HIKA POV
The man, my new secretary glared at me. He was older, he was more worn out. But he was as proud as before.
"Hi, Kyouya," I greeted my former high school associate, "How nice to see you."
The dark haired man backed away from me and leaned against my desk, though he looked tempted to smack me on the head again. He ran his fingers through his hair and smirked, "Nice to see you too," he sighed, "Almost nice, as in, if it was in different circumstances, but too bad I hate you now."
My mouth was dry, the world was crashing down, "K-Kyouya... why are you here?"
He laughed, never before had I thought Kyouya could have sounded so hollow, "Why, your mother," He spat at me, "forced me to, because I am the THRID Ootori son!" He ranted on, "I AM USELESS!" He glared at me harder than before.
"No, Kyouya, What?" I was confused, why would my mother do that? I mean we have MONEY we could control anyone, anytime. why choose a former friend? "I don't understand."
My senior went into his all too familiar emotionless facade, familiar except it was even more cold, " Hikaru, you don't know anything that is going on do you? You don't know anything happening outside of your office do you?"
Words played around in my head until something strung together, "No."
The former shadow king sighed and motioned for me to sit on the chair at my desk. I did.
"Hikaru, you know, your mother doesn't exactly care for her sons. You are here like a prisoner and Kaoru is out there," he pointed to the window, "and alone. He's been out and in our contact. As in Tamaki and myself. Hunny and Mori are out of the country, they couldn't stand the changes."
I interrupted him, "Excuse me? Changes? What's that got to do with them, they have nothing to do with us?"
"Them? What's with them and us?" Kyouya's glare softened, "We... are... were a family right? There is no them and us in a family..."
"Tamaki, has changed you," I couldn't help but smile at the thought of the King changing a statue, "But I still don't understand. If it hurt you guys so much, then why didn't you just leave with those two?"
"Tamaki and I, both loved Haruhi. When you were to marry her we did consider following Hunny and Mori," This was the very first time I saw Kyouya smile in thought, "Too bad we cared too much about you... three. I wanted to leave, but Tamaki kept me here. For the outside we could still see there was something wrong. Everything about you and Kaoru separating and you marrying Haruhi was wrong."
"So you came here and tried to go undercover and help us," I concluded.
"Wrong. I may have become more outwardly kind," Kyouya's glasses glinted, "but I am not foolish," he took a deep breath, "Mrs. Hitachiin, forced my father into forcing me to become your secretary. She wanted to punish the ones that 'ruined' her sons. I mean, what other way could she hurt me than humbling me to work under a boss? She couldn't get to Tamaki, because he is the only Suoh heir."
I was stunned. She didn't just not care for Kaoru and I, she hated everything that had to do with us. Fashion designer or not, she was cruel and horrendous. If the fact that we were her flesh and blood didn't get in the way, we'd be already killed and left in a ditch.
"So," Kyouya snapped, "That's why I hate you. Sorry for bringing you back to the good ol' days, but I've deicided, we will cut off all our ties. Fellow host, friends, whatever, Mr. Hitachiin."
He headed for the door.
"Wait, Kyoyua! Why... do you hate me?"
He kept his back to me, "Because you didn't save him." His voice was so low that I could barely hear, "He is hurt."
He left.
With me in the leather black chair.
KYO POV
I closed the door.
Honestly, I shouldn't have blamed the poor twin for my troubles. It was just that he seemed to be the start of it. But it also seems that he will be the one that will end it. I was that close. THAT close to taking over everything the Ootori family had. But now I was just where I started.
My friends, my family, my pride. Everything was cracked. But you know? You can always mend glass back up no matter how cracked it was. It could be saved... as long as it didn't break.
I just hope, my friend... will pull through.
kay, SHORT, haha but still review, and I know I use a ton of incomplete sentences, but I like it that way. Twist of events? YUP!
