The Twenty-Eight Day

"It's time for church, your brother'll be there too," Hikaru's mom snapped as she walked into the living room, where Hikaru had just finished and wrapped his present in a box for Kaoru. Hikaru moaned that he didn't get much sleep this weekend. "That's your fault! Staying up late, doing something late into the night, what was that anyway?"

"Something," Hikaru muttered.

Hikaru brought his majestically wrapped present with him. He decided to give it to Kaoru after church.

"Hello," Kaoru hissed as he climbed into the car next to Hikaru. His hand itched and he had to torture himself not to hold Hikaru's hand. Kaoru looked at Hikaru and smlied softly with kind eyes. "Miss me?"

Hikaru looked at Kaoru and smiled and whispered, "Yes."

Kaoru was surprised. Usually his brother would give him some crackpot joke about how he could never miss his little brother. Kaoru reached for Hikaru's hand and held it, giving it a squeeze. That's all Kaoru could do. He wanted Hikaru to apologize first. He wasn't going to give in.

"Church is gonna hate us," Hikaru noted.

Their mother shook her head and she turned to look into the back at the boys. Their father also gave them a glare.

"Don't talk like that. You two need help, serious help. Brothers aren't supposed to try to kill eachother, much less TWIN brothers! You two need to be forgiven by the preacher, maybe then everything will be all better. Maybe you'll stop longing for eachother too, I haven't done anything about it for a long time, but I think it's about time that I do, for this is getting too much out of hand," Their mother scolded and scowled. "I won't put any other rules on you, I just want you two to treat eachother as brothers, not lovers. Do you understand what I'm asking of you two? I don't want anymore 'love' scenes or 'murder' scenes. Got it?"

"Love scenes?" The two asked at the same time.

"Sex scenes if you will."

Their faces went white.

They knew?

Kaoru squeezed tighter on Hikaru's hand and whispered, "I feel sick and light headed, they shouldn't make me do this."

"I bet I feel worse," Hikaru groaned.

"Maybe you do," Kaoru hissed. "But I haven't been able to sleep for the past two nights because of you! You owe me big time, mister. I missed out on quality sleep, and all that time I had to snuggle up with Haruhi. It's hard snuggling up to someone besides you."

"I got three hours this weekend," Hikaru hissed right back. "Don't give me that."

Kaoru blinked. That was a lot less than he got.

"Three hours?" Kaoru asked, amazed.

"Two, actually. One hour Friday night, one hour last night."

Kaoru squeezed Hikaru's hand in a, "I'm sorry."

"It's okay."

"Can I come tonight?" Kaoru asked, quietly.

Hikaru looked away.

"If YOU want to, I guess," Hikaru replied, slyly.

"Well, I thought you wanted me," Kaoru spat.

"Maybe I don't?"

Kaoru looked away, annoyed.

"Fine, I won't come home. You can sleep alone," Kaoru cursed.

"Good, I don't want you with me, my dream come true," Hikaru snapped.

Kaoru turned back to him and grabbed his collar and raised his fist to him. Hikaru just blinked.

"I dare you, I'd win this time," Hikaru hissed.

"That's what you said last time."

"I mean it too."

Kaoru's hand shot to Hikaru's throat and he choked against his seatbelt, but he didn't care. He was going to teach this kid a lesson, how dare he tease him? That's a horrible thing to do, but Kaoru still didn't have to right to try to beat Hikaru down. Hikaru kicked Kaoru's stomach and the two struggled. The parents had closed their window to the back to allow the boys to talk to eachother in private.

"You're a bastard!" Kaoru choked as unbuckled his seatbelt and attacked his brother. Hikaru had unbuckled at the same time and kicked his brother in the stomach and threw him onto the floor. They were in a special area that their parents had made so no one on the road would see the twins and give them weird looks for how they acted. The Hitachiin family didn't want any more grief. The relatives were already upset that they were two male twins and not two female twins. They were always bugging the parents to have a daughter, for females were of the stronger lineage in their family. "I wish you'd die!"

"You wish, but I know when you're gonna die, you suicidal freak!" Hikaru snarled, completely forgetting about how he wanted to make up with his brother. He shot his leg up and kicked into Kaoru's abdomen hard, and reached a hand for Kaoru's neck and squeezed it. "Want me to kill you instead?"

Kaoru whined and started lashing his hands out at Hikaru, digging his fingernails in anywhere he could. The two continued fighting until they arrived at the church and the parents pulled them apart and into the church.

"I hate you!" Kaoru yelled at Hikaru. "I hate you so much!"

Hikaru shook his head and drowned out his brother.

"Mommy, you do realize services ended hours ago, right?" Hikaru asked, snottily.

"Yes, I do know that, you two are getting private prayers by my request!" Their mom snapped at the two and dragged them to the sanctuary. "Pastor, Sire? I brought my children in that need help."

"Ah, the bi-polar twins?" The preecher joked as he turned around to face the family.

"Bi-polar?" The twins snarled in unusion. "You're crazy."

The pastor frowned.

"You two are-" He started. "Do you know a little girl named Lex Parlor?"

The two blinked. Was this the same religious Lex they both despised?

"Lex? Haruhi's babysitting child?" The twins asked, ignoring the fact that the other said the exact same words. They were trying to drown out the other person, they were still so mad at them. "Her mom's in the hospital? Black hair? Amber eyes? Annoying and super religious?"

He raised an eyebrow, but nodded.

"I wouldn't... say she's annoying."

The twins nodded, "Yes she is!"

The past walked up to the twins and knelt in front of them and replied, "Haruhi-chan brings Lex here every Sunday. Lex talks about you two a lot, and wishes that you'd repent for what you've done. I guess your parents have even realized that now too. Are you ready to apologize for your sins?"

Kaoru's throat tightened and he screamed, "It's all her fault! Not mine!"

Hikaru stared at Kaoru, longingly.

"Her fault?"

"She made me lie even more! She's a horrible creature!" Kaoru continued to yell and scold. "I hate her! She's ruined my life! She made me-"

"She can't make you do anything," The pastor pointed out.

Kaoru's hands twitched.

"You litt-"

Hikaru got out of his mother's grasp and he lunged onto his brother, trying to look violent. He just didn't want Kaoru to lunge on the pastor and get in huge trouble, he knew his twin all too well, and he didn't want Kaoru to get charged for assault.

"GET OFF ME!" Kaoru screamed and pushed on Hikaru's face. "Leave me alone!"

"Hikaru? Kaoru?" Haruhi and Lex asked as they walked into the sanctuary. "We heard they were praying for two bad twins, so we thought it might be you guys. Guess we were right. What did you two do this time?"

"He attacked me!" Kaoru screamed and pushed Hikaru off of him. "I wanna go home with Haruhi."

"Stop it," Their mother replied, concerned. "You two really need help, and I don't know what to do with you children."

Kaoru sobbed and sat there and the pastor put the twins right next to eachother and knelt down behind them and put his hands on each one's head.

"Oh Dear Godly Father, please forgive these two, for they do not know what they are doing..."

Oh hell yes I know what I'm doing. You won't get me to say I'm sorry for anything I've to, and with, Hikaru, Kaoru cursed to himself during the prayer.

"...when they are together. Please forgive them Father, they're here to repent for having sex, and for trying to murder the other person..."

I'm sorry for trying to kill him. Not for sex though.

"...please take them under you wing, Father," The pastor finished.

Kaoru clenched his teeth.

"And they all said?" The pastor nudged the twins.

"Amen," The twins cursed through their teeth.

They both felt the same way though. They were sorry for trying to kill eachother, but neither wanted to apologize for having sex. No, that was something they did on their own free will, sure, they could be forgiven for the first one, for they did not know what they were doing. Everytime after that though, that wasn't history, that was feelings, and the twins admitting their feelings to eachother without words.

Hikaru and Kaoru would never regret falling in love.

"Oh yeah," Hikaru remembered his present as Kaoru was starting to get out of the car at Haruhi's house. "Here."

Hikaru gave Kaoru the box which held the present he labored so hard on throughout that weekend.

Kaoru teared the paper off, not knowing what to expect. A trick? Something funny? An actual present? Some store-bought crap?

The boy now stood, outside of the car, staring teary eyed at the stuffed... dog?... wolf?... stuffed wolf in his hands. He began crying and held it close to him.

"I'm sorry," Hikaru whispered as he closed his door and the limo pulled away.

Kaoru stroked the furr of the animal, and he could tell that his brother had made it. Those hands, that could be so soft and delicate when the user wanted them to be, those hands had to have made it. Just the thought of it, and the days events, made Kaoru break down into a sobbing mess, right there on the sidewalk infront of Haruhi's apartment. Haruhi and Lex tried to get him inside, but Kaoru just didn't want to budge. He wanted his brother.

Eventually, Kaoru went inside, and he wouldn't let the stuffed animal out of his arms.

"You might get it dirty," Ranka pointed out at supper time.

Kaoru shook his head and he looked at the food.

"I... I'm not hungry," Kaoru whispered.

He just had to go home.

He couldn't sleep alone again.

Kaoru told them he was leaving, and before anyone could object, he dashed out of the apartment complex and ran towards him home, holding the stuffed wolf close. He didn't want to let it go, and he had to see the maker. He needed to see his Hikaru.

Kaoru dashed through the door, past his parents, into the living room, where Hikaru was talking to Mori and Kaoru lept into Hikaru's arms.

"Hikaru!" Kaoru sobbed.

Hikaru blinked and wrapped his arms around Kaoru.

"Hunny's in the other room if you want to talk to him. I'm talking about something... important to Mori right now," Hikaru scowled.

Kaoru cried and rubbed his face into Hikaru's shirt and he pulled the stuffed animal tighter.

"I want you!" Kaoru cried.

Mori smiled and got Hunny and they left, to come back after school on Monday.

"That was quite a scene, assaulting me in my own house," Hikaru laughed as he rubbed the shampoo into Kaoru's hair as they sat together in the bathtub. Kaoru sniffled and shook his head.

"Mh-hm, not after what you did," Kaoru whispered, his voice cracking.

"Don't be such a baby."

"I missed you!" Kaoru sobbed as he turned around and glomped his brother, he rubbed his face against Hikaru's. ((A Tamaki, Kyoya action, lol))

Hikaru smiled and wrapped his arms around his brother as they both sat in the tub, bare yet again.

"You baby."

Mori's POV

Hikaru asked me to come to his house today. He was confused about something.

He told me about how he had feelings for Haruhi, yet he did have feelings for Kaoru as well. I didn't really know what to tell him, because Kaoru dashed into the room.

Well, those two are really close. I need to go now though, I'm tired.