyeliner. And lastly, he was wearing a pink sparkly child's apron and a crown. Akemi seemed to have gone all out.

"I can't believe I actually married my father."

Tamaki pouted and crossed his arms. "Haruhi, that's not very nice."

Haruhi chuckled and waved off his response. "Alright alright. I'm joking. Now can you please help me with these?" She gestured to the boxes and bags back around the corner.

"No!" Akemi shouted and stood between her parents. "The Princess needs to return to the tea party. Her guests are waiting and the all mighty Queen says so!"

"Well I am the almighty Mom and I think that means I have more power than you."

Antoine chuckled from behind Tamaki. Akemi pointed her spoon at him and shouted. "You hush, royal cat!" She turned back to her mother and crossed her arms. "How long d'you need my Princess's help?"

"Five minutes. Tops."

Akemi scoffed and turned her head. "One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Time's up!"

Tamaki sighed and walked over to the boxes. "Akemi. How about you wait upstairs and I'll be back in a few minutes. You can't leave the guests alone forever now. If you did then what kind of hostess would you be?"

The blonde girl nodded and rushed upstairs. Antoine walked away and looked through the small toy box in the living room as Tamaki and Haruhi took the items to their room.

Meanwhile Tamaki and Haruhi went to take the boxes and bags to their room.

"So what exactly is all of this, Haruhi?"

She sighed and placed some boxes on the bed. "Really, Tamaki? These are the kids presents."

"Presents for what?"

Haruhi looked over and glared at her husband. "You can't be serious right now."

"What?"

"These are their birthday presents. Antoine and Akemi turn five tomorrow, remember? You're the one who told me to get every single thing they asked for." She sighed and moved some of the boxes into one of their closets. "I still think it's a bit ridiculous that I got them everything they wanted. You know I don't want to turn them into spoiled rich kids."

Tamaki frowned and helped move the rest of the presents to the closet. "But they deserve to get what they wanted."

"I still don't want the fact that you're wealthy make them think they can get whatever they want."

"Fair enough."

"And I really hope this is all they wanted. You seemed to be able to give me a very extensive list of what Akemi wanted, castle and all, but you didn't give me that great of a list for Antoine. Oh and I didn't get her a castle that was just ridiculous."

Tamaki looked over at Haruhi, confused. "What do you mean? I thought both of their lists were very extensive."

"Yeah but it seemed like you barely even asked Ant what he wanted. Do you spend any where near as much time with him as you do with Akemi?"

"Well he never wants to hang out with me and Akemi. He always says that he wants to be with you or read or something like that. He barely even plays with any of his toys."

Haruhi sighed and sat down on their bed after she put the last gift away. "But there has to be something that he'll enjoy doing with you instead of me. What about the piano. He loves music and everything like that so why don't you teach him the piano?"

"He prefers string instruments. That's why a guitar was on his list. Any type of string instrument is ten times more fascinating to him than the piano. Trust me, I've tried."

Haruhi shrugged and leaned on Tamaki's shoulder as he sat down beside her. "Well maybe once he gets older you two will have more in common."

"Haruhi?"

"Tamaki, so help me, if you ask to have another kid the answer is still no."

Tamaki fell back on the bed and groaned. "Haruhi that's not fair! The twins are very well behaved so why can't we have another?"

"Yeah why can't we have 'nother baby?!"

A small voice came from the doorway of their room. Haruhi and Tamaki both turned to see Antoine poking his head into their room. As soon as he made eye contact with his parents, he screamed and ran back downstairs.

"Antoine wait!" Haruhi got up off the bed and ran after him. "Don't run down the stairs! You're gonna hurt yourself!"

"Haruhi, I'm gonna go see what Akemi is up to!" Tamaki shouted after her as she ran down the stairs after Antoine.

Once Tamaki walked into Akemi's room, he noticed that the tea party was completely cleaned up. Everything was back in its place and Akemi was nowhere to be found.

"Akemi? Kemi, where'd you go?"

"Muwahahahahhhahaah!"

Tamaki sighed and rubbed his hand over his face, smearing the lipstick he forgot he had on even more. "Akemi, come on out. We're gonna eat dinner soon."

As fast as she possibly could, which was surprisingly very fast, Akemi bolted out of her closet and climbed to the top of her dresser. "Muwahaha! I have captured the fair princess!"

"Akemi, get down from there. And what did you do to your face?"

She stood triumphantly on the top of her dresser. Her hair was pulled back into a messy bun and she had green sharpie all over her face. The marker was in a circle around her eye like a monacle, a curly mustache above her mouth, and a pointy beard all the way down her chin. She also had a pair of scissors in her hand that she held up like a sword of some sorts.

"It's-a time-a for da pizza man to cut-a your hair-a!" Akemi spoke in a very forced Italian accent that was mockingly reminiscent of Natalia and Christian.

Tamaki walked over to the dresser and picked his daughter up off of it. "Akemi, what have I told you about playing with markers and scissors? Use them on paper only."

She squirmed in his grasped and continued to shout. "No-a one can-a stop-a da PIZZA MAN!"

She squirmed enough to escape from Tamaki's hold on her and she ran out of her room while laughing maniacally.

"Akemi, stop running! I told you you're not supposed to run with scissors!"

"THE PIZZA MAN WILL-A RULE-A DA WORLD-A!"

He finally caught up with her and grabbed the scissors out of her hand, causing her to run away again, this time downstairs.

While all of this was happening, Haruhi finally found Antoine in the living room. He was playing with a toy truck.

She walked into the living room, but he apparently didn't notice her, seeing as he was still trying to find a way to get inside the car, even though it was the size of his foot.

"Hey Ant . . . Whatcha doin?"

At the sound of his mother's voice, Antoine stepped and tripped on the toy car, consequentially falling on his butt and causing the car to slam into the wall.

He sat there for a solid minute before he looked up at Haruhi and frowned.

"I'm sorry, Mommy."

Haruhi laughed and sat down next to him on the floor. "Sorry for what?"

"For bein' a sneeze dropper on yours and Daddy's talking."

"It's eavesdropping, Ant. And you don't have to apologise for that. Daddy and I weren't talking about anything important."

Antoine looked down at his lap and played with the hem of his shirt. "But . . . But Daddy thinks I don't like him."

He started to cry when Haruhi pulled him onto her lap and hugged him. "No no shh. It's okay. Daddy doesn't think that, Ant. Really he doesn't."

Antoine sniffled and held onto Haruhi's shirt. "T-then why was he talkin' about having another baby to replace me?"

"Okay first of all, he wasn't talking about having another baby to replace you. He just wants another baby. And second of all, if you're so convinced he wants to replace you, why did you agree with having another baby?"

He shrugged and made an "I don't know" noise while still clinging to Haruhi. "I want 'nother baby too. Maybe the baby will play with me since Kemi always has Daddy and you always gotta work."

Haruhi pulled her son off of her and wiped his face with her sleeve. "Here. How about this. I'll think about having another baby. It won't happen soon but I will consider it. But only if, and I mean ONLY IF, you hang out with your sister and your father more. You can't just want to hang out with me all the time, Ant."

The brunet boy nodded and wiped his nose on his sleeve.

"Here. To start, why don't you go ask Akemi if she wants to go outside with you and play in the snow?"

With that, Antoine jumped up and ran to find his sister, only to run into her as she bolted down the hallway, still shouting about the Pizza Man.

"Kemi! Kemi! Kemi! Kemi!"

She stood up after falling on the ground and pointed her finger defiantly at her brother. "I AM-A DA PIZZA MAN AND I WILL-A RULE-A DA WORLD!"

Completely ignoring his sisters villainous shouting, Antoine grabbed Akemi's hand and pulled her to the foyer closet to get their snow clothes out. "Mommy said we can play outside in the snow!"

Haruhi walked into the foyer with a very out of breath Tamaki behind her.

"The Pizza Man needs-a to know-a if this is 'a true-a." Akemi, still not breaking character, turned to her mother and placed her hands on her hips.

Haruhi nodded. "As long as you put your snow suit on."

Antoine was already fully bundled up and ready to go so he opened the door and ran out into the snow, plopping down to make a snow angel.

Akemi, or the Pizza Man rather, was still not in her snow suit when the door opened and refused to put it on once she saw the snow. She started to walk out the door when Haruhi called for her to stop.

"Akemi there is no way I'm letting you go outside in the snow in just jeans and a t-shirt."

Instead of coming back inside, Akemi took off her socks, threw them inside at her parents, and ran out onto the front porch shouting, "THE PIZZA MAN LISTENS TO-A NO ONE!"

As she ran down the front steps on the porch, she ended up slipping on the bottom step and falling face first into the snow. She just sat there silently for a moment before breaking out into hysterical sobs.

"MOMMY! DADDY! THIS IS TOO COLD WHY DIDN'T YOU PUT MY SNOW SUIT ON ME! YOU HATE ME! YOU HATE ME! YOU HATE ME!"

"Are you all warmed up now, Akemi?"

"No."

Haruhi sighed as Akemi curled up in her father's lap covered in blankets. "I'm only gonna give you one more blanket." She paused. "Do you want another blanket Akemi?"

The small blonde girl nodded and snuggled against Tamaki's chest even more.

Antoine was sitting in his mother's lap and drinking hot chocolate while this was happening. "Ant, you gotta get up. C'mon let's go get your sister another blanket."

He held up the cup of hot chocolate in front of him. "What do I do with this?"

"Just put it down on the table."

Antoine got up and carefully placed the cup on the coffee table in front of him before following Haruhi down the hall to get another blanket from the closet. He ran past his mother and opened the closet before she got there.

"What blanket do you think we should give her, Ant?"

He stood there with his hand on the doorknob and stared at the blankets in front of him for a moment before speaking. "A itchy one."

Haruhi laughed and looked down at her son. "That's not very nice, Ant. And we don't have any itchy blankets."

He walked into the closet and pulled out one of the many Frozen blankets they had. "Then this one."

"Okay do you want to carry it, or do you want me to carry it?"

"I'll do it!" And with that he ran back to the living room and placed the blanket ever-so-carefully on top of his sister.

He then turned back to Haruhi as she walked in the room. "Is it bed time now?"

Haruhi looked over at Tamaki. "Yeah I think now is a good time for you two to go to sleep. Tamaki, are you just gonna carry Akemi?"

The small girl whined in her father's arms as he picked her up. "Nooooo. I don wanna go to bed yet!"

She pulled the blankets tight around her and buried her face in Tamaki's shoulder.

"Akemi, if you go to bed now then your birthday will come faster."

Her eyes went wide and she stopped whining. "Okay bedtime."

Knock knock knock

Haruhi blinked open her eyes and looked over at the clock on her night stand.

Three twenty-eight AM.

Knock knock knock.

The door creaked open and a small blond figure became visible in the doorway.

"Mommy? Daddy?"

Haruhi moved Tamaki's arm so that it was off of her waist and got up out of bed.

"Akemi, what's wrong?"

Akemi, who was in Frozen footie pyjamas and was holding a plush Olaf in one hand, wiped her teary eyes with her free and and sniffled.

"Mommy. I-I don feel good."

Haruhi knelt down to Akemi's height and wiped off her face. "What doesn't feel good, sweetie?"

Tamaki, who was just now becoming conscious enough to realise that he was no longer wrapped around his wife, sat up in bed and rubbed his eyes. "Haruhi, what's going on?"

Haruhi picked Akemi up and turned back towards Tamaki. "Akemi doesn't feel good. And she's burning up so I think she has a fever."

Tamaki got up immediately and started getting dressed.

"Tamaki what are you doing?"

"Akemi is sick so we have to take her to the hospital."

At the mention of the word hospital, Akemi buried her face in Haruhi's neck and started crying again. "I don wanna go to the doctors."

"Tamaki! She doesn't have to go to the hospital. That's just ridiculous. She has a fever so she needs rest. She's probably just sick from going out in the snow earlier. And anyways it's only like three am. The only doctor that we could take her too is the emergency room, which again is completely ridiculous."

"But it's her birthday. She needs to feel better for her birthday."

"I understand that, but what she needs most right now is rest. Then she can feel better. I'll give her some medicine and then all day once she wakes up later, she get's to be pampered all day so that she can feel better on her birthday." She brushed Akemi's hair out of her face. "How does that sound, Akemi?"

Akemi nodded and pulled her Olaf plush up to her face.

Once Akemi was back in bed, Tamaki and Haruhi went to their room to go back to bed themselves.

"Are you sure she'll be okay?"

"Tamaki, you've never really been sick before. You only had that one time that you were so emotionally distraught that it made you sick. I practically raised myself. I know that what you need when you have a fever is a little bit of medicine and a lot of rest. Trust me."

"Alright. I trust you."

Once they got back to their room, Tamaki and Haruhi opened their door to find a small figure on their bed. Antoine was playing games on a tablet in the middle of their bed.

Haruhi sighed and walked over to him. "Ant, why are you awake?"

Without looking from his game, he replied to his mother. "I heard you and Daddy and Kemi were up and talking and stuff and I couldn't sleep and yeah."

Haruhi held out her hand in front of her son. "Well you have to go back to sleep so hand it over."

He pouted and exited out of his game before handing the tablet to his mother. "B-but can I-" he took a deep breath before continuing, "-can I at least sleep in here with you and Daddy because I can't sleep and I wanna sleep in here with you and Daddy."

Tamaki walked over to his side of the bed and sat down. "Yes but you have to sleep. You don't get your birthday presents until breakfast time so you have to sleep until then."

Haruhi walked to her spot and got under the covers. "C'mon Ant. Time to go back to sleep."

The small boy nodded and crawled under the covers and curled up right against Haruhi.

"G'nite Mommy. G'nite Daddy."

They both laughed and spoke in unison. "Goodnight Antoine."

"I jus wanna open my presents." Akemi rolled over in her bed and pulled the blankets up to her eyes.

"You already opened all of them, Akemi."

The little girl let out a high pitched squeal at her father's response and turned back over on her bed. "But I didn't get a castle like I wanted!"

"Akemi . . . You know a castle is too much. We got you a toy one though."

She curled up into a ball under her blankets and let out a small whine. "S'not fair."

Haruhi walked in the room at this point to take her bowl of soup away from her. "Yes it is. You and Antoine got the exact same amount of presents which was still a lot more than I wanted to get you. It's just your birthday. You should've only gotten one or two things."

"But I wanted all this stuff."

"Well it isn't gonna be like this every year."

Akemi poked her head out of the end of the blanket to look at her parents. "Can I have cake now?"

Haruhi started to walk out of the room as she spoke. "You can't eat cake until you're feeling better."

Antoine, who was sitting on the floor of his sister's room playing with his new presents, looked up at his father since his mother had just left the room. "Do I still get to eat cake?"

"Yes. You're not sick so you can still have cake."

With that, Antoine hopped up and took his new children's guitar and ran out of the room to go find his mother.

Akemi, on the other hand, slammed her face into her pillow and screamed. "YOU ALL HATE ME THIS ISN'T FAIR!"

"Kemi?" A small voice was heard from her doorway. Her room was already dark, save the small night light in the corner. It was barely eight o'clock at night. Akemi just decided to go back to bed after throwing a myriad of tantrums throughout the day.

Antoine walked in the room and turned on the light, causing Akemi to squeal and cover her face with her blanket. "Kemi wake up. I got this for you."

She pulled the covers away from her face enough to see Antoine walking over to her bed with something in his hands.

She sat up and looked over at him as he held out the object in his hands. He was holding a plate. And on that plate was a piece of cake that said "Happy" on it.

Akemi stuck her bottom lip out in a pout and sighed. "Mommy and Daddy said I can't have any cake."

Antoine continued to hold out the piece of cake. "Yeah but I told Mommy that I wasn't gonna have any cake unless you can have some too because it's your birthday too and but you're sick so you can't have cake but Mommy thought it was really nice that I said that so she said you can have cake too so she told me to bring you cake because now you can have cake too."

"Oh. Well thanks Ant! Happy our birthday to us!"

She took the cake from Antoine and he ran back to the door to pick up the piece of cake he left at the door. He picked it up and ran back over to Akemi's bed and sat down next to her.

Instead of using forks, the twins decided to use their fingers and draw pictures on each other's faces out of icing.

Antoine laughed at the smiley face he drew on Akemi's forehead. "Happy our birthday to us!"

Antoine and Akemi are literally the cutest and I can't deal with the relationship they have. It gets even better as they get older because they're gonna be super close but mind you they are still brother and sister so a lot of shit is gonna go down between them too.

So don't worry you'll be thanking me for this chapter when I post that huge angsty one soon. We all needed this after all the shit that went down with some of the most recent chapters.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! I will do my best to update this weekend. And trust me there will not be a month gap again. I promise.

PLEASE REVIEW! I MISSED YOU GUYS!