Who cares if you disagree? You are not me. Who made you king of anything?

Haruhi,

What are you doing after school?

-Kaoru

The note was waiting for her on her desk in homeroom. She looked over to Kaoru's desk where he sat trying (but not succeeding) to look inconspicuous. He had a newspaper poised in front of his face and dark sunglasses on. He lowered the newspaper slightly to give her a thumbs-up.

Kaoru probably thinks he's a super spy or something. She rolled her eyes.

Quickly, she found a scrap piece of paper in her bag. She got out a pen and scrawled:

If you want to ask me something, you should use your words, Kaoru.

-Haruhi

Without even bothering to play along, Haruhi placed the note on his desk.

"Hey!" He said. "That's not fair! You broke your own rule!"

"I guess I did, didn't I?"

"So, answer the question! Are you doing anything?" He insisted on an answer.

"Um, no. The host club won't be meeting, and I haven't really made any other plans, so…"

"Awesome! You can come with Kyoya and I to help the boss pack his room!"

"Kyoya?" She asked. Come to think of it… "Hey, Kaoru, where's Hikaru?"

"Doctor's!" He said a little too hastily. "Hikaru had… a fever last night! I think it's probably just stress from the boss's announcement yesterday. He's sensitive like that. But what does that matter? Hmm? Let's just forget about him for right now, okay?"

"I guess," she said, suspicious. "By the way, what's with espionage act?"

"Oh, these?" He said, realizing he was still wearing the dark glasses. "Kyoya said to keep this on the down low. I guess he's worried about costumers wanting to help, too. Did I take it too far?"

"Maybe a little bit." She giggled.

Kyoya-sempai said to "keep it on the down low", did he? Geez, since when did he start being the boss of everyone?

xxx

"Ah, there you two are," Tamaki said when Kaoru and Haruhi arrived at the Suoh second residence. "Kyoya said that you'd be here a while ago…"

"What? Is Kyoya not here yet, either?" Kaoru said taking a look around Tamaki's bedroom. It was big, with high ceilings and fancy wallpaper. Haruhi couldn't remember seeing such an opulent bedroom in her life.

Then again, I guess I should be used to it by now.

"Oh, no, he was here earlier, but I guess we needed more boxes, so he went to get some." Tamaki went back to sorting through his clothes.

"Need some help, Sempai?" Haruhi fidgeted. She hated being unproductive. Tamaki's door opened slowly.

"No, no, Haruhi, I'll take care of that, why don't you just set up some more boxes for us." Kyoya said placing a large stack of unfolded cardboard boxes beside her. "Tamaki, you don't mind that I just let myself in, do you?"

"You usually do," Tamaki sighed. "Kaoru, don't touch that!"

A small shoebox fell from the bookshelf.

"Sorry, boss. Hey, are these bath salts?" Kaoru peeked inside. "Wow. That's a lot of bath salts…"

"KAORU! I SAID DON'T TOUCH!" Tamaki shouted. Kaoru put the lid back on the box and tucked it under his arm. Suddenly he made a mad dash out the door. "H-hey! Where are you going?"

Tamaki raced out after him, leaving Kyoya and Haruhi alone again. It was quiet for a few minutes before Haruhi decided to break the silence.

"Sempai… Thank you for yesterday. Even if you didn't know what was going on, it was nice of you to try and help me."

"Hmm? Oh, that? Like I said, I really only came to help because it was my fault." He folded a shirt. "Besides there's still the matter of your—"

"Of my debt?" She guessed. "You can't keep hiding behind reasons like that Kyoya-sempai. I know that you aren't as cold as you try to seem."

He stopped folding and looked at her in awe.

"It's okay to care about people, Sempai."

He hurriedly went back to sorting. "I don't think you understand me at all."

"I'm sure I don't," She admitted. "But that's only because you won't let anyone understand you properly. Kyoya-sempai, we both know that behind your tough exterior, you're really a nice person. You should stop pretending. I like the real you better."

At that moment, Tamaki's bedroom door flew open. A sulking Kaoru was being lead in by the ear by Tamaki, who held the shoebox in his other hand.

"Let this be a warning!" Tamaki let go of Kaoru's ear and punched a fist into the air. "Nobody touch my precious treasures!"

"You call those commoners' market bath salts treasures, Tamaki?" Kyoya said frigidly. This sent Tamaki into a fit of depression and he began sulking in the corner.

"We all know Kyoya's in charge, anyway, boss." Kaoru said, smiling and patting Tamaki's back.

"Is that supposed to make me feel better?"

A.N.: Wow, I've gotten more story alerts than I expected for a songfic... That makes me really happy! I had hoped to update two chapters a night, but I don't think I'm going to have chapter 6 just right tonight, like I had planned. Look forward to it tomorrow evening, please!

P.S. Did you notice the part about Hikaru being "at the doctor"? I promise I'll get back to that ;)