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Chapter 4

Kaoru opened his eyes lazily. He propped himself up in his bed and laid his head gently against the headboard. The ceiling seemed to be moving. He rubbed his temples and squeezed his eyes together to try and suppress the headache that was surely about to appear.

He touched the spot of bed next to him and was surprised to find it empty. It was rare for Hikaru not to crawl into his bed if he hadn't already crawled into Hikaru's…

Kaoru turned himself over to look at Hikaru in his own bed, who was probably still asleep. For a fleeting moment, he felt a sensation of sickly and dark surprise. Hikaru's bed was empty. He wasn't on the floor either.

The dark feeling of panic rose in him, until he heard the faint clatter of dishes downstairs. It was unusual for Hikaru to get up and go make himself breakfast without waking his brother. Kaoru frowned and pulled himself out of his bed, and walked towards the bathroom. Sure enough, there was a wet towel sitting discarded on the floor, and one of the shower floors was wet. Strange, Kaoru thought. Was Hikaru in a hurry for some reason?

Then it hit him. Haruhi.

Haruhi…

Not that there was anything wrong with Hikaru getting a girlfriend, although it wasn't announced yet. It was all kept very hush hush. Haruhi would be Hikaru's first girlfriend. Well that was one more than Kaoru had had…

Could he be jealous?

Of Hikaru?

Or Haruhi…

He swept the stupid thoughts from his head immediately. He was making himself late. The cold water startled him as it washed over his skin, waking him up a fraction more. He found himself thinking, for some reason, on the fact that he took cool showers in the morning, Hikaru took hot ones. He preferred to be the centre of attention, whereas Hikaru didn't mind if he wasn't. Hikaru had taken a liking to that commoner instant coffee, but Kaoru didn't think it was all that special…

A quick glance at the clock told him he was definitely going to be late. No time for breakfast. Maybe Hikaru hadn't left early, but Kaoru had slept in.

Well why didn't he wake me then?

He felt himself compressing anger as he roughly dried himself and hastily pulled on his clothes. He rushed downstairs as he buttoned his shirt, only to realise he had buttoned it wrong. He almost growled angrily. He unbuttoned the thing and started again, this time doing it correctly, but falling down the last ten or so stairs and spraining his ankle. A soft hand rested itself on his shoulder, and grasped his hand to pull him up.

Kaoru looked up, hoping to stare into the identical eyes of Hikaru, but instead he was looking at his mother.

'Hurry up!' She ushered, dusting him off and frowning at the way he had assembled himself this morning.

'You slept in again.' She sighed.

'Where's Hikaru?' Kaoru asked as he tried to do his tie, knocking his mother's fingers out the way as he did it.

'Oh.' She said absently, attempting to tie Kaoru's tie for him. 'He left already. Said there was something he had to do.'

'He could have at least woke me up!' Kaoru said, firmly slapping his mother's hand out of his way. She looked at him angrily and walked upstairs to her studio, probably to design their new bedroom décor and matching bathroom.

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Kaoru's eyes clapped the pair standing outside the main entrance to Ouran High School. Hikaru was slyly holding Haruhi's hand, and stealing nervous glances around to make sure no one noticed. Kaoru didn't see the point. Everyone knew anyway. Surely they could see that?

He took a longer route than usual to avoid them, and passed victorious through the front door. He climbed wearily up the staircase and made his way to the third music room, a frown unwittingly creasing his forehead.

Kaoru was met with more stares than normal while walking down the corridors. Probably not for a good reason. After all he was alone, with a scowling face and a quick stride.

Tamaki poked his head out of the door of the third music room, and disappeared just as quickly. Probably because he saw it wasn't Hikaru and that Haruhi was no-where to be seen. He would be doing his irritating pacing and 'worried father' act. Kaoru didn't need that at this time in the morning.

He almost winced as he walked through the door to the music room. Tamaki didn't leap at him however. Hopefully he had gotten the message that he and Hikaru were two separate people with two lives and two brains, and that Kaoru didn't know where his twin was every second of every day.

Famous last words, Kaoru thought as Tamaki briskly strode over, his face a flushed pink colour.

'Kaoru!' He breathed exasperatedly. 'Where is…'

'I don't know where Hikaru is!' Kaoru found himself screaming. 'I don't know where Haruhi is either! And frankly, I don't care!'

He stormed off to sulk in a truly Tamaki-style performance, sitting by a window at the far end of the room, curled into a tight ball to match his fists.

Mori and Kyouya showed little emotion towards the performance. Kyouya pushed his glasses further up his nose and uttered a small 'hmm'. Noise, before going back to his clipboard and calculator. Mori comforted Honey who had started to sob gently into his shoulder and was muttering something about offering Kaoru some cake, but Mori shook his head firmly.

Kaoru roughly swept a couple of tears from his eyes and squeezed himself tighter into his own little world, one of which Hikaru was no longer a part.

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