Hikaru woke to find their bedroom still dark. The clock read 2:16am. It was annoying to have woken up at such a ridiculously early hour of the morning, but the older Hitachiin was actually glad to be awake. He wouldn't admit it, but that nightmare had really struck a note of fear into the twin. Speaking of his nightmare…

Kaoru wasn't lying beside Hikaru in the bed. Hikaru sat bolt upright, searching the room with his eyes in a panic, desperate to locate his twin. After that dream, he wasn't letting Kaoru out of his sight. He eventually found his little brother curled up on the floor, shivering and twitching.

Is Kaoru having a nightmare too? Hikaru wondered as he slid out of bed and padded silently across the floorboards to his twin. The younger boy whimpered, still sleeping. I can't leave him here on the floor. Hikaru bent over and slid his arms under his twin. Dammit Kaoru, you're heavy, the older twin thought as he picked his brother up, bridal style, and set the younger boy as gently as he could onto the bed.

"Hika?" Kaoru mumbled groggily, his eyes opening just a crack. Hikaru climbed back into bed, laid down behind his brother, and wrapped his arms protectively around Kaoru's waist. The younger twin was too sleepy to blush.

"It's okay, Kao. Go back to sleep," Hikaru murmured, burying his head in his brother's soft auburn hair. Kaoru slurred out a response, but it was unintelligible. The younger boy's breathing had steadied only a minute or so later, and he fell back into sleep's clutches. Hikaru fell asleep too shortly thereafter.

"Hikaru-san! Kaoru-san!" The twins' final set of customers for the day appeared and sat down on the couch. Both girls were frequent customers. At least this is the last set for today, Hikaru thought. And I've got just the thing to entertain them…

Kaoru sat forward and poured tea for the two girls, his brother, and himself. The tea had been much warmer earlier in the afternoon, and he'd already had at least three cups of the beverage, but one more couldn't hurt. Besides, he hadn't slept very well thanks to that stupid nightmare, and figured he could use all the caffeine he could get.

Hikaru reached for the sugar bowl, offering one of the sweet cubes to each customer before helping himself to one, intentionally neglecting to give Kaoru a sugar cube. The younger twin frowned and reached for the sugar bowl, but Hikaru shot out a hand to stop him. Feeling Hikaru's hand grip his wrist and push it gently away from the sugar, Kaoru looked over at his big brother, questioning him with his eyes.

The elder Hitachiin retrieved another sugar cube from the bowl and popped it straight into his mouth. "Hikaru, why can't I have any sugar?" Kaoru whined, sticking out his bottom lip a little bit. There you go, Kao, now you're getting the idea…

"But Kaoru, I want to be the one to feed you the sugar," Hikaru replied. The sugar cube, still fully intact inside the older boy's mouth, slid forward until it rested between Hikaru's front teeth, sticking out so that Kaoru could take the sweet white cube straight out of his brother's mouth. Their customers, realizing what was going on, squealed. This was a new trick; they'd never seen the twins do this before.

Kaoru's mouth fell open in surprise. The image of Hikaru pinning Haruhi from his nightmare last night flashed in the forefront of his mind, but the younger twin pushed it away. It was just a nightmare, Kaoru, he reminded himself.

"Come on Kaoru, I know you're capable of more than just catching flies with that pretty mouth of yours," Hikaru teased around the sugar cube. Kaoru swallowed. Carefully, the younger twin inched forward and latched his teeth onto the sugar cube. He pulled his head back, taking the sugar cube with him. Hikaru smiled, melting away some of Kaoru's nervousness.

"Now, let the sugar melt on your tongue. Good things must be savored," Hikaru went on, tracing a finger along Kaoru's jawline. His little brother did as he was told, allowing the sugar to dissolve into sweet goodness on his tongue. Kaoru closed his eyes and swallowed.

"Good boy, Kaoru. I want to be the only one to feed you the sugar from now on," Hikaru commanded, tilting Kaoru's chin upward so that he could look down into his brother's brilliant amber eyes. They paused in this position, posing as if for a picture (and who knew, with Kyoya's spy cams, they might actually be being photographed right now). Their customers squealed and fanned themselves.

Kyoya stood up and announced that the Host Club would now be closing for the afternoon. Reluctantly, the girls stood up and bid goodbye to the twins. The other customers around the room also stood up to say goodbye.

"I have had a brilliant idea!" Tamaki declared as soon as all the girls had left the music salon. The six other members of the Host Club rolled their eyes simultaneously. Whatever crazy kind of idea he's had, I highly doubt it's actually brilliant.

Nonetheless, the hosts gathered themselves around the center of the music room. Haruhi was practically halfway to laying down on the couch with Tamaki, her head resting on his chest. It was clear the brunette had been annoyed by this at first, but she appeared to be relaxing quite quickly, even snuggling into the blonde a little bit. Hikaru, Kaoru, and Kyoya all looked down at once.

"Haruhi tells me there's some kind of commoner's festival next week-"

"It's called a parade, Senpai," Haruhi interrupted.

"Right," Tamaki corrected himself, then went on, "A parade. We are going to go and observe this 'parade!'"

"Large floats!" The Hitachiins cheered in unison. Other members looked interested as well. Honey was proclaiming his excitement over to the event, however, it was unclear as to whether the recipient of this was Mori or the Usa-chan.

Tamaki cleared his throat. "I have one more announcement. We've decided that next week, on Tuesday, we will be cosplaying as popular anime characters. Who you'll be cosplaying as will be kept a surprise until next week, but I will tell you we've decided to follow recent trends and cosplay as yaoi couples."

Honey tugged on Mori's sleeve and asked, "Mori-sama, what's yaoi?" The tall, dark-haired protector said something quietly in response which the others could not hear. Honey seemed satisfied.

So, we'll be cosplaying as yaoi couples? Hikaru thought, his eyes meeting Kaoru's. I wonder what the boss has in store for us, Kaoru thought, not realizing the intense eye contact between himself and his brother.

The Host Club gradually gathered their belongings and left Music Room #3 behind. As they walked out together, Haruhi said to the twins, "You guys will be really good at the yaoi acting next week. Besides, I think Tamaki-senpai has a pretty good couple in mind for you two."

"Eh?" Hikaru raised one eyebrow. "Any hints?" Kaoru asked, blinking curiously.

"Nope! Anyways, see you tomorrow!" Haruhi waved goodbye, then continued down several flights of stairs, eventually disappearing from the Hitachiins' range of vision. I can't believe the entire Host Club is going to have a yaoi theme, Kaoru thought as he walked side by side with his brother down several flights of stairs.

It'll be fun to see the others try to pull off a few of our stunts. Speaking of stunts, we'll have to remember to use that thing with the sugar cubes again. Kaoru's face was so cute… He couldn't believe I was really asking him to do that! I wonder if he'd do it outside of Host Club. Hikaru climbed into the car with Kaoru, hardly noticing when the driver whisked them away from the Ouran school grounds.

As the car drove steadily toward the Hitachiin manor, Hikaru suddenly found himself recalling Renge's words. Kissing my own brother… It sounds so wrong, but at the same time, I feel like next week's cosplay event might change my viewpoint on these matters. We came close with the sugar cube today. I could've done it. Just leaned in and kissed him, if I'd wanted to.

But for now, I'm happy for us to remain just twins.