The Twenty-Sixth Day

"You whore," Hikaru swore at Kaoru as they both had to stay home from Kaoru's beating up.

"What's that for?"

"First you love Chris, then me, then Haruhi, and now Nekozawa," Hikaru spat, angry at Kaoru.

Kaoru clenched his fists, trying not to punch his brother. Kaoru grinded his teeth a bit too before he finally objected, "For your information, I don't love Umehito, and I never loved Chris. I also never said that I loved Haruhi! I just like her, okay? The only one I know I love is you. Now I doubt that."

Hikaru felt like hitting his brother now too, it didn't matter to either that they had just almost killed eachother the night before. They were still furious at eachother, for everything. Kaoru for Hikaru calling him insane and suicidal, and now for calling him a whore. Hikaru for Kaoru going out with Haruhi when he knew that Hikaru liked Haruhi as more than a friend. It was all they could to not attack the other person and rip them to shreds. Hikaru was certain he wouldn't lose this time, Hikaru was determined to beat the snot out of this over-arrogant brat that he used to call his twin brother.

"I'd win."

Kaoru couldn't take that and he leaped at Hikaru and punched him in the face.

"Get off me!" Hikaru snarled as he shoved his hand in Kaoru's face and pushed him away. Kaoru punched Hikaru again. "Kaoru! Get off me!"

"Kaoru, get off me," Kaoru mocked, in anger. He brought his leg up further onto the bed and dug into Hikaru's stomach, making Hikaru yelp and tug on Kaoru's hair. "Stop it, Hikaru! Knock it off!"

"What's going on?" Tamaki and Nekozawa both asked as they walked into the room.

"He started it!" They both chimed. "No! You did! You did! Stop copying me! You did it!"

Nekozawa sighed and walked over and pulled Kaoru off.

"Let's go downstairs," Nekozawa sighed.

"Let me at him!" Kaoru snarled. "He called me a whore!"

"You punched me!"

"You tried to push in my face!"

"You tried to push your knee through my stomach!" Hikaru yelled right back, sitting up and preparing to punch Kaoru.

Kaoru seethed and struggled. "Oh yeah? Well you aggrivated me!"

Nekozawa sighed, shook his head, and walked out with Kaoru in his arms. Kaoru continued to struggle and scream and Tamaki sat down with Hikaru. Hikaru groaned and looked away from Tamaki, closing his eyes tight.

"You wanna stay at my house for awhile?" Tamaki whispered, scared of Hikaru's anger. He was scared of this, the twins never fought. Never for real, anyway.

Hikaru shook his head. "I wanna... I want... Kaoru to be happy again."

He shook his head again and he choked and whimpered and tears began to fall down his face. Tamaki sighed and scooted closer to Hikaru and wrapped his arm around Hikaru's shoulders. This was serious, this wasn't a little fight that only went on at school. This was a life or death fight between these two. Keeping them supervised and apart meant life, letting them stay together and letting them fight was death. Tamaki whispered, "Kaoru needs time alone, aggra-"

"He started it!" Hikaru shouted. "He did!"

"I'm sure he di-"

"That's why you're outsiders! You're all stupid!" Hikaru screamed and Tamaki scooted away.

"I won't talk to you if I have to risk my life," Tamaki warned. "Not my beautiful and wonderful life."

"We should've never listened to you!" Hikaru yelled.

Hikaru pushed Tamaki down onto the bed, rage eating at his mind, tears falling down his face. Hikaru didn't know what to do, and his hands itched to hurt something, his mind wanted to see something hurt, that fight between him and Kaoru was just too much, and Hikaru needed to something to get his anger out on. Unfortunately, Tamaki was the only thing Kaoru could hurt in the room.

"This is all your fault!" Hikaru screamed at Tamaki. "We should've never listened to you! We could still be in our world and none of this would've ever happened! I don't want Kaoru to hate me! I don't want Kaoru with Haruhi! This is all YOUR fault!"

Tamaki blinked his eyes to keep himself from tearing up, because Hikaru was right.

It was all his fault.

"I'm sorry I made you join, I'm sorry I made Haruhi join," Tamaki apologized. "I'm sorry for anything wrong I've done to you twins, ever. I really didn't mean to hurt you guys, I just wanted to let you know about the outside world, that it wasn't just you two in the whole world."

"Maybe it was better when WE were the world, hmm? What then?" Hikaru continued, angrily.

"I'm sorry I made you try something new."

Tamaki pushed Hikaru off of him and left the house. Hikaru stared at the door.

"Milord..."

Hitachiin Household: Alone With Hikaru

Kaoru was gone.

Again.

Only this time, Hikaru knew where he was. Where he wasn't.

Kaoru was at Haruhi's house, and he was going to stay with Lex and Haruhi until this had been resolved. The teachers had moved their seating places, no matter what happened, Kaoru was always by Haruhi, and Hikaru ended up alone. It was sickening.

Hikaru lay in his room alone, sobbing, and afraid.

"I want my Kaoru..." Hikaru sobbed, imagining his little brother Haruhi and his sobs grew even louder. It didn't matter though, without Kaoru there and with Hikaru there, no one need to watch the house. So the maids were at their own homes and their parents were off doing something in another city, or even country. Hikaru was left all alone, because Hikaru wasn't the crazy suicidal one, Kaoru was. "I want Kaoru!"

Hikaru sat up, got up, and walked to "Kaoru's" bedroom, the bedroom that used to be theirs. Hikaru sat down on the bed and pulled a pillow close to him, a pillow that Kaoru slept on, a pillow they shared before this all happened. Before that demon appeared. Hikaru whined and whimpered and cried, holding that pillow against his chest, tears flowing out of his eyes and down his face. He kept whimpering his brothers name, for he didn't want anything that people could give him. He wanted that one thing so many adults want, he wanted his childhood back. Hikaru wanted everything to be simple again, Hikaru and Kaoru. Nothing else had ever mattered. It was just those two against the rest of the world again. That could never happen though. It was all gone now, their world no longer existed. All that was left was ruins. Oh, how both brothers longed for that isolation again. To feel the other's body so close to theirs, the other not knowing how they really felt. That was the good days.

The good days no longer existed.

"Kaoru!" Hikaru whined. He buried his head into the pillow, no matter what he did, he couldn't stop that overflowing sadness, the unfullfilment. Did Hikaru really love Haruhi, or was it Kaoru he loved? Did Kaoru just mistake Hikaru's love for Kaoru and jealously that Kaoru liked Haruhi as Hikaru actually loving Haruhi? It was all confusing to Hikaru, he was so blind. He never even realized how embarassed he'd gotten around Haruhi, it was like a child they were. Hikaru didn't know it was love because he never felt it for anyone except Kaoru, so he thought it was natural.

Wait, Hikaru felt that way about Kaoru?

It was all so confusing to Hikaru, he didn't know who he loved. He didn't know what to do. The one he loved more than anything, the one who kept him company at night, absolutely hated his guts and wasn't with him that night.

Hikru layed down on Kaoru's bed, trying to get to sleep. He couldn't though, he couldn't get Kaoru off of his mind. He couldn't sleep with that body next to him. So he decided that he'd go to school the next day with lack of sleep. It didn't matter. Nothing really mattered when Kaoru was mad at him, nothing could ever matter when his twin wanted to rip his guts out. Hikaru closed his eyes, in hopes of sleeping, but nothing came.

"What should I do?" Hikaru wondered. "Maybe get him something to end this fight?"

Hikaru thought about it for a little while, he sucked at making stuff, so he'd have to buy something... or, he could ask someone at school for help and skip club to make Kaoru something that should make him happy. Yes, that'd work perfectly. So Hikaru sat, pondering what to make...

Kaoru's POV

I left to Haruhi's house, because I was so afraid that I'd strangle Hikaru. I couldn't sleep, so I ended up sneaking into Haruhi's bed. It wasn't that big of a deal, since I'm not the kind to do dirty things, and after that traumatic experience, it was even more unlikely. Haruhi's really nice and comfy, and really warm. She wasn't Hikaru though. Gosh, I thought I got over Hikaru! Now I can stop thinking about him. I don't think... I'll be able to sleep tonight.

Oh well, it's good to have a drug dealer as a friend.