A/N – SORRY! This is gonna be the last one for a while, but I wanted to get it out there as soon as possible. I've seriously been writing about a sentence a day, here and there. I hope to get the next one out sometimes soon…though I wouldn't be expectant of that. I'm planning to finish this by new years. We will see though. Thanks for sticking with me!
IIIII
"Hikaru, just stay still for one second!" Why did he always insist on making EVERYTHING difficult.
"It's really cold, Kaoru. Couldn't you warm it up a little bit before you put it there!" Seriously, Kaoru. If I could do it myself I would.
"Stop being such a wuss. It's gonna sting anyways, so it's better if I just do it quickly and press hard."
"I don't want it anymore, Kaoru. Just stop."
"Damn it, Hikaru! You'll feel better once I'm done, so just let me do it."
"You do know that if one of our guests were listening to this they would think infinitely more was going on than you putting an ice-pack on Hikaru's back." I wrenched my neck to the door when I heard the silky smooth yet patronizing voice. Hikaru! Ach! I fell backwards at Hikaru's reaction of whoever came into the room and fell back off of the bed, right onto my own bruise, the icepack landing right on my face.
"Kyoya-sempai! What the hell are you doing here?" I tried to launch myself off of the bed but my bruised back just seized up and I ended up falling off and landing on the floor next to the bed. I heard a thump on the opposite side of the bed from where I was laying; Hikaru must have fallen. Klutz.
"Your father was kind enough to let me in." I sat up, watching Kyoya-sempai look around before sitting down at a table on the other side of the room as he spoke, "Do you know how much your little mix-up cost the club? We had to stop selling our brotherly love package" Kyoya-sempai, no, the Shadow King, pulled out his black notebook and began flipping through the pages, his glasses glinting. I looked quickly over to Hikaru, noticing that he looked exactly as frightened as I felt.
"Uh, well, we didn't think that we would be allowed to go back to the club since we were banished by Tono." I looked down at the ground, avoiding the cold stare that I was getting from Kyoya-sempai. Kaoru said it again: Tono. Damn Shadow King. I was hoping that if Kaoru just forgot about everything then he would get over it. If he got over it then it would be okay if I did too.
"Tamaki is a moron." Well duh, Kyoya-sempai.
"We knew that from the beginning." I sat down on the bed, propping my chin casually on my hand.
"Tono is an idiot, but…he's good at reading people. He could see through us, through the barrier we had placed around ourselves." I sat down next to Hikaru, grabbing my brother's hand and squeezing it. Damnit Kaoru, it's no use. If you keep thinking about it then I am going to continue thinking about it. It was safer when I just didn't care about anyone in this stupid club.
"Honey-sempai?" Honey-sempai and Mori-sempai walked into our room, no doubt ushered by my father. What was this? An intervention party.
"I brought some medicine for you Hika-chan and Kao-chan! The Haninozuka family uses it for bruises; it should make you feel better!" Honey-sempai ran across the room and handed Hikaru a small container filled with gel, "About Tama-chan, about him seeing through people. Tama-chan's smarter than we give him credit for; he just shows it in his own way. That's why Kyo-chan's friends with him too. " It's true. It's why Kaoru and I thought we would be able to wound that feudal lord by blackmailing him about his mother. We knew that he was alone, like us, all along. We knew that if we hit that wound on him he would shatter. Well, we though he would. But he just seemed hurt. Shocked that we would know about that and bring it up. He came back too; he came after us.
"Tamaki may be an idiot, but in the end he has all of us. This includes the two of you." I've n ever heard Kyoya-sempai talk so nicely about anyone. I think he kind of indirectly complemented us by including us in their group. Did Kyoya-sempai just indirectly call us all friends? No way.
"Kyoya-semp…"
"Kaoru! Hikaru! Come downstairs and see the wonderful costumes I made for you and that little club of yours!" I was interrupted by Mother's voice calling me from downstairs. I looked at Kaoru and he met my eyes at the same moment.
"Costumes for the club?" I said. I said. I kept Hikaru's hand in mine as we got up and ran downstairs. What could she mean?
"Haha! There you are! Welcome to Neverland my little lost boys!" When we opened the door, Tamaki-sempai was there. Dressed up like that character from J.M. Barrie's play—Peter Pan. Really? Peter pan?
"Wow, Tama-chan! You look great!" Honey-sempai said from behind where I stood, staring at Tono in his green tights. Tamaki-sempai looked so much like feudal lord that I wanted to fall to the ground and laugh, but for some reason I kind of wanted to cry too. As ridiculous as Tono looked, I could feel my eyes begin to sting. In his own unique, idiotic way, Tamaki-sempai had called us family again.
"Isn't this great you guys? I was watching the American Disney version of this timeless children's classic, and I immediately thought that we should do cosplay at the Host Club every day! Isn't that a wonderful idea?"
"It's impractical, Tamaki. We don't have enough money in the budget we get from the school to do cosplay." Kyoya-sempai walked through the door, pushing up his glasses as he glared at Tono, flipping through the pages of his black notebook.
"But that's exactly why I volunteered to help! I was so thrilled when this young genius told me that my sons were part of a club that I told him I would help out with creating cosplay for entertaining those young women. Clothes make the man, and if you all are planning on entertaining young ladies for very much longer you will want to wear clothes that will make an impression every time they come to see you. Girls get bored easily if you don't give them something new, something fresh."
Mom? Mom.
IIIII
"Kaoru, have you seen my…" He was asleep already. Damnit, Kaoru. He hadn't been sleeping well the past few nights, and now he looked incredibly peaceful, curled up on his bed. I sat down and grabbed my twin's hand. He was so excited when Tamaki-sempai showed up at our house with that stupid cosplay idea. At least Kyoya-sempai was just as annoyed with that feudal lord as I was. Actually, Kyoya-sempai was probably even more annoyed because the feudal lord stabbed him in the arm with the hook-hand that was supposed to be for Kyoya-sempai's Captain Hook cosplay.
"Tono…great adventure…lost boys…" Kaoru was mumbling in his sleep. Tono. Damn that feudal lord. I want Kaoru to be happy. I want to be happy, but I don't know if being in the Host Club makes me happy. Being expelled from it felt like I had lost something but…NO! There's no way that that stupid club and those idiotic people mean ANYTHING to me. It's not…
"Hikaru…family…friends…we belong…" Damnit Kaoru! We've never belonged anywhere! No one has EVER accepted us. Why does this stupid club, those stupid people mean so much to us.
Us? Why? Why did I…did I really mean us? Adventure. Family. We Belong.
I get it Kaoru. I think I get it now.
