Everything to Gain:
Chapter 29: Oh Where am I Flying to?
Hello!
It's Blue here with Chapter 29!
I have to give a big congratulations and thanks to the wonderful PrussiaSVKD who was the winner of my, 'Pick a Vacation challenge'!
I don't want to give anything away yet, but your review gave me quite a good idea for the next few chapters. Heehee.
I'm sorry I couldn't pick all of your ideas.. They were all so good..
But there can only be one winner I suppose.
And I still don't have any Word Processor, so this was all written on Window's SkyDrive and could have a few grammatical errors.
If it does, just point it out to me in a review so I don't go OCD about it here.
I really hope you all enjoy this chapter, it's very nice and long. Here we go!
Haruhi could feel Kyouya's light breath on her skin as he spoke.
She blinked, not understanding what he had just said..
"What?" She asked, hoping with all of her heart that she had heard wrong.
"I said exactly what you heard," Kyouya began, pulling himself upright into a sitting position and pulling her up with him."That we are going on a vacation."
She leaned forward in her seat, trying to look out the window as she asked, "And where exactly are we going?"
"Don't bother trying to look out of the windows; you won't be able to see out."
She realized what he was saying as she brought her face closer to them, they were tinted inside and out so that there was no way she could see unless she pressed her face against the glass.
"You know, you never answered my question." She stated, leaning back in her seat reluctantly.
"And what was your question?" Kyouya's phone buzzed and he glanced at it clicking various buttons as he talked.
"Where are we going?"
"Oh," He said with a smirk as he glanced up at her, "I'm not allowed to tell you that."
Haruhi narrowed her eyes, "And why is that?"
"Well, I was instructed by Tamaki and the twins to allow you to 'cool down' as they said and make it so that you do not run away the moment we get out of this limousine."
That wouldn't be that bad of an idea.
Kyouya looked at her warily, "Haruhi.."
Oh God is he reading my mind again?
"Fine, I won't try and run or anything like that. But how can I just randomly pack up and leave for a vacation when my D-"
"Oh, don't worry. We've already contacted your father about the matter and he has agreed. I also believe that the twins have packed a bag for you."
She swallowed, "Really?"
A smirk played on Kyouya's lips as he looked down at her worried state, "Of course. It was either that or your father packing for you and we all voted on it with Hikaru and Kaoru coming out as the winners."
"The sad thing is I don't know which one would be better, the twins or my Dad.." She muttered under her breath.
"What was that?" He asked.
"Nothing.." She leaned back in her seat, "So you can't even give me a hint on where we're going?"
And it is now that I wish I was more persuasive..
"No," Kyouya replied with a grin on his face, she was sure that somehow he was enjoying this, "I'm sure you'll figure it out soon enough. The twins won't be able to keep their mouths shut on such a long plane ride."
Haruhi felt herself visibly pale.
Did he just say p-
"Haruhi, what is it?" He asked, looking at her curiously over the top of his glasses.
"Uh, it's nothing. Trust me."
"You realize how horrible you are at lying, don't you?" He leaned back against his seat.
She sighed, rubbing a hand against the side of her head, "I know.. Its's just that I've just never ridden in a plane before, so I don't exactly know what to expect."
She felt the car begin to slow down as Kyouya grabbed two bags from across the limousine and handed one to her, "I'm sure you'll be fine. It's not strange in the least bit; frankly it's quite boring once you get over the novelty of it."
She looked at the medium sized case he had thrust into her hands and then back up to him, "What is t-"
"It's that laptop I gave you for your birthday. I had it picked up from your house so that you could use it during the flight." He grabbed his own trademark leather case as the car slowed to a halt.
"How long is the flight going to be?" Haruhi asked, curious.
He opened the door stepping out and extending a hand for her to take, which she did.
"Oh about 10 hours give or take a bit."
She sighed as she pulled herself out of the limousine and into the warm air of a summer night.
As the door to the limousine closed, she looked realized she was standing on a long expanse of tarmac and in front of her was the biggest plane she had ever seen.
"I suppose that would be the one we are riding on..." She said, looking up at it.
"Why of course." Kyouya replied pulling her forward to a long set of stairs that led up into the plane.
"Great..." She muttered taking the first step.
A few light raindrops hit the back of her neck and she stopped walking, looking up at the sky which was now a dark grey color.
Kyouya lightly bumped into her back as a result of her sudden stop, "And how did the weather change so fast?" He said under his breath.
Haruhi tried to shrug lightly but it came out slightly more frantic than she would have hoped, "I don't know. Let's just get inside the plane.
She continued climbing the stairs as the raindrops began to fall down ever so harder.
By the time they had reached the plane her top half was dotted with little black spots from the water.
As she crossed into the cabin she felt herself being quickly pulled forward by two pairs of hands, "Haruhi!"
They yanked her into what she had to assume was the main cabin in the plane.
It contained three couches, a dining table, a large flat screen TV as well as multiple plush chairs seated around a circular coffee table all of which was held in a space that was most likely bigger than her apartment.
Damn rich bastards..
She felt the twins hands release her as they exclaimed, "Tah-dah!" and gestured around the room.
Ignoring their antics she placed her laptop onto a small coffee table to her right and found herself jumping in reaction to a loud screeching noise coming from the where she had entered as the stairs were retracted and the door slid shut.
She felt the twins loop their arms around her back and pull her towards them.
"Are you excited Haruhi?" Kaoru leaned into her and was followed by Hikaru who said, "Excited for the best vacation you'll ever have?"
"Not really." She said truthfully, "Do you think you can tell me where exactly we're going?"
"No way.." Hikaru said teasingly, "It's a secret that will only be revealed when we get there."
Kaoru's arm looped around her as he leaned into her ear whispering, "But I can tell you it's out of the country."
Haruhi shook his arm off of her, "You guys know I don't have a passport right?"
"Actually, you do." Kyouya stepped in front of her, holding a small crimson booklet that could only be a Japanese Passport, "I contacted your father and apparently your mother had one made for you a long time ago. After some updating and the addition of a current photo you are completely in the clear to travel."
She let a weak groan out of her mouth as she was met with three smirks.
Once again, the twins locked their arms with hers and dragged her off, seeming hell bent on giving her the full tour of the jet.
They pulled her past a silver swinging door and Hikaru pointed as they walked by, "That's the kitchen; we have a full staff of chef's that'll make you anything you like if you get hungry."
She blankly nodded before being pulled farther down the hallway.
I wonder if they have ootoro..
That would be great wouldn't it.. Fresh ootoro, as much as I could eat.
Mmm, that would be delicious.
I doubt they'd have any on a plane though.
Maybe wherever we're going will have it.
I can h-
Kaoru pulled at her arm trying to get her attention while he gestured to the four doors in front of him, "These are four small bedrooms that we have in case anyone needs to sleep or just lay down during the long flight."
"Mmhm." She responded vaguely, glancing over at the rooms.
Wait, they have bedrooms, on a plane?
Is that even necessary?
The flight can't be that long that you need to take a deep sleep on a bed, right?
She shook her head back and forth slightly.
Damn rich bastards...
"There are bathrooms in each bedroom as well as over here," He pointed just a bit down the hallway, "If you need you-"
Hikaru stopped talking and looked back down at her jabbing his finger at the side of her stomach, "Are you even listening?"
Haruhi rolled her eyes, "It's kind of hard to listen considering that I am being dragged around by my arms inside a moving plane!"
They let go of her arms and she dropped to the floor with light bump before quickly standing up, brushing her hands along the front of her shorts.
The twins looked back at her, the picture of perfect symmetry, "As we were saying.."
Hikaru pointed back toward the large room in which they had already walked through, "That's the main room here. It's got a television, multiple lounging areas and the dining room."
Kaoru pointed towards the one other room at the very end of the hall, "That's where we put a few of our bags so that we could change clothes before we got off of the plane so we can get right to s-"
The end of his sentence was quickly muffled by his brother's hand,.
"Oh, uh sorry..." He said, looking back at Haruhi before removing his brother's hand from his face.
"Alright, well we are going to go mess with Tono, so have fun." Hikaru said before grabbing his brother's hand and pulling him into one of the rooms.
As Haruhi was walking back to the main room in the plane she heard a girlish shriek come from the room the twins had just entered and she chuckled imagining what must have happened to elicit such a noise from Tamaki.
In the main room she found Kyouya sitting at one of the smaller tables, tapping away at his laptop.
She peered out of the window to her left drawing in a slow breath when she saw how high they had already risen in the air.
I don't even remember taking off..
She could see the rain whizzing by them as they flew through the dark storm clouds.
Let's hope this is the worst it gets..
Or at least that this plane is soundproof..
Her eyes scanned the room.
What should I do?
If only one of these idiots had told me we were leaving instead of just hijacking me I could have brought something to entertain myself.
As she looked around she spotted a familiar object lying next to the door.
My book bag?
I guess one of them must have grabbed it from where I dropped it in the Host Club.
Well I guess dropped it wouldn't be the right word.. More like it was left behind when I was forcibly thrown into a car against my will.
She walked over to the bag and looked through it, checking for something.
It's actually here?
Haruhi pulled out a thick book she had picked up last week at the library.
Truthfully, she had forgotten all about it until now, but she was glad to have it.
She plopped down on the plush couch and turned to her bookmarked page, quickly loosing herself in the novel.
Kyouya looked over at Haruhi.
She had been comfortably reading for about two hours now but only recently she had dozed off into sleep.
He looked at her sleeping form over the top of his laptop with interest.
Although it was strange, he had to admit he enjoyed watching her.
She looked comfortable, to say the least, her head was lightly laid back against the pillow and her arms were folded across the open book lying on her stomach.
He looked back at his spreadsheet on Excel, which showed the recent growths of the Shikamore company and then back at Haruhi.
Shutting his laptop with a click he stood up, walking towards one of the small window to his left while stretching his arms over his head.
Peering out the window he saw the ocean far below them looking almost like dark land in the fading light of day.
Kyouya made his way over to where Haruhi was laying, peering at the sleeping girl once again his interest seemed to grow.
I wonder what she was reading..
Slowly, he reached for the book underneath her arms and pulled it towards him, trying his hardest not to wake her.
Luckily, it seemed Haruhi was a rather heavy sleeper when it came to these type of situations because she didn't make a sound as the book slid into his hands effortlessly.
Making sure to bookmark the page she was on he turned the book to the front cover.
The Golden Spiral by P.O. Cole.
Hm, an American author, interesting.
He flipped to the last page in the book with a smile.
And it's 1,287 pages long, very impressive.
His glance went from the book in his hands and back to the sleeping Haruhi.
I suppose I should t-
Kyouya was snapped out of his own thoughts when a door was thrown open and a screaming Tamaki ran out into the hallway.
His arms were pinned behind his back with duck tape and he had an expression of pure terror on his face as he ran into the main room screaming, "HELP KYOUYAAAA! THOSE LITTLE DEVILS ARE AFTER MY SOULL! MY SOUL KYOUYA! THEY'RE GOING TO KILL ME!"
He took a few steps back as Tamaki ran screaming by him and fell on the floor with an expression of woe, "PLEASE KYOUYA HELP ME DEFEAT THEM AND THEIR EVI-"
"Please shut up Tamaki." He watched as Tamaki paled at the sound of his obviously irritated voice.
His blonde friend blinked tears out of his eyes as Kyouya pointed towards the somehow still sleeping Haruhi on the couch.
Tamaki picked himself up off of the floor and gestured to his duct taped hands while looking nervously over his back shoulder.
He walked over unwrapping the duct tape easily from his friend's hands and threw it away with a sigh.
The grin coming from the now free man next to him was huge as he charged back into the bedroom he had previously came yelling a slightly softer cry of, "Cursed Twins, I am free and now you shall pay for your sins against my beauty!"
Kyouya could do nothing but stare with a slight grin on his face.
Haruhi woke up many hours later.
She pulled the covers up to her neck sleepily.
This is really comfy.
Who knew that couches could ever be this co-
Wait, there aren't covers on couches, are there?
She snapped her eyes open, looking at the unfamiliar surroundings around her.
She was lying in a large comfortable bed with what looked like black silk sheets, it was definitely not the place she remembered falling asleep in.
Where am I?
I was just on that plane reading my book a bit ago am I-
She blinked as her eyes zeroed in on the familiar face of Kyouya Ootori silently typing away at his computer in the corner of the room.
Sitting up she was about to speak but Kyouya seemed to beat her to it, "Haruhi, you're finally awake."
"Yeah, I am. How did I get in here? The last thi-"
"Well, you had fallen asleep out in the main part of the cabin and after a while Tamaki and the twins ended up chasing each other through there screaming incoherent things.. Seeing as you somehow slept through that I figured you must have been seriously tired and in need of some rest, so I brought you in here. I hope you don't mind that I also took solace here, and have just been working while trying to ignore the odd sounds coming from the other side of that door."
"Oh," She replied standing up and smoothing down the bed covers, "How long was I asleep?"
He glanced at his wristwatch, "Roughly six hours. If you count the two hours you spent reading then I suppose it would be eight."
Haruhi blinked.
Six hours?
How the hell did I sleep six hours on a plane?
She ran a hand through her hair, "So that means we only have two hours left to go then?"
He typed something else on his computer before shutting the laptop with a faint click, "Approximately."
Standing up she watched Kyouya walk to the door before turning around to look back at her, "Now I suppose we should see what kind of damage they have done in our absence."
He pulled the door open, letting her walk through first, and she blinked rapidly as her eyes adjusted to the bright lights in the main cabin.
"Haruhi!" Tamaki called as he tackled her in a bear hug and swung her around.
"Uh, Tamaki-sempai please let me go.." She pushed on his chest trying to free herself but he held on.
"I shall never let go of my darling daughter, not since she has been avoiding me the entire trip so far! I couldn't find you at all Haruhi! What's a father to do when his precious blossom has gone missing in a blink of an eye? There is nothing to do bu-"
She watched as Tamaki's face froze, looking more and more afraid as Kyouya who stood behind him spoke something, probably some sort of death threat, into his ear.
Quickly the he let her go, taking a few steps back for good measure as he plopped down on the couch with a shiver.
Haruhi turned towards Kyouya slightly, raising her eyebrows in a hidden question of 'What the hell did you say to him?'.
Somehow, he understood her and returned fire with only a small grin as he walked back to the chair he had occupied earlier, plugging his computer in and resuming whatever type of work he was doing.
She looked at the twins, who stood clustered together near one of the couches, whispering something to each other.
After taking a breath she walked up to them, almost as if it were natural, their arms slung over her shoulders and matching grins appeared on their faces.
"What is it Haruhi?" They asked in unison looking down at her.
"Seeing as we're landing in two hours and I haven't tried running away yet do you think you can tell me where you are taking me to?" She tried to keep the agitation out of her voice as she spoke.
They looked at each other questioningly, Hikaru raised his eyebrows with a twitch of his lips and Kaoru shrugged, looking back down at her.
They nodded, which Haruhi took as a good sign.
"We'll tell you," They said, lifting their arms off her and walking back behind the couch, "But on one condition."
"And what is that?" She asked, hoping whatever it was didn't require a frilly dress.
"We have one favor that we will ask of you before we land; you have to do whatever that favor is no matter what. That's the only way we'll talk." They leaned over the couch in perfect unison.
"No way. I'll just wait till we land."
Their faces dropped.
Haruhi felt a small pair of hands pull on her shoulder.
"Haru-chann~…" Honey said, looking up at her with doe eyes, "Please do what they're asking. It won't be that bad, I promise! You'll really like it! There are no dresses involved either.."
Oh no, I'm getting caught in the cute eyes..
He looked up at her with a sad face, "Please.. For me?"
Well, what's the worst they can do on a plane?
It's not like there is going to be any public humiliation involved.
And Honey-sempai said there wouldn't be any dresses involved..
That's a pretty good deal I guess..
Oh God, let's hope they don't act like they normally do and actually have a normal favor to ask of me.
Looking up at the twins she said reluctantly, "Fine, I'll do it. Now where are we going?"
They beamed, their grins growing wider, she even saw Tamaki sit up from the corner of her eye.
The two of them ran down the hallway to the room where they said they kept the clothes and came back with a large box, "Oh, that's easy Haruhi we are already there if you look out the window."
How are we already there?
Didn't Ky-
"Well, we aren't exactly there, but we'll get there soon. There is just one more stage of our journey that we can't do in this plane."
Her eyes widened as they threw her a huge pile of clothes and a heavy black backpack, "What exactly do you mean?"
Looking down at the clothes that were now lying on the floor in front of her she gulped.
There were multiple thin long sleeve shirts, a thick parka, and a windbreaker with a hood that had an attachment to cover your face as well as a thick pair of waterproof pants.
Oh God...
This is all cold weather clothes...
"Guys.. Are you meaning to say that-"
Kaoru leaned closer to her, "Yes Haruhi, you see we're vacationing in Switzerland."
She blinked, not wanting to understand what he had just said.
Hikaru mirrored his brother, "And the surprise? Our home that we're staying at doesn't have a large airport anywhere nearby."
"So," He leaned in closer whispering in her ear, "We're skydiving to get there."
Ahahaha
So we get to see Haruhi of all people skydive..
How very interesting, ne?
I wonder how that'll turn out.
Does anyone have request on things they should do in the wonderful country of Switzerland?
To give you all a little hint they're staying in a private home in St. Moritz, Switzerland one of the prime locations for skiing and snowboarding.
Ah, we'll just have to let the games begin, won't we?
~Blue
