Note: This is messed up because my computer bugged and shut off and I GOT NOTHING to save. So I'm really mad, trying not to swear.

The Fifteenth Day

Kaoru was staring out the window. He wasn't feeling good, so he refused to do the Hitachiin act. So the whole club closed down for the day.

"You two cost me a lot of money!" Kyouya snapped. "I also need more photos of you two for the magazines."

Kaoru blinked. Hikaru walked over and patted Kaoru on the shoulder, making him cringe. The night before, Kaoru had fallen onto the ground and he got huge scrapes along his forehead. It wasn't very hard to keep those concealed from Hikaru. He was doing a good job on it.

"Yeah, I'm sorry. Look, Kaoru wasn't home yesterday. Now I'm wondering where he was, and who he was with. All I know is he got home after midnight."

Tamaki stifled a laugh as he thought about it. Kaoru had blurred out and Tamaki and Nekozawa carried Kaoru off to the hospital, not sure if Kaoru had a concussion or not because Kaoru's head was bleeding so badly. It turns out it wasn't anything really. While the two were sitting in the waiting room, and they were, of course, waiting, Nekozawa brought up an idea. The idea was that Kaoru was traumatized by something they said. The trauma of the connotation caused Kaoru to blank out. So it was something psychological, not some deep dark tumor in Kaoru's brain that was caused by the splitting of the twins. ((Thanks to Tamaki's crazy outbursts))

"Who were you with? Did they touch you?" Hikaru snarled.

Tamaki had to laugh at that one.

"That's a laugh," Tamaki chuckled.

Kaoru gave Tamaki a quick angry, and vengeful glare.

Tamaki and Nekozawa had promised that they wouldn't tell anyone what happened the night before for Kaoru's purposes. Kaoru highly appreciated that, but now he was starting to wonder if Tamaki could live up to it.

"I gotta go somewhere," Kaoru finally sighed.

"Where?" Hikaru asked.

"Somewhere you can't go," Kaoru answered.

Kaoru stood up and walked out. Hikaru tried to follow but Tamaki and Kyouya used one of their arms and linked it with one of Hikaru's arms. When Hikaru struggled and tried to escape them, they shook their heads.

He stalked the hallways and shivered. He'd never been out in the halls alone. During club hours the hallways were awfully quiet, since everyone was doing something. It scared Kaoru, he'd never been in silence his whole life. But he'd been in a lot for the past week.

Finally, he came upon the darkest room in the whole entire school. Kaoru began to open it when he remembered his manners and he backed away and knocked.

"Yes?" An eeirie voice finally came.

Kaoru gulped, "My name's... Kaoru."

"Hitachiin Kaoru?" The voice asked.

"Yes..." Kaoru replied shakily, his throat clotting.

The door opened and a dark figure in a long, draping black cloak stood in the doorway, staring at Kaoru. He pointed inwards towards the candlelit room and Kaoru tried to swallow the clot in his throat and then he began to walk into the room.

The room was dimly lit, if you could you even call that "lit" at all. There was only a few candles in the room, and they glowed with an odd colored aura. Kaoru thought about asking about it, but his throat hurt and his head was pulsing from the lack of blood. He bled a lot the previous night from a deep gash on his left temple. He finally arrived to their leader and he bent down on one knee and gulped and began what he was taught.

"Oh, Nekozawa-sama of the Black Magic Club, may I have permission to speak?" Kaoru performed.

"Yes, Hitachiin Kaoru, you may," Nekozawa replied quietly. "What business do you have with our Club during our Mass?"

"Oi, you don't really have Mass right now..." Kaoru started to raise his head a little higher but then he hid it as he put his down far. Shut up Kaoru, stay quiet and you'll survive this. Talking will only make them hate you.

"Excuse me?" Nekozawa asked, his voice much louder now.

Kaoru winced. "Please, forgive me almighty Nekozawa-sama."

"You are forgiven, what is it that you wish to ask me of?" Nekozawa asked at a more calmer voice.

"Well, you see, I came to try to escape the evils of this... world?" Kaoru answered, confused. He looked up slightly for guidance and he saw Beelzenef wave his hand slightly which was a sign that it was okay. Kaoru didn't do bad this time. He could continue. He wouldn't be rejected at this rate. Rejection? Was bad. Acception? Was good. Kaoru cleared his throat and he blanked.

"Isn't that Hikaru-kun's brother?" Someone whispered.

Kaoru tried to form words with his mouth, but his voice box wouldn't work.

"What?"

Kaoru tried to respond. "I-I... I..."

"Darkness is a sin," That little girl's voice cut into the conversation as the light flipped on.

The students screamed and they dashed under the tables and desks that were shoved off to the sides of the rooms. The candles still blazed brightly on the desks, their flames swaying as they were shaken by the winds of people running this way and that. Nekozawa pulled up his hood and covered his skin as best as possible.

"It's bad."

"LEX!" Kaoru snapped at her as he stood up.

"The light!" Nekozawa hissed.

Kaoru scooped Lex up as he left and turned the lights off, shut the door, and set Lex down outside.

He gripped her chin with one hand and pulled it up to his face as he knelt on the floor.

"What is wrong with you?" Kaoru snarled.

"Darkness is a sin," Lex replied.

Lex's eyes wandered away from Kaoru's hateful gaze.

"Look at me," Kaoru hissed.

She didn't look back.

"LOOK AT ME!" Kaoru snarled. "Look at me you little witch!"

Kaoru didn't even hear the squeak of a door behind him.

Lex began to cry and she turned her attention back to Kaoru. They didn't hear the footsteps either.

"I'm sorry."

"Some people have conditions! You don't just walk into a room and turn the light on when you don't know who's in there!" Kaoru scolded.

"Why not?" Lex sobbed.

"YOU JUST DON'T!" Kaoru yelled. "Don't you get it? You don't just bug people! How did you get here anyway?"

Lex blinked away her tears and responded, "While everyone was taking care of Hika-kun I sneaked off and followed you here. Haruhi wasn't looking."

Kaoru squinted at her.

"Are you for real?"

Lex cried a bit and nodded, "I-I think so."

Kaoru squeezed a bit tighter on her face.

"I didn't want you getting into anymore trouble than you already were, so I came to try to stop you. They do bad things in there. Their religion is not right," Lex explained, starting to regain herself. "I had to show them that it wasn't right. It didn't matter who was in there."

What the hell? She's just like Haruhi! She spends too much time with her, Kaoru thought.

"So what? You come in there because I'm in there?" Kaoru continued to bash.

"I want to save you..."

"I'M BEYOND SAVING!" Kaoru yelled. "Where have you been? You've been off living your life! I have no life besides this! This-this... this SINNING is my LIFE!"

Lex began to cry. "I'm trying to save you."

Kaoru began to cry with her. "Go save Hikaru..."

Kaoru let go of her and put his head on the floor and he began sobbing. He thought back to his nightmares and how when he woke up he had scarrs all over his body. Then he thought of the horror movies and how he was scared every single second he was around Hikaru. He couldn't tell what was real anymore.

"Go save Hikaru... he can still be saved..." Kaoru sobbed and he sprawled out onto the floor. "I can't be saved..."

"Yes you can!" Lex sobbed. "You can!"

"You're just a little WITCH! What do you know?" Kaoru snarled and hissed as he picked up his head and glared into her eyes.

Kaoru softened as he saw the look of pure horror on her face.

"W-what?"

Kaoru thought back to looking into the mirror every single day of his life. That scared look hidden behind the eyes of the person staring back at him. The anger and hatred the soul held, the true Kaoru that cried all the time that never showed himself. The damned soul. He knew that sadness in her eyes. That made him mad. He wasn't unique and individual.

Other people had his eyes.

Someone else had his face.

He LOVED the person who had his face.

Now he hated them all.

"I want to be alone," Kaoru snarled. "Forever, just leave me alone."

"You... called me a witch," Lex replied, shaken.

Kaoru closed his eyes to avoid those eyes. His muscles tensed and he began to pick himself up.

"You are."

Lex sobbed and she began crying.

Kaoru finally heard the footsteps as he turned to face the two Clubs. The Black Magic, and the Host. Haruhi picked Lex up and tried to soothe her.

"Shhh, Kaoru doesn't mean it," Haruhi cooed.

"He does! He's just like my daddy!" She sobbed and cried. "He's just like daddy!"

Kaoru looked away. Recently, his nightmares had scared him worse. One of them had came true. Kaoru's two nightmares were himself killing other people, or Hikaru killing him. Figurativly, Kaoru had just done one of those things.

He felt horrible.

"He's like DADDY!" Lex cried and sobbed. "He came back and hurt mommy! Now she's gonna leave me too! It's not my fault!"

Everyone glared at Kaoru.

Kaoru gritted his teeth.

Why does everyone always take her side? Even when it comes down to it, Milord takes the child's side. Never my side.

Kaoru looked back with his hurt eyes.

If I died last night, they wouldn't even cry.

Hikaru dashed forward.

"That's not true!" Hikaru shouted as he read the words planted on Kaoru's mind. As he stared at Kaoru he finally got Kaoru's last statement. "Don't even joke about that!"

Only, Hikaru didn't know how to take how cold Kaoru was. He wasn't hugging back.

"It is," Kaoru whispered. "And you know it."

Hikaru blinked as he noticed the texture of Kaoru's arms and the long scrapes on Kaoru's head.

"What happened to you?" Hikaru teased.

Lex had stopped crying and stared on as well as the others.

Hikaru rolled up Kaoru's sleeves and he stroked the cuts on Kaoru's arms, then he unbuttoned Kaoru's shirt and stared at much of the same marks. Hikaru scowled and stood straight and touched the scrapes and marks on Kaoru's head.

"When did these get here?"

"I... fell..." Kaoru replied. "For my head..."

"And the others?" Hikaru urged.

Kaoru shook his head. "I don't know."

"Psychology," Lex and Nekozawa replied at the same time.

Beelzenef pointed to Kaoru and Hikaru.

"Kaoru has much too much emotional trauma, it's inflicting him when he's asleep and when he's awake. When something shocks him he blanks, which was what happened to hi-"

"You promised!" Kaoru shouted.

They all looked back to Kaoru.

"You promised!" Kaoru sobbed and he backed away. "You promised... you promised you wouldn't tell..."

Nekozawa and Tamaki nodded. "We didn't."

Kaoru closed his eyes. "You promised me!"

He looked at Tamaki then Nekozawa, "You promised not to tell about yesterday." He looked to Tamaki. "You promised not to let me break down in public." Finally, he looked at Hikaru and he began to cry a little harder. "You promised that you'd never leave me!"

"We never broke our promise," The three argued.

"You did..." Kaoru sobbed.

Did they really? Or was that a dream?

"I don't know..." Kaoru whined and shook his head. "I can't tell what's real anymore."

Hikaru walked closer and hugged Kaoru close.

"I don't know..." Kaoru sobbed.

Lex's POV

I figured it out, why Kao-kun is so interesting to me. He's like my father. I want to figure him out, what makes him tick. Yet, I want to help him. I want to help him with all of my heart and soul. I don't want him to turn out like my father did. I want Kao-kun to grow up and be someone great and have a wonderful family.

He finally admitted how he felt about me. I didn't act the best. Suddenly, the whole rush of how they were so alike and why Kao-kun was so amazing hit me, and it knocked me off course and I lost my composure for a second there. I really don't know exactly what came over me. I just can't really explain it. Maybe it was the emotional trauma from when I was younger.

I'm barely even an elementary student and yet I'm more complex in everything I do than some adults I know. It's kind of confusing.

Maybe I am a witch.

Kao-kun's starting to admit things more. He's starting to come clean ever since I came around. That's good. What I'm doing is working. I don't want Kao-kun to end up like daddy.

Even if I am a witch and I have no feelings or Kao-kun's a hopeless case beyond saving...

...I just don't want him to end up like daddy.