Sorry I have not updated in ages :( I have not had chance! and just realised about this, but here is the 10th part of it...
Little lost kitty cat (AKA girl) part 10
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"So, that's it," Haruhi said as she stopped walking in the halls of the corridor, once they arrived back to the classroom, just outside of it.
"Thanks for showing me around Haruhi," Ichirou said with a smile. They had just explored around the campus, and surprising that she has not seen any signs of the guys who annoy her so.
When Haruhi was in class earlier, it was more surprising for her because, Ichirou had happened to be in the same class, making things easier. The sensei, in the class, especially asked Haruhi to take him around, which she needed to already. This was ok for her as they already met and she did not mind. While she was showing him around, it was on break. "What do you think of this place so far?" She asked Ichirou while facing him from out of the classroom.
"Hm, it's alright. Don't know many people yet, but..." Haruhi giggled a little, "What?" He asked.
"Did you not see the girls?" he shook his head, "well, around this place, the girls usually go for the new guy. So be careful!"
"Be... careful...?"
"Yeah, it would be like a stampede of elephants!" Haruhi laughed at herself even more, Ichirou however, was more confused but ignored it.
"Ok, I will try to be erm... careful..."
They both entered the classroom, as the class had already begun. "Sorry about that sir, I was just showing our new student around."
He looked towards the door, noticing both of them. "That is ok; you two may take a seat now."
They both nodded and went towards their seats. Haruhi was sat next to Ichirou, whilst Hikaru was next to her and Kaoru was on the other side. It used to be Haruhi sat in middle of Hikaru and Kaoru, but the seating orders changed when he came in. "Haruhi...?" A whisper suddenly came from Hikaru as Haruhi sat down on the seat.
"Huh?" She said quickly while looking towards him slightly.
"We missed you all break, where have you been? You rushed out of class fast with Ichirou," Hikaru mentioned quietly, looking at her in the eyes.
"I was just showing him around, is all... as I explained I would," She told him while rolling her eyes and looking back forward, ignoring the pesters she kept getting from him, as he moaned like a little kid and folding his arms.
The lessons went fast for the morning, it was now lunchtime and this time she stayed sat and turned to Ichirou. "Where would you want to eat?" she asked.
"No worries..." he waved his hands, "I actually have a lunch already made."
Haruhi smiled, "me too! Want to eat in the classroom?"
He looked outside slightly, "Why not outside? It is a nice day today."
She started to stand up and nodded to him, "Sure."
"Haruhi!" she heard Hikaru and Kaoru moan.
"Guys, just tell the rest that I'm with the new guy and will see them some other time."
They both pouted, "Unfair..."
Haruhi sighed, "See you guys later."
They watched both Haruhi and Ichirou leave the room. Kaoru turned to Hikaru who was still looking at the door. "Hikaru? Do you think that Ichirou is trying to take her away?"
Hikaru did not reply, he carried on looking at the door, which she retreated through. He had loads of things going through his head, wondering what was happening to the Haruhi they met. Now she met Ichirou, she seems to not want to speak to them. Maybe he was more a better friend for her then them. They did not know. Hikaru let out a groan, "Just let her go with him."
"Hikaru?" Kaoru said shocked at the words.
"If she prefers him better then us, then that's fine and dandy with me." He started walking to the door; seeing Kaoru was not following, he looked behind. "You coming?"
Kaoru sighed, nodding and ran towards him. "So...?" he started while walking in the hallway. "Where are we going? The canteen is back there."
Hikaru just shrugged, and carried on walking. To be honest, he did not know where he was going so he just carried on walking. Kaoru was just more worried about Hikaru then he had ever known. He had a feeling it was to do with Haruhi, since she just suddenly went with Ichirou, and they had always felt more alone but since she came, they were happy.
"Hikaru! Kaoru!" a shout came from behind.
Hikaru carried on walking, ignoring the yells. Kaoru just kept looking back and towards Hikaru, the shouts were indeed Tamaki.
He came running up towards them, "Wait for me!" he caught up and breathed in and out. However, they carried on walking; Tamaki noticed and kept running to them. "What is wrong with you two?"
Kaoru sighed, "Its Hikaru, not me."
Tamaki looked confused, "Huh?"
"Come on..." Kaoru said quickly, dragging Tamaki away. Hikaru did not notice this, and turned a bend whilst walking.
"Anyways, where has Haruhi been? My poor daughter," he said frantically.
Kaoru let out a long sigh, "you know about the new kid in our class?"
"New Kid?" Tamaki asked confused.
"Yeah, well... yesterday when we went to visit Haruhi..."
Tamaki let out a little girl scream, "You went to visit my Haruhi without us?" he yelled in his ear.
"Whoa! Calm down!" Kaoru said trying to calm the frantic Tamaki. "Were sorry we did not tell you..." the thing was, Kaoru and Hikaru lied to Haruhi by telling her they could not make it. They only went there without asking them because well... they were selfish at that time.
"You should be!" he yelled.
"Now listen..." Kaoru said quickly. Tamaki shut his mouth, finally... and listened. "Well, there was another guy there..." Tamaki was about to shout again, but Kaoru quickly covered his mouth with his hand. "Shush! Not now," he said quickly. "The guy there was her friend. The son of her mother's sister, he was the new kid today. So therefore, she has been showing him around and well..."
Kaoru had removed his hand, and Tamaki sighed, "What's this got to do with Hikaru?"
"I'm getting to it, well..." he sighed, "Hikaru just does not like it that Haruhi is hanging around someone other then us."
"Why?"
Kaoru shrugged, "Just being selfish I guess... I mean, Haruhi has to have other friends then us... right?" Tamaki nodded, "we need to do something though..."
"Should we tell the others?" Tamaki asked, meaning Kyoya and them.
Kaoru nodded, "they might know what to do." They then started walking to the others.
Hikaru had been walking for a while now, until he then noticed, Kaoru was not with him. He turned to the right and left, "Kaoru?" he said to no one. When he then looked at his surroundings, he noticed he was outside. "How did I get here?" he wondered to himself.
"So, why did you or your mother not visit me before then?" Hikaru suddenly heard a voice, and knew it was familiar. He looked up, and saw Haruhi and Ichirou sat down on the grass. He quickly hid behind the dustbin on the floor, which was the first thing he saw.
"Gross..." he mumbled, but still hid anyways."Why did I end up here?" he whispered to himself, but carried on eavesdropping.
"Well, we had... problems..." he saw Ichirou sigh to himself.
"Problems?" Haruhi asked, while munching on her food.
Ichirou looked up in the sky, "Yeah... problems."
"What kind of... problems? If you don't mind me asking...," she quickly added at the end.
Ichirou looked towards Haruhi, "you really want to know?" Haruhi just nodded. Hikaru was even on the edge now, and wanted to know the truth. "Well..." suddenly, there was a crash sounded, Hikaru had fallen down and knocked the dustbin over.
"Ouch..." he mumbled, whilst on the floor next to the dustbin."That hurt..."
"Hikaru?" he heard from in front of him.
Slowly he looked up, and noticed they were in front of him now, and not far away. "Huh?" he said as if he was lost in space.
"What are you doing?" Haruhi asked still looking at him.
"Uh?" Hikaru quickly said and stood up fast, "Nothing."
"But why was you hiding behind the dustbin?" she asked, still confused as ever. Haruhi can be the one to miss minor details, but when she saw the girls noticing Ichirou that was one detail she did not miss.
"No reason... maybe I like sitting near dustbins...," he quickly added to hide suspicion.
Haruhi arched her eyebrow, "Right...?"
Ichirou was watching the scene, and laughed to himself slightly. Haruhi and Hikaru both looked at him at same time, "What?" they said in unison.
"It's obvious," he said while laughing a little.
"What is?" Haruhi asked.
He looked at Hikaru, "a rich kid like you, would like to sit near dustbins. Right..."
"Maybe... I do?" Hikaru said quickly.
"Yeah right!"
"That is strange actually..." Haruhi suddenly thought aloud. "Hikaru, were you eavesdropping on our conversation?"
Hikaru started to wave his arms around, "Ehh... uhh... I only just got here!" he covered up, "I was only walking around and I well... tripped over the dustbin! Yeah!"
She looked at the dustbin, which was quite big. "It's a bit too big to miss is it not?"
"Maybe I was walking backwards?" saved by the bell, it suddenly sounded, and he ran towards the class before they could question longer.
Haruhi moaned, "damn Hikaru... he made me not eat the rest of my food."
"You can eat it on the way to class. Wont take long." Ichirou said trying to comfort her.
"Yeah, I suppose your right," she smiled, and went back to the spot they were sitting at, picking up their stuff and heading towards class while eating on the way there.
It was the end of the school for that day now; Haruhi was packing her stuff and stood up. "Haruhi?" she heard Ichirou say from next to her.
She looked over to him, "Yeah?" she asked.
"You have a dog right?" he suddenly said to her.
She looked at him confused, "How did you know?"
"When I was over yours, and was going to leave, I could have sworn I heard a dog bark... where was it when I was there?"
"She was upstairs in my room asleep; she usually sleeps for a long time." Haruhi mentioned to Ichirou with a smile.
"Ah I see," Ichirou said with a grin.
Haruhi stopped smiling and tilted her head, "Why?"
"Oh!" Ichirou realised, "Just wondering if you would like to go out with me to the park in a week on Sunday." He grinned, "But with our dogs of course!" he quickly mentioned.
Haruhi smiled, "That would be nice, and my dog is itching to go out! She has not seen you before neither." She paused a bit and then added, "I never knew you had a dog."
Ichirou smirked, "you will see him on this coming Sunday!"
In the meantime, Hikaru and Kaoru was near them and heard the conversation, Hikaru could not help but grumble, "This is bad..." Kaoru mumbled. "While we do nothing, Ichirou is getting closer to Haruhi."
"I know... nothing we can do..." Hikaru mumbled back.
"Maybe we can..." Kaoru began.
"I know what you are saying, but no... If she likes him better as a friend then there we go...," he said while walking off, "we should have just stayed in our own little world and never got closer to anyone," he grumbled. Kaoru sighed and ran to catch up with Hikaru. 'I know I can convince him somehow... we should spy on them this coming Sunday...' Kaoru began to think to himself, 'Haruhi was the only ever girl to tell us apart and... We don't want to lose her...' He looked at Hikaru, 'especially for Hikaru's sake...'
That night
"Hikaru..." Kaoru mumbled while laying in the bed they share, he was wide awake. Hikaru let out a mumbled, but did not speak. "Are you awake?"
Hikaru grumbled more, "Kaoru... it's late... and I'm tired..." his eyes was closed as he said this. "Tell me in the morning..." he mumbled.
Kaoru sighed, "No... Can we discuss it now?" he mentioned, then looked to the side towards Hikaru, whose eyes was now open, looking at him.
Hikaru sighed and sat up, facing Kaoru once again. "Be quick about it, and if it's about Haruhi... you are sleeping outside tonight."
"Uhh..." Kaoru began, Hikaru grumbled and pointed to the door, "Please Hikaru, we need to talk about this."
Hikaru sighed, "What is so important to talk to me about?" he said, while looking forward at nothing in particular.
Kaoru looked down at him hands, as they were over the cover. "I know you are worried... about Haruhi I mean..." he began, "you are afraid that... Ichirou will take her away from us, is that right?"
Hikaru grumbled, "No, she can do what she wants."
"Please Hikaru, the way you are talking now, you can tell me, we are brothers," he paused slightly. "In a few years, I think we both will understand everything that is going on. But right now, please we can trust her but, right now, we need to try speak to her some more."
There was silence that filled the air, it was unusual for both of them to talk this way, before, they used to joke around all the time. But now, they have changed... a lot. "Why..." Hikaru suddenly spoke up, "What has happened between us?" he sighed.
Kaoru looked up, "I think..." he began, "It's part of growing up..."
"But Kaoru!" Hikaru suddenly mentioned, and looked dead into his eyes, "We are still only 10 years old and soon 11, so why..."
Kaoru put an arm around Hikaru and sighed again, "Even at a young age, people can grow up still. But the next thing we will know, the years will go by." Hikaru suddenly snorted a little, Kaoru then pulled his arm away and looked at Hikaru, shocked. "What?" he said suddenly.
Hikaru let out a small smile, "Since when have you been so spiritual like this Kaoru?"
Kaoru smirked, "Oh, my brother, there are a lot of things about me that no one knows! not even you!"
Hikaru smiled, "Thanks Kaoru." Kaoru just stared at Hikaru, "I mean, for cheering me up. You really are the best brother."
Kaoru grinned, "No worries Hikaru! It was my pleasure."
"Uh, so can we go to sleep now?" Hikaru suddenly mentioned and looked towards the clock at the side of the bed, "It is... 2am in the morning..." he mumbled.
Kaoru suddenly noticed and grinned slightly, "Oops..." he said. Hikaru started to hit Kaoru, "I'm sorry!" after all that, both of them brothers would always be together, always. No matter what happens to both of them.
They both slept that night, arms over each other, hugging one another, like someone will come and take one away from each other. That is one of their worst fears, to be taken away from one another.
That's the end of chapter 10 :) not sure when will post chapter 11 :( need to figure out what to write for it so... :D lol cya and hope enjoyed so far!