Oh, this was written for a Holiday Fic Exchange at the kyouyaharuhi community, and my prompt was ice. Thus, this is just the way it worked out. ^^''
Yes, Japan has Starbucks. I looked it up on the Internets. I even looked up Japanese Starbucks menu on the internets! *Nitpicky for details*
It takes a lot of thought and a slight perversion of the meaning of "ice queen" to see Haruhi as one; I interpreted it not so much as she's cold to others, but that she's in a way distant to others, because she treats everyone the same; kindly, yet distantly.
Kyouya/Haruhi is one of the fandom loves, but I don't see it happening in the manga. The manga subscribes fairly consistently to TamaHaru. Also, In the manga, it's fairly evident that Tamaki, Kaoru, Hikaru and Kyouya have feelings for Haruhi (Honey says "So Hikaru is being Mr. Blind . . . while Tama obviously likes Haru, but he's too foolish to know it. Right, Takashi? And then there's Kaoru and Kyouya. One of them is also unaware of his feelings. Do you think there'll be any progress before we graduate?" Volume 8, Chapter 36, at the end), I think in the end, it's still leaning strongest at the moment to Tamaki.
Personally, from that quote, I think that's it's Kyouya who doesn't realize his feelings yet; Kaoru is too in touch with himself to not know, but he would conceal it in order to not hurt Hikaru. Kyouya sees himself as a businessman; he wouldn't want to fall in love, so as far as he's concerned, he's immune. Even if he did realize he liked Haruhi, I think that he would give way to Tamaki like Kaoru would give way to Hikaru. ^^
Of course, there's the possibility that my analysis is completely wrong. ^^ But anyway, my point is, this fic is mostly a what-if thing; I don't think it'd actually happen. I do like the in-denial! Kyouya and in-denial! Haruhi though.
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Yes, Japan has Starbucks. I looked it up on the Internets. I even looked up Japanese Starbucks menu on the internets! *Nitpicky for details*
It takes a lot of thought and a slight perversion of the meaning of "ice queen" to see Haruhi as one; I interpreted it not so much as she's cold to others, but that she's in a way distant to others, because she treats everyone the same; kindly, yet distantly.
Kyouya/Haruhi is one of the fandom loves, but I don't see it happening in the manga. The manga subscribes fairly consistently to TamaHaru. Also, In the manga, it's fairly evident that Tamaki, Kaoru, Hikaru and Kyouya have feelings for Haruhi (Honey says "So Hikaru is being Mr. Blind . . . while Tama obviously likes Haru, but he's too foolish to know it. Right, Takashi? And then there's Kaoru and Kyouya. One of them is also unaware of his feelings. Do you think there'll be any progress before we graduate?" Volume 8, Chapter 36, at the end), I think in the end, it's still leaning strongest at the moment to Tamaki.
Personally, from that quote, I think that's it's Kyouya who doesn't realize his feelings yet; Kaoru is too in touch with himself to not know, but he would conceal it in order to not hurt Hikaru. Kyouya sees himself as a businessman; he wouldn't want to fall in love, so as far as he's concerned, he's immune. Even if he did realize he liked Haruhi, I think that he would give way to Tamaki like Kaoru would give way to Hikaru. ^^
Of course, there's the possibility that my analysis is completely wrong. ^^ But anyway, my point is, this fic is mostly a what-if thing; I don't think it'd actually happen. I do like the in-denial! Kyouya and in-denial! Haruhi though.