A/N it's time for…
CHAPTER 14!
Hurray! Enjoy, it's a pretty good one.
I realized that I've been writing my story for 3 months and already I'm this far along… This is more chapters than some people write in a year… O.o
I'm uploading this on my birthday so you know this story is pretty damn special to me.
Anyway…
LET'S GO!
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Recap:
She pulled his face up so that she was eye level with him. He sat on the counter next to the sink as Kai dried his hair. She ruffed his hair up as she dried it, and slid it down around his neck when she was done. She looked into his eyes right after. Since he was sitting on the counter, he was a bit taller.
Her hands still held the towel ends tightly. She felt strange looking into those amber eyes…
She didn't realize she was so close until her nose hit his. They stared at each other with soft eyes and Kai leaned in and pressed her lips to his.
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The door slammed open and there stood everyone. The two teens jumped away from each other and blushed. Kaoru ran back out the front door and around to the back yard. When Hikaru tried to follow him, Kyoko held up a hand and stopped him.
The red haired girl ran out the door after the younger man. She found him kneeling in the garden of the back yard.
"Kaoru-kun," She said. The twin stared at her.
"I know you're sad…" He looked away.
Kyoko sighed and kneeled next to him.
He wrapped his arms around her and hugged her, silent tears falling from his eyes. Kyoko rested a hand on his head and whispered that everything was going to be okay.
As Kaoru hugged her, Kyoko began thinking of her problems.
How Tamaki had an unrequited love for her…
How Haruhi hated her for it…
How Kyouya wouldn't love her back…
How confused she was…
She began crying with the twin and held him closer.
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Meanwhile,
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Hikaru watched the scene from the window and his heart sank. Why did he have to hurt Kaoru like this? Kaoru had always been more sensitive to loneliness. He was the one who took it the worst when the Nanny left them.
Hikaru felt guilty.
He walked away from the window and closed the curtain. Kai placed a hand on his arm. Hikaru sighed and said, "I need to talk to you…"
They walked past everyone and stood on the front deck.
"Kai-chan… I'm sorry…"
Kai looked at the ground.
"I really like you, I do… it's just… We should just stay friends… for now… Until Kaoru is okay with me and you… He feels really lonely when I'm not with him so…"
"I understand. You're leaving soon, right?"
"The day after tomorrow."
"Keep in touch," She said handing him a piece of paper.
The blonde walked inside of the house, retrieved her daughter and sister, and left.
Hikaru watched them walk down the street and looked at the paper.
It was a phone number.
It had her name scribbled in messy script above it.
He sighed and walked inside and saw Kaoru sitting on the couch, staring at the wall.
Tamaki, Haruhi, Hunny and Kyoko were having a conversation. It seemed as if they were talking about the last time they went to a beach, the whole Haruhi incident.
"Why was it wrong for Haruhi-chan to try helping those girls?" Kyoko said, sounding…
Mad?
"Because she's a girl! Girls can't take on guys!" Tamaki yelled.
"Why not?!" Kyoko yelled back.
"Because they're weak!" Tamaki yelled again.
"What?! Just because we're not men doesn't make us weak! We're can be equally as strong-if not stronger-than men!"
"No you can't!"
"Yes we can!"
"Can't!"
"Can!"
"Can't!"
"Tamaki-kun SHUT UP! You are so SEXIST!" Kyoko yelled, stomping up the stairs.
'That was a sight to see,' Hikaru thought. Kyoko actually…
Yelled…
The door to the girls' room slammed. Kyoko sat on her bed and stared out the window.
Tamaki fell to his knees in the living room muttering, "Sexist… she called me sexist…" Hunny patted his back in a soothing way.
Haruhi 'hmphed' and walked to the couch to sit beside Kaoru. Hikaru remembered why he came back inside.
"Kaoru, can I talk to you?" He asked.
Kaoru stood up and followed him out back.
Hikaru shut the door.
"Hey… I'm… I'm… sorry for that."
"Don't be sorry. I need to get over things like that," his twin said, leaning over the railing of the back deck.
"I mean, I'm not sorry for what happened… just that I'm sorry I didn't tell you I liked her…"
"It's really noticeable; even Kyoko-senpai knew."
"Speaking of her, why did she insist on following you out instead of me?"
"Well, she's been trying to help me with this… She even said that she understands how I feel and that she probably felt the same way when Rin-senpai left to live with Tamaki-senpai."
"I guess it would be sorta the same…"
"Yeah; Kyoko-neechan is cool with that kind of stuff."
"Wait, what? Kyoko-neechan? When did you start calling her that?"
"Recently. She doesn't seem to mind."
The two laughed and walked back inside. Hikaru was glad to have said sorry for once. Usually he waited until the last second and then barely says it. They jumped when they heard a thumping sound coming from upstairs.
As the two boys glanced up the stairs, that saw Tamaki banging on Kyoko's door, begging her to open it. She yelled a loud, angry "NO!" and then they heard the door lock.
The rest of the girls were downstairs.
"Tamaki, if you leave her alone and let her cool down she'll open the door."
"But Rin-neechan!"
"Shut up and leave her alone!" The blonde woman yelled at him.
Tamaki faked tears and walked down the steps. He then curled up in his corner of woe.
Rin sighed.
"Rin-senpai, how can you live with him?" Haruhi asked the older girl.
"It takes a lot of patience, Haruhi-chan."
The twins started cracking up.
"Hey, Hikaru," Kaoru asked.
"What?"
"Why do you smell like strawberries?"
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Kyoko ended up letting the girls into the room at the end of the night but refused to speak to Tamaki. The next day was spent packing until sunset. They were heading to the beach to watch fire works, and the twins had some big plans -involving Kyoko- for that night.
Kyoko came down the stairs in a yellow sundress that blew around a lot. Her hair was pulled up in a messy bun. She wore white sneakers and had a clean bandage (thanks to Kyouya) on her wound.
Tamaki was upset the Kyoko didn't acknowledge his existence that whole day. They got to the beach right after the sun went down. There were almost no people there since it was dark, and there were other places to see the fire works from.
Kyoko walked to a small clump of trees that grew off of the beach. She marveled at how they grew in the sand. They still got air, water and sunshine, so they could grow… but she had never seen a tree out of dirt before.
"Kyoko-chan."
"Eh?" She turned around and saw Kyouya standing there, "Oh, Kyouya-kun. What is it?"
"I need to talk to you about Tamaki."
"Oh? What about?"
"About your argument."
"I have nothing to say."
"I don't disagree with you, but I don't agree either."
"What does that mean?" Kyoko crossed her arms and locked her leg.
"I agree that Tamaki shouldn't look down on women so much, but I don't agree that Haruhi should have taken on three grown men."
"WHAT?! Three?! He never said that!"
Kyouya let out one small chuckle and started to walk away. "Wait," Kyoko said, reaching her arm out. Kyouya spun around and gave her a questioning glance.
"What is it?"
"Uh…" Kyoko didn't mean to actually tell him to wait. She just thought out loud, "Kyouya-kun… I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say anything."
He raised his eyebrows and walked back to where everyone sat. The twins ran up and grabbed each of her arms and began to pull her back to the group.
H: "If you stay here,"
K: "You'll miss the show!"
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This chapter is a page longer than usual, but I figured I would keep going because it was this long due to dialogue.
Anyway, have any other authoresses ever seen someone who looks like an OC of yours? OMG I saw someone who looked like Kyoko, Rin, Kai, and another OC of mine in my Yu Yu Hakusho story. I saw them at different times, though.
I saw them and I was like, OH MY GOD!
It was SOOO WEIRD! Like, looking into my imagination O.o… I sound kinda high talking like that.
Oh, I made Kyoko yell! It seems like people think she can't get angry with people, and I wanted them to know she can. So I made her yell! I enjoyed writing that scene, actually… O.O does that make me a sadist since I liked having her yell at Tamaki??
O.O I hope not…