Story: I Will Teach You
Synopsis: The host club leaves their king in his "time of need." Tamaki believes the host club doesn't spend enough time outside the club with his beloved 'daughter'. (this takes place mid-winter)
This is from a long time ago (almost a year) and imo I've improved juristically since then but I decided to post this anyways!
Ship: Tamaki x Haruhi
5/26/2020
"MAMAAA! WE MUST SPEND MORE TIME WITH OUR DAUGHTER, YOU HAVE TO MISS HER AS MUCH AS I DO!" Tamaki screams over the phone. If you haven't already gathered, he is talking to none other than the host club Vice President, Kyoya, also known as 'mama'. "I'm sure that Haruhi has other plans for her Saturday than to spend it with the likes of you." Kyoya says coldly. "HOW COULD YOU BE SO CRUEL MOMMY? MY DAUGHTER IS PROBABLY JUST WAITING FOR ME TO COME OVER THIS INSTANT!" Tamaki drops to the floor in a cartoon-like fashion, absorbing the recent blow to his ego. "I highly doubt it." Kyoya states and ends the call. "Baka..." he mumbles. "KYOYA! I CALL A HOST MEETIN- Kyoya? Kyoya? Kyooooyaaaaa? How DARE he! Leave his king like this..." Tamaki magically teleports to his emo corner proceeding to grow mushrooms.
Meanwhile...
"I'm going to pick up some groceries!" Haruhi announces already halfway out the door as her dad barrels towards her. "AWWWW! My darling Haruhi is so responsible!" Ranka says, hearts in his eyes. "Yeah, love you too dad." Haruhi closes the door and heads to the supermarket. "Ok, so I need bread, daikon (type of white radish), ginger, and I think I read that there is a sale on fish!" Haruhi puts her finger to her chin as a sign of thought.
"Master Tamaki?" The maid knocks on his door again, "I'm coming in." The maid walks into Tamaki's room to see him curled up in a corner, picking at mushrooms sprouting from everything. "Please master, I don't want to clean this up again!" She wines. "Oh. Heh, sorry Kanna..." Tamaki gets out of his corner and faces the maid. "Kyoya insisted that my daugh- I mean Haruhi, doesn't want to see me today! And I had this whole day planned out with the host club! We would go ice skating and to look at the pretty lights in the commoner towns!" Tamaki replays the day as planned in his mind theater. "Just go without the host club, ya' know by yourself." Kanna replies, used to her master's antics. "THAT'S A BRILLIANT IDEA! I GET HARUHI ALL TO MYSELF." He recomposes himself, "Kanna please call for my driver." He walks out still working on his tie. "That's not what I meant..." Kanna sighs and leaves to find Tamaki's driver.
"I can't believe I was lucky enough to grab the last bit of salmon! Only 1200¥ (roughly $12, a little under the average price per pound), what a steal!" Haruhi says as she exits the market giving the cashier a polite smile. She walks the rest of the way home with a slight bounce and a huge smile on her face. That is, until she is in line of sight with her apartment. "What the hell is going on?" She asks seeing a crowd of people circumscribing her apartment complex. "Haruhi!" A woman, looking to be in her late 40's, calls out. "Huh?" The girl in question turns to greet the woman. "How can I help you?" Haruhi asks. "There's a boy here to see you! And he is in a fancy limo, since when are you so popular!?" She teases, smirking and nudging Haruhi. "Damn rich bastards..." She mumbles as she makes her way through the crowd. "TAMAKI SUOH! YOU HAVE .2 SECONDS TO EXPLAIN WHY YOU ARE HERE! And without a call at that..." Haruhi screams visibly seething at the thought that this commotion was, in turn, partly her fault.
"MY DARLING DAUGHTER I ONLY WANTED TO SPEND THE DAY WITH YOU!" Tamaki wails running to Haruhi and crushing her in a death-hug. "Not here senpai!" She struggles and pushes herself out of his grip. "Come on!" She pinches the bottom of his ear and drags him over to the apartments and away from the people. "What's with the limo? I said if you come over here 1. DO NOT BRING A SUPER FANCY CAR! 2. DO NOT COME OVER! Also, I AM NOT YOUR DAUGHTER!" Haruhi shouts. "I only wanted the best for my Haruhi." Tamaki looks down at the concrete floor defeated. "First I'm not 'your' Haru-" She catches sight of his dejected look, "Fine, I guess I can hang out with you, butttt... I have to tell my father first!" Tamaki's face changes from defeat to pure horror as the words leave Haruhi's mouth.
"Uhhh, I'm sure that's not necessary!" He brushes past the subject and leads Haruhi to his waiting limo.
" Oh, I'm sure it is! I'll only be a second." She smirks and walks up the staircase to her apartment.
Haruhi digs through her bags and grabs the key, wriggling it into the lock and opening the door. "I'm home." She calls out and her dad rushes to greet her at the door to take some bags. "Thanks, dad!" Her dad coos at her and places the bags on the counter to be put up later. "The host club is here, is it ok if I go out for the day?" She asks trying to find the salmon to put it in the refrigerator. "Oh, I'm so glad my darling has such great friends! Of course you can, don't worry about the groceries!" Ranka wiggles his hands and head imaging his future grandchildren, him and Tamaki have the special ability to go off into their own worlds. "Thank you!" Haruhi hugs him and exits. She didn't have to tell him all of it did she right? Haruhi chuckles, maybe a day with Tamaki won't be so awful...
"He said yes." She announces to Tamaki as she makes her way back downstairs. "FABULOUS! I HAVE JUST THE PERFECT DAY PLANNED!" Tamaki grabs her arm and pulls her to the limo, helping her in like a gentleman of course. Just in time for Ranka to approach the balcony and yell to the limo, "WAIT STAY AWAY FROM THAT SUOH BOY-" His sentence is cut off by the sight of Tamaki helping Haruhi into the limo. "Well, can't do much to stop the inevitable..." He trails off walking back inside.
"Tamaki senpai where are we even going?" Haruhi asks staring out the window.
"I'm so glad you asked daughter! It's a surprise." Tamaki grins.
Haruhi glares at her 'father', "You mean to tell me, I left the comfort of my house, to go out with you today... and you're not even going to tell me what we are doing?"
"T-that about sums it up..." Tamaki attempts to hide behind the limo seats and fails.
"Stupid Tamaki..." Haruhi mumbles.
Tamaki starts to say something else when the limo comes to a stop, "WE'RE HERE!" he screeches as he rushes to get out.
"An ice-skating rink?" Haruhi stares at Tamaki.
"Yes! My daughter is so smart!" Tamaki celebrates and twirls Haruhi around.
"Tamaki senpai put me down!" He places Haruhi back on the sidewalk and tries to coax her toward the rink. "Haruhiiiiiii come on- Haruhi? Are you ok?"
Haruhi is staring down at the concrete, feet together her hands joined behind her back. "Haruhi what's wrong?" Tamaki asks again inching closer to her. "idontknowhow" Haruhi murmurs.
"You what?" Tamaki stops moving toward her.
"idontknowhowtoiceskate"
"Haruhi..." Tamaki says oddly serious and out of character.
"I don't know how to ice skate. There I said it. Happy?"
"Oh my KAMI! POOR COMMONER I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT! I'M SO SORRY MY DEAR HARUHI PLEASE FORGIVE MEEEEE! WAIT! I CAN TEACH YOU!" Tamaki says ecstatic about this new information.
"Nono! Please that is definitely not necessary senpai. I can figure it out." Haruhi resists the urge to roll her eyes at the commoner comment.
"NONSENSE! I INSIST!" Tamaki puts his right hand to his forehead and his left on his heart, pretending to stumble backwards. "I shall help you in your time of need!" He declares. "unlike Kyoya..." he finishes and pouts.
"What are you on about Tamaki senpai?" Haruhi deadpans.
"No need for you to fret! For I am here!" Tamaki takes a superhero stance.
"What the hell? You know what never mind, lets just get this over with." Haruhi grabs Tamaki's arm and drags him to the rink.
Tamaki goes to the counter and grabs ice skates for him and Haruhi. "Tamaki senpai why is no one here?" Haruhi had just gotten the change to look around the outdoor rink, she had wondered how the ice was keeping frozen and walked around to find a row of compressors. "I rented the place for this afternoon." Haruhi stared at the blonde, he had said that without even batting an eye, like it was nothing!
The duo stopped the small talk to put on their skates, meanwhile Tamaki had already done a couple laps around the ice by the time Haruhi had finished messing with her skates. She was beginning to approach the gate to the rink when Tamaki comes over and places a hand on her shoulder. "Uh... Can I help you?" Haruhi asks. "You don't seriously think you can skate like that do you?" Tamaki chuckles.
"Excuse me? I know I can't skate but I can try, jeez."
"You're laces look like they were done by a four-year-old." Tamaki states bluntly.
He leans onto his knee and undoes Haruhi's laces. "You have to lace them up first, then tie." He says and demonstrates with one of her skates. "Now you try the other."
After a few minutes of 'coaching' by Tamaki, basically him overexaggerating the whole process, the pair (Tamaki) thought Haruhi was finally ready to try skating.
"Ok so try and step onto the ice." Tamaki, who is already skating around, says backing up giving her room at the entrance. "wa- ah!" Haruhi makes little grunting noises trying to balance herself, with the help of the wall of course.
"AWWWWW I'M SO PROUD OF YOU! LOOK AT YOU GO!" Tamaki exclaims jumping up and down, his skates cutting into the ice, leaving small holes.
"Uh? A little help!" Haruhi yelps on her way to falling. Before she hits the ice, Tamaki rushes to her side catching her. "Are you ok?" He ask worriedly, scanning her body for injuries. "Yeah I'm fine senpai just pay attention next time!" She scolds him, flicking his ear. "Baka."
"Now try to skate toward me, push off with the edges of your feet." Tamaki coaches.
Haruhi does as he says and starts to scoot slowly closer to him. "That is it, sort of. Try pushing off with a little more force."
"Ok good, put a little space between the blades to balance in place." He guides as Haruhi approaches. Tamaki turns and skates back to the entrance. "Wait how am I supposed to do that?!" Haruhi exclaims. "I can barely move I don't know how to turn!"
"Just try I'll help if you begin to fall." Tamaki reassures her. "You better." Haruhi glares.
Haruhi puts a little more pressure on her left foot and manages to turn, more in place than skating around, but a turn none the less. "VERY GOOD MY DAUGHTER! YOU'RE SO TALENTED!" Haruhi fights a blush at his odd complements. "Alright just come this way and then we can take a break!" Tamaki is obviously enjoying his 'father/daughter' day.
Haruhi begins to skate for Tamaki, it looks as if she is getting the hang of skating until her skate catches a rut in the rink and falls face first, smacking into the unforgiving ice. She lets out a shrill shriek, her left shoulder and jaw absorbing the majority of the impact. Haruhi pushes herself up and brings her right arm up to clutch her shoulder."Owwwww..."
"Haruhi!" Tamaki screams. He runs/skates toward her and puts his arm around her waist, pulling her in tight. "Are you alright? Come on let's get you over to the benches." He says picking her up bridal style and sitting her down. "I'm fine senpai, just a little fall that's it." Haruhi says rapidly, trying to hint at him to drop the subject, but of course knowing Tamaki, "Haruhi your jaw..." He responds running a finger over the newly forming bruise. She brings her hand to her cheek in attempts to cover it giving him a weak smile, wincing as she moves her shoulder. Tamaki lifts her arm, making her squirm. He rolls up her sleeve revealing another, much larger bruise covering her upper arm. His eyes go wide.
Haruhi places her unoccupied hand on his head and ruffles his hair. "Really, I'll be ok, I promise."
"I'm so sorry, if I hadn't been jump-"
"No."
"What?"
"It wasn't your fault so don't worry about it."
"R-right ok."
"Good! So about dinner? It's getting late." Haruhi chuckles checking the time on her phone. It's around 6 p.m.
"Yeah! TO THE LIMO!" He declares, standing up and pointing in the general direction.
Tamaki yet again helped Haruhi into the limo. "Tamaki please not anywhere too fancy, I'm not exactly dressed for the occasion" She was currently in a white t-shirt with a knee-length purple sun dress over it.
"No need to worry my darling Haruhi! I have the perfect outfit prepared for this."
"Oh no." Tamaki hands her a light pink dress with ruffles near the bottom and white sandals with 2-inch heels, not anything super flashy, but not anything she would ever think to wear.
"You can change in the back!" Tamaki says very giddily. Haruhi gives him a wary look "Ok... but don't try anything!" She responds before making her way to the back.
A while later she comes out, adorned in the dress and heels, "I look ridiculous!" she exclaims.
"NO MY PRINCESS YOU LOOK STUNNING!" Tamaki cheers hearts in his eyes. Haruhi just stares at him, she can never tell if he really means it or if it's his princely love act he puts on for the host clubs guests. She doesn't exactly remember when she stared to care, but recently she becomes increasingly jealous watching Tamaki converse/flirt with the girls.
"Master Tamaki we've arrived." The driver lets down the divider between them just to put it up again as he gets out to open the door for the passengers.
The two are seated in a private booth with a lovely window view of the garden. "This place is beautiful..." Haruhi whispers. "Personally I've never been here, but I have friends who can vouch for the quality of the food. However they do have fancy tuna~" Tamaki trails off wanting to see Haruhi's reaction. The girl in question's eyes light up a huge smile plastered on her face. "Really!?" Haruhi asks expectantly. "AWW YOU'RE JUST SO CUTE WHEN YOU DO THAT!" Haruhi looks down at his response "hmph, whatever... it was just a question."
Tamaki orders for them both and the duo sits in an awkward silence most of dinner.
"Would the two lovebirds like anything for dessert?" The waiter asks. The hosts look at each other and sweatdrop. "A slice of strawberry shortcake, please sir." Tamaki responds, sending the him away. He lets out a nervous laugh and waits impatiently for their cake.
When it arrives the pair eat the cake with separate forks until Tamaki "accidently" drops his. "Oh, whoops." He says trying to catch Haruhi's attention. "Here, you can have mine, I was practically done anyways." Haruhi gives him her fork. "No I couldn't." Tamaki quickly waves his hands in front of his face, signaling a 'no'.
Haruhi takes a bite of cake onto her fork and holds it up to Tamaki's mouth with a blank expression.
Tamaki freezes.
Slowly he parted his lips and ate the bite of shortcake. He took the fork from Haruhi and stabbed a strawberry with it. Timidly he held it up to her mouth. Haruhi closed her eyes and chomped the berry smirking, her plan had worked.
Tamaki and Haruhi walk through the overly decorated path leading from the restaurant back to the valet parking.
As soon as the limo door is shut Haruhi kicks of her heels. "Heh, guess I should've known better..." Tamaki admits rethinking his previous decision. "You think?" Haruhi retorts looking up to face Tamaki, her breath hitches in her throat as she finds herself staring at Tamaki.
Though, she is not alone. Tamaki catches himself staring at her as well. His gaze lowering gradually to her lips, before he can doubt himself, he goes for it. Leaning in and settling a kiss on her lips, quickly pulling away and looking out the window.
Meanwhile Haruhi's mind was going a mile a minute, trying to push her hopes away and mark it down as impulse.
"H-Haruhi?"
"Yeah?"
"W-W-Will you g-gooutwithme?"
"Huh?"
"Will you go out with me?"
Haruhi sits back shocked, so the kiss did mean something to him...
"Of course Tamaki senpai!" She happily exclaims, moving to sit next to him, placing a kiss on his cheek.
"Tamaki." He corrects her.
She looks up at him confused, taking a moment to understand what he meant. Tamaki cradles her in his arms the rest of the drive. As they arrive at the Suoh estate. The new couple step out of the limo and Tamaki snakes an arm around her waist.
Tamaki leads Haruhi inside his hand remaining on her waist. Their little moment ruined by 5 faces waiting for them in the living room.
"Well boss, we came over to see how your little date went," Hikaru starts "but I think we got out answer." Karou finishes, both chuckling. "I have to say boss, we didn't think you were that forward but obviously we were wrong." They say in sync.
"Wha-" Tamaki begins only to be cut off with a reenactment by the twins.
"Tamaki what are you?" Karou (playing the role of Haruhi) asks.
"Shhhh- trust me..." Hikaru (playing as Tamaki) says, cutting his brother off.
"Oh Tamaki," Karou moans as Hikaru brings his hands around his body, cupping Karou's cheek, slowly switching to wrap his arm around his brother's neck, pretending to suck on his chin leading to the left side of his jaw.
"I love you, Haruhi." Hikaru separates from his brother to speak.
"I, love you too..." Karou says, sliding his hand down to his brothers chest, resting it there. Both staring at each other intently, Karou with a slight blush dusting his cheeks.
Their little act was cut short by Haruhi chucking a pillow their direction, hitting Hikaru square in the face, followed closely after by another that hits Karou, thrown by Tamaki. "THAT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED AT ALL YOU PERV'S!" The couple screams at them.
"Nice hickey then." Kyoya states.
"IT'S NOT A HICKEY, IT'S A BRUISE! I fell at the ice-skating rink today that's all."
As the host club breaks down in a fit of laughter, Haruhi manages to recompose herself and taps Tamaki on his thigh bringing him back to his senses as well. She lands a soft kiss on his lips and smiles up at him, mouthing a short 'I love you.'