A/N: I lied. Tamaki isn't next. Kaoru is.
Which... Is strange. For me, at least. He's not in my 'list of characters I love to death.' He's just kinda there. No offense to any Kaoru fans.
First KaoruHaruhi. So I feel accomplished. Or in other terms, my ego just inflated ten percent more.
Inspired by the acoustic version of 'Diary of Jane' by Breaking Benjamin. Beautiful song there...
Enjoy.
xoxo
"There she goes again, Kaoru. With that Arai boy..."
He sat alone, tired and unfeeling, not particularly caring what happened to him. This wasn't an unfamiliar feeling, no. This entire summer he'd been feeling this way.
Every one had been chasing after her. Differently, of course, but they were trying. But he didn't bother. "Futile attempts..." He had said time and time again. "It's not worth it to have your heart crushed after so much effort."
Hikaru disregarded every warning Kaoru had originally said. Tamaki refused to listen, and he himself wouldn't believe himself. And for so long, he'd vehemently voiced his concerns for both of them and himself, but it wasn't worth it.
To try so hard, and to have it end horribly in your face... He wouldn't do that. He'd give up before he did that.
So he'd sit and watch her, sipping a lemonade idly, letting the breeze cool him off. He didn't really care any more. Sure, a part of his heart would always belong to her, but he didn't bother trying to wrestle it back from her.
She could have it for as long as she wanted. He didn't need it back that badly.
As much as he really loved her, he'd rather her come to him. Putting effort into something doomed to fail, or had barely a chance of succeeding, wasn't his style.
And while every one threw caution to the wind and wore their emotions not just on their sleeves, but on just about every piece of clothing they had on, he'd sit and let everything pass him by.
Including her.
To get up and try just wasn't something he wanted to do. So he slowly let her go.
But letting her go seemed to take the most effort.
Perhaps he wasn't as much of a sloth as he thought he was...
xoxo
Another A/N: Gah. I love myself too much to critique this.
So I'll leave that up to you. You know what to do...