Two chapters in two days. I struggled with this chapter. I don't own Ouran High School Host Club. You already knew that though because I've said it before and you remembered it.

Chapter 7

Finding all the guests wasn't hard. Telling them all the plan wasn't hard. It was getting them to act in a calm manner that was hard. They began rushing off to their limos and expensive cars. All to go save a girl that didn't acknowledge the fact that they existed.

Why did they care so much? She hated them. How was I going to get there? Walk? A limo pulled up in front of the gates. The window rolled down and Honey-senpai stuck his head out and waved.

"Come on Haru-chan!" I smiled and ran towards the limo. Why do all these rich people have limos? Why couldn't they just use a regular car?

I got in quickly. There was an obvious tension. Kaoru and Hikaru were staring at the road. Tamaki was twiddling his fingers. Honestly, I never thought I'd say or think twiddling his fingers.

Kyoya was on his phone. Mori was silent. Oddly enough, Honey-senpai was quiet. I kept looking at everyone. Eventually we stopped.

I got out quietly. And then I realized that there was no reason to be quiet because there was a full-out riot going on. It was led by Renge. She was standing on a platform that was in the courtyard, yelling that they would not rest until Azami was back at Ouran. How did she even get a platform here?

"All right Haruhi." Tamaki had suddenly appeared next to me. "You ready to sneak in there and save our newest host?!"

"No."

"There's nothing to stop you. Just make sure nobody recognizes you."

"Have you forgotten that it's an all-girls school? Even if they didn't recognize me, they'd attack me for thinking I was a guy. And the fact that I'm wearing an Ouran uniform."

"Don't worry Haruhi. They'll be so distracted trying to fight off all the guests that they won't notice you."

This plan was going to fail miserably. Something would go wrong. Despite this, I ran into the battlefield. There were girls fighting everywhere. There was even a few that were bleeding. I didn't think that this would be so serious. Scratch that- I knew it would. I just didn't think it would be so harsh.

I caught a glimpse of Benibara being tackled by several guests and then Lobelia students jumping on top of the guests to try to save Benibara, but just probably suffocated her even more.

I made it to the door without dying. I opened the door, knowing that something dreadful would happen. There was nothing behind the door that was remotely bad except that there was even more fighting. Which really isn't that bad.

I ran past the fighting and up the stairs. There was still more fighting. Really, I didn't think that we had that many guests. It doesn't really matter. I was quite surprised that nobody had noticed. I opened the first door to the left and found Azami hanging to the ceiling by her ankles.

She wasn't facing me, so I couldn't really tell if she was unconscious or not. But that wasn't really a part of my job. I just had to get her out of here.

How was I going to get her down from there? I looked around, but the room was pretty much empty except Azami, the rope that was holding her up, and the chair the rope was tied to. I facepalmed at my stupidity. I just had to untie the rope from the chair and lower Azami to the ground carefully.

So I did just that. It was easy. I untied the rope from her ankles afterwards too, but it seemed too easy. I looked around to see if there was a person I hadn't noticed earlier, but there wasn't.

"Azami?" She didn't answer me. I shook her shoulders. "Azami! Wake up!" That didn't work so I decided to check her pulse.

It was there. I had to either wake her up or carry her away. And I couldn't figure out which would be faster. Taking her out of here would be safer than sitting in here if someone walks in. So I dragged her into the closest supply closet and continued to try to wake her up.

"Azami, wake up already." I finally resorted to slapping her across the face. It did its job well. She woke and suddenly punched me. "Ouch."

Then I think she realized it was me.

"Haruhi? I- How did you find me?"

"There are some advantages to going to school with a bunch of rich people. Especially when Tamaki-senpai decides that we need to do something. It was his idea to get you out of here."

"What?"

"Just follow me."

I opened the closet door and looked both ways before walking out. Then I had to pull Azami out because she wouldn't leave.

"What are you doing?" She whispered to me.

"You used to go here. Is there a back way out?"

"No. And you didn't answer my question."

"I'm getting you out of here. Any more questions before we run into a battlefield?" She raised an eyebrow. "What?"

"Well, I was just thinking that we probably should have left this very quiet part of the school before Benio walked up behind you."

"And Benio is?"

"The insane student behind you."

I turned around and saw Benibara. Is Benio her real name? It's been a long time since she introduced herself to me. And I try to forget the day she kidnapped me. I looked back at Azami and saw that she back up against the closet door.

"Azami Watanabe. It's been a long time."

"Leave me alone. You're no better than my mother." Benibara looked quite amused by this statement.

"I never hit you."

"Shut up you beast."

"Being at Ouran has ruined your manners."

"I like it more at Ouran than I did here. There I can be as antisocial as I want." I didn't know what was going on. Then Benibara turned to me.

"Haruhi. I haven't seen you in a long time either. That was a daring plan you came up with to steal Azami from us again."

"Leave her out of this Benio. We both know you don't like me. Why does my attendance here matter? Because you lost someone that could be another member of your crazed fan club?"

Before I understood what was happening, Benibara pushed me out of the way and smacked Azami across the face. I was completely dumbfounded. This was very shocking.

"Don't talk to me that way!" And even more to my surprise, Azami began to laugh. "Wh- what?" Benibara was taken aback by it as well.

"I'll talk to you however I want. Now get the hell away from me and stay away from me or will do something about it."

Benibara clenched her fists and punched Azami, but her laughter increased and got louder. She fell to ground, laughing as if this was a joke. She was laughing like it would all go away like it was a dream. That she'd wake up in that "very nice alleyway" she had said she'd been living in.

I grabbed Azami's arm and began to pull her away from Benibara and to the stairs. She managed to get on her feet and we left Benibara standing in the hallway. Unfortunately her state of shock ended as she yelled for people to stop us.

We made it to the courtyard. Somehow Renge had seen us from her mysterious platform.

"Make a shield around Haruhi and Azami!"

Suddenly there were guests all around us. I knew that something would go wrong. Benibara had seen us, and she won't let us out easily. The gates to the courtyard shut. That was our way out. If we get Azami out then the gates will open again.

I looked at Renge's platform.

"Azami, we need to get you on the platform."

"You're joking right?"

"No. We get you on the platform and you jump over the gate."

"You really think I can jump that far? I'm flattered but I'm not talented in the art of jumping."

"Jumping isn't an art. You bend your legs and jump. It's simple."

"Well I'm not good at jumping. I can't jump that far."

"Just try. It's that or being stuck here."

I looked at Azami's panicking face and knew that she'd do it. She rather die trying to jump over the gate than be stuck here.

"Damn it Haruhi. I can't jump." I looked at her pleadingly. "If I die trying this, you're paying for my funeral because I sure as hell can't afford it."

We made it to the platform. Somehow. Lobelia students were crowding around us and I swear Azami was about to go unconscious. Renge helped her up and reached down to help me, but a person pulled me.

And the world went black.

I feel terrible putting that cliffhanger there but that's what I've done. I'm sorry if you hate me for it.