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DISCLAIMER: I do not own Ouran HSHC
"Let's play the 'Which one is Hikaru' game!"
I turned to watch the twins as Haruhi and I walked into the Host Club after another study session the next day. The twins were wearing hats on their heads to cover their part and make it harder for the guessing, I guess. Someone please tell me how a game like that is remotely interesting?
"That's the dumbest game I've ever heard of," Haruhi groaned as we walked by, practically speaking my mind.
"What, do you have a problem with it?" they asked in perfect unison as they turned to glare at us, one hand on their hips.
"Not really, I just don't understand why you guys are so popular," Haruhi replied, as she looked at them.
"Neither do I," I agreed.
"That's not very nice," they pouted and came up behind us; Hikaru on Haruhi's right Kaoru on my left.
"I'm very disappointed," Hikaru sighed, shaking his head.
"Apparently you don't understand the merits of having a pair of twins as part of the Host Club," Kaoru stated sadly.
"Listen up!" Hikaru began, raising a finger up in the air, "Having a couple of good-looking boys with homosexual tendencies earns the Club high points. It also helps if the two struggle between their attraction and friendship."
The two of them took one of their Forbidden Love poses, aka Hikaru clutching Kaoru close to him.
"And in our case because we're twins the relationship is taboo," Kaoru added, "And therefore more intriguing."
"Besides," Hikaru said seductively as he placed his face close to one of the customer's, "Who hasn't fantasized about twins? Having two loves is better than one don't'cha think?"
"It's a young woman's romantic fantasy," Kaoru concluded, doing the same thing on the girls other side.
"Well, um, yeah, you're right," she began nervously then squealed, "I can't take it anymore!"
She and all the other girls began screaming with happiness at being seduced by the twins. There go my ear drums.
At that exact moment Tamaki stormed over to us, a laptop in his hands. He began to scream at the twins, which I was going to ignore until I saw what was on the screen. Half naked pictures… of me and Haruhi. When the hell did they take those?
I froze in shock as a swarm of girls stared at the laptop, commenting on how good Haruhi and I looked without shirts on. What. The. Hell.
"You two look great Haru-Chan, Kall-Chan!" Honey exclaimed as he looked at the pictures also. I didn't want to be mean to Honey but I was beyond mad at the twin for making those photos and didn't comment.
But while in between shock and anger I barely noticed Tamaki talking to the twins about the photos being photo-shopped and Tamaki saying something about photo-shopping Haruhi into a dress or something.
I'm gonna kill them; I thought angrily as I glared at the group of girls going gaga over the photos, they're so dead for that. Who the hell does that? Make weird pictures of people…. And when did they find the time to do that anyway?
When I finally shook off the shock Tamaki was right behind me and Haruhi, holding an ugly pink dress covered in frills and flowers. I glared at him and crossed my arms. I guess I scared him, though, because he backed away instantly, his eyes wide with fear.
"Now cut out it out," Haruhi growled suddenly, turning to look at the twins.
"Yeah, no more making weird pictures of us," I muttered as I gave them the same glare I gave Tamaki.
"What do you take us for anyway?" Haruhi exclaimed, clutching her books tighter to her, a sure sign that she was pissed off.
"Isn't it obvious?" they asked and took a pause before grinning sinisterly, "You're our toys."
You have got to be kidding me.
We were still in the midst of Hosting activities and both Haruhi and I were frustrated with the twins, who were sitting calmly as they stared at us. Almost like cats. Really creepy cats.
"As we were saying," Hikaru began smirking, "In order to entertain oneself in this otherwise boring life-"
"-One must find stimulating toys," Kaoru finished with an evil grin.
"We're not your toys," I growled. I was so done with these idiots, nobody calls me a toy!
"You want a toy?" a deep, creepy voice asked. All four of us turned slowly to see two huge, dark mahogany doors with a figure covered in black peeking out of a crack in it. The figure held up a beige cat hand puppet with angry eyes that he waved around and a candelabrum in the other with three glowing candles stuck in it.
"Toys, toys! If you like toys, then you should come and visit my black magic club!" he exclaimed with a grin as he stared at us with sky blue eyes, "We've opened a market place that sells black magic items from across the globe. We're also holding mass at 9 o'clock. You can have Belzeneff as a free gift!" he motioned to the cat puppet with the candelabra.
"Why is he talking to us through a crack in the door?" Haruhi asked. I nodded slowly as I continued to stare at the weird cat puppet in his hand, transfixed by how hideous it looked but how adorable at the same time.
"Wait a second," the twins said at the same time, "Has that door always been there?"
"Nekozawa-sempai likes to hide," Kyoya replied calmly as he wrote in his book as always, "he doesn't care for brightly lit places."
"Don't get involved with that guy," Tamaki whispered nervously from behind me suddenly. I looked at him over my shoulder.
"Do you enjoy popping up out of nowhere?" I muttered annoyed. He gave me a hurt look but continued
"If you do, you'll end up being cursed!" Tamaki finished, shaking from fear as he looked at Nekozawa over my shoulder.
"Yeah right," I groaned and listened annoyed as he explained how he got cursed for stepping on the doll. He claimed that he took a test he didn't understand with people he didn't know which he claimed was another dimension (he accidentally took the beginning Greek exam). Also three days later his legs were as heavy as lead (he ran a marathon the day before).
"You shouldn't under estimate the dark powers of Belzeneff the cursed doll," he stated and held up the doll, "All you have to do is write the name of someone you hate on his back, then that person is certain to come face-to-face with misfortune!"
I groaned inwardly. Was this guy for real? There was no such thing as curses.
But out of the corner of my eye I saw one of the twins hold up a flashlight. I looked back at Nekozawa who didn't notice the twins and back at the twins before I realized their plan.
Oh no.
They flashed the light directly at Nekozawa, who screamed 'You murders!' and slammed the mahogany doors shut loudly behind him.
"Jerks," I grumbled and took a seat at one of the tables, watching the twins annoy Haruhi some more.
"Kall-Chan!" I heard Honey exclaim and he jumped onto me out of nowhere.
"Oh!" I said in surprise as he wrapped his arm around my neck in a hug, "Hi, Honey."
"Do you want to have some cake with me and Usa-Chan?" he asked as he let me go, staring up at me with his big, brown eyes, his pink rabbit clutched tightly to his chest.
"Maybe later Honey," I replied with a smile.
"Okay," he sighed and leaped off me. He ran over to another table and placed his rabbit in one chair and sat down in another. He promptly placed a piece of cake in front of Usa-Chan and one in front of himself and began stuffing his face with cake happily.
Aw, he's so adorable; I thought with a smile, he treats that rabbit as if it's real-
"Admit it then, Kaoru; you're in love with Kall!"
I felt my face go red as I turned slowly to see who said that. I saw Kaoru also growing red as he glared at Hikaru, both wearing their green hats. Well I now know who said that, but why.
At that moment a girl rose up out of the ground on a pedestal that looked like a cake (and I thought this was a music room) and began talking about Haruhi being part of a love rectangle (which I cared about but that weirdo girl made it seem as boring as hell). So I momentarily zoned out and thought about what Hikaru said as the girl continued talking.
He's got to be lying, people say stuff like that when they're mad; I thought confused, and Kaoru is such a nice guy but I doubt he does anyway. But the blushing-
"You're mother wears too much make-up!" I heard the twins yell at the same time. I shook my head and came back to see them glaring at each other. Somebody tell me what just happened?
"That's it! We're over!" they shouted in unison and stalked away from each other to opposite sides of the room.
This can't be good.
I found out from Haruhi that whenever she was asked by them to let them come to her house she said no. Being as persistent as they are, they wanted to play the 'Which one is Hikaru' game to decide if they could or not. If she could then they wouldn't but if she wasn't able to tell which one was which then that night the twins were coming over.
Yet whenever she guessed right and told them that she figured it out because Hikaru came across more mischievous then Kaoru , they got into a fight. Thus resulting in the 'we're over' comment.
"Hopefully they'll get over it soon, though," Haruhi said as we left the Host Club afterwards.
"I hope so," I murmured, "I have be in the same place as them. But all siblings fight, right?"
"Yeah," Haruhi said with a reassuring smile, "They'll get over it."
I nodded and waved bye to her as I hurried over to the twins, who were still glaring at each other. But a small part of me doubted that from the looks of it they'd make up any time soon.
The next day I stumbled into class before the twins got there since they decided to bicker all the way to school. I saw Haruhi and sank into a seat next to her.
"Long night?" she asked with a concerned look.
"Don't even get me started," I muttered. The entire night they were holed up in their separate rooms all night, and for the first time I was alone in that humongous bedroom. That was enough to keep me up most of the night because I felt so exposed and lonely.
"And just a warning," I said, turning to her, "They both-"
"Hey, Haruhi, good morning," I heard Hikaru say bored and I watched Haruhi's eyes grow wide. I turned slowly to see his hair bright pink.
"Hikaru, what happened to your hair?" she asked slowly.
I zoned out because I knew (and also I was exhausted from my long night). Hikaru and Kaoru didn't want to look like each other or be mistaken for each other anymore so they decided to dye their hair; Hikaru flamingo pink and Kaoru…
"Good morning, Haruhi," he said at that exact moment, his hair sky blue.
"So, Kaoru's the blue twin?" Haruhi asked confused, looking at him with eyes impossibly wide in shock.
"I was finally able to sleep on my own last night," Kaoru continued, giving side glances at Hikaru, "But I ended up having a nightmare. My stylist dyed my hair pink! It was so garish and ridiculous that I woke up screaming."
At least you slept, I thought angrily as he began to sit down. But Hikaru ripped his chair out from under him, causing Kaoru to fall onto the floor. Kaoru then reached over and tipped over Hikaru's chair, causing them both to stand up with hate on their faces.
"This is going to be a long day," I groaned to Haruhi. She nodded and we both sunk deep into our chairs as the twins began throwing things at one another. The day couldn't be over fast enough.
At lunch the twins were yelling in perfect unison as they tried to order something different from the other. The Host Club came to intervene but the twins ignored them. Especially Honey when he tried to tempt in to making up by offering them cake, which only annoyed the two of them even more.
"Remind me again why we followed them?" I asked her as I watched them stalk away from each other.
"Because I'm worried about them," she replied, "We can work on your school work later."
I nodded just as Tamaki noticed us.
"Oh Haruhi! Kall! I didn't expect to run into you two in the dining hall!" he exclaimed excitedly as he rushed over to us.
"I was worried about those two," she replied calmly, motioning to them with her head, "So we followed them here without thinking. I always bring a box lunch and I was just going to eat it in my classroom and tutor Kall some more."
"I did the same," I added and we both lifted up our lunches wrapped in checked blankets. I didn't like the idea of using money from the twins to eat so I had their cook make me a lunch.
"A boxed lunch?" Tamaki stammered and got a dazed look on his face.
"Just walk away," I muttered and pulled Haruhi away from him.
Hikaru at that point called her over. I sighed inwardly and followed her over to his table.
"Haruhi, Kall, do you wanna sit here with me?" he asked boredly as he leaned back in his seat.
"Oh, okay," Haruhi replied slowly and turned to me, "You okay with this?"
"Yeah, sure no big deal," I said with a shrug and sat down next to her.
"So what's that?" Hikaru asked, pointing at Haruhi's boxed lunch.
"Yesterday's leftovers," Haruhi responded grudgingly, "And a rolled omelette."
"You wanna switch with me?" Hikaru questioned, eyeing her lunch, "I had ordered something different than Kaoru, so ended up with something I don't really like."
"That's fine with me," Haruhi said and Hikaru slid the tray over to her. It was laden with the most rich-looking food I could remember seeing. I guess Haruhi thought the same thing because she took a tentative bite of one of the dishes.
Her eyes grew wide and she sighed happily.
"This is really magnificent," she said happily, "I've never tried anything like this before."
Tamaki appeared from behind us carrying another tray and gave Hikaru a thumbs up.
"Well played, Hikaru," he exclaimed with a grin, "As a reward, I'd like to trade my lunch for your box lunch!"
"No way," he growled and crossed his arms.
"So Haruhi is that any good?" I heard Kaoru say and I turned to see him taking a seat next to me.
"By the look on her face," I said with a good-natured grin, "I think she loves it."
"How would you like to taste mine?" Kaoru asked and gently took my face in one hand and brought it close to his, holding a spoon with some food on it close as well.
"Here," he murmured and brought it close, but Hikaru appeared right in front of me and closed his mouth around the spoon.
The two glared at each other for a few moments before Hikaru broke the silence.
"Quit butting in," he managed to mumble even though the spoon was still in his mouth, "Get lost, Kaoru."
Hikaru then let go of the spoon and sat back down in his seat. Angry, Kaoru grabbed a plate of something that looked like yellow soup and threw it at Hikaru.
Hikaru grabbed Tamaki's tie (since for some reason he hadn't left) and he caught the soup right in the face. That led to the two twins throwing whatever they could grab, which included chairs, food, Tamaki, plants, trays, Usa-Chan, Honey, and Mori at each other.
"I think I'm gonna go eat in my classroom after all," Haruhi muttered and stood up, grabbing her boxed lunch which was remarkably untouched and not thrown.
"I'm with you," I agreed and grabbed my food as I followed her out of the dining hall.
Later on we were in the Club room, sitting by a long table. No guests were brought in since Kaoru and Hikaru were still fighting which would basically lead to disaster if they fought in front of the guests any more than they already had. On one side of the table were Mori, Honey, Haruhi and I. On the other were Tamaki and Kyoya
"Looking at the numbers," Kyoya began as he typed numbers into a calculator and wrote them down in his black book across from me, "If the situation isn't resolved, I'm afraid we're going to have to stop offering our Brotherly Love package."
He looked up and smiled at Haruhi.
"Oh, Haruhi, I just want you to know there's no reason for you to feel responsible," he stated, "Even though it was your tackles comment that started the whole feud between the twins in the first place, right?"
Blackmail.
"Clearly he blames me for the this," she muttered under her breath. I giggled quietly behind my hand.
"It's weird for Hika-Chan and Kao-Chan to be fighting like this," Honey said sadly as he looked at Usa-Chan with sadness in his eyes, "It's never happened before.'
"They've never fought before?" I asked surprised. I thought all siblings fought.
"I've known Hika-Chan and Kao-Chan since we were in pre-school," Honey began slowly, "We weren't in the same year, so I never really got to talk to them. But I remember the two of them always played together."
"Yeah, that's true," Tamaki agreed. I looked at him, a quizzical look on my face.
"I mean, I've only known the twins since they were in middle school, but they definitely stood out," he continued, "It seemed like they kept everyone at a distance except each other. Believe it or not they were more warped back then," he smiled to himself, "When you stop and think about it, maybe this fight is a good thing for them," he stood up and raised his hands, "Maybe it means that the twins are expanding their horizons a bit. We should just leave them alone and let them work it out!"
I nodded slowly in agreement but looked out the window at the slowly setting sun.
Who knows? I thought, Maybe it is a turn for the better. But if this really their first fight, they probably need someone to tell them when it's time to give in and call it quits. And if they've really never fought before, do they even know how to make up?
I sighed angrily as the twins gasped for breath. Whenever they showed up at the Host Club, they instantly began throwing everything in reach at each other, causing the rest of us to stand off to the side and watch them get it out of their system. All except poor Honey, who once again got tossed and was on top of a pile of tosses stuff, cuddling Usa-Chan tightly to him.
"Don't you guys think that maybe it's time you give up all this fighting?" Tamaki asked exhausted as he stared at them, "It's driving me insane."
"What did you say?" Hikaru growled, glaring at Kaoru, "It's driving you insane? You've gotta be kidding me! How do you think I feel right now? Every time I look in the mirror, I see his face. I'm sick and tired of constantly being mistaken for you, Kaoru! The truth is I hate your guts!"
Kaoru looked taken aback slightly but quickly returned to glaring angrily at his brother.
"You took the words right out of my mouth; in fact, I hate you so much I bought this," he cried and pulled out a brown doll in the shape of Nekozawa's creepy doll, "Belzeneff, the curse doll!"
He also reached into his pocket and pulled out a black marker and held it out in front of him.
"I'm going to complete the curse, Hikaru; I'm going to write your name on his back!" Kaoru shouted and began writing on the creepy doll, "From this day forward, you're going to experience nothing but misfortune and sorrow!"
At that point Haruhi ran over to the two of them before I could hold her back and hit both of them on the head hard. The twins looked up at her with shock on their faces that she actually hit them.
"You guys knock it off!" she cried and snatched the doll out of Kaoru's hand, "What do you think you're doing? You don't bring something like this into a petty fight! Both of you are at fault here, but what's really sad is that you brought everyone around each other into it!"
"You said it!" I shouted encouragingly to her.
"Now apologize to each other!" she demanded looking at both of them, "If you don't make up right now I'll never let you come over to my house, do I make myself clear?"
The twins' shocked look of surprise slowly changed into devilish smiles. They stood up, wrapped an arm around each other's' shoulder, cocked a hip and placed a hand on their hip as the both of them stared down evilly at her.
"So then what you're saying, Haruhi," they purred in unison, "Is that if we make up we can come can come over to your place?"
I stared at the two of them, as did Tamaki, like all we were just seeing was a trick. Haruhi just turned the doll over and looked at the back and her eyes grew wide.
"What does it say?" I asked and she held it up slowly; it said 'Blank'.
The twins turned to each and took a Forbidden Love pose, aka Hikaru holding Kaoru tightly.
"I'm so sorry Kaoru," he murmured seductively, "Even though I was just following our script, I said such awful things to you. I'm not fit to be your brother."
Kaoru reached a hand up and touched his brother's face in another Forbidden Love pose.
"Don't say that, Hikaru," he whimpered, "I was so worried. I couldn't live with myself if I ever thought I hurt you."
"Kaoru, I'll never let you go again," Hikaru exclaimed sadly and hugged his brother tightly.
"Hikaru," Kaoru murmured affectionately as he hugged him back.
"You gotta be kidding!" Honey cried raising his hands in the air exasperated, "You guys were faking it this whole time?"
"We didn't have anything else to do, we were bored," the twins replied casually, still holding one another.
Tamaki, Haruhi and I collapsed onto the ground, all of us in shock that they could fool us, and all this was just a joke.
"They totally fooled me," Haruhi said dazed.
"I was there, I was in there house, how could they have done it?" I muttered, dumbfounded as I stared at a nothing in particular.
"Twins with too much time on their hands," Tamaki groaned dramatically as he glared at the doll, "Are the devil."
I rolled my eyes and looked at him.
"Blondie, didn't you already use that before line?"
That night I was outside, sitting in the white chair on the patio. I had just pulled on my pyjamas and was looking at the stars
"Still mad at us?" I heard Kaoru say and turned to see him leaning against the house as he did the first time I saw him on the patio.
"Maybe a little," I replied with fake frown, "I didn't sleep at all last night, just to let you know."
"It was for a joke," Kaoru replied hastily and sat down on the chair.
"Suurrreee," I muttered and leaned back, looking up at the clear night sky.
"Don't believe me?"
"Considering I'm tired, I thought you two were actually fighting, and I don't see the hilarity in it, yeah," I replied and yawned, "I hope you're happy and the joke was worth it."
"Actually, I wanted to bring you in on the joke," Kaoru said slowly and looked up at the sky, "But Hikaru told me you'd might tell Haruhi and ruin it. I tried to talk him out of it but he was pretty set against it. He is my brother and I didn't think it'd do any harm not to tell you."
"Obviously it did if I couldn't sleep, in case you forgot your promise," I growled and stifled another yawn.
"Come here," Kaoru said softly and wrapped an arm around my shoulders. He pulled me close to him and I leaned my head on his side.
"I know I made a promise to you, and I shouldn't have broken it," Kaoru continued quietly, "But I want Hikaru to realize that no matter what I'm going to be there for him. It's because we've only ever needed each other, so I want him to know I'm always there, even if he thinks I won't be."
"I can understand that," I whispered and looked up at Kaoru, "Just warn me next time you decide to do something like that, okay?"
"Sure," Kaoru agreed and returned my gaze.
"But about the whole script thing," I began quietly, "Was it all just a joke?"
"That's something that is for me to know and you to find out," Kaoru murmured as I yawned again, "And I think you should go to bed, after your lack of sleep."
I nodded sleepily and looked up at him, my eyes wide, "Carry me?"
Kaoru sighed but complied. He lifted me up in his arms bridal style and walked into the bedroom. I yawned again and snuggled into his chest. When he laid me on the bed I slipped under and felt my eye lids getting heavier.
Kaoru crawled into the bed on the other side and I watched through half open lids as he propped himself up on his elbow and kissed me on the top of the head again like last night.
"Night, Kaoru," I murmured sleepily and yawned deeply again and pulled the covers up to my chin.
"Night, Kally," he whispered in my ear as I drifted into sleep, "Sleep well."
The next day I was walking by the twins with Haruhi. They still had their hair dyed the outrageous flamingo pink and sky blue.
"Let's play the 'Which one is Hikaru' game!" they exclaimed to some customers and put an arm around each other's shoulder.
One of the girls with short, brownish-red hair raised her hand.
"I know, the twin with the pink hair is Hikaru!"
"We have a winner!" the twins exclaimed and lifted their arms in victory.
"So are you two gonna keep your wild hair colour even though you made up?" another with long, blonde haired asked, "It's much easier to tell the two of you apart now."
"No it isn't it," I said as I walked by, "Today the pink one is Kaoru."
"And the blue one is Hikaru," Haruhi finished as she glanced at them, "You swapped colours for the day, huh?"
"Well, we best be off, wouldn't want to interrupt," I sighed and led the way as we continued walking past the twins.
"How'd you know which one was Kaoru?" Haruhi questioned me with a look of slight surprise.
"It's their voices, they sound different," I replied and looked away from her, "Also their eyes. Hikaru's have mischief in them, while there is something else in Kaoru's."
"I see," Haruhi said thoughtfully.
"Yeah," I whispered, but quickly shook my head.
"C'mon, we have guests we need to take care of."
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Oh the drama! What will happen next? Well, that's for me to know and you to find out! and remember, review, review, review s'il vous plait! xoxoxo
