Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN OURAN. COMPRENDE? GOOD NOW LEAVE ME ALONE AND GO FOCUS ON SOMETHING THAT MATTERS LAWYERS!!!! I only own the plot of this story & the OC's that I made (example: Veronica)

A/N: I think that the word "baka" means idiot, not sure though. So forgive me if I just put some really horrible insult in there or something. I wish I spoke Japanese, but I'm not that lucky.

Chapter 3

The Reaction

Haruhi couldn't move if she wanted to, and she wasn't even scared, she was shocked…. And everyone could see it. 'What's wrong with Hikaru?'

"Hikaru! N-nothing actually….. happened." Haruhi said, swallowing hard on the last word, taking in the fact that he would never believe her.

"Save the lame excuses for someone else, for once." He said harshly, slamming his fist against the iron door and running towards the steps, with Kaoru following.

"WAIT! Hikaru, WHERE ARE YOU-" Haruhi screamed, running to the door, finally leaving her position next to Tamaki, but stopping once she saw that he was already long gone.

"Hm.. impressive, he left a dent. A perfect mold, actually." Kyoya noted the dent in the door, getting a horrible glare from Haruhi that he never expected, and as she tried to chase Hikaru she was lifted into midair by Mori, and brought back to the Music Room.

Meanwhile…

'Why?! She lied!…. why? What was that?' Hikaru shouted in his mind as he ran through the endless hallways of Ouran.

"Hikaru!!!"

'Kaoru….no.' Hikaru stopped and turned to face his twin just as he reached a beautiful fountain, just outside the school doors.

"Kaoru, go back to the rest of them, I need a while."

"No, we need to talk. Now. You really scared Haruhi back there, did you even hear what she said as you were running away?"

"I'm sick of people treating me like a kid, like I can't piece things together. I can take care of myself, I'm not an idiot and they should know that…. especially you."

"What does that mean?!"

"It means stop making me think Haruhi gives a damn when she doesn't!!! Stop killing me from the inside out."

"Wow…. If we weren't fighting right now." Kaoru turned his head to look out at the grounds.

"I know." Hikaru said, thinking how much like Tamaki he sounded. "What a baka."

"And I'm not lying Hikaru."

'I know.'

"Yes, you are." Kaoru turned back to his brother with a neutral expression that looked angry the way the sun hit his face.

"Do you want me to give up on you? Because I will, and you know it."

"No you wouldn't."

'….I hope.'

"Really? You know as well as I do that you're going to regret that." Kaoru turned his back on Hikaru and stalked back into the school, leaving Hikaru alone for the first time since he could remember, not that he ever had much he couldn't tell Kaoru, but it was still nice to have some time to himself.

"OOF!!! HEY!!!! WATCH WHERE YOUR-"

"Hikaru."

"Veronica."

Back in Music Room #3….

"Mori, where do you think Hikaru went?" Haruhi asked, sitting down on the sofa furthest away from Tamaki as soon as they were back in the Music Room, Tamaki and Haruhi with hot chocolate (commoner kind, of course) and blankets.

"I don't know. Probably home if he's completely given up."

"What? What do you mean?"

"Wow, you mean you don't know Haru-chan?" Honey-Sempi asked.

"No. Is there something I should know?"

"No. She has to figure it out on her own."

"Ohh…. Nothing Haru-chan!" Honey replied, giving her his sweetest smile.

"Oh, c'mon guys!!! I don't need to figure it out on my own!" Haruhi said, laughing it off as if Mori had just said something extremely stupid and she was being polite.

"I knew you'd try that, but sorry, no luck." Mori said.

'This is getting annoying already, and I got a vacation!' Haruhi thought.

"Kyoya?"

"Hm..?"

"Can I talk to you?" Haruhi asked, dragging him out of the room, and because he was being forced to walk (more like run) backwards, and she had a good grip on his elbow, he nearly dropped his laptop…. Which was worth more then the vase that got her stuck in that position in the first place.

"Is there something I should know about Hikaru?"

"Why are you asking me?"

"Well, because if you tell me, then I'll tell you what I found out about Tamaki and the Math Club."

"I thought blackmailing was MY idea."

"It was, then I stole it." Haruhi grinned proudly, clearly mocking him.

"Alright, I guess, not that it matters much to me anyway."

"Hikaru…. Is a pervert."

"You call that a secret? Seriously, the real thing."

"Can't get anything past you…. Well he likes you, that's all." Kyoya replied, teasing her.

"Okay, now I'm just getting mad. The truth, please."

"That is the truth. Now it's your turn."

"Ugh…. Kaoru!"

"Haruhi! You can't do that! I just- helloooo Kaoru." He finished in a not-so-suave voice.

"Hey…. Anyway, yeah, Haruhi? Did it have something to do with Hikaru, because I'm just not in the mood to talk about him right now."

"Well, it kind of did, but it's only because I think Kyoya's lying about him."

"How could you? Your own Son, Mommy??? What's she been saying, Haruhi?"

**SLAP**

"HEY!!!! I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!" Tamaki yelled, apparently he'd walked out just as Kyoya swung around, and Kaoru ducked, then started laughing along with Haruhi.

"He said Hikaru has a crush on me, that's all." Kyoya got back a little of his pride when he heard the 'he' instead of 'Mommy' like everyone else was saying.

"Well, you didn't know that?" Kaoru responded.

"Uh…. No."

"He WHAT?!?! Did you hear that?!?! That horrible shady twin of his wants to steal our precious daughter away!!!! He wants us to have no one to take care of us in our old age, and for our family to whither away into nothing!!! OBLIVION!!!!!! Well, no! Daddy forbids it!!!!" Tamaki screamed, going into one of his fits, leaning over Kyoya's shoulder the whole time, and making the temple on his forehead stand out in a way that didn't look safe.

'"Daddy forbids it"? Yeah, good luck with that.' Kaoru thought, knowing he would have to go up against Hikaru worse then ever for THAT to work.

'Okay…. time to process. Kyoya definitely just told me the truth about something when it didn't benefit him much, he could've just done the dirty work himself and watched me squirm. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!?!?!?!'

"Come on, Tamaki you know what the nurse said about getting worked up like this." Kyoya remembered, dragging him down the hallway by his shirttail.

"I WILL NOT ALLOW IT! DO YOU HEAR ME HARUHI?! THAT SHADY TWIN WON'T GET HIS PAWS ANYWHERE NEAR YOU!!!!" Haruhi just rolled her eyes, though she knew Tamaki couldn't see it.

Back outside….

"Veronica…. Why are you here?"

"I just got accepted to the school, isn't it exciting?"

"Y-yeah." Hikaru fidgeted.

"What's the matter?"

"Nothing, just…. Don't worry about it."

"Hikaru, that's a lie, and we both know it. You're going to have to let me in eventually, especially if we keep meeting like this."

'You mean if you keep stalking me like this?? No, not really.'

"Fine, it's just girl problems."

"Yeah, right. Try again, Hikaru."

"I'm serious, this one, she just doesn't understand how much I need her, and I think she's dating one of our friends. I mean, I didn't know until about three minutes ago, but I…."

"Feel like you just got shot?"

"Guess you could say that…." Hikaru replied, knowing she had always had a way with words.

"Where's Kaoru?"

"He's upstairs, Music Room #3."

"You know, the last time I saw him, I knew he didn't care that you were moving, but I did. He never realized how different I was when his back was turned, even though everyone else did. That Sunday, I arrived at the airport two minutes too late to tell him goodbye, or how I felt, or…. anything. Two minutes, if you knew how much that haunted me for all this time, even you would care Hikaru." Veronica said, causing Hikaru's eyes to widen uncharacteristically. As she pushed back her raven hair, Hikaru found that her eyes weren't brimming with tears, she wasn't choked up, and she wasn't angry, but there was instead a sweet smile on her face that said it all. She had loved Kaoru from the start, no matter how withdrawn they had both been at the time, but had that changed?

"Hm, well, would you like to go see him? I mean it must be great practice telling his twin, but maybe you should tell Kaoru."

"Alright, let's go." She said, giggling, and skipping towards the end of the hall like she knew where she was going.

~A few flights of stairs later~

[Pink Background with flowery carnations starts here]

"Hikaru! Promise me you'll never leave my side again. I was so worried." Kaoru began as he caught his brother, one arm around his waist, and the other raising his chin so that they were looking into each other's eyes.

"Oh, you don't mean that Kaoru." Hikaru said, moving his chin out of his brother's grip, and looking toward the windows.

"Yes, I do. If anything were to happen to you, I-I don't know what I'd do with myself." He replied, placing his now free palm flat against the side of Hikaru's face, and lovingly holding his gaze.

"Oh, Kaoru." He replied with a pained expression, moving closer to his twin.

"Hikaru." Kaoru finished, folding their pose into a tight hug.

"Are you guys finished yet?" Haruhi asked, eyebrow twitching, as her black & white face slid into the shot from the side.

"Why?" Kaoru asked, moving his brother back into their usual pose, each with an arm around the other's neck.

"Are we annoying you?" Hikaru finished.

"More then you know…." Haruhi said, sliding back out of the shot.

"Hahahahahahahaha…….." Veronica remembered the twins' then-quiet demeanor so well that she couldn't help but burst into laughter at the scene in front of her.

"Wha-What was THAT?!?!" she asked, trying to catch her breath as they finally noticed she was there.

"You have a complaint, Miss?" Kaoru asked, helping her up, as she had literally tripped over her own feet, she was laughing so hard.

"Not at all, Kaoru. Except that people usually greet old friends a little more warmly." Veronica smiled.

"Wait…. Jackie?"

"Hardly. Jackie hated me, but then again, maybe I shouldn't have told you that."

"Veronica???" Kaoru asked, hardly believing what was coming out of his mouth.

"Mm-hm. I knew you would get it eventually."

"Woah. You've really…. Um, wait a minute, why are you here?"

"I just got accepted to Ouran! I've always wanted to come here because of its reputation, though of course my family has connections, I wanted to know I could do it on my own."

'These damn rich…. Wait, what? I think I might actually get along with her.'

"That's great!" he said, hugging her.

'I've never seen Kaoru so excited.'

"Well, it's good to know you're not annoyed that I'll be spending the year here."

"The year? But we have two left."

"Oh, yes." Veronica said, suddenly businesslike. "If I can live up to my parents' standards here at Ouran, I can stay, but if not…. I'm getting transferred to America."

"Oh." The twins said. 'So THAT'S why she's so eager to do everything now.'

Ring. Ring. Ring. Ring.

"Hello? Yes, of course. Goodbye, Father."

Click.

"You have to go?" Honey asked, clearly upset.

"Yeah, I'm sorry. Bye guys." Veronica said, leaving.

"Kaoru, I need to talk to you. Kaoru?" Hikaru found that his twin was pretty much dazed by the visit.

"Yeah?"

"C'mon, let's go home."

"Okay." He said, letting himself be dragged through the Host Club's front door.

"What was wrong with Hikaru?"

"Well, isn't it obvious?" announced the King, coming back into the room.

"What is it, Tamaki-Sempi?"

"Well, I can't tell you! And what did I tell you about crossing that line?!" he demands, pulling Haruhi over the cast line that separates them from everyone else.

A/N: Hope you enjoyed! I worked hard & I think I'm starting to get some real inspiration, so hopefully I'll start getting more comments. Oh, & if you're reading this on FanFiction I did post an apology for taking so long on DeviantArt, but I heard I would get kicked off if I did that on FanFiction, & I didn't want to get kicked off, so I am sorry! If you want to look it up, I use the same screenname on both sites. Anyway, comment please! Ch. 4 & 5 coming soon! Oh, and "soon" actually means "soon" now, not "in a few weeks", if I have anything to say about it (which I do). & could somebody please tell me what Kyoya's family members names are? Thanks! :D

~FairyFluff