DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN OURAN IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM
The next morning when the family was at the breakfast table, it looked like Naoki was the only child that wasn't smiling. Even Fusayo was smiling a small smile as she ate her food. Naoki shifted his eyes looking at all three girls.
"Naoki honey, are you okay?" Haruhi asked noticing her son's bitter attitude.
"Yeah Mom I'm fine," said Naoki. He didn't want his mom to know he was upset over the notion that he was now the only one that wasn't really happy with this whole union. Before he thought he could tolerate it somewhat because the two older girls Sonomi and Fusayo also didn't agree with it and he didn't feel alone. But now that they were starting to actually like having his mom around to the point they were willing to start calling her by her fist name. Why does he have to be alone in this?
"Okay time for school," said Haruhi. The girls were quick to jump up and headed towards the front door. Naoki followed a little bit slower behind them.
"Naoki," said Haruhi putting her arm around her son, "Are you really okay?"
"Yes Mom I'm fine really," said Naoki smiling his best at his mom.
"Shall we get going young master?" asked his driver.
"Yeah yeah I'm coming," said Naoki running into the car.
'I wish he wouldn't call me that!' he thought as they drove to his school.
"Here we are young master," said his driver opening the door for him.
"I've told you not to call me that!" said Naoki.
"My apologies sir," said the driver. Naoki groaned.
"You just don't learn don't you?" he said walking off. He heard snickering and knew some of the kids were laughing at him.
"Hey Naoki," called out one kid, "If I were to throw you a water balloon would your driver have to dive in and take the bullet for you?"
"I say we find out," said another. Next thing Naoki knew he water balloons were coming at him soaking him.
"Young Lord!" his driver shouted running over to him, "Are you alright?"
"Peachy," said Naoki shaking off some of the water.
"What's going on here?" asked coach Basha, "Naoki what happened to you?"
"These boys happened!" said Naoki's driver grabbing two boys by their ears and pulling them towards the gym teacher. "They felt the need to douse Master Naoki with water balloons."
"I see," said Coach Basha, "Come on boys." He led the two boys away, "Naoki you can come too. You can get yourself a towel from locker room."
"Sure Coach," said Naoki following after him.
"I'll go home right now and get you some new clothes right away Young Lord!" said his driver, "Forgive me for not coming to your aid faster."
"Its fine," said Naoki, "I should go get dried off real fast and get to class."
"Yes Master," said the driver bowing and heading back to the car fast. Naoki groaned. He could hear other students laughing at him over being called master.
"Mere we are Mistresses," said girls' driver once they got to Ouran.
"Thank you," said all three girls as they got out of the car and walked off.
Fusayo walked towards the Middle School calmly doing her best to think of happy things. However her thoughts were soon turned to sad ones when she happened to hear a rumming sound and knew immediately it was Oda arriving at school. No one else at Ouran came by motorcycle.
"Oh god," she muttered as she hurried to her first class. She got to her seat rubbing her face in frustration.
"I hope I get over this soon," she muttered to herself. What did she think was actually good about being with Oda in the first place? He was always telling her what to do and how to dress and what to like. What kind of boyfriend did that?
"Fusayo!" she suddenly heard someone shout out. She jumped and looked towards the front of her desk where another girl stood. She had blond hair except for a one black strain in the front.
"Oh hi Satsuki," she said.
"Sorry I didn't mean to yell. You just seemed out of it. Everything okay?" asked Satsuki.
"Yeah I'm fine," said Fusayo.
"Oh good, I wanted to invite you to my birthday party this weekend," said Satsuki, "My father arranged to let us have a private screening of the new warlock movie Sunset."
"Oh really?" said Fusayo, "That sound like fun."
"Oh it gets better. Look who's coming to it," said Satsuki handing her an invitation. Fusayo screeched with delight and surprise.
"No way, you got Colin Edwards, the actor who plays Paterson Roberts the hunky warlock?!" she shouted.
"Yeah my dad was able to arrange to get him to come and make an appearance," said Satsuki, "Can you come?"
"I don't know," said Fusayo. She remembered how Haruhi had changed the codes and told her she couldn't leave. Plus she didn't know if she had any clothes she could wear that would help hide her still red back.
"Will find out as soon as you can alright?" said Satsuki.
"Yeah sure," said Fusayo.
"Hey Fusayo," she heard Kaemon Haninozuka walking up to her. She turned and saw him and Itsuki Morinozuka. Both also had an invitation in their hands to Satsuki's birthday as well, "Are you going to the party?"
"I don't know if I can make it," said Fusayo.
"Oh," said Kaemon, "Well I hope you're able to make it."
"Yeah it would be nice to get to go," said Fusayo. Oda had sort of tried to derail her from reading the books or watching the movies. But now that she wasn't with him the only thing she had to worry about was what to wear and somehow getting Haruhi to let her go.
"Teriyaki chicken good today huh?" said Naoki.
"I guess," said Susumu, "Hey how come you don't ever get some sort of fancy lunch or something from your rich dad?"
"He's not my dad," said Naoki, "He's not anything to me other then my mother's husband."
"You really don't like him do you?" asked Susumu. Naoki shrugged his shoulders.
"Hey rich boy," said another student walking up behind him, "Give me your money."
"I don't have any money," said Naoki.
"Yeah right rich boy," said the student hoisting them up, "You probably got pockets filled with money! Now hand some of it over. I'm still hungry."
"Leave me alone!" said Naoki as he struggled to get out of the student's grip.
"I said give me some money!" said the student punching Naoki in the face and knocking him over onto the table right into his food. "Now hand over the dough Rich Boy!"
"Alright alright stop this, break it up!" Coach Basha shouted as he raced over and pulled the students away, "Naoki are you okay?"
"Yeah I guess," said Naoki feeling his face.
"Hmm I don't like that look of your eye," said Coach Basha, "Go see the nurse."
"Sure," said Naoki as he headed towards the nurse's office.
As Naoki sat on one of the beds with an ice bag on his eye he felt really terrible. He wished everyone would just leave him alone and not bother him like before his mother mad married some stupid rich guy. He didn't realize he was starting to sniffle a bit until the nurse and Coach Basha came around curtain to check on him.
"Naoki is everything alright?" Coach Basha asked.
"No," said Naoki bitterly.
"Hmm," said the coach, "Why don't we let him go home for the rest of the day?"
"Sure," said nurse as she stated to dial up.
"Do me a favor will you? Call his stepfather," said Coach Basha.
"Um sure," said the nurse.
Tamaki sat at his desk working hard when his phone went off.
"Hello?" he said.
"Excuse me Master Tamaki," said Shima on the other end, "I just received a phone call from Master Naoki's school. They said something bad happen to the poor boy so they think it's best for him to come home and they specifically asked for you to come and get him."
"What, oh no! I'll be there fast!" said Tamaki slamming his phone down fast and hurrying off.
"So how are you doing with your new step-dad Naoki" Coach Basha asked.
"He's still lost in this illusion that he's a father to me," said Naoki. "I don't see why though other then he wants to keep on to my mother."
"You know I use to think that way about my stepfather. But in reality he did care about me," said Coach Basha, "Maybe you need to give him more of a chance."
"I don't know, he's real annoying," said Naoki.
"I'm here, where's Naoki?!" Tamaki asked running into the nurse's office, "What happened to him?!"
"Calm down Mr. Suoh," said Coach Basha standing up, "He kind of had a bullying problem earlier today. He got water balloons thrown at him and he got beach up a bit in the lunch room for his lunch money."
"What, no way!" said Tamaki, "Where are those evil culprits?! I want them expelled for what they've done!"
"Mr. Suoh calm down please. They'll get what they deserve just no expelled okay?" said Coach Basha, "I just thought that since he had a bad day he should go home early that's all. His teacher agreed so you're free to take him."
"Oh of course," said Tamaki.
"I'll just go get my bag then," muttered Naoki hurrying from the room as fast as he could.
"Actually Mr. Suoh there's a reason I asked you to come here and not his mother. I wanted to ask how things are going between you and Naoki," said Coach Basha once they were alone.
"Well not that great actually," said Tamaki, "Tell me what did you mostly refer to your stepfather as?"
"Well at first I called him by his first name, but after I got more use to him and saw him as a real father, I did actually start calling him dad," said Coach Basha, "Why what's Naoki calling you?"
"He still calls me Mr. Suoh," said Tamaki.
"Oh really?" said Coach Basha.
"I don't know what I'm doing wrong! I'm trying all these different things to try and bond with him like a father and son but he's refusing to accept me!" said Tamaki.
"Well maybe you're trying to hard. Maybe you could try just being friends right now," said Coach Basha.
"You mean I shouldn't try being a father to him?" asked Tamaki.
"No not like that," said Coach Basha, "Just don't act like he's already your son; try being more like a friend right now. If that works then maybe you can try more of the father son things."
"Hmm I may have to give it a try," said Tamaki.
"I'm ready to go," said Naoki walking back into the nurse's office with his backpack. His eye was starting to seriously getting black from being punched.
"Okay let's go home," said Tamaki. He didn't make any attempt to touch Naoki as they headed towards the waiting car.
He could see Naoki was still upset as they drove home.
"So rough day huh?" Tamaki asked.
"Yeah," muttered Naoki.
"I'm sorry to hear that," said Tamaki, "I've had days like that both in France and here."
"Hmm," muttered Naoki.
"You know what I did to cheer me up?" asked Tamaki.
"No, nor do I care!" said Naoki.
"Hmm I see," said Tamaki to keep from crying over being rejected again.
When they got back to the house Naoki immediately ran upstairs to his room and Tamaki could hear the door slam shut.
'Hmm,' thought Tamaki, 'Something tells me he should really hear what it is that can help cheer me up when I'm upset.'
Naoki sulked on his bed. This had been a terrible day. He looked around when he suddenly heard the sound of beautiful piano music playing.
"What's that?" he asked as he got up and headed out of his room. He followed the music to a room he had never been in to see Tamaki sitting at a beautiful grand piano playing.
"Wow," he said. Tamaki turned around and looked at him.
"Oh hello Naoki," he said.
"I didn't know you could play," said Naoki.
"Oh yes this is what makes me feel better when I'm down," said Tamaki returning to his playing.
"It's nice," said Naoki.
"Oh thank you," said Tamaki.
"Where did you learn to play?" asked Naoki moving slowly towards the piano.
"Oh I sort of taught myself how to play," said Tamaki, "It helped my mother when she was upset or sick."
"Oh," said Naoki.
"Is there something you would like me to play?" asked Tamaki.
"Uh no, you don't have to do anything like that," said Naoki.
"Not even this?" asked Tamaki.
"Hey that's Skyline Ninja theme song!" said Naoki.
"Oh yes," said Tamaki.
"Ninja's Ninja's go-go-go!" they both sang.
"Naoki?" Haruhi asked running into the music room.
"Mom, what are you doing here?" asked Naoki.
"Shima called me saying that the school asked Tamaki to come to your school to get you. Something about you getting beat up!" said Haruhi walking over to her son. Then she saw her son's eye, "Oh my god who did that to you?"
"Some kid," said Naoki, "He thought I had a lot of money so he tried to order me to give him some."
"Oh dear," said Haruhi looking his eye over, "Thanks for going to get him Tamaki."
"Of course," said Tamaki.
"How are you feeling?" asked Haruhi.
"I'm fine for the most part," said Naoki.
"That's good," said Haruhi hugging her son.
"Hey Haruhi why don't we give him back his Ps Vita now?" asked Tamaki.
"Are you sure?"
"Haruhi he's had a bad day. Let's give it back to him," said Tamaki.
"Sure, it has been a week anyway," said Haruhi. She soon came back with it
"Just don't take it to school again alright?" she said.
"Sure Mom," said Naoki.
"Did you want to go off and play it for a little bit Naoki feel better?" asked Tamaki.
"Actually can I stay here and hear you play for a little bit longer?" asked Naoki.
"Sure," said Tamaki sitting back at the piano. Haruhi and Naoki sat on a nearby couch and listen to him play.
"He's really good," said Naoki.
"Yeah he is," said Haruhi smiling.
"Is that one of the things you like about him?" asked Naoki.
"Yes, yes it is," said Haruhi.
"It's something worth liking I think," said Naoki as he and his mom kept listening to Tamaki play.