Chapter 3.

Mori p.o.v

I feel so…stupid.

I'm dressed up in a lab coat with thick glasses, propelling a bewildered Haruhi past a crowd of girls who were squealing over the Hitachiin twins taking their shirts off. I sped her down a hallway and into the 'special boy's clinic' before shutting the door in her confused face and getting changed back into my uniform. Thank heavens.

"It was so scary!" a girl sobbed. We listened in on her story about the pervert. Apparently Kyoya had seen him earlier and hadn't bothered to apprehend him. Nice. That's when we heard where he had been heading. He had been going towards the Special Boy's Clinic.

My blood turned to ice. Honey's mouth dropped and his eyes welled up. Kyoya froze, and his pencil snapped between his fingers. The Hitachiin twins gasped and Tamaki went to his corner of woe to grow mushrooms and rock back and forth. I said one word before taking off running.

"Haruhi!"

They were all following but I barely noticed them. I couldn't hear anything over the beating of my blood in my ears, the sound of my heart thumping no, no, no. repeatedly.

We burst through the doors and into the curtained area. Tamaki beat me to hurting the fool who would lay a hand on Haruhi, knocking him into a wall.

"One: good looks that attract the public eye." Kaoru and Hikarou said in unison, looking furious and stepping in front of Haruhi. I was impressed at their calm voices. Or I would have been if I could concentrate.

"Two: more wealth than you can imagine." Kyoya stepped out of the shadows, a sinister smirk curving his lips and something icy about his eyes.

"Three: chivalry that will never be able to overlook the hideous wickedness of this world." I rumbled, stepping through the curtain and lowering a glare at the trembling man.

"Four: strength that hides from our opponents until it is too late." Mitsukuni didn't sound cheerful anymore. He sounded grown up, and serious and very, very pissed off. Someone had attempted to corrupt our Haruhi. Now he was going to pay.

Tamaki stood.

"This is what makes the Ouron Host Club." He boomed in a voice unlike his. His purple eyes were not carefree. They were livid. We all were.

"We are here." I proclaimed, advancing and shielding Haruhi from his view.

"Watch out." Honey finished, taking up a fighting stance in front of me. He had crossed a line, and he was going to wish he hadn't.

He was looking for his daughter, and was not a pervert after my Haruhi. Lucky for him.

I held no pity for Yabu while he told us his story. I held no shred of pity as I watched him walk away. But once he had I pulled Haruhi in for a hug.

I didn't like the feeling I had gotten when I thought she was in danger. It was a mixture of nausea, water trickling down my spine and loss of breath. I never wanted to feel that again.

A finger stroked down my cheek. Are you alright? What's wrong?

I just pulled her closer before releasing her quickly and hurrying her behind the curtain. I picked up the Twins by the scruff of their necks and heard Honey pick up Tamaki. Kyoya held the door open for us, and I set them down on the floor outside, before waiting.

I would always wait for her.

The door opened.

Always.

She smiled at me and wrapped her small arms around my waist.

Because she was worth waiting for.

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Renge is insane. Bona fide, should-be-in-an-asylum, insane.

I mean, she's got our dark sides down pat, but we try and hide those!

I watched as the twins did their basketball scene, and Tamaki did his monologue, and then I was chasing Haruhi through the trees, Mitsukuni at my side. We chased her until she ran into a tree, slumping down its trunk to stare up at us in fear.

The expression tore my heart.

Mitsukuni began threatening her, and then threatening me before turning back to Haruhi. He looked at her face for a second, tears gathering at the corners of her eyes, trying to seem as small as possible out of fear of us, and he broke.

He flung himself, wailing, at Haruhi, wrapping his arms around her neck and crying, telling her he was sorry over and over again. I crouched and took the two into my arms, lifting them and carrying them out of the forest.

"Cut!" Renge screeched in her grating, high pitched voice. She began berating us, yelling and screaming and complaining. I tuned her out to listen to Haruhi.

Calm down, its okay. Said a soothing kiss to Mitsukuni's temple.

Hey. You alright? Asked a small smile hastily flung in my direction.

Will she ever shut up? An annoyed glance at Renge wondered.

She rocked Mitsukuni in her arms, singing to him softly until he had stopped crying. She stood up and walked towards the twins, still cradling Honey, and sat down, chatting amicably with them and laughing on occasion.

"I'm fine." She answered my unspoken question as she passed me on her way back to where she would start running. She tried to hand a sleepy Mitsukni to me, but he clung to her and wailed, so she hugged him close. i smiled, a teeny smile, but a smile, at the sight.

I was horrified when Renge started to try and boss the mob boys around. It was no surprise to me that they pushed her. It was no surprise that Haruhi tossed Mitsukuni to me and put herself between Renge and the wall. That didn't make watching it any easier.

There was an awful noise as Haruhi's back slammed into the wall, Renge's full weight smashing her against it. when Renge stood Haruhi fell to her knees, and I handed Mitsukni to Hikarou and ran to her, holding her shoulders in my hands and looking at her face for any trace of pain.

My heart stopped beating when a tear slipped down her face and dripped from her chin. I wanted to squash the mob boys, but I had to stay here and make sure Haruhi was alright.

Thankfully Tamaki had chosen this moment to come round the corner and had seen the tear. The look on his face even frightened me a bit. He slammed one of the boys into the wall, and was very seriously going to punch him had Haruhi not stood up and intervened. The boys ran away screaming as Haruhi turned to Renge.

She explained to the French girl about stereotyping, and getting to know someone. I could have sworn her eyes flickered to me when she said that. But I couldn't be sure.

When she stood up again she took Mitsukuni back from Hikarou, and settled him against her. He let out a sigh in his sleep and I looked at them. she settled her cheek against the top of his head. Somehow, in the month she'd been a host, this girl had wormed her way closer to me than anyone other than Mitsukuni had ever been able to.

I gazed at them, the two most important people in the world to me, and they looked so right, so familial. It seemed completely natural to go over there and drape my arm over her shoulders and stay that way forever, a nice happy family.

But it wasn't that simple, and it wasn't completely natural.

So instead I walked over to them and smiled slightly. This particular smile said a lot of things, revealed a lot of feelings, some of which I understood, most of which I didn't. But her smile mirrored mine, and I took a chance.

She didn't shrug my arm of her shoulders as I had feared; quite the opposite. She sighed and leant into me, and clutched the sleeping Honey just the slightest bit tighter to herself. She was basked in the glow of the setting sun, setting her features aflame. Her eyes fluttered closed, my hand tightened over her shoulder, and I led her, with her eyes still closed, back inside and to Music room 3 where I lay her down on one of the sofas, moved Mitsukuni ever so slightly closer to her and stood in search of a blanket.

When I returned they were both sleeping like the dead, with no threat of waking any time soon. I looked at them gently before placing the blanket over them, tucking them in. I scooted back and leaned against the wall opposite them.

And I looked down and smiled, because they were perfect.

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