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"Haruhiiiiii! Hurry uuuuuup! We wanna go Christmas tree shopping!" Loud bangs and yells were heard from the other side of Haruhi's bedroom door causing Haruhi to shake her head in annoyance. She couldn't be sure of whose it was since it was a mesh of many of different voices.
"I'm coming!" Haruhi sighed, shaking her head and zipping up her jacket. Picking up her (designer) scarf (a gift given to her courtesy of the Hitachiin twins) and tying it around her neck while also taking a moment to put on a tuque she had been given as a souvenir from Kyoto by the Class Rep, she took a deep breath, bracing herself for the long day ahead of her.
"Alright," Haruhi opened the door only to come face to face with the grinning faces of all her friends. They were beaming so much Haruhi had to take a step back and blink a few times.
"Guys, relax. It's only Christmas tree shopping. It's not a big deal. Rich kids don't have Christmas trees?"
"Of course we do!" Tamaki yelled
"Well, we do but the butlers usually buy the trees and the maids decorate them." Hikaru said, shrugging. The others-excluding Mei-all nodded in agreement.
"Figures," Haruhi mumbled. Suddenly, she felt a presence standing next to her, looking over at the students of Ouran in an imposing fashion.
"Ok, here are some ground rules!" Haruhi looked up to see Mei.
"We're going Christmas tree shopping! Tree shopping! So don't make such a big deal of it! And absolutely no use of the words 'shabby' and 'run-down'! Got it?" Mei said, pointing a threatening finger at them.
The others looked around, purposefully not looking Mei in the eye and mumbling an incoherent response.
"Hey! I said 'got it'?"
"Yeah..." They all mumbled. Haruhi smiled and chuckled silently at their stupidity.
"Okay, now that we've got that settled, let's go." Mei said. The others nodded eagerly, not saying anything however for fear of angering Mei. They turned around and started heading out of Haruhi's apartment and towards the elevator, leaving Haruhi and Mei alone for a few moments.
Sighing and blowing a strand of stray out of her face, Mei smiled and turned to Haruhi.
"This is gonna be fun," Mei said, now excited about the power she held over the students of Ouran. Haruhi laughed and nodded and the two left the apartment and headed in the directions of the rich bastards.
As they waited in the elevator, Haruhi toyed around with two objects in her pocket, making sure they were still there.
"You two doppelgangers, stop!" Tamaki yelled. Haruhi gripped the two objects thankfully. Two bottles of five-hour energy drinks were definitely what she and Mei needed to get through this day.
She would save them until it was absolutely necessary to their survival to drink them, which, she guessed wasn't going to be very long.
Gathering into several cars, they all drove off, heading over to the small location where they sold Christmas trees near the mall.
As they approached and they could finally see the trees, all-excluding Mei and Haruhi-planted their faces against the glass in amazement. It really wasn't anything special, just a simple shack where the owners would sit and receive their money, surrounded by many trees of different sizes. To the rich, however, it was a once in a lifetime opportunity to be at a 'commoner Christmas tree store'.
As the cars pulled up in front, they wasted no time in jumping out and racing towards the tree of their choice. Though, between the seven hosts there were five apartments, they had made the decision that the largest and most wonderful tree would be placed in Haruhi's apartment due to the fact that they would be there most of the time. They would also purchase four smaller trees for the apartments of Tamaki, Kyouya, Hikaru and Kaoru as well as Hunny and Mori. Now, as a specific rule of the building, they weren't supposed to have trees inside, especially not large ones, however, whoever said money couldn't buy everything clearly had never had the chance to meet the students of Ouran academy.
"Oh! Haruhi-kun! Look at this one!" Haruhi turned to see Renge jumping in excitement and grabbing on to a branch of one of the largest trees in the lot, causing a few pine needles to fall.
"I think we should get this one!"
"Um...Renge-chan, that tree is taller than the ceiling in my apartment, it wouldn't fit." Haruhi shook her head, "And besides, we're already abusing the rules by having live Christmas trees indoors, let's not push it." Renge pouted but nodded in understanding and went off to find another, hopefully much smaller, tree.
"Haruhi, how about his one?" Kaoru and Hikaru yelled in perfect unison. Haruhi turned around and noticed them both holding on to opposite branches of the same tree. Haruhi furrowed her eyebrows and took a step forward; wincing to see if what she was really seeing was true.
"Um...you guys, that tree is dead!" Haruhi yelled over. The twins turned to each other then back at Haruhi.
"So?" They asked
"Don't you want a live one?" She asked.
They shrugged, "But this way, we can decorate it really scarily and scare tono and the Class Rep." Haruhi sighed and shook her head at the twins' antics.
"No." She said simply before turning around again, looking to see if anyone had found a tree worth purchasing. She only heard the soft grumbling of the twins before smirking and walking towards Hunny and Mori.
"Look Haru-chan! Isn't it cute?" Hunny asked, gripping his no more than four-foot tree. Haruhi laughed and nodded.
"Sure, why don't you buy that one and put it in your room Hunny-senpai. That way you can have a tree all to yourself." Hunny's expression brightened even more.
"Really?"
Haruhi shrugged, "Well, sure. It's your money. You can do what you want with it."
"Actually," Kyouya interrupted, walking over to the four. "The money we are using to purchase these trees, as well as all the miscellaneous items we are buying, is all coming from the profit we made off of the Host Club Goes Abroad blog." Haruhi raised an eyebrow.
"How do you make money off of a blog?" She asked
"We sell pictures of the seven of us here in America as well as some American souvenirs that we have shipped back over to Japan. Of course, shipping is also a fee. We still need to make a profit, even if we're no longer at home." The three friends shook their heads at the accountant of the group.
"Kyou-chan, its Christmas. Can't you just relax and stop worrying about money for a while."
"Now now Hunny-senpai. If we have no money, then we can't afford any cakes or sweets." Kyouya said, smirking slyly into his black notebook.
Hunny gasped dramatically, his eyes widening in horror.
"N-No cake...?" He asked worriedly.
Kyouya chuckled, "Only if we charge people. We need to earn enough money to pay for the cakes." Hunny nodded, his choice of side in this argument obvious.
"Kyou-chan! Make sure to keep selling things online so we can have more money for cake!" Kyouya chuckled, almost maniacally.
"Of course, Hunny-senpai," Mori and Haruhi eyed Kyouya, partly in amusement and partly in annoyance due to the fact that he was more or less bribing Hunny. Kyouya always had a strange evil glint in his eye when he was talking about money. Mori and Haruhi couldn't really tell if it was even legal to be that calculative but decided not to ask. Kyouya was one of their best friends but still...it wasn't smart to mess around with a man that basically controlled all the finances of the club, in a way, all the hospitals nearby and the ability to destroy you financially, which in Haruhi's case, was not something to take lightly, considering he also held responsibility over her debt.
"Haruhiiiiii!" Haruhi turned around only to come face to face with Tamaki.
"Come with me!" He exclaimed, grabbing her hand and running towards a group of trees, dragging her along with him.
"Senpai!"Haruhi yelled, getting hit in the face by some branches.
"Look!" Tamaki cried, pointing excitedly at a lush green Christmas tree.
Haruhi came to an abrupt stop, almost smashing into Tamaki's back. She looked up to where Tamaki was pointing and slowly, a small smile crept up to her face.
"What do you think?" Tamaki asked, hopefully. Haruhi gripped his hand a little tighter and smiled, nodding in approval. It wasn't anything special but the look of happiness on his face was enough to sell her on the tree.
"Perfect," She replied
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