A/N I don't own either of these two franchises, OHSHC and Log Horizon belong to their respective owners.

Seriously though, I just finished marathoning Log Horizon and Kyouya and Shiroue are just a bit too similar. Dark-haired, glasses-wearing people described as being demons in human skin? That are both fantastically smart and like to control everything from the shadows? I can totally see Kyouya secretly being a gamer and staying up all night playing, thus this was born.

Kyouya had no idea when exactly he involved himself with MMORPGs. Before Tamaki had entered his life, he'd always been a bit of a loner. It was natural for the other students at Ouran to only pay the barest amount of attention to him – he was the third in line to inherit, after all. Logically, he knew it was a waste of his time and that he didn't have any room in his schedule for such frivolous activities, yet somehow the games annoyingly managed to worm their way into his life. It was an addiction, the cases were well documented and hard to miss, but if he, Ootori Kyouya, sought help to get away from a hobby, albeit an addictive one, it would mean it had defeated him. But this wasn't any MMORPG; it was Elder Tale, easily the biggest game franchise worldwide.

Perhaps it wasn't the addictiveness so much as the fact that, after a few years in that alternate world other characters had begun to approach him for advice. It had been a rather foreign concept at the time, to be sure. Nobody had ever approached him, except to try and get closer to the Ootori line. Those people had been quickly, though politely, rebuffed. Unless they had useful connections themselves, but those particular heirs were few and far between since they had no need for his name to be important. However, this time the people approaching him had been doing it out of a genuine acknowledgement of his skills, rather than the name he was born with. It had been a breath of fresh air, and Kyouya realized that he liked helping people, giving out his expertise, and receiving the other adventurers thanks in return. Had it been real life, he might have attempted to extract a price, but this was virtual, and nothing was lost in the exchange.

The Host Club had certainly limited his time for this covert activity, but the addictiveness would often see him coming back for another round in the middle of the night. If he happened to be a bit crabby in the morning, it certainly wasn't his fault, and the draw had only grown when he found himself ensconced between two sets of friends. The Host Club, which he found himself drawn steadily closer to on an increasingly emotional level, and the Debauchery Tea Party, compromised of his online friends, the people that hadn't befriended his name before him. It would have been honestly difficult to say which he was closer to, for both sets of people were so different yet so eerily similar. Either way, Kyouya had carved out his own niche within both worlds, and found himself comfortable there. He wasn't completely tied to any of them, yet they were all still close enough that he could rely on any one of them for support had he truly needed it.

Soon change was ushered in with graduation, and, with the Tea Party's breakup, Kyouya began spending less time online and more on his studies. Sure, he would squeeze a small bit of time in every once in a while, in between studies and business meetings. After a few years of his rather vigorous schedule, and with his college education coming to a close, Kyouya found that he'd managed to fall into a routine. While his future was little more assured than it had been before he had ever met Tamaki and the rest of the Host Club, despite his father recognizing his ability, he was certainly more comfortable with the way his life was going. The Elder Tale was set aside as a way to relax every week, and he became a regular visitor once running across those twins, Minori and Tohya, and had offered to be their teacher. It was going to be hard work, but then, when hadn't it been?

Setting aside the last of the paperwork he had to do that night on his work desk, Kyouya sighed quietly, stretching his arms above his head before clambering out of the chair. It had been a long day, and he was ready to unwind for a while. Unconsciously, he headed straight for the computer on his other desk. A little bit of adventuring was in order before he resigned himself to bed. It was only right, for he'd promised the twins he would be there, and they would certainly have been waiting on him. The fact that he was an enchanter and only partially capable of training them, unlike other players in their own classes, didn't seem to bother them in the slightest, and for the next hour and a half he spent in a mixture of training and practice for the two. Not that he minded, helping those two had always been rather fun, especially when Tohya would fire himself up for whatever they were going over and Minori would be taking diligent notes. He could easily imagine both having their teachers doting on them in real life, so it was no stretch of the imagination for even he, Kyouya, to become attached after so short a time.

Just as he was about to sign off, Kyouya noticed a small notice on his screen announcing that the servers would be down for a few days because a new expansion pact, the Novasphere Pioneers Expansion Pack, was going to be installed. He could hardly keep the grin off of his face at the news.

"Sounds fun."