CHAPTER SIX

Kiyoko blinked at the rest of the host club (excluding Mori) with her arms crossed, completely unimpressed. They had searched for god-knows-how-long and even in the end it was them who got bored and came out.

"Ki-Ki! Since you lost, we have a punishment for you!" The twins chorused.

The irritation was evident on her face. "Since when did I lose?! You guys were the losers who searched for 5 billion hours and still didn't manage to find me."

"No arguing, Ki-Ki!" Kaoru smirked.

She scowled. What's wrong with these people?

Hikaru grinned devilishly. "Since we wanted to have a get-together and Ki-Ki needs a punishment... WE ARE GOING TO HER HOUSE FOR A SLEEPOVER!"

Kiyoko wordlessly lifted her hand to Hikaru's cheek. He looked surprised, then... She pulled on it, hard. "Declined."

"Eeeeehhh? Then whaddubout... HARU-CHAN!" Honey cheered.

"No." Haruhi said.

"PLEEEEEAAASEEE!" Tamaki was begging now. "PLEASE, MY DAUGHTER ."

Said girl looked at his puppy dog eyes. "Don't look at me with those eyes... Okay fine..."

Everyone jumped around and danced like a maniac (well, by everyone I mean Honey, the twins, and Tamaki). Mori and Kyoya watched, stoic as usual, while on the other side Kiyoko was shaking Haruhi by the shoulders and yelling something like,

"JUST BECAUSE YOU WERE PUSHED OVER BY LOVE DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN ATTRACT MONSTERS TO OUR APARTMENT!"

Kaoru stopped and everyone behind him crashed into him.

"Wait, you guys live in the same apartment?"

"She lives in Number 4 and I live in Number 5." Kiyoko grumbled, still very much sulky.

Suddenly everyone smirked, and she knew what they were thinking.

"NO! You can't come to my place."


Kiyoko facepalmed. How did this even happen? She was forced (Kyoya threatened her) to spend time with people she only knew for a few weeks.

She didn't even like those people.

They stopped in front of Number 5. She sighed and unlocked the door, only doing this because of Kyoya's blackmail.

Everyone was silent as they stepped in, and was one by one consumed by the darkness.

"Wow." Honey's voice said rather solemnly. "It's...dark in here."

"Yeah well you were the ones who asked to come." She snapped, and pressed the switch.

Light flooded the tiny space, and everyone blinked, momentarily not used to the light. Tamaki sighed, content, while the twins scrutinised her apartment.

"Right!" Kyoya announced. "The twins, Kiyoko and I are in charge of cooking, and the others will set the table up...Hmm...It's too cramped in here so... On the rooftop."

Kiyoko's eyes widened. "N-no. Not the r-rooft-top. Let's just eat h-here." She stuttered in a most un-Kiyoko-style. There was a hint of panic in her voice.

Haruhi sensed her discomfort. "We can eat here. It's nice and cosy."

So that was decided, and she returned to her normal self, ignoring the purposeful looks Haruhi sent in her direction. She mumbled incoherent things that was better off unheard as Kyoya ordered her around.

That annoying control freak.


The dark-blue-haired girl slowly sat up in bed. She had nighmares...again. In fact, she'd be surprised if those dreams never stopped for the rest of her life. Her past haunted her like a particularly aggressive ghost.

She pushed back her messy hair as she swung around and hopped out of bed. There were voices she recognised from somewhere far away.

"Where are you guys?" Kiyoko called out sluggishly.

Kaoru popped out of nowhere. "They're on the rooftop, watching the sunrise if you wanna go."

She blinked at him, still groggy. "No thanks. What are you doing here then? Where's Hikaru?"

"Huh?" Surprise was clear on his face. "How did you...?"

"Dude. Your voices are different."

"Oh. Well, Kyoya put me on breakfast duty, so Hikaru's up there."

She looked away, already uninterested. "Mmm-kay."

Kaoru yawned. "I'm tired. That demon Kyoya made me cook even though I helped with the cooking yesterday."

Kiyoko glared at him with a 'You-totally-did-not-help-out-last-night' look, but sighed and pushed up her sleeves. "Fine, you lazy poop, I'll help."

"What a tsundere." He snickered, but immediately shut up at the look on her face, which clearly threatened not to help him with breakfast if he went on any more.

They worked in silence, with the occasional grumble from the irritated girl. Well, Kaoru mostly stood and watched while Kiyoko scrambled eggs, made riceballs and such. The rest of the host club came down, claiming they smelt a delicious aroma coming from the room.

"Impossible." She stated, rolling her eyes. "No way could you smell something from so far away."

"Aw, Ki-Ki, we were giving you a compliment!" Hikaru teased, slinging an arm around her shoulder and leaning into her. Kaoru did the same.

They both caught sight of a mysterious grin on her face, and thought, oh crap what's she planning now? She dashed forward a pace really fast, escaping from their arms, and since they were leaning on her, their heads bumped.

"Ouch~" Kaoru rubbed the spot.

Hikaru gasped. "Kaoru! I'm so sorry, are you okay?!" Uh oh, they just went into gross brotherly love mode.

"I'm fine... What about you Hika-"

"CUT!" Kiyoko yelled. "I WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS DISGUSTING-NESS IN MY APARTMENT! NO MORE ACTING!"

They pulled faces at her. "Poop."

"POOP TO YOU TOO! ARGH! I'VE HAD ENOUGH!" She shrieked and went back to her bedroom. She suddenly went very quiet so the host club decided to peek over at her.

Kiyoko was fast asleep on her bed.

The twins and Haruhi sweatdropped. "Wow..."

They watched her for a bit longer, then everyone got bored and left. Kaoru was the last to leave, and just so happened to glance over his shoulder when Kiyoko started twitching in her sleep.

He stopped in surprise. Her expression was pained and she started mumbling things he couldn't hear. So being the curious troublemaker he was, he went closer, but still only managed to catch phrases.

"Don't want...mum...please...dad...you can't do this to me!" There was a sharp inhale and she bolted up with a speed that matched lightning. Unfortunately, Kaoru was leaning over her in a attempt to hear better, and their foreheads bumped. Hard.

"OW!" Kaoru yelled.

"What the hell are you doing?" Kiyoko shouted at the same time.

He rubbed his forehead. "You were mumbling in your sleep so I wanted to hear what you were saying!" Foolishly honest.

"That's an invasion of privacy!"

"Well it's not my fault you were murmuring random things!"

The rest of the host club came around and peeked from behind the door, heads in a vertical row. Basically, Mori was at the top, followed by Tamaki, Hikaru, Haruhi, then Honey. Kyoya was creepily standing to a side and pushing up his glasses.

"What's going on here?" Tamaki came out and demanded (dramatically, as usual).

Both glared at him and kept arguing.

He turned into white dust. "M-my daughter is ignoring me! And also my soldier! NOOOOOOOO!" And so he retreated to the 'Tamaki Corner' again and continued growing mushrooms. Haruhi went over and scolded him about unwanted mushrooms.

All everyone else heard was a melodramatic 'WHYYYYYYYY?!' from that corner, then Haruhi came out brushing off the dust on her hands.

What the hell anyway.