Chapter eleven:
The twins are sitting at their usual spot in the host club with a bunch of guests around them.
"Is everything alright?" One of the guests ask the two. "Or was yesterday just a bad day?"
"We just had a lot to do and there was a slip up in communication." Hikaru lets them know with a light shrug.
"I'm sorry about that." Kaoru apologizes slightly glancing away with a slight look of guilt for added effect.
"Oh, Kaoru." Hikaru reaches over putting one arm around his brother while the other hand gently grabs his chin. He gently moves Kaoru closer so the other is leaning against him as he also gently turns Kaoru to look to him. He lets their eyes meet with each other's. "I told you already it's not your fault. It's okay." He moves and places a very tender kiss on his brothers forehead.
Kaoru closes his eyes with a blush coming to his cheeks at this.
The girls squeal at the sight of this.
Kaoru feels a pair of eyes watching him. He opens his eyes as the two of them pull away waiting to give the girls a moment to calm down. He slightly glances around until he spots where the gaze is coming from. He notices a girl sitting a Hunny's table.
She is facing the direction that Hunny is to make it look like shes looking at him but shes not. Her lips slightly upwards in a smirk.
Kaoru wonders what in the world she is doing and tries to see if he can find any scent of anything not human. He however finds that having so many people around at once mixing with tea and snacks, plus Hunnys table is positioned so the airflow heads away from the twins towards Hunnys area, makes it hard to pick up anything. He turns away as the girls begin to calm down. He figures that he'll just have to worry about why he was being stared at later. He's got to finish the host club hours after all.
After the guests have left…
The host club members are grabbing their stuff seeing as how maids will clean the club room for them after all.
"I think that today was pretty successful." Hikaru mentions as he and Kaoru are grabbing their school bags.
"Yeah it was." Kaoru agrees with that putting the last book he needed to grab into the bag. "And Kyouya didn't really bug us about yesterday."
"Yeah. I think he thought that the harsh glare was good enough. It was a little scary." Hikaru speaks in agreement all set to go and now just waiting for his brother to be ready to go.
Kaoru almost says that he's had scarier thanks to his other life but he keeps quiet. "Yeah." He just agrees with Hikaru. He is soon all ready to go. "Let us be off on our way." He suggests in which his twin nods in agreement.
With a see you later to the other members of the host club the twins head off on their way.
They make it the waiting limo without any problems and climb right on in. They are soon heading off on their way home for now.
Kaoru knows however that he will be taking a patrol a little later so he plans to sneak out in order to do so.
The two put their stuff away and change into more casual slash comfy clothes to relax in.
Hikaru settles in the living room while Kaoru lays down in their bedroom for a little bit.
Kaoru lays down on his back on the bed staring up at the ceiling in slight thought. He contemplates all that has been happening recently with all the sudden chaos that seems to have erupted. He's at least glad that they don't have to deal with the regular humans knowing about the possibility of what they consider a fantasy world.
Now that would be a panic.
Plus it's possible that those who are found out to be nonhuman might be captured to not only try to prevent war, but to probably also to be tested on.
It seems to be in human nature to capture and test things that is not like them or that they don't seem to know or understand.
… Then again if they believe those like Kaoru to truly be a threat then it is likely that official public hunters that would be trained to kill them on sight…
Either way it would not be good at all for the humans to find out about the hidden world and the possible war about to be waged in said world.
Kaoru slightly shifts his head towards the headboard hearing his phone go off indicating that he has a notification. He has a feeling that he knows what it could be about. He sits up on the bed grabbing the cellular phone to check.
Sure enough it's a notification that he has to go for patrol.
He clicks away the notification then he gets up throwing on a black hoodie. He pulls the hood up over his head. He heads downstairs sneaking away pausing just before he would come into view for the living room. He pokes his head around and looks into the living room. He notices Hikaru busy watching something on TV and so he quickly moves past. He makes it out, using the moment a character closes a door in what Hikaru is watching to mask the sound of him leaving, and he rushes away to begin the patrol as soon as possible. He begins making his way along keeping all senses alert for any signs of anything nearby that might be a threat.
Back with Hikaru…
"I think Kaoru would like this episode." Hikaru mumbles to himself then glances around himself. "I think that he went upstairs into the bedroom." He gets up and heads off in that direction. He knocks on the door once there. "Hey. Kaoru?" He doesn't get a response and he just opens the door entering the room. He glances around but he doesn't see his brother. "Did he step out for a minute?" He wonders then contemplates if it's possible that his twins eyes had changed. He also considers that Kaoru stepped out maybe to go feed on some blood. He isn't sure so he pulls out his cellphone sending out a text. He hopes that the other will reply to it soon. He heads off elsewhere in the mansion for now.
Awhile later…
Kaoru returns to the mansion after the patrol and heads inside. He pulls the hood off of his head and takes off his shoes. He heads along starting to look around when Hikaru isn't in the living room. He figures that the other must still be in the mansion seeing as the TV is still on. He heads along pausing at the kitchen as he notices someone in there. He moves closer approaching Hikaru from behind.
Hikaru turns possibly hearing his footsteps and smiles in greeting. "Hey brot-" He cuts himself off with a slight yelp. He turns back to what he had been doing. "Darn it. I wanted to try making something simple like we used to do when no one was in here. Like when we were younger." He inspects the cut on his finger. "At least it's not too bad."
Kaoru's senses are hit with the growing smell of blood.