Chapter 2
There are two to kiss and to two to hug,
and best of all there are two to Love, with all my heart!
~Unknown
(Hikaru POV)
That's when a rough wind suddenly came out of nowhere and blew my hoodie off.
I hissed in a breath in surprise, and Kaoru's eyes expanded to double the size.
That was it!
I was prepared for everything. I had been laying awake all night and thought about all the possible reactions my (possibly) brother would make when he saw me for the first time: Surprise, fright, horror, disappointment, joy, happiness, maybe even confusion or shock.
But I never imagined him tripping backwards and hitting his head into the pole I had just saved him from seconds ago. Thereafter he passes out on the street without as much as a sentence spoken-
Wait what? say again?
"H-hey!" I stuttered shocked, crouching to the ground next to his unconscious body. I opened and closed my hands in panic, not sure if I should touch him or not. "Hey! K-Kaoru, right? Wake up!" I hesitantly poked him on the forehead, watching his head swing back and forth limbless.
I cursed a little under my breath, looking around frantically, but the streets were dark and deserted. Not a single person to help me out of this. Should I just leave him there? It wasn't that cold; he could surely survive the night. I bit my lip, before letting out another swearword.
"You're growing soft, you freaking idiot," I whispered to myself, before slowly swinging Kaoru's arm around my shoulder and lifting him up. He was heavier than I thought and I tripped around for a bit, gathering balance, before I started walking down the street.
I didn't take one step without cursing myself, this Kaoru-guy and the higher powers – who clearly hated me.
And that statement was soon concurred when the first drop of rain hit my nose.
"Wha-" I began, looking up at the dark clouds above, soon feeling another drop of damned liquid hit my forehead. My teeth gritted. "You got to be joking, right? Can't a guy catch a break here!" I complained loudly, almost losing hold around Kaoru as I kicked a stone in anger.
I started walking faster, almost half-dragging Kaoru's feet along the sidewalk. My breath caught in my throat in exhaustion after only a while. I really had to smoke less than two packs a day.
Soon it was pouring down with cascades of rain. Not the light misty kind, or the harsh windy kind, but the huge wet drops that soak you to the bone in an instant.
I wandered the streets quickly, knowing it like the back of my hand even blinded in the close cascades of rain and I soon found shelter under an old bridge. I shivered uncomfortably once out of the storm, I was so soaked that my clothes slicked to my body as an extra layer of skin, and my hair dripped raindrops down my cheeks and hung in my eyelashes.
I used my last energy to curse the last swearwords out of my mouth, before placing my unconscious mirror-imaged at the side of the bridge and dropping wearily down by his side. I bent my head backwards to rest on the cold bricks, feeling the cold mist float from my lips and closed my eyes for a moment.
"Wh-where-" I heard Kaoru stutter and opened my eyes slowly. Of course he would wake when I already had carried him across town.
"You're really heavy, did you know?" I mumbled half-heartily. His eyes fluttered wide open, staring at me like a huge question mark. He opened his mouth to speak, his golden orbs flickering over me repeatedly.
"Y-you-" he chopped through the words,+ and I nodded with an amused expression. He flung a hand through his wet hair, staring at me like I was an alien.
"I know. I look exactly like you. I find it pretty creepy too," I mumbled.
"I- I found you!" he exclaimed, taking me by surprise, but then I coughed into my fist to gather myself. "You're my brother! Hikaru, right?"
"Um," I murmured dumbstruck. "I, well, guess."
"I'm so happy to see you!" he whispered, still in shock. "I have been looking everywhere. Believe me, but then I got a hint from one of my friends that he saw me in this town, and I wasn't near it. So I thought that it could only be you, and now I found you. You're actually here!"
I just stared at him while his mouth runned wild.
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(Kaoru POV)
It was really Hikaru! My brother – twin even, it seemed. He was staring at me, looking both stunned and confused, but not repulsed. That was a good thing. I guess I had already failed the first impression, but I could still make up for that.
"So, I thought you would come with me home," I told him, restraining myself from pulling him into a hug in my excitement. I had always wanted a brother, someone that I could tell things that no one else would understand, to share my dreams. My house was so lonely when it was just me. My friends were great, but I would absolutely adore a relative and here he was. Soaked and confused, but he was there.
"Home? With you?" Hikaru asked, looking at me like I had just asked him a very hard math question.
"Well, yeah, we're family," I smiled.
"Um," he murmured, reaching into his pocket and retrieved a pack of cigarettes. "I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm … fine… with seeing you and all, but I have absolutely no intentions of living with you."
My smile dropped. "What?"
He wrinkled his nose in disdain when he saw that his smokes were as soaked as himself, but then turned toward me with a sigh. "I like things as they are. I like my current home."
"Can I live with you then?" I immediately asked, not giving up. His eyebrows furrowed, for a moment he just eyed me, and I watched the water run from the edges of his hair and down his chin.
"No."
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(Hikaru POV)
"Of course you can live with us!" Tamaki exclaimed, more in shock than agreement.
"WHAT!" I spat. My eyes narrowed in anger, and I shot Kaoru an angry glare, but he just sends me a huge grin. I pouted demonstratively. He had been following me the whole way home, not even blinking twice when I threatened to beat him up, even when I started running away he just followed along – turns out the guy are in pretty good shape.
"Come on Hikaru," Tamaki said, leaping an arm around my so-called-brother. At first the blonde had almost fainted when he saw Kaoru with the same face as mine, almost throwing a fit, but then he had seen our different clothes and immediately seen the difference - and Kaoru had explained that he was my "long lost brother" and bla bla bla. So. Now Tamaki just smiled at Kaoru like they were old friends. "He's like a puppy. Look at his cute face."
Kaoru gave him a weird look, but then just smiled.
"It's the same as mine!" I complained.
"Somehow his is cuter," Tamaki corrected me. I pouted and angrily passed him – bumping my shoulder into his on the way, to show how much I appreciated the idea.
Maybe I forgot to tell. I live with that blonde nut-head. It was cheaper to share rent, so I allowed him to share with me, but I had done nothing but regret it.
"Don't worry, he just needs to sulk a bit," I heard Tamaki tell Kaoru and violently slammed my door behind me. Shaking the whole apartment. Sulk? I didn't sulk! Who did he think he was to tell Kaoru that kind of things?
I grabbed my headphones and blasted my ears off with the loudest music I could find on my Ipod. I closed my eyes and drifted into my own little bubble of music. That's when that person appeared in my mind, as always. It was always like this, I only wanted that one person at times like these, to care for me when no one else bothered.
Poke.
I fung my eyes open in shock when something touched me. Kaoru jumped back in surprise, forming words rapidly, but I couldn't hear anything with my headphones on.
"What?" I asked, pulling the devices off.
"-and I just- oh, you didn't hear me. I just said, sorry for startling you," he told me.
"Go away!" I demanded, pointing at the door angrily. He looked hurt, and I almost felt bad. Almost. Tamaki was right; he looked like a puppy – a face I probably couldn't mirror no matter how alike we looked.
"You know, you're being pretty unfair," Kaoru told me, making me rise an eyebrow in question. Kaoru looked outraged. "I just found you, after looking forever, and now you're just ignoring me?"
"I'm sorry I wasn't how you hoped," I snapped. Kaoru's arms crossed in a quick movement and his eyes narrowed.
"I'm sorry I wasn't how you hoped," he snapped back. I widened my eyes in surprise.
"Are you mimicking me?"
"Are you mimicking me?"
"That's so immature!"
"That's so immature!"
"Stop it!" I rose to my feet.
"Stop it!" Kaoru said and stepped closer to me.
"I mean it!" I said, lifting a finger.
"I mean it!" he said, lifting a finger as well.
"If you don't stop. Right now-" I spat.
"I will punch my fist through your skull," Kaoru ended.
Silence.
When he realized what he had said his eyes widened to double size – and so did mine, actually I probably looked more shocked than him; because that was exactly the threat I had had planned in my head.
"H-how did you-?"
"-finish your sentence?" he ended, looking as shocked as I felt.
"Q-quit it!" I said half-heartily, still taken aback. "How do you do that?"
"Um, twin-thing," he suggested. I let out a mock-laugh until I realized he was serious.
"That's insane," I stated, but he just looked at me without a word. "I'm going to bed."
"Yeah, me too." Kaoru whispered, but then he suddenly realized something. "Um, where can I sleep?"
I immediately tensed. "Ask Tamaki, he's the one who invited you."
"Could I-"
"Don't even think about it!"
"You don't even know what-"
"I guess I do have the twin-thing, and you're not sleeping in my room!"
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(Kaoru POV)
"Hikaru Hitachiin!" the teacher yelled, slamming a hand onto his table. His eyes jumped open and he let out a pained groan and straightened in his chair. I wince slightly, the whole class broke out in laughter. I had tried to wake him repeatedly, but he had been so far into slumber that it had been an impossible task.
He didn't seem bothered though; he just ignored the giggles and yawned loudly, stretching his arms far across the table like a cat. Did he really not care about what others thought of him – that could be a good thing, but it could also make him seem extremely antisocial.
Hikaru had allowed me to go to school with him – no that's wrong, I just went along anyway. But he had demanded that I wore a cab, glasses and one of his black hoodies, that smelled of smoke by the way. Because, and I quote, "he didn't want anyone to know he had a brother, because people talk."
I didn't get it, but I just went along anyway.
"Hikaru," I whispered, and he made a lazy movement toward me.
"Oh, it wasn't a nightmare, you're still here," he mumbled.
I pouted slightly, but shook the insult off quickly. "You dropped your pencil, over there." I pointed to where it had ended on the ground. He mumbled something under his breath before bending down toward it.
But suddenly another hand bent down after it too. Hikaru almost exclaimed a yelp in surprise when he looked at the person in front of him. I tilted my head slightly by the rare sight.
"Here," the girl said and handed him the pencil, which she had gotten to first.
"T-thanks," Hikaru stuttered, not keeping his eyes off her face. She nodded at him and turned back to pay attention to the teacher. Hikaru did the same, but his head was deeply lowered to hide the red color that was painting his cheeks.
I was stunned.
I had never thought he could show those emotions – he didn't seem like the type after how much I had learned about him. Somehow my chest ached a little. I might sound selfish on this one, but I had actually hoped to get a good brother relationship with Hikaru – a girlfriend would ... get in... the way. NO! What was I saying? That wasn't my business to mess with!
Kaoru get to your senses! Hikaru has the right to fall in love with whomever he wants. That was absolutely none of my concern. Right?
I don't think anyone who know Ouran don't know who the girl is. xD
ANSWERING-TIME:
aliisa-chan - (lol, thanx. I'm happy that you think they're at least A LITTLE in character. hehe. And yeah, Hika threatened a random kid for money, poor person. xD)
GoPlayInTrafficxox - (I know right? I'm stunning myself with this update-rythem. You want to know the worst thing? I have tons of exsams and I'm just sitting and writing my stories in class. LOL! Who needs math I have HikaKao. xD And thanks for liking my cliffys, there will be lots more. ^^)
lotlot - (yes, Hikaru is definitely judgmental. But he is also very self-centeret and thinks he knows everything, that's why he believes he know what everyone thinks, when he doesn't. lol! And yeah, partners in crime, that could be a cute and yet very hot picture. ^_O)
wishIwereanime - (Oh, this won't be the last cliffhanger and if I'm following my current thought they'll be worse. hehe. ^^ And Of course I'll update for you. : D)
ADeadBlackRose - (thank you. : D Hope you'll stick around with me. ^^)
KuroPika X - (Well, who needs physics anyway, right? haha. ^^ I don't know if I should feel bad for making you skip your studying, or totally triumphant that I won over your teacher. :D And I have been there... the awkward biology class, you can learn much more about that stuff if you find the right stories on fanfic. LOL! ^_O thanks for reading as always. :D)
MusicMixerGURL - (glad you likey. ^^ and I did make a chapter 3, it's right above this. ^^)
lillygien - (Sorry for cutting it off, but if you knew my style, you would know that that's what I do. hehe. ^_^ But nooo, I broke your heart, so you want a bandage for that? O_O hehe, anyway, I love you already and hope you'll stay with me on future chapters. *kisses right back*. :D)
OuranFire - (Yeah, poor Hikaru was betrayed by his hoodie. lol. ^^ haha, you made me laugh so much with the "swag"-Hika, that looks so hilarious in my head. oh my god I'm dying in laughter. xDD Glad you like merry little Kaoru. And I don't know why, but I have started to write Tamaki as the best friend in a lot of my HikaKao stories lately, dunno why. xD haha)
Hikaru-and-Kaoru-Love - (Thanx for the love. ;) I hope I can make you go even CRAZIER in the future. hehe. ^_O)
Midnight Custard - (Well in the future Kaoru will... wait! I won't tell you! You have to read. :D Lol, sorry, I have such bad humor, hehe. ^^ And I promise I wont make Kaoru too much of a wimpy-loser. Yell at me if it happens. haha)
