Twin Devils

Chapter Twenty-Two

(A/N: So how many of you were angry at the end of that last chapter X3? Come on, raise of hands?

Aw, well don't fret young readers, all shall be revealed this chapter.

Twin Devils is coming to an end soon. How's that feel?

Anyway! Happy reading!)

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Previously on Twin Devils

Viper stood beside me, smirking and chuckling under his breath. Next thing I know, the tall man crumples to the ground, reeling back from being punched. Another voice rang out, "None of you punks are touching her!"

My head leaned back, trying to glimpse the familiar person. Hikaru stood there, bathed in fury, eyes narrowed and teeth clenched. "And if you do, I'll tear you limb from limb."

New tears, ones of happiness filled my eyes, and I cried out gratefully, "Oh Hikaru!"

"Not so fast, pretty boy," Blade sneered, and as my eyes found him, I saw his arm extended, gun in hand.

Before I even had time to scream, his finger tightened on the trigger.

Before I even had time to think, I heard it embed into Hikaru's flesh.

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Turning my head, I watched with wide eyes as the bullet bit into Hikaru's torso, blood exploding out as it made contact, burying into his skin.

His eyes widened too, but I wasn't sure if it was from the shock or the pain.

It wasn't until the fierce twin doubled over, clutching his stomach, and he released an animalistic guttural sound I didn't register as human, blood spurting from his mouth that I was certain it was the pain. He stumbled over, draping himself on my chair, holding onto it for support.

"Hikaru!" I gasped, eyes glued shakily to the blossoming red spreading wildly through his white t shirt, darkening as it ripened.

Viper was beginning to get up, some of his own blood dripping from his nose before he snapped it back into place. He growled, his sunglasses now a little crooked, one lense broken to reveal a blinking eye, all his hatred concentrated on the weak Hikaru.

The smoking man grabbed Hikaru by the collar, pulling him up onto his feet. "You stupid little lamb. Trying to pick a fight with the big dogs, eh?" He jabbed his thumb into the bloody wound, earning a painfilled moaned from Hikaru's chapped lips. "Sucks to know you can't win, doesn't it?" Viper began to laugh, having fun twisting in more pain to stimulate the bullet wound.

Tears streaming down my cheeks, intermingling with the dust, grime, and sweat, I yelled at them, struggling in my confinement, "Leave him alone! What do you people even want from me?!"

Everything suddenly got quiet, and I heard every heart beat, every blood drop, and I felt every second slowly aging my body. They were all staring at me, and I made it a point to meet each and every one of their eyes. Dark's light hazel ones, Blade's muddy green ones, Viper's one pale blue one, and finally I stopped at the Friend leader's pitch black ones. His decaying teeth revealed themselves in an awful grin, and he just began laughing.

The twisted man laughed and laughed, on and on, holding his stomach from the action. I'd never been so scared of another human being in my entire existence. He laughed in my face, leaning over me, "You just don't get it, do you? I used to have a good business. Take in the orphans… Make them my friendssssss… Teach them of loooove… And in return, they'd commit certain, crimes, for me. But your mother…" His face twisted up in an unadulterated rage, and he clenched both fist tight, his ghastly skin drawing taut over his bones. "Didn't think my business was right. Said it was eviiiiiiiill. You know how women can be. She took it to court, and I was thrown in jail! All because of her!" He was shouting at me, so close to me his saliva hit my face, and I felt his icy presence chill my skin. "I rotted in there! I was after her when I got out, but what do I find? She already died!" His breath came out in short, huffs of pants, and he grabbed me by my hair, taking out a wickedly curved black knife. "I wanted to spill her guts for locking me up. But in all her rudeness, she had to go and die. You'll have to do in her place!"

The knife lifted to stab me, and I knew by the crazed look in his eyes, he wouldn't miss. Sudden and raging terror gripped my heart, and I was certain it wouldn't release it until after it stop beating. Just as the knife started its descent, a hand reached out and grabbed the wrist that wielded it.

"Uncle Vincent," a cool voice teeming with dark fury spoke out. It belonged to the same person who threw the creepy pale man back. The knife clattered to the ground, and the man, Vincent, tumbled back, rubbing his wrist. A new figure stepped in front of me, and from the contours the light provided me, I saw those familiar narrowed green eyes. "It's not nice to treat a lady like that."

Vincent's eyes widened, and he stared at the new person. I smiled at his arrival, "Jaga… I'm so glad you're here."

Jaga glanced over his shoulder at me, giving me a reassuring half smirk before turning his attention back towards his uncle, "Father said you'd be out of jail. I never realized that you'd be out so quickly. And that you'd be such a pain this early on." His green eyes flicked to his three men, and he scowled. "I thought you three were loyal to me, not this junkie."

"Don't talk to me that way, you ungrateful little-" Vincent started, barking such orders at Jaga. He was interrupted by Blade, who stepped forward.

"I'm sorry buddy," Blade started. "But we get these orders to serve him directly from the big boss. This goes over your head."

Dark grinned, bouncing, "Over your head! Over your head!"

Jaga rolled his eyes, "Right. Thanks guys. Grade A loyalty." He turned to me, pulling a small switchblade from his pocket. Kneeling next to me, he worked on freeing me from the old wooden chair. Once I was free, I stood up, rubbing my wrists, and finally got a chance to look around. We were in an old run down parking garage, in a town unbeknownst to me.

I heard footsteps running closer, and I turned, seeing who on Earth could be coming here to save us. My face broke into the goofiest grin when I saw those four familiar faces. The entire remaining host club, Tamaki, Kyoya, Honey and Mori padded up to the scene, all looking worried, all ready to swoop in and save us.

Honey's big round eyes spotted the blood around the fallen twin, and he frowned, "Hika-chan doesn't look too good…"

"You have to help," I spoke frantically, unsure if I would be stopped by any of the four looming guard dogs behind me. "Hikaru's been shot, and Kaoru's in the trunk, not doing so hot either."

Tamaki wasted no time, struggling to get Hikaru on his back, nodding to Takashi, "I've got this one. You go get Kaoru."

"Yeah," Mori grunted, dipping his head in a nod before going over to the trunk, slamming his large fist over it. It popped open, and he scooped the other twin out of it before returning to our side of the battlefield.

Vincent was shaking his head slowly, eyes wide, mouth in a straight line. I backed up, feeling Kyoya put a protective arm around me. Vincent breathed, "We shouldn't just let them walk out of here alive." He turned, giving his three henchmen accusatory glances. "What type of help are you idiots?"

Jaga cleared his throat, making his presence more prominent, standing tall, holding out an invisible challenge that he was going to protect us at all costs.

Viper shook his head, already working on a new cigarette, "I don't know if you can see that or not, but that's Jaga standing in the way. We're not going to fight our friend just to kill some stupid little highschoolers."

"I command you!" Vincent shouted, gritting his teeth, his pale face taking on a slight angry blush. "I command you to fight him."

All three of the henchmen flinched, and then slowly stood. They understood that disobeying Vincent was disobeying Godfather Akuma. And disobeying Godfather Akuma was welcoming death.

Blade stepped forward, eyes sad, a frown gracing his lips as he reluctantly drew his knife, "I'm sorry Jag. But you know, it's just business, nothing personal."

"Yeah," Viper added, straightening his shades. "We'll try not to hurt anything too vital."

Dark laughed, but he worried at his bottom lip, looking nervous, "No promises! Uh, haha…"

Jaga took a deep breath, then turned to look at all of us. He made eye contact with each one of us, nodding, "You guys should find the exit pretty easily. I called the ambulance before I came here, just in case. It should be waiting out front. Good luck, and make sure those twins are all right." His eyes paused on me, and he frowned, softening, "I am so sorry. For everything." He turned away.

I shook my head, "I forgive you, Jaga." Along with the rest of them, we headed quickly towards the front entrance. Pausing, I noticed Kyoya frozen in place with Jaga in front of him, surrounded by looming hoodlums.

Kyoya's fists tightened by his sides, and he spurted out, "Jaga… Thanks… Brother."

Jaga's form relaxed a bit, and he raised his fists, ready to fight. With a nod of his head, Kyoya wasn't far behind us, running and running until we found the exit.

We all tried not to flinch as we heard Jaga's screams fill the abandoned space.

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Just as Jaga promised, an ambulance was whirring down the street, sirens blaring and all the bells and whistles as it hustled towards us. Examining the two twins, we had to examine who was going to get the ride in the ambulance.

The medical vehicle zoomed up, the back doors busting open and two paramedics hopped out, running towards our injured.

The main one looked rushing, stretching out the gurney, "Kids, who's injured, we need to get them on the stretcher, pronto."

Seeing as Hikaru looked pale and was dripping blood and Kaoru was only sporting a few bruises and a broken arm, we let Hikaru get the ride in the E.R. machine.

Tamaki patted me on the back, "We got Kaoru. Ride with Hikaru, we'll meet you up there. Be strong." The boys took off towards their car and driver.

I climbed into the back with the paramedics and a banged up Hikaru strapped to a gurney. Watching passively, I witnessed them ripping open his shirt, sterilizing the wound and injecting him with a sloppy IV(one that they had to redo twice because they blew a vein.)

One paramedic, a dark skinned female glimpsed my wounds and rushed over, cleaning up some blood and treating that nasty burn on my arm. She gave me a small smile, handing me an ice pack, "Don't you worry, ma'am, your boyfriend is going to be just fine. We'll do everything to make sure he lives. The bullet did graze some organs, but it should be an easy job for our surgeons." She scurried off to tend to Hikaru's wounds.

My voice had just found itself to tell the kind woman that we weren't a couple when Hikaru stirred on the table, grabbing my hand swiftly. I jumped, startled at the action.

Coughing, he wheezed in a breath lightly, eyes focused on me after a minute. He weakly gave me a half hearted little Hikaru smirk, "Haruhi."

I smiled, holding his hand close as if it were a precious object, kissing the knuckles chastely, "Hikaru… You idiot. You really scared me back there…. I almost thought you were dead…"

"Nah," He scrunched up his nose and shook his head, "Takes a helluva lot more than that old bee sting to kill me, sweetheart."

A fresh set of tears hit my eyes, seeing my Hikaru being brave, half his stomach missing, his arm bandaged, yet that silly little grin never leaving him, "Oh, you big goof…"

He squeezed my hand, and the next words he said were escorted with hints of blood, "Haruhi… I love you… so much…" And with those words, his hand went limp in mine.

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(A/N: Hope you enjoy the chapter lovelies X3

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