Comatose

Chapter 4

A/N- Poor Kaoru :c chapter 4

disclaimer- I don't own Own Ouran Host club sadly but If I did, Yaoi fangirls would be delighted.

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Kaoru stared up at the ceiling in his bedroom before his eyes drifted over to the alarm clock. 1.34am. He sighed and turned over onto his side.

"Hika-"he stopped himself when he remembered Hikaru wasn't there. He bit his lip and pulled Hikaru's pillow towards him. Inhaling his brothers' scent, he finally drifted off into a restless sleep.

Morning came and Kaoru awoke, flinching as the suns' rays reflected into his eyes. He groaned slightly, closing his eyes again. The last thing he wanted to do was wake up when he knew Hikaru wouldn't be doing the same. He couldn't even be bothered with school. Kaoru suddenly made up his mind. He would skip school and spend the day by Hikaru's side. Nodding, he got up and began to dress.

The days turned into weeks and Kaoru was steadily getting worse. He refused to eat or sleep, skipped school and spent all day by Hikaru's bedside. His friends and his parents were all extremely worried.

"Kaoru..." Yuzuha begged, placing a plate in front of her painfully thin son. "Please."

"I'm not hungry." The words were mechanical, rehearsed. He'd repeated this many a time.

"I don't care!" Yuzuha cried. "You need to eat!"

Kaoru looked at her, his face was extremely gaunt, and his cheekbones prominent. His eyes were bloodshot and showed how tired he was. Sighing, he took the fork and raised it to his lips, grimacing at the cardboard taste food seemed to have lately. Yuzuha sighed in relief as he finally began to eat and sat down opposite him. When he had finished, he stood up, his face blank.

"I'll be going to see Hikaru now." He said quietly, turning to leave.

"But what about..." Yuzuha began and frowned when the door slammed. "...school?"

Kaoru sighed as he exited the house and began to head for the gates when he heard a lordly voice cry out; "INTERVENTION!"

"What?" Kaoru cried as he was suddenly lifted up into the air and onto the shoulder of one Takashi Morinozuka. "Mori Senpai?! Tono?!" Kaoru yelled hoarsely.

"Quickly!" Tamaki cried dramatically, pointing in the wrong direction of the school. "To the club!"

"But Tama Chan!" Honey called, as Tamaki began to sprint away. "You're going the wrong way!"

Without missing a beat, Tamaki turned and began to run in the correct direction. Honey and Mori followed dutifully, Kyouya and Haruhi (who just wanted to be studying) both heaved a sigh before following.

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Once they had reach the music room, Mori dropped a disgruntled Kaoru into a chair.

"What are you doing you baka??" Kaoru yelled at the host club 'king', irritation and annoyance evident in his voice and on his face.

"It's an intervention." Tamaki repeated. "to snap you out of this self destructive behaviour."

"This is ridiculous" Kaoru snapped, moving to stand up. However, as he attempted to stand, Mori pushed him back down again.

"You need to sort yourself out" Tamaki declared, pointing at Kaoru dramatically and putting his 'serious' face on.

"Get lost baka ousama." Kaoru snapped, rolling his eyes. "I don't have time for you today."

Tamaki pouted but stood firm in his resolve, which was a first as usually he would retreat to his corner. "Haruhi!" he cried, flipping his hair which sparkled and glittered.

"Hai?" said girl asked warily.

"Go get Kaoru some commoner coffee! It can only be done by a commoner such as yourself."

The words 'rich bastard' were dimly heard escaping the brunette as she left the room.

"Mori Senpai. Honey Senpai." Tamaki continued, ignoring Haruhi's muttering. "Go fetch him some food!"

"Yes sir!" Honey beamed, his face eager.

"Right." Mori said calmly as he was dragged from the room by the excited blonde.

Tamaki turned to look at Kaoru and frowned. "You look like a poverty ridden commoner!" he cried. "Mommy! Quickly! Call daddy's stylists!"

Kyouya made no comment about the family titles but instead took out his cellphone to do what was asked of him.

"Tono." Kaoru insisted. "Let me go"

"No" Tamaki replied quietly. "You're destroying yourself Kaoru...as your friends we cannot allow that to happen."

Kaoru stared at Tamaki silent and jumped as Haruhi placed a steaming cup of his favourite commoners' coffee on the table in front of him.

"A-arigatou" he muttered, picking up the cup and Haruhi smiled in reply.

"Kawaii..." He dimly heard Tamaki mumbled but mostly ignored him and began to drink his coffee. Haruhi sat opposite him and began to study. Suddenly, all four hosts looked up as Honey and Mori returned, each holding two trays each.

"f-four?" Kaoru asked warily, a beat of sweat forming on the side of his face.

"That's right!" Tamaki cried immediately. "You need to regain your strength."

"I'm not-"He began, but was silenced when five pairs of angry eyes glared at him. "okay-okay." He sighed in resignation and began to eat, wanting to punch Tamaki in his smug face.

"I told you this was a good idea!" the king sang, his eyes sparkling.

"What are you talking about?" Haruhi muttered. "This was Kyouya senpai's idea... you just over dramatised it."

Kaoru continued to eat, not really wanting to but knowing he had to, especially with the other hosts watching him. He managed to eat the first plate and half of the second but point blank refused to eat the others. After a ten minute argument over this, Tamaki had finally given up. He smiled wryly.

"Well then. Time to change." He declared, pushing Kaoru towards the changing area. Kaoru sighed in obvious annoyance but went into the other room.

Fifteen minutes later, Kaoru re-emerged, looking better than he had in weeks. His hair was in its' usual style and he was dressed in some of the most stylish clothes which were on sale currently. He sighed as Tamaki, Honey and Mori gave him a thumbs up, Mori's face as blank as ever as he did so.

"Yeah, yeah" Kaoru sighed. "Thanks but can I go now?"

"But-but..." Tamaki whimpered.

"I'm going to see Hikaru." He insisted, gritting his teeth.

"Fine, fine." Tamaki relented. "But you better take better care of yourself now!"

Kaoru looked at him for a moment before his face broke into a small, sincere smile. Tamaki stared at him in surprise, as did the others.

"I will." Kaoru promised. "Arigatou Tono... all of you." And with those parting words, he turned and left the room.