8th Chapter

Onee-chan will save you. Onee-chan will protect you. You'll be alright.

"Onee-chan, look over there! People are fighting! Shouldn't we do something?"

"No Sakura, stay here. We might get hurt." She bent down to the little girl's height. "Besides, it's raining. You wouldn't want to get your clothes wet."

"Bu—"

"No." The little girl didn't think that was right. She snuck out of the apartment and walked to the middle of the street, where the fight was. "SAKURA!" A bullet was shot. The sister ran to the little girl, and there she was, on the street, bleeding. "No…Sakura speak to me! Say something! Don't…don't leave me. Don't go."

The little girl put a hand out to her sister and she held to her heart, as if her strength will go to her baby sister. "Daijobu Onee-chan. I stopped the fight. Sakura did something good."

"I…I told you not to go."

"I'm sorry, please forgive me. Daisuki and I always will. Remember you're here in my heart."

"You're in my heart too, always." Sakura's hand slowly slipped out of her hand leaving the older sister alone.

She whimpered. She was shaking so fast and her breathing was short. She tightly held the little girl to her chest. But nothing and no one could help the little girl from what happened and the older girl from darkness. The girl looked up at the sky and screamed, "SAKURA!"

"Onee-chan, you alright?"

Namiko looked up and saw that she was lying on Mark's lap. "Yeah, I'm fine. Where are we?"

Matt gave a little laugh. "We're still on the cliff. We didn't want to wake you."

"That was nice. Thank you… Look, the stars are up! They're so beautiful."

"Yeah, they really are." Mark saw that his brother and sister looked a little exhausted. He was too. "Maybe we should go home."

Matt smiled, still looking at the stars. "But I wanna look at the sky so more."

"We could go up to the roof. It should be fun. We could sleep up there and have hot chocolate."

Namiko gave a sigh. "I guess we should leave. It's late." They got up and stared back at the sea. "See ya later Sakura."

The host club was sitting in the bushes the whole time. Tamaki felt that he needed to watch over his daughter and dragged the whole club. Haruhi didn't mind because she also worried about her cousin. There was silence most of the time. What Haruhi noticed most was that Kyoya wasn't writing down any notes; he was just listening. She thought that wasn't normal. Kyoya glanced at Haruhi and said, "It seems that this is something that they don't want anyone to know about this so I didn't record anything." Haruhi shivered. Behold the powers of the Shadow King.

"Her brothers are too kind."

"Yeah, they should be causing mischief."

"Like you two?" Haruhi asked. The Hitachiin twins shrugged.

"I think that Namiko is very fortunate to have them! I wish OUR twins were like that," Tamaki said.

"Poor, poor Miko-chan! Let's do something for her!" Hani suggested. Mori shook his head. The whole Host Club looked surprised. Mori stayed silent.

"He's right. If we do something, it would prove that we followed her and it would be a waste because I didn't make any notes," Kyoya explained. Everyone agreed to this and went their homes.

The Nagoya family went home in a taxi together. This time it was Mark and Namiko sleeping, Matt was awake. They are so close. I wonder if I should...age up, Matt thought. I guess Mark has all the stuff she needs for talking. I have the stuff to protect her. Yeah! We're the perfect team! Mark can talk to Namiko if she gets heartbroken and I can beat those Host Club bitches!

"Matt? What are you doing?" asked Namiko.

He stared at her for a moment, startled. "Ah, just thinking about…the Host Club."

"Oh." Namiko looked uncomfortable. "You don't have to worry about them. I'll be fine."

"There you go being so strong."

"Huh?"

"You are always helping me and him. Think 'bout yourself for once." Namiko kissed her brothers' forehead.

"I do think of myself." Matt looked confused. "Whenever I think of someone, for instance you two, I think what will happen when they're gone? That's why I protect you, because I don't want to lose you. I don't want to be…alone, not again."

"Namiko…I'll never leave you alone. Not ever." Matt hugged his sister tightly and she hugged him back.

"Hey is that a limo outside of our house?" Matt asked.

The cab driver stopped by their house and the three came out and went inside. Namiko opened the door and they all gasped. It was…it was…

"Kyoya, what are you doing here?" Namiko asked nervously.

"If you've come to check our sister out…" Matt started.

"…We won't let you," Mark finished.

"Such idiocy. I did come to talk to your sister, not 'check her out.'" Kyoya said annoyed.

"Idiocy?!! Listen you—"Matt was interrupted by Namiko's hand.

"You two, upstairs. We'll do that hot chocolate thing in a minute." Obviously Namiko wasn't going to let Kyoya come into her house uninvited without leaving with a bruise; it wasn't like her. So the twins left knowing this.

Namiko showed Kyoya to the kitchen and he sat down while she prepared hot chocolate. "You're house looks pretty nice. It's no comparison to the Ootori mansion but considering your family being a bunch of idiots." Namiko's hands began to form fists but Kyoya continued," No surprise because you won't even fight for something that is rightfully yours. I mean, you should be the one to be the heir, not Haruhi. You won't even fight for your boyfriend."

He went too far. Namiko did a quick switch to her dark side. "Don't ever talk about my family like that." Kyoya raised an eyebrow. "What kind of person are you to say that. You're the third son of the Ootori family but you won't even put up a fight to be first. You think that your third because you were born like that."

Kyoya was about to say something but it was too late for him. Namiko took a hot pot of water she was going to use for the hot chocolate and poured it on his head. Kyoya screamed in pain which brought Namiko back to her senses. "Oh my gosh. I'm so sorry, come with me and I'll get you something to wear."

They both walked up to Namiko's room when Kyoya smelt something. "Does something smell like chocolate?"

"Fuck! I put the mix in that water. Okay then you can take a shower too. Just use the one in my room while I get you clothes." Kyoya did what he was told and Namiko did as she said.

Namiko went into her bedroom looking at the clothes. "These should be okay for you. I think they're your size." She looked up. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?"

Kyoya wasn't really doing anything. But he was in a towel which made Namiko blush madly. "I don't have any clean clothes so I had to use a towel and wait for you. If you will." He extended a hand.

"Gross! No way, if that's what you came for then I'm not sorry to disappoint you!"

He shook his head. "I meant the clothes, not your virginity." Namiko handed over the clothes with embarrassment; then sat on her bed relieved. Kyoya came out fully dressed and sat next to Namiko.

"Sorry for that. It was just uncomfortable seeing you…you know," Namiko admitted.

Kyoya accepted the apology, "It's alright. Anyway what I came here for was to mention how much you've helped the Host Club. You and your family of idiots."

"I'll let that go for now. Is that all you came for?"

"Yes. That's all. Please extend my thanks to your brothers and… your boyfriend."

Namiko looked up into Kyoya's eyes. What beautiful eyes. They're cold, but give me a…weird sensation. Namiko slid closer to Kyoya and pulled his glasses off and placed them by her side. "You know if you kept them off, you'll get more merits."

Kyoya shrugged and reached for them. His breath sent shivers down Namiko's spine. "I like them on," he answered plainly. Kyoya looked into Namiko's eyes as well; then quickly turned. "I should be going now."

"Oh right. You won't have to return the clothes. Its fine," she said with a slight smile.

"Right." Kyoya left in a hurry and sat in his limo panting. What's wrong with me? It can't be. Am I harboring feelings for Nagoya Namiko?