Day 4
"Where's Haruhi? It's not like her to sleep in this long." Hikaru complains the next day. The rest of the members were sitting around the table eating lunch.
"You're right; usually she's up a little after we are." Tamaki notes.
"She's probably just really tired." Hunny points out exchanging a glance with Mori. "We did all do a lot of walking yesterday."
"Hey Kaoru, we still have the key to her room do you want to go and have some fun waking her up?" Hikaru grins.
"You two should just let her sleep." Hunny argues worried that she wouldn't be in her room.
"We aren't going to do anything to her, besides it's almost noon. Kyoya-sempai should be getting up soon as well." They grin. "Tono, why don't you go and wake him up and we'll go wake up Haruhi?"
"Why do you two get to go and wake up my little girl?" he protests.
"We have the key to get into her room." They point out, as Hikaru holds up the small key.
"You three are going to regret trying to wake the two of them up." Hunny calls after them, as they all run out of the room with Tamaki chasing the twins. "Do you think they are sleeping in the same room?" he asks turning to Mori.
"I don't know, but I hope they aren't." he replies. "I doubt even they want the others to find out that way."
"Tono, why are you following us I though you agreed to go try and wake up Kyoya-sempai?" Kaoru asks, as they were all walking down the hall to Haruhi's room.
"I am Kyoya's room is up here." He argues with them.
"I thought only Hunny-sempai and Mori-sempai's rooms were down this hall-oh." Hikaru stops in front of Haruhi's room, as Tamaki stops right next door. "We slept in her room the first night, how did we forget that Kyoya-sempai was right next to her?"
"Well this was the only other room available for her." Tamaki points out.
"Ah yes, what was wrong with her old one again?" Kaoru asks.
"It didn't lock and I didn't want you two devil twins near her."
"Yet here we stand in front of her door with the key." They smirk, as Hikaru puts it in the slot and turns.
"Don't you two dare do anything to my little girl." Tamaki states, before opening Kyoya's door, which was surprisingly open and walks in.
"No promises." They grin walking into Haruhi's room and finding it extremely dark.
"Wow, she really wanted to sleep in." Hikaru notes, wandering over to the blinds and opening them up to let the sun in and to reveal Haruhi in her bed almost completely covered by her blankets.
"Haruhi, Haruhi wake up." Kaoru tries shaking her. "You get to choose what we do today and you wanted to go into town right?" he asks, as Hikaru wanders over and begins to shake her from the other side.
This went on for about a minute, before the twins gave up shaking her and started turning lights on in the room. She still didn't stir. "Wow this girl is impossible." Kaoru laughs putting her room key on her dresser, as his brother moves back over to the bed.
"Kyoya…sempai" they hear her murmur and roll over. Hikaru stops just as he was about to start shaking her again.
"Did she just say-?" Kaoru asks watching his brother slowly back away from the bed and walk over to him.
"She did." He states reading his brother's thoughts. "C'mon we should go." Kaoru takes one last look at Haruhi and follows his brother out of her room.
'Well that got them to leave.' Haruhi smiles to herself. 'Maybe that was a little mean though, but I did add 'Sempai' at the end. They shouldn't get too much from that.' She thinks rolling back over to get comfortable. '…That was too mean. I really should go and apologize.' She sighs inwardly, before attempting to get up, but finding her consciousness slipping away from her and she falls back on the bed asleep.
"Hikaru calm down we don't know anything." Kaoru tells his brother outside of Haruhi's room. "C'mon, we have no idea what she was thinking about and she even used 'Sempai' after his name. It could have meant anything."
"Do you think it meant anything?" Hikaru asks him.
"I don't know, but I still think she's going out with Milord." Kaoru sighs. 'Though she never did answer my question at the ball we had a while ago.'
"I do too. I mean if it's Tono then, fine I lose." Hikaru sighs. " But if it's Kyoya-sempai…I don't know. It just doesn't make any sense."
"Don't you think it's time we just ask Milord if he and Haruhi are dating?" Kaoru asks him.
"No way, I want to personally catch the two of them and then act all surprised and then pretend like we had no idea." He tells him.
"And then we get to make fun of them for keeping it hidden for so long." Kaoru agrees, as they watch Tamaki literally jump out of Kyoya's room and close the door quickly behind him. They hear the sound of something hitting the closed door hard.
"What did you do to make him throw something at you this time Tono?" they ask grinning.
"I told everybody was up and waiting for him, then he asked me if everybody was actually up." He starts to explain to them. "I admitted that Haruhi wasn't up yet and he rolled back over and told me to go away."
"So when you didn't he threw something at you?" They confirm. He simply nods. "What was it anyways; it didn't sound too big or heavy."
"It was an alarm clock I think. I'm not entirely sure I was too busy trying to get out of there." He sighs. "How'd it go with Haruhi?"
"Not much better. She refuses to wake up." Hikaru answers.
"Really, well maybe I should try and wake her up-"
"No" both twins tell him.
"I mean you've already failed with Kyoya-sempai, do you want something else thrown at you?" Hikaru asks.
"She threw something at you two?" he asks.
"No, but I think she wanted to." Kaoru laughs. "C'mon milord, we should just let the two of them sleep. We are on vacation they're allowed to sleep in if they want."
"I guess." Tamaki sighs, as the twins lead him back downstairs.
"It's not like town is going to go anywhere, besides it may even be more fun a night." Kaoru tells him.
"Yeah, besides it gives us more time to go play on the beach before they wake up." Hikaru points out. "I'm sure if we asked Hunny-sempai and Mori-sempai will play volleyball with us."
"Yes and I will beat you two this time." Tamaki declares.
"We'll see." They grin, as they re-enter the dining hall.
Haruhi woke up groggily with the sun shining in her face. 'The hell-I thought I closed those.' She thinks sitting up slowly and looking around her room. 'Oh wait…the twins were in here this morning weren't they.' She groans turning to look at her alarm clock which read 1:27 PM. 'Well if I just woke up Kyoya is probably still asleep.' She sighs getting out of bed and not even bothering to change into something more decent then just her t-shirt she wanders into Kyoya's bedroom.
"Kyoya, Kyoya it's after one in the afternoon you need to get up." She calls to him, as she enters his room and wanders over to his bed. "Kyoya" she calls again. "You really need to get up." No response. Sighing she climbs onto the bed and shakes him. "Kyoya really the others are already up and are probably waiting for us."
"You sound like Tamaki." He groans, rolling over and pulling her head down for a kiss.
"You have a visitor this morning too?" she asks, as he slowly sits up in the bed. "…Wait I thought your door was locked?"
"I did too." He replies yawning.
"I guess it was a good thing I left this morning." She sighs in relief. "But what on earth did you throw at him this time?" she asks looking to the bedroom door to see something completely busted up.
"I think it was an alarm clock." He replies getting out of bed. Haruhi notices he was only wearing his boxer shorts.
"You think-?" she asks.
"I was half asleep all I knew was I wanted him out of my room." He argues. "Besides, what happened with you and the twins?"
"I was half asleep too and…I kind of muttered your name." she admits.
He blinks. "Well that's going to be a fun one to explain."
"Well unless they ask I'm not going to explain anything, besides I did add the honorific." She tells him crawling out of the bed. "So it shouldn't be too hard to come up with I was having a dream or something."
"Were you aware of what you were saying?" he asks.
"Yes" she admits. "I think, like you, I just wanted them out of my room, so I said something that made them shut up and leave. At least I didn't throw anything at them." She argues playfully.
"True, but you throw things a lot harder than you think." he laughs. "Are they all downstairs?"
"I doubt it." She yawns. "It's after noon they're probably down on the beach." She tells him walking over to the window and opening the blinds. "We should probably get dressed, eat, and then go get them."
"All right, but do me a favor and put some pants on would you?" he smirks.
"Oh shut up." She laughs. "I only put this on because I was too tired last night to actually find my pajamas."
"And here I thought that's what you were going to wear today." He jokes. She throws a pillow at him and walks back into her own room. 'Damn it Haruhi don't walk in here just wearing a shirt and panties, or next time I may actually try something.' He sighs inwardly. 'But I guess it proves how comfortable she is around me.'
Haruhi met Kyoya downstairs about fifteen minutes later wearing a short pair of torn blue jeans that barely went past her thighs, and a white blouse. "Twin's?" Kyoya asks raising an eyebrow curiously.
"Yep." She answers sitting down next to him and grabbing an apple. "But the necklace of course is yours." She smiles using her free hand to play with the ring.
"Well you look great." He replies eating his roll.
"Thank you." She smiles kissing him on the cheek. "Want me to make you something to eat?"
"Do you mind?"
"I wouldn't have asked if I did." She laughs getting up again.
"Do you want some help?"
"I don't need it, but you're going to follow me anyways." She laughs, before wandering into the kitchen.
"Yep." He replies getting up and following her.
"Guys are you out here?" Haruhi calls about a half an hour later, as she wanders onto the beach. Kyoya had to go and check on something involving his family, so Haruhi offered to go and find the others. "Hikaru, Kaoru, Tamaki-sempai?" she calls again. "Hunny-sempai, Mori-sempai?" 'Where the hell are they?' she wonders.
"Haru-chan, Haru-chan over here." She hears Hunny's voice coming from around the other side.
'Well at least they didn't completely run off.' She sighs following Hunny's voice around the corner and coming face to face with the biggest pile of sand she had ever seen and the rest of the club members buried inside it with their head being the only thing visible.
"About time somebody showed up, we're kind of stuck." Hikaru tells her. She can barely see him behind Mori's head. "By the way nice outfit." He grins.
"Haruhi, you should not be wearing something like that." Tamaki complains from next to Kaoru.
"I didn't hear you complaining when I was wearing the bikini the twins made me wear the other day." She argues. "Besides I think you guys being buried is a little more important right now." She couldn't help but start laughing at the site. "How, how in the world did you even manage this?" she asks pulling out her phone, knowing Kyoya would want pictures of this. "You guys look ridiculous."
"It was Tono's idea to have us all be buried, but somehow we all ended up in this huge pile." Kaoru explains.
"Can you help us Haru-chan?" Hunny asks.
"Well I can try removing some of the sand, but you are going to have to struggle out yourselves." She says still laughing and taking one last picture, before moving closer and staring to remove the sand around Mori. She knew he was the best choice to help her with the others.
Almost twenty minutes pass before all of them are free from the huge pile and they were all sitting down on the sand except Haruhi. "How long were you guys stuck in that thing?" she asks.
"Not long, maybe about ten minutes tops, before you showed up Haru-chan." Hunny tells her smiling.
"Yes, my darling daughter does love her daddy." Tamaki smiles, before attacking her with a hug.
"Get off me Sempai. The last thing I need is more sand on me." She growls getting free. "Look, you should all go and take a shower and change, before we head into town."
"What about Kyoya-sempai?" the twins ask.
"He's awake; he's just doing some work in his room." She replies wiping more sand off of her jeans.
"Did you have to wake him up?" They ask.
"Yeah and I still don't understand the big deal. I have no trouble getting him to wake up in the morning." She laughs.
"That's it; you're going to be the one to get Kyoya-sempai up in the mornings from now on." They laugh.
"Who's getting me up in the mornings now?" Kyoya asks coming around the corner.
"Haruhi, since you don't seem to bite her head off, or throw something at her." Hikaru answers.
"Good, so that means no more annoying King coming into my room." He glares at Tamaki. "And no more Devil twins trying to drag me out of bed?" He glares at the twins.
"Yes, I hope you're all right with that Sempai." Haruhi laughs, as the others shrink away.
"You already know I would never do anything to hurt you." He states. "Now considering the state you five look I assume you want to take a shower and change, before we head into town?"
"Yes, thank you Kyo-chan." Hunny smiles
"All right the car will leave in a half an hour. You should all be ready to go by then." Kyoya tells them, as they all do some sort of salute and go back up to the house. "Do I even want to know why they were all covered in sand?" he asks her, as they head back up to the house.
"Tamaki-sempai decided it would be fun to make everybody get buried in the sand." She laughs pulling out her phone again and handing it to him. "They were stuck and I had to dig them out."
"How did they all end up in one huge pile?" he asks looking through the photos.
"Not a clue."
"Well these are definitely going onto the club's site. Do you mind?" he asks.
"Go ahead it's the reason I took the pics anyways." She smiles at him, as they reach the house.
"Haruhi daddy is really against you wearing that outfit in town." Tamaki was whining on their way into town.
"Not my fault the twins and my father joined up to change my suitcase." She states. "And again I didn't hear you complaining when I was in my bathing suit the other day, why should this matter?"
"Tono's just worried because on the beach we're alone, but in town there are other people to look at you." The twins' state.
"Yet in the club I have to deal with girls flirting and dealing with you all, so I don't see this as much of a difference." She laughs. "And besides it's going to be the same thing here. All of the girls are going to be all over you guys."
"…She kind of has a point Tono."
"I also have you guys to watch out for me, so I know I'll be fine." She shrugs.
"Mother, you can't think that it's right for her to dress like this do you?" Tamaki asks Kyoya, who finally looks up from his laptop.
"Let her dress as she wants Tamaki. It really doesn't matter, as long as she's fine with it." He answers surprising Hunny and Mori.
"Thank you Sempai." She smiles, as the car pulls into town.
"Kyoya, how does it not bother you?" Tamaki whines.
"Let it go Tamaki." He sighs. "Let's just try and have another interesting day." He tells them, as Tachibana parks the car and they all start to get out, but Hunny holds Kyoya back a moment.
"It really doesn't bother you…at all?" he asks.
"Sempai, I've dealt with both Tamaki and Hikaru confessing to her. My own brother liked her for a short time, Kasanoda, and even a few boys in the school have gotten the courage to ask her out. This is in no way a big deal for me." He points out. "Like I told Tamaki if she wants to wear what the twins packed for her she can go ahead."
"You two have been through a lot haven't you?" Hunny asks.
"Yes, but now there's only one last obstacle to handle."
"The others?"
"Yes"
"Hey, are you guys coming out or what?" Haruhi asks poking her head in the door.
"Coming Haruhi." He smirks nodding to his seniors and getting out of the car.
"I don't understand how we lose all of them every time we all go out." Haruhi sighs almost two hours later. They had been wandering around for almost an hour without realzing that they were alone.
"I want to know how the others can't figure out that we're together considering we are always the ones left alone together." He groans.
"Do you want to split up and look for them?" she asks, after trying to call their cell phones to no avail.
"I'd rather not leave you alone." He states.
"Oh come on, you know we need to find the others." She sighs. "Besides I have Hotta keeping an eye me in case something happens."
"…Fine meet me at the restaurant at the front of town in an hour." He sighs.
"Kay." She smiles leaning up to kiss him on the cheek, before he disappears into the crowd. 'Let's see…Hunny-sempai and Mori-sempai would be at the sweet shop at the other end of town where Kyoya was heading. Tamaki-sempai…maybe at a pet store, flirting with somebody, or trying to help someone somewhere. The twins could be anywhere.' She sighs deciding to just wander into all the shops at this end of town.
"Damn it where are they." She groans about forty-five minutes later and with the sun beginning to set. She had gone in just about every store in town. Admittedly there were some stores she browsed in and had found some gifts for her father that she wants to get him when they come back another day, but most of it was trying to find the others. 'Forget it I'll just head back to the restaurant, besides Kyoya probably found them already.' She sighs, exiting yet another store and beginning to head back.
"Hey cutie, you lost?" She hears a man ask behind her about ten minutes after she left the last store.
"Thanks, but I'm fine." She states moving along the street.
"Are you sure? It's not safe for a young girl like you to be out alone around here. There are a lot of people who may try to take advantage of you." He says still following behind her.
"You one of them?" she asks pulling out her phone.
"I'm just trying to help a young girl get back to where she belongs." He replies.
"And I told you I don't need help, so why are you still following me?" she asks calmly.
"You're very…cute you know."
"And you reek of alcohol. Look please just leave me alone. I actually don't want to see you hurt." She sighs.
"Like a small girl like you can hurt me."
"I can't, but I have a fiancé who can have you kicked out of the country without blinking an eye, two brothers who aren't afraid of anything, two cousins who know martial arts, and a friend who thinks he's my father, and will do anything to protect me." She states, as he catches up to her and grabs her arm.
"Liar" he smirks.
"She's not actually." Haruhi shivers at the auditory blizzard, even though she knows Kyoya's words aren't aimed for her, she still feels the effects well enough. She turns around to see Hunny and Mori looking more pissed then she's ever seen either of them and Kyoya giving him the glare of the devil.
"So which are you three?" The man asks holding her arm tighter.
"Fiancé and two cousins." Kyoya answers in such a calm, yet malicious voice it made the man shudder.
"Let Haru-chan go." Hunny tells him angrily.
"You really expect me to believe that a grade school boy can take me on." He laughs twisting Haruhi around to stand behind him. "Come at me then boy." He laughs pulling out a knife. The next few moments went by in a flash. In no time at all Hunny had freed Haruhi from his grasp and she was safely in Kyoya's arms and held the man in a headlock. The knife was held in Hunny's free hand and held it over the man's throat.
"That's enough Sempai; you don't need to kill him." Kyoya tells him holding Haruhi close.
"But Kyo-chan he was going to hurt Haru-chan." He complains, but still throws the knife to Mori and knocks the man out.
"Yes, but it's not our choice Haruhi was the one he was after and it's safe to assume you don't want him dead right?" Kyoya asks her.
"No, of course not. I just wanted him to leave me alone." She replies.
"Mitsukuni, you overreacted." Mori tells him.
Hunny looks from the man unconscious on the ground to Haruhi clinging to Kyoya and realizes his cousin is right. "Oh Haru-chan I'm sorry." He states actually beginning to cry. "Takashi's right I overdid it. It's just I saw he was hurting you and-"
"It's okay Sempai. I'm just glad he's not too hurt." She smiles, as he runs over to her and she gets on her knees to hug him. "I really did try to warn him." She sighs looking over to where he was laying.
"He should wake up in a few hours." Kyoya notes. "Are you okay Haruhi?" he asks placing his arm around her shoulders.
"I'm fine. It's like I told you in the car I knew I had you guys looking out for me, so I wasn't worried." She smiles up at him, as Hunny stops crying and walks over to Mori.
"None of this is to be repeated to the others, we don't need them constantly worried for her." Kyoya tells them helping Haruhi to get up. "The last thing we need is this trip ruined by the others trying to keep an eye on you 24 hours a day."
"Right." Hunny states. "Takashi?"
"Ah"
"Like I want to retell this." Haruhi laughs weakly. "Where are the others anyways?"
"I was hoping they were with you, we couldn't find them anywhere." Kyoya sighs. "Thought by now they may be at the restaurant, so let's head over there and try to forget this little incident." He suggests, as Haruhi takes his arm protectively and Hunny climbs back on Mori's shoulders.
"There the four of you are we were getting worried." Tamaki tells them, as they reach the restaurant.
"You were getting worried? Tamaki we've been looking for you and the twins for over an hour now." Kyoya tells him sighing, as the twins walk out of the restaurant.
"We were in the park with Tono almost the whole time." Hikaru.
"Where were you guys looking?" Kaoru.
"I was looking in all the shops." Haruhi sighs. "What were you doing in the park the whole time?"
"…Well there was a bunch of girls hanging out there today." Hikaru admits, causing Haruhi to start laughing.
"Whether it be New York, or Okinawa you two are a couple of flirts aren't you?" she manages to get out, as they simply grin at her.
"What's your excuse?" Kyoya asks Tamaki.
"Are you kidding? So me and Kaoru are in the park talking to this pair of girls and Tono wanders over screaming his head off about us 'cheating on out sister' and making no sense at all. Then by the time his rant was over he was flirting with a girl who came over to figure out why he was yelling at us." Hikaru laughs.
"So the bottom line here is that none of you can help, but talk to any girls that walk by?" Kyoya asks sighing. "Let's just go inside and get something to eat."
"Good I'm starving." Haruhi states heading inside.
"Haruhi daddy will make sure you get your fill and make sure these twins don't steal your food." Tamaki states following her inside with the twins right on his heels.
"Idiots." Kyoya sighs, but he hides a smile and walks in behind all of them.
"Oh yeah Haruhi" The twins get her attention on the way back to the house.
"Do I even want to know what you two did?" she asks.
"It's nothing like that." They laugh. "We forgot to tell you the two girls we were talking to earlier, Mitsuki and Maron, told us about a festival going on in town the day after tomorrow."
"Okay, so I assume you guys want to go?" she asks.
"Well since you're the one deciding what we do for the rest of the week we figured we would ask you if you wanted to go." They explain.
'Oh yeah I forgot about that.' She thinks looking from Tamaki's pleading face to the twin's curious ones. "Sounds like fun, of course we can go. What time does it start?"
"Sunset." They answer.
"All right Kyoya?" she asks turning to him.
"Fine with me, I'll make a note." He replies.
"Hunny-sempai? Mori-sempai?" she asks.
"Yes, sounds like fun right Takashi?" Hunny asks.
"Ah"
"What about you Tamaki-sempai?" she asks, though already knowing his answer.
"It'll be a great night." Tamaki declares, as the car pulled into the familiar driveway.
"Let's hope so.' Both Haruhi and Kyoya think as they walk into the house.
Haruhi wakes up staring at the giant theater like television from her position on the couch. 'What the hell?' she thinks getting up slowly and looking around. 'Oh-that's right we were watching the third and fourth one tonight and I fell asleep. I wonder what time it is.' She yawns taking out her cell phone and trying to read the little number. '2:21 AM…great I'll never be able to fall back asleep.' She sighs looking around again she sees Kyoya fast asleep on the couch beside hers. 'Looks like we both fell asleep.' She laughs inwardly. She was debating whether to wake him or not when a crack of thunder could be heard outside. 'Oh hell.' She shakes and knowing she would never be able to make it to her room she sits down next to Kyoya while trying not to wake him and curls up trying to stop herself from shaking.
Kyoya wakes up groggily to the sound of thunder outside and is about to drift off back to sleep when he feels another curl up next to him. Opening his eyes completely he remember his fiancée's fear. "Haruhi." He calls jumping up.
"I'm sorry did I wake you?" she asks, her voice is barely audible.
"No the thunder did. Sorry I didn't realize you were next to me I remembered your fear and was going to head up to your room." He explains, as she gets up and wraps her arms around him.
"When did this storm even start?" she asks, as he hugs her tightly.
"I don't know, but it couldn't have started too long ago, or the others would be trying to make sure you were okay as well." He sighs. "Are you tired?"
"No." She sighs. "I just woke up. I know I'm not going to be able to get to sleep for probably the rest of the night with this storm."
"You want to go upstairs? If we do eventually fall asleep I don't want to others to find us in the morning in here." He says kissing the top of her head.
"Sure your room or mine?" she asks.
"…Did the twins give you back your key?"
"Yeah it's on my nightstand." She tells him, as another flash of lightning lights up the room and she clings to him desperately.
"Mine then and don't worry Haruhi I have you." He tells her picking her up and carrying her bridal style and out of the room.
"…Haruhi I want to try something to get rid of your fear." Kyoya tells her later, as they are both curled up in his bed. He was met with silence, but he knew she was listening. "I'm not going to force you into doing anything, but it will distract you for a while and possibly help both of us fall back asleep."
"…I was actually thinking the same thing, but I was too scared to say it." She laughs weakly.
"You're secretly a temptress aren't you?" He laughs and kisses her neck.
"S…shut up." She laughs, as the sound of thunder covered the room again and she clung somehow even tighter to him.
He rolls over and positions her directly underneath him. "My voice will be the only one you hear for a while all right?" he tells her and she only nods. "I love you Haruhi." He states, before leaning down and kissing her neck.
"I love you too Kyoya." She murmurs giving in and wrapping her arms around his neck. The storm outside being completely forgotten, as another flash of lightning went off and for the first time in eleven years she didn't react.
Day 5
"Haruhi, Haruhi open up." Hikaru was knocking on her door around eight –thirty the next morning.
"Hika-chan, Kao-chan, Tama-chan what are you all doing?" Hunny asks coming out of his room to see the three of them standing outside of Haruhi's room.
"There's a bad storm outside today, we just want to make sure Haruhi isn't curled up in her room crying." Kaoru explains, as Hikaru knocks on the door again.
"Well what if she's sleeping peacefully and doesn't know about the storm yet?" Hunny suggests. "You don't want to ruin her sleep if she doesn't even know yet."
"…If she's sleeping we definitely don't want to wake her up." Tamaki murmurs.
"Look if she's still not downstairs by the time Kyo-chan wakes up then we can check on her okay?" Hunny suggests, as Mori wanders out of his room. 'She may not even be in her room at all.' He thinks.
Haruhi wakes up sore. The first morning she woke up was nothing compared to this, but being safely wrapped in Kyoya's arms made her think it was okay. Rolling over slightly she looks through the crack in the drapes to see that the sky was still pitch dark and covered by dark clouds. 'So today is going to be stormy.' She yawns and suddenly laughs inwardly realizing this is the first time she's woken up and doesn't care about how bad the storm is. Finding her phone on one end of the bed she checks the time. '10:52 AM …we should really get up.' She thinks managing to sit up slightly.
"Haruhi." She hears Kyoya murmur; as she frees herself from his grasp and kisses him swiftly. His eyes open slightly and she smiles at him.
"It's almost eleven, we really need to get up." She tells him.
"This week at the beach is really ruining your sleeping pattern isn't it?" He asks getting up slowly. "Aren't you usually awake by eight?"
"Whose fault do you really think it is?" she asks smirking and climbing out of bed slowly and trying not to show him how sore she was.
"Yet you still love me." He smirks finding a pair of shorts.
"Yet I still love you." She sighs, wrapping herself up in a robe and wandering past a mirror. "Oh…damn it Kyoya." She groans looking at herself quickly.
"What?" He asks yawning and wandering over to where she was standing.
"How am I supposed to explain this?" She asks pointing to a bruise on her neck, but knowing where it came from.
"Oh yeah forgot about that." He almost laughs. "But you weren't complaining when I gave it to you."
"Kyoya"
"All right, all right just put some ice on it for now and the swelling will at least go down." He tells her, as she nods and walks into the bathroom a thought occurs to him. "…Haruhi are you all right?" he asks memories from last night coming back.
"I'm a little sore." She admits. "But really it's nothing too bad." She assures him wandering out of the bathroom with an ice pack on her neck, as a flash of lightning goes off outside.
He waits for her to react, but she simply walks back over to the bed and lies down. "Haruhi are you-?"
"Okay? Yep." She answers cheerfully. "Looks like your idea helped a lot." She gets up and smiles at him.
"Yet I ended up hurting you." He sighs.
"And because of that I'm not afraid of storms anymore." She smiles walking over to him and giving him a long lingering kiss. "It's okay all right? I'll be fine, besides like you said you didn't hear me complaining last night."
"Haruhi"
"I think the twins packed a chocker for me to wear, so it'll be able to cover my neck." She mutters half to herself.
"Haruhi" he growls, grabbing her arm and turning her around to face him.
"What is it Kyoya?" she asks.
"I hurt you." He states. "You should be angry with me, yet you're walking around like it doesn't matter and are trying to figure out ways to cover it up?"
"Kyoya I told you I don't mind. It's really not that bad and it seems I'm over my fear." She notes.
"Yeah for now, how long do you think it'll last?" he asks.
"Well every time something goes off outside I'm able to think of you protecting me, so I'm going to bet it'll last for a really long time." She laughs.
"Haruhi"
"Kyoya, I'm fine really." She sighs kissing him again.
"…All right fine." He gives in kissing her back, this time kissing her back.
"Good, so I'm going to go take a shower and find something to wear today." She smiles at him. "I'll meet you downstairs in a little while okay?"
"Okay." He smiles back at her warmly, before she heads back into her own room. 'She really is in a good mood this morning.' He notes grabbing a set of clothes and walking into one of the bathrooms.
"Kyoya, did you see Haruhi on your way down?" Tamaki asks, as he walks into the dining room.
"No, but I found her in her room." He states. "She should be down in a few minutes."
"You woke her up?" the twins ask in disbelief.
"She wouldn't want to sleep past noon two days in a row, so yes I woke her up." He tells them sitting down and pouring himself a cup of coffee.
"She wasn't affected by the storm outside?" Tamaki asks.
"I don't think she realizes there's a storm outside Tamaki." He replies. "But I suppose it'll be hard to miss now," as a crack of lightning goes off.
"One of us should go make sure she gets down here safely." Tamaki suggests.
"There's no need for that I'm already here." Haruhi's voice comes from the doorway.
Kyoya turns to face her and sees she's wearing the white chocker she was talking about earlier, which to his surprise had a black flower on it that was just the right size to hide the mark on her neck. She was also wearing black tights, a tube-top white dress that cut off just above her knees, and a balloon sleeved cropped black jacket.
"What's with you guys and just packing dresses or blouses?" she asks wandering over to the group.
"Why not, they look great on you and we packed a yukata for you to wear to the festival." The twins grin.
"Did you already know there was going to be a festival?" she asks curiously.
"No, we guessed." They reply.
"Fine." She sighs and sits down between them.
'She's being really calm, maybe she really doesn't know about the storm outside.' The twins think handing her an apple.
"So Haru-chan what do you want to do today?" Hunny asks.
She was about to answer when a huge crack of thunder is heard throughout the room. Everybody waits with bated breath for her reaction, but she only pauses for about two seconds and blinks. "Well since I know we can't go outside I was just going to let you guys decide what we can do in the house." She replies taking a bite of her apple and watches three of them stare at her in shock. Hunny and Mori both look at Kyoya eyebrows raised, who only shrugs and drinks his coffee.
"Oh yeah. I guess I'm over my fear of thunderstorms." She tells them realizing that's probably what they were wondering.
"When…how?" Tamaki asks.
"I don't know I guess the first night we were here and all of you stayed in my room." She shrugs. "I think I just realized I didn't need to be afraid because I have all of you with me." She sees Kyoya smirk and gives him a quick glare.
"I knew we would break you of that horrible fear eventually." Tamaki cries happily running over to her and embracing her.
"Damn it Sempai, get off me." She groans, trying to hide the pain, as he lets her go. "So, as I was saying what do you all want to do? Seeing as we're stuck inside today it really doesn't matter." She asks taking a bite of a roll.
"I say we settle down with some popcorn and hot chocolate and watch more of those movies." The twins suggest.
"Oh yeah, what are we on like five?" She asks.
"Yep, you fell asleep about the middle of four." They laugh.
"Shut up I was exhausted from wandering around town most of the afternoon." She retorts.
"Whatever." They grin. "So boss you want to watch five and six?"
"Of course, but if Haruhi doesn't-"
"I'll be fine sempai. I'll just sit at the table in the back of the room and read, write, or I can mess around on my laptop." She assures him. 'I really should check the club's website and see what pictures Kyoya has put up.' She sighs inwardly.
"Well…if you're sure." He mutters
"Sempai I promise I'll still be in the room with all of you. I just won't be paying much attention to the movie okay?" she sighs.
"All right the twins and I will get everything set up then. While you go and grab what you want from your room." Tamaki tells her, as the three of them leave the room.
"Haru-chan…are you really all right?" Hunny asks, after making sure the others were completely gone.
"What? Sempai I'm fine." She laughs, as Mori walks over to her and points to the chocker with his eyebrows raised. Sighing and knowing there was no way to hide it from him she pulls it down slightly to show him the mark.
"I figured it was something like that." Hunny laughs weakly.
"Sempai I'm fine." Haruhi states pulling it back up.
"I know Haru-chan. I just wanted to make sure I was right about why your fear went away." He smiles at her. "I am glad you're not scared anymore though."
"Thank you." She smiles at him.
"Ice" Mori states.
"I promise to ice it again when I go upstairs to grab my things." She assures him and he gives her a quick nod.
"All right well we're going to go make the popcorn and hot chocolate. See you guys in a little while." Hunny says heading over to the kitchen. "And Kyo-chan I know you're trying to let the others find out, but that's definitely not the way to do it."
"I am well aware of that Sempai thank you." Kyoya sighs, as they disappear into the kitchen and he turns to her. "Your two 'cousins' are really protective of you aren't they?" he smirks.
"Yes, but I'm grateful." She smiles.
"C'mon then let's head upstairs." He tells her putting an arm around her shoulder.
"I'm curious as to why the others aren't asking me why I have a laptop though." She murmurs.
"The twins think Tamaki gave it to you and Tamaki thinks the twins gave it to you." He answers. "None of them want to ask the other because they all want to find out on their own that you are dating one or the other."
"So they all think I'm dating the other?" she asks in disbelief.
"Yes." He replies.
"Great this could be interesting." She sighs.
"Well they'll all figure it out eventually. For now we should just head upstairs and grab what we want to bring downstairs to do." He tells her.
"What you're not going to watch the movie with the others?" she asks laughing.
"Please, after the third one I grew bored." He states. "I'll just sit in the back with you and work."
"Try to keep your hands and feet to yourself." She smirks
"No promises." He murmurs kissing the top of her head, before they walk out of the room. A flash of lightning goes off and Haruhi only smiles up at him and kisses him on the cheek.
"Wow, you know exactly when to take the right pictures don't you?" She asks Kyoya about an hour later, as the others were completely engrossed in the movie and she and Kyoya were at the back table both on their laptops.
"What do you mean?" he asks getting up to stand behind her to look at the pictures.
"Well this one of me getting hit in the head with the volleyball." She giggles. "And this one of Tamaki being thrown into the water by Hikaru. You even have one of us all playing poker."
"Yes those were fun to take." He smirks.
"When did you take these pictures of us all asleep on the plane?" she asks clicking on the 'First day' link and showing all of the members asleep and even a photo of herself being carried onto the plane by Tamaki.
"Well I have to be taking pictures everyday for our guests." He explains.
"Have you even taken any of us today?" she asks looking through 'Day Three' pictures and seeing some pictures of the huge pile of sand, but it was mostly Hunny and Mori. With some occasional ones of the seven of them at dinner.
"I have not, though I should figure out what to take a picture of first." He sighs.
"Well we've been in here almost all afternoon. Can you get a good pick of all of them staring at the screen?" she asks curiously looking over to the rest of them to see that they were all glued to the screen.
"No it's too dark in here." He sighs. "But if you want to help me get pictures you can go into the kitchen and bake something sweet for Hunny-sempai."
"If it'll get me out of here fine, but won't they notice if I disappear?" she asks pointing to the others, whose eyes were still glued to the screen.
"Please this movie is already almost two hours in they won't notice you're gone until it's over." He points out.
"All right then I'll be in the kitchen." She closes her laptop and heads out of the room.
"I'll be there in a little while to have some fun taking pictures." He calls after her.
"Hey, where are Haruhi and Kyoya?" Tamaki asks after the movie had finished almost an hour later.
"Haru-chan said something about making a cake for tonight and I think Kyo-chan is taking pictures of it for the site." Hunny tells them. "That or he's upstairs."
"Those two have been spending a lot of time together this week haven't they?" Hikaru asks.
"Mother's just spending some time with daughter its perfectly normal." Tamaki laughs.
"So you're all right with it boss?" Kaoru asks
"Why wouldn't I be?" He tells them after finally finding the sixth movie. "Besides I would have thought that you two would be the ones worrying."
"Why would we worry?" They ask in unison.
Groaning inwardly Hunny grabs Tamaki's arm and drags him from the room. Mori does the same to the twins and takes them to a different room. "Is something wrong Sempai?" Tamaki asks.
"Tama-chan, are you really all right with one of the twins dating Haruhi?" He asks directly.
"…Of course not, but if dating one of them makes Haruhi happy then its fine with me." He sighs.
"So say if it wasn't one of the twins she is dating?"
"What? It's not one of you two is it?"
"No Tama-chan I'm just asking what if?"
"Well I know the twins like her, so I can accept that. But I guess if it was one of you three I might be a bit more angry because you've kept it hidden from the rest of us." He admits.
"So you would be mad if it was Takashi, Kyo-chan, or me." Hunny tries to confirm. "But you would accept it if it was one of the twins?"
"Yes"
"Damn it." Hunny sighs inwardly. 'This is going to be hell when the three of them actually find out.'
"Is something wrong Sempai?" Hikaru asks, as Mori drags them into another room.
"Are you two really okay with Haruhi dating Tamaki?" He asks directly.
"Of course not, but we know that idiot makes her happy." They sigh.
"And what if it wasn't Tamaki she was dating?" he asks.
"What then who is it?"
"No I'm just asking what if?"
"It's been obvious since she joined the club that Tono loves her. But if it's really one of you three we'd probably be a bit angrier because you've kept it hidden." Hikaru tells him, as Kaoru tries to figure out what Mori is actually asking.
"So if it was Tamaki you would accept it, but if it was one of us you wouldn't?" Mori confirms.
"Yes" They answer in unison this time.
'Damn it.' Mori sighs inwardly. 'This is going to be hell. I'm glad Mitsukuni and I already know.'
"How'd it go?" Hunny asks Mori a little while later at the table that Kyoya and Haruhi were using earlier at the back of the room, while the other three were glued to the screen watching the sixth one.
"This isn't going to be fun when they do fit the pieces together." Mori claims.
"All they're missing is one piece of the puzzle and it'll be obvious." Hunny sighs
"I think Kaoru's close." Mori murmurs. "He was looking at me like he was trying to find the hidden meaning in what I was asking them."
"Doesn't surprise me, Hika-chan and Tama-chan are convinced it's one of them, so their oblivious to any other possibilities." Hunny sighs.
"Kyoya really is the Shadow King isn't he?" Mori sighs. "He got to Haruhi first and has kept to the shadows this entire time."
"Can't rule Haruhi out either though, she really is his Queen." Hunny points out.
"Ah" Mori agrees, before they turn back to the movie.
During dinner the storm finally seemed to have stopped, but it was already too dark to go outside and do anything, so after eating the many sweets that Haruhi had managed to make that afternoon. They played poker and other card games for about an hour, until Tamaki began whining that he wanted to watch the next movie seeing as they would all be too tired from the festival the next night to watch any. The twins agreed, but Haruhi was done with watching movies so she and Kyoya went upstairs to their rooms.
Kaoru decides about halfway through the movie to go upstairs and talk to Haruhi. He knew she wouldn't answer, but maybe he could get some clues. Something about the tone in Mori's voice and Haruhi muttering Kyoya's name the morning before got him to really start thinking about what was really going on.
Reaching Haruhi's door he was about to knock when he hears another door open in her room. "Haruhi, have you seen the shirt I usually sleep in?" he hears Kyoya's voice.
"How the hell would I know where that disappeared to?" he hears her laugh. "And c'mon, when you come into my room can you please be wearing something a little more decent?" With that Kaoru knocks once and enters the room. He finds Haruhi sitting on the bed in her nightgown looking like she was reading a book and Kyoya standing shirtless on the other end of the bed wearing only a pair of pajama shorts and a towel wrapped around his neck looking like he just got out of the shower.
"Hello Kaoru, got bored of the movie?" Kyoya asks his voice neutral.
"Actually I came to talk to Haruhi, but…what on earth is going on in here?" he asks looking from one to the other.
"Kyoya-sempai is just looking for something." Haruhi explains calmly. "For whatever reason he thinks it's in my room."
"I was simply curious if you had seen it, but seeing as you don't know I'll leave you two alone then. Good-night Haruhi." Kyoya nods to her before leaving the room.
"Good-night Kyoya-sempai." She calls after him.
The two of them stand there in silence for a few minutes, before Kaoru breaks the silence. "This is a connecting room?"
"Yeah" she answers simply. "I'm sorry I thought you already knew that."
"No, we just thought that Kyoya had a key to every room in the house." Kaoru tells her going over to sit on the bed.
"Well he does, but he thought it would be easier to come through the connecting doors if he needs to talk to me." She explains setting her book aside. "But that isn't really what you want to talk about Kaoru what's up?"
"I came up here to…Haruhi what's that on your neck?" he asks taking a closer look at her.
"Just a bruise I got in the forest yesterday. I didn't want Tamaki-sempai panicking, so I covered it up today." She lies easily and glad it was only Kaoru, who is the calmer twin, who's seen it.
"Wow, you really had a fun time in the forest didn't you?" he laughs. "Yet you were still the first one back."
"That was only luck, which I seem to have a lot of this week." She laughs with him. "So what's up Kaoru?"
"I just wanted to ask you…No, you know what it's nothing." He smiles sadly at her and gets up.
"Kaoru, what's wrong?" Haruhi asks jumping out of bed and stopping him from going out the door.
"It's nothing Haruhi don't worry about it." He grins and kisses the top of her head. "I'll talk to you in the morning all right good-night."
"Good-night Kaoru." She calls after him, as he leaves the room.
"…Damn it, what was that about?" She groans out loud knowing Kyoya would hear her.
"Seems the younger twin may know something after all." Kyoya notes wandering back into the room.
"If he does he isn't ready to admit it yet." Haruhi sighs walking over to Kyoya and he embraces her in a hug. "That or he is trying to convince himself nothing is going on between us."
"He's just going to be proven wrong by the end of the week." Kyoya tells her cupping her cheek and leaning down to kiss her softly.
"I know." She sighs. "Oh and your shirt is hanging up in my bathroom. I decided to tease you and am glad I did."
"Yeah if you had said it was in your bathroom I'm sure Kaoru would have been very happy." He laughs letting her go and walking into her bathroom to re-enter the room a minute later pulling on his shirt. "So I've already lost part of the bet with Hunny-sempai and Mori-sempai and the engagement is going to slip out one way or the other. What do you want to do?" he asks kissing her again.
"We will tell them the day after tomorrow." Haruhi states. "I'm tired of lying and avoiding getting asked questions like Kaoru was doing."
"So the last full day here huh? All right well whatever happens, happens." He sighs. "I know we're both still tired, so do you want to sleep separately tonight?"
"…Actually, do you mind staying in here tonight?" She asks. "We both know we wake up better together and I really don't feel like attempting to wake up the Demon Lord in the morning."
"You act as though I'm hard for you to wake up in the morning." He growls.
"For me not at all, but it's still easier to wake you when I'm sleeping next to you." She points out. "Can you lock my door, just to make sure?" she asks going back over to her bad and putting her book away. "Is your door locked tonight?" She asks, as he moved over to the door.
"Yes, I've made sure of it." He tells her turning off the lights and moving back over to the bed, as she moves over to let him in. "Good-night Haruhi." He tells her, as she cuddles into his chest and he wraps his arms around her.
"Good-night Kyoya." She smiles looking up to kiss him, before closing her eyes and falling asleep.
10,176 words...for only two days? *Sighs inwardly* So glad I decided to split these up. Well now you know why the story is called The Missing Piece, or at least I hope you guys understood that little section. Well the next one is it...not the last chapter of course, but well you know what I mean hopefully it will be up soon. No promises though I have to deal with a few midterms next week so I may be studying a lot this weekend, but i'll try to have the next one up as soon as I can. As usual thank you for the reviews and for reading The Missing Piece. xD