I couldn't believe that you guys were actually reading my story. TT It made me so happy that I had to start my next chapter (though... it's taking me a while to complete it). Enjoy. :)

Chapter 11 – Australia: part 2

:Normal POV: (again. I'm trying to practice it.)

"It's so beautiful," Haruhi gazed at the azure ocean. The pale sand cushioned her feet. To think that it was the Pacific Ocean, same ocean that the host club and she went to back in Japan, was unbelievable to her.

Everyone was in their swimsuits except Yumi. She "couldn't swim" because she was still wearing a wig.

"Let's build a sand castle!!" yelled Hani in excitement. He climbed on Mori's shoulders. "We'll make it this tall," he indicated with his hand that he wanted the castle to be about a foot over Mori's height.

Yumi looked up to where Hani's hand was which was well over her height. She chuckled. "Do you think that we'll be able to make it that high?"

Hani jumped back down onto the sand. "Of course we can," he said confidently with a grin. He crouched down and started to dig like a dog to create a pile of sand behind him.

Yumi watched the sand pile grow little by little... by little. 'This will take for ever...' thought Yumi. Suddenly, Hani was digging full speed as if he was a motor. 'GAH!!' Yumi remembered that he was Super Hani.

Yumi looked at the pile amazed. It was taller than Mori. "Now what?" Yumi asked.

Mori walked right through the sand pile. "There." The sand pile turned into a sand arch. Yumi blinked thinking about how naive the two were. That was not a sand castle.

"3," the twins counted off, "2, 1..." The sand arch collapsed.

"WAHHH!!" Hani sobbed.

"C'mon, Mitsukuni," Yumi comforted him. "Don't give up yet."

"Ah," agreed Mori.

"Okay!" Hani exclaimed with a big grin. 'Wow...' Yumi sweat dropped. 'Full recovery...'

The three of them went to make another sand castle (with Yumi's instructions this time.)

"Look, daughter!" pointed out Tamaki. "They look like a nice family. Why don't we build a sand castle like them?"

"Do you even know how to build one?" retorted Haruhi.

"..." Tamaki opened his mouth. "That doesn't matter as long as we're having fun together!" Tamaki put his arm around Haruhi's shoulder. She walked out from his arm. Awkward... "W-why did she go?" Tamaki frowned.

"She wants someone who knows how to make sand castles," said Kaoru as he nudged Hikaru. He tried to hint at Hikaru to start another contest.

"Yeah... I guess..." said Hikaru. He continued to stare into the horizon.

'Did he really give up?' pondered Kaoru. But, to Kaoru, Hikaru looked happy.

Haruhi was already in the ocean. The water was cool and refreshing. Especially since she always heated up around Tamaki. She floated on her back. It was so relaxing. Clear skies and a bright sun. This kind of weather couldn't be found in Japan in this time of the year.

"OWW!!" Haruhi suddenly screamed. "OW!! My leg!! My LEG!! OW! What was that?!" She held on her injured leg but doing this made her sink.

"Haruhi!" Yumi was about to run to her when Mori stopped her.

"You can't swim," Mori stated plainly and held her back firmly. Yumi felt so stupid and vulnerable. She could have saved her if she didn't tell them that she couldn't swim. She didn't care if they would have found out that she was Yumi. Losing a friend wouldn't be worth it.

But Yumi noticed that Kaoru already swam to get Haruhi since he was the next one to quickly respond to Haruhi's call. As he carried Haruhi back to shore, Yumi felt heartbroken. It was the same always. Whenever she liked a guy, he was either a jerk or he liked someone else. In this case, it was the latter.

"Kyoya-senpai," Kaoru, wet and exhausted, brought Haruhi to him. "What happened to her?"

Haruhi was still clutching onto her lower leg. Kyoya motioned her to let go and she reluctantly obeyed. "It's just a jellyfish sting," he pointed out after he examined it. "It's not serious at all. You'll recover eventually. The pain will go away soon."

"Seriously?" Haruhi questioned. "I just couldn't believe that I was screaming over a sting."

"My poor Haruhi," sobbed Tamaki. "I'll bring you back to your room," he said with concern.

"No thank you Tamaki-senpai," replied Haruhi flatly.

"But as your father, I have to make sure that you're doing fine."

"I said no."

Hikaru admired Haruhi's strength. He couldn't believe that he didn't react fast enough to save Haruhi himself. If something serious happened to her, he wouldn't have forgiven himself.

Hani sat by himself on the brick ledge by the beach. Playing with Yumi reminded him of his childhood memories with Chiyeko. Hani stared up into the stars. He wondered if Chiyeko was looking at the stars too.

"What're you doing all the way out here?" Yumi walked up to him from the villas. Hani felt as if he should be perky as usual but something prevented him. Yumi noticed this. "What's the sad look for?" she asked.

"I miss Chiyeko..." stated Hani.

"And..." Yumi knew there was more too it.

"But I'm scared." He clutched Yumi's arm.

"Scared of...?" she encouraged him to continue because at this point, she was confused.

"She might have changed," blurted out Hani. "She might hate me. It's been so long. I don't know her anymore. What would I say when I see her? What would she say? What-"

"Mitsukuni, calm down," said Yumi.

Hani took a deep breath. "I just don't know what to do."

Yumi gave him a sympathetic look. "First of all, don't think of the negative," pointed out Yumi. "That's scaring me because it's so unlike you. She meant a lot to you, didn't she?" Hani nodded. "And change isn't always bad."

"I don't know..." Hani was uncertain.

"And if she does hate you for some reason, she won't hate you for long. You're really easy to get along with," Yumi smiled.

"Really?" asked Hani.

"Really," Yumi replied.

"Really?"

"Really."

"Really?"

"Hani," she laughed. "How many times are you going to ask?"

Hani giggled as well. "I'm very happy that I got to talk to you Yumi. You tell me what I needed to hear and give me encouragement." He looked up at the stars. "That's what I like about you." With that said, Hani kissed her on the cheek.

This caught Yumi totally off guard. She blushed madly. 'What just happened?' She tried to rationalize that Hani had a mind of a child and that a kiss on the cheek is cute when a child did it. But she knew that he was still an eighteen-year-old. She didn't know what to think.

"Sorry I took you guys all the way here in Australia," Hani apologized out of nowhere.

Yumi snapped out from trying to make sense of things. "What do you mean?" she asked. "Why are you apologizing for that?"

"No. I mean I'm sorry I lied," explained Hani.

Yumi shifted her eyes back and forth. "Lied about what?"

"Like how her mother owns this resort," Hani smiled sweetly, "when she actually owned the rival resort."

"..." Yumi dropped her jaw.

"And how I told you guys that Chiyeko liked to skate," started Hani. "But in fact... she was terrified of it."

"WHAT! mff-" The sound came from behind.

Hani and Yumi quickly turned around to see Kaoru covering Hikaru's mouth. Yumi looked at Hani's expression. They heard everything Hani said to Yumi. Hani started to tense up. "Why are you here?" Hani asked angrily.

Hikaru and Kaoru knew that they wouldn't be safe if they stayed around, so they ran away screaming, "Sorry, Hani-senpai!"

"Why do the low-blood pressure guys like Hisoka?" Hikaru complained to Kaoru.

Yumi just sat watching and sweat dropping as the guys ran around her villa. "Wait," Yumi thought aloud to herself. "Which low-blood pressure guys?"

"Toukai!" Hikaru grinned as they climbed onto the plane.

"Yeah?" Yumi turned around to face Hikaru. Hikaru looked confused. 'Oh snap!' Yumi bit her lip. 'I answered to Toukai.' Yumi often had this problem. She would answer to so many different names because she had to wear so many of them. Toukai was her previous fake name before Hisoka.

"But seriously," complained Hikaru, "that was the shortest vacation I ever had. We aren't even going to stay for Christmas."

Yumi glared at Hikaru. "Don't you even care about Takashi's health?" The host club had to leave early because Mori's health was just getting worse no matter how he tried to pretend that he was fine. He got a fever even though he has a strong immune system. Mori was really pushing it despite Hani's protests.

"Are you sure can carry that?" Hani asked Mori. Despite Hani's offer to help, they weren't carrying anything heavy.

"Ah," Mori typically responded.

"Are you sure -?" Hani suddenly stopped. He dropped his bag on his foot though he didn't show any pain on his face. His face was full of shock. His face showed neither happiness nor fear but only shock.

Already sitting on one of the chairs was a black-hair girl with lavender streaks listening to her iPod. When she saw Hani, she turned away but she couldn't help but smile a little.

"Chiyeko?" Hani said faintly.

Chiyeko fiddled with her iPod. Click.

BAM! Rock music was put to full blast directly into her ears. Even the Host Club was blown away from the volume.

"Seriously, she's going to go deaf!" commented Haruhi.

"Turn that down!" shouted Hikaru.

Kyoya tapped her shoulder. Chiyeko turn to him. "Can you please turn it down?" he asked calmly.

"OKAY," she replied. She reluctantly turned down the music and minded her own business.

'What's with this girl?' Everyone sweat dropped.

Oh. My. Gosh. It took me soooo long to finish this. I did half the chapter about a month or two ago and didn't finish it until now. Major writer's block. But I'm so happy that Chiyeko's finally in the story X3. But this chapter seems short... Anyways, please comment and/ or criticise.