The car ride was nice. I'd opted to drive as Haruhi wasn't the biggest fan of limousines. She seemed thrilled just to be out of the house, staring out of the window most of the trip.

"So, will you finally tell me where we're going?" She turned to look at me.

"We're almost there, you'll find out soon enough." I responded. She rolled her eyes.

"You know I hate surprises." She slumped back in the seat a little.

"Well it's a good thing you don't have to wait long, hm?" A smiled at her. She was clearly irritated. But only for a second.

"Wait...why do I kind of recognise this road? Have we been here before? For a Host thing?" She looked more intently out the window.

The moment the building came into view, she recognised it. Kind of. "Hey wait! This is that place! Like...A jungle but indoors? I can't remember what you called it… But we lost Hunny here, right?"

I was glad that is what she remembered of this place. "You're not wrong I suppose. It's my family's healing facility. It's like... an indoor resort."

"Yeah, I remember this place! I didn't really get to enjoy anything here because Tamaki and the twins were harassing me the entire time. I can't even imagine what this place would be like without them here!" She actually looked excited.

"They can be a bit difficult to relax around. I've gone on my fair share of vacations with Tamaki. It's like having an excitable child one moment, to a sullen poet the next." I smiled at how accurate my own description was. It was actually pretty funny how true it was.

"Throw in the twins and you have a car full of tired six year olds who just fight without rest." She added.

"The accuracy is painful." We both kind of laughed. Followed by silence.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw her look over at me, then back down at her lap. "It's almost going to be weird being here without them. I'm starting to kind of miss the jerks." She said. She wasn't one to get all sentimental like that.

"I can absolutely guarantee that they miss you about one hundred times more. Every time a guest so much as mentioned your name, the twins and Tamaki would go on and on, back and forth making up strange conspiracies as to what happened to you." She smiled and raised an eyebrow.

"Any gems?" She asked

"Well, my personal favorite was Tamaki saying that the twins had actually annoyed you so much, that you'd packed up and fled to Europe. I believe it was specifically Italy."

She laughed. "At least I went somewhere with good food, thank god."

I parked the car. We were finally there. I got out of my car, expecting Haruhi to do the same. I went around to the truck to grab our small bags. Normally, there was a full staff at this location, but the facility was technically closed down on this particular weekend. One weekend or so a month, the Ootori family closes down so that members of the family and their guests can use the facility privately. It just so happened that I was able to get the spot this weekend.

Haruhi was still sitting in the car, just looking up at the entrance. The place hadn't been opened to the public last time she was here, and the outside and since gotten quite the renovation. It was remarkable, to say the least.

I walked over to her door and opened it. "If you like the outside, I think you might really enjoy what's on the inside, hm?" She quickly got herself out of the car.

"Sorry! It just looks so different… The entrance is beautiful!"

I placed my hand on her back and started leading her to the entrance she couldn't stop looking at. "There will be plenty of time for looking around later, Haruhi. We should get settled, hm?"

I led her inside, and showed her to the rooms we'd be staying. The facility now had an attached hotel. We would be staying in the nicest suite, that was more like a small house than a hotel room. It had a few bedrooms, each with their own on suite bathroom, that were all connected to a large den with a big fireplace. It also was equipped with a full kitchen.

"Oh, woah. This is gorgeous… and remarkably humble from what you're used to, I'm sure." She laughed at her own joke.

"Believe it or not, I actually prefer smaller spaces. How often do you see me in any other part of the house but outside or in my bedroom?" She smiled a sly smile.

"I mean, you spend an awful lot of time in my bedroom…" I could almost feel myself turning red. She laughed. "I'm screwing with you. You're not wrong though. I've never really noticed, but you are one to stay in one spot…"

I pointed out a door to her, desperate to change the subject. "That's the master bedroom. Why don't you stay there? I'll take the one down the hall."

"Really? You sure? It's your place, not mine." I took her bag and went into that room, putting her bag on the bed.

"Yes, I'm sure." She smiled.

"Thanks, Kyoya."

"What did I tell you about thanking me? There's no need. Now, why don't you try on the swimsuit you brought, I bet the water would do you well about now."

"Hope you aren't expecting a show."

"What do you take me for, Tamaki?" She laughed. I didn't know she actually thought I was funny. I never thought I was. She went in the room and closed the door, and I went down the hall and did the same.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't happy to see her in a swimsuit, it was a truly rare occasion. But I brought her here to relax. Not so I could see her in a swimsuit. It was just a nice bonus.

After I'd changed, I went back out to the den. Her door was open and she was gone. I went outside and back out to the poolside, and there she was, sitting on the edge with her feet in the pool. "Oh, hey!" she yelled over at me. "Sorry, I got a little eager. I'm really glad this stupid boot it waterproof though." She stood back up.

She looked amazing. Somehow, of all of the swimsuits I'm sure Fuyumi had brought her, she'd actually picked a bikini. The bottom was high waisted, dark purple with yellow sunflowers on them, and the top looked like a cropped halter top, white, with thin purple lines and a tie in the middle.

After picking my jaw up off the floor, I realised she had walked around the stairs of the pool. She started walking into the water, and immediately turned on her back to just float. "I didn't know that a warm pool and direct sunlight actually created the perfect feeling of zen when there aren't screaming teenage boys around." She said quietly from the water.

"That pool in particular is specifically for floating around like that. Floating is the closest thing the body can be to doing absolutely nothing. So scientifically speaking, you are correct. This pool was inspired by the Dead Sea. The water is made up of nearly 35% salt, which makes the water so dense that it's actually impossible for the human body to sink, so it's easy to just lay back and relax for hours on end."

"I wasn't expecting a science lesson from a pool, but that's actually really cool."

"Do you want a drink? I was going to run over to the bar and grab one for myself." I shouted to her, starting to walk towards the bar.

"That'd be awesome! Surprise me!"

"You got it."

"Thanks!"

I grabbed our drinks and walked back to the pool. She wasn't in the water anymore, but I didn't see her around.

I set our drinks down on a table, and looked around the poolside. She stepped out of the small outdoor shower. "Sorry! I was trying to get some of the salt off" she explained while trying to squeeze some of the water out of her hair.

I waved her over to the table I'd put our drinks, which was right in between two lounge chairs. We both sat down.

We sat there and just chatted for a while. Probably close to an hour. By this point, the sun was starting to set. The sky, and subsequently, the light in the resort, were now a beautiful shade of orange. Haruhi stood up, extending her hand to me. "How about a sunset swim? You haven't so much as dipped a toe in the water yet."

I smiled at her. "I suppose you're right." I grabbed her hand and she helped me up. "Come with me, we'll go to the big pool."

I took her to the main pool. Complete with diving boards and the like. We walked up to the edge of the deep end.

"You're lookin' pretty dry, there, Kyoya…" She looked at me, wearing an almost Hitachiin like grin. She took a couple steps backwards.

"I just need to set my glasses do-" I couldn't even finish my thought before she ran forward and cannonballed into the pool, clearly trying, and succeeding, to splash me.

Oh. Game on, Haruhi.

A ran over and threw my glasses on a table, and immediately turned around to jump into the pool. She'd swam far enough over to the shallow end that she could stand with her shoulders above the water. So, of course, I had to follow up her cannonball with a superior one.

And I did.

As I combed my hair out of my face with my hands, I could see her doing the same thing, wiping water from her face.

"Mine was better!" She shouted at me. "I'm the better splasher!"

Oh, this girl was in for the splashing of her life.

She must have seen my intention in my face, as she tried to swim away from me, but she was no match for my faster swimming.

She playfully yelled and laughed as I grabbed her from behind, with the sole intention of picking her up and throwing her back over to the deep end, but she did something I entirely was not expecting.

As I grabbed her, she managed to turn herself around so she was facing me. She was above me slightly, as I was still holding her up. She wrapped her arms around my neck, still kind of laughing. She pulled herself closer to me, as I lowered her back down a bit. That's when she did it.

She kissed me.

She clung onto me as she pressed her lips into mine. I was definitely surprised for a moment, but quickly melted into her grasp, moving my arms around her waist.

She slowly pulled her lips away from mine, keeping her arms wrapped around me. She smiled. "You're cute when you're caught off guard." I felt myself turn even more red. I didn't know what to say. "I've been wanting to do that forever.." she added.

"What made you pick right now?" I asked her, still barely able to create sentences.

"I heard you and Fuyumi in the hall yesterday. You really think I'm smaaaartt, and wonderfuuulll, and talenteeeddd, and…"

"And beautiful. Yes. Yes I do. Always have." I pulled her a little closer to me. "I've always thought you were incredible. I just… I didn't think you could ever feel the same way."

She leaned in and kissed me again, now wrapping her legs around my waist. I didn't even know what to do with my hands. I just held her close and kissed her.

Just like I'd always wanted to do.

She smiled through the kiss. "I don't know what I'm doing, either." She pulled away, still smiling.

"Maybe it's time we go dry off and get to our suite, hm?" She nodded.

We both made our way out of the pool, grabbing towels and starting to dry off a little. I put my glasses on and looked over at Haruhi. She was probably about as red in the face as I must have been.

She turned to walk towards our suite, but I'd decided to jog up by her and pick her up princess style. She yelped in surprise, but quickly went back to smiling and kind of nuzzled her head into the crook of my neck.

We walked back to the suite, mostly talking about what we wanted to eat on the walk back. When we got through the door, I set Haruhi down in front of her door and walked over to light the electric fireplace. "Why don't you change out of that and get into something dry and comfortable, hm?" She nodded.

"Don't have to tell me twice, I'm freezing." She walked into her room, not quite closing the door all the way behind her. I walked past it, trying very hard to not look through the crack of the door, to go change as well.

While I changed, I took the time to order food from a nearby restaurant, making sure to get lots of fancy tuna for Haruhi. I couldn't wait to wrap my arms around her again, assuming she still wanted me too.

She knocked on my door. "Come in, Haruhi." I said to her through the door. She opened the door, and it took everything in me to not run over there and just attack her and kiss her again. She looked stunning, even though she was just wearing pajamas. She was wearing a long sleeved, silk, button up top that was soft pastel pink, with matching shorts. Her hair was now starting to get wavy from the salt pool.

She walked over to me and lazily hugged my torso. "Hey, can I ask you a question?"

"Of course."

"This is going to sound stupid. This isn't like...a one time thing right…?" she asked me, clearly embarrassed.

"Well...would the fact that I ordered some of your favorite foods just because I love to see you smile and want nothing more than to just be with you always give you an answer?"

She smiled. "Yeah. It does."

"Haruhi...Can I tell you something?"

"Obviously."

"Haruhi...I love you."