A/N: Hi! I'm so happy to finally be able to type up my stories again. =D It's been forever. Anyway, I don't have much to say but to enjoy this next chapter! Thanks for reading and being patient!

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Chapter 7- Falling For You

The day of the Grand Ball was tomorrow night and the whole school was excited for it- mostly the girls because they knew that they would have the chance to dance with one of the hosts.

It was around four in the afternoon and everyone was in the ballroom, checking if everything was in place and setting up last minute details.

"More to the left! … A little more… Stop! That's good Takashi!" Hunny was on the floor looking up at Mori- who was on a step-ladder putting up a banner in the front entrance. Mori pinned up the banner and walked his way down the ladder. "We're done Kyouya." He said.

"…Alright, you two can take a break," Kyouya was standing a few feet away from where Haruhi and Hikaru were, "but when Tamaki finally gets here, can you two help him bring in the last of the table settings?"

"Sure thing!" Hunny said.

"… Argh! Kyouya! Hurry up and tell us where you want this… pot-thing! It's heavy!" Hikaru yelled.

"Seriously! I don't have a lot of upper body strength you know!" Haruhi whined.

Hikaru and Haruhi were holding a large pot, or vase, like thing that was half their size and about thirty-five pounds heavier than them and Kyouya had been making them hold for at least ten minutes now.

Kyouya just looked at his clipboard. "I think things would go faster if there wasn't so much complaining…"

Haruhi and Hikaru tried to look at each other. "I think he's enjoying this." Haruhi said.

"He is the shadow king… Let's just put this there." Hikaru finally said. Hikaru started to walk forwards so that Haruhi would start to walk in the direction of where he wanted to go. They set the pot down in front of a large pillar.

Haruhi and Hikaru trotted off to a nearby table to sit down. Their hands were really red.

"See? That wasn't so hard but that's not where I wanted the vase to be." Kyouya pointed to the other side of the room. "I wanted it over there."

Haruhi and Hikaru dropped their heads on the table in exhaustion.

About fifteen minutes later, Tamaki finally had come into the ballroom with a box. He seemed happier today than he did before. "The rest of the silverware arrived Kyouya!" He called out as he was walking to a table where Hikaru, Kaoru, Mori and Hunny were. Haruhi was sitting nearby by herself.

"Great. We can finish the tables and then that would be all there is left to do." Kyouya checked off the last thing on his clipboard.

Tamaki opened the box and pulled out all the wrappings and things, took out the spoons, forks and knives along with some small elegant plates. He handed the small bundles of everything to Mori, Hikaru, Kaoru, and Hunny to put them on the tables.

Haruhi just sat by herself and watched them, every so often her gaze stopped to watch Tamaki and the things he did… she couldn't help but smile to herself…

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Suoh-san had a stunned look on his face. He was hunched over his desk to hear what Kimi had spoken ever so softly and his mouth slightly dropped. "…And you're sure of this?" He said sitting back a little to look at her.

"Positive." Kimi smiled almost devilishly.

Suoh-san sat back into his chair still in disbelief. "… Why would Fujioka-san do this? It just doesn't seem like… her."

"I understand how you feel. I don't quite get it myself…" Kimi crossed her legs and shook her head. "A girl pretending to be a boy pretending to be a girl? …How absurd."

"How long has this been going on? Do you know?"

"For all I know, it could have started when she first arrived here at Ouran."

Suoh-san put his head in his hands obviously thinking over the situation very thoroughly.

"…So what are you going to do?" Kimi urged on.

"There's no doubt that this is unacceptable: the fact that she had lied to not only me but the entire student body…" Kimi stared at him with impatience. "I suppose I'm going to have to…" Suoh-san paused again.

Kimi stood up feeling pleased but acting concerned. "Alright then." She turned around from her chair and walked towards the door then stopped. "I suggest that maybe you announce your decision at the Grand Ball tomorrow night. To let the whole school know at once and tell the truth." Kimi opened the door and left with a smile on her face.

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-The night of the Grand Ball-

As the students of Ouran arrived to the ballroom, they were in constant awe by how beautiful everything looked. Kyouya was very proud of himself and prided the comments he got from everyone. Kyouya walked around greeting the students that were coming in while looking for Tamaki and the others at the same time.

Eventually, he found them talking outside where no one really was paying much attention to. Not even the craziest fan girls were really trying to find them.

"Oh, Kyouya. We were just about to go out and look for you." Tamaki said with a smile.

"I was looking for you. Why are you over here?" Kyouya asked.

"Well… we can't get a hold of Haruhi." Hikaru said.

"We tried her cell phone, her house phone and her dad. We got nothing. No one picked up." Kaoru had counted with his fingers.

"We're getting worried Kyou-chan." Hunny frowned.

Kyouya started to think. "Well… there's not much we can do right now. Besides we have to make that announcement in one minute so meet at the central staircase." Kyouya started to walk off. Everyone gave each other worried glances and walked slowly behind following Kyouya.

As everyone walked onto the central staircase, everyone's attention started to shift over to the very handsome young men that were making their way up the stairs.

Kimi had just entered the ballroom as the hosts were making their way up the stairs. Coincidentally, Haruhi had just arrived to as Haruka. She was wearing a very pretty, dark amber evening dress.

Haruhi looked to her side because she felt like someone was staring at her… turns out; Kimi was staring daggers into her. "O-oh. Kimi-san… You look very pretty tonight." Haruhi tried to smile.

Kimi didn't say anything. She just stared at her and then walked off. Haruhi followed in after a few seconds later.

"… Thank you and have a wonderful evening." Tamaki had just finished off the announcement. In the distance, he saw someone walk into the ballroom in an amber dress and he instantly new it was Haruhi… as Haruka.

Kyouya unintentionally noticed that Tamaki was just kind of staring off into space and reflexively asked, "What are you looking at?"

"Kyou-chan. Haruka is here." Hunny winked.

Everyone dispersed around the crowd of people and Tamaki was heading over to Haruhi but some girls had gotten in his way.

"Hi Tamaki-kun!" They said in unison.

Tamaki looked at them with a blank expression for a moment then he snapped back into reality and suddenly changed his attitude. "Well hello gorgeous ones. How may I be of help to you?" He smiled amazingly.

Haruhi had also been bombarded by people who wanted to talk with her, who were mostly guys. "Hey Haruka-san. Where's Fujioka-kun?"

"Oh, heh heh… He couldn't make it. He said he had a lot of homework and studying to do." Haruhi said sheepishly.

"Haruhi-kun has been gone a lot since you started coming to school here…" said a girl. "What a coincidence…"

Haruhi had been talking to the group of people for a while until a waltz started playing and most of the students got together with their dates and started dancing. Haruhi walked away and saw Hikaru and Kaoru standing talking each other. She walked over to them. "Hello." She said with a small sigh.

The twins looked at her suspiciously. "Hmmm? What's wrong with you?"

Haruhi quickly put on a cheery smile, one that they would always see on Hunny. "Nothing! Anyway, where's everyone else? I want to say 'hello'."

Again, they just stared at her oddly. "They're around."

Haruhi smiled again and walked away weirdly.

"Something's up." Kaoru said. Hikaru nodded in agreement.

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Kimi had noticed Tamaki was unpleasantly surrounded with girls that wanted him to dance with them. Of course she got annoyed and walked to the crowd. Some girls had seen her walking towards them and they started to get nervous.

"Uh… You know, we should get going. See you around Tamaki-kun!" said the girls that hadn't already left.

"O-oh, alright." Tamaki had a confused expression on his face. He had watched as the girls left.

"… Ahem…"

Tamaki turned around to see Kimi standing in front of him, hands folded in front of her and a small gentle smile with gentle eyes. "Hello."

Kimi's tone was more different than usual. Tamaki could hear that Kimi sounded more relaxed and less tense but he didn't really take it like it should be worried about.

"Well hi there, Kimi. You look lovely as always." Tamaki said with a smile.

Kimi's smile just grew a bit wider.

Another slow song had just started to play and Tamaki made the gesture of asking her to dance with him and Kimi gladly took the offer.

When they started dancing, Kimi wanted to make small talk and so she started, "…Tamaki-kun?"

"Hm?" Tamaki looked at her.

"What do you think of Fujioka Haruka-san?"

Tamaki's facial expression went blank. "…She reminds me a lot of Haruhi in a way…"

"…Do you like her?" Kimi asked sternly.

The way Kimi spoke those words made Tamaki question his feelings again. He had just gotten over his phase of intense thinking… he didn't think he could handle any more of it. "Who? Haruka? No! … I mean I've only known her for a little while. How could someone develop feelings that fast?" Tamaki made it up.

Kimi looked at Tamaki. They had stopped dancing now. '…You don't know do you? I fell in love with you… ever since the day you talked with me and made me feel important.' Kimi smiled her small smile again but Tamaki noticed her eyes were sad. "…Excuse me…" She said and walked away.

Tamaki looked confused again. "Why does that keep happening?" Tamaki thought for a second and then sniffed his armpits quickly. "Nope… I smell like my shower." He sighed and then walked towards the outside. It was a brilliant night: all the stars were twinkling and the moon shone beautifully. Tamaki leaned forward so that his elbows were on the railing.

'…Do you like her?' Tamaki repeated what Kimi had said. To be honest, he never considered this thought as an option as to why he was having these weird feelings when he was around Haruhi. Obviously, that would be the most likely answer but who was Tamaki to think logically?

He stood there thinking about it… and it was starting to make a bit more sense than what he had previously thought which would be too embarrassing to say.

"…Tamaki-kun?"

Tamaki heard a sweet girl's voice call his name. It wasn't Kimi's voice, so it had to be…

"Oh… Haruhi- Ka! I mean Haruka!" Tamaki stood up straight and looked at the beautiful girl in the amber dress.

Haruhi giggled. "I've been looking for you, you know. No one knew where you went, not even Kyouya oddly enough." She walked to the railing and put her hands on it while looking up at the night sky.

Tamaki just watched her. Then he put his elbow back on the railing staring into the darkness of the night.

Haruhi looked at Tamaki since he wasn't saying anything. "You're thinking of that something again, aren't you?"

"Huh?" Tamaki said shocked.

"I figured you were thinking about the thing that was bothering you a few days ago. Since you're so quiet." She analyzed his surprised look and smiled again. "I'm right, aren't I?"

There was a pause.

Haruhi kept her gaze on Tamaki. "Do you want to talk about it? It might help to get it off your chest." She stared into his eyes and smiled her sweet innocent smile.

"No. It's nothing to be worried too much about. I'm fine really." Tamaki said straightening his posture again.

"…Tamaki-kun…"

"Hm?"

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Kimi was walking around the ballroom looking for Tamaki after she had to pull her emotions back into composure. She had asked all the host club members if they saw Tamaki but they didn't know where he was.

Then suddenly, something told her to look outside…

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"…Look at me." Haruhi said.

Tamaki stuttered his movements as he shyly looked at Haruhi. Avoiding to look at her directly into her eyes because it made him feel weird.

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Kimi saw a tall dark figure standing outside. She had a good feeling it was Tamaki but what was he doing?

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"…I knew it…" Haruhi whispered. 'He won't look at me directly.' She raised her right hand and put it on Tamaki's face, moving it slightly so that their eyes could meet.

Tamaki's skin crawled when she touched his face and he blushed when he had to look her straight into those gorgeous brown eyes.

…Then Haruhi unconsciously brought Tamaki's head down and he couldn't phase in on what was happening…

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Kimi neared the outside. "Ta-!" then she stopped abruptly. Her mouth slowly dropped open. She couldn't believe what she was seeing--

Haruhi was kissing her Tamaki!

"…Fujioka…Haruhi…" Kimi clenched her fists as tight as she could. 'That's it! I've had! It's time for payback!'

~To be continued…~

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A/N: xDDDD So?! How did you like it? This was a really long chapter. And the plot thickens even more!!! Mwahahaha…. Gosh… I've been waiting so long to finally type this out and it turned out to be a lot better than it did when I was writing it out, lol. Anyway, please review and tell me what you thought! A thousand thank you's!

~BlissfulTranquility