Chapter ten:
Kaoru and Hikaru have settled to sitting on a bar railing lining a path along a Jr high school where no one is currently around at the moment.
Kaoru is looking down as they sit there.
"Is it usual for your eyes to change?" Hikaru questions his brother leaning forward enough to look to his brothers face. His elbows resting against his legs just above his knees. "I mean I haven't seen it but I suppose it could still be usual."
"No actually." Kaoru responds blinking his still red eyes. "It has happened about once or twice but it's not a usual occurrence."
"What happened the other times that it happened?"
"The main time I know of was one night… Last night… Before I left..."
"Did you know why it happened?" Hikaru inquires.
Kaoru manages to hold back a flinch remembering that it was the clan leaders call. He doesn't want his brother to know that however… Not yet…
"Kaoru?" Hikaru moves one hand to his slightly younger twin brothers shoulder. "Is something wrong?"
"It seemed random." Kaoru starts. "Like out of the blue."
"I see…" Hikaru nods softly and slightly glances away. "So that's why you were gone for so long… Because your eyes changed?"
"I wasn't sure if it was good or bad so I got away just in case."
"Did anything happen because of the change?" Hikaru inquires with his eyes flickering back to his brother.
"No. Not really." Kaoru slightly lies trying to keep a possible more violent side to him away from his brother.
"Hm. That's strange then." Hikaru hums thoughtfully and glances up at the sky. "So they change and we have no idea why."
"Yeah. Seems so." Kaoru confirms his eyes flickering away to look down the street.
Hikaru falls silent for a few moments causing the other twin to turn to him to try to figure out what he is thinking. "We know that it's not because you are hungry. You had blood not too long ago. Unless you get hungry faster than I think."
"No. I should be okay." Kaoru informs him. "Besides it's never done that when I went a bit longer without feeding."
"Right. So that's easy to rule out." Hikaru remains looking up at the sky above. "So… What else could it be…?"
The two turn to the building hearing the bell ring.
"Let's leave here." Hikaru suggests and Kaoru nods in agreement.
The two get up and begin walking away and as they do Hikaru's phone goes off.
Hikaru opens his phone and finds that Kyouya is calling. He considers not answering for a moment before realizing that he really should. He almost sighs then hits the answer button. He brings his cell up to his ear. "Hey."
"Where are you?" Kyouya gets rather quickly to the point. "And do you have Kaoru with you?"
"I have Kaoru with me. We found each other." Hikaru reports to him. "Is something wrong?"
"Despite the fact that you didn't show up only for Kaoru to show up then he runs out to go find you?" Kyouya lets him know. "Neither of you really explaining anything then not much."
"Right. Sorry." Hikaru brings a hand up to his forehead running his fingers back through his hair. "We're okay."
"Well you two are late and should have been." Kyouya tells him. "We had cancel today because of you two. Now either you tell me where you are or you get your butts to the school to explain yourselves."
"There isn't really anything to explain." Hikaru lies though by the disapproving noise he can tell that Kyouya doesn't believe what he is saying.
"Well you gotta explain why you didn't even come to school."
"I wanted to check something out. But me and Kaoru left at different times." Hikaru adds another layer to his lies. "I guess I was still tired in that I forgot to tell Kaoru and that's all that happened."
There is silence on the other side for a few moments before a sigh is heard.
"I swear you two just get into all sorts of trouble even when you're not telling the full story. But it seems you are too stubborn to properly admit the truth. Whatever happened you two better keep it from happening again. I almost sent my police force after you to go looking for you. You're lucky you answered your cell or you would have been searched for by them."
"Heh." Hikaru can't help a small smile. "Yeah. Sorry about not saying anything."
"You had better be here tomorrow." Kyouya hangs up after that in which Hikaru lowers his phone putting it away.
"Thanks for lying." Kaoru speaks a little softly to his brother.
"Don't worry about it." Hikaru assures him. "If we're gonna keep this secret we gotta do it together after all."
Kaoru smiles softly at this. "Yeah." He agrees. "We gotta don't we."
"And tomorrow we have to be at Ouran on time."
"I'm sure we can achieve that."
Hikaru glances to Kaoru to give a nod of agreement. He then blinks as his eyes meets with his twins. "Hey. Your eyes are back to normal."
Kaoru blinks and raises a hand almost up to his right eye in slightly surprise. "What? Really?"
Hikaru gives a nod with a smile. "Yeah. That's good at least."
Kaoru smiles and gives his own nod. "Yes. Well we might as well get going then."
"Yeah. Let's get out of here."
Downwind behind them someone is watching them only to turn dashing away before one could pick up on an unfamiliar scent.
The door to a home is opened and someone hurries inside of it as those inside turn to see who is here.
Those there relax upon seeing a familiar face standing there.
The person who came in hurries over to someone sitting on a huge recliner seat that almost looks like a throne with how big it is. The person bows slightly to the one there. "I bring news. News that you might want to hear."
"Go ahead." The one in the seat confirms for the other to speak.
"I overheard the target speaking to a brother. The brother knows what he is." The one who is bowing only moves his head up to look to the one on the chair. "But that's not all that I got." He adds when the one on the chair looks slightly disappointed in the one still slightly bowing. "It sounds like they go to Ouran."
The one in the chair perks up and slightly glances away and up with thoughtfulness. The ones hand coming to rest on the chin. "Ouran you say? Hmm…" A smirk appears. "We can use that to our advantage very well."