Hey, this is 41, just like i promised :)

hope you all liked the last chapter... yes, Kyouya was a bit pervy, but don't worry...

IT SHALL ALL GET MORE PERVY IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE! BWA HAHAHA!!

sorry... insane moment. but true, I can actually write a lot worse... a LOT.

Thanks again to my reviewers... though I'm kind of sad that they're dwindling... if you're just tuning in now, could you go back and eview the last chapter if you havn't already...

This one has more Mori + Saori in it... appologies now... don't hate me, kay you lot?

I hope you lot like this...

enjoy~


"Hey Haruhi, thanks for letting me come over this weekend."

"I said before, no problem. Besides my dad loves having you around."

We carried on chatting as we walked back to her house from the supermarket. We actually looked (kind of) girly today. She was wearing a long pink dress over a white tee, with blue crop pants under. She even had a beaded necklace on!

I was wearing a red plaid skirt, that came to my mid thighs. I had a nice short sleeved shirt on, with a red plaid tie to match my skirt. I had a black waistcoat on over my shirt, my hair was flicking out everywhere and I was wearing black leather gloves to finish off the whole punk look. Add my red and black converse to the equation, and I looked pretty cool. (A/N: yea, I like red and black...)

"That was some sale at the supermarket though, I can't believe how much stuff we got." she grinned at me. Yeah, Haruhi was like my female bff at Ouran, so we tended to hang around each others houses at weekends and chill, cheat on homeworks, stuff like that. It was fun.

"Haruhi, do you need help with cleaning or laundry? I don't mind."

"You're a guest, I can't have you cleaning my room!" she started to laugh.

"Why not? You clean my room when you come to mine."

"It's habit... sorry."

We continued walking, just chattering on, when we finally turned to get to Haruhi's apartment, we stopped dead.

There was a Rolls Royce and a Ferrari parked in front of her home, and a crowd of people gathered around.

"What the-?" she muttered.

"It's the guys..." I told her. And sure enough, Tamaki climbed out, followed by Kyouya, Hikaru, Kaoru, Mori then Honey.

"Ughh..." Haruhi slammed her head into the nearest lamp post, dropping her bags.

"Come on Haru;" I said, nudging her and picking up her bags. "We might as well face them."

We walked towards them, and heard snippets of what Tamaki was saying.

"The words shabby, cramped and rundown are completely forbidden! Don't say anything that might offend Haruhi and her father and cause them to ask us to leave."

"Well it's too late for that! Go away!" shouted Haruhi, a vein popping on her head.

"Chill dude, he's a moron. He's bound to say stupid things."

They turned to her, looked her over and gave a thumbs up.

"That pink dress is really cute!" chorused the ditzier four.

"Shut up, get the hell outta here!"

Tamaki looked horrified then started blaming the twins, then the landlady walked over to ask if anything was wrong, so I left Haruhi to that, and went to talk to the guys.

"Wha'cha doin' here?" I asked in a sing song voice.

"Tamaki wanted to see what Haruhi's house was like, but didn't want to come alone." replied Kyouya, he then gave a a one over look and smiled.

"You look very punk-rock today."

"Why thank you. You look very normal... considering you're normally in a steamed and pressed uniform."

He just smiled, then turned to stop Tamaki and the twins bickering. Mori stepped forward and smiled at me (it was a regular thing now) while Honey hopped up onto my back.

"Hi Saori~" chuckled Honey, hugging me around my neck.

"Hey Honey, hi Mori."

"Hi Saori... you look cute." he murmured.

I felt myself blush, and Honey did a weird little giggle thing, before hopping off and running back to the cars to get something.

"T-thanks Mori." I muttered, looking down.

"You can call me Takashi you know."

I looked up at him, his gray eyes were slightly wider than they normally were, and he had a pink tinge to his cheeks... and I had butterfly's in my stomach.

Oh hell... I know that feeling.

"Thanks Takashi. I think everyone's going upstairs now though."

And indeed, Haruhi was stomping up the steps with the others in tow.

"I'm only letting you guys have a quick peek. Then you all go home." she snapped.

"Look, I brought you a gift Haru-chan, I know how you love cake. There's both chocolate and strawberry!"

Honey held out a box, and I smirked. Clever little bugger.

"Fine, I guess I'll make some tea..." muttered Haruhi, looking slightly annoyed.

She opened her door, and everyone crowded to see in.

"What a hovel..." muttered Hikaru to himself, but me and Tamaki heard, so I elbowed him in the ribs and Tamaki went about clawing his face off.

We all went in, and for a moment there was some fuss about shoes, but they soon got over that and walked in, thanking Haruhi for inviting them. She didn't look too pleased.

I grinned at her as I walked past, and she gave me her exasperated half smile, before I sat between Takashi and Kyouya... it was the only space left.

Hikaru gave Haruhi some tea, but kicked up a fuss because they didn't think she had a teapot.

"Guys... she's not stupid and she's not living in poverty... she has a teapot. Chill."

They ignored me (like that's a surprise) and decided on a game. Whoever embarrassed Haruhi first lost. Kyouya got up to look at books, and said from the corner;

"While your antics are amusing, I don't understand why you feel the need to turn this into a contest."

"They're stupid. That's why." I muttered... but no-one heard me.

"Okay guys, tea's ready. I'm sorry that not all of the cups match."

Honey opened the box of cakes. There were seven slices.

Haruhi got to pick first, so she had strawberry. Honey gave the other two strawberry cakes to himself and Takashi, and the chocolate went to the other four.

"Oh, Sa-Chan... there isn't enough for you..." Honey looked on the verge of tears, so I patted him on the head and smiled reassuringly.

"It's okay Honey." Then I heard Takashi speak up.

"She can share mine."

I looked at him curiously (felt myself blushing... again. Damn me to hell) but smiled.

"Thanks."

The cake was delicious. Though there was a bit of a debate as to who would have the last strawberry as there were five. We ended up letting Haruhi have it. It was rather fun fighting over the cream too, but once everyone had finished, they wanted lunch.

Cheeky gits or what? Then Kyouya went and topped it off.

"We'll take care of it, seeing as we did drop in unexpectedly. So, we'll pay for lunch. Why don't you just order us some of your favourite sushi?"

"Thanks, but no thanks. I know if I let you guys pay, I'll only regret it later."

"Oh don't worry Haruhi. We'll just pay for it with the profits of the photo's of you we auctioned."

Haruhi's face dropped like a ton of bricks, so I jumped in.

"Use mine, I don't have a debt to pay." Kyouya just shrugged, then looked back at Haruhi.

"Well, if that's what you want, I do have a friend who runs a nice little sushi shop nearby, so I can just give him a call. Their stuffs pretty high quality."

Tamaki then pissed her off (again) with a note, and then Honey jumped in, looking cute.

"I'd love it if you could make us something for lunch Haru-chan."

Amazingly, Haruhi agreed. But she then said that she had to go to the store, and of course, everyone else wanted to go.

"Well, that's it, so much for having the day off today..."

I grinned at her.

"Buck up Haruhi. I'll cash in so it ain't costing you an arm and a leg."

I walked out to go to the others, and Haruhi stayed behind for a moment.

"Guys, why do you all want to go?" I asked them, sliding down the banister ('cos I couldn't be bothered walking) and landing in front of them.

"It could be fun~"

"Yeah."

"A learning experience. I'd be able to observe commoners up close in their normal everyday routine of shopping."

"We're just curious."

"Sure, of course." I chuckled, straightened my tie and smoothed out my skirt, but saw the twins looking at me.

"You look pretty cool today." smiled Kaoru.

"You should dress like this more often." added Hikaru.

I just smiled and nodded to humor them, and went back to staring at the ground. But I could feel them all staring at me.

I sighed. "What?"

"Just wondering why you don't dress like this all the time." said Kyouya.

"I just don't normally wear skirts."

"We noticed."

Then I saw someone walking up to us all. It was Ranka.

"Ah Saori! What a surprise to see you here!" he was dressed as a woman, and he pulled me into a tight hug, which was kinda awkward seeing as the others were all staring.

"Look at you, in a skirt. Very chic, I should take some pointers from you~ Ah, if only my little Haruhi dressed like you!"

Hikaru caught on, and stared at Ranka.

"You're Haruhi's dad?"

"Yes. What's it to you?" snapped Ranka, glaring at Hikaru.

"Nothing..." he averted his eyes, string at his shoes.

"Let's go upstairs~" I was dragged, back upstairs, and when we opened the door, we were astounded to see Tamaki on top of Haruhi.

"H-Hey dad." she stuttered. Tamaki said nothing, but the look of utter horror on his face was priceless.

I wish I had a camera...

I felt Ranka's grip on my arm leave, and no sooner had I realized that did I notice him drag Tamaki off Haruhi and launch him across the room.

"Ow, shit! That's gonna bruise..." I gasped, stepping forward and retrieving my phone from my waistcoats pocket ready to phone for an ambulance.

"What were you doing with my daughter young man?" growled Ranka.

Dear lord... protect Tamaki...