Chapter Eight: Plan C is initiated !

How perfectly clear and blue the sky was today. Not a single smudge of clouds, and not a single ripple of dark blue. It was like a piece of canvas, awash with water colour blue, stretched evenly and perfectly poised for something to be painted on it. It was a sky Tamaki would have been proud of.

Mori stretched his shoulder muscles and picked up his water bottle. His kendo equipment had already been packed away, the morning drills already accomplished with all movement executed in perfect harmony. And now he was standing outside in his courtyards contemplating in the comfortable silence of an early morning. The school term had finished yesterday. He had approximately one and a half weeks ahead of him. For him, being in the final year of his schooling, the holidays meant homework and serious issues. He should be focusing on this, shouldn't he? But there was something else troubling him; the Prom. It was to be held two weeks into the upcoming term. An extravagant event like this wasn't much concern for him, but it was the things mixed up with it, like a certain girl two school years below him.

Besides him was the leather bound book; Kaoru's sketch book. He glanced at it and picked it up, slowly flipping through the pages, his brown eyes boring into the details. Two days ago they had found it, and even though it was Hunny who had put in his pocket, it was now in his possession because he had somehow asked to keep it. He closed his eyes and opened them again to stare into the sky. It was still a serene shade of blue.

Suddenly, out of the far corner, he saw something moving. Mori's eyes widened slightly at the trail of white cutting across the blue sky. A trail of white? It was changing direction now, and the white line curved downwards. Mori realised that somebody was flying a jet plane and was writing a message in the sky. But before he could try to wonder why and what was happening, a small body came flying from behind him and hugged him around the waist.

"Takashi!!!" cried Hunny. "I woke up extra early today so that I could visit you!"

Mori's eyebrows twitched; the only sign that he was completely surprised. "You are growing to break out of your sleeping habits."

"I'm growing up!" Hunny was delighted as his friend's praise; so delighted that he forgot to hide his hands. Mori grabbed his right hand and held it fast. It was absolutely slathered with chocolate crumbs and raspberry jam.

"How many cakes did you eat for breakfast?"

"Aw…" Hunny peered at Mori appealingly. "I only ate one more than usual. And I brushed my teeth…I only forgot to wash my hands."

"That's fine." Mori let go of Hunny's sticky hand and picked up Kaoru's sketch book again.

A wide brown eye gazed at him thoughtfully. "You know, Takashi, I think we should return that sketch book to Kao-chan."

There was silence. Then softly, so soft that you could barely hear it against the gentle breeze, came Mori's reply. "Yes. We should do that now."

"Takashi," Hunny inquired, "You do like Haruhi don't you?" He bounced about the seat of their limousine and tried to catch any sign of emotion on his friend's face. They had climbed into Mori's big black limousine after Mori had changed out of his sweaty kendo clothes, and Hunny had washed his hands free of his breakfast of three chocolate and raspberry shortcakes. The streets outside flowed past the window like a river.

"Hmm," Mori finally murmured assent. He leaned back in his seat and looked out the window. The jet plane message was still being drawn. Perhaps it was a special day today like New Years or Valentines.

"You know what?" Hunny said brightly, "I know what your problem is. You can't bring yourself to talk to Haruhi and tell her your feelings." Mori was still absent mindedly flipping through the pages of Kaoru's sketch book.

"Maybe I don't deserve her…" he said softly.

"Hmm…" Hunny said thoughtfully, "You don't know anything yet. You have to give it a try. But don't worry," Hunny added, "I'll try to help you overcome your talking problem."

SCREECH

"Ah," Hunny pulled at Takashi's hands. "We're here. Let's go."

Ding Ding Dong Dong

Hunny stood back from the door and waited with a bright little smile on his face. "Takashi, Hika-chan and Kao-chan should be answering the door soon. I did my special little ringing pattern." He bounced up and down on the welcome mat, and hummed happily in order to create a cheerful atmosphere. They had just climbed the billions of white marble steps up to the front door of the Hitachiin Mansion.

Mori nodded and fingered Kaoru's sketch book. He didn't know how he was going to feel giving the sketch book back to Kaoru. He stared at the fancy oak door of the Hitachiin Mansion and hoped that when he came face to face with Kaoru, everything would turn out ok.

CREAK

The door opened a crack, and a small grey eye peeped back at them. "Yes, can I help you?"

Mori and Hunny stared. It was one of their shy maids.

"Can we see Hikaru and Kaoru?" Hunny asked slowly.

"I'm sorry," The door was being drawn closed, "They are not here today."

"Huh? Hikaru and Kaoru not home?" Hunny and Mori stared at each other, baffled by this news. Usually the twins were always at home, whether inside their mansion or outside in their gardens during the early morning. So what was happening this time?

"AH AH AH MOM!!!!" Kyouya held the phone slightly away from his ear, frowning because some idiot had called him in the middle of the morning when he was most busy. Tamaki was screeching, "HARUHI'S NOT HOME. I WENT TO VISIT HER TODAY BECAUSE I DIDN'T SAY GOODBYE TO HER YESTERDAY AFTER TERM BROKE UP AND RANKA SAID SHE DISAPPEARED!!"

If Tamaki could see Kyouya's face at that instant, he would have immediately died under his terrifyingly furious expression. "Calm down Tamaki. You are dramatizing this. Haruhi has probably gone to the supermarket. Ranka was just teasing you." Kyouya's word were tightly spoken and every syllable was laced with the message -nowstopbotheringme-

"NO SHE HASN'T. I CHECKED EVERYWHERE. WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? SHE'S KIDNAPPED FOR REAL! RING THE POLICE!!!!!" Tamaki, unfortunately was the only one stupid enough to miss the threat, so Kyouya gave it more plainly.

"Tamaki…you do realize you rang just a bit early this morning?"

"GAH, BUT I'M BRAVING YOUR FAMOUS BAD TEMPER BECAUSE HARUHI IS MISSING AND YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO WOULD KNOW WHAT TO DO."

"I'm not the one you should be bothering. Haruhi is probably fine." And he clicked the phone closed and turned back to his computer. A moment later it rang again. Kyouya hesitated, and then picked it up.

"GAH KYOUYA I RANG THE HITACHIINS BUT THEY ARE MISSING TOO! AND HUNNY AND MORI AREN'T AT HOME EITHER. SOME ONE IS KIDNAPPING US ALL!!!!!"

"The Hitachiins and Haruhi missing?" Kyouya paused and frowned; his anger suddenly evaporated.

"What-" Haruhi groaned. She was lurching around, and she felt so sick, she could almost throw up. She wrenched her eyes open and saw nothing but blackness.

WHOOSH

"Gah…" The girl lurched sideways and bumped into something warm and solid. She thought she heard a muffled laugh. "Where am I?" she asked groggily. Her eyes felt funny and her ears were ringing dully. She was still dressed in her PJ's, she could feel the familiar fabric against her skin, and she had absolutely no idea what was going on. Am I dreaming or something? Haruhi pinched herself. At the pain, something like fear slid through her clouded mind. I went to bed last night and now I wake up to find-

An arm slid across her chest and held her tightly.

"ARGHHHHH!!!!!" Haruhi screamed.

"Haruhi! It's us!" A voice whispered. The lights flickered on and there right in front of her was Kaoru.

"Haha," Someone was laughing and he was extremely close. Looking around, she saw Hikaru grinning at her. He was still holding her tightly. "You're awake!"

"Huh????!!!!" The maid who had opened the door for Hunny and Mori explained again.

"Hikaru and Kaoru have left to go to India."

"WHAT???!!!!"

"WHAT!!!???" Haruhi almost choked. "Are you telling me that we are on a jet plane currently flying to India?"

"Yep," Kaoru grinned at his brother, "This is plan C!"

"Plan C?" Haruhi was indignant, "You planned this out!? To kidnap me to India? What are you guys doing?"

Hikaru laughed at Haruhi's reaction. "We're gonna have some fun in India with you!"

"WHY INDIA???" Haruhi was absolutely fuming.

"Since Kyouya is getting your dress for you…" Kaoru smiled.

"We thought we'd get your jewels and accessories for you," finished Hikaru, with an identical smile.

"And," Kaoru added, his eyes sparkling, "Our mother gets most of her uncut gemstones from India for her designs. We thought we'd take you there ourselves."

"But…" Haruhi thought she was going to faint, "I don't have a passport. How did you smuggle me out the country?"

Hikaru looked as if he was mortally offended. "We did not smuggle you out. We got you a legal passport."

"Yep," Koaru dangled something red in front of her, "This was very easy to arrange. We didn't even need Kyouya's help."

"Today is S-"

"Saturday," Kaoru said kindly, "Haruhi, you've been worrying too much about homework. Don't you realize, we have one and half weeks holiday now?"

"I…" Haruhi tried to say everything on her mind and totally yell herself hoarse, but she felt extremely dizzy. She tipped to the side and fainted.

"Ah, watch it!" Hikaru caught her before she fell.

"Ah," Kaoru shook his head regretfully, "We shouldn't have dozed her too much with this." He shook a syringe filled with a sleeping drug.

Hikaru arranged his arms across the sleeping Haruhi more securely and shrugged, "How else were we to get her out of the house without her waking up?"

"Yeah, Haruhi would have completely refused to go. It's a good thing Ranka supported us."

A wicked smile spread across Hikaru's face. "I think Ranka just discriminates against Tamaki. He loves making fun of him."

"Hehehe…" Kaoru winked knowingly at his brother, "And we do too."

"Hitachiin-sama, and Hitachiin-sama, please go back to your seats with your seatbelts fastened." A flight attendant stood in the doorway, and admonished them politely.

"Yeah, we're getting there," Hikaru placed Haruhi gently into a seat and fastened her seatbelt for her. Then he and Kaoru settled themselves on seat either side of her, and grinned at each other. The jet plane rocked and swayed.

"It's awesome having a personal jet plane."

"Good thing, we asked for it last birthday."

"We love abusing Tono."

Their jet plane turned and swerved. The both laughed and clapped high fives.

Bring Bring

Tamaki's cell phone rang sharply. Tamaki scrambled for it while quickly getting to the garage. He wanted to rush to Kyouya and sort out what had happened to Haruhi. "Tamaki," came the low voice of Kyouya, "The twins have kidnapped Haruhi."

"WHAT!!!!????"

One more surprise awaited him. There, etched in the sky, and soon-to-be-etched-painfully-and-permanently-in-his-mind, were the words,

BYE BYE TONO

"Look Takashi!" Hunny exclaimed. Mori and the maid looked up. The jet plane had finished its message. It went right across the sky, completely ruining the earlier beautiful and serene sky.

"MISSION ONE COMPLETE!" Hikaru and Kaoru chuckled.

This shall be good, Kaoru thought, Haruhi, we're getting you the best jewels and accessories for the Prom. He glanced at his twin, Kyouya will probably work out where we've taken Haruhi, but we'll be alone with Haruhi on this jet plane for about three days. This should provide plenty of opportunities for you Hikaru. I'll make sure of it.

A/N: Well then I had better set up the voting system since a lot of people like the idea! (see below)

Thanks for some great comments so far (I'm astounded to what some of you guys are saying 0o) and esp. for picking up errors I make. I will def. be fixing them. Continue to be critical!

Prom King and Queen Nominations!

What: The holidays have just arrived, but before term finished, Prom King and Queen Nominations were put up. This was so that people could think about it during the holidays, and put their votes through by the end of week 1 next term. Let's pretend you, as a reader, are a member of Ouran High School…which gives you a chance to vote for Prom King and Queen! (You don't have to of course if you don't want to).

Who: Be creative - you can pick any existing character from the manga/anime and vote for more than one person. However, you can only vote once for one character.

When: While this story takes place in India (a couple of chapters), that's the time for you to vote. Don't worry, I'll remind you when votes will close.

How: If you haven't already, you can tell me your preferences by shoving them in your review, or you can PM me if you want it to be kept a secret.

Why: Coz it will be fun!

Happy voting. xD