Final chapter! And it was really hard for me to write it. x.X I'm not used to writing scenes like the opnes in this chapter, so forgive me if they are crappy. anyways, review when you're done reading it? (puppy dog eyes)

disclaimer: I own no part of ouran.

The whole ride home, I didn't talk much. Actually I found myself staring out the window. I could tell Hikaru was doing the same thing with his window on the other side of the car. Although this was unusual behavior for us, it was perfectly natural with the stress that had been forced upon us.

Hikaru had been telling me that he was all right all day, and I'm surprised that he did so, as if he truly thought that he could actually fool me. Maybe he wanted to believe he could fool me, so that it could lift a part of my worry, but I know him. No fooling could be done.

The limousine drove on for another ten minutes before we pulled up to that familiar mansion that we grew up in. The driver got out, opening the door for the both of us.

Once inside, Hikaru finally spoke. "Home sweet home." He yawned, stretching his arms up over his head. "Hey Kaoru, do you want to look for some kind of cool game online?"

I knew what he was doing, pretending everything was normal. "Sure, I heard about this great one from this guy at lunch." I played along.

We both headed upstairs, and brought out our laptops, searching up the game I had heard about earlier.

It was actually kind of entertaining, for a while at least, but after a few hours it dulled out and we lost interest.

So we searched for another game.

The rest of our day went by painstakingly slowly, until finally came nightfall and we were getting ready for bed. Showering, brushing our teeth, and other such common rituals.

I lay in bed and faced Hikaru. "Goodnight Hikaru."

He smiled, leaning over and kissing my forehead goodnight. "Goodnight Kaoru."

With that we drifted off to sleep.

…

Then it happened. I woke up with a hand covering my mouth, so I made no noise when I tried to scream.

Before I could say anything, I was dragged out of bed, and out of my room. I struggled, but the arm holding me was immensely strong.

How did they get past security...?

I was dragged into a spare room in the house that was never used.

"Hikaru Hiitachin…" An ominous voice hissed.

He uncovered my mouth, but still restraining me so that I could speak. "What about him?" I snarled.

"Don't play dumb with me, pet. That was your name all along, wasn't it?" The man hissed.

Wait a second.

Wait just one second.

I knew who this was. This was the guy who kidnapped Hikaru. He thought I was Hikaru! How typical of him. He was just like everyone else in that aspect.

"Yes, that's my name." I said, playing along. I had to protect my brother.

"'I thought so. Now we can finally write up that ransom note, huh?" He chuckled. I didn't like his laugh one bit.

I bit his hand. Hard.

"Fucking hell!" The kidnapper cursed. "I thought you learned your lesson from the beatings I gave you beforehand."

He let me go, only to knee my stomach a second later. I crumpled down on the floor, feeling a little bit of blood swell up in my mouth. This was all to protect Hikaru. I couldn't let him go back.

Hikaru's P.O.V.

"Kaoru!"

I sat up in bed, drenched with sweat. What a crazy dream. He wouldn't really be gone would he? I looked next to me and my heart stopped. No, he was gone. He was really gone.

Immediately I jumped out of bed. Mara, it had to be Mara. He thought Kaoru was me, and took him. I just knew. I just had a gut feeling.

I hurriedly exited my room, and out to the main hallway. Sneaking down to the main floor, I looked out the window for that suspicious truck that I had been in once before, and ironically enough, it was parked in front. This meant only one thing. He was still here!

I gulped, shaking slightly. That also meant Mara was still here, inside my very own home. I didn't want to go back. I never wanted to go back, but I had to save my brother.

I checked the guest bedroom's first, and luckily enough I heard voices.

"Listen here, you little shit, I know you want to escape, but it's not going to happen."

I peeked my head in the door, and sure enough Mara was there. I bit my lip, to try and shake myself out of the overwhelming fear that had consumed my body. His back was facing me, but Kaoru saw me.

He saw me and he knew what I was thinking. A smirk hit his lips. He stood up. "Alright, Mara, I think you've hit a dilemma, but I'm afraid I can't give you the answer."

Mara gave a twisted grin. "You can't play games with me kid. I'm too smart for that."

I walked in the room. "Oh, but I think you're not."

He scratched his cheek. "So, the both of you decided to play in on this. All right, let's make this fun. I'll play your game."

We both brought out hats, putting them on our heads.

"Then let's play the which one is Hikaru game!" We said in unison.

"What kind of a game is that?" Mara scoffed but nonetheless he decided to participate.

"Now all you have to do is shut your eyes while we shuffle our bodies to make it fair."

Mara gave an annoyed glance, but shut his eyes.

I nodded at Kaoru and he took a vase from the shelf smashing it on Mara's head and we ran out of the room.

We heard him yell fuck as we locked ourselves in another room, both of us breathing hard. "That commotion he's causing has got to have alerted security." I thought.

I turned to Kaoru, placing a hand on his cheek. "What did he do to you?" I murmured.

Kaoru smiled at me. "Don't worry. He didn't have time to do anything serious."

"Come out you shit heads!" Mara yelled from the hall.

I lifted my head. "He's close."

We couldn't hide forever. We needed a plan, and we knew this house better than anyone else.

"Hey Hikaru, we have a rope somewhere right?" Kaoru whispered.

"Yeah." I nodded. "If you're thinking what I think you're thinking, it's perfect. Let's have fun with this."

"Right." Kaoru nodded. If we think of this as a game, it won't be as scary. Let's just mess with him like we would anyone else."

We held hands, gathering up the courage for what we were about to do. We both would prefer to have never had to have done this, to have Mara never have broken in, but this was obviously fate that we would have to face off with him. Me for the second time.

We exited the room, knowing we couldn't blow this. I had found rope in the room, luckily enough, because looking would be risky.

As soon as we heard Mara coming, we each took an end of the rope, stretching it out low across the hallway floor to trip him. He didn't see us or the rope, and fell flat on his face.

"Don't play games with me Pet." he hissed, struggling to get up as we backed away.

"My name's not Pet." I hissed, before we ran away so that we could plan how we would strike next.

We ran into security who were patrolling the halls. "Masters." The man acknowledged. "What's going on? The security team heard noises."

"Mara..." I gasped. "Mara is here."

The security guard nodded. "I see. Please get behind me, young masters."

Mara then decided to show himself toi the security guard. "Oh, you've got a friend." he hissed.

The security guard pulled out a gun and pointed it at him. "Hands in the air."

"A gun? " Mara gave a crazed laugh. "You have a gun, huh? HA HA HEE HEE. A gun won't stop me."

"He's insane..." I heard Kaoru murmur.

"Insane? You know nothing about insanity... not until you've tried it yourself." Mara chortled. He took steps closer, pulling out a knife.

"Don't come any closer or I will shoot." The security guard warned. Did I fail to mention that our security guards were trained army men?

Despite the warnings, Mara kept advancing.

"Cover your eyes, young masters, I don't want you to see this..."

"I'm not losing!" Mara scoffed, with his fake sense of immortality.

BANG!

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The ambulance pulled up to the front, as a cop approached us. "You two got very lucky. If you hadn't tricked him the way you did, God only knows what he could've done with that knife,"

I turned to Kaoru who was smiling at me. "This has got to be the final stage, huh?"

He nodded. "We don't have to worry any more. They won't let him escape twice."

I smiled, overcome with joy at finally being free. I glanced at Kaoru. "So, what do you think we should do now?"

Kaoru smirked and stretched. "Well, first things first... we go back to bed, and then tomorrow we wake up with no more danger over our heads."

"That sounds nice." I said, laughing slightly.

We got back inside, crawling under the covers once more, and safe this time.

I reached out to touch Kaoru's cheek and a smile hit my lips. It just struck me, this thought, in an odd sort of way. With all that we had been through, with all that had occured over this night, with my brother I now felt more one than ever. I now felt like he and I could truly be the same again.

I liked that idea.

Back at last, I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep. "Goodight Kaoru."

aaaaand done! woo! Tell me what you thought. :)