Author Notes: Welcome to the next chapter of Sunflower Green Tea. I am so happy that many people are enjoying the story. I normally do not write too many stories featuring the twins due to being afraid of people being annoyed with how they are not all over each other or in love with one another. However, I want to thank everyone for the support in this story and I hope that all of you will continue following the story. Without further ado, we shall begin the next chapter.

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Recipe 12: Glazed Partnership Kisses

Staring out the window Kaoru barely heard anything their teacher was talking about during algebra. His mind wandered to the thoughts of how he would confess to Romey. It was not as if they really had spoken much in the way of dating. Most of their evenings often became filled with moments of celebrating the small victories of learning a new recipe or finally being able to taste their first meal prepared as a team. It seemed as though the tension that had been once between them during their first meeting now dissolved away with each passing second of every day they spent together. It seemed as though they were growing closer yet something about Romey's feelings made it almost hard for her to open up to anyone or become closer to them. Kaoru wondered if it had something to do with the past that remained a secret.

Not that he was one to pry into someone else's business," He looked over his shoulder at Hikaru who was asleep. He shook his head with a small smirk and threw a piece of paper at his brother watching in delight as he abruptly woke up.

"I didn't do it mom!" Hikaru cried and fell backwards out of his chair onto the floor. A few of the girls in the classroom gasped while the other boys laughed much to his chagrin.

"Hitachiin, nice of you to join us," the teacher said walking over and looked at him closely with a look of annoyance in his eyes. "I hope you like spending after school doing make up work for sleeping though class."

"I didn't mean…fine…" Hikaru blew out a sigh and glanced over his shoulder at Kaoru who was snickering quietly. He rolled his eyes and made note to get back at his brother for blessing him with staying after school to do make up work. Maybe just maybe he would be able to get ahead of him before that damn wok went flying when he got away with his prank.

"Kaoru I'll get you back for this," Hikaru hissed.

"Hitachiin!"

"Sorry sensei…" Hikaru sighed in annoyance and went back to paying attention to the lecture. He did send dirty looks towards Kaoru when the teacher's back was turned.

"All right class today we're going to be partnering up for a special assignment which involves learning the basics of repairing old clothing by using them for other things."

"So we're basically doing what commoners do?" asked a girl raising her hand. "Why would we ever want to do that?"

"It's best to use something that may be thrown away otherwise," The teacher rolled her eyes. "So that's why it's a team effort, To make it a little more fun we'll be drawing names from a jar."

"Oooh so retro!" A girl squealed from the side looking directly over at the sole boy in the class….Kaoru. "I do hope I get to be partners with Kaoru-kun!"

"Now now, there will be no fighting over Hitachiin," The teacher mumbled. "Whoever he's partnered with is not to be intimidated by any of you ladies ok?"

"We promise."

Kaoru sighed in relief as the jar was given to him. He closed his eyes hoping that he would be partnered with Romey. He pulled out a crisp slip of paper and saw the name on it. He frowned and quickly took the opportunity to swipe the unattended unopened paper on the other girl's desk. He silently prayed that it had Romey's name on it.

"Oh my I got Kaoru-dear," Romey whispered to herself as she blushed and looked back at him with a small smile.

"AWESOME I GOT ROMEY!" Kaoru shouted leaping up from his seat. He looked around the room noticing that everyone was staring at him. Some of the girls looked annoyed while others were crying silent tears. "Umn…I mean…it'll be fun to work with you Romey."

Romey giggled softly and began making plans of what they could make or use for the project.

"Hello! I am collecting donations for the Kaoru and Romey quilt!" Kaoru called as he entered Music Room 3. "Any donations will help with our assignment. Mind you they must be of your own personal possession for more than a week."

"Is this some kind of prank?" Tamaki asked from the couch. "You're not going to use it to help Nekozawa curse us are you?"

"Nope, It's for an assignment for my home economics class," Kaoru walked over to where Honey was sitting. "Have anything for the quilt Honey-senpai?"

Honey nodded and helped up a blanket. "You can have a piece off of my favorite blanket," He smiled brightly. "And Usa-chan will give you a piece of her fluffy fur."

"I appreciate your contributions," Kaoru chuckled and turned around seeing Mori holding out a piece of dark fabric. "What's this Mori-senpai?"

"Kendo Uniform."

"Kendo uniform?"

"The first one I wore when I led our school's team to win nationals." Mori added.

"Cool!" Kaoru smiled brightly before taking the fabrics from both his senpais and walked to where Kyouya was. "Got anything Kyouya-senpai?"

"I do not."

"Oh come on you could spare a square of something." Kaoru said. "Don't you have anything old you were thinking of throwing away?"

"No."

"What about that ratty old black bear you keep in your shoe locker?" Tamaki asked. "It has fabric falling off of its body."

"We're not using Shadow," Kyouya mumbled. "I will bring something to you after club hours but Shadow is off limits."

"What about you Tamaki-senpai?" Kaoru asked.

"I have this," Tamaki handed Kaoru a small square that had a large Kuma-chan on it. "It's from my baby blanket that I keep for good luck but I do hope you can use it."

"Thanks boss." Kaoru put the pieces of fabric into the basket before sneaking up and leaning over Haruhi's shoulder noticing she wore a set of rose red headphones connected to a laptop. He saw on the screen was Miss Mitski's music video. Reaching for the cord, he unplugged it as the music filled the air.

"Let us love, let us persevere, all you lovely dreamers." Miss Mitski's crystalline voice wafted from the speakers. "With this century's biggest blast of dynamo, Let us overcome everything, hurry up!"

"So…you're a Miss Mitski fan too?" Kaoru asked snickering as Haruhi scrambled to turn the song off. "I'm not judging you or anything."

"What do you want?" Haruhi mumbled. "I was trying to study."

"I need some help with my assignment," Kaoru smiled brightly. "I need a donation of old clothes that you don't want or need anymo-!"

Tamaki had ran over and grabbed Kaoru so he could talk to him alone. "Kaoru!" he hissed. "Asking Haruhi for some of her old clothes to donate to your quilt is very rude! She may have only a few clothes to wear….commoners cannot afford to throw away anything."

"You know I can hear you right?" Haruhi mumbled and walked over. She held out a red piece of fabric. "Here this is the scarf from my old middle school uniform. I keep it with me to use as a handkerchief but you can have it."

"Really?" Kaoru asked. "Are you sure?"

"Yeah you can have it." Haruhi waved him off and went back to the table to resume studying.

Kaoru smiled and finally walked to the table where Hikaru was sitting playing on his Nintendo 3DS. "Hey Hikaru got anything I can use for the quilt?"

"No," Hikaru said simply not bothering to look up.

"Are you sure? I was thinking of using our baby blankets." Kaoru said. "You don't care about me using that do you?"

"You do know those ratty old things are useless to me." Hikaru paused the game. "And why are you asking us for stuff? Why doesn't YOUR partner donate some of her things huh?"

"She's gathering things too." Kaoru sat the basket down and sat down next to Hikaru. "I hope that you'll be nicer to her when she's at our house all week."

"WHAT?" Hikaru screamed. "I didn't invite her!"

"I know…I invited her." Kaoru shrugged. "It's not like you'll care anyway since you have band practice all week."

"That's not important," Hikaru snapped. "I don't want some girl coming into our room and spreading her girliness around the room!"

"Haruhi's been in our room before." Kaoru pointed out.

"Haruhi's not a girl," Hikaru added.

"I heard that!"

"What I mean is that Haruhi's more like a sister." Hikaru sent a small smirk towards the shorthaired girl. "She's allowed in our room because she won't girl it up."

Kaoru shook his head. "Whatever Hikaru," he glared at him. "If you so much as mess this up with Romey…my wok will have a date with your head."

"Do your worst," Hikaru sneered. "Wok boy."

Kaoru reached under the table to retrieve his wok but found it was not there. "Damn it Haruhi stop hiding my wok!"

Hikaru was bored….

He had not even thought of what he could do all day instead of spending it complaining about how Kaoru was using their time afterschool to work on homework with the girl he now deemed as the intruder. Looking over his shoulder, he heard Kaoru speaking quietly to Romey. He really wanted to hear what they were saying.

"Ugh this is annoying!" Hikaru shouted and walked over to the two of them. He took a seat at the table and picked up some of the used fabric. "What's this for?"

"That's for the quilt," Kaoru answered as he sewed on the patch of fabric that he got from Tamaki. "Kyouya-senpai gave that to me."

"I see," Hikaru sat down the fabric and picked up a small blue square. "What about this one?"

"That's from my younger brother's first onesie." Romey explained not taking her eyes off sewing.

Hikaru sat it back down and looked at the rest of the fabric. "So you're making a dumb quilt for your assignment…"

"Yeah," Kaoru sighed sitting down the quilting needle. "Is there something else you want Hikaru?"

"No, I'm just bored." Hikaru shrugged. "You're too busy and no one else wants to hang out so I'll just sit and watch."

"Fine." Kaoru went back to sewing once again and hummed quietly while concentrating on his work. Every now and then, he would look up at Romey.

"Kaoru-dear, do you think we should take a break now?" Romey asked curiously. "We could go for a walk or go make snacks."

"That's a great idea," Kaoru smiled brightly and stood up stretching. "We've been at this for three hours, why don't we go grab a slice at the pizzeria in town?"

"Oh my good idea." Romey giggled as she looked at Hikaru. "Do you want to join us Hikaru-dear?"

Hikaru raised an eyebrow at Romey's invitation and merely shrugged. "I was going to go hang out with someone else, why don't you two just go?"

"Are you sure?" Kaoru asked.

"Yeah."

"Okay but don't touch the quilt." Kaoru warned and went to go put his shoes on and grab his bag.

"I won't touch that stupid thing." Hikaru mumbled. "I have more things to do thank mess with a dumb blanket."

"Thank you!"

Kaoru and Romey both went over to a nearby bench in the park and sat down with their slices of pizza. The two of them had chosen a simple spot in the park, which was under a tree and allowed them to watch as people walked by.

"I really think our quilt is coming along nicely." Romey said quietly. "Though I do think we should continue working on it by adding a little more to it if we ask other people to donate fabric to it."

"That'd be a cool idea," Kaoru looked up at the sky. "It could be something that we leave behind for future generations to view."

"Yes, though…" Romey went silent and looked down at the ground. "I don't think that Hikaru-dear would be too crazy about us working on it together."

"Why do you say that?"

"I don't think he likes me."

Kaoru shook his head. "No, don't worry Hikaru likes you." he said quickly. "He's just…he isn't used to me spending more time with another person since it's always been us for many years."

"I don't want to come between you two." Romey whispered.

"You won't." Kaoru hugged her. "Hikaru's slowly learning that I won't always be around and he will need to rely on others."

"You think so?"

"Yes, it's what I've wanted for a long time." Kaoru admitted. "I love him a lot but there are days where I want to be seen as my own person and not part of a set."

Romey nodded silently.

"Hey Kaoru!"

Kaoru looked up at the sound and saw the hosts running towards them. He took note they were wearing normal clothes. "Everyone?"

"Do you and Romey-chan want to go with us to the movies?" Honey asked with a giggle. "We're going to see a new action movie."

"A new action movie?" Kaoru asked.

"Yeah," Haruhi held up the red and black messenger bag she wore on her shoulder. "We're going to see Deadpool."

"Oh man seriously?" Kaoru asked. "Cool, I'd love to but…Romey do you want to go with us?"

"Sounds like fun." Romey giggled. "It'll be a lot of fun and I do think we deserve a break from homework. You should call Hikaru-dear and ask him if he wants to come along too."

"Right." Kaoru pulled out his cell phone and made a call to Hikaru. "We'll wait for you outside."

"Ne ne Romey-chan." Honey tugged on Romey's skirt. "Lean down."

"Okay?" Romey leaned down to Honey's level and felt the small boy put a bow in her hair. "What's this?"

"You have a Deadpool-chan bow." Honey answered with a giggle. "Takashi made it for you."

"He did?"

"Yes, we're all now wearing something with Deadpool-chan on it."

"I see." Romey did take a moment to notice that the hosts were all wearing something with the image of Deadpool on it or in Haruhi's case wearing a pair of pants with Deadpool painted on the left leg.

"Hikaru said he'll meet us there." Kaoru walked over to them again. "Cool everyone's wearing Deadpool gear but I don't…"

"Here." Tamaki held out a jacket for him. "We grabbed it on our way out and thought you'd like one since Hikaru has one too."

"Thanks." Kaoru smiled softly. "So we're all going ahead?"

"Yeah!"

"Awesome thy name is Deadpool!"

Hikaru gave a small smile of happiness once he arrived at the theater. He had many plans for the whole movie. He was going to spend it with his friends' enjoying the insanity that was Deadpool. The last time they all went out to see a movie was when Guardians of the Galaxy came out. He ran over to where the others were but stopped short when he saw that Romey was with them.

"Hikaru over here!" Haruhi called. "Or else we're going to leave you behind."

"Fine…" Hikaru mumbled and walked over to them. "So are we going to do this or are we going to just stand around?"

"Let's go in!" Honey called out. "I can't wait to see Deadpool-chan!"

"Psst, Kaoru." Hikaru whispered. "Do you want to share some of my popcorn?"

Kaoru rolled his eyes and reached over to take some of the popcorn. He sighed in annoyance at how Hikaru made a big fuss to sit between him and Romey. "Thanks…"

Hikaru smiled and went back to watching the movie. He could hear the audible grinding of Kaorus' teeth. He really had a feeling that his brother would cool off after a few minutes. "Psst Kaoru."

"What?"

"Isn't this movie awesome?" Hikaru whispered.

"Yeah…"

Hikaru then looked over and took notice of Romey trying to console Honey who had been freaked out by some of the violence. He did find a little bit of amusement in that since the girl was too distracted with caring for the boy.

Kaoru gave another sigh of annoyance as Hikaru tried to get him to share more of the snacks with him. He finally had enough and traded seats with Honey.

"Damn it Kaoru!" Hikaru shouted in fury though he quickly left the theater when everyone else watching told him to sit down and shut up.

Once out in the lobby he punched the wall and grumbled about how the movie was being ruined because of the so-called intruder that came with them.

"What do you mean you don't have butter?"

"I'm sorry miss you'll have to wait until we can get some more opened and refill the machine with It.," a clerk said behind the counter holding up their hands in defeat.

"If you don't get your ass in that store room and find some I'm gonna come back there and force you to find it!"

Hikaru looked over at the counter and saw a girl holding the clerk by the front of the shirt ready to kill. He rolled his eyes and walked over to save the poor soul before he died at the girl's hands.

"Calm down," He said putting on his host club charm. "They will have more if you let the person do their job."

"I won't calm down, I asked for extra butter but they ran out!" the girl mumbled. "And now I have to watch this movie without it!"

"Well you can always come back out and get more if you want butter on it." Hikaru said rolling his eyes. "Don't just try to start a fight over food."

"How about you mind your business ginger?" the girl hissed. "I am not afraid to fight a boy. I'll fight you like man if I gotta."

"I'm just trying to help." Hikaru leaned close and poked her in the forehead. "You're all talk and no bite. I find that amusing."

The girl rubbed her forehead but did not say anything more but snatch the popcorn that now had butter on it and she stomped back to the theater. "You better be lucky I want to see the rest of the movie or else I would've stuffed you into that machine."

"Yeah, right." Hikaru rolled his eyes and walked back to the theater not seeing that it was the same one the girl had gone into, oh well at least he'd probably have a little more fun seeing a movie he had wanted to see for a long time.

"I am so sorry!" Kaoru said trying to apologize to Romey for the third time of what happened. For some reason Hikaru had caused a huge mess in the theater with some girl that had thrown her bucket of popcorn at him. The whole fiasco dissolved in a food fight in the theater and they had all been kicked out.

"It's okay, it was fine." Romey waved a hand. "It was fun and I got to see you save Honey-dear from being caught in the middle."

"I still can't believe that girl referred to Mori-senpai as giving tree." Kaoru mumbled. "Especially when he tried to ask her to stop throwing things."

"I do hope that next time we go to a movie that everything will be ok." Romey blushed once they got to her door. "So err…I'll see you tomorrow so we can finish our assignment?"

"Yeah…" Kaoru rubbed the back of his head.

Silence passed between the two for a long moment as if the world had stopped around them. The unusually warm winter's wind seemed to tint their cheeks a hue of red.

"Romey…"

"Kaoru-dear…"

Almost as if a magnetic attraction had pulled them in closer to one another as their lips touched in a soft yet innocent kiss.

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