Title: The Sleepover
Description: It comes but once a year for every person. Their birthday. But what antics do the Host Club have up thier sleeve when it comes to their King's birthday?
Author: Ebil
Disclaimer: I don't usually write fanfic, soooo, read at your own peril. Ouran & it's characters belongs to Bisco Hatori, etc.
Rating: PG
Notes: Originally posted at For Richer or Poorer (forums) on March 25th, 2006. Slight grammatical/spelling edits were made April 20th, 2006.

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For the second time this week, Haruhi was about to be late to the club. Normally, she wouldn't really care about this, except last time, Kyoya made a slight reference to the possibility of adding requests to her debt the next time she was actually late. She wouldn't really put it past him to do it either. Her thoughts drifted to the upcoming scene that would arise if she were late and she was so engrossed by them, she didn't notice the two people up ahead.

"Haru!"

Haruhi looked up just as she slammed into Mori. Turning 3 shades of red, Haruhi stumbled out an apology. Hunny grinned and Mori ruffled her hair.

"Silly Haru!"

Suddenly, she realized they were outside the music room's doors and there was the sound of Tamaki, having heard Haruhi's name being called, rushing for the door.

Hunny and Mori dragged Haruhi off to the side and put their fingers to their mouths.

"Shhh!"

Tamaki ran out the door with all expressions of glee on his face only to be greeted by an empty hall way. Confused and slightly dejected, Tamaki walked back into the room.

"Phew! That was close!"
Mori nodded.

Haruhi wasn't sure what she was being dragged into this time and once again had to ask herself how and why she got herself into all of this.

"So, why are we hiding from Tamaki?"

"It's Tama's birthday this weekend!"

This was no new news to Haruhi, for the past month, Tamaki had been hinting at it in his not so subtle manner. The calender in the music room had been replaced with a countdown to the 8th of April. In a scene from last week, Tamaki had exclaimed that "Father would love a gift from his daughter".

"Yeah, I know..."

"Great! You're coming!"

"Huh?"

And with that Hunny dragged Haruhi into the club room and gave the thumbs up to Kyoya, who in turn looked at Haruhi.

"You're late. I think I'll add 5 more requests. And you have a group waiting for you over by the window."

Haruhi gave a glare at Kyoya and decided to forget whatever Hunny and Mori were talking about. Knowing the men of the host club like she did, whatever it was would play out eventually.

Two hours later, all the customers were gone and it was just the members of the host club, lounging around a table.

"Haruuuuhhii! Father likes handmade cards!"
The twins grinned and handed Tamaki some slips of paper.

Tamaki opened them up and before long was chasing the twins around the room. Upon closer look, it seems they drew pictures of him as an old man.

Kyoya smiled, "Now that Tamaki is preoccupied, we should discuss the sleepover this weekend. Haruhi, you should make something for him."

"Like what?"

Hiding a brief look a shock on his face, he didn't think she would have agreed so quickly, Kyoya grinned, "Well, he was hinting at a card earlier, add cookies and I'll take away 5 customer requests from your quota."

The idea was agreeable, she would have time to make the cookies tonight if she was lucky. She glanced over at the clock, Haruhi realized she would be late to the store. She didn't have all the supplies necessary for cookies.

"Okay, cookies it is. I've got to go."

"Bye Haru!"

Haruhi turned towards the door and then found the twins hugging her. Kaoru whispered into her ear, "We'll pick you up in three hours."

Her face in shock, she turned to glare at the rest of the host club (minus Tamaki who was in rage that whatever the twins had said had shocked poor Haruhi and had proceeded to chase them off again). The others had their fingers up to their mouths and thus Haruhi stomped out of the music room. They could have at least told her before hand that the sleep over was tonight, rich prats that they are...

After coming home from shopping, she was surprised to find her father at home.
"Haruhi!" exclaimed her father as he glomped his daughter, "Kyoya told me about the sleep over! I already packed your bag!"

"What are you doing at home? And how do you know about the sleep over?"

"Papa was worried, Kyoya called me at work and told me that you forgot to pack for the sleep over tonight and so I took a break so I could pack it for you! But I'm needed back! You can thank papa later!"

And with that, her father hugged Haruhi again and pranced out the door.

Haruhi sighed and started making the cookies.

Two and a half hours later...

Haruhi had just finished packing up the cookies and was thinking about what to write on the card when there was a knock at the door. Haruhi stuffed the present and the unfinished card into her bag. She dashed to the door and was greeted by the twins, who each had chesire grins across their face. Their smiles quickly faded when they realized that she was ready to go.

"Boo! You're actually ready!"
"Boo! Yeah, we were suppose to bring you by any means necessary!"

Her previous anger at Kyoya for calling her father diminished at these statements.

"Well, come on! We haven't got all day!"
"What's that?"

Hikaru pointed at Haruhi's bag.

"It's my stuff..."

The twin put their hands to their face, "Only one bag?" "Amazing!"

Haruhi rolled her eyes "Let's just get going..."

"Okay!" they both exclaimed, Kaoru picked up the bag and slung it over his back and put his other arm around Haruhi while his twin also placed one arm around her and off they went.

In transit, it dawned on Haruhi that she didn't know where they were going.
"So, where is the sleep over at?"

"Tamaki's house," said Hikaru in an offhand fashion.

"WHAT!"

"Oh, didn't Kyoya tell you? The surprise party was Tamaki's idea..."

"He planned his own surprise party..."

"We're here!" they both exclaimed sing-songy and ushered Haruhi out of the car.