Hanataro lied in his king sized bed, he only remained laying there because, sometime in the night, Jack had crawled into bed with him and was currently sleeping on his bare chest, the image would seem strange to anyone who did not know their story, the image being, a tan, long, red headed boy, with a small, pale, bluenette, sleeping peacefully on his horribly scarred chest, it might have seemed funny, to a person with a morbid sense of humor that is.

The door to Hanataro's room opened, revealing a frail looking, old man, who already knew of Hanataro's "special" marks, "Yamato-san, there is someone here claiming to be your friend." the old man told Hanataro.

"Thank you Watari, tell them I shall be down in a moment and that Jack is sleeping so she shall not be able join us for a bit." he replied, to which the man nodded before leaving the room.

Hanataro carefully raised himself, tucked Jack gently into his bed and got off of the bed himself, and deciding not to bother with placing the makeup over his scars, he just pulled on a shirt and some pants before leaving a nightlight on for Jack and exiting the room.

"Hello." Hanataro said from the overview that he currently stood at, gazing down at what turned out to be Haruhi, in what would have been a somewhat god likeish way, if not for his jeans and t-shirt which seemed to say something in English on the front, "How might I assist you?" he asked as he appeared at the bottom of the stairs.

"Ah, my dad wanted to know if your mom wanted to go shoe shopping with him." she answered.

Emily immediately appeared on the scene, equipped with some cash and a platinum credit card, "Hanataro, get Jack, also, for the love of god, put on a different shirt." she told him, staring disdainfully at the shirt he wore.

"Jack's sleeping, and why a different shirt, what's wrong with this one?" he questioned, crossing his arms.

"I don't want anyone that can read that to think I actually let you read or do that sort of thing." she answered, Hanataro huffed, but he went off upstairs, to get Jack, or to change, Haruhi wasn't sure.

"What did the shirt say?" Haruhi asked Emily, who smashed her head to her hand.

"It said, 'I've got the whole Kama sutra memorized.' and on the back it says, 'Wanna give me a go?' can't believe my mother sent him that shirt." she answered, and then started to complain more about her mother.

Haruhi was rather surprised to learn that Hanataro's grandmother was so, free spirited, and that after his grandfather had died, his grandmother soon realized that she could never love another man again and so instead loved women, it reminded her of her father, only in a female form and without the cross dressing.

"Ok, I'm properly dressed and I have Jack, even though she's asleep, and I had one of the maids dress her." Hanataro said as he joined Haruhi and his mother.

"Then let's go meet up with Ranka!" Emily shouted as she dragged, Haruhi, Hanataro, and the still sleeping Jack, off to the limo parked out front and waiting for them.

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Hanataro sighed once more out of boredom, still ignoring the mixed looks he got for the still sleeping form of Jack with her head on his lap, he stared blankly along with Haruhi at their parents, his mother and her cross dressing father, as they tried on shoes. He vainly hoped that they wouldn't buy too many, he was already being forced to carry Jack, although she didn't weigh much, and ten other bags from previous stores, Haruhi, on the other hand, was forced to carry only two.

He suddenly noticed something and glared at whatever it was, causing Haruhi to glance over at her friend, who she could hear practically growling. She stared at his dark eyes, glaring intensely at something across the room, from over his medical mask.

"Hanataro, what's wrong?"

"There's some guy who just so happens to end up wherever we have been so far today, and he keeps staring at my mom." he answered, glaring daggers at the still unknowing man.

"Oh, look, a book store!" Emily suddenly proclaimed, dragging the group once more into the store, and then drowning herself into the words, "Oh, I used to work at a book store, it was actually how I met my husband."

"Oh, really, tell me when you met him." Ranka said, always eager to hear a love story.

"Ok, well, I was working one day, and then this guy, he taps me on the shoulder and asks-" but her recounting of the story was interrupted by someone tapping her shoulder and so she turned around to stare at the person.

The person was a tall and tanned man with a long ponytail of dark hair and a pair of sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, "Excuse me Miss, would you happen to know where I could find the horror section, I need a good book for the ride back home." he smirked as he lowered his sunglasses a bit to stare at Emily with vibrant purple eyes.

Emily stared with wide eyes at him for a few seconds before she suddenly hit him with her bag, "What are you doing here, if your mother finds out then who knows what she'll do to you!" she half shouted half whispered.

"Do you want me to beat this guy up, Mom?" Hanataro asked his mother, completely prepared to beat up what seemed to be a complete and total stranger.

"No, I can beat him up myself."

"Now Emi, that's mean, I risk my neck to come all the way out here, and instead I get whacked with, what, shoes?" the man said, not making Hanataro like him any more with how familiar he acted with his mother.

"NO, we must save the Shoemopolians, or the Bookiems will take over the world and force everyone to eat custard carrots! Jack-chan doesn't like custard carrots!"

"I should have noticed my back felt lighter." Hanataro commented before going off to stop Jack from destroying the book store.

"And I guess the person shouting was Jack." the man suggested as Hanataro disappeared to stop his friend from doing whatever it was she was doing.

"And you would be correct there my dear Shu." Emily stated, and then she turned his head from the direction of the shout to her face, "We are going to have a nice, long chat about why we call before suddenly appearing in a country that your own mother banned you from."

"Well, you see Emi, if I had told you I was coming, then you obviously would have tried to get me to not come, so even more obviously, I couldn't tell you." Shu explained, hoping that Emi wouldn't kill him, "And also, it would really suck to die right now at the hands of my own beautiful and wonderful wife."

"Ne ne, if Hana-chan is heres, then who's that Hana-chan?" Jack suddenly asked from her usual perch on Hanataro's shoulder, as she stared from the Hanataro whose shoulders she resided on, to the man who, in her mind, looked very much like Hanataro.

"Ah, well, I'm Shuichi." the man answered, earning a thwap from Emily.

"Introduce yourself properly, even Hana-chan doesn't know who you are, he hasn't seen you for twelve years."

"Right, right, I'm Hana-chan's dad, Shuichi Yamato."

"Kay kay." Jack said, smiling at Shuichi, "Me is Jack Skellington, Hana-chan's bestest best budders, and also savior to the Shoemopolians." raising a fist in honor of the brave Shoemopolians whose lives she saved.

Hanataro seemed completely unaffected by this information on the outside, but in his brain he was screaming out the impossibilities of actually seeing his father for the first time in twelve years at a common mall. He would never admit it aloud, not even to Jack, but he had kind of been hoping that their reunion would be a little more, special, than this. He wasn't asking for a party at a five star hotel or anything, but still, a guy has to have his priorities.

"Hana-chan, it's good to see you." Shuichi said, smiling at his son and pulling him in for a hug, one which Hanataro was still a little too dazed to respond to.

"Yay, the whole family is here, now we can enjoy ourselves, let's go home and celebrate, just the four of us." Emily said, pulling her husband, son, and Jack into a group hug, one which Shuichi regretfully ended all too soon.

"I'm sorry Emi, but even like this, I can't be here without my own mother knowing, she invited me here, and I disobeyed her coming to see you, I'll have to head back to the main house." Shuichi told her sadly, holding his wife and brushing a hand across her cheek tenderly.

"Shu." Emi said, at first seeming as if though she would cry, but then suddenly whacking the violet eyed man with her purse, "If your mother is going to be so upset then why the hell did you come?!"

"Cause I wanted to actually see my wife and son for the first time in twelve years is that so horrible?" he asked in turn, staring at the younger woman he had fallen for so long ago.

Emily sighed but said nothing else, and finally took a look around her noticing something very crucial, "Where did everyone go?"

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"That was nice of you, leaving your parents alone so they could be together for a while."

Hanataro did not respond to Haruhi's comment, merely watching Jack who roamed far and wide over the food court, currently, Haruhi's father had went off somewhere to buy something, saying he would also take the bags back to the car, and the trio was left to get something to eat.

"Haruhi, Hanataro, what are you doing here?"

The duo turned to see who had asked them the question, while Jack ignored the voice and continued to ask the cashier where they kept their supply of monkey brains to add to the milkshakes as a substitute for the ice cream when they ran out, almost leading to said cashier calling in security to take away the short bluenette, if not for the fact that Hanataro noticed this and dragged the girl away from the highly disturbed cashier.

"Kyoya-senpai, why are you here?" Haruhi asked, ignoring the question that said bespectacled boy had asked.

"We were shopping with our parents." Hanataro answered, after placating Jack with a Happy Meal he bought from the McDonald's, she was currently enraptured with the small toy.

"Tamaki and the other idiots dragged me here again." Kyoya answered, not at all looking happy about that fact.

"Glasses-kun is hungry; Jack-chans will buys him something!" Jack exclaimed, suddenly appearing out of almost nowhere, before turning to Hanataro, "Jack-chan needs moneys." Hanataro rolled his eyes before pulling out his wallet and handing the small girl about 2500 yen and watched as she went up to Kyoya, grabbed his hand, and dragged him up to the cashier.

The counter was too tall for her to look over from her height, and so she climbed onto Kyoya's shoulders, completely ignoring any protests the teen might have had, and making herself comfortable while she was there.

"Hmmmm, what does Glasses-kun wants?" Jack asked, bending her head down to look at her friend, who was not pleased with his current situation, that being the small bluenette on his shoulders and the looks, some admiring, some strange, he got for having said girl on his shoulders, she was surprisingly much lighter than she appeared, "Well, Jack-chan gots an idea, Jack-chan wants one of those, and one of these, and that, ooh, and that one, that's really yummy." she said, ordering some food without waiting for Kyoya to respond.

Jack-chan then paid for the food, all of which Kyoya noticed was actually something he would have ordered himself, and jumped down from Kyoya's shoulders, picking up the tray and taking his hand so that she could drag him back to the table where Hanataro and Haruhi waited.

"Jack-chan knows Glasses-kun is a good people." Jack suddenly told him, before they got into the hearing range of Hanataro and Haruhi, smiling at the older boy, who wondered just what Jack meant by that, but as usual, Jack didn't explain her reasoning behind the statement.

"Ah, hey Jack." Hanataro said, as said small girl climbed onto his lap to eat her food, he patted her head absently before staring off to the side, too absorbed by his own thoughts to notice the admiring looks he received from a number of the women in the food court.

"Hana-chan, when is we going backs to Yaya-san and Shu-kun?" Jack asked him, bringing him out of his thoughts.

Hanataro hesitated before answering, "In a while." then he returned to looking off to the side, too involved in his thoughts.

Jack stared at him in a way that said she knew something was wrong, but she said nothing and merely played more with her Happy Meal toy, and somewhere along the way Hanataro, Haruhi, Jack, and Kyoya ended up traveling around the mall together, and for one reason or another, even though he didn't enjoy the situation, Jack sat on Kyoya's shoulders the entire time.

They walked a bit behind Haruhi and Hanataro and suddenly Jack began talking, but even though she spoke childishly, she was serious about the topic.

"Hana-chan is in trouble with the Scary Lady." she mentioned and continued before any questions could arise, "The Scary Lady looks like a dragon, but she controls everything, and she made Hana-chan's papa-chan go away for a long time, and he knows something is wrong because his papa-chan is here, so he's really worried." she paused and then continued, "Jack-chan wants to know that she can trust Glasses-kun because she knows something bad is going to happen, and so she needs her friend-sans." she again paused and said one more thing, "The Scary Lady, might take away Hana-chan." Then they finally caught up with Hanataro and Haruhi and she had to stop talking.

Kyoya was honestly confused by all of what Jack had just told him, but had no chance to ask her, for just then Hanataro's parents came by with Haruhi's father, and the Host Club once again called for him using the P.A. system, and so they all parted, one worried for what was soon to come, one confused about what was to come, one all knowing, and the other unknowing.

crazy: Sorry, this wasn't out yesterday even though I said it would be, but I was too tired to do it yesterday because I didn't get home till ten, and the reason is because I was at a six hour gaurd clinic, so after I got home, I ate, took a shower, and slept, then from eight this morning until little more than an hour ago, I was at another clinic, good news, we got most of the winter gaurd show staged out and the routine taught to us. Got some bad news though, if the football team wins tonight's playoff's next week's update will also be delayed because the final game will be held on a Friday, even though that's Thanksgiving, and the band director had already told us that we probably wouldn't be playing at that game cause it's in San Antonio, so, thank you Mr. Nelson, you made my day by making me go on the pirate bus, (yes, the gaurd bus gets to be themed) yay, please note the extreme use of sarcasm in those last three statements( no sarcasm was used in the pirate statment, I really will be forced to dress as a pirate, even though our school's mascot is a snake, go figure).