A Day in the Life of the Fujioka Family!
After the Host club returned from the beach, spring break officially began. Akari directly went to Haruhi's house by taxi after she had dropped off and picked up some belongings at her house. She found the apartment to be strange to be so empty; this would be her first time being separated from her brothers for more than a day.
"Wow! I love your house Haruhi! It's roomier than mine!" I looked up and around Haruhi's house, it was a little bigger than the apartment my brothers and I were living in. We would move soon, but for now(to save money) we would be stuck living in a one bedroom and one bathroom apartment.
"Really? But you have three older brothers." Haruhi was dressed in comfy home clothes, which was sweats and a t-shirt.
"We've shared rooms our entire lives," I beamed at her, then kicked off my shoes. After, I dropped off my bag on the floor and wandered in to explore.
"Which one is your room?" I scanned the house.
"That one," Haruhi closed and locked the front door, then she lead the way. She had an adorable bedroom!
"You know, I've never slept over at a friends house before," I said.
"Me neither. You're the first friend sleeping over at my house, actually." She smiled at me.
"Great! We can be first-time sleepover buddies," I slung an arm around her and beamed.
"What's for lunch?" I asked.
"We actually need to go grocery shopping, I've been meaning to go but then we had to go to the beach with the Host Club."
"Let's go now then! We can get some junk food there while we're at it. You have a supermarket a couple blocks away, right?" I wanted some pocky. And soda, and Japanese candy. And chips. I haven't had asian junk food for a while actually...
"Okay, wait for me while I get changed." With that, Haruhi retreated to her room and closed the sliding door.
I decided to wander around her house more, and I came across a photo of a woman in the living room. I leaned forward a bit to get a better look, and I realized that it must have been Haruhi's mom. Was her mom still alive? If she was I would want to meet her, maybe she would be as nice as my mom was...
"Hey I'm ready and, oh yeah. That's my mom. She was a lawyer." Haruhi gave me a smile, but it was more sad than her other ones. Her big eyes drooped a bit when she looked at me, and at the picture. She had come out wearing a pink dress over her white t-shirt.
"Was?" Oh no, was Haruhi's mom dead?
"She died a while ago."
"Oh..." Poor kid. I walked over and wrapped my arms around her. We stood for a few minutes like that. I think Haruhi felt a little bit awkward about it though.
"You're really strong Haruhi, you know that?"She looked up at me with her usual face.
"You're strong too Akari senpai," she said.
"That's because my brother's were always there for me." I ruffled her hair and smiled.
"Lets go to the market! I need some junk food." I lead the way to the front door. Haruhi and I both put on our shoes, exited the house, and walked to the grocery store.
The store was pretty decent, and there was a lot of junk food for me to pick from. Most of the cart was full of the junk food that I had picked out.
"Don't you think that's a little too much?" Haruhi gaped at the amount of junk food I was getting.
"It's not just for me, silly. It's for you and me. " I beamed, and we continued shopping. I caught Haruhi looking at a cute, plush, panda keychain, and asked her if she was going to buy it.
"Nah, it's cute but it's not very useful." She put it back.
"Whatever you say Haru, c'mon. There's more stuff over there. Here's the cart."Haruhi took it and went over to the dairy section to buy some milk. In the short span of time, I grabbed two of the panda keychains and raced to the cashier, and told him that I needed to buy them secretly. He thought I was a guy, and he told me that I was real nice buying a surprise for my gal. I arched an eyebrow at him, and batted my lashes and said to him in my girliest, kawaiiest voice:
"That's so mean. Just because I have short hair doesn't mean that I'm a boy," I pouted. He turned really red from embarrassment and apologized. I smiled at him and told him it was no biggie, and I stuffed the keychains I bought into my pants pocket. I thanked the cashier dude, and raced back to Haruhi.
When I ran back to Haruhi, she hadn't really noticed that I was gone. She was deciding which milk carton to buy, trying to figure out which one had the better deal.
"Go for the organic one, 2% milk doesn't taste as good."She went for my suggestion, and we bought all our groceries and left the store. It was hilarious seeing the cashier look away from me uncomfortably, he felt really bad about mistaking me for a guy. I laughed on the inside.
We were walking back from the store to Haruhi's home, both of our hands full of grocery bags. We were laughing and talking on our way back, and I decided I was going to give her the keychain later. We stopped when we saw a crowd outside of Haruhi's apartment complex.
"Is that a limo?" I squinted my eyes as if I could see better if I did that.
"Oh no," Haruhi's face went pale.
"Yup. It's them." I walked my way over to the crowd, and sure enough, at the center there were six handsome boys. There were several whispers amongst the crowd, some thought they were the mafia, others were wondering why young, rich men were hanging out in the neighborhood.
"Tamaki, what brings you to Haruhi's house?" Haruhi had stayed behind and was planking on a telephone pole.
"To check up on my two daughters of course!" Tamaki said loudly and flamboyantly. He then instructed the other boys not to be rude or ignorant towards Haruhi, not knowing that she had snuck up and was right behind us listening. Haruhi lost it after a while, and she demanded the boys to leave immediately. When the boys noticed her, they commented how adorable Haruhi looked in her dress. But then they scolded me for not dressing up like Haruhi. I was wearing my brother's old red flannel with a black hoodie over it, torn jeans, and a pair of red converse. My short, wavy, caramel hair was messy and unbrushed. Nothing cute or girly about me or my clothes. Haruhi on the other hand, her chocolate hair was perfectly parted to the side, and her bubble-gum pink dress made her look like an adorable little doll.
"Whatever dude."I said as I shrugged my shoulders, not really caring.
"Kyoya! Akari is using naughty boy words!" Tamaki freaked out, which only fueled the annoyance of Haruhi Fujioka. The boys wanted a tour of Haruhi's home, and she refused of course. But Honey brought cake, so we both allowed them in. Cake solves everything. The boys all muttered rude things about Haruhi's home(unintentionally?), and she ended up making tea for them.
"Mmm, cake. You know how to make a girl happy Honey senpai," I grinned at him with my chipmunk cheeks full of cake.
"You look so cute Akari-chan!" Honey senpai giggled, then continued eating his strawberry cake. I chose chocolate of course, chocolate always wins.
"Here, you can have my strawberry," Mori gave Haruhi his strawberry, which sent the trio(Kaoru, Hikaru, and Tamaki) squealing/complaining about not thinking of doing that.
After cake, the boys wanted to eat lunch with us. Surprisingly, Kyoya offered to buy lunch for us.
"Sounds great!" I said enthusiastically. But he later revealed that in the end, Haruhi was technically paying for it. The boys decided they wanted to go the grocery store, so I lead them ahead while Haruhi and Tamaki stayed behind.
After many complicated things regarding the Hosts meeting Haruhi's father and Haruhi storming off to the grocery store alone...
"Why are we spying on her?" I whispered to Kyoya.
"Because Tamaki and the twins are scared of Haruhi when she's mad." He wasn't even trying to hide, he was standing out in the open taking some notes.
"Dude, you're not gonna be tested on what is sold in a grocery store. You don't have to take notes." I tried peering over to see what he was writing, but his handwriting was so minuscule I couldn't read it.
"Ugh, why is your handwriting so small?" He shot me an annoyed look.
"I can write whatever and however I want." He said. I rolled my eyes, and watched Mori push Honey on cart, Haruhi being oblivious as usual.
"That girl is so clueless...How can she not tell Tamaki is head over heels for her?" I sighed in exasperation.
"Tamaki is like her. He doesn't understand that he has romantic feelings for Haruhi and so he mistakes his affection for her has a 'fatherly' love. It's really quite frustrating to watch." Kyoya and I both observed as Tamaki was discovered by Haruhi, and I smiled when she let him carry her grocery basket for him.
"It's like watching a real-life shoujo anime..." I grumbled under my breath.
"Shoujo?" Kyoya gave me a perplexed look. I turned red.
"I d-didn't say anything-I-totally-don't-read-shoujo-manga-secretly-what-in-the-world-are-you-talking-about?!" I was a horrible liar. Dang it, he's probably gonna use this against me later.
"Interesting, I didn't think you were the type of girl to read shoujo manga." He gave me that cocky smirk of his and jotted more things down into his notebook. I made a frustrated sound at the back of my throat, my face really red.
"Please don't tell anyone, it's so embarrassing." I turned away. If anyone knew, it would ruin my 'tough' act!
"I won't." I looked up at him, surprised.
"Really?" He looked like he was telling the truth.
"As long as you don't do anything to anger me." He gave me a smile.
"I'll be extra nice to you Kyoya! We could be best friends now that you know my secret!" I beamed then glomped on him. He tensed up; he looked startled(I had just suddenly hugged him).
"Sorry, I should've asked first. You don't mind right?" I stepped away from him, and laughed nervously. He recomposed himself, ignored me, and scribbled more things down onto his notebook. I shrugged, and I was about to catch up with the others until my cell phone rang. I fumbled around my pockets, which was full of candy, candy wrappers, buttons, and other miscellaneous things.
Cheer up and dry your damp eyes, and tell me when it rains.
And I'll blend up that rainbow above you and shoot it through your veins.
'Cause your heart has a lack of color, and we should've known.
That we'd grow up sooner or later 'Cause we wasted all our free time alone.
I finally found my phone that had been lost in the depths of my endless pockets.
"Akari speaking!"
"Hey Akari! It's me, Haku." I smiled brightly after hearing his voice.
"Haku! I miss you already! How's your vacation?"
"Good, but...Is it possible for you to stay at Haruhi's house for two more days than what we originally planned?" My smile vanished.
"Why?" I asked quickly.
"Because Erai would be coming over and staying for two days with us, and we won't have enough room for you to stay with all of us," Haku's voice sounded sympathetic. I stood shocked for a few moments, I saw Kyoya glance up from the corner of my eye. I sighed angrily, and I said in a snarky voice:
"Oh I see how it is. Fine. I see you don't want me near you interfering with your manly bonding, so I'll just stay away until he leaves. Have fun, big brother." I hung up on him before he could answer.
"Stupid Haku," I grumbled under my breath while crossing my arms.
"If I didn't know any better, you must be jealous that this Erai fellow is spending more time with your brothers than you are."
"It's not that..." I said calmly. He raised an eyebrow questionably.
"Then what other reason would you have for not liking him?" Of course he wanted to everything. I looked at him in the eye.
"I don't want to talk about it at the moment. But if you're that curious, you can find out half of the story after you look through some files. His name is Erai Yukimura." I walked back to the rest of the group.
Later...
Haruhi was cooking us delicious stew, and I tried helping but I should never be allowed into the kitchen. I spilled water all over myself and I had to change into my batman pajamas. Surprisingly, Honey senpai and Mori helped. Usa-chan was left on the sofa, and no one dared touching him. So I ended up babysitting the twins, Tamaki, and Kyoya. I don't think they really minded me being in front of them in my pajamas, they've already seen me in them for the sleepover theme. The twins asked if they were the only pair of pajamas I had, and I told them that I actually had five pairs of the exact same pajamas. They looked at me funny. I let the twins and Tamaki play Mario Cart on my Nintendo DS, and Kyoya typed away on his laptop. The loud trio ended up breaking my DS after fighting over whose turn it was. They freaked out when it snapped in half, but I wasn't too mad.
"It's alright guys, you didn't mean it." I collected the two halves of the DS, while the loud trio cowered on their knees before me.
"We're so sorry Akari! Please forgive us!" I looked at Kyoya and pointed at them, confused.
"They happen to have seen your file, and discovered that your blood type was AB." I was even more confused now.
"What does my blood type have to do with this?"
"You have the same blood type as Kyoya!" Tamaki shakily whispered into my ear.
"Is there something wrong with my blood type?" Kyoya asked coolly. I was even more puzzled now.
"The Japanese like to link blood types with personality traits," Kyoya briefly explained where Tamaki and the twins were coming from.
"Oh? Hm...seems like I should do more research about Japanese culture..." I put away my broken DS into my backpack, but Hikaru happened to see my stuffed cat Curry inside. He snatched it before I could stop him.
"Hey! Give that back this minute!" I jumped at him trying to retrieve Curry, but he laughed and threw it at Kaoru before I could. Kaoru caught it, and threw it back to Hikaru when I leaped at him. This went on for about thirty seconds, me being the monkey in the middle. Even though I was the same height as them, I couldn't catch poor Curry who was being thrown across the room high in the air. Tamaki went about rambling how cute and girly it was of me to like stuffed dolls, and Kyoya watched the spectacle, amused. It took every ounce of self control for me not to snap the clones into two. Haruhi called to us from the kitchen.
"Dinner's ready!"
"Dinner's not important right now! They took my Curry!" I whined to Haruhi while pointing at the twins accusingly.
"Why do you like this old thing anyway?" Said Hikaru.
"Yeah, it's so dirty and it has a lot of holes." Kaoru held Curry slightly away from him as if he was gross. I glared at him.
"Shut up! Don't insult my Curry! And give him back!" Thankfully, Mori popped out of nowhere and snatched it from Kaoru and handed to me. My face lit up like a child receiving a present, and I immediately grabbed Curry and snuggled him. I then smiled at Mori.
"Thanks Big Brother! You're the best!" Mori was about a head taller than me, dang, he was tall. Most guys were shorter, the same height as, or only slightly taller than me. I gave him a thumbs up, then I snapped my head at the twins and stuck my tongue out at them. I turned on my heel and went to the kitchen for dinner, still holding Curry.
Dinner was awesome, Haruhi's dad intentionally gave a lot of Chrysanthemum to Tamaki(who hates it). I refused to release Curry, so I ended up having to guard him the whole time the twins were there. After the Host club left, Haruhi and I watched the Disney movie I had brought. We watched my all time favorite, Lilo and Stitch(with Japanese subtitles). Afterwards, we had a pillow fight and then we shared our embarrassing stories to each other.
"Hey Haruhi, I have something to give you!" I jumped up and went over to my duffel bag and rummaged through it. I finally found the key chains, and I hid them from Haruhi's view. I sat down on her bed in front of her again, beaming.
"Tada!" I held out the two keychains in front of me. She looked surprised at first, then she slowly smiled.
"It's the keychain from earlier!"
"Yup. One is for you, one is for me. Matching keychains means that we're best friends right?" She nodded her head then took one from me, and got her phone to put it on. I did the same. Afterwards, we both held up our phones to look at the matching pandas.
"Hey Akari," said Haruhi.
"Yeah?"
"Is there a specific reason you don't like your brother's best friend?" I looked at her, she wore a serious expression on her face.
"You know, you're pretty observant for someone so oblivious," I smiled at her, then I flopped onto her bed. I patted the spot next to me, and she came over and sat.
"I never liked him ever. Period. He was always mean to me since we we're kids, and he's only grown more vicious over the years. Stay away from him Haruhi, his name is Erai and he has long, ridiculous, red hair." I glared down at the floor. After a few quiet moments, Haruhi caught on to my lie.
"That's not the real reason you dislike him." I looked at her in surprise.
"You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to," Haruhi smiled at me. I bit my lower lip, feeling guilty about being dishonest with Haruhi.
"I'll...I'll tell you another time. For now, let's just have fun. We can go to the skateboarding park tomorrow!" I beamed at her.
"I can teach you how to skateboard!" Haruhi eyes widened.
"I'm not sure if I'll be able to do it..." Haruhi said doubtfully.
"Pish posh, I taught a lolita how to skateboard once. Teaching you will be no problem!"I glomped on her.
"Tomorrow will be so much fun!" Haruhi looked unenthusiastic, but I was still excited nonetheless.
Akari's ringtone is Rainbow Veins by Owl City by the way. Thank you for following this story! All of you seem to pop out of nowhere!