♠ Dream ♠ [4]
Warnings: Minor spoilers for the end of the manga-- this is the recently-released post-series special and it's completely canon
Dream Effects: Horror of the crack kind.
"Haru-chan, would you like to take a break and have some cake?"
Haruhi puts her pencil down and turns to the side to tell Hunny that thanks, but she's all right without the cake, but she doesn't see him. Slightly confused, she turns around, checking behind her, under the desk-- she definitely heard his voice. Not knowing where else to look, she even opens her desk drawer, just in case.
"Haru-chan, Haru-chan, it's me!"
Haruhi jumps, turning a deep red as she looks up to see a very tall Hunny. She'd forgotten. "S-Sorry Hunny-senpai. I still haven't wrapped my mind around how somebody can grow thirty-two centimetres in only two months." Because it wasn't, as far as she knew, even possible to have a growth spurt at that rate.
Undeterred, Hunny plows on. "Hey, guess what? I found another delicious bakery~~ There's a cafe behind the university~~"
The door clicks open. "I'm home, Haruhi! Your darling has returned~"
Tamaki enters, followed by Kaoru and a brown-haired Hikaru. Hunny hurries over to offer cake to the three new arrivals despite Haruhi's line-faced rebuke: "Tamaki-senpai…. don't come back to other people's apartments like it's normal. And Hikaru and Kaoru. You don't have to come here everyday."
"Tono, go get the tea!" Hikaru and Kaoru say in unison, ignoring her..
"Hmm… like a servant?" There's a moment of hesitation, then Tamaki sparkles in true Host King fashion. "Okay, fine. Whatever."
Haruhi watches, resisting the urge to facepalm, as Hikaru and Kaoru drill Tamaki through top-speed tea-making, ending with applause at his successful preparations.
"Amazing, tono! That must be the result of Haruhi's training!!"
"With those skills, you could become a bride," Kaoru chimes in with his twin.
"EH~~~?" Tamaki gasps, blushing. "But from Haruhi's point of view have I mastered household duties??"
"For him to say something like that, he'd have to have cooked at least one pot of curry," Haruhi interrupts, her tone completely flat. "Besides, how is what he did any different than what he did at the Host Club?"
At the thought of cooking, she frowns. Hmm…. I wonder if there's some ingredient in American food that spurs growth? But Hunny-senpai is the only one who's grown dramatically…
As though on cue, tall!Hunny breaks into her thinking with the invitation to start eating. The Host Club crowds around a small coffee table-- and Haruhi is, without Hunny's usual sized-self, completely dwarfed.
What is this strange feeling of claustrophobia….
"Mmm… for some reason I'm sleepy."
Hunny leans over, rubbing his eyes, a bit of cake smeared on his face. It's a picture that has always been cute at his previous small size, but on this 180-centimetres-tall man, it is simply not cute at all.
"Mitsukuni." Mori holds out a hand and then, abruptly, throws Hunny carelessly onto the floor with a resounding thud. "You can sleep here."
"Now that he's no longer small, does Hunny-senpai no longer stir up Mori-senpai's need to serve him?" Tamaki frets, flailing in worry.
"But something's strange!!" Hikaru says suddenly. "Why did he get tall only recently while studying abroad? It's like his role as a loli-shota was brought tot an end when the Host Club ended."
Kaoru gasps in realization. "Oh my gosh….. A number of times I saw Kyouya-senpai giving something to Hunny-senpai: 'Here, Hunny-senpai, your usual bottle of vitamins. Will you be sure to take one every day?'"
The awful understanding hits everyone else at once. Kyouya-senpai was purposefully manipulating Hunny-senpai so he'd stay short!?
"Why!? Why!?" Haruhi stammers, joining Tamaki and the twins in their flailing. "That's an overly-dangerous thing to do to a person!!"
"He probably went that far because without making him a loli-shota character, there was no other way to sell him…" Tamaki says in horror.
"That's exactly what I decided." They turn to see Kyouya, pushing up his glasses and smiling his trademark shadow smile. "The Host Club already had a 'tall dumb blond' character, so why should there be two?"
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[Haruhi's eyes snap open in horror for just a moment until she realises it was a dream.]
Thank goodness that was just a dream...
[As she rolls over onto her back, this is quickly followed by two more realisation: one, she is also very stiff; and two, there is a slumbering blond host king sitting in a chair next to her bed, sprawled halfway over the side of the mattress.
have a very startled Haruhi fumbling to find and turn off her Dreamberry as she lets out a startled noise]
What are you--
Dream Effects: Horror of the crack kind.
"Haru-chan, would you like to take a break and have some cake?"
Haruhi puts her pencil down and turns to the side to tell Hunny that thanks, but she's all right without the cake, but she doesn't see him. Slightly confused, she turns around, checking behind her, under the desk-- she definitely heard his voice. Not knowing where else to look, she even opens her desk drawer, just in case.
"Haru-chan, Haru-chan, it's me!"
Haruhi jumps, turning a deep red as she looks up to see a very tall Hunny. She'd forgotten. "S-Sorry Hunny-senpai. I still haven't wrapped my mind around how somebody can grow thirty-two centimetres in only two months." Because it wasn't, as far as she knew, even possible to have a growth spurt at that rate.
Undeterred, Hunny plows on. "Hey, guess what? I found another delicious bakery~~ There's a cafe behind the university~~"
The door clicks open. "I'm home, Haruhi! Your darling has returned~"
Tamaki enters, followed by Kaoru and a brown-haired Hikaru. Hunny hurries over to offer cake to the three new arrivals despite Haruhi's line-faced rebuke: "Tamaki-senpai…. don't come back to other people's apartments like it's normal. And Hikaru and Kaoru. You don't have to come here everyday."
"Tono, go get the tea!" Hikaru and Kaoru say in unison, ignoring her..
"Hmm… like a servant?" There's a moment of hesitation, then Tamaki sparkles in true Host King fashion. "Okay, fine. Whatever."
Haruhi watches, resisting the urge to facepalm, as Hikaru and Kaoru drill Tamaki through top-speed tea-making, ending with applause at his successful preparations.
"Amazing, tono! That must be the result of Haruhi's training!!"
"With those skills, you could become a bride," Kaoru chimes in with his twin.
"EH~~~?" Tamaki gasps, blushing. "But from Haruhi's point of view have I mastered household duties??"
"For him to say something like that, he'd have to have cooked at least one pot of curry," Haruhi interrupts, her tone completely flat. "Besides, how is what he did any different than what he did at the Host Club?"
At the thought of cooking, she frowns. Hmm…. I wonder if there's some ingredient in American food that spurs growth? But Hunny-senpai is the only one who's grown dramatically…
As though on cue, tall!Hunny breaks into her thinking with the invitation to start eating. The Host Club crowds around a small coffee table-- and Haruhi is, without Hunny's usual sized-self, completely dwarfed.
What is this strange feeling of claustrophobia….
"Mmm… for some reason I'm sleepy."
Hunny leans over, rubbing his eyes, a bit of cake smeared on his face. It's a picture that has always been cute at his previous small size, but on this 180-centimetres-tall man, it is simply not cute at all.
"Mitsukuni." Mori holds out a hand and then, abruptly, throws Hunny carelessly onto the floor with a resounding thud. "You can sleep here."
"Now that he's no longer small, does Hunny-senpai no longer stir up Mori-senpai's need to serve him?" Tamaki frets, flailing in worry.
"But something's strange!!" Hikaru says suddenly. "Why did he get tall only recently while studying abroad? It's like his role as a loli-shota was brought tot an end when the Host Club ended."
Kaoru gasps in realization. "Oh my gosh….. A number of times I saw Kyouya-senpai giving something to Hunny-senpai: 'Here, Hunny-senpai, your usual bottle of vitamins. Will you be sure to take one every day?'"
The awful understanding hits everyone else at once. Kyouya-senpai was purposefully manipulating Hunny-senpai so he'd stay short!?
"Why!? Why!?" Haruhi stammers, joining Tamaki and the twins in their flailing. "That's an overly-dangerous thing to do to a person!!"
"He probably went that far because without making him a loli-shota character, there was no other way to sell him…" Tamaki says in horror.
"That's exactly what I decided." They turn to see Kyouya, pushing up his glasses and smiling his trademark shadow smile. "The Host Club already had a 'tall dumb blond' character, so why should there be two?"
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[Haruhi's eyes snap open in horror for just a moment until she realises it was a dream.]
Thank goodness that was just a dream...
[As she rolls over onto her back, this is quickly followed by two more realisation: one, she is also very stiff; and two, there is a slumbering blond host king sitting in a chair next to her bed, sprawled halfway over the side of the mattress.
have a very startled Haruhi fumbling to find and turn off her Dreamberry as she lets out a startled noise]
What are you--