Few Minutes Later

"So I was right..."

"What?" I asked Kyoya.

"That guy I saw earlier... Although he was wearing a white coat, he definitely wasn't from our hospital." Shaking my head, I looked over to Kim and sighed.

"Really?" said Honey.

"You should've said something earlier!" scolded the twins.

"Well, the security guards will get him right away," he said easily.

"Well," said a doctor, speaking to the girl the intruding man had 'violated'. "Where did he go?"

"Ah, he went toward the special male student's nurse office."

We paused.

"Haruhi!" the boys all exclaimed, racing off to the office where Kyoya had specially ordered for her.

...I am NOT going to be stuck in this Club alone! I suddenly thought.

I sprinted after the boys, not even noticing when I passed them. "Oi!" shouted Hikaru after me, but I didn't listen. When I run—I run fast.

There'sno way she's going to be discovered! I burst through the Special Male Student's Office, not noticing the nurse starting to get up from her desk. My eyes immediately locked onto the just barely shifting curtains where Haruhi must've been getting ready for her exam. However, through the thin material, I could barely make out another shadow of a person. Throwing the curtain aside, I discovered one of the last people I expected to run into. "YABU-SAN?!" I exclaimed. The middle-aged man looked so much scragglier since I last saw him, but it was definitely Yabu-san. I knew his daughter from Middle School.

"Wh—Kasumi-san!?" he said, even more surprised than me. Haruhi looked shocked, eyes moving between the two of us.

"What are you doing here?!" I demanded, remembering Haruhi's situation. She held up her jacket like protection and walked over to me.

Yabu-san looked as bewildered as he felt. "I'm looking for my daughter!"

"You mean Noguchi-san? I thought she went to Ourin," I said.

"She does! But I haven't been able to find her! And people have been mistaking me for a doctor."

Haruhi's eyebrow irked. "Well, you're in a white lab coat."

"Y-Yes, but—"

"HAAAAAARUUUUHIIIIIII!" My eyes snapped up to see an incoming shadow torpedo toward us. It took me less than a millisecond to realize two things:
1. It was Tamaki, kicking randomly to ward off Haruhi's "attacker"
2. He was about three feet off and aiming for me
As soon as he leapt through the curtain, I grabbed his open ankle and threw him into the wall—the only way I could've avoided getting kicked in the face. Tamaki was completely off balanced and face-planted into the white wallpaper.

"O-Ow..." he muttered, rubbing his face.

"Boss?!" The twins rushed in, obviously expecting something much different from Tamaki sprawled out on the floor in pain. They suddenly spotted old-man Yabu, hunched in a little ball, a little more than scared. "YOU!" the Hitachiin twins shouted, pointing directly at Yabu, who whimpered and hunched even smaller.

Irritated, I slapped the twins' pointing fingers away and faced Yabu-san, ignoring the gang behind me. "You're at the wrong school. This is Ouran Academy. Your daughter's school is about 5 miles from here. It's right on the intersection of Ika Street and Makako Street," I said to him. "Their school day ends in about two hours, so you'll have plenty of time to find her."

Yabu stared at me for a second, than nodded excessively. He burst under the curtain and sprinted down the hall as fast as he could. "THANK YOU, KASUMI-SAN!" he shouted as he ran. I smiled faintly.

"Did you know him?!" demanded Tamaki (who still felt ashamed for being thrown into a wall)

"Yes, I did," I snapped, turning on him and the rest of the gang. "And you were so rude to him!"

"Who was he?" asked Kyoya, getting to business. I saw the twins fuming a bit.

"I knew his daughter from Middle School. His name is Yabu, and he's been having problems with his wife and daughter. He was looking for his daughter at this school, mistaking it for Ourin High School."

The room was silent.

"Oh..." Kaoru said, deflated.

"We didn't know..."

"What if he was lying?!" insisted Tamaki. I looked at him, eyes as hard and cold as diamond.

"If the man wants to find his daughter," I said angrily, "then let him find his daughter." Tamaki was dumbfounded and embarrassed.

"S-Sorry," he mumbled.

"Now then," I huffed, "why don't we let Haruhi finish her examination and we can all go home happy." I smiled brightly, and caught the guy's off-guard. Haruhi shot me a smile too. I pushed past the boys and through the curtain opening. The nurse sitting at the desk smiled friendlily at me. But something (someone, actually) came through the door that made me freeze and shove the curtains closed behind me. I heard a muffled protest.

"Kasumi-san!?" said my nurse, hair disheveled so much it looked windblown. "I've been looking EVERYWHERE for you!" She practically leaped at me.

"Hi," I said quietly. "Could we please talk outside?" I was conscious of the heavy silence behind the curtain.

My nurse looked at me, furious yet worried. "Absolutely not," she exclaimed. "Those burns on your back should have been immediately treated," she sighed angrily. "How you are able to walk," she asked. "It's unthinkable the pain you are putting up with. Then there's your friend Ms. Black with all her cuts on her back! What is the meaning of this?!" Now it was really quiet. I really wanted to strangle this nurse for opening her big mouth.

I held my face down, ashamed. The club now knew of the secret Kim and I have been successfully keeping the entire week. "Sorry, ma'am," I mumbled, wanting to get out of here. My nurse latched onto my arm so that I wouldn't run away...again, and pulled me as fast and gently as she could. She started ranting before we even left the room.

I couldn't help but glance back at the door we just came out of. When we rounded the corner, I caught a glimpse of Tamaki's expression and a little of Kaoru's expression, too. Tamaki was frowning with deep worry and sympathy. He almost looked apologetic. Kaoru looked like he was gonna murder someone. Which made me afraid of what I would face tomorrow when I came back to school, because being treated like I've got a handicap, even when I actually do, is about as stupid and as bad as dying.