Chapter Six: Yashiro

Yashiro watched Touya with a look of horror. The polite, feminine Go genius had snapped. Usually in public, even with Shindou around, Touya always kept a fake smile and professional air about him. Of corse, Yashiro had witnessed Touya's foul mood when Shindou disagreed with him on how a game went, but it was still so surprising and scary to see him like this in public.

"I can't believe you!" Touya cried out, glaring at Shindou, "I offered to pay for your mistakes and am willing to fix the mess that you caused and you have the nerve to insult me? If you don't admit that you were wrong, I won't play any more games with you for the next week!" Touya didn't seem to realize how childish and odd sounding his threat seemed to those who didn't play Go.

"As if I care about that," Shindou scoffed, "I don't need to play you get better."

"Yes, but you do need to play me to reach the Hand of God!" Touya shot back.

"Look," said Tamaki with a uneasy laugh, "how about we play Go?"

"Yes Shindou," Touya said with a fake smile and a forceful nod of his head, "Why don't we play some Go?"

All the players sat down. In total, there were six gobans, all lined up next to each other. Touya sat at the head, playing against Tamaki, Mori, and Honey. Next to him (because Yashiro didn't want to be between the two) was Shindou who faced the Hitachiin twins on a single goban since they refused to part with each other. Last, sat a very tired Yashiro who looked across the goban at his two opponents: four eyes and the almost as girly as Touya guy.

Apparently, the Host Club members had been trained for about a week in go, so they knew the rules. However, to be fair, each member was given a seven stone handicap against the go pros (except for Kyoya who need only four stones). Touya nigiried and ended up with white. To make things easier, all the opponents would have the same color and like in a tournament, only the first board was to nigiri; thus Shindou was black and Yashiro was white as well.

For Yashiro, who wasn't used to tutoring games, everything started painfully slow. Kyoya was at about the level of a second board in a school tournament and Haruhi took set up her stones in aimless patterns. However, Yashiro loved Go and even if wasn't a professional match, he could enjoy himself.

While Haruhi took her time figuring where to place a stone, he quickly glanced over to see how the twins were holding up against Shindou. They were doing surprisingly well, about insei level, and their combined strategies were quite effective. Obviously, it was a bit unfair that they were working together and had a whole seven stone handicap in their favor, but Shindou was a top ranked young pro, so he should be able to handle it.

Yashiro would have liked to see how Touya's games were progressing, but he was too far away and it would have been impolite to show he had no interest in the games unfolding before him. Besides, this was Touya after all. There was just no way he could loose to beginners, even with a seven stone handicap against him.

"You won," he heard a light, girly voice say. Yashiro nodded and thanked Haruhi for the game. He then focused the majority of his mental energy to the game with Kyoya.

From a glance, it was obvious he was winning. Black secured a large territory in the centers, but white had just place a stone that rendered black useless in the right corner, therefore, securing a large territory.

"I resign," Kyoya said with a bow that Yashiro returned.

"I...resign," He heard a broken voice whisper. Yashiro knew who it belonged to and froze. How could Touya, yes the great Touya Akira, have lost his match?

AN: Sorry if this was too short and also that I haven't updated in forever. I just realized while checking that some people are actually following this. Well, I really do hope I can get this finished since school and homework are back. Anyhow, thanks for reading and as always fell free to review.