Yes, lo and behold, chapter 13. Anyone else notice that we're doing a lot of time-skips lately in our chapters? There's a total of three in this one, and we used to rarely do one at all. I guess it's because we really didn't want to write out too much boring stuff. But, I promise that the time-skips will lesson in the future. I'm getting a bit tired of them myself.

Chapter 13: Yuki's P.O.V

After we left through the front doors of the club room and managed to get out of the way before the herd of fangirls tackled us (I don't care what Seiji told you, we did not jump out the window), we all made our way to our apartment building, reflecting on our actions today.

Ok, that sounds too cheesy. Seiji and Fuji just talked about what would be faster in a race; a llama or an alpaca, while I just added in my own two-cents every once in a while.

You can't blame me; it was actually a pretty interesting conversation.

We arrived at our apartment doors, Seiji and Fuji exchanging good-byes while I just did a simple wave. We stepped into our apartment, hoping that we wouldn't get ambushed by fangirls again.

I sent Seiji a look, and she immediately understood. She gave me a nod before crouching low to the ground, slowly setting her bag down before walking down the hall that led to the bedroom and bathroom.

I too set down my bag, cautiously walking into the kitchen and looking for anymore notes. When I spotted none, I went back into the living room, still crouching, and quickly checked behind and under the couches. I even went to check behind the T.V, even though it probably wasn't humanly possible to fit behind there. Still, one can never be too safe.

"Clear!" I called out, standing up straight.

"Clear!" I heard Seiji repeat from the bathroom. She soon entered the living room also, whistling with a smile. "Good, no crazy fangirls today."

I nodded, also smiling. "I didn't really feel like being tied up today. I'm gonna go take a nap." Instead of leaving the room and going to the bedroom like one would usually do after stating this comment, I dropped down on the rug, spreading my arms out wide and relaxing right there.

"Too lazy to walk to the bedroom?" I heard Seiji's voice from above.

I gave a grunt of some sort.

"I'll take that as a yes."

I ignored her and instead went to sleep.

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When I woke up, I heard the distance sounds of party-sounding music ringing throughout the house. My first thought was that Seiji threw a party without me knowing, and that people would be dancing around my unconscious body without a care in the world, but then I realized, Seiji doesn't really know enough people to throw a legit party.

So I sat up, rubbing my eyes with a yawn. I glanced at a nearby clock, seeing that it was around 6:00, meaning I slept for about 2 hours. I looked around the living room, noticing the bright glare of the T.V, which seemed to be the source of the party music.

I raised an eyebrow, my vision clearing as I saw that Mario-Kart was currently being played on the Wii. The music itself was the Coconut Mall theme (because we all know how awesome it would be to have Coconut Mall theme music playing at a party)

I slowly turned my head and saw Seiji sitting on the couch, a box of Hot and Spicy Cheez-Its right next to her as she held a Wii wheel in her hands.

"Morning, sleeping beauty." Seiji said threw a mouthful of Cheez-Its.

"…Evening." I corrected, looking back at the T.V. Seiji was playing as Rosalina, riding a blue motorcycle. I remember Seiji nearly stayed up three days straight just to unlock that character instead of just buying Mario Galaxy and unlocking her the easier way.

I continued to sit there and watch her race, blinking slowly and tiredly as she went back and forth between 2nd and 3rd place.

"You know, Hikaru's here."

…

"What!?" I abruptly turned to face her again, completely wide awake.

"Yeah, he questioned why you were asleep on the rug, and I just told him that you were lazy. He decided to just wait in our bedroom."

"You let a boy in our bedroom?"

"It's not like we're in there. He can't rape us from that far of a distance."

"That's not the point! What if he's snooping around our clothes or something!?"

"You and I both know that I keep all of my undergarments hidden in a special place."

"Yeah, well I don't!" I quickly stood up, fixing my clothes and rushing to the bedroom. The door was open, so I guess that's a good sign. Still, I slowly peeked my head in, hoping to just catch him in the act.

Instead, he was lying on his stomach on our bed, feet swishing back and forth in the air. He was totally entranced by a pink Gameboy Advanced. The lights were off, something I just noticed, and the only light was the hallway light and the small glare from the Gameboy itself.

Hikaru briefly glanced up before turning back to whatever game he was playing.

"Hey."

"…Hey…" I hesitantly walked into the room, slowly looking around and making sure everything was the same as I left it from this morning.

Ok, nothing out of place… yet.

"I didn't touch anything, if that's what you're thinking." Hikaru commented flatly, still staring at the Gameboy screen.

I made a 'pfft' sound, waving my hand around, "Of course I wasn't thinking that…" I trailed off, not adding anything else to my sentence.

"Well," He quickly sat up, shutting off the Gameboy and crossing his legs.

The crisscross applesauce way, not like that of a lady or something.

"Well." I repeated, shrugging.

"I brought my homework and textbook, hopefully you have yours." Indeed, he held up his bag, taking out a notebook and a math textbook.

"You want to start with math?"

"It's my favorite subject."

"…But you suck at it."

"So?" He gave a shrug.

I rolled my eyes, pulling up a chair from my computer desk and taking a seat next to the bed, "Fine then, but before we start, I have a question."

"I thought you were the tutor."

I ignored him, "Why on earth were you using a pink Gameboy?"

"It's not mine, it's Seiji's! She said I could use it."

"I know that, but… why pink?"

"Right, because I have the power to control what color I wanted it to be." He rolled his eyes this time, opening up his text book.

I sighed, "Just shut up and read the first problem."

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"I guess I understand it a little bit better." Hikaru muttered, standing at our front door and getting ready to leave. I glanced at the clock once again; it was bordering around 8:00 now, meaning it was getting late and Kaoru was no doubt wondering where his brother was.

Geez, sometimes I feel that those two depend on each other too much. I remember telling Seiji this at one point. She merely glared at me and told me not to question their relationship. Of course her yaoi side would kick in and defend them.

"Hm, you can come back tomorrow, we'll work a bit on English then too." I still don't understand what was so hard about English, but I guess I'm so good at it since it's my first language.

"Oi! Tell Kaoru I said hi!" Seiji waved obnoxiously from right behind me, shouting in my ear and trying her best to speak to Hikaru.

I sent Hikaru a look, something along the lines of, 'See, I told you Kaoru was planning something with them.' He merely rolled his eyes.

"Right, I'll be sure to do that." He told my sister flatly. Seiji nodded to herself, as if she did a good deed. He turned back to me, "I'll see you tomorrow." He waved, turning to walk down the steps of the apartment building. I returned the wave, even though his back was to me and he couldn't really see me. Still, I felt it was polite.

I closed the door with a sigh, turning back to Seiji who stood there grinning and not saying anything.

I raised an eyebrow, "What?"

"Hm? Oh, nothing." She sent me another grin before dashing off into the bedroom, not even bothering to turn off the game that she was playing (yeah, she was playing Mario-Kart the whole time).

I grumbled to myself as I saved her progress before turning off the game. She would no doubt bite my head off tomorrow morning if she knew that I didn't save her game.

I slowly made my way back to the bedroom, seeing Seiji sitting at her own computer desk and reading fanfictions. I considered doing that also, but then realized I was too tired and lazy to actually get out my laptop, so I just plopped down on the bed, deciding to go to sleep for the night.

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I yawned, laying my head on my desk as class ended. I then groaned as I realized I needed to go through three more classes before the end of the day came.

Seriously, I just wanted to sleep already.

"Did you get enough sleep last night?" A voice asked a bit dryly from above. And was it me, or did it also sound a bit sarcastic?

I opened one eye to peek up at the person who decided to talk to me for some unfathomable reason. Wasn't it obvious by the loud yawn that I was tired and planned on sleeping for a few minutes before the next class started?

"Oh, Kaoru?" I took a wild guess, since I was too tired to pay attention to their hairstyles. I'm just judging from the voice.

"Disappointed?" I heard him take a seat right next to me, plopping down heavily.

I raised my head, along with my right eyebrow as I stared at him, confused. "Um… why would I be?"

Kaoru blinked, and judging by his Adam's apple, he swallowed also, "No reason." He quickly turned away.

I tilted my head, wondering if Seiji was telling the truth when she told me that Kaoru tends to act like a tsundere when Hikaru wasn't around.

That's kind of cute if you think about it.

But then again, I also heard from Haruhi that Kaoru is actually the more sensible twin, and that Hikaru actually acts brash when apart from his twin.

So… is he like… a kind tsundere?

That's odd.

"Hey, did Hikaru come over to your place yesterday?" I turned back to Kaoru, noticing how he looked a bit conflicted about his question, as if he wasn't sure if he wanted to ask it in the first place.

"Yeah, I needed to tutor him in math and English." I paused, "He really sucks."

Kaoru chewed the inside of his cheek, "Did he ask you to tutor him?"

"No, I kind of just offered it when I saw that he got nearly all of the questions wrong on his homework." I shrugged, thinking back to that time. I also remember asking Hikaru to question Kaoru about his… activities with Seiji and Fuji.

Oh god, why does everything I think sound so wrong?

"Hey, a bit random, but, are you, Seiji and Fuji planning anything?" I asked, hoping to get a few answers from him. This way, I wouldn't have to ask Seiji or Fuji and therefore not get brain damage.

"What? No." He answered calmly.

A bit too calmly…

…If that's possible…

"Really? Cuz I mean, ever since that day at the park when they dragged you off to go hide," He seemed to grimace here, "you've been hanging out with them a lot more."

"Not on my own free will…" He mumbled, but otherwise didn't answer any of my questions.

"So… they're not doing anything… evil, are they?"

"No, they're not." He looked at me blankly. I returned the blank look.

"…Ok then." I shrugged, turning to face the front once again.

And so, that was the end of one of the many rare conversations that we have about twice a week.

Though still, the fact that he seemed a bit cold towards me was a bit unnerving. I really need to start investigating into this a bit more.

But of course, I'm too lazy.

Yes, Yuki is a very lazy couch-potato.

Yes, so am I.

Yes, I do actually sleep that much. And on the floor too.

Yes, I am not going to answer your question on whether Kaoru is jealous or not.

Hope that answers all of your questions.

Ciao~

-Hitatchiin