Author's Note:

Me: Just to warn you, this is a slightly short chapter.

Ayako: Cause she's a lazy flob.

Me: I am not! If I was, I wouldn't have written two extra chapters!

Mai: -comforts me- It's not that bad, at least you DID update. -smiles-

Me: I guess you're right.

Chapter 10

It was a very fine day in the Third Music Room. Host Club activities had resumed for the week so the SPR had to look their best.

Mai had just arrived from buying tea and some coffee for Haruhi.

When she opened the door of the Third Music Room, petals escaped and she was greeted by eight men.

"Irassai!" they greeted in unison but soon had looks of disappointment plastered on their faces as soon as they realized that it was only Mai who entered.

"Hey guys!" Mai greeted cheerfully and quickly headed for the mini-kitchen.

"What's this, Haruhi? You're making our guests your slaves now?" Hikaru asked, cocking an eyebrow at Haruhi upon noticing that Mai had unloaded a canister of coffee and tea.

"No, not actually. She volunteered to buy them for me," Haruhi quickly explained as she sweatdropped.

"Nevermind that. Hurry and make us some coffee, Haruhi!" Tamaki commanded.

Haruhi nodded and headed for the kitchen. She then remembered how Kyouya despised coffee and made him tea instead.

Haruhi then headed back to the main couch and served them their coffee and tea.

Tamaki noticed that Kyouya's drink was different and asked him, "Kyouya? Why're you having tea instead of coffee?"

Kyouya turned away and replied, "I have my very own reasons."

Later that afternoon, after club activities were over, Ayako approached Kyouya and pulled him by the hand towards Takigawa.

"You need to know the basic chants in order to expel or exorcise spirits," Ayako said.

Kyouya gave a confused look but Ayako had already begun.

"Repeat after me," she said and began chanting.

"Rin, Tyou, Pou, Sha, Jai, Kin, Retsu, Zai, Zen," Kyouya imitated but definitely had some mistakes that Naru couldn't help but approach him.

"I thought you were all mighty but you can't even get these few words right," Naru criticized and walked away before Kyouya could think of tackling him to the ground and ripping his oh-so sorry body to shreds.

Instead of thinking of pushing Naru to the wall with his PK and then strangling him there, Kyouya chose to ignore his comment and tried chanting again, this time with hand movements.

By venting his anger on the spell, he actually managed to get it right that when he aimed it a picture frame, the frame fell down and the glass broke into many pieces.

"Ne, ne, Kyou-chan, are you going to pay for that?" Hunny asked as he cutely tugged on Kyouya's uniform.

Then Hunny suddenly put a demonic glare and tightening his grip on Kyoyua's uniform to the point of it nearly tearing, while saying, "Cause if you don't, I'll have to hurt you."

Hunny then returned to his usual innocent self and skipped away before the word murder could reach Kyouya's head.

As if Hunny's threat was enough, the twins had to say something as well.

They approached him while motioning their finger to move in a shame-on-you movement.

"Oh no. The picture of Usa-chan was supposed to reap at least 10 million during the auction…" they both chimed.

"Hey, you guys. Cut it out," Haruhi said before things would go déjà vu and Tamaki would go to a chair, sit cross-legged and point at Kyouya, declaring him the Host Club dog – she just couldn't afford that to happen.

"I'll help you, Ootori-sama," Mai offered politely while trying to get his attention by pulling the end of his right sleeve.

Kyouya turned to face Ma and proceeded to follow her.

Naru was now overlooking the situation with a mild bitter look on his face. He was not-so-obviously having a debate/argument with Gene in which he (Naru) was losing – badly.

"You're so jealous, Noll," Gene teased.

"I am not," Naru defended angrily.

"Yes, you are," Gene retorted as he chuckled.

In the meantime, the twins were starting to compare the Naru-Gene Debate to Tamaki's Inner Mind Theatre.

"You're such a pain, Gene," Naru lied.

"No, I'm not," Gene said with a proud air.

"Yes, you are," Naru said.

"Yes, I'm not," Gene said, purposely mixing up the words in an attempt to confuse Naru and win the debate-like argument once and for all.

"No, I'm - wait…" Naru retorted, falling for Gene's trap.

"Ahaha! I got you, Noll!" Gene said and laughed triumphantly.

"Anyways, you should check the scene in front."

Naru put his 'debate-like argument' with Gene on hold for a moment and checked the scene in front of him.

"No! Not like that, Ootori-sama," Mai said and helped him form the correct motion with his hand.

"Now try again," Mai told him as she took a step back.

All of a sudden, Naru felt a strange feeling weighing his heart down as if there were 10 tons inside.

Trying to ignore the feeling, he stood up and sat on a couch away from their view.

"Nolly-poo is jealous!" gene teased, laughing at his miserable twin brother who was now sitting cross-legged with his arms crossed.

"How many times between life and death do I have to tell you? I AM NOT JEALOUS!" Naru told him with an irritated look on his face and accidentally shouted the last part out.

Okay, Naru has just gone mental.

Mai stopped and turned her head towards the direction of the explosion.

"Was that Naru just now?" she asked herself silently as she turned back and continued practicing Kyouya.

A few hours passed and the members of the Host Club went home – or so they thought.

Mai noticed that Naru was acting…pretty weird.

At first, she dismissed it that Naru was just too stressed with the case that she made him some tea but as she entered hi office, he quickly tuned his chair to another direction, which was away from her.

Only slightly noticing something wrong, she left his tea on his table and left the office.

"Maybe he got angry cause the tea was late and he rally wanted it?" Mai questioned herself, trying to find a decent explanation to Naru's weird behavior (a few of the indecent explanations were that Mai caught him ahem mastiv8ng and he got upset and another was that Naru was actually a girl having those erm, cramps. XD)

Another thing happened and this time Mai was going to sit on the same couch as Naru but as she sat down, Naru stood up and went to his office.

"Eh? Is he trying to avoid me or something?" she asked herself as she instinctly stood up and followed him.

She finally entered his office and said angrily, "Listen, Naru. Why are you avoiding me?"

Naru kept his back turned from her and remained silent which caused Mai to speak again.

"Is it because of the tea? I can bring you one right now," she said, sounding less angry with every syllable and becoming a little regretful.

Silence.

Mai was getting irritated since Naru didn't show any signs that he was listening to her so she walked up to him and turned him to face her.

Naru then grabbed her close to him and…

CLIFFIE!