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A Little KarBri Time, Yeah

"Carissa! I'm going out shopping! Do you need or want anything extra?" Brianna yelled as she grabbed her keys and money.

"Naah! I'm 'ight! Be careful!" Carissa called back.

"Okay! Well, I'm leaving!" Brianna called as she left the apartment, locking the door behind her, and made her way to the mall.

It was Saturday now and ever since the incident with her landing up in the hospital; Carissa, Hikaru, Haruhi, and Karou had given her an earful and Honey had burst into tears and Tamaki… well Tamaki just went all melodramatic on her and she and Kyoya had gotten into a heated argument and Mori had just given her a stern look.

"Okay… so I need to get more underwear, shirts, deodorants, two coats, a couple of pants…" Brianna thought as she boarded the bus to get to the mall.

Once she reached the mall, she hopped off the bus and jostled her way through just to reach the front door.

"Damn! Everyone must need something! I knew I should've come on a week day!" Brianna thought bitterly as she elbowed a man out of her way.

"Finally! Some fuckin air! I can breathe again!" she thought as she finally made her way inside the crowded mall.

She walked around in confusion, trying to see which store to go into first.

"Hey, look at that guy! He's so hot! I love his ginger hair!" Brianna's ears perked up.

"Ginger hair…?" she thought.

She looked over to where the girls were pointing and looking at and noticed slightly spiky ginger colored hair, the body was leaned back casually on the bench. Dread washed over her.

"It can't be, can it? Damn, I'ma regret checkin to see if I'm right, I know it, but I'm just too damn curious for my own good." Brianna muttered, as she went over to see if it was either one of the people she thought it was.

Once she was behind the person, she leaned over and looked at the person's face. His eyes were closed but there was no mistaking the features on his face.

"Karou?" Brianna exclaimed.

Karou's eyes snapped open and he sucked in a surprised gasp. Brianna's face was an inch away from his and her dark brown eyes stared curiously into his own amber ones.

"Br-Brianna? What are you doing?" Karou stuttered out, his face flushed at the close proximity of their faces.

Oblivious to the fact of his embarrassment, she started talking.

"Shopping. But I could ask you the same question, what are you doing here?"

"I, uh, I'm, umm…" his head was in a fog and he couldn't think straight enough to form a sentence. The whole time Brianna had been talking, her breathe had fanned over his face. Her breath was cool and smelled like chocolate.

Brianna sighed and moved her face away from in front of his and walked around to sit next to him on the bench, tapping her fingers on it impatiently.

Karou shook his head to clear the fog that had overcome his head before he started talking again.

"I came here with everyone else because Tono wanted to come here and he dragged us and Haruhi so she could help him better understand how commoner's shop. But, in all the excitement, I got separated from everyone else."

Brianna clucked her tongue, shook her head, and rolled her eyes.

"Sounds like that big idiot." Karou cracked a smile.

They sat in silence for a few minutes before Brianna sighed and got up.

"Okay then, come on." She said, patting his shoulder.

"Huh?" Karou replied looking up at her, the spot where she touched him tingled pleasantly.

"Come with me. I'll help teach you how normal people shop." She replied, replacing the commoner with normal and stressing it.

Karou stared at her in surprise.

"Isn't that… just like a…. date…." A blush covered the poor boy's face after he thought that.

"Well? Are you coming?" Brianna crossed her arms and tapped her foot impatiently.

"S-sure…" he murmured, getting up and following her to a nearby store.

As they walked, Karou listened to the chatter of girls that turned to stare at them. He would normally pay them no mind but he had heard the girls say 'she' and he knew that they must've been talking about Brianna.

"Wow! That guy is so hot! But, who's that girl with him?"

"They cannot be dating! He's hot and she's not!"

"What is she wearing?"

"I feel bad for him. It must be hard on him to be seen with someone as uncool as her."

Karou bristled at that. How would they know how he felt? He was about to turn around and tell the group of girls off but something warm and soft slipped into his hand, stopping him.

"Karou? What are you doing? Come on or else I'll leave you behind!" Brianna said, tugging him along by his hand.

A blush covered his face as he stared at their intertwined hands. He glanced back and noticed that the girls were fuming, their faces were turning red. A small smirk graced his lips as he watched them. Brianna, tugging on his hand to make him walk faster, was what brought him back to reality, and back to blushing. They walked into a store and Brianna walked over to the shirts area. She picked up a couple of very showy tops and threw them into a nearby empty handheld cart.

"For Carissa." Karou stated, eyeing the shirts.

"Yep."

Karou followed Brianna as she moved away from the women's shirts and walked over to the men's shirts.

"Why are we in the men's area? Shouldn't you be in the women's area?" Karou asked, an eyebrow raised.

"Have you even seen what I wear?" Brianna retorted, taking a couple of shirts and placing them into the cart.

Karou glanced at her baggy clothing and laughed slightly.

"Yea, I guess you have a point there,"

They went around the store, gathering things on Brianna's mental checklist and Brianna answering the questions Karou asked.

"How many more things do you need?" Karou asked, curiosity in his expression.

"Hmm… I just gota get a couple more things but there're all in the same section." She answered, getting onto the escalator, Karou right behind her.

They got off and walked around for a few minutes before Karou started talking.

"So, what is it exactly that you have to get?"

"That." Brianna replied, pointing to where she had to go.

Karou's whole face turned tomato red as he looked in the direction Brianna was pointing at.

"W-what?" he spluttered, stopping his walking.

"What's wrong with you? Come on. We don't have all day!" Brianna demanded, grabbing his hand and pulling him along.

More like dragging though.

"B-but I, I!"

Brianna huffed, stopped walking, and turned around, an irritated expression on her face.

"Damnitt, Karou! What? What is it? Just spit it out already!"

"I can't go into the lingerie area!" Karou rushed out, his blush growing darker.

Brianna blinked, then blinked again. She then started trying to hold back her giggles.

"S-stop laughing! It's not funny!"

Brianna coughed and started talking.

"Is that your reason?" Karou nodded. Brianna gave him a devious smirk and pinched his cheek.

"Aww~ you're soooo innocent!"

Karou blushed even harder.

"S-stop it!" Karou pulled away from her and looked away.

Brianna stared at him for a minute before sighing and grabbing hold of both his hands.

"Karou? Hey Karou, look at me."

Karou huffed and turned towards her but his head was still lowered towards the ground.

"Karou…" Brianna sighed. She let go of his hands and brought her hands up to his face. Grabbing hold of his face, she made him look her in the eyes.

"Karou… don't be mad or upset okay? It's okay that you're still innocent, I think that that's nice," Brianna smiled slightly at him.

Karou stared at her. He studied her expression— closed eyes with a small, awkward smile. His hands started moving on their own. He brought them up to her waist and he was about to wrap his arms around her when she pulled, so he quickly dropped his arms back to his side.

"If you truly feel that you can't or won't go into the ladies underwear section, than fine. You can wait outside of it, with your back turned towards it, okay."

He nodded, his eyes looking at the floor, not willing to meet her face.

"All righty then. Let's go." She grabbed his hand and dragged him along the last few steps before she let him go and entered the ladies underwear section.

Sighing, Karou leaned against the wall.

"I can't believe that I was going to wrap my arms around her and…. and…. and…. KISS HER!" he thought, his whole body was flushed as he put his head into his hands and shook it.

"I'm the worst." He muttered.

"Umm, excuse me," Karou looked up and was met with the sight of one of the group of girls who had bad mouthed Brianna. He instantly soured at them.

"Yes?" he asked crisply.

"Well, I was wondering if, well, you know that if you're bored, would you like to come hang out with us?" once the girl finished, her friends tried to giggle and act seductive with their suggestive winks and smiles.

It repulsed him.

Karou stared at the girl for a moment before he answered her.

"No thanks. I'm already with someone."

The girls face dropped before she put on her seductive face.

"Aww, come on! You mean you're waiting for that uncool girl? Don't be nice, I know you don't want to be seen with her." The girl had sidled up to him and had grabbed hold of his arm.

His arm tingled unpleasantly at her touch and he easily shook her arm off.

"How would you know how I felt?" he demanded, shaking his arm free of the girl's clutches again after she latched onto him again.

"Oh please! Anybody would feel that way if they were stuck with someone like her," she said the last word with disgust which took him over the edge.

He was about to shout and yell at her to stop bad mouthing Brianna when, said girls voice stopped him.

"Karou? What are you doing? Let's go, I'm finished."

Karou instantly calmed down as he turned to face her.

"Wait a sec!" the girl declared, storming over to Brianna.

"Can't you see that it bothers him that you two are hanging out! Someone as uncool as you! Just what are you to him— his girlfriend?" she said the girlfriend part with obvious disgust.

Brianna's face was pissed. She was about to tell the girl off when, she felt Karou grab her hand and pull her into his chest. He then wrapped one arm around her shoulder and then, rested his head on top of hers.

"Sorry, but, could you please stop harassing my girlfriend." Karou said, smirking slightly at the girl's flustered faces.

"Come on." He murmured, letting go of Brianna's shoulder and pulling her along by her hand.

They got far enough away from the girls when Karou quickly let go of her hand and slumped down against a wall, his face covered by his hands as he blushed.

"Karou?" Brianna asked, lowering herself down to his height.

Karou shook his head. Brianna sighed and grabbed his hands and pried them away from his face.

"Karou, come on, talk to me. What's wrong?" Karou's face was flushed and he was avoiding making eye contact with her.

"I-I'm sorry… about what I said… about you being my girlfriend… I-I di-didn't mean it…" he trailed off.

Brianna blinked then blinked again, she then smiled a soft and tiny awkward smile.

"Is that all your worried 'bout?" Karou nodded his head, finally making eye contact with her.

"Geez, don't worry about it! I know you didn't mean it. You were just tryin to get those girl's to leave me alone, right?" he nodded his head.

"Well, thanks. But next time, leave them to me 'ight, I can handle myself." Brianna patted his shoulder again.

Karou nodded, but frowned, as he got up and followed her to the cash register. He found that he didn't want her to handle things by herself. He wanted her to lean on him, no matter what the problem was. He wanted her to know that she could rely on him.

He stopped walking and continued the rant in his head, the pleasant tingling in his shoulder from were Brianna had touched only fueled his thoughts. He wondered briefly why her touch was pleasant when the other girl's was repulsive.

"Karou! Let's go! I'm already finished!" Brianna said, she was standing by the exit.

Karou snapped out of his thoughts and noticed that Brianna had her stuff paid for already.

"I'm coming." He replied, walking over to her.

She nodded and started walking, swinging the bags she had in her hand. Karou stared at her empty hand and felt his twitch. Reaching, he grasped Brianna's hand in his and when she looked back, he pretended to be interested in the window displays. Shrugging, Brianna wrapped her fingers around his hand. They walked like that for some time when Brianna suddenly stopped, causing Karou, who had actually become interested in the stuff displayed in the windows, to bump into her.

"Brianna? What's up?" he asked her, becoming concerned because of her soured expression.

"Look who I found." She replied, nodding her head towards were she was looking at.

Karou looked over. He saw the hosts all gathered around, and they looked like they were having an argument.

"Come on. Let's go grace them with our presence." Brianna muttered, pulling him along.

Once they were close enough, Brianna let go of Karou's hand ( much to his displeasure because he found that he missed her touch) and shouted at them.

"Hey! You idiots! Lost something!" Brianna shouted at them.

They stopped talking and turned to face Brianna who was pointing at Karou.

"Bri-chan! Kar-chan!" Honey exclaimed, bounding over to them.

"Hey Honey-senpai." Brianna replied, patting his head.

"Karou! Are you okay!" Hikaru asked, coming over to him.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I just followed Brianna around, that's all." He replied.

" A little KarBri time." Brianna clarified, as she started walking away from the group. Karou flushed slightly.

"Huh? Hey wait! Where are you going kitty!" Hikaru called chasing after her.

"Home you dumbass!" she replied, walking faster away.

"So rude." Kyoya replied.

Brianna stopped walking and twitched. She turned back around and walked briskly back towards him.

"Excuse me? What did you just say?"

"You are acting very rude."

"Well, it's really known of his, yours, or anyone else's damn business where I'm going!"

"He was just curious."

"Yeah, well, curiosity killed the cat."

The argument went on like that. The hosts watched as the two bickered back and forth. It was actually amusing. Karou wasn't really paying attention to their argument though. He was too busy watching Brianna. He smiled gently at her.

"A little KarBri time." Brianna's voice and words echoed through his head.

"Yeah," he whispered, smiling to himself.

So sweet. Ha- ha. Anyways, please Review and the next chapter will be out shortly. 'Till next time, bye!