Kyoya had called a host club meeting.

After he had casually pulled out an extra key to Haruhi's apartment, much to both girl's shock, he had let them in without explanation as to how he had the key, and in all honesty the girls were too nervous about it to ask. Once he let them in, he made a quick phone call and then after hanging up sat the girls down on the couch and went into the kitchen to make tea.

He came out several minutes later with steaming cups and a blank expression.

"The rest are on their way."

It was so strange being served by Kyoya, but his carefully blank expression told Nala far more than she wanted to know. He was worried they had gotten in touch with her, and he was trying to keep control of even the smallest of situations, thus the tea.

"What are we going to do senpai?"

Haruhi's voice was calm, and her eyes were steady as she watched Kyoya sitting calmly on the chair across from them. He shrugged casually and sipped his tea, his glasses flashing and covering his eyes as he spoke.

"We move you both to a secure location. There isn't much I can do for your cousin right now Nala, so we'll focus on keeping you both safe until these bastards are caught."

Nala's eyebrows shot straight up when Kyoya cursed. She'd never heard him swear before, and the quiet venom in his voice as he spoke was chilling. Shooting a glance at Haruhi who merely shrugged at Kyoya's word choice, she turned back to him.

"Er, where exactly would a safe location be?"

Even as she asked the question, the front door burst open with a bang and Tamaki barged through shouting.
"My house most definitely so I can keep both of my darling daughters safe!"

"You're going to bother the neighbors Tamaki sit down before you get me kicked out of my apartment."'

"So cruel."

Tamaki let out a huff at Haruhi's calmly criticizing words, but plopped down next to her.

"The boss has a point,"

"We have to move you guys somewhere,"

"So why not to his house since he's so powerful?"

The twins slinked through the door after Tamaki, their gold eyes flicking back and forth between the people already in the room. They were acting surprisingly docile Nala realized as they calmly took seats on the floor and then proceeded to remain silent after their dual commentary. They reminded her in that moment of cats just waiting to pounce due to their stillness. It was disconcerting.

A few moments after they came into the room, and before anyone could reply to their comment, the door swung open again and Honey and Mori walked into the apartment.

As soon as he took off his shoes, Honey bounced over to the two girls with worried eyes,

"Are you ok? What happened?"

Nala looked down at the ground as her anger, worry, and fear began to rise again at the question. Haruhi came to her rescue.

"Guys sit down so we can explain and stop crowding Nala while she's stressed out. It'll just make it worse."

Honey looked at Haruhi quietly for a moment before looking back to Nala.

"Sorry Nal-chan!"

He then proceeded to clamber into Mori's lap since the taller boy had taken a seat on the ground by the twins.

"Er, Kyoya, would you mind telling them? I might just decide to march out of here and find Tokiya now if I try to tell the story."

With a nod, and a small barely noticeable grimace, Kyoya explained what had happened starting with how he had had a vision of the call, and then explaining what Tokiya had said.

When he finished the hosts were quiet.

"Two weeks eh?" The twins statement was calm, but their eyes burned with anger. They shared one of their silent glances in which they had an entire mental conversation that no one else could hear. "That's not much time to find the guy."

Mori's brow was furrowed in concentration as he gave a grunt of agreement.

"I think it would be best for Nal-chan and Haru-chan to stay with Takashi and I neh Kyo-kun?"

Kyoya nodded in agreement.

"I agree with Honey, since they're priests it would be safest due to the wards at their house."

"But what about Maddy!?" Nala looked up frantically from where she had been staring at her lap. "What if they like send people to America, or Ireland, and do something to her!"

"Nala, be rational about this. We both know her clan would never let that happen to her, and do you honestly think someone as low on the totem pole as Tokiya would have the power to go that far?"

Well….when you put it that way….

"But still, Maddy comes in about two to three weeks and what do we do then? We'll have to tell her."

"Then just tell her not to come if it isn't safe."

The twins blinked up at Nala as if it made the most sense in the world to just casually ask her to drop the thing she had been hoping and planning for for months. Nala bristled at their words. She didn't know why they were acting so cold today, maybe they were just in one of those moods, but it was not ok with her.

"I can't even if I wanted to because she accepted some job offer in the country that enables her to come here not as just an excuse so even if I wanted to tell her to stay I can't because she already signed the contract."

"What job did she get here?" Kyoya was writing in his little black book as he asked it. "I can get in touch with the corporation."

Nala blinked at him.

He would seriously go that far? That's a little ridiculous, but then again if it's to keep her safe...but wait a second...

"Um, Maddy never mentioned it to me. She only said she accepted the job as her cover story to get here."

The small black book was shut with a snap, and Kyoya tucked it in his pocket. The dark cloud of annoyance that he normally only had in the morning at school, and when Tamaki was really being an idiot was beginning to gather around him.

"Alright then. We'll come back to that. For now, you two," He glanced at the girls, "Should go pack your bags. We can't trust Tokiya not to make a move sooner rather than later on you two."

"Shouldn't we let Detective Maria know about this?"

The twins query was a quiet one, but it brought a sudden stillness to the room.

"They have a good point Ootori. Wouldn't it make sense to tell her so she can get a cop to watch the house for us or something?"

Nala's green eyes were bright with worry as she looked at Kyoya to answer her question. He however shook his head no.

"It wouldn't be wise to tell her because she'd have to alert the precinct about it and if there's a sudden flurry of movement at the precinct he'll hear about it which is what we don't want."

"Oh."

"But Kyo-kun Mori and I can't stay with them all day, even we have to be out of the house for training and meetings so what if they try to come then?"

Kyoya sighed.

"I'll send some of my family's private police force to watch the house when that happens. I trust them more than regular police for the job."

The twins snickered.

"Look at the shadow lord getting all sympathetic Kaoru."

"Mm Hikaru, it's almost like he,"

"Cares."

The Ootori son turned a cold look on them, glasses flashing in annoyance.

It really is terrifying how he does that even when there's not a light in the direction he's turning for it to make them flash.

"Kaoru, and Hikaru," Kyoya's voice snapped Nala out of her thoughts. "I know it's getting closer to a full moon for you two so you're far more on edge than normal so I suggest you two go find an outlet to...burn off some energy before one of you does something stupid that we'll all end up regretting hm?"

Hikaru curled his lip at Kyoya, but before he could say something Kaoru grabbed his arm and pulled him up. They shared another one of those glances, before Hikaru nodded and they turned to leave.

"See you on Monday guys, keep us updated if anything else happens."

So saying, they left, pulling the door shut behind them. About five seconds after that Nala exploded. Leaping off the couch, she all but growled in anger as she began to pace the room.

"What. Is. There. Problem! They really can be such jerks sometimes! Honestly, with how they just acted you'd think they didn't even care! Stupid, idiotic, jerks! See if I'm sympathetic next time something happens to the-"

"Nala." She paused in her tirade because Kyoya had reached out and grabbed her hand. Well, not quite her hand he had his fingers circled around her wrist in an attempt to get her attention. "Stop, they aren't quite themselves right now don't blame them."

Those words snapped her out of her angry thoughts, and she suddenly found herself all ears. Not even the warmth of Kyoya's hand on her arm was deterring her.

"Why? They're like PMSing girls and trust me Ootori I know aaalllll about that. What's their deal?"

"Nal-chan, the twins are always like this around the full moon. You know they normally miss school around this time right? They were only there today since it's a friday and the full moon is on Sunday night."

Tamaki nodded sagely and continued where Honey left off.

"The moon calls to their animals. It's the one legend that is true about shapeshifters."

Oh...I guess that makes sense but….

"Why?" Nala's voice was less angry this time, but still full of turbulent emotion. "I have noticed they missed school but they always said it was for family matters, so why does the moon make them act out?"

Honey spoke back up, he seemed to be the one with the best knowledge of the supernatural world.

But then again that probably comes from his being a priest.

"When Amatsu Mikaboshi the god of evil cursed them, he didn't do it directly. He used a witch who was his lover at the time to enact his curse on them. Witches are the subjects of the goddess Benten, the only goddess of good luck, and her subjects were endowed with some of her godly blood to help bless the humans on earth. Her blood allowed them to perform powerful, powerful magic. However, the witch who was Amatsu Mikaboshi's lover while one of these, had become corrupted by power, and gone to serve him."

Nala found herself getting drawn into the story as Honey spoke, could almost imagine it happening.

"She gave up her oath to Benten that she would do only good when she did that. Now, while Amatsu Mikaboshi had indeed created shapeshifters, he did not have the power to curse them directly because they had scattered from him as soon as they could escape his hold and would not come to him when he called. So, he sent out his witch to do the task for him. Animals trust witches, no matter what animal it is because witches, mostly at least, are the embodiment of light and goodness so Amatsu Mikaboshi knew that his lover would be able, with the witches that had defected with her, curse the shapeshifters."

Honey looked down at the ground sadly.

"And that is exactly what the witch and her evil kindred did. They beguiled the shapeshifters to come to them, and on a night of the full moon forced them to shift into their animal forms in order to tear away part of their souls while they were mid shift because they are vulnerable in that moment. Now, every full moon since then the shifters are forced into their animal forms for the night. They have no recollection of what happened when they wake the next morning. For that reason, the twins go and lock themselves in a special room in their house every full moon so they don't hurt anyone, and for that reason as well, they like many other shifters harbor a deep and bitter hatred towards witches."

Nala found in surprise that she was crying of all things. Not gasping sobs or anything like that, no these were heartfelt tears that trickled down her face for her friends.

"That's awful. No wonder they're out of sorts…" She looked down at her feet.. "Oh man and here I was complaining about them…I'm an awful friend gah!"

"Don't say that Nal-chan!" Honey was instantly there to hug her around her waist and stare up at her with his big, adorable brown eyes. "You didn't know and you had a rough evening so that didn't help."

"I guess."

Nala still looked uncomfortable, but a gentle tug on her wrist had her flinching with surprise, and her eyes raced over to Kyoya who was still holding her wrist.

Oh my

Honey must've felt it because his eyes went wide for a moment before he glanced at Kyoya's hand on her wrist and a small sly grin slid over his face. Letting go of her, he danced over to Haruhi and tugged her hand.

"C'mon Haru-chan! Let's go pack your stuff!"

"Oy! None of you shady guys should be allowed in my darling Haruhi's pure, untainted bedroom!"

"Senpai you were all in there a few months ago when that monster attacked don't you remember?"

"That was different!"

"Not really!"

Somehow, within moments the four other hosts were gone from the room and were in Haruhi and Nala's bedroom down the hall. And Kyoya was still holding her wrist. Even though her heart was beating a mile a minute, Nala knew she should remind him to let go of her wrist.

Should being the operative word there.

"Nala," Kyoya gently tugged her closer until she was at the edge of his chair, looking down into his dark, impassive eyes. "Be careful. We can't stay to watch you guys constantly even though we are almost always with you."

She smiled down at him with a kind of quiet acceptance.

"I know Kyoya, I do try, I don't go asking for trouble it has a tendency to find me first." She looked down at him to find a look of surprise on his face. "What? What is it?"

Shaking his head, Kyoya smirked slightly.

"Nothing, it's just that that's the second time I've ever heard you use my name rather than call me Ootori." His smirk turned downright evil, and he let go of her wrist, standing as he did so and turning to step towards the front door. "You should start packing, I'm going to call my driver back around." Another step towards the door. "Oh, and Miss Fuyumi?"

She turned to face him, a warm blush on her face.

"Yeah?"

His hand was on the door handle as he casually spoke over his shoulder.

"You should use my name more often, it sounds good coming from you."

So saying he walked out of the apartment and Nala's jaw dropped.

"What the hell?"

The words she whispered to herself seemed to float around the room.

There's no way in heck he was just flirting with me. Was he?!

Full of too many questions to answer, Nala glanced back downa t her wrist and could've sworn she felt his hand still wrapped around it as if the heat from his hand had lingered. Feeling ridiculous, Nala shook her head and headed towards her bedroom to pack her bags. She had more pressing matters to worry about that Kyoya possibly flirting with her. Even if that's what she wanted to focus on, the safety of her family and friends came first.

**Author's Note**

THINGS ARE PICKING UP! WOOT WOOT! We'll just have to see where this goes, but it looks like the hosts have some sort of plan! As always, your reviews are appreciated, and I want to ask this, but how do you feel about Kyola so far? Is he in character or is he just too sappy? It's a really hard line to draw as an author since his character is so…..secretive and sneaky most of the time. Let me know what you guys think! Until next time!

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