"Are you alright?" Hikaru chuckled as he quickly got off of Katsumi, hoping that he didn't hurt her but playing it off that he did not care.
Katsumi was silent. She looked around in the dark unable to see anything. Her heart started to race and her body began to shudder.
Meanwhile Miya rushed to the door and attempted to open it but it was locked.
"Katsu! Are you alright?!" Miya called out to Katsumi.
"Y-Yea. I-I'm fine." Katsumi stuttered.
"Don't worry we will get you out" Miya rushed back over to where the rest of the host club was.
"We'll get them out." Haruhi reassured Miya.
"You don't understand...Katsu is horrified of the dark..." Miya whispered, her voice barely audible to the hosts.
"What?" Kaoru asked in surprise. Katsumi seemed so tough and sure of herself, he couldn't image her being afraid of something like the dark.
"She grew up being left alone constantly, even for days at a time in a dark house all by herself. It was a good month when the house had power when her mother remembered to pay the electric bill...Her mother was always out partying and off with different guys and she left Katsu alone all that time...They lived in a run down neighborhood where people broke into the house at night and robbed the place on a weekly basis leaving Katsu to hide all alone in the dark house afraid to move or make a sound...To this day she can not stand being in the dark..." Miya whispered sadly. "When Social services finally went to investigate they found her hiding under her bed, her mother no where to be found...they later found her mother asleep at some random man's house..."
"I had no idea..." Kaoru looked over at the closet.
"Katsu and I share a room and Mrs. Sato keeps the hall light on so that the room is not filled by darkness...When the power goes out I stay by her side...Everyone sees the tough girl persona on a daily basis, her confidence that I admire...but I know the real her...She is my sister...we may not come from the same parents but we are sisters all the same..." Miya smiled weakly.
Kaoru grew silent as his gaze remained at the closet. The fact that he was separated from his brother was too eating him away inside.
Meanwhile Hikaru sighed and sat down in the dark closet. "Looks like we might be stuck here a while..."
Hikaru's comment was met only by silence. Katsumi made no sound except for her shaky breathing.
"You still awake over there?" Hikaru chuckled. He was not sure why Katsumi was so quiet.
Again he only met silence. Hikaru slowly reached across the closet and touched Katsumi's shoulder.
Katsumi gasped and shook in fear.
Hikaru pulled his hand away quickly. He could not tell if Katsumi was crying or not and if she was he did not know what to do.
"S-Sorry." Katsumi whispered.
"What's wrong with you?" Hikaru moved over slightly closer to Katsumi.
"I-I'm fine" Katsumi lied as she hugged her knees close to her chest.
"Come on you can tell me." Hikaru chuckled clearly oblivious as to Katsumi's state of mind.
"It's stupid..." Katsumi whispered, hiding her face in her knees, glad that the dark could hide her from Hikaru.
"Someone embarrassed to be locked in a closet with me?" Hikaru chuckled and wrapped an arm around Katsumi.
Katsumi tensed up and began to shake more, muffling her whimpers in her knees, not wanting Hikaru to hear.
Hikaru noticed her shaking and heard her whimpers. "Did you hurt yourself when we fell?" Hikaru asked not sure why she seemed to be so sad.
"N-No I'm fine." Katsumi whispered.
Hikaru peered through the darkness, his eyes now growing accustomed to the darkness of the closet. He could see Katsumi hiding her face in her knees close to her chest and it finally clicked. "You're afraid of the dark...aren't you." He whispered.
Katsumi felt so embarrassed. The only people who knew of her fear were Mrs. Sato and Miya. She whimpered and nodded slowly. "I told you it was stupid..."
Hikaru chuckled slightly "No...it's not."
Katsumi's eyes too had grown accustomed to the darkness of the closet. She slowly looked up and could see Hikaru looking at her. She blushed and for once thanked the darkness for being able to hide her embarrassment.
"We'll be out of here in no time." Hikaru smiled and pulled Katsumi closer to him.
Katsumi soon relaxed herself and rested her head against Hikaru's chest. She was glad that if she was trapped in here, it was with someone like Hikaru...though it was the last person she expected to be so kind.
Outside the closet Mori and Honey went to go look for a janitor so that they could get a key to free Katsumi and Hikaru.
"I wonder how long it will take them to find the janitor..." Haruhi pondered.
"Who knows, with so many students roaming the halls and making a mess they could be anywhere really..." Kyouya sat down on one of the wooden chairs at a small circular wooden tables that sat several feet away from the closet.
"Katsu..." Miya looked at the closet worried about her sister.
"Don't worry Miya, she will be just fine." Tamaki put a hand on Miya's shoulder with a bright princely smile across his face. If there was one thing Tamaki hated most was seeing someone sad. He would always do what he could to try to make the people around him as happy as possible.
"Thank you Tamaki." Miya smiled faintly before sitting down at a table a few feet away from the one Kyouya sat at.
"You're still worried aren't you." Kaoru sat down across from Miya at the table.
"Yea...I know she will be okay but I know she's scared...I can feel it." Miya looked over at the closet.
Kaoru put his hand on Miya's arm and smiled. "My brother may be a little out there and some may even call him obnoxious...But he cares for his friends...He'll be sure that she is okay." Kaoru gave Miya a reassuring smile. He knew what Miya was feeling and found it interesting how people who aren't even related by blood could be as close as he was to his twin.
"Thank you Kaoru." Miya smiled and chuckled.
Time passed by with still no solution to unlocking the closet.
"Well it looks like it up to me to get us out of here." Hikaru smirked and got up and began rummaging through boxes on the shelves in the closet.
"What are you looking for?" Katsumi slowly got to her feet, hesitating but finally growing accustomed to the darkness of the closet.
"Something that I can use to pick the lock." Hikaru grinned as he pulled out a thin metal coat hanger. "Perfect."
"Do I want to know how you know how to pick a lock?" Katsumi raised an eyebrow.
"Probably not." Hikaru stuck out his tongue at Katsumi and he bent the hook of the hanger so that it was straight. He then knelt down and slowly began picking at the lock. He looked so focused and kinda cute in Katsumi's eyes. Katsumi shook the thought from her mind as she waited anxiously for the door to open to free the two of them from their dark tomb.
"Aha!" Hikaru grinned as the lock clicked and just then it flew open and Hikaru fell forward landing gracelessly onto his brother who had been pulling at the door on the opposite side.
"Katsu!" Miya rushed to her sister's side and hugged her tightly.
"Looks like they figured it out themselves..." Kyouya peered up as Mori and Honey had returned with an older janitor who looked in and saw that the students had gotten out. The man turned and walked away.
"Miya I'm fine." Katsumi chuckled as she got herself free of her sister's grasp and got to her feet and saw the rest of the host club standing around them.
"Are you sure you two are alright Hika-chan and Kastu-chan?" Honey asked from his seat upon Mori's shoulders.
Miya smiled glad that her sister was alright and decided to tease the two a little. "No funny business went on in there right?"
"No way I was a complete gentleman as always." Hikaru stuck his tongue out at Miya as the group laughed.
"How long were we even in there?" Katsumi looked over at Haruhi.
"Two hours." Haruhi looked at the clock I think we are the only ones left, is that right Kyouya-senpai?" Haruhi looked over at Kyouya who nodded.
"It appears that the rest of the students have gone and scared themselves off." Kyouya tucked his notebook into his toga and looked over at the clock. "But we should be leaving, the school janitors will be wanting to clean soon." Kyouya began to walk as the rest of the host club followed his lead.
Katsumi and Hikaru exchanged a glance before blushing and walking out with the others. The two silently agreeing not to speak of what had happened in the darkness of the closet...