"Did I say something wrong?" Emily asked Ranka-san, who just shrugged his shoulders, then there was a knock at the door and Jack immediately went from looking out the window to opening the door for the Host Club.

"Hi, hi, peoples-san." she answered, waving and smiling at them.

"Oh, are these some more friends from school Jack-chan?" Emily asked her,

"Yep, yep, there's Hunny-kun, Momo-chan, Tata-san, Ka-chan, Hihi-san, and Glasses-kun." she answered, first pointing towards Hunny, then Mori, Tamaki, Kaoru, Hikaru, and finally Kyouya, "They're yellow, green, blurple, light orange, dark orange, and silver."

"Yes, yes, I definitely see it." Emily said, looking as if though she'd actually thought about it and understood everything Jack had said, which she did.

Haruhi went over to the storage room and opened the door to find Hanataro sitting there with his eyes closed and his hands covering his ears. But it wasn't in a frightened sort of manner, more as if though he was just trying to calm down.

"Can I leave for a bit?" Hanataro asked, having gone from his other position to one where his knees were pulled up and his head rested on his arms, wrapped around his legs.

"Ah, hai, you can come with me to get groceries." she answered, backing up so that he could exit from the small room, he walked past the Host Club, without so much as a glance, and out the door with Jack following along, leaving in the middle of a conversation with Yaya-san.

"Why'd Hana-chan leave?" Emily asked Haruhi,

"I asked him to help me buy some groceries, we'll be back soon."

No, it's not a spelling error; Jack just isn't sure whether the color is blue or purple, so she calls it blurple.

Hanataro, Haruhi, and Jack walked down the road and into the store, Hanataro stayed close to Haruhi, never going too far from her. Haruhi was somewhat confused by how calm Hanataro was, as opposed to the others who went insane when they came into a store for the first time, although Jack just went off and was apparently pretending to be the pirate of the grocery store.

"What is it?" Hanataro asked Haruhi, noticing her staring at him,

"Ah, gomen, I was just wondering whether you'd been in a store like this before."

"Of course, when we visit my grandparents in America, we go to stores like these." he answered, picking up some vegetables that they'd come across to check if it was any good or not.

"Your mother's from America?" she asked, looking at the vegetables as well,

"Hai, but after meeting my father she came back here with him."

She stared at him for a moment longer before asking, "So if you're gay, why'd you join the Host Club?"

Hanataro nearly dropped the tomato he was looking at, but placed down before it dropped, "What?" he asked, shocked that she called him gay, but then remembered what his mom had said earlier, "Oh, right, it was just in hopes of improving my social skills, and to forget about someone, but I think I'll quit now."

"Who is it you want to forget about?"



"You like asking questions don't you?" he answered, and then a crash was heard somewhere, "Ah seems like Jack's in trouble." Hanataro said,

"How do you know it's Jack?"

"Nooooooo, if we don't hurry the molasses kitties from Planet Napoleon will comes with their carrot cannons and take Jack and her friends!"

Hanataro turned to Haruhi after having heard that and answered, "That's how I know." So he and Haruhi went over to a knocked down canned soup display where Jack was being lectured at and she looked like she was going to cry, and she did, loudly, very loudly.

"Crap." Hanataro said quietly, holding his head and not covering his ears like most everyone else.

'Looks like I have to help here.' he thought before closing his eyes, when he reopened them, Haruhi noticed his eyes seemed to be a darker shade of purple, there also seemed to be some sort of air about him, like one of royalty.

He was no longer an average, handsome guy, now he was a beautiful king, or like a warrior of sorts, it was amazing how easily he could change.

Hanataro walked up to Jack and settled her from her crying, then turning to the manager who had been lecturing Jack, he bowed to her, "I must thank you miss, if not for you, who knows how much more trouble my friend could've gotten into. I truly cannot express my utmost gratitude to you." he said, and kissed the manager's hand, the young woman, who had already been lightly blushing when he approached her, now could put a cherry to shame,

"It-it-it's no problem at all, please; take whatever you want for free."

"That is most kind of you, but I could not do such a thing to such a beautiful young lady as yourself, thank you though."

Then he turned towards Haruhi, after having to place Jack on his back since she was now tired. He did seem more like Jack's older brother now, even if they didn't look alike, you could just tell the two had a sibling like relationship. Once he and Haruhi finally managed to leave the store, his facade dropped quickly, he was once again another ordinary, extremely handsome, gay, guy.

"How did you do that?" Haruhi asked him,

"Do what? Wait, that scene with the manager, eh, just something an old friend of mine and I used to do. Everyone thought we were too handsome to not be royalty, so we would just fool with their heads and pretended to be snot nosed, spoiled, stuck-up, princes and demanded outrageous things from them, it was a lot of fun back then."

"You don't sound like someone I would've wanted to know back then."

"I definitely wasn't, I had a lot of temper tantrums and nearly killed myself and other people on more than one occasion."

Haruhi now wondered why he was being much more open with her than the others, why her?

"Oh, and Jack happens to be an excellent judge of character, she doesn't let anyone besides a few select people call me Hana-chan, and she only just you and be she let you call me that. If she trusts you, I will too."



Haruhi seemed shocked that he knew what she was going to ask before she could even say anything about it; suddenly Hanataro stopped walking and looked around the place they stood.

"Um, where are we?"

Haruhi looked and saw they were only a block from her house, "We're just a block from my house."

"Oh, good, thought we were lost for a minute there, I have a terrible sense of direction." He said and he shifted Jack on his back so she would be more comfortable, also noticing that she had fallen asleep. "I'll have to put this one in a bed once we get in." he said, motioning to Jack. Haruhi smiled, Jack looked so childishly innocent asleep on his back.

Emily and Ranka seemed totally involved in a conversation, about shoes, maybe hair, no one was really paying too much attention that is until the door opened and in came Hanataro, Haruhi, and Jack on Hanataro's back. "Awww, Jack's so cute when she's asleep." Emily and Ranka stated.

"Here, you guys take her." Hanataro said, handing the small sleeping girl to his mother and walking off to help Haruhi with the cooking, which he turned out to be really good at. He still wasn't acknowledging the other host's presences.

While they were cooking, Hanataro showed just how good a cook he was, he could juggle eggs easily and he tossed knives easily catching them, "Wow Hana-chan, you're really good." Haruhi stated after seeing him toss a knife into the air and catch it by the handle.

"Thanks, my grandmother taught me, my mom burns water." after this statement was said Hanataro's hair was pulled roughly by its long ponytail, causing him to fall backwards.

Hanataro quickly glared at his mother, who was pretending to innocently be talking to Ranka while Jack slept in her lap and she seemed to be petting the small girl's hair. Grumbling something about psycho mothers, which earned him another quick tug of the hair, he returned to helping Haruhi with the cooking.

"Ne, Hana-chan, can you make sweets?" Hunny suddenly asked, having appeared at the taller boy's side while he was chopping up some pepper.

"Hai, but mine aren't as good as my grandmother's, I mean with all the sugar she puts in those things you'll go into a sugar coma after one bite." he was finally starting to acknowledge at least one Host's presence.

When the meal was ready to be eaten Jack was already awake by then and instead of sitting with everyone else, Hanataro sat over in a corner by himself facing away from everyone. When the Hosts questioned Emily about this, she answered, "Oh don't worry about Hana-chan, he just doesn't like being in crowded places, so he ignores most everyone else and acknowledges only three or four people at a time." This explained why he had been ignoring the Host's so much.

Anyway, the meal was eaten, everyone had lovely conversations with each other and Hanataro was soon enough joined by both Jack and Hunny who ended up falling asleep against him. Soon enough Hanataro, Jack, and his mother all left and the Host members left soon afterwards as well. Leaving Haruhi to later wonder whether Hanataro really would quit the Host Club or not.