Chapter 10: Questions

Tamaki and Haruhi took their time to walk down to breakfast, not only because they were tired but were still trying to brighten themselves up. Tamaki kept eying Haruhi to see how she was fairing; she looked fine but Tamaki wasn't sure how she felt inside. Tamaki, although felt bad about making Haruhi dress up, was getting a weird feeling building up in him. He felt warm although wasn't blushing, his heart fluttered and just all around happy. He couldn't pin what it was but he liked it.

Haruhi noticed Tamaki glancing at her at random moments as they walked down to the breakfast bar together. The constant glancing made her a little nervous, but not for obvious reasons. Perhaps she was just afraid of the possibility that maybe Tamaki was still upset with her words. She didn't know. Maybe it was best that she didn't know...

They finally reached the breakfast bar and saw the rest of the club sitting down at a table with two empty chairs next to each other. Tamaki lead Haruhi to the table as he waved to the others and said, "Hey guys." Tamaki pulled Haruhi's chair out for her but didn't assist her in like he did the night before; they were probably already going to bomb Haruhi and Tamaki with comments and questions and he didn't want to give them more material. Tamaki sat down and poured himself a cup of coffee and asked, "Has the waiter come yet?"

Haruhi sat down in the chair that Tamaki pulled out for her. At first, it surprised her a little that he didn't assist her like he did last night. But then again, it was probably best that he didn't.

Haruhi looked at everyone around the table, waiting for them to get pounded down with questions. When no one began talking, she grabbed a menu and started looking through it; questions were bound to come eventually.

Mori didn't ask any questions when they sat down because he was sure one of the others would ask his question for him.

Hunny shook his head to Tamaki and said, "No, the waiter hasn't come yet." Hunny stared at Haruhi and Tamaki; neither of them showed any signs of doing anything. But Hunny knew something did happen. Hunny calmly leaned back in his seat and said, "So, where were you and Haru-chan, Tama-chan? We looked around for you two on our way down, but we couldn't find you... Did something happen?"

The twins smirked, leaning in slightly to hear their answer. They knew it was gonna be good, especially since both of them looked slightly flustered. At this point, Tamaki would be confessing to Haruhi before the day was over.

Oh god here they come, Tamaki thought. Tamaki looked at Haruhi and then back at the group and said, "W-we were just walking around and chatting about nothing really." He hoped they would believe him but to avoid the subject, he looked around and asked, "Where is that waiter?" Tamaki actually made an attempt to look for someone that looked like a waiter or waitress but really his mind was turning over the events that just happened and his strange feeling. I know there's a word for this feeling, Tamaki thought to himself distressfully, But what's the name? Really happy? ...No, excited? ...no that's not it either...pleasure?...possibly but that's not it. What is it? What is it?!?

Haruhi felt her hair stand up when Hunny asked. She looked up at Tamaki when he said, She turned to the rest of the group and nodded eagerly at them.

I highly doubt that, Mori thought to himself but he didn't press any further questions since Tamaki was obviously avoiding the subject and probably wouldn't listen to him

Tamaki refocused on his surroundings and the first thing he focused on was two other students on the field trip enjoying breakfast together.

"So how have you been enjoying the springs, Joanna?" the guy asked as he placed his hand over hers almost like how Tamaki placed his hand over Haruhi's last night.

"Oh, they have been lovely, John." she said in a relaxed tone back as she blushed a little. Her voice was so much like Haruhi's when the two of them talked alone.

"But I bet they weren't as lovely as you." john said back

"Stop it john." Joanna said back pushing him slightly, "but thank you for the compliment." she looked at him with deep eyes like Haruhi did this morning, then reached over and pecked john on the cheek.

The guy blushed and stared back at her and said, "Any time, dear."

Tamaki's eyes widened at the scene as realized the comparisons between how he'd been acting towards Haruhi this week. He quickly looked in another direction to continue his search for the waiter but he thought to himself, Is that this feeling?....love?

Mori noticed Tamaki staring off in one particular direction and Mori followed Tamaki's gaze. For some odd reason, Tamaki was watching a couple sweet talk with each other. Mori mearly smirked to himself as he took another sip of his coffee. Tamaki's realizing something... Mori thought to himself with satisfaction

"Yeah, that's right. We--we were just walking around again. Nothing more than that." Haruhi said before she held her menu in front of her, hiding her face; she didn't know if she was blushing or not.

Why would I be blushing? Nothing really happened. All Tamaki-senpai and I did was talk. Nothing more! ...Right? Yes...of course nothing else happened. I know that for a fact, since I was there and all... Haruhi thought to herself nervously. She looked up at Tamaki slightly, but turned back to her menu when she noticed that he was preoccupied with something. He wouldn't be able to help me anyway... Right?

Hunny watched Tamaki as he looked away from the group. He was staring at something...but what? Hunny noticed a couple sitting with each other, perhaps Tamaki was looking at them...or maybe he was really looking for a waiter.

It was then that Hunny saw Tamaki's expression change. It was almost as if there was an invisible light shinning off of him brightly. I think Tama-chan realized something...

Hunny leaned in next to Mori and asked him quietly, "Takashi...I think Tama-chan finally realized it!"

Mori smirked and then leaned in to Hunny and said quickly yet quietly, "I think he did too...Phase 1 complete. Now on to phase 2: get Haruhi to realize the same." Mori backed away from hi cousin and continued to look at Tamaki, still completely surprised that he finally realized his feelings.

Tamaki looked down at the ground for a minute as he thought, Is this really love? I mean I should know what love feels like right? Tamaki tried to think of a time where he really loved someone or somebody other than his mother; unfortunately he couldn't think of one. For Pete sakes! I'm a host! I should know what love feels like...right? Tamaki then remembered that he really never fell for any of his customer. As important each one's happiness was to him, he never really got personal with any of them. I need to know for sure before I jump to conclusions, he thought, M-maybe I can try to ask the guys some questions to find out for sure...

When Tamaki couldn't find the waiter at all, and when he felt that the guys were done throwing questions at them he turned around only to see that all five of them were now staring at him awkwardly. "What?" Tamaki asked of them now a little nervous as to why they were staring at him like that.

From the look on Tamaki's face and the scene that he was looking at, Kyoya was able to tell that Tamaki had figured it out. Smirking (which he does a lot), he stood up. "Tamaki. May I speak with you for a moment." From the tone of his voice, this was obviously not intended as a question, but a command.

Perfect, he thought, although what does he want from me? "Uhhh yeah sure Kyoya." Tamaki said as he stood up as well, "there's...something I wanna ask you too."

Haruhi heard what Tamaki said about him having a question for Kyoya. She turned around and watched them leave to the far end of the room. What could Tamaki-senpai possibly want to ask Kyoya-senpai...? He wouldn't say anything about what we were talking about back in the room... So what...?

Tamaki followed Kyoya to the far end of the room and Tamaki asked, "Well... what did you want me for?"

"First off, I'd like to apologize for yesterday." Not really. "I'll tell this to Haruhi later, but it was rude of me to say such a thing to her." I don't really care. "You seemed somewhat... offended by the comment, so I figured I should apologize to you about it too, Tamaki."

"I have more to say, but you said you had something to ask me. What do you want to ask?" Probably something Haruhi-related.

Tamaki looked down and rubbed the back of his neck as Kyoya apologized. "I'm sorry too for bursting out like that," Tamaki said, "but you really shouldn't have said that while Haruhi was eating."

Tamaki thought for a brief moment about what he wanted to go about asking Kyoya, of all people, a question on such a sensitive topic. An idea came to him and Tamaki said, "But about what I wanted to ask you...as my best friend, I thought you could give me the best answer out of the rest of the hosts..."

Tamaki paused for a moment as he thought about his question then went on to say, "Yesterday morning when i was in the cafe...another student came up to me, knowing that I was the Host king and asked...'Senpai, I think I'm in love with a girl....but I'm not quite sure about my feelings. What exactly does love feel like?' However, all I could tell him was, 'Well... love is hard to describe in words... but if you give me a few days to think about it, I'll get back to you on that.'...."

Tamaki hoped to god that Kyoya would believe such a story but either way, he continued on to say, "My question to you, Kyoya, is what should I tell him?"

Kyoya laughed on the inside. This was obviously really about him and Haruhi. Tamaki was an easy person to read.

But Kyoya didn't really know what to tell him. Technically, he had never been in love himself. But, since he had heard so many stories, he figured that he'd be able to make something up that fit Tamaki's feelings for Haruhi.

"Well," He started, "love is hard to explain. I guess you know you're in love when you desire the company of that person more then usual, you're always happy when you're with that person, you desire little things, like small talk and some time to yourselves, you over think some things that are said and done, and you always tend to blush when they're around." It defiantly felt weird talking about this, especially when he had no idea what he was talking about (though he would never admit that). But this would help reassure Tamaki's feelings for Haruhi.

Haruhi turned back around and sighed. She looked up at everyone, only to notice that they had their eyes on her as well. "Wh--why are you all gawking at me...?"

The twins smirked, leaning against each other. "Oh, no reason." Hikaru said nonchalantly. "You know Haruhi, you and Tamaki seem to be spending a lot of time together." Kaoru commented, looking down at his nails. "Not that we suspect anything." They both added, placing their hands up. "But it appears that you've been blushing a lot lately."

They both leaned forward slightly, anxious to hear her response. "This is just our friendly speculation, mind you." Kaoru finished.

Way to go on the subtlety he thought to himself sarcastically, but at least it's a wedge in the crack that we're picking at.

Haruhi glared at Hikaru & Kaoru, while blushing. She gasped and tried to hide it--made sence that she should after they state the fact that she blushing a lot lately. Haruhi herself just proved it.

They're devils...trying to get under my skin. They do suspect that something happened. Well...everyone does. But-- "--Nothing happened!" Haruhi shouted out loud, without realizing it. She stood from her seat and looked down upon the twins. She was furious and embarrassed.

Sure, she just shouted loud enough so the entire room could hear her...But that wasn't why she was embarrassed. Was it because...she was thinking of Tamaki...and what went on in the room? Why does this bother me so much?!? she thought to herself Nothing happened...right? Haruhi sat back down in her seat, more calmed down, with a blank, clueless stare.

Mori was very taken back by Haruhi's sudden outburst. Well it seems the twins hit a soft spot, he thought to himself, but does that change anything? Mori watched as Haruhi sat back down and he looked at his cousin for any comments or thoughts. After the twin's intrusion, Mori didn't want to press anything else onto Haruhi.

Hunny jumped a bit when Haruhi suddenly shouted, but he was slightly pleased even more so. Her shouting basically proved that something did happen between her and Tamaki. But what? Hunny had no clue.

Hunny noticed Mori looking at him, and looked up. Whispering ever so quietly, Hunny said, "I'm convinced that something happened now... But I think we better not push the matter any more...for now at least." Hunny turned his head back and looked down at his menu; there was no way that Hunny was going to disturb Haruhi while she was in a daze

"Ummm...Thanks Kyoya." Tamaki managed to utter out after Kyoya gave him his definition of love. I think I was acting a bit like that around Haruhi.... he thought to himself, But that doesn't really describe how I'm feeling...maybe I'll ask some of the others as well. "I'll let him know when I see him again." Tamaki was going to ask Kyoya what else he wanted when he heard a commotion from center of the room.

Kyoya looked over and saw Haruhi, and the twins no doubt, making a scene. It took Kyoya a second to realize that Tamaki had walked away. It wasn't a big deal, though. The question really wasn't all that important, anyway. And if he really wanted to know, he would be able to talk to Tamaki about it at any time, now that relations between the two friends were repaired.

Tamaki turned around and saw Haruhi yelling at none other than the twins. "Oh those unscrupulous..." he muttered to himself before walking away from Kyoya and over to the table, just about ready to beat those twins to a pulp. "Oye." Tamaki said as he came up from behind the twins, "Now what are you guys doing to her?" He followed Tamaki to the table, standing right behind him when he questioned the twins.

They put on their 'innocent' faces. "We did nothing!" Hikaru said, putting his hands up. Kaoru nodded. "We had just been wondering why you two had been acting so weird lately." They nodded. "Though we understand now, as Haruhi has so graciously yelled at us, that 'nothing happened'. They looked at each other, muttering, "That's must be a whole lot of nothing if their getting that defensive about it."

Tamaki sighed irritably, trying not to draw attention to their little "chat" before they met up with everyone. "Gomen, We're both a little off from...dinner last night." Tamaki lied, "but after talking with Kyoya, everything is fine now." Tamaki took a seat just as the waitress came up to the table. About time he thought as everyone ordered breakfast. The meal was very quiet since no one really wanted to say much after all that happened before they ate. This made Tamaki very uncomfortable; but then again, he didn't want any of the guys to continue to pound either Haruhi or himself with questions.

After everyone was done, Tamaki said to the group, "Alright guys, let's go get ready for the club activities. We should maybe get down there early and try to rearrange the furniture to meet our needs." With that Tamaki stood up and then lead the group back upstairs.

When they got to the rooms, Tamaki said to Haruhi, "I'll bring over your outfit in a minute or so okay?"

Haruhi walked up with the rest of the group and into her room without speaking another word. She was embarrassed, angry, flustered, and so many other emotions Haruhi didn't even know how to describe. But why...?

Haruhi walked over and stood in front of the love seat her and Tamaki sat in earlier, staring at it. This is getting annoying...but more confusing than anything. Haruhi fell down to her knees, continuing to stare at the space in front of her. This is hopeless...I don't understand any of this! Haruhi bowed her head down and sighed.

Mori walked silently back to the room and was the first one back into the boy's room. He went over to the box of cosplays and opened it up. Inside were seven clear, plastic bags with everyone's outfits in them. Mori pulled the top two out and looked at each one in his hands. "The theme is pirates?" he asked allowed, not really expecting an answer from anyone.

He set all seven outfits out on the table and looked at them all, trying to figure out which one was his. He saw how the one with the denim coat was the largest so he took that one, assuming it was his. Mori noticed how there were two sets of matching costumes. Well obviously the brown ones are the twins...he thought to himself as he examined the vibrant scarlet outfits, did Tamaki seriously get Haruhi an outfit that matched his?

Tamaki watched as everyone filled into their respective rooms. The last one to enter the boy's room though, was Hunny. Tamaki tapped him lightly on the shoulder and quietly ushered him back into the hallway. Once the door was shut, Tamaki sat down on the bench so he was at Hunny's eye level and he asked him, "Uhhh...Hunny... do you mind if I ask you kinda a stupid question?"

Hunny stared at Tamaki curiously. He had a slight feeling that it involved whatever he asking Kyoya...but he had no idea what they were talking about. Not in the least.

Hunny tilted his head to the side slightly and said, "Of course you can, Tama-chan!" Hunny plopped down next to Tamaki and smiled up at him, kicking his legs back and forth.

Ok, how am I gonna word this...Tamaki thought to himself about how he would get an explanation of love out of Hunny without blatantly drawing attention to himself. Tamaki had a vague idea but went with it anyways. "Okay, when you...eat cake...how, specifically, does that make you feel?" Tamaki thought for a quick second about a really dumb response Hunny could make and Tamaki tagged on, "Other than full." Tamaki again prayed that Hunny would think that he was so...out there...that Hunny would believe a question like that would come from him.

Hunny tilted his head even more, not expecting this question. There's no way Tama-chan asked Kyo-chan this, he thought. But of course, Hunny couldn't resist to answer such a wonderful question!

Hunny jumped up to his feet and said, "Cake make me so happy! When I see it, I get excited and I wanna eat it all up. Then when it's all gone...I get sad, because I love cake so much! But it's always okay, because I know I'll get to have it again." Hunny smiled at Tamaki. He leaned in closer to him, with his hands behind his back. "Was that a good answer, Tama-chan?"

Tamaki thought about Hunny's answer for a few moments. Tamaki knew Hunny "loved" cake so he thought he would get an answer that might be exactly how he feels. I wish he would have been more specific he thought but I guess his answer is a little more helpful than Kyoya's. He then reworded Hunny's answer in his mind and replaced the word "cake" with "Haruhi"

Haruhi makes me so happy. When I see her, I get excited and I wanna eat the moment all up. Then when she's gone...I get sad, because I love her so much. But it's always okay, because I know I'll get to see her again.

Tamaki took a quick intake of air and he covered his mouth at the new thought. Oh my god, he thought to himself as he realized that maybe these emotions he was feeling were most likely love. But he still didn't explain how he felt when he was eating cake, he thought to himself as he brought his hand away from his face, I guess I'll ask the twins that later. He looked at Hunny, who was staring curiously back. "Uhhh...hickup." Tamaki explained but then went on to answer Hunny, "Yes that was a good answer. I told you it was a stupid question."

Mori and the other three hosts were trying to guess at whose outfits were whose, Mori looked around and though Where's Tamaki and Mizukani? Mori first checked the rooms but then went outside of the room and saw them both sitting on the bench. "C'mon guys," he said to them, "we need to get dressed and we don't know whose outfits are whose, Tamaki."

Hunny shook his head, still smiling. "I don't think it was a stupid question. You know how much I like eating cake!"

It was then that Hunny heard their door open. He turned and looked up, only to see Mori telling them to come inside. Hunny jumped up and ran over to Mori. He smiled up at his rather tall cousin and said, "Okay, Takashi!" He signalled for Tamaki to follow and then ran inside.

Hunny curiously looked through the box of cosplays; he too couldn't tell which was his.

Assuming that the matching outfits were theirs, the two slipped into their new pirate cosplay, looking over each other once to make sure that they both looked exactly the same. As they were changing, they noticed Mori walk out of the room, but paid no attention.

"Do you think either of them have realized yet?" Hikaru asked his twin after they had been alone for a while.

"Well, knowing Tamaki, it's gonna take a while to get it into his head. But once Haruhi understands she'll probably pick up on it quicker." Kaoru answered, running a hand through his hair.

"I know this is just supposed to be another game," Hikaru muttered, going to sit next to his brother. "But I really do hope that they figure it out soon."

"For both their sakes." They stated together.

Tamaki nodded at Mori and said to Him, "Yeah, Sorry about that. I wanted to ask Hunny-senpai something." Tamaki then entered the room with Hunny and went over to the cosplays. He picked up the bag with the denim coat and the green coat and walked over to the cousins and handed them their respective outfits. "Here you go guys, Sorry about the confusion." Tamaki then grabbed Kyoya's Indigo one and the Haruhi's scarlet one. Tamaki handed Kyoya his outfit and said, "Here's yours Kyoya. I"m going to go give Haruhi hers."

With that Tamaki left the room once again and went across the hall and knocked on Haruhi's door. Tamaki's head was still racing with thoughts about his feelings. Am I really in love with her? he thought to himself I guess that would explain a lot but I'm just not sure.

Haruhi practically jumped to her feet when she heard knocking on the door. She shook her head and took a deep breath. Relax, Haruhi. There's no need to panic over knocking. It's probably just Tamaki-senpai with my cosplay.

Tamaki waited slightly impatiently for Haruhi to open the door. When she finally did, Tamaki saw that she had somewhat of a distressed face.

Haruhi took a second deep breath and walked over to the door. She slowly and cautiously opened the door and peered outside. Just as she thought, it was Tamaki. She looked up at him and said, "Tamaki-senpai...I--is that my cosplay?"

Tamaki nodded and added a weak, "Yeah" as he handed the fairly large bag to Haruhi. Tamaki then put a hand on the door so that it wouldn't close and he asked her, "Haruhi, are you alright? You see kinda off. Anything I can do to help?"

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As soon as Tamaki left, Mori went to go change with Hunny. As then made it into their Pirate garb, Mori asked hunny, "Mitzukani...do you have any ideas on how to get Haruhi to realize she's in love with Tamaki?"

While changing into his pirate cosplay, he thought long and hard about what they could possibly do to get Haruhi to realize that she too loved Tamaki. Finally, he came up with an idea. While he was adjusting his coat, making sure it looked just right, he said, "Well...I got an idea, Takashi. But it'll involve everyone to help out, except Tama-chan and Haru-chan."

Hunny dropped his hands from his coat collar and looked up at Mori. "I was thinking that the five of us should go down and rearrange the furniture around. We all take our spots, but we make sure to leave two empty spots close to each other. Tama-chan and Haru-chan will have no choice but to sit next to each other! If we did that, something was bound to happen between them!"

Mori listened to Hunny's idea as he slipped his cosplay on. "That's not a bad idea," Mori admitted as he slipped the coat on, "there's just a slight chance trouble might spark but that seems to be inevitable in this club."

Once Hunny was dressed he picked Hunny up onto his shoulders and walked out of their quadrant. On their way to the door, Mori grabbed the Twins by the collar and said, "C'mon, help us set up the ballroom for the game." Before he opened the door, Mori said loud enough for Kyoya to hear, "Come strait down to the ball room when your done to help us set up."

The warning was unnecessary. Never would Kyoya be caught being late for a club meeting, or anything for that matter, unless it was absolutely unavoidable.

Mori opened the door and the four of them saw Tamaki talking to Haruhi. "we're going down to set up." Mori said as he tried to possibly pick something small up from their conversation as they passed. Mori kept dragging the twins behind him so they wouldn't cause any more trouble than they've already caused the two of them.

The twins pouted slightly as they were dragged, by Mori, to the ballroom, preventing them from making any... comments that they were certain would embarrass their lord even further. They both sighed, accepting this (for now) and allowing themselves to be tugged along to the ballroom.

A moment later, Kyoya walked out of his room, full cosplay, and headed out the door. He assumed Tamaki was still in the process of giving Haruhi her cosplay, and the twins, Hunny, and Mori were almost at the ball room.

Once there, they clapped their hands together, a mischievous glint in their eyes."Alright!" They called out, standing in what was almost a battle position. "Let's get started."

They turned suddenly, linking arms and looking at Mori curiously. "What exactly are we doing?" They noticed Kyoya walk in and begin speaking, but figured that whatever question Mori answered would result in them knowing what was going on.

Kyoya walked into the hallway and made his way to the ball room at a reasonable pace. He met the rest of the club in the room and said "You all seemed abnormally eager to get here early today. What's motivating you?" 'Possibly our little game?'

"We're gonna force Haruhi and Tamaki to sit near one another." Mori said as he started pushing some of unnecessary tables out of the way, "The way Mitzukani and I figure, the more time they spend near one another, the more they're gonna bond, even if it's during club activities." Mori started pushing another table out of the way and said. "Make four tables in a circle around two other tables in the middle. Hopefully we'll finish before those two get down here and we'll take the seats around the tables around the outside." Mori pushed away as he waited for the others to help him.

Hikaru and Kaoru grinned, immediately getting to work. Ah, this game was turning out to be more fun then they expected! They began pushing the tables around as Mori instructed, working quickly so as to finish before Haruhi and Tamaki came down.

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Haruhi wasn't surprised in the least to hear a question like that from Tamaki. But did she really seem kinda...off? Sure, she didn't feel one hundred percent, but off? But maybe she was out of it quite a bit... It wasn't even noon and she was ready for the day to end.

Realizing that she hasn't answered Tamaki's question, Haruhi shook her head slightly as she took the cosplay from Tamaki. "I--I don't know how you would possibly be able to help me, Tamaki-senpai. I--I feel perfectly fine." Haruhi was lying through her teeth, and it seemed pretty obvious, if you asked her that is.

Haruhi stared at Tamaki, wondering many things. There were so many different emotions flowing through her at this moment, but she didn't know what any of them were. It was frustrating. Was it because Tamaki looked so concerned? Possibly.

She's so lying to me Tamaki thought to himself blatantly, but why would she lie? Its not like she has anything to hide from me.

"But what about yourself, Senpai? You seem to be a little out of it yourself," she managed so stutter out. Was this going too far, asking that question? She didn't know...

"Oh," Tamaki said as he was caught off guard by her asking the same question back at him, "I--uh- guess I'm still tired…you know...from last night?" he half-lied. he was indeed tired but, unknown to Tamaki, appeared slightly troubled because of his mysterious emotions. "Alright I'm going to go get ready and then we can walk down to the Ballroom together." Tamaki said as he heart slightly fluttered at the word 'together'.

Tamaki went back into the boy's room and picked up his bag and started to get dressed. In a few minutes time Tamaki was fully clothed in his elegant scarlet coat with gold embroidering, accompanied by a scarlet vest and sash, white under shirt, black poofy pants, white tights, and leather buckle shoes. Tamaki fixed the black triangle hat upon his head and double checked himself in the mirror. He nodded at his appearance and then emerged back out of his room and knocked on Haruhi's door again to let her know that he was ready. Tamaki then sat down on the bench and waited for Haruhi.
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Hunny raced around the ballroom, moving chairs and tables in every other direction, making sure that there were only two tables in the middle. Hunny smiled as he pushed chairs to each side of the two tables. Rubbing the sweat off of his head, Hunny said, "Do you think we should have the customers seated before Haru-chan and Tama-chan get back too? I mean...it would be nice to have them back to back."

As they finished putting the chairs around the tables, Mori thought about his cousin's idea. "I suppose." Mori said, "Assuming that the customers get down here before they do."

As if on cue, three of the host clubs customers peered their heads into the ballroom, looking slightly nervous and bashful to see their hosts in their new cosplays. "Ummm..." one of them said shyly, "Is the club activities going to start soon?"

Mori looked Kyoya for a reply since Mori wasn't sure if it would be "profitable" to start without the kind and the natural rookie, even though it would be beneficial to their game.

Kyoya thought about it for a moment. If he let the customers in without Tamaki and Haruhi, it could actually improve profits, as long as they weren't gone too long. And Kyoya would call Tamaki before he ever let that happen. Not only that, it would help them with their little 'game'. So, in the end, the answer was obvious.

"Yes, ladies. You're welcome to come in and take a seat now, if you wish," Kyoya said in his hosting voice. He then took a seat at one of the tables in which he did not help to set up.

Hunny smiled and then ran over to Mori. "Takashi! Let's go seat our customers, then we'll guide Tama-chan and Haru-chan's to their seats. Okay?" Hunny happily did as he said and led them to their seats.

When Hunny noticed some of Haruhi and Tamaki's regular customers coming in, he told his customers, "I'll be right back ladies! Tama-chan and Haru-chan are running a little late, so I'm going to seat their regulars." He then ran over to them and led them to the central tables. But of course, Hunny was sure to leave two seats empty; back to back (almost). Afterwards, Hunny ran back over to his customers.
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Haruhi nodded and closed the door once Tamaki was back in the guys' room. She turned around and sighed as she began to change. He wasn't telling me the complete truth...I know it. Well, I didn't tell him the truth either. So I guess we're even...

Once Haruhi was done changing into her cosplay, she made way to the bathroom to examine herself in the mirror: She wore a scarlet coat, vest, and sash with a white undershirt. On the lower half of her body, she wore black poofy pants, white tights, and leather buckle shoes. Her black triangle hat had a rather large scarlet peacock feather with a silver skull and crossbones' clip. The same went for the buttons on her coat.

Maybe a pirate theme wasn't' the best idea... she thought after walking out of the bathroom. Haruhi stuffed her wallet and card key in her coat pocket and walked out the door. She sweat-dropped when she saw Tamaki sitting on the bench; their cosplays were almost identical. I was right there with him when he ordered these things. So why didn't I notice?

Tamaki smiled, almost laughed, when he saw Haruhi emerge out from her room and finally noticed their outfits were almost the same. I guess this was a little over-kill but I think it's cute, he thought to himself.

Haruhi walked up in front of Tamaki and said, "Okay, I'm ready. So let's go." The two of them walked down to the ballroom in silence; Haruhi herself wasn't quite sure what to say. She still had far too much going through her head. Maybe hosting will clear my head. Away from Tamaki-senpai... I wonder if that's all I need right now.

As he let Haruhi lead the way down to the ballroom, Tamaki didn't say anything to Haruhi since he was pouring over in his head on how he would bring up his next question to the twins of all people.

When they entered the room, Haruhi was in slight disappointment; there were two tables in the middle of the room, without hosts. Those tables were for Tamaki and Haruhi. Great...just great...

When they finally arrived, Tamaki noticed the other hosts had rearranged the tables so that the 5 of them were surrounding the two remaining tables which he assumed were for the two of them. As Tamaki neared the tables he noticed the only two chairs left were back-to-back. This is going to be problematic for me I just know it Tamaki thought as he took a deep breath and threw on his hosting face. Tamaki sat down and said to his customers romantically "Ahoy my dears, I've returned from the Seven Seas to grace you with my presence. How have you all been?"