Japanese Vacation

Chapter 27 –

Preparations part 2

Soon after dark Kyouya returned to the house and walked in.

"Oohtori Kyouya!" He heard his father's harsh voice as the man stormed into the entrance.

"Yes father?" he asked, turning to the man with a cool and blank expression

"I want him out!"

"Father, what happened?" Kyouya tried not to roll his eyes as he listened to the older man rant.

"Nothing happened I just want him out. This is my house and you never once asked about having a foreigner stay with us!" The older man seemed to be fuming for a moment.

"My apologies father I jus-" He was interrupted by a load crack as his head was turned to one side and his glasses flew off.

"You weren't thinking. Either he's out of this house by tonight or you are disinherited." With that the man stormed off leaving Kyouya to stand in his wake and kneel down to retrieve his glasses, a hand resting on his cheek.

"He shouldn't have done that," Harry said, his voice soft, but filled with anger, surprising Kyouya as the older teen turned to face his guest. When he turned back to Kyouya, the older teen could see just how angry he was, as it shined in his eyes

Kyouya only shook his head. "It's nothing. Though I think we will have to call Hikaru and Kaoru, I only hope it's not too late to call." He easily reached into his pocket and took out his phone. "Do you have any objections to staying with them?"

Harry shook his head. "No," Harry said, his eyes once more turning in the direction Kyouya's father had gone. He hadn't even met the man, and already he hated him about as much as he hated his Uncle.

Kyouya nodded dialing the buttons.

"Kaoru. It would seem that Potter-san will have to move in with you."

"What happened?"

"Things just aren't working with father. Do you think you two can pick him up tonight?"

"Yeah we'll get ready and head over right now. Ja."

"Ja." He hung up the phone and looked at Harry, his cheek a bit swollen and red. "They'll be here to pick you up soon."

Harry nodded, then bit his lip a little. "Follow me," he said jerking his head back up the stairs before turning and moving up them.

Kyouya raised an eyebrow before following the younger boy.

When they made it to his room, Harry immediately went to his trunk and opened it. He spent a moment riffling through it before pulling out a small pouch. He set it on the trunk lid, unrolled it, and pulled out a small vial, holding it out to Kyouya.

"It's a minor healing potion. It should take care of your cheek."

Then he winced slightly, his free hand rising to his scar.

Kyouya, not noticing Harry wince, took the vial. "Are you sure?" After a moment he nodded and took the potion, coughing a bit at the harsh burning down his throat.

"Sorry, forgot to mention the taste," Harry said, forcing his hand down as he rolled back up the pouch. "And, don't worry, I usually have a few extras. You never know when it might be needed.

He took the vial back, corked it, and carefully placed it in the trunk. Shutting the lid, he hid another wince.

After a while Kyouya began to walk towards the door. "The twins should be here soon, would you like help getting your trunk down?"

Harry shook his head, casting a feather light charm on the trunk. "No, I got it. Um . . ." He hated to bring it up, but he had a feeling that Kyouya would make him go even if the tux wasn't worn. "What about the tux?"

"Take it with you, it's yours after all." Kyouya began to walk out heading to his room.

Soon there was a knock on the door and one of the butlers opened it. "It's for you Potter-san." A maid said as she bowed leaving the doorway.

Harry grabbed the tux and his trunk and made his way back downstairs.

Down stairs the twins smiled and waved. "Hey Harry-neko." They both smiled and opened the door.

"Hey, sorry about the short notice," He glanced behind him once before following them out.

The two shook their heads opening the trunk. "Don't worry about it."

"We had a feeling things weren't going to work out there."

"We even still have a bedroom ready for you." Kaoru smiled.

Harry smiled back, hefting the light trunk into the trunk of the limo. He sighed slightly, looking back at the house; he felt bad for getting Kyouya in trouble, even though it wasn't his fault the older teen was. He laid the tux in there as well, then stepped aside, wincing as another shot of pain shot through his scar. Damn, tonight was going to be bad.

Hikaru closed the trunk and smiled at Harry, his smile faltering when he saw Harry flinch. "You ok Harry-neko?" The two lead him to the limo, letting him slide in before going around to the other side and getting in themselves, signaling their driver to head home.

Harry nodded, settling back into the seat. "Yeah, just a headache. I get them sometimes." He smiled slightly, before it faltered and his hand rose to his scar once more.

Voldemort was pissed. Tonight was going to be very bad

"Ok." They looked at each other for a moment then decided to let it slide for now.

Harry was silent the rest of the trip, forcing his hand to stay in his lap as well. There was nothing they could do, so it was pointless to worry them

Soon they came to the twins' house and they leaned over to Harry. "You might want to undo the charm on your trunk. One of the butlers can take it up to you room." They both nodded as they stepped out of the car.

Harry nodded, stepping out of the car as well, slipping out his wand as well. He quickly cast the spell on the trunk when the trunk of the car was opened, and nodded to the twins, letting them know that it was done, and safe.

He really didn't want more people to find out.

The twins called to one man who quickly got another to help him and they both haled the trunk up to Harry's new room. "Well right this way, Harry-neko."

The two walked through the front doors leading into a large entrance room. They made their way up to the wing of the house where they're room was. "Your room is right down the hall, three doors down on your left."

"This one here is ours."

"If you ever need us."

Harry nodded. "Right, Three doors down on the left it mine, this one's yours." He nodded again. "Well, goodnight," he tossed them a smile, and moved down the hall to his new room.

Including the Dursley's, the Weasley's', and Hogwarts, this made the sixth new bed he'd slept in, in less than two months.

The two raised an eyebrow and shrugged going into their own room and getting ready for bed, clasping each others hands as they drifted off to sleep.

Harry paused long enough to make sure that the trunk was in his room, and that no one was there before casting a silencing charm on his room before heading to the bed, not even bothering to change. The sooner he slept, the sooner he would wake up, and it would all be over.

Screams.

That was the first thing Harry heard.

Pain.

That was the first thing that Harry felt.

It rushed over him, and he couldn't help but scream as well. Finally, after an eternity, it ended.

"Why do you not have it?" Voldemort demanded.

Have what? Harry wondered, looking from Voldemort to the cringing Death Eater.

"It is heavily guarded, milord," the death eater said, his voice sounding familiar. Harry figured that he was one of the ones at the graveyard only months before.

Voldemort stood from his throne-like seat, stalking closer to the cowering male. "And you are so incompetent that you could not find a way around them? Crucio"

Pain rushed over Harry once again.

"Th-they seemed to have thought of everything, milord. Nothing we thought of could get around them, not without them realizing we were there."

"Excuses!" Voldemort exclaimed. "I do not want your excuses, I want results! Crucio"

That morning, Harry jerked up in his bed, his hand immediately flying to his scar. It came away a moment later when he realized it was sticky. Blood. He cursed softly, reaching for his wand.

Silently, he slipped from his bed and cast a cleaning charm on the bed. He didn't want to scare the maids, as hard as it was to think about them. Then he raised the back of his hand to his forehead and wiped away the excess blood. He went to wipe it on his trousers, but stopped, realizing that that wouldn't help. He sighed, glancing around for something to clean himself with.

"Harry-neko?"

Startled, Harry moved on instinct, turning to face the door, before instantly turning away again.

"Morning," he called., hoping they hadn't seen anything. "I'll be out soon."

"Harry-neko, are you alright?" Kaour asked, voice soft and concerned as he stepped over to the shorter boy and set his hand on his shoulder.

"I'm fine." Harry told them, turning toward his trunk. "I'll be done soon."

Perhaps he could find something in there to wipe away the blood. Unfortunately Harry forgot about the hand he'd already used to wipe some of it; the hand that was still facing the twins.

Hikaru stepped forward and quickly grabbed Harry's hand. "You're bleeding!"

Harry tensed. "No I'm not." He said pulling on his hand, still careful not to face them. It was just what he needed was for them to see it.

Hikaru grumbled and tugged on Harry's arm. "If you're not bleeding then why is there blood on your hand?" Both looked at Harry not knowing quite what to do.

Harry pulled on his arm again, biting back a growl when he couldn't get free. "It's dry." He told them. "It's nothing."

After a moment Hikaru only tugged harder, turning Harry around to face him. As soon as he saw the blood on Harry's forehead he moved a bit of Harry's hair. "What happened?"

Harry moved back. "It's nothing." He repeated. "It just happens sometimes." Okay, so this was the first time it had happened, but that would only worry them more.

Hikaru let go of Harry's wrist looking him in the eyes. "Your scar is bleeding, that happens sometimes?" He looked as though he did not believe him. Meanwhile, Kaoru simply watched the two.

Harry rolled his eyes, quickly becoming annoyed. "Whether or not you believe it or not does not change the truth." It was just his luck that it wasn't "Now if you don't mind, I'd clean up and change into a fresh uniform."

Hikaru gave Harry a look before turning and leaving the room. Kaoru went to leave as well before turning. "As long as you're ok, Harry-neko." He gave him a small smile before moving and closing the door behind him.

Harry sighed, really, could his luck get any worse? It took him a total of ten minutes to clean up the blood, and change. When he left his room, there was absolutely nothing left that would tell anyone that his scar had been bleeding. In fact, the only thing that let anyone know that it was even irritated was the fact that it was a little red. Though Harry's bangs hid most of it.

"Ready whenever you are," Harry said when he found the twins.

The two looked up from where they were sitting in the front room and stood. "Well let's get going." Hikaru turned and walked out ahead leaving Kaoru to sigh and shake his head.

"He'll get over it." He gave Harry a small wink before walking out of the room.

Harry raised one hand to rub his eyes. Great, he had one of them angry with him. That was just what he needed. With a small sigh, he followed the two out of the house. This was a wonderful beginning to a day that promised to be fantastic! Note his sarcasm.

Hikaru was silent the entire way to school, staring out the window for most of it before Kaoru turned to him.

"Stop being such a brat. If he doesn't want to tell us he doesn't have to." His eyes were harsh but he looked more like he was pouting then glaring.

Hikaru looked over and could hardly hold in a chuckle at his brother expression.

Harry was not sure whether to be happy that Kaoru sided with him, or upset that they believed, rightfully, that he was hiding something from them. He decided to simply shake his head silently and look out the window. If Hikaru wanted to continue to give him the silent treatment, well, he'd had lots of practice with Ron.

Kaoru continued with his pout/glare until Hikaru finally nodded.

"Yeah I guess your right." He turned to Harry. "Sorry Harry-neko."

Harry turned to Hikaru, surprised. He blinked once before smiling slightly. All right, so maybe he wouldn't be getting the silent treatment.

"It's alright," he said.

Kaoru looked between the two and simply smiled, and looked out the window with a small sigh.

Hermione hesitated before leaving her room the next morning. Their next meeting was bound to be a little awkward. She took a steadying breath, and left. She was a Gryffindor after all.

Nekozawa had just stepped out of his own room when he saw Hermione, part of him wanted more then ever to dart back into the confines of his safe dark room. Instead he stepped forward giving her a small bow. "Good morning Granger-chan."

Hermione smiled slightly, closing the door behind her. "Good morning, Nekozawa-san. Did you sleep well?"

Nekozawa nodded. "I was about to ask you the same." He led the way down the stairs, grabbing a bit of toast from a tray that the maid held at the bottom of the stairs.

"Have a good day at school Nekozawa-sama, Granger-sama." The maid smiled offering the plate to Hermione.

"Thank you," Hermione told the maid as she took a slice of toast as well. "I slept well. Oh, How are you doing with the books? I'm not sure I asked before."

Nekozawa nodded. "They've been very interesting, I don't quite have it yet…but I'm working on it. I got a flare to grow by about two inches before the window slammed open and blew out the flame." He sighed with a smile.

Hermione quickly smothered a smile, bowing her head slightly. "Well, that's faster than others have been able to get."

Nekozawa only shrugged as he held open the car door for Hermione, just like every other morning.

Hermione sent him her usual smile and entered the car. So, maybe she'd been wrong, but of all the things to be wrong about, she was glad it was this.

"So . . . do you ever attend the dances?"

Nekozawa shifted as he sat down. "I don't normally, though I might."

Hermione nodded silently.

-2-A-

The bell had no sooner rung, signally the start of class, than every desk had a mini explosion of pink powder over its occupant. When the dust settled, it clung to the students and the teacher, turning them a bright pink. Fred and George hid their smirks.

Tamaki looked form his own, now pink, skin to Kyouya, who had not been in the best of moods that morning. Then, after a while, he looked at the Weasley twins and shook his head.

Kyouya glared at the two redheaded wizards.

After their smirks disappeared, they looked as innocent as their pink skin would allow.

The rest of the class was abuzz, wondering who could have had the resources to do this.

-1-A -

Haruhi yawned, laying her head on the desk. She was not looking forward to the dance.

"Don't fall asleep," Draco told her. "The day's only beginning."

Turning her head slightly Haruhi looked at her blond companion. "Ha, ha, ha…." Her voice seemed to drip with sarcasm.

Draco smirked. "It would seem that I'm rubbing off on you."

Haruhi rolled her eyes a bit laughing.

Hermione was silent as she looked between Harry and the twins. Something was wrong.

Harry felt a little uncomfortable sitting between the twins, and he was sure it had to do with the fact that they'd seen him bleeding.

Suddenly, without warning, Hikaru's head met the desk. "Damn it."

Harry jumped. "What?"

"We forgot the lunches," he grumbled a bit.

"Looks like we'll be eating in the cafeteria today," Kaoru shrugged.

Harry blinked. "There's a cafeteria?"

Kaoru looked at Harry and nodded with a smile while Hikaru continued to bang his head on the desk for a moment.

Harry blinked. "So . . . why didn't you tell us that when we forgot our lunches?"

Hikaru looked at Harry after a moment. "We forgot and thought it'd be better then walking down there…" He shrugged after turning to look at the board.

Harry nodded once, then shrugged, returning to his own notes.

Kyouya had both the Weasley twins by the arm as he stormed to class 1-A at lunch, fuming at the mouth, still completely pink.

"Now Kyouya-kun calm down…"

"Shut it Tamaki."

The twins yelped a little when Kyouya grabbed them and, seeing how angry he looked, were kind of regretting their choice in pranking the younger teen.

Harry stood when the bell for lunch rang, but wasn't able to leave the class before Kyouya entered, pink, with an equally pink Fred and George by the arm. He gaped slightly, not quite sure what had happened. Behind him, Hermione gasped.

Draco glanced up as the door opened and gaped.

Kyouya almost shoved the two in front of Harry, glaring as he did. "These two…" He took a deep breath. "Do something about them."

Tamaki stood behind Kyouya not quite knowing what to say.

At Kyouya's voice, Haruhi finally looked up, and had to stop herself from laughing.

Harry blinked a moment, before realization hit. In an instant, he turned from amusedly confused, to furious. "Follow me,"
he growled, storming from the room.

Hermione, having figured it out as soon as the twins had entered, glared at them and followed Harry.

Fred and George scooted around Kyouya and trailed after Harry, knowing he'd see the funny in it after a while.

Draco, unable to help himself, stood and followed them out, turning an inquiring eye at Haruhi as he went. After all, it wasn't everyday that one got to see the Twins cowed. Smiling, Haruhi quickly stood and followed Draco as Kyouya made a sharp turn on his heel. Hikaru, Kaoru, and Tamaki scrambled to keep up.

Harry lead them all to the classroom that they had used when discussing what to do with the Ouran students. As soon as everyone was inside, Hermione snapped the door closed and sent up silencing and locking charms.

"What the hell do you think you were doing!" Harry snapped.

Fred shrugged. "It was just a prank."

"I specifically told you that nothing you bought was to be used at the school, did I not!"

"But we were bored," George said.

"And no one can trace it back to us."

"We don't need to take that risk," Harry growled.

"Lighten up, Harry," Fred.

"Shut up!"

Surprisingly, both twins quieted.

"If you cannot keep your pranks out of the school, I will confiscate everything,"

"Harry!"

"You wouldn't!"

Harry's mouth was set in a firm line. "We cannot afford any others learning about us," Harry told them. "Every prank you pull that is magical in nature bring everyone one step closer to finding that out!"

"It was just a prank, Harry," Fred said.

"And if Snape was here, you'd already be back at Hogwarts," Hermione snapped.

Fred cringed.

"I don't want to tell Dumbledore," Harry told them, "but I will if you do it again."

Fred and George looked down.

"And change them back."

The twins looked at eachother.

"We can't."

"Why not?" Hermione demanded.

"We left the nullifier back at the house," George said.

"It'll wear off in another hour or so, though."

Kyouya continued to glare at the twins while they spoke, until visibly paling under the pink color.

Kaoru and Hikaru looked at each other then to the twins giving them small thumbs up from behind Harry.

Meanwhile Haruhi only sighed and shook her head looking to Draco.

Tamaki looked around the room then at the Weasley twins. "You mean we're stuck like this till almost after school?"

Fred shrugged. "George was in charge of bringing it."

"At least you . . . we'll only be in class for most of that. You'll be back to your normal coloring before your dance."

Harry sighed, one of his hands rising to pinch the bridge of his nose.

Kyouya shook his head, before turning and heading out the door. "You better hope this stuff wears off before the dance."

Tamaki quickly moved to follow Kyouya out giving the others a wave.

Fred and George rolled their eyes as they followed the other two out. "Of course it's going to wear off. You don't think we want to go to the dance pink, do you?"

Harry sighed. "I cannot believe those two," he said.

Hermione shrugged. "I guess we should have expected it sooner or later."

Haruhi shook her head as she walked out.

Hikaru and Kaoru walked over to Harry looping their arms with his. "Well, off to the cafeteria then." They smiled down at the shorter boy.

Harry sighed slightly. "I'm really not hungry," Harry said.

Hermione frowned. "What did you eat for breakfast."

Harry blinked at her. "Nothing."

"Then you're eating lunch."

"But, Mione-"

"You're eating, even if Hikaru and Kaoru-kun have to force feed you,"

Harry blinked, wide eyed.

Draco snickered.

Hikaru looked at Hermione and smiled. "Good idea Hermione-chan." He laughed a bit as they walked out to the cafeteria.

Haruhi stopped, waiting for the others and smiling when she heard Hermione's comment.

"No it's not," Harry protested. "I can feed myself just fine!"

Hermione laughed lightly as she made her way back to the classroom, where she'd left her lunch.

"They're good for him, I think," Hermione told Haruhi. "They'll get him to open up more."

Haruhi nodded. "And maybe he can calm them down a bit." She went to her desk grabbing her lunch. "So should we join them?" Her question was directed at both Draco and Hermione.

Hermione nodded. "It would be nice to know where the cafeteria is."

Draco shrugged. "I guess. Better than eating alone."

They both followed Haruhi out.

The twins got in line only to very soon get to where the food was. "The usual." They shrugged as they were given their food and waited for Harry.

"Uh . . . whatever they're having." Harry said, pointing at Hikaru and Kaoru. He really didn't know enough to make a decision as to what he would like. His only hope was that no one hand fed him.

After getting his food, he followed the twins to the table.

Haruhi smiled as they walked to the cafeteria, turning and sitting down just as the twins and Harry were getting there as well.

The twins sat down and began to eat; Kaoru taking a spoonful of his soup while Hikaru ate a bit of chicken with a fork.

Harry raised an eyebrow at Hermione as they sat. Then, very pointedly, he picked up his spoon and took some soup.

"See?" he said. "I'm eating."

Hermione gave a satisfied nod. "Good."

Draco rolled his eyes as he sat.

Haruhi laughed a bit as she unwrapped her bento box and opened it, the smell of barbecued pork, steamed rice, and steamed broccoli wafting out.

The twins laughed nodding.

Allanasha Ke Kiri: … . Um … I really have absolutely no excuse as to why we haven't updated except, I forgot … Sorry guys. I hope we still have a good number of you with us because we've started, attempting to write it more, so we can keep ahead of this. Heh .. anyway, yes, this chapters kind of a filler, but it was getting too long to also have the other bit in it … And I will have the next chapter out by …. Lets say next Wednesday. That is a promise I will definitely keep.

Also, yes, I'm well aware there are many mistakes in this chapter .. mostly grammatical, but I figured you'd want it now. I'll probably come back at some point at fix it ... but I'm feeling too lazy at the moment.