In the Moment
Chapter 1
-Ouran High School Host Club
-Romance/Humor
-Rated T
-Takes Place AFTER Ep 26 in the Anime (Spolier Warning)
A/N- Hiya Everyone! For those of you who are used to my style of writing from my previous stories (Such as the Mansion, Smallest Chance and other's) I'm proud to say thank you for taking interest in yet another fanfic from my imagination.
For those of you who just thought the title (Description) sounded interesting/cute, thank you for taking interest. I'd like to start off with saying that I don't really care what you put in your comments but please leave spelling mistakes out of the judging or content of your thoughts. It's hard to make sure that Microsoft Word is doing its job as well as staying away form MSN lingo, but I will do my best to go over and smooth things out.
Without further ado, I would like to present my 5th official fanfic In The Moment. Please enjoy.
Ouran High School encompasses kindergarten to twelfth grade. Most students come from wealthy families but, in rare occasions, special scholarships are granted to students from a lower income bracket. (One such as Haruhi Fujioka) The school's unofficial motto is "Lineage is first, wealth is second," meaning students with stellar family backgrounds are given top priority over those from rich families but low social status.
During the time that Haruhi was omitted "Host Club Dog" to pay off her 8 million yen dept, a lot has happened. Now in her second year, she is dept free thanks to an agreement between Kyoya and Éclair. But what brings happiness also brings sadness. Now previous club members Honey and Mori are off to college, leaving the now 3rd year Tamaki in a rut looking for new members. But of course Honey and Mori make it their responsibility to visit as much as they can.
It seems to everyone that having Haruhi around eases tension between the family of guys, and even some cases of Romance. Blunt as our heroine is, she also gets hints as to what's going on around her.
Days becoming shorter and nights getting colder, it's finally December. Snow in the air and on the ground creating an icy new world. In the moment, everything is quiet and still. The icy air around everyone makes the temptation to snuggle in something warm and cling to their clothes almost irresistible. Ouran High School is also feeling the effect. After letting its students out for their winter holidays, the school is laying dormant in the cold. During the time period of December 23rd to January 5th the school waits for the sound of students in its halls.
The date is now December 30th. A pleasant Christmas is gone for another year. Haruhi didn't expect to see any of her friends during this time period.
"The cold scares rich people." she would think to her self.
With the quote said, truthfulness is dripping from every letter. Everyone seemed to go to a place away form the cold, which was no surprise to her. The Devilish twins were in Fiji till the 4th, the 'shadow king' Kyoya was in Florida till the 5th, with Honey and Mori both in the Bahamas, that left the club king Tamaki to worry about. Assuming he was in some hot resort like the others, Haruhi didn't ask questions just assumptions. Its wrong yes, but if any of them were in town why spend their time with her? Its Christmas was Christmas, shouldn't they be with their family? With that out of her mind, Haruhi went to see her father off for work then later leaving the house her self and traveling to a park to take part in the winter wonderland festival.
Walking alone in the wonderland of snow, made her not only cold but also in a way lonely. Everyone was in couples or with their families skating, snow fights, Ice angles, everyone was having such fun. Haruhi didn't mind the winter, there was usually something she could do, and it seems like the only time where she can get studying/work done with out being bothered by the host club. Also with the rich in tropical climates, she can dress as freely as she wants and never be noticed by someone who attends the school. But of course who would attend a school like that and live in her area?
Walking by a pond, Haruhi lost focuses on where she was going, surrounded by the shimmer and frost of the ice made an eye-catching sight. Continuing to walk in the snow, Haruhi hit something clearly taller and bigger then her. It didn't click in at the time but what she hit wasn't a tree, or a plant for the matter. It was soft and warm. Snapping back into reality, Haruhi shot her brown eyes looking for some identification as to what she hit, only to be meet by a two-toned eye colour of purple and blue along with striking short blond hair that shot through the snowy background.
"Senpai?" Brown eyes called out in a panic.
"Haruhi?" the blue/purple eyes replied worried.
Exchanging words and the shock of seeing one another lost Haruhi's balance. In the act of being noble, Tamaki reached for her hand only to make matters worse. Slipping on ice himself, this attempt to save Haruhi from falling, actually was turned into pushing her into the pond. Weak ice shattering with the refusal to hold the body on the surface, Haruhi was summered in the water.
"Haruhi!" Tamaki shouted rushing from the icy path towards the pond.
At first with no sign of a body, Haruhi suddenly appeared out of the cold water completely drenched.
"Haruhi? Are you alright?"
"Senpai…" Haruhi cut off Tamaki's desperate apology by shivering and coughing slightly while helplessly looking up.
Creating a scene, Tamaki walked into the icy water and grabbed onto Haruhi's wrist, pulling her out of the water her hair was already starting to be consumed by the frost. Peeling her wet red jacket, sweater, mittens and hat, Haruhi cling onto her arms for warmth.
"What are you doing?"
"If you stay in your wet jacket it wont help stopping you from catching hypothermia. Here. Put this on." Tamaki took off his long black jacket off and wrapped the frost-infested girl in it while pulling the hood on her head.
With a smile Tamaki let out softly "Why don't you look cute?"
"Senpai…" Haruhi said in a tone that was mistaken for annoyance.
"Sorry, Sorry" Tamaki smiled childishly.
"No Senpai, you're bleeding." Haruhi said pointing to a gash under Tamaki's chin.
"Oh, haha, don't worry about that. Just a small cut." Tamaki laughed while trying to rub away some of the dripping fluid.
While slipping his gloves on to her shivering hands, Haruhi looked up at the blonde idiot. She was so lost in the expression of keeping warm that she didn't realize that she was pulled into Tamaki's chest with his arms wrapped around her back. Gently rubbing her to keep her warm, Tamaki turned slightly with a smile and convince people that everything was all right, and that there was no need for an ambulance. While curling up in to Tamaki, Haruhi started to shiver more and started to turn blue. Losing the will to stand, Tamaki forced Haruhi onto his back.
"I can walk on my own"
"Uh-hu, sure. That's why you caved into me a few moments ago" Tamaki laughed
"I did… not…" Haruhi's voice started to get weak. While her grip loosened dramatically
"Hey, stay awake up there. I'm taking you to my house." Tamaki said trying to keep a conversation going.
"Not Necessary…" A weak voice replied.
"Haruhi, Last time I couldn't do to much to help you with your fear of lightning."
"That's not your fault."
"I guess, but you know if you come to visit me, we could dig up some Ootoro." Tamaki said in a teasing voice
'Well I guess it couldn't hurt,' Haruhi thought.
While walking through the park, Haruhi was given a lot of smiles and giggles. Thinking Tamaki was her boyfriend lot of people gave warm smiles to the couple walking towards the entrance of the park.
"Don't you need to keep warm?" Haruhi whispered with an embarrassed expression on her face.
"Hu?" Tamaki questioned
"You will catch cold too."
"That's true, but I wouldn't want my daughter to be in the hospital because of me." Tamaki said with a smiling face.
"How many times must I tell you? I don't need a second father."
"Humor me." Tamaki Laughed again at the same time being completely serious.
While Tamaki headed for the entrance of the park. Haruhi hung onto him unwillingly but as a necessity to keep warm. Once in the car Haruhi sat across from Tamaki. Blowing on her hands to thaw them out.
"Why are you here?"
"I live around here don't I? Why else?"
"That's not what I mean." Haruhi said in annoyance.
"Hm? Oh, why am I in town during the winter you mean?" Tamaki asked curiously
Haruhi just gave a irritated look.
"Its stupid but, I wanted to see what its like to walk in the falling snow, if you can believe that." Tamaki said with an embarrassed expression.
"Walk in falling snow?"
"Yes, I've told you before that in my child hood, I always tried to make my mother happy, so I didn't have too many friends or have a 'real' childhood. So I came back a few days ago while my father stayed Florida with Grandmother, Kyoya and his family. It seems that ever since the school festival last year, dad has become friends with Kyoya's dad." Tamaki explained sweetly. With his innocent childish grin he looked outside the window then back at Haruhi.
"I didn't expect any of the host club to be in town this holiday." Haruhi said with a shiver.
Tamaki got up from his seat and slid towards Haruhi. He slowly took off her gloves and placed them in-between his, rubbing gently and occasionally blowing into his hands to warm them up.
"I can warm my hands up myself," Haruhi said pulling away.
"Alright, see if your pinky can touch your thumb." Tamaki said with a clever voice.
"What?" Haruhi questioned.
"Just try it."
Haruhi did as told and tried to place her pinky and thumb together. But no use, her fingers were very numb. Tamaki reached for her hands again.
"That's a little test, to see if your hands are still numb. So let me, anyways you have to be gentle, or it could cause some damage to the muscles in your hands." Tamaki grinned again while focusing on Harihi's hands.
"Thank-you" Haruhi said quietly.
"Sir, were hear." the driver announced.
Tamaki smiled his childish grin again. Pulling Haruhi along as he did before he opened the door. Stepping out into the sunlight, Haruhi was shocked at the size of the house. Still in awe Tamaki had to lead Haruhi into the main entrance where a maid was they're waiting for them.
"Back so soon master Tamaki? Oh my, what happened to the two of you?" an elderly woman answered the door. She was dressed in a purple kimono with a silver/white obi. Her hair was kept in a neat yet loose bun that sat on the base of her head.
"Oh Shima, My friend here bumped into me and we kind of caused a scene where she fell into the pond." Tamaki smiled and laughed while Haruhi glared.
"Oh Dear, you poor thing. We must get some dry clothes on you. I'm afraid we don't have any lady clothes with us, so Master Tamaki's clothes will have to do. By the way my name is Maesono Shima." Shima said while pushing Haruhi towards the stairs.
"Wha?" Tamaki and Haruhi said in the same time.
"No time to waste, lets get you some dry clothes." Shima replied while calling for a younger maid in a pink dress with a white apron to assist her.
"Go upstairs and get the young lady a dry set of clothes form Master Tamaki's wardrobe. Then put her to bed." Shima told the young maid
"Yes Ma'am" the Maid replied and took Haruhi by the arm and left for the stairs.
"As for you Master Tamaki-" the woman stopped and backhanded Tamaki's head with Haruhi's wet scarf.
"How could you let a lady fall into the pond? Why she could be seriously sick! And look what you did to your chin. How'd you manage that!" Shima yelled.
"your clothes are wet too!"
"I'm wet because I was getting Haruhi out of the water to dry her off. Shima" Tamaki yelled back.
"And your chin?"
"Uh.. Well.. I…" Tamaki tried to avoid the question.
"You fell didn't you?"
"No I did…-" Tamaki stopped to sneeze.
"Uh, Senpai?" Haurhi called out.
"Hu! Where are they taking her Shima!" Tamaki shouted while trying to follow after.
"Why to your room of course! The lady needs to rest and she needs warm clothes." Shima said with such carelessness that it made Tamaki stop in his tracks.
"but.. but.. but.. Why my room?" Tamaki whined.
"We have many rooms, why mine?" Tamaki pouted like a child
"Why not your room. You caused the problem. Now lets get you cleaned up as well. Boys these days…" Shima said while dragging Tamaki up the set of stairs by his collar.
End of Chapter
OOC views:
Despite me trying too hard to keep my Characters in well 'Character' you will have to just follow through with the story, were not going to have them in perfect Character, so get over it! Not to be rude but I guess I made them a bit OOC because everyone has days where they're not them selves, and in some/most of my stories they're rather in complete character or out... So please while reading my stories keep in mind this. Its more enjoyable if you trust the author with the vision they're trying to show you. I hear all too often that my characters are OOC but that's what makes the story a story, the fact that they can be OOC and still have people Laugh, Cry and get inspired to do what the author just did. Please, leave spelling/grammar mistakes and "so-and-so was OOC" out of the comments, its annoying and in most cases you have to learn not to be so hard up. The only person that can criticize the OOC is reserved for the Character Creator (Keep that in mind) lets keep the love for the series real, and not make it a debate.