A/N: Hey guys!
So, this is my first OHSHC fic. I had been reading a lot of them lately, but this is the first time I'm writing it.
Sorry to disappoint some of my XS fans that this is not a XS fic, but I'll still write them when I've got new ideas, so don't worry!
Okay, enough chit-chat. Let the story begin!
( Hikaru POV )
"Bye, Kaoru. I'll see you at lunch later." I smiled at my twin brother as he got up from his seat and start leaving for his next class, Literature, while me and our 'best friend', Haruhi are preparing to head for Mathematics.
"Bye guys," Kaoru waved at us before exiting from the door of class 1-A.
"Haruhi~" I turned my attention back to the girl beside me. "If you don't hurry up, you and I are going to be late for the next class!"
"Just hold on a little bit more, I'm finding my notebook…" she replied before digging inside her bag once more. "Okay, I got it. Now let's go."
"Seriously, how long could you take to just get your stuff ready?" I sighed as I got up from my seat, heading towards the door.
"Well, unlike someone I know, I actually brings all my books with me to school." Haruhi protested. "Besides, if you don't want to wait, you could just go along first with Kaoru."
"Oh Haruhi, what kind of friend would I be if I left you behind, all alone, getting punished by the teacher for being late…"
"Okay, okay, I got it!" the cross dresser raised her hand in defeat. "But even so, you don't have to go with me all the time you know, Hikaru? I don't mind you spending some time with Kaoru. He is your brother after all."
"So I take that as you're granting me permission to hang out with Kao later?"
"Since when do you need my permission to hang out with your own brother?"
"Well… I don't. But I do need your permission to let me hang out with him alone."
"Fine then, I'll just stay in class. You can go have lunch with him 'alone'."
"Thanks Haruhi," I grinned, ruffling the locks of the brunette's short brown hair. "you're the best."
Even though I was planning to go see Kaoru directly after class, I totally neglected the fact that I have to stay back along with Haruhi after class for being late. After the teacher finally finished lecturing us, I dashed out of the Mathematics Room as fast as my legs could carry me towards the Literature Room. But what I forgot is that the Literature students had long been dismissed, hence no signs of my little brother in there.
Sighing at my clumsiness, I closed the door to the empty Literature Room. As I was about to leave, a familiar voice stopped me on my track.
Kaoru… I turned around to see where the voice came from. What met my glance was the neighboring Chemistry Lab 2.
Eager to see my baby brother, I headed for the room. What I didn't expect to see was, besides Kaoru, there are another two males, who definitely don't look like they're from this school, in the room. One of them was holding onto a boy, pointing a gun at his temple.
"Kaoru," I called out to my other half, never failing to notice how his eyes widened upon meeting with my own identical ones. "what's going on in here?"
"Hikaru…"
"Oh? Do we have another visitor?" I adverted my attention to one of the man in the room, the one who is empty-handed. "Maybe his one here will be able to make you talk." he walked dangerously towards me while eyeing at my brother.
"No! Don't go near him!" Kaoru yelled, running towards me before the guy could and blocking him from getting any closer to me.
"Kaoru, what's going on?" I held onto my twin's shoulder. "Who are these people and what do they want?"
"Hikaru…" his voice is merely a whisper, to be heard by just the two of us. "I'll explain it to you later. But please, don't get yourself involved in this. Hurry up and leave."
"I'm not leaving you alone here, Kaoru." I protested.
"Hikaru, now is not the time to be stubborn. Take my words and go."
"I'm not going anywhere!"
"Of course you're not." I mentally cursed myself for accidentally saying the last sentence out loud.
"Stay away from him! He's got nothing to do with this!" Kaoru shouted, stepping closer to me as the man took another step forward.
"Seems like you cared a lot for him, then there's absolutely no way that we're letting him out of this." the guy extended his hand towards me but was slapped away immediately by my twin.
"Hands off him!"
"Now now, we don't want to play rough here, do we?" the guy suddenly disappeared, and that's when I felt something sharp being placed against my neck and my hands being firmly secured behind my back.
"Hikaru!" I watched as Kaoru stare at me, his face had become a mask of horror.
"Now hurry up and tell me which one of these is the one." The man demanded as he pointed at the table full of mechanics with the knife before pressing it harder against my neck.
My thoughts of trying to struggle out of the guy's grip vaporized as I feared what he will do to me if I made a wrong move. I felt a cold sweat drip down my forehead as I swallowed a lump in my throat.
"…T-that one…" Kaoru hesitantly replied as he pointed at a pistol on the table.
"See? It wasn't that hard to tell us, was it?" the other man in the room asked as he let go of the boy in his hand, who quickly ran towards Kaoru, and picked up the pistol that Kaoru had pointed at.
"Let go of my brother." My twin's voice sounded more like a plead rather than a demand.
"Easy kid. I never said that I'll let him go once you answered us." A panicking sensation went up my spine as the guy smirked. Kaoru's golden eyes widened once again in astonishment. I noticed how he secretly eyed the boy who is currently clutching onto his sleeves, showing some muted signals before they both nod in agreement.
The next thing I know, the knife on my neck was suddenly removed, followed by the one on my hands. I turned around to see Kaoru trying to restrain the man's hand with the knife while the boy doing the same to his other hand.
"Hey! What the fuck are you doing, you fucking brat?!" the man shouted, trying to free his hands.
"Hikaru! Hurry up and get out of here!" Kaoru yelled at me, refusing to let go of the man's hand.
"But what about you, Kaoru?" I asked with insecurity.
"I'll be fine. Hurry up and go!"
"You fucking brat, let go!" the man yelled, throwing his arm along with Kaoru back, causing my brother to hit the wall behind him. Really hard.
I held my breath as my twin's liquid gold eyes lose their color before they close, his arms went limb before his body hit the floor, unconscious.
"Kaoru!"
"Kaoru-senpai!"
Me and the boy rushed to my baby brother's motionless form. "Kaoru! Wake up, Kaoru!" I placed my hands on his back and shook him lightly. "Come on, Kaoru. Don't scare me like this. Open your eyes…" I watched with numbed horror as red liquid tainted his auburn hair.
"Now, look at what you have made me done." the man, with both of his hands free now, spoke. "Is this really worth it?"
"You!" I glared at the guy. If it's not because of him none of these would've happened. If it's not because of him, Kaoru won't have tried to save me. If it's not because of him, Kaoru would not have been in this state! "Don't think you can get away with this! I'm not done with you yet!"
"Oh yeah?" his arm suddenly shot upwards and I felt fingers stiffening around my neck. "Then what are you going to do to me?" he smirked. I wanted to punch his face so eagerly but my hands were currently too busy trying to reduce the tightness of the hold on my neck. Heck, I think I can't breathe properly anymore, and the hand that is wounding tighter and tighter around my neck isn't helping.
"Hikaru!" I managed scan my eyes at the door to see a shocked Haruhi. The hell?! I thought I told her not to come?
"H-Ha-Haru-hi…" I choked. "Leave."
"What do you think you're doing?! Hands off him!" she screamed at the man in front of me, completely ignoring my words.
"Hey, we've already got what we're looking for, so let's not waste time dealing with this one." the other man said, pointing the pistol he just gotten at the brunette.
"Well, that's also one way to settle things." the man holding me grinned.
"No! Haruhi!" I yelled. Luckily for a moment the man seemed distracted by the girl and loosened his grip on my neck. I immediately struggled out from the man's hold and blocked them from the commoner.
"Well, well. We can settle two at once with this." The one with the pistol said. "Makes things so much easier for us."
"Hikaru, what are you doing? They'll kill us both like this." Haruhi whispered in my ear.
"Don't worry, Haruhi." I whispered back. "I won't let them hurt you."
"Say goodbye, brats."
The sound of the trigger being pulled was heard. I stood still, waiting for the moment when the bullet shot through me. But instead, I felt a force pushing me to the side. I turned my head to the source of the force, but a blinding white light blocked my sight. The only thing I managed to make out was that familiar copper-colored hair.
"Kao-ru…"