Kaoru cried to Hikaru all evening.

"Shh, it's okay," Hikaru tried to comfort.

"No, it's not," Kaoru sobbed. "I hate that child."

"No you don't."

But they both knew Kaoru did.

"It's gonna be alright," Hikaru tried to soothe. "It was an accident, nobody knows it happened."

"She DOES, she's a demon, she knows. She can see right through us," Kaoru sobbed quietly. "She knows what we did."

Hikaru held Kaoru close to him.

"She's a child, who'd believe her?" Hikaru tried to laugh.

Kaoru held his breath.

"I'm really going to hell, aren't I Hikaru?"

"I don't believe that religion," Hikaru tried to assure.

"I hate religion," Kaoru scowled. "I hope she goes to hell herself. That little witch."

"Kaoru!" Hikaru snapped. "Don't talk like that! Don't try to damn a little child!"

"That's the evil in it; they look cute and act cute while they tear you to shreds," Kaoru whispered. "She's out to get me Hikaru, she's out to kill me. She is, this little demon that Haruhi babysits, that little thing is out to kill me."

"Kaoru! What's gotten into you?" Hikaru worried.

Kaoru looked Hikaru in the eyes and began to cry again.

"She's trying to tear us apart," Kaoru whimpered. "She's gonna tell on us."

Hikaru shook his head and pulled Kaoru closer as they sat on the bed in their room. Hikaru buried his face in Kaoru's hair and sniffed in deeply, memorizing his brother's scent. He shook his head some more before finally saying, "She can't, that little girl can't. I won't let her."

The Third Day

Kaoru had switched desks with Haruhi; Kaoru had to be able to hold Hikaru's hand or he'd burst out crying again.

"Kaoru?" Haruhi whispered at lunch. "Don't let Lex-chan get to you, she's just a child. She doesn't really know what she's saying."

Kaoru reached for Hikaru's hand under the table and gave it a hard squeeze. Hikaru sighed and nodded and replied, "Yeah, Kaoru. So what if a little girl tells you that you're going to hell? Does it really matter? I mean, where'd she learn this crap? Some cult?"

Kaoru held his breath to keep from crying. He looked shyly at Hikaru's face and noticed he was staring at Haruhi. He looked at Haruhi and noticed she paid attention to eating again. Kaoru felt his heart in his throat again; he wanted to bawl. Kaoru squeezed Hikaru's hand so hard that Hikaru winced a bit. Kaoru stared at his face as Hikaru returned attention to Kaoru; Kaoru frowned at the lack of attention. If I'm going to hell I'm pulling Hikaru with me. There's no way I'll let Haruhi have him.

Kaoru closed his eyes as he felt Hikaru wrap his arms around him.

"I'm sorry, Kaoru, was that too much for you?" Hikaru asked in mock concern.

"Oh, Hikaru," Kaoru blushed, barely faking. "I thought you'd never even notice I was here."

"Don't be stupid."

Hikaru pulled Kaoru into an embrace.

"I could never forget about you," Hikaru tried to reassure, pretending to be faking.

Haruhi frowned as she was the only one in the lunch room who knew this one wasn't an act. Haruhi was getting good at that, telling what was an act and what wasn't. She shifted in her seat, trying not to show concern for the twins that she knew so well.

"Oh, Hikaru," Kaoru closed his eyes and was soothed by the warmth of his brother. He was the same temperature as him; Hikaru wasn't cold like the other people Kaoru knew. Kaoru smiled as he felt himself drift off.

"...you're pulling your twin down with you." Lex's voice rang through Kaoru's head and Kaoru felt sick.

I don't care, Kaoru countered his memory. Hikaru's MINE. No one else can have him. Not yet.

Kaoru hid his face into Hikaru's chest as he silently cried. Hikaru concealed Kaoru's accidental and occasional tremor of his body.

"Good afternoon, Kao-kun, Hika-chan!" The devil voice rang through the twins ears as they embraced eachother on the couch. That's how most of their day had went, they had to pretend it was an act so no one would look at them weird, but Hikaru noticed how unstable Kaoru was so he concealed Kaoru's feelings.

"Afternoon, Lex," The twins greeted, trying to hurt the girl by not wishing her a good afternoon and not using an honorific. The girl didn't seem to care, infact, she seemed delighted.

"Why are you two hugging eachother and touching eachother all the time?" Lex asked later, infront of Kaoru and Hikaru's customers. The girls squealed at the wording and how Hikaru was holding Kaoru's face so close to his. "You look like your gonna kiss eachother or something."

Get out of here, Kaoru wanted to snarl at the girl but didn't.

"Maybe we are," Hikaru smiled devilishly.

"That's bad," Lex scowled.

Hikaru touched Kaoru's lips lightly and Kaoru shuddered.

"Not to us, it's not," Hikaru whispered and interlocked their lips.

Kaoru blushed but allowed, not arguing at all. He was already dreading the talk that little demon was going to give him.

"That's not good!" Lex argued, angry.

"God damn this child!" Kaoru snapped at her finally.

All their customers gasped and Hikaru scooted away from Kaoru.

"Aii, Kaoru... what was that for?" Hikaru scowled lightly.

"I-I can't," Kaoru tried to explain. Why did he swear at the little child?

"Kao-kun, I need to talk to you," Lex started to say, but Haruhi and Tamaki covered her mouth and carried her off.

"After club," Haruhi replied.

Kaoru remained quiet through the rest of club, thinking the same thing over and over again, How much longer can I live with these females?

After everyone had left, Kaoru began bawling even before Lex had the time to get to him.

"I can't take it, Hikaru!" Kaoru sobbed.

"You're in trouble," Lex accused as she walked over and stood tall in front of him; Kaoru sat on the floor staring at her, tears in his eyes. "Big trouble."

"What did I do now?" Kaoru whimpered.

"You used God's name in vain!" Lex pointed out. "You commited adultry, you have a different god than the real one, and you have an idol that's other than the real God."

Kaoru wanted to scream, I don't care! YOU go to hell! Leave me alone!

"I don't care," Kaoru countered.

"You commited adultry?" Everyone asked loudly suddenly.

"No," Kaoru scoffed.

"Yes," Lex countered. "You did, you're both going to hell now."

Kaoru's hand twitched again.

"Watch it," Kaoru snarled. "I don't want to hurt you."

But that was a lie. Kaoru did want to hurt her.

"You lie too, you lie about lots of things. You and Hika-chan aren't the same. You're very different. You're pretending to be alike. You're afraid."

Kaoru began to cry again.

"You pretend to be like me?" Hikaru wondered quickly. No one had noticed how hard Kaoru had been trying as of recently to try to be exactly like his brother. Before he didn't have to try, they were alike. They were the twins. Not Hikaru and Kaoru. They were the same person; the same essence. The maids and family couldn't even tell them apart sometimes.

This hurt the worst, because Kaoru was the twin who hated to lie. Yet he was the one who did it the most.

As far as Kaoru was concerned, it was all Haruhi's fault.

"Go away," Kaoru whispered. "Just leave me alone."

Kaoru felt cold again, sick, and unloved. At that moment, everyone was against him; he was that attraction at the zoo everyone laughed at. The one animal no one liked. There was an animal in the cage next to him that was identical, but for some reason people got their kicks at making that one feel absolutely horrible.

Hikaru gazed at his brother, truly hurt as well.

"You don't even try to get out of hell."

"Leave him alone!" Hikaru finally snapped and ran and embraced his brother. "Leave him alone..."

Kaoru buried his face into Hikaru's shoulder and shook uncontrollably.

"Leave us alone..." The two repeated at the same time.

Tamaki's POV

This new girl Haruhi babysits, she truly is a devil, isn't she? She's a child though, I can't tell her what's right and wrong because she's not mine. Her parents must be religious fanatics with how much she talks about her religion. I've seen Hikaru and Kaoru for the first time and more times then I ever thought I would in just three days. Will this girl stop tormenting them? Or will I have to somehow step in and help them?

I know they're idiots, I know I get jealous of them easily. I can kind of relate to the sadness they feel, I guess. I don't ever want to see those two cry.

I brought them under my wing, broken and distressed. I can't abandon them.

I promised Kaoru I'd never let Hikaru see him broken.

As things are now, can I keep that promise?