"Kyoya?!"

"MAMA!?"

"Someone call the infirmary!"

I could hear the blend of voices start to separate out again. I could kind of tell who was saying what. I could hear one of the guests run out to find a nurse, Tamaki was freaking out, the twins were shouting at people.

Then I heard something that woke me up.

"Hey, wait, Haruhi!? Are you alright!" I could hear Hikaru yell.

My eyes barely started to focus as I tried to sit up.

"Slow down." Mori's voice came from right behind me. He was kind of holding me up. I assumed that would be why I didn't have a throbbing headache or something similar.

"Nn..I'm fine, Hikaru." I could hear Haruhi mumble.

"Mori-Senpai, you pretty much plowed her over!" Hikaru yelled.

"Sorry." He stoically replied. "Kyoya needed help."

What the hell just happened.

"Kyoya would have been fine." I groaned.

"Oh hey, he's alright!" Kaoru exclaimed.

"Mama! What the heck happened! I bet it was me, wasn't it. I must have broken your brain!" Tamaki continued freaking out, much louder than I'd like.

There was a short pause of silence in the room.

"You didn't eat, did you." Haruhi asked from behind me. Except it was less of a question, and more a known statement of annoyance.

I waited a moment before answering her.

"I had a cookie earlier."

Her and Hikaru appeared in front of me, Hikaru kind of holding onto her. "Tamaki, have you seen him drink water in class at all today?" She asked, still staring right at me. A stare I've only ever seen her give Tamaki or a Hitachiin. It was way more intimidating when it was directed at myself.

"I, uh...I don't think so?" Tamaki answered her.

"Kyoya." She stared harder.

"It is very possible, likely even, that I may have forgotten to drink anything today." I answered her, feeling like a child getting punished.

"Is this what watching her wanting to kill us is like, Kyoya?" Kaoru laughed, Hikaru following shortly after. Haruhi redirected her death glare at Hikaru, who was right by her face.

"Go get him a water bottle, would you?" She asked, clearly annoyed. He nodded and let go of her to walk to the kitchen.

I sat up completely and Mori let go of me. How did I forget to drink water? What an idiotic way to ruin the day I was going to officially ask Haruhi to be my girlfriend. Or maybe just a memorable one? No. Idiotic.

"Haruhi, are you alright?" I asked her. She was standing kind of oddly.

"I'm fine." She took a step forward and her leg completely gave out on her. Mori managed to lean up and stop her from falling. He helped her to sit down on the ground. "...I'm fine." She repeated.

"There's a bruise on your neck." Mori said, actually with a little bit of inflection to his voice. Haruhi's eyes got wide and she quickly readjusted her shirt collar, Kaoru standing behind her, watching her fix it.

"I fell, remember? But like! Not now! This is from when I fell the other day!" She replied, extremely quickly.

Hikaru came back and handed me water. I opened it and drank nearly half of it. I pretty much immediately felt better. Haruhi was right. She pretty much always was.

Kaoru was staring right at me, eyes wide, no one else paying attention to him. Then looking back at Haruhi. Then back at me. Then he pointed at his neck, then at me, then at Haruhi. At least now I knew that earlier he DIDN'T know about us. But, now, he did. Or at least, he was pretty sure he did.

Hikaru walked in front of me and reached his hand out. "Think you can get up?"

"Yes." I grabbed his hand and he helped pull me up. "Thank you."

At that point, the nurse came in, and the few guests that had left came back. "Is he awake now?" she asked, politely. Of course, she was from one of my family's hospitals.

"I'm alright now, thank you." She walked over and asked me to sit on the couch anyways, just to be sure I was actually alright. No problem.

As she was looking at my eyes and a variety of other brief tests, I was kind of looking past her, over at Haruhi and Mori. Mori looked kind of...off. Like he was close to actually emoting. I think he was giving her a real apology for knocking her over. But he actually looked kind of worried. Maybe he was starting to piece together what had actually happened. He glanced over his shoulder at me, then back at Haruhi.

"You look just fine, now, Ootori-San!" She smiled. "Please eat at least a granola car or something similar before you head out for the day!" Haruhi's death glare returned from across the room.

The nurse and the girls walked out, each of them saying goodbye as they left.

The other Hosts all started to file out not long after. It was starting to get late, after all. Each giving Haruhi lots of love and attention as they left.

Mori and Hunny were the last two out besides Haruhi and I. Mori still didn't look happy. Well. He looked less neutral than usual.

Haruhi sat staring at me for a second while we were alone, sitting on the couch.

"I both want to kiss you and tell you that I love the necklace so much and thank you over and over, and also shove that granola bar in your mouth whole." She looked grumpy.

"I'm sorry." She looked kind of confused. "Genuinely, I'm sorry."

"Don't be sorry! Just drink water you dummy!" She responded, half laughing at me. "You scared the hell out of me!"

"Now Haruhi, it's not lady-like to curse." I smiled at her and looked around the room. No one was there. Perfect. I gently pushed her over and climbed on top of her on the couch, kissing her neck gently over and over again. "No one's here…"

"Kyoya, stooooooop." She said, probably a little louder than she should have.

"There's no one else here, I could strip you down on this couch right now and no one would ever know." I smirked.

"Kyoyaa! No!" She said, smiling. "Not here!" she excitedly whispered.

It was at that moment I knew we'd been talking a little too loudly.

We could hear the door fly open, and quickly slam shut. Before I got a chance to get off her, or even look up to see who had come in, I was pulled off of her and pinned on a nearby wall. Hard. His forearm pressed up against my neck. I couldn't even think about moving.

It was Mori. He looked livid. Rightfully.

"What the hell are you doing to her?" He asked. Still pretty flatley considering the rage in his face.

"Mori-Senpai, I wasn't going to-" he pressed his arm a little tighter.

"Wait! Mori-Senpai! It's okay!" Haruhi kind of panicked from behind him. "Please stop!" She got off the couch and tried her best to run over to him, but she was clearly in pain.

"Haruhi, I'm alright, please, sit down. I don't want you getting more hurt."

Mori's arm pulled off of me a little. He still looked angry, but he was calming down.

"I wasn't going to hurt her. But I appreciate you coming to protect her." I said calmly. I wasn't lying to him. It made me respect him even more, to be honest.

"He's right, senpai." Haruhi said, coming up to us and gently putting herself between him and me. "You can let go." He did as she asked.

He just kind of stood there, quietly. He pointed at Haruhi's neck. She laughed nervously, putting one hand over the spot on her neck, and sheepishly pointing to me with the other hand.

"Yeah, uh...that was him." She started blushing. "My idea." I was both a little proud that she was willing to tell him that, and also a little worried he was going to turn around and punch me anyway.

"Your idea?" He asked, raising an eyebrow a little. He paused. "Oh."

"Look, senpai. I really appreciate you coming to help me. So. I guess I'm comfortable telling you the whole story." He raised his eyebrow a little higher. "Oh! No! Not THAT story." He nodded slightly.

She sat there and told him everything. About Ranka. About her living situation. About me. A lot about me. She kind of rambled on about how I'd gone and gotten her stuff, and about how Kaoru knew about Ranka and that she was living with me. Then she talked about us getting together. She seemed kind of nervous to put a title on it. I was trying to get to that before my lack of sustenance ruined that one for me.

He stood and quietly listened. Nodding with each thing she said. He looked back at me. "I'm sorry. I misunderstood." I nodded.

"Quite alright. In hindsight, probably not the safest place for..that..anyways." I told him. He looked back to Haruhi.

"Thank you for telling me." He turned to me, then back to her. "I'm glad you're safe now." He put a hand on her shoulder. Then, we all heard the door open again.

"Takashi! Are you comin- What's going on? Is everything alright?" Hunny came in, looking for Mori. Mori went over to him.

"Fine." He said. "Forgot something."

"Oh! Well, goodbye again guys! Good night!" Hunny yelled back, closing the door behind him.

We waited a few seconds. Haruhi sighed loudly. "Well, that was motifying."

"You know, I had all these plans to make today nice for you. I could not have accounted for all of this."

"Maybe you should have eaten." She smiled, annoyance in her face.

"Maybe I want to be with you." Her face quickly went back to normal, eyes wide. "On a more official scale." I walked over and grabbed the box with the necklace, and opened it, gently taking the necklace out.

I walked behind her, putting the necklace in front of her to clasp it around her neck for her. "It's real, you know." She smiled and turned around to look at me. "But, since we never technically made it official… I want to be able to call you my girlfriend. At least. To anyone you're comfortable with knowing, obviously."

She beamed. "You know, I've been really liking the idea of having an attractive, black haired, glasses wearing boyfriend." I smiled and leaned down to kiss her. "Especially one who's good in bed.." She added. I could feel myself turn bright red instantly.

"Watching you get embarrassed is somehow really attractive." She smiled, weaving her fingers through my hair and pulling me in for a kiss. "I love you."

"I love you t-"

"Even if you're an idiot who forgets to EAT."

"I deserve this." I laughed.

"So. Boyfriend and girlfriend it is." She smiled, excitedly wrapping her arms around my shoulders and neck.

I picked her up a few inches off the ground and kissed her.

This was worth being pinned down by a kendo master.