Chapter 12

Tamaki waited with Haruhi and Edward for Fair and his guest to arrive.

Edward sat at the table, swinging his legs off the end as Tamaki flirted with Haruhi.

Shima entered with two men. One looked just like Tamaki, but instead of violet eyes the man's were blue. A taller man stood beside him, his complexion was darker and he had black hair.

"Hello." Tamaki greeted.

"Hello Tamaki." Fair hugged Tamaki. He then looked at Edward. "This must be Edward."

Tamaki smiled brightly. "Yes. Allow me to introduce you. Edward," Tamaki motioned to Edward. "Haruhi," Tamaki motioned to Haruhi, "Meet Fair D. Flourite and his partner Kurogane."

Fai and Kurogane shook hands with Haruhi and sat down at the table.

"You two are together?" Haruhi asked politely, interested.

Fair nodded. "We have been together for five years. We met when I attended college in Tokyo."

Tamaki and Haruhi listened intently as Kurogane and Fai talked about themselves. The two had a house and lived in Kyoto. Fai was a high school French teacher and Kurogane worked as a kendo intstructor. For a while now they had been talking about adopting, but were having issues from the agency due to the legal issue that they were not technically together.

"So, will you be able to legally adopt Edward?" Haruhi asked. She was confused, if the agency was not allowing it before, what would make this different?

"If Edward's caretakers give us permission, we can legally care for Edward. We may not be his legal parents, but we can be his legal guardians. With the proper paperwork, we can even take Edward home tonight." Fai smiled at Edward who was extremely bored with the present situation.

"Do we have the paperwork?" Haruhi asked.

Tamaki brought out a folder and showed it to her. "Right here." Everything was filled out and signed, all it needed was the signatures of Edward's new guardians. "Shima," Tamaki gestured to Shima who stood beside him. "She is a notary." Tamaki passed the paperwork to Fai.

Fair looked at Kurogane and smiled. He then looked at Edward. "Edward?"

Ed looked up, his golden eyes meeting blue. "How would you like to go home?"

"I'm with Tama-chan."

Tamaki's gut felt heavy as he was overcome with grief. He walked over to Ed and got on his knees before Edward. "Edward…"

"What?"

Tamaki hugged his cousin. "You are going to go home with Mr. Fai and Kurogane."

"Why?" Edward asked confused.

"Because… They will take good care of you."

"But I want to stay here with you."

"No, you don't."

"Why?" Tears formed in Edward's eyes. "Don't you want me?"

"Please don't cry." Tamaki would not be able to hold his tears in if Edward started to cry.

"But why don't you want me?" Tears flowed down from those golden eyes.

Tamaki bit his lip and felt tears in his eyes. "It's not because I don't want you. I will always want you. We need to do this Edward, because I'm a kid myself. A kid can't properly care for another kid in the way two loving parents can. I want you to have a happy life, a lot happier than the one I will give you if you stay with me."

Edward looked at Fai.

Fai offered a small smile and extended his hand to Edward.

Edward timidly took Fai's hand in his own.

Tamaki smiled looking at Edward's automail hand grasp the hand of his new parent.

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Tamaki and Haruhi watched as Kurogane and Fai's car pulled away with Edward in the backseat with his small bag of luggage. Edward waved as he disappeared from sight.

Haruhi smiled sadly and rubbed Tamaki's shoulder. "You did the right thing."

Tamaki nodded, sadly.

"Will you be okay, Tamaki-senpai?"

Tamaki hugged Haruhi and buried his face into her neck.

Haruhi was about to push Tamaki away, thinking he was only acting up when she felt tears wet the collar of her shirt. She rolled her eyes and hugged Tamaki, pulling him closer. "It's okay to be sad," and at that moment, she felt tears in her eyes too.

A/N: Finally finished the fanfiction! It only took me a few years to do so. Lol Thanks for reading and please leave me a review in the end.