"Haru-chan, Haru-chan aren't you excited Takashi and I are graduating at the end of next week." Hunny tells Haruhi excitedly in the clubroom two weeks after her date with Kyoya.
"Yes I know Congratulations Hunny-sempai, Mori-sempai." She smiles at the small senior and gives a small nod to Mori who was right behind Hunny.
She was cleaning the clubroom after business hours had ended for the day when she hears two familiar voices coming up behind her. "Ha-ru-hi."
"What do you two want this time?" she asks not even bothering to turn around.
"Mom said you looked so cute in her new clothing line that she wants you to come over again." They tell her.
"Is she kidding, your mother is really nice Hikaru, Kaoru, but come on I sucked." She complains
"You only stunk at the posing part of it, but she said you looked so adorable that it covered up your complete lack of coordination." They tell her.
"How dare you two make my daughter dress up like a doll." Tamaki yells coming over to where the three were talking.
"But boss you make Haruhi dress up all the time during the club." The twins argue
"Yes but it's where people can see her, who knows what kind of things you little devils are making her put on. Tell me the truth your bribing her with fancy tuna aren't you?" Tamaki yells.
This went on for a few minutes before Haruhi realizes there's a dark aura emitting from behind the four of them. "Not that I care about this petty argument, but Haruhi I need to speak to you alone when you are done cleaning up." Kyoya calls from his seat using his coldest voice, though Haruhi knew it was fake.
"Yes Sempai," she tells him not even turning around and pretending to be just as affected from his voice as the rest of the room. The three in front of her immediately shutting up.
"What did you do to anger the Shadow King Haruhi?' the twins ask nervously.
"Who knows?" she shrugs
"Mother don't be too hard on our daughter I'm sure whatever she did it was the devil twins fault." Tamaki tells his friend, his voice shaky and earning protests from the twins.
'Idiot he acts like Kyoya is going to hurt me.' She thinks rolling her eyes.
As if reading her mind Kyoya looks up from his laptop and glares at Tamaki. "Idiot I just want to talk to her nothing more." This causes Tamaki to run back over to the twins and Haruhi.
"Uh, we suddenly have somewhere to be. See you tomorrow Haruhi." The twins say grabbing their things and running out of the room.
"I have a meeting I remember I have to get to. See you both tomorrow." Tamaki lies, also leaving the room in a hurry.
"Wasn't it just those three that told me they would protect me from anything and anyone? I guess you're the exception Kyoya-sempai." She laughs
"Those three can't go against me they know that. Oh and Haruhi, Hunny-sempai and Mori-sempai already left you can drop the sempai act now." Kyoya tells her closing his laptop.
"Oh I didn't realize they had left already, so what is it you need to tell me Kyoya?" she asks moving over to sit in the chair opposite of him.
"I've been thinking a lot about what you said to me Haruhi and I've decided…it's about time we at least tell our fathers, but I refuse to come clean to the others." He says calmly looking at her.
"Really?" she asks
"Yes, my father won't be home until the end of this week, but I think it's only natural we let your father know first." He tells her standing up and moving over to where she was seated to hover over her. "I figure the sooner the better, so what time does your father come home tonight love?"
"He gets off at six tonight, so he should be home around six-thirty and are you sure about this Kyoya?" she asks looking up at the uncertainty in his eyes.
"No, but it has to be done. When he gets home call me, unless he's really tired or drunk I don't want him thinking that we told him only when it was convenient for us." He says
"I understand and you don't have to dress up, after all my father likes you." She smiles tugging on his tie to pull him down closer to her.
"I wonder how much he'll like me after we drop this on him, after all with how long we've been dating most people might mistake us for being engaged." He laughs meeting her lips.
"Oh really I thought a year was when most people got engaged." She laughs between breaths.
"Not for the rich, our fathers usually choose who we will marry and less than a year later the two wed." he tells her breaking for only a moment then leaning in to kiss her again.
"Oh really? And how many engagements has your father made you consider?" she laughs pushing him back pretending to be mad.
"Three, and I turned them all down especially the one father suggested four months ago, after all I was already in a relationship with you at the time." He says helping her up out of the chair.
"I would hope so, I wouldn't have forgiven you if you broke it off with me to marry someone else your father wanted you to wed. You're better than that Kyoya, you know that right?" she asks looking up at him.
"I do now Haruhi, thanks to you." He smiles at her moving away from the chair to let her get up. "Do you want a ride home?" he asks watching her grab her things.
"No, there's no point in you coming over to my apartment twice, I'll see you later Kyoya you're still invited for dinner." She says glancing quickly at the clock and heading out the door. "I love you" she called back closing the doors behind her.
'There's probably a sale at the supermarket she wants to get to.' He chuckles grabbing his things and calling his driver. 'I love you too Haruhi, I'll see you later.'
"Welcome home dad." Haruhi calls from the kitchen to her dad who just came through the door.
"Oh Haruhi it's good to be home, what are you making?" he asks curiously poking his head in the kitchen.
"Curry, and if it's all right with you I invited Kyoya-sempai over to have dinner with us if he wanted to come over." She tells him waiting to see what her father's reaction would be.
"Oh yay Kyoya-kun might be coming over, but why only him Haruhi?" he asks curiously
"You're the one who promised him something, after asking him to take me out to eat two weeks ago." She reminded him thanking the heavens she had that excuse.
"Oh yea sorry Haruhi, daddy must've forgotten. I'm going to go take a shower." He tells her
"Dinner should be ready when you're done." She calls out to him, as he waves his arm to show her he had heard and walks into the bathroom.
When she hears the water running she grabs her phone and dials Kyoya's number, as expected he picks up after the first ring. "Haruhi?" she hears his voice.
"Yeah, it's me you can come on over he seems to be in a strangely good mood, after I told him you might be dropping by" She tells him.
"Are you surprised?"
No, I mean he loves you, though if it was Tamaki-Sempai…"
"Then he would be sent home in a garbage bag?"
"Exactly"
She hears him smirk then say, "I'll be right over I just left my house a few minutes ago."
"Okay I'll see you in a bit then and, we can do this right?" She asks nervously
"Everything will be fine Haruhi I'll see you in about fifteen minutes okay, don't worry about this too much love."
"Okay see you then, Bye." She says hanging up her phone and going back into the kitchen to finish dinner.
She was just setting dinner on the table when she hears the doorbell ring, "I'll get it dad." She yells hurrying over to the door already knowing who was waiting on the other side.
Opening the door she sees Kyoya in a pair of jeans and a loose black t-shirt smiling down at her. "Good evening Haruhi."
"Good evening Sempai, come on in. Can I get you some tea?" she asks
"That would be great thank you." He says closing the door behind him and sitting down at his usual seat as she hands him a cup of tea. Grabbing her arm he whispers "after dinner okay? Don't worry."
"Okay," she smiles kissing him quickly on the cheek before returning to the kitchen.
Ranka comes out of his room. "Haruhi who was that at the-oh hello Kyoya-kun it's great to see you again." He says happily running over to sit across from him.
"It's a pleasure to see you again too Ranka." Kyoya smiled as Haruhi came out of the kitchen and began serving dinner.
Dinner went well with Ranka doing most of the talking and Kyoya politely listening and providing his own views on a few subjects which Haruhi playfully argued with him. Reminding Kyoya once again just how good she would be to have around. Haruhi began to clean up when Ranka finally got serious. "All right you two what is this really about? As much as I love his company I can't see Kyoya just coming over here for dinner, whatever the reason may be."
"Yes, um dad Kyoya-sempai and I have something to tell you." Haruhi starts nervously sitting down next to Kyoya
"Which is what exactly?" Ranka asks angrily knowing Kyoya's father hadn't spoken to his son yet about his plans for the future.
"Your daughter and I have been secretly dating for a while now." Kyoya tells him with no sign of hesitation.
Ranka stares from Kyoya to his nervous daughter and begins to laugh, shocking the two in front of him. "Thank god with the way you two were acting I thought that idiot Tamaki had done something to my little Haruhi."
"As if I'd let him." Kyoya growls.
"You're already protective of her I see, that's a good sign." Ranka comments as Haruhi lets out a breath she didn't know she was holding in.
'I wonder if dad is still going to be laughing when he hears just how long we've been keeping this from him.' She thinks
"You haven't talked to your father yet have you?" Ranka asks curiously, only silence greets him. "I guess not, but out of all the hosts I'm glad it's you Kyoya-kun."
"Thank you sir." Kyoya tells him smiling at Haruhi who was still waiting for that dreaded question.
"Kyoya-kun there's no need to be so formal you can still call me Ranka. So when you say dating for a while, how long did you mean exactly?" he asks curiously.
'Damn, but we knew this was coming.' Kyoya thinks
"It'll be ten months at the start of next week." Haruhi answers before he could even open his mouth.
"Ten, ten months?" Ranka stuttered almost dropping the cup of tea he was holding, "How…when?" was all he managed to get out.
"Actually it stared out as a type of deal." Kyoya admits
"What kind of relationship begins with a type of deal?" Ranka asks
"It's easy when the said person has a debt to pay off." Haruhi says bluntly
"What you forced her?" he asks, now glaring at Kyoya who seemed unaffected knowing the truth was the truth and there was no way around that.
Dad relax, it was completely my decision. Kyoya gave me a choice and I accepted." She says trying to calm her father down.
"All right I want to know exactly what happened." Ranka says looking at the couple in front of him.
"Of course Ranka, everything started at my family's beach house in Okinawa. I had told the rest of the club, after I found them still in the kitchen that Tamaki and Haruhi were in my room hopefully making up after the fight they had earlier. When we went back to my room we found Tamaki placing earplugs and blindfolding Haruhi. The rest of the club began calling him all sorts of names and they had all left the room yelling at our king. I moved over to help Haruhi remove the blindfold and earplugs. She thanked me and bid good night until I asked her to stay for a moment."
Flashback
"Haruhi please wait a moment." Kyoya asks
"Is something wrong Kyoya-sempai?" she asks closing the door and turning to face him.
Nothing's wrong it's just that it seems, like the others I have taken a liking to you and I plan to move ahead of them if they don't plan to do anything about it. Haruhi will you go out with me?" he asks getting straight to the point.
"What?" she asks in complete shock "After what happened in here almost an hour ago? Like I said then Kyoya-sempai you don't get any benefit by going after me."
"I don't understand it either Haruhi, I've never been faced with a woman like you before so I don't know exactly what I'm doing. I'm not even sure my actions earlier to you were completely…pure." He confessed.
"I don't care about that, I still believe you played the villain to teach me a lesson not matter what you think or say, but you still get no benefit by dating me."
"Maybe I do and maybe I don't, but don't you thinks that's for me to find out?" he asks "Besides you could gain a lot what if I lower your debt the longer we stay together, who knows if we stay together a year your debt could be non-existent and you would be free of the host club."
"…your conditions?" she asked immediately regretting it as he gave her a shadow king smile.
"First, neither of us will tell anyone we are together. Second, we will act no differently during school hours and third, I will be the one to break it off, you will not be able to break up with me." He says.
"…Very well Kyoya I'll play along." She says dropping the honorific "was there anything else you needed?" she asks her hand still on the door.
"No that was all Haruhi." He states.
"Then if you don't mind I am exhausted and am going to bed, goodnight Kyoya." She yawns opening the door not realizing he had moved across the room.
"Goodnight Haruhi." He smiles leaning down to kiss her on the cheek and closes the door behind her. 'This could be interesting.' He thinks never believing she would have agreed so easily.
On the other side of the door Haruhi was thinking the same thing and blushing furiously.
End Flashback
"…I see, Kyoya-kun when you talked about your earlier actions towards her what did you mean by that?" Ranka asks
"I promise you Ranka nothing happened. I simply showed Haruhi why we were all worried about her." Kyoya assured him and watched as Haruhi blushed suddenly remembering exactly what had happened.
"Right, but what you are telling me here is that you two are dating in order to pay off my daughter's debt?" He asks
"Dad…I love Kyoya, my debt has been completely paid off as of almost three weeks ago. I'm here with Kyoya now because I want to be with him." Haruhi speaks up.
"After the festival Ranka the deal was broken, we are both together now because we want to be. I love your daughter and hope you can accept that." Kyoya says
"…of course I approve if you are able to make my little Haruhi happy I wish you the best of luck. I promise to keep your secret, though I would advise you to tell at least your father about this." He says smiling at the both of them.
"I plan to face him when he returns at the end of this week Ranka." Kyoya says
"Good." he states "Now I am exhausted Haruhi I'm going to bed I suggest you both do the same."
"Yes, I should be going too." Kyoya says standing up and calling his car.
"Oh I'll see you out." Haruhi said following him out the door.
'Looks like Ootori-san doesn't have to worry about my daughter's approval. I've never seen her like this she's completely in love Kotoko are you watching our daughter's growing up right before our eyes. I hate to admit it, but the host club, it seems is the best thing that ever happened to her.' He thinks going into his room and falling asleep almost immediately.
Outside, or rather at the bottom of the stairs Kyoya and Haruhi were shocked at how easy the confrontation with her father had gone. "I thought that was going to be a lot harder." Haruhi admits.
"I did too when we told your father about how it all started I was ready to get hit." Kyoya sighed "I was relieved when he just asked us questions."
"Speaking of, why did you have to hint about the incident that happened in your room. It really made dad suspicious." She tells him.
"The truth is the truth nothing can change that, besides he seemed to believe me when I told him nothing happened." He shrugs.
"True, but what is your father going to think when we tell him?" she asks
"I'll just change the story a bit, or tell him when I think he can take it in the right way." He says "Oh, and I'm sorry Haruhi, but I would really rather tell my father on my own I don't want you getting hurt."
"I don't want you getting hurt either though." She argues remembering at the festival when his father had slapped him.
"I can handle it. I don't want you anywhere near my father when I tell him I still don't know if he's mad at you for standing up for me at the festival." He states.
"Then I'll stay in the car, please Kyoya at least let me be there for you even if it's not by your side." She asks
"…All right, but you will stay in the car with Tachibana." He says the thought of her at least in the area when he tells his father comforting.
"Okay," She agrees smiling up at him
"he'll be home on Thursday, after club hours I'll tell you I need to speak to you and when everyone leaves we'll head over to my house." He tells her, as his car pulls up to the curb.
"Okay," she says reaching up to kiss him on the cheek. "Good night Kyoya."
"Good night Haruhi I'll see you tomorrow." He smiles leaning down to meet her lips with his.
The kiss lasting only a few minutes before he waved and got in his car, 'So Thursday then huh?' she asks herself watching the black car drive away. 'I hope we're both ready to face him.' She sighs nervously and running back up the stairs to her apartment.
Author Notes
Wow it only took me four chapters to figure out how to do author notes sorry about that guys i'm really slow when it comes to these kinds of things. I hope you like the story so far and sorry the last few seem to jump around a lot. I originally wanted to start the story off here where they told her father, but I had the confession chapter done and laying on my desk so I couldn't help but post that first. The next one will be up soon and they finally tell his father uh-oh i'm only kidding you can already imagine how it's going to go thanks to the flashback in chapter 2 anyways I hope you like it so far and thank you so much for reading it.