Disclaimer: I don't own OHSHC. Only Ari and the plot.
A/N: First chapter has been reedited a little and I changed the title from Addicted to Time to Time is of the Essence because I think people were not reading it becasue of the word Addicted. There are absolutely no drugs, alcohol, or any kind of addiction in this Fanfiction. Maybe for Kyouya because he is a workaholic but that is it! Sorry for rumbling and please review and enjoy!
The view outside the window of class 1-A was a breath taking sight of pink, blue, purple, green, and many more colors that radiated from fresh flowers; appropriate for the spring time. The colors appeared to be swirling together by the agile wind. But the only person in that class of first years who was really blown away at the gorgeous landscape was a slightly dirty adolescent who wore nothing but a dirty white shirt and ripped black jeans. Despite already looking out this window for 3 days now at the same view, the young teen could not stop feeling amazed or memorized with the beauty of the outside and inside of the grand school of Ouran Academy.
This world was totally different from Ari's—Usual life style.
Thinking back, Ari missed all the free time he had, but what he missed most was his grandpa. Yet, being school was a new experience he needed under his belt. His Grandpa said that he needed to make friends, but really he meant 'connections' with the richest kids in the school. He wouldn't have minded it too much if it hadn't been so much of a hassle.
A loud and obnoxious ringing echoed throughout the acoustic hallways; this alerted the students the end of the school day. Ari sighed with relief for the end of another rough day, but he didn't move his seat as other students left the classroom. He waited till the classroom was clear of every student before he finally slouched in his chair from pure fatigue. With all the tension fading away from his body, Ari began to feel the sore and tender parts of his body from the last few days. They ached from being pushed around, tripping on peoples' feet, and carrying heavy loads for girls with mean glares. Another sigh rushed from his chapped lips.
'Why does high school have to be so hard?' Ari whined weakly in his head.
'You made a promise to Grandpa…' said Ari's subconscious, which usually proved to always reemphasize his main motives during doubtful times.
The fatigue finally consumed Ari's body and mind as black spots covered his peripheral vision, until everything was swallowed into a peaceful darkness. Unfortunately, what Ari didn't know was that there were people just outside the classroom waiting for a moment as perfect as this. Two of them smiled as they crept closer to the resting boy.
"Let the games begin…"
~1 Hour Later~
In the distance, Ari could hear a raven cry from the depths of sleep. It would not have awoken him, but its endless cry strangely sounded so urgent that Ari abruptly come to his senses. With a jolt, Ari was quickly out of his chair and onto his feet while looking at the clock tower outside the window.
"It was only 3:36 in the afternoon." Ari said whose posture relaxed considerable after panicking. With a clear head, Ari looked turned to his desk to grab his stuff, but found his bag to be gone.
A sigh slipped passed his lips as he tried to think of who stole it, there were so many bullies who have attacked him already it was hard to even remember their faces. Suddenly Ari remembered something important which was left inside the worthless messenger bag.
"Shit!" In a total frenzy, Ari savagely attacked his desk looking for his precious item, but found nothing but a letter with beautiful calligraphy on the back of the envelope addressing to him. Ripping it open with haste, Ari read the letter once over before crippling it in his hands with pure frustration.
Dear Ari-kun,
If you would like to get your bag back, please come to Music Room 3 as directed in the map below.
P.S. Please arrive here at 3:40 sharp; any later and something bad might happen.
Ari's red face immediately paled as he looked back at the clock tower.
He had less than 3 minutes to find the music room before horrible things starts to happen to his Grandpa's watch. Without any hesitation, Ari sprinted as fast as his legs could carry him toward an unknown fate where he hoped that no one would find his secret.
The one he promised to keep.
~Music Room #3 ~
"Tono, do you think he'll come or even make it in time?"
"Yea, it's already 3:39; I don't think he'll make it. He was sleeping pretty soundly when we found him earlier."
Tamaki paced back and forth in front of the bored twins whose eyes followed his brisk steps. "Where could he be? He just might not make it in time."
"You guys are ridiculous; Ari-san could have just left for home without finding the card at all."
Tamaki sat in his favorite emo corner to cultivate, once again, more mushrooms with a black thunderous cloud hanging over his head.
"Don't worry Tama-chan, Ari-chan could be here any second no-"
*BANG*
Eight pairs of eyes stared in shock at a young man who was doubled over holding his knees trying to catch his breath at the entrance of their humble club room. No one had the chance to utter a single word as the disheveled commoner collapsed onto his knees due to the lack of oxygen.
Tamaki automatically switched to his princely charm as he bounded across the room to the panting young man.
"Hello my dear friend! We have been awaiting your arrival and-"
Glancing at his wrist watch, Tamaki gave a jubilant nod to show that he was pleased.
"You made it just in the nick of time! Congratulations!" Tamaki shouted will slapping the exhausted boy's back, which caused him to start to have a coughing fit. Seeing this, Haruhi swiftly punched Tamaki away and guided the whizzing adolescent to lie down on a couch at the center of the large pinkish room. Hearing the awful noise of a struggling intake of air through the boy's mouth made everyone a bit concerned for his health.
"I'll get him some water." Haruhi rushed out of the room and into the kitchen. Everyone else gathered around the couch to have a closer look of the ill sounding brunette.
"Are you alright Ari-chan?" Hunny asked while worryingly squishing his pink bunny.
Ari dazedly looked at Hunny with clouded eyes and nodded his head to show that he was all right but his condition told everyone elsewise. Hikaru, who stood behind the couch, reached down to rest his hand onto Ari's forehead only to withdraw it quickly as if he got stung by a bee.
"Geez this guy is burning up!"
"Oh no, wait do we do Kyoya!?"
"WAAAHAAAAHH! Ari-chan is going to die!"Both Tamaki and Hunny ran around in circles shouting and crying because they didn't know what to do in the current situation. (A/N: Geez these guys got some problems. ^_^')
Haruhi returned with a glass of water and held the glass out for Ari.
"Here try to drink some water Ari-kun." Before Haruhi could let Ari take the glass Kyoya intervened and dropped a couple of pills into the water. Kneeling before Ari, Kyoya tilted Ari's head up so he could properly drink all of the water with the medicine. When the glass the empty, Kyoya gently set Ari's head onto the cushion of the couch then did his medical routine on the resting patient.
The rest of the hosts were still anxious about Ari's wellbeing but they were surprised to hear Mori speak. "How is Ari's condition, Kyoya?"
Finishing his examination, Kyoya stood up and turned to the nervous group who were waiting for him say if Ari was okay or not. Kyoya did his signature move (A/N: which is fixing his glasses with his middle finger) and proceeded to explain Ari's present health status.
"Ari-san appears to have not received enough sleep, food, and has been over exerting his body. So much so that if he had gone on like this he would have most likely be in critical condition and sent to the my hospital. The most that we can do for him is to let him rest and have him eat healthy foods to help him recover for a few days. Oh, Honey-sempai could you get both get me a cold basin of fresh water and a towel for Ari's head. Mori-sempai could you get me an inhaler. Ari-kun appears to have asthma. "
Attentively, both Honey and Mori saluted and dashed off to do their part.
Relieved with the fact that Ari-kun was not dying today; one of the twins (Kaoru) curiously turned toward Ari who was surprisingly awake still and asked, "Why aren't you taking care of your body?"
"It's not good if you don't maintain your body because your complexion will get dry and rough." the other twin (Hikaru) advised wisely from a professional model's perspective. Both were leaning over Ari too close for Haruhi's preference and interfered in their interrogation. "Back off you guys, can't you see that Ari has a high fever and needs some rest?" Sulkily, the twins retreated, giving Ari some room to breathe. Panting heavily from the coughing spell, Ari finally noticed his surroundings.
The cloud of dizziness and pain that throbbed in his head started to become less as the medicine started its numbing effect. With the weight lifting from his eye lids Ari opened his eyes. At first the light blurred and made his eyes water but as his vision began to come back to focus Ari saw a sparkling chandelier over his head. Staring into space, Ari just blanked out into a dazed till he saw a familiar shade of silver pop up from the hand of the person looming over him. Fear and desperation laced Air's eyes.
"Hey, that's my watch!" Ari yelped as he quickly sat up to make a grab. This gave him no time to navigate out of the way of the person who was previously leaning over him.
-Donk!-
All that he felt was immense pain blooming on his fore head just before stars and the birds appeared overhead. He then saw a glimmer of silver from the corner of his peripheral just as darkness swallowed his conscious.
"Wow, Tono managed to knock out Ari and himself in one go…" Kaoru praised with a shamed face, while his duplicate was on the ground dying from a severe case of the giggles and tears.
"Why did I decide to date that guy?" Haruhi sighed as Mori and Hunny lugged Tamaki's body to another couch nearby. She needed another cup of coffee to calm her nerves.
"Interesting," Kyouya stated as he wrote something down in his notebook for later use. He knew that there was something about this boy that could benefit him in some way, but—
He didn't want to use something that he didn't quite understand; Just not yet.
A/N: I suck at impersonating Kyoya! But please review!