Much Ado About Something

A/N: A second instalment in one night now you know I love you. I hope this will keep you entertained until I return from my great trek. This takes place after Photograph. I really hope that you enjoy it, and please review.

Disclaimer: I thought maybe I should refresh you memories and state that I do not own OHSHC. I wish I did own it, or at least that I could make money from writing this. If that were the case I wouldn't be smoking such shitty cigarettes at the moment. Sob, c'est la vie.

As soon as Kyouya retreated to his office that evening he knew that something was wrong. It was the cupboard that first tipped him off, the door was hanging slightly open. He hated doors that swung of their own accord, it never failed to distract him. As a result he had had special tight-fitting catches fitted so that when he shut the door, it stayed bloody well shut.

Was the mechanism getting loose? No, he tested it with his finger and found that it was sound. He shut the door and paused to think. Someone had been in his personal room. It may just have been a maid, of course, and that would have been fine.

But what if it had not been? He had duplicates of some very important documents in this room. Things he needed for the work he was doing for his father. He would catch no end of shit if these was a leak and it was traced to his carelessness.

With a sort of calm panic he began to search the room. He checked the filing cabinet first but nothing was out of place there (he reminded himself to get locks fitted to the drawers tomorrow, just to be safe). Next he checked the second drawer of his desk; that was where the most current documents were stored, everything was as he left it.

He allowed himself to breathe easy as he shut the drawer. Then his eye picked up something that he had not noticed in his initial frantic searching. He always closed drawers completely and carefully, he hated for anything to be less than perfectly neat, but the third drawer was ever so slightly open. As if it had been closed in a hurry.

He would later swear that his hand had not been slightly as he pulled it open. Inside was the frame, as it should be, except that it was out of place. Out of paranoia that it would be found, he always lined it up exactly with the corner of the drawer. That way if it was moved he would know immediately and could predict accordingly.

This time it was tilted. Someone had found it and placed it back hoping that he wouldn't notice. But they had done so carelessly and the once Shadow King noticed everything.

He pulled out his laptop and set it on the desk, waiting for it to fire up. The first thing he did was to change his password. If it had been a spy that got into his office they may be able to guess from that photo that his password was 'Haruhi,' or more accurately 'H RuH1.' It was a long shot, but one that he would not take his chances on.

The second was to open up a new document and start making a list of the people that might have seen his most prized, and secret, possession. He also began to plan countermeasures.

If it had been a spy, they may try to blackmail him, or they may threaten Haruhi to get to him (something he absolutely could not allow). Maybe he could assign her a bodyguard if anything like that became apparent.

If it was one of the maids, he could probably intimidate or bribe them into silence.

He knew he could not rule out Kamiko. She was not above subversion, he knew. If it was her, well fuck there wasn't really anything he could do to circumvent her. She seemed to have been pretty sheltered during the majority of her adolescence, so there were no real discretions that he could threaten her with.

He could break up with her as a preventative measure, but then there would be nothing to stop her from dragging his name, and consequently Haruhi's, through the mud. The first part he could recover from. But he had already hurt Haruhi enough and he couldn't bear to throw her under the bus just to save himself.

What on earth was he going to do?

A/N: Short little thing I know, but it kind of gets its job done and I didn't want to pad it for length at risk of its meaning. I hope that you like it, please do drop me a review.

On another topic, since this Universe is kind of being expanded as things come to me (i.e. I do not have an iron clad plot, it's rather flexible really), if you have any ideas for scenes or things that you would be interested in seeing, why not put them in the review and I will see if I can work them in. Naturally I will credit the person if I make use of the idea.

Even if I do not use it for this story, I might take it as a prompt for a bonus oneshot. You never know.