I'm back!
I guess I'll just do the mass updates for now, so this is the last one until I get a few written and ready.
Thank you all that have been reading the story!
As always I don't own anything except Lacy!
Enjoy!
Haruhi waited in anticipation outside of the school therapist office. Lacy was undergoing an analysis to see if it was an option for her to no longer attend therapy. She didn't know what had happened last week after Kyoya had left the Host Club to talk to Lacy, he didn't return to the club until club hours were over and Lacy refused to tell her what had happened though she seemed much happier, but Haruhi had a feeling he had spoken with someone because the therapist had told Lacy she only had to come in every other day instead of every day.
The door creaking open caught Haruhi's attention causing her to snap out of her thoughts as she spotted a grinning Lacy.
"Well?"
Lacy shrugged.
"Apparently I don't have to go to therapy unless I actually want it."
Haruhi smiled and hugged Lacy.
"That's great!"
Lacy nodded, pulling away.
"Let's go to the club. I've missed everyone."
Haruhi nodded and the pair made their way to the club.
"This actually looks super cute. You should grow your hair back out."
Lacy said happily as she helped Haruhi with her wig, admiring the overall look of the Heian period clothing the club members were wearing.
"I can't do that. It's too much hassle when it's long."
Lacy laughed as she shoved her hair over her shoulder.
"That's true."
The pair smiled at each other before moving to the gardens with the rest of the club. Lacy gave Kyoya a small smile as she passed him to set up at a table to prepare to run the numbers for the day.
"How was your session today, Lacy?"
Lacy looked up at Kyoya and smiled.
"I don't have to go to therapy unless I chose to. I don't know what you did, but thank you all the same."
Kyoya smiled at Lacy.
"That's good to hear."
The pair were silent for a moment. Ever since they shared their first kiss together, things had become a little awkward between them. Something neither of them were used to.
"Kyoya, when we aren't busy, I would like to talk to you about last week."
Lacy was nervous as Kyoya nodded and agreed before walking off to finish preparing for the day.
Slowly the guest started walking into the garden and the day finally began. Lacy kept track of every guest that walked into the garden, while also having the luxury to walk around and observe the club members. Lacy spotted Kyoya with his guest admiring a small stream and walked over to see how he treated his guest as opposed to the rest of the club.
"Oh my! Since when was there such a pretty river in the garden?"
"It's called a Yarimizu. A long time ago, Heian people appreciated the four seasons by looking at cherry blossoms or red autumn leaves floating on the surface. I made this, wishing that I could have the honor of spending all four seasons with you dear ladies."
Kyoya smiled and held up one of the clubs reservations books.
"What do you think of this? A tea party among the autumn leaves with only a small limited number of people. Held in the fall."
All five of the girls became excited.
"Yes! We want to make reservations!"
Lacy smiled and happily took down the girls names before walking back to her laptop to enter the names into the system. As she was finishing up with the growing list of reservations, Lacy heard Tamaki yell for Haruhi to get down. Glancing over Lacy saw Haruhi on the ground and Tamaki kicking a ball out of the garden and the sound of glass breaking quickly followed.
"That's not good."
"I'm sorry! I don't know what else to say to express how truly sorry I am!"
Tamaki was apologizing to the leader of the small newspaper club who had a goose egg on his head from being hit with the ball.
Lacy helped Haruhi and Honey clean up the broken glass while listening to everything.
"No, no, it's alright. It's only a slight mistake, completely shattering the window and hitting me right on the head. Don't worry about your timing is quite fortuitous. In fact, I was just going to request cooperation from the Host Club for us to cover you for a story."
Lacy glanced over.
"I didn't know we had a newspaper club."
The twins held one of the papers up.
"Well, it's just a piece of trash called "Ouran Sports". It's only a tabloid gossip rag that exaggerates and prints school romances or internal conflicts in classes that have competing families. It's so full of made up stories that no one reads it anymore."
Lacy stood up and looked at one of the papers to see her picture on the front. Feeling her eyebrow twitch she discreetly read the article to see it was about when she had first arrived at Ouran with numerous rumors listed as to why she had been disowned, one of which was true though she would never admit to it. Lacy was very happy to hear that no one bothered to read the newspaper, she wasn't sure what would have happened to her if any of the club members had read this.
"We refuse."
Lacy glanced up at Kyoya's voice, she quickly pieced together that Tamaki had tried to accept the offer on the newspaper club doing a story on the Host Club and Kyoya had quickly intervened.
Haruhi walked over and looked at what Lacy was looking at. She sighed as Lacy moved some papers around to see another one of her, the photos were of her when she was with Kyoya but the angle kept him out of the photo.
"I'm glad people don't read this."
Lacy muttered as Haruhi nodded.
"It's like my old school."
Lacy sighed and shook her head.
"I'm not dealing with this again."
Lacy sighed and walked out of the room with Haruhi close behind and walking to the club room in silence. Once they entered the room Lacy started packing up her laptop when the rest of the club entered.
Everyone changed except Tamaki who was sulking that he didn't get his way. While the club members were discussing why they didn't want to get involved with the newspaper club, Lacy had finished packing her items and walked over to the group.
"If you decide to work with them then you need to set up some rules. I request that one of them be that I am not in their article at all. That includes my photo. I'm going home."
The next few days caused Lacy to be a bit grumpy, who had been informed by Haruhi that the club had decided to allow the article with a list of rules, watching the club members play red light green light while the newspaper club took photos. Though Lacy admitted it was comical watching the twins make different poses and Kyoya not moving at all. Lacy worked on her homework since the club was essentially closed those days for the article.
"We can't let our guard down! This is most likely one of the bastard's schemes!"
Lacy glanced at the newspaper club with a blank stare. They were really getting on her nerves and she knew the rest of the club could hear them making insults. With a low sigh, Lacy watched as the leader of the newspaper club walked over to her.
"You're Lacy Davis. Right? How did you end up in this club? What is your role here?"
Lacy gave him a level look, remembering all the nasty things he had written about her.
"I am here to support my cousin."
She replied with shortly.
"Did you know about the rumour going around that this club was created to show off the influence of "Suou"?"
Lacy gave him a harsh look before she was interrupted by the twins stepping in between the pair.
"Lacy, the boss wants you to play with us."
Lacy stood up and joined the game of hide and seek. With a slight smile she followed Kyoya into the school to hide.
"Tell me, Lacy, what did Akira say to you?"
Lacy sighed as they ducked into a classroom.
"He said there was a rumor that the club was only created to show off how much influence Tamaki has."
Kyoya nodded as they stood in silence for a moment.
"Kyoya, you know they've written a couple articles about me, right?"
Kyoya nodded, moving to stand closer to her.
"I came across them in my research."
Lacy nodded, lightly hugging Kyoya.
"You know I'm not like what they said."
Kyoya smiled at her.
"You need to have more faith in me."
Lacy laughed and kissed Kyoya, who quickly kissed back and turned it into a mini makeout session, they only stopped when someone cleared their voice. Pulling apart, Lacy blushed heavily at seeing Mori and Honey smiling at them.
"This should go without saying. You two saw nothing."
Kyoya said in an authoritative voice. Honey grinned.
"You were right about Akira, Kyoya."
Kyoya nodded and motioned for Lacy to follow as they left the room and stood in the doorway of a different room where the newspaper club was trapped between the twins and the rest of the club minus Tamaki and Haruhi.
"I'm warning you know, you won't escape unscathed if you even try hurting the president. And aside from our Hitachiin family, you'll turn all the families of the Host Club into your enemies. You ready for that?"
Akira pointed an accusing finger at the twins.
"I knew it. Using your parents' powers! Did Tamaki Suou instruct you as such?!"
Honey spoke up while Lacy, Kyoya, and Mori just watched.
"Ne! Tamaki would never do something like that! You know. We like Tamaki very very much. So we can't forgive anyone that hurts Tamaki!"
The twins looked bored.
"Well. Although he's a bit stupid."
Kyoya spoke up.
"And thanks to his personality traits, I receive significant help in increasing my information network."
Kyoya held up a disk.
"So anyways. Now, whatever should we do with this disk that contains what we recorded of all your scheming from the last few days?"
The newspaper club looked horrified as Lacy smiled at Kyoya.
"Found Tamaki and Haruhi!"
Lacy smiled and walked over to Haruhi.
"So what were you doing alone with Tamaki?"
She teased lightly as Haruhi rolled her eyes at her.
"You're being childish Lacy. Where's the newspaper club?"
Lacy smiled.
"They decided that they had something important to do and discontinued their article."
Haruhi nodded as the host club went inside to enjoy some cake.
So what do we think?
I will see you all next time!
