This story was originally started by Reina Moriko

Chapter 7 - Sink or Swim

Just when the Host club thought they would receive a nice day off at the beach Kyoya decides to bring all of their customers along.

Tamaki was sitting on a rock with a huge line up of girls wanting to be with him. Kaoru and Hikaru were playing beach volleyball with their customers occasionally doing their act. Hunny and Mori were either in the water or collecting crabs. Kyoya was managing everything. And of course Haruhi was left out once again. Not being able to swim in front of customers because they all though she was a guy. At lease Hinata was nice enough to stay back and sit with her.

While Hinata was relaxing the twins went over to Kyoya who was staring intensely to his laptop screen. One twin went on each side of him.

"Whatcha looking at?" The twins said together.

"I'm not looking, I am searching."

"For what?" They were dumbstruck. Did their Shadow king really have to try so hard to find something. Everyones secrets were always revealed without much effort when he was the mastermind behind it.

"I still cannot find anything about Hinata Hyuuga. Only name, age, height the basic information. I can't even find out where she is from."

Kaoru and Hikaru decided to push all of the shadow king's buttons while they could. "Really?" Kaoru said in a not so suprised way."

"We might not know where she came from..." Hikaru said but caught Kyoya's attention knowing they knew something.

"But we know a lot of other things about her."

"For example why she lives alone."

The sunlight hit his glasses so the twins could not see his eyes. What? First Haruhi and now the twins. How is it that everyone is finding out before me? This is irritating me so much. These morons can know but even with hacking and blackmail I get no where. "Then why don't you tell me." Hoping the twins were dumb enough to just tell him.

"Nah uh uh." Hikaru gave a devilish smile.

"You will just have to find out on your own." Kaoru waved his finger left then right.

"And how do you propose I do that." Kyoya asked hoping the twins had something in mind.

"Why don't you just ask her yourself?"

Throughout the day Kyoya had though about what the twins had said. For the mean time the other host were having a competition to see who could discover Haruhi's or Hinata's fear first. It was said that the prize would be an assortment of pictures of them.

"Great. Just what I want. To be dragged around everywhere." Haruhi said sighing.

"Come on Haruhi it won't be that bad. Today is a day off. You are suppose to have fun." Hinata's smile got Haruhi following peoples stupid guesses all day.

Some of the Host Club members were getting bored. No one been able to find out either's weakness.

It was now sunset. A few of the customers were up on a cliff looking at the beautiful sunset. That was until two boys came up and started hitting on the girls. Haruhi had tried to help them but now she was being held at the edge of the cliff.

While Haruhi was being held at the edge the customers were being harrassed by the other male.

Hinata made her way up the cliff with a very serious expression. "Let them go."

"Aw whats a little girl like yourself going to do to me?"The guy said jokingly.

Hinata punched him in the stomach making him cough up blood.

As she hit the one boy the girls escape and tell Tamaki what was happening. Tamaki headed for the cliff immediately.

Meanwhile the guy Hinata punched was scared for his life and ran off. Hinata glared at the other who was scared too now. As he went to run he pushed Haruhi in the process. Hinata ran and grabbed Haruhi's wrist before she could fall anymore.

"Hold on." Haruhi knew this was no time for jokes so she just nodded then looked down.

Before Hinata could pull Haruhi up the ground beneath her cracked and broke off from the rest. Causing both to fall.

As they fell deeper into the water Hinata could see Tamaki swimming down. We are too deep down. He will never make it back up in time if he has to carry both of us. Hinata did the only thing she could think of and pushed the unaware Haruhi up. Being practically right next to Tamaki.

Hinata was relieved that Tamaki was taking Haruhi back up and Hinata lost consciousness.

Tamaki raised above water and started walking towards the other Hosts. The customers left already and it was probably for the good.

"Why did you do that?" yelled and angry Tamaki. "Why did you think you could take on a bunch of boys?"

"There was no time to think. Besides it doesn't matter if you are a girl or boy." Haruhi got back on her own feet squeezing the water out of her clothes.

"You are not a martial artist like Hunny and you should think more about your gender. You say it doesn't matter but it does. Next time think about your position!"

Then Kaoru and Hunny realized... Hinata was not there.

Hunny was first to speak "Where is Hina-chan?" The others were confused and looked around.

"Where is she?" Kaoru repeated. "Wasn't she with you?" Kaoru asked Hunny and Mori.

"No" he replied softly. "Wasn't she with Kyo-chan?"

"No I believe she was with the twins and Tamaki running away from some snakes."

"No it was just the three of us." Hikaru said.

"Then where is she?" Tamaki asked. He had had enough of people doing stupid things.

"She was with me." Haruhi spoke. "I couldn't handle the guys and she got them away. Although when the one went to leave he pushed me off the edge. He grabbed my wrist so that I wouldn't fall but we both started to drown." Their was a brief silence before Haruhi continued. "I think I felt a push. Something or someone pushing me up. I am guessing that was Hinata."

The host club members had death worried expression on her face.

Tamaki was now going into denial "Wait... she was down there with you. I- I could have saved you both."

"Does that mean Hina-chan is" He couldn't finish his sentence. And tears dwelled in the corners of his eyes."

Then an unfamiliar voice called to the Host Club. "You should have been more careful." The Hosts turn to a woman with long black hair and brown eyes carrying Hinata.

"Hinata!" They all gasped. She was dripping wet.

"You should have been better to her." She looks down to Hinata. "She is a fragile thing. Throughout her life she has had to go through things no one should. I am guessing she thinks of you as her friends. And for her friends she will sacrifice everything. Even her life if needed. Yet you can't even protect her once. I would easily take her in but it is not possible in both of our current states. So I will have to leave her in you care." She passes over Hinata to Kaoru.

As the woman walks away Hinata slowly wakes up. And looks at the leaving woman and mumbles "Kurenai-sensei."

All of the host heared her and looked at her back awake.

Hinata opened her eyes wide and jumped out of Kaoru's arms. "Kurenai-sensei!" She yelled chasing after the girl. Hinata hugged her crying.

"I'm sorry Hinata. I am not even suppose to be here. So now I must leave." And with that she left.

The group went over to Hinata. Although Haruhi was still mad at Tamaki-sensei she apologize to Hinata.

"Why the heck would you do something like that? I could have saved you along with Haruhi so why would you-"

Hinata turned to face her senpai and shook her head no. "If I hadn't pushed Haruhi up there was no way any of us would make it back up to the surface before we needed to breath again. It would have been fine with two so I pushed Haruhi up."

"I propose we all just head back to my beach house for now. That is unless you all want to stand here and get sick." Kyoya said. As they walked back it was quiet. Then Kyoya put a hand on Tamaki's shoulder to try and calm him down and not explode his anger.