I opened the door and walked outside.
"Be careful on your way, Haruhi." Oto-san said while standing in the opening of the door.
"Don't worry, Oto-san." I said, assuring him. I waved him goodbye and walked my way to school.
"If you're going to follow to school, just walk next to me." I said.
Arata jumped down from wherever he came from. "How did you know I was following you, Haruhi-sama? Was I too loud?" he asked.
"No, just intuition."
We walked further in silent.
"About yesterday – " I started.
"Haruhi-sama, meeting Princess Aneko would place you in unnecessary danger!" Arata interrupted me.
"That's not what I wanted to say…" I said.
Arata's eyes grew big and he quickly bowed down. "Please excuse my rudeness, Haruhi-sama, I shouldn't have interrupted you." He apologized.
I sighed. So polite…
"About yesterday…" I started again. "I haven't thanked you yet, for saving me."
Arata looked up in surprise and saw his cheeks turn a little red, he stood up straight again.
"I was just doing my job, nothing more." He said soft.
I smiled and continued my walk to school.
When I came into the classroom, I felt a little bit afraid to face Hikaru and Kaori since I overreacted yesterday but to my surprise they weren't present today.
Worried I sat down between the two empty desks. The atmosphere was less tense than yesterday but you could see the most students were still troubled.
I wondered if something could have happened to the twins.
"Chiruha-san?" I called the girl in front of me.
She turned around. "Yes?"
"Do you know where Hikaru and Kaoru are?"
"Sorry, Haruhi-kun, I don't know, maybe they're skipping classes?" she said.
The rest of the hours I didn't see Kaoru or Hikaru nor one of the other host club members.
"Maybe something really happened…" I thought out loud while searching in one of the big gardens of Ouran High School.
"Whom are you looking for?" Arata asked and I gasped as I saw him in one of the big trees.
"What are you doing up there?" I yelled.
"I have the task to protect you so I also have to follow you in school." He said as if it was normal.
"Then at least do it in a less outstanding way!" I said, afraid someone would see us.
I walked back to the school building but suddenly I felt hands grab me and pushed some cloth against my mouth, a sweet scent spread through my nose.
Desperate I kicked around without hitting something, my view started to get vague.
Scared to death I started to panic.
I don't want to die!
"A-Ara…ta…" I whispered before everything went black.
"Maybe we used too much of that drugs?" A voice said.
"Nah! I don't think so, maybe she's just sensitive for it…" Another voice replied.
"That was really mean to do, Kao-chan, Hika-chan. Haru-chan panicked really hard." A soft, familiar voice said.
Mitsu-niichan? What are the host club members doing here?
"Ah! She's waking up!" the voice of Tama-niichan brought me out the fluffy darkness.
"Tama-… Tamaki-senpai?" I said and opened my eyes. I found myself in a fancy looking room with a large dining table in the middle.
The boys were all wearing prince-like suits, I myself was wearing a frilly pink dress. "What the…?!" I said while I lifted the dress.
Tama-niichan pulled me up by my hand and smiled. "We wanted to apologize for our attitude the day before so we arranged this small party as apologize, a royal dinner worthy for our princess." He smiled an innocent smile.
I really want to laugh right now because of the irony, he has no idea how matching these words were, certainly the princess-part.
I raised an eyebrow. "You just wanted to see me in a dress, didn't you?"
Tama-niichan got a guilty face and blushed a bit. I felt a hand slide into mine and when I looked down I saw Mitsu-niichan holding my hand.
"We really felt bad after yesterday, so won't you forgive us?" he asked with big teary eyes.
How can I not forgive such a cute face?
Taka-niichan nodded in agreement with Mistu-niichan's words.
I looked over at Kyo-niichan, who stayed at some distance, he putted his glasses good. "The cost of the food won't be added to your debt." He said, his way of apologizing, I think…
Hika-niichan and Kao-niichan were smirking like two little devils.
"Since Tono wants us all to apologize…" Hika-niichan started.
"… We offer to feed you." Kao-niichan ended, with a challenging smile at Taka-niichan.
"You two!" Tama-niichan yelled. "Don't you dare do such a thing to my cute and adorable daughter!"
"I don't really mind." I commented, which made Tama-niichan glance at me in panic.
"Then…" The twins said with devilish looks in their eyes. "Would you mind if we fed you mouth on mouth?"
Tama-niichan made an indignant face and pulled me by my hand till I bumped into him, protective he putted his arms around me.
"H-hey! Tamaki-senpai! Let me go!" I yelled and wrestled to be released.
I made a small scream of surprise when Taka-niichan pulled me out of Tama-niichan's embrace.
Suddenly some noise came from outside, everyone looked at the window and Taka-niichan and Mitsu-niichan took on a fighting position. I remembered that when we were young both of them were already great martial arts specialists.
Guessing what, or rather who, it could have been that made the noise, I made one of the chairs at the table fall down with a lot of noise and everyone looked at me in surprise, even Kyo-niichan looked startled.
"S-sorry…" I muttered, avoiding eye contact.
The twins sighed. "God, you surprised us, Haruhi!"
"Are you all right?" Tama-niichan asked worried.
The twins appeared at my side and looked mischievous at their senpai. "You should first worry about yourself, Tono, we bet you almost wet your pants!" the twins teased him.
"I didn't! As if I would do such a childish thing!" He said angry. Taka-niichan and Mitsu-niichan still made a couple of glances at the window.
Kyo-niichan opened his pen and wrote something down. "If the chair is damaged then the cost will be added to your debt." He said, as stoic as ever.
I just smiled and putted the chair back, secretly checking for damage. We all took place at the table and outside, in the darkness I could see the figure of Arata climbing in the tree again.
I chuckled softly.
"Is there something funny? Haru-chan?" Mitsu-niichan asked.
"No, I'm just happy we get to eat together." I said and smiled.
Tama-niichan, who was in the middle of eating something, turned red and choked. The twins burst out in to laughter while Kyo-niichan gave Tama-niichan something to drink.
Both I and Mitsu-niichan chuckled while Tama-niichan scolded the twins for laughing with him.
It has been a while since I ate with my nii-chans, but almost nothing had changed, they were just as troublesome as usual.
I'm sorry if there were people looking forward to meet Aneko but I'm going to postpone it else the stroy will be going to fast ^_^
And I forgot to say in my previous notes: if Haruhi starts a name (example: Tama-...) but doesn't end it, is because she almost calls them ...-niichan but she change it at the end with ...-senpai. Just in case you hadn't noticed :) Also I want to thank everyone for the nice reviews ^_^