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Chapter One: Reinforcements

Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!

Kyouya was woken by the sudden sound of beeping. It seemed to be next to his ear… But that didn't make much sense, as the alarm clock should have been on his bedside table, and he hadn't even set the blasted alarm in the first place. After all, most people want to have a chance to sleep in on weekends.

With a small groan, Kyouya began waving his arm in the direction of the alarm clock, hoping that he would hit the switch to turn it off. Instead, the beeping continued, and he heard sounds of laughter. Very familiar laughter…

"Kyouya! Good morning, mon ami!" came the annoying voice of Suou Tamaki, directly in his ear.

Kyouya flashed a glare in Tamaki's general direction as he grabbed his glasses. The glare caused Tamaki to fall to the floor, realizing that he had just woken the 'low blood pressure demon lord'. Why is Tamaki even here, Kyouya wondered. How did he get in?

With his glasses on, Kyouya sat up and looked over at the alarm clock, which read 8:00 AM. Deciding that it was much too early to be up – especially on a weekend – Kyouya flopped back down in bed.

"Get up, senpai." At the voice of another, Kyouya opened one eye. That voice was certainly not something he expected to hear. Especially not at eight o'clock in the morning in his dorm room at medical school when she was supposed to be somewhere out of the continent.

Kyouya decided that right now would be a good idea to take a look at how many people were actually in his room. Grudgingly sitting up, he glanced around the room. There was Tamaki, who was still cowering on the floor, as well as Haruhi, who was kneeling next to him and rolling her eyes as she tried to get him to stand up. Standing in the doorway was Morinozuka Takashi, and predictably Haninozuka Mitsukuni was standing next to him, munching on a piece of chocolate. And sitting in the corner was Hikaru, who looked very nervous about something, as he was rocking back and forth and biting his nails, his eyes darting about the room.

It seemed to Kyouya that Tamaki's corner of woe had been momentarily taken over by Hikaru. With good reason.

"What are you doing in my dorm room at eight o'clock in the morning on a weekend?" he asked to the room in general, trying to be polite but failing as he had been quite irritated by the abrupt awakening.

This seemed to shock Hikaru out of his nervous state. The twin jumped up, an outraged expression on his face. "You don't even care, do you?" He clenched his fists in anger. "Kaoru's missing, and you don't even give a damn!"

The room was in silence for a moment before Kyouya responded. "If you've quite done with accusing me of being a heartless fiend," Kyouya didn't mention that he used to act quite like that while attending Ouran. "Then perhaps you'd like to know that I was going to help you if Kaoru didn't show up before now. Which, judging by your appearance here, I can tell he has not." He fixed Hikaru with a blank stare, no emotion evident in his face. "Apparently you don't understand the concept of calling at a reasonable hour."

With another glance around the room, Kyouya decided to continue. "And would you care to explain the appearance of the Host Club in my room?"

At the mention of the Host Club, Tamaki started spouting a speech which had clearly been rehearsed several times. "Oh, the Host Club. We had so many adventures together. Alas, we were forced to disband upon graduation."

Before he could continue any further, Haruhi put her hand over his mouth. "Senpai, now's not the time for reminiscing." She had always been the most practical of them all. Turning to Kyouya, she answered his original question. "Well, it might have had something to do with a helicopter landing near my apartment and Hikaru running around screaming my name and other nonsense about Kaoru being missing. And when he dragged me off so that we could leave, I couldn't very well say no, could I? Not like he gave me much of a choice," she mumbled under her breath, an annoyed look on her face.

Hunny piped up, the first time he had spoken since Kyouya had woken. "Hika-chan let us know he needed help, so we came super fast!"

"Well, you weren't doing anything," Hikaru said, seeing the look on Kyouya's face which looked like he was about to strangle Hikaru for his impulsive decision. "So I decided to bring in reinforcements."

Mori, ever the silent one, added his views to the conversation: "Yeah."

Tamaki then stood on the desk with a superhero pose, pointing in the air up at the ceiling for no reason. The others had to hold back laughter at what the 'king' of the Host Club was doing. They had seen him do it so many times before, and it was very predictable what he was going to say next. "The Ouran High School Host Club unites once more! We must find Kaoru and save him, for not doing so would be against… Club regulations!" Kyouya was going to point out that the club didn't have any regulations, but decided not to as Tamaki was in mid-speech. "We exist to bring fortune to women, and even though Kaoru looks nothing like a woman, we shall help him anyway! For it would be a crime if there was only one of the infamous Hitachiins to lay their eyes on!"

Hunny started jumping up and down, giggling. "Let's go find Kao-chan!" He announced with a big grin on his face.

"Kyouya, doesn't your family have a private police force? We might not have had to come here at all." Haruhi sent a glare in Hikaru's direction for not thinking logically and forcing them to come. But after seeing the hurt look on his face, she stopped. "But… I guess there was some point to coming because it's been nice to see you all. But if Kyouya's police force work on it, he'd be back a lot quicker than if we tried to locate him ourselves."

Kyouya blinked. "While that is true, sadly the police force has been completely busy and will be for the next few days." At the mention of that, Hikaru's face fell. "I was just informed of this yesterday, mind you. So I suppose we have to find him ourselves as we don't exactly want any media coverage. Commoner police would blurt it all over the internet and newspapers."

Tamaki's eyes grew wide and he gave Haruhi a big hug. "Mother, you have insulted our daughter's commoner heritage!" He then proceeded to ramble on about… something. Kyouya wasn't bothered to pay attention. Instead, he was formulating a plan on what to do in his mind.

"Well, the logical thing to do would be to look around your dorm for any clues." Kyouya stated matter-of-factly. He doubted that the room would be completely clear of any evidence, as the twins weren't exactly the tidiest.

"We're like detectives!" Hunny cheered.

"And what's a detective without the proper attire?" asked Tamaki, getting a bit overly-excited at the prospect of holding an investigation.

He was interrupted, however by a crashing noise. Hikaru had thrown the alarm clock at him. Fortunately, it had missed and hit the wall next to him, but it was the thought that counts. "You don't understand, do you?" he yelled, pointing at Tamaki accusingly with a shaking finger. Tears were welling up in his eyes. "My brother is missing, and you're acting like this is a stupid game! Well it's not! If you're going to pretend that it is, I can find him myself!"

Hikaru spun on his heel and ran out the door, pushing past Mori and Hunny, leaving a stunned silence in his wake. A few moments later, Hunny started for the door. "Hika-chan! Come back!" Mori held a hand out, grabbing Hunny's shoulder firmly. Hunny looked up at him with surprised wide eyes.

"No, Mitsukuni." Mori said.

Hunny was about to protest, but Kyouya broke in. "No, leave him be. He's probably headed back to his dorm, anyway. Let him calm down a bit. And you," Kyouya added, facing Tamaki. "Are going to be sensible about this. How would you feel if your best friend suddenly disappeared with no explanation?"

Tamaki looked down at his feet solemnly, feeling guilty about upsetting Hikaru. He spoke slowly and quietly, as if he were carefully weighing his words. "So, are we going to follow him, or wait for a little while?"

Haruhi answered his question almost right away. "If Kaoru's been kidnapped, we would want to find him as soon as possible to prevent him getting hurt."

The others all nodded, no more traces of humor evident in the room.

"Now, if you would be so kind as to get out of the room…" Kyouya suggested, but the forcefulness with which he said the last five words made them know that it wasn't a suggestion. It was more like an order. From a very frustrated Kyouya. Remembering that they had woken him up a little too early than necessary, they quickly vacated the dorm.

"Finally," Kyouya muttered, pulling himself out of bed so that he could get dressed. It wasn't likely that he would get any more sleeping time today. Or any day in the near future, to be precise. Time to find some clues, I guess, he thought with a small sigh. Oh, how he had missed the Host Club and its bizarre happenings.

A/N: Yet another chapter (actually, the first chapter) of our fanfic. xP Reviews loved and cherished forever. Thanks to E. L. Pendragon for our first review. 3 Here's the next chappie for you. ;3