"Kaoru..."

"Yeah Hikaru?"

"You were right."

"...I know."

Hikaru's head shot up at Kaoru's calm voice. "You aren't upset?"

Kaoru raised an eyebrow at his twin's shocked voice. "Of course not. I've seen this coming since that first day when Haruhi kicked us out of the changing room and you had that huge blush on your face. We realized she was a girl at the same time, but you reacted to it with more than just surprise. You actually seemed happy about it. I didn't get it at first, but then as we got to know her... and she got to know us, I realized that you were starting to do something neither of us have done. You developed feelings for someone outside of our world."

"I didn't like her that way at first."

"No. You just thought of her as a friend. But you like her now. You've liked her since that ball when she kissed Kanako. I saw you twitch with jealousy." Kaoru chuckled at the memory and his brother's red face. Even though it's what they'd planned, Hikaru still clenched his jaw when he realized it was her first kiss.

"So you knew before I did, huh?"

"You always had the feelings. You just never understood them."

Hikaru dropped his head into his hands. "I'm sorry."

"What?" Kaoru looked over at Hikaru in surprise.

"I know you like her.." Kaoru turned to his brother with wide eyes.

"What? No I don't! Wha-"

"Don't. I'm your brother, Kao. If you were able to figure my feelings out, you know I know how you feel." Hikaru said with guilt and irritation in his voice.

Kaoru looked down at his feet. So Hikaru knew. Maybe he wasn't so dense. "I don't have feelings for her."

"Yes you do. Stop lying to me."

Kaoru bit his lip. Hikaru ran his hand through his hair.

"So when did you know?"

Kaoru looked at his brother out of the corner of his eye. "What do you mean?"

"How did you figure out you liked her?" Hikaru said with a small amount of bitterness in his voice. Kaoru couldn't blame him. Kaoru was just as upset that they both liked the same brown-eyed goddess.

"When she called Tamaki out that first day.."

Hikaru turned to him with wide eyes. "You knew she was a girl before me?"

Kaoru blushed and shook his head. "No. I completely believed she was a man. But... I was still... you know... into her."

Hikaru stared at him for a second before it clicked. He smacked his forehead and laughed at himself. "No way! I can't believe I didn't know you were... Wow. I guess I'm a pretty awful twin, huh?"

Kaoru wrapped an arm around his brother. "Nah, I'm sure there's a lot about you I don't know. Yet."

Both brothers chuckled then separated, choosing their own side of the bed.

"What now?"

"I don't know."

The twins looked at each other.

They both loved the same girl. And they couldn't share her.

But it wasn't fair. The first time someone was able to tell them apart, to really get to know him, and one of them was going to lose her. If either of them even got her.

No. It was Kaoru or Hikaru. No one else could have her. If Hikaru didn't get her, then he'd only trust Kaoru to treat her right. If Kaoru couldn't win her, then he'd only trust Hikaru to take care of her.

It was Hikaru or Kaoru. No one else could have her.

This is the first time they'd had to fight each other to get something. This was not going to be fun.

The only thing they could hope was that they'd still be as close as they were when one of them got her.

"Mommy! The twins are being evillllll!" Tamaki whined and ran from the twins who carried pairs of scissors.

Haruhi watched them as they ran around the music room and only shook her head. "Those three are such idiots."

"Yes. I'd have to agree." Haruhi gasped and looked behind her to meet the gaze of Kyoya.

"Damn it, Kyoya! You scared the life out of me! Don't do that!" Haruhi chastised him. Suddenly she felt two elbows leaning on her shoulders.

"Hmm... Is the Shadow King being mean to our toy? That isn't nice Kyoya." The twins said in unison.

Kyoya chuckled and adjusted his glasses before responding. "I wasn't aware that she was your property, nor that I needed to inform her of my position at all times."

"I'm not their property." Haruhi grumbled, trying to get away from the twins.

"Well you're our pet, hence, you are our property, Haruhi." Hikaru stated. Haruhi didn't notice the warning look Kaoru shot his brother and, frankly, Hikaru didn't either.

"Shut the hell up, Hikaru! I am nobody's property! You two better get that in your head before I finally slap all the thoughts out of them." She shouted and stormed out of the room leaving the room with a tense atmosphere.

"What the hell, why's she acting pissy?" Hikaru asked, trying to mask his own guilt. In reality he had no idea why he felt guilty and didn't understand why she got so upset.

Kaoru patted his idiot's shoulder. "One joke of her being a toy every once in a while is okay, but it does add up. And it was a little far to say she was our property."

As much as Kaoru wanted Haruhi to himself, his brother's happiness always came before his own and he wanted the two to have a good relationship. He also wanted Hikaru to learn how to get along with people, and Haruhi is the only person that can send Hikaru in the right direction.

"Well she is my property. She belongs to me." He said indignantly. If Haruhi couldn't tell the boys apart so easily, Kaoru would move his part and apologize for Hikaru. But then, if Haruhi couldn't tell the boys apart so easily, they probably wouldn't have cared as much.

"Hikaru. You should apologize to her."

"But Kaoru!"

"Look, if you want a chance with her, you need to grow up and learn to take responsibility for your actions." Hikaru stared at his brother for a minute then gave him a suspicious glare.

"If you like Haruhi so much, why are you helping me?"

Kaoru opened his mouth to answer, but he couldn't quite form a sensible answer. So he settled for closing his mouth and shrugging.

Hikaru stared at his brother a minute longer then sighed. "Any ideas on how I go about apologizing to her?"

"How about you just say 'I'm sorry?'" Hikaru turned to his brother to make a smart retort until he realized that the voiced was smoother and more feminine that Kaoru's.

He turned to the entrance to see Haruhi, still fuming, mind you, approaching them.

"Oh... H-hey Haruhi! How long have you been listening in?" Kaoru stuttered.

Haruhi rolled her eyes. "Oh please. What is so important you'd be worried a toy like me was listening in? I only heard Hikaru's last question."

Kaoru and Hikaru let out a breath they didn't know they'd been holding and then smiled mischievously at her. "We were only talking about how -"

She raised her hand to them and looked away. "If it's dirty, I don't want to know."

Hikaru laughed. "Wow, you really know us so well, Haru-chan!"

"Shut up, Hikaru. You sound like Honey!" Kaoru teased his brother.

"What's so bad about sounding like me?" Kaoru turned to see the seventeen year old boy looking up at him with watery eyes and a trembling lip.

He turned back to Hikaru for help but saw him dragging Haruhi away, covering her mouth. He cursed his twin mentally then turned back to Honey with an apologetic smile. "I'm sorry Honey, you misheard me, let me explain..."

AAAAAAAND end of chapter. Wooh! New project! Yay! this chapter was sooooo hard to write, it's not even funny, bro.

Well pleeease review and then I'll give you a sparkly rainbow!

Oh, and if you didn't get the thing at the beginning where Hika was saying he was an awful twin for not knowing, I made Kaoru bi. So he was still into Haruhi when he thought she was a boy... ;) I so awesome, I know.

Well, I'll be back tomorrow! Hopefully... probably saturday though, what with conservatory. Theatre conservatory biaaaaatch!