Escaping the Madman

Haruhi gasped and held onto the throbbing pain on her side. She had been running for barely 10 minutes and already she had a stitch!

"Nooo…" she moaned. She grabbed onto the corner of the staircase and swung herself around to give her more speed. WHOOSH, she slid down the stairs at a frightening speed. Suddenly, a huge clashing and thumping noise greeted her ears. Tamaki had reached the wooden floor boards, and he was madly following her down the stairs.

"WAKE UP!!!" pleaded Haruhi, desperate tears started sliding her face. She grabbed a mini statue and chucked it at Tamaki. But it merely bounced of his skull, and caused him to gnash his teeth more furiously. She had no idea this would ever happen. Out of the thousands of people she could have married, she had to marry Tamaki Souh. And out of the millions of people in the world, he had to have this weird sleep walking disorder. And out the billions of dream he could have been having, he was dreaming of being an axe murder. And finally out of the hundreds of days, it had to be their wedding night.

Haruhi scrambled up to her feet, her pajamas dress flapping wildly about her legs. She quickly tied the delicate white fabric to her hips and then made the best use of her unhindered legs.

"ARGHHHHH!!!!" Haruhi tripped spectacularly over the edge of the carpet covering the fourth floor of their private hotel. And with that accident, her precious mobile slipped from her hands, bounced off from the wall and straight up to the stairs before being completely bashed by one of Tamaki's rampaging foot.

"NOOOOO!!!!" Haruhi screamed, while desperately trying to get up and run away. "THAT WAS MY ONLY HOPE!" Her mobile, the only hope of getting help was now smoldering, and totally useless, not to mention out of reach.

"Why did we have to book a private hotel?" Haruhi screamed hysterically, now heading for the third floor, now without her life saving mobile. "There's not even a single person in this multi-storied hotel." She rushed down the hallway, and then her heart stopped. There standing in the entrance of the elevator at the end of the hallway, were her five saviors.

"Mori, Hunny, Kyouya, Hikaru, Kaoru!" Haruhi was so so so relieved. It was a good thing she had rung them earlier.

"H-Haruhi…" they stared behind her in shock.

"I'm SO GLAD to see you!" she screamed and rushed towards them.

"HARUHI!" all five of them yelled, "You're leading Tamaki towards US!"

"THIS IS A DEAD END!" Hikaru exclaimed in horror. For they had stepped out of the elevator, the doors had closed, and the elevator had progressed downwards. None of the arrows were glowing ready.

"And…" Hunny was terrified, "Look at…"

Tamaki was running full on towards them down the hallway, getting closer and closer every second. They could see more clearly his eyes bulging madly out of his face. And they became aware of the thing in his hands.

"Where the HELL did he get that AXE from?!" Hikaru screamed. He clawed at the walls. "GUYS WE NEED TO GET OUT!"

"QUICK!" squealed Hunny. Tamaki was swinging his arms in an alarming fashion. WHOOSH WHOOSH, the axe whipped through the air dangerously each time he swung it around.

"What are we going to do?" moaned Haruhi.

BAM

Mori promptly punched a hole into the wall. As a result, the whole wall collapsed and all six of them scrambled through the entrance and ran for it.

"Why this idiot has a sleeping disorder…"panted Kyouya.

"But you didn't know that?" Hikaru and Kaoru asked incredulously, "Didn't he stay over at your place once?'

"He did…" Kyouya, frowned, "he was shuffling around curiously the whole night come to think of it…"

"He was dreaming as a blind burrowing mole…" offered Hikaru.

THUMP THUMP THUMP

Tamaki was making alarming progress.

"I don't care!" Haruhi moved her legs faster, "We need to wake him up!"

"What have you tried?" Hunny asked. He was riding on Takashi's shoulder and was bouncing up and down due to the big man's pace.

"I threw a glass water at him, I chucked stuff at him, I screamed at him, I…"

"That's not good enough," the twins interrupted her rant.

"What we need…" came Kyouya's quiet reply, distinguishable through all their heavy breathing, "is the second floor. There's a swimming pool on that floor."

"Ok, look there's the stairs to the second floor," pointed Kaoru. All of them rushed down the stairs, Tamaki hot on their heels.

"Remember," shouted Kyouya, "to split up when we get to the pool's edge. We have to confuse him and lead him to jump straight into the pool."

"Hikaru, Kaoru," shouted Haruhi, "follow me and we'll go right. Kyouya, Hunny and Mori, go left."

"OK!"

They pounded down hallway and pushed through the doors of the swimming pool room.

"NOW!" yelled the twins. The group split into two lines, one going left and one going right at the pool's edge. Tamaki keep going straight and as a result leaped straight into the swimming pool.

"AH SUCCESS!!!" the twins were delighted and slapped high fives.

"Tamaki!" Haruhi attempted to jump in the pool towards her husband.

"Wait," Kyouya threw his arm out to stop her. All six of them stared anxiously at the middle of the pool. A couple of bubbles were rising and popping at the surface. There was a dark shape slowly rising to the surface.

SPLASH

Tamaki suddenly broke through the surface of the water, spluttering. His eyes were still tightly shut, eyeballs moving frantically below his eyelids. And he stood up slowly and raised the axe high in the air.

"RUN FOR IT!!!!" screamed Kaoru. "HE ISN"T AWAKE."

"QUICK" yelled Hikaru. He scoped up Haruhi and headed after Kaoru out of the swimming pool room.

Once again, Tamaki, now dripping with water and looking more terrifyingly maniacal than he ever did, was chasing them. If it wasn't this serious, it would have been funny.

Kaoru slid around the corner, gasping for breath. "T-the elevator…"he choked, pointing at towards the end of the hallway. One of the arrows was thankfully glowing green.

"Go, quick, get in," came Kyouya's anxious reply. They crammed themselves in, and Hikaru was just on the verge of pressing the close button when he realized…

"Hunny-sempai isn't in here!"

"Wait!" Hunny squealed. He had fallen from Mori's shoulder but now he dashed into the elevator. Too late, that cost a few seconds; it was enough for Tamaki to thrust his head forward into the elevator.

CRASH

The elevator door opened and closed again and again, with Tamaki's head in between.

"Tamaki!" Haruhi was beyond shock. It just doesn't do, to see your husband with his head being repeatedly smashed by the elevator doors.

"Shit! He's going to get more idiotic!" gasped the twins.

Luckily, Hunny, thinking in his characteristic quick fighting skills, landed a kick at Tamaki and the elevator shut resolutely closed.

"Whew!" the twins were mightily relieved.

"Wait-" Kyouya was concerned, but before he could say anything, the elevator lurched and surged upwards. Then Kyouya straightened and enlightened the rest of them with the terrible news, "Hunny is not in this elevator."

"Oh no!" Haruhi suddenly realized, "when he kicked Tamaki out, he ended up outside!"

There was a horrible silence.

BEEP

Mori's strong finger pressed the open button of the elevator. The doors slid open smoothly to reveal the gaping blackness below. The elevator was still moving upwards but Mori took one determined step out of the elevator!

"MORI SEMPAI!!!!" screamed the rest of them. He had already disappeared into the deep dark labyrinth, motivated by his never ending loyalty towards Hunny.

Hikaru pressed the elevator down button, "Mori sempai get back in here!" he shouted into the darkness, his voice echoing.

"Noooo…" moaned Haruhi, "If we go down, the elevator will smash him to pieces."

"CRAP" Hikaru was downright horrified at his actions.

"Up," Kyouya said urgently, and he fumbled at the arrows. The door slid closed, and they felt feet pushing against the floor of the elevator-good they were heading up now.

When the elevator stopped and the doors opened at the third floor a mini second later, both Hikaru and Kaoru ran out of it. "We need to save Mori and Hunny!" they headed in a mad rush towards the stairs.

"NO! LET"S NOT GET SPERATED!" Haruhi tried to stop them, but to no avail.

"This is bad," Kyouya said calmly. "Everyone knows that when you get separated, the monster gets you."

Far from glaring at Kyouya for calling her husband a monster, Haruhi was stilled by this vital and universal truth. "But we're not separated entirely…"she stammered, "And it's only Tamaki with a bad dream…"

"Did you check out this hotel before you booked it?" Kyouya asked.

"…" Haruhi glared at Kyouya, "I'm not a superstitious person."

"But Tamaki is…" countered Kyouya.

"WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?" yelled Haruhi, "Besides, we need to find the others, and more importantly WAKE Tamaki up!" She grabbed Kyouya by the collar, "Come on, let's hurry!"

"I have a bad feeling about this…" was all Kyouya muttered.

AN: This is starting to resemble a horror movie…oh dear. Anyway, hope you liked the chapter, there'll be more because this is now multi-chaptered. Thanks for a great response so far!

Note; Tamaki doesn't really have a sleeping disorder, I made it up for purely entertaining purposes. This story is of course set after their schooling; Tamaki and Haruhi are married.

But it's more humour than romance though.