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From the other side of the door James listened to the group's conversation. Why hadn't she told them? His sister was always secretive, but less so with her family. She always came to them when she needed help. But this time she kept quiet. He couldn't bare to think that someone had been toying with his sister, and he knew the others would feel, the same. He supposed he owed the group something. They apparently were watching out for Kali when the brothers couldn't. He felt a small amount of gratitude towards them.
James opened the door, intending to talk to the room's occupants and comfort his sister. However all rational thought left his brain when he saw his little sister in the lap of the foreign boy who showed up just hours earlier.
Kali looked at her brother with confused eyes. Why was he just standing there? Was he okay?
James cleared his throat. "Kali?"
Kali blinked, indicating he should continue.
"Why are you in that boy's lap?"
Kali and Hikaru blanched. They'd both forgotten about how they were currently seated. Kali opened her mouth to disperse any misconceptions, but she never got the chance. Just at that moment Tamaki decided to open his big mouth.
"That's nothing. We caught them sleeping in the same bed earlier."
"WHAT?!"
Kali panicked. "Quick everyone out the window!" she yelled.
Quick as a flash the entire group somehow managed to get out the window with only one of them sustaining an injury. Let's just say Hikaru stepping on Tamaki's foot wasn't an accident.
Finally, when they were a few, blocks away from the house. Kali stopped running and sighed. "That was close."
"No kidding." Hikaru answered.
"Wait. I just realized something. Why did the rest of us run? He wasn't mad at us." Haruhi pointed out.
"Doesn't matter now. Y'all are now conspirators. So there." Kali answered.
Before Haruhi could respond, Kali's phone rang.
Kali gulped before tentatively answering the phone. "Hello?"
"Kali." Came her mother's voice, "Can you please explain to me why I came home to find all three of your brothers cursing your friend?"
"It was all a big misunderstanding."
"Right. In any case I think it'd be better if you and your friends stayed out for awhile."
"Ok. I guess we'll head over to the mall or something."
"Alright dear, be safe. Love you."
"Love you too, bye."
Kali turned back to her friends, only to be greeted by four excited looking teens.
"Kali-san, did I hear right? Are we going to an American commoners' mall?" Tamaki asked. Kali could practically see a dog tail waging rapidly behind him.
"We wanna go! We wanna go!" the twins exclaimed in unison.
"Ne, ne Ka-chan can we please go?" Honey asked, pulling on Kali's sleeve.
"I already kinda said we were guys."
"Yay!" the four exclaimed happily.
"Let's go, let's go!" the twins yelled in unison as the picked up Kali and started running, the rest of the club trailing behind them.
"You guys wait! Wait! The mall is the other way!" Kali yelled.
One thirty minute walk later
"We're here." Kali said as a large two story building came into view.
"Wow! Look at this Haruhi! Isn't it a brilliant example of commoner civilization? I can't wait to see all the commoner culture!" Tamaki exclaimed as he raced to the building's doors.
Haruhi sighed as she followed the blonde. "I better make sure he doesn't get into any trouble."
Honey jumped up and down in excitement. "This is going to be fun! don't you think Takashi?"
"Ah."
Hikaru grabbed Kali's hand and Kaoru grabbed Kimi's hand while simultaneously rushing into the "commoner's mall."
The girls sent each other a look. It was going to be an interesting day.
Sure enough the Host Club proved to be just as entertained in American commoner malls as in Japanese commoner malls. Eventually they split up into groups of two, excluding Kyoya, who decided it would be more productive to work on his laptop on one of the benches near a fountain.
Somehow Kali and Hikaru ended up in a shop that sold plants. "Oh look a cactus." Hikaru said, going up to the pincushion of a plant.
"Don't touch it." Kali warned. "Those spikes hurt."
"What are you talking about? This looks so fuzzy." Hikaru said, holding up a plant that looked as if it were covered in fine white hairs. Just as Hikaru was about to pet the plant Kali placed her hand in front of his.
"I told you not to pet it." Kali said. She gently took the plant from Hikaru and lifted the white hair that covered the cactus. Under the hair yellow needle like spikes were lurking.
"Oh." Hikaru said, looking in awe at the cactus. For some reason he felt the over whelming urge to poke one of the needles. Once again his hand reached out to touch the cactus, and once again Kali prevented him from doing so. However this time, she slipped and accidentally cut her finger on one of the spikes.
"Ouch." Kali hissed as crimson blood leaked from her broken epidermis.
Hikaru quickly removed the plant from Kali's hand and moved it to a shelf, then he took her injured finger and held it in place on his lips. Kali sent him a questioning look. Hikaru smirked before slowly licking the cut on Kali's finger. Kali just stared at him in wide eyed astonishment. She was so shocked she couldn't even try to pull away. When he was finished, Hikaru placed a light kiss on Kali's finger. Finally Kali regained control of her body, as she jerked her hand away from him.
"What the heck Hikaru! That is so gross. Do you know how unsanitary that was?" Kali asked, flabbergasted.
Hikaru smirked. "I didn't see you pull away."
Kali huffed and turned around, refusing to look at him. Hikaru laughed and then turned his attention back to the cactus.
Kali looked over her shoulder at him. She was still ticked off at him. Slowly her mind formed an idea.
'He wants to play like that? Fine I can play that game too.' Kali thought to herself.
Kali took advantage of Hikaru having his back to her and draped her arms around his shoulders and rested her head in the crook between his neck and shoulder.
"What are you planning?" Hikaru asked turning his head to look over his shoulder.
"What?" she asked innocently, "I can't give you a hug without arousing suspicion?"
"No."
"Hikaru. I'm not joking." Kali said, making her tone just the slightest bit hurt.
Hikaru couldn't see her face well enough to figure out if she was serious or not. He gently put down the cactus he had previously been studying and turned to face her.
Once he had turned around, Kali snuggled into his chest and repositioned her arms to hang around his neck. Too preoccupied with Kali's unusual behavior, Hikaru didn't notice how Kali used the cover of her hair to change her expression from that of a smirk to a serious mask.
"Do you really not trust me that much?" she said taking a step back and tilting her head up slightly.
"No, I trust you."
"Prove it." Kali challenged.
After thinking for a second Hikaru came to the conclusion that Kali wanted. He closed his eyes and leaned forward, intending to place his lips on hers. He kept leaning, and leaning…and leaning. Finally his head hit the shelf and he opened his eyes in surprise and confusion. Kali wasn't in front of him. She was off to the side, trying, and failing, to hide a smirk.
"Gee, Hikaru, what were you thinking of?" Kali mocked him.
"That was sneaky." Hikaru said, regaining his posture.
"Yeah, well you deserved it. Now come one," she said, grabbing his hand, "let's go before you hurt yourself."
Now for the fun facts. This is the hundredth page of this story. I know it's not a hundred chapters, but still 100 pages! Also the scene between Kali and Hikaru was the very first thing I ever wrote in regards to fanfiction. It was edited of course because at the time Kali's charater wasn't concrete and I had no idea what the context of the story was but I'm glad that it finally made it in and on the hundredth page too. Just a fun thing I noticed and wanted to share.
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