Summary: Haruhi didn't exactly become the great lawyer she wanted to be and she's lost contact with the host club members. What happens when the twins contact her for the first time in years needing her help? Haruhi/Hikaru or Haruhi/Twins (not sure which yet).

I know its been forever and I'm sorry for that. Life just sorta got to me (well, life and a computer game I've been playing obsessively since I got it…) and I haven't had a lot of time to work on this. Anyway, its here now. Please enjoy!

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And that evening when Haruhi returned from work, they did just that. She was dismayed to note that they had dug up certain items that she had long buried (with good reason) in her the back of her closet and slightly disturbed that several new items seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. A quick glance at her office indicated that they had, in fact, not appeared out of nowhere but that the twins had bought (or brought with them) a sewing machine, dress maker's mannequin, and fabric which now rendered her office unusable.

Most outfits she modeled without protest, knowing that there was no way she was going to get out of it. Not to mention it was hard to miss how Kaoru's face lit up when she wore one of his line or how both their faces lit up when she modeled one of the new outfits.

Most is the keyword here. Some she very adamantly protested.

"No."

"Come on, Haruhi," Kaoru called through the door.

"I haven't worn this in over four years! It probably doesn't even fit any more."

"We want to see it!"

"I don't care."

"It's no different than trying on a swim suit," Hikaru called out.

"It's very different than trying on a swim suit!"

"In fact I think it even covers more than the swim suits you tried on for us in high school and college," Kaoru remarked and Haruhi winced. He had a point there, although she hadn't willingly tried on those either.

"That's not the point."

"Don't make us come in there and change you."

"You wouldn't dare," she said knowing full well they would dare.

"Is that a challenge?"

"Cause, you know-"

"-We never back down-"

"From a challenge."

She heard them stalking towards the door and quickly found a place to hide the offending article of clothing then stood in the middle of the room with her hands on her hips not really caring that all she had on was her bra and underwear.

It wasn't like they hadn't seen it before. She had learned very early in their friendship that the twins had boundary issues. They didn't mean anything perverted by it, 80% of the time it was to annoy Tamaki and the other 20% of the time it was to annoy her.

"If Tono got to-"

"-See you wearing it-"

"Why shouldn't we?"

"Because Tamaki was my boyfriend when he saw me wearing it."

"Then be our girlfriend and show us."

"No," she replied once more, though this time there was a bit of a laugh in her voice. The twins smirked at each other; she was caving.

"Haruhi, let's get married," this had always been one of their favorite jokes and they found that even without Tamaki around to freak out when they said it they still very much enjoyed it.

"You guys really haven't changed since high school, have you?" Haruhi laughed.

"Sure we have," Hikaru replied, finally talking separate from his brother.

"We've matured," Kaoru told her with an arrogant sort of pride.

"So show us or we'll put it on you ourselves."

Haruhi sighed, but then thought up another idea to combat the twins. "Tell you what..." She had a smirk on her face to rival the twins', "If I ever do become your girlfriend I'll show you then, alright?"

Before they could answer a knock at the front door sounded through the apartment. It was the twins' turn to smirk.

"We'll get it!"

"Wait!" Haruhi called while scrambling to find a dress, a robe, anything to cover herself. "Hikaru and Kaoru Hitachiin don't you dare open that door until I have some clothes on!"

"Too late!" came their taunting reply and she groaned. She found herself a bathrobe and walked out of the bedroom completely mortified, knowing whoever was standing out there had heard that last comment.

Sure enough when she exited the bedroom, there stood a bright red Mindy Yamamoto. Mindy was a young office assistant at her firm, she was a bit clumsy but was a hard worker. The other lawyers typically tried to avoid giving her work because the first few cases she'd helped on had been lost and the lawyers and other assistants placed the blame on her because she was the newest hire.

Haruhi had looked over the case files and found that the mistakes made were ones any new assistant would make (and should have been caught by the other assistants). Mindy didn't make the same mistakes twice and with a bit of training she was just as good as the others.

The difference? She actually cared about her job. Haruhi had, unintentionally, earned her loyalty. The young office assistant would go out of her way to help Haruhi because she had been the only one to extend a helping hand when the girl needed it.

"I-I'm sorry if I'm interrupting.." Mindy stuttered.

Haruhi sighed and sent a glare at the twins (whose grins simply got larger). "You're not interrupting anything, Mindy."

"O-oh... Ok... Umm," Mindy was avoiding looking at her, instead she sent nervous glances to the twins and was none too subtle about it so the twins easily noticed. Seeing the familiar looks in their eyes, Haruhi spoke before they could break into one of their twincest routines. God, they hadn't outgrown that either?

"Is there a reason your here, Mindy?" Haruhi sent a warning look at the twins. Don't make matters worse, she told them with her eyes.

"O-oh, y-yes, umm... This came for you just before I left. It looked important so I thought I'd drop it off for you." As Mindy spoke her nervousness faded away as she returned to familiar ground. She held a thick envelope out to Haruhi.

Haruhi smiled warmly at the young girl and, just as when she had been a host, sparkles seemed to surround her. The twins were rather pleased to note that her years in the host club had not gone to waste and had greatly improved her people skills. "Thank you, I really appreciate you dropping it by." Just like the girls in high school, though for different reasons, the young girl brightened at the praise.

"Haaruuhiii," Hikaru whined as he draped his arms around her shoulders. "Do you like her-"

"-Better than us?" Kaoru finished as he join his brother on her other side.

"Yes."

Both twins barely managed to keep the smirk off their faces. As much as Haruhi thought she had changed from high school she really hadn't. After a few years they had tried to incorporate her into their act but had found that she wasn't always the most willing participant. They had quickly adapted their act to accommodate her unwilling participation. They easily slipped into the old act now.

Haruhi simply ignored the fact that there were two full grown men hanging off her, she had gotten used to the twin's need for almost constant physical contact and despite the fact that she hadn't seen them in years felt no discomfort at their nearness now.

This is what made Mindy's eyes soften with a smile instead of swoon as they had expected. She had never seen Haruhi interact with anyone so naturally. Mindy always paid particular attention to Haruhi so she would been able to do what she needed without being asked, so Mindy knew her young boss well enough to tell that despite the fact that she acted annoyed by the twins presence, she was rather enjoying the way they hung off her and tried to rope her into their game while she calmly opened the envelope and read over the first page. A bright smile covered her face as she finished the first page.

"Good ol' Mori-senpai," she muttered as she slid the page back into the envelope. "Would you like to stay for dinner, Mindy? You went through all the trouble of bringing this here."

"Oh, I wouldn't want to intrude..."

"Trust me, you aren't intruding," Haruhi assured her but Mindy shook her head.

"I have plans tonight anyway. Please enjoy your evening with your boyfriend...s," she hesitated slightly before adding the 's' to the term but with one more look over the twins decided that was really the only title she could give the relationship they seemed to share. It took every bit of will power not to back away when the twins' faces lit up at the word 'boyfriends'. Their faces had filled with a sort of mischievous delight that would have scared anyone.

"Did you hear that, Haruhi?" one of the twins, Mindy couldn't tell which, said huskily in her ear.

"We're your boyfriends," the other twin whispered in her other ear.

"You know-"

"-What that means..."

"You have to try that outfit on and show it to us," they both chorused together then started making their way toward her room chanting, "Change! Change!" all the way.

Haruhi groaned. "Just because she mistook you two for my boyfriends doesn't mean you are, which means I don't have to try it on and show it to you," she called out to them.

Mindy knew better than to ask what they were talking about. "Well, I'm going to go now. I'm meeting my boyfriend for dinner tonight."

Haruhi nodded and showed her to the door. Once she was gone she went to the kitchen to make dinner, hoping that food would distract the twins from their desire to make her try on the outfit. She was right. The minute she went to the kitchen and started getting out the ingredients needed, the twins started cheering, "Haruhi's cooking! Haruhi's cooking!"

Haruhi looked at them in confusion. "You guys ate my cooking last night and this morning for breakfast, why are you only just now cheering about it?"

"Last night you didn't actually make the food for us," Hikaru explained.

"And this morning it was just boxed powder that you added water to," Kaoru added.

"So those don't count!"

"Like it makes a difference," Haruhi sighed. The twins ignored her and simply continued to cheer.