"Kaoru"
"Kaoru"
"Kaoru!"

It was the third time that the teacher has called Kaoru's name and still no answer from the younger Hitachiin. Hikaru looked over at his twin and saw a gazed look in the eyes of his mirror image so he decided to help out a bit.

"Oh! Sorry, I dazed a bit" Hikaru said pretending to be Kaoru. Haruhi gave him an odd look, she being the only one who knew that it was definitely Hikaru and not Kaoru.

"But you're Hikaru" the teacher said unknowingly correct.

"No I'm not," he lied, "Hikaru and I switched seats today. Besides," he joked, "It's always Hikaru zoning out, not me"

The teacher accepted the lie as fact and had Hikaru answer the question intended for Kaoru, who didn't even notice. As the teacher moved on, both Hikaru and Haruhi watched Kaoru.

Haruhi watched the real Kaoru who still wasn't paying attention. She didn't even think that he realized that he was in school at the moment. She was worried about him, maybe something was wrong. Was he sick? Kaoru got sick a lot, more often than Hikaru that's for sure. She decided that she would ask him during Host Club after class ended.

Hikaru on the other hand was worried about his counter part. If anyone knew Kaoru, it was Hikaru, and Hikaru knew that something was seriously wrong. Besides the fact that he was completely dazed, he was completely dazed in English class, his favorite class out of all classes. It was usually Hikaru who wasn't paying attention. Hikaru stared at Kaoru trying to open up the twin connection they shared with each other.

With this connection they could have a whole conversation just by looking at each other, no words needed. It was something only the twins understood. Their mental connection was part of their world away from everyone else, the world of "us" and "them". This bond was always connected. The worst part was Hikaru knew he was getting though but Kaoru wasn't responding.

When the chimes played signifying the end of class, Hikaru and Haruhi headed towards Kaoru. Hikaru reached him first and swung his leg over so he was sitting on his little brother's lap, which was a bit different because usually it was Kaoru sitting on Hikaru.

Hikaru shook his little brother trying to get him to respond but with no avail. After a few more seconds of shaking and calling his name, Hikaru was almost going to try slapping him but luckily Kaoru broke out of his trance like state.

When he did he looked a bit confused, confused of where he was, how he got there, and why his older brother was sitting on him. "Hikaru... Where are we?"

"School?" he answered, or asked is more like it.

"Oh. Okay." Kaoru accepted, "How'd we get here?"

"We were driven?" the conversation of questions continued.

"Oh. Okay. I don't remember waking up... maybe I never did..." his voice drifted, "Well, let's go to Host Club, don't want to be late or 'mom' and 'dad' will be angry" Kaoru joked.

So Hikaru got off his brother to let him stand, the laced hands and the three of them, including Haruhi who remained silent, walked over to the third music room, two of them still worrying over the third.

During Club, Haruhi was pulling her natural act, Mori-sempai and Hunny-sempai were looking cute as always, Tamaki was charming the girls, Kyouya was going through some finances, and the twins were displaying their brotherly love for one another.

They sat on the couch almost on top of each other, across from two girls who had requested that they be their hosts for this afternoon.

"Hikaru, I saw you during class, you looked a bit out of it, where you okay?" one of the girls asked, not knowing that it was Kaoru who was actually out of it.

"Oh, I was fine, just tired." he turned to his brother and held his face in his hands, "someone kept me up most the night, you're very needy Kaoru." Hikaru spoke, leaning closer to his twin.

"Hikaru" Kaoru said blushing, "you promised not to" he complained.

"Sorry, you just looked so cute in that moment I couldn't help but re-live the memory." the older drawled, drawing ever closer to the younger's lips, they could feel the other's breath on their faces.

"Moooooom!" Tamaki whined, now finished with his last customer, "Your sons are doing weird things! And in front of our daughter!"

Kyouya looked up annoyed, "I'm mom again?" he asked, "And why are they 'my' sons, but she's 'our' daughter?"

"Well my sons wouldn't do that!" Tamaki yelled and pointed at them dramatically.

"And you are insinuating that my sons would?" Kyouya said with an evil glint in his eyes.

"...no..." he said, realizing that he lost a fight with 'mom' and retreated into his emo corner to cultivate mushrooms.

Hikaru and Kaoru looked on in amusement, it was fun to see Tamaki get so worked up over their brotherly love act. It was just an act. Right? Hikaru looked over to his twin and saw the glazed look coming back to his eyes. To try and prevent this, he grabbed Kaoru's hand pulling him ever closer. In one swift, almost choreographed move, Hikaru put his arm around Kaoru's shoulder that proceeded to wrap his arms around his brother's waist, they stared into each other's eyes and had a silent conversation.

-What's wrong with you today? You're not yourself, I'm a bit worried about you.-

-I'm fine.-

-Don't lie to me Kaoru.-

-I'm fine!-

-Kaoru-

-Hikaru-

-I'm concerned-

-Fine-

-Fine?-

-I'll tell you at home-

"Okay" Hikaru said out loud, "we're going home"

Tamaki looked stunned, "You can't just leave in the middle of Club!"

"Yes we can," they said in unison, "Look around, there are no more customers. You scared them all away with your 'mom' 'dad' 'daughter' 'sons' talk." With their unison in tact the two walked out together, hand in hand.