ARGH! I just read the most recent chapter of Ouran and was shocked!...IS HONEY TALLER THAN HARUHI?! If you've read it then take a look at the page where they're stood in Tama's dad's office! Honey really looks taller than her! It was a big shock for me...Oh and WE'RE ON CHAPTER 10!! Wahay! Congrats if you've got this far and thanks so much to those who have continued to review; Luluhalulu (always the first to review! Haha), IAMNOTADOG and AiOtaku – you guys rock! Thank you for all your support!

Kyouya lolled back in his seat, looking up at the high ceilinged room. These Ochiai fellows weren't doing too badly for themselves after all. The decor was of very high class, the furniture was absolutely exquisite and the minah bird's cage which sat at the corner of the main living room was, if he was not mistaken, a rare Italian antique and possibly worth a small fortune, in fact, it would probably buy Haruhi's home four times over. But this was irrelevant. Kyouya moved his gaze across the room to his temporary host, Kazuhiko, who was currently on the phone to his hairdressing friend.

"It's not my problem if your sister's out of control!...No, Narumi!... We can't take Haruhi here! It'll be awkward with just the two of us guys and her!... Well Chisami will have to put up with her then!" He slammed the phone down, shaking with frustration. "Apparently Narumi's sister and Haruhi aren't getting along too well." Kazuhiko addressed Kyouya "and he doesn't want to trouble Kiri because she's got the most guests anyway."

"I am surprised." He replied dryly. "Haruhi is normally very popular with girls..."

"It seems that Chisami is jealous of Tamaki-san's attentions. And anyway, isn't her popularity with girls a result of her cross dressing?" Kazuhiko crossed his arms.

"Possibly..." Kyouya picked up his tonic water on the rocks, from the table at his left side and swirled the contents half-heartedly. "Our plan won't work so well if Kiri and Haruhi are forced to switch houses for the week. Not only will Tamaki and Haruhi be driven apart...Not good for my plan of getting Tamaki to realise his emotions... and on top of that Kiri and Narumi will be forced to live together...not so great for you." Kyouya looked up knowingly at his scheming partner. "What is it about this Koshiba girl you like?" Ochiai stiffened up considerably, affronted.

"Does it matter? The point is that this situation could be advantageous to the both of us and we should just get on with it. I trust you can find your room?" Kazuhiko asked, not expecting a reply and stormed from the room. Just as expected, thought Kyouya. There cannot exist two such ego's in a friendship. This was merely a business relationship from the very beginning.

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Hikaru sat bolt upright. It was the middle of the night; the living room was dark, all for the one strip of moonlight that shone through the gap in the curtain and across the end of Kaoru's futon. He stood up, stretched and yawned. It was harder to sleep on the floor than he had anticipated. As quietly as possible, he wandered through the house to the small veranda at the back, where he sat, dangling his feet down into the grass. Who was the mysterious person that Kaoru spoken of? It didn't make any sense at all. Could he even be sure he'd met them? Suddenly, a creak of floorboards behind him made Hikaru jump from his skin.

"Do you often go outside at night without a pyjama top on?" Kiri asked from behind him. "Aren't you freezing?" Hikaru heaved a sigh of relief.

"Oh, hey Kiri...I'm just a bit restless is all..."

"That doesn't answer my question, but what the hell." She lowered herself to sit by him and looked across the small garden, wondering what could possibly interest a high class boy in such modest greenery. Unless... "Are you having spirals?"

"What?"

"Spirals?"

"Huh?" Hikaru leant back from Kiri in confusion. Spirals? What the...?

"Thought spirals! Whirling thoughts, you know, making it hard to sleep." Kiri said lazily, clearly irritated that Hikaru did not understand her lingo.

"Yeah!" he laughed in relief. "Something like that."

"Can I Help?" Kiri asked, unsure of what exactly she might be letting herself in for.

"Maybe. I don't suppose you know someone, someone important to Kaoru who he feels he needs to protect who, well, you remind him of."

"Hm." Kiri paused for thought. "Dunno. I know who the obvious person would be."

"Haruhi? Yeah I already asked and it wasn't her." Hikaru said dejectedly but then became confused when he saw Kiri shake her head.

"No, I think I can guess who. What exactly did he say?" Kiri asked.

"Well, that it was someone important to the both of us, and that they needed to be protected, and it was because of emotional issues."

"Who do you think he knows most – in relation to all those things? Think, it's pretty clear from where I'm sitting." Hikaru racked his brains. Who did Kaoru know best...?

"Of course..!" Kiri nodded in response to Hikaru's revelation. He was a twin after all...

Hopefully it should be obvious now who 'the person' is...if you still don't quite get it, it'll be made crystal clear in chapter 11! Please leave me a little review! It's that button right there and you don't even have to write much! Thanks a bunch! x