A/N: uhm, "O_O", I didn't really understand ur review XD. Oh, and completeandtotalrandomness; I totally forgot about the challenge! Well we can fix that here. XD sorry to anyone else who noticed that too.

Caitlyn smiled as they trekked through central park, adjusting her combat boots' laces as the hosts stopped at a water fountain. She'd opted for black shorts and a tanktop, with her usual spikeband. Skull and crossbones dangled from her ears as she looked at the group, adjusting the small Nightmare Before Christmas backpack she'd taken with her on her shoulders. Most of them had been smart enough to dress for the weather but Kyoya of all people was wearing jeans and a black sleeveless button down, and was practically melting from the heat. Mori was next to him in similar attire. She favoured them with a smirk that obviously said 'I told you so'. Kyoya raised an eyebrow in reply: 'What do you mean? I'm fine.'

"Even your eyebrows can't lie to me, amoureux," she teased as she walked over. She turned to address Mori as well. "I told you all to bring packs with water…"

"Next time, then," Mori said, voice flat. She had the feeling he was teasing her, but was too surprised that he'd spoken at all to say anything. Kyoya wandered over to casually claim water fountain rights. Not that he needed it, of course.

"They're going to miss you, you know," she said casually, looking at them. Her eyes flitted to the tall senior. "I barely got to know you. I mean what with your taciturnity and all. Your cousin's been rather forward with me though, but of course that's his personality. Not that it's a bad thing… he's sweet. Not that I don't have a general idea of your personality mind. This is coming out wrong."

Mori smiled at her, and she took a deep breath. "Sorry."

"It's fine."

She laughed. "I'm used to people talking back at me. Most of my friends tend to talk a lot. Or they used to, back home." She paused, her brow furrowing. "Here, I mean, I guess. Not that the host club doesn't talk a lot. They do. I just meant… New Yorkers like to talk, and we tend to talk fast. So if there's a pause in the conversation we tend to keep going." She stopped. "And ramble. Sorry. I'm probably boring you."

Mori shook his head, then gave her a contemplative look.

"What?"

He shrugged, and she looked at him confusedly. "Nothing."

Caitlyn opened her mouth to say something but at that moment Huni bounced into her line of sight in a line drive for his cousin. Mori reached out instinctively as Huni jumped up, helping him climb onto his shoulders.

"Aren't you hot carrying him around like that?" she asked.

Huni made a face. "I told Takashi that already. He didn't want me to get tired though, because me being cranky is… well Takashi thinks it's bad."

"You're dangerous, Mitsukuni."

The smaller boy pouted. "But you're wearing long pants and I know you're hot, Takashi."

"I'm fine."

Caitlyn smiled. "So stubborn…"

Huni opened his mouth to say something in response when his eyes settled on a vendor in the corner. "Ice cream!"

"It's expensive," Caitlyn warned. "The prices for food out here are ridiculous."

"How much?" Hikaru and Kaoru asked casually, moving up to the group like lazy cats padding silently through the high afternoon sun.

"Like two fifty or something. Sometimes it's four; like I said, ridiculous."

The twins looked at each other with identical expressions of amusement, and Caitlyn rolled her eyes. "Ah yes, you're all filthy rich. My apologies!"

"I want ice cream!" Huni called.

"Us too," the twins announced. The hosts moved towards the vendor.

"It'll make you more thirsty!" she called. There was no response as Kyoya came up next to her. "No one listens to me."

The young man chuckled in response. "Oh, I was wondering; not to stir trouble or anything of the sort of course-"

"Of course."

"-but didn't you have a bet with the twins about them speaking English all the time or some foolishness like that?"

Caitlyn's eyes widened. "I forgot about that!"

Kyoya chuckled. "I rather thought so."

"Hey, Hikaru, Kaoru!" she called. The twins looked up from their Ben & Jerry's half-baked ice cream confections, linking arms as they walked over.

"Hai?"

"I assume you forgot about our little bet?" she asked. The boys looked at each other as Kyoya adjusted his glasses with a satisfied smirk on his face.

"Oh."

"Yeah, so what about starting now?" the girl challenged. "Unless you want to call it off."

"No, no…" they said in English. The girl smiled triumphantly.

"Perfect," she responded in her native language.

The twins gave her defiant looks as they walked off with their ice cream, Kyoya snickering slightly.

"Now, what do you have riding on this?"

Kyoya smiled innocently. "Whatever are you talking about?"

"Who'd you bet with? Tamaki?"

"I have no recollection of doing any such thing."

"Of course."

Kyoya smirked, but it turned marginally suggestive as they watched the other hosts munch on their ice cream, the happy vendor selling Huni his third while Mori looked at his cousin reproachfully.

"While they're occupied… would you perhaps be willing to…"

"Accidentally wander off?" Caitlyn asked, a look of dry amusement spreading across her face as she considered the dark-haired boy. "Why Kyoya, you couldn't possibly be willing to leave your friends all alone in the middle of a large park in a foreign country that even some natives get lost in."

"Oh, but that's what asking directions is for," the young man said, grinning evilly. Caitlyn favoured him with a similar grin.

"Alright, come on then. There's somewhere I wanted to take you anyway."

She ran off down the path, laughing quietly. He followed her with a certain amount of bemusement in his face. "So you'd been thinking of doing the same thing, then."

"Of course not!" she called over her shoulder as she ran in front of him. He smirked.

"Of course not."

Mori watched the two disappear silently.

"What is it, Takashi?"

The taller young man looked down at his cousin. "You saw."

Huni shrugged. "Let them go." He grinned. "We'll wait until Tama-chan notices."

"That could take a while."

"Exactly!" Huni said, happy with this conclusion. "Besides, what could happen? I've never seen Kyo-chan so happy. Let them go." Mori smiled slightly.

Yes, nothing could happen when the only two people who could be considered familiar with the territory had disappeared off into the trees, leaving their companions stranded. Mori smiled slightly. No, nothing could happen at all.

"You can't honestly expect me to jump a fence," Kyoya said flatly. Caitlyn looked over her shoulder at him as she sat on the grey stone, warm from the sun.

"First of all, it's not a fence," she said, sliding off and dropping two inches to the stone outcroppings on the other side. "Second of all, it's not even waist high. And third of all, anyone who's been here's done it."

Kyoya raised an eyebrow at her. "Belvedere Castle must acquire many trespassing criminals, then."

Caitlyn rolled her eyes. "Suit yourself," she said calmly, dropping her backpack behind the short stone wall before making her way effortlessly over the uneven rock formations supporting the gorgeous stone building sitting above Turtle Pond.

They hadn't gotten a call from any of the hosts yet despite being gone for a good five minutes, so Kyoya was under the impression that Tamaki hadn't noticed their absence yet. He was hoping that none of the other hosts brought it to his attention. He was sure Mori had seen them at least, but he highly doubted the tall senior would say anything to jeopardize their time together. Watching the girl disappear beyond his line of sight however, he realized he was being forced into following her and he sat on the stone with a resigned sigh, swinging his legs over the side and walking carefully out on the rocks.

"I have a bad feeling about this," he murmured with a smirk, but she turned and pressed a finger to her lips in response. She was sitting on one of the rock's outcroppings, eyes watching the dozens of turtles basking in the sun along the place where the huge slabs of stone met the water. A few fish made their way lazily through the water, and he took a seat next to her with a fluttering in his… somewhere in his torso.

"I used to come here to think," she all but whispered. "Or when I needed a quiet place to concentrate. Write. Draw." She smiled and watched the sun sparkle off the greenish water, glittering like an emerald sea.

Kyoya watched her expression as melancholy moved across the planes of her face.

"I always thought it would be amazing to come here with someone I…" She paused. "Well, someone. It's always beautiful here."

He forced himself to turn to the pond before them, the various denizens of the city taking their dogs and strollers for a walk, the tourists grinning at finally finding this famous castle after what was probably hours of searching. No one knew how to read a map these days.

"It is," he allowed, surreptitiously sliding an arm around her shoulders. To his surprise she leaned into him, eyes half-closed against the sun.

"I… I wanted to thank you. I left with the intention of coming back. Just to… I don't know. Get some closure. But now I realize I would have never had the courage to do it. I would have chickened out. And then I would have just been walking around with a… I don't know. Something wrong with me." She smiled. "This is my city, you know? My home, my origin. I was born and raised here, and I have the accent and mannerisms to prove it. And if I'd never come back… it would have haunted me."

"That's understandable."

"So… thanks." She smiled. "Guess acceptance is the first step to… whatever it was. You know what I mean."

Kyoya chuckled. "You're usually much more eloquent than this."

Caitlyn giggled in response. "I know. I just feel like a weight's been lifted. It's wonderful."

Kyoya paused, watching her uncharacteristic girly giggling for a few moments before taking a chance and pressing his lips to her temple. She stiffened for a minute before smiling again and burrowing herself into his side.

"Ah, it's too hot for this," she chuckled. "I'm glad the castle's shadow covers us right now, though."

"Hm," he said in agreement, simply enjoying the feeling. Even though he was sweating and it should have been disgusting. Even though his feet hurt from all that walking. Even though they were trespassing.

"You know, this-"

She paused as giggles sounded from behind her, and she began to turn before a voice followed.

"Lizzie, you sure about this?"

The girl in his arms stiffened noticeably.

"Yeah, Cait took me back in eighth grade. We came loads of times after that and no one ever took us in." A smile was apparent in her voice. "She said this would be the perfect place to take someone she was in love with. She was always a romantic at heart."

Kyoya tried not to let himself get excited over this and failed, although not a shred of it showed on his face. Not that Caitlyn was paying attention.

"What are the odds?" she hissed to herself instead.

"You talked to her lately? She calls me, but…" the male who had spoken first replied.

"Sometimes. You know, I think you guys were closer despite the gender thing." The girl sighed. "You know how it is, with her mom and all. She feels awful for being happy about-"

"Liz?" Caitlyn interrupted, forcing a smile and turning. The turtles had begun to slide off the rocks at the disturbance, and she stood carelessly and faced a lanky dirty-blonde with surprise. Kyoya surveyed the scene silently The girl's shorts were a little too short, her tanktop a little low. She certainly wasn't the type of girl he'd assume to be friends with Caitlyn, that much was clear. From what he'd garnered these were friends of Caitlyn's, who she still kept in touch with. They were possibly in a relationship, although she was closer to the male.

That should bother him less.

"Cait?" the girl squealed, practically running on the stone. They met halfway with a hug, although Caitlyn obviously felt awkward about the whole thing. Caitlyn opened her eyes mid-hug to see a tall, silver-haired asian boy behind her. A broad smile appeared on her face at the sight of him, and Kyoya could tell it was genuine.

Yes, it should definitely bother him less.

"Kevin!" she squeaked, removing herself from Liz's hug and throwing herself at him. He caught her with a cocky grin, his hug literally sweeping her off of her feet.

"You promised to tell me when you were coming in," he accused with a grin. Kyoya concentrated very hard on following the conversation. He spoke English well enough. He just hadn't had any reason to let the girl know that up until this point.

"Hey, I was going to sneak off when my babysitters weren't looking and call you. I didn't know I was coming," she said, looking up at him earnestly as he placed her back on her feet. "That one over there's too nosy for his own good."

Liz and Kevin turned to Kyoya, who had stood and was in the process of dusting himself off.

"And 'that one' would be…?" Kevin drawled, looking him up and down. "He's too attractive to be a friend, but he doesn't look like your type."

Caitlyn's brow furrowed. "Oddly enough, he's not."

Kyoya smirked, even though he shouldn't have.

"But yeah, he's mine."

And he shouldn't feel smug at her saying that either.

"Yeah, I could tell from the predatory once over he gave me," the boy said with a chuckle. "So what, your rich boyfriend fly you into New York?"

She chuckled. "No, I was kidnapped by the Host Club."

"Oh, that bunch of idiots?" His voice was incredulous, and he eyed Kyoya speculatively. "You're dating… Mori?"

"No, Kyoya."

The boy blinked. "Hate to be so frank in front of your guy…"

"Ah, it's okay. The most you'll get is an eyebrow raise," she said, arm still around Kevin's waist, his still around her shoulders. The sight was still irking the Shadow Lord, even as she winked at him.

"Alright, so I must have missed a phone call because last time I checked, didn't you hate him?"

Kyoya chuckled. "Oh, I knew that already."

Caitlyn grinned innocently. "Nah, last two phone calls I just failed to mention it because I knew you'd torture me about it."

"Oh, good to know."

"So, am I ruining a date?" she asked, eyeing Liz, who was giving Kyoya a speculative once over herself.

Kevin snorted. "Lizzie, you don't mind, do you?"

"Of course not!" the girl said, offended. "We haven't seen her in ages."

The boy turned back to Caitlyn. "Am I allowed to call the rest of the gang?"

She sighed and turned to Kyoya. "Is he?"

Kyoya shrugged. "I see no reason why not." After all, he wanted to hear the end of Liz's previous statement.

"Alright, we can meet and swing down by Union. Crowd into Au Bon Pain and overrun the park. What do you think?" she said, looking at the three people before her. Liz nodded eagerly, and Kevin grinned and pulled out his phone. She raised an eyebrow at Kyoya, who shrugged again. He didn't know the city well enough to suggest anything else.

"Bus or train?" Liz asked. Caitlyn grinned at Kyoya's suddenly stoic face.

"Train. Let's not traumatize the rich boys too much. They're used to the subway."

"Hardly," Kyoya scoffed, but when Caitlyn detached herself from her friend's arm to replace it with his he didn't continue his complaint. "Now, all we have to do is locate Tamaki and the rest of the club…"

A/N: Okay, so I know this is based off the anime but does anyone else read the manga and notice Mori is talking a lot more lately? I mean in 70 he has a ton of frames, and keeps interrupting Tamaki/Hikaru's rant. But the list thing was cute. XD I can't believe they're ending it though. Or they have to be, since they're cutting out the seniors and chapter 72 said that Music Room 3 was done for good… T.T *cries* Anyhow, moving on to actual stuff, I know that this was ridiculously corny and all but oh well. Next chapter will actually further the plot though, because you'll get to learn a lot more about Caitlyn and stuff. Hope you don't hate me too much for this. And yeah, sorry for the filleryness. Again. T.T