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So, he knew

9

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Kyoya could feel it. He could feel it melting around him, his ice barrier. The barrier that divided him from everyone else. From the moment he entered Tokyo University, he hadn't forgotten his goal, to succeed his father's business, to surpass his brothers and satisfy his father's expectations. He clenched his fist, he musn't lose sight of his goal.

Kyoya looked into the sky, it seemed that lately, his thought have all gathered in one place, on one particular person, Haruhi –

"Kyoya-sempai!" Speaking of the devil, here she comes. Kyoya turned around to see Haruhi running up to him, out of breath.

"You're out of breath already Haruhi? You only ran 100metres from the front of the school to where I'm standing" Kyoya chuckled.

Haruhi ignored him and continued "Can you tell Tamaki that I'll be late home? Tamaki and the twins wanted hot pot tonight so I'm going to buy ingredients"

"Can I come?" Kyoya was surprised at himself. "I mean, if you're getting home late, I can call my chauffer to give you a lift"

Haruhi looked up, somewhat surprised as well. "Kyoya sempai wants to come? Sure!"

"I'll give Tamaki a call now." Kyoya took out his phone.

"Tamaki?"

"HIII KYOYA!"

"I'm going shopping with Haruhi, we might get back a bit late"

"I want to comeeeeee!" Kyoya glanced at Haruhi. He wanted to spend some time with her and get to know her better, for some reason, he felt that even the tiniest details like her favourite colour may seem significant.

"yup tamaki, we promise we won't be gone for too long! Bye" Kyoya smiled at Haruhi. "Let's go"

Back at the mansion

Tamaki was fuming at the phone while wailing at Hikaru. "HE HUNG UP ON ME! HE HUNG UP ON ME!!!"

"But that's what we always do milord" Kaoru said in a bored tone from the couch.

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Kyoya found himself staring at the banana rack. So cheap . . .

Haruhi looked up from her basket and smiled. It wasn't hard to figure out what was going through Kyoya's mind at the moment. She walked up behind him and took a couple of bananas off the rack. Her large brown eyes looked into his as she smiled. Something stirred inside Kyoya, her smile… it wasn't right.

"Sempai, these bananas are common price" she said lightly.

"Haruhi!" Kyoya pulled her back. He looked down at her gently. Quietly, he asked "Haruhi, are you alright?"

Haruhi didn't look up. He sighed.

"Come"

"Eh? I haven't bought the ingredients yet"

"Never mind that, I'll get one of my staff to buy it" with that said, Kyoya took Haruhi by the arm and led her out of the supermarket and into his car. "Tokyo hospital" he told his chauffer.

So he knew. Haruhi glanced up at Kyoya. "Thank you sempai"

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"Father!" Haruhi rushed into the hospital room and embraced her father. Kyoya smiled the relieved expression she wore as Haruhi fell into her father's arms.

"Darling, I'm so sorry I had you worried!" Ranka said as haruhi and kyoya each took a seat next to his bed. "I'm actually fine! Look! I can walk, think and talk normally but the doctors said I needed to stay in hospital for another day or two just to make sure"

"you should've at least called me to tell me that you were fine! I was so worried for the past days father!!" Haruhi frowned.

Ranka took one look at Haruhi and hugged her vigorously. "YOU'RE SO CUTE WHEN YOU LOOK WORRIED! ESPECIALLY ABOUT YOUR DADDDY!!"

"mmfmm" was all Kyoya could make of Haruhi's reply.

"Kyoya, I trust that all is well at school. I'd like you to meet with my business associate. He's flying in from Spain tomorrow, I hope that you can secure the contract we have with his corporation." His father looked over at him over the top of his glasses.

"Yes father." Kyoya waited for further words but his father had already got up from his chair and was walking towards the door.

His father paused at the door. "Don't fail my expectations of you Kyoya"

"I won't" Kyoya said softly as his father's shadow disappears down the hallway.

"Sempai！Kyoya!" Haruhi was shaking him gently by the arm. "It's time to go, Tamaki and the twins are waiting for hot pot remember?"

"Right" Kyoya muttered. He must've drifted off sometime during their visit. He looked at the happy family infront of him and thought of his own. He rarely talked to his brothers and his father never had the time to talk to him properly, it was all just business, business and business.

"Kyoyaaaaa-kun" A shrilly voice called out his name, shaking him out of his thoughts.

"Yes Ranka-san?"

"Thank you so much for taking care of my Haruhi. I'm SO glad that she isn't living alone with that pervert"

Kyoya almost snorted with laughter. Pervert? No doubt Ranka meant Tamaki. "No problem" He replied cheerfully. "I hope you get better soon Ranka"

He closed the hospital door behind him gently and walked slowly along side with Haruhi.

"Thank you Kyoya-sempai" Haruhi said gratefully as they went down the lift.

Kyoya glanced down at her. "It was nothing" He could feel the red heat creeping onto his cheeks as she smiled up at him.

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"HARUHIIIIIIIII! We're starving, how come it took you so long to come home from buying hotpot?" Hikaru and Kaoru wailed into her ears.

"I was looking around here and there, besides I didn't go for that long. You have a chef to cook for you. You could just get him to make you something if you were starving, which, I doubt you were" She said matter-of-factly.

"Oh Haruhi, I hope you bought enough ingredients cause we have guests over" Tamaki called from the living room.

Guests?

"HARU-CHAN!" Haruhi didn't even need to turn around to guess who was currently running her way.

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A/N: for those who were wondering, yes, I'm still alive XD I am so sorry everyone for being such a lazy bum and not updating for so long. Anywayyy, the whole host club is here together now! wonder what will happen?