Hey all! So...I made another chapter! I hope you guys enjoy it!

I also received some further questions regarding the story so far...just to clarify...

Kai has no idea that Haruhi is a woman. She took Kyoya to try to make him give up Haruhi, or vice versa. Kai is infatuated with Haruhi, so all she wants is the playing field to be cleared so that she can make a move on our poor girl.

Anywho, I hope you enjoy this chapter of HSII: Dry Your Tears. I think maybe...less than five chapters left in this baby...

Previously...

"Seriously, kid. Just say it. Please." Junichi pleaded. He seemed to be suddenly overcome with regret for torturing the innocent man.

"I'm…I'm sorry…I-I can't…I w-wo-won't…"

"Then I'm sorry…" Junichi whispered, bringing the whip down at least twice more before Kyoya passed out from the pain and the blood loss.

As he returned to his dark world of peace and painlessness, Kyoya thought he heard Junichi say, "I really never wanted a part of this…"

And now...

Haruhi

It had been seven days since Kyoya had been taken. Every lead they thought they had turned out to be false. Everyone was desperate to find Kyoya, and Haruhi began to feel the fingers of panic slowly wind around her throat, choking her. She could not concentrate in school, and she never stuck around for long after school. She had personally hung the sign announcing the closure of the Host Club for the time being.

Haruhi knew that the others were worried about her. She would disappear during lunch, holing herself away in the music room, laying on Kyoya's couch. They knew this, and she knew they knew. She no longer wore her Ouran boys uniform. Instead, she wore one of Kyoya's sweatshirts. He had left it at her house (purposefully, in her opinion) two days after she was released from the hospital. She never washed it and only took it off to shower.

Haruhi looked in the mirror that sat in front of her. She had lost weight, and her eyes were sunken in, nearly drowned by the purple bags underneath them.

"Why him…" She asked herself for the thousandth time in four days. The lunch bell rang, and Haruhi quickly dried her eyes and fixed her shirt before exiting the music room and trudging to class. As she walked, she began to muse to herself.

What would have happened if she had revealed herself? Would Kyoya still be here? Who had taken him and why? Even when he wasn't here, people talked about his relationship with another 'man.' They whispered as though it were a bad thing, as though uttering the words any louder would melt their tongues to ashes. She was sick of it! He wasn't even around to defend himself, and all she did was let them talk. No more. If she was to be strong for Kyoya, she would stand up for their relationship and his reputation.

And as she fisted the sleeve of Kyoya's sweatshirt, she knew what she had to do.

Kyoya

It had been seven days since Kyoya had been taken. In that time, he had been tortured in ways he never wished to recount. All he wanted was to see his Haruhi again. He wanted to hold her and care for her. He wanted her to be by his side, smiling encouragingly like days before. Fleetingly, he wondered whether the students of Ouran were still talking about the two "men" and their relationship.

Over the past seven days, Kai had tried to get him to denounce his love for Haruhi. He deduced that her main goal was to remove him from the picture so that she could have a shot at winning Haruhi's heart. The twist was that Kai did not just want him to die. She wanted him to suffer as she saw fit. To Kai, Haruhi being taken off the market was equivalent to hours on end of torture. She would constantly tell him that Haruhi did not love him, that he was too cold-hearted to deserve someone like Haruhi. She spouted words that stung at his very soul, and he was fighting a losing battle not to believe them.

Kyoya also guessed that, in order to divert suspicion, Kai was still going to school during the day, as she was only around to torture him in the afternoons. She had let him down from the wall yesterday, and the feeling in his arms was just beginning to return. Kyoya was tired, hungry, thirsty, hurting, and broken. Kai only ever gave him one miniscule meal a day, and he was lucky if she remembered to bring him water.

He was beginning to lose hope in his police force and the forces of his friends. Seven days was a long time to hold out against the brutal beatings he was enduring. Junichi had disappeared since the whipping incident for some unknown reasons, and Kai had taken up the duty of torturer. Sure, Kai may not have been very strong, but she compensated for the lack of strength by increasing the amount of beatings. Not to mention, her words were beginning to get to him.

He hoped that his friends found him soon…he was not sure how much longer he could take it.

Haruhi

Haruhi was called out of her second to last class of the day, as were the twins. Her heart leapt as her mind conjured images of happy news, news that they had found Kyoya, that he would be okay.

However, the moment they burst through the doors of Chairman Suoh's office, her heart plummeted. The rest of the hosts were there as were a few of their detectives. No one looked happy.

"Ah, here she is." Tamaki said tiredly, motioning for the three new arrivals to have a seat.

"What's going on?" Haruhi asked, unable to keep the desperation from leaking into her voice.

"We think we know who took him." One of the detectives told her in a calm voice.

"Really?! Then what's stopping you?! Find him! Save him!" She was screaming, and she vaguely felt Mori and Honey's hands holding her back.

"It isn't that easy. This is a very delicate situation. At this point, the kidnapper has the upper hand. They have had enough time to properly weaken him, and if they knew we were on to them, they could kill him. We are going to interrogate the potential suspect and several others to reduce suspicion. Until that time, we need you to remain calm."

Haruhi slumped in her seat. One week without him…one whole week, and they were still going to take their time?

She sighed and glanced at the chairman.

"I'm going to reveal myself as a girl. Today." She told him determinedly. "All of this started because I couldn't grow a pair and speak up. This ends today."

Without waiting to see a reaction, Haruhi marched up to Music Room #3 and burst through the door, knocking the sign off in the process. She walked to her dressing room and found the female Ouran uniform. Not skipping a beat, she changed into the dress and plopped herself on the couch in the middle of the room, facing the door. All that was left now was to wait.

Kyoya

Kyoya awoke slowly, feeling heavier than he ever had before. Every atom in his body hurt. He felt like hell, and he probably looked it too. Every muscle screamed at him as he began to push himself up from the ground.

A small dish of rice and a cup of water stood next to the door. Kyoya inched painfully towards the food, and when he reached it, he dropped heavily onto his bum. Despite every part of him that was telling him to scarf down the food in front of him, he took his time as he knew that Kai would not be back for several hours yet.

When the rice and water were gone, Kyoya lay down on the cold floor, not having the energy to do anything else. For the first time since being taken, Kyoya fell asleep of his own accord. Haruhi's cheerful face greeted him as he fell into the blissful peace of sleep.

Haruhi

Haruhi was surprised when the girls entered the Host Club room. The dedication (or obsession) these girls showed towards the hosts was unreal. She almost felt bad for them, having them find out this way, but it was for the best. As long as she kept that little thought in mind, she would be fine.

The girls that filtered in were customers of all of the hosts. They stopped short when they saw the lone host sitting in front of the door. She could read the surprise radiating off of them as they simultaneously processed the fact that their male host was in a dress.

Some looked shocked, others seemed upset. Almost all of them were confused, though. Haruhi was always a very convincing cross-dresser.

Her fingers clenched in her puffy yellow dress, and she grinned nervously.

"Hello, ladies. Welcome."

When nobody made a move, she continued, "Please, have a seat. I have something very important to discuss with all of you."

Rustling was heard as every girl in the room sat down around "The Natural Host."

"Haruhi-kun, what's going on?" One of her usual clients, Mai, asked.

"What's the meaning of this, Haruhi-kun?" Another usual, Kai, chorused.

The room buzzed with anticipation as the girls continued to repeat the same questions.

"Everyone, please! I have something important that I need to say!" She shouted over the sea of voices.

"Ladies...as you can probably tell...I am not a man." She paused, standing up. "I am, in fact, a woman."

She heard the gasps from all around her as she sat back down on her couch.

"Haruhi-kun, that can't be right?" Kai shouted from the front row, clearly upset with the news.

"So…does that make us…lesbians…?" Another customer asked.

"Ew, gross!"

"It does explain why he…er, she, was so good at listening to our issues and responding to them…"

The comments continued, and Haruhi just looked over the mass of women in front of her. Maybe this would help in the future if…when Kyoya was returned to her.

"Ladies, please! I just…I am tired of people verbally shitting on my boyfriend. As I am sure you are all aware, he has vanished, and I am decently certain that whoever took him did so because of his affiliation with me, as they thought I was a man." Haruhi glanced around the room to see if anyone had any reactions to her statement. A few girls fidgeted and a couple went wide-eyed. Many of them nodded slightly in understanding. Two girls towards the front made no motion to react, and Haruhi took a mental note of this as she continued to speak.

"Now, I am sure you all are eager to get back to your families and respective duties, but please do myself and the rest of the hosts a favor…" She leaned toward the girls as though getting ready to tell them a secret. "Tell. Everyone."

Okay...so Kai didn't know that Haruhi was a girl...until now.

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter!

See y'all next time! :)

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