Chapter 5: Haru-chan

Haruhi pushed Tamaki out of her way, and back to his section of the table. She grabbed a hold of his ear, and brought it down toward her mouth. She held her hand up along her mouth and Tamaki's ear, so no one could hear, and whispered, "Kyoya-senpai doesn't look happy right now. So I would suggest that you don't bother him, even though you meant well."

Haruhi glanced over at Kyoya without moving her head much. He looked a little angrier now. Most likely, he wasn't going to make Tamaki pay now, too. But she figured that it would be best that Haruhi doesn't say anything. She could be wrong. Haruhi sighed and let go of Tamaki's ear. She set her elbows on the table, folded her hands, and rested her chin on top of them. Today was going to be a long day, all because Hikaru & Kaoru woke Kyoya up. Whenever this happened, bad, unplanned things were sure to happen.

Tamaki poked his index fingers together as Haruhi scolded him in a whisper. This was bad of Tamaki to make Haruhi mad as well with this already uneasy start to the morning. Tamaki leaned in to Haruhi and whispered back to her in the same method, "I know he's not happy but I was getting uneasy with the awkward silence going on. I wanted to see if I could cheer him up so that his wrath on the twins wouldn't be so extreme and ease the tension around this table." That was all true but Tamaki also wanted to try and get on his better side so that Kyoya wouldn't mistake Tamaki being a part of it. "Also," he added, "he forgot his glasses upstairs so I doubt he could actually read the menu. I wanted to help him get a good start to the day."

Tamaki sat back in his chair and then he added hesitantly and softly to Haruhi. "S-sorry for leaning over you like that, Haru-chan." Tamaki only realized what he had just called Haruhi after he said it. However, at that exact moment the waitress came back over to take everyone's order.

She noticed that Kyoya and Tamaki had joined them at the table. She pulled out her note pad and asked, "Is there any thing I get you all?"

Tamaki took the opportunity and stood up and said to her, "No thank you ma'am, I was just leaving." Tamaki slipped over to Kyoya and patted him quickly twice on the shoulders and added, "However, he needs something really good to start his day. Why don't you make some suggestions for him?" with that Tamaki walked away and waved good bye to the twins and Haruhi seeing how Kyoya looked like he was about ready to slam his head into the table.

Haruhi was about to comment how Tamaki had called her 'Haru-chan', but was distracted by the waitress that came over, asking for orders. Then after the waitress was done speaking, Tamaki had got up and left, after he replied to the waitress of course. Haruhi wanted to run after him, asking why he had called her that, but didn't. She'd already ordered her breakfast, and Tamaki probably had something club related things to do.

As Tamaki walked back to the room, he pondered over in his head as he held his chin, That was awkward...that sounds like something Hunny-sempai would say....now that I think of it, that's the first time I called her that...why would I use that name now?...I guess it just slipped. He knew that Hunny called Haruhi that because of an extreme liking for her (although whatever Hunny liked, he always took it to that extreme. hence why he eats so much cake.) but he couldn't figure out why he called her that. Tamaki finally reached the room, wished Mori good morning since he was up reading, waiting for Hunny to wake up, and stole away to his quadrant of the room. He sat down on the bed and thought for a moment and then called up room service to "bring up a fruit and flower basket with a purple theme, add high quality ear plugs and blind fold, and to put it on the Suou tab." Tamaki wrote a short apology letter to Kyoya so he could add that to the basket as well.

While he waited he picked out cloths for the summer vacationer cosplay theme. He decided on a white dress, long black, silk like shorts with a white string tie to tighten around the belt line, expensive sunglasses, blue Hawaiian flower bracelet, a blue Hawaiian flower chest pin, his straw sandals and straw hat. The basket finally came up and he sat it down on Kyoya's bed and placed the note onto of the basket.

Tamaki then sat back on his bed and thought for another quick second, took his planner out from his night stand and he looked over his drawing once more. Then he got an idea and started editing himself to wear the tux that he just ordered. Then he went on to start the details on Haruhi and started drawing her in the blue, long-sleeved dress with frills.

The waitress walked over, plates of food in hand. She gently came over next to Haruhi and set the plate down in front of her. "Here you go. Enjoy, and let me know if you need anything else." The waitress left without waiting for any reply.

Haruhi turned and watched the waitress leave as she said, "Tha--Thank you. I will." She then turned back around and looked down at her plate of food. She grabbed a hold of her fork and knife and started to dig in. It's so good. I sure hope I won't throw it all to waste like I did with all the crab...

After a minute or so of stuffing food down her throat, Haruhi stopped eating and stared into space blankly, deep in thought. Why is this bothering me so much? Yes, Tamaki-senpai called me "Haru-chan". But it's not a big deal. It was only once... It--It probably just slipped out is all. Yeah...just slipped out. The subject got Haruhi a little nervous for some reason. This caused her to stuff her face even more than before. She wondered if anyone was watching her. She didn't really care, just curious is all.

Hikaru and Kaoru watched Haruhi stuff her face curiously. When she began to eat even faster, the got worried. "Er... Haruhi, don't you think you should slow down?" Kaoru said while quirking an eyebrow.

"Yeah, you're gonna choke." Hikaru told her, mimicking Kaoru's motions. Haruhi didn't seem to be listening to them so they sighed simultaneously. They hadn't ordered anything, as they didn't know what they wanted yet, but it seemed that that was best. Kyoya was still there, and he was probably still angry... well, he was too tired to be angry at the moment, but the anger was there somewhere. The twins glanced at each other, before standing and grinning nervously.

"Now that we think about it, we're not very hungry." Hikaru told the two, grasping his brother's hand in anticipation to run.

"Yeah... we're gonna look around a bit... we'll uh... see you two later!"

They ran off quickly before Kyoya figured out that they were running from him. Once they were a 'safe' distance away, they looked around. They hadn't really gone anywhere yesterday besides the springs and the internet cafe with Tamaki and Haruhi, so the really didn't know the layout of things. The twins grinned, deciding that it would be in their best interest to explore a bit. Maybe if they were lucky they'd find some 'princesses' to mess with

Tamaki took awhile on his drawing of him and Haruhi. Although it was coming along nicely, in the time he sat down and did everything, he only got the main outline of her dress done; he had a rough time with flowing clothes. Tamaki looked at his clock and it was about a half hour since he left everyone else, which translated to about 9:50. Tamaki put his drawing away and changed into his summer outfit, gazed at his half heart necklace that he had bought the day before for Haruhi and himself, and then he put it back on and tucked it inside of his shirt. He then looked around the hotel room to see no one was back yet. There's only 2 hours before we start hosting and no one knows what they're wearing yet, he thought to himself, it might actually take some of them time to choose their own cosplay.

Tamaki whipped out his cell phone and started fumbling with it again to make another text message. It took him at least 5 minutes to finally spell out

-Guys
come bak 2 the room & pic out ur clothes 4 2day's hosting
the theme is summer vacationer
use ur own clothing
c u soon
-Tamaki

He forwarded the message to Kyoya's, Hikaru's, Karou's and Haruhi's cell phones and hoped that they would all get the message. Tamaki then started thinking in his head of some one-liners that he could use on his customers for this type of theme. He practiced them out in the mirror and listened carefully for the door so the twins or Kyoya wouldn't catch him practicing.

The twins were in the middle of exploring when their phones went off. They both glanced at each other curiously, before pulling them out of their pockets and flipping them open. Hikaru sighed, pouting slightly.

"It seems he always needs us when we're doing something else..." He grumbled, shoving his phone back into his pocket with annoyance. Kaoru grinned, noticing a couple of their previous customers walking down the hall.

"It'll be okay Hikaru. I have the perfect outfit in mind." He went into full-gear, bringing on a full blown blush and looking down. "That is, if you don't mind helping me with the buttons. I could always ask someone else too if you'd prefer..." He gazed into his brothers eyes deeply, knowing that the expressions on the girls' faces probably mirrored something akin to extreme concentration while they struggled to hold in their squeals. Hikaru grabbed Kaoru's chin, grinning softly and saying, "Of course, Kaoru. You know I don't like other people touching you."

That did it. The two princesses erupted into a mass of squealing fangirls, jumping up and down and struggling to take in enough air to breathe. The twins smirked at each other, getting back into the more comfortable position of their arms linked. That would suffice for a small warm-up. Hikaru flipped his phone out of his pocket and texted Tamaki that they would be there soon.

Just sitting at the table allowed Kyoya to wake up some more and get some sense back. Though, his plans for revenge hadn't changed as his need for food did. The waitress came and placed whatever he decided to order on the table.

Then both his and Haruhi's phones went off. Kyoya flipped his opened and saw Tamaki's text. Right then, he decided that once he was done eating he would go get ready. If he's late and doesn't get the perfect outfit picked out, the customers wouldn't be as happy and profits would go down.

Haruhi jumped a little as she heard her phone ring and vibrate. She glanced over at Kyoya as he flipped his phone open. Haruhi then set her fork and knife down, and did the same. She flipped her phone open and read the text message from Tamaki. Haruhi read over the message slowly, and sighed. To herself, she mumbled, "Sometimes this club is so bothersome." Haruhi then hit reply on her phone and spent a few minutes texting him back. The message said:

Fine.
But I'm going to wait for Kyoya-senpai to finish eating, so we can go up together.
- Haruhi

Haruhi sent the message and set her phone inside her pocket. She leaned back a little and looked at Kyoya. "I'll wait until you're done eating so we can go up together."

Tamaki was in the middle of practicing one of his one-liners when his cell phone went off in his pocket. "I suppose I should have expected replies back." he mumbled to himself as he flipped open his phone. There was a message for Hikaru saying that they would be up there soon. He nodded his head at the message, deleted it and then put his phone back in his pocket. As Tamaki was about to start practicing again, his phone rang again. "Grrrr... who is it now?" he asked himself in and angered voice. He lost his anger when he saw it was Haruhi's message

Tamaki sighed and dropped his shoulders as he read the message and remembered that he called her Haru-chan and was probably a little upset about that. Tamaki struggled to type out another message.

-Haruhi
take ur time
jus wanted 2 give u a heads up
...listen, im sry about callin u haru-chan
we can talk bout it l8r if u want
-Tamaki

He sent the message to Haruhi and put his phone back in his pocket and hoped that Kyoya wouldn't text him as well.

Back in the breakfast bar, Haruhi had just ordered a glass of 2% milk when he phone had gone off. She pulled it out of her pocket and flipped it open only to read Tamaki's second message. Haruhi sighed as she read Tamaki's poor grammar text message and then groaned as he spoke of him calling her "Haru-chan". It was nice that he apologized, but it bothered her that he reminded her of the whole, but small, thing. Once again, she hit reply and began to type out a message back to him.

*sigh*
don't worry about it. It just slipped out.
I don't really care if we talk about it.
But if you want to, we can.
- Haruhi

Haruhi sent the message and then sighed. She now understood why Tamaki didn't use proper grammar. It wasn't easy typing it out all proper. She put her phone away, and began to run her fingers along the edge of the table, waiting for Kyoya to finish eating. He seemed to be eating slower than usual. Then again, he was partially asleep.

Kyoya took what seemed like forever to finish his meal. He stood up when he was done and began leaving, without waiting for Haruhi. She would catch up easily. It's not like Kyoya was capable of walking fast when he was still half asleep. He texted Tamaki, just in case 'father' was worried about 'mother' and his precious 'daughter'; in reality, Kyoya just wanted to bug Tamaki.

Daughter and I are on our way. Don't do anything stupid.
-Mother (Kyoya)

Haruhi sat up straight and watched Kyoya leave his seat as he headed towards the exit. Just as Haruhi had told Tamaki, she got up and followed after him, which didn't take too long.

Tamaki got in a few more one liners before his cell phone went off for a 3rd time. Tamaki sighed and then flipped open his phone and saw he had two messages; one from Haruhi and one from Kyoya. He read Kyoya's first to get it out of the way and nodded his head in approval at the phone to know that they were finally coming back up to the room. He then read Haruhi's message gave a sigh of relief to see that her message didn't give off a pissed off aura like he had almost expected it to be. Well, he thought to himself, it seems she's not too affected by it and understands...but I'll talk to her briefly about it in person. Apologies are more effective in person.

They slowly walked their way up to the host club's room. As the approached the door, Haruhi ran ahead of Kyoya and knocked on it three times. She smiled up at Kyoya. Her smile didn't seem to do much. He still looked like a brain-dead zombie.

Tamaki practiced a few more times and he heard a knock at the door and he went to go investigate who it was Tamaki peered around the corner of the hallway and saw Mori had already opened the door and let Haruhi and Kyoya into the room. Kyoya was looking more alive although still looked a little tired. Tamaki stepped out from the hallway to give Kyoya room to get to his bed and he waved slightly at the two of them and said, "Gomen for rushing you up here like this. I thought it might take us some time to find the perfect clothes for today's cosplay." Tamaki took off his sunglasses and looked at Haruhi with his prince eyes just to keep himself in the spirit of hosting and asked her like he was talking to her normally, "Do you want help picking out clothes Haruhi?"

Haruhi shrugged and looked up at Tamaki. At the moment, she didn't really care what he did, so he asking to help didn't matter to her much. Not only that, he probably wanted to talk about earlier. "Sure. I don't really mind." Haruhi said as she walked to her door and waved for Tamaki to follow. She opened the door and walked inside. Right away, Haruhi headed toward her suitcase full of clothing.

Tamaki was a little shocked that she nonchalantly invited her into her room like that; he usually had to force his way in. Tamaki looked around like something, or someone was going to stop him but when no one did, he walked towards her room. Tamaki double checked outside to see if anyone was in the hallway; no one. So, he walked on over and entered Haruhi's room.

Hunny rubbed his eyes and yawned loudly as he walked around the room. He had just woken up a few minutes ago, and was still tired. He slowly walked to the bathroom, Bun-Bun in hand. He stared lazily at the mirror and yawned once more. Hunny then walked out of the bathroom and headed toward the door. He peaked outside and grinned when he saw Mori. As always, Hunny was happy to see Mori.

"Ohayo, Takashi!" Hunny made his bun-bun wave at Mori, with a smile all across his face.

Mori smiled slightly as he finally saw his cousin awake and not possessing the eyes of the beast. Mori had been following what Tamaki had been doing ever since he came back up to the room. Mori picked up Hunny by his arm pits and carried back to the room and said, "Let's get dressed."

Hunny smiled up at his overly tall cousin and said, "Okay, Takashi!"

Haruhi dug through all her clothes, searching for something boy-like, and summer-beach-like. Finally, she settled with a brown baggy shirt that said, in brown text on the front, all in lowercase, "tokyo". She also settled with brown cargo shorts. Haruhi carefully picked them up and showed them to Tamaki. "Well? Will this do? It's something I've worn to the beach before."

As soon as Tamaki walked in he saw that Haruhi had already picked out some clothes and was showing him her selections. Tamaki held his chin in thought for a moment and said in an approving manner, "I like, however do you mind if I make one suggestion?" Tamaki walked back to his room and a minute later, he came back with a dark red, light-silk, Hawaiian shirt with brown tyke faces along the bottom edge and with brown bamboo branches in-between each tyke. "Wear this open over your t-shirt." Tamaki suggested in a calm manner, "Just something you can add to make your outfit a little more elegant. Wear all of that, some sandals and maybe some sunglasses and you're good."

Tamaki handed her the shirt and then rubbed the back of his head and mustered up the courage to say, "Haruhi...like I said in the text...s-sorry for calling you-" Tamaki stopped for a moment and thought it might be bad to mention the name again and continued, "-that name. I don't know what came over me; it just kinda rolled off the tongue." Tamaki looked away and down at his feet and said in a quieter tone, "Gomen."

Haruhi sighed again with a slight grin, and walked over to Tamaki. She stood right in front of him and then lifted her head to face him. Her grin faded as she grabbed Tamaki by his shirt's collar, and brought it down to her face. They were now looking at each head on, same height, sort of. Tamaki was all surprised when she grabbed his collar and pulled his face up to her face. He was in a state of shock not knowing what she had planned.

"Tamaki-senpai," she said in a relaxed voice "don't worry about it, okay?" Haruhi let go of his shirt collar and then took the clothes he had been holding for her. She turned away from him slightly and said, "It just slipped out. Why? Neither of us seems to know. Plus, you apologized," Haruhi smiled and then turned her head to look at Tamaki's once more, "and that's what counts." Tamaki was relieved that that's all she did, however, just the fact he was that close to her, he started to blush. When she walked away he put his hand over his mouth to keep her from seeing his face and he nodded in approval to Haruhi. Quickly, Haruhi then walked to the bathroom and closed the door behind her. She locked it, and then began to change into her clothes.

Tamaki was then shocked that she just went into the bathroom without kicking him out of the room first. He looked around worriedly, like Kyoya was watching him. Is this really ok?, he thought to himself in a distressed tone, Me being in Haruhi's room while she's changing in just the other room? He brought his hand down from his face nervously by froze it when it touched his collar. Tamaki attempted to look down at his collar and thought, I'm surprised Haruhi did that... He fondled his collar and then realized that his necklace wrapped itself over the collar and then he pulled it out of his shirt and then he stared at it for awhile. Just looking at it seemed to calm him down and put him a better mood.

Once all done, Haruhi looked at herself in the mirror at all possible angles. She looked pretty good in her opinion. Slowly, Haruhi unlocked the bathroom door and walked back out. When she came out, Tamaki didn't bother to put away the necklace away quickly, like he usually would with the other guys, but instead just let it go and hang down over his shirt. She stood about six feet away from Tamaki and said, "Well, how's it look? I thought it looked alright." Tamaki blushed again slightly and then nodded his head in approval. "You look lavishing Haruhi." he complimented calmly, trying to hold in his emotions. "And you're right. I did apologize; I shouldn't worry about it anymore."

Tamaki smiled and retained his prince-like charm as he grabbed his pendant again and then smiled at Haruhi. She smiled slightly as Tamaki grabbed a hold of his necklace. "Exactly, nothing to worry about." She looked down at her neck, but realized that her part of the necklace wasn't there. Haruhi searched the room with her eyes, and then sighed at herself. It was on the floor. Haruhi walked over to the pendant, leaned over, and picked it up. Tamaki chuckled a little, happy to see that Haruhi was at least paying some attention on her half of the pendant.

She turned around the face Tamaki as she put the pendant around her neck. Slowly, Haruhi held the pendant as she walked up to him, showing Tamaki that she still had it in her possession. As she drew nearer, it was like there was a magnetic attraction towards her that was pulling Tamaki in. He took a step or two forward slowly as she came near and he held his pendant out to connect them…

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Meanwhile, Mori and Hunny were looking through their clothes trying to find something to wear. Mori picked a dress shirt with no sleeves and he left it unbuttoned to expose his chest, dark blue shorts and a roughed up belt to hold them up. He then slipped on his sandals and a pair of sleek sunglasses and hopped that he looked elegant enough for Tamaki but wild enough for his customers. Hunny picked out a Hawaiian shirt that seemed to have an ocean sort of pattern on it. Then, he chose a pair of shorts that were the color beige, and went down to his knees. Hunny then added flip-flops and a white Hawaiian flower necklace to go along with the theme.

Hunny changed into his cosplay clothes rather quickly, and then look up at Mori with a smile. "You look good, Takashi! I sure hope Tama-chan likes it." Hunny ran over to his cousin and climbed up on his shoulders. "He and Haru-chan went over to her room. Why don't we go see them?"

Mori looked up at his cousin on his shoulders and he nodded carefully so Hunny wouldn't loose his balance. He walked passed the twins and Kyoya's quadrants and over to their door. Mori ducked down so that Hunny could pass under the doorframe and not hit his head. They both looked down both sides of the hallway to make sure no one was around; the coast was clear. Mori walked across the hall and knocked on Haruhi's door three times and waited patiently for either Tamaki or Haruhi to answer the door. I wonder if Tamaki is finally making a move on her...he thought to himself, knowing that possibly Hunny was thinking the same thing

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Just before their necklaces linked, a knock came at Haruhi's door. Tamaki looked at the door and then quickly stuffed his half of the necklace inside of his shirt and he turned towards the door to see who it was. Haruhi walked over and looked through the peak hole. It was Hunny and Mori. She opened the door, and moved so the two of them could enter. "Ohayo, Mori-senpai. Hunny-senpai."

Hunny jumped off of Mori's shoulders, and practically knocked Haruhi to the ground. As always, Hunny was happy to see any of his fellow hosts. Haruhi was close to falling over as Hunny jumped on her. She was surprised that she didn't see this coming. Tamaki laughed slightly as he watched the tiny teenager glomp Haruhi. Mori simply watched in slight surprise as his cousin just jumped off of his shoulders and tackle Haruhi. His jump kind of hurt Mori's shoulders but he just rubbed them silently and didn't complain. "You look good, Haru-chan!" Hunny wrapped his arms around Haruhi even tighter, a bright, big smile all across his face.

Hunny looked up at his cousin and said, "What do you think, Takashi?" He nodded in agreement with Hunny and added his infamous "ah."

Tamaki rubbed the back of his head and then he said to the two seniors, "Ohayo Hunny-senpai. The two of you look good."

Mori then took note of the necklace that Haruhi was wearing. That's new; He thought to himself, did she just buy that yesterday when Tamaki took her out? Mori then looked at Tamaki for some kind of sign that would confirm his thoughts but caught him while he was rubbing the back of his head. Did Tamaki buy it for her? he thought again as he received his compliment from Tamaki. He nodded and then added, "Arigato Tamaki."

Haruhi grinned a little, and said, "Thank you, Hunny-senpai. You and Mori-senpai look good, too." Basically, Haruhi was repeating what Tamaki had said. Haruhi looked up at Mori and noticed that he was looking down at her pendant. She completely forgot to hide it. Well, if she tried now, he would know that there was something up with it. So Haruhi decided to leave it. No harm would be done, most likely.

Meanwhile, the twins had been wandering around for a while, not remembering the way they had come. After a good ten or fifteen minutes they finally reached the hallway they remembered their rooms were in, and after seeing Mori and Hunni walk into Haruhi's room, they followed. "Hey." They called out in unison, leaning on the doorframe. Kaoru noticed Haruhi's outfit and nodded his approval.

"Great choice Haruhi!" Hikaru told her, nodding as well.

Haruhi looked past Hunny and Mori. The twins were leaning against the door from behind the two seniors. "Thank you, Hikaru."

She noticed that the twins haven't changed into their cosplay. Now was probably the time to tell them to go and change. "I think you two should go change and get ready, so we're not late."

Hunny jumped off of Haruhi and ran up to Hikaru & Kaoru. "Haru-chan's right. Tama-chan and Kyou-chan won't like it if you two are late." Hunny turned to two twins around and began to push them towards their room across the hall. "Now let's go~!" Mori helped his cousin by adding an extra nudge to make sure the twins and his cousin made it out of Haruhi's room.

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The twins shouted slightly as they were pushed to there rooms, but complied anyway. They wore cargo shorts that hung low on their hips, and tight fitting black tank tops under loose button up shirts with beach patterns on them. Once this was done they threw on pairs of sandals. "Come on Hunny, we're ready." Kaoru informed him as he and his brother hurried out into the hall to catch up with the others.

Kyoya was more awake now and ready to host; hosting was the reason why he was more awake He threw on khaki shorts, sandals, and a Hawaiian button-down shirt and headed out of his room. He saw Hunny pushing the twins into the room, obviously very eager to leave. Tamaki probably told Hunny get the twins and Kyoya. "Let's get moving guys. We can't be late." Kyoya said, walking towards the door. Kyoya hadn't forgotten about his revenge, though. That's actually why he took so long to get ready. He was really plotting his revenge. This would be a fun and profitable day for Kyoya Ootori.

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When Hunny, Hikaru and Kaoru were in the other room, Mori said to Haruhi in a low voice so Tamaki wouldn't hear, "You might want to put your necklace in your shirt if you don't want comments about it. I won't tell the others." Mori noticed a message in her eyes about him looking at her necklace; since Mori didn't talk much he learned to be very observant.

Haruhi nodded and then quickly hid the necklace inside her shirt. Sometimes she was overly glad that Mori didn't talk a whole lot.

Mori then said to Tamaki, "Oye, we three might want to get going."

Tamaki was browsing around the room to keep attention from being brought to him from the others since they seem to be complimenting Haruhi. Also he was trying to get rid of the red in his face. His attention snapped back to reality as soon as Mori addressed him. Tamaki nodded and said, "Yeah, we need to get going". Tamaki came up to Haruhi and put a hand on her shoulder, gave her a slight nudge and said, "Let's go, we got a big day ahead of us."

Haruhi gasped slightly at the surprise of Tamaki setting his hand on her shoulder. You think she would be used to it by now. In fact she was, so why did Haruhi gasp? She didn't quite know.

She looked up at her senpai and grinned. "Yeah, I guess we do." Haruhi walked out of the room, and waved for Tamaki to quickly follow her. For once, Haruhi wasn't going to be late for one of the host club's events. Normally she was studying in the library or something. The three of them, followed by the others, walked their way down to one of the ball rooms, where they were to perform their club duties.

Tamaki nodded and followed Haruhi and Mori down. Tamaki caught up to Mori and Haruhi and threw an arm around both of them and said, "Happy hosting guys, Lets give them all we got."

On the way there, customers would come up to the three hosts and ask if they could walk down with them. And of course, a host could never deny the request of a princess. "Are you going to start club activities now?" the one asked the three of them in an excited tone.

Tamaki came in close to her held her chin up lightly so that the two were looking eye to eye, "My fair maiden, we're going to start our vacation now and that vacation is to spend time with you." the customer melted in his gaze and the others started to squeal. They started to trail after the three of them. Many others joined the march down to the ballroom.

Once they all reached the ballroom, a hotel attendant came up to Tamaki and asked, "You must be the Host Club, is their anything we can get you?"

Tamaki nodded and said, "Can you go and get us a number of pitchers of ice tea, some glasses, and sliced lemons?" After the attendant ran off, blushing, Tamaki waltzed into the ballroom and then automatically went to the glass doors and opened all of them to let in the summer breeze. Tamaki looked outside and saw there was a deck with a good number of glass tables and patio chairs and then he announced to everyone. "Let's do this outside. It's a beautiful day, just like all of you."

The twins, hearing their lord's request picked a table and sat down, waiting for their customers to come. They had a lot of new 'brotherly love' acts that they wanted to try, so it was sure to be an interesting day of hosting for them. As their first round of 'princesses' excitedly took seats next to them, they grinned at each other. It was sure to be a success. And success meant a happy Kyoya, and a happy Kyoya meant no pain for them. Unless of course, he was still angry about them waking him up...which he probably was. Hikaru, deciding to begin the activities scooted a bit closer to his brother, and started their act. The ladies were squealing within seconds.

Mori sat down at one of the tables after he got his glass of ice tea and waiting patiently for his cousin to come downstairs. A few of his and Hunny's customers came up to him and asked him sympathetically, "where's Hunny-kun?"

"Is he sick?" another asked

Mori shook his head and he said, "No, he should be coming down soon." Mori hung his head in half real sorrow and said, "I should have waited for him." All of the customers came up to him and tried to comfort him while Mori on the inside was reaping the benefits of his wild side customers.

Hunny was following the slow Kyoya into the ball room, but jolted away once he spotted Mori, surrounded by some customers. Within six feet away, Hunny jumped into the air. As he wrapped his small arms around Mori's neck and upper body, he shouted, "Takashi! I'm sorry I took so long! You're not mad at me, are you?" Hunny's eyes began to water up at the thought of Mori being mad and/or upset with him.

Mori eye's sparkled with joy bas soon as he saw his cousin. He was glad to see he wasn't fazed by boredom. Mori wrapped his one arm around him to give him a quick hug and then he said, "No, I'm not mad." Their customers started to go crazy at the scene and they started to greet Hunny and comfort Mori some more.

Mori picked Hunny up and then set him in his own chair. Then he poured Hunny a glass of ice tea and handed it to him and then took a drink for himself. "Weather sure is nice around here." he plainly stated as he relaxed back in his chair and gave a small smile for his customers like he normally did.

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Tamaki took a seat at one of the glass tables just as the ice tea arrived. The waiters handed out glasses out to all of the customers and also to the present hosts and then they set the extra pitchers at various tables. Tamaki squeezed a lemon in his and took a sip; Simple elegant he thought to himself as he put it down, using his pinky as a cushion.

"Tamaki-kun" one of his many customers asked him, "how are you enjoying your time here at the springs."

Tamaki leaned closer into his customer and said, "I'm quite enjoying my time here. The springs are excellent, my fellow host are of a good demeanor but most of all the views are breath taking." he grabbed the maiden's hands and said, "especially the one right here." The maiden blushed and then others were doing their best to hold in their emotions but weren't doing too well at it. Tamaki looked around at all of his customers but then stole a glance at Haruhi at her work; she was doing well. Tamaki smiled at her but then brought his gaze back to his customers and threw on his prince smile and continued to host for them.
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"Is this your first time visiting hot springs, Haruhi?"

Haruhi was sitting down at glass table with three customers. She smiled at them kindly and answered, "Yes, this is my first time. And I must say, ladies, I'm really enjoying myself so far."

Haruhi was more than beyond used to being a host. And yet, she could still remember her first real reaction about the whole thing. But now, things just came out naturally; a natural rookie.

The customers stared at Haruhi in awe. Oh how much they loved seeing him smile like that! The girl who asked giggled a little and said, "Well I'm glad that you're having a good time."

"What was your favorite part of this trip so far, Haruhi?"

Haruhi looked at the three ladies. They seemed pretty eager to know. "Well..." Haruhi glanced at her surroundings. She stopped when she saw Tamaki turn away, with a smile. Haruhi smiled calmly, and turned back to face her customers. "In all honesty, I must say that I rather enjoyed exploring the gift shop with Tamaki-senpai. It wasn't much, but it was nice and kinda fun."

Once again, the customers stared at Haruhi in awe.
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Tamaki continued to host his customers with ease, even though there were just so many of them. He continued to pull his one-liners as they continued to question him about his time. While Tamaki was taking a drink of his ice tea, one of the many girls asked "Tamaki-kun, what has been you're favorite part of the trip so far?"

Tamaki put down his glass and he thought about it. He could have said something like, 'just being with you has been the best time' but he wanted to be different; he wanted to say something truthful. Before he knew it, he blurted out in his prince voice, "So far, that would be spending time with my fellow host, Haruhi. I don't get to spend much time with him, but we were able to spend a few hours together just checking out the hotel. We were having so much fun, especially gazing upon the elegant items of the gift shop."

His customers looked at each other and then back at Tamaki with bright red faces, "Oh, sweet Tamaki," one discussed with the others, "he's grown a brotherly bond with Haruhi."

"How beautiful." Another admitted

A third pointed out, "They just might be like the twins."

Tamaki was in the middle of another sip when he heard these comments and he spat it right back up in his cup so he wouldn't dirty his hosts. Brotherly bond?!? He thought to himself in surprise, Me and Haruhi?!? Tamaki started coughing since some of his ice tea went down his wind pipe and his customers started scrabbling over him, trying to get him to feel better.

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The twins paused their hosting for a minute when they noticed Tamaki practically choking to death. Figuring the spectacle wasn't that unusual, they turned back to their customers. The princesses were thoroughly enjoying their 'brotherly love' act they were pleased to say.

"Hikaru..." One of the girls asked excitedly. "Have you two been down to the springs yet?"

Hikaru smiled, turning to Kaoru who was sitting at his side. "Yes, we were able to enjoy a wonderful soak together." He answered, turning his gaze to his twin. Kaoru, on cue, blushed, turning his head away slightly. "I only hope you weren't to tired after our bath, Kaoru." Hikaru said, cupping his brother's chin gently. Kaoru's blush grew darker.

"Hikaru, don't say such embarrassing things!" He whimpered, resisting the urge to grin when he heard the fangirls go wild. Really, this was just too much fun. Hikaru picked up his glass of water, taking a small sip before setting it down again.

"You two are always together, aren't you?" One of the princesses squealed, clasping her hands together.

Hikaru turned to her, wrapping an arm around his twin. "But of course." He looked at Kaoru, his gaze smoldering with (fake) affection. "We even share the same bed."

The princesses began to squeal once more, one fainting from all the exertion. The twins picked up their glasses, smirking to each other. Kaoru snuck a glance over to the other hosts, wondering how they were doing.

Suddenly, as Kyoya was sitting with his customers, he heard a coughing fit. He turned around, saw it was Tamaki, and went back to his customers.

The girls noticed that Kyoya paid Tamaki no mind though he could be dying here and now. But, since it was Kyoya ignoring him, they figured it was okay and ignored him, too. Though, it was funny. Kyoya usually seemed to care a bit more about his fellow host. Maybe something had happened...

"How is your vacation going so far, Kyoya-san?" one of the freshman girls asked.

"It's very tiresome, so far. From babysitting my fellow host to being rudly awaken in the mornings, I haven't gotten much spare time. But I'm glad I get to spend time with you girls now." Kyoya said, giving a refreshing and brilliant smile.

The girls blushed. "Have you gone into the hot springs yet?" Another girl asked him.

"Ah, yes. The springs were nicely built, and were kept at the perfect temperature." Kyoya needed a good opportunity to mention the new magazine that would be all about the hot springs trip. If he found the exact moment to announce it, then everyone would pre-order a copy or two. He just had to wait for someone, anyone, to make the perfect opportunity for him to announce it to all of the 'princesses'...

Besides the fact that Tamaki was dying, their day of hosting was going quite well