Commoner Games

One spring day, on the Ouran Academy grounds, the school's host club was playing commoner games. At the President's suggestion of course. Even though they could have been entertaining guests and making more money, Tamaki insisted. No one else would dare piss off the Vice President of the host club that badly.

"Kyoya! Come play with us! We're playing hide and seek next!" Tamaki pleaded. He just wanted to see Kyoya playing and having fun like everybody else. Tamaki just wanted everybody to be happy, and Kyoya especially. Since he never seemed like the happiest person, and didn't have the best home life either. But mostly because Tamaki cared a lot about Kyoya.

"Fine, fine, I'm coming!" Kyoya said. He hasn't let the demon lord side of him loose yet, and he absolutely refused to over a silly game. However, he knew if Tamaki interrupted him again, the demon lord would reign. It had been a stressful day, to say the least.

"Yay! Thank you Mommy!" Tamaki exclaimed happily. He always tried to be happy, for his mother's sake. Since they weren't allowed to be happy together, he always tried to have a smile on his face and put smiles on as many other people's faces as possible.

"You're welcome daddy." Kyoya had an inkling as to why Tamaki called him 'Mommy' when he was neither a parent nor a woman. He figured it was because Tamaki had problems with his family, so he had created a family of his own, within the host club.

It's equal parts cute and depressing. Kyoya thought. Then he mentally slapped himself. Tamaki is not cute, he is annoying and he is your best friend. You can't like your best friend! Get it together!

"How do you play hide and seek? Does it involve hiding sweets and then eating them?" Hunny asked innocently. It seemed that sweets were the only thing he ever thought of.

The clients loved it, but Kyoya did not. He was the one who had to buy them after all. Tamaki should be glad he didn't have to consider these things.

"Haruhi! Will you explain for father please?" Tamaki said. Tamaki always turned to Haruhi when asking about commoner things. It was kind of annoying, considering Kyoya also knew things about the commoners.

"It's a game where you get a group of people, and all but two of them hide somewhere. Those other two look for the people after counting to thirty." Haruhi said carefully.

"Thank you Haruhi! Who wants to be the seekers?" Tamaki said energetically. He was forever energetic and loud, with a smile pasted on his face. The only time he wasn't loud was when he pouted in corners. That was probably the quietest thing he did.

Unsurprisingly, Kaoru and Hikaru spoke first.

"We think milord and Kyoya should seek first." They stated in unison.

What are they up to this time? Kyoya thought.

Tamaki, on the other hand, had no qualms about it. "Okay!" He said.

No, that's ridiculous. Kyoya thought. Tamaki didn't want to be alone with him. He was just accepting because they were best friends. Kyoya hoped his nervousness didn't show. He /had/ been alone with Tamaki before. But that was before his stupid, useless crush had developed. Now, he tried to avoid being alone with Tamaki whenever possible.

For some reason, after Tamaki accepted the request, the twins had started whispering to everybody. Everybody except Kyoya. He decided to let it slide. For now.

Hikaru and Kaoru disbanded from the group to push Tamaki and Kyoya behind a cluster of trees so they wouldn't see where the rest of the host club went off to hide. Or so he thought.