Greetings, readers! I present you with chapter 6! (or seven if you wanna count it that way)
This chapter once again is only slight Tamaharu, sorry. I will be getting back to much more Tamaharu very very soon. Probably in the next chapter or two. I just feel like, with Tamaharu, you must have the other hosts there too.
Speaking of the other hosts, Takashi (Mori) and his wife Sofia (an OC based off of my sister because my sister absolutely LOVES Takashi) will be making an appearance soon as well as Kyoya! I have a great mini storyline set up for Kyoya (thanks to my genius sister) that I will delve into when the time comes. But for now, have some lovely awkward reunions!
Chapter 6 – Let's try this again.
He messed with his dress shirt sleeves nervously. "Do they even know that I'm coming? And even if they do, do they even want me to be there?"
She finished brushing her hair and smirked at the older of the two. "Of course they know you're coming. And yes most of them want you to be there. They do miss you after all." She turned and looked up at him. "Hika-nii. This is to help you to start getting act together. It's just a dinner party with old friends. You'll be fine."
"Wait. Most of them? What do you mean 'most of them?' "
Ageha sighed and walked to the front door. "Well, Tama-san wasn't too pleased when I talked to him and Haru-san about it. Luckily Haru-san convinced him to be okay with it. He kept mentioning something about you trying to steal Haru-san from him while you were drunk a few weeks ago?"
Hikaru's face turned pink with a guilty blush.
"And then Natalia-san isn't very happy about it either. But, who can blame her. You've been nothing but awful to her since her and Kao-nii started dating."
She took a breath and continued. "Well. Never mind that. What happened, happened. Now we have to make up for your drunken mistakes. Not to mention the fact that being drunk this whole time was a mistake in itself. Now let's go. We're going to be late."
The older of the two ran his hands through his parted hair, sighed, and followed his sister out of the house.
"Well . . . Let's get this over with."
"Excuse me." The hostess looked over the stand to see a small girl calling for her.
"Oh! Yes, how may I help you?"
Ageha smiled warmly. "We are here with the Hitachiin group. Thank you."
The hostess nodded curtly. "Right this way." She lead the two to a closed off area near the back of the restaurant. As they were approaching, they could hear laughter and a girl speaking with a faint Italian accent.
"And then he tried to order his food in Italian, and yeah he got the words right but in all the wrong order!" More laughter broke out from one of the two tables.
"It was as if he were some crazy caveman! The waiter himself couldn't help but laugh at him too!"
Kaoru, with his arm around Natalia, blushed bright red as he laughed more. "Alright, I admit it. It was pretty damn funny! But it hasn't happened ever since, I swear! I mean, I do have the best Italian teacher ever." He leaned over and pecked Nat on the cheek.
"Awe, Kaoru. You're too sweet."
An unknown man groaned mockingly. "Why is there always so much cutesy crap with you two? It's like you were made for each other." The group chuckled some more. "Five years later and you're still in the honeymoon phase? This wedding is going to be so boring!"
The unknown man also had an Italian accent. His was more noticeable than Natalia's though. He had light brown, almost blond, hair that had a slight wave to it as it fell just past his ears. But, it was longer than it looked, because it was tied back in a short ponytail, leaving only two side-bang-like pieces to fall free.
Once the two other Hitachiins came into view, Tamaki stopped laughing and clenched his fist in his lap. Haruhi slapped his arm when he did this. "Tamaki stop it. You can't hate him forever."
Kaoru then turned around in his seat to see his older twin standing before them. He got out of his seat quickly and walked over to the two.
"Good to see you, Kao-nii!" Ageha stood on her toes as Kaoru knelt down to hug his sister and kiss her on the cheek.
Kaoru smiled at her. "Good to see you too, Ageha. We have a place set for you at that table right there." He pointed to the table just a few feet next to the one where the adults were sitting. "Chris's sister and Nat's sisters are over there too."
She forced a smile. "Great. More children to talk to. I hate being seven. . ."
"Thank you nii-san!" She started walking away from Kaoru, but instead of heading to the other table, she moved towards Tamaki.
Tamaki moved out of his chair to pick the girl up into a spinning hug. "Ageha! How are you, my dear princess? You look lovely today."
The small girl giggled and blushed. "Thank you, Milord. I am well. It is great to see you're doing well, also!"
Without realizing it, both Hikaru and Kaoru gave an irritated look when Ageha called Tamaki "Milord."
As if that was her cue, Ageha gave Tamaki a final hug and walked over to her table. Once seated, she nodded at Hikaru as a "good luck" sign.
Kaoru turned back to his twin and stood there silently.
Hikaru put his hands in his pockets as he looked down at his feet and began to shuffling them. "Hey, Kaoru . . . It's been a while. . . Uhm. Sorry I haven't been, uh, returning your calls or anything." He started rubbing the back of his neck with one of his hands, still looking down and shuffling his feet. "Oh and uh, congratulations on getting eng-"
He was interrupted when Kaoru suddenly pulled him into a tight embrace. "I missed you so much Hikaru. I was so freaking worried about you. Everyone was. I thought I would never see you again."
Hikaru blushed and awkwardly hugged his brother back. "J- Just because I drink a lot doesn't mean that you'll never see me again . . . I mean you're my twin brother, and even though I'm still pissed about everything that's going on right now, I still wanna at least try to fix it."
Kaoru smiled at Hikaru. "Well, I'm glad you want to fix it. We'll help fix it too." He put one arm around Hikaru and led him to the last vacant chair. It was next to the unknown man, whose name appeared to be Chris, and Haruhi. "You'll be sitting here, next to Chris." At the mention of his name, Chris stood up and held out his hand for Hikaru to shake.
"Hey! Nice to meet you, Hikaru. I'm Christian, or just Chris as your brother just said. I've heard a lot about you from Kaoru. I'm Natalia's best friend."
Hikaru shook the man's hand. "Nice to meet you too. I haven't heard anything about you, but that's probably because I haven't had much contact with my brother for the past few years." He chuckled awkwardly and sat down next to Chris.
Haruhi smiled at the older twin when he sat down. "I'm glad you could make it, Hikaru."
Hikaru smiled back at Haruhi and said quietly, "Me too . . ."
He looked over to Tamaki and then to Natalia, neither of which made eye contact with him. "Figures." he thought, "I've treated Nat like crap since they started dating. And Tamaki is probably still pissed about that night with Haruhi . . ."
An awkward silence hovered about the table for a moment before Hikaru decided to speak up. "So, Chris. You're Nat's best friend, right? How long have you two known each other? And what brings you to this dinner tonight."
"Don't call me Nat." The Italian woman snapped angrily at the older twin.
"C'mon Hun. You don't need to do that to him . . ." Kaoru calmly pleaded with his fiancée. With that, she went back to being silent.
"Alright, you're Natalia's best friend, sorry."
Chris chuckled and looked at Hikaru. "Nat and I have practically known each other since birth. My mother was her mother's assistant, so she used to bring me along with her to keep Nat company when we were little." He took a small breath and continued. "And what brings me to this lovely dinner, you ask? Well Nat is a loser with only one real friend – Me, of course. – So she had to cave and ask her lovely gay man to be her 'maid of honor,' so to speak."
Hikaru nodded and laughed slightly. "That sounds like a great time. I always thought Natalia would have tons of friends! I mean, she is just such a kind and bubbly person! Aren't you, Nat?"
At that, she slammed her palms on the table and pushed her chair out. "Please excuse me." She got up and walked away from the table.
"Nat! Wait!" Kaoru gave Hikaru an angry glance, but Hikaru just threw up his hands and stifled a laugh. Kaoru then got up and went after his fiancée.
Haruhi sighed and frowned at Hikaru. "You know, that wasn't very nice of you Hikaru. You don't have to mess with her like that."
"The thing is, I was being honest. She is a really nice person. I've just happened to be a dick to her for the past five years so anything I say to her will make me sound like an ass."
"You have no right to treat her like that." Tamaki finally spoke up. "After the way you've treated her- the way you've treated all of us- you have no right."
"Tamaki, did you even hear a word I just said. I was being honest. I wasn't messing with her."
Tamaki went silent once more, still refusing to look at Hikaru.
Haruhi began to talk quietly to him to try to calm him down. Hikaru and Chris turned back to each other and continued their conversation.
"Let's try this again. So Hikaru, you and Kaoru were very close growing up, right?"
"Yeah. We were practically inseparable. We never left each other's sides. We were so close that it was nearly impossible to tell the two of us apart. We even dressed, acted, and did our hair almost exactly the same to confuse people. The only one that was ever able to tell us apart was Haruhi. But now, it's pretty damn easy to tell who's who."
"Well, I wouldn't say that. Yeah, from what I've heard, you've changed a lot, but at the moment, you two still hold true to the fact that you are identical twins. Tonight, the only way I would be able to tell the two of you apart if you hadn't told me who's who, is the fact that you look really tired and kind of sad too. While, from the time that I've known him, Kaoru always seems pretty happy and awake."
Hikaru leaned back in his chair at that comment and ran his hand through his hair. "Yeah, I get that a lot. I guess that's what hating the way your life turned out does to you. Well that and the over-abundance of alcohol. Speaking of alcohol, I could really use a drink right about now."
As soon as he said that, as if on cue, Ageha looked over from where she was sitting and gave Hikaru the most terrifying death glare imaginable.
" . . . On second thought, I'll just stick with water tonight."
Chris laughed loudly and patted Hikaru's back. "You've got quite the interesting family. And I have to admit, you are all quite the attractive bunch, too. But I guess being rich and famous in the fashion industry has its benefits."
"Oh please Chris, you should know by now that my lover is naturally perfect and gorgeous." Natalia's voice rand from behind them as her and Kaoru walked arm-in-arm back to the table.
Kaoru blushed profusely as he and Natalia sat back down at the table. He then smiled at everyone there. "So, let's try this again, shall we?"
Alright! That's it for this time. I don't really have much to say . . .
OH WAIT! YES I DO, DUH.
The lovely Christian. Chris is such a lovely gay man don't you think. His personality is based off of the way me and my friends are. (some of my friends happen to be gay okay.)
Well, I don't really plan on writing Kaoru and Natalia's wedding, because I HATE writing out weddings. So, I'll just stick to Tamaki and Haruhi's wedding. So there will be a slight time skip. The next chapter will probably be just after the wedding and will most likely be based off of yet another great idea my sister gave me. (my sister is just a little genius. and she loves ouran so why not have her help out!?)
So, since we won't really be able to see Chris as Nat's maid of honor, let's see who can guess why I really put Chris in this story. Hmmmm.
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