After school concluded I leapt onto my motorcycle and headed out towards Ouran Private. I pulled into the school and parked quickly in the mainly empty parking lot. Tucking the key to my bike into my pocket, I realized that the small girl sitting on the curb was Katherine. She rushed over to me, crying,
"Hi Kin!! So the twins dyed their hair pink and blue, just to warn you. I actually think you would have enjoyed watching them all be idiots today. Though it's getting annoying and repetitive. I also think that this isn't a real fight. I think that the twins just want something from Haruhi, and she said no, and this is their way of getting what they want. Personally I think that they're just acting like two spoiled kids, who are throwing a temper tantrum. Though I figure that I should just let things play out, and not say anything about it. Oh sorry I'm rambling again aren't I?" As she spoke she was almost jumping up and down with excitement and her stream of consciousness seemed to be just bursting out of her mind and onto her tongue. I laughed softly as she rambled, shaking my head and smiling at her exuberance upon seeing me, and all the thoughts she had randomly chosen to share as soon as I had stepped off my motorcycle. I find that the people who you truly like never cease to amuse you. My reply was measured and calm; I didn't want to excite her further,
"Hi Ellie, just breathe and calm down. That all sounds just about right to me. Those twins are stupid enough to do that. So why are you so hyper today?"
"Oh…well normally I give half of my sugary foods to Mitsukuni at lunch, but today he got left in the cafeteria so I ate twice the amount of sugar then I normally do." Katherine replied, giggling uncontrollably, her eyes dancing. I shook my head again; today should be particularly interesting with Katherine's emotions strung out on sugar. Still I couldn't help chuckling at her sugar induced joy. Turning we walked to the Third Music Room.
Entering the room I realized that there was an absence of girls in yellow dress sipping tea and squealing. The Host Club must be closed… By this point Katherine had relaxed enough to say to me quietly,
"Oh, sorry Kin it looks like the club is closed from the fighting." In front of us the twins were launching random objects at each other and shouting incoherently. I almost choked when I saw them; this was just too much, the brothers battling like a pair of 2 year olds over a piece of candy. On top of the giant pile of stuff the twins were hurling at each other sat Mitsukuni, clutching his stuffed animal. Katherine and I remained by the door, neither of us much wanting to get sucked into the fray. Finally, a pained looking Tamaki exclaimed,
"After going this long, haven't you gotten over it yet? You brothers are putting us out!"
"We're putting you out?! We're putting you out, you say?!" demanded Hikaru. I couldn't help losing some of my mirth at that statement. As much as I didn't really like the Host Club, it was clear that these brothers were purposefully disrupting it and ruining the afternoons of everyone around them for their own personal gain. It was arrogant and unfair and I doubted that the twins were actually fighting anyways. Hikaru continued flapping his stupid lips, "You've got to be kidding! I'm the one who's put out! I'm the one who's got the same face as Kaoru. I'm sick and tired of being mistaken for you! The truth is I hate your guts!" At this I could see Katherine visibly twitch, her face darkened with rage. I was furious as well, but I knew that this wasn't the time to be hurting the twins; it would only make matters worse. I pressed my hand down on Katherine's shoulder, willing her to be calm and not attempt to hurt them. Strange as it sounds, although I get angry much more often than Katherine I am actually better at controlling my anger than her. My temper reacts so quickly on a daily basis that I have long reined it under control, showing just enough emotion but always remaining cold and calculating at my center. Katherine was almost always hiding her true emotions, holding them within her, that when they did reach a boiling point she was almost incapable of holding them back. Each of us had strong emotions; we just dealt with them in opposite ways. She kept her anger and frustrations within, meaning she always appeared collected and generally happy. It earned her many friends and people gravitated towards her in response. However, when she did exploded it was not just a wave of fire, it was an inferno. I showed my anger and frustrations, spouting them out and releasing them, meaning almost everyone saw me to be temperamental and unpredictable. But at my center I was completely cold, my inferno had been so gradually released over time that I was incapable of exploding like Katherine could.
When I tuned back into the fight and out of my internal conversation with myself Kaoru was writing on the back of curse doll. Katherine had covered her face with her hair, trying to hide her anger.
"From here on, you're going to meet with lots of misfortune and sorrow!" Kaoru exclaimed. I growled softly, this fool didn't know what he was tampering with. Katherine was almost trembling at this point, if these imbeciles didn't stop this she was going to combust and that wouldn't be good for anyone.
"Enough already!!" Haruhi, Katherine and I screamed this together, each of our voices infused with rage and impatience. Katherine and I dealt searing glares at the twins while Haruhi slapped each of them on the head. Haruhi exclaimed,
"You don't go bringing something like this into a simple fight! You are both to blame for this fight, but you're even more to blame for bringing in everyone around you with it! Now say you're sorry! If you don't make up right now, then I'll never let you come over to my house as long as I live!"
As realization shot into my mind that going to Haruhi's house was the only reason for this fight I fight Katherine sag against me as if she was going to collapse.
"Then if we do make up, Haruhi, we can come over to your house right?" The twins said in perfect unison. I covered Katherine's ears with my hands; I was not going to allow this fools to work her up into a state of uncontrollable fury.
"Oh god, you stupid twins save that for your fan-girls." I muttered to myself. I would have gone over and screamed at them myself but Katherine was more important. She was now sitting on the floor, her face haggard, looking worn to the bone. I was happy to hear Mitsukuni yelling at the twins, their reply made me clench my fists though,
"Well, we were bored."
"Twins with too much free time are the devil," proclaimed Tamaki. I rolled my eyes at the supposed king attempting to produce some kind of message from this useless escapade. The only moral I saw here was that the twins were lieing fools. The impartial part of me was moderately impressed at the lengths they would go to get what they wanted, the emotionally part of me was irritated that Katherine becoming so angry had made her fall asleep.
I returned to the host club the next day to find the twins back to their old tricks.
"Okay, let's play the 'Which one is Hikaru game'!" This was absurd; the twins had obviously changed hair color since yesterday.
"The one with the pink hair is Hikaru." One of the girls answered.
"We have a winner!" I scowled at that response; the twins were clearly trying to confuse their identities even more. They didn't want to be seen as two separate people, probably because for most of their lives they had been seen as one single identity. The twins didn't know how to be different people from one another, and they didn't seem to want to be. They liked having a world of uniquely different people separate from their world in which they were identical and only they understood one another.
"You may have made up, but your hair will still stay that way for a while, huh? Still, I'm glad it's easier to tell now." One of the girls said insipidly. Happily Haruhi put them straight,
"No it isn't. Today the pink one is Kaoru, and the blue one is Hikaru. You've swapped colors, huh?" After this statement Katherine and I couldn't resist adding in,
"Yeah they used temporary dye. Otherwise they wouldn't have been able to switch. You two should give up this lame game." We spoke in unison, smiling at each other. We had dyed our hair with the temporary dye before… though I had caused the hair dye tube to have a minor explosion, which then got on the wall…. So we haven't done it since. Haruhi then walked away, with Katherine and I following her.