"In Love With A Criminal"

Chapter 7: Remembering 'The Familar Stranger'

There was a knock on the door early morning. "hello...." A young woman came into the room.... she looked so much like kyoya.

Tamaki stands up as a gentlemen and smiles, "hello, are a relative ...if Kyoya? You look a lot like him..." he giggles a bit.

"They always say that... " she smiles. "Fuyumi Ootori." She bows at Tamaki. "I came as fast as I could... is he ok?" She tries to act like she hasn't been apart from him but she just wanted to rush at him. But she didn't want to reveal the family secret infront a stranger... especially their family secret. Not knowing tamaki knew, she started to fabricate a story.... "I haven't seen him since uni.. "

Tamaki smiles softly and walks over to her, "if I may my lady~" he asked permission to hug her, "its ok...Kyoya told me everything."

"He....he told you what?.. who are you?" She was defensive. Were all the ootoris like this....

Tamaki backed up a bit and blushed wish he had kept his mouth shut, "I'm Tamaki Suoh..." he looked away blushing, "I met Kyoya when he first enrolled to Ouran...then later in I found out he was targeting me...and--" he stopped himself before saying anymore. He turned to see Kyoya still sleeping, he sighed and kissed his cheek, "I'm sorry..." he bowed and moved on, "I'll leave you to be alone with your brother..." he stood up straight again and left.

She gasped at the name. She followed him out and caught up to him. "Wait... tamaki... the same tamaki from france?..." without warning she hugged him tight. "You met him before ouran... we all were friends... inseparable you two were." She kept hugging him. "You loved hosting us like a small family home. I was the big sister to you two playing house... Kyoya was mommy and you were daddy..."

And suddenly it all came back to Tamaki.

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[Flashback]

"Hi..." kyoya said behind his father's legs. The 6 year old was shy. Kyoya's father cleared his throat giving the signal of using his manners. Kyoya stood up straight. He bowed at Tamaki. "Hello. My name is Kyoya..."

"Let the children play while we discuss our plans..." Yuzuru spoke to Yoshio leaving Tamaki hugging his bear. Kyoya returned to be shy soon his father left.

Tamaki smiled and looked at Kyoya then his bear, he giggles as he stepped close to him. He held out his bear, "you want hold my teddy bear?"

Tamaki giggles, "i-im Tama--" before he could finish Kyoya had finished his name for him. Tamaki blushed softly, "how did you know my name?"

"Father told me we were coming and told me. Your 6 too?" Kyoya smiled and pulled out a small leapfrog tablet. Was he taking notes?...

Tamaki tilted his head a bit, "yeah...are you guys following me? How do you know?" he looked over at his tablet, he went on his tippy toes peeking over the tablet to see what he was doing, "what you doing?"

"Oh... no." Kyoya smiled and adjusted his glasses. "I like to write down people I meet. So I don't forget them. Can I take your picture?" Kyoya asked. He showed Tamaki his profile on Tamaki... in his description it says he's funny and nice.

Tamaki blushes, "you think I'm funny?" he smiles shyly.

Kyoya nods and holds his tablet close. Maybe Tamaki didn't want his picture taken. "do you like books?" He asked... Hoping he would not get made fun off. "my brothers always tease me about it. But I like stories... Silly huh?"

"No, I like stories. Sometimes I pretend I'm in one with my teddy...I just wish I had more friends to play with...any friend really...at least one" He looks down at his teddy bear, "me and teddy get lonely...and my daddy doesn't play with me because he's always busy. Mommy tries but then she always ends up getting a call or fighting with my grandma..." he let's out a cute little sad sigh.