"…This is some elevator…" Shion tried starting a conversation awkwardly, though his effort went to waste. He looked between the other members. The twins and Tamaki were pouting and refused to look at each other and himself. Kyoya was his usual self, just quiet and reading a book. Haruhi was in a daze looking at the floor numbers change. Honey was cuddling with his bunny, Usa-chan. While Mori was content just being quiet in the corner.

Shion sighed. "Come on guys, please." He felt his eye twitch when the three just huffed and ignored him in a more obvious fashion. "What is the big deal anyways, she'll be able to ski or snowboard with you after she learns."

Still nothing.

Shion crossed his arms and tapped his foot impatiently, a few moments passed and he was getting angrier by the second, he could feel the frustration building. Then Shion snapped at their stubborn asses.

"Stop being fucking children and get over it!" He raised his voice, and in the elevator the volume made them all flinch. Shion had one hell of a pair of lungs and could be very loud if he wanted to. "Geeze. Since when was I a fucking babysitter." He grumbled, brow furrowed and glaring at the floor. He felt that he had better chances of getting two fighting kids in their terrible-twos phase to make up and laugh.

Haruhi patted his shoulder to try and get him to calm down. Shion's glare softened but didn't disappear, the frown didn't move an inch though.

They were all relieved when there was a ding and the doors opened; the dark aura Shion had been emitting spilling out of the elevator like a heavy fog. Kyoya exited first and led them through the endlessly similar hallways to their rooms. Shion smirked at an idea that went through his mind. Maybe they should watch The Ring or The Grudge while they were here. Definitely The Grudge, there's a hotel scene in a hallway so it would be more relevant and scary. Even if they didn't want to he would find a way.

They entered a large living space with various doors around the room. Kyoya's glasses gleamed.

"After an... inconvenience we were given a special suite to stay in."

Shion didn't even want to ask.

Tamaki's mood seemed to dissipate a little as he looked around the suite. He hadn't been in one of these types before. He had heard descriptions from his father after a business trip. This type of hotel room had various other rooms connected to a living space. It was used for business gatherings that would take a long while and the practitioners could talk business and get to know their business partners better.

Shion's eyes went straight to a couch in the middle of the living space. He took his shoes off and made way to the large and comfy looking piece of furniture. "I'm going to take a nap. If any of you wake me..." he paused, implying something very… pleasant, "...Be prepared to pay." He was grumpy and did not want to be bothered. He put his glasses on the coffee table.

"What about the skiing–"

Shion turned and glared at the owner of the voice. "Tamaki," he said lowly, "do you know how cold it is?" Tamaki felt a shiver go down his spine. With wind-chill it was close to minus thirty. Going on the slopes would be even colder if they went against the wind.

"Unless you want frostbite in less than ten minutes, then go right ahead." Shion took a blanket that was conveniently folded on the arm of the couch and wrapped it around himself, flopping down onto the furniture. He put his headphones in and put on some calming music loud enough to block out all sound. He needed to relieve some stress and he didn't have any instrument to vent with.

"Wow. He's touchy right now." Haruhi muttered. She never really got Shion angry, it was always something else or someone—not unlike the devious twins or obnoxious Tamaki, and Kyoya, there's also Kyoya—that pushed his buttons with zero to no effort.

"No kidding." Hikaru huffed, even though it was partly his fault.

"Oh, but Honey's right here." Kaoru grinned and waited. Soon it sunk in. Haruhi sighed while they both laughed.

"Shhh!" Tamaki was so loud with the noise that it was rather redundant to do it in the first place. "We should go explore the resort."

The three of them looked each other in the eyes and made a silent agreement. They should leave. For if they didn't they feared they would wake the beast. Honey and Mori followed with nothing better to do. Haruhi also left, she had to make sure they didn't get into trouble.

Kyoya stayed in the room, alone with Shion, working away on some homework on his laptop. The light taps on the keyboard were quick and precise. A few hours went by and there was no sign of the others returning. Kyoya was getting worried. Though Haruhi was there and she was a responsible girl so he felt some relief in that.

Soon enough Kyoya heard a knock at the door and moved to get it. He wouldn't be surprised if they forgot the room keys. He went on his toes to look out of the peephole, two familiar people were there. He opened the door.

"Oh, hello Kyoya. Is Shion here?" Aaron asked, smiling.

"We saw the others but they said he was up in their room." Satsuki came in. "We wanted to see if he wanted to wander around with us."

"He's sleeping right now actually."

"Well then just wake him up! If he gets too much sleep he won't be able to fall asleep later tonight." Satsuki gestured with a wave of her hand and pointed to the couch where she saw a lump of blankets. Her bright smile disappeared in a second, a blank face replacing it. "There's no way in hell I am waking him up."

"Me neither." Aaron quickly added, not wanting to face Shion's wrath.

"Tsk." Kyoya turned and walked to the couch where Shion was. The door started closing behind him and before Aaron and Satsuki noticed they were locked out again. Kyoya looked down to Shion. His curly black hair was sticking around everywhere and was buried in the blanket. He could hear him breathing slowly. "Shion." He put a hand on him and shook lightly, he made no indication that he woke up. He shook a bit more vigorously and suddenly his wrist was grabbed and he was pulled down. Kyoya stumbled and used his other arm to hold himself up against the back of the couch.

Shion looked up at his waker who was hovering right above him. "Kyoya..." he groaned lowly, his voice sleepy, "what are you doing?" Shion vaguely noticed that he was holding on to Kyoya's wrist and let go.

Kyoya stood up straight and cleared his throat. "Your classmates are here for a visit."

"Oh..." He yawned. "Just tell them I'll—uh, never mind, I might as well not change." He stretched with a long yawn and got up. Shion looked around for his friends who would most likely be close by.

"They're out in the hall." Kyoya informed, back to typing away on his laptop.

"Thanks." Walking to the door he opened it and the door flung open as Satsuki fell into Shion.

"Oof!" She took the chance to hug Shion with all her might.

"That's what you get for trying to eavesdrop." The redhead raised an eyebrow at her course of action at the moment.

"Shut it, Aaron," Satsuki said as she hugged Shion harder.

"Sa–tsuki... I can't... breath."

"Speaking of breath—what kind of body wash or lotion do you use? You smell good!"

Shion was taken aback from the question. He looked down to Satsuki who was still in hug mode—though not as crushing—and looking up to him. "Uhh, it's not here in Japan. Bath and Body Works... Vanilla something." Truth be told it was a store tailored for mainly female customers, but his mother always got the stuff and thus he started using it. Sooner rather than later he had become a regular customer regardless of the weird looks he would get sometimes. The employees seemed to like him quite a lot—The Courageous Scenter, they called him.

Kyoya looked up long enough from his laptop to see Satsuki hugging Shion. Shion put a hand on her head and ruffled her hair. She seemed shorter than he remembered. Kyoya suddenly had the memory from earlier run through his mind and felt heat run through him.

Satuski blinked and let go of the hug. She looked to Aaron, then to Shion, and then assessed herself. "Is it just me... or have you grown? Like a lot?"

"Last time I checked was during a checkup... It was about five foot eleven—or around one-eighty-two centimeters." He remembered halfway that they measured height in cm rather than the feet he was used to. "That was in the first week I got here though."

"No no no no, you're certainly taller now!"

"Maybe we didn't notice since we're around him all the time and now that we haven't hung out since the start of break we're just realizing it now? Like how you notice differences more easily after you haven't seen someone for a while?"

"I want to know just how tall you are, is there a tape measurer anywhere?" Satsuki was going all over the place. She must be on a sugar high.

"Guys... back to the original point."

"Oh right! Do you wanna explore a bit? There's an arcade!"

Shion smiled at her cheeriness, "Sure why not."

"Woo! Come on, let's go!" She grabbed the two boy's wrists and dragged them off. The elevators were really busy so they just went down the stairs. They were at the top floor so they had a few staircases to go down. Though going up those stairs would be another story.

When they got to the arcade they found the others there… enjoying a game. They were taking turns at Dance Dance Revolution and raging since they were playing with harder songs. The various other people in the arcade took the right decision and avoided them. It made Shion remember the outing he had with Ko.

"You guys having fun?"

Without even turning around the two who were playing—the twins—shouted, "No!" Their voices were uncharacteristically aggravated, "Why is this so damn hard?" They looked ridiculous as they were frantically—dancing could not describe what he was seeing—uh… flailing.

"It's because you're on extreme…" Aaron said. Then the two just stopped. They were breathing heavily and turned to face the three who just joined them.

"Yeah… Hi." Shion waved. He went beside Haruhi and whispered to her, "How long have they been at it?"

"For about fifteen minutes now." Shion laughed. Then Haruhi had a small smile and spoke to the twins. "Why don't you two take a break and let them give it a try?"

"Oh hell, I can't play that right now. Shion, Aaron, you two play." Satsuki had a special reason. A very sacred and special reason to why she couldn't dance. One that hurt like hell and she just had to put up with it.

"These pants aren't made for dancing." Shion tried to make an excuse, though in all honesty, they weren't. They were thin plaid pyjama pants. They were certainly not made for dancing.

Aaron grinned, "Oh but they're made for walking." Shion snorted at the pun and song reference. "And that's just what they'll do. One of these days these pants are gonna' walk all over you."

"Fine. I'll play." He sighed. Aaron would make more bad jokes if he didn't, "But only a few rounds."

As they were getting ready to dance up a storm Satsuki nudged Haruhi to get her attention. "Hey… by any chance do you have pain medication? I got some killer cramps." She had found out her true gender from just outright asking her because Satsuki was just curious. In exchange, she promised not to tell anyone, which was fair.

"Oh, yeah. I have some in my suitcase. When we go back up later I can get you some."

"Awe that would be great."

"Shion, let's show these motherfuckers how it's motherfucking done." Shion chuckled at Aaron's unneeded foul language.

Aaron picked the song and level first. They both agreed that they would each be choosing two songs. Aaron chose an easy one first for a warm up. It was really easy, no difficult rhythms at all. Shion was feeling warmed up, he chose a harder song and ended up victorious. They had these back in America and he would sometimes skip class to go to them with friends. He was surprised that this one had some of the English songs from the American version. By now he was sweating, it was more exhausting than one would think by watching.

Shion was scrolling through the songs and difficulty for the final round. "Hey Aaron, you want to do one extreme one for the finale?"

"Will we both die from exhaustion?"

"Probably." They both shared a laugh.

"How did we end up choosing all the hard songs?" Hikaru huffed in frustration.

"They're doing pretty well," Satsuki said from behind a camera. She was recording the whole thing.

"Well let's get this over with." Aaron looked into Shion's eye and pat his shoulder, "Good luck budd."

Shion laughed and hit the button.

And damn the song was hard. It was both difficult in rhythm and fast that their legs could barely keep up. After it was finished the both of them were out of breath, though Shion was almost wheezing. He really didn't have that much stamina, though he usually recovered pretty quickly. I'm a musician, not an athlete.

"Hooo… Okay, I'm done." Aaron put his hands on his knees and took a breath. "That was insane, my God."

"My legs are jelly."

"Now move aside peasants! It's time for our rematch!" Kaoru said haughtily with a grin.

"You still want to play?" Satsuki asked incredulously. Then her stomach growled loudly for all to hear. "Well, my stomach is about to digest itself… soooo want to get some food? It's dinner time anyway."

"I could go for some food. I haven't eaten at all today since I was kidnapped." Tamaki was decent enough to look guilty.

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Aaron and Satsuki ended up joining them for dinner in their very large hotel room. They ordered room service and afterwards just ended up doing whatever. Shion was relaxing and reading a book he brought with Aaron just fiddling around on a piano that lead to a balcony, and Kyoya was still doing some work on his laptop. Honey was eating some cake for dessert with Mori beside him. Tamaki and the twins were talking to each other on a circle of furniture around a coffee table when Satsuki went up to them.

Shion looked up from his book out to the window and it was snowing up a storm, the window panes were shaking from the howling winds. It was quite haunting and Shion liked it a lot.

"Guys! Let's play a game!" Tamaki was getting bored and this game Satsuki had offered to play was just the thing he needed. "Satsuki has one for us!" Everyone's eyes went from Tamaki to Satsuki.

"… Hi." She smiled and waved awkwardly. "So I thought it would be fun to play a game." She reached into her bag and brought out like three bags of skittles. "I forgot the name of it but it goes like this, each of us would have about ten candies, and we each get a turn to ask something. For example 'I have never failed a class,' and—OH! I remember what it's called, it's Never Have I Ever—yeah, so it has to start with 'Never Have I Ever failed a class. So the people who have failed a class before would have to eat a candy. The last one standing wins." Satsuki huffed and took in a deep breath since she didn't really breathe throughout the explanation. "Sorry, I'm bad at explaining things."

"It's okay I think we got the gist of it." Aaron laughed. "So want to play? I'm in."

Everybody agreed and sat in a circle with their bowls or glasses with ten candies, though they would probably add more in since they had a lot of people playing. There weren't enough seats for everybody so Shion just ended up sitting on the floor wrapped up with one of the blankets. The lights were dimmed for dramatic effect and they were ready to play.

"Are we allowed to ask anything?" Hikaru asked.

"It seems so, though nothing too inappropriate," Kyoya added.

"What! Then what are we playing this for if we can't do that!" Satsuki whined, "It takes the fun out of it if we can't. Let's do majority rules, whose fine with the inappropriate stuff?" Both of the twins raised their hands along with Satsuki's and Aaron's, Shion's also went up because you know, why the heck not, though the most surprising one was Haruhi's. It wasn't too surprising to Shion however because he knows Haruhi well and she, quite unexpectedly, has quite the dirty mind.

"So who's going to ask first?" Shion asked. "How about Haruhi, then we'll go clockwise for the next person."

"Um, okay… Never have I ever… eaten fancy tuna before." Tamaki, Kyoya, and the twins all ate a piece of candy. At her question, Tamaki and the twins started cooing Haruhi about the fancy fatty tuna she was talking about.

"Okay, It's my turn then…" Aaron thought for a moment before he grinned, "Never have I ever worn a dress." Everyone but Aaron and Shion ate a candy.

"Wow… Though to be honest I would expect that out of you guys." Shion chuckled.

"It was for the club." Haruhi smiled, "They all looked ridiculous."

"Hey! We were fabulous!" Tamaki huffed.

There was an evil cackle and they turned to the source, Satsuki. Oh no, they thought in terror. "Yes, yes, be very afraid my children." She did an old lady—or witches, it was hard to tell—voice, "Here comes the inappropriate stuff. Never have I ever… had a hot make-out session."

"S-s-s-Satsuki!" Tamaki stammered, a blush heating his face.

"Oh crap, I forgot the rules for a sec. Damn it." Satsuki ate a candy.

"Did you really just get yourself out?" Aaron laughed as he also popped a candy in his mouth.

"I think she just did." Shion laughed, also chewing on a piece of candy. His eyes drifted towards Kyoya as a memory prodded his mind.

Nobody noticed Mori eating a candy—he was always quiet so the attention wasn't drawn to him when he silently ate it.

Now it was Kyoya's turn. He cleared his throat—the previous question making him remember Shion's and Ko's… session..."Never have I ever failed a class." He smirked, knowing that he just stole the example Satsuki used earlier. Aaron, and Satsuki ate a candy.

Tamaki's turn came around and he was fiddling around with his candies. He had a good one but the grammar would be bad, so he was thinking of how to reword it. "Never have I ever—hmm… Can I reword it? Like the Never have I ever part doesn't make sense in my thought—oh never mind, I have another one, sorry." Tamaki was making things difficult for himself. "Never have I ever sworn before."

Once again, Aaron, Satsuki and Shion ate one, but Kyoya and the twins ate one too. Kyoya was somewhat unexpected.

"Never have I ever not eaten cake every day!" Honey came in suddenly, catching everyone's attention.

"Oh, that's a low ball. Honey you eat cake every day!"

"You have to admit that's clever." Shion ate a candy like everyone else except Honey who was smiling brightly… and eating cake.

"Never have I ever had alcohol before." Hikaru asked his. It seemed that they were targeting three people. Aaron, Satsuki and Shion.

"Are you targeting us or something?!" Satsuki threw her hands up in the air—almost knocking her candy everywhere in the process. She tried to be cool and tossed the skittle in the air and tried to catch it in her mouth. It hit her on the forehead and it rolled into her open mouth.

"No, not particularly," Kaoru said before coming in with his, "Never have I ever worn glasses." Aaron, Shion and Kyoya ate candies.

"You need glasses Aaron?" Shion asked.

"I have contacts in."

"Oh."

"…Never have I ever… broken a bone." Mori came in quietly. Kaoru, Honey, Tamaki, Haruhi and Shion all ate one.

"I'm down to two…" Shion sighed, but continued anyways, "Never have I ever been in hot spring before." Shion knew hot springs were a thing in Japan, thus he assumed everybody had gone to one before. And he was right. Everyone ate a candy. "Haha, culture for the win." He absently remembered that he went to a communal bath before… but it didn't count. Right?

Now it was back to Haruhi. "Never have I ever thought I was gay."

"Woah Haruhi, going in deep aren't y—I'm going to stop my thought right there." Though Aaron knew that what he said was already understood in that context by most of the people there. Satsuki burst out laughing.

"Don't most people question their sexuality sometimes?"

Shion paused in eating his candy, "Wait, wouldn't that mean you did at one point too?" Then he popped the candy in.

"Oh." She sighed and ate a candy. Aaron, the twins, Mori, and Kyoya also ate a candy. The twins weren't that surprising, but it was for Mori. He didn't really talk about that stuff, let alone talk a lot.

A few more turns went by and Shion was hanging on to his last candy. Satsuki and Aaron both had two and the others all had three or more. Tamaki was currently winning, and soon it came back to Satsuki and all hell broke loose, figuratively.

"Never have I ever had intercourse." She said seriously, trying to keep a straight face as she looked for anyone eating a candy.

"Isn't that a bit… too extreme?" Shion asked.

"We all agreed that these types of questions were fair, right?" Satsuki got nods in affirmation, though Tamaki was spluttering in embarrassment. The others were mainly caught off guard by the question.

"Fuck it." Shion ate his last candy and stood up with his blanket. "I'm out." Shion headed to a room. He didn't want to be interrogated about that one.

"Woah! I didn't actually expect anyone to eat a skittle with that one! Wait! Shion come back! Aaaaaand he's gone." There was silence. "Well, I guess he had a fun night."

"Satsuki!" Aaron warned.

"Okay, okay, I'm sorry. I went too far." She apologized and noticed that the whole mood was ruined and it was getting late. "I guess we should stop, huh?"

"How should we assign rooms?" Haruhi changed the topic. "I should get a separate room, but Shion also just took one."

"Draw names from a hat. Since Haruhi has a separate room there would have to be three people in one room."

"Actually one of the rooms has two beds, a king and a single."

"Honey and Mori should get a room together, same with the twins. Now what to do with Kyoya and Tamaki… Hmmmm…."

"Ooh! I have an idea!" Satsuki grabbed a napkin and ripped it in two, writing twins on one and also twins on the other. He bundled a blanket together in a makeshift bowl and put the two napkin pieces in. "Okay, one of you two draw, it doesn't matter which one."

"I will!" Tamaki bounded in with enthusiasm. Satsuki smirked. She knew that Tamaki would have wanted to draw it. She had a plan and it was going to get Shion and Kyoya together… eventually.

"… So I'm with the twins… Can I change? Please?"

"Nope. You're stuck with us!" Hikaru and Kaoru both singsonged before dragging Tamaki off to the three person room.

"Well, good night." Aaron yawned. "It's getting late."

"Bye!" Satsuki waved to the remaining Haruhi, and Kyoya. Honey and Mori already went to the other room.

"Good night Kyoya," Haruhi said as she closed the door to her room.

Kyoya got ready for bed in the bathroom connected to the room. When he exited he saw a lump in the king-sized bed. It made sense that they would have to share. He contemplated sleeping on the couch in the living room of the hotel sweet, but that would do more harm than good to his back. He crawled into the covers and saw that Shion was facing his way. Kyoya swallowed thickly. Shion's hair was all over the place and his face was so peaceful. His lips were parted, and he could hear him breathing slowly. Kyoya turned to face the other way. He tried to quell the heat that was swelling up inside him.

Sleep Kyoya… stop overthinking. He needed to relax. He needed to sleep. So he chose to ignore it.

Shion opened his eyes and smirked. He was awake ever since Kyoya entered the room.

"Goodnight… Ootori." He whispered before turning and falling back asleep.

That did not help Kyoya's… situation at all.

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Heyo everyone! Another update is here. :D I had some plot planned out but this happened at the end. I hope it isn't too fillery for you guys. Also, I was thinking of making it more yaoi in a future chapter. Are you guys okay with that? If it's split I can write a chapter with a Shounen-ai scene and another chapter exactly the same but with the yaoi instead. Or I can do two sections of the same scene in a chapter and put warnings before the yaoi part—though that would ruin the flow of the story…

What are your opinions? I really want to advance this so there is less awkward sexual tension between the two. xD