Creek and I forgot to mention (because of the birthday hype) that Yuuta is actually a real character, and actually IS Fuji's younger brother from the anime that they come from. Gawd, I feel like we're making this into a cross-over. But oh well.

Chapter 19: Yuki's P.O.V

"Aniki… who are those people following us?"

Seiji spazzed, lifting her hand to her face and forming it so it looked like she was speaking into something, "Shit! Code Red, Code Red! I repeat, Code Red! Fox-face and Scar-head have spotted us. Prince-Idiot and Rock-Human, abort mission, abort mission!" She squealed not-so-quietly, using the nicknames that she no doubt just made up right now. And it wasn't like Tamaki or Mori could actually HEAR her either, for they were not even here at the moment.

"Seiji? Yuki? …Hitachiins." Fuji added the last part flatly, as if he wasn't THAT surprised to see them here. "What are you guys doing here?"

Seiji quickly dropped her hand, giving a large smile as if she WASN'T screaming nonsense into her hand just moments before, "Why hello, Fuji, fancy seeing you here. Yuki, the twins, and I just decided to have a nice day out at the mall."

The twins also smiled largely, no doubt fearing for their lives and just hoping to every god out there that Fuji fell for their excuse.

"Interesting, but, why are you following us?" Fuji still had his smile on, his head tilted just a bit.

"What? Following you?" Seiji looked genuinely confused, and I had to admit, she was a good actor/actress/what have you. "No, we weren't following you. I guess I could see how it seems that way, since we happened to go to all of the same places, but we're honestly just here to shop."

"So… can you explain WHY you were in the plant section and dress section with us?" I briefly wondered if Fuji knew this WHOLE time that we were here, and was just pretending as if he didn't know while not telling his brother a thing about it. It would certainly make sense, I mean, how ELSE would he know that we were also in those sections?

"You're not the only one who likes cacti you know. And I was looking for a cute dress for Kaoru to wear for when I kidnap him and hold him hostage until Hikaru comes to save him, and then they'll have hot butt-smex on my living room couch, all while Kaoru is still in the dress."

Fuji nodded in understanding, looking as if he TOTALLY believed that and there was NOTHING wrong with it AT ALL, while Yuuta, thankfully more sane than his brother, scooted back a bit. Kaoru looked ready to punch Seiji in the arm again, and Hikaru looked even more confused, until I spoke up.

"No, stop lying." I sent her a glare. "We were buying a dress for our OTHER cousin who ISN'T Haruhi; she's coming over next month to celebrate her birthday." I lied easily.

Funny how I said 'stop lying' and yet I told a lie.

"Oh? I'd love to meet your cousin." Fuji's smile didn't change, nor did the rest of his expression, but for some reason, I felt as if I had been trapped in something.

I then regretted my lie.

It wasn't a COMPLETE lie though. We did have another cousin whose birthday is next month, but I doubt she's actually coming over to visit us by then. She actually doesn't really like us all that much; she thinks Seiji is an escaped mental patient and that I'm just a lazy fat-ass. Which isn't really too far from the truth.

"Y-yeah… I'm sure she'd love to meet you too." I deflated as I realized I would now have to call her later. Seiji also seemed depressed at the idea, because she didn't really like our cousin either. Or rather, she TRIES to be nice to her, but only gets head-butts in return.

"Well, now that you're here, I guess I might as well introduce you to Yuuta. Though I'm pretty sure you already know who he is and stuff."

…Yep, he knew we were here the whole time.

"Aha…" Seiji laughed, shifting her weight, "You're… brother?" She looked as if she was guessing, which, in my opinion, was making things worse. He already KNOWS that we were watching him the whole time, why try to hide it?

"Yes, younger brother. Say hi, Yuuta."

Yuuta sent his brother a look, as if saying, 'I know that.' Now he knew how I felt when I first met Fuji.

"Hi, it's nice to meet some of… Aniki's friends." He paused, probably thinking that anyone friends with Fuji was probably just as bad as he was. Well, he really only needed to worry about Seiji.

"Nice to meet you, Yuuta!" Speaking of Seiji, my sister excitedly jumped forward, sticking her hand out for a handshake. Yuuta hesitantly took it, looking confused at the sudden invasion of personal space. "I'm Seiji Fuji, BEST FRIENDS with Fuji, and we share the same last name."

Right, because those are completely normal things to say when meeting someone for the first time.

I pulled Seiji back, hoping she wouldn't scare the more saner of the Fuji brothers away.

"I'm Yuki, Seiji's twin sister." I noticed the widened look in his eyes, and so I quickly continued, "But we're not that alike, we're complete opposites." He slowly nodded again.

Now that I think about it, Yuuta and I could become great friends. We're both the more saner out of our siblings, and we're constantly trying to stop our other half from doing something stupid, or trying to avoid them.

I then noticed that Yuuta was staring at the Hitachiin twins (who, in all honestly, I forgot were there), as if waiting for them to introduce themselves.

Of course, the two couldn't take a hint, so I spoke for them.

"Those two are the Hitachiin twins, classmates of ours that aren't really much of an importance at the moment."

"Oi!"

"Oh, well, it's nice to meet you all." Yuuta nodded, looking as if he was only fine with talking to me and nobody else, except maybe possibly his brother. I couldn't blame him.

"Now that we've got THAT over with," Seiji wiped her forehead, as if SHE did anything, "why don't we all hang out to get to know each other better?"

I wanted to point out that the only person who was actually out of the loop was Yuuta, and therefore most of us didn't really need to be here because WE knew each other, but then I noticed that Tamaki and Co. were nowhere to be seen.

I tugged on Seiji's sleeve, effectively catching her short-attention span. Meaning I had to speak quickly before she got distracted by something like a nacho-stand.

"Tamaki and the others aren't here."

"Ara?"

"The others left."

Seiji glanced around.

"Since when!?" She looked highly offended, but I bet she didn't really care all that much.

"Probably ever since we were caught." Hikaru broke in this time, looking as if he also just noticed that the others weren't here.

"You DID tell them to abort mission." Kaoru pointed out, and even though Tamaki and Mori had NO WAY of actually hearing Seiji when she had said that, I couldn't help but agree, because it was actually the only plausible excuse at the moment.

"So you WERE following us." Fuji spoke up amusedly, and I sighed as both Seiji and Hikaru looked as if they were sentenced to death. Seriously, it was OBVIOUS that he already knew we were following him, stop acting as if we were doing a good job at hiding it!

Kaoru looked as if he wanted to laugh, and I couldn't blame him, the look on their faces were rather funny.

"Well, if they left, I guess we should go to." I suddenly realized that this was just a HUGE waste of time, even though it kind of was my idea in the first place. Or was it Seiji's? I can't even remember.

"What? But we just got here!" Seiji got over her "OMIGAWD HE KNOWS!" stage and turned to pout at me.

"No, no we didn't. We've been here for about an hour and only got caught just now." I glanced at my watch. "Besides, we have something to discuss back at home, don't we?"

"Oh? What's this, are you planning something?" The twins, being their usual nosey selves, grinning slyly at us.

"Yes." I didn't bother to hide it. There wouldn't be a point in it really, as long as they don't know what we're planning, it's alright.

The twins faltered again, looking disgruntled that their teasing didn't affect me either.

"Ah, yeah, you're right." Seiji nodded, turning to Fuji. "You're in on it too. Come over once you get back home, ok?"

Fuji stayed quiet for a bit, his smile not there, which creeped me out since I'm so used to it, but it turns out that was just his thinking face, for he smiled once again and nodded, "Ok."

That was a bit of a run-on sentence, wasn't it?

"Well," Seiji announced, stretching her arms in the air as if just waking up for a nap. Speaking of, I really think I could go for one now. All this spying and moving is making me tired. "Let's go now. Come on you two." Seiji suddenly took on a voice that reminded me of my own when she snapped her fingers at the twins and started walking away, acting as if they were dogs that should follow her.

And, to my dismay, they followed her.

I sighed, "Bye Fuji, Yuuta, nice meeting you." I nodded to the brothers, who both nodded in return, before turning to go follow after my sister and her two twin dogs.

Ah... I really don't know what to say. Other than both Creek and I got sick on the day RIGHT AFTER our birthday (but not ON our birthday, where we felt COMPLETELY FINE), and so we've missed three days of school. We haven't been in school for 6 though, since we had a three day weekend, then we didn't go to school on Monday, Tuesday and today, Wendesday. As I type this, I'm currently having many coughing fits. Creek almost threw up earlier because she was coughing THAT MUCH. Jeez... I kind of want to stay home tomorrow too, but I just KNOW we're going to school tomorrow.

You guys are SO lucky that we're still writing when we SHOULD be resting.

Ciao~

-Hitatchiin