I do not know where this idea came from.
~Kaoru's Pov~
Hikaru left the room for a moment to go to the bathroom. Tamaki and the others were busy with cleaning up. I get up and talk to Haruhi.
"Hey, sis." I say to her to start a conversation.
"Why did you call me sis?" She asked.
"Because, you're dating my brother now. Automatically makes you my sister in my eyes."
"You are as weird as your brother."
"Thank you. I'm just glad he was able to realize his feelings for you. I thought it would never happen. It's also a good thing you can tell us apart. Not that I'd ever be a jerk like that. I'd never do that to Hika."
"I believe you." I start to move away, but I trip. What happened next, was probably the worst thing that could happen. I start to fall and my lips connect with Haruhi's. My eyes grow wide and I instantly pull away.
"I am so-" I start to say.
"Oh no." she cuts me off. I turned to see what see what she was saying 'oh no' about. Hikaru is standing right there. Shock and hurt is written all over his face. He balled up his fists, then he closed his eyes to hold back tears. He turned and ran.
"Hikaru! Wait!" I follow after him. "Hikaru!" He's running fast and I'm not a very fast runner to begin with. "Hikaru! It's not what you think!" I continue to chase after him until I eventually catch up to him. I grab his arm. "Listen to me. I tripped. I don't love Haruhi. Even if I did, I'd never do that t-"
"Save it, will you." He turned back to me. "You are no brother of mine, Kaoru. I hate you!" What he did next surprised me. He punched me in the middle of the chest, hard. It knocks me off him and onto the ground. I hold my chest. Just that one punch knocked all the air out of my lungs. I try regaining my breath. Hikaru continues running. I can't believe he'd say that. Why would he say that? I start to tear up. Hikaru is the one thing that matters most to me. Without him, I have no one. I let out a sob. He even says he hates me. I'm so hurt about it that I can't even move.
"Hika, why won't you believe me?" I put my head in my hands and let out another sob. He won't let me explain. I feel like I'm stuck in one of those teen drama shows. I get up and go back to the host club. "I'm sorry Haruhi. I wasn't able to catch him."
"Why is your face red?" She asked.
"Oh, um, no reason."
"I know you better than that, Kaoru. Were you crying? Tell me what happened." She always knew. She could always tell when something was wrong with us or if something was bothering us.
"I managed to catch up to him. He wouldn't let me explain. He said…I was no brother of his." I start tearing up again. "I can't believe he'd say that."
"This is all my fault."
"No! It isn't. I tripped. You did nothing, but stand there. You couldn't have reacted in time." She was crying now. I think no matter what I say, she won't believe me. Nobody will listen to me anymore. I hug her to comfort her. I prefer her to be comforted than me being comforted. "Come on, I'll take you home, sis." She nodded. "Tono, we're leaving." I don't think he even knew what happened. I still have an arm around her. I want her to stay comforted. There's a storm rolling in soon too. Hopefully it isn't a thunderstorm. "Shh, don't cry, sis. Like I said, it wasn't your fault. I tripped. I just wish I could explain it to Hikaru." We walk to her house. The chauffer is gone, so we have to. I get her home and her dad is there. "Hello, Mr. Fujioka. Is it possible that you could skip work? Haruhi isn't going through such a good time."
"What's going on? You better not have done something." Ranka said, he is a bit threatening.
"No, no, no, it was an accident. I tripped and accidently kissed her and my brother saw and ran off. She isn't it taking it too well. Plus, there's a storm rolling in. She is terrified of thunder. She needs someone to keep her feeling safe." I explained.
"You are a very good kid, Kaoru." He knows the difference between us? Hmm, he also didn't get annoyed that I accidently kissed her. "Here, come to Daddy, Haruhi." I let go of Haruhi and she runs to her Dad's arms.
"I'll see you tomorrow or something, Haruhi." I wave goodbye. I hope everything will turn out alright.
I get inside. By the time I do, it's time for dinner. We sit down for dinner. Mom and dad join us this time, which is a rare occasion. I bet they were worried when we were sitting away from eachother. Hikaru was already at the table. I decided to at least try to sit next to him, but he got up and walked to the other side of the table. The only other seat was across from me. Ageha was in the other seat. Mom and Dad were at the ends. The chefs brought out the food. They noticed our positioning. It was an awkward silence. Mom eventually broke it.
"So, how was your day at school, kids?"
"It was great, mommy. We made finger paintings. Mine looks like our family. I will bring it home tomorrow and show you." Ageha said. She's adorable.
"That would be lovely honey. What about you boys?"
"I found out my so called brother was a girlfriend stealer." He said and took another bite of his pasta. I lower my shoulders and look down.
"Ow!" He kicked my leg.
"What's your problem, hmm, girl stealer?" I take a quick breath in and out.
"May I be excused?"
"Yes you may." Mom said. I nod and get up from the table and carry my plates to the kitchen to give the maids less work. I cut through the dining room. I leave just in time to hear Hikaru call me an idiot, but in Japanese, so that means baka. It really hurts to be called that by someone who…who was your only friend in this messed up world. Now, I have no one to depend on. He'd probably be better off if I wasn't around. I run upstairs. I'll go to Tono's house or Haruhi's. I grab a bag and put some clothes in it. I can put up with Tono. I go down stairs.
"Where are you going, big brother Kaoru?" I turn to see Ageha.
"I'm going over to Tono's house. I might stay the night." I explained to her.
"Be careful, ok?"
"Ok. Be good Ageha." She nodded and I left. It's obvious Hikaru doesn't want me there. I get in the limo and it takes me to Tono's house. (for those who don't know, Tono is Tamaki.) I go up the front steps and knock on the door. Surprisingly, Tono answers it.
"Oh, what are you doing here?"
"Um, I was wondering if I could stay over for the night."
"You ruined the relationship between my little girl and her boyfriend."
"It was an accident. I tripped." I try to explain.
"Go find a different place." He shuts the door. Why is he being like that? I go back to the limo. Next, I guess it's Hani-senpai. The driver stops in front of the Haninozuka mansion. I get out and run up. I ring the doorbell. A maid answers it.
"Hello, Mr. Hitachiin. If you are looking for master Mitsukuni, he went over to his cousin, Takashi's, house."
"Oh, ok. Thank you ma'am." I walk back to the limo. "No luck. I'm sorry to ask this, but could you take me to Mori-senpai's house."
"Yes sir." I feel bad for the chauffer, he has to drive me everywhere and it's passed his hours.
"After this stop. You can go home. If it turns out I can't stay, I'll walk to my next location."
"As you wish, sir." We stopped in front of the Morinozuka Mansion. I get out and I'm about to ring the doorbell when the door opens.
"Oh, Kao-chan." Hani-senpai answered.
"Hey."
"I can tell by your bag that you are wanting to stay the night, right?" I nod. "I'm very sorry, Kao-chan, but Auntie called for some exterminators. She saw some roaches. So, we can't stay here for now. We're going back to my house. Sadly, we'll have no room."
"It's ok, I understand."
"I hope everything turns out ok between you and Hika-chan."
"Thanks Hani-senpai." I leave and I start walking to my next location. Kyoya-Senpai's house. I'd prefer to go there instead of Haruhi's house. She has such a small home, I don't want to take up any space. They scarcely have any room for themselves. I walk for probably an hour until I reach Kyoya-Senpai's house. I go up and knock on the door. Kyoya answers.
"Hello."
"Hi, Kyoya-senpai. Is it alright if, I could stay here for the night?"
"Why, what's going on?"
"Well, Hikaru is still mad at me. For some reason, Tono's mad at me. Hani-Senpai's house is fully because the Morinozuka family is staying with them. Their house is being fumigated. Haruhi, well, I don't want to take up any space in her home since it's so small."
"Well, you can come in. I'll see if I can find a guest room for you." He let me in and led me to a guest room. "I hope this room is fine with you. I hope you don't mind."
"It's fine, I'm just glad you let me stay."
"Of course. You're a friend. I hope you don't mind my siblings. They can be rather, annoying."
"I don't mind." I enter the room. "Thanks again, Kyoya." He nods and I shut the door. I get into bed. It takes me a while to fall asleep. I'm not used to being by myself.
I wake up the next morning and I go out to the dining room where Kyoya's older brothers yelling. One I think is Akito and the other, I can't remember his name.
"Hey." They both look at me. "Why are you fighting?"
"He stepped on my foot." Akito said
"I said it was an accident." Yuuichi is his name, now I remember. "Fuyumi would know."
"Don't get our sister into this." Akito yelled.
"Hey, um, calm down, ok? It was just an accident. Most of the time they are accidents. If it was an accident, say you're sorry. Hopefully, he'll forgive you." I slow down my words in that last sentence. "So, don't fight over that. You're brothers, they shouldn't fight over small things like that." They seemed to calm down.
"I'm sorry for stepping on your foot, Akito."
"I'm sorry for yelling at you." Akito said. "I forgive you for stepping on my foot."
"I forgive you for yelling at me." They are the older brothers of Kyoya? They act like little kids. We all sat down at the table for breakfast. It was silent. No one asked why I was even there, it's like they already knew my situation. I subconsciously start to tear up.
"Kaoru, you ok?" It was his older sister, Fuyumi, who was asking me.
"Oh, I'm fine. I just thought of something that made me feel upset." I explain.
"What was it?" She asked.
"Well, my brother and I got into a fight and now he doesn't even talk to me. It was an accident, but he won't listen to me." I explained again.
"I hope it gets better for you." She said, a lot of sympathy in her eyes. Breakfast went on silent. Kyoya and I rode in the same limo to school. He was busy with his laptop, so I just looked out the window. It was a bit foggy this morning, probably because of the rain last light.
We arrive at the school. I go to class and I find Hikaru and Haruhi are already there. Haruhi is writing in her notepad and Hikaru is looking out the window. I sit in my usual seat, only for a certain someone push my seat before I sit and I fall on the floor. I sigh and stand up and pull my chair back up. I try to sit down and he does it again. Ok then, fine. I grab my bag and go off to a different desk. I rest my head on my arms on my new desk. Nobody sits here, luckily. Class begins and it ends faster than usual to me. It is soon lunch after a few hours. I head to the lunchroom and order my lunch.
"May I have the A lunch?" The cook nodded and handed me a tray of food. I take it over to an empty table and start eating. Haruhi usually eats in the classroom. If I didn't have a tray of food, I'd go there and talk to her. You know what, I'll just throw away the food and go talk to Haruhi. I'm not hungry right now anyway. I grab my tray and dump out my food. I slowly walk to the classroom she eats in. "Hey, Haruhi."
"Oh, Kaoru. What are you doing here, aren't you eating lunch?"
"I'm not very hungry. I had a big breakfast this morning. I just wanted someone to talk to."
"I see. So, how's the whole situation with you and Hikaru." Hearing his name made my heart ache. As a reply, I just put my head on the desk. "Not good, I take it?" I nod. "I wonder why he won't listen to you."
"I don't know. How are you doing with this?"
"Well, I have a feeling it's over between me and him. Such a shame too. I think I love him."
"He's being an idiot. It was an accident. He shouldn't break up with you just because I accidently kissed you."
"Yea. I just have to go along with it and just hope for the best. You know?" We are silent for about ten minutes until Hikaru finds us. He does not look happy.
"I see. So it continues." Hikaru says.
"Hika-" I start.
"Shut up. I hate your guts Kaoru. Don't even try to talk to me." He leaves. I start to cry. I get up and run out of the room and run out of the school. I run home. I get to the door and I open it. I run upstairs and up to our room. I jump into the bed. I'm crying my eyes out. I'm crying into my pillow.
"Big brother Kao?" I look up. It's Ageha.
"Hey sis."
"What are you doing home so early?"
"Oh, I wasn't feeling too good, so I was able to come home. How was preschool?"
"It was fun. Can I show you my finger painting?"
"Yes, I'd love to see it." She smiled brightly and grabbed her bag, removing a paper from it. She hands it to me.
"I put names over who's who." It started with Ageha being in the middle. She was purple and put orange for her hair and yellow dotted eyes. The one labeled 'Kao' was red orange with orange hair. He was to her right. More orange was on one side than the other and had two yellow dots for eyes just like Ageha's. On the other side of 'Kao' was a man that was yellow and had black hair and purple dots for eyes. His label was 'Daddy.' On the left of Ageha was practically a mirror of 'Kao' except was light blue and had the label 'Hika' Next to 'Hika' was a pink woman with orange hair and yellow dotted eyes. She had the label 'Mommy.' They were all stick figures. The ground was green for grass. The background was blue with a yellow circle in the top right corner.
"This is amazing, Ageha. Looks like you also got some artistic talent."
"Really?"
"Yea. Come on, let's frame it. I know the perfect one." I hand it to her and I take a frame off our wall. It had a picture I took of me and Hikaru. He probably could care less if I got rid of it. I open the back of it and take out the picture. I put Ageha's picture in the frame and hand it to her. "There. Let's hang it in your room. You can show mommy later, ok?"
"Good idea, big brother Kao. You're so smart."
"Thanks, so are you." I pick her up. She holds onto the frame and the nail that held the picture. I carry her to her room and set her down. "Where do you want to put it?"
"Hmm, next to my window. That way anyone can see it when they enter my room."
"That's a great idea." I put the nail on the wall and she hands me a toy hammer. It will work you know. I hammer the nail into the wall and put the frame on it. "There. Let's go down stairs. I can help you learn how to read if you want."
"Yay." We went downstairs to the study. I grab an easy book with small words and pictures. It was my first book that I could read on my own. I was three years old. We sit at a table and I point to a word.
"What word is that?"
"The."
"Yes. What's this word?" I point to the next word.
"Dog."
"Yep." We keep going until she is able to read every sentence of this book. There's only five sentences. "Good job, Age." (Pronounced age as in a person's age. He purposely did that.)
"Thank you."
"Unbelievable." We look up. Hikaru's at the door. "Not only did you steal my girlfriend, you went as far as stealing my little sister?"
"I'm his sister too, big brother Hika. He isn't stealing me." Ageha explains.
"Forget it. I'm no longer part of this family." He walked away. Ageha was starting to cry. I can't take this anymore. Now he's made Age cry. I get up and I comfort her.
"Age, go and play in your room for a little bit. I need to talk to big brother Hika." She nodded and we left the study. She went upstairs and I went over to Hikaru. "You are just brilliant, Hika. Not only have you shattered my heart, but you also made Ageha cry. I wouldn't be surprised if she's crying her eyes out right now. You don't have to count me as your brother, but at least be there for our little sister. She's very attached to us. Go and apologize to her if you are at least decent enough to do that." I snap. I walk away. Not looking back. I know it probably made matters worse, but I don't care anymore. It was bad enough that he hurt my feelings, but he also hurt Ageha's feelings. I walk to the dining table and start on what homework I have before I ran out.
I come out of the dining room, just in time to see Hikaru come downstairs. At first he just stares at me, no emotion on his face. Then he raises a hand and slaps me hard on my cheek.
"You do not order me around." He walked away after saying that. I won't cry this time. It still hurts, but not as bad as it did the first time he hit me. I seriously feel like I'm in the middle of those overly dramatic teen drama shows. I go upstairs and go into our room. I grab a basket and start filling it with all my things. I take the basket and take it to one of the spare rooms. I open the door. It was painted blue because our parents tried to separate us so we'd sleep in different rooms. This was going to be Hikaru's room, but we fought with our parents until they let us stay by eachother's side. Hikaru…why does he have to be such an idiot? I set the basket of stuff down on the bed and sit down. I hope Hikaru and I can make up and be brothers again. I just want everything to be back to normal. I fall asleep on the bed for some reason. I was feeling tired.
I wake up in the middle of the night due to a loud bang. I get out of bed and go down to where I heard the bang. Someone had broken in. I see two people. They are unhooking the tv. I try to get a closer look. I feel a hand go over my mouth. The person is definitely taller than me. My heart was racing, I was so scared.
"Make no noise." The guy said. I nod. "Not only do we have a nice tv, we also have a kid we can hold for ransom." They dragged me out and shoved me in the back door of a car.
Poor Kaoru. This story is in honor of Hikaru and Kaoru's birthday.