I was watching the twins warily as they crossed the room to me. They held matching grins on their faces, and mischief glittered in their eyes.
"Hello Nala!"
I merely raised an eyebrow at them.
"Alright guys, what's up? You practically stink of sneakiness."
Their matching smirks deepened at my words.
Over the past few days since the horrible day that was the water park fiasco, I had grown much closer with the hosts. It was my daily routine now tto go from classes to the club with the twins and Haruhi as we exchanged jokes and playful jabs at each other, then, when I arrived I would sit down and eat cake with Honey and Mori as we talked about the supernatural. They had kind of taken over teaching me about it since the water park, so in case an incident happened again, I would know what to do. Then, I would find some way to put Haruhi and Tamaki together in an awkward situation, that normally involved the twins help, before we all went to pester Kyoya into doing something fun with us. He hadn't fallen for any of our traps as of yet.
Today, as the twins approached me, the first thing I noticed was that Haruhi wasn't with them. So, flicking a glance at them, I tossed Kaoru my school bag and grinned back in challenge at them both.
"Before you guys even start, know that A, I am having a good day so don't even think about doing some form of nasty prank on me! And B, what on earth did you do with Haru?!"
Their smirks deepened, and they started to circle me like sharks as kaoru placed my bag back on my desk. Just as they seemed about to answer my question, my phone rang.
It was Maria.
"Hello Maria!" My voice was cheerful, but faltered as i heard her frantic words. I had a feeling my perfect day was about to go down the metaphorical drain.
"Thank goodness! You're ok!"
"Ano...why wouldn't I be..?"
She took a deep breathe in, and seemed to slowly let it out.
"I just got a call from the lease owner of your house," my stomachs clenched and rolled with nerves at her words. "She said that she walked in on two men ransacking your room when she went to check on the building condition. She said they threatened her, and asked where you were."
My breath caught in my throat and I sat down hard in my desk chair. I could feel the worried glances from the twins, but I ignored them.
"What?! When was this?! Is the lady ok?! Maria, what is happening!" My voice was breathy with panic. "I don't understand! I thought you knew who the guy was! Why isn't he in jail yet?!"
She took another deep breath.
"Nala, we went over this! I can't touch him without my captain's permission! He's being watched now, but until he does something really damning we can't take him in on anything aside from suspicion, and since he's a cop to, he'll know just how to get out of any charges we can try to press on that. Especially if he has powerful, dangerous people on his side."
I'm going to puke. The world spun around me as the horror of the situation finally hit me. I found myself unable to breathe. How did they find me?! I don't...I can't...what do I do?! WHAT DO I DO?! WHAT DO I-
I was cut off by Someone smacking me in the back. Hard.
"Nala! Snap out of it!"
At some point Hikaru had gotten the phone from me, and kaoru had slammed his hand into my back to pull me out of my funk. Hikaru was grim as Maria, I assumed, repeated what she'd told me. He shared a glance with his twin, who nodded back, before scooping me up into his arms bridal style.
"Cmon Nala. We're going back to the club room. We can have the shadow lord send his minions out searching."
I couldn't even reply to his minion joke, which had started to be a thing when I began comparing Kyoya to Gru from Despicable Me just the other day after Haruhi and I had had the club over to watch the second one with us. I was shaking too badly, so I just buried my face against his shoulder and focused on not hyperventilating. Girls squealed and shrieked as they saw kaoru carrying me down the hall, but we both ignored them. Me fighting a nasty panic attack, and kaoru strangely grim and solemn.
"Haruhi!" His voice rang through the club room when he slammed the door open and carried me in. "Come here!"
Haruhi was currently with guests, but a glance in our direction had her face blanching of color, and with fear in her eyes she leapt out of her seat to hurry over it us.
"What happened?!"
Panic edged into her voice as she helped kaoru sit me down on an empty couch. All I could do was mutely shake my head
Kaoru began to explain to her what he'd seen in the classroom, because he didn't have any details himself yet, when Hikaru burst into the room.
"Where's Kyoya!?"
"Ahem." Said person, was calmly standing from his seat. "Ladies, Miss Nala seems to have been taken ill suddenly, we apologize profusely for having to cancel club activities, but she must be...personally tended to."
The girls picked up his hidden cue on the word personally, and all began fangirling over how they shipped Kyola. I had had a vague idea that it was one of their new weird club ships, but now it seemed that since i knew it it made it canon, or did it? I was muddying through it as a source of distraction, when one girl oh so kindly pointed out that Kaoru had carried me in, and another large group of girls began shrieking about Naru, and love triangles and how Hikaru would handle his brother fighting over someone that wasn't his twin.
At this point i was getting over my initial shock, so i managed to play along like i knew Kyoya wanted me to.
"Um, yes, thank you ladies, but i really do need a few, um, moments with Kaoru, and...Ootori, and the rest of the hosts…"
Even though i was only playing along, upon hearing how breathy my name was when saying Kaoru, and Kyoya's names, a furious blush burned its way up my neck and over my face. This started off more screaming, which didn't quiet down until the hosts had helped escort all the girls out of the club room, shut, and then locked the doors.
"Alright," I found myself now surrounded by my friends as Haruhi spoke. "Spill it."
i went quiet again, as the panic began to set into my mind at the prospect of voicing my new horror story out loud, so rather than speaking, i caught Hikaru's eyes and gestured for him to come over. He seemed to get what i was getting at, because he stepped over and began talking.
"The guy Nala's dad sold her to ransacked her house, basically the people her father owed a debt to are looking to...collect. And by collect," He looked solemnly at me. "They're looking to collect Nala."
Haruhi sucked in an angry breath as Honey, Tamaki, Mori, and kaoru let out gasps. Kyoya, as always, didn't say anything, merely whipped out his laptop and began furiously typing away. My eyes slid over him, and upon closer inspection, i noticed a few things. Like how his jaw was tight with tension, and even as his fingers flew over the keys, there was a stiffness in them i had never seen before. He seemed to sense me watching, because he glanced up at me, pausing for a moment in his typing, and his dark eyes met my own green ones, A feeling, of some sort passed over the room between us, and i was the first to look away from his sharp eyes. His glasses flashed as he turned his head back towards the computer, and he resumed typing.
Upon glancing back towards Haruhi, my eyes caught Kaoru as he glanced between Kyoya and i, his jaw tightening, and Hikaru, as he watched his brother with a sad expression in his golden, cat like eyes.
what's up with that? Choosing to not voice my thoughts, i opted to instead turn towards Haruhi. As my green eyes met her tearful doe eyes, i felt tears gather in my eyes in response, and i slid off the couch to pull her into a hug. Yet again, i found myself kneeling on the ground, crying, and hugging my best friend on the floor of the host club room. I guess history has decided to repeat herself. Before i could voice my thought, Kyoya made a small noise of agony, and slumped in his chair, his hands flying to his head.
"Kyoya!?"
My voice was full of shock and horror as he crumpled in his chair. Leaping up to go to him, I was held back by Kaoru.
"What are you doing!? He's hurting!"
Kaoru shook his head down at me with a grim look on his face that mirrored the rest of the host's faces, even Haruhi stayed where she was.
"We can't touch him Nala." Tamaki,s normally cheerful voice was grim. "He's in the middle of an intense vision, if we touch him we'll get sucked into it to."
My jaw dropped. Kyoya is caught in his mind, alone and obviously in pain and you guys are scared of helping him!?
"Screw that!"
I snarled angrily and jerked out of Kaoru's grip to lunge towards Kyoya,
"Nala, no!"
Too late, even as the other host's screamed for me, i put my hand on Kyoya's shoulder, and the world went black.
*Author's Note!*
Yes? Yes? Yes? Or no? WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK? SEE I BROUGHT HER DAD BACK UP! Also, i hope you guys don't mind i'm screwing around with the episode timeline so much so there's days between each episode that happens, rather than them being in succession? PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU ALL THINK! Also is Nala's relationship with the hosts any better over the last few chapters? Thanks everyone for taking the time to read this! i love you all! Enjoy! And please review, or PM me!