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AN: Hi! I'm not dead! My inspiration was for a long time on all my stories. It's been coming back here and there. Now it's the turn for You and Me to be updated! Hope you like the chapter. Please review because feedback is priceless.

Chapter 10

"I'm telling you Haruhi, I don't even recognize him anymore!" Hikaru exclaimed, complaining once again about his brother.

"Maybe you should try to figure out who he is now instead of wanting who he was" Haruhi replied, matter-of-factly. Hikaru gave her a look. That was useless advice.

"I mean, take interest in what he does" she continued.

"Can't you just talk to him?" Hikaru asked, whining. "He'll listen to you. And maybe you can get him to see reason."

Haruhi looked at her friend. There was a hint of desperation mixed with exasperation in his voice. She sighed. "I can try but…"

"Great! Thanks Haruhi! You're the best!" he interrupted. Haruhi simply sighed again.

"Hello Kaoru" Haruhi said sitting down beside her friend.

"Hello Haruhi" Kaoru sighed. "Let me guess. My brother sent you."

She frowned. Hikaru wasn't the only reason she would talk to Kaoru. Surely he knew that….right? "You're my friend too" she began saying.

"I know, but you were awkward just now and you never are when you talk to me because you want to talk to me, which hasn't happened a lot lately. And since I had another confrontation with Hikaru yesterday, I deduced that he sent you to try to 'reason' with me. Am I right?" Her silence was telling.

"Hikaru is my friend. I want to help him but I don't know how. He says he doesn't recognize you anymore. He doesn't know how to talk to you"

"Funny, I don't recognize us either. But it's not ourselves that I don't recognize so much as our relationship. That's what really changed. Beside, he may want to talk to me, but I don't want to talk to him."

Haruhi bit her lip. "Is it…is it because of me?" She had to ask. The problems with the twins had started when Hikaru and she started hosting together. She couldn't help but wonder if Kaoru was blaming her for the distance there now was between his brother and him.

Kaoru shook his head. He couldn't say he had never blamed Haruhi for slowly losing Hikaru, but he didn't anymore because, really, it wasn't her fault at all. Everyone is responsible for their own choices and Haruhi wasn't the one who had started ignoring him. "No. This isn't your fault. You didn't make Hikaru act the way he did towards me. Yes he spends a lot of time with you and yes at the beginning that hurt and I might have blamed you for a while, but that's been over for a long time because it's not your fault at all." Kaoru took a pause and looked at his friend directly in the eyes. "See, the problem isn't that he spends time with you, but the consequences of that. I'm fine with him talking to you and being with you. I spent a lot of time with Hunny. We each have our own friends and that's fine. What isn't fine is that, on the way, I lost Hikaru. He just…he closed his world on the two of you and left me out. But he doesn't get that and it makes things that much worst."

"Have you tried telling him all that?"

Kaoru snorted bitterly. "Yeah I have but he doesn't get it. He doesn't think he did anything wrong. So I rather just not talk to him anymore. If we talk, we'll get in a fight and I really don't want things to get worse."

Haruhi looked at Kaoru sadly. She really didn't know how to help the twins. "Do you want me to talk to him?"

Kaoru shook his head. "No. I don't want you to get involved Haruhi. I won't do that to you. Being stuck between us is not a good idea. If we continue to fight….things will not be pretty and I don't want you to be in a position where you have to choose sides. Just…Just continue being there for Hikaru like you're doing now." Kaoru said. No, involving Haruhi wasn't a good idea. If Hikaru thought Kaoru had swayed Haruhi to his side, who knows what he'd do.

" Ok. But you know Kaoru, if there's anything, you can talk to me."

"I know" he nodded.

"Well….I guess I'll see you at the Host Club this afternoon." Kaoru nodded at Haruhi as she left.

"So you talked to him" Hikaru asked his friend, before Host Club started.

"Yes" Haruhi answered.

"And?"

"And you have to fix things yourselves. I can't do it for you Hikaru. Kaoru has a problem with you, not with me. Besides, he doesn't want me to get involved and I respect that. I shouldn't have agreed to talk to him for you. It's your business."

"But Haruhi!"

"No." She said firmly. "Kaoru told me he tried to tell you what was going on but you didn't listen."

"I listened just fine!"

"Then how come you don't know what Kaoru is angry and sad about?" Hikaru looked at her in surprised. Kaoru was sad?

"Did you even know that he was sad as well as angry?" Hikaru didn't answer his friend but the silence was telling.

"Look, I don't really know what happened. What I do know however is that Kaoru and you need to have a serious talk and for that to happen, you both need to let go of your anger, and be open minded to what the other has to say. Just because you don't see things as Kaoru does, doesn't mean they aren't true. Each person has their own truth because each person views a situation differently. I don't think you're ready to talk to Kaoru at all. You're exasperated, angry and close minded. When you're not, then go talk to Kaoru. Otherwise, you guys are just going to continue fighting and I don't want that to happen. In the meantime, try to remember what Kaoru said during your fights and try to understand his point of view."

Hikaru looked at her in bewilderment. That was the problem! He couldn't understand his brother anymore. This had been useless. He wasn't any closer to making Kaoru see reason.

Kaoru said goodbye to Yuki then went to the Host Club. Apart from the discussion with Haruhi, he had been able to distract himself from thinking about his brother. This was a good day. Or at least a better day.

"Hello Kaoru." Kyoya said, as Kaoru entered the room.

"Ah. Hello Kyoya-sempai. How are you today?"

"Good."

"That's….that's nice" Kaoru blushed. Kyoya gave him a little smile. 'That's nice' Kaoru thought. 'Really? You couldn't find something more intelligent to say? Wait a minute….since when do I care about what I say to Kyoya ?' Kaoru asked himself, surprised at his own thoughts. 'And why do I keep blushing? What's wrong with me?'

It was true. There hadn't been a time when he had done his homework with Kyoya or hosted with him without Kaoru genuinely blushing. Most of the time with Hikaru, he had faked his blushes. But with Kyoya, there really was no need to.

"Ah Mother. There you are!" Tamaki said as he entered the room. "Why is it that little birdies told me you and that devilish twin were hosting together?"

"You mean you didn't know? I've been hosting with 'Mother' since the Shakespeare event. Milord is not the sharpest tool in the box, is he?" Kaoru told Kyoya, in a teasing tone.

"Argh! You wound me, you evil twin!" Tamaki exclaimed dramatically

"Kaoru….remember what I said about your little comments about Tamaki?" Kyoya said, reminding Kaoru that he'd have to host with Milord if he continued like this.

"Oh please no not that!"

"Mother! How nice of you to punish the twin for hurting me so!"

"Nice? Tamaki….my punishment would be hosting with you!"

"Surely you lie! Kyoya that isn't true, is it?"

"I never said I considered it punishment."

"What punishment?" Hunny said as he arrived. "Why are we talking about punishments? That's not nice" He said hugging Bun-Bun.

"It's because I said something not nice to Tamaki" The youngest twin answered.

"Be careful Koaru or you'll have to host with Tamaki instead of Kyoya!"

"What? you think that's punishment too?" Tamaki said. He was starting to feel a little sad and rejected.

"Of course not! You can host with Takashi and me anytime!"

"Yeah Tamaki" Kaoru said, feeling he should cheer the other boy up. Sure it was fin having a laugh at Milord's expense but he shouldn't go too far. "It's not that I don't want to host with you…it's just…." Tamaki looked at him expectantly. "It's just…I want to host with Kyoya and hosting with you punishes me by taking away something I like!"

Tamaki looked cheered up at that. Kaoru, however, had seen Kyoya's amused smile and raised eyebrow at his comment and felt himself flushing. Seriously, why couldn't his body stop doing that? It was getting troublesome. But before Kaoru could ask himself any further questions or find possible answers, the girls arrived and the Host Club members went their separate ways.

As usual, Koaru found himself blushing madly during hosting. It didn't help that Kyoya kept pulling him into his lap. According to Renge, the girls were falling over themselves just to see that! Imagine how ecstatic they were when Kyoya was whispering sweet nothing in the younger boy's ear or kissing his cheek. At least Koaru could comfort himself thinking he wasn't the only one flushing in these instances; the girls were all sporting bright red cheeks too.

The hosting went well as usual. Kaoru tried very hard to focus solely on Kyoya and the ladies in order not to think about his brother. Things went well….until the end of the hosting day. Hunny and Mori had a competition that night and had already left. Kaoru was to go to Kyoya's place while the competition was on. The older boy however, had received an important phone call and had temporarily left the room to deal with the problem, leaving Kaoru in the club room. Or so Kaoru thought. That day, Hikaru had decided to simply escort Haruhi to the bus station and then go back to the club. For the first time in what seemed like forever, the twins found themselves completely alone with each other.

"Kaoru" Hikaru said from behind his twin, startling him.

"Hikaru! Don't sneak on people like that!" Koaru had been in deep thoughts and the unexpected interruption had scared him a little. Soon though, the fright disappear and became dread. Kaoru really didn't feel like fighting with his brother today. It had been a good day. Couldn't he have one good day?

"We need to talk!"

"Do we now?" Kaoru asked, keeping his voice as detached and emotionless as possible.

"Yes we do. This can't continue like this. You're being….I don't know what you're being but it needs to stop now!"

"Hikaru…" Kaoru sighed. "I'm not being anything. I'm not being unreasonable or ridiculous or whatever else you believe. There are some serious issues here and you can't even realise it. I told you before, once you finally get a clue, come talk to me. Until then, it's better for the both of us if we stay our separate ways."

"How can you say that? How can you think we're better separate than together? You're my twin. You're us! We never go our separate ways. "

"Funny, because you're the one who started going on his own way. And it's fine. Well no it's not because on the way, I stopped mattering to you."

"What? Of course you matter to me!"

"Really? Then tell me Hikaru, before we started fighting, when was the last time you and I had spent time together?"

"What are you talking about. We were always together."

"No, you were always with Haruhi"

"Is that what this is about? You're jealous!"

"Jealous?" Kaoru asked incredulous. Okay maybe at first he had been. "Maybe at the very beginning, there was some jealousy involved in you spending all your time with Haruhi and forgetting about me but that's been gone a long time ago. I'm not jealous. I'm sad. I'm sad because you ignored me. I wasn't by your side and you didn't notice. I got upset at you and instead of trying to figure out why, you went to 'save' Haruhi from Milord! So no Hikaru, this has nothing to do with Haruhi. It has to do with you and how you've been treating me!"

"Treating you? I haven't been treating you any different than before. You're the one who's all weird."

"Argh!" Kaoru was exasperated. "There really is no talking to you. No matter what, it's exactly like talking to a brick wall. I can talk myself to death, you still wouldn't get it. You don't listen to what I'm saying!"

"I'm listening! You're just not making any sense!"

"He's making perfect sense." A cold voice resonated in the room. "Don't fault Kaoru for your thick head, Hitachiin Hikaru." Kyoya said.

"You! Stay out of this!" Hikaru exclaimed.

"No I will not. I will not stand by and see you upset your brother any further. You are acting like an idiot Hikaru: a stubborn as a mule idiot. If you cannot talk to your brother properly, then I'll politely ask you to refrain from talking to him at all." Kyoya said, glaring at the older twin. "Come Kaoru" Kaoru nodded.

"Come where? Oh no, you're not going with him!" Hikaru exclaimed angrily, grabbing Kaoru's am painfully.

"Hikaru! Let go! You're hurting me!"

"Is that with whom you've been staying? The Shadow King? Are you completely nuts?" Hikaru yanked Kaoru's arm hard.

"Hikaru let go!" Kaoru screamed, trying to get rid of his brother's grip on his arms. He was going to have a bruise.

Suddenly, Hikaru found himself with his arm twisted behind his back. Kyoya had grabbed Hikaru's wrist in a manner that made him lose his grip on Koaru and then had twisted his arm around.

"Touch Koaru like that again, and I promise you, I will do a lot worst to you than this" Kyoya whispered in Hikaru's ear with a deadly tone, making sure to hurt the older twin's arm.

"Let's go Kaoru" Kyoya said turning around. The sight that greeted him made his heart clenched. Kaoru's cheeks were stained with tears. As they were walking towards Kyoya's limo, the older boy felt the need to apologize….which was definitively strange as he never felt the need to apologize for anything.

"I'm sorry if I upset you Kaoru. I just couldn't stand Hikaru hurting you. "

"It's okay sempai. I know you were just protecting me. I'm more upset at Hikaru grabbing me like that. As much as I hate seeing Hikaru in any form of pain, even I have to admit he had it coming this time. Thank you for protecting me." 'and for restraining yourself from doing worst.' Kaoru thought. 'If Hunny had been there to see it…' Kaoru wasn't sure Mori would have been enough to restrain the smaller boy from going Martial Art Champion on Hikaru!

Turns out, he wasn't wrong to think that. When Kyoya had updated Hunny as to what had happened, the older boy had had a deadly look in his eyes. Later on that night, once Kaoru had gone to sleep, Hunny and Mori had a conversation about it.

"Someone has to do something about Hikaru, Takashi, or I'm not sure I'll be able to restrain myself" the smaller boy had told his friend that night. "He's just…so infuriating! What happened to Hika-chan? He wasn't always like that."

"I suppose the blinders love always put are much thicker for him. Give him time."

"We already have! I'm not sure how much longer Kaoru can handle this."

"Kaoru is stronger than you think. He will handle it. I believe it's Hikaru who will be handling the separation badly. It's why he's acting like he is. Now that he noticed that his brother is not by his side anymore, he's upset and is reacting badly."

"What can we do?"

"Nothing, other than supporting Kaoru and perhaps, making sure Hikaru has some support too. It wouldn't do well to ostracise Hikaru. It would made his reactions that much worst"

"But shouldn't someone try and talk to Hikaru?"

"I don't think he's ready to listen. We'll have to wait and see" Hunny nodded at his friend. He didn't like the idea of doing nothing but Takashi always seemed to know what to do to make things better. He trusted the other boy's judgement. For now, Hunny would simply wait and see.

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