Bitter 1: Haruhi's Bitter Days

Chapter 16: Tickled

Bitter 1: Haruhi's Bitter Days
Chapter 16: Tickled

"Hey Haruhi!" Satoshi yelled at the girl from across the room. He had started to make his way out of the music room so that he could make it to his next class on time when he suddenly stopped and turned around.

Haruhi looked up when she heard the younger man bellow and shook her head, a smiled plastered on her face. Satoshi was so energetic and loud, she found herself wondering if he ran on energizer batteries. Instead of walking towards him though, she decided to yell back, "Hey Satoshi!"

Satoshi immediately started to laugh at Haruhi's attempt to be as loud as him. Although he admitted that she had gotten better since she had been around him, she was still not up to par with him. Running up to her side, he said, "You still have a long way to go grasshopper."

Looking at the teen standing in front of her and attempting to hold in his laughter was the nail in the coffin for her, and she started to laugh hard and loud drawing the attention of everyone else in the room. She tried to stifle her laughs for a minute as she brought her hands together and bowed, "I will aspire to beat the master." As soon as the words were out of her mouth, she was giggling again.

Ruffling her hair, Satoshi said, "You will never beat this master!" The friendly banter continued between the two of them for a few more minutes as the hilarity escalated.

The two teens had caught the attention of the other hosts as soon as Satoshi had stopped his progression out of the club room and yelled at Haruhi. They were curious about what her reaction would be and were surprised to see her yell back. As the two of them continued, it became more and more of a spectacle the others could not turn away from.

Mori and Hunny were used to this kind of teasing between Satoshi and Haruhi because as Haruhi grew more comfortable around Mori's family, she and Satoshi had grown closer and started to joke more. It still tickled them to see and could no more turn away from the sight than the others in the room could. Mori was smiling and Hunny was giggling at the exchange between the two friends.

The others seemed to be a little more shocked than Mori and Hunny, well ok a lot. They had never really seen Haruhi act like that with anyone. It was a testament about how close she had really gotten with her boyfriend's family. Tamaki eyes were wide and jaw was open. The twins had their arms wrapped around each other and the surprise was evident in their wide eyes, however, they were a little more composed than Tamaki seemed to be. They briefly turned their eyes to their king and found him frozen. Kyoya was jotting down notes in his black book. No doubt he was going to be adding information to dossiers he kept on everyone.

Tamaki snapped out of it first, "How dare you talk to my daughter like that!" Running up to Haruhi, he pulled her into his arms before turning to look at Mori, "Are you just going to let your brother talk to your girlfriend like that? If that is how you are going to treat her, you are not allowed to date my daughter!"

Haruhi was struggling for air and freedom. She couldn't seem to budge from her place in Tamaki's hug as much as she pushed and slapped at him. In another second she was gasping for much needed air and looked up to see the back of her boyfriend. "Takashi to the rescue again. I wonder how many this is now... 50 or 60?" Haruhi thought to herself and found she was once again trying to stifle her giggles.

"She isn't your daughter and she can date who she wants. They were joking like they usually do. Satoshi would not do anything to harm Haruhi and if he did, he would answer to me," Mori declared.

"That's right! She is too much like a sister. I would never harm her. Besides, if you were really listening, you would have heard her give as good as she got!" Satoshi came to stand right next to his brother.