Chapter 8: The Day Haruhi Got Sick!
Daniel felt better once he dealt with his secret admirer, he was surprised it had turned out to be Aaron, but now he was just relieved it was over. Not that he didn't like the gifts, it just was a bit much and too... Extra for his liking.
Today seemed to be a day full of surprises though. Once Daniel entered class when school started everyone's mood was off. Usually, everyone was so full of happy and excitable energy from what he has seen. Even Renge wasn't being her loud, expressive self.
"Why is everyone so upset?" He couldn't help but ask everyone.
"Don't you realize Haruhi is not here? He got sick, how awful!" One of the girls in his class said making Daniel notice Haruhi's place was empty.
"I hope he gets better, school's not the same without Haruhi around!" Another girl sobbed.
"Hey, it's just a cold, right? I'm sure he'll be back tomorrow." Daniel tried reassuring everyone affected by Haruhi's absence.
"Yeah, besides, we have you, Danielle~" The twins grinned standing on either side of him.
"Eh?" Daniel questioned the twins.
"What? You provide just as much entertainment as Haruhi does for us, maybe even more." They replied making Daniel get a bit irritated by their behavior.
"I'm not entertaining you two just because Haruhi's gone!" Daniel told them, heading to his seat. Not soon after the twins followed, sitting on either side of him as they did with Haruhi when she was here.
"Awe, come on, we're bored." The twins told him as they sat down.
"I don't care, you can entertain yourselves." Daniel tsked.
"Fine, though we have been thinking about what to do with you once we win the contest." They grinned.
"Oh, yeah, what?" Daniel asked, obviously pretending to care.
"Well, we've picked out an outfit for you to wear." The twins told him, making Daniel tense.
"As if I'm going to wear anything you pick out for me, besides there's barely a chance you guys would win the contest," Daniel replied.
"What about we add it to our bet? If we win you have to wear whatever we pick for you." They suggested causing Daniel to scoff.
"You guys sure are cocky, fine. Let's see, if you two do win." Daniel accepted causing the twin's smirk in victory. Now they just had to wait until next week for them to declare themselves the winners.
~During Club Hours~
"Oh, my poor, darling daughter! Sick at home while I'm stuck here, not being able to take care of her!" Tamaki sobbed once news of Haruhi being sick got to him. Daniel could only sweat-drop at the blonde's dramatic behavior. He's acting like she has the plague or something.
"Come on, Boss, Haruhi will be back tomorrow, it's just a cold." The twins tried comforting their overdramatic leader.
"Besides, you have more things to worry about once we win that contest." The twins smirked causing the blonde to pause.
"As if you two will win, I won't allow it! If anyone's going to win that contest, it's going to be moi!" Tamaki declared, his attitude quickly switching like always.
Daniel could only sigh as he rubbed his temple as the three argued about who was going to win the contest. "I don't want any of them to win." He muttered to himself as he took a sip of tea he was having. He let out a shiver at the taste, he wasn't a tea person, sugar would probably help make it taste better.
His attention was brought back to the trio of idiots when they started talking about outfits he should wear. "We already picked an outfit for Daniel to wear on our date once we win, check it out!" They told Tamaki, revealing a strawberry-printed dress that would barely reach his upper thighs causing Daniel to choke on his drink once he saw it.
It's as if they want him to bend down to see his underwear in that thing. There weren't even sleeves on the dress, just some straps, it would also show his back which was already revealing enough. This made him want to make sure the twins didn't win this contest.
By how Tamaki started blushing as the blonde looked at the dress. "It's nice, isn't it?' The twins grinned before Tamaki snapped out of his perverted thoughts of actually seeing Daniel wear this.
"Nice!? I will not have my son wear such a revealing dress! Especially if it's for a date!" He exclaimed. This made Daniel feel some gratitude that Tamaki thought the same as he did about the dress.
"If he is to wear an outfit, why not wear something more modest?" Tamaki continued, taking out a white t-shirt with a red rose printed on it with a green, knee-length skirt to go with it. "He should wear this for when, I win," Tamaki told the duo as Daniel's gratitude flew out the window.
"Elle-chan! Let's eat some cake together, we have chocolate just for you!" Honey told Daniel, appearing next to the male with a big smile on his face with flowers surrounding him to add to his innocence.
"Alright, I'll have some cake," Daniel replied to the short blonde, glad to be away from the trio arguing about what he was going to wear if they win this contest.
Heading over to Honey and Mori's table he joined them in eating sweets, mostly cake. There were guests there with them enjoying themselves. Mori nodded in greeting to him as Daniel took a seat in between the blonde and the tall male.
He had to admit the cake was delicious, he felt a bit happy that they remembered his favorite flavor. Even if it was a bit boring, chocolate was his favorite anyway. The delicious cake was enough to help him forget about his worries as he closed his eyes and smiled in bliss as he ate.
This blissful state of his caused the guests to swoon over how cute he was. It wasn't his fault he didn't have a cake like this all the time, this probably cost as much as his uniform. It must've been very expensive to keep up the sweet stock for the Host Club, it made the teen glance over to the Megane who was working diligently to keep the Host Club afloat.
He couldn't help but feel a bit bad for the raven-ette having to deal with all the hard work that comes into running this club. Kyoya was practically a miracle worker when dealing with Tamaki's plans and schemes for Host Club Events and stuff like that.
"There's more cake if you want any, Elle-chan!" Honey told him, snapping him out of his thoughts as the blonde pushed a whole ass chocolate cake in front of him making him sweat-drop.
"Yeah, no thanks. One slice is enough, I'm not sure if I can eat anymore." Daniel replied pushing it away from him, gently. Honey didn't seem to mind as the blonde nodded.
"Okay! More for me then!" He exclaimed, taking the cake with him, thus earning another sweat-drop from the male.
~After Club Hours~
Once the club was finally over for the day he just wanted to go home. Today was more exhausting than normal and he had a feeling it was because Haruhi wasn't here to prevent the others from being as stupid as they could be.
Daniel really hoped Haruhi would be better tomorrow because he was sure he wouldn't last another day like that again. Maybe he can text her to see if she was alright, he did get her number as well as the other Host Club members numbers once he officially joined as their second cross-dressing host. Well, all except Tamaki's. He's not even sure if Tamaki knows he has a phone, he wouldn't be surprised. Tamaki was a bit of an airhead.
So that's what the male did. He took out his phone and sent a text to Haruhi, asking her how she is. He didn't get a reply back until he got home.
'I'm fine, just a little cold.' Haruhi replied.
'Are you alone?' Daniel asked as he was already up into his room to get out of his uniform.
'Yeah, but I'm fine.' Haruhi texted back making Daniel frown.
'No, give me your address, I'm coming over, you shouldn't be alone when you're sick.' Daniel basically ordered as a text, sending it before heading back downstairs to put on some sneakers.
"I'll be back, I'm going to a friend's house!" Daniel called out to his mother, expecting her to be in her art room before leaving the door with his pack full of his school stuff. He could help her with her missing assignments from today.
Once Daniel got Haruhi's address the male went over to his classmate's home. It wasn't that far from his house surprisingly, it would take ten minutes to get there by foot but it really wasn't that far.
When he got to the apartment building he couldn't help but think about his old home. Maybe he should contact his friends back at his old home sometimes, he really hasn't been doing a good job at that.
"Okay, now what apartment did she say she lived in?" He questioned himself, looking back down at his phone, re-reading the directions as he started going up the stairs. He looked up at the number, confirming it was Haruhi's place, and knocked on the door.
"It's Daniel, I'm here," Daniel called to Haruhi, he didn't wait long before the door opened.
"You really didn't have to come," Haruhi told him while she wore a mask, her cheeks were a little flushed as she held a blanket around her shoulders.
"Hey, what are friends for?" Daniel smiled as she let him come in. Daniel took off his shoes once he saw the shoes next to the door, he was doing his best to be respectful so he assumed he should take off his shoes.
"I also brought my work from school, so you wouldn't miss anything," Daniel told her while taking out his work and heading to her table.
"Thanks," Haruhi replied. "Do you want anything? I can make us some tea." She offered.
"No, you're sick, I'll do it, just tell me how." He told her walking over next to Haruhi into the kitchen.
"It's just a cold." She replied bt let Daniel help make the tea.
"So, how was school today?" She asked sitting down as Daniel poured the cups of tea.
Daniel just groaned at the thought of today. "It was awful, without you the others have been so clingy. They were more chaotic than usual without you there! I don't even want to think about if one of those three idiots win that date with me if that's what they're like when we're alone." Daniel whined.
Haruhi let out a small chuckle, "I didn't think there would be much of a problem without me for one day."
"You have no idea." Daniel groaned, "They're such a handful."
"Yeah, but you get used to that." She told him before coughing into her arm even if she was wearing a mask.
"Do you need some medicine?" Daniel asked her, worriedly.
"Yeah, it's in the bathroom, just behind the mirror." She coughed, pointing towards the bathroom making him nod and stand up, heading to the bathroom to get something for her cold.
For the next few hours, the two hung out, did their homework, and Daniel did his best to take care of Haruhi. They only stopped when the door opened.
"Haruhi! I'm home!" A male's voice said, making the two look over.
"Hey, dad," Haruhi said as Daniel took notice that Haruhi's father was crossdressing? A tranvestite? Well, he was interesting, to say the least.
Haruhi's father froze when she saw the extra visitor. "Haruhi, who's this?" He asked seeming to think Daniel was some intruder.
"I'm Daniel, sir. I'm in the same grade as Haruhi and wanted to make sure she was alright since she wasn't at school today."
Her father immediately brightened up when he recognized Daniel's name. "Oh, how sweet of you! You can call me Ranka. Thank you for making sure my Haruhi is alright, how about you join us for dinner?" The red-head offered, Daniel.
"Sorry, I should really be getting home, it was nice meeting you, Ranka. I'll see you tomorrow, Haruhi." Daniel told them with a smile before going to get his shoes.
"What a shame, but please, come by again, Daniel. I would love to talk more about you," Ranka told him as Daniel nodded.
"Alright, we'll see," Daniel replied with a smile before heading home. He was a bit surprised that her father recognizes his name, Haruhi didn't seem to be the type to talk about herself a lot outside of the Host Club.
Oh, well, at least tomorrow things will be back to normal with how it should be.
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ツ Yamaguchi Tadashi ツ: :0 That's meeeee
Also can I just cuddle and hug Aaron- he reminds me of honey-senpai but with Tamaki Amajiki (BNHA)'s Personality
Yes, you can cuddle and hug Aaron, he is precious. Also, I never watched BNHA but looking Tamaki Amajiki up I can see the resemblance, personality-wise.
jai: for reasons unknown, aaron reminds me of tooru "jimmy" fujisaki from yaribu
Again, I haven't seen Yaribu but looking Toru up I can see it as well, lol
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