Author's Note: Hello everyone, how are you doing? I hope everyone is fine… I didn't update for such a long time already (two years). I am very sorry for the long wait. Before starting the story, I would like to say 'thank you very much' to those people who review this story, you guys really make me smile! Enjoy the chapter! Sorry for all the grammar mistakes in this chapter. I don't have any beta-reader.
Pairing: I am sorry to say that there wouldn't be a real pairing…so the pairing will be Haruhi x the Host Club.
Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran High School Host Club.
Chapter 5—Present Time
Haruhi woke up at six o'clock in the morning. She only hoped that the Host club didn't arrive yet. She quickly took a shower and got dress.
But upon opening the door and took a peek outside, she was face to face with the Host Club.
First she looked shock at the Host Club, until she saw them smiling evilly at her. She looked suspicious at them.
Then all of the sudden, most of the Host members just pointed upward toward her doorframe, and there was mistletoe. Haruhi looked confused at first, but finally understood why the members were smiling evilly at her a second ago.
Before they could say anything to her, "I know what the tradition is, but I won't do it…because we didn't plan it at first," said Haruhi.
"Oh come on Haruhi, it is a tradition…and you know that you don't like to break tradition," said the twins.
While the members were trying to convince her, they were walking down the stairs. The scene that greeted her make Haruhi very surprised because there were more decorations than yesterday.
"Hold on, where are all the guests, I thought that there were some guests sleeping over here last night? Also, we need to prepare breakfast for them and rearrange those tables again." said Haruhi gesturing toward the decoration on the tables.
"Nope we don't have to. Today is a holiday for our pension, therefore, no one is coming nor there is any guest upstairs. We already discussed this with Mizusu-chi." said Kyouya who was busy jotting something down.
"Haruuu-chan, why don't we just give each other a peck on the cheek if we are under the mistletoe?" asked Honey-senpai.
"Yep Haruhi, it is a good idea," the twin quickly agreed while nodding their head furiously since it was better a peck on the cheek than nothing…
"I totally agreed with Honey-senpai's idea. So Haruhi, could you start with daddy first?" asked Tamaki.
"Alright, but only a peck on the cheek…nothing more…" said Haruhi after she gave some thoughts into it. She bend down to where Honey-senpai was and gave him a peck on the cheek, then Haruhi got a peck from Honey.
"B-b-b-b-but Haruhi, daddy asked first…" whined Tamaki, but after he saw Haruhi walked toward Mori-senpai, Tamaki could only stand there and wait for his turn.
After she gave a peck to the twins, she walked toward Kyouya and lastly, walked toward Tamaki. She stood up on her toes and gave him a peck on his cheek, making Tamaki blushed but pecked her in return.
"Look Hikaru, Tono is blushing!" said Kaoru, which was the signal to start teasing Tamaki.
While the twins were teasing Tamaki, "okay, so what should we do now, breakfast first or exchange gifts first?" asked Haruhi.
"Breakfast…we haven't eaten yet…we want to have breakfast with you." The Host Club said in unison…except (of course) Kyouya and Mori who just nodded.
"Okay, so I will prepare breakfast while the rest of you prepare the tables. Oh and don't forget to take some of the decorations off the tables first…" said Haruhi while walking toward the kitchen.
While Haruhi was in the kitchen, she glanced at the door every ten seconds, making sure that no one was spying on her before she quickly opened the refrigerator to see that her 'masterpiece' was still there before started cooking. After she saw that her 'masterpiece' was still in one piece, Haruhi gave out a sigh of relief before started the breakfast.
-About 20 minutes later-
Haruhi just took one step out of the kitchen, before she was face to face with the members again. They quickly pointed up and there was that mistletoe again. But before she could even utter a word, she was interrupted by the members, "Don't worry Haruhi/ Haru-chan, you can give us a peck after we help you with the plates." After the word 'plates', the members was gone in a matter of second.
Before Haruhi could blink twice, the members were standing eagerly in front of her with a grin on their faces. "We are done, now could we have our reward?"
It took another blink and a sigh before she gave a peck to the Host Club and the members to do the same.
Before she moved to her seat, she saw evil smiles from every member that told her that today there would be many of this, mixed with their 'angelic' soft smiles.
They talked and they laughed while eating their breakfast. After they finished, Haruhi told them to close their eyes because she had a surprise for them. She told them that if she saw anyone peek, they couldn't have their 'surprise'. Haruhi quickly walked toward the kitchen and walked back with their 'surprise' in her hands.
"Okay, on the count to three, you may open your eyes…1…2…3!" Everyone's eyes were opened, and in front of them was two-layer cake. But what surprised them the most was that there was a sugar like syrup made into roses of every Host colors. The delicate 'roses' was mixed together, and was decorated on the cake's perfect creamy surface. Also, there were some strawberries that Haruhi carved into a delicate rose. On the top center of the cake surrounded by 'roses', there was delicate sugar snowman, with some snowballs next to it, tiny Santa Claus with Christmas tree and presents. And in the middle of it all, there was a piece of chocolate with white chocolate written in the center, 'Let's celebrate Christmas together, ne?' with some decoration on the sides.
All the members could only stare at the perfectly homemade cake. "Uh…you guys, you could start cutting the cake now." While the Host Club just stared at her and blinked at her like she was crazy.
After the third blink, Hikaru, Kaoru, and Honey quickly jumped up and bear hugged Haruhi. "Thank you very much Haruhi/ Haru-chan. We totally love it!" said the three together, while the twins hugged her on each side and Honey in the middle.
"Uh…now don't you guys want to start eating the cake already?" asked Haruhi confusedly.
The member just stared at her again until, "I have an idea, why don't we take photos of us with Haruhi's masterpiece…?" Kaoru suggested.
"That is a very good idea Kao-chan. Lets take lots and lots of photos. So everyone brought your cameras right? Haru-chan?" asked Honey while looking around.
Haruhi looked confuse at first but suddenly remembered that her camera was upstairs. She 'quickly' ran upstairs and looked through her luggage until she found her camera. She ran back down with her camera and smiled at everyone. "I got mine".
Everyone looked at Haruhi with shocked not because she had a camera but because her camera was so old, it was an old fashioned camera. The member's shocked expression and stared doesn't seem to faze her. "Okay, how about I start taking pictures first."
Everyone lined up behind the table without any argument. "Okay, ready? Say 'cheese'…" Haruhi clicked on the button but nothing seemed to happen. Haruhi tried clicking on the button several times before she sighed. "I think…my camera just broken down."
After a minute of silence, all the Host members watched her and before a blink of an eye, there was more than five cameras in front of Haruhi. "Awe, you poor child, don't worry, you could share ours," said Hikaru while Kaoru just nodded in agreement. "Or you could take this camera. Here, it is yours." The twins were trying to offer Haruhi their latest digital camera model.
"Haru-chan, Haru-chan please don't be sad…you can share or take mine or Takeshi's cameras, right Takeshi?" said Honey while Mori just nodded his head like Kaoru.
"You can use daddy's also…"
"You could use mine…free of charge."
"Don't be ridiculous. I don't EVEN think we need to take any pictures at all since I can easily make the cake again", said Haruhi emphasizing on the word 'even'. But she quickly changed her mind before this situation turned into chaos.
"Okay, how about each of you can take couple of pictures and give them to me later," offered Haruhi at last with a sigh. "Ah, and thank you," said Haruhi smiling softly, while every member couldn't help but smiled back. But in their mind, the word 'kawaii' could be seen bouncing around every corner of their mind like a ball.
They took a few long moments before they were done taking photos. Finally, it was time to cut the cake. They chose Haruhi to cut the cake before there was an argument.
After they finished eating the cake, it was time for presents. They walked toward the Christmas tree and started to find theirs. Before Haruhi was near the Christmas tree, a voice interrupted her, "Haruhi, your presents is not here, daddy want it to be a surprise therefore, the presents is in my car."
"Me too, Haru-chan's present is in my car," said Honey, while the others just nodded.
"So how about we give Haruhi her present first? So who want to give Haruhi's present first?" asked Kyouya. When Kyouya finished the last word, the twins and Tamaki were having another argument yet again. "Oh, and whoever starts to fight, that person have to give their present last."
"Awe, Kyouya-senpai, it is not fair…tono started the fight." The twins accused Tamaki while shrugging their shoulders.
"How about you guys draw a number?" asked Haruhi with a small sigh. She quickly wrote down six numbers on a piece of paper and rolled it up. "Okay…now come and pick one single rolled up paper."
"Okay, now who have number one can start first. Oh and I will be back in a minute." Haruhi quickly walked toward the stairs.
While Haruhi was still upstairs, Mori got up from his seat and went out of the front door. One minute later, he came back with a thin but long, well wrapped present. On the other hand, Haruhi came back with her small bag pack.
"Here, Merry Christmas, this is for you," said Mori handing his present to Haruhi. Instead of taking his present, Haruhi was busy looking inside her small bag pack, "Wait…it is here somewhere…uh," Haruhi looked up and in her hand there was a small box with a dark blue (almost black) ribbon in her hand. "Thank you, Merry Christmas, and also this is for you. Can I open it now?" said Haruhi while taking Mori-senpai's present and handing his present. When Mori nodded, Haruhi began to open her present neatly. When she lifted up the lid of the box, inside there was a wooden sword with her name on it.
"Takeshi, did you carved Haru-chan's name on your favorite sword yourself?" Honey asked. Mori just nodded as an answer.
"Thank you, but aren't you going to open your present right now?" asked Haruhi curiously, but Mori just shook his head, "later."
"Now it is my turn…please waits a minute Haru-chan!!" Honey enthusiastically announced while at the same time, bounced toward the front door and came back in about a minute later with a big, well wrapped present. "Here you go Haru-chan, I hope you like mine." said Honey with a little bit of difficulty.
Haruhi looked at a large present, almost as big (and tall) as Honey-senpai. "Thank you." Haruhi began to open the present neatly for the second time. When she was done, there inside the box, was a big, fluffy, wide-eye, squirrel soft doll.
"Do you like it Haru-chan. This is one of Usa-chan's best friend." Honey said with a lot of excitement in his voice.
"Of course, thank you Honey-senpai. And this is for you as well." said Haruhi, handing a small box with pink ribbon to Honey. "Is this for meee? Thank you Haru-chann." Honey replied happily.
"Now it is our turn. We will come back in a minute Haruhi," with that said, the twins walked out the front door. They came back in about a minute or two later just like Honey.
"Why do you two have to go together?" asked Tamaki suspiciously.
"Because our lucky draw numbers are number three and four," the twins simply replied.
"Here you go Haruhi, hope you like it," said the twins while handing her a very similar shape present. It was an ordinary rectangular shape present about two inches thick.
"Uh, thank you". Haruhi received Hikaru's present first and opened his present carefully like before. Inside the box, there was an art drawing book. Haruhi looked surprise and confuse at first until a voice interrupted her, "Look inside…" Haruhi gingerly opened the book and there was a drawing of herself with the Host club.
"This whole sketch book contains drawing of our club." Hikaru said excitedly, "We took lot of pictures…secretly… It is like an album of pictures except those pictures are all drawn. Do you like my gift Haruhi?" Hikaru asked proudly while linking his arm with her.
"Now it is my turn Hikaru…" Kaoru said while handing her his gift. "Hope you like this as well," Kaoru said while looking very much like Hikaru.
Haruhi began her process of opening her gift again. And inside the box, there was another art drawing book identical to Hikaru's. This time, Haruhi didn't have to be told, she flipped the drawing book open and inside, there were pictures of different stylish clothes, especially dresses and gowns.
"This book contains our designed clothes. So if you liked any of these, you just have to tell us and your 'selected' clothes will be done in just about a week." beamed Kaoru.
Haruhi said her thanks and held up two small boxes with one blue ribbon and another with orange ribbon and said, "Now it is my turn, these are for you two."
"Now I think it is my turn." Kyouya stood up and walked toward the front door. By now Haruhi understood that everyone wanted to keep her gift as a secret.
Kyouya came back and hand her a well-wrapped present, "Hope you like and enjoy my present like you do with the others."
Haruhi guessed that Kyouya's gift couldn't be a book because it was much larger than the twins' presents but thinner, about an inch or so. After she finished open her present, inside there was a very impressive portrait. It was a painting of her and the Host Club.
Haruhi stared at the painting with awestruck because it was very detailed and delicated. She quickly turned to Kyouya after she felt his presence waiting for her to say something. "Thank you very much for your gift, I really like it," said Haruhi with a small smiled, while she handed his small gift with a navy blue ribbon.
"Haruhi…now it is finally daddy's turn to give you your gift," shouted Tamaki. Instead of walking towards the door like the others did and expected, Tamaki walked toward the piano. "I don't really know what to give you…so I have prepared a song for you. I hope you enjoy this present like the ones you have received before, this song is called 'Rivers flows in you'," said Tamaki softly. After his last word, the key of the piano started to play a very soft yet very romantic and sweet melody.
Haruhi looked at Tamaki in admiration before she closed her eyes to savor the melody with a soft smile of her own. The twins looked at Haruhi, before they turned their attention back to Tamaki.
After the last key was played, Tamaki stood up and walked toward Haruhi while smiling. "So Haruhi, did you like the song that daddy just played?" And before Haruhi could answer, Tamaki answered his question for her, "Your answer have to be yes of course because daddy's daughter have to like soft classical music." After Tamaki was done with his 'confident' speech, Haruhi again, opened her mouth wanted to say something but was cut again by Tamaki's voice, "Oh don't worry, daddy know that you like daddy's impressive melody and right now you must be very anxious to hear it again, isn't it? To solve that problem, I made this CD with all the song that daddy know that you will like," said Tamaki proudly.
Haruhi, on the other hand, looked at Tamaki irritated. "I am sorry to break your pride, but I don't agree with your opinion. Thank you very much…and here is your present," said Haruhi while turned around and started walking toward the others. With a cheerful smile, "Okay…while don't you all opened your presents"
The others smiled and said their thanks before they opened their present…except one who just stood there shocked before he ran to his corner.
On the bright side of the room, "Thank you Haru-chann, we really like your gift," said Honey enthusiastically while holding a crystal bear which was punching out its small paw. This crystal bear reminded Honey of his morning exercise where he has to punch his fist into the air.
"Yep, we certainly agree…you really have a great taste for buying this kind of stuff," said the twins while looking at the crystal of a teddy bear with a pencil on its left ear.
"I wonder if we could sell these crystals for profits in the club," murmured Kyouya, staring and scrutinizing the small crystal, a bear holding a clipboard, in his hand with his keen eyes.
"Tono, what did you receive from Haruhi," the twins asked Tamaki curiously. "Do you want us to open it for you?"
"No," Tamaki replied flatly, holding his gift possessively in his hand and far away from the twins' prying hand.
The twin looked at Haruhi with mischief before they went on with their plan.
Later of the day
It was almost six in the evening, Haruhi looked up into the sky, a beautiful multi-colored sky was adorning the sky, before gave out a small sigh remembering of what happened hours ago.
After the twins distraction, they both went straight to Haruhi and linked their arms with her, before asking her sweetly, "Haruhi, today in the central, we have this competition of decorating a Christmas tree as a team, could you please be our partner?"
After Tamaki's ear picked up the twins' question, Tamaki wanted to shout a loud 'no'; however, Haruhi answered the twins with a smile and a nod since there wasn't any harm of being the twins' partner.
Tamaki could only give out sniffles while the others agreed to go to the competition to cheer for the team.
So now she was here in the central of the town with the Host Club. The competition would be starting in a minute. Everyone looked excited, especially Honey-senpai and the twins. To avoid any argument, the Host Club agreed to separate into two teams for the competition. The first group consisted of Haruhi and the twins while the other group consisted of Tamaki, Mori-senpai and Honey-senpai.
Before the competition started the judges gave each team several minutes for a brief discussion, the twins and Haruhi huddled in a circle talking about their plan for the tree. "Okay tried to be stylish as possible and tried to decorate every part of the tree equally. Don't be too elegant like Tono's tree will be. And most importantly, try to avoid boring thoughts. We need to be creative!!"
Unexpectedly, the twins' assumption about Tamaki's style of decorating was true. On the other side of the competition, Tamaki and his team were huddled together and whispering on how the tree should be. Honey and Mori raised their hand like a soldier's salute before Honey whispered back, "Roger!"
After the brief discussion, the judges blew their whistle as a signal for all the teams to begin.
The twins and Haruhi were having fun. They teased and talked while doing their decoration. While the twins' team was going pretty well, Tamaki couldn't help but sneaked a glance at Haruhi. Looking dejectedly, Tamaki was really determined to win the competition. He still remembered the last competition which he lost to the twins at Mizusu-chi's pension. This time he would try his hardest not to repeat the old mistake.
Oh the far side of the 'battlefield', Kyouya stood with the audiences taking notes on his clipboard. "Hmmm, maybe next year, we can do this competition in our club as one of the activities in the Christmas Party. This must make a lot of profit for the club".
To be Continued…
Author's Note: How is it? Hopefully you all enjoy this chapter as much as I like writing this chapter. For my tardiness, I am giving you all a small detail of next chapter. Next chapter, the host club is going to a local shopping mall. But what are they going to do? Who won the Christmas tree decoration? Find out in the next chapter. Feel free to give out comments and opinions but please no flames. Thank you and see you all next time in Chapter 6.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Cheers, silverwing angel.
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