Twin Devils

Chapter 13

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(A/N: Alright, so not a lot of you liked the Jaga chapter. I don't know if it was because in it, I hurt Kaoru, or what, but sorry. I thought lots of you guys would've liked to see the jealous side of Jaga. And Kaoru had it taken out on him.

So, to make up for the Jaga chapter, who no one seemed to like, I'll make this chapter have a ton of great Kaoru moments in it.

P.S. It's not like Kaoru's dead. Don't get your panties in a twist, ladies.)

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Ever since we had come out as a couple, the fangirls have come multiplying. The relationship should have been scandalous, especially for Kaoru. I mean, first all he was in a romantic innuendo status with his own twin brother, and now two of the Host Club members had gotten together, and the nice twin was mingling with a commoner boy of all people! Though no one really thought it was scandalous, I guess because the whole "Brotherly Love" thing was a pretty bold already, the girls weren't surprised at much from the Hitachiin twins. People would request for us to kiss each other in front of them, or to cuddle for extended periods of time. It wasn't that bad… I got to spend time with him more like this, and I enjoyed every second with Kaoru. It seemed like we spent all of our time together, first here, then at the house. The rest of the host club wholeheartedly approved of our relationship. Well… Most of them did. Tamaki and Hikaru didn't really like it. If I spent too much time over at the Hitachiin table, Hikaru would wave me away saying that I already saw the man enough. And if I was caught looking too long at Kaoru while I was in the middle of entertaining some ladies, then I would get chastised by Tamaki, him screaming some gibberish about "HARUHI!" and "DADDY!"

The others would play along with the whole thing. Honey would come over to us whenever a client asked us to do something together and give us samples of the latest cakes he had acquired. Mori would come find us if we would sneak off together, and instead of making us go back to work, he would grunt and ruffle my hair, then lock the door behind him. Renge was head over heels for our relationship. She set up posters around the campus, had a ton of Kaoruhi (our couple name) CDs, and was even slapping our kissing faces on T-shirts. And Kasanoda stopped by everyday, pulling Kaoru into the back room to have a talk with him. I am never told what goes on behind those doors, but it's been hinted that it involves threatening, dead flowers, and Kasanoda saying, "Hurt her and you're next."

Even Kyoya supported us, in his own twisted way. He called me over whenever I wasn't busy, "Haruhi, I have a business proposition for you."

I always paused at moments like these. Kyoya never did this type of stuff unless he had some sort of personal gain. I've chosen to tread lightly, "I'm listening."

"Why don't you start openly flirting with Kaoru in front of the princesses?" He suggested slyly, adjusting the glasses on the bridge of his nose.

"No way in hell, senpai." I said, not liking that manipulative sound in his voice.

"Oh really?" He was writing in his black notebook. "I'll lower your quota by a few thousand yen."

I grumbled, "Well, it's just a few lousy pick up lines, right?"

I knew that I was in trouble because Kyoya actually chuckled, a real, human like chuckle.

Slowly, I walked over to Kaoru, and bent over the back of his chair, wrapping my arms around his neck. My face was buried in his soft hair, breathing in the sweet scent of Kaoru, fingers finding his hand and lacing it with his. Placing the smallest of kisses on his head, I smiled down at him, "Hey… uh, Kaoru. Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again?"

Kaoru looked surprised, "W-what? Did you just use a cheesy pick up line on me, Haruhi? What's all that about?"

"Oh, I don't know," I shrugged, acting like I didn't know a thing.

"Wait!" He exclaimed, shifting in his chair a little. "I got one! Did your face hurt when you fell from Heaven? Oh, wait, no! I didn't mean that! How'd it go again…?" The younger twin began to chew his thumb, thinking hard about a stupid pickup line.

I couldn't help but to laugh at that little face, so I moved to face him, cupping his chin, "How can you be so adorable?" I gave him a small kiss just for effort.

"Hey… Maybe I should start butchering pick up lines more often," Kaoru chuckled, scratching the back of his head.

Hikaru huffed from his seat, and waved us away, "You two are gross. You don't see me dragging my girlfriend in here and slobbering all over her. Go do that some place where I don't have to watch."

Kaoru suddenly scooped me up in his arms, standing, "So we shall! Away we go!" He rushed us out of the Host Club, Tamaki screeching after us.

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I didn't even know that we had a rooftop garden until today. This is where Kaoru had decided to take me today, a private little getaway, with a gorgeous view of the Ouran campus, and the beautiful sky. The sun was easy right now, not too hot, and gentle breeze rolled atop the building where we sat. I leaned into Kaoru, loving to just be alone with him in such a beautiful place like this.

Easing back in his arms, I glanced up at his face, and couldn't help but admire how serene he looked whenever he was alone. There was such a huge difference whenever he was with me alone, and whenever he was with the others.

When he was with the others, Hikaru especially, he had this personality that nothing fazed him. He was the nice twin who would still tell you to go play in traffic. But it was almost like he was more mischievous and prone to do something that involved massive trickery. It was almost weird seeing him alone.

By himself, he was quiet, and much more kind. Kaoru went from Little Devil, to Serene Gentleman in seconds. It was almost comical, seeing him so peaceful and at his element.

My eyes traveled down his neck, spying the glint of a necklace under his collar. I blinked, sitting up and trying to see what it was. He glanced down at me, "What are you looking for?"

"Are you wearing a necklace?" I asked, running a finger lightly along the chain.

He nodded. Running a hand swiftly under the chain, he pulled it up for me to see. It was the orange Gemini split necklace I had given him. "You gave this to me, remember?"

I rested the little pendant in the palm of my hand, not believing that he had actually kept it all this time, "But why? Why are you wearing this stupid little trinket? You're rich, and your mom is a fashion person. Do you really want to be wearing this little thing?"

He smiled at me, taking my hand in his, "Because you gave it to me, Haruhi. That makes it special. And I'll wear it forever and always. It keeps me safe, because it has your love in it." He flashed me that big adorable smile, "So it means way more to me anyway. I'd rather have this trinket, than some stupid hunk of jewelry."

"Wow, Kaoru…" I couldn't help but laugh a little at him. "You're so whipped!"

"WHAT?! I am so not whipped, commoner!" He grumbled, folding his arms across is chest.

I released another little laugh, leaning up to kiss him on the cheek, "Don't be like that. I was only kidding. I like you being yourself. It's different."

"Good difference?" He asked.

"Great difference," I answered.

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It was such a shock. Rain poured down in the background, but even I wasn't focused on that. Kaoru laid on the porch in a twisted angle, body all contorted in odd ways, his figure broken and beaten. The nice twin had been taken and roughed up horribly, bones broken, bleeding, and skin bruised. A note was haphazardly placed by his body.

Rushing to his side, my throat let loose a small whimper, "Kaoru… Who's done this to you?" Tears actually formed in my eyes, and down my cheeks. I gently hugged his head, stroking his hair, "It's alright, don't strain yourself."

The beaten twin tried to rise under me, making a faint grunt, then plopped back down in my lap, "Haruhi… Ow…"

"Hikaru!" I shouted back into the house, clutching onto Kaoru as though my life depended on it. His broken body was so deformed that I could feel bone raising out of his body, and his blood had covered a good portion of my clothing, but I didn't care. I couldn't let this man die, one of my twins was not allowed death, not by any means, and I wanted to live with them forever. "Hikaru!" I cried again, weeping over Kaoru's head, my tears landing on his face and streaking through the grime.

The older twin came down the stairs, a very confused look on his face, "What? What's the matter-"

As soon as he saw that his twin had been hurt, that Kaoru's sickly form was lying limp on the porch, he full sprinted out of the house. A disgruntled shout tore through Hikaru's throat as he fell to his brother's side, "KAORU!" He looked down at Kaoru's body, almost afraid to touch like he would break if he even breathed too heavily. Gritting his teeth together, he was choking back tears. "Who the hell did this to you?! Kaoru, I'm so sorry! This is all my fault!"

He laid his head down on his brother's chest, tears streaming from his eyes as he whimpered out apologies. Holding onto Kaoru's shirt, he tightened his grip, curling up his fingers in the fabric and holding his brother closer. "Alright. Enough crying. Let's get you to the hospital." With a small struggle, Hikaru hefted Kaoru in his arms, jogging him to the car. He spread him out in the backseat and shed his jacket off, throwing it over Kaoru's form. "Haruhi, get in the back and sit with him, make sure nothing happens!"

With that we were off to the hospital. I sat in the back with Kaoru, his head in my lap, and I could see blood from the head wounds bleeding into his fiery hair, and I had to look away. Instead, I distracted myself with that note. Looking over it, it was a sloppily scrawled note with only a couple of sentences on it. It read: "Please forgive my ways. Alas, I am but a mutt."

It wasn't hard. An easy riddle with an easier answer. A mutt, crossbred, illegitimate. Obviously Jaga. Though… he is more of a bull. Anyway, why Kaoru? That one, I have no honest idea.

We soon pulled up to the hospital, and Hikaru rushed his twin inside, shouting at the doctors and nurses to be careful as they wheeled him off. He ran after the gurney all the way to the doors, shouting, "Take care of my brother! Don't you dare hurt him! He's all I have! He's all I have!" A few doctors actually had to push him back, and since he couldn't go after his brother, he plopped down in a hospital chair, trembling.

I slowly made my way towards him, easing my way in a chair. This was going to tear him apart. "Hikaru? Do you mind if I sit here?"

He slowly shook his head, sniveling. "No-o. Hey Haruhi?"

"Yes?" I asked, trying to look him in the face, but his head was bent so far down.

He took a shuttering breath, voice thick like he had a knot in his throat, "If I started crying would you blame it on the rain?"

I blinked. It clearly wasn't raining on the inside of a hospital, but we were soaked to the bone from the rain, so I could see where he was going, "A-Alright. Sure. I'll blame the rain."

Ever so gently, he turned his head towards me, and I could clearly see that his eyes were tearing up and his lip was quivering uncontrollably, "Really? You'd do that for me? Then… It's raining pretty hard." He suddenly began to cry hard, body wrecked with wretched sobs, body bent and shaking. Water flowed freely from his eyes, cascading down in large tears of pain and sadness.

Overcome with emotion by his sudden crying fit, I pulled his head down to my chest, and let him cry on my shoulder for a few minutes. He slowly twined his arms around my waist, liking the feeling as I stroked his hair. "It's okay," I whispered, brushing back his fiery hair. Placing a small chaste kiss on his forehead, I gave a little smile. "It's only a bad storm."

He sniffled, looking up at me, though feline eyes I once knew now puffy large pools of tears as he gazed up at me, "H-How long will you hold me?"

I paused, unsure of the answer myself. Suddenly, a faint sound of thunder rumbled in the distance, and I tensed, reminded of my fear, and the night that the twins had held me. Gradually, I looked down at him, repeating what he had once said to Kaoru about how long they should stay, "I leave when the pain leaves."

"Then," He gave a little strained breath, closing his eyes, his long eyelashes filled with unshed tears. Hesitantly, he rested his face in the crook of my neck, placing my legs over his so I was practically in his lap. "You'll be staying by my side for a while."

That was perfectly fine by me.

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(A/N: All right, so that's the end of that chapter. Got some MAJOR announcements, so listen up.

I am seriously struggling to write more of this story. I'm lacking motivation, I'm lacking inspiration, I'm lacking a feel for my own story. I'm not sure what to do with it right now. I really don't want to give up on it because I know that a lot of you like this story, and appreciate it, but I'm not sure if it may be worth the trouble. The story isn't where I'd like it to be right now, a lot of people don't like it. I thought that the Jaga chapter would tie people over and make them happy, but it's my least successful chapter right now. I don't know guys. I'm really considering to stop writing this thing completely. Maybe, if more people start reading it, or more people start liking it, then I'll start up again, but right now, I'm in a major slump.

I'll put up a vote on my page, and see who wants me to continue and who wants me to quit. But, thanks for reading, and vote if you care! Love all of you~