A/N: I don't own anything but my OC
Ch.2
Kitty's next run-in the twins had been an unexpected one, to say the least.
It was during recess, and she was sitting soundlessly on one of the swings, but wasn't exactly swinging because she unfortunately didn't know how to swing much to her chargin, so she merely rocked her body front and back with the tips of her shoes scraping the sand below her.
Kids ran by her laughing, and obviously enjoying themselves, most likely playing tag or something.
She hasn't drawn much in a while and she feels considerably incomplete because of it; drawing was her escape. There's been a lot of other things on her mind these days, and she felt a bunch of emotions weighing the girl down, not to mention they were way too intense for a six year old to be experiencing at all.
Disappointment.
After her first impression on the twins four days ago, they didn't actually talk to her afterwards like she had previously hoped, which caused her to get a bit depressed.
She felt ashamed in herself for being so foolish-for getting her hopes up. What did she think was going to happen? That they would suddenly be her friends? That they would let her into their world? That something would change?
Yet, she did feel a slight change.
But not the change she was hoping for.
Before their first meeting, Kitty would be able to stare at the two all day without any interference from an outside party. But now?
Kitty shivered a bit in embarrassment.
Every time she even glanced in their general direction, they would both catch her staring almost instantly and meet her gaze from across the room, and she would look away quickly, pretending to do her work that laid in from of her, and sweating profusely in the process. And it went on like this all throughout class, like a vicious cycle.
She'd look.
They'd look back.
She'd look away.
How did they always know when she was staring? Much like a bunch of other things, Kitty did not know and probably never will,-they probably have some kind of secret intuition. Sure, some part of her appreciated the fact that they noticed her more, but this means that they're on to her, which also means she was unable to observe them long enough to draw them on paper, which led to her current predicament.
Emptiness.
The only thing she enjoyed doing, and now she can't even connect to them in her own secret way. So yes. She felt empty. Without them, no matter how small it was, she felt miserable.
And it was absolutely ridiculous! She didn't even know them! She can't even tell them apart. (Which upset her to no end) How could she be so drawn to these two boys?
"-Piggy!"
Her head snapped up as she was suddenly jolted out of her miserable state.
She flinched back so badly that she almost fell back off the swing at the sight of them.
Speak of the Devil, and he shall appear...
Or in this case Devils.
The Hitachiin twins stared at her with a certain curiousity, that made her gulp.
Although, she still felt somewhat excited and kind of special to be in their presence. She had never seen them walk up to anyone during recess, and they chose to walk up to her of all people! She could see in her peripherals, that other kids were already looking at them with confused expressions etched on their usually smug, rich-kid, faces.
They were talking to her!
The corners of her mouth turned upwards in barely containable titillation.
Her voice came out raspy due to her suddenly dry throat. "H-hi! How-"
"We've been trying to get your attention for forever." They suddenly say, catching her off guard.
Forever? She had just looked down for a moment or two. What did they mean by forever?
"W-wha-?" She started, looking between the two of them, confused.
"It's Kitty? Right?..."
The sound of her name coming out of one of their mouths, rolling off his tongue with that angelic voice made her shiver with delight.
"...What a stupid name."
If it was possible for a human being's physical form to shatter with calamity, that's what would've happened to Kitty.
"...Why would your parents name you that?"
"... Now Hikaru, don't be so mean, it's obvious they hate her, but it's rude to say so."
She felt a familiar feeling of embarrassment creeping into her chest.
"They don't hate me..." She trailed off, looking away from their piercing stares.
One of them scoffed a bit at her actions.
"Why do you always have food on your face?"
Huh?
She looked back up at them, unsure of which one asked that particular question.
"I have...food on my face?"
"All the time. It's really annoying."
Her eyebrows furrowed as she slowly reached up to touch her face. Although how would the contents on her face be annoying to them?
She felt nothing on her face so she looked at them questioningly.
"W-where?"
They both rolled their eyes at the exact same time, unknowingly mirroring eachother's actions. How do they do that?
Before she could react, they both reached forward and firmly wiped her bottom lip with their thumbs.
When they made contact with her face, she was immediately frozen in place. She didn't blink and she didn't breath, she was much too afraid to even move, fearing that this moment would disappear. And soon as it sank in that the twins were actually touching her, their touches were already gone.
Her lips still tingled from the sensation of their thumbs.
Still in her comotose state, she didn't realize that the twins had moved to either side of her and sat on the swings.
"Yo, piggy. Come back to earth."
She blinked.
"It's nice to meet you!" She suddenly squeaked, looking to the twin on her right side, then to the twin on her left. "I'm honored!"
The boys both shared a silent look behind the flustered girl before looking back at her.
"Stop being a spaz." The one on her left voiced, annoyance clear in his tone.
Kitty pouted a bit at him but smiled soon after because she couldn't stay mad at him. Look at that cute face!
"What's with your hair?"
She turned to look at the twin on her right.
"What's wrong with it?" She asked, unaware of her face puffing into a pout.
"It looks like you have a porcupine on your head."
Kitty froze and relayed his comment in her mind for a moment before giggling softly and it surprised even her, when her giggled suddenly turned into un-lady-like guffaws.
In all her years of being bullying, she's never heard such a funny remark. She almost fell over a few times due to her clutching her stomach, eyes shut tight, and rocking back and forth.
"Are you laughing at us?"
Her laughter came to a screeching halt.
"No! Of course not! Never! I just thought what you said was funny!" She snorted again, rubbing her teary eyes with the bottom of her palms. "Porcupine!" She repeated, with a wide smile. "That was a good one."
They both stared at her absolute confusion, furrowing their eyebrows.
"You're not going to cry?..."
"...or run away?"
She seemed alarmed. "No! I would never run away from you!"
The declaration held so much confidence, they didn't particularly know he to respond to it.
Their brows furrowed even deeper indenting their perfect, cute faces as studied her for a moment, while she gradually became bashful under their stares, and the tense, awkward silence.
Kitty twiddled her thumbs, "S-so..."
She started, attempting to make conversation. "Which twin is which?" The question was innocent enough as she turned her head to the side in an inquiring gesture. Although for some reason, something tingled in the back of her head, for she felt as if she shouldn't have asked her that for some reason, she just couldn't think of 'why'.
She didn't mean for the question to hit a nerve, she had only wanted to refer to them by their own names, in fact, the question just timbled out of her mouth. She thought that they would both appreciate her efforts.
Their eyes seemed to narrow mischievously at her in response.
"Why don't you guess?" They suddenly say.
Oh no.
She'd made a mistake.
That's why she felt as if she'd immediately done something wrong the moment she had asked that stupid question!
She should have known not to bring something like that up!
She can't tell them apart! No matter how much she watched them, she doesn't have the slightest idea of which one is Hikaru and which one was is Kaoru.
Kitty flushed red and looked between the two boys on either side of her.
"Um... D-do I have to?" A nervous laugh escaped her mouth as sweat started to trickle down the side of her face.
"You want to be our friends, right?" The one on the right, inquired.
"Then you have to tell us..."
"... Which one is Kaoru?"
"...and which one is Hikaru...?"
She gulped.
She really didn't want to just guess, because she'd knew she'd get it wrong.
She wished she knew.
"Um..." She started weakly.
With a trembling hand, she pointed to the one on the left. "T-this one is... Kaoru?"
Be positive! Be positive! Maybe she was lucky? Maybe she had guessed it-
"Wrong."
"You got it wrong."
Kitty's eyes suddenly stung, and her bottom lip quivered as a rush of emotions went through her.
She had failed the test.
Her world suddenly came crashing.
There goes her chance.
"She's about to cry again."
"What is with this girl?"
"Should we do something?"
"... Yo, Piggy."
It was too late. Kitty was too busy being ashamed of herself, as she slid off of her swing and sank into the sand below her.
"What kind of friend would I be if..." She trailed off, with a voice so low that she didn't even sound like herself. She sounded more like she was talking to herself rather than the two boys looking down on her pitiful display.
The Hitachiin twins looked at each other unsure of how to approach the situation, they only made slight facial expressions almost as if they were having a conversation without even exchanging words.
They never met a kid who reacted quite like this when they lost their little game. Sure a lot of them were sad, but they were only sad when one of them said a scathing comment either about their appearance, intelligence, ect... But they've almost insulted everything about this girl and nothing seemed to seriously effect her. Not enough for her to run away.
And then ther was that moment when she almost took their places in being sent to the principles office, the other day.
Even though it was most of her fault...
Not in the eyes of sensei, apparently.
But she didn't have to pin the blame all on herself and she did.
How stupid of her.
Who would try and save two kids, she didn't even know?
Either she was thick-skinned or just really not smart. And it was probably the latter.
However, she looked absolutely pathetic as she stuck her head in the sand and shook spastically, in an almost comedic way.
Was she trying to drown herself in the sand?
"Um..." One of the twins approached, prepared to tap her shoulder or something just to snap her out of it.
They saw the muscles of her back suddenly twitch and she popped her head out, sand debris flying everywhere.
"ONE MONTH!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, catching the attention of almost everyone on the playground, most onlookers stopped their games to gape at the unlikely trio.
Hikaru and koaru yelped in bewilderment at her abrupt actions.
She turned back at them red-faced, her hair full of sand and gray eyes full of uncharacteristic determination,"Just please, please, PLEASE, give me one month to hang around you! Get to know you! Just for one month! That way, I can study you, a-and figure out which twin is which. Then at the end of the month you can ask me again!" She put her head down for the last of her declaration. "P-please... Just let me into your world... For just one month...?"
Speechless, was the only way to describe what the twins felt at this moment.
This... girl.
Hikaru clenched his fists as he eyed the thick girl up and down and grinded his teeth. Who did she think she was? Asking for such things...
Suddenly a hand just like his own clamped onto his. It was gentle but firm and it made Hikaru relax considerably.
He turned to look at his brother who was giving him this... Look.
It was unexplainable, the way Koaru was looking at him. But it made him look back at Kitty, her eyes were big and round.
Were they always so big? He thought. He must have missed that, too distracted by the more dominant features about her, obviously.
He was going to regret this.
"Just one month."
Three years later.
"So where are you guys taking me, again?"
"Away from here." Hikaru stated, pulling on her wrist, not looking back at her as he said this.
"They'll never find us where we're going." Kouru actually looked back at her as he said this, holding her other hand, rather than gripping her wrist like his brother had chosen to do. "Don't worry Kitty. We'll be okay."
"The three of us." Hikaru finished with certainty.
Kitty nodded at him, a smile playing at her lips.
Telling the twins that she was running away was probably the best decision she'd ever made. She had originally planned to merely go to their place, before she left, already packed, and tell them goodbye.
She wanted to get away from everything plaguing her miserable life.
She wanted out.
It was all so unfair.
Where would she go?... She'd figure it out when she got there. But there was one thing she had to do before she left, and that was say goodbye to her best friends.
Although, in hindsight, she should have known that they would've reacted as if she wanted to intentionally leave them, so they protested her leaving.
She argued that there was nothing left for her here in Japan. No daddy. No mommy. And soon to be no home. She didn't want to go to Los Angelas, with her real mom, someone who didn't even want her.
She wanted... She didn't know what she wanted.
Running away seemed like such a good idea in her head.
They asked her where she was going and she said she didn't know.
They asked her where she would live, and she said the circus.
They asked her what she would eat, knowing her love for food being particularly strong and she was proud to declare that she had made cakes and packed it in her bookbag.
They rolled their eyes and asked her what she would eat, when her food supply runs out (and it would run out quickly).
She said she didn't know. Then she proceeded to cry helplessly.
They both got angry with her, and argued that she was absolutely clueless and Hikaru quoted her on her words that she would never run away from them and called her a liar.
Then she proceeded to cry harder.
Koaru hugged her and told her that it simply wasn't a good idea to leave like this.
Kitty shook her head and told them that it was either she leave now or she would be taken away to live with her mother somewhere far from here.
So the twins looked at eachother and both decided that they would come with her.
The twins themselves felt ignored in their own home. Their mother was always gone, as well as their father who only saw them yearly and they both couldn't even tell them apart. They felt neglected.
It was as if their parents weren't there either, so they understood her.
The servants didn't particularly like them because of their pranks and their rambunctious behavior and they were fine with that. They didn't care what people thought of them.
But the only person who truly cares about them on a deeper level, and enjoyed spending time with them both equally, was leaving. And they would probably never see her again.
So they would go with her. So they both packed their bags full of things they thought were valuable, which led to them all bickering about what was important and what was not.
Kitty's bag was full of food and a small flashlight, while Hikaru's was full of of video games and his game console, as well as half of the objects that filled up his room, Kaoru's bag was full of posters, gallons maple syrup, and blankets (in case they got cold).
As if they would just let her walk out of their lives. She was important to them, and they were important to her. Besides its not like anyone would miss them.
They had travelled along the road for a while on bike. Hikaru was riding it/steering it (seeing as he's the only one who knows how to do so), Koaru clutching onto his brothers back for dear life, while either of his two feet stand on the bikes convieniantly placed parts, and Kitty rode in the front almost sitting on the handle bar, wearing a red helmet, and feeding peices of cake to the two brothers as a show of gratitude.
They happily took the cakes as she popped them in their mouths, and carefully poured some water into Hikaru's mouth, claiming that it was good to stay hydrated, as her daddy used to say.
It was definitely a hard feat for Hikaru, due to his brother's and Kitty's extra weight, and all the three of their stuffed book bags on the bike along with him.
So they went at a slow rate, especially up the hills.
He had never worked so hard in his entire life. And is unsure of how he was able to do it, maybe it was the fact that Kouru and Kitty were cheering him on.
Sadly, the bike's front tire eventually flattened due to the road having shards of glass all on the ground and they all lurched forward but managed to not land in the glass.
So now they were walking along side a road and a forest.
Where were they going?
The twins had no idea.
Koaru opted to carrying his brother because of all the hard work he had done to get them as far as he did but Hiksru declined claiming that the heavy bags were enough for each of them.
They pulled Kitty along because she was breathing heavily and she kept stopping to take a break.
She felt ashamed of herself. Because of her weight, she grew more troubled about it everyday. Now it was holding them all back from reaching salvation.
But she stayed strong for their sake.
Because she cared for them.
Because she loved them.
Koaru looked back at her worriedly as she wheezed and sweat a bunch down her dress.
"Kitty do you need to take another break?"
"No, no, I'm fine. We gotta keep moving."
Koaru frowned and looked to his brother, who was looking back at Kitty, masking just how worried he was as well, for their dear friend.
"Hikaru..." Koaru whispered to his brother. "I don't know how much she can take, where are we going?"
Hikaru furrowed his brow and looked down. He was silent for a long time, only the sounds of their shoes scraping against the gravel of the road.
It was getting dark, and it was also
getting hard seeing the cars coming towards them. Which was not good.
"I-I'm... Not sure." He says after a while.
At that moment Kitty fell to her knees and started coughing.
The twins rushed to her her side and pulled her by her arms, more towards the side of the road to be safe.
They sat her against a big tree and looked her over, asking her if she was okay.
She started crying again and apologized for being so useless.
"That's enough! You're not useless, Kitty!"
"You're our friend!"
Kitty choked a bit and smiled. She looked between the two of them on either side of her and entangled her fingers with theirs, to which they immediately gripped her hands, as she gave them a small squeeze.
They fell into a silence, all in their own thoughts about certain things.
"Guys... I think we should go back."
"But they're gonna move you away..."
"...and we'll never see you again..."
Kitty sniffed, helplessly.
"How about we just live in the woods and live off the land like native Americans..." She joked as she gestured to the darkening woods behind her.
Despite bleak circumstances, the twins chuckled at her little joke.
"Yeah we'll make a family here." Koaru joked, recalling the times all three of them played 'house' in their back yard. "You can be our wife."
Kitty tensed at his words and let out a nervous laugh, with a furious blush on her face. "Of course."
They fell into another silence, unsure of how long they sat there, just contemplating their options.
Koaru suddenly swatted at his neck, thinking for a moment that maybe their was a small fly buzzing around his face, due to the small tickle. But no, as he turned his to his left, he realized that it was just Kitty's hair. Her long, haphazardly styled hair, that covered her eyes most of the time. Which was a shame, considering she had beautiful eyes.
Him and his brother made fun of her hair all the time, and she always laughed at the jokes we came up with. She never took anything to heart. Which was perfect.
Before he could contemplate his next actions, Kouru's hand went towards her and he brushed her hair out of his friend's eyes.
She smiled thankfully at the ground in front of her, acknowledging his random, sweet gesture.
"Kitty..." Koaru suddenly whispered to her.
She turned her head to looked up at him, he only caught a look of confusion before he covered her lips with his own. Warm and gentle.
He was too scared to move them in anyway, it was more like he merely brushed his lips against hers as she was stunned into place.
Hikaru stared at them, his face burning, and raw jealousy coursing through his body.
He selfishly gripped her chin and turned it away from his brother's and towards himself giving her a kiss of his own.
Kitty gasped for a second before it was muffled by his mouth.
Hikaru's was more firm and he was more insistent.
"Hey!" He heard his brother say, as Kitty's lips was then pulled away from his own and on Kaoru's once again.
This time Kouru turned his head a bit and deepens this kiss as much as he could, attempting to imitate what he has seen on TV.
Hikaru quickly shoves his brother back, and grabs Kitty's shoulders and kisses her extremely hard to the point where he almost bends her teeth.
His brother goes the grab the back of her shirt attempting to snatch her away.
At this very moment, Kitty had snapped out of it.
"Mmm-Stop! It!," she snaps away and looks at the both of them, absolutely astonished, "what's happening? A-are you two, trying to mess with me?... C-c-cause that's not nice..."
They look at her equally astonished, more at themselves and at what they've done.
"No."
"We're not trying to mess with you..."
Her face flushed as tears started to spill over. "Yes you are..." She suddenly decided, "You guys are always trying to mess with me!"
They stood up with her.
Hikaru stepped forward. "No! Not this time!"
"Yeah! Kitty, we really like-"
She gasped and covered her ears. "Nonononononononono!"
They tried to talk over her, to explain their feelings of affection, and how they've been fighting over her, behind her back, for quite some time now. But of course, she wasn't attempting to listen.
"You guys can't say things like that unless you really mean it! Don't mess with my mind!" She runs in a circle, closing her eyes tight shut and sticking her fingers in her ears.
"We do mean what we say, what you think we would lie to you? We're your best friends... Your only friends." Koaru moves to grab her arm but she turns away from him and attempts to circle around the opposite way.
She trips over her feet, and almost falls on her face if it wasn't for both of them catching her by the crooks of her arms.
"Would you stop running around like a spaz, and listen to us?!"
She looks at both of them, as they continued hold her arms, keeping her in place. She suddenly sighs, "... I'm sorry... I just didn't expect... Y-you know.."
They both smile with relief.
"You're forgiven Kitty!"
"...but we're not sorry for what we did..."
"...we've been wanting to do that for a while..."
Kitty flushed, unable to latch onto a coherent thought. "...oh..." She whispers, with a nervous chuckle.
It was no question that the Hitachiin brothers were growing more good looking with age. Not to mention taller, which kind of amazed her because, they're actually half an inch taller than her now.
They've been her friends for years, and they would stand up for her when kids attempted to bully her. They would always refuse to be on other people's teams during dodgeball, if they didn't choose her too. They held her while she sobbed for hours, when her parents died.
And in turn, she gave them all her attention. She would bake them cakes, and they would eat it (even though the cakes were usually horrible tasting), she would take care of them when they were sick, even though she would almost always catch their sickness, and end up being sicker than them.
She cared for them more than any other people in this entire world. Even more so now that her parents are gone.
"I love you guys..." She suddenly whispers to herself, her voice breaking.
The boy's eyes widen in surprise and they hugged her tightly. "We love you too."
...
Unfortunately, by the end of the day, the three of them were found sitting against a big tree, sleeping, cuddling up with eachother, and a large blanket covering them up.
The Hitachiin twin's body guards gently carried the three of them were taken to the vehicles, unwilling to wake them up.
The twins woke up in a limo as they were taken home, and Kitty woke up in another limo, alone, and headed to her own home, to her awaiting servants, who stayed behind even after their bosses died to take care of her until she left. Luckily, they still adore the small child as if she was their own kid.
Kitty didn't know what to say when she came home.
So she ran to her nanny and hugged her tight as she cried her eyes out.
"I don't want to go..." She had said between sobs.
Her nanny nodded her head. "I know, sweetie. I know."
Whether Kitty chose to believe it or not, she was a very lucky girl. Even when she is moved away from her only friends, and family, to leave Ouran Academy, to go live with a woman in America, whom she barely knew.
A woman who expected Kitty to call her mom.
What a miserable life. Kittyhad thought. So unfair...
And this is where the story gets interesting.
