Chapter Four: How Hunny Saved the Day
A/N: Coming up with a chapter name for this one was a toughie. Since I have no idea what to write right now (hehe! Write right…) Thanks so much for the reviews and I knooow, I got angsty. I made Tamaki serious… ;; And I told myself I would train myself to make them stay in character. But nah, it's gonna be some fluff and so on.
Omg… the Tamaki-angst. I didn't know I was even writing angst. Good? Bad? Tell me about it!
The beginning is an extra that might or might not fit into the story. XD But read it just in case.
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Somewhere on the countryside of Spain…"Wahh! Nobody answered to our invites!" Hunny cried out loud, clutching his Bun-Bun in his arms.
Takashi didn't say anything. Which isn't a big surprise. Though he did offer Hunny more cake.
"Do you think they're having more fun than we are!"
"No."
The two sat in a small café, watching the scenery. Hunny had called everyone and left a message to ask if they would like to come to Spain. Nobody responded so far and it was making Hunny feel left out.
Suddenly, Hunny's bunny cell phone rang. He answered it quickly with a, "ARE YOU COMING!"
It was Kyouya.
"Hunny-senpai… as much fun as Spain is… something here at home is becoming more and more interesting. I'm afraid I can't make it."
"But Kyo-chaaaan!"
"I'm sorry, Hunny. I'm in a meeting right now. Good bye."
"NOOO KYO-CHAN! WAIIIIITTT!"
But the line went dead. Hunny put on his ultra cute teary face and hiccuped. "I FEEL SO LEFT OUT!"
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Back home, it was a late night. Haruhi was doing her bedtime reading to Tamaki. Things didn't really change much after their talk but Haruhi didn't understand why he was suddenly more quiet. Tamaki… not talking… it didn't fit at ALL! But something was different and it made Haruhi uneasy. She went home and fell down at the door. Those bedtime stories made her sleepy too, she was beginning to feel like a toddler again.
"HA-RU-HI!"
"Hi dad… I'm gonna… go… to sleep… now." But before she even passed the kitchen, she fell on the floor, asleep.
"Oh, Haruhi! This job is taking the life out of you!"
How wrong he was… Ranka saw a difference in the morning. He woke up to the sound of Haruhi coming home from the local market.
"Dad! I bought a lot of clearance bread today! We don't have to buy bread for another month! We'll just store it in the freezer."
"Haruhi… is that a new dress?"
Ranka looked in shock at his daughter who looked happier than usual (she must love discounts…). She wore a bright yellow sundress with sandals.
He was suddenly teary.
"OH HARUHI! YOU'RE GROWING UP TO BE SUCH A LADY!"
"Daaad!" Haruhi was again being suffocated by the loving father hug.
"Where did you get that dress! It looks radiant on youuu!"
Haruhi blushed as she fingered the soft fabric and remembered that day. She was washing the windows when Tamaki came behind her with a giant yellow blanket. Which later, turned out to be the dress.
"Ha-ru-hi! I got this for you!"
"Uh… thank you? But I don't really wear this kind of thing."
Tamaki became teary (wow a lot of tears in this chapter) instantly. Haruhi sighed to give more explanation but Tamaki held to dress to her body. His face was inches from hers when he said, "I really want you to have it."
He pulled away instantly and Haruhi fell to her knees. "You see… when I was a little boy, my mom showed me a dress that she loved as a girl. After getting sick… she never got a chance to wear it. It's not something that people would wear in bed. One day, she lost it. The new maid was doing the cleaning and mother couldn't find it again."
"But look! I found something just like it! And I just…" Tamaki looked to the ground, real tears seeping into his eyes. "I'm sorry she won't get a chance to wear it. But I won't be sad about it." He turned to her and smiled, "Because she'll be just as happy to know that someone I l-… care about, a friend that I care about can wear it."
Haruhi didn't know what to say to that. So she didn't say anything, she just took the dress. But that alone seemed to make Tamaki really happy. Ranka looked at her strangely as she just walked to the sink without answering his question.
"You washed the dishes?"
"Well I had to, sweetie! This job is really killing you! Can you tell me about it? It'll feel better to complain about your boss."
Haruhi just looked at him and replied, "But you never complain about your boss."
"But my boss is the greatest guy ever! You know, he gives me drinks on the house. Usually you only get one, but I'm so popular, he said I can drink however many I want! Of course, I don't drink too much. That's not a good example for young daughters in high school."
"Dad, I'm not that stupid."
"Of course you're not!" And then he hugged her and again, the topic was forgotten.
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Kyouya is a man of plan. A man that always has something up his sleeve. But I don't really want to go over that sleeve business (see chapter 2). So we'll skip that! So anyway, Kyouya has a lot of goals. Stay top in every class, make father proud, become heir to the company, world domination… you know, the usual.
But it was summer, and he couldn't believe he turned down a trip to Spain to see if anything progresses between Haruhi and Tamaki. Half the summer had passed, and though they seemed to be nicer to each other, there was nothing worth Kyouya's time to watch.
Of course it was all in his hands now. He would make something happen. But we shall ponder why, would it benefit him in any way? What merits will he get out of this? Well, I certainly don't know. Maybe he has a bigger plan out of all this, maybe he's just using them, or maybe he's just a really nice guy!
Nah.
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"Aren't you cold?" Tamaki asked as Haruhi and him walked around the gardens. Today was especially chilly and clouds were beginning to grey. Haruhi was only given a single summer's maid uniform because she was only working during the summer. She glanced up every few minutes to see if lightning would come.
Tamaki laid a hand on her shoulder and said, "Don't worry about it. We'll go as soon as the clouds turn dark."
Haruhi weakened under his relieving smile. She still didn't know why she felt funny, maybe she was getting sick from all the laundry that the maids kept throwing at her. With the invention of the washing machine, she didn't think that she'd have to scrub anything. But grass stains are hard to get out and Tamaki seems to like rolling on the floor with Antoinette.
They walked towards the gate, where some rose bushes were. They were supposed to bloom and Tamaki wanted to get some before the summer drizzle washed them away. The summer was quite unusual, indeed. In the last couple of days, there had been large amounts of rain, still named the summer drizzle, but it had washed off a lot of the garden into mud.
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"Suoh…"
Ranka said the sign again and again. How come it sounded so familiar? Kyouya had called him and said that it would be nice if he stopped by to see his daughter. And that's when Ranka realized that he didn't know where she worked and so Kyouya gave him the address. But this name… familiar…
It couldn't be.
"Dad?"
"Haruhi?"
Tamaki and Haruhi stared at the 35-year-old man, who wore a lovely satin scarf with matching hat. Ranka stared at his daughter, who had a rose in her hand. Beside her was the "charming" young man that he had caught in a very compromising position with his daughter.
". . . Yo---!"
Suddenly! A plane flew above them and started to land… right on the estate! Ranka was shocked and stood there like a block of ice, his eyes bulged out, staring at the aircraft as it landed. Haruhi was so scared the it would land on her father but it came down beside him. The wind caused by the landing object knocked both the teenagers over but Tamaki held onto Haruhi protectively as they rolled down the hill.
Amazingly enough, Ranka stood in the same not so frozen spot (the engines were warm). But Haruhi couldn't be relieved for the staircase fell right on top on him and squished him into a watery puddle.
"HARUCHAN! TAMACHAN! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S BEEN HALF THE BREAK! I MISSED YOU SO MUCH! DID YOU MISS ME! I BET YOU DIDN'T MISS ME AT ALL! YOU NEVER CALLED BAAAACK!" Hunny cried as he ran out of the plane, clutching Bun-Bun, who was dressed up as a bullfighter for some reason. Mori came out behind him and didn't seem to react to the fact that Tamaki and Haruhi were holding each other.
Haruhi, embarrassed, pulled away and Tamaki got up too.
He smiled at Hunny and hugged him. "NO HUNNY! YOU'RE MY HERO!"
"OMG! WOW! I'MA HEROO! WHAT DID I DO?"
Haruhi went to check up on her dad while Tamaki told Hunny and Mori of how they had just saved him from a near death experience.
Meanwhile, the storm clouds began to gather above.
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A/N: Fourth chappy… finished. The next chapter might be the last! O: And I'm happy that I got a chance to add them in. I didn't know how at first, but I noticed it too. I had everyone else but they usually have something to do with Haruhi and Tamaki. Mori and Hunny didn't really fit in, but I wasn't the only one who noticed it(looks at BlackMoonWhite) so I added them in! Yay! Hunny and Mori saved the day!
Thanks to everyone who read and reviewed!