The Missing Piece

Chapter 8

The Missing Piece
Chapter 8

Haruhi woke up the next morning after a restless night's sleep and still regretting what she had said yesterday at dinner. "Haruhi are you okay? You seem a bit upset this morning, did something happen last night during dinner?" Ranka asks his daughter, as she came out of her bedroom in her school uniform.

"I'm fine dad it's just...I said some things last night I shouldn't have, or I should have chosen a better time to say those things." She sighs, sitting down next to him to eat some breakfast.

"C'mon it couldn't have been that bad." Ranka tries to assure his daughter, as he watches her eat.

"I still shouldn't have said what I did though at the time," she mutters

"Okay, what did Kyoya-kun think, or have you talked to him about it yet?" he asks glad she was at least eating something.

"Yes, and he thought what I said was humorous." She sighs

"Well you see you shouldn't worry about it if your boyfriend didn't think anything of it." Ranka says smiling at his daughter, who was still looking really upset. "By the way there's a car outside waiting for you I think, it showed up about ten minutes ago and with how expensive it looks I assume it's one of your friends." He tells her in an attempt to change the subject.

"What?" Haruhi asks going over to the window to see a familiar face leaning against a Rolls-Royce, she recognizes as one of Kyoya's. "Hotta-san, don't worry dad he's one of Kyoya's men."

"I thought he looked familiar." Ranka mutters as Haruhi quickly gathers up her things for school.

"See you later dad," she waves heading out the door.

"Have a good first day Haruhi," he calls to his daughter before the door closes behind her.

"Hotta-san, what are you doing here?" Haruhi asks walking up to the car.

"Master Kyoya asked me to make sure you got to school safety Haruhi-sama," he answers

"Is that so," she mutters trying to decide whether it was a really sweet gesture, or if Kyoya was just being a little overprotective.

"Are you ready to go?" he asks opening her door.

"Oh yes of course, but I thought I told you I didn't need you to open my doors for me." She says with humor in her voice, as she gets into the car.

"My sincerest apologizes Haruhi-sama," he bows before closing her door.

'I may as well give up trying to get him to drop the formalities,' she sighs as he got into the driver's seat and drive off.

When they reach the familiar front gates of Ouran Academy, Haruhi thanks him for the ride and heads up to her new classroom. 'So this is the classroom Kyoya and Tamaki-sempai were in all last year' she thinks walking into 2-A. After taking a quick glance around she sits in a seat by the window, as a sudden realization hit her. 'I'm a second year student now. Just one more year after this and I'll be in the university. I wonder how long Kyoya and I can keep this from everybody, it's almost been a year now, but I'm sure even they'll figure it out eventually. I wonder though, if we'll just end up telling them.' Lost in thought as she looked out the window to the cloudy morning, she didn't notice a pair of red-headed twins coming up beside her.

"What's up Haruhi-" Kaoru's voice breaks her train of thought.

"Yea, for a new second year student-" Hikaru's voice made her turn around to face them

"You seem kinda down," they finish together.

'These two never cease to amaze me with how they are able to do that so well,' she sighs "Hikaru, Kaoru good morning." She smiles up at the two of them.