Chapter 7: Impulsive Haruhi

Hikaru pondered this as Kaoru's attention turned back to Haruhi berating Tamaki, Haruhi did make him happy. She actually made him beyond happy because happiness was impermanent; Hikaru loved her because she filled his life with an unending joy. Yes he got mad at her, and yes she got mad at him but even in their anger, she brought something into his life that nobody before could; not even Kaoru.

"And don't think I won't get around to you too." Haruhi announced as she gave him a pointed look that made Kaoru leap away with a slight yelp in fright. Running off Kaoru snickered as he went looking for his old friend, Murai. Murai was a martial arts expert like Mori and Honey, and she had for years been protecting Kaoru's butt whenever someone was pissed at him.

"Oh I'll wait my turn." Hikaru fired back with a wink earning a humph noise from Haruhi that made him chuckle. It was quite obvious that Tamaki had had quite enough by now and had gone into his depression corner complete with mushrooms and him making hamster bedding out of paper that appeared from nowhere.

"Classic Tamaki!" Both Hikaru and Haruhi muttered in unison causing them both to look at each other and the second that his golden eyes met her chocolate ones, they began to giggle.

"You two have been together too long." Murai snorted as she walked up wearing a mint green tight-fitting strapless cocktail dress that revealed her athletic build. Kaoru peeked around her form and smirked as Murai continued, "You sound like Kaoru and Hikaru did!"

Kaoru stopped smirking and stepped out from behind Murai to glare at his old friend as Hikaru simultaneously stepped forward to stand next to his twin. "You make that sound like a bad thing." They accused in unison with identical stances and identical glares.

Murai shrugged leaving both man looking more confused than before and earning a laugh from Haruhi as she stepped out from behind the pair and gave Murai a wave. Both girls were deeply involved in the pursuit of the law and extremely interested in protecting the innocents from those who were willing to bend it to their own whims since Murai was hell-bent on becoming a cop and Haruhi was still dead-bent on becoming a lawyer. Therefore the two had become fast friends ever since Haruhi had met her one night at the Hitachiin mansion. "Is it better thing Hikaru?"

"I don't think so Kaoru." The two stood there with their arms around each other making them look for all the world like they had when they were partners during their days in the host club. Rolling their eyes simultaneously, the two girls sauntered over to the table with the toshikoshi soba and the fancy tuna.

"When are you going to propose?" Kaoru asked leaning on his brother and slightly jumping up and down causing giggles from the girls around them, even Tamaki's so-called girlfriend was blushing along with the rest; nobody could get over twincest no matter their age.

Hikaru scuffed his feet earning even more blushing and giggling from the girls, but he could not have cared less. To him it really was embarrassing that it had taken him this long to get up the nerve to ask Haruhi to marry him. "I'm working on that part…"

"Hikaruuuuu!" Kaoru moaned dragging out the end sound of his brother's name, "Can I at least see the ring?" He begged sounding more like a bridesmaid than the twin brother of the man who was asking his girlfriend to become his fiancé.

Fishing it out of his pocket, Hikaru opened the box carefully revealing the diamond that he had handpicked after weeks of search. In the end, he had chosen the ring that his grandmother Kazuha had been given by his grandfather before the two started the Hitachiin fashion company. It truly was fairly conservative since they had been pretty dead broke at the time however it still may be a little much for Haruhi's taste.

"It's a little small." The younger twin drawled sounding like a southern woman who sings in the gospel choir and is constantly fanning herself and telling anyone who makes the mistake of asking that any type of food is not as perfect as her mamma's recipe.

"You're a little small." Hikaru fired back in a total middle school-esque response; Kaoru gave him a raised eyebrow that made a light bulb of shame go on over Hikaru's head. Groaning as he realized the alternate interpretation of what he'd just said, Hikaru face palmed before glaring at his, now, smirking twin. "You know what I meant!" Kaoru burst into giggles just as Haruhi and Murai returned with plates full of an odd combination of the traditional noodles and the dish that Haruhi continued to refer to as "fancy tuna".

"I will never understand men." Murai blurted out earning a chuckle from Haruhi as a blushing Hikaru rushed to return the box to his pocket and Kaoru continued to laugh unperturbed by the reappearance of the women.

"Yeah well I'll never understand women." Kaoru fired back once he caught his breath and the pair continued to argue as they walked off leaving Haruhi and Hikaru on their own for the first time since the pair had walked through the door.

"So where'd you run off to?" Haruhi spun around to interrogate him and was instead met with a unflustered Hikaru smirk.

"Just was knocking some sense into Kaoru." He replied before spinning around and leaving a hand on her shoulder as he pointed with the other. Following the direction of his finger she caught sight of Kaoru with an arm around Murai's waist as they chuckled together. "Apparently, when Kaoru was mysteriously missing this afternoon he was hiding from Sato-san after breaking up with her. She obviously didn't take it too well."

Looking over at him with an unwitting smile, as she hadn't forgotten how annoyed she'd been with him, Haruhi considered how much his impulsive ways led to forgiveness and wished that she could be impulsive sometimes too rather than just calculatingly logical like a mini version of Kyoya but with a little bit more of a soul. By the time she had finished thinking this through, the pair was beside a table and Haruhi placed her plate down before sitting in the chair that Hikaru pulled out for her simply because she knew that if she didn't Hikaru would complain all night about how she hadn't allowed him to be a gentleman.

"And I thought that Renge was the matchmaker." The law student teased as she completely put her own anger aside for a moment and directed all her energies to making Hikaru blush. It didn't work precisely as she liked because although Hikaru appeared flustered at being compared to Renge, he was not blushing.

Scuffing his feet against the floor, he sounded more like a defensive Haruhi than his usual impulsive self, "I can be romantic too when I calculate the possibility of two people being perfect for each other." Haruhi grinned as she said exactly what Hikaru would have when he was being simply flirtatious and not as romantic.

"Well than calculate this Hika." Standing on her tip toes, she grabbed his tie to pull him down to her level and pressed a light kiss to his lips. When she let him go, Haruhi found Hikaru blushing like mad and grinned as he rubbed his lips thoughtfully before he looked up at her with his tawny golden eyes filled with a passionate, fiery love for the girl in front of him.

"Come back over here you crazy girl." He murmured with his voice a few octaves lower than normal as he stepped forward and planted another kiss on her lips this one being longer, more passionate, and involving a bit of tongue.

Pulling away first, mostly due to lack of air, Haruhi grinned up at Hikaru as he attempted to steal another kiss. "We can't enjoy the party if we are just sucking each other's faces."

"Fiiiinnnneee." The young man groaned before pecking her cheek quickly, "I had to have one more for the road." He pointed out as he looped an arm around her waist after the pair stood up, Haruhi having forgotten about her plate of delicious food.

"My tuna!" She yelped after realizing what had occurred and quickly slipped out of her boyfriend's grip to sit back down and munch on her food.

Chuckling to himself, Hikaru sat down beside her and sneaked a forkful once in a while when she put her utensil down. "Now, what did I miss when I was off with Kaoru?" His question made her think, should she tell him about the look that Kasanoda gave her that still made her want to shudder? "I mean normally you're a little softer on that idiot Tono."

"Just chatted with Mori, Honey, and Reiko while Kyoya tried, and failed, to calm Tamaki who was in a more affectionate mood than usual." Haruhi replied, masking the truth and choosing the Hikaru impulsive method over her own usually serious and logical mindset.

Hikaru grinned at her and Haruhi smiled, maybe being impulsive wasn't so bad if it meant that Hikaru would have a better night sans the jealous green monster bothering him all night. Squelching her own fears and former anger as Hikaru stole another bite of the toshikoshi soba noodles, Haruhi prayed that nothing bad would come of her not telling Hikaru about her confrontation with Kasanoda.

Sorry for being so behind on updating, I will try my best to be more on top of things when I update with the next chapter. As a form of apology, I wrote this one to be a little longer. Pretty please with a cherry on top, read and review so that I can better my writing style. Thanks in advance! ^_^