Welcome back to another insert of Child Development!
Hinata: Will you quit introducing the chapters? You're starting to get on my nerves.
Me: Hinata, if I don't give these little introductions, then how else am I supposed to give shout outs to the people who review?
Hinata: I don't know...who cares. I just want you to quit procrastinating.
Me: Great! Now you sound like my mother!
Hikaru: Wifey, quit being a pest. Go ahead and continue...
Hinata: Why I oughta...
Me: Thank you Hikaru, ahem, I just wanted to thank all of the people who have been reviewing so far. My confidence has been boosted. I don't know there's just something about random strangers giving me compliments XD
Hikaru: Now your babbling. Get on with it.
Me: How rude...sigh Well anyway, here goes chapter 4. Enjoy!
Hikaru and Hinata: FINALLY!
Me: Closes a curtain before kicking Hikaru and Hinata's butts
Dear Diary,
You know how they say that things get better with time? Well...that's bull shit. That is putting it delicately. Hikaru apologized to me...so why aren't things getting any better? Monday...He put gum in my hair! How childish can you get! So now, my hair is short. To support me, Hikari cut her hair short too. I hate it, anytime there is a breeze my neck is cold. Tuesday, he touched my butt. I almost killed him. It took the entire Host club to hold me back. It's fourth period right now,almost lunch time...a Wednesday...they aren't so bad. Today has been...strangely good actually. Hikaru hasn't said a word to me. When he sees me busy with my work, he'll take care of the baby. I don't know what's wrong with him. Normally he'll walk into school acting like he owns the place. Today though...he was quiet. Like he's been thinking or something...
"Hinata, can I talk to you?" Hikaru says as the bell rings signaling the end of the period. I tilt my head slightly to the side. "You know..speaking, are we still talking or not?"
"Yeah, I just don't understand why you would want to talk to me since apparently i'm a piece of meat."
"I told you, that was an accident." That's what they all say. I mentally growl. It would be a little strange if I growled out loud. "Did you just growl at me?" Shit. I mean dang!
"No, you must have hearing problems, but sure. I guess we can talk." He looks into my eyes. Searching for an answer maybe?
"Alright, you don't mind going out to the garden do you? It's a lot more quiet there." I nod and collect my things into my bag and pick up the diaper bag. Hikaru picks up the baby seat. We walk until we're away from people and we sit down at a bench.
"So what do you need to talk to me about?" I look at him in the eyes. This seems to intimidate him slightly. Good. We may be under a truce, but I don't like being the inferior one...ever.
"Well...uh I've been thinking a lot lately. I've been thinking about what you told me Saturday, about why you hate me." I nod and he takes this as a signal to go on. "Well...I've been thinking and well...what if...maybe we're both...afraid of something."
"What do you mean afraid?" I don't have to fake being interested in what he has to say. A part of my mind is really itching to know what he means.
"Well...you and I both have twins...we could possibly feel threatened by each other. We're afraid that since...we get along with each other's twin, we could possibly lose them."
"What you're saying actually does make sense in a way...so you're saying we feel threatened by each other so we're vial to keep each other away?" He looks at me and smiles slightly.
~Super Hikaru POV!~
The way her eyes lit up when she finally understood made my heart skip a beat...which honestly frightens me. I shouldn't be having feelings like that. It...it doesn't make any sense. We're threatened by each other. We...we don't like each other. We're only just now becoming friends how can I be having feelings like THAT. It's irrational. Or maybe you're just afraid to admit that you masked your feelings for Hinata as hate...it's been done before. Oh great, it's you again. Look, that was just a natural reaction because she's pretty. I don't like her like that. I'm only interested in being her friend. How could she like me anyway? If you don't like her like that then why would you think that last part? I hate you. Why do you always try to make me second guess myself. I'm not making you second guess yourself. That's your own doing. If you were as big an idiot as Hinata thinks you are, you'd be ignoring me right now and not trying to fix this. Now, do you remember what we were talking about earlier? Yes...but how do I bring it up? That's your own problem, I only know just as much as you do. I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. Shut up, your starting to confuse me.
"Hinata, I really...want to stop fighting with you. It really does neither of us any good...I mean now we work together on more than just taking care of Rika. So...what do you say? Friends?" I offer my hand. She stares at me for a moment, her eyebrows furrowed in confusion. It's...sort of a cute face. You don't love her...ha! Shut up!
"Sure..." she takes my hand in a firm grip and shakes it once before letting go. "So...what do we do now?"
"Uh, well we could go have lunch with everyone else." I stand up, picking up the baby seat with me and she stands.
"Sure, sounds good to me. I'm starved...did you hear what's on the menu today?" I shake my head and she shrugs. "I suppose it can't be anything too disgusting."
"Yeah, normally there's something decent. Honey-senpei would probably offer you cake if you didn't find anything."
"Yeah, he worries about me" She makes a face. I look at her a little confused. "Well, you see i'm a vegetarian. Not like hardcore...I haven't had meat in three years...but you know" she shrugs again. I now notice the features...paler skin. I've seen slight bruises on her arms before. "Are there any little fun facts about you?"
"Oh uh, not really. I'm not a big fan of chocolate cake. I like chocolate...but in cake form it's way too much."
"I agree, there's only so much that can be done with chocolate." She notices that we agreed and laughs a little. "Wow, I guess it is possible for us to agree."
"Don't worry, it feels a little strange to me too." Liar, you know it feels natural. Almost like breathing. You like her...you loooove her...you want to kissss her...you want to marrry her...Shut up. Seriously! I don't feel like that! Okay.
"Hina-chan! Hika-chan!" Honey-senpei runs up attacking both of us with a hug. He's nuzzling his face to Hinata's when Mori-senpei walks up.
"Takashi" Hinata smiles up at Mori-senpei and he pats her head, ruffling her hair a little bit. Then he looks at me. I can't read his expression. "Be nice, we made peace. We're friends now." Then I can read his face. Shock mixed in with a little fear...why fear though? Does he think that I like her too? Oh great, now he's really going to kill me.
~End Super Hikaru POV~
Why is Takashi looking at him like that? It's almost...an I'm going to kill you glare. Then again it isn't a glare. Then what could one call it? I'll figure something amazing out later when i'm not a little shell shocked from Hikaru's random...randomness.
"Let's get lunch 'kay?" Mitskuni takes my hand and pulls me inside and towards the cafeteria, I sense that Hikaru and Takashi are following us. Mitskuni keeps a hold of my hand as we head into the cafeteria and we go straight up to the line. We get food and sit down. Hikaru sits next to me. I know we're friends now, but it's still a little strange. Then...I remember Rika and mentally smack myself. Of course, heh I feel sort of dumb now.
"We are all going to take tango lessons!" Hikari sets her tray on the table then rests both hands on either side of it. She has a crazy glint in her eyes.
"Tango lessons? Really? I think I'll pass." I must stay strong against her puppy dog stare of death...
"B-but Hinata, you're my sister...if you don't do this with me...I-I'll cry." alright, here it comes I've got to brace myself...but she looks so sad...and I am her sister.
"Okay, we'll take Tango classes with you" Hikaru is the first to break. So...he has a soft spot for the puppy dog stare? Good, I won't forget that.
"Yay! Wait...you answered for Hinata does that mean you two are...?" Her face lights up and I quickly answer.
"Friends. We've...uh settled our differences I guess." Her face drops just a little bit and I smile in a satisfied manner. No excessive joy for her. Or you so it seems...are you SURE that you're happy just being friends with him? A little while ago, I wanted to kill him. What do you think subconscious?
"That's great! Kaoru! They're friends!" Hikari waves Kaoru over with their baby. I smile at him as he sits down.
"What happened? Are you sick Hinata?" I fight the urge to throw something at him and just settle for a shrug.
"It seemed like time to settle...the issue. I'm sure you two already knew it was going to happen and coached him through it."
"Actually, no, we didn't. I'm proud of him." Then they go into their whole brotherly love act and all the girls within a 10 mile radius faint and squeal and whatever. Hikari and I just look over the babies.
A little while later, we're all sitting at the club. Hikari and I are sitting at a table reading, sitting with the babies while the boys do their 'work'. I refuse to call this kind of thing real work. It's just shameless flirting.
"My princesses, why don't you help yourself to some of the refreshments?" Tamaki walks over to us and talks in his dreamy, airhead tone.
"No thanks, we're good Tono." I feel that name escape my lips before I realize it. "Alright, no more hanging out Hikaru and Kaoru. Sorry Tamaki-senpei." Then he's sweeping me into one of those creepy spinning hugs that he always seems to trap Haruhi in.
"You're one of my good daughters! You don't want to be in the influence of those shady twins!" He hugs me close to him. It's the kind of hugs that I like. The kind where you can tell the person really does care about you on some degree.
"Would you like saved?" Hikari asks me kind of looking confused. I shrug and laugh at how what i'm about to say will sound.
"Well, I figure if I let him finish I'll be safe for a little while." She nods in agreement. I smile and he starts spinning me again.
"My daughter is just so cute and well behaved! I'm such a lucky father!" This goes on for a little while and I just sort of hang there limply. Finally, the twins come over.
"Tono, let the poor girl go. You're going to end up giving her motion sickness." Suddenly, i'm left standing on my feet and Tamaki-senpei is in his corner of gloom.
"Ahhh dang it. Now it'll just happen again later. Thanks Hikaru." I make a face. "There was a method to my madness. There usually is...unless i'm sleep deprived."
"On the contrary, that's when you get your best ideas!" Hikari pipes in. She's obviously had cake while I was trapped in the jolly hug of my 'dad'.
"Meh" I just shrug and sit down. Kaoru sets a tea cup in front of me and Hikaru pours the tea. "Nice teamwork boys. Maybe next time it could be a Dr. Pepper or something."
"Yeah, sure, whatever you say dear." Hikaru says mechanically. I suppose that is what a husband would say. I look around and notice that all the girls are gone. Maybe I fell asleep in that little time elapse of Tamaki-senpei suffocating me.
"Oh honey, look our siblings are actually getting along." Kaoru puts his arm around Hikari's shoulders and she makes no move to knock it off. All of this is going to take some getting used to.
"Well, it's Wednesday afternoon...what's on the agenda for tonight?" I look at Hikari who gets out our shared agenda book.
"Hmm...we have that one class in an hour...then that's about it." She looks up at me, I smile at her. Tomorrow shall be the best day ever than. This week..in our Shakespearean language class, we're learning how to insult people in old English. This will probably be the most useful thing I will ever learn in my life. Takashi has asked me to make my vocabulary a little less colorful...so why not do it this way?
"Kaoru...should I be scared of that look on her face?" Hikaru hides behind his brother slightly and I chuckle in an evil manner.
"No, don't be scared. I'm sure she's just thinking about what she plans on having for dinner...it's sometimes scary to watch her cook...when she uses eggs, she draws faces on them before cracking them."
"It makes cooking more enjoyable. If it's a skill i'm going to have, I might as well make it as fun as I can. I mean...who cracks normal eggs? It's so boring!"
"Whatever, you wanna watch Labyrinth with us tonight?" Hikaru breaks into the conversation before it can get too far.
"Sure, your place? We always hang out at my place and I don't feel like picking up my dirty clothes just so we can watch it in my room" I make a face.
"Sure, sounds good to me." Everyone stares at us. It's almost as if they are all thinking 'wow did they really just make plans?'
"T-they're getting along now?" Tamaki-senpei's face drops from the goofy grin he's had on his face since he recovered from his gloom.
"I can always go back to insulting him like there's no tomorrow..." I shrug my shoulders and narrow my eyes at everyone.
"Yeah, and I could go back to making snide comments about how dirty her half of her bedroom is."
"Yeah right! My side of the room is so cleaner than Hikari's! She has all those stuffed animals! Mine's just books."
"Yeah! Books everywhere! I always feel like i'm in a library whenever i'm there." I narrow my eyes further at him.
"Oh well" I shrug. "Hikari, we should get going. Boys, we'll be over later to watch that movie. Try not to get yourselves too excited. When i'm tired i'm grumpy."
"We know" Hikaru says dryly and I punch his arm lightly before we leave. In the limo, I look out the window and wonder...about life...and about what Hikaru really thinks about me.