I do not own Ouran High School or any of its characters. This is my first time writing for this show too so forgive me if any of them are out of character. This is AU obviously so I know that its not canon but Hikaru x Haruhi should definitely have been!

Chapter 1: Staying Late at Work

Despite being remarkably uptight as a teenager, the mature Kyoya had the ability to throw the best parties in total exorbitant Gatsby style. His wife Renge probably was the main catalyst for ameliorating the man as she helped him to fully metamorphose after Tamaki had first made him aware of his potential to do great things despite being the third son. His house not too far outside of Osaka was a lot like Gatsby's in fact, Renge loved the book and the movie and Kyoya was successful enough to make her dream come true. He had mellowed out quite a bit since his success gaining his father's respect and half the company, the better half of the company since one of his brothers had chosen to instead have his own internet start up and the other had proven to be less adept at best when it came to everything but the medical side of the business. Hikaru was only mulling this over in his mind as he walked through the train station with his suitcase in one hand and his phone pressed to his ear en route to meet his girlfriend at one of Kyoya's gargantuan parties. Normally Hikaru would have driven himself in his blue Ferrari 590 GTO; however he knew that the bullet train would be faster especially with today's traffic. Old Hikaru would have ordered people around and gotten his servants to drive him in a limo and he still could afford to do that but his girlfriend had made him realize that putting money into his business was a much better idea than wasting it away on flings.

"How long until you get here Hika?" His girlfriend asked with a slight panicky tone in her voice, "Renge and her decorating is driving me insane, at least with you here I can escape using the excuse of you and Kaoru kidnapping me." Holding the phone further away from his face, Hikaru chuckled to himself as he stood in line to get on the train. She could be so cute when she was annoyed but at the present moment he was a little more than annoyed with himself that he had to stay an extra day in Kyoto to work on the Hitachiin Company finances. Kaoru got to leave early with Hikaru's girlfriend since he was the artistic half of the company and got all his work done and, in doing so, left Hikaru with twice as much paperwork and numbers to crunch on New Years Eve Day. Due to that unforeseen unfortunate series of events, Hikaru was hard pressed to think of a time he was more irritated with his slightly younger twin brother.

"I miss you too but Haruhi, you always hated it when Kaoru and I kidnapped you." Hikaru pointed out with a smirk and a light chuckle. He knew how much pain Renge must be putting Haruhi in since she, after all, hated dealing with frilly stuff like decorating for parties. Sliding his ticket through the gate with a flick of his wrist and a smile at the worker who proceeded to wave him through allowing him to drag along his luggage as he entered the terminal of the station on the side that the bullet train from Kyoto to Osaka came through.

"I never said that I missed you, you idiot." Haruhi pointed out suddenly distracted from her original point earning a loving smile on Hikaru's end of the line. She had become as easy to read as a book for Hikaru over the past few years yet it still surprised her when he could understand what she was feeling despite her having not said it.

"I could hear it in between the lines of what you said." Hikaru explained as he continued to smile lovingly, "I should be there in about an hour; this is the bullet train after all. Think you can last until then? Remind Kaoru that he needs to be at the station to pick me up in forty-five minutes." His train chose that moment to pull into the station and honk its horn causing him to lose her response in the onslaught of sudden noise. Stepping into the Green Car, he heard her hum as she awaited his reply and sighed as he realized that he had missed everything Haruhi had said. "What?"

"Damn train must have just pulled in. I said that Kaoru and his most recent girlfriend Matsuyo went off someone hence why I'm stuck here helping Renge." Haruhi repeated herself louder this time and sounding annoyed more so with Renge and the train than him, thankfully. Not that his girlfriend had a temper, he did, but that he didn't want to annoy her unless he was teasing her, that was the only time he was okay with bothering her. Sitting down in an open seat, Hikaru felt the train propel forward as her words hit him, Kaoru had forgotten. His own brother had chosen to go make out with some random bitch rather than pick up his twin or help out his twin's girlfriend.

"That idiot forgot about me! What a bastard!" Hikaru cursed feeling what had been happiness at seeing Haruhi in less than an hour transforming into annoyance with his twin brother. Forcing himself to calm down, a brilliant idea suddenly came to him that made Kaoru's short term memory loss forgivable for now at least, "Do you want a quick escape from Renge?"

"Of course!" Haruhi exclaimed happily, she would do anything to get away from Renge and Hikaru always had a plethora of ideas when it came to escape plans.

"Do you want to come pick me up from the station? You can drive Kaoru's car since you both rode up together. I doubt that he and Sato-san made it off the premise." He knew he was angry about the way that Kaoru let girls like Matsuyo in for a matter of a month or so and then left her for another chick just like the last. It especially bothered Hikaru that the perfect girl for Kaoru had been there all along in the form of his best friend Murai.

"You don't like Sato Matsuyo?" She asked rhetorically and heard Hikaru growl under his breath which he attempted to hide in a cough and failed miserably. The mathematically minded twin knew that she had, over the period of six years, become more of a romantic as a side effect of dating him since fourth year and because of this his attempts to disguise his emotional outbursts made her love him a little more every time. It was one of the qualities he loved the most about her. "I know you want Kaoru and Murai to be together however your thinker twin will come around to the idea eventually if it's meant to be." Hikaru sighed in resignation and he knew she was smiling in response after making him feel a little better. "On another note, I can definitely pick you up but you have to drive us back because I don't want to drive in the traffic."

"That would be great!" The elder Hitachiin twin replied twisting his button down sleeve until he could see the Rolex on his wrist. "By now I only have thirty minutes until I get there so I would suggest leaving now."

"Oh I was already out the door the second you mentioned picking you up." The law student replied with a girlish giggle that Haruhi only felt comfortable enough to use around Hikaru. Chuckling himself he envisioned in his mind's eye how concentrated Haruhi looked when she drove and how she was still enthralled by the marvels of Kaoru and Hikaru's matching Bluetooth systems in their cars. "The weather is supposed to be stormy early tomorrow morning." She commented in a peculiar change of discussion, it was only unusual however if you didn't know Haruhi. Despite her courageous front the woman was terrified of the sight of lightning and the sound of thunder.

"I won't leave your side tonight." He promised with every ounce of his body serious as a heart attack. "In fact, we can leave Kyoya's party right after midnight and go back to the hotel then so we're not out during the storm itself. Will that work for you?" By the time he finished he was blushing a bit, even after dating her for six years he was still as embarrassed about his feelings as he had been the first time he plucked up the courage to ask her out. His blush deepened when he remembered that he had only gotten one room with one bed which wasn't a bad thing, quite the contrary in his opinion; however he could just hear Tamaki yelling at him for taking away Haruhi's innocence even now.

"Thanks Hika, have I mentioned lately that you are an amazing boyfriend?" That harmless comment startled him, Haruhi was never so affectionate over the phone or really ever; her actions spoke louder than her words, always.

"Please tell me that Renge hasn't let you have any of the sake, champagne, or wine." Hikaru managed weakly, he did not want a drunk Haruhi picking him up or even driving. Her answering giggle simultaneously made him want to kiss her and made him worry.

"No worries Hika, I am merely ecstatic just to be away from Renge and decorations and everything else for a bit." Sighing in relief at this development, he knew he should let her go and she must have been thinking along the same lines. "Well I'm just about in the city limits for Osaka so I'm going to let you get a few moments of rest, alright?"

"See you in a few Haruhi, I love you." Hikaru replied remembering Kaoru's advice from all those years ago about voicing your feelings; it sure had helped him throughout the years when it came to Haruhi.

"I love you too, you idiot." Haruhi ended the call with a click and a still smiling Hikaru as he fingered the small velvet box in the pocket of his winter jacket. Pulling it out he popped it open to reveal a ring with a modest diamond, well modest in his opinion was going to be excessive in hers but no matter. All that mattered to Hikaru was if she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him and he prayed to God that Haruhi would say yes.

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