Big Sister Fujioka

Playing the Name Game!

It's a junk chapter. Two mini-plot bunnies running alongside each other. Basically just a dumptruck of fluff. And KyoJin. And a little Kaoru-Jin-Hikaru psuedo-sibling stuff... which I've been writing an awful lot of lately. I just really like the dynamic between Jin and the twins.

See the bottom of this story for the different name meanings.

Mother Nature was trying to drown them all.

Ever since the thunderstorm two days ago, the rain had been nearly constant, and Pension Misuzu was more popular than ever. Summer campers looking for a dry place to sleep and travelers searching for a reprieve from the downpour and a warm cup of tea came in droves. The host club boys were quickly put to work in anyway they could help. Whether it was serving or cleaning or ensuring no rainwater was leaking inside, there was never a dull moment.

On the rare occasion the rain showers would escalate into an actual thunderstorm, Haruhi would be quickly placed in either the bedroom or at a table with her headphones on high. She'd never admit it, but Haruhi was touched by the concern and care she was receiving from everyone. If not a little embarrassed.

Unfortunately, having nothing to do for extended periods of time was pretty boring. Since she couldn't focus enough on her homework with all the music in her ear, she would just watch her friends work around the cafe, which made the tension obvious.

Jin wasn't speaking more than two words at a time to Kaoru, and neither was Kyoya. As the sisters hadn't had a free moment to talk about the first thunderstorm of the summer except for the morning after, the younger Fujioka was a little in the dark over what exactly had happened between them all. As far as Haruhi understood it, Kaoru had had something to do with the reason Jin hadn't gone after her and Hikaru to get them back to Pension Misuzu before the thunderstorm started. Apparently there had been some serious miscommunication, which made Jin mad at Kaoru and by extension, Kyoya was mad at Kaoru, too.

The youngest twin clearly wasn't unaware of the tension.

"Hey, Jin-senpai? Do we have any more pails?"

"Office storage."

"Oh... alright. Thanks." Kaoru hurried away with his head low. Haruhi felt bad for him, but she knew her Nēchan was almost done with her lesson.

"Lesson?"

"Hm?" Haruhi looked up from her evening cup of tea to see Tamaki's confused face, "Oh, right. Sometimes I forget people can't read Nēchan like I can. Well, I can tell that Nēchan's not really mad at Kaoru. Or, perhaps she was earlier, but now she's just putting him through a time out phase. She's forgiven him, but it's the forgetting that we're working through now."

Tamaki shook his head, walking back into the kitchen, "Remind me to never get on Jin's bad side."

"Noted."

Sighing, she went back to her tea. The rain was finally starting to let up, thankfully. The weather station had actually said that they wouldn't have any more precipitation until tomorrow night, then a sunny week! Haruhi couldn't wait. Even if tomorrow was supposed to be ridiculously hot, it would be better than this rain!

Jin paused in her sweeping to look out the window she was by. As the raindrops gently pitter pattered across the huge bay window, the tall brunette's figure relaxed. Haruhi knew that if it were up to her, Jin would be standing under an awning or have a window open, her arms outstretched into the rain and giggling when the wind blew the water into her face.

Crack!

Haruhi jolted in her seat, pulling herself out of a memory just in time to see her sister running out the front door of the Pension, broom lying on the floor where she'd dropped it.