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Chapter 5.
Mori's p.o.v
"The beach?"
Haruhi sounded confused as the Hitachiin's closed in on her, beaming. For once I was only half paying attention to her, my focus on a rather revealing string bikini with a seashell top and imagining her in it instead of the manikin.
"Yeah! You said you wanted to go to a real beach!" Kaoru laughed.
I was still fantasising about Haruhi in the bikini I was looking at, but that didn't stop me letting out a small growl when they criticised Honey and insulted Haruhi. They backed off, thank goodness, and I heard a sigh. Thank you. Haruhi was saying. I was also rather glad when Tamaki slapped them about, yelling at them.
"Stop sexually harassing my little girl."
Honey twitched his nose. That's still weird. Yes, it was.
They were poking fun at my Haruhi again for not having a passport. It wasn't her fault! She glared at the and walked over to me. A sparkle in her eye told me exactly what she wanted, and I lifted her onto my shoulders with ease. She let out a little laugh, and my insides grew warm.
Kyoya had brought the girls. That kinda sucks. Haruhi hid under a parasol, and I played with Honey and his fan girls, keeping an eyes and ear on her. She was so cute.
Tamaki's mind theatre was beginning to annoy me. His fantasies were pissing me off.
I watched as Honey and Haruhi 'hellfish shunted', looking so much like a mother and son it was spooky. Her face lit up as she looked at what was going to be dinner. I walked over and placed her on my shoulders, and a heel tapping against my chest told me to look up. She beamed at me. Tamaki came over and started to bug us, her legs tensing telling me he'd just ruined her good mood. He handed her a crab, saying some crappy joke, and then a centipede crawled up from it making everyone run. The girls ran because they silly things were terrified, Honey ran laughing, thinking it was a game and the Twins were laughing and trying to catch the girls to tickle them. Haruhi sighed and tugged at my hair. I set her down and she plucked the centipede from the crab and flung it into the rocks. She wasn't scared a bit, which worried me.
Fearlessness was a good trait, but I had the horrible feeling it was going to get her into trouble. And I was right; it started Kaoru, Hikarou and the king off on a game to find out what scared her. I sighed, and Honey nodded. We'd be looking out for her if things got out of hand.
I was going to kill Kyoya. He said the prize was pictures of Haruhi from middle school. He was going to die. But I wanted to those photos. So I was competing.
The twins took her into a haunted cave, but she shook it off. Honey took her into an armoured truck and closed the door, but it ended up being him that got claustrophobia instead, and he began screaming. when the door was opened again she was sitting in a corner with im on her lap, soothing him. I lowered a sharp pointy knife thing at her face, careful not to get too close, and she looked at me oddly. What are you doing?
Ouch. That made me feel ashamed. Her eyebrow rose. You realise you are my sempai, not a sentai, right?
Worse. I'm gonna blush, I am going to blush. I walked away, quickly, head low. Harpoons? Yeah, not scared of those.
It was nearing sunset and the twins were looking at her walking along the shoreline. They looked bored and annoyed, and I had to say I agree. She may be perfect, but even perfect people have to be afraid of something, right?
Tamaki was chuckling like a psycho while rummaging in the bushes behind us. Any day now they'll come to take him away. Any day now.
He proudly showed off a bucket full of rat snakes that he thought would freak her out, so I vowed to be near her when he showed them to her just in case.
"Anyone would think those are creepy." Hikarou said. "So it's not really a weakness."
"Hold on," Kaoru said suddenly. "I thought there weren't any rat snakes in Okinawa."
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i chuckled.
"Those aren't rat snakes, those are poisonous Abu snakes!" the twins screamed, running full pelt away from a crying Tamaki, who was sprinting after them with the bucket held far away from him. I walked close by, wanting to laugh.
Then one of Haruhi's fan girls ran up to us, crying.
"It's Haruhi!" she sobbed, and my heart stopped. I was running then, to the top of the rock where I could now hear shouts. When I got there some drunk local had just shoved Haruhi off the cliff, and Tamaki was arching in the air, following after her. I rounded on the boys. I wanted to kill them.
I saw that once again I had been beaten there, the twins beating the pulp out of the two boys, screaming in wordless rage. So I watched from the edge of the cliff, Honey sobbing into my leg, as Tamaki broke the surface, before picking the small boy up and walking down to meet them at the shoreline.
Kyoya sent the girls to the hotel, slapped the two drunks round the face, took their ID cards and picked them both up by the scruff of the necks, throwing them out of the beach, before hitting himself in the head repeatedly with his clipboard, swiftly moving on to pacing up and down the sand. Honey sat cross legged and bawled, and Kaoru looked like he was close to doing the same. Hikarou was cursing under his breath looking furious, holding his brother tight against him and rubbing his back gently.
"Hmn!" I said loudly as I saw Tamaki walking towards us, Haruhi in his arms.
"I called a doctor." Kyoya said plainly, draping his shirt around Haruhi's shoulders.
"I don't need a doctor." Haruhi protested, and my fingers twitched. She was wrong. She was reckless, and she was stupid.
"What were you thinking?" Tamaki demanded, taking her by the shoulders. "You are not a martial artist like Honey. What were you thinking?"
She didn't seem to understand. It mattered that she was a girl against two boys. It did matter that she never called for help. We were right there, so close, and she went on her own, and look what happened! I shoved Tamaki away from her and looked at her. I didn't say anything, I prevented any movement other than breathing and no expression was on my face. I simply looked at her. She looked at her feet. Hm. I moved out of the way, and Tamaki continued his rant.
"I don't think I did anything wrong!" she screamed at him. he let go abruptly and turned away from her.
""I'm not talking to you until you admit you were wrong." He promised darkly, running away from us and into the house. He was right. Haruhi shouldn't have done that. She looked at me imploringly, and I let a crease form between my eyebrows. I sided with the king on this one. Then I picked up her sopping form and cradled her close. I had been so close to losing her. Why didn't she care? I carried her like that, hugging her tight, all the way back to the beach manor, only letting her go at her bedroom door with the silent, always silent, promise to get her when dinner was ready.
Dre dredredre dre de dre…
I stared at her with my equivalent of an open mouth as Haruhi looked at me. I couldn't help it. she was in a pink, frilly¸ dre dredredre dre de dre-
"Dress?" she finished helpfully, a small smile gracing her lips. I nodded, closing my mouth. Then I pulled her in for a hug.
Two months. I have known this girl for two months, and already I fear I may just, possibly, ever so very slightly, love her. Watching her with Honey, there was a warm fuzzy feeling in my stomach, and when I hugged her the warmth spread to encompass my whole body.
She burrowed her nose into my sternum. I like this. Do it more often.
Her arms tightened. I am insecure. Give me reassurance.
A soft butterfly kiss pressed to my solar plexus, which was where her lips reached on me. I lo
Wait, what?
Before I could say anything, out loud or silently, she had walked off down the hall.
The doors to the dining room swung open and Haruhi was greeted with multiple boys whose faces were much like the one I had greeted her with when she'd opened the door in a dress.
"Dad did it." she said simply, seating herself next to Honey. I sat on his other side, and Tamaki sat next to her. Well, this wasn't awkward at all, was it?
Haruhi seemed to be quite enjoying herself, munching through a load of crabs legs. Tamaki, on the other hand, winced as she broke each one.
"Don't you think you've had enough?" he asked eventually, flinching. "Give it a rest." I silently agreed with him, not that she could see me.
"I thought you weren't speaking to me." She said smartly. The effect was kind of ruined as she had crab in her mouth. I just sat munching my way through my own pile of crabs, paying attention while cleverly not looking like I was paying attention at all.
"fine. I get it." Tamaki said, slamming his hand on the table. I tensed, ready to protect Haruhi, even if she was in the wrong. I could feel Honey beside me doing the same thing. But Tamaki just left, Kyoya in tow, and Haruhi paused in the act of snapping another crab leg.
"Maybe he's right." She whispered, and I relaxed. The twins smirked.
"He got to ya, huh?" kaoru asked. Honey beamed at her, wrapping his arms around her waist.
"To be honest," Hikarou said, suddenly serious. "We were all a little worried. About how recklessly you acted."
She looked confused. Had she never had anyone look out for her before? Had she never had anyone care?
"I didn't cause you any trouble or anything." She said blankly, the twins looked at each other and shrugged, but Honey looked up from where he was still hugging her.
"That's not true, we were really worried." He said earnestly, giving her The Face. She looked down at him before moving the loli-shota onto her lap.
"Why were you worried about me?" she asked, still blank. Honey sighed, and the twins called her hopeless. I sat there chewing, glancing at her every few seconds with a look in my eye I hope she'd catch. We were worried because we care. Why couldn't she get that?
"Guys, I'm really sorry." She said sweetly, and then the twins were hugging her as well as Honey, and I stood next to her with my hand on her head and a smile on my face.
"Aww, apology accepted!" one of the twins cooed.
"You're so cute." The other hummed. Honey just 'awwed' and laughed.
"We forgive you." They all said together. then her stomach groaned and she turned ever so slightly green.
"Are you alright?" the twins asked. No, she wasn't feeling good at all.
"Get her to the closest bathroom as quick as you can." I told Honey, tilting my head to the door, and twitching my arm. He nodded.
We shoved her in, and then the twins left, and Honey went to play with Usa-chan, and the sound of her vomiting made me nauseated so I wandered away too. I would be back soon though, to check on her.
I opened the door to see Haruhi on the bed under a shirtless Kyoya, and then I was slamming the boy into the wall, snarling.
"Takashi, no!" she screamed, and I froze, muscles and joints locking into place, my stranglehold on Kyoya tightening slightly. She said my name. it sounded so good rolling off her tongue.
"It was to prove a point, Takashi," she continued, obviously cottoning on about using my name against me. She tugged at the hem of my shirt and Kyoya slid, gasping, down the wall. Strange, I wasn't aware of letting him go.
He crawled from the room, and I turned to her. She wrapped her arms tight around me.
"He wasn't going to do anything, I promise. It was to prove Tamaki's point about me being helpless." She mumbled. A slight nod of my head. Okay.
I let her go and turned to walk out the door. I expected her to follow, but she didn't. I turned to look at her just as thunder rolled through the sky, and she screamed, flinging herself towards me. She crushed herself to me, tears leaking from her eyes. She let go as suddenly as she had grabbed hold, but when thunder cracked again she screamed. I looked at her.
"If you'll excuse me I have some business to take care of." She said tightly, crawling into the wardrobe and locking it behind her. What business could she possibly have to take care of in a wardrobe?
I walked over and tugged at the doors just as thunder rumbled again and she whimpered.
"Haruhi, are you afraid of storms?" I asked her quietly. "Why did you lock yourself in there like that? It seems scarier to be locked up."
"I'm alright. I'm used to taking care of myself."
And that's when it dawned. She had had to take care of herself from a very young age. She never relied on anybody but herself. She's always alone, which is why she never calls us for help even though we're so close. Oh god….
I forced the door open and tilted her face to look at me. She had tears streaming down her face, and I wiped them away with my thumb. I get it now.
"You grew up without relying on anyone else." I said softly. "But not anymore." I stood and held my hand out to her. You can come out now.
She looked at me, and then thunder crashed, and she threw herself at me, arms locking around my waist as I held her tight. I will always protect you. I will always be here for you. Always.
"I promise that you will never be alone again." I murmured into her hair. Her grip tightened on the back of my shirt and I kissed her forehead, sweeping her up and cradling her against me. I will always be here for her. Always.
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