CHAPTER TWENTY

"This place here…is said to be a paranormal spot, which not even the locals will come to very often." I glanced up at the twins as we followed them into a dark cave. They were lying, I saw a few kids in here earlier, and they weren't scared at all. I guess they were trying to scare us for some reason? As long as Kin was here with me I was fine, she knew what I was truly afraid of, and she always took care of my fear for me; and I tried to do the same for her.

"It's a cave that only shows itself at low tide. Up to now, they say that a lot of people have drowned down here." Some how I doubted that, sure if it was only at low tide people could have died, but it wasn't even low tide right now, the twins must have not noticed that. I let out a small sigh, though it seems like Kin was the only one who noticed. She actually looked really bored at the moment. This wasn't scary to her; only one thing actually scared her. I doubted that the twins would be finding out Kin's fear anytime soon though. "They say that their lingering souls drag passers-by into the dark.

"Look!" I glanced up, jumping slightly in shock, but I knew it wasn't real. I just disliked things popping out at me. I think it all goes back to when my dad would play hide-in-seek with my cousins and I. He would hide in the closet, and when we, mainly I, were walking by to look for him, he would jump out the closet and scare us. So I almost always jumped when thing popped out at me, even when I wasn't afraid of them. The two girls with us screamed, and made me jump again, the noise had shocked me. I saw the fake hand that was reaching out to hold Haruhi's shoulder, and knew that the twins were behind this; they were trying to scare us all for whatever reason. I suddenly felt a hand on my shoulder. At the same time Kin and I grabbed the hand on our shoulders, and flung the person whose arm had grabbed us. It turned out to be one of the twins. I muttered a small 'opps'.

"Sorry…." I quietly apologized, even though the twin had probably thought it was mainly Kin who had flung him, not me. He didn't know how strong I was, most people didn't. I tried to avoid fighting other people; I just didn't enjoy hurting others. While Kin and I had flipped the twin, Haruhi had another reaction,

"What is this? A test of courage or something?" Hikaru was the one who answered her, he was also the one Kin and I had flung.

"Aren't you three afraid of ghosts? I think I saw you jump Kitty-senpai."

"Oh…I just don't like things jumping out at me, I wasn't afraid." I actually didn't really care if they believed me or not, but Kin also said,

"Ellie might jump but she only has one real fear." I smiled at her, glad that Kin had defended me, like she normally does.

"I've never seen one." Haruhi stated.

"We haven't either." Kin and I imputed. Right after we left the dark cave, Mitsukuni called us over,

"Haru-chan, Kitty, Kin! Over here, over here!" I glanced at the truck uneasily. I might not be afraid of the dark but I wasn't a huge fan of it either. Sometimes being in the dark for to long gets my imagination running, and it leads me to thinking about my fear.

"Is this thing even allowed to be on the beach?" I sighed at Haruhi's question.

"Well…it is Kyouya's private beach so it should be okay." As Kin spoke I glanced around at the policemen.

"I guess these guys want to make it up to Mitsukuni then." Then all four of us climbed into the truck and Mitsukuni said,

"Okay, private police people, if you please!" Then the door slid shut. I didn't like the darkness, but I was fine, I knew Kin was standing right next to me. After a few second of darkness Mitsukuni shouted,

"It's dark, and confined, and scary! It's dark, and confined, and scary!" I moved next to Mitsukuni, and hugged him. Why was he in here if he didn't like small dark places?

"Honey-senpai…" After the door opened Mitsukuni was fine, so I released him from my hug. We all then hopped out of the truck. A few minutes after we started to walk Takashi appeared, and was holding a harpoon to Haruhi's face, right by Kin and my faces. We all paused for a moment, before Kin exclaimed,

"That is so cool!" I think I also heard her mutter something about using that to get rid of Tamaki and the twins. At that point I grabbed Kin's arm and pulled her away from the harpoon, she just might hurt someone if I left her there for long enough.

Some time later I was just walking with Haruhi as she got random seafood. I had gone and gotten Neko-chan from my bag, I was slightly lonely since Kin was off talking to Kyouya, but I was also really happy that Kin was making more friends, she is slightly anti-social. Suddenly Three girls on top of a large rock formation shouted,

"Hey Haruhi, Kitty! This breeze feels great!" I felt like it was unsafe for those girls to be up there at that height. It seems that Haruhi felt the same way I did.

"It's dangerous up there." It was then that Haruhi and I saw two guys up there bothering those girls. We raced up there, I was actually surprised that Haruhi hadn't told me to go get the others. When we reached the top Haruhi threw the sharp bucket of shellfish and such at one of the guys, making him scream out in pain.

"Would you go away now? They don't want you." As Haruhi spoke, I stood next to her, glaring at the guys, they both seemed slightly intimidated by me, but not much due to my short nature. It was times like this that I hated being so short.

"Haruhi…" One of the girls spoke, couldn't they be more useful and go get the other hosts.

"Why, you little kids…" I noticed that one of the girls had moved to where she could get out of here.

"Miss, please go get the other hosts." She nodded her head and went running off. Somehow the guy had gotten Haruhi and I with our backs to the cliffs, I wasn't sure how. He grabbed Haruhi by the neck of her shirt and said,

"What's with these spindly arms?" I glared at the guy, more venomously then I had been.

"Leave Haruhi alone you big jerk!" He just glanced at me for a moment, before turning his attention back to Haruhi. The other guy holding the girls then said,

"Don't go trying to act tough when you're such a sissy boy!" I turned my glare to that guy, I noticed that he visibly flinch. Normally that would have pleased me, but right now I was just to pissed off to care.

"You should let them go before I make you!" I shouted over at the guy. He didn't react, just listened to his friend say,

"Kid, you should just go swimming in the ocean…" Right as the guy threw Haruhi over the edge, Tamaki showed up shouting,

"Haruhi!" I was going to reach out to grab Haruhi, but the guy that threw her over the edge grabbed me before I could.

"Don't want a pretty little girl like you going to waste." I shivered, I knew that I looked a lot like a kid…this guy must also be a pedophile! I was just glad that Tamaki jumped over the edge to save Haruhi, I knew that by the time I would have beaten these guys up Haruhi would have already drown, or had been severely injured. I dropped Neko-chan to the ground. I then used my agility to move out of the guys grasp, and hit him back, far away from me. I glared over at the other guy, I was about to go beat him up, and possibly put him into the hospital, when Kin's hand came down on my shoulder. She knew I didn't like to hurt others and would regret it if I hurt them to badly. I quickly calmed down because Kin was around; I then picked up Neko-chan, and walked away. If I even so much as glanced at those two idiots again I knew that my anger would flare up again, and I wouldn't be able to control it this time. As we left I noticed that the twins were beating up those idiot boys, something that made me happier. When Kin and I reached the beach, Tamaki was coming out of the water, holding Haruhi in his arms.

"Haru-chan!"

"Boss!" I just glanced down, I regretted not trying to help Haruhi more, though I knew that it wouldn't have ended much better if I had stepped in. Kin, noticing my regret, placed her hand on my shoulder and whispered, making it so none of the host could hear her,

"You did the right thing Ellie, it would have been worse if you'd hurt those two boys." I glanced up at her, feeling slightly less guilty. Tamaki then asked,

"Where are they?" Kyouya, the ever calm person he was, answered Tamaki,

"We've kept their ID cards, and respectfully asked them to leave. The girls went back to the hotel. I've called a doctor, who should be here shortly."

"Thank you." Tamaki then slowly placed Haruhi on the ground.

"I'm all right. I don't need a doctor." Haruhi…you don't even realize how much you worried all of us, do you?

"Kitty why didn't you try to help Haruhi sooner!" I just turned my head to the ground even more; naturally I get blamed for that. I guess I would get the blame no matter what. I felt a small, unnoticed tear fall from my eye. I already felt bad enough without Tamaki blaming me.

"Tamaki! Stop it. Can't you tell how bad Katherine feels! To tell you the truth, she did the right thing. Ellie is a very strong girl, and she can't control her own strength very well. When she gets angry any control she has slips away. If she had beaten up those boys then there is the possibility that they would be in critical condition for months. Haven't you seen that dent in the school wall? The place where she accidentally slammed that boy that you helped, Sora, into the wall, the dent was made because she was so angry with him! She didn't even plane or mean to hit him against the wall. No less make a dent in that wall." The hosts all glanced at me in shock, something that made me uncomfortable. That was the reason I tried not to get angry, I either couldn't control my strength, or I fell asleep. Kin just grabbed my hand, pulling me away from the hosts. We still heard the conversation that they had, but it got them to move on from my strength, and away from the angry outburst Kin just had. It always amazed me how fast the hosts moved on.

"Are you one of those? Actually a martial arts master, like Hone-senpai? How could you think that you, a girl, with only little Kitty to help you, could do anything against those boys!" Did he forget about the whole speech about my strength that Kin just gave?

"It had nothing to do with being a boy or a girl. I was just there, and didn't have time to think about anything like-" Tamaki then interrupted Haruhi saying,

"Well think about it, you idiot! You are a girl!"

"I will apologize for making you come after me, but I cant understand any other reason why you'd be mad at me. I haven't done anything wrong."

"You haven't, huh? Then you go right ahead. I'm not speaking to you again until you admit you were wrong!" With that said Tamaki stomped over to where Kin and I where standing. We all then went to Kyouya's family's beach mansion.