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Sweet as Sugar	By : Demonic_Host Category: +M to R > Ouran High Host Club Views: 4466 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Sweet as Sugar
Chapter Four

You paused midway through dessert as Honey happily put away what had to be the largest serving of ice-cream you had ever seen. You placed your fork over your plate to make sure that it wasn't picked up during your conversation, or at least what you intended to be your conversation. Honey looked at you with those big doe eyes of his with a dollop of cream at the corner of his mouth. You grabbed a napkin to wipe at the mess on his face like a mother hen as you spoke up.

"Honey? Where is Mori? Is he okay?"

Without skipping a beat, Honey smiled as he sat down his spoon. "Don't worry about him. He's fine; he just needed to do some training."

Your head tilted as you looked at him. He looked rather pleased that Mori was training. Which was odd seeing as he normally didn't go anywhere without him. It seemed weirder that Mori was without him actually, considering the fact that his behavior was like the loyalist manservant that you had ever known.

"What about you? I heard that you studied martial arts?" You probed curiously.

He nodded slowly before speaking in a happy tone. "I don't need to practice as much as Mori."

"Why?"

"Cause I'm already the best, silly."

You looked at him with a little surprise. It had been rumored that he was a martial arts expert, a prodigy at that. In fact, you had heard a lot of stories about his prowess as a martial artist. It was just that you had never seen it for yourself and you were skeptic of the grandiose rumors. You knew they were based in truth but the seemed so outlandish that you didn't believe them entirely.

"Are you really? How do you know that?"

His smile faded a little as a more somber look spread over his eyes. "Well the government did ask me not to compete in anything anymore. I think they're afraid that other countries will think they're training super assassins or something silly like that."

...Seriously? He had to be pulling your leg. That seemed way out there. Yet you had never known Honey to lie.

That wasn't the last of his confessions and you listened with interest as he spoke. "But that doesn't stop people from trying to challenge me when I'm at home. No one has been able to beat me though. Not even my brother and a lot of people think he's among the best."

"Oh," there wasn't much you could say.

"Did you want to see?"

"Maybe later, I think it would be a crime to leave such delicious desserts uneaten."

Honey's smile returned. And with that he went right back to eating his ice-cream. You never had to know that he had personally fabricated Mori's training session or how thorough of a workout he had planned for his friend. He had made the mistake of bringing Mori to his last visit only to find that you'd fallen asleep on him; he wasn't going to make that mistake again.

Once dessert was over with you and Honey moved back to your room. You weren't sure how long he was visiting for or even why all things considering. Already you had swam about the water gardens with him, eaten dinner and finished desserts. On his last visit you had watched movies and it seemed tasteless to repeat the activity so soon. What else was there to do? You wracked your brain on the way back to the room. The only thing you could come up with seemed silly.

"Would you like to play cards?" You asked him, pulling a deck out from one of the table side drawers.

Honey tilted his head slightly as he looked at you. Almost as though that was going to help him discover something. The action itself was quite cute and leant to his overall youthful appearance.

"What game? Haru taught us a few but I don't think I remember all the rules."

"What about Pig's Tail?"

He smiled. "That's the one with the circle of cards right?"

You nodded, glad that he recognized the name. "Yes. I know it's normally played with a bigger group but I thought it could still be fun with the two of us. At least it will pass the time till you have to go home tonight."

Little did you know that he didn't plan on going home to go to bed. He still nodded and smiled. He even helped you move some of the pieces of furniture to help keep quiet and not disturb the guests below you. He was deceptively strong. You barely even felt the weight of the couch at all. Soon afterwards you were able to set up the circle of cards. Seeing it's actual size made you feel foolish for moving the room about at all. But you tried to play that off by walking around the card circle as though inspecting it.

"Ne, Tori?"

"Yeah Honey?"

"I think we should make this exciting."

You peered at him as you took a seat. "What were you thinking."

He tapped his lips with his finger, appearing to all the world as though he was simply trying to think of a way to spice up the game. Then he made the cutest sound when he finally thought of a way.

"Let's make a bet! Winner gets to ask one favor from the looser."

You suddenly got the image of Honey swimming around in a pool of desserts. It seemed hilarious to you so you easily agreed to the wager and started playing the game. It quickly became clear to you that Honey was so much faster than you would have ever thought. It didn't matter if you instantly recognized when you needed to slap your hands down because by the time you'd done that Honey was already there.

He had no cards at the end, a perfect score. Meanwhile you had all of them. You lost with utter certainty.
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