Chapter 13

Mori's POV

I stirred from my uncomfortable sitting position. Crap. I fell asleep on the couch. I moved my head to look around, I felt slight discomfort. It was rare for me to fall asleep watching a movie. I guess I let my guard down. I noticed everyone was still asleep in the same spot they were last night except for one certain female. She wasn't there. Where was she?

She had a really bad habit of doing this. I looked at the clock. 9:10 am. It was still raining outside. I stood up forgetting Mitskuni was asleep beside me. I heard him yawn "Takashi…" he said in a small voice. I looked down "mm?" He sat up "what is wrong Takashi?" he asked me. "Nothing I need to look for something first." I looked around in the basement. Then on the main floor, and the upstairs even the attic no Haruhi.

I came back downstairs. Mitskuni was wide awake now and whispered "Takashi you're looking for Haru-Chan right?" I froze he was good. "Yeah." I answered plainly. He smiled "Why don't you tell her you love her Takashi?" I was stone, he was allot better than I thought. Mitskuni may look cute and not that intelligent but he was very smart. His talents really rested in relationships. "no." I said firmly. Mitskuni sighed "were not in high school anymore Takashi." He stated matter-of-fact like. "I know." I replied thinking where she might be. It was no use on lying to Mitskuni that I don't love her because I knew I did. I figured it out yesterday when she fell and I caught her.

"Then it's time to stop acting like we are." Mitskuni said almost harshly. I scratched my head. "Or someone will take her from you." I turned to look at the little man sitting on the couch. He was right my god he was right. I remembered the tracker Ranka gave me. I reached in my pocket and pulled it out. This time she had her phone with her and she wasn't moving. Either she was at a meeting or something like that. I dialed her number on my phone, it went straight to voicemail. I checked how long the phone had been in the same place trying not to panic. Since 12:43am. Hours ago it had been there what happened?

"What is that Takashi?" "A tracker Ranka gave it to me to keep Haruhi safe." I said trying not to sound like a stalker. "She's not here?" "No and her phone has been in the same place for hours which means she has been or she dropped it. I will be back." "I'll wake everyone up okay?" "Mm"

I put on my jacket and began walking to where the tracker was showing me. I had no idea where I was going so I had to walk slowly. But the path I was taking made me have a strong sense of Déjà vu. Then I saw the walk way down at the end of the hill and the silver railing Haruhi once jumped over. I was heading to that beach. Since I knew where I was going I broke into a sprint. The rain was nothing short of heavy and cold. The winds were strong here. I could see a small amount of my breath.

I looked at the tracker and around the beach. The waves were much larger and more dangerous. I watched the wave's crash into the small broken dock around the beach where the tracker was pointing. Had her phone fallen into the water? Then I saw it. I small figure curled up at the end of the dock. It was being pelted by rain and getting splashes of the waves.

I ran over to the dock as fast I could which wasn't fast because I was running in sand. I ran onto the dock and dropped onto my knees beside Haruhi. My heart stopped. She was soaked to the bone from her cloths to her hair. She was half asleep, shivering, breath was uneven and ragged. I touched her cheek and she was freezing. I took off my jacket letting my white T-Shirt get soaked. I didn't care though.

I curled her up against me in my arms. She shivered and leaned into me. I felt her forehead. It was burning with a very high temperature. She opened her eyes slightly "M…Mori." I nodded "I got you." She tried to reach up but then her hand dropped and her head slumped against my chest. I ran even faster. She had the cold sweats. I finally saw her house down the street.

I burst open the door to see all the host club waiting. Everyone's eyes went wide when they saw me holding the small girl in my arms. I shifted her in my arms and kicked off my shoes. "Kyouya you need to help her! She's sick she's really warm. She has the cold sweats." I got on the main floor with them. Kyouya walked over and placed his hand on Haruhi's head. His eyes shot wide as he touched her.

"Tamaki you come with me to get some medical things from upstairs. Honey get Mori a new shirt. Hikaru, Kaoru get Haruhi some new warm cloths. Mori stay with her but do not give her a blanket she may be cold but we need to cool her down. Tamaki I also need you to get me a cold press." We all broke into different areas of the house. I wanted to grab her a blanket so bad.

I kept her pressed against me hoping my body warmth would do her some good. She clung to me like a child having a nightmare but I couldn't blame her, didn't really want her to move. But now wasn't the time for being selfish. The twins came up with cloths and Mitskuni brought me a new shirt. I carefully moved her in my lap and put on my new shirt. I looked over at the girl in my arms and stripped off her sweater. Revealing the pink spaghetti strap tank top she was wearing last night.

I looked at my little cousin "Mitskuni your knife." The twins looked at me alarmed "what are you doing Mori!" I ignored them and Mitskuni looked up "Its Takashi! He won't hurt her!" They leaned down and whispered "What if he is secretly an S and M pervert." I rolled my eye. Really? Mitskuni produced Usa-Chan out of literally nowhere and hit them over the head with it. Mitskuni handed me his knife and I cut the 2 spaghetti straps. Then not looking I cut half of the side length of her shirt. I took the sweater the twins brought up and placed it on her. I further ripped her shirt and took it off. An effective way of taking off cloths without looking.

I did the same to her pants. Haruhi's shivering got a tinsy bit not as bad. But she was still shaking like crazy. Kyouya walked in and muttered "You can tell a woman tend the house (I'm including Ranka when I say woman… he is a tranny that's woman enough.)." Hikaru flashed him a look "what do you mean Kyouya?" Hikaru asked. "There medical things were beside and behind some scary lady products." Kyouya responded a tiny bit sounding scarred. The twins burst out laughing, I was smirking myself in tell Haruhi moved in my arms pressing closer to me.

Kaoru shrugged "well you got the stuff didn't you." Tamaki walked into the room with supplies in hand "no he got me to use Ranka's straightening and curling iron to get them out." The twins laughed harder. Everything got silent as Kyouya pulled out the thermometer. Haruhi opened her eyes, she looked dazed. She looked up at me then drowsily looked at Kyouya. "Haruhi I need you to open your mouth and put this under your tongue." She did as she was told but you could tell from her eyes the world was spinning.

Haruhi was breathing heavily and could barely keep up her own weight. She looked up at me once more and then teetered forward then back into my chest. She was weak, very weak. Kyouya took the thermometer out and nodded "Tamaki pass me the cold cloth." I kept my arms securely around Haruhi as she bounced in and out of consciousness. Haruhi shivered violently when Kyouya pressed the cold cloth to her forehead. Kyouya dunked his hands in cold water and pressed them to her neck. Haruhi gasped to the touch.

Kyouya stared at Haruhi "if she starts to hallucinate don't panic." Well I did. "What?" I asked. "Her fever is so high she might hallucinate, her fever is at 105. She's weak and delusional we pretty much have to do everything for her." Kyouya stated. Kyouya pressed the cold cloth against her again. Violent shivers racked through her body. Mitskuni looked over "Kyo-Chan why are you doing that she's already cold?" "We must cool her down if we don't and she gets worse she has to go to the hospital. That's why we can't give her a blanket until she cools down."

"What about Mori?" Hikaru asked "She's attaching onto him." "Because Mori is an available heat source plus he keeps her warm but not so much to raise her temperature. He is also a good guardian so currently he is perfect." Great now I was a heating pad wearing knight armour. But at the moment I was content. I looked over at my cousin who was wearing a knowing smirk on his face. I could swear he was evil.

Tamaki cocked his head to the side "How did you find Haruhi, Mori?" I pulled the tracker out of my pocket "Ranka gave me this so I can find her. It's linked to her phone." Tamaki took it in his hand "well is her phone ruined?" Kyouya pulled her phone out of the soaking sweater on the ground "It has a water proof case. She could actually go swimming with this and her phone would be fine." Tamaki inspected it "COMMONERS THERE SO SMART!" I rolled my eyes and took the tracker back. Mitskuni smirked "why would he give it to you Takashi?" "He said he trusts me." I said plainly hoping not to give off everything.

Haruhi stirred and tried to sit up. She looked at us all dizzily. Kyouya got her attention "Haruhi." "Mmm Kyouya?" she asked. "Yes it's me but I need you to tell me how your feeling." She looked around the room, she looked like she was drugged. "cold…" she rocked back and forth unknowingly. "Cold, the world, it's spinning, I'm seeing weird things." Kyouya lined his face straight up with hers "Haruhi… hey I need you to listen to me." She nodded. "You have a very high fever, you might hallucinate so don't panic. Now we cannot give you blankets just yet, not tell your fever comes down. We're going to have to keep a cold press on you until it goes down." She shivered fiercely again and made a pained sound. Her teeth were chattering.

Haruhi leaned into me again "Your warm." she said quietly. I tried to discard the uncontrollable beats coming from my chest. Haruhi looked at Kyouya "you know everything right?" Kyouya pushed up his glasses "I don't know everything but I know a fair amount of knowledge yes." "How do you know if you in love with someone?"

Kyouya looked taken back by the question, well everyone was. But we remembered she was drowsy, confused and not thinking straight. "Well I'm not so sure Haruhi I myself have never been in love." She cocked her head "that's dull." Kyouya looked a bit offended "well have you?" She shook again and took a huge breath "weeell I don't know… I don't know what it feels like so I could have and not noticed." Kyouya shook his head "I'm sure you would know when you know." She smiled, who did she love? They had to be in the host club, but what if they were in the gang. My mind reeled.

Kyouya dabbed her with the cold water again, "Sorry," She fell asleep in my arms once again. She was so weak she couldn't stay awake for long periods of time. Kyouya touched her cheeks and forehead "her temperature lowered slightly, luckily. If it gets higher we have to bring her to hospital." Luckily Kyouya's calm and collected attitude came in handy right now. Kyouya got a water bottle and put some sort of medicine in with the water. Kyouya shook Haruhi waking her up just enough to take a drink. But she choked and sputtered. But after choking she fell right to sleep once more.

Everyone waited out in the living room, it wasn't that we felt obligated to it was that we cared. But the twins, Tamaki and Mitskuni were playing cards. Kyouya and I kept eyes on Haruhi. But then I saw her face twist in fear and pain.

Haruhi's Dream: Haruhi's POV

I looked around while. I could hear someone's voice singing a haunting creepy twisted version of a song I didn't know, but it wasn't any voice. It was my mother's voice. The world was faded in colour and blurred in some places when clear in others, it was like a movie scene. I see the note that read 'how much do you value your friends?'. But it faded to black. I saw my host club friends and the gang friends. I run over but just before I get there everything goes black and shots are fired. I whipped around trying to find where the shots came from. Then I felt something run across my feet. I looked down to see blood running across my feet forming a puddle. I screamed and found a gun in my hand. I didn't need to look up to see whose blood it was. I knew but I looked up anyways. I seen them… all my friends, gone. Dead. My worse fear, when a voice whistled through the wind "You may as well have pulled the trigger." I dropped to my knees and screamed.

Normal, Mori POV

Haruhi's face twisted more and more until she started to scream. I panicked this screaming wasn't just I'm scared fear. It was I'm terrified fear. The scream piercing through the air caused everyone to stop what they were doing and look. Haruhi twisted into my arms and clung to me as if she was going to drown in a river and I was the last thing to keep her afloat. Haruhi let out a choked scream and then a gasp as she tried to sit up fast.

Everyone stared at her as breathed heavily trying to regain her heartbeat which I could feel on her wrist which was holding my arm from her terror. Kyouya leaned down "Are you alright?" Haruhi shook her head "mmm yeah bad dream." Kyouya gave her the thermometer to put back under her tongue. Tamaki walked over and bent down "Are you okay my princess?" Even sick Haruhi rolled her eyes. Kyouya took the thermometer from Haruhi and smiled "You can have blankets now. Mori take her to her room please." I nodded.

I scooped up Haruhi and brought her down to her room. I placed her down. But as I went to pull my hand away she grabbed it "Stay please." I smiled and pulled a chair keeping my hand in hers and nodded "mm." was all I could say.