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"Happy 1st Birthday Fumie!"Everyone cheered happily for Fumie. It had been a long year since Fumies birth and a lot of changed for Haruhi. Her closest friends stood around the cake as Haurhi held Fumie in her arms, not letting her get too close to the candles. Of course Fumie still wasn't old enough to actually blow anything out but that didn't stop everyone from pretending that she had. Haruhi waved the candles out for her daughter gave her a kiss on the head.
"See Fumie, this is a cake, can you say ca-ke"Haurhi pointed to the cake as Huni began to cut it into pieces for everyone. Hikaru and Kaoru had walked away to retrieve the gifts for Fumie that they had placed in Haruhi's bedroom. While Mori helped Huni pass out the cake to the other guests such as Ranka, the doctors that treated Fumie, and a few of her neighbors that had come.
"Haruhi why don't you go greet your father, he's been dying to talk to you all day"Kyoya appeared behind Haruhi and pointed to her father who was sitting down with a few friends from his working place chatting up a storm about his beautiful daughter and granddaughter.
"Yeah you're right, can you hold Fumie for me?"Haruhi held Fumie up for Kyoya to gently pick her up. He placed her down into the small baby walker and watched her start to kick her little feet as if she was really walking.
"Haruhi dear! Come come sit with daddy!"Ranka called as Haruhi came to sit with him and his friends. They were his new hires at the drag bar that he was running, and with his business booming lately there was no reason why he couldn't close for the day to spend time with his daughter.
"Hi dad, thanks for coming"Haruhi allowed her father to hug her tightly, he was already a little bit drunk from the pre party he had thrown on his own.
"I wouldn't miss it dear! You know how much daddy loves you!"Haruhi listened to her fathers rambling as she looked around the room at all her friends. She hadn't seen Tamaki since that day but had seen a lot of the other hosts.
'It's been so long since I've seen them all together like this…. How long has is been?'Haruhi looked around the room at her friends. Over the past Year Hikaru had to stay in France to finish a line or work and Kaoru of course followed his brother, they had only come back months ago and had been booking shows left and right. Huni stood there with Mori as they chatted about Mori upcoming wedding, Mori had finally met someone not long ago and was planning on marrying her since his family had already approved, and Huni was more than happy that his cousin had finally found love. While Kyoya stood there chatting with the doctors, he had spent nearly every day with Haruhi and Fumie, even after he moves back home since Ranka had decided it'd be better if he moved closer, even though he was already less than a mile away. Haruhi stood up and began to walk across the room chatting with her friends.
"So Mori how's the wedding planning going?"Haruhi asked as she watched Huni starting to make diagrams of the cake Mori would be having at the wedding
"Good, I'm excited"You couldn't tell of course but Mori was excited. Haruhi slowly stepped away as Huni tried convincing Mori to have multiple cakes of different shapes and sizes.
"Haruhi! Hey where do you want these?"Hikaru called as he carried an arm full of gifts for Fumie, most of them no doubt from Hikaru and Kaoru. The gifts were wrapped in pink bright paper that could easily blind you if you stared at it too long.
"Just on the floor, I wanted to let Fumie try and open them herself"Haruhi pointed to the open spot on the floor near the cake table where Fumie was still bouncing around on her baby walker heading towards Ranka. Ranka waved and held his arms open trying to get Fumie to come closer to him.
"Okay"Hikaru and Kaoru placed the gifts down on the floor and went to join Haruhi who was standing in the kitchen watching the party.
"This is a nice little party Haruhi, but why didn't you just agree to have it at our house? You wouldn't have had to make all this food"Kaoru looked around the kitchen that just hours ago Haruhi was pretty much dying in. She'd been in there all day cooking and baking things for Fumies party.
"Cause this is my house Kaoru, and Fumies, it just seemed right to have it here"Haruhi pointed out as she looked around. Everyone seemed to be having a good time and Fumie was enjoying being choo'd over by everyone in the room.
"Hey Kaoru can you help me here? We still need to bring in the last gift from the car"Hikaru walked over to them with the car keys in his hand. Their last gift was a bit large and would have taken up too much room in Haruhis bedroom so they had kept it out in the car until Fumie would open her gifts.
"Yeah I'm coming"Kaoru followed after his brother leaving Haruhi there in the kitchen alone. Her eyes skimmed over the crowed.
'Fumie looks so healthy, I'm so glad her heart mummur closed on its own, she can have a normal life now'Haruhi thought as she watched her father put Fumie down on the floor. Fumie had been learning to walk but had trouble actually moving long distances.
'And working at the grocery store really isn't that bad'Haruhi looked over at her apron that she wore to work every day now. After Tamaki had her fired, no law firm would take her seeing as she was now the ex-wife of the Souh company president.
'As long as I save the money from the divorce Fumie will be able to go to Ouran and if anything we'll just have to take a loan out for the university'Haruhi knew it was early to be worried about Fumie's future, after all she wouldn't be going to school for another 3 years but she couldn't help but worry a little bit. She wanted Fumie to have the best education possible.
-8pm, after the party-
"Thanks for having us Haruhi, we'll be back tomorrow with some more clothes for Fumie"Hikaru called as he and Kaoru began to make their exit.
"You can come back to take back all your gifts!"Haruhi yelled as they closed the door behind them, obviously not listening to her. Haruhi turned around looking at the mountain of toys that their gifts have left for Fumie who was already fast asleep.
"Haruhi dear that was such a great party"Ranka called as he walked into the living room, whipping his hands on his apron.
"Thanks for helping clean up dad"Haruhi sat down on the couch to rest her feet, she couldn't help but feel exhausted. Over the past year things have been hard, with her working every day the only one she could have watch Fumie was her father since she refused to let any of her friends stay home from work for her. Ranka walked over and sat next to Haruhi, he handed her a glass of water and closed his eyes.
"Haruhi dear, it's been awhile since you've seen Kyoya hasn't it? He was gone for 3 weeks and you barely said a word to him today"Ranka looked over to his daughter, he had always liked Kyoya and had been pushing for him and Haruhi to be together, but not it was different, Haruhi was a grown women now and love wasn't something that she could really play around with anymore.
"I can always see him later dad, besides he's Fumie's regular doctor now and he comes by every month to check on her"Haruhi understood what he father was getting at. It had been awhile since her divorce and he was getting worried she would never move on from Tamaki, even though he kept his distance from her now, what they had once shared still haunted her nightmares.
"Sweetheart, you know what I'm getting at, why not give the boy a chance? He's been patient and you don't want to make a man like that wait forever"Ranka placed his hand on his daughters shoulder and smiled a fatherly smile. He couldn't help but worry about Haruhi and after she had told him what happened when Kyoya had confessed to her, he couldn't help but be pushy.
"I'll think about it okay dad? I'm going to go take a bath"
-Otoori mansion—
"Yes please fax those reports over to the main office"Kyoya sat there at this computer while talking over the speaker phone. He had been busy this past year finishing up all the financial things from Haruhis divorce and with the openings of his new hospital.
"This is a headache"Kyoya sat there with his hands covering this face, he was dying from stress and it had been getting more difficult to calm him down lately. He moved his hand to pick the pick of Haruhi and Fumie off his desk.
"Look at me, a picture like this on my desk and they aren't even my family"Kyoya held the picture in his hand, it was taken on the day he had taken Haruhi and Fumie to the zoo. Fumie enjoyed seeing the animals but was scared of the elephants.
'I need a massage or something else….'Kyoya couldn't help but let his mind wander to a less than pure place.
'I'm 25 and still trying to not think about sex with Haruhi? I suppose it's out of habit'Kyoya thought as he couldn't help but grin, for years he ignored those thoughts and only in the past year had he realized it was okay but still couldn't help feel a bit wrong about it, since him and Haruhi weren't together.
"Master Otoori, you have a phone call on line one"The intercom came on as Kyoya looked over at the clock
"Whoever it is, tell them I'm too busy to talk to them right now"Kyoya closed his eyes and removed his glasses, not bothering to even ask who it was
"But sir it's Miss Fujioka"Kyoya secretary had learned quickly if there was one person Kyoya was always willing to talk to, it was Haruhi. Even if he had ordered her not to let anyone come in to see him, Haruhi never applied to that rule. She remembered the one time she had made Haruhi leave when she first started, Haruhi hadn't seemed to mind but Kyoya almost fired her when he found out.
"Put her through"Kyoya picked the phone up and held it to his ear waiting to her Haruhis voice
"Kyoya?"
"Yes Haruhi?"Kyoya wouldn't help but feel a bit of relieve to hear her voice
"Were you busy? I can call back"
"No I was just about to head home, is there something you need? Or are you calling just to talk?"It hadn't become usual for Haruhi to call him lately just to talk. Since Fumie was sleeping through the night more and Ranka was working nights, sometimes she would call him and just talk to him for a while. Especially with the twins having been away there was really no one else to talk too, she was too scared of calling and waking Huni and Mori wasn't much for conversation.
"I was wondering if you knew a baby sitter."
"A babysitter? I could watch her for you Haruhi but if you don't mind me asking, where do you need to go?"Kyoya knew Haruhi didn't have a lot of friends outside their circle so there shouldn't be anyone she really needed to see. Unless she was going for another job interview but he doubted that since she had applied for almost every single law firm within the last year
"Actually Kyoya I was wondering if….you wanted to go to dinner?"
Did he hear that right? Kyoya couldn't help but feel a bit shocked by her sudden question
"Haruhi are you asking me on a date?"Kyoya wasn't sure but left no room for games, he wasn't up for games with Haruhi since the prize was something he didn't want to gamble it
"….you don't have to go"
"I'd be delighted to go Haruhi, I'm sure Ranka would be happy to baby sit"Kyoya felt so excited he almost couldn't stand it
"Well then tomorrow night? I don't know where you'd want to go so…"
"I'll pick you up at 6, don't worry about arrangements just make sure you're ready"
-Haruhi—
"What have I gotten myself into?"Haruhi mumbled as she laid there on her bed, the sheets where cold and helped her start to fall asleep. Haruhi touched the tips of her hair, it had been growing so long and she hadn't cut it in the past year, Hikaru and Kaoru had a fit when they first saw her hair but she had convinced them that she'd get it cut soon.
'Am I ready for this?'Haruhi thought as she stared up at the ceiling with her eyes closed.
'Maybe it's time I move on'
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