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Author Notes: I have not updated this story in quite some time! I received a review recently from RisingSm0ke it said that they hope I updated my story soon. I was thinking that I made this story a one-shot a long time ago but I reread the first chapter and knew I had to continue! So here it is chapter 2 I hope every enjoy!
Chapter 2: Feelings
This feeling is what she had been missing all of these years. Throughout all of the working, and the accomplishments, this is what she had been longing for. In this moment, in his arms, feeling the taste of his lips on hers, feeling her heart swell and rejoice because she'd missed him; this is what she had been longing for but at the same time, trying so hard to forget.
Tamaki leaned back only a few inches from Haruhi and looked at her lovingly. He loved her, he'd always loved her from the very first time they'd made contact. But he knew his life wasn't for the faint at heart, or the individuals who liked to be free. Haruhi loved her freedom, being with him would only put her in a cage which would make her miserable and destroy the woman who was currently in front of him right now.
"Haruhi…I…,"
"Tamaki…don't."
"But I need to say this," he began again as he looked at her, his eyes begging for her to listen to him.
Haruhi sighed and pulled away from her former sempai, so much was happening that she could not wrap her mind around it all. She just knew that when he opened his mouth to say what he was going to say, she knew things would become even more complicated.
"I'll leave Éclair so we can be together," Tamaki stated calmly as he watched for Haruhi's reaction.
"Is it really just that easy?" Haruhi asked unexpectantly. Her question caught the blond off guard and she could tell he was searching for an answer. Haruhi noticed his confusion as she began again, maybe this was her, or maybe this was the lawyer part of her coming out. It was a pain but she knew right from wrong and him leaving his wife for her was wrong.
"Tamaki, I can't let you do that," she stated softly. "Maybe in the past if I'd stuck it out we could have been together, but I didn't and you got married. Regardless of why you two got married, you are still together and I know you, at this point you've probably fallen for her."
Tamaki looked away guiltily, and it hurt Haruhi to the core. He was a kind person, she knew that some time after all of the years of missing her he had decided it was easiest to give his heart to his wife. Her coming tonight had been wrong, it had set the both of them ten steps back when they had made so much progress in their own lives.
"Haruhi, I know leaving her is wrong and yes I have grown to love her, but, my heart has always belonged to you."
Haruhi sat in silence as she took in his words. How lucky had she been, but it took her older self to realize that now, and now was too late. Without a word she turned the key in the ignition and started up her vehicle. Her former lover and best friend looked at her sadly, he knew her and her actions were firm.
Tamaki leaned over and grabbed her hand softly, Haruhi tried to pull away but he gripped her tighter as he moved closer to her.
"Haruhi, I'll leave her, please wait for me," Haruhi's heart said wait but her mind told her no. Nothing good would come out of all of this. But seeing him, smelling him and touching him, she wanted to so badly.
Tamaki leaned in and softly kissed her again, melting away all of her resolve.
"Yui," Haruhi began as she pressed the intercom button and then released it to wait and see if her paralegal was within earshot to hear her. She didn't have to wait long because not even a minute late she heard that soft buzz signaling her assistant was about to respond to her.
"Yes, Miss Fujioka?"
"You can go home now, all the work I needed you to do today is now done. The only thing left is for me to sign a few documents."
There was a pause on the other line before she heard Yui's voice again. "Are you sure you don't have anything left for me to do? You know I don't mind staying with you if you really need me to."
Haruhi smiled, she really had a good employee. Yui was attending law school so Haruhi always tried to make sure her work load was not too much. That was one of the stipulations of the law school allowing her to work for the brunette full-time.
"I'll be fine, you should go home and relax and study."
Yui buzzed the intercom, "Well if you insist, I'll see you tomorrow, Thank you."
"Ok, be careful."
Haruhi sat in silence as she looked around her office. It had been a week since her reunion, a week since she'd spoken to him or anyone. She wanted to go out for a drink but then remember she didn't have any friends. She sighed loudly as she decided to just sit back and do more work for a couple of hours.
She stood up to stretch when her cell phone suddenly began to ring. She picked it up and looked at her caller ID which stated the number was private but picked it up anyway.
"Hello,"
"Good evening princess, are you busy?"
Haruhi smiled softly, her loneliness disappearing, she had friends, it's just that they all had their own lives but they were only a phone call away.
"I'm not busy, but I am still at work Kaoru."
"Well I take it you haven't had dinner yet, mind if I bring some over?"
Haruhi didn't think that long about dinner, the truth was that she had not eaten since early that morning.
"Yes that would be fine, do you know the address here?"
"Of course," Kaoru responded.
"Okay then I'll be waiting," Haruhi stated before hanging up the phone softly.
Kaoru arrived at her office a half an hour later with their dinner and it smelled delicious. Haruhi did not realize how hungry she was until the smell invaded her senses and stopped her from finishing her work until she at least had a few bites.
"Thank you so much Kaoru," I didn't realize how hungry I was until you mentioned food.
The younger twin smiled, "I figured I'd use this as a chance to catch up since we didn't get to speak much as week."
Haruhi nodded in agreement, "sorry about that by the way."
Kaoru shrugged as he chewed his food, he knew that it could not be helped Tamaki and Haruhi had history and that could not be helped.
"So how far along is Hikaru's wife?" Haruhi asked wanting to change the subject. She really didn't want to talk about Tamaki right now, especially since she had been waiting for his phone call for a week now and had heard nothing. Maybe waiting on him wasn't the best course of action, but she wasn't thinking logically at the moment.
"Oh Kina? She's about to pop any day now," Kaoru stated excitedly.
"Oh really?" Haruhi begin as she felt that familiar pang. What was wrong with her? Was she that selfish?
"Yes," Kaoru began again. "They are having a boy, Hikaru is very excited."
"Hikaru's going to make a wonderful father," Haruhi stated honestly.
"I think so too," Kaoru agreed.
"Do they have a name for him yet?" Haruhi asked curiously. She could picture Hikaru picking out a name like Satoshi, Kaname or Kazuto.
"Yes, they've decided to name him Kaname Hitachiin."
Haruhi looked at Kaoru, not surprised, besides she knew Hikaru, matter of fact, she knew all of the members of the former host club extremely well.
"So what about you?" Haruhi asked.
"What about me?" Kaoru asked back.
"Girlfriend? Wife? Kids?" asked Haruhi.
"I am completely and utterly single at the moment," Kaoru answered.
Haruhi stopped eating and looked over at the younger twin. Out of both of the twins she would have expected Kaoru to find love first. He was very open, friendly and warm, she just assumed he would be the first of the two to find love. "Wow I'm shocked, I would have expected you to be married before Hikaru."
"I'm not surprised," Kaoru stated. "Hikaru is extremely loving, once you get past his rough exterior."
Haruhi stayed silent, she knew he was, she had gotten a glimpse of the Hikaru underneath the shell.
"What about you Haruhi?"
Haruhi sighed inwardly, love hadn't been on the table for her in years and so she had never taken the time to open herself up to it.
"I'm single as well," she whispered.
"Now I'm surprised about that," Kaoru stated softly.
"I'm not," Haruhi answered, "I'm a workaholic, I'm emotionally closed off, and I'm really not all that feminate."
Kaoru chucked, "so says the girl who held the heart of the whole Ouran High School Host club."
Haruhi looked at Kaoru a bit surprised by that statement, she knew Hikaru and Tamaki had feelings for her, but everyone else did as well.
"Surprised?" Kaoru asked as he observed her expression, "I don't see why. Do you think we just looked after you because you were our friend? We had lots of female friends Haruhi and we never went out of our way for them."
"But Kyouya sempai? Hunny sempai? Mori sempai…" Haruhi trailed off as she looked into his eyes, " You?"
"Yes all of us, I even confessed to you remember?"
Haruhi looked at him confused, "when did you confess?"
Kaoru chuckled, "remember when we went to the amusement park and at the end of our date I gave you that kiss on the cheek and told you that I loved you?"
Haruhi looked at him shocked! How dense had she been back in her high school days?! "I'm so sorry Kaoru."
"Don't be, we were children back then, and besides Hikaru loved you too so we wouldn't have went out anyway."
"But I just brushed your feelings off, that wasn't fair."
"You know the saying Haruhi, 'All is fair in love and war.'"
Haruhi sighed feeling a bit guilty. Her mind began to wonder back to her High School days, the way that everyone protected her and was there for her, especially after she decided to spend her senior year as a girl.
"Kaoru I still want to apologize, I wasn't very considerate back then."
"It's okay, I was never mad, I knew who you loved but I still wanted to give it a shot."
Haruhi smiled weakly.
"Speaking of Chairman Souh," Kaoru began, suddenly becoming serious. "We need to talk about you and him."
Haruhi did not want to discuss him, she just wanted to pretend that she was just waiting for him to make up his mind, not leave his wife. She didn't want that on her shoulders but what was she supposed to do?
"I advise you to walk away from that situation," Kaoru said calmly. "Éclair is more than his wife, she represents power for the Souh family. His grandmother would stop at nothing to make sure you and him never be together."
Haruhi's heart sunk, she had tried her best to convince herself that Tamaki was his own man now and that no one could control him, but deep down she knew that was wrong.
"Kaoru…" Haruhi began unsure of what to say. She knew what she was doing was wrong. But was it really? She hadn't heard from him in a week, maybe he'd moved on and decided to stay with his wife.
Suddenly her phone rang, she picked it up and looked at the caller ID, another private number.
"Hello," She spoke into the phone grateful for the distraction.
"I miss you so much," the voice spoke into the phone softly.
Haruhi's heart began to speed up, he'd called. It had taken a week but finally he had. Her chocolate orbs glanced over at Kaoru and instantly the twin knew who was on that other end.
"Tell the chairman I said hello," he said as he sat there stubbornly looking at Haruhi.
"Oh?" She heard Tamaki state on the other end, "The twins are there with you?"
"Just Kaoru," Haruhi corrected him.
Tamaki became quiet on the other end, Haruhi didn't know what he was thinking but she wanted to make sure that there was no misunderstanding.
"Kaoru…"
"Haruhi," Tamaki interrupted. "Can I come over to your place tonight?"
Haruhi's face turned red, come over to her place? "As in spend the night?" She asked outloud finishing her thoughts.
"Yes," came a breathy response.
Kaoru's face twisted into a look of surprise. He stood up as he took in a deep breath. Haruhi noticed this reaction but tried not to pay it any mind.
She was about to answer when suddenly her phone was snatched from her hands.
"I must interfere in this Tamaki-sempai, I will not allow you to make Haruhi your mistress. Ask to spend the night over her house when you are divorced." Kaoru stated before hanging up the cell phone.
He looked down at Haruhi, irritation painted all over his face.
"And you, I can't believe you were about to say yes."
Haruhi looked up at Kaoru irritated by his actions, "you have no right to interfere."
Kaoru unfazed by her actions handed her back her cell phone, "fine, I was looking out for you but if you want to become his mistress than so be it. That's how it starts! He spends the night once and promises to divorce, then one night becomes two years. Sempai has a good heart but he's under a lot of pressure as well. It won't be easy for him to leave Éclair. And that's selfish of you to even allow this. If you had not walked away in the first place that could have been you lying in his bed right now."
Haruhi whinced, she knew he was right.
Kaoru picked up his coat and walked towards the door to the office, he turned around and looked at Haruhi. He obviously cared about what happened to her, but she was a grown woman, no one could stop her from doing what she truly wanted.
"Please don't let this situation escalate, walk away Haruhi." Kaoru stated before walking out of the office.
Haruhi was left there in silence and all of her thoughts, she knew what she should do, but she didn't know if she had to courage to walk away a second time.
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