Kyoya wakes up the next morning to a text message from Haruhi, "Hey I know you're not up yet, so here's a message from me to you to wake up and get ready for school today-Haruhi." 'Wake me up before my alarm goes off, that's very daring of you Haruhi' he laughs to himself getting out of bed. 'That's odd; usually I'm in a horrible mood in the morning wonder what's gotten into me.' He wonders staring at the text again 'no it couldn't be,' he shakes his head, before sending her a quick text and going into the bathroom to take an early shower.
When he gets out of the bathroom completely dressed and ready to go he hears his alarm go off. Yawning he walks over to his bed to shut it off and checks his phone to see another text from Haruhi "Good morning to you too and if you have some sort of revenge set for me for waking you up early, try to remember I'm not afraid of you-Haruhi." 'She really is the most daring girl I've ever met.' He laughs to himself as he hears a knock on the door.
"Master Kyoya it's time to get up," he hears a maid nervously open the door and look in only to see him fully dressed and looking like he had been up for a while. "You're awake," she blinks in complete surprise.
"As you can see my girlfriend beat you to it." he smirks holding up his phone, "Is breakfast ready downstairs?" he asks knowing he usually just has time to grab a piece of toast before running out the door.
"Yes sir and your father wishes to speak to you in the dining room before you leave." She bows.
"Let him know I'll be down in a moment." Kyoya replies grabbing his things.
"Yes sir," she bows again leaving the room, as he flips open his phone to make a quick call.
"Hotta, I want you to go pick up Haruhi and take her to school again today." He tells him planning to make Haruhi at least worry a little about waking him up too early, though he admits he could get used to getting wake up texts from her in the mornings if he was going to be in a better mood for it.
"He's already awake?" Yoshio asks downstairs taken aback slightly at what the maid just told him.
"Yes sir, he said he will be down in a moment." She informs him
"Did he tell you what suddenly got into him this morning?" Yuuichi asks beside his father.
"No sir, I simply walked in ready to wake him up, he just held up his phone, and told me his girlfriend beat me to the task." She tells him.
"Very interesting…you may go," Yoshio dismisses the woman.
"Yes sir," she bows, before leaving the room.
"So now she's waking him up in the morning, it's a wonder he hasn't killed her yet." Yuuichi laughs. Yoshio couldn't help but silently agree with his son, but if Haruhi was anything like his late wife Kyoya wouldn't dare try to do anything to her.
"Normally I would agree with you Yuuichi-niisan, but I'm afraid Haruhi isn't scared of me in the morning enough to care." Kyoya's voice comes from the door.
"Is that so, brave girl" Yuuichi mutters going back to his breakfast.
"Kyoya, why don't you sit down and eat with us?" Yoshio asks
"No thank you father I want to meet with Haruhi before classes start. Did you want to talk to me about something?" he asks grabbing a roll from the table.
"Yes, I want you and Haruhi-san to join your brothers and I for dinner tonight." He asks
"Are you sure, after what happened the other night?" Kyoya asks his father curiously.
"There was nothing wrong with what Haruhi-san said, I'm actually quite surprised it took her that long to finally say something," He tells his son.
"It took her seeing you twice to stand up to you and defend me father." Kyoya answers, Yuuichi almost drops his glass from shock. 'Oh, father must have not told them that Haruhi stood up to him at the fair, first he doesn't say anything to them about one of his company's being bought out by me, then he keeps this from them…interesting.' He notes
"Really, I didn't even realize she was in the room when I was there the first time." Yoshio smirks "ah well, she certainty stood out the second."
"Anyways father I will ask Haruhi to join us tonight, though if she refuses I can't force her to come." He points out.
"I wouldn't expect you Kyoya, though if you tell her it's for you I'm sure she'll come." He tells him with a voice that told Kyoya his father expected her to join them that evening.
"Yes father, I'll be going now." He bows then leaves the room. 'Father really does know too much about Haruhi' he sighs knowing what his father had said was true and if it was for him Haruhi would agree, no questions asked. 'I'm glad we waited to tell my father, or he would have had us running by his schedule these whole eleven months.' He thinks walking outside to his car where Tachibana was waiting.
"Good morning sir," he bows opening his door.
"Morning, to school." He orders getting into the car.
"Yes sir," he bows again closing his door, getting into the driver's seat, and driving off.
'Damn it Kyoya making me think you were waiting for me in the car, though I should have known when I saw it was only Hotta-san waiting for me.' Haruhi groans inwardly walking into her classroom, only to see a familiar Shadow King occupying her seat. "Kyoya, what are you doing in here?" she asks trying not to look nervous as she walks over to him.
"Well since you thought it would be funny to wake me up this morning. I thought it would be a good idea to see you before school actually began." He says getting up out of her seat.
"Oh yeah, where's the benefit in that?" she asks reaching him.
"Well I can do this before everyone gets here," he says leaning down to kiss her gently, "And I wanted to thank you." He states pulling back.
"For what exactly? I thought for sure you were going to be mad at me considering everyone says you are a demon when you get woken up early. You know in the eleven months we've been dating I've never once seen you get pissed off about being woken up, even when I would wake up with you." She tells him sitting down and pulling out her books. "I thought if I woke you up a different way I might get a type of reaction from you."
"So you wanted to test that theory?" he asks curiously hovering over her desk to stare down at her.
"Yeah I did, but it seems everyone is just overeating as usual." She sighs
"Not exactly you just have a different…effect on me in the morning." He says trying to explain it.
"Really, then I'm honored," she laughs "So, what are you really thanking me for Kyoya? I know you would never see me before class if it wasn't important."
"For exactly what I just said, you have a different effect on me in the morning and I wanted to thank you for being…well for being you and for being able to deal with me these eleven months." He states
"You know you could almost sound like you're breaking up with me." She says, but with humor in her voice.
"Far from it, I promise." He mutters leaning down to kiss her again.
"Could you please do me a favor then?" she asks pulling away an idea suddenly coming to mind.
"What is it?" he asks already thinking of a way to move this in his favor to fulfill his father's request.
"Could I borrow your phone for the day and give it back to you in the clubroom later?" she asks
"What, why on earth do you want my phone for the day?"
"It'll be a surprise for you, please?"
"…Fine, but you have to do something for me."
"Of course, anything Kyoya"
"Come to a type of family dinner tonight."
"A type of-?"
"It will only be my father, brothers, and me and you. It also isn't anything formal, so you can dress as you want."
"And if I accompany you tonight, you'll give me your phone along with the passwords to get into everything? I promise I won't change anything business related."
"Of course, you can trust me Haruhi, just as I know I can trust you with my phone."
"…Deal I'll go with you tonight Kyoya."
"Kiss to seal the agreement?" he asks pulling out his phone and placing it on her desk.
"Of course," she smiles standing up to kiss him. "I still need the passwords though," she mutters flipping his phone open.
"Yes, of course here," he says pulling out a small sheet of paper with four different set of numbers.
"The hell-did you already know I would ask for it eventually?" she asks curiously looking up to him.
"No, my phone changes it's password on its own every three hours, so these are the four different passwords used to get in." he explains.
"Why does your phone-? Ah never mind thank you." she smiles up at him
"You're still not going to tell me what you plan do with it are you?" he asks
"Nope," she laughs setting his phone down on her desk and looking up to the clock. "You know you should probably go Hikaru and Kaoru usually show up around this time."
"Yes, Tamaki usually does too." He mutters, "I just wanted to see you before classes started. I'll see you later in the clubroom, oh and if anyone asks why you have my phone-"
"I'll tell them I took it from you last night when you drove me home. It's the perfect excuse for you to have to see me after club hours, if you want me to go with you to your house after school." She says smiling at him.
"You-you're starting to think too much like me." He smirks
"One of the perks of dating someone for eleven months I suppose," she laughs "I'll see you later Kyoya."
"See you Haruhi," he waves leaving the room.
Not even a minute later the twins came through the door. "Ha-ru-hi" they sing, as she quickly hides Kyoya's phone under her books, not wanting them to see it just yet. "Did Kyoya-sempai come in here?"
"No, why?" she lies quickly.
"Well we just passed him in the hall-"Kaoru
"But he didn't seem pissed off like he usually does in the morning, he seemed-"Hikaru
"Almost happy, it scared us." They finish
"Are you sure he didn't just seem happy because he is plotting something?" she asks
"Naw, if he was plotting something he would have on the best poker face we've ever seen." They tell her "Anyways, Haruhi here are your notes back," Handing back her notebook.
"Oh thank you," she mutters moving some of her books, but forgetting that she still had Kyoya's phone hidden under them, before she could cover it up again Hikaru sees it and grabs it from her desk.
"This is Kyoya-sempai's phone isn't it? How the hell are you not dead yet, how did you end up with it?" he asks not even trying to look through it knowing Kyoya would have put some type of password on the thing.
"I kind of took it from him last night when he dropped me off." She admits nervously.
"That's why Kyoya seems different today; he knows you took it and plans to kill you later." Kaoru states as if figuring out a dreadful secret.
"Look, he pissed me off last night so I took his phone without really thinking." She lies, just now realizing how good at lying to others she had suddenly become.
"He's going to kill you," they warn as Hikaru hands her back his phone, afraid if he gets his smell on it then Kyoya would be after him too.
"He will not, he'll probably just add more to my debt." She tries convincing them, as their classmates begin to file in. 'looks like I won't have time until break to do what I want with his phone.' She thinks. The twins just shrug and sit down in their seats, as more students and finally their teacher walk in.
After school Haruhi was in a rather good mood after completing her task with Kyoya's phone earlier that day and shocked at just how much Kyoya took care of in his family's business. When she finally walks into the clubroom she is stunned to see the four other club members all wearing matching band t-shirts and jeans, and each holding, or in Kaoru's case sitting behind a drum set, an instrument which she had a feeling they all didn't know how to play.
"Ah Haruhi there you are, your outfit is in the back hurry and go change." Kyoya tells her.
"Yes Sempai, but you should know I don't know how to play anything." She tells him laughing inwardly at the thought of him actually knowing how to play the bass and heading to the supply room.
"We know that, that's why we're giving you the triangle to hold." The twins laugh.
'Great I bet Kyoya thought of that one' she rolls her eyes.
"Oh wait, before you go change Haruhi I want my phone back." Kyoya growls.
"Oh so you did know," she mutters digging through her bag and locating his phone, which she then pulls out and throws it to him.
"Of course I knew, did you think I wouldn't? I want to speak to you after club hours are finished Haruhi." He growls catching it and quickly flipping it open.
"Yes Sempai," she sighs, as the twins send her an 'I told you so' glance "If you think I actually managed to gain access to your phone Kyoya-sempai you better think again."
"I know you couldn't have possibly, now I think it best if you go and get ready for our guests Haruhi." He says slipping his phone in his pocket.
"Yeah, yeah" she mutters going into the back room to change.
"Kyoya-sempai, what did you say to Haruhi to make her mad enough to take your phone?" Hikaru asks playing a few random notes on his guitar.
"We were arguing and when I stated the facts she must've taken them to heart and got mad enough to take my phone like a child." He says simply.
"Mother and Daughter shouldn't fight and should just listen to daddy sing." Tamaki says waving his microphone around.
"Tamaki as I'm sure we all love to hear you sing, surely you realize mothers and daughters fight all the time." Kyoya sighs, as Haruhi walks out wearing a simple dark red t-shirt with 'Ouran Host Club' on the back, she wore black jeans, and was holding a musical triangle.
"Okay I have to ask, why we are wearing this?" she asks shaking her head in disbelief.
"Oh come on Haruhi doesn't every girl like to imagine being with a member of some band?" Tamaki asks running over to her and doing some ridiculous pose.
"Whatever," she sighs walking over to the others. "I am surprised though, I never expected you two to play different instruments." She tells the twins.
"Oh we don't," they shrug "But it'll be a great backstory for the guest to think that we do."
"Let me guess that was your ingenious plan?" she asks tilting her head to look at Kyoya.
"Of course Haruhi," he smirks.
"Something tells me you don't actually know how to play the bass." She asks, knowing if he did she probably would have known sooner.
"No, I don't the only instrument I do know how to play is the violin, frankly the only person who knows how to play anything currently in this room is Tamaki and that's only the piano." He says. "Now everyone get into your positions, our guests are about to arrive."
After what seemed like forever to Haruhi the guests were all finally being led out of the clubroom with Tamaki singing them a sweet goodbye song that he had apparently written himself. 'Idiot,' was all she could think to describe what she was seeing, as she starts to clean up the room.
"Haruhi, good luck we have to go." The twins tell her about ten minutes later sounding almost apologetic.
"I'll be fine guys, besides it's my own damn fault." She tells them as they give her a last sympathetic look and leave the room muttering something about 'a mourning clothes line.'
"Tamaki don't you have a meeting with your grandmother in less than an hour?" Kyoya asks the blonde not even looking up from his laptop.
"Kyoya just promise me you won't do anything to hurt our daughter." He asks nervously approaching Kyoya's table.
"Fine I promise not to hurt Haruhi, now will you please leave? I have a family dinner tonight that I don't wish to miss and I still need to speak to Haruhi." Kyoya asks icily.
"Of course I'll see you both tomorrow then, adieu." He waves leaving quickly.
"Well they left quicker than I thought they would." Haruhi notes putting the last cup back in the cupboard.
"Thank god they were all busy today and had to go." Kyoya says closing his laptop and walking over to where Haruhi was standing. "So what did you actually do to my phone Haruhi?"
"If you haven't figured it out yet then I won't tell you." She laughs turning around to face him. "But do me a favor and don't look for the change, you'll know what I did tomorrow I promise you that." She winks lifting her right hand to place her index finger over her mouth, as if what she did was a big secret.
"Fine I won't look any farther, but what if I come across it on accident?" he asks.
"If it's just an accident then of course I'll forgive you."
"Right," he mutters "Well are you ready to go?"
"Yep, oh and we don't have to stop by my place." She tells him grabbing her things, "I'm sure I can find something in Fuyumi's old closet that isn't only for some grand event."
'I doubt that, but good luck Haruhi.' He thinks as she slips her hand into his.
"I just hope your brothers don't completely hate me." She mutters, as he grabs his laptop off the table and they head out the door.
"I'm sure they don't hate you Haruhi." He tells her 'Far from it unfortunately, or at least in Akito-niisan's case.' He sighs as they reach his limo and take off to his house.
'Damn it, there has to be at least one set of clothing in here that's not some type of fancy gown.' Haruhi mutters angrily throwing yet another gown behind her and digging farther into Fuyumi's old closet. 'I know I saw a simple dress in here the last time I went through here.' finally settling with a simple light green strapless dress that went down just past her knees and a white shawl. 'The twins have told me that green isn't my color. I guess now I know why.' She sighs looking herself over one last time before heading downstairs. Kyoya, she saw was already changed and waiting at the bottom of the stairs for her before heading into the dining room.
"You look beautiful, but I'm afraid I have to agree with the twins green isn't your color." He notes taking her hand in his.
"A compliment followed by an insult well done Shadow King," she laughs "But I know you're right. It seems the only color in your sister's closet is green and a variety of blues, which wouldn't have worked for a simple dinner."
"Fuyumi-neechan is always saying that green is the only color that looks good on her, so I'm afraid that's the color she always seems to get." He mutters as they walk into the dining room.
"Oh come on, I'm sure that's not true," she laughs looking around the room, which was empty except for a few servants still setting the table. "Where is everyone?"
"There was an emergency at the hospital. I got a call from my father while you were upstairs saying that they're on their way and will be home soon." He answers as he watches some of the servants bow to him before going back to what they were doing.
"Oh well, what do you want to do while we wait?" she asks moving them to another side of the room and leaning casually against the wall.
""I have a few ideas," he smirks wrapping one hand around her waist and using his other to cup her chin tilting her head up to look at him.
"You're not a host for nothing are you?" she asks.
"You really think I'm hosting you?" he asks "If you could see through my brothers surely you can see through me Haruhi, you've done it more than once," leaning down close enough for her to hear his steady breathing.
"I know you're not hosting Kyoya, when you do something like this I know you're dropping your guard completely and are being serious." She answers letting her body relax as he leans in to kiss her.
"You've seen through me once again Haruhi," he mutters between breaths. "I love you."
"I love you too Kyoya," she mutters knowing he wouldn't go too far in case a family member walks in, the servants who were staring at them were completely ignored.
They stand there enjoying each other's company; or rather kisses for a few minutes longer until a clearing of a throat broke them quickly apart. Turning to face the door they see Akito standing in the entrance wearing what looks to be his work clothes and smirking at the two of them. "Well there was something interesting, is it really that easy to get her to do what you want little brother?" Haruhi immediately goes a deep shade of red and hides her face behind Kyoya.
"No, it's taken me a year to even get this far and I still can't control what she does." Kyoya tells him as his father and Yuuichi walk in.
"I'll tell you right now Kyoya you will never control what I do, or what I say." Haruhi laughs standing up higher to kiss him on the cheek, before bowing slightly to Yoshio.
"That sounds like a challenge Haruhi," Kyoya mutters under his breath, but close enough for her to hear him. She shivers slightly at the cold demanding tone in his voice, but doesn't let it show.
"Thank you for inviting me to dinner tonight Ootori-sama and I wish to apologize for my behavior the last time. I should have chosen a better time to voice my opinions on your sons." She tells him
"You don't have anything to apologize for Haruhi-san. It was quite amusing wasn't it Yuuichi, Akito?" Yoshio asks turning to his sons.
"Yes sir," they chorused Akito, Haruhi noticed, was smiling at her.
"Well now that we are all here, why don't we sit down and eat." Yoshio suggests sitting down.
Dinner was going well, but something was off first, Haruhi noted Akito was being sincerely nice to her and had her sitting between himself and Kyoya, only to be bombarded by questions about her it seemed he actually wanted to know the answers to. 'The only person who as ever actually interested in these things about me is Kyoya and he already knew the answers and only wanted them confirmed. What the hell has gotten into Ootori-san?' she wonders looking over to Kyoya, who she can tell is trying to keep under control. 'Have I done something? Damn it I don't want Kyoya mad at me again.' She thinks almost not hearing Yoshio's question to Kyoya.
"Kyoya since you and Haruhi-san are both here, why don't you tell us about one of your dates that, for whatever reason you were able to keep hidden from everyone?"
"Father, I don't think you would be interested, after all the fact that we kept it up for so long is the only reason you are interested correct?" he asks his father. 'Is this why he wanted Haruhi over?' he wonders.
"Kyoya's right father, besides one of the stories of how they almost broke up would be a lot more interesting wouldn't you think?" Akito asks.
"How the hell would that be a more interesting story?" Kyoya growls, wondering vaguely if Akito wanted to know how they almost broke up before in order to get some ideas.
"It's up to you Kyoya," Yoshio says raising his glass
'I suppose one story wouldn't hurt anything, but which one?' Kyoya thinks looking from his father to his brothers, who were all waiting for him to speak. He turns to Haruhi, who leans closer to him and whispers
"What about telling them about Kasanoda?"
"Like I want to talk about that idiot," he snaps louder than he means to, earning stares from everyone in the room.
"Something happen between you and Suoh-kun Kyoya?" Yuuichi asks.
'Of course that's who they would think I'm referring to,' Kyoya sighs looking at Haruhi, who only shrugs and goes back to eating her meal quietly. "No it's not Tamaki, it's someone from class 2-D Ritsu Kasanoda. The host club, or rather Tamaki and the twins were trying to help him make friends and…long story short he found out Haruhi was a girl after walking in on her changing clothes."
"I still don't see how that was a big deal, he believed me to be a guy, so he walked in without thinking. He apologized, ran out, and was then threatened by you and the others." She mutters.
"Haruhi we already fought over this once and i'm not trying to argue with you about it again, but he saw you when you weren't exactly wearing much." He sighs.
"It was only as if I was wearing a bikini I still don't see what the big deal was." She says keeping her voice level, knowing they already fought about this once there was no point going down that road again.
'Now I see why Kyoya was so upset.' The others think in understanding.
'She's still so naïve, that or completely oblivious,' Kyoya sighs remembering what happened the day Kasanoda found out,
Flashback
When Haruhi entered her empty apartment with her bags of groceries she could hear the phone ringing in the other room. "Coming, coming" she muttered dropping the bags in the kitchen and hurrying over to the phone to answer it. "Hello?"
"Haruhi it's me," a familiar voice muttered from the other end.
"Kyoya hi, what do you want?" she asked going into the kitchen to put everything away, finding a note from her dad saying he won't be back until early the next morning.
"Since I couldn't catch you after club I thought I would call you at home. What exactly did Kasanoda-kun do Haruhi?" he asks his voice steady.
"Nothing he just sort of walked in asking if I was okay, saw me changing, stood there like an idiot, I panicked and told him the get out, then he apologized and ran out of the room." She answered grabbing an apple from one of the bags and biting into it. "After that I heard you guys threatening him, so I changed quickly to stop you from scaring him too much."
"What is Kasanoda-kun to you Haruhi?" he asks "You two have gotten quite close since he joined the club."
"He's just a friend Kyoya what's with you?" she asks.
"You're mine right now Haruhi," he answered simply. "I just don't want you to start going over to others."
"I'm not yours Kyoya we haven't done anything to even suggest that I am. Look I'm fully committed to this strange relationship of ours until you want it to end, if you can't trust me that's your own fault." She says trying not to yell.
"Look all I'm saying is I don't want you getting any closer to him then you have him you were okay with revealing your secret was really stupid Haruhi." He finally snaps.
"I do what I want Sempai you know that. If he does say anything to people I'll just work in the club as an errand girl or something. I really don't care either way." She retorts adding an honorific to show him she's mad.
"I could always break up with you and make sure you never pay off your debt with us you know." He threatens.
"Then go ahead and do it Sempai I'm not afraid of you, and I already told you I'll find some other way to pay you back for that damn vase if I have to." she growls trying to stay strong as she suddenly hears the sound of thunder outside.
"Haruhi," he finally sighs "I'm not going to break up with… wait what's that noise in the background?" he asks as lightning struck outside her house. "Haruhi, Haruhi is that thunder?" she hears his voice through the receiver, but is already hiding under the table to scared to move. "Damn it… Haruhi, just hold on I'm on my way over now." He assures her hanging up.
Thirty minutes later he was staring under the table at the shivering girl. "Haruhi," he muttered seeing just how tiny she looked. Leaning down he holds out his hand to her. "Come out from under there. I'm right here you don't have to worry." He tells her as another bolt of lightning went off. Scaring her enough to jump out and tackle into him, causing both of them to fall on the floor. "You know that's the second time you've done that to me." He smirks sitting up more comfortably and wrapping his arms protectively around her. "Look you know I'm no good when it comes to comforting someone, so I hope me just being here is helpful."
"It is…thank you Sempai," he hears her mutter and hold him tighter.
"You usually listen to music to help you get through this right?" he asks ignoring her use of an honorific and wondering vaguely if she was still angry with him.
"Mhmm," she mutters as thunder went off outside.
"Here," he mutters taking out his laptop, going onto ITunes and placing a pair of headphones on her.
"Thank you," she mutters laughing to herself as she realized Kyoya likes the same kind of music she does.
"Have you eaten yet Haruhi?" he asks looking at the time '8:20'
"No, but I usually don't when the weather is like this." She mutters "What about you?"
"No I haven't had the chance yet." He tells her.
"Oh, you came all the way over here I should-"she was cut off as another flash of lightning lit up the room and she clung to him even more.
"If you so much as move from this spot I will double your debt, I'll be fine Haruhi, just try to go to sleep." He growls not caring if she was mad at him.
"You're lucky I'm too scared to argue with you anymore tonight." She sighs and daring to lay her head on his shoulder. "I don't understand you sometimes Semp-Kyoya. There is no gain in this at all you know, yet here you are."
"Trust me there's more to gain in this then you realize Haruhi. I'm cold, but not heartless and though you won't admit it you are currently my girlfriend and helping you out is something I need to do for you." Happy she no longer seemed to be angry with him he stares down at her shocked face, "What?" he finally asks.
"Nothing it's just that's the first time you called me your girlfriend and not a possession that you have." She laughs.
"Don't misunderstand Haruhi you are still mine."
"Welcome back Shadow King." She sighs settling back down and trying to let the music lull her to sleep. "You can't fool me either Kyoya admit it, you called everyone before you came here and nobody answered."
"Very good Haruhi you're getting better," he laughs. "Yes, I did call the others but none of them picked up there phones, so it's their own loss. You have no idea how many of them would kill to be in the position I am in right now."
"…I'm glad it was you who came to keep me company Kyoya," she muttered shocked at the truth in her own words. "Not that I don't love the others. It's just with you I feel really…at peace."
"I'm glad to hear that Haruhi really, now you should go to sleep." He tells her.
"…please stay with me tonight," she mutters her voice growing weaker and still clinging to him.
"I'm not going anywhere Haruhi, I promise." He smirks listening to her breathing getting slower as she finally fell asleep. "I'm sorry about earlier too." He whispers knowing if she was awake he wouldn't have the guts to apologize to her, before eventually falling asleep himself.
Ranka walked in early next morning to a site that even he deemed too cute to break up and couldn't be mad about. Haruhi and Kyoya were lying half under the table, he guessed for warmth both facing one another asleep. Haruhi's head was curled up in Kyoya's chest, her hands was intertwined with one of his as if holding them for dear life and Kyoya's other hand was wrapped protectively around her waist. 'Now how the hell can I break up something as cute as this this?' he wonders knowing how clingy his daughter could be during a storm. Quickly finding a camera he takes a picture of the two. 'For a later use,' he laughs thinking of what the other hosts would think after seeing a picture like this, before heading into his bedroom to sleep.
Haruhi woke up about an hour later feeling extremely comfortable. 'What the-I know I'm not in my bed so what?" she opens her eyes to see Kyoya still asleep next to her memories of last night flooding back. 'Crap, that's right we were fighting, the storm showed up, Kyoya came over and I fell asleep.' Realizing just how tightly Kyoya was holding her and praying he wouldn't wake up so she didn't have to deal with what the twins call 'The Demon Lord' she let go of his hand and tries to wiggle free of his grasp on her waist.
"Morning," she hears him growl, her body immediately tensing up.
"Kyoya, I'm sorry I didn't mean to wake you up so early um…do you want something to eat?" she asks as he lets her go and she gets up.
"That would be great, thanks." She hears him mutter before rolling over and falling back asleep.
She blinks 'The hell-that was it? I've had more trouble waking my father up when he has a hangover.' Staring once again at Kyoya, who at this point is fast asleep again she goes into her bedroom to change.
Another hour later the two of them were sitting at the table eating breakfast, both of them dressed and ready for school. "Is there something on my face Haruhi? You keep looking at me." Kyoya asks
She opened her mouth to ask about his usual mood in the mornings, but thought better of it. "It's nothing Kyoya, but I am sorry about arguing with you yesterday. Look, though I don't understand why you are acting so possessive I do realize that I should have reacted differently when Kasanoda walked in on me. We're just friends I promise, you have nothing to worry about okay." She smiles at him.
"Well thank you for that Haruhi, truly." He stands up to kiss the top of her head. "I have to go; I'll see you in the clubroom later okay." He says heading to the door.
"I'll see you later then Kyoya and thank you again for…well everything last night." She says causing him to stop for only a second at the door.
"You're welcome Haruhi." He smiles to himself before opening the door and heading out. 'Well today's started out as a really good day, let's see how long it last.' He smirks getting into his car and driving off to school.
End Flashback
"Thunderstorms aren't your favorite then huh Fujioka-san?" Yuuichi asks. "But it seems it was thanks to that storm that you and Kyoya were able to make up."
"Yes, and I am thankful for that, but unfortunately the more I try to get used to storms the more scared of them I end up being. The rest of the host club knows this and have made sure I'm never left alone during one of them." She sighs.
"You don't seem like the type of woman who just openly tells her friends her fears though." Akito notes.
"I'm not they all sort of just found out. Tamaki-sempai was the first, but that whole awkward incident I'd rather forget." She says remembering the blindfold and earplugs. Kyoya laughs quietly beside her knowing exactly what she was thinking. "Kyoya, I found out the next morning already knew what my fear was and just never said anything. The rest of the club found out when Hikaru got mad at me, or rather at an old friend of mine and left me out in the middle of a storm in Karuizawa." She sighs remembering hiding out in an old church.
"Interesting way to find out," Yuuichi mutters.
"Yes, it was a very interesting week." Kyoya agrees.
"Well I am happy to see that the two of you are still together. Kyoya I have already warned you that, though you made a good decision in courting Ms. Fujioka I am still going to keep a close eye on you for a while." Yoshio warns his son.
"Of course father, I understand." He bows his head.
"Right I've enjoyed all of your company. Now I have some business to take care of goodnight." Yoshio tells them getting up.
"Goodnight Father," all three said in unison surprising Haruhi for a moment.
"Well I should get you home before Ranka starts to worry." Kyoya mutters to her.
"It's okay Kyoya I can walk." She tells him, though already knowing it was pointless to argue with him.
"Nice try Haruhi, go ahead and change back into your uniform and I'll call a car to take you home." He smirks surprised she still thought he would just let her go home alone.
"No point in arguing with you when you've made up your mind." She sighs excusing herself.
After changing and grabbing all of her things she goes back downstairs to see Akito at the bottom of the stairs Kyoya, she assumes is still in the dining room with Yuuichi. "Ootori-san I want to thank you for tonight. I didn't think you would even want to see me, let alone talk to me after what I said the other night." She throws him her 'natural' smile.
"Not at all Fujioka-san, I think you actually managed to open my eyes on the overall situation. You are a fascinating young woman who seems to have enough guts to stand up to my family. "He tells her returning her smile as she reaches the bottom. "It is a shame that little brother found you first." He murmurs kissing her hand.
She stands there stunned for only a moment, until Kyoya's voice brings her back to reality. "Akito-niisan, what are you doing to her?" he asks walking up to the two of them from one of the corridors.
"I was just talking to her little brother," he smirks "Well goodnight Fujioka-san." He waves and heads upstairs to his room.
"Goodnight Ootori-san," she calls up before turning back to Kyoya. Before she could open her mouth to speak he wraps his arms around her waist and kisses her. 'Something is different, this seems almost…possessive.' She thinks placing her hands on his chest to push him back.
"There's a car waiting for you outside Haruhi that will take you home, I'll see you tomorrow." He mutters kissing her again softly, before heading upstairs.
'What on earth did I do?' she wonders walking outside to see Hotta waiting for her next to a black Cadillac, before getting into the car and heading back home.
"Hunny-sempai it's so good to see you again how's life in college?" The guests were asking Hunny the next day during his visit to the club.
"It's not so different from high school except I don't get to hang out with all of you lovely ladies." He sighs, near tears, as the girls swoon.
The other club members were just going on their business. With Hunny back their own set of customers were almost non-existent. Tamaki was sulking in his corner upset about his 'lack of beautiful guests,' while forgetting about the few he did have waiting to be hosted by him. Kyoya was to no one's surprise on his laptop, doing who knows what. The twins were entertaining their own few guests, by playing a video game together and doing their usual act. Haruhi was enjoying her time with her own set of guests and trying to get her mind off of Kyoya. 'He's so distant today did I do or say something wrong last night?' she wonders not realizing she was spacing out.
"Haruhi-kun, are you all right? You're really distant today." One of her guests asks.
"Oh yes of course Minako-san I apologize." She assures her classmate snapping back to reality. "I'm just happy to have Hunny-sempai back with us today."
"It's nice to see him back, but without Mori-sempai something doesn't feels right." Another girl mutters sadly.
"I'm sure there will be a day where all of us hosts are together again Keiko-sempai." Haruhi smiles at the girl. "And when that day comes it will be a pleasure to make all of you happy." She watches as the girls practically faint. 'This is too easy, 'she sighs daring a glance at Kyoya. 'Well I'm still on cleaning duty maybe I'll get lucky and Kyoya will stay afterwards.'
After club hours had finally ended Haruhi realized that the others had left almost as soon as the guests did leaving her and Kyoya alone. 'That's strange usually Hunny-sempai finishes all the cake in the room, waves good-bye, and runs out.' She thinks not even hearing Kyoya sneak up behind her.
"You all right you seem tense?" he asks causing her to jump.
"Geez Kyoya, you are way too good at acting like a shadow." She laughs. "I'm fine, but are you? You've been really distant today with everyone. Did my surprise this morning scare you?"
"Not at all Haruhi, it was actually quite amusing and I thank you for it." He smirks remembering getting up that morning.
Flashback
It was exactly 7:00 in the morning when Kyoya heard his alarm on his phone go off, but instead of a usual alarm he heard Haruhi's voice not yelling at him, but close enough to seem like it. "Kyoya since I most likely won't remember to wake you up with a text every morning I thought recording my voice and setting it as an alarm would work better, at least this way you can hear my voice. So here is you 7:00 wake up call from me."
At first Kyoya didn't move and just believed he was dreaming and before he knew it ten minutes later he heard her voice again. "Kyoya, I know you probably didn't hear much of my last message, so here's another. It's time to get up Kyoya, or you're going to be late for school, or not, you have perfect grades I'm sure none of your teachers really care if you're late. If you are still not awake Kyoya I'm sorry if this doesn't work, I love you, and please wake up."
'So that's what she wanted my phone for well-done Haruhi once again you managed to wake me up before my alarm had the chance.' Kyoya smirks turning the alarm on his phone off, before getting out of bed and getting ready for the day.
End Flashback
"Haruhi what is love to you?" he asks avoiding her first question.
'Oh damn it when he asks me questions like this it usually ends up with us fighting,' she thinks sighing she thinks hard about her answer before saying, "Love is tender passionate affection for another person, but it can also be wanting to protect that said person from any type of harm and wanting to stay with that person through the good and bad times in their lives, even if you can never have that person, as long as they continue to be happy you can be too."
"Haruhi…can I trust you to not be taken by my brother? It seems as though like most of the club he has taken a liking to you." He tells her honestly not knowing how else to ask.
"Kyoya, what are you talking about?" she asks.
"Oh honestly Haruhi how can you still not notice that Tamaki, Hikaru, and Kaoru all love you in the way you just described to me. Even Kasanoda loves you that way, that day he came in as a guest was because he wanted to tell you he loves you." He says trying not to raise his voice at her.
"Kyoya, I didn't even know what love was until I almost lost you. To me it was just a definition in a dictionary, I really had no idea that they all felt that way." She snaps suddenly remembering Fuyumi's words, "Really that's a surprise knowing how…possessive Kyoya can be when something is his." Looking back she realizes what Fuyumi actually meant when she said that.
"Well I'm glad to hear that Haruhi, but again can I trust you around my brother, or do I have to keep an eye on both of you?" he asks.
'This is definitely about last night,' she sighs trying to think of an answer that would make him trust her.
Apparently she waits too long to answer, as Kyoya sighs, picks up his things and tells her. "Fine, do what you want Haruhi," before walking out of the room.
"Damn it, I love you Kyoya that should be enough," she mutters under her breath, as she watches the door slam close. Scowling she turns around to get her things, only to see Hunny staring at her through the door of the supply room.
Okay another long one...wow this is becoming a lot longer then I thought it was going to be. Sorry the update took a little longer with thanksgiving and all hope you all like it.I realized while writing this that maybe staring at the festival was a bit of a stretch, so I figured why not have a few flashback chapters about how they kept up their relationship throughout the series. Thank you all again for reading this and i'm sorry but the next chapter may be a little longer to update I have finals I have to study for and everything, but I hope to have the next chapter up before the end of next week.