Hikaru and Kaoru Hitachiin were studding for an upcoming test in their math class. They both were leaned towards the notebook full of numbers, symbols and confusing equations, therefore causing them to ever-so-slightly lean towards one another, also. But being close to one another was something the brothers should be fine with, considering the brotherly love act they'd put on at school each day. Which was fine in the elder's mind. They were brothers, twins. There was nothing wrong with being close to your twin.
"Now, if you divide x by ten what do you get?" Hikaru asked with a small grin drawn upon his face. His golden eyes looked over at this younger twin and patiently awaited an answer, even though he doubted he'd get one anytime soon.
"...Fourteen." Kaoru answered, dumbly, unsure what x was. He wasn't paying close attention. He was too busy staring at his brothers perfect features to properly listen. As he looked up and into those perfect, golden, cat-like eyes, he was lost. Until his brother snickered at the answer and shook his head. He looked back at the paper making Kaoru frown ever so slightly.
"No," the older began to say. His voice soft, but laced with amusement. "the answer is two point seven. Because x was..." Kaoru opened his mouth to speak but no words came out. He rubbed the back of his neck. "It was twenty seven. Are you even listening?" Hikaru asked, slightly chuckling. But the younger just nodded. Hikaru shrugged and continued teaching. "So, then, two point seven to the power of five is..."
"A big number," Kaoru muttered. "Is it bigger than one hundred? It has to be..." he trailed off looking at what his brother was writing.
"Yes. It's a little over three hundred eighty." They both reached to point the same thing out, while speaking at the same time.
"Because if you multiply two point seven by two point seven five times you get around three hundred eighty seven." Only, Kaoru stopped speaking about halfway through, because his hand brushed against his brothers, and that sent a big of a shock through his body. He blushed and folded his hands in his lap. Why had that happened? He was used to having to get close to his brother like that, and closer. But all of a sudden, it was like something had just finally clicked into place, realizing how strong their bond was, and how close they actually got. He tried to act nonchalantly but had trouble doing so. But luckily, he just earned a small smile from his brother. What was that? Kaoru thought to himself. I must be sick, I have to be. He sighed and stood up abruptly.
"Huh? Do you need something? I'll get it for you if you want." Kaoru just looked at his still seated brother for a few moments before just smiling. He loved his twin's kindness towards him. Always willing to do whatever he asked. If they weren't brothers, he'd probably fall for Hikaru, he'd thought. Don't think that. He shook his head and walked out the door, and on his way out made a motion to tell his brother to follow him. Within moments of leaving his room a curious brother closely followed. As they walked down the hall Hikaru hummed and then spoke,
"Kaoru what are you doing?"
"I'm going to go downstairs for food." Hikaru tilted his head at the answer.
"But you could have just called a maid or butler..." Kaoru was walking a bit fast for his twin to stay close to him, and so he turned around and quickly stopped. And at that moment, they were both halted and their eyes locked. A moment of silence fell upon them.
"Actually, no food. I want to go outside and take a walk. And I assume you're-"
"I'm coming with you." Kaoru nodded his head and smiled. He slipped into his own little world for a moment as he still stared into his brothers cat-like eyes.
"Beau." He smiled widely and turned away, while beginning to walk once more. This time slow enough for his elder brother to keep close.
"Huh? What does 'beau' mean, Kaoru?" No reply. "Kao?"
"It's nothing, Hika. Just nonsense. I didn't have anything to say..." Kaoru looked around to avoid eye contact with his twin. Otherwise, he'd be found out for lying.
Hikaru figured something was up and texted Tamaki,
'Hey, what does beau mean? It sounds French.' He stuffed his phone back into his pocket and walked ahead of his brother and stopped in front of him, and turned to face him.
"You're ok?" Kaoru saw those eyes again and had trouble responding, so he just nodded. Good enough, right? The two stood facing each other in silence for a few moments until Hikaru's phone went off. He just shut off the ringer, knowing it was Tamaki, and started walking again. He let his brother go ahead of him, though, to check the reply.
'Beautiful. Where did you hear it?' Hikaru slowed down for a second a little shocked, but quickly regained speed. This small series of events was slightly worrying. Was Kaoru attempting to take the brotherly love act home?
'An ad. Kao and I are coming over.' He put his phone away, feeling a small warmth upon his face, knowing he was slightly blushing. Weird.
"Tamaki wants us to come over." He faked a groan, trying to sound upset. Kaoru sighed. A perfectly good walk, out the window.
"Ok. That's fine." Hikaru sighed, knowing he'd upset his brother with the information. But this way he and his brother could be viewed from a third person point of view. His phone went off again.
'Oh of course! Daddy will be waiting!' Now, all he had to do was ask his friend to watch the brothers for any irregular actions. But how?
'Right. Can you maybe tell me if something seems out of the ordinary between Kao and I? It's part of an experiment. Hard to explain.'
Now, the wait.

While in the car the twins talked about school. Why, neither knew. For some reason, both were at a loss when it came to what to say. Kaoru was unsure what to say, because he was scared to actually hear a reply from his brother. With that beautiful, soft, and caring voice. Hikaru, on the other hand just didn't know what to say. His phone went off breaking the momentary silence for a few seconds and he quickly checked for a reply from Tamaki. 'Ok'.
What a well thought out reply.
"Say, Kaoru," Hikaru began to speak. "I just remembered Tamaki is French." The youngers eyes widened for a moment as he began to think what would happen if Hikaru found out what beau meant. Whoops.
"Oh, yeah, he is." He smiled.
"I could ask what beau means. But I feel like I already know." He blushed slightly. Why am I blushing? He thought to himself. He'd realized he'd moved slightly closer to his brother while saying that. Oh my god what are you doing? A small alarm rang in his head as he had realized what he had done.
Kaoru noticed his brother shift closer. He tried to ignore the movement.
"What do you think it means?" There was something strange about the way he'd asked that. He felt like he made a bad move in a game of chess. Or at least a really risky move...
Hikaru was extremely uncomfortable. He was very close to his brother, who'd been acting strangely just recently, and who called him, or something about him, beautiful. But despite how uncomfortable he was, he did nothing except lean slightly closer. Not that he wanted to, actually.
Kaoru was already anxious, seeing how close his twin was. He almost quivered but kept himself under control. He noticed Hikaru leaned closer to him ever so slightly.
"Well," Hikaru started. "From what I remember, it means beautiful." At that moment Kaoru admitted defeat by looking away, sulking slightly. And in a way, he was already winning the next battle. He felt something on his back, and realized Hikaru was rubbing small circles on his back to relax him. Apparently, it was just that obvious that he'd stressed himself out more than he should have over such a stupid concept. Ha, in love with my brother. Right. At that moment, everything froze. He hadn't even considered that. And all of a sudden, there it was. An answer, plain and simple. He hadn't expected that to be what was bothering him. He sat up straight and looked at his brother.
"Hikaru, you could never hate me, right?" The elder shook his head, a bit surprised by the question.
"No, I could never hate you. You're my twin. We never even used to talk to anyone but each other, remember?"
"Yeah, I remember. How could I forget?" He scratched the back of his head and had to think of something to say before his older brother could speak again. "But you couldn't hate me, no matter what I do?" Again, Hikaru just shook his head.
"What's this about, Kaoru?" Kaoru cleared his throat and slightly blushed.
"Nothing, just... Nothing! I'm just making sure." He faked a smile as his brother had a look of doubt and curiosity drawn on his face.
"I think you're lying, Kaoru. Why would you lie to me?" Both sat in silence after that statement for a good while until Kaoru finally spoke, with a hint of nervousness in his voice,
"Hika, I'm just making sure. I couldn't ever take it if you hated me. I don't know what I'd do without you." That was ok, right? I didn't just give myself away, did I? And at that, he was pulled into a firm hug. He couldn't help but smile at the feeling of his older brother keeping him safe in his arms. That feeling could never be recreated by anyone else.
A few moments after Hikaru released his brother from his embrace, the driver of their car had announced that they'd arrived at "Sir Suoh's estate". Hooray.
As the two stepped out of the car, they heard a sound, like thunder. But was it thunder? The sky looked so clear, what else could it have been?
"Hika, is it supposed to rain today?" Hikaru shrugged and began walking towards Tamaki's house.
"I'm not sure. Maybe. But it doesn't look like it will." If this becomes a whole discussion... Kaoru thought. He didn't need to have a conversation about the weather with his brother. That's just something you talk about if there is sexual tension between two people and nothing else to say... Right? Well, that's what Kaoru thought, at least. As Hikaru rang the doorbell they heard that sound again. "If it does rain we'll have to-" He was cut off by a maid opening the door and greeting them.
"Good day. I assume you're here for-"
"Tamaki, yeah, where is he?" Hikaru cut her off. Payback for doing the same to him. He smiled to himself as she stood in silence for a moment.
"He is upstairs, in his bedroom. You may go up, his door is unlocked."
"Yeah, thanks." He slinked past her and Kaoru bowed to her.
"Thank you, miss." He caught up with his older brother and whispered to him. "Hikaru, that was rude." The elder chuckled and smile at his brother.
"And is that unusual?" And with that the two continued walking. As they approached the stairway Hikaru spoke again. "I swear, he'd better be reading or talking on the phone. I am not walking in on him-"
"He's probably on his computer trying to talk to Haruhi." Kaoru didn't even want to think of what his brother was about to suggest. That's sick. As the two approached his door they slowed. Hikaru put his hand up to stop Kaoru. He put his ear against the door. Absolute silence. He quietly stepped back to Kaoru and grinned. He whispered,
"We can scare him. It sounds like he's probably sleeping." Kaoru smiled widely and nodded. The two walked to the door and slowly, quietly, opened his door. As Hikaru suspected, Tamaki was fast asleep.
Kaoru snuck around to one side of his bed while his brother stayed on the other side. And will a few small hand signals, they shook his bed violently, waking him up quickly. The brothers had a good laugh while Tamaki tried to catch his breath, just to lose it again yelling at them.
After a few minutes of yelling, laughing and apologies, they all finally calmed down.
"So, what would you two like to do today? Would you like to go for a walk? Visit Haruhi?" Tamaki asked enthusiastically.
"Whatever, boss." The brothers said in unison.
"You don't care what we do?" He looked at the two with curiosity. He looked especially close at Kaoru, who seemed as if he were in his own little world. "Kaoru, is there something you'd like to do today?" Yes, I'd like to go home he thought. Tamaki was going to get annoying fast. He always did.
"Why don't we just go on a walk to... Anywhere." He faked a smile as he noticed both Hikaru and Tamaki were looking at him awaiting an answer. Tamaki nodded and asked for Hikaru's opinion and eventually they were out of the house. But it had gotten cloudy since they got into the house. Which wasn't a huge problem, they were all used to the rain. If it rained they would probably find a restaurant to stay in.
About twenty minutes had passed before the clouds were quite dark and thunder could be heard very clearly.
"Hey boss," Kaoru began. "We may want to head back to your place or something..." Tamaki looked up at the sky and smiled. He nodded and looked around.
"We probably won't make it back before the rain starts. So, wanna find somewhere to hang out?" The brothers looked at each other a little surprised. They looked back at their friend who had a confident smile on his face and nodded. As Tamaki started to march off, they quickly followed, and began whispering to each other.
"Hika, what's up with him? He's being too smart." Hikaru chuckled at the question but quickly answered.
"I told him if we'd hang out, he'd have to use his brain and behave." At that, Tamaki turned around stopping the twins.
"I'm sure you two don't mind the rain, actually, am I correct?"
"Well of course we don't." The brothers answered in unison. With that, Tamaki nodded and threw his arms out at his sides rather dramatically and announced that they'd be staying outside near a small lake during the rain. Of course, the two brothers didn't disagree. They were fine with staying in the rain, therefore no objections were made beyond that point and they were off to the lake.

A/N Well that was almost 3k words! I'm surprised with myself. I thought I'd only get to about twenty, haha. Please excuse the end. It's 4:04 (error 404: Brain not found... Bad joke) in the morning and I'm really tired. See, I could have finished earlier if my obsession with Todd Haberkorn wasn't too.. Crazy. I had to watch some movie he was allegedly in. If you wanna watch it, it was The Collector. It's gory, funny, and kinda scary (well, it's scary at 2am). Check it out, yo! Anyways... Please review and let me know how extremely bad this story sucks. I'm going to try to get a good friend of mine help me write this so it doesn't suck.
YES, I know the beginning sucks ballocks, but I'm terrible at starting stories. So...
But yea, that was the first chapter of my first chapter. Chapter two is coming soon (this took about a week to write, so the waiting time generally is one week, now).