Chapter fourteen:

Hikaru races to the front desk ignoring anyone else on his way. "Please." He begs as soon as he reaches the desk. "Please tell how my brother Kaoru is! It's an emergency!"

Kyouya comes up behind Hikaru wanting to make sure that they get the information that they need and the lady notices him instantly making her blink in surprise.

"Hold on." The lady begins typing as she looks through the files. "It would appear that he's still in emergency care." She looks up to him her light brown hair pulled back into a ponytail waves slightly with the movement and her aqua eyes meet Hikaru's amber ones. "Take a seat and I'll call for someone to come to talk to you."

"Okay…" Hikaru reluctantly heads towards the chairs while Kyouya follows him and sits down next to him.

At first it's rather quiet between them as they both look to the floor as if not fully sure what to say or just wishing to not speak at the moment. It takes a few minutes at least before Hikaru finally speaks up causing Kyouya to slightly glance to him.

"Have you found out anything about what happened to Kaoru?"

"Nothing new yet." Kyouya admits looking away again. "I want to know as bad as you do Hikaru. But right now you should focus on your brother."

Hikaru closes his eyes and takes a deep breath then opens his eyes to half open. He still is not actually looking in Kyouya's direction at all. "Yeah… I have to tell him how sorry I am for being such a bad brother."

Kyouya sighs turning away pushing his glasses up as he does this only to pull out his black book writing in it while they wait going silent again.

After a little bit the rest of the host club burst in and Haruhi spots the two taking the lead as they rush over to the two causing only Kyouya to look up.

"What happened?" Haruhi asks as she is the first to reach them.

"Is Kao-chan okay?" Hunny questions giving wide sad mixed with worry eyes.

Mori just kind of picks Hunny up to place him on his shoulders in an attempt at comfort though he is also worried.

"Who hurt him!?" Tamaki demands standing tall and pointing to Kyouya demanding answers from the raven haired male.

"Now now. Let me talk." Kyouya brings a hand up in order to attempt to make them settle down enough for him to talk which seems to work enough that Tamaki lowers his hand to his side. He lowers his hand as he begins to speak finally being allowed to do so. "I don't know much right now. All I know is that he was injured in some way. But by what or who let alone why is still unclear to me I'm afraid. We'll just have to sit and wait for now."

So the host club does just that. Haruhi sits next to Hikaru, Mori sits next to Haruhi and Tamaki goes to sit by Kyouya.

The noise of the hospital and waiting room begin to become a blur to the host club as for now they drown out the sounds of people talking and even some squeaky wheels from a wheel chair; focusing on anything that gets close to them instead in hopes to know when they'll get news on Kaoru's condition.

Tamaki glances to Kyouya with half open eyes and he reaches out touching his hand against Kyouya's hand that is holding the pen as he goes to start writing again. He looks into Kyouya's eyes as when Kyouya turns to him the glare on his glasses go away. He tries to smile a little through his own worry and Kyouya softly smiles back before the two lean their foreheads together closing their eyes taking comfort from one another.

Haruhi turns to Hikaru who still has yet to say a word. "Hikaru." She begins but is met with no sign for sure whether the slightly older twin has even heard her. She decides to continue anyways hoping that the other is indeed listening to her. "I think that it'll be okay. Kaoru is strong." She is about to place a hand on his shoulder but stops as he very slightly leans away.

"I know that he's strong." Hikaru informs her almost too quietly but she can hear him. "He's been doing his own thing for long enough on top of whatever ended up happening while I was away from him. It takes a strong person to go through whatever he did then go to face whatever it is." He turns his head away slightly when he is done.

"Yes." Haruhi turns away at that looking to her knees.

Just a little later a darker skinned doctor approaches them and hearing footsteps approaching causes Hikaru to look up only to spring to his feet.

"How is he?" Hikaru questions hopefully and the rest of the host club watch in silent attention waiting to hear the news.

"We've done all that we can." The doctor informs him. "He has yet to regain consciousness but we expected that. It's just a waiting game to see if he will awaken."

"Can we see him?" Hikaru pleads with wide wet eyes that scream in silent pleas to the doctor standing before him.

The doctor glances to the others as they get up then his eyes land on Kyouya who looks expectantly at him so he turns back to Hikaru. "Of course. Right this way." He leads the host club as they follow with Hikaru in the lead right behind the doctor. He takes them up a flight of stairs and past several other rooms while the place just looks like a slightly fancy hospital. He stops outside of a room and before he can say anything Hikaru rushes into the room quickly opening the door.

Hikaru pauses for a moment once he's inside of the room as he looks to ensure that it really is Kaoru.

There on the bed is indeed Kaoru as he lays there definitely unconscious with the hospital gown on and a tube that goes by his nose to ensure that he gets air. His body mostly covered by the blanket that reaches to under his armpits as his arms need to be on the bed with tubes to pump blood and fluids into him. His wound not visible thanks to the gown that keeps it from sight and the bandages under the gown to keep try to help stop the bleeding.

Hikaru slightly jogs over to his brothers side and places his hands on the bed as he slightly leans over his slightly younger twin to get a look at his face.

The others remain in the doorway just kind of watching for now while giving Hikaru a little space for the moment no matter if they want to race over to their friends side themselves. They just kind of watch as Hikaru lowers to a crouch so he can rest the side of his head on the bed while still being able to look to his brothers face. They can't read his expression from where they are.

Kyouya turns to the doctor as he came up to beside said doctor. "What kind of injury was it?" He questions getting the doctors attention.

"Well it was a bullet wound and we do have the bullet in safe keeping as required just in case." The doctor reports. "He was lucky to get hit where he did or else he wouldn't have lasted this long even if there is a still a chance for death."

"I see." Kyouya turns away to look back into the room at this. "Well keep the bullet for now. I'll have one of the investigators I will have on this case come to take it soon." He takes the lead in heading deeper into the room around the time that he's done talking and the host club follow after him.

"Of course." The doctor responds as he watches them move into the room.