Hey guys, long time no update huh? Well, guess what! An update! YAY! XD
Well anyways, onto some other business. This story is not forgotten, just a long and erratic update schedule. Until now I had been somewhat reluctant to read a yaoi manga, sure I've read a few shounen ai... but my friend made me read a yaoi with her and well... I have been corrupted. On the bright side, I will have reference material.
I feel anxious for uploading this chapter... for something I wrote... AHHH.
You may read now. :P
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Shion felt strangely sick. That medicine he took before going to sleep was most likely the cause with the side effects, he remembered taking that before going to sleep. It may cause nausea if taken with an empty stomach. He tried to turn to get comfier and pulled up a blanket when he felt a force pulling him to the right. His forehead collided with a cold surface and he felt a mild pain. "Ugh..." Shion just noticed that he was sitting upright.
The others around him tensed. "Oh no... He's waking up..." Kaoru whispered shakily to his counterpart. They smirked when they saw Tamaki turn a few shades lighter in fear.
Shion opened his eyes before immediately closing them and squinting from the bright whiteness that was outside. Once his eyes adjusted he felt incredibly disoriented.
He was looking out of a window and the scenery was whipping by at near 120 km speeds. His eyes widened.
"..." Shion took a moment to wipe the sleep out of his eyes. Still the same.
The fuck? Where am I?
He certainly recalled not falling asleep somewhere other than his own bed. In his confusion, he started mumbling in English. "What. The. Fuck..." He looked down and saw a blanket on him, he turned in his seat and saw Kyoya sitting diagonally across from him, reading a book calmly as if he knew nothing of what panic was going through his head. He saw a blond head of hair hiding behind Kyoya's seat, and whether it was Tamaki's or Honey's didn't matter.
"Ootori..." His voice came out even, but from the sounds of it, it was threatening.
He looked up from the book he was reading. "Yes?" Though it hasn't been read as much as he would have liked, he was being distracted. His eyes kept straying to the sleeping body in front of him.
Shion cleared his throat, "Mind telling me why exactly I am on a train?" He crossed his arms, more comfortable and it looked imposing.
"Hmm…" Kyoya placed a bookmark in the pages and slowly closed the book, "Well, let's see..."
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"Alright peasants! It's time for the operation!" The others looked at Tamaki with raised eyebrows, they were all used to his shenanigans, but still, even this was over the top for Tamaki Suoh. "We will be bringing the target to the base. Until then! Further orders will be issued after completion."
"Kidnapping Shion and bringing him to a resort hours away?"
"Shh!" He shushed the twins of the less grand, and more truthful, wording of his plans, "It's not kidnapping, it's..."
"Detain and capture?" Kyoya offered smartly. It was a procedure in his father's security and police force so he would know it. If Haruhi were present she would have snorted at Kyoya's smart-ass attitude with the sarcastic humour that Tamaki clearly still couldn't get.
"No Kyoya, we're... Prematurely delivering him to our destination?" Tamaki made a face at his own words and changed to another topic. He confused himself sometimes. "Now how do we get him up when he's not answering the door?"
"Doesn't Haruhi live just the apartment over?"
Hikaru continued Kaoru's thought. "She's close to Shion, she might have a spare pair of keys."
"Great thinking you two–"
"What's this about kidnapping?" Haruhi opened her front door. They were being loud and she could hear them from the living room. She was frankly surprised that Shion hadn't been yelling at them yet. She chose to confront them when her name got into the mix. After all, it was the best moment to enter, when you're relevant to the conversation.
"We forgot to tell Shion of the new date for our exertion," Haruhi had to wonder why they changed the date to a day before. It was supposed to start tomorrow. Something must have come up, "and we can't get a hold of him."
"We tried the phone, but he isn't answering the door either." Tamaki sighed and bent down, poking at a flower in a pot. The poor thing had withered with the cold and was still hanging on to its dead brown petals. Tamaki was just torturing the flower as with his prodding it was falling apart.
Well, they had to catch their train in an hour, so Haruhi went to get the spare set of keys the twins somehow knew about. "He's bound to be packed already." She knew that he liked things organized since he was somewhat of a perfectionist. Unlocking the door she went to enter when Tamaki was about to barge in. She put her arm out, stopping him. "Tamaki-senpai, you're not allowed in." She knew he would cause a commotion and it was best to prevent it.
"We will watch him." The twins offered.
Haruhi nodded, thinking that it would be for the best and entered the flat. She saw a few bags, one suitcase and his satchel and some snowboarding gear. She knocked lightly on his bedroom door and opened it slowly. Shion was sleeping in his bed like a brick. Kyoya went in front of her, noticing something on his side table. It was a jar of pills and a half-empty glass of water. Haruhi panicked for a moment until she saw the slow rise and fall of his chest.
Kyoya picked up the jar of medication and examined it. "Potent sleeping pills." He looked down to Shion's sleeping face and noticed that he had bags under his eyes. Putting the jar back where it was, he turned to Haruhi. "By the looks of things he won't be waking up any time soon. I guess we will be following Tamaki's plans." He was amused by the whole situation, and he wouldn't admit it to the others that he found it funny.
They got Shion's luggage and gave it to Kyoya's entourage so they could bring it to the resort with the rest of the luggage. Kyoya made sure that Shion's satchel was with them as Shion would probably have some things for pass time in there. He didn't think that the bag would be heavy, so when he went to pick it up he fell forwards under the weight. "Just what does he carry in here?" Kyoya mumbled. He wouldn't dare carry that weight around, that's what his servants were for.
"Mori, if you could carry him please." Kyoya lifted the blanket on Shion and asked the physically strongest one out of all of them. It would have been awkward if Shion wasn't wearing something decent since they would have to carry him through the station and onto the train. Thankfully he was wearing pyjamas that were passable as casual wear. Black, white and grey plaid pants and a simple white t-shirt.
Takashi lifted Shion up, careful to not jostle him. He looked peaceful. Mori was surprised to find that Shion weighed lighter than he thought. Well, it would be easier for him then.
"Wait." Haruhi grabbed his glasses off the side table and put them on his face. She almost poked his eye, but otherwise got them on safely. Now he would be able to see when he woke up.
"So I guess we are actually kidnapping him, huh?"
"If anything goes wrong it's Tamaki's fault!"
"H-Hey!"
"Is Shion okay?" Honey tugged on Haruhi's sleeve.
"Yeah, just zonked out on sleeping pills so he won't be up for a while."
"Sleeping pills?"
Haruhi just shrugged her shoulders. "Ask him when he wakes up... after his interrogation." Oh, how she knew Shion so well was unknown to the others. They didn't know how right she was.
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"So you changed the date and I wouldn't wake up, so you decided to just pick me up and take me along?"
"That sounds about right."
"And it was Suoh's idea, well... I honestly don't know how to react to this." Shion sighed, "Though it sounds like you got all my stuff at least."
Haruhi came out from where the others were hiding.
"Haruhi! No, you'll be killed!" Tamaki whisper yelled. When she tried to go talk to Shion during Kyoya's explanation, Tamaki held her back and covered her mouth, she would have licked his hand to let go but doubted that Tamaki would take it well. The twins followed while Tamaki still cowered in his not-so-hidden hiding spot.
She struggled to hand Shion his bag. "Here." She put it on his lap and sat beside him, "Just how much do you have in there?" Her arms shook just carrying it. "It weighs a ton."
"Books mostly. A game console and headphones. A game and some homework." Shion rummaged through the bag for a book he was reading before he went to sleep. "The books are the heaviest."
"No kidding."
The twins kneeled on the seats behind him, looking over Shion's shoulder. "We heard you were in such a deep sleep because of some drugs."
"Please don't word it like that," it made him sound like some type of addict, "I haven't slept for three days and I wanted a good night's rest. Though I didn't take the pills until around five am so..."
"You were up until five AM?"
Shion shrugged, not really wanting to delve into what he was doing. He was recording late into the night and at some point... hormones kicked in and... yeah. He coughed and felt heat pooling to his stomach when he made eye contact with Kyoya. He quickly shifted gears and looked to Mori with a smile.
"I can only assume you were the one who carried me. Thank you for not dropping me. If it was anyone else I would have been concussed."
Mori nodded with a small smile at the humour. "No problem."
"So where's my luggage then? I even had the snow gear ready." It was a hassle to get his mother to send it to him, but she did it for him anyway despite the nagging he got on the phone.
"It's already at the resort, we're about two hours away still."
At that Shion grinned. He had just the thing for the rest of the ride. "Say, have you guys heard of Cards Against Humanity?"
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"Sh-Sh-Shion! What kind of crude game is this?!"
"Oh relax Tamaki, that's the point of the game. The more offensive, perverted, or funny it is the higher chance of winning." Kaoru put down three white cards with an evil grin, right after so did Hikaru. They were getting into the game and were having a blast.
It was Mori's turn as the Czar and Shion was the one they were waiting on. The black card was Make a Haiku, and Shion had three terrific cards that went together. But a haiku was seven-three-seven, and his cards were certainly over the syllable limit.
"Well, it isn't seven three seven..." he put his cards face down and slid them to the center of the table, "but I think I may have won this one boys... and Haruhi."
"I don't think any of ours were truly a haiku..."
"Oh well... Mori! Time to read my brilliance!" Hikaru cackled.
"Make a haiku," Mori said before picking up the white cards in no specific order. While reading through them his blank facial expression quivered occasionally. At the last set of white cards, he started trembling.
"Who's cards are those?"
Mori couldn't answer. He just handed the cards to Kaoru to read out. Kaoru blinked, "Okay, I'm going to read it. B-Bill Clinton naked on a bearskin rug with a saxophone. Filling every orifice with butterscotch pudding-pffft. Getting hilariously g-gang-banged by the Blue Man Group." Kaoru was dying by the end. "This definitely isn't mine!"
The others looked at each other. Shion looked smug, "And that would mean game." Shion put his hand out for the black card. Shion had gotten fifteen black cards, while Kaoru got ten, followed by Hikaru who got seven. There was a four-way tie between Kyoya, Haruhi, Honey and Mori. While unsurprisingly Tamaki hadn't won a single card.
"That was yours?"
"Mmmhmm." Mori handed Shion the card.
"Wow, you have a dirty mind."
"I'm sure we all do to an extent. I just let the dirty part take over."
"D-Does it possess you?" Tamaki asked somewhat morbidly.
Shion played along and chuckled darkly, putting the edge of the card at the corner of his mouth. "No Suoh... It's a part of me." He watched with satisfaction as the blonds face paled and blushed simultaneously. He gathered all the cards and put them away in their boxes. He was glad they all could read English, though their accents were a bit hard to understand. Shion would have to have another group study session and knock that out of them.
Honey was pressed against the window beside Mori looking outside. "I see it!" Off into the distance, they could see a very large building at the foot of a few mountains.
They reached the town and got into another limo to get to the resort. Shion was not liking the transportation. It reminded him too much of those large yellow monstrosities they called school buses. He never saw the logic in that. Yeah, let's throw forty-something kids into a large vehicle with no safety measures and see how they fair. Foolproof. At least the limo he had ridden with the twins and Satsuki in the past had seatbelts.
Shion was shaken out of his thoughts when someone nudged him. He looked down to Honey pulling on his arm.
"Come on Shion!"
When he exited the limo he shivered, it was cold. He heard various other words signalling that they all felt the same with the temperature. Shion looked around and noticed a sign. The very large sign for the resort.
"... Haha, very funny." Shion said dully. The resort was named Hakuba Ski Resort. They were all gathered in the parking lot of the resort, each one of them shivering. Shion was amazed. He had never been to such a large ski resort before.
"Argh, it's so cold!" Kaoru complained, shivering even though he had a thick coat on.
"Oh, Kaoru, come here. I'll warm you up" Hikaru unzipped his coat and brought Kaoru into a hug inside it.
"Oh, Hikaru!"
"Oh, Kaoru!"
"Oh brother," Haruhi sighed. She looked to Shion and looked surprised. "...Aren't you cold Shion?"
Shion blew warm air into his hands and rubbed them together, shivering. "Of course I am, but I can deal with it. It's been much colder in Canada." Even as he said this he still wished he had a coat. He had to clench his teeth to stop them from clattering. I'll be fine if I go inside soon.
It was around minus twenty-four centigrade and he was only wearing his pyjamas that he was wearing when kidnapped along with a sweater he put in his bag. His legs were starting to go numb, they had been out in the parking lot for about five minutes unloading everything. He absently remembered the second winter of his stay in Canada. It was unbelievably cold, minus thirty degrees weather almost every day, reaching down to around minus forty at night—with wind-chill of course. Staying out for ten minutes in that weather would give you severe frostbite.
"I'll check us in." Kyoya made his way into the building and approached the receptionist's desk. Tamaki and the twins were having an avid argument about who should teach Haruhi how to ski or snowboard. The twins were supporting the snowboard side and Tamaki was losing on the ski side, though Haruhi didn't really care what the argument was about and just wanted them to stop gaining so much damn attention from the other people. It was embarrassing, but it was a normal thing with the club to somehow get as much attention as possible.
"Mama, why are they fighting?"
"Shh, don't look. They're crazy."
Well, it's not false... Shion mused, laughing about the reactions from the people around him. He started walking, following after Kyoya. He was curious to what the inside looked like and really didn't want to be dragged into that argument. Plus he would get hypothermia if he stayed out any longer. He knew the symptoms well from an accident. It was certainly not fun.
He went inside and felt his limbs burn as they warmed back up. Shion looked around the place, it was stylized as a homey cabin, a modern homey cabin. The floors were a rich mahogany, the wooden floorboards polished to shine. The walls were made to look like huge logs and the ceiling had visible joists made of the same long logs. The lobby was extravagant with its fuzzy red carpets and fancy furniture. All of the counters were granite and had tiles along the sides down to the floorboards. All in all, it was like a first-rate hotel—though he could never understand the need for those exceedingly large lounging chairs, other than being really comfortable it was quite unnecessary.
While admiring the architecture he overheard Kyoya finishing his business at the receptionist's desk. Shion smirked. He just had a great idea come to mind.
Shion went behind Kyoya and went to poke his shoulder—trying to scare him and get revenge for all the past scares—when Kyoya suddenly turned around and bumped into Shion. Shion, not expecting that to happen, took a step backwards and lost his footing, ironically trying to get his footing. He fell backwards onto his back, head slamming into the wooden flooring. He heard a clatter and immediately knew his glasses had fallen off.
"Fuck." Shion groaned, grabbing the back of his head where a bump would surely form. Of course, karma would haunt him even though he hadn't done anything yet. Shion tried to lean up and prop himself up, but found that he couldn't with the weight on him. He looked down to see Kyoya on top of him. He felt a smirk crawl its way up his face.
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Kyoya didn't know what happened. He had just finished getting everything organized and needed to hurry back to the others because he just knew something would happen, something that would deal with either Tamaki or the twins, possibly both.
Just after thanking the woman he turned on his heel and bumped into someone who was right behind him. It wasn't even crowded so there was no need for that kind of proximity. He could smell vanilla and some spice. He moved to lift himself...
He was on Shion.
He felt heat rush through him, rushing to his face and pooling in his stomach. It didn't help when Shion groaned and looked down to Kyoya.
Shion smirked at the situation and decided to be a bit playful. "Getting bold now are we, Ootori?" He chuckled. "Well, I guess it is my fault for attempting to scare you." There was a pause and Shion felt the eyes of people on him. "Mind getting up? People are staring." He moved so he sat up all the way. Kyoya also moved so he wasn't on his waist. "Or did you not want to move?" Shion asked boldly in a whisper close to his ear. He saw Kyoya flush. Shion felt satisfaction at the reaction and got up, dusting off his pyjama bottoms he put a hand out to Kyoya who was kneeling on the ground.
"By any chance do you see my glasses anywhere?" Shion asked. If he could see anything he would find them himself. He was so blind that he couldn't read a textbook unless it was a decimeter away from his face. "I need glasses to find my glasses, you see my problem?" He chuckled at his own joke.
Kyoya moved a few steps and bent down to pick up—what was assumed to be—his glasses.
"Thanks, Ootori." Shion put on his glasses and saw that Kyoya was blushing still. Also that he was awkwardly trying to distract himself by cleaning his glasses. Shion felt a wave of heat rush through him. He didn't realize that he could affect Kyoya like that. Sure he tried getting reactions out of him, but never like this.
"Shion!"
He flinched and turned his head to see Satsuki and Aaron. Don't tell me they saw that. From the look Satsuki was giving him he already knew. Of course they did...
"I see you two have been getting friendly." She giggled with her trademark shit-eating grin.
"... Shut up." She just continued to grin. Shion sighed. "So, what are you two doing here?"
"To have fun with the host club of course!" Satsuki said with enthusiasm.
"I was hired by Kyoya, she is just tagging along." Aaron corrected her with a whap to the back of her head.
"Of course she is," Shion ignored Satsuki's overdramatic show of pain as she collapsed to floor in a heap. He could hear her giggling from her balled-up position. "Oh guess what happened to me today?"
"What?" Satsuki got up from the floor, frowning because they weren't paying attention to her anymore.
"Well, I was taken out of my apartment and woke up on a train to this place. Yeah, I was kidnapped."
Aaron was shaking in laughter. He cleared his throat, "W-well if you don't leave now one of your 'kidnappers' will be ditching you." He used the infamous air quotes.
Shion turned to see Kyoya exiting through the revolving doors. "Oh crap, bye guys." Shion waved and ran off after Kyoya. He didn't catch Satsuki's quite obvious she's-plotting-something face. Oh, she could feel the ship sailing with the cool ocean breeze wafting through her hair and—oh wait, that was just the door.
Shion ran out the door to only almost trip and fall from the sudden strong gust of wind that pushed him, he shivered and caught up to Kyoya. Man had the wind ever picked up since he was inside. Kyoya was talking on the phone to whomever in hushed tones and made an effort not to make eye contact with Shion.
"–and it was pointless."
"What was?" Shion asked. They had turned a corner around some cars to come face to face with a pouting twin. At his question, Hikaru frowned.
"Arguing over who should teach Haruhi to snowboard," Kaoru answered instead of his sulking counterpart.
Over by a little snow pile, Tamaki sighed dejectedly. "She doesn't want her daddy to teach her..."
"I just said that I'd think about it," Haruhi huffed in frustration, "and I've thought about it, and I would rather have Shion teach me. Plus I never said that I'd be snowboarding."
Shion blinked, "Excuse me?" He felt lost.
Tamaki's hands clenched. He stood up abruptly, stepping on his... whatever that creation was... and pointed a finger at Shion. "You stole my precious daughter!"
"Um no."
"Why him!" The twins shouted.
Shion felt that he was both being ignored and hated on.
"He knows the basics to both." She also trusted him more... but that wouldn't go over well with the three of them if she voiced it. Especially Tamaki.
"Atcho!" Shion sniffed and hugged himself. "Can we just get going to wherever we need to go! I would prefer not catching a cold on the first day of this trip."
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I've realized while reviewing an older chapter I read, than in an AN I said that chapters would be from 1000 or 2000 words long...
Welp...
THAT TURNED OUT TO BE A FRIGGIN LIE. xD