Chapter Twenty "Protection"

Author: Hey every one. I'm back….. sort of. Any way, I'm in school now which sucks and so I've been doing other things. I decided to up date this chapter. Go ahead and say yay! Now, those of you guys know that the Ouran dating game is still happening. Those that have not sent me there reply to the questions in the one chapter need to in order for this chapter to happen. I have my three and I received one response to the questions asked. Other than that, please enjoy the next chapter. ^.^

Haruhi's point of view

As you all know by now, my heart sank in last night. I was upset, but for the right reason. He treated me like some random girl on the street. He wanted to make himself happy and not me. I feel alone, trapped and isolated. I will forever remain alienated from the host club. Why should I go back? They never cared for me. The only one who did was Hunny-senpai and Mori-senpai. Every one else used me….. for there own selfish game.

What can I do? After all, I'm stuck as Tamaki-senpai. If I wasn't him, I would be happier and I would probably tell my father that I wanted to leave. He would have understood and let me be. I can't change what occurred in the past. I will always remain as Tamaki Suoh and never Haruhi Fujioka. An idiot and never the smartest girl in class. Maybe I should have never came to Ouran in the first place. I could have been happier not going here. I could be with friends and not have to cross dress every day despite having a debt up my neck. Maybe…. Leaving is the best idea.

I remained at home in a dark corner. I kept receiving phone calls, but just merely ignored them. You can't patch a broken wound; you can only tear it up more. I know my heart wants to be happy, but how can I? I'll keep repeating this till the message gets a crossed. Tamaki Suoh is just a selfish, irrespirable member to the host club! All he does is waste money and it ends up being me who has to pay off the debt! Hunny with the paint ball gun, what was he thinking!? Hunny-senpai acts like a little kid and if he had siblings, maybe he would have known better. Sure, I don't have siblings, but at least I know the right thing to do!

I continued to sit in my room till the door opened a little. I turned and two figures stood in the cracked door way. Perfectly in sync, I knew it was Hikaru and Kaoru. They walked in slowly, probably afraid of me. I had more strength because I'm in this horrid body and with my smarts, any one would want to fear me right now. I turned and gave a death glare. They backed a little and closed the door shut and turned on the bright lights.

"What do you want?" I asked bitterly.

"We wanted to talk to you. Is that ok?" Kaoru asked worried.

I just sighed and turned fully to face them.

"Go ahead,"

"Listen Haruhi, we have something to say," Hikaru looked at me and then looked down into his palms.

"You see Haruhi, last night was our fault," Kaoru said.

"Look, I'm blaming you two. I know its senpai's fault and let's leave it at that ok,"

"But it wasn't his fault. It was ours. We can explain everything,"

"I'm listening Hikaru,"

"You see, we over heard what Kyouya said. We knew that the only way you two can be your selves was to love each other. So we made a set up. After we knew where you were going, we planned on following you guys. Kyouya told us not to, but we went ahead and ignored his warning,"

"You so two set everything up!? I should….."

"Calm down Haruhi. There's more,"

I sat back down and continued to listen to Hikaru's soft and some what charming voice.

"We left dinner alone and knew that the park was the perfect place to set everything. We paid the boat manager extra money to close and lend you that sawn boat. Then we made sure the love tunnel thing was open to riders. When we found out it was closed, we turned it on and waited for the boss to see it. We were going to stop the ride and had it be romantic, but we didn't want to be sued or anything for that. Once you got up, we ourselves headed over to the lake and technically took the last boat, but the guys fixed the other one so that's how you two ended up on that one. Then we wanted to close the night with a passionate kiss. We didn't plan the music. A stupid crab came in our boat and stared to sing it. We tried to get him off and some how we ran into you guys. I guess you can say part of it was planned and the other parts weren't. We are sorry if you don't want to come back to the host club. If you don't come back, every one will miss you. I will probably miss you the most….. Haru….haru…hi,"

He started to turn ad walk out. Suddenly, I heard lightening and grabbed onto his white tank top shirt. He turned and then I just looked at him like I didn't do anything. The lightening struck again and I hugged onto him tightly….. scared, like before when I felt alone.

"Uhh….hmm… It's ok Haruhi. You don't have to be scared…."

I looked up into him and suddenly I saw what appeared to be Tamaki's face, like that first night when I felt happy, when I wasn't alone.

"Hikaru…."

"It's ok…" Suddenly his voiced changed into what sounded like Tamaki's voice from my memories of that night. "I'll protect you,"

I leaned in closed and started to cry. I didn't care who I was now or who was with me. All I wanted was to feel safe and not alone. All I wanted to do now was go back to school and back to where my family needed me the most. Back at the Ouran High School Host Club…..

"I'm sorry Tamaki-senpai. I won't treat this way any more. I promise….. I'll make you happy…."

"I'm glad to hear that…. Haruhi," The voice responded back as through it were Tamaki, but it didn't matter to me. I guess you can say, I'm coming back home.