A/N: Ohmygod. Please don't kill me D: I know it has been awhile since I've updated. A uh, really long while, you might actually have to re-read the previous chapters to remember whats going on to those who have put this story on alert.
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10
Something to tell you
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"HARUHI!!" Just as she expected, Tamaki almost ran her down along with the twins. Mori was standing a short distance away but with a rare smile on his face.
"Hello everyone" Haruhi's voice was muffled under everyone's group hug.
'Haru-chan.' Haruhi whipped around and saw Honey standing a short distance away.
'Yes Honey?' She replied uncertainly.
His face was shadowed and an unexplainable atmosphere of doom descended upon the room. Within seconds, Tamaki, Kaoru and Hikaru disappeared from Haruhi's side to the safety behind the couch.
His face turned to reveal two large brown eyes looking up at Haruhi, with tear droplets forming on the side.
"Haru-chan! We thought you were really mad at us. You didn't visit us, not even once after the show" Honey ran to Haruhi and hugged her.
"Aha," She breathed a sigh of relief that Honey was not about to start and finish world war three in the mansion just then. Her laugh had sounded a bit hollow but there was some truth in Honey's words. She really was mad at the host club, or maybe it was just Tamaki and his daily phone calls which had caused her to enter the psychiatric ward twice in the last month.
--Flashback—
"Miss Fujioka is it?" The doctor glanced at the girl infront of him over the top of his classes.
"Yes, Doctor?" Haruhi tensed, waiting for the worst to come.
"I'm pleased to say that you are quite healthy physically but I am quite worried about what you have told me about your sudden urges to strangle a telephone receiver."
"Oh that," Haruhi laughed it off. "I'm sure I'll get used to the constant ringing of my phone sooner or later."
-phone in the doctor's room starts to ring-
Her knuckles whitened on the edges as her fist clenched the seat tighter.
The doctor looked at her in concern. "Yes. Would you like me to leave you the number of a good therapist?"
--end of flashback—
She sighed.
"I'm fine now Honey." She smiled at him and helped Honey wipe away his tears.
"YAYYYYY! FAMILY HUG NOW!" Tamaki's voice was ringing throughout the room as Tamaki, Kaoru and Hikaru piled on ontop of Haruhi.
"Guys?" Haruhi was almost suffocating. "Some air would be nice, you know, to live."
The girl was still the same tactful girl that left the bachelor mansion a month ago. Kyoya smirked at her sarcasm, clearly, he was the only one that could hear it. He looked at his watch. Ten past ten. Okay, time to rescue Haruhi from Tamaki's clutches and continue on with Ranka's plan.
"Ahem" Kyoya cleared his throat. "I think the ramen is on sale at the supermarket."
His carefully chosen words had an immediate effect oh Tamaki and the twins.
"Boys! We are on a mission to collect every flavour of ramen on this special day. Hurry up and get read and meet here in five minutes with your bags." Tamaki finished giving out his orders.
"Yes sir!" Hikaru and Kaoru saluted their captain as they too, rushed to their suitcases in the room next door.
"Mori-chan! We too must get ready on this mission." Mori nodded at Honey and they forwarded to the guestroom next to the twins'.
"Thank you sempai," A crumpled Haruhi helped herself up and began some stretching exercises to make sure that all of her body parts were working. Quite suddenly, a hand grabbed onto hers and dragged her out the door.
"We have no time for that Haruhi. They will be back in two minutes but we should be out of this mansion by then." Kyoya's force took her by surprise.
"What the-?" A confused Haruhi said to no one in particular as she was dragged out of the Suoh's mansion.
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"Okay, so let me get one thing straight sempai, there is no supermarket sale on ramen?" They were sitting Kyoya's black limousine and it had been five minutes since they have left the suoh's mansion.
"Correct." Kyoya said in a bored voice while looking out the window. Didn't he already clarify that there was no sale on ramen two minutes ago?
"Oh boy, what's Tamaki and everyone going to say when they find out that there's no sale?" Haruhi wondered to herself.
"Sale or not, I don't think its going to stop Tamaki from buying the whole store's stock of ramen." Kyoya answered her trivial question with an air of irritation.
Haruhi looked over at him. She stayed silent for a few minutes, then she spoke again.
"Kyoya sempai, is something bothering you?" She asked quietly.
Yes. You're sitting alone in a limousine with me and all you have been talking about for the past five minutes has been Tamaki this and Tamaki that.
"No." was his short reply.
"Sorry." Haruhi said, a minute later.
Kyoya turned his head. "For what? I don't recall you doing anything wrong." His voice was cold and hard.
"For making everyone worried this past month." Haruhi looked at him apologetically. "Oh and for the trouble I caused the Otori family for ruining the production of the bachelor program."
Kyoya almost laughed out loud, but that would be a very un-Otori thing for him to do. The trouble she caused for the Otori family huh? That was the last thing she should be apologizing for if not, she shouldn't be apologizing for it at all. If it wasn't for the idiotic pair of twins pranking the girls, the show would still be running. But by that time, Haruhi had already left the show, from the moment those words left her mouth, Kyoya knew that the show had no more potential left. To be honest, Kyoya Otori didn't pull the plug on the show because of the harmless pranks the twins pulled on the girls. When Haruhi's presence had gone from the show, Kyoya could feel the ice barriers around him resurrecting again, he didn't care whether the show would get good ratings or the money he could make from such a successful program. Without her presence, his time was being wasted staying on the show. In the end, Kyoya Otori could bear it no longer and used the twins' pranks to pull the plug. He it wasn't just himself though, he could feel the rest of the host clubs' energy draining away from the show as well.
While it lasted, it was like re-living high school, re-living the carefree afternoons spent in music room three. The circumstances have now changed. Kyoya Otori no longer lived under the presence of the Suoh family at school, while being good friends with Tamaki, he no longer had to stress about making sure Tamaki had his way in the adult world.
He looked over at Haruhi who was gazing through the car window. Perhaps the time has come to follow not just his head, but maybe his heart.
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Kyoya handed over a starwberry ice-cream cone to Haruhi and joined her on the bench in the park. The cool wind breezed past them and swept her hair back. Her eyes smiled.
"Thank you sempai for taking me out to the park today." She felt like a schoolgirl again, only for some reason, she felt more feminine than she did at Ouran.
"That's okay. Your father requested me to help his daughter and I couldn't refuse a friend." He said quietly.
"When I have time off work, I wouldn't mind going out again with you. I know I was a bit reluctant in the beginning but I'm actually enjoying the fresh air."
Kyoya chuckled. Reluctant? He had to get his bodyguards to drag her into the car.
Suddenly his expression turned serious.
"Sempai?"
Kyoya held her eyes. "Haruhi, I want to tell you something. After I tell you this, I want you to think carefully whether you still want to go out with me alone again."
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A/N: Oohlala. We're finally getting serious :). I'm really glad I picked this story up again. Its been more than a year I think. Anyway thankyou to everyone who has come back to this story. I hope you enjoyed this chapter.