Roses and Thorns

(A Vampire Knight/Ouran High School Host Club FanFiction)

Chapter Four

Jealousy, Temper Tantrums, and Tamaki Suoh

Okay…hi. There is no hiding it, I have been slacking on this story. I'm really sorry, but I have been busy and writing other things, too. My friend's friend might die soon because he's really really sick and his parents won't take him to the hospital, so I was kind of panicking. Then there's my family, which keeps on grounding me and stuff. Finally, I have a lot of other things that I have to do; such as I am the leader of an anime club at my school (along with Kimietsu), and I have swimming for four hours on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and I have piano club every other Tuesday, and student government every Tuesday that I don't have piano club. So…yeah, a lot's been going on on my side of the computer screen. Sorry. Enough of my excuses, on to the story! Chapter five has arrived! Leave suggestions!

Two weeks later

Yuki Cross's POV:

It has been two weeks since Kaname, Zero, and the others joined the Host Club, and things are starting to get tense. First, there's the screaming fangirls. I can hardly get two minutes to talk with Kaname or Zero anymore since they're so busy and popular. Then there's Hunni. I've been assigned as his personal babysitter or something, and I'm supposed to watch him 24/7! It's nearly impossible, but I pull through, because he likes me so he listens to me. He's always throwing temper tantrums because of stupid things like the fact that his cake doesn't have enough strawberries, or that he can't have milk with his cookies because he just got diagnosed as a lactose-intolerant. It's exhausting trying to keep up with all the things that are upsetting that kid! And lastly, there's Tamaki Suoh…there's something odd about him. I don't know what it is, but I often catch him glaring at the Night Class and Zero, his eye twitching and everything. It's a little bit funny, but also really scary. And he flirts a lot. And I mean a lot! Every day he grabs me by the arm and waltzes into school as if we're going to a dance or something. When I'm walking through the garden, he'll come up behind me and comment about the flowers or my clothes or something. It's a little bit creepy, like he's stalking me or something. Maybe I'm just paranoid.

(NOTE: As usual, Yuki is blind as a bat to the inner motives of others, especially when it involves love. I guess that's why I thought Haruhi and Yuki were a lot alike, besides their looks, which are also very similar. See if you can guess Tamaki's secret! WARNING: It's not what it would originally seem…look at previous chapters for hints! Comment your guesses, and we'll see how good a detective you are!)

Today I visited Kaname at the Host Club after school. I talked with Zero, too, but Kaname was first priority.

I entered the Host Club before a minute after we were dismissed. I raced through the doors into Music Room Three, calling, "Kaname Kuran, please!"

Tamaki came over to me and said, in that flirtatious way of his, "Hello, Yuki-chan. How are you today?"

"I-I'm fine," I stammered. "B-but I need to talk t-to Kaname, please."

"Why?" he asked.

I thought about that for a moment. I didn't really have a reason, I just wanted to say hello. That's all I ever really came in here for.

"It's a secret," I told him, just to make myself sound suspicious.

Tamaki smirked. "Well," he said, "you'll just have to sit with me instead, until you tell me why you need Kaname so badly."

"W-wait!" I yelped as Tamaki pulled me towards his corner of the abandoned music room.

He pushed me down into on seat, and he took the seat across from me.

"So, Yuki-chan," he said, still smirking, "What's up?"

"Um…can I please go talk to Kaname-senpai now? I just wanted to say hi, it wasn't really a secret."

But, of course, Tamaki didn't believe it. "Oh," he said sarcastically. "I suppose if you were just lying, then you can of course go and speak with Kuran."

I didn't wait for him to change his mind, I just got up and tried to walk away. Tried. Tamaki grabbed my uniform dress fabric and stopped me.

"What?" I asked, turning towards him. "I thought you said I could go."

He snickered slightly at my comment. "I see you have a sense of humor," he said. "But even if you were lying- which I don't think you were- you must stay here as your punishment for not being truthful to your senpai."

I sighed and sat back down.

Tamaki Suoh's POV:

No! No, no, no! No! I will not stand for this! So many customers lost to those stupid transfer students! No! those were my customers! Mine! I will not put up with this! Actions must be made, steps must be taken, and the Cross Academy transfer students must be put in their places! And it will start with Yuki Cross…

Haruhi Fujioka's POV:

In a rare moment when I had no customers, I sighed in relief. This was all so exhausting. I felt sorry for the transfers, who were so new at this, but when I looked around at them, they seemed to be doing just fine. Not fair. I looked over to Tamaki, who seemed to still be busy with customers. But wait…that chocolaty hair and small figure seemed familiar…Yuki Cross! But what was she doing in Tamaki's corner? Normally she just visited with the other transfers…

Yuki Cross's POV:

I sat there and talked awkwardly with Tamaki Suoh for another ten or twenty minutes. We sipped tea and ate a little bit of cake, but all I could think about was getting to talk to Kaname.

After a while, I heard shrill screams and wet sobs from across the room. I turned to look and saw that it was Hunni, crying his eyes out over something. I almost just turned back to Tamaki and continued talking, but then I realized that this could be my chance to escape.

"Um…that's Hunni-senpai again," I said, faking miserable. "I guess I have to go and see what's up."

I stood up and waved goodbye regretfully. Even though I was truly glad to be away from him. As soon as Hunni stopped crying, I'd stealthily move towards Kaname's corner of the room, and Tamaki Suoh would never even need to know. The only problem with that was that Hunni never stopped crying- and I mean never. Not once until after school activities had ended did Hunni stop sobbing.

The bell rang, dismissing us to go home, and Hunni instantly brightened, as if he hadn't been crying at all. He ran towards the door faster than I could even say goodbye. There goes my talk with Kaname. I was looking around, trying to find Kaname so that I could walk back to the dorms with him, when Tamaki came over once more and grabbed me by the elbow, whisking me away from my last chance to talk to Kaname that day.

Tamaki has a plan! Hope you enjoyed, more coming soon! Bye-bye!