Disclaimer: I didn't have one last chapter becaue I totally own Ouran now. NOT! Only in my dreams...

The funeral was a quiet one, the Hanoinzuka family was there and the Host Club members. Mori stood there stone faced through the whole thing. The other members could only imagine what he was feeling right now. No one could ever have imagined this happening. The cook had handed in her resignation, no one knew how the Fugu had been tampered with, but she believed it was her own fault.

Haruhi slid her hand into Tamaki's and squeezed it, "We'll get through this." she whispered to him. What really hit her was Hunni-sempai's mother crying onto her husband's shoulder. Even Chika looked a little teary eyed. This didn't seem as real to her, as if he would jump out of the casket and yell that he wanted cake or something.

Two funerals within a week of each other was hard on the Host Club.

Anger was just boiling up in Hikaru at the sight of this. How much longer was this going to go on before it ended? Hunni-sempai had never deserved anything like this, he was an innocent who had never done anything wrong in his life. But here they were. Kaoru saw his brother's fists clench and laid a hand on his shoulder. "Hikaru, calm down." he whispered.

Hikaru relaxed, "It's just not fair."

Kaoru almost said that life wasn't fair, but held it back; that would be a bad thing to say at the moment.

Mori stared down at the coffin, it was small just like his cousin. By now, he was beyond emotion and the only thing he felt was cold.

They all stood around awhile after the funeral was over, looking down headstone, not saying a word.

"Haruhi, can we come back to your apartment for a little while?" Kaoru asked.

"Why don't you come too Tamaki-sempai, Mori-sempai." she laid a hand on Mori's arm, "You shouldn't be alone at a time like this."

He nodded and they went to Haruhi's.

When they got there, Haruhi sighed, "That was the hardest thing I've had to do in a long time. Do you guys want some tea?" They all nodded and she got to making it.

"At least Hunni-sempai is safe." Kaoru said, "Where is he anyway?"

"He's at the family house at Kyoto." Mori said, "There is a doctor there to take care of him."

Haruhi looked over at him, "Are you okay Mori-sempai, you looked like you were taking it hard." The stoic Morionzuka nodded in reply.

"Hanoinzuka-sama's idea to fake Hunni-sempai's death was a pretty good one." Hikaru said.

"Do you think we were convincing enough?" Haruhi asked, serving the tea, "Hunni-sempai's mother certainly was."

Tamaki had been sitting there silently, he hadn't said anything since before the funeral, "It's amazing how we can just sit here and talk about our friend's death like this? Have we been so desensitized?"

"Tamaki-sempai, Hunni-sempai isn't really dead, we're pretending."

"But what if he was really dead? Would we still be talking like this?"

"Of course not Tamaki-sempai. It would be like Kyouya-sempai's death all over again." Haruhi put a hand on his shoulder, "We couldn't go through that again, but we won't have to if we stick together."

The room fell into silence, but it was soon broken by the ring of a phone. Kaoru pulled out his phone and checked it. "It's from him." His hand that held the phone was shaking as he passed it to Hikaru, "Read it."

"Three days." he read, "Only three days? Why is the pattern changing now?"

No one had an answer to this. They sat in silence, contemplating this new turn of events. Ryoji came home and sat with them, he had heard about Hunni's "death" and thought they were sitting in shook from losing another friend. "You can't just mope around all day." he said, "You have to remember the good times you had with each other."

Haruhi smiled, "Like the time that Hunni-sempai got lost in the resort and we all went looking for him."

"And Kyouya gave a vague description of Hunni-sempai so the seach team thought it was you." Hikaru added.

Everyone smiled at the memory and soon they started talking about more. They stayed and talked, laughed at the good memories and for a while they were able to forget their troubles. But when it was time for the boys to leave, the bad thoughts returned and they went home with heavy hearts.

Tamaki was the last to leave after Ryoji had gone to bed. "You know Tamaki-sempai." Haruhi said, "We can just do the same thing for Kaoru that we did for Hunni-sempai."

"Yes, we could. Good night Haruhi, thank you for letting us come over." He leaned over and kissed her one the forehead. All of his childish father-daughter feelings for her were gone, and now she was a friend, maybe even more than one. With everything that was going on he was having a hard time sorting out his feelings.

"Good night Tamaki-sempai." she said before he left, "Are you going to come back to school soon?"

"I don't know Haruhi." and he left.

"Come back soon." she whispered to an empty room, and went to bed.

When she got up the next morning, her father told her that she didn't need to go to school today, but Haruhi said that she needed to go. She knew she would end up coming home at lunch anyway. There was little doubt that it would be like Kyouya's death all over again with people coming up to her to say how sorry they were. Even though Hunni wasn't dead she didn't know if she could handle all those people being sad.

Sure enough, a few hours later she was back home with her work for the day. Mori-sempai had been heading home from the university when they had ran into each other and he had offered her a ride home. He couldn't take all the sad people either so he was going home to be alone. She hadn't realized that pretending someone was dead would be so hard.

Two days. The message had been sent to Kaoru's phone ealier that day. He didn't bother Hikaru with it, he was worried enough. His parents were working on a plan to keep him safe so that there was no way that he could be harmed in any way. Tamaki was holed up in his room again, contemplating this whole situation. Haruhi and Mori were the only ones to go back to school, but they had gone hope early in the end. Life wasn't the same, everthing had changed when Kyouya had died. He could only sit and imagine what they would be doing right now if none of this had happened. They all had changed significantly. Haruhi was being more mother-like towards them all, Mori-sempai was slightly more talkative, Hunni-sempai's sweet consumption had decrease, Tamaki's foolish nature was almost gone and he was serious all the time, Hikaru spent his time either pacing or being angry at the world. He had changed to, his heart wasn't into foolish tricks and games anymore.

Nothing was right anymore and he knew that they could never be again.

Suddenly, his phone rang, "Hello?"

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Next chapter out. . . sometime. I just finished writing chapter seven, which was hard for me to write and eight will probably be harder, but I'll try to get six out A-SAP

~Cloudy