Kaoru got to the backyard and sat down on the grass. He sighed and put his face in his hands then laid back, put his arms under his head, and watched the clouds float by in the sky. He closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths taking in the fresh air before opening them and just staring at the sky again the hot sun beating down on his face. I don't get what Hikaru sees in that English girl. She's the same as all the other rich girls at our school, isn't she? And Hikaru didn't see anything in them, so why her? Kaoru thought for a moment before coming to a realization. Rose wasn't anything like the rich girls at their school really. She was nicer than most of them, and she didn't faint, freak out, or whisper excitedly to someone else when the two of them walked by. Rose was also able to tell them apart most of the time, plus she was foreign. Kaoru could see how she'd be interesting to Hikaru. Rose was a different type of girl than they were use to, and it probably seemed exciting to Hikaru to be around someone new.
Kaoru sighed again and pushed his thoughts out of his head. He didn't need to be thinking about Rose and Hikaru when he was sick since it was the reason he was in the first place. Plus he didn't even understand why he was feeling so jealous of Rose. He should be feeling happy for Rose and his brother and be supportive of them. There was nothing to be jealous of. Hikaru was his brother, and brothers shouldn't be jealous of their twin brother's girlfriend. They should be happy and follow their example by going out and getting a girlfriend themselves. Yet Kaoru didn't feel like he wanted a girlfriend. And the more he thought about getting one, the more his mind jumped to Hikaru and how he wished Rose would just go away.
Kaoru stayed in the backyard just gazing blankly at the clouds. He'd finally cleared his mind of everything and was just taking in the fresh air now. His peace was short lived though. As he stared up at the sky a face started to come into view high above his. He blinked a few times and saw that it was his mom. "What are you doing out here, Kaoru? The head maid told me you were sick," she said. Kaoru sat up and looked at her properly.
"How do you know I'm Kaoru? What if I'm actually Hikaru and you mixed us up again?" he asked. She smiled.
"Well for one I just passed Hikaru in the hallway with Rose on my way out here, two I can tell by your hair," she told him. Kaoru raised an eyebrow at her. "And three, I know Hikaru wouldn't come lay in the grass when something's bothering him, he'd find something to do in the house," she told him in a tone only a concerned mother could have as she sat down beside him. "So, what's wrong?"
Kaoru waited for a moment before answering his mother. "I'm just worried about the time length Kyoya and Tamaki gave us to make the new costumes. They're due in a few days. Plus I wanted to go to school today but Hikaru wouldn't let me, so we both missed some tests, we'll have a whole bunch of homework when Haruhi gets here because we didn't do any in class, and we're missing the Host Club," Kaoru told her. This wasn't a complete lie, but it wasn't the whole truth either. He'd only told his mom the little things that were bugging him at the moment, but he knew what was really bugging him was something much greater than any of these things.
Yuzuha sat quietly beside her youngest son listening to what he had to say as she looked out at the scenery. Something was telling her Kaoru wasn't telling her the whole truth, but she didn't say anything about it. She learnt to accept that since she was hardly ever around her boys that they might not want to tell her everything, and that was ok with her. She let them keep their secrets knowing that if it was something big they'd tell each other eventually and sort things out together. She was never usually around for them to confine anything in her, or to help them.
Yuzuha finally turned to her son. "We'll get the costumes done. I promised I'd help you and I will. You can use my new line to dress up in and that'll help me test it to see if people like it. It'll benefit both of us that way. As for your tests just stay after school after the Host Club, I'll send the limo later and have them wait to make dinner. With homework, you and Hikaru are smart boys, you can do your work fast and get it done. You always manage to. And the club, since you're not there today and your friends are probably telling your guests that you're sick, the girls will want to see you even more when you're back and it could boost sales putting Kyoya in a better mood than he normally is. It's a benefit missing the club today because you're sick, really," she told him. Kaoru smiled at his mom.
"You know, you're probably right for most of that," he said sounding like he was in a slightly better mood. But Yuzuha could tell he was faking some of it.
"I know I'm right about all that, you just wait and see," she told him. "Now, how about we get back into the house? Hikaru was asking me if I'd seen you because Haruhi's supposed to come with your homework soon. So why don't we go look for your brother?" Kaoru nodded and, for some strange reason, Yuzuha seemed to feel like talking about Hikaru made Kaoru's mood go back into a bad one.