A/N: Hiyaaa! i'm back! Some...I don't know, comic relief? Kidding, All my chaps so far have too much of my sarcastic, witty humour in them already ;) Sooo, merry berry Christmas! how was it? Did you get an icy Christmas? Or a white one? A sunny one? Er, no chance here :L

OMG, I didn't get ANY manga. Whatsoever. Got money to buy some (or Gossip Girl/Glee DVDs or Gossip Girl/Rachel Riley/The Luxe books ;) ), but none in person. How annoying is that? But I did get Touche Eclat, which is fab ;)

Um...this isn't Christmassy. Should it be? Yes. Whatever. Love ya! :D

Dark

"Is this safe?"

Tamaki gave Hikaru a look and carried on trudging through a dingy alley.

"It's a secret shortcut, of course it's safe!" Tamaki countered, narrowly avoiding a brown-looking puddle.

"But it's cold!" Hunny whined, wrapping himself further round Mori's back, who nodded solemnly.

"And dark," Kaoru muttered.

"It's noon, Tamaki," Kyouya intoned, leveling his gaze with that of the blond's. "But it's dark."

Tamaki didn't reply. So what if he wanted to go a secret shortcut? Why wasn't everyone else excited? After all, it was secret, which had to make it totally ad completely amazing. Not that the dirty bricks or slimy ground exactly screamed 'beyond your wildest dreams' or anything, but...it was a shortcut!

Then there was a scream, piercing and a muffled sort of loud, like it came from inside. Everyone looked to Haruhi, who had just slipped, but she shook her head, accepting Mori's hand up.

She frowned as she twisted round, glancing at the back of her trousers. Looking up, seeing everyone still staring at her, she said, "It wasn't me."

Tamaki continued to eye her skeptically. She merely rolled her eyes ad dusted herself off, ignoring Tamaki as she turned to Kyouya.

"Do you even know where we are?" she demanded, her voice accusing.

Kyouya slid off his glasses, polishing them with the cuff of his sleeve. Finally, he looked back to an impatient Haruhi, and said, "I have no idea."

"Ky-you-ya!" Hunny exclaimed, pummeling Mori's back.

"You don't know?" the twins asked, looking aghast.

Tamaki seemed stricken. "But you were the tour guide!" he yelped, a hand flying to him mouth.

"You were the one who took us to the 'secret shortcut'."

Tamaki pouted. So what if the secret shortcut had involved climbing up a ladder, jumping off a wall, and going through several mysterious doors? That was why it was secret, duh.

Another bunch of screams rand past them.

"I'm scared~!" Hunny wailed, burrowing his head into Mori's shoulder.

"i think this is a death trap," Hikaru stage-whispered.

"Tamaki's trying to kill us all!" Kaoru whispered that, both looking as terrified as possible.

Tamaki igored them, feeling his way through the dark, until he found a handle. He turned it, and a door swung open. Grinning tiumphantly - he was not trying to kill them! - he lead his friends through the door, turning left and walking straight into-

"Ohmigod it's a walking skeleton oh my god everyone run!" Tamaki screeched, darting through the group to run forward.

Not a second later did a head pop out of the wall, with dark red eyes and straggly hair, prompting Tamaki to burst into screams and the twins into hysterical laughter as they jogged behind him.

"Where-where are we?" Tamaki gasped as they reach the end of the corridor, leaning back on the (hope fake( blood-splattered wall and panting. "Are we in the devil's home? What did I do wrong? What have I done to deserve this?"

"If my studies are to be proved correct," Kyouya said, strolling towards then with the skeleton's skull, "then you ay find that this is a haunted house."

"A haunted house..." Tamaki breathed. "Of course."

It was at this point that Hikaru and Kaoru really couldn't contain their snickers, Hunny chuckling along as well as Haruhi eyed Tamaki will loathing.

"I cannot believe you dragged us into this." She looekd like she was about to slap him, when someone inferior like a janitor (oh, the horror!) walked up to them, glaring at them (or, more specifically, Kyouya).

"Come with me," he ordered in a curt voice, giving them such furious evils that even Hunny deflated and followed.

After a million hour-long lecture on vandalism and a ban from the house, they were finally allowed to leave.

"So much for the secret shortcut," Hikaru muttered.

Tamaki gave him a hurt look, but ignored him. At least it wasn't dark anymore.

A/N: And here we have it! Still strangely short, whatever. Feels a bit wooden...am I losing my superpowers? The shock!

So... Happy New Years or...a few days ;)

Love ya! Review, my loves :)