Rocky Road
The sun was setting, causing the clouds to turn a light orange and pink color. Purple mixed with white, making the sky look like a floating candy-land.
The streets sparkled from the soft evening shower, as cars ran over and splashed water along the sidewalk, soaking a couple who were innocently walking by, carrying groceries. They yelled and cursed at the car driver, even if they couldn't hear them.
Shops were closing for the day, as it got later and darker. Street lights were turning on against the last remaining sunlight, and peoples footsteps echoed on the emptying alleyways.
The benches were wet, though a pair of second-year Highschool students sat there peacefully. They sat in silence, one scratched the concrete with the toe of his shoe, the other sat there silently with a book on her lap, and an ice-cream cone in her free hand.
Rain drops slowly fell from the sky, splashing into their own tiny puddles into the much larger ones, causing unnoticed ripples that were ignored by everyone.
Sighing softly into the comfy cooling air, Haruhi Fujioka flattered her eyelashes down at the forming puddles and slowly looked down at her ice-cream cone and slowly took a bite out of the top. It left a cold sensation on her lips as she swallowed.
"Shouldn't we be getting back?" She said suddenly, as she turned her head to the red-head who was sitting next to her. Her large brown eyes looked at her classmate curiously. "It's getting late."
"Yeah," who was sitting next to her, was Kaoru Hitachiin, and he looked nonetheless relaxed and carefree as he crossed one leg over the other, and leaned his head back. Closing his golden eyes. "But it's so... relaxing out here. And without everyone around to make so much racket."
She couldn't help but agree, but she made no comment as she looked back down at her book. The Host-club decided to spend another summer at Karuizawa and She and Kaoru escaped to do some unnecessary shopping to get away with the other members arguments they felt like having with each other.
They had spent a lot more time outside then they planned to, and they were sure that the others would come out soon to look for them, but currently they didn't care, as Kaoru said, it was very peaceful and relaxing to just sit there on the quiet streets with no one to make a fuss about anything.
Looking up at the sky that looked like it was colored by a Kindergartener, Kaoru smirked slightly and looked down at his friend who was sitting there, minding her own business, then looked at his own ice-cream that he held lazily in his fingers, his had the same amount of scoops as she did, had the same colored cone, and had the same shape.
But the only thing that was different... was the flavor.
He blinked.
"Haruhi... why do you always get vanilla?"
"Huh? uh... well I don't know... It's the most mellow of the flavors I guess... I don't like most of the more sugary ones."
Scowling at his ice-cream cone, then to hers, then back at his, he noticed that this time she had vanilla, like most times when ever they got ice-cream, and looked to his very sugary looking one, with every kind of topping you could name.
"Why don't you try mine?" he asked innocently, (Or as innocent a Hitachiin could ask) and slowly brought his cone close to her, raising it up to her face. "It's... Rocky-Road."
Her plain and instant reply was...
"No thanks."
He pouted.
"Have you ever tried it?"
"No... and I don't really want to," looking up at him, she raised her eyebrow at his discouraged looking expression. "I'm fine with... Vanilla."
"But it's plain and... barely has any taste. It doesn't even give you something cool to look at."
Haruhi's expression, like her ice-cream, was as blank a piece of un-used paper as she slowly pushed his cone away with her finger. Giving him a weird look until she looked away to read the rest of her book. "Thanks anyway."
"...Please?"
"Please what?"
"Just try it."
"No."
"But you'll like it... everyone likes chocolate on top of... more chocolate and... some of this smooshy stuff."
"But I don't."
"But you can't not like something without trying it, Hikaru does that too," Kaoru looked away, taking his ice-cream with him. He looked down at the dark chocolate frosted liquid and looked down at a small chunk of more chocolate and caramel. "He wouldn't try this yogurt one time so i had to practically force him to eat it, so he could try it."
Haruhi snorted, flipping a page of her book. "And what happened?"
"...He didn't like it." Scowling, remembering that moment, Kaoru bit his bottom lip and glanced down at the sidewalk. "But a week after that, I saw him eating it willingly! so... you'll probably like it."
"It's just ice-cream, Kaoru."
"It's not just ice-cream... it's, thee ice-cream."
"Well you can keep it." Rolling her eyes, Haruhi took a small lick of her own, and placed her lips on the top of the tip of the top scoop, tasting that plain lightly sweetened flavor of the vanilla. "I only like this kind... and sometimes strawberry."
"You're so cute."
Frowning, Haruhi glanced back up at him, (As he was at least another foot taller then her) and glared particularly at his ice-cream. Why was it, that they all thought she was so cute just because she ate strawberries? "Why do you want me to try it anyway?"
"Because I want to share an ice-cream cone with you, Haruhi," saying with heavy sarcasm, Kaoru raised his cone up to her again, innocently. "Just take a tiny bit. Just a little bit isn't going to hurt you."
"...But I don't wanna."
Kaoru narrowed his eyebrows and stuck his bottom lip out slightly.
Haruhi just stared at him.
He gave her a heavier pout-face.
She raised her eyebrow.
He quivered his lips as though he looked like he was going to cry.
She knew he was faking.
He tightened his eyes into tight slits. Practically begging.
"Okay, fine," she gave up, rolling her eyes as she carefully took the cone from his hand and glared at him suspiciously. Thinking Hikaru was the only manipulative one. "Just a little bit."
He grinned, watching Haruhi just stare at the eye-popping chocolates that stuck out of the dark frozen desert, His grin was slowly fading as she took more and more time to taste it, and didn't look away until he saw her open her mouth slowly and take a tiny bite from the top, barely making a difference in the cream.
He stared at her, his golden eyes blinked wildly at her straight face she gave everything, but after a moment, her expression turned sour as she made a funny face.
He sighed.
"Too sugary?"
"Yes," not saying anything else, Haruhi stuffed the cone back into the younger Hitachiin twin's hand and sat back into her spot on the wet bench, the rain drops were coming down a little more now, but didn't make much of a difference on her already damp hair. "I don't like it."
Kaoru smiled, looking down at her. Their faces now had gotten a little closer to each other, and he just couldn't help himself. "I've never see anyone hate ice-cream so adorably before."
She Grimaced annoyedly at that and turned away, the way he smiled so calmly at sweet at her caused her cheeks burn embarrassingly so that she had to turn away to hid it, and mumbled out-of-the-blue. "It's... way too sweet."
He blinked, holding his ice-cream gently in his hands, and followed where her eyes went. He sat there quietly again, hearing the small rain drops hit the pavement violently, and felt one trickle down his cheek the second he looked up, but looked back down when he saw her start eating her own ice-cream again.
He felt his heart flutter softly against his ribcage as she looked at her face, so calm and collected. He bit the inside of his cheek as he looked away again. Feeling his ears heat up to the point they were almost as red as his hair, he took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down.
She was special to him; she was to everyone, and he would be surprised if she didn't know that, but wasn't quite sure he felt that same way as all the other members of the club did about her. He saw her as something more than just a... toy. Despite what he and his brother always told her.
"Well then..." He muttered almost silently, and was dumbfounded to see that she heard him, as she turned her head to look his way again. "I'll... give you a little more mellow of a taste."
Not understanding what he meant by that, Haruhi raised her eyebrow again and saw that his face was closing in on hers. It was so overwhelming of a feeling, that she didn't move; nor speak. And as Kaoru was a mere few inches of her, his eyes were almost closed as he spoke softly. The Hot breath from his mouth, touched and heated her face.
"Can... I kiss you?"
Flustering a dark red, Haruhi leaned her face back and opened her own mouth to answer him, but before she could get a word out, he stooped his head down and suddenly, their lips were locked in an instant, and she could feel her heart drop down to her stomach.
Dropping her ice-cream she no longer really wanted, down on the ground below them, she felt Kaoru lean in farther, pressing their lips together more securely. She battered her eyes, not being able to close them, but eventually did as she felt his warm hand rise up and touch her cheek.
Not really thinking this through, Kaoru felt his heart do flips in his chest as she leaned in and cupped her cheek, feeing her soft skin against his palm. He swallowed hard, but didn't pull away when he noticed no signs of her wanting to stop.
His fingers found their way and tangled themselves in her hair behind her ear, pulling her even closer, feeling her warm breath on his nose.
Unfortunately, they slowly had to detached themselves to breathe properly, and their gaze soon found one another not a moment later. A dark blush matched their faces as they stared speechlessly in shock. (Shocked even though Kaoru was the one who asked her, and she was the one who didn't pull away)
With her eyes flaring wide open, her mouth dropped as well. She looked at his face, which looked strangely calm for what they had just done, and started to babble awkwardly.
"Y-...You kissed me." She accused.
Blinking, his golden eyes sparkled under the light of the street light and he laughed airily, and by this point of time, their hands had found each others somehow, so he gripped it lovingly.
"I asked nicely-"
"Kaoru! what on earth are you doing?! how dare you use your foul lips to deface Haruhi's innocence?! Haruhi, daddy disapproves!"
The couple whirled their heads around furiously and gasped as they saw the other Host-club members standing over them, their faces were full of shock and confusion; especially Tamaki's.
"Tono-"
"I don't want any excuses, we're going back to the pension!"
As Haruhi watched Tamaki grab Kaoru's arm and tug him off the bench, Haruhi didn't have any other choice but to follow, as Huni grabbed her hand and pulled her in the same direction, but through the sudden chaos, she couldn't help but notice that Kaoru's lips had left a strange chocolaty taste in her mouth.
And while she knew she didn't like sweet things at all, she was going to make one tiny exception, because...
She had to admit that, she liked... Kaoru.
She tasted the small hint of chocolate that was on her tongue, and touched her still tingling lips with her finger of her free hand, but as she thought about it, and concentrated on the taste until it was gone, she shook her head subconsciously and mused dryly to herself.
I still don't like it...