Chapter 8

Phew it's hot today! I thought to myself, me and Haruhi were in the host club doing some homework together. It was late spring and the weather was beautiful, a hot sunny day...perfect for the beach. And right on Que the twins pop up and shout

"let's go to the beach Haruhi and Maria!"

Haruhi looked at them from her homework and asked "The beach?"

The twins shouted "Of course, the beach."

"But why?" Haruhi asked, confused.

Hikaru began "Don't you remember what you said?"

"You said you'd like to go to a real beach." Kaoru finished.

Haruhi looked at me and said "Did I say that?"

I nodded "yes you did, wow you have a bad memory."

The twins interupted us and revealed many swimming costumes "We brought some swimsuits for you to choose from."

Kaoru stated. Hikaru smiled "Pretty cute, don't you think?" They pointed to one in particular which was pink with ruffles on the top part of the bikini. It was very cute but Hunny disagreed and popped up with a blue swimsuit

"Not that one. I think this swimsuit would look much cuter on Haru-chan."

The twins tutted "I don't think you get it, Honey senpai."

They then lifted Haruhi up by the arms as Hikaru said "Just look. This uniform barely hide the fact that Haruhi is as flat as a cutting board."

I chuckled at that, Haruhi gave me a death glare though but it was worth it.

Koaru continued "A one-piece suit like that would only upset her because it draws attention to her lacking feminine physique."

The twins put Haruhi down and pointed back to the pink bikini they suggested "That's why we carefully selected this two piece suit, see? The ruffles help hide the fact that she's so flat chested."

I clapped "even though normally I would have punched you by now, I must admit your knowledge on fashion is very good."

The twins bowed but Tamaki shouted at them "You punks had better quit sexually harassing my little girl! I've had enough of you!"

The twins hid behind the table and asked "That means we're not going to the beach?"

Tamaki smirked "Who said that we're not going?"

The twins popped up from the table and smiled "Really? So you wanna go after all?"

Hunny jumped up and down in excitement "Can Use-chan come, too?"

Kyoya, who was looking at the bikinis, said "I have no problem with that."

Mori grunted as Haruhi looked at Tamaki in shock "Huh? We're really gonna go?"

Tamaki nodded "Why not? Let's go to the beach."

The twins came over to me and asked "you coming to the beach Maria?"

I shrugged "I'm not sure if I can, I'm quite busy this weekend..."

But before I could finish Hunny came over to me with huge puppy dog eyes "so...your not coming to the beach with us?"

He looked like he was on the brink of crying. Oh man I am so weak to those puppy dog eyes!

I got my mobile out of my bag and said "let me call my mum and ask."

Hunny immediately cheered up as I put the phone to my ears. "Hey mum...I'm fine thanks and you...good, anyway mum is it ok if I go to the beach with my friends...for the weekend...are you sure? I can always stay at home if you really need my help, I'm worried about leaving you alone...ok thanks mum bye...love you to."

I looked at the others and smiled "yeah, I can go."

The twins hugged me tight and said "well, lets choose a swimsuit for you."

After an hour of the twins giving me fashion advice, they gave me an white bikini with a picture of a pink flower on the top part of the bikini. When I got home that night I packed my suitcase and went into the living room where my mum was sitting in the armchair watching the news.

"Are you all packed for your holiday?"

I nodded "look mum, I'm worried something might happen to you if I'm away, are you sure I can go?"

My mum smiled "Maria, you do so much for me already you deserve a little break. But there is something I want you to promise me."

I sat down in the chair next to her "yeah sure what is it?"

She smiled "when you have dinner with your friends...dress nicely. And by that I mean wear a dress and makeup."

I sighed "but mum, you know I prefer jeans."

She laughed "exactly, these boys are nice and I don't think it would be appropriate for you to wear a 3 year old shirt and baggy jeans. Please darling, for me?"

I rubbed my temples and sighed "alright...I promise."

Early the next morning I went to Haruhi's house to go and meet the guys near the school. We grabbed our suitcases and walked to school, and down the road just outside the school was a limo with all the guys waiting for us. The twins, Tamaki and Hunny waved as the driver took our suitcases and put them into the boot. We got into the car and drove to the location of our holiday. From what I gathered it was Kyoya's limo as he knew where everything was, he got everyone drinks and we sipped our drinks.

"Hey Kyoya do you have a radio, or a docking station for my Ipod?"

He nodded "yes, it's just here."

I plugged my Ipod in an put on some songs...which unfortunately the twins and Tamaki knew. So they kept on singing the entire journey. After about 2 hours we arrived at a beach, we got out and stood on top of a hill looking at the beach.

Hikaru and Kaoru asked "So, why'd we come to Okinawa?"

Tamaki stated "Because Kyoya's family has a private beach here."

Hunny gasped at the view "It's beautiful, isn't it?"

Mori nodded "Yeah."

The twins began together "But why couldn't we have gone..."

"to the Caribbean?" Hikaru asked.

"Or even Fiji?" Kaoru also asked.

Kyoya said "Do you think a commoner like Haruhi and Maria have passports?"

Haruhi looked at them with a sweat drop "You do realize that I can hear what you're saying, right?"

And I turned to Kyoya "and for your information, I do have a passport thank you very much."

Kyoya shrugged and showed us to some changing rooms, Haruhi didn't get changed though she wore a blue t-shirt and some long shorts. I, however, got changed into my bikini that the twins gave me. When I came out I saw some girls from the host club. One of them waved at me and said

"wow Maria, you look so great in a bikini! I'm so jealous."

The other girls nodded in agreement as I said "but you girls look great in your bikini's, I'm wouldn't be surprised if you have broken some hearts already."

They all squealed and hugged me tight. When they let go I went over to Haruhi who was sitting under an umbrella, I looked around and Tamaki was entertaining some guests, Kyoya was keeping it organised, the twins were playing volleyball with some girls and Hunny and Mori were doing some really weird moves with some girls.

Haruhi looked at me and sighed "This sucks. I thought going to the beach meant the day off."

I shrugged as the girls came up from behind and asked "Um Haruhi, aren't you going to go swimming with us?"

Haruhi shook her head "No, uh, I like looking at the sea from a safe distance."

"Well, if you're not going to swim, would you mind if we sat here and talked with you?" One of the other girls asked.

Haruhi put on her natural charm and said "But why? You girls should go swim. You've got cute swimsuits on. Why not show them off?"

The girls blushed and sighed dreamily...so I shuffled away to avoid the girls flirting with Haruhi. When I looked to find the other I found Tamaki on a sunbed having some sort of spazm

"It'll happen just like that. The greatest day of my life. I don't know if I can handle it."

Some of the girls asked the twins "What's the matter with Tamaki? Is he having a seizure?"

The twins sat back as Hikaru said "I wouldn't worry about it."

"He gets like this occasionally." Koaru finished.

Oh great Tamaki is having a perverted thought about Haruhi...I'll have to beat him up later the sicko.

I went back to Haruhi as she got out from underneath the umbrella. "Hey Maria, I was gonna go for a walk on the beach wanna come?"

I nodded "sure, let's see how big this beach is...then we can determine how rich Kyoya is."

She laughed as we walked down the beach together. We came to some rocks as we heard Hunny shout to us "Haru-chan! Mari-chan! Wanna go 'hellfish shunting'?"

Haruhi mumbled "I think you're trying to say 'shellfish hunting'. But this doesn't seem to be that kind of beach, Hunny senpai. You're not gonna find many shellfish..."

But she looked down next to Hunny and found a bucket full of shellfish. We looked around and found the ground covered with shellfish!

"What the hell? No way!" I yelled in shock.

Haruhi and I ran over to Hunny and did decide to help him with the shellfish. Hunny gasped "Amazing! Look how many we got!"

Haruhi beamed "We're gonna have some fancy side dishes tonight. It's gonna be delicious."

I shook my head at her "man your such a glutton Haruhi."

She poked her tounge out at me and noticed Tamaki a few feet from us, she shouted and waved at him "Senpai, dinner is gonna be awesome. It's a major haul!"

Tamaki squealed "Oh I'm just so proud. Look at my little girl!"

I rolled my eyes as Haruhi kept on shouting how amazing dinner was gonna be. I pulled her back down to the shellfish as Tamaki said to Haruhi "Tell me, Haruhi. Isn't this crab crab-tivating?"

And for some reason Kyoya wrote that down in his book. Man that joke was really bad...even for you Tamaki.

Haruhi laughed "Oh yeah."

Tamaki smiled "Your so cute!"

I looked at the crab and saw something black crawling across the crab...they girls all screamed "Cen- ti- pede!"And ran away.

Me and Haruhi just looked at it and Haruhi picked it up and threw it into some grass. The twins came over and leaned on Haruhi "Hey, Haruhi."

Hikaru said "Now I know most girls aren't really the bug-loving type and I certainly didn't think you were, but..."

"Don't you think you could've be easy on the little guy?" Kaoru asked.

I shook my head "Oh come on. It's not dead. Takes a lot more than that to kill a bug."

They looked at me and asked "your not afraid of bugs either?"

I shook my head as the girls came back "Haruhi is so brave and manly."

"It's still so sweet."

"He's the best."

I patted Haruhi on the shoulder "your on your own on this one."

I shuffled away and walked down the beach again. I went down to sunbathe when suddenly the twins came over and yelled "Hey Maria! We're going to check out this cave, wanna come?"

I sighed "sure why not?" The picked me up and dragged me to the cave where Haruhi and two girls were as well. We walked in as Hikaru started telling us

"This is the place. It's the most haunted spot in all of Okinawa. The locals don't even come out here."

The girls shook in fear as Kaoru continued "They say that the only time you can even find this cave is at low tide. Evidently, many people have died down here from drowning. And their soles still linger, taking revenge on anyone who happens to come inside."

The girls screamed as a ghost appeared in front of us, a hand landed on me and Haruhi's shoulders as we turned around to Tamaki holding a puppet

"What's going on? Are you trying to freak us out?" Haruhi asked.

Kaoru held another puppet and asked "What's wrong with you? I thought everyone was afraid of ghosts."

We shook our heads "But I've never seen a real one." We said in unison.

We got back to the beach and found a gigantic truck with Hunny inside. "Haru-chan! Mari-chan! Would you come over here?"

Haruhi looked up at it and asked "What the...? Are you sure it's okay to drive a truck like this on the sand?"

We got in with Hunny as he instructed "Well, we're ready whenever you are, private police people, please lower the door."

The police saluted and closed the door.

Wait are those the policemen from the other day...

Suddenly Hunny started screaming and crying "It's dark. It's scary in here! I feel like I can't breath!"

We tried to calm him down but with no luck. The policemen opened the door as Hunny ran out crying. Haruhi and I just climbed down and walked down the beach again. We saw Mori who held something behind his back, then when we got close to him he pointed a very shark harpoon at us.

Haruhi calmly said "Mori, ah, you're my senpai not a sentai?"

Nice pun Haruhi.

We went back to the house and we went to our rooms, me and Haruhi shared and as we got into bed I said "you know...I have a feeling that the guys are trying to find out what we're afraid of."

Haruhi looked at me scared "I don't want them to find out my fear...please don't tell them."

I shook my head "as long as you don't tell them mine." We nodded and fell fast asleep.

The next day was another warm day, we went back down to the beach and spent the day relaxing and swimming in the sea. At sunset Haruhi went off to find some more 'side dishes' and some of the girls came over to me.

"Hey Maria were going onto that rock over there to look at the view, wanna come with us?"

I nodded and went up with them, it was quite high so you could see everything. It was beautiful. One of the girls noticed Haruhi at the bottom of the rock and shouted "Look up here, Haruhi."

Another girl shouted "What's up! The breeze up here feels great!"

Haruhi shouted back in worry "It's dangerous. Be careful."

We nodded as a gentle breeze flew in the air. One of the girls said "This feels so good."

We all nodded as a male voice from behind us said "Hey there're chicks up there, man."

We turned around and saw two boys walking towards us. The other boy said "Aren't we lucky? You ladies wanna hang with a couple of locals?"

A girl walked over to them and said "No thanks. Please just leave us alone."

But the pervert went up to her and grabbed her arm. "Oh come on. We just wanna show you girls how to have a good time."

The two other girls huddled together as one said "This is a private beach. You guys are not allowed to be here."

The other boy went up behind them and grabbed them "Private? Does that mean we're alone?"

The first boy looked at me and grinned "woah, aren't you a pretty one? Why don't you come over here so we can get to know each other better?"

He's making me sick. They both are!

But before I could answer shellfish hit one of the boys causing him to let go of the girl. I looked to see Haruhi standing there "Why don't you quit bothering them? Weren't you jerks listening? You better just leave them alone."

The girls smiled as the guy clenched his fist "You little runt."

He ran over to Haruhi and grabbed her by the shirt. I looked at the girl and shouted "run! Get out of here!"

She ran down to the beach as I went to the guy "let him go you bastard!"

He grinned "don't tell me you two are dating? Ha! Your better of with a real man like me!"

He took Haruhi to the edge of the cliff and snarled "What are you gonna do now, loser?"

That was it! I ran up to the boy, grabbed him and threw him to the floor. He grunted in pain as I went to the other boy and punched him in the stomach, causing him to let go of the girls.

"Go run! Now!" I shouted to them. They ran to the beach quickly. The boys got back up as I stood next to Haruhi. The boys ran towards us as I kicked one of the boys in the face and punched him in the stomach again. He fell to the floor again as I noticed the boy grabbed Haruhi again.

"I got an idea, kid. How would you like to take a dip?"

No! I tried to run towards him but the other boy grabbed my feet causing me to fall to the floor. "Hope you could swim."

He let Haruhi go as she fell off the cliff.

"Haruhi!" I screamed.

Just them I saw Tamaki dive in after her. The other boy turned to me and grinned "your defiantly a feisty one...I like that in a girl."

He started to walk towards me ready to grab me but a pair of hands pulled him away and another got the boy off my feet. I got up and saw the twins growling at them "how dare you hurt Haruhi and Maria!"

They started beating the crap out of them as I saw Kyoya come over to me. "Are you alright?"

I nodded "yeah I'm fine, I fought them off for a while but they caught me by surprise." He looked at me with shock, because I fought those two guys by myself.

When the twins finally let them go, the two boys ran off after Kyoya took their ID cards. I ran down the cliff to see if Haruhi and Tamaki came out of the water. Me, the twins, Kyoya, Hunny and Mori found them just coming out of the water.

"Haru-chan!" Hunny shouted.

"Boss!" Hikaru yelled. Tamaki came out of the water carrying Haruhi bridal style as he asked "Where'd they go?"

Kyoya gave his top to Haruhi and said "We took their ID cards and respectfully asked them to leave. The girls all went back to the hotel and I called a doctor. He should be arriving in here any minute now."

Tamaki thanked him as Haruhi got off of Tamaki "I'm fine, you guys. I don't need a doctor."

I ran to Haruhi and hugged her tight crying. "Oh Haruhi I'm so sorry, I only protected myself I didn't protect you please forgive me!"

She hugged me back "it wasn't your fault I'm glad your ok."

Tamaki then said to us "What were you thinking? You know, you're not like Honey senpai. You're not a martial arts master. Why did you confront them? What made you think you would stand a chance? You against two boys?"

He grabbed out shoulders as Haruhi explained "But it doesn't matter that they're boys and we're girls. I was there. I had to do wasn't any time to think..."

I nodded in agreement as Tamaki yelled "That's no excuse, you idiots. Don't forget you are girls!"

We glared at Tamaki as I said "what's your problem Tamaki? What did you want us to do? Run away and leave them? Or come and get you?"

Haruhi spoke "Look, I'm sorry you had to come and save me, senpai. But I don't understand why you're so mad at us right now. I don't think we did anything wrong!"

I also shouted "neither do I!"

He let us go and began walking away "You don't think so? Fine, whatever you say."

He then shouted back to us "But I'm not speaking to either of you until you can admit that you were wrong!"

We glared at him as Haruhi gave Kyoya his top and grabbed my hand to walk back to our room. Haruhi went to have a shower and when she got out I had one to.

I came over of the shower wrapped in a towel as I said "can you believe him? How sexist is that?! Does he think that we're some damsels in distress and need saving all the time?"

Haruhi nodded "I know! And even though I don't know any fighting moves you know some at least."

I grabbed my underwear and said "yeah, my dad taught me those moves so I could defend myself in case something like that happened."

I went into the bathroom to put my underwear on, when I came back I saw Haruhi glaring at a pink dress of her bed. "That's a nice dress when did you get that Haruhi?"

She sighed "my dad must have repacked my bags when I wasn't looking."

I laughed "well you can either go to dinner naked or wear that dress." She mumbled angrily and put the dress on. I got my long, red, strapless, maxi dress from my suitcase and put that one with some red wedges. I put some eye makeup on and some red lipstick to match.

Haruhi looked at me in shock. "well you look surprisingly good for dinner, why?"

Before I could answer we heard a knock at the door. I opened it to find Mori there. He stared at me for a little while before saying "dinner's ready."

Haruhi and I followed him downstairs in silence and when we got to the dining room he opened the door for us. The guys noticed Haruhi first as she was standing in front of me, Hunny gasped as the twins asked "Haruhi, where did you get that dress?"

Haruhi replied "From my dad. He must have repacked my bags when I wasn't looking. He always try to get me to wear this frilly stuff."

The twins gave a thumbs up and said "That's awesome! Way to go, dad!"

Hunny stated "You look so cute, Haru-chan."

Haruhi went to the table as the guys stared at me for a moment. I shifted uncomfortably "can you guys stop staring at me please?"

The twins shook their heads and asked "sorry, you look great Maria."

Kyoya came up to me and asked "you don't usually dress this nice for anything. What made you change your mind?"

I sighed "I promised my mum that I would dress nice for dinner with you guys."

The twins gave another thumbs up as we sat down for dinner.

The silence was unbearable. You could feel the tension in the air, Haruhi and Tamaki were sitiing next to each other and I sat next to Kaoru and Kyoya.

"Well this is uncomfortable." Hikaru said.

"Yeah, kind of awkward." Kaoru pointed out.

Hunny tried to break the tension and said to Haruhi "Let's dig in, Haru-chan. These are crabs we caught. I bet they're delicious."

I grabbed a crab myself and started eating. I looked at Haruhi who was having one after another after another.

"These crabs... taste in-crab-ible. Get it?"

I chuckled at the joke and continued eating. Tamaki looked at Haruhi a bit comcerned and said "Don't you think you've had enough? Give it a rest."

Haruhi stated "Excuse me, I thought you weren't speaking to me."

She opened another crab as a bit hit him on the chin. I had to hold back a laugh as Tamaki said "You, trying to be cute?"

I smirked at him as he got up and threw his napkin onto the table. "Okay fine, I get it. It seems you two refuse to admit that you were wrong. See if I care, then. I'm going to bed. Kyoya, would you show me to my room, please?"

He walked away as Kyoya patted his mouth and got up "No problem. Well, excuse me, everyone."

Haruhi put her crab down and sighed "Maybe he's right. Maybe I do need to learn a way to protect myself."

I looked at her in shock. What she's not seriously saying that hes right?!

The twins spoke up in unison "So, that's it. He got to you, huh?"

Hikaru stated "Well, it wouldn't hurt you to learn martial arts or something."

Kaoru shook his head "But it's not like we're going to force you to learn it."

I gestured my hand to them "See! Even they agree..."

But they interrupted by saying "Besides, that's not the real issue, here."

I looked at them confused as Hikaru said "To be honest, we were all a little worried about how recklessly you acted."

I scoffed "recklessly?"

Haruhi stated "What do you mean? I didn't cause you guys any trouble or anything."

The twins sighed and shrugged. Hunny looked at Haruhi and said "That's not true, Haru-chan. I think you should apologize, 'kay? You made us all worried, especially Tama-chan. I think you need to apologize to him the most."

He looked at me and said "and you to Mari-chan, you scared us as well."

By this point I was clenching my fists to avoid shouting at them but I couldn't hold it in any longer. I stood up in anger and threw my napkin down onto the table.

"Are you guys insane are what?! How dare you say we acted 'recklessly'! Or anything like that! We didn't do anything wrong, all we did was protect those girls and ourselves from those perverts! You guys were quite far from us to come and get you! If we did come and get you by the time we got back I think far worse could have happened to those girls! I understand that we scared you and I'm sorry but we don't always need boys to rescue us! Do you not understand how sexist you guys sound?!"

Everyone stared at me in shock. The boys all looked down and said "we're sorry."

I looked at them in shock as well as Hikaru began "we're sorry, we don't mean to sound sexist."

Kaoru continued "but we've been brought up in an environment where girls do need our help all the time and we have to save them."

I sighed and rubbed my temples. Haruhi spoke up "guys I'm sorry I scared all of you today. I didn't mean to."

I then said "I'm sorry to, I didn't mean to yell at you but I just hate sexism."

The twins grabbed Haruhi and I as they and Hunny started nuzzling us "Apology accepted, you little mutts." Hikaru cooed.

"You're so cute. We forgive you." Kaoru added.

Haurhi then started going pale as the twins asked "Is something wrong?"

Haruhi grumbled "I'm not feeling so good."

She looked like she was going to be sick. I grabbed her hand and ran back to our room. I took her into the bathroom as she threw up down the toilet. I rubbed her back and cleaned her up when she finished. I sat her down onto the bed as she said to me

"can you apolagize to Kyoya for me please?"

I nodded and asked "what about Tamaki?"

She sighed "if he wants to talk to me he can." I nodded and went to look for Kyoya's room.

I looked in everyone room and finally found it after 10 attempts I knocked on the door as he shouted "come in!"

I opened the door but saw a shirtless man rubbing his head with a towel. I bowed "I apologize, sir. I didn't mean to intrude."

He replied "Don't be silly. It's just me." I looked at him carefully and recognized him "Kyoya senpai? Wow I almost didn't recognize you without your glasses on."

He looks damn good with and without them...no stop thinking pervy thoughts Maria.

I shook my head and said "look Kyoya, me and Haruhi are sorry for scaring everyone today."

He looked at me and got up "Thanks, but I wasn't especially worried."

I sighed in relief as he drank some of his water. "Although, because of you, I had to send each of the girls a bouquet of flowers to apologize. They've been looking forward to this trip and we don't wanna disappoint them."

We walked over to me as I replied "I'll pay you back for the flowers, senpai. Haruhi won't be able to afford to."

He put his hand on the light switch and stated "Each bouquet cost me 50,000. That's a grand total of 600,000 yen, Maria."

He switched the lights off as I looked at him confused "Uh, why'd you turn the lights off?"

He bent down to me and said "If you want to, you can pay me back with your body."

Say what?! Bloody pervert!

He grabbed my wrist and I yelped a bit as he pinned me down on his bed. He held himself above me as smirked "Surely, you are so naive that you actually believe a person's sex doesn't matter. You've left yourself completely defenseless against me."

Why the little...wait...I know what he's doing. But I'm afraid I'm gonna have to show him my point of view.

I looked up at him and grinned "is that so?"

Before he could answer I kicked him in the crotch causing him to loosen his grip on me as he groaned in pain. This gave me my chance, I swung him onto his back and pinned him down and I held myself above him.

I smirked "now what were you saying about me being naive? It looks like I have the upper hand now Kyoya."

He looked at me in shock as I smiled "But wouldn't of done it, Kyoya senpai. I know. Because it wouldn't do you any good. You wouldn't gain anything from it. But you can't go around saying that we girls are weaker than boys. We are capable of looking after ourselves, but I understand where you guys are coming from and I respect that now."

He grinned at me and said "You're right. You're a fascinating young woman, Maria."

I let him go and sat up as he did the same. I smiled at him "But I've learned something from this. I guess I never realized what a nice guy you are, senpai. I know what you're doing. You're just trying to prove what Tamaki senpai said earlier."

He put his glasses on and looked at me, I continued "I know that you're trying to prove his point that you're just posing as the bad guy."

He got up from his bed as we heard a knock at the door. "Kyoya? Do you have any lotion? This sunburn is worse than I..."

Tamaki walked in and saw me in here with him.

Well this is awkward.

Tamaki glared at Kyoya and shouted "You bastard!"

Kyoya came over and shoved the lotion in Tamaki's face "Here. Use as much as you want, you big goof."

Third person POV

Kyoya shut the dor behind him. He leant against the wall for a minute as he remembered what Maria said to him. He smirked and walked down the hallway with his hands in his pockets.

He said to himself "Nothing to be gained from it, huh? An interesting thought in its own way."

He smiled and went to find the others in the dining room.

Maria's POV

I looked outside to see the thunder and lightning. I hope Haruhi's ok...I thought to myself.

Tamaki came over to me and asked "What were you doing alone with him?"

I looked at him and said "Nothing, really."

He waved his hand in my face and ranted "You expect me to believe that nothing was going on? You were alone in his bedroom. And why were the lights out? Don't you lie to me."

He looked down at the ground and sighed "Never mind. You've been through a lot today. I'm sure you're tired. You should get some sleep."

I didn't like being in a fight with Tamaki so I grabbed his shirt and said "wait Tamaki!"

He stopped and looked at me. I looked at him and sighed "look, I'm sorry that I scared you today. But I've been taught to protect myself in those kinds of situations, besides if Haruhi and I did come to get you guys I think far worse could have happened to those girls by the time we got back. Me and Haruhi have fended for ourselves since we were little, so we don't need to rely on others."

He looked at me at first in shock and then hugged me tight "I understand now, Maria. I'm sorry, I acted the way I did. You grew up without relying on anyone else."

He let me go and smiled "friends?"

I smiled and shook his hand "Friends. Hey maybe you should go talk to Haruhi now, I know she wants to talk to you."

He blushed lightly and left to go to Haruhi in her room. I went to the dining room and sat with the guys for a few minutes. When I saw the thunder and lightning I said to them "

look, I've spoken to Tamaki and we're ok now. He's now with Haruhi. We should go check on them."

They all nodded as we went to mine and Haruhi's room. Hikaru began "Are you sure it's a good idea?"

"To leave the two of them alone?" Kaoru finished.

Kyoya shrugged "She's with our prince, Tamaki. What could possibly go wrong?"

The twins knocked on the door and said "Hey, boss? We're coming in."

They opened the door and we found Tamaki with Haruhi...who was wearing a blindfold and earplugs.

Tamaki said to Haruhi "With the blindfold, you can't see anything, and earplugs help muffle any sound."

Haruhi smiled "Wow! Yeah, you're right."

Now if I were any other girl I would have taken this the wrong way...but I think Tamaki's knows Haruhi's fear of thunder and lightning now and was trying to help her. That's very nice of him.

Unfortunatly for everyone else they got the wrong idea. Hikaru said "You nasty pervert."

Tamaki looked at us in shock as Kaoru said "What kind of foreplay is that?"

I laughed as Tamaki panicked "It's not like that! It's not what you think!"

That next day we all got in the car to leave...well Tamaki was outside as Hikaru said to Haruhi "You better watch your back, Haruhi."

"I never have pegged the boss as an S&M pervert."Kaoru added.

Tamaki growled "I told you, it wasn't like that at all!"

Haruhi looked at him unimpressed "I see. Well now I know what S&M is. I can't believe I almost let you get away with it."

Tamaki shouted "I wasn't doing anything freaky. I was trying to help you."

Kyoya said to the driver "Let's go."

The driver started driving as Tamaki was running behind us "Hey! Don't leave without me! Wait you, guys!"

I laughed and asked Kyoya "how long are we gonna make him run for?"

He chuckled "not long, just until he's out of energy."

I looked at Haruhi and whispered "look, I know he knows your fear. And I honestly doubt he was doing some S&M thing with you. I think he was really trying to help you."

She looked at me in realization and smiled. The twins then looked at Haruhi and asked "So Haruhi, what are you afraid of?"

Haruhi obviously didn't want to answer and I decided to step in. "Alright I'll tell you my fear."

Everyone looked at me as I sighed "I have arachnophobia...a fear of spiders."

They all looked at me in shock and mentally slapped themselves for not figuring out that obvious fear as I rested my head back and fell asleep.

A/N: Wow I am on a roll! Two chapters in one weekend! Awesome! But there is a reason for it. It's my birthday next Friday so I'm gonna be busy next weekend with my sleepover. Oh btw I know that this chapter is different from the Anime/Manga. But I didn't really like what they were suggesting about girls being weak so I decided to change it a bit. I hope you liked it :D