As much as she hated to admit it Haruhi was finding Tamaki kissing her very…enjoyable, but as soon as that thought entered her mind she immediately pushed back on his chest. "I'm sorry," she murmurs not able to look up at his face and trying to figure out why she was blushing even slightly.
"I should be the one apologizing. I shouldn't have done that." He tells her sighing
"No not for that I…I'm sorry, but I don't return your feelings." She tells him, still not able to look at him in the eyes.
"So you didn't enjoy that?" he asks lifting her chin, in order for her to look at his face. He had been prepared to get turned down, but it still hurt.
"It's not that, it's just that I…" she stammers not really sure how to end her sentence.
"…Haruhi look me in the eyes and tell me, are you in love with somebody else?" he asks
'Why is he making this so hard?' she wonders 'I'm in love with Kyoya, but why am I finding turning Tamaki-sempai down so hard to do.'
"Haruhi you know you can be honest to me, so please tell me, are you turning me down because you love somebody else?" he asks again.
"…yes, I'm in love with someone else Tamaki-sempai." She states looking him right in the face.
"Well I had a bad feeling" he sighs
"You knew?" she asks honestly curious.
"With the way you've been acting lately I had a feeling you were in love, but I didn't actually know of course until now." He tells her.
'Damn have I been that obvious?' she curses herself and again wishes she was as good at hiding her emotion as Kyoya was.
"I know you won't tell me much else, but are you in love with someone else in the club?" he asks
"I don't want to lie to you anymore Sempai so, yes I am in love with another member of the host club." She admits 'Why am I always the one answering these questions again? Oh… that's right because everyone still thinks Kyoya is too cold-hearted to be going out with someone.'
It's safe to assume you won't tell me who?" he asks
"No" she states, "but I do want to apologize for not feeling the same way about you Sempai."
"It's my own fault really" he sighs "But if whoever it is hurts you in any way-"
"Then you and the others will be the first to know, but I know I can trust him." She smiles holding out her hand "I hope this doesn't come between us."
"It doesn't" he states taking her hand. "I love you Haruhi, but if you are happy then I will accept that."
"Thank you…Tamaki." She smiles back and moves forward to embrace him.
He's shocked for a moment, but hugs her back. He is upset about having to let her go, but if whoever she was dating truly made her happy then he wasn't going to argue with her. 'It has to be Hikaru or Kaoru she's in love with; no one else would make any sense.' He sighs inwardly, as she breaks away. "Haruhi…what were you talking to the twins about before I walked into the room?" he asks, as she begins grabbing her things.
"If you knew I was talking to them, why did you come out of the room almost naked?" she asks
"I thought you left with them" he admits "I really didn't think anyone was still in the clubroom."
She sighs "they wanted to ask me if I'd let them make clothes for me to wear on our trip to New York at the end of next week."
"Oh that's right, you guys leave what…Saturday morning?" he asks
"Yep and I still can't believe your father is claiming that going on a class trip is part of the scholarship I'm on." She sighs
"I'm sure he just wants you to have some fun and bonding with your classmates." He tells her laughing, "But I didn't think you had a passport in order to even go."
"I don't, or at least I don't think I do." She tells him "The twins tell me that Kyoya-sempai told them that I do, so I'm going to assume that my father has something to do with it."
"Haruhi, we all just want you to go and enjoy yourself" he laughs telling her honestly.
"Well I guess I'll know if I'm able to go when I get home, so I'll see you tomorrow Sempai." She waves, before walking out of the clubroom.
Reaching her apartment door she was surprised to see that the door was unlocked, until she walked inside to see Kyoya sitting on her couch and looking like he was waiting for her to come home. "Where's my dad?" she asks, as if having her fiancé in her house, before she got home was perfectly normal.
"He said something about going shopping." He tells her getting up, as she throws her bag into her room not caring where it landed. "What no hello?"
"I'm mad at you" she states turning to face him arms crossed.
"Yes I assumed you would be, after I heard the twins ask you about the trip." He sighs
"Stop telling them things that aren't true." She asks, as he tosses her a small booklet. "What is this?" she asks catching it and getting a feeling she already knew what his answer would be.
"Your White Day gift from me" He tells her, as she opens it up and sighs.
"…A passport, why doesn't this surprise me."
"I want you to have fun on your class trip Haruhi and if all it takes is getting you a passport then I would give it to you." He says moving to stand next to her.
"So this has nothing to do with the fact that you are studying in New York City next year and want me to look around for you?" she asks.
"Ouch caught again," he jokes "but you know in marrying me, you are going to need one eventually." He points out.
"It's all right…thank you Kyoya." She sighs; as he leans down to kiss her. "Wait, there's something I need to tell you." She says pushing him back a bit to stop him and places her passport on the nearest table.
"That's never a good starting line coming from you." He groans "What is it this time?"
"Tamaki-sempai…confessed to me after the twins left." She admits
He groans "they just keep coming don't they?" She knew he was referring to the guy last week who had asked her out, but she chose to ignore that. "Was there something else?" he asks noticing how nervous she suddenly was looking.
"Yeah…he kissed me too." She sighs
"So, he finally got the guts to do that then huh?" he asks smirking "I can get revenge on him easily enough, but Haruhi I'm sure I've asked you before to not let it happen again." He tells her icy calm.
"Kyoya I didn't know he was going to do it." She states "and I thought you meant try not to let Hikaru do that again."
"So what, I have to tell you that every time another guy kisses you?" he snaps
'All right I had that coming' she sighs "I'm sorry that came out wrong I didn't mean it like that, but I'm sure Tamaki was just trying to do the same thing as Hikaru and wanted to get me to change my mind." She protests and immediately gasping at her mistake or at least at what Kyoya would make of it.
"So it's just Tamaki now?" he asks, his voice still the icy calm. "You're not going to call him Sempai anymore?"
"No, that was a slip of the tongue too, sorry." She sighs and knew she had to get something off her chest. "Kyoya…I love the others in the club, I'm not going to stand here and deny that, but I'm in love with you." She states "and I think we can agree I've already made my decision," moving her hand up to the necklace.
"So you are finally admitting to having feelings for the others, or at least Tamaki?" he asks leaning against one of the walls.
"Out of that whole confession that's what you got?" she asks in disbelief
"Haruhi try to see this from my point of view." He asks "I asked you out well over a year ago and I've had to stand by while Kasanoda, my own brother, half of the club, and even a few boys in school all have feelings for you and have admitted it." He growls
"You're the one who first wanted us to keep it a secret." She protests a bit louder then she means to.
"You've never complained about keeping it hidden." He points out
"No that's true, but I also never expected to be asked out and confessed to by anyone else." She sighs moving over to stand in front of him. "You are to possessive. I do understand why you're angry, but this is turning into a really stupid and petty argument." She says looking up at him and getting an idea that she knew he would hate her for doing later.
"Haruhi I see no reason to believe that this is-"he was cut off by her wrapping her arms around his neck and placing her lips on his possessively.
"You seem to keep forgetting Kyoya" she smirks between breaths "No matter who tries to come between us I will always choose you." And with that he gives in and begins kissing her back. This went on for a few minutes, before a familiar clearing of throat broke the two apart.
'Temptress' Kyoya thinks, before looking to the door to see Ranka staring at the two of them.
"Why does it not surprise me that this is how you two make up after a fight?" Ranka asks holding a single bag, of groceries and looking like he wanted to laugh. "Or that this is a way for you two to stop a fight."
"Dad" she manages to get out, before blushing furiously at how they must of looked to him. Kyoya being backed against a wall, her arms around his neck, and she was making out with him.
"I get home to hear you two arguing from outside and then suddenly I hear nothing. I was afraid one of you killed the other, but imagine my surprise coming into the apartment and seeing that." He sighs
"Ranka," Kyoya starts
"Don't bother Kyoya it was obvious Haruhi was the one who started your little make out session." He laughs, causing Haruhi to blush even darker. "Kotoko used to do the same thing to me when we were arguing and she wanted me to shut up. It works really well doesn't it, though I never expected Haruhi to be able to do it."
"Well I certainly didn't expect it" he admits, as Haruhi moves over to take the bag from her father and proceed into the kitchen. "But you're right it definitely got me to shut up."
"So tell me I only heard bits and pieces of it, but what were you two fighting about?" he asks sitting down, as they both hear what sounds like a can fall in the kitchen. "I've never heard you two go at each other like that." He continues, after making sure Haruhi hadn't harmed herself.
"Tamaki decided it was time to confess to Haruhi this afternoon and decided to kiss her, which made me angry enough to take it out on her." He sighs, as Haruhi came back out of the kitchen.
"He WHAT, you have every right to be mad Kyoya. If you want I can teach that boy something about leaving a girl's lips alone." Ranka tells him angrily.
"Dad relax Kyoya will know how to deal with Tamaki-sempai." Haruhi laughs sitting down next to Kyoya, who kisses her on the temple. "Is it safe to assume you're not mad at me anymore?" she asks
"I'm not mad, I overreacted." He assures her "You're right you have chosen me several times in the past, why should now be any different."
"Thank you" she smiles at him
"…I suppose I can leave that blonde idiot to you Kyoya, but are you sure?" he asks
"Don't worry Ranka. Haruhi and the twins leave for New York for two weeks I'll have plenty of time to get back at him." Kyoya smirks, leaving Haruhi to feel bad for Tamaki.
"That's right did you already give Haruhi her passport?" he asks
"Dad you knew?" she asks shocked
"Of course, how else would I have been able to get it for you…legally." Kyoya laughs
"It's when you say things like that, which makes me want to run away from you in fear." She sighs
"I guess it's a good thing you love me." He states
"I guess it is," she sighs again, before pointing out the small black booklet on the table to her father.
"New York…all I can tell you Haruhi is please be careful." Ranka tells her, before getting up and picking up his daughter's new passport.
"I promise dad don't worry, besides I'll have the twins glued to me the whole trip." She points out
"I'm going to have Hotta go with you as well." Kyoya informs her
"What, why do I need one of your bodyguards with me?" she asks
"Haruhi, as much as I hate to admit it I've never been to New York and I don't know what kind of people you're going to be running into. I know the twins will protect you the best they can, hell I've had to stop them from beating people to death over you." He laughs at the memory of the beach. "I promise he will stay in the shadows and not bother you, unless something happens."
"You've never been to New York?" she asks surprised
"Haruhi I've never been to America" he admits. "It's the one place my father is always insisting on going for business on his own."
"Well now I know why you insisted on going there to study abroad next semester." She shrugs "Thank you by the way for helping me learn English. It's definitely going to help me on the trip."
"No problem, besides you are a great studying partner. I need to get better at speaking it as well if I'm going to be stuck there for a year." He tells her
"You say stuck, but we both know you want to go." She laughs laying her head on his shoulder, as her dad sits back down across from them and tosses her the booklet.
"Yes I do and I want you to go and have fun too." He says kissing her on the top of her head. "By the way, there's something else I need to give you."
"Kyoya-" she growls, as he reaches into his pocket, takes out a gold card, and hands it to her. "A debit card?" she asks in disbelief. I'm not going to go on a trip with your money." She states
"It's not mine" he smirks.
"…Fine I'm not going on a trip with any of your family's money." She rephrases
"It's not theirs either" he laughs, as she gives him a puzzled look. "It's your money for working for the host club, you didn't think you were just there for fun do you?" he asks
"Wait…what?" she asks still confused
"Haruhi I've been paying you to work in the club since the end of the Ouran Fair last year. This card is in your name and everything, it's yours." He tells her
She looks at him skeptically at first and then looks down to read the name on the card, which to her surprise reads 'Haruhi Fujioka.' "You've got to be kidding me, why have you been paying me?"
"Again I've been paying you since the Ouran Fair, but the others believe I've only been paying you for the five weeks you've been debt free." He replies "And why wouldn't we pay you Haruhi, dealing with the host club is like having a job for what we, or rather Tamaki and the twins put you through."'
"I never asked to be paid for working in the club though." She protests
"Which is why I've kept this from you, every two weeks some money is put into your account depending on what you had to…handle during club." He tells her "Haruhi, though I started doing this long before Tamaki knew about it he and the others agreed that it was only fair to pay you for your hard work."
"They all agreed?" she asks
"Yes, they all thought you deserved something." He replies
She looks over to her father, who only smiles and gets up to head into his room. She had a feeling he knew about the account as well. "…All right fine I give up, so how much is in it?" she asks sighing.
"The club believes you to have about 1.8 million yen right now." He states "In truth there is about, you'll find this a bit ironic, 8 million yen."
"Are you telling me if I stayed in debt I would've paid you off this year anyways?" she asks laughing and trying to hide her surprise at actually having that much money tucked away in a bank.
"Yes, maybe even twice" he laughs with her
"…I'll take it with me if it'll make you guys happy, but I still don't know American currency from our own." She tells him after a while.
"Don't worry I'll have Tachibana handle that before you leave, how much do you want to have?" he asks
"I don't know I mean the scholarship I'm on takes care of the hotel room, plane ride, and all the tickets for the places we're going too." She tells him "So I think the only things I'll even need money for are souvenirs and food for two weeks."
"So $1500 U.S dollars work for you?" he asks
"What that's way too much isn't it?" she asks
"Haruhi you are traveling with some of the richest people in Japan for two weeks." He reminds her "Who knows where you are going to end up eating and shopping. I'm also sure most of your classmates are going to want your help, seeing that you can both read and speak English fluently. If anything $1500 dollars is too little."
"Don't you all have private tutors for those kinds of things? I thought most of you already knew English." She admits
"Seeing that English is one of the hardest languages to speak, most of the students take other courses." He says "The most common, being of course French."
"Is that mostly why the twins want me to come?" she asks
"I doubt it Kaoru speaks it almost as well as you and I do, but Hikaru could have some problems over there." He laughs
"…All right tell Tachibana that $1500 will be fine." She says getting up. 'I wonder who else knows how to speak English in our class?'
"Very well he will make sure Hotta gives it to you before your plane leaves Saturday morning." He assures her
"All right, I'm going to go start dinner. Would you like to stay Kyoya?" she asks heading into the kitchen
"I don't want to impose" he tells her
"When do you ever do that?" she laughs "Just stay Kyoya it's no big deal."
"All right, do you want any help?" he asks wandering into the kitchen.
"The last time you tried to help we spent over an hour trying to clean up the kitchen." She laughs "I'll be fine Kyoya, why don't you finish some business I know you really want to do."
'She knows me far too well.' He sighs inwardly, but knowing at the same time she was right. "You know that was mostly your fault, but you're right. I'll be right in the living room though if you need me." He tells her
"It's noted," she calls to him, before beginning to cook.
The doorbell ringing woke Haruhi up from a peaceful slumber about a week later on the morning the second years were leaving for their trip to New York. She chose to ignore it, until whoever on the other side of the door decided to keep their finger on the bell waiting for someone to answer it.
"Who the hell is at your door at four thirty in the goddamn morning." Kyoya stirs angrily beside her. Her father had to leave the night before for a business trip and had asked Kyoya to stay with her for the night, just to make sure that she would be safe. Haruhi wanted to ask her dad about his…odd motives of sticking the two of them together, but seeing as she wouldn't see Kyoya for two weeks she didn't question him.
"I don't know, but whoever it is, is starting to really piss me off." She groans trying to settle back into Kyoya's chest.
"Do you want me to scare whoever it is off?" he asks.
"It's all right, whoever it is will eventually get the point that I'm not going to answer the door." She yawns. Sure she was mad at the person, but she still didn't want to scar whoever it was for life with one of the Shadow King's outbursts.
"Ha-ru-hi, please answer your door." The voice of two very familiar twins come from outside. "Today is the big day."
"Shit" she murmurs jumping out of bed and turning the lights on in her room.
"What the hell are they doing here?" Kyoya asks her, slowly getting out of the bed.
"I don't know," she groans "I know they were planning to pick me up, but not this damn early."
"I'll hide in your father's room for now, until I get a chance to leave" he tells her. She can tell that he is still really tired.
"…Why don't you set my alarm for you on your phone and just go back to sleep in there," She suggests. "The twins aren't going to leave, but if I tell them my father is asleep in his room they'll at least keep the noise down."
"It's not the same as waking up with you." He laughs "But thank you."
"You won't be able to get out of here without their driver seeing you anyways." She points out, as the doorbell rings again. She made a mental note to tear that thing out of the wall later. "It's okay just go back to sleep and I'll make sure they keep the noise down." She tells him, before leaning up to meet her lips with his.
"Suddenly I realize that will be the last kiss I get from you for two weeks." He smirks kissing her again, before breaking and gathering his things to take into Ranka's room.
"Now you know how I feel when you leave the country." She jokes, before yelling at the twins outside. "I'll be over in a minute let me get dressed."
He stares over to her and laughs inwardly at her lie, before throwing his bag, laptop, and shoes into Ranka's room. "I'm sorry I won't see you off." He says in the doorway, as she turns on more of the lights in the apartment.
"I promise to call every other day, now set your alarm and close the door." She laughs
"Try to remember the time difference." He jokes closing the door, before she throws a pillow at the door.
'As if I'd forget the fourteen hour difference' she laughs to herself, before walking over to the door and opens it to be met with two twins grinning at her. "What the hell do you two want and why are you at my door before five in the goddamn morning?" she asks, trying to create the fear that Kyoya usually gives people when they wake him up early.
It seemed to work, as they both back away from the door quickly. Finally Hikaru speaks up, "oh come on Haruhi, you can sleep on the plane later."
"Besides if you had just let us come over last night we wouldn't have had to come over this morning to help you pack your new clothes." Kaoru tells her, holding up a suitcase.
"If you already packed them, why did you have to come over in the first place?" she asks angrily
"Well we have to make sure everything fits." They grin
"You two never give up do you?" she sighs "Fine come in, but if you wake my dad I can't promise you'll live." She warns, knowing that even though it wasn't her father in his room Kyoya could still kill them for waking him up.
"He sounds as bad as the Shadow King." They shudder walking slowly into the apartment.
"No he's a lot worse," she states closing the door behind her. "What are you two even doing up this early anyways, you both strike me as the kind of people who love to sleep in." she asks heading into the kitchen to make some coffee.
"Normally we do, but seeing as we get you for two weeks to ourselves-"Hikaru
"And we get to mess around New York; we were too excited to sleep." Kaoru finishes
"Meaning you're going to fall asleep on the plane with me?" she asks bringing out three cups of coffee and handing two to them.
"Yep, after all it's a fourteen hour flight." They grin
"If you two pull so much as one prank on me during the flight over there, or any time during the trip I'm not going to hang out with you and I will ignore you the entire two weeks we're there." She snaps
"Man we thought you were an early riser Haruhi, you're almost as scary as Kyoya-sempai in the morning." They whine
"I just don't like to be woken up before I have to be." She replies coldly "We're not even leaving until eleven and the time difference is already going to be killer on all of us.
"Oh yeah, what's the difference in times again…fourteen hours?" Hikaru asks
"Yep, so if we leave by eleven today by the time we land it'll be eleven…today." Kaoru groans finally realizing how hard it was going to be to catch up. "It'll be like we never left."
"Guess it's a good thing you two know English so well." Hikaru laughs
"What does that have to do with the time difference?" Kaoru asks
'Wow, usually these two are completely in sync. They must be too tired to admit it.' She thinks sipping her coffee and wondering vaguely if Kyoya managed to fall back asleep.
"Nothing I just wanted to change the subject. We all know it's going to be hell, but the trip is going to be a lot of fun." Hikaru answers.
"True, but as I recall Kaoru you have a problem reading or writing in English?" Haruhi asks the younger twin.
"Yeah I can speak it well enough, but anything else and I'm lost." He admits "Which is why it's great to have you, who can speak, write, and read it."
'Sadly only eight people in our class can even speak it. Momoka and I are the ones who can read and write as well.' She groans inwardly.
"So Haruhi are you all ready to go?" they ask
"I have everything I need packed up and ready to go besides my clothes, which you brought for me." She sighs "So yes I'm all ready to go, but I'll say it again we have six hours before our plane leaves. Surely it doesn't take six hours to have me try on clothes?"
"Well since we have five different days to do what we want, we were hoping to figure out what you wanted to do on our free days." They confess. "But we did want you to try on the clothes too."
"Well I already promised I would spend a day with Momoka and Renge, but the other four days I suppose I could spend it with you two." She smiles 'And I need to figure out some good times to call Kyoya.'
"So we can discuss that while you're changing," they grin mischievously "Are you ready Haruhi?" they ask finishing their coffee and holding up her suitcase.
"I don't really have much of a choice with you two" she sighs getting up. "Just remember my dad is asleep and try not to break anything."
"It's noted" they grin handing her the suitcase and watching her walk into her room.
Four and a half hours later she had managed to go through every outfit not only in her suitcase that the twins packed, but also every outfit she owned and managed to plan out what they wanted to do for three of the four free days they would have together on the trip. As the morning went on Haruhi found herself more and more excited to go, but she was still a bit peeved at the twins waking her up so early.
"It's almost ten; we should probably head to the airport." She notes, after repacking her suitcase and hauling it into the living room.
"Haruhi, has Kyoya…given you your card?" Hikaru asks
"The debit card right?" she asks watching them nod. "Yes he has it took a while, but he convinced me to finally accept it and I want to thank you both for giving it to me."
"Did he have one of his guards convert the money for you?" they ask
"Yeah he did the money's in my bag and some of it's in my purse." She answers
"How much are you bringing?" Kaoru asks curiously
"It comes to $1500 dollars in America." She replies
"That's all you're bringing?"
"Just shut up and take my bags down to your limo all right?" she laughs throwing Kaoru her bag seeing as Hikaru was already holding her suitcase, or rather theirs. It just happened to have all her clothes in it. "I'll meet you guys down there in a sec I just want to make sure I have everything." She tells them as they head out the door.
"Okay, but hurry up." They grin
Waiting until they were downstairs talking with their driver she walks over to her father's room and creaks it open slightly to see Kyoya sleeping peacefully on her father's bed. 'Thank god, we didn't wake him up.' She thinks breathing a sigh of relief. Not able to help it she moves over to the bed and brushes her lips against his for a moment. "Goodbye Kyoya, see you in a few weeks." She murmurs softly, before sneaking out of the room, grabbing her purse, and running downstairs to meet the twins to embark on their last trip together with their classmates.
I know it's a bit shorter then my others, but there's a good reason I wanted to put the second year's trip in this one it's just it was getting too long so the trip will be next chapter. I don't like doing fighting scenes between Kyoya and Haruhi, but I felt it was necessary on this chapter and it was fun to write so hope you enjoyed that. The next one will be up soon and again it's the trip to New York. xD