Chapter 2. Hikaru and Kaoru meet up with an old friend from when they were little boys. They also meet new people, however one does not make a good first impression, especially on Hikaru
~First day of Summer~
We got on the train to Karuizowa. We've already booked a room at a pension. Pension Misuzu. We made it to the pension the following afternoon.
"See you later." I wave goodbye to Arai.
"Bye." He drove away. We turned around and went up the steps to the pension. Who we saw surprised us.
"Haruhi?" I say. I'm a bit in disbelief.
"Kaoru, Hikaru, what are you doing here?"
"We came here because Arai invited us. How have you been?" We both hug her while speaking in unison
"I've been great, how have you been?" Haruhi says. We were great friends with her in middle school.
"We've been great." We stop hugging her after we spoke in unison.
"Arai will be so happy to hear you're here." I tell her
"Arai is here too?" She asks
"Yea, but he's staying with his uncle. We came to the pension. Glad we did." Hikaru explained
"I'll say." I agree
"So, what are you doing here?" Hika asked
"Oh, I came here to just get away from it all." She explains.
"Is Ouran really that stressful?" This time I ask her a question.
"Sort of, but I have to stay on top to stay in Ouran."
"Yea." Hikaru says, we understand.
"What happened to your hair?" I ask.
"Some kid put gum in my hair and I cut it all off." She explains.
"That's a shame, you had such pretty, silky hair." Hikaru says. I smirk. He loves her. I punch his arm lightly. "What?"
"You liked her." I tease.
"um, no I didn't." He was starting to blush.
"Then why are you blushing?" He was blushing like mad.
"um, I think, I might be coming down with something." He speaks kind of fast.
"Hika's in love. Hika's in love."
"Shut up, Kao."
"Haha, you only say that because you know it's true." He lowers his head. Probably to hide he's blushing. I smile. I turn to Haruhi, "It's fun messing with him about that."
"You two are insane."
"You should know this, we've been friends since kindergarten." I say. "So, do you need any help?"
"No, I've got it."
"I insist."
"Ok, I need to hang bedsheets."
"Ok." I follow her to the backyard and we both start hanging bed sheets. Hikaru comes out with some drinks after a while.
"Um, Misuzuchi said to bring this out to you guys since you're working so hard. He said I should help too."
"Thanks Hika." We were about to take the drinks when I heard helicopter choppers. It blew the drinks and the tray away. I looked up.
"Haruhi! Despair not! Daddy's come to save you!" Who the heck is this guy? The helicopter lands and the guy gets out and immediately hugs her. "I was so worried. Why didn't you tell Daddy where you were going?"
"Get off me Senpai!" I tap the guy's shoulder.
"Ahem, I think she said for you to get off and leave her alone." He stopped hugging her and looked at me.
"Who the hell are you?" Hikaru was now beside me. "You better have a good reason for hugging her like that, Mister." We both were not happy, but I could tell from Hika's voice that he was worse than me.
"Oh. Sorry, I didn't realize she had cousins that were protective of her."
"We aren't her cousins, we're her best friends. We've known her since we were in kindergarten." We speak in unison. "Now, we asked you, who the hell are you?" We were not pleased with this guy's first impression.
"I am Tamaki Suoh. I consider Haruhi my daughter." His daughter? He's sixteen or something!
"You sound like a real pervert." I say. The rest of his group comes over.
"Hello, you are friends with Haruhi I assume. I'm Kyoya Otori. Tamaki can be a bit overzealous when it comes to Haruhi." Well, he seems creepy. "So, who are you two?"
"I'm Hikaru Hayate."
"Kaoru Hayate."
"You two are twins?" Tamaki asks in amazement. Has he never seen boys who look similar to eachother.
"No, we're just cousins that look similar." I explain. I've been explaining that my whole life it feels. It first started when meeting people in Kindergarten.
~Flashback~
"Ok, students, I am going to call up one student at a time. You just say your name and tell us a little about yourself. Ok, let's start with Miss Aiko." A little girl with long braided blond hair got up. She sounded nervous.
"H-Hello, m-my name is Aiko Ketonaro and I like ice cream and playing with my kitty."
"Very good Aiko. You may sit down." The girl sat down. "Alright. Next we will have Arai." A boy with brown hair on top and darker brown on the back of his head got up.
"Hello, my name is Arai Hoshitono and I like helping my uncle with his produce shop in Karuizowa."
"That is so wonderful Arai. You may sit down." Arai sat down. "Ok. Now Emi come up." A little girl, she was very short. She had very light brown hair.
"Hi, My name is Emi Etsuko and I like strawberries and trees and water." She was too excited.
"I like strawberries too, Emi. You may sit." The overly excited girl sat down "Next is miss Haruhi." A little girl with long brown hair and shiny brown eyes went up.
"I'm Haruhi Fujioka. I like to watch birds fly around." Hmm. She seems nice.
"Birds are so interesting to watch aren't they. You may sit Haruhi." Haruhi sat down. "Next we have Hikaru." My cousin stood up. He went up there. He looks exactly like me.
"I am Hikaru Hayate. I like playing with my cousin and I enjoy being around him."
"Who is your cousin?"
"Kaoru Hayate. I love him like a brother though."
"Oh, I thought you were twins."
"Nope. We are just cousins who look alike. Our Dads are brothers."
"Interesting, you may sit down." He sits back down next to me. I smile and we hold hands. It's true, we consider ourselves twin brothers, though that can never be a reality. Even if my dad were to adopt him. He'd only be half related. "Ok, next we have, oh, Kaoru." I stand up and go up. I am a boy with auburn red hair with golden brown eyes. A mirrored image of Hikaru.
"I'm Kaoru Hayate. I like to pull pranks on people with my cousin Hika and I love to draw and paint."
"Oh, you should make something and bring it in to show the class sometime for show and tell."
"I will be sure to do that." I sit back down. After several minutes we finish the introductions. We have to be in groups of four for making an alphabet book. She put the letters on the board and how to pronounce them. The teacher chose our groups. Luckily I stayed with Hikaru. I also got in the group with Haruhi and Arai.
"So, how are you two related again?" Arai asks.
"Our fathers are brothers." Hikaru explains. "I bet you can't tell the difference between us."
"I can." Haruhi exclaimed.
"Oh really, Which one is Hikaru and which one is Kaoru?" We speak in unison. We like seeing people tell us apart. We didn't really have many friends before kindergarten. We had our other cousins, though they are very distant cousins. They can't tell us apart.
"Hmm, Hikaru is the one with the blue crayon and Kaoru is the one with the orange crayon." She was right.
"Good job. Not even our other cousins can tell the difference. The only ones who can are our dads."
"What about your moms?" Arai asks.
"Oh, they died a long time ago. We weren't even a year old. Kaoru's mother died in a car crash. It was horrible because she didn't die right then and there. She died slowly in the hospital. They couldn't keep her alive. My mother at least had a quick death. She was shot in the head by a robber. I feel bad for Aunt Cloe, hers was torture for her." I saw Haruhi tear up as Hikaru explained.
"I lost my mommy a few months ago. She got very sick and passed away."
"Oh I'm so sorry."
"Don't worry about it. I probably will never get over it but I will remain strong."
"That is so brave of you." Hikaru says. We talked more and more about random stuff. What eachother are like and everything and then our group became friends. Then throughout 1st grade we were best friends. In 2nd grade we were all best friends forever. We spent our whole school days being ourselves. We were there for eachother in middle school. We were crushed when we found out Haruhi was going to Ouran.
~End flashback~
I stopped thinking about the past just in time to be bonked on my forehead.
"Kaoru, snap out of it." I heard Hikaru's voice and I look at Hika.
"What?" I ask. We start going back and forth.
"You were spacing out again."
"I was?"
"Yes." He felt my forehead. "You have a slight fever."
"No, my forehead's just warm from standing outside." I explain. I look around. Only Kyoya is left, I guess everyone else went inside. "Is there anything you need Kyoya?"
"Yes. I want you two to think about something. The missing twins are your age now. They have the same names as you, same description of hair and eyes. Same birthday right? June 9th?"
"Yea." We spoke in unison.
"They were identical twins. Think about it. Isn't that kind of fishy?" He's right. How come it's like that? The twins have auburn hair like us, they have golden eyes like us, they even have the same names as us.
"Kyoya, who stole the twins?" I ask.
"We don't know." He replies.
"What do you mean 'we?"
"My family owns the police force that is searching for the Hitachiin twins."
"So, what your saying is, we are the lost Hitachiin twins?" Hikaru asks.
"That is what I'm assuming. We can get a blood samples later today. It will take a while to get a sample for Mrs. Hitachiin, but you should expect results in a few months, possibly the last few days of summer. If they test positive, then my police force will come. Oh, can I have your address?"
"Um, what do you think Hika?" I look to Hikaru. He's better at decision making than I am.
"Send them to our friend Arai's house. He'll give them to us at school. I know his address. Do you have a notebook?" Surprisingly, Kyoya pulled out a notebook and gave him a page. Hikaru wrote down the address of Arai's house. "Here you go. I don't want our dads seeing it, just in case they test positive, they usually pick up the mail."
"That is a good idea. Now, let's go inside. Everyone else is." We follow Kyoya inside. That boy Tamaki is asking Misuzuchi if there's any vacant rooms and we came in just as we heard the answer.
"I'm sorry boys, but the last vacant room was given to Hikaru and Kaoru."
"Oh great." Tamaki says. "Can we still come over tomorrow?"
"Of course, you are all dashingly hansom young men. You're sure to attract attention to my Pension." Misuzu comes over to Hikaru and me. "Excuse me boys. Could you possibly sweep up the leaves on the deck out back?"
"Sure, ma'am. We'll get right on it." We speak in unison for the umpteenth time. "Jinx, double jinx, triple jinx, fail." We poke eachother's shoulders.
"You two are the weirdest twins ever." Tamaki says. Didn't we explain we are NOT twins, just cousins who look extremely similar?
"Senpai, they are not twins." Haruhi says. She's right.
"Sorry, I forgot." He apologizes.
"Baka. No matter what, we can never be twins, all we can do is pretend." I say. We both go out to the back porch. I grab a broom from the shed. Hikaru is currently looking for garbage bags. I'm standing and waiting for him to come back. Haruhi comes with a basket full of blankets.
"Hey. Where's Hikaru?" She asks.
"He went to find trash bags." I reply.
"Oh. So, how's life been treating you?"
"Great. Everything is just so great."
"Someone's optimistic today. I have no idea how you do it."
"Well, it helps to be reunited with an old friend." I smile. I hear a window open and the sound of something being pushed off. I look and a vase is falling. It's about to fall on Haruhi! "Haruhi!" I quickly move to her and grab her shoulders and we move a few feet. I shield her from any pieces of glass.
"Oh, I am so sorry. Are you two ok?" The girl at the top floor asked.
"Yea, we're good. Are you ok Haruhi?" I say.
"Yes." I stand up and help her up. "That was a close call, wasn't it."
"Yea." I look at the vase. We'll help Haruhi clean that up.
"Oh my gosh, Kaoru you're bleeding."
"huh?" I was bleeding?
"Your cheek." I feel my cheek and pull my hand away. There's blood on my hand now.
"You're right. I didn't even feel it. I'll go get a Band-Aid." I start to walk away, but I hear Hikaru.
"Kaoru!" He grabs my arm and turns me around. "What happened? Why is your cheek cut?" He looked like he was about to cry.
"A vase fell. We're ok. I only have a small cut. It will be an easy fix." His shoulders relax and he hugs me.
"I was so scared something worse happened to you or Haruhi. Don't scare me like that, ok?"
"I'm sorry, Hika. But, uh, my cheek is still kind of bleeding. I need to go take care of it." He stops hugging me.
"Ok. I'll clean up the mess."
"Ok, and I'll be out to help after I clean my cut."
"Ok." I walk away and go inside.
"Misuzu, where's the First-Aid kit?" Misuzu comes over to me.
"What happened?" He asks.
"There was an accident and a vase fell. I shard cut my cheek, but Haruhi's ok."
"That's a relief. I'll go get the First-Aid kit." She walks away. I look out the window. I see Hikaru and Haruhi laughing about something. I smile at them. I wonder if they'll ever become a couple someday. That would be great. I'd be happy for Hika.
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Next time: Arai comes over to deliver some produce from his uncle's shop. The police also come to get some blood samples from Hikaru and Kaoru. A few months pass and we'll find out whether these two identical cousins are identical twins. Will their dads find the blood test results? What will happen if they do?