Broken Promises

Authoress: Cattsy (Catness)

Chapter word count: 1711 words

Chapter Eleven:

The next day, the twins spent their time helping their mother do the gardening. After several hard hours' work, Hikaru and Kaoru walked over to an old tree that they'd used to play under as children. Hikaru smiled as they leaned against the trunk and Kaoru rested his head on Hikaru's shoulder; not wanting the day to end. Hikaru smirked as he rubbed a stroke of dirt from his brother's forehead. Kaoru had his eyes closed and his arm up to protect his eyes from the rays of sun that were shining through the tree branches.

Hikaru looked around the yard. The trees they'd planted were swaying slightly in the gentle breeze. In the corner of his eye, he saw the gleam of Sebastian's car park in the driveway. Hikaru frowned as he saw Sebastian brush back a strand of blond and brown hair out of his eyes.

'How dare he come here,' Hikaru thought as he saw the man casually walked up the front steps and knock on the door with a manicured hand and then disappeared inside.

"What's wrong, Hikaru?" Kaoru asked when he opened his eyes and saw the angry expression on Hikaru's face. "I wasn't leaning on you too hard was I?" He drew back as he realized that it could be a face of pain instead of anger.

"No," Hikaru said as he deliberately wiped the anger from his face and replaced it with a calm expression. "We should go inside and take a shower and change our cloths," he murmured as he gestured to their dirt covered cloths and hands.

Kaoru smirked. Due to being in the host club, he and Hikaru had been told to keep clean and to stay away from their past times of playing in the dirt and similar things. It had been nice to have the little break from the Host Club and school. It sort of saddened Kaoru to know that he would have to go back to school and the Host Club the following Monday.

He stood up with Hikaru and walked back inside, making sure to take off their shoes so as to not leave muddy footprints.

After showering and changing their cloths, the twins arrived back downstairs and saw their mother and to Kaoru's surprise, Sebastian in the lounge room... Kaoru took a deep breath as he saw the familiar man. Kaoru didn't know for sure yet, but he sort of considered Sebastian to be his boyfriend and hoped that the feeling was returned... Sebastian was wearing a black suit with several of the topmost buttons on his white shirt undone which gave him an air of casual sophistication. But it just made Hikaru want to kick him for being vain.

Hikaru stopped Kaoru before he opened his mouth to greet the two. He pulled Kaoru back behind the wall before they could be seen and began to listen to the conversation.

"I think it's a wonderful idea that you would like to take Kaoru as your apprentice," Hikaru heard their mother say politely. "Of course we'd have to speak with him about it, but I'm sure that he would learn a lot under your supervision.

"I would also like to take him to a few extra tutorials and modeling sessions as well," Sebastian told their mother. "I'm confident of your ability, but I know that it can't be extremely popular if you take your son in to fashion by yourself. A lot of kids these days just turn up and think they can run the show with only their parents' guidance. The reason I'd like to tutor Kaoru is that he's a bright kid and I'm confident that he can go far if he's open to new opportunities and different personalities."

Hikaru raised an eyebrow at Kaoru and glared at his innocent brother, who truthfully had no idea what was going on. Kaoru shrugged and passed his brother to enter the room. Kaoru smiled at Sebastian and nodded an unspoken and warm greeting, while pretending not to have heard the conversation that had stopped as his mother realized he had turned up. Hikaru raised an eyebrow in suspicion as his brother admired the older man.

"Hello boys," their mother greeted them, "I've invited Mr. Hawking to have dinner with us to thank him for what he did to help out family. She smiled and pushed a strand of red hair behind her ear.

"You can just call me Sebastian," he assured her gently in politeness with a warm smile. Hikaru looked away after sensing a definite "Tamaki moment" as the Hitachiin twins had labeled it when Tamaki would swoon over a female and sort of seduce them to do whatever he wanted them to do.

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Sebastian smiled as he looked at plate of dinner that was placed in front of him. "It looks wonderful Mrs. Hitachiin," he said as he waited for her to sit down and pick up her fork, gesturing everyone to eat. Sebastian smiled as she blushed and he then turned to the twins and smiled at them. Kaoru looked away with a blush and Hikaru was sure he was given a glare by Sebastian as just before he placed a piece of lamb in his mouth. "It tastes wonderful too," he muttered just after he swallowed the piece and nodded in satisfaction.

"Thank you, Sebastian," She said in reply with a smile. "I'm sorry for the lack of maids and the chef, but I gave them the night off." She looked down with the blush that Hikaru was sure would be there all night. "It's a shame that you couldn't meet my husband tonight, but he had to go on an urgent business trip."

Sebastian smiled, "That's ok," he said calmly after swallowing another piece of meat, "I'm sure I'll see him soon, I heard he was going to be in Paris next week, I have a fashion show there soon."

"I'll make a note to let him know that," She smiled," I'm sure he would love to take you to dinner."

After a lot more unnecessary polite conversation, Hikaru was getting tired. His face was covered with a frown that Sebastian and his mother pretended not to notice. Kaoru was busy playing with his food, hoping that Kaoru wouldn't mention the things they'd done. Even though a bit of kissing was understandably innocent, Kaoru was sure that his mother would hate him or even worse, disown him, if she'd ever find out.

Their mother was tired; she'd worked all 37 years of her life to become a successful fashion designer. Hikaru knew that it annoyed her slightly that Sebastian was here at the same generally area of the fashion scene at only 21. But she must have been glad that he was giving the same chance to Kaoru. 'But why not me?' Hikaru asked himself. He was the same as Kaoru; all that was different was their personalities. Hikaru had worked just as hard as Kaoru to help their mother. They'd told each other when they were younger that they'd both grow up and own the family's fashion line together. It had been a dream that they had shared. But was Kaoru now considering going with Sebastian and working for their dream on his own?

"So I told my personal assistant that I didn't care what he did, just as long as he had the velvet gloves before the show." Sebastian said, telling an amusing anecdote. "And so he-"

"Oh would you just shut up," Hikaru snarled at Sebastian.

Sebastian turned to look at Hikaru with a surprised look. "I beg your pardon?"

"Would you just shut up and stop being so god-damned condescending!?" Hikaru shouted.

Sebastian frowned. "I'm sorry for causing any offense. I assure you that I-"

"JUST SHUT UP!" Hikaru shouted as he stood. He pointed a finger at Sebastian who flinched back as if there was a mound of dung on top of Hikaru's finger. "YOU'RE ACTING AS IF YOU'RE SO MUCH BETTER THAN US! MY MOTHER HAS WORKED ALL HER LIFE TO BE WHERE SHE IS NOW! SHE DOESN'T NEED SOMEONE LIKE YOU TO COME ALONG AND TRY TO TAKE AWAY HER SON!" Hikaru growled and glared at the older man with intense hatred.

Kaoru got up and left the room, his face completely red from embarrassment. Hikaru was sure that he'd heard Kaoru whisper "I hate you" before he left. After watching his brother leave, he turned back to his mother and Sebastian, feeling guilty that he'd probably just destroyed his brother's chance at a highly successful career. He put his finger down and glared at Sebastian, shaking his head.

"Get out," His mother hissed at him. She had a worse glare than him and it made him feel worse. He looked at Sebastian who had a look of utter confusion on his face.

"Perhaps I should go," Sebastian said hastily as he stood, "I can show myself out. Thank you for the wonderful dinner and again, I apologize for any offence I might have caused." He strode towards the hall and then Hikaru heard the front door open and then close gently, like he and his brother had been taught to do during the various manners lessons.

"Get out of my sight," His mother hissed again. "Go to bed."

"I'm sorry Mother," Hikaru said.

"You might have just destroyed your brother's career and all you can do to make it better is saying that you're sorry?" She shouted angrily. "He was ready to sign a contract for our companies to advertise for each other. We were about to become known throughout the world and all you can say is that you're sorry?"

"I'm sorry," Hikaru repeated before walking out of the room. He ran up the stairs and into the first spare room that he could find. He didn't want to be found so he looked for a place to hide. The closet in this room was rather small, so he opted for sitting behind something that had been covered by a sheet; a mirror as he found upon closer inspection. He slunk down and leant against the wall behind the tall mirror and hoped that his family wouldn't hate him forever.

To Be Continued…

Authoress notes:

Cattsy…