(A/N: Hey all. Sorry this took so long! So with out further adieu, here's the next chapter!)

"How long have those two been at it now?" Sora asked no one in particular, dealing the playing cards.

"Today marks the five day mark." Kyoya said, eyeing the tick marks on his planner, snapping it shut to take hold of his cards.

"That long huh?" Hinode muttered, rearranging her hand.

"Mm-hm." Haruhi said calmly, setting down two cards and drawing two, "They're both stubborn as mules."

What's going on you may ask?

Lets recap to six days ago, one day after the photo shoot.

Akane had gone out, ditching the Host Club with Utako (which for some unfathomable reason, she wasn't too happy about)

Infuriated, Utako had stormed out of the house, Host Club in tow to find her.

And find her she did.

Getting a piggy back ride from her ex boyfriend (and current best male friend) Hideki (see series one; ch. 24)

Recalling her hubby's thoughts on Akane dating ANYONE, her heart danced with glee.

She was on her cell in a matter of milliseconds.

-"Y'llo?"- a calm voice answered mildly.

"Hey baby." Utako replied, trying her best to contain her immeasurable joy, "Um…hey…remember what you said about Akane dating?"

-"Yeeee-yah."- Suo replied slowly.

"Have youuu changed your opinion on that on hat at a-?" Utako began before being interrupted by Suo.

-"Absolutely not."- Suo replied sharply, -"Why?"-

"I was just wondering because Akane's with this boy." Utako continued casually, "I've never seen him at the house before…so I was won-klik-…booopbooopbooop…"

"Who did you just call?" Hunny asked innocently.

"Oh, no one." Utako lied through her teeth, "Just checking my voicemail."

"…I see." Kyoya said calmly, knowing the model was lying, but as it did not directly effect him, he didn't care.

Haruhi was distracted window shopping with the twins and wasn't paying attention.

Tamaki was preoccupied playing up to random women on the street.

So no one was prepared when a Mercedes Benz came screeching up and Suo came flying out and storming in Akane's general direction.

Automatically seeing her enraged older brother charging full on her way frothing at the mouth, Akane leapt off Hideki's back and shrieked:

"RUN HIDEKI! RUN! RUN! RUN!"

Which he did.

He ran like a deer, but Suo was on him like white on rice.

However, Akane managed to stop him by chomping down on his forearm hard enough to draw blood.

Swearing loudly, he grabbed his bleeding appendage and glared up at his sister who glaring back at him.

"What is yer problem?" she asked calmly.

"My problem?" Suo answered, "What the hell were you doing with him?"

"None a yer damn business." She replied, never raising her voice.

"What's going on?" Haruhi asked, having finally turned around, "This is really creeping me out."

"They aren't…yelling." Hikaru murmured, cold chills shooting down his spine.

"That just makes it even creepier." Tamaki whimpered, ducking behind Kyoya.

"I'M SCARED!" Hunny squealed, leaping into Mori's arms, who hefted him up easily.

It had been like that for the rest of the day.

They never argued in loud voices, but lowered tone with a silky intensity so utterly bone-chilling it was better suited for some psycho in a horror flick.

Finally, in the middle of the night, one of their soft spoken arguments reached a boiling point and Akane stormed out of the house.

That had been five days ago.

"Aren't you worried about her?" Haruhi asked, shuffling her cards together as she folded her hand.

"Hm?" Sora blinked, "Not really."

"Yeah." Hinode nodded, "We've gone for weeks a time without seeing her."

"Is that so?" Kyoya asked, showing his hand: a full house.

"Mm-hm." Sora nodded, tossing her cards to the floor, giving up on the game.

"Don't get us wrong, we are worried." Hinode sighed, "It's just we know from experience that Takaomi will get impatient with the two of'em-"

"-and drag Suo with him as he goes to track'er down." Sora finished.

"No." Akane snapped without taking the lit Mild Seven from her mouth, "No way in HELL I'm apologizin' t' THAT bastard."

"Chyeah right, Taka." Suo snorted, "It'd take nothing short of a miracle for me to forgive that slut."

"C'mon guys." Hunny begged, "It's been a whole week!"

"Let it go, GAWD!" the twin cried exasperatedly.

The girls had been right of course.

Only minutes after they had finished their game, Takaomi had rounded everybody up (except Utako; she makes everything worse) and had quickly driven off and hunted his sister down.

It had taken less than fifteen minutes (whadee do? implant a tracking chip when she was sleeping?)

And now the eldest and youngest siblings were in a standoff, refusing to look or speak to each other.

"Okay." Mannen snarled, stepping forward.

"That's enough." Kazuo growled, rolling up his sleeves.

They grabbed their siblings from behind and forced them to face one another.

Takaomi strolled between them.

"You need to get this out in the open." He grunted, "No clinching, no biting. Go."

Mannen shoved Akane towards Suo and Kazuo force Suo towards Akane.

What followed was an all out brawl that sent the siblings crashing into the Host Club, who then became unwilling participants.

Akane and Suo broke apart, lips spilt, noses bleeding, bruises forming on their cheeks and their knuckles spilt from punching each other silly.

Their breathing came in short, strangled gasps as they glared at each other.

"Suo…y-yer 'n asshole!" Akane managed to choke out as blood dripped into her left eye.

"Yuh-yeah?" Suo retorted, "Well yer a b-bitch!"

"And proud…of it…ass master." Akane sneered, spitting out a mouthful of blood and saliva, "And yer…the one who…raised me…so who's th' bitch…bitch?"

"Shuh-shuddup." Suo moaned, gripping his head with his hand.

"Have they…made up?" Tamaki asked through a swollen lip from when Akane had punched him unintentionally (keep telling yourself that; she saw an opportunity waiting to happen)

"It would appear so, milord." Kaoru replied, a large bruise forming on his chin from where Suo had kneed him when aiming for his sister's gut.

"It would indeed, seeing as they're speaking in normal tones again." Hikaru nodded, wiping away the blood that streamed from his nose from where Akane high kicked him straight in the face.

Kyoya had managed to escape all damage somehow (…clever boy) and was flipping through his notebook absentmindedly.

Haruhi was not so fortunate, she had a rather nasty scrape on her forehead and another on her chin from when she was blocking Suo's path and he shoved her out of the way.

Hunny and Mori, being the martial artists that they were also escaped all damage, but Hunny was unbelievably upset at Haruhi's injuries.

"WAAAH! ARE YOU OKAY?" he cried, rushing to her.

"SHADDUP!" Akane and Suo snarled, "We have headaches that could killa hippo! So stuff it, shrimp!"

"HEEEK!" Hunny squealed, "WAUUGH! MORI! I'M SCARED!"

"SHADDUP!" Suo and Akane roared.

(A/N: What will happen next? Hopefully a divorce! Probably not tho', dammit all. R&R!)