Host Club vs Wild

Chapter 2: Crash Landing

"I don't know."

It felt like everybody had froze and was staring at him. No wait, scratch that, they were staring at him. Even Tamaki had looked over from his glum corner.

But of all the stares on his back, the one that seemed to pierce him the most was Haruhi's.

"Takashi, I think Kyou-chan is sick." Hani's voice was first to pierce through the almost eerie silence.

Mori grunted. He, at least, didn't sound that fazed.

"No way! Kyouya saying that he doesn't know? We're doomed!" Hikaru cried, dragging his fingers down his cheeks. "Doomed, I tell you, doomed!"

"Kyouya, you're kidding right? Just messing with us again?" Kaoru laughed, somewhat nervously. "Right?"

"Mommy, you can't say that! We have to turn right around and go back, we can't risk it out here anymore." Tamaki insisted, jumping to his feet and walking to stand beside Kyouya.

Haruhi nodded, "Though I hate to believe it, but Tamaki is right." She turned her head to gaze out the window and onto the open ocean. "I have a feeling we went straight for most of the way, so if we just turn around, we should hit land soon, right?"

"We can't do that." Kyouya disagreed, glancing at the rather suspicious looking twins. "Hikaru and Kaoru was steering the ship earlier, I highly doubt they stayed on a straight course."

Tamaki whipped around to face the two guilty twins. "Why you little devils! Do you see what you have done?" He wailed, throwing his arms up in the air for dramatic effect. "We're doomed, I tell you!"

Kyouya sighed inwardly, the kind of people he hung around on a daily basis. He wondered how he had managed to get away for so long without developing any kind of mental disease. He heard Haruhi sigh quietly beside he and looked at her from the corner of his eye. "Well, what do you suggest we do now?

Haruhi?" He asked.

Haruhi's ochre eyes widened in surprise, "Why are you asking me, senpai?"

Kyouya snorted, "Would you rather me asking Tamaki, instead? I think it's pretty obvious that you're the most sane compared to the others."

"What about Hani-senpai, or Mori-senpai? Their pretty, uh, sane too."

Kyouya shrugged. The girl had so many stupid questions, was it really so bad to ask her for help once in a while? "Yes, perhaps, but is it really that bad to ask you for help, Haruhi?" He turned to look at her, one dark eyebrow raised.

"Well, no, but…" The cross-dresser trailed off with a defeated sigh. "Okay, fine. Well, I think we should just scope our surroundings for any sign of land." Haruhi let her gaze travel around the command center.

"Is there a map or, say, a telescope around here?"

Like usual, the rest of the club members had somehow heard her question as they started to search the place for said items. Tamaki was pulling out drawer after drawing and shuffling through the contents; the twins were checking the boxes that were stacked up in one corner. Hani was looking through the lower cabinets while Mori took the higher ones.

Haruhi frowned slightly; she had always wondered how the club members could respond to her questions so quickly. That was, of course, if it was in their interest. For instance, nobody would answer her if she asked about homework, but everybody would instantly be by her side if she had asked about, say, a dress or something girly.

Kyouya had decided to keep himself busy with pulling the boat to a halt. He half-wondered if grabbing the emergency kits would be a good idea. He shoved the thought aside; nothing bad was going to happen, none at all.

After the club had successfully tore apart the command center, Hani bounded up to Haruhi. "Haru-chan! Guess what I found?" He pushed the neatly folded map under her nose, "The map! I found it!" He grinned happily, "Aren't you proud of me?"

Haruhi smiled, and nodded, "Yeah, Hani-senpai. Thanks a lot."

"No problem!" The Lolita-shouta boy chirped and skipped towards Mori. "Takashi~ let's go eat some more cake downstairs."

"Ah." And with that, the two of them left, with Hani talking cheerfully to Usa-chan.

"Did anybody find the telescope?" Haruhi asked as she cleared a space on the table for them to lie out the map.

"Yup!" The twins chimed, rolling the silver telescope onto the table. It was small, but obviously extendable.

"We found a compass too, it's pretty run down, but I think we will need it." Kaoru said as he stood by Haruhi's left side. Hikaru took his place on her right.

"Yeah, hurry up too. I want to get home already; I've had enough of this thing. It's so boring."

Tamaki pouted, obviously displeased, as he had found nothing more than junk and paper. He didn't say anything though and simply stood across from the girl.

Haruhi un-folded the map onto the table and frowned as she set her eyes on the large portion of blue with the words 'Indian Ocean' printed across the front. "Kyouya-senpai," She called, frowning.

Kyouya turned the engine off, "Hmm?" He hummed, turning around to stand behind her. "What is it, Haruhi?"

"Do you remember where we were the last time the thing worked?" Tamaki and Hikaru were looking expectantly at him. Kaoru, on the other hand, was fiddling with the compass.

"Ah yes." Kyouya looked at the map, silently calculating the longitude and latitudes before placing a slender finger on the paper, the top right corner the 'N' in 'Ocean'.

"That far away?" Haruhi hissed, utterly shocked. "How did we get that far off in a matter of hours?"

"Oh, we flew out here via jet," Kaoru answered with an indifferent shrug.

"Landed in Aussie there, than went to some island and got on the boat from there." Hikaru finished, turning his attention back to the map.

Haruhi's eyes widened, "B-But, I don't have a passport! I'm travelling illegally!"

"Did you think we would do that? Why, Haruhi, you underestimate Daddy!" Tamaki sighed, shaking his head. "We made you a passport, remember? About two weeks ago."

Haruhi stared at the King Host; it was obvious from her tense muscles and wide eyes that she was frantically scrounging her memory for anything suspicious.

Kyouya chuckled, shoulders shaking ever so slightly. He remembered that day. Club activities had ended and Haruhi had been leaving the room…

Two weeks and three days ago…

"Haruhi! Wait!" Tamaki called after the girl. She was walking towards the door, getting ready to leave.

Surprised, Haruhi turned around, her hand resting on the doorknob. "Yes, Tamaki-senpai?"

"We need your thumbprint for something," Tamaki said as he bounded forward, grabbed Haruhi's wrist and dragged her back towards the table where the club members had gathered. "Very, very, very important."

Haruhi frowned, now more confused than surprised. "My thumbprint? What for?" Even though the Host Club had been doing a lot of increasingly idiotic things, asking for her thumbprint was awfully suspicious.

"It's nothing much," Kaoru answered, leaning forward to un-cap the inkpad.

"Yeah," Hikaru agreed, pushing a fancy looking piece of paper beside the inkpad. Golden patterns lined the corners. "Just get it over with and you're free to go."

Haruhi came to a stop beside the coffee table, Tamaki stood behind her. "But it's my thumbprint. You don't usually take thumbprints for people unless it's for something very official…" She told them, staring hesitantly at the paper and the inkpad.

"But we need it, Haru-chan!" Hani pouted, looking up from his chocolate mousse cake. "It's important, right Takashi?"

"Ah."

A ghost of a smirk was on Kyouya's face as he pushed up his glasses and looked up at the skeptical girl from his infamous Pineapple laptop. "It is, indeed, for very important documents." He explained. "But it's a requirement that the Chairman recently appointed. He wants to have a copy of everybody's thumbprint in the database." Kyouya gestured to the rest of the club members, who were looking intently at Haruhi.

"Look at their thumbs, if you don't believe me."

Haruhi licked her upper lip and bit her bottom lip. That sounded logical, sort of. Than again, the Chairman was an unpredictable man, just like his son. Both of them made the wildest decisions.

Tamaki stuck up his thumb and showed it to Haruhi, a triumphant grin on his face. "See? It's true!"

After spending another few seconds contemplating, the girl finally agreed. "Okay…"

She leaned forward and pressed her thumb onto the inkpad, rolling it around before printing her thumbprint onto the piece of paper.

Present day…

"So that was it…" Kyouya heard the girl murmur under her breath.

"Yup!" Hikaru patted Haruhi's back proudly. "Aren't you glad? Now we can bring you along on trips during the summer, right Kao?"

Kaoru nodded, grinning. He, too, seemed pleased with their work. "We're going to Switzerland this year, I heard mum and dad talk about it."

Haruhi, however, was furious. Kyouya took a step back when she straightened up, a look of utter fury on her face. "So you lied!" She said, glaring at Tamaki only because he happened to be the most convenient person to glare at. He was, right in front of her after all.

Tamaki's ultramarine eyes were wide with surprise, "Wh-what are you talking about, Haruhi?"

"You heard what I said! You lied!" Haruhi spun around, letting her furious gaze settle on Kyouya. "You too! And so did everybody else!"

Kyouya was a little surprised at how Haruhi had lost her temper. Usually, the girl was always so calm… He kept his 'Cool' façade on though. "I didn't completely lie to you," He told her, calmly. "Your thumbprint was required for important documents. A passport is an important document."

After hearing his statement, Haruhi seemed to be so angry; her whole petite frame was trembling. "But that's not right! It's not right to steal somebody's thumbprint for that! What if I didn't want a passport?

Frankly, I lived quite well without one. So, who's to say that I needed one now?" She took a deep breath and closed her eyes.

The twins were staring, wide-eyed at Haruhi, confusion and shock etched on their faces. Tamaki had skulked back to his corner.

Kyouya could hear Haruhi count under her breath as she slowly unclenched her fists. Good. At least she was maintaining her temper. He, however, had no intention of apologizing. He wasn't at fault; Kyouya had simply agreed to help Tamaki.

Three months of absolutely no whining from the King Host was too good an offer to give up.

When Haruhi finally opened her eyes again, her body language was pretty calm. However, since her back was turned to the rest of the people, Kyouya was the only one who noticed that her ochre-eyes were still burning. The usual brown almost seemed maroon or fiery amber.

"I'm going to my room," She said, glowering up at Kyouya. "Could you please show me there, Kyouya-senpai?" The polite-ness in her voice seemed to be forced.

Kyouya shrugged, sliding his hands into his pockets. "Sure," He turned around and headed towards the ladder.

"But, Haruhi, wh…" But the twins clamped their mouths shut when Haruhi glared, icily at them. When she whipped around and followed Kyouya down the ladder, Hikaru and Kaoru shared a look.

The biggest problem at hand was still getting back to land.

The runner-up was an extremely pissed off Haruhi.

"Hikaru, did you just see that?"

"Yes. Yes, I did."

"She looked like him."

"She did."

Haruhi's glare had actually been cold enough to rival the ones from the Low Blood Pressure Demon King himself. The twins had decided that they never, ever, ever wanted to see something as horrible come upon their beloved toy's face again.

…

The walk down the staircase and to the back of the boat had mostly been silent. Kyouya felt the heaviness of said silence but made no attempt to fill it in. He could literally feel the waves of anger emitting from the small girl behind him.

As they neared her room, Haruhi finally broke the choking silence. "Kyouya," She said, her voice quiet and low.

The elder host was a bit surprised at the loss of the honorific that usually tailed his name. He, however, decided to let it pass. "Hmm?"

"I'm sorry."

He felt an eyebrow shoot up almost instantly, his walking pace faltered slightly. "Why are you apologizing, Haruhi?" Kyouya said, stopping by her door. He looked at her, searching her face for some sort of answer.

Kyouya thought that Haruhi looked pretty embarrassed. Her head was tipped down a bit and her eyes stayed on the carpet.

"I suddenly blew up for no reason, I guess." She replied, "I don't know, I think I shouldn't be so mad. There's a bigger problem at hand anyway."

He thought for a moment, rolling her reply around his mind, trying to figure out what to say. Kyouya moved his gaze to her front door, he had never really been the most comforting man anyway. "Well…" He drawled, twirling the key ring on his index finger. "You're right, there is a bigger problem at hand, and yes, you didn't really take the situation on quite well…" He glanced over at her. Haruhi had winced, he noticed. "But, you do have a right to be mad. Frankly, I would be doing all sorts of bad things to Tamaki and co if they stole my fingerprint for something like that." Kyouya stopped the key from spinning any further and pushed it into the keyhole. The sound of gold grinding against metal rang down the long, empty hallway.

For, perhaps, the second time that day, Kyouya was again surprised. Haruhi started to giggle profusely.

"What?" He said, a look of utter confusion displayed on his usually stoic features. "I was being completely serious, Haruhi." He turned the key in the hole and pulled it out.

Haruhi took a minute or so to calm herself down. When she finally was able to stifle her giggles, she grinned up at her elder. Reaching up, Haruhi patted his arm, "Thanks a lot, Kyouya-senpai. It was just too surprising to listen to you comfort me. I really didn't expect you to do that."

Kyouya stared at her for a while, onyx eyes wide. Eventually, he allowed a smirk to pass through. He looked back at the door, his dark, raven bangs falling across his eyes. "Yeah, I surprise myself too." He reached up and turned the doorknob, the door drifted ajar. "There, here's your room, Haruhi." Kyouya slid the golden keys back into his pocket. "I'm heading back upstairs to figure out our problem. Hopefully

Hikaru and Kaoru didn't do anything stupid while we were gone."

Haruhi nodded, the smile still on her pleasant features. "Yes, thanks, again, Kyouya-senpai."

Kyouya stepped back and watched as Haruhi slipped past him and walked into her room. She turned around, bid him good-bye and closed the door.

After that was done, the Shadow King turned around and continued back up to the command center.

Funny. Why did he feel like he had just ran up a steep hill?

When he got to the top, the command center was a hive of activity. Tamaki was occupying himself by squinting out into the ocean, Kaoru and Hikaru were having a constructive argument over the map, Hani had the telescope put to his eye as he sat on Mori's shoulder and looked around the ocean.

At least the place wasn't totally chaotic.

"Mother!" Tamaki yelped when he noticed Kyouya standing, with his hands in his pockets, by the doorway. "How's Haruhi doing?"

"Fine," Kyouya replied curtly. "She's not mad anymore, if that's what you're asking." He could hear Tamaki breathe a sigh of relief. "But," He continued, surveying his surroundings, "Would you mind telling me what's going on?"

"Well," Tamaki waltzed his way towards Kyouya. "Since we made Haruhi so angry, we decided to put our heads together and figure something out." He gestured towards the twins and spoke in way that sounded like a chef describing his dish.

"The twins are at the map, trying to figure out where we are and what islands we may come across." Turning his gestured hand towards Hani and Mori, he explained, "Hani-senpai is looking around with the telescope for any signs of land that may not be listed on the map." Than, patting his chest, Tamaki grinned. "And I, I am simply supervising their work," Suddenly, his face darkened over a little bit. "Kyouya, there looks like there's going to be a storm coming. A pretty bad one at that."

Kyouya frowned, "That's not good. Is there any progress with the twins?"

Tamaki shook his head, "Unfortunately, no. The map just isn't detailed enough to list out every single scrap of land there is."

"How about Hani-senpai?"

"Nothing either."

Kyouya walked past Tamaki and stood in front of the large glass pane than overlooked the ocean. Sure enough, a line of inky black clouds lined the horizon. This was not good. This was terrible.

Tamaki stood beside his best friend, worry etched on his face. "What do we do, Kyouya?"

The storm was fast approaching. He could feel the boat start to rock more as the wind picked up. "Let's turn around and head away from the storm at full speed." Kyouya finally decided with a sigh, "There isn't much we can do but hope luck is on our side."

Tamaki nodded and snapped his fingers, "Hikaru. Kaoru. Start the boat, turn around and head the other way in the full speed."

"But, Tono, we're not done looking through the map!" Hikaru complained, looking up from the compass.

"There's no use, Hikaru. The map isn't going to help, we might as well try to get ahead of the storm." The other twin told his brother. They exchanged a look before nodding, getting up and started to ignite the engines.

"Are you sure this is a good idea, Kyouya?" Tamaki asked his best friend, "My gut feeling isn't exactly very optimistic."

Coming from Tamaki, that was rather surprising. The blond seemed to always be optimistic, no matter what it was. He always managed to find that little ray of brightness when everything seemed dark. The fact that he wasn't feeling very optimistic at all actually worried the Ootori. Once again, he pushed his spectacles higher up the bridge of his nose and cross his arms across his chest. "It might not be," Kyouya, replied, the glare of the sun reflecting off his glasses. "But I really can't think of anything else to do. I never planned for this."

Kyouya clenched his jaw, suddenly feeling very guilty. If something were to happen to them, he would be responsible. After all, he had done all the planning. He had prepared for almost everything, from being attacked by pirates to a hole carved into the hull of the boat. He had thought about all the extremities but the thought of sinking by the hand of a storm never crossed his mind.

Okay. Fine.

So it had. But Kyouya had shoved the thought to the back of his mind. Dismissing it as something that only happened in fiction books. Oh, how he hated feeling useless.

To make himself feel better, the Ootori decided to put the blame on the spontaneous arrival of the storm.

When he finally thought that everything would be okay, Kaoru gasped, loudly. Turning around, Kyouya saw that panic was barred on the twin's boy-ish feats. "What?" Kyouya demanded.

"We ran out of gas." Was Hikaru's answer.

"But that's impossible!" Tamaki cut in, eyes wide. "We came with a full tank! We could not of had run out so quickly!"

Kyouya calmly walked up to the steering wheel and looked at the various dials and numbers, the twins were right. The little white indicator hung limp by the letter 'E'. He cursed darkly under his breath, "There's some extra gas down in the engine room." Kyouya said, "I specifically told Tachibana to put it there."

"Hey, guys," It was Hani. He and Mori walked up towards the huddled group, a look of worry on the short blonds' face. "The sky's is getting darker. Winds picked up now." He saw the panic look on the twins and Tamaki, raised a brow and looked up at Kyouya expectantly.

"What's going on?" Hani clutched the telescope in his hand while hugging his pink rabbit closer.

"We have run out of gas, Hani-senpai." Kyouya informed him. " Have you seen any land?"

"Yes, actually." Hani nodded with a smile. "Just off to the south-east. There's a very blurry outline of an island."

"Really? That's awesome!" Tamaki cheered, suddenly becoming cheerful. "Hoist the sails and steer towards the island!"

"There are no sails on this yacht, Tamaki." Kyouya told the blond, a look of irritation on his face. "Why don't you take the twins and head below deck and grab the extra gas?"

Before the blond could respond, there was a bright flash and a loud crack of thunder sounded through the air. There was barely any light now, and rain had started to patter onto the boat. Everybody was frozen in their spots.

Tamaki was first to snap back to reality, "Haruhi! Somebody, go get her!" Kyouya found himself about to blurt out an offer but he caught himself and decided to stay silent instead.

The twins nodded in unison and bolted out of the room. Hani looked like he was on the verge of tears, and Mori seemed just as fazed.

"Everybody, get in here." Kyouya ordered, gesturing towards the two oldest hosts. "Don't stand out in the rain." Without another word, he whipped around and started to rummage through the open drawers. Where was it? "Tamaki!" Kyouya called, the rain had picked up.

"Help me look for the satellite phone!"

The boat was rocking even more vigorously now. It was hard to stand still. "Hani-senpai and Mori-senpai, go below deck and grab the emergency bag. It's better to have it here now rather than later, if anything happens."

"Yes sir!" A flash and they were gone. Another loud crack and Hikaru, Kaoru and Haruhi stumbled into the command centre. They were slightly damp, but nothing too bad. Kyouya and Tamaki continued on looking for the satellite phone. The twins had ushered Haruhi to one corner and huddled around her. Hikaru sat, glaring out the window while Kaoru murmured cheerful nonsense to the petrified girl. Haruhi didn't seem to notice their desperate situation. She was too enclosed in her own little world.

Kyouya growled, the hell with all these documents. Where the fuck was that cell-phone? He had already swept through all the cabinets and drawers twice already! "Tamaki, did you find anything?"

"No!" The King Host sounded just as frustrated as Kyouya felt. He heard a drawer go slam, "I think somebody took it!"

Kyouya wasn't even going to argue, the storm was growing more and more severe. The boat was tipping back and forth, lightning lit up the sky, the thunder was deafening. The sky was pitch black, the sunny blue sky they had seen only less than an hour ago had been completely swallowed up. The storm felt oddly familiar. Like something he had seen before.

Kyouya snickered darkly under his breath. Right, the storm had felt like the one in that one movie. A group of people had been fishing and a really bad stormed rolled in. Before they knew it, a gigantic wave formed and crushed the boat. The people were never heard from again.

Ah, how comforting.

Eventually, Hani and Mori returned. They had, somehow, managed to stay only damp and not soaked through the bone. Mori dropped the three duffle bags on the ground beside the huddled up trio. Hani seemed glum as he sat down beside Hikaru and hugged his rabbit tightly. Mori sat down beside his cousin, the straps of the bags hung loose on his arm.

Slamming a cabinet door shut, Kyouya wanted to yell out loud. There was nothing they could do but sit around to wait out the storm. "Tamaki!" He yelled the blond was still looking for the phone. "Tamaki!" When the King Host finally looked up, his ultramarine eyes gave way to utter panic. "Enough! It's not here, we're going to have to wait it out!" Kyouya nodded his head towards the sheltered corner where everybody was huddled around. They exchanged a look, both violet and onyx eyes spoke the same thing.

We're in trouble.

Suddenly, there came a loud swoosh. A rumble. A flash. An explosion.

Silence.

Finally, the loud crack of wood.

….

And, viola! Chapter two and something really bad happened. I'm sorry if some points of the story is a bit vague, but I'm not the best map-reader. Ha-ha! ^-^"I hope you enjoyed it!

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