Broken Promises

Authoress: Cattsy (Catness)

Chapter word count: 693 words

Point of view: Hikaru

Chapter Two:

One afternoon, Kaoru and I were entertaining some guests in the music room. They seemed pretty self-reliant, and they had only come to see what the fuss was all about… I smiled in an amused manner as Kaoru and I answered their questions. I held his hand, gently. It was a nice afternoon; this was how I liked it. After a quarter of an hour, Haruhi and a few of her guests came and sat with us.

Mentally, I sneered at her. Recently, I've been spending a little more time than necessary with her. But I didn't enjoy it. I'd noticed Kaoru's emphasis on my crush on her and he set me up with her. At the time of the date, I had been worried because Kaoru was sick. But later I realized what he'd done. I realized that he might have wanted time to himself and so I decided to let him be by himself.

I never enjoyed spending time with Haruhi. I, honestly, found her a bit cliché, like a character from a Shakespeare play. It was amusing to spend time with her, but overall, I prefer to play around with Kaoru.

"Do you mind if we joined you?" Haruhi asked gently, waving an elegant hand gesture towards her guests.

I opened my mouth to say 'yes, we do mind', but I heard my twin say that we didn't mind. Kaoru had always been the nicer one. I guess if he didn't mind, nor did I.

I stared at my brother, curiously, listening to him speak in reply to questions.

After a little while a young red haired girl spoke, "I've noticed that Kaoru and Hikaru have not been as close recently, are you two drifting apart?" I noticed that it had been her first question. I also noticed that she looked like a younger, more innocent version of Kaoru. Then I realized what she'd asked.

This could be a moment for insinuated twincest where I would sweep my best friend from the sofa, look deep into his eyes and insist that everything would be okay. Usually we had performed our act by signaling each other quietly with unnoticeable nods and glances, silent emphasized words, etc. But as I watched my brother, I didn't see any signals.

"I don't think it matters," Kaoru said quietly. It seemed like a lie. It was pretty obvious. "As long as Hikaru keeps his promise…"

I caught his eye with a questionable look. I don't know what promise he was referring to. As far as I knew, I had kept all of my promises to him. It was most likely a game for the guests, but his previous lie had caught me off-guard and I was wondering whether he was trying to insinuate something to me, perhaps trying to tell me that something was wrong. Recently, he's been acting strangely. First he set me up on that date with Haruhi. I had a slight crush on her at the time, but I had been more concerned about my brother's welfare and my crush had disappeared before I noticed.

As if that wasn't strange enough. He'd started getting strange thoughts, not paying attention in class. Generally, he had become very distracted. Honestly, I was worried that Kaoru was getting depressed. He barely spoke to me unless was about the Host Club.

"Y-you don't remember your promise," I felt a lump in my throat. I couldn't remember, no. "Y-you never meant it, did you?"

I stared at him with a sad look. I shook my head slightly. But he had turned to look at his feet. Moments later, he looked up. He had an expression like he was trying to be strong, in control of his emotions. But a tear rolled down his cheek, tracing a line of sadness across our souls.

It was real; I'd done something to hurt him. I didn't know what, but I needed to make it better. I reached out to take him in my arms. He pushed me away, roughly.

"Just leave me alone!" He shouted. He rarely shouted. The words echoed through my head as he ran from the room.

To Be Continued…

Authoress notes: Mmmm, so I got some nice feedback. I hope you enjoy that this chapter was Hikaru's version of events, my next chapter will be back to Kaoru and I'll be alternating. Let me know what you think…

Cattsy…