Chapter nine:

I close my eyes for a moment then when I open them I am floating in darkness. I glance around wondering what's going on.

"Kaoru. You must wake up." The fragments voice echoes around me. "Danger is approaching."

I shut my eyes tightly.

WAKE

UP!

My eyes snap open to the real world and I sit up making the blanket that was placed over me slide off. I close my eyes as I let the dizziness settle from my head before opening my eyes again. I glance outside and I can see we are still on the move. "I have to warn them! I need to fight." I try to get up but I fall to one knee while clutching the side of the bed made in a carriage that is carrying me. "Fragment please help me heal faster." I say in a hushed voice.

The fragment helps me and I feel a slight shiver go through me as I feel my strength returning to me.

I get up and get out of the carriage. I glance around as I walk with the others but I need to find Lula moon.

"Kaoru!" Mitsukuni comes running over to me and we share a hug. "I'm so glad you're alright."

"Same to you." I say and we break our hug. "I need to find Lula moon." I tell him. "Danger is approaching."

Mitsukuni points to a carriage. "She's in there. I'll warn the other fighters." He then races off.

"Thank you." I say gratefully as he passes by me. I rush over to the carriage and climb in. "Lula moon."

She looks to me her identity concealed since we are on the move with no place she can take off her stuff that conceals her identity without worry of someone who can't know her identity walking in. "Kaoru! You are alright!" Her voice gives off a smile I'm more than sure she has on her face.

"There is danger approaching." I warn her. "Mitsukuni is going around warning the fighters."

She is instantly serious. "What kind of danger?"

"I'm not sure but it was bad enough that the fragment woke me up." I tell her.

"We must stop. We cannot risk leading this danger to our possible new place to set up camp." She goes to get out of the carriage. "Come."

We get out of the carriage and we race past the ones from the other world to get to the front to tell them to stop. We make it to the front.

"Stop!" Lula moon orders and everyone does just that turning to us. "Get everyone to a nearby safe place. All fighters prepare for battle!"

Everyone begins rushing around to do just that.

"Do you know how much time we have Kaoru?" Lula moon turns to me.

I shake my head. "I only know that is danger is closing in."

She nods. "Alright. Then we will do our best to be prepared for whatever it is."

Mitsukuni comes over to us. "The fighters are ready." He reports. "No sign of the danger yet but whatever it is we are ready to fight."

Lula moon nods. "Thank you. You may resume your post."

Mitsukuni bows respectively then races off to do as told.

I step forward looking around at the horizon looking for any signs of the danger.

They can't be too far if it was so urgent that I woke up.

I glance to the others seeing they are almost all good in a safer place that is nearby.

The ones from the other world are being brought over to the safer place.

I look away and I take a few steps forward watching for the danger. I spot movement on the horizon. "Here it comes!" I call. "Battle stations!"

The fighters quickly rush to form a protective line in front of the others.

I look to Lula moon. "I'll be joining this fight."

"Please be careful." Lula moon says a little softly.

I nod. "I will do my best." I promise her then I go to join the line of fighters.

The danger has turned out to be the chaos beasts in human form and the master of chaos is in the lead.

"The chaos beasts." I hiss under my breath.

The fighters quickly make sure their weapons are all ready to fight these chaos beasts.

Did they come for the fragment or well me or have they come to just try to wipe us out?

I can't say but I have a bad feeling about this like something is going to happen that I am not ready for. I look to Mitsukuni.

Please let him survive this fight.

No one's P.O.V.

The host club can only watch with the other survivors as those able to fight prepare to do so standing waiting for the enemy to move a little closer.

Hikaru is holding his brother with a protective look on his face.

Tamaki is clutching to Kyouya wit Hunny doing the same to host club Mori.

Haruhi is watching hoping that the fight will turn out alright.

The chaos beasts are getting closer and the fighters are getting tense ready to charge into battle.

At the head of the chaos beast army charging towards the fighters is the chaos master himself allowing the host club to see him truly for the first time.

This world's Kaoru's P.O.V.

I tense ready for the right moment to charge and once I see it then I know it's time we charged into battle. "Charge!" I tell the others and we race forward with some preparing their magic and others drawing their weapons to begin fighting.

The fighting is intense but I need to locate the master of chaos.

If I take him down then the chaos beast army will no doubt be utterly useless and lost so that means we can take out the chaos beasts if I get rid of the master of chaos himself since he's the glue that keeps the chaos beast army together.

I duck to avoid a swipe from one of the beasts that almost hit my head. I spin and slam the heel of my foot into his side knocking him sideways into another beast. I then slip away keeping low to try avoid as much of the intense fighting as I could. I look around seeing a whole crowd of fighting, guns pointed firing from the left and right, slashes from beasts and so much blood in all directions. I feel so tense as this intense fighting is showing to be so brutal like the beasts are just going for the kill but not many are coming after me only a few desperate stranglers. I spot Mitsukuni.

He is trying to fight off three of them at once turning left and right to fire constantly as they try to advance.

Chaos beast Mori is one of the ones attacking Mitsukuni.

I take a step to help him but he turns around and our eyes meet.

He silently is telling me to find the master of chaos and to destroy him. He then leaps back into action to avoid being killed.

I a little reluctantly turn away and race to find the master of chaos. I look around myself at the mass of fighting.

Where is he?

I keep looking and I see that there are just so many chaos beasts that they are starting to overpower us survivors. I need to locate the master of chaos now! I race around looking as fast as I can. "Fragment help me now. Where is he?" I say to myself as I dodge a chaos beast and a survivor fighting only to find myself just standing outside of the fighting. I feel a little wet thanks to the blood I hadn't noticed that got on me as I went around through the crowd. "Where the hell did the master of chaos go?" I say looking at the fighting then scanning the edges of the fight wondering if the master of chaos was just sitting off to the side watching. "Where is he? I need to find him."

"Try right behind you." A familiar voice says from behind me.

I completely froze and everything else became a distant blur as my mind fills with the horrific bloody scene of so long ago…. So long ago…. Before I became one with the fragment….. That horrific bloody scene….. This has to be a dream! I'm still dreaming!

"You wanted to know where someone was. Well you found him. You were looking for me right?" His voice almost seems to ring in my ears.

Just a dream…. Just a dream…..

"Hey. Didn't you miss you?" His voice is getting closer and his footsteps make crunching sounds on the ground below indicating he is walking closer. "I missed you."

I spin around and for sure there he stands but I know this isn't him. I know this isn't him! "Hikaru…." My heart beats a little faster in hope but I know that this can't be him!

There's no way!

No one's P.O.V.

Host club Kaoru watches with the others as the brutal fight rages on. He sees the way so many are dying, from both sides, from every direction. He shivers and wishes that this is all just a bad dream.

So much death, blood and fighting… it's starting to get to him.

I glances down for a moment trying to block out the screams and sounds of the battle going on….. only to hear something…..

"Come on little bro. Just leave. We don't need anyone."

"No! You're not real!"

"What are you talking about? Of course I'm real."

Host club Kaoru looks up to the battle then glances a little to the side noticing something that isn't good.

This world's Kaoru is facing what appears to be Hikaru, dressed the same way except for no blood as when host club Kaoru saw him in the dream where he was the only one left in the house…. Only one left of his family…. He blinks as something about that Hikaru doesn't seem right.

It was like the Hikaru was wearing some sort of illusion disguise.

Host club Kaoru swore he can see flashes of the real form of what appeared to be Hikaru.

The real form looked to be a boy who has slightly long blood red, with black fox like pattern on the part where the hair band is holding his hair as well as on the end of his hair, hair pulled into a pony tail so his hair is not raised in the least bit but instead as if the pony tail was only so his hair stays out of his face. He has coyote ears but a fox like face with no muzzle. His body seems to consist of a mountain goat foot with a dragon looking foot on the other side then his arms are what appears to be a foxes as one and a coyote as the other. His black t-shit is tattered but can still be seen as a shirt just pretty ripped up and his just as tattered light colored jeans are his only clothing.

Host club Kaoru feels a spark of some sort deep down inside himself making him realize what has to be done.

This worlds Kaoru is attacked by the fake Hikaru as if in an attempt to make him cooperate or to knock him out.

The fake Hikaru wants to take this world's Kaoru and host club Kaoru realizes that it's the whole reason the chaos beasts came.

"They want this world's Kaoru and are using dirty tricks to try to take him." Host club Kaoru says under his breath.

The fragment seems to try to set up a protective barrier over this worlds Kaoru to try to protect him but the fake Hikaru keeps trying to break through to this world's Kaoru hurt unconscious body.

This world's Kaoru did take quite a heavy hit to the head that would have been enough to knock him out after all.

Host club Kaoru glances to his twin who is beside him but is watching the fighting as if waiting to see if any were going to come over to try hurt any of them. "I'm sorry." He whispers quietly then he sneaks off before his Hikaru can notice. He gives one glance back then he turns to get over to the fake Hikaru as well this world's Kaoru. "I have to do this."

The fake Hikaru snarls when he finds the fragment too strong to be over powered even with this world's Kaoru out cold.

Host club Kaoru clears his throat.

The fake Hikaru spins around to face host club Kaoru in shock. "Wha?" He is at a loss of words looking between the two Kaorus trying to determine if this world's Kaoru was a fake.

Host club Kaoru manages to stay calm as he puts his hands in his pockets. "You like what I did?" He says. "A duplicate. I made sure it seemed like the real me." He walks forward a little. "The fragment warned me that you were coming and I had to prepare myself. When I spotted you I made a duplicate and parted from it. I made sure to add some magic so when you attacked it would seem like the real me." His palms are starting to get a little sweaty but he ignores it. "It gave me enough time to see your real form beneath that illusion of yours. You did pretty well that you fooled me for a few moments." He keeps his eyes on the fake Hikaru.

The fake Hikaru takes a few steps back glancing to this world's Kaoru every now and then as he mostly keeps his eyes on host club Kaoru. "How can I believe you?" He says trying to figure out which one is really the real one.

"Why do you think it was so easy to beat him? I am a lot stronger than that and I could take you out right now." Host club Kaoru says and he sees that the fake Hikaru is starting to really believe him. "But I won't if you agree on a deal." He tries to look confident as best he can.

The fake Hikaru's eyes lock onto host club Kaoru's eyes. "What kind of deal?" He asks.

Host club Kaoru takes a breath. "I want to say the deal in your real form. Please." He says. "Or I won't tell you and I promise you that this deal can be really beneficial for you."

The fake Hikaru looks thoughtful for a moment then looks to this world's Kaoru who is still obviously unconscious.

"I'll even take the shield off of the duplicate if you want." Host club Kaoru says really hoping it works but he has a gut feeling that the fragment knows what he is doing so it'll cooperate if he needs it to so he can convince the fake Hikaru.

"Prove that you are the real one." The fake Hikaru says.

"Fine." Host club Kaoru agrees and moves over to this world's Kaoru and kneels down beside the shield. He places a hand on the shield and a second later it is falls just like the shield did back when the camp was going to be attacked in which the survivors fled after this world's Kaoru used magic to take care of the beasts. He lowers his hand to his side and looks to the fake Hikaru. "That enough proof for you?"

The fake Hikaru has full belief in what host club Kaoru is saying and so he lets his illusion fall revealing his true form that host club Kaoru had glimpses of. "What's the deal?" He asks now standing there as the chaos beast he is.

The master of chaos comes over to the chaos beast when he over hears the commotion.

Host club Kaoru stands up. "I'll willingly go along with you guys if all you beasts of chaos leave the survivors alone. Call off the fight." He watches the two waiting for an answer. "Do we have a deal?"

The chaos beast's eyes shine at the seemingly once in a life time opportunity. "We should take it master chaos." He says.

Master chaos stares at host club Kaoru for a few moments but host club Kaoru manages to not falter. "Fine." He agrees then turns to the mass of fighting. "ALL CHAOS BEASTS RETREAT! I REPEAT! RETREAT!"

The chaos beasts stop fighting and a little hesitantly they turn running away in retreat.

Host club Kaoru feels relaxed now that he knows for sure it's working. He walks towards master chaos and the chaos beast. "Take me away." He says simply.

The chaos beast and master chaos lead him away keeping host club Kaoru in front of them to keep him from running or from anyone trying to save him.

'I'm sorry Hikaru. Forgive me.' Host club Kaoru thinks in head as he is lead away.

Meanwhile….

The survivors watch at the retreating chaos beast army with the master of chaos.

Mitsukuni goes over to this world's Kaoru as the ginger haired boy starts to awaken. "Kaoru?" He says hopefully.

This world's Kaoru looks to Mitsukuni. "Is the battle over?" He says a little softly.

"Yeah they retreated." Mitsukuni says as he helps his friend to his feet.

"I thought they would have taken me. That was their plan. They even went as far as making a Hikaru look alike to grab me." This world's Kaoru explains gently letting Mitsukuni silently know that he's ok. "I just have a headache." He assures the other.

"Well if they wanted to capture you then why didn't they?" Mitsukuni wonders. "You were perfect for the taking but they totally skipped over you."

"I have a feeling that something happened." This world's Kaoru says. "Something that wasn't planned for."

Host club Hikaru's P.O.V.

"They won." I say with a smile glad that the fight is over. "They won again Kao….." My sentence trails off as I turn to look where my brother was only to find him gone. I jump to my feet my heart racing. "Kaoru?" I look around hoping and wishing that I find him. "Kaoru!?"

Tamaki and the others come over to me since we got separated when rushing over here with the others.

"Hikaru what's wrong?" Haruhi asks.

I look to them pleading and desperate. "I can't find him. I can't find Kaoru." I tell them in near to tears. I am terrified that something bad happened to him. "He was beside me as the fight raged on but when I turned to look to him after the fight was won he was gone."

The other's eyes widen.

"We'll split up and look around." Kyouya says quickly.

All of us split up in search of Kaoru but we can't find him.

Not good!

Definitely not good!

Where are you Kaoru!?

AN:

Sorry for not updating.

Busy busy busy.

So I hope you liked this chapter and will wait for the next update.

Kaoru.