Chapter Four

A/N: Hi all! I'm so excited to see that Rendezvous already has followers! I'm intending to write at least one chapter a day, so hopefully there won't be too much suspense! HOWEVER, I will be leaving the States to go to Germany for a couple of weeks starting tomorrow, and during that time I will probably not be posting chapters unless I find the time in a place with good free wifi. I will be writing though! So never fear!

Also, I know that most of the story so far is straight from the anime/manga, but starting in chapter 5 I will be using what has happened in the first four chapters to branch out. There maaaaaay be a slight lemon ;P

Haruhi sat on the beach watching the hosts play in the water with some of the girls that had been invited. They were all customers that came to the host club almost daily. Two of the girls stayed behind to talk to Haruhi. They saw Haruhi more than any of the other girls, and they were pretty nice, even if they were oblivious to the commoner world.

"What do you think of my swimsuit Haruhi-kun?" One girl in a yellow bikini. It was rather plain, but the color was good for the girl's skin. "And mine Haruhi-kun? Is it cute?" Asked the other girl, who wore a baby blue bikini with lace edging.

Haruhi smiled. "I think they suit both of you very well. I couldn't have picked anything better for you to wear today." It wasn't a lie, Haruhi couldn't have picked anything better, but the girls blushed as they came to their own assumptions about Haruhi's words.

"Haru-chan! Haru-chan!" Honey called from across the beach, swinging a pail above his head. "Let's collect stuff!"

"Okay Honey-senpai!" Haruhi got up. "Excuse me ladies, but I'm going to join Honey-senpai for a while. Why don't the two of you swim? It would be a waste if you didn't get to use your cute swimsuits." The girls giggled and did just that as Haruhi walked away.

For a while Haruhi and Honey collected things they found on the beach. There were an amazing amount of crabs and shells for a small beach, so the two were excited as they made plans to cook the crabs for dinner. When Honey ran to Mori to show their loot, Haruhi looked around and saw the two customers that had stayed with her all morning up on a high rock ledge. There were two men there, who appeared to be harassing the girls.

Immediately Haruhi ran up there and threw a rock at one of the men's heads, thudding with a loud smack. "The girls don't seem to want you hear. So why don't you leave?"

The man who had been hit walked up to Haruhi and grabbed her by the shirt. "The fuck do you think you're doing kid?" While the man yelled at Haruhi, the girls escaped. At least they'll be ok. Haruhi thought. The man didn't seem to hold the same thoughts. "Now you've scared our girls away!" The man pulled Haruhi towards the edge of the ledge, and Haruhi began to struggle.

"Let go of me you damn bastard!" Haruhi yelled. As her feet left the ledge and she felt nothing blocking her from the ocean, her eyes opened wide. "Haruhi!" She heard someone yell, but didn't see who as the man let go and she fell straight into the ocean. She knew how to swim, but it had been years and the currents were too strong for her awkward attempts at fighting them. Haruhi dimly saw a shadow coming towards her, but she closed her eyes as the last of her air left and she blacked out.

When Haruhi woke up she was laying on the beach, coughing up ocean water. Someone patted her back, helping the water come out. "Breathe Haruhi, breathe!" Tamaki yelled from behind her. So it was him who was patting her back.

"Tamaki-senpai?" Haruhi asked, and turned her head to see him. He was dripping wet, just as much as she was. "Was it you who pulled me out?"

Tamaki grabbed Haruhi by the arms, turning her body to face him. "What the hell were you thinking? You're just a girl Haruhi! You can't do things like that!" He shook her as he yelled, until Haruhi ripped herself away and stood. The other hosts moved to help her up, but she ignored all of them.

"Who cares if I'm a girl or a boy? What does that even matter?" Haruhi yelled. "So what if I'm not strong enough? I had to try! Who are you to yell at me about this?"

Tamaki's face slowly went blank as Haruhi yelled. When she was finished, he pushed past her and began walking back to the house. "If you really don't realize what you've done, I refuse to speak to you until you do and you apologize." Haruhi's heart stabbed with pain, but she refused to give in. "If anyone needs to apologize, senpai, it's you."

The other hosts watched solemnly. And yet, for some of the hosts, the felt happy that Tamaki was not in Haruhi's favor. For some of them, this felt like a chance.

Dinner was tense. Haruhi ate much more crab than she should have, and after the hosts explained that they were all worried for her safety rather than thinking of her as someone lower, and ran to the nearest bathroom and threw up.

"What a waste…" Haruhi muttered as she left the bathroom. Then she noticed a man sitting in a chair, just in a pair of pants, toweling his hair dry. "Oh, I'm so sorry sir, I had no idea I entered someone's room."

"Haruhi, it's ok, it's me." Kyoya said, putting his glasses on. Haruhi's cheeks tinged pink. Did I just think of Kyoya as a man? She thought to herself.

As Kyoya got up from the chair, the two walked towards each other, meeting in the middle of the room in front of his bed. "I'm sorry for worrying you all Kyoya-senpai. I didn't realize that you all would worry if I did something reckless."

Kyoya shrugged. "I wasn't especially worried, but you do need to remember that you are a girl, and you can easily be taken advantage of." With that, Kyoya pushed Haruhi onto the bed, hovering his body over her with his arms and legs on each side of her, trapping her with his body as the cage. "We had to send bouquets to the girls as apology. They were each $50,000, so $600,000 will be added to your debt." Kyoya leaned down and pressed his lips against Haruhi's neck, just over her frantic pulse. "Would you like to pay with your body?"

Leaning back up, he saw Haruhi stared with her normal blank face at him. "You wouldn't do that Kyoya-senpai. You have nothing to gain by being with me, even for one night to settle my debt."

Kyoya sat up to argue, to tell Haruhi of exactly how much he could gain from being with her, when Tamaki entered the room.

"Kyoya, do you have any lotion?" Tamaki asked as he entered the room, then saw Kyoya and Haruhi on the bed together. "You bastard!" Tamaki started to run forward, but Kyoya pushed past him to leave, shoving a bottle of lotion into his hands. Tamaki ran up to Haruhi. "What were you two doing in here?" he asked heatedly.

Haruhi shrugged. "I ate too much crab and got sick. When I ran to the nearest bathroom I didn't know that it was Kyoya-senpai's room, and he thought I should rest. Since I was here I apologized for being reckless, not thinking about how it would worry you all." Haruhi looked down into her lap. "I'm sorry to you too Tamaki-senpai."

Tamaki sighed. "I'm sorry too. You are strong, but I meant it when I said that there are some things that you can't go up against alone. That's true for everyone. But I'll let you rest now since you're probably still not feeling well."

Tamaki walked towards the door as a loud boom of thunder sounded, and felt two slim arms wrap around him.