The New Kids at Ouran

V2

Life Goes On

Author's Notes: Hey everyone! It's been a while, hasn't it? Well, I'm glad you decided to read the second volume!

Trust me the wait is well worth it! What is that you enjoy in a good book? Drama? Romance? Comedy? Suspense? Just add the wonderful Ouran characters and hot water, Life Goes On has it all!

Hikaru's Idea

"Heeey, there you are. Why are you so late?" Catalina asked smiling at the handsome twin as she hugged him.

"I was running late. I guess I didn't get much sleep last night." He shrugged. "I'm so sorry for making you wait up on me."

Catalina's smile began to fade and she gave him a quizzical look. She looked down at her shoes as angry tears filled her eyes; she fought to keep them in.

I remember this… She thought.

"That's not Kaoru's voice." She mumbled.

The twin's eyes widened in shock, Huh? How'd she realize that? Deny it.

"I'm sorry I didn't quite hear you. What was that?" he asked.

She clenched her fists and jaw as she look up to make threatening eye contact, "I said that's not Kaoru's voice!" she yelled.

Kaoru peeked around the marble column, his eyes grew wide and his mouth hung open slightly.

"What do you mean?"He chuckled nervously.

Catalina smirked, "All the time you two spend together… You'd think you'd have his laugh down to a T at least. In other words, I know it's you Hikaru." She said folding her arms.

Hikaru looked as shocked as his brother, "But…"

"What the hell do you think you're doing Hikaru?" she yelled angrily as tears rolled down her cheeks. She, in all honesty, wanted the punch him as hard as she could and walk away. She held back though as much as it killed her.

"I…" Hikaru stopped. He didn't know what to say, what to do. He was just, shocked.

Catalina turned around swiftly, her long black hair swung along with her. She brushed a lock of her hair behind her burning ear and walked away. She stopped abruptly to turning her head to the side looking at the pole where Kaoru was hiding, "Kaoru, you can come out now. Game over. You guys are so mean!" she said running inside of the building.

For the first time since playing their little game they could both admit that, yes they were quite mean. Kaoru finally ran after, "Catalina, wait! Please!" he called for her. After arguing with herself about it she finally stopped running so that she could catch up with her. He noticed the whites of her eyes were turning red making the blue appear more intense.

"Catalina, I'm sorry. I truly am."

"Yeah? Well, you should be." She spat, folding her arms, "You had me fooled. I thought you were a nice guy, Kaoru… Or am I talking to Hikaru again?" she said rolling her eyes.

"Look it wasn't my idea, Kat. I promise!"

"Righhht… And you expect me to believe you after this?"

"Listen…"

~Earlier that Morning~

Kaoru sat on the bed texting on his phone.

"Hey, Kaoru, who are you texting?" he asked moving to sit beside his brother.

"Kat..." he said with a smile on his face still looking at his phone.

Hikaru sighed, "Why are you wasting your time on her?

"Why do you waste your time on Haruhi?"

Hikaru rolled his eyes, "At least Haruhi knows who I am." He said angrily.

"Catalina does know who I am, Hikaru…"

"Hm… Want to find out?" he asked Kaoru, his voice deep and malicious almost.

Kaoru looked at his twin as if he'd said something offensive. He knew exactly what his brother meant when he said that. Hikaru was suggesting the 'game' they used to play all the time when they were younger to see if girls could tell them apart, now known as the Which One is Hikaru Game.

"If she knows I'm pretending to be you then you'll know she cares and actually pays attention to you. If not then she's just like the others."

"Why can't you just leave this alone, Hikaru?"

"I just can't stand here and let you get hurt by an outsider. You'll thank me later." He smiled at his brother, taking his phone from him. Kaoru had a bad feeling about this but he handed it over, no protest.

Meet me at the fountain when you get to school. There's something important I need to ask you :)

He pushed the phone back into his brother's hands and walked out of the room. It vibrated.

Um…Okay, see you then :P

Kaoru ran a hand through his auburn hair and sighed heavily.

"You'll thank me later…" echoed in his head.

"Yeah, I doubt it this time Hikaru." He mumbled to himself.

~Present Time~

Catalina looked him then to Hikaru. She buried her hands into her pockets to hide how bad they were shaking.

"I'm sorry… I just—"she trailed off.

"Catalina, you don't believe me?" he asked looking deep into her eyes that looked almost grey now. He had always been honest with her; he never gave her reason to not believe him now. She ruined the eye contact to look up at the dark clouds in the sky as she thought.

Kaoru reached out to grab her hand but she took a step back, "Catalina…" he whispered.

"I'm sorry… I just… I can't talk right now." She mumbled as she turned to walk away. Kaoru couldn't do anything but watch her walk away. He felt his brother place a hand on his shoulder. His eyes slowly began to focus on Hikaru's hand he wanted to break it off.

"I'm sorry, Kaoru." Hikaru whispered.

Kaoru grabbed his twin's wrist as if it were filthy and dropped it. He turned to walk away from his brother he couldn't handle being around him for another second.

"You… are a piece of work, Hikaru." He mumbled.

"Kaoru, I said I was sorry!"

Soon, Hikaru found himself standing outside of the school alone. He began to think as he walked his own route to class. It was rare that his brother would find an interest in anyone, he knew that. It bothered him because he knew how serious Kaoru was about this crush. He feared that Catalina would take him away. He never thought that he and his brother would fall out over some girl. Then he realized, in his effort to keep Kaoru from being taken away he'd pushed him away by intervening.

"I have to fix this." He sighed.

-Lunch-

Haruhi walked into the cafeteria with her bento box in tow, her large brown eyes were narrowed as she scoped out the cafeteria to find a certain twin. She spotted him almost immediately and walked over to sit with him. He'd left class ten minutes before lunch to visit the office. She assumed that he just came to cafeteria on his own since he was already out.

"Hey, Kaoru what's wrong? You didn't say a word in class today." Haruhi said sitting next to him at the table.

"Tamaki for the fifth and final time if there were 180 fish in the sea and one of them drowned, there'd still be 180 fish!" Kyoya sighed, rubbing his temples before picking up his books from his desk.

Tamaki looked at Kyoya with an irritated look on his face, "Kyoya, you clearly don't understand simple math. One from one-eighty is one seventy-nine!" he yelled silently.

Kyoya looked at Catalina, "You get it, right? Please explain it to this moron."

Catalina sighed heavily, "Tamaki, if there were a one hundred and eighty fish and one of them drowned the logical answer would be one hundred and eighty." She said showing no interest in the argument at all.

"But how?!" Tamaki yelled, clutching the air with his fingers.

"The joke is that they're fish, Tamaki." Catalina sighed.

He looked at her with an expectant look on his face, "So…"

"They don't drown! They live underwater for crying out loud!" Kyoya yelled.

The class 2-A trio walked down the rest of the stairs in silence.

"Oh!" Tamaki exclaimed. "I get it now!"

Catalina pinched the bridge of her nose as Kyoya placed his middle finger on the bridge of his glasses, "Moron!" they said in unison both sighing in relief.

Tamaki laughed, "That was a good joke, and I should give Omi kudos for that one."

He and Kyoya watched Catalina walk away from them to stare out the window leading school's garden. Kyoya sent an assuring look Tamaki's way to let him know that it'd be fine if he continued on to lunch. He'd see to Catalina himself.

"Alright, I guess I'll see you in a few." Tamaki said entering the cafeteria.

Kyoya walked over to see Catalina blankly staring out of the window, he felt his eyebrow raise in question. He's never seen her reclusive like this before.

"Catalina…"

"Yeah?" she said hesitantly turning away from the window.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

She smiled falsely and nodded, quickly returning to the window. Kyoya placed a hand on her shoulder gently.

"Are you sure? You can tell me. I see whatever it is has affected your mood terribly."

She continued to look out of the window not saying a word. Kyoya turned to leave her alone, "Alright, I won't force it out of you."

She turned and saw him as he began to walk away with a hand in his pocket. Quickly she grabbed his wrist and pulled him back over to her. He was so easy to pull as if he knew she were going to, the lack of weight threw her off balance as he came back to her. Her back was against the wall; his right hand was above her head resting against the wall. She still held his left wrist in her hand as he stood in front of her, closely. Kyoya was looking down at her trying not to make eye contact but she didn't look up. He freed his wrist from her grasp.

"Catalina…" he whispered, lifting her head up with his index finger gently. Her icy blue eyes meet his onyx ones.

"Hey do you see that?" whispered a guy who was headed into the cafeteria.

"Yeah, it looks like they're about to kiss." whispered one of his friends.

"They seem so close." The first guy whispered.

"Of course. Haven't you heard? They've been spending a bunch of time together since she got her memories back." whispered the girl with them as they disappeared into the cafeteria.

"It's about the twins." Catalina said.

Kyoya felt his eyes narrow, "Tell me…"

"Then Hikaru came over to apologize to me but I was too angry to hear what he had to say. I knew I should've stopped him. But I didn't… It's my fault." Kaoru said picking up the spoon from his tray.

Haruhi looked away and spotted Tamaki, who was standing in line waving at her. She thought to herself, 'Maybe I could help… Kaoru obviously likes her. In the past few weeks, Kaoru couldn't mention anyone else but her. It must have bothered Hikaru, because Kaoru let her into the world that they shared.'

"Maybe I could talk to her for you…" she offered.

Surprisingly, he shook his head no and smiled slightly, "Thanks, Haruhi, but it's probably not the best time. I want to let her cool off a little. She was pretty upset. Catalina deserves a few days to cool off."

"But—"

"Besides, nothing you tell her will make her become aware of how I really feel for her." He said popping a grape into his mouth.

"What do you mean?"

Kaoru smiled and looked at her, "Catalina as feelings for Kyoya-senpai. It makes sense though; they spend so much time together on and off campus. Hell, Kyoya likes her too.

"Whoa, what?" Haruhi's eyes grew comically. Kaoru turned his attention back tray when he saw Tamaki headed their way.

"Come here…" Kyoya said softly pulling her into a comforting hug. She never thought she'd be pouring her tears into his tie. He lifted her face toward his with his index finger and began to wipe away her tears.

"Kyoya…" she whispered.

"Yes?"

"Thank you." She said giving him a slight squeeze.

Kyoya smiled and backed away from her, "So, are you in the mood to eat anything?"

She laughed, "Always, I'm starving!"

"Well if you'd like we could have our lunch outside in the school's garden. That's our tranquil dining area." He said leading her to the cafeteria.

"I'd love that Kyoya."

"Hey, senpai, where is Kyoya and Catalina? They're usually with you for lunch." Haruhi asked.

"Hm… They were behind me. Catalina was upset about something so I thing she went to go cool off. Kyoya—I have no idea." Tamaki said turning around to spot them grabbing their lunch. "Oh, there they are."

Kaoru's head jerked up to look at Catalina who was smiling and talking with Kyoya. He smiled to himself, he was happy that she wasn't still visibly upset. He then noticed his twin walk over to sit across from him. Kaoru refused to look at him; he took a sip of his juice and pretended to look for someone else. When in all actuality he was looking at Catalina who was following Kyoya out of the cafeteria, he was carrying both of their trays. Catalina glanced over and saw Kaoru looking at her so she walked a bit quicker out of his sight.

"Where are they going?" Haruhi asked.

Tamaki rose out of his seat to catch them, "Hey guys where are you going? He asked.

"The garden." Kyoya answered. "Catalina wants to eat somewhere quiet. You may join us if you'd like."

Tamaki looked at Catalina, "What's the matter?"

She shrugged, "I don't know…"

"You must tell me." Tamaki said.

"Fine, I will but I don't want to talk about right now." Catalina said leaving the cafeteria quickly.

Kyoya followed behind her.

Tamaki's brow rose in question, "Hm..." he hummed, walking to the table with his friends

"Where'd they go?" Haruhi asked.

"The garden…" Tamaki said.

Haruhi and Kaoru exchanged looks before returning to their lunch.

Author's note: For the conversation Kyoya and Cat have at lunch and some off campus happenings come back for the chapter extra! I'll have it up tomorrow.

PS: Chapter extras are bits that relate to something that happened in the previous chapter or extra I think it'd be cool if I did that so that the story isn't so serious all the time. NOT all chapters will have an extra. Just think of it as those extended scenes or in some cases bloopers from DVDs xD

This way when the story is updated there'll be two new chapters. But I can't get to the extra tonight.

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