Chapter seven:
The next day Haruhi is walking through the school planning to go return some books to the library. She slows to a pause upon hearing Tamaki and Kyouya talking to each other. She glances to a room which has the door open a crack as if the two had hurried inside to chat quickly.
"And you are sure that it was her." Tamaki asks Kyouya who makes a sound of confirmation.
"She tried to be sneaky but I was able to detect her magic from her high emotions." Kyouya tells Tamaki and Haruhi can imagine him adjusting his glasses on his face. "So. What would you like the next step to be?"
"We will keep a close eye on her. I will do my best to get an audience with her parents. I think that they should know of her behaviour. If she tries anything else then we will take more immediate action."
"Sounds fair." Kyouya sounds like that makes sense.
Haruhi quietly slips away hoping that they didn't hear her. She didn't think that she'd feel this way however it does feel nice to know that the others truly do have her back. Her heart warms and she doesn't really want it to go away.
Later…
Haruhi just finishes the shift with some girls. She checks her schedule. "Okay. Who is next?" She finds a hand gently grabs her chin and her head is turned to look to the culprit of grabbing her face.
"That would be me." There stands Seika Ayanokoji who Haruhi hadn't expected to come to her table so soon. She lets go of Haruhi then sits across from her. "I requested some alone time."
Before Haruhi turns to look at the woman across from her she notices Kyouya watching them carefully. She can spot his grey eyes staring at them from around the edge of his glasses. She turns to Seika to turn her focus on her customer. "I am honored to have you here." She doesn't want to let the girl know that she is suspected of throwing Haruhi's bag into the pond.
"Are you?" Seika leans forward placing her elbows on the table with her hands under her chin. "I highly doubt that." She continues after Haruhi asks her what makes her think that. "I have been around the block enough. What your look is telling me is that you don't particularly like seeing me here at your table."
Haruhi wants to say that it is because of what she did to her bag. She keeps quiet and gets a little worried that her anger made the magic slightly spike as Seika's nose twitches as if catching even the scent of the magic.
"Hm. I was unaware that humans possessed lustful magic. Unless…" Seika's eyes narrow at the hidden girl. "There is something you're keeping to yourself. Perhaps a deal with the demon of lust? No. I don't see that happening. Perhaps a perk of joining the club? Or maybe you found another way to gain some lust magic to get something specific."
Haruhi can't deny it as Seika is definitely more alert than the other girls that she had seen. "I don't believe that is any of your business."
"Oh but it is." Seika moves her hands down shifting her hands under the table. "You seem to be taking the attention away from Tamaki. He is more distracted with checking on you than he is with giving me a good time." She mentions sounding a bit angry. "He is more worried about how you're doing than any of the other club members."
Haruhi blinks at her. "You really think that's what I am trying to do?" She gets her answer by the angry look from the other. "Look. I just wanted to join and not for those reasons you are making up."
"All I know is that you're not going to get a chance to do whatever you're thinking of doing." Seika tries to flip the table and grabs Haruhi with her magic to pull her towards her.
Everything freezes including the two girls then the two are put back into place.
Tamaki and Kyouya come over with all eyes on the situation.
Tamaki picks out a red rose from the vase on the table.
Seika starts fake crying and pointing at Haruhi. "He just tried to-" She doesn't get to finish as Kyouya interrupts her.
"Can your pathetic act." Kyouya actually sounds like he has venom in his tone. "I've been watching this entire time. Haruhi did nothing. You are trying to pin the blame of what you tried to pretend happen onto Haruhi here." He is about to continue though stops as Tamaki raises a hand to get him to not completely go off. He clears his throat and takes a step back. Him doing so makes Tamaki lower his hand.
Tamaki twirls the flower in his hand while staring at its petals. "You threw Haruhi's bag into the pond." His words cause not just an eruption of gasps then mummers about it but also get a surprised look from Seika. "Your behaviour is not acceptable. You are hereby banned from the host club." His words make Seika look so pissed off.
"My father will have something to say about this!" Seika insists only for Tamaki to shake his head.
"I don't think so. My father is currently in a meeting with your parents." Tamaki manages to quickly wipe the confidence from Seika. "They are hearing about your behaviour. And I will be going myself to inform them about this incident."
"You're a jerk!" Seika dashes out of the host club room.
"We'll be back." Kyouya promises then he and Tamaki disappear in a flash of flames.
Hunny comes running over hugging Haruhi's leg. "Are you okay?" He blinks with big eyes up at her.
"Yeah." Haruhi lets out a breath having a feeling that she won't be hearing from Seika. "I'm okay." She pets Hunny's head getting some awws from the girls who think it is all so cute. She smiles to herself and she wonders if she really have found her place in this school even though finding this spot was found so unexpectedly. She may have just found some new life long friends perhaps. She just never thought that she would be saying that about demons. She hadn't thought that she'd really be able to properly connect with any of them. She will have to decide what she is going to do when the demon of lust will be able to get this magic out of her. She is thinking about wanting to stay with this club as the club she has in high school. She just won't say anything until that time comes around. She doesn't see a point. She just knows that her role won't be so easy without the lust magic however she still really wants to get it out of her. She also has to mentally thank it for infecting her so she could unexpectedly meet some very wonderful demons. She wonders what might be coming up next as suddenly future school days seem a bit more exciting than they ever have before.
