"Where are Kaoru-kun and Hikaru-kun?" one of my quests asked. "Are they not feeling well?"
"That… I don't know." I answered.
"Could it be because of the broadcast?" the other girl wondered.
"You saw it?"
"Of course we did, everyone did, it concerns us all." The blonde girl leaned closer en whispered.
"Moreover, did you know the princess was very close friends with Tamaki-sama and the other hosts?" My other guest, a brunette, nodded several times.
"Maybe that's why Kaoru-kun and Hikaru-kun are absent." The blonde speculated.
"Yeah, maybe…" I muttered.
"It must have been overwhelming to hear that their good friends is still alive after all those years." The brunette said.
"They must have been shocked." The other girl added. The guilt I had been trying to suppress, came boiling up again. "But they must have been really happy to hear the news."
"Happy?" I repeated, Hika-niichan hadn't looked really happy when he had found out.
"Yes, of course would they be happy after hearing from a good friend who was missing for several years, it must have been joyful." The blonde said.
"But wouldn't they also be confused?" the second guest asked her friend. The two girls were confusing me with possibilities I hadn't thought of. Since Kyo-niichan and Taka-niichan both reacted fairly well on discovering my identity I had thought the others would react the same.
"Yes, they would be confused, maybe even angry." The blonde guest said.
"Angry? No, I don't think they would be angry." Her friend said.
"Why not? Imagine, if I had been missing for so many years and no one knew whether I was still alive or not, then you hear that I had been alive for all these years, wouldn't you be angry with me for never contacting you and telling I was doing fine?"
"Well, I guess I would be." The brunette admitted.
Dumbfounded I listened to their conversation. Is this how Hika-niichan had been feeling when he found out, that's why he is angry? Because I didn't contact him?
"But still, it's not the princess's fault she had to escape and leave her friends behind." The brunette defended me.
"But it is her fault not to contact them." Her friend replied. "If it would have happened to me, I wouldn't want to worry my friends, I would have contacted them."
"You don't know her situations so you can't judge her decisions." The other one said.
"Neither can you. I only hope it won't cause troubles between the princess and our hosts, it would be sad to be fighting with friends you had to miss for so long." The blonde said.
Sad… I jumped up and smiled at my guests. "Thank you for your advises, ladies." Dumbfounded they watched me leave the clubroom.
"Haruhi!" Tama-niichan called me. "Where are you going?"
I smiled apologetic. "I'm sorry, Tamaki-senpai, I'm going to find Hikaru and Kaoru."
The leader of the hosts thought in silence for a while. "We will come with you." He said.
Kyo-niichan stood up from behind his precious computer. "Let her go alone, Tamaki."
All the people in the room looked fascinated at the scène and waited for Tama-niichan's reaction.
He sighed. "Very well." He looked at me and clenched his fist. "But if they dare to touch my daughter I will personally kick them to hell." He theatrically swept his hair away. "I vow I won't forgive them." His guests squealed and complimented him for being such a good boss for his "commoner" employee.
I rolled my eyes and Kyo-niichan signed me to leave. When I left the clubroom, I took my phone and called Hika-niichan but he didn't answer. I looked in the classroom but he wasn't there either, nor in the canteen. To my luck, I bumped in Nekozawa-senpai.
"Nekozawa-senpai! Do you know where Hikaru is?" I asked the caped student.
"He and his brother are on the roof." He replied and pointed his hand with the cat glove on at the ceiling.
"Thanks!" I said and ran towards the stairs to the rooftop of the school building. I found the two brothers sitting on the ground, with their backs against the fence. They looked up surprised when they heard me.
"Haruhi!" they both called me in unison.
Slightly out of breath, I smiled at my two childhood friends. "Guys… I have something to tell you."
"I don't want to hear it." Hika-niichan stubbornly said.
"Hikaru…" Kao-niichan scolded his older brother.
"Hikaru, you didn't tell Kaoru yet?" I asked.
"Told him what?" the eldest twin groaned.
"Told me what?" said Kao-niichan after his elder brother.
"About what Shiori told you." I explained. It drew Hika-niichan attention.
"Why should I tell him?" he asked.
"Tell me what?" Kao-niichan asked again.
"About me being Japan's princess." I said, shocking both brothers.
"Haruhi… what are you saying?" Kao-niichan asked confused while Hika-niichan stayed shocked.
"So it's true…" he muttered. Kao-niichan looked from me to Hika-niichan.
"What are you two talking about?" he asked. "Haruhi, are you really…"
"Why?" Hika-niichan asked softly, interrupting his brother. Kao-niichan closed his mouth.
Hika-niichan's hair fell over his eyes so I couldn't read his mood very well but his body was extremely tense so I figured he was angry, seriously angry.
"Why did you leave us?!" he yelled, finally showing me his face. His eyes, visible now, gleamed with anger.
I'm sorry, the chapter is a bit short :/ I will make up with the next chapters. If this update manages to get 300 reviews I told myself to do a double update next weekend ^^ We're coming closer to the ending (it will probably take some other 6 chapters, without individual endings that is) but to be honest I have no idea how to end this fanfic ^_^ I'll come up with it while writing, enjoy the chapter!