Hikaru, I'm going to say this straight forward, I love you. More than a brother should, I always have, and I know it's wrong and you'll probably look down on me but I do. Ever since you started dating Haruhi, I've been completely alone. I miss you. I know it sounds selfish, but I don't like it when you always with her. I'm always left alone. I'm happy for you though, I really am. It's just that, I wish you would look at me the way you look at her.

I wish you would love me the way I love you. I'm sorry Hikaru, but I can't take being alone anymore, it hurts too much. To loose the one you love. I love you Hikaru, I always will. I just can't live without you.

-Kaoru

Hikaru wiped his eyes and set the letter down. He'd come home from hi9s date with Haruhi to find Kaoru in their closet, dead. He hung himself and left a note taped to his hand. Hikaru was shocked, he had no idea Kaoru felt that way. If he'd have known…. Hikaru walked slowly, numbly, to the kitchen. Taking a knife from the wrack, he climbed back up the stairs into their closet, and as gently as he could, cut Kaoru down. He was crying so hard his vision was blurry; he lay Kaoru's head on his lap, and said

"I love you Kaoru. I'm sorry I couldn't have said it sooner." Before slitting his wrists open.

Blood poured from his wounds as he laid his head against the door and slowly drifted off.

He just couldn't live without Kaoru.