Having stayed another half hour before finishing their afternoon, everyone emerged out of their dressing rooms and met up again in a main room they had rented for their stay.

It held a lounging area including a television, a kitchen and a bathroom, and served as a meeting area for the club as well as a place where they could all hang out together away from Moe eyes, instead of clambering into someone's room.

The Host Club members all made their way there, Haruhi still having her swimming costume on underneath her clothes so as not to be too late.

Upon finally finding the room, Haruhi opened the door to find that everyone else had already arrived there before her.

However, Haruhi thought she had done quite well to find the room in the time she did, considering no one had told her where it was! All she had had to do was follow the path the club had left her.

Crumbs from Honey's snack, the trail of destruction left from the twins and Tamaki and the star-struck women was a normal aftermath left behind the eccentric Host Club. She slipped quietly inside the door to try and minimize her arrival. No such luck was to be found

"Haruhiiiiiiiiiiii! Where have you been?" shouted Hikaru accusingly.

"You were late by five minutes you know" added Kyoya, sunlight glinting off his glasses.

"You're aware that that is going to be added to your debt."

"Well MAYBE if one of my so-called friends had told me where this room was, then I wouldn't of had to spend those five minutes following your trail trying to finding you all!" she shot at the rest of the group with a glare.

Hikaru and Kaoru flinched from the onslaught, whilst Tamaki shriveled up in the corner from the intensity of the glare.

'She hates me, my daughter hates me…' he mumbled into the wall.

"Nevertheless, you are late; therefore it's added to your debt". Kyoya had to keep up appearances, after all.

Haruhi swung to glare at Kyoya, before stalking over to him, determined to wipe the smug look off of his face.

Placing her hands on his shoulders (and ignoring the gasps from the other people in the room) Haruhi went onto her tiptoes and whispered in his ear.

"Laugh it up now, chuckles, but as your punishment for being such an ass" she hissed the last word "I am going to stick with the rest of the Host Club so much that there isn't going to be one minute where you can kiss or touch me. Checkmate, baka." Haruhi finished, her eyes flashing with warning.

Kyoya's eyes widened at her words.

The rest of the host club watched the proceedings with curiosity at what their natural host could possibly have to whisper to the shadow king.

Kyoya looked up slightly to find the rest of the club watching them. No way was he going to let this chance to be with Haruhi slide through his fingers – it was about time that the rest of the fools should find out about their relationship. Hopefully it would deter the more slightly persistent members from latching onto Haruhi. And besides, it had been taking too much time and energy for them to hide the relationship from everyone – time that could be put to better uses…

His arms snaked around her waist bringing her closer to him. Haruhi dropped onto the balls of her feet and tried to back away in surprise, but to no avail. She recognized that determined look in his eyes for Kami's sake.

Oh Mother in heaven, what is he about to do?

"Kyoya..?" Haruhi started but was cut off by his lips descending on hers as a collective gasp was heard from the entire room.

Kyoya heard the club's reactions and smirked, deepening the kiss.

That's right He thought. She's mine. You better remember it.

Mori was shocked but didn't let it show except for a raise of his eyebrows. He became aware of Honey's eyes widening and covered them. The little show was not something his 18 year old charge had to see.

Hikaru was confused. What the hell was Kyoya doing, kissing Haruhi like that? Anger and jealousy battled it out in his head, and the rage was eventually beaten by jealousy. He couldn't help it; Haruhi was so precious to them, to him, that to have someone else get so close to her pissed him off! Never mind the fact that he was one day hoping to be the one to capture Haruhi's heart. He clenched his fists to stop himself from stomping over there and tearing the two apart.

Kaoru watched as his brother battled with his inner turmoil and noticed his clenched fists. He couldn't help feel sorry for his brother.

He had been observant of Haruhi and Kyoya for the past few weeks, and had noticed that they had been acting differently around each other. Not so much that many others noticed, but enough for him to. It was pretty easy actually – being one of the few people who broke into his world, it felt natural to observe and make sure she was happy. And with a sinking heart, he had seen her happier than ever with Kyoya; he could only hope that this new bond wouldn't tear her away from him and his brother.

Tamaki's mind froze, his rationale and logic splintering before him.

What – what – what – Mother is kissing daughter – daughter is kissing back! Thiscan' Daughter…..Mother…NO!

Inner mind theatre

The world continued to rotate before slowing down, and coming to a stop.

It exploded.

Exit of mind theatre

Mori, the closest person to Tamaki, thought he heard a bang near him and turned to find Tamaki on the floor.

Tamaki had fainted.