Protect Me ~Kyoya Ootori~ (OHSHC) WATTYS2017

Ch 21. Jungle Pool Spa!

A/N: Ello Loves! So this chappie took all night and 12 episodes of Criminal Minds to finish. But I did have fun with it, and the next few chapters should be enjoyable toooooo hehehehe ;). Very... Fluffy. I wanted to use this chapter to kind of explore everyone's characters a bit more, especially Haruhi. Anyways, enjoy! Also comment and suggestions you have or something you want to see in this book.

Elise's P.O.V.

"PUTMEDOWNPUTMEDOWN FUCKING PUT.ME.DOWN." I bang on Mori-Sempai's shoulder. He makes a grunt in return. I craned my neck to see his face and saw a little smirk on his face. Moments later  I feel cool water surround me, and when I rise to the surface again I let out a hearty laugh. Kyoya must have heard me because he turns around from Tamaki and smiles. Takashi still hovers over me and I splash at his feet. Water hits the side of my face and I turn and see Mitskuni giggling. "Hey that's two against one! No fair!" I point between them accusingly. Mori and Hunny shrug and then we all laugh. I climb out of the pool and walk over to where the twins were filling up water guns and balloons. "Thank you guys for the swim suit. I wouldn't have been able to swim other wise." I say ruffling their ginger hair. They grin up at me with cheeky smiles and in unison say, "Well of course. But we wish you'd have chosen a two piece." I roll my eyes at them, "Of course you guys would." I huff and turn away, turning my attention to Kyoya. His father sent  all of us here today to ensure that all the kinks of this new resort. I wasn't around the first time thankfully. Appearantly Mitsukini got lost, and Takashi and Haruhi were almost attacked by the Otoori police force. Changes all around the resort were made, including a luxury spa and hotel. We would be staying in it over the weekend. Kyoya spent the first hour calming Tamaki because he was afraid there would be alligators here. I'm guessing that has something to do with the first time he came here. "Tamaki, calm down; the worse that could happen is a delay in room service. This is just a formality my father is making me carry out, and you should be grateful he gave permission for you bakas to come with." Kyoya finished his lecture as I approached, and seeming to notice my presence his shoulders relax a bit. "Yeah Tono- Sempai~~ You need to 'cool' off!" The twins run over to us and I quickly duck and pull Kyo with me, as a stream of water hits the host club 'king' straight in the ear. "Woah! Hikaru did you see that?" "Yeah it didn't come out the other side!!! Tamaki Sempai actually has a brain??!!" The twins were now being chased by Tamaki, leaving me and Kyo under the little beach shack. "Thirsty?" Kyoya asks me with a goofy smile. I reply with a nod, "You're in a good mood for it being so early. It's barely noon." he just smiles and hands me some orange frozen drink. I shake my head at him and walk back into the artificial sunlight. I look to my left and see Haruhi dipping her feet in the edge of a pool. 'I could use some girl time, and she looks bored as hell' I think but my feet won't move. 'She's just like every other girl, she'll be nice so she can tease you about your secrets to get what you want. You can't trust her, Elise' My mother's voice echos in my head and for a second I am consumed by fear. I look around me anxiously waiting for everyone to turn on me... But I see their smiles instead. I remember that they came everyday while I was in the hospital, even when they couldn't see me. Honey- Mitsukuni remembered I don't like cake, and sent cookies  instead. Even Takashi, who has said almost nothing to me since the day we met, sent a card and a stuffed bear. "We are all here." was all the card said and it was enough. I look back at Haruhi and find she's staring back with a smile on her face too. A smile that said she understood, a smile that maybe said... She cared? "You're wrong mother. They aren't all like that." I say to myself as I set my barely touched drink down on a stool and walk her way.

Kyoya's P.O.V.

"Hey where did Haru-chan and El-Chan go?" Honey looked in my direction curiously, mostly knowing I would know. "WHAAAAAAAAT MY HARUHI IS MISSING?" Tamaki schreeched and went into a panic, babbling about how he knew this would happen and running about like an idiot. Well, he IS an idiot. Eventually he calmed down and trudged over to me. "Elise and Haruhi left half an hour ago.  I believe they went to the spa, so why don't we let them relax." I say, more a a command than a question. I knew Elise needed it. Tamaki perked up at the thought of Haruhi doing girly stuff with Elise and fell into one of his daydreams. "Well then what else is there to do? We're bored." The twins chanted. "If the pools are no longer any entertainment to you, perhaps you would enjoy the arcade or the relaxing exotic trails throughout the resort... Or perhaps I could interest you two in a game?" I smirk, because I'm a little bored myself. The Twins take the bait and I send them off on their first mission. "Kyo-chan~ we wanna play too!" Mitsukuni jumps around Takashi who just nods. "Very well then, your first mission is to collect all the fruit that is ripe around the resort and report back to me." they nod and Honey salutes me. "Ah that reminds me, while I have you two here alone I should tell you.  The leader of my families police force informed me that there may be a serial killer in Japan, who targets only people of high rank." I watch both their faces go dark. "Why are you telling us this, Kyoya?" Takashi puts a hand on his cousin's shoulder protectively. "Because we should all be careful. This person... He slaughters the entire families of those he targets. Several nobles and good names have been lost already." I reply and they both nod understanding. We stand in silence, as if letting those words fall away. Mistukuni breaks the ice and giggles,"Let's go Takashi!~ We're gonna get so much fruit! Maybe we could make a cake out of all of it! Ooh ooh I know, we could make one big cake! Oh wait then Elise wouldn't get any... " Honey skipped away followed by Mori, their voices faded with them. Now by myself, I pull my laptop out of the bag I brought along. Hitting a few buttons I connect my phone to the laptop wireless and then pull up the laptop camera and set it to start recording when I hit a certain button on my phone. Easy. Now I wait for the other guys to come back with the fruit and barrels. "Agh, Tamaki." I smack my head realizing he was over on a sun chair daydreaming. I find one of the twin's water guns and  spray him, but he doesn't even notice. "I know you hear me, daddy, so wake up before I drown you in a pool with alligators." I growl at him and he stands almost instantly. I explain to him my plan, because if I didn't he would accidentally  say something dumb and I would have to edit it out of the video. "Kyaaaaa! Making jam the way commoners used to before machines were invented!!! You're a genius Kyoya! Haruhi will be so impressed with me!!!" Tamaki giggles, proud of himself even though it was my idea. "Yeah whatever, just don't look at the camera or the others will notice." I mutter to him as I see the twins with a wagon full of bins making their way back over to us. Not long after Takashi and Mitsukuni came out of the artificial jungle, and my eyes widen slightly at the sight of Mori- Sempai carrying a giant heap of fruit... In one hand. It was big enough to cast a shadow over them and the entirety of the closest pool to them. Honey sempai just carried one banana. The twins clapped in awe as Mori camly and swiftly made his way around the pools to us. "Very good job you two. You can set the fruit down in the barrels, Mori-Sempai." he nod in response and lets the fruits fall into the barrels. "What now? That wasn't exactly fun." the twins whine and I hush them. "Now," I smirk and push the record button on my phone, "The real game starts." The twins quickly became interested again when I told them who ever smashes the most fruit to a pulp would get to share a room with Haruhi. When I said this Tamaki started smashing the fruit right away, with a very serious face. He muttered about pervy twins and I just laugh watching all of them. "Hey Kyo-chan why aren't you playing? You came up with the game." Hunny asks, though I'm certain he knows the answer already. "I am playing Sempai, I'm the judge. Not to mention... The only person I'll be sharing a room with; is Nyuu." I blush a little saying it out loud, but it's still all part of the plan. Tamaki catches on, "Nyuu is your cousin, right Kyoya? So you're really close?" "Hardly, that baka is always getting himself into trouble. He was expelled from his last school, so I had him come where I can watch over him." I see Honey's eyes fall on y laptop and quickly look away. He catches on now too, "Ooh I see! So you made him join the Host Club?" "No, that was-"" I stop and make myself blush madly, "Just so I can watch out for him.." Perfect.  After we're done all I have to do is edit and sell it to all the customers, then boom, I can make 'Nyuu' and I a package like the twins and Mori & Hunny. All the while being closer to Elise. Not that it would make a big difference, I already spend more time with her than anyone else. We're in the same class same house, and as of late, same bed. Yet I still do everything I can to see her more. Yeah, I'm clingy.

Haruhi's P.O.V.

I'm not really sure where we were going, but Elise seemed to know. I've been wanting to talk to her for a while now, and figured this was as good a time as any. "We're walking to the spa. I mean, if that's okay with you.." She smiled awkwardly, and I can't help but laugh. "You're just like Kyoya, reading my mind. The spa is fine," I shrug, "Though I've never been to a real before.." Her smile grew wider as I spoke. "That's great, I think you'll like it a lot then. I'm glad you wanted to come Haru-chan." I nod and decide I would ask now. "You're okay, right?" "Uh, yeah, I'm okay. Thanks for asking." she says hesitantly and I shake my head. "No, I'm not just asking to be nice. I really want to know and... I know it's not my place and I might not be able to understand everything you're going through, but I want to be there for you, and help, if I can. I mean... I know things can get really hard and... If you need a friend, I'm here." I talk a lot more than I mean too and I blush a little. I look over and Elise's eyes are wet. But she wouldn't  let them fall. "Thankyou." she said so quick, I barely understood her. I nod and we fall into an easy silence. "So... Do you like pretending to be a guy?" she laughs and I do too. "Well it doesn't  really matter to me if I look like a guy or not. It's mostly just Tamaki who keeps everyone from finding out. I go with it to pay off my debt." "It is kinda nice just having short hair, a lot easier too. Oh! There's the spa!" She points ahead and starts running to the shack like building. I catch up with her laughing at how excited she looked.

Kaoru's P.O.V.

"Kyo this is taking forever!" "Yeah my legs are tired." my brother and I whine, but  we both continue smushing fruit. Meanwhile Tamaki is stomping fast as hell. Mori and Honey backed down an hour in because Honey wanted cake. 'Maybe we should let Tamaki win this time, it could be interesting.' I think and I slow down my pace, looking to Hikaru. At the same time, we stop. "We give." unsurprisingly, Tamaki didn't even stop. "Tamaki, you won." Kyoya shuts his laptop, stopping the recording. Why record this anyways? Kyoya yanks Tamaki out of his barrel and hoses him, and then us down to get the juice off us.  Then Kyoya's maid came and took all the buckets to make the rest. "What was your motivation in all of that Kyoya?" "Yeah, Shadow King, what are you gaining from a bunch of jelly?" we ask him and he smiles, "Distracted you guys from bothering Elise, so she'll be in a good mood tonight. As for the jelly, there would be a considerable profit in the clubs funds if we sold the jelly that we all made, along with the video. Filming it here is a bonus because it advertises my family's resorts. There are quite a few things I gained from this." I grab Hikaru's hand and we both laugh. "Anyways, we're gonna check out the arcade."