Sequel to Would You Believe It? and Don't Leave Me…

Hikauro's POV.

I lay down on the grass that's in my backyard. Our backyard.

"Kauro, do you see that cloud?" I ask my invisible twin. "It looks kinda like a rose doesn't it?"

There's no answer.

I sigh and stand up. "Haha! Like that song you had stuck in your head! Chasing Cars, was it?" I walk toward the house. Now my house, after my mom and dad went to China to get away from all these memories.

"What's so bad about the memories here? I like them. The memories. What do you think Kauro?" I ask to no one. It was true. I did like the memories here. I didn't want anything to drift away.

"Master Kauro?" A butler startled me by calling my name. "Your friend is at the door." And then he left.

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"Hello Tamaki." I welcome my guest into my house.

"Hey Hikauro. What's up?" Tamaki had calmed down through the years. I sometimes missed his overly-hyper state, but I got over it.

"Nothing much. How about you? I heard you're going to finish college next year. Looking forward to it?"

"I guess." he shrugged. Tamaki had turned 22 just last month!

"Any cute college girls?" I asked giving him a cup of tea.

"I don't think I'm over 'her' yet." Tamaki smiled. This 'her' was Haruhi, who had been going out with him for 2 years, but that ended three months ago when the blond found out she was cheating on him with Kyoya. "Why? You want me to hook you up?"

"Haha! No, I'm not looking for a date."

We sit in silence for a while just sipping our tea. It's comfortable silence. No pressure to make conversation. I look up at the older blond. He's been coming over a lot. Probaly cause he lost his best friend. He lost the one person he could trust. The one who could accept him no matter what. Some one who had felt something similar to what I had felt.

"Kauro's been acting strange the past few weeks. Since last month I think."

Tamaki noticed me looking at him and smiled.

"What? Have I gotten more beautiful since the last time we saw each other?" Tamaki raised his eyebrows at the joke and smirked.

"No." I joke back. "Just more ugly."

The golden-haired man stuck his tongue out at me.

There was complete silence for a moment. I thought about the relationship that Tamaki and Haruhi were in for so long. How… close were they?

"Tamaki ,are you a virgin?" I asked bluntly. Tamaki nearly spit out the gulp of tea he had just drank.

"Wh-what?" Tamaki coughed wiping his mouth.

"Have you ever made love to someone?" I asked, just as bluntly.

The blond took another sip of tea, and didn't answer for a full minute.

"…yes…" Tamaki replied between another sip of tea. I wondered if the reason it took him so long to answer was because he was worried about how I would react because he knew I had once been in love with who we were talking about. Once.

"Hmmm…. That's strange," I said jokingly, "I always thought of you as the bottom."

"What?" the other male raised an eyebrow at me.

"Oh, I know how you and Umehito are." I choked back a laugh. "You kids have fun doing your 'thing'." Him and Umehito were really good friends, surprisingly enough. Their friendship started a few years back, and he knew Tamaki better than I did!

The elder smiled at my joke, and choked back his own laugh.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean? I am 100 % top."

"Yea, yea. Whatever."

The blond shook his head and sighed and took another sip of tea.

"Haruhi?" I finally asked.

"…Yea…" Tamaki smiled sadly at his cup.

"How many times did you lose your virginity with her?" I pushed, curious.

"What the Hel…?" he gave me a smiling bewildered look. "I don't count how many times I have sex with someone."

I smiled and laughed. He laughed too. Then complete silence, once more.

And then, out of nowhere, seemed to get as much energy as a six-year-old on crack and jumped out of his seat.

"What is it Tamaki?" I jump back and almost spill my tea.

"I almost forgot!" Tamaki grabbed his bag and began to rapidly search through it.

"Forgot what?"

Tamaki didn't answer for a moment, just kept searching through his bag. I laughed as the blond started to make faces at things that weren't what he was looking for.

"The reason why I came over!" He continued to search.

"Why would you have a reason for coming over?" I smile. "We're friends, right?"

"Right!" a blissful expression exploded on his face as he found what he had been searching for. He pulled two rectangular packages out from his bag. One orange and the other light blue. "And friends give friends birthday presents!" the blond held out the two packages to me.

"Wow. Thanks." I didn't know what to say as I took the light blue in my hands and the orange one on the table. No one had given me a birthday or Christmas present since the accident… or the not-so-accident. Except my parents who had left 1and ½ years ago. "You do realize our birthday is next week, right?"

"I know." The blond took a sip of tea. "But I'm gonna be out of town next week."

I simply nodded and was about to rip the blue paper off, but Tamaki stopped me .

"What are you doing?!" he stole the present from my hands. "Just because I gave it to you early doesn't mean you can open it early!" He placed the package on the table, next to the orange one. I frowned.

We sat there in silence, and then I had an idea. I leaned toward Tamaki and tried to give him the look he gave Haruhi when he asked her out. Surprisingly, it worked.

"Fine. Tear the wrapping off." The older chuckled and slumped in to his seat.

"Yay! Thank you!" I lunged at the blue present and tore the wrapping off it. I found myself holding a rectangular brown box. Just holding it. Not opening it. I stared at it. Then back to the blue one.

"Is something wrong Hikauro?" I looked up at Tamaki's confused face.

"No. I was just thinking." I smile at him to show him that I'm ok.

"Are you okay Hikauro?" Kauro sits on my bed and puts one of his hands on one of my trembling ones. I stare at his golden eyes.

I lift the lid from the box and look inside. Inside, there's a mini-bouquet of light blue roses. Beautiful light blue roses. I lifted them from the box and held them carefully.

"Wow… Thank you soo much Tamaki," I was hypnotized by the roses. Tamaki smiled as he watched me.

"There's something else in the box." Tamaki said and I looked down to see a frame. Just a frame with small circles of orange and blue on it. As I took a closer look, I saw with amazement, that the circles were orange and blue roses. And, at the bottom, my name was carved into it.

"Oh my god…" I mumble. Tamaki's smile looks likes it's going to split his face in two.

"You like it?" the blond takes another sip of his tea.

"Like it?" I raise an eyebrow at him. "I love it! Thank you so much!" I put my presents on the table and jump at Tamaki to hug him. He almost spills his tea, but then laughs and hugs me back.

"I'm glad." Tamaki says into my shoulder, but then eyes something on the table. "What about Kauro's present?"

I get off the older male and glance toward the orange present. "I'll leave it on his bed for him." I walk back toward my seat, across from Tamaki.

"I think Kauro would like it better if you opened it." I turn and face the other boy. My face felt blank.

"Y-you th-think?" I stutter out.

"No. You're not gone. If you were gone, I'd be gone to, right? Right. Cause you're my other half. A person who's missing half of them self can't live right? Right." I cry out and then laugh. And laugh. "So you aren't gone! You're still alive! You have to be!"

"I think he would." he sets down his tea on the table, picks up the orange present, and sets it in my hands. "If you rather I wasn't here, I understand."

I break down and cry. I had gotten the news only minutes ago. That my other half was no longer here. And he was never coming back. Never to smile at me. Never to tease Tamaki. With me again. Never anyone to talk to. Not anymore. No one. There was no one.

"N-no. It's fine." I stutter again as I eye the package in my hands.

I saw neither in the mirror, knowing that I wasn't complete without Kauro. And Kauro wasn't complete without me. I smile and nod, as I remember my dream.

"B-but the present isn't for me."

"I think Kauro wants you to open the present for him."

"Why?"

Tamaki didn't answer my question. He couldn't. How could he?

My hands start trembling as I turn my head back to the orange-papered box. I couldn't. Could I? No. But… No! It's not my gift! So? Kauro knows I would never do anything to hurt him!

"Hikauro!" he cries out in pain and tears as he reached toward my warm body. I hold him in my arms, not saying anything and let him cry. Just cry and cry and cry.

I let my hand hover over the box. I close my eyes, grip the orange paper, and tear it away. I open my right eye to see the fistful of bright paper, and then turn my attention back to the object that's sitting in my hands. I glance back up at Tamaki. He's calmly sitting and sipping his tea.

I let out a small sigh and sit on the chair opposite him. Slowly, carefully, I lift the lid from the box and peer inside. Inside, there was a mini-bouquet of orange roses. I blink and shift them aside to see the same picture frame that was in my blue box. Except, as I look closer, I see that the name Kauro is carved into the bottom of the frame. I blink and smile.

"Thank you Tamaki Suoh."

"You and Kauro are welcome."

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"Look Kauro!" I call softly.

Tamaki had left some time ago and I was now in my room. Our room.

I place the mini-bouquet of blue roses in a glass of water by my bed. And I place the picture frame on the small table by my bed, next to the roses. Now, the picture frame was full. I had placed a picture of the host club from 4 years ago, so that everyone could be in it.

"Do you like Milord's gift?" I ask Kauro. There was no answer.

I prance over to Kauro's bed and place the glass of orange roses on his small table next to his bed. Then, I place his picture frame next to his roses. The empty picture frame.

"We should thank him the nest time we see him."

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"…All that I am All that I ever was

Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see I don't know where Confused about how as well Just know that these things will never change for us at all If I lay here If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world?" I finished singing the song and sighed.

I was once again lying in our backyard. Letting the small blades of grass brush against my exposed skin. I held my right hand away from my body. Palm opened, and then I closed it.

Kauro's POV.

"This may never could fall apart And I'd be your your sense of I be your memory?Can I be your memory?"

I sigh as I lay next to my twin in the grass. I stretched out my left hand to hold his hand. Feeling Hikauro's hand close around mine. It felt so nice… and so empty.

"I love you." I take the last step forward.

"Don't leave me…"

Only to think he will now never know this.

I frown.

"I'm sorry I lied."

"I'm sorry Hikauro…" I say to no one, "I've lied so many times. I'm so sorry."

I need time to think, but I look forward to seeing you in heaven.

"I won't be seeing you in heaven. Cause I promised that I would look after you."

Always know that you will always have me, your other half, watching you. I will keep an eye on you so that you don't have to go through everything alone.

"And in exchange for staying on Earth to look after you, I have to stay on Earth forever, as a ghost."

"Don't leave me…"

"But don't worry Hikauro!" I smile at my unknowing brother. "I made a wish! And God said that he would make it true! Cause everyone gets one wish for their next life or for the people still on Earth once they enter heaven! You want to know what I wished for?"

He opens the host club doors.

Without me.

"I wished that as soon as you got to heaven you would forget me. Forget that you even had a brother! Much less a twin." I grip Hikauro's hand. "So you won't have to be sad about me anymore."

"Don't leave me…"

"I love you Hikauro." I cover my face with my hands.

"Don't leave me…"

"I hope that you can forgive me." I let my tears fall.

"Don't leave me…"

"I love you." I take the last step forward.

"Don't leave me…"

Only to think he will now never know this.

"Don't leave me…"

"I love you."

"Don't leave me…"

"I love you Hikauro."

"Because that's what people do for the people they love." I watch my twin close his eyes as he sings a verse of Memories.

"I may leave you…" Hikauro says hesitantly, "But I'll always come back to you when you need me."

"And you're the one person I love the most in this world." I grasp his hand tighter…

Tears slide down my face as I take one step forward.

…and tighter…

Would you believe it?

…and tighter…

"Don't leave me…"

…and tighter…

"I love you Hikauro." I say right before I fall to sleep.

…and tighter…

"I love you too Kauro."

…and tighter until there's nothing left to hold.

END.