Chapter 5: Bunny's and Cake or Kaoru's Date

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Haruhi wasn't happy. When she had agreed to the dates she had thought they would all play by the rules. The only ones she expected to even try to break a rule was Tamaki. Even the twins knew she would take serious offense to them breaking a rule.

She wanted to call the deal off. She wanted to but she refused to give in.

She was mad at Hunny when ever she saw the bunny boy walking around. She had enjoyed their date but the kiss on the cheek had ruined the entire thing. She had wanted to slap him but she knew he was an innocent and so she forgave him.

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"Why don't we just beat him up?" Hikaru demanded.

"He's a martial arts expert and I don't think I want to die young," Kaoru replied.

"Then what do we do?"

Kaoru smiled.

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Hunny was happily walking into the Host Club. He practically skipped to the club meeting. Today, he would have the expensive chocolate mouse cake with chocolate frosting and shredded chocolate pieces on the top. He had special ordered it and had been looking forward to the cake all day.

He smiled at everyone as he walked into the music room. He walked over to his little table in the corner. There sitting in the middle of the table of was the cake box. Slowly he opened it prepared for the heavenly sight of chocolaty goodness that he would soon consume. Instead all he found was crumbs.

"Who ate my cake?" Hunny cried out his eyes glazed over with anger.

"That was your cake, Hunny-sempai?" Tamaki asked puzzled. "The delivery man said it was to be delivered to me."

"You ate my cake," Hunny said his voice deadly cold.

"It was very good. I ate the entire thing," Tamaki said smiling.

Hunny charged Tamaki. In a fell swoop the little man had beaten the hell out of Tamaki. Hunny was about to go for a blow that would render Tamaki unconscious when a strong pair of arms picked him up.

"Mitsukuni, you must stop before you kill him."

"But Takashi he ate my cake. He ate the cake that I order specially for today."

"We'll order you another cake."

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"It was very good idea," Hikaru commended his twin.

"We know what Hunny-senpai's weaknesses are. Changing the order on the cake was simple," Kaoru shrugged.

"Poor tono, I think that my idea to change the order to his name might have put him in the hospital."

"All's fair in love and war."

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Haruhi waited quietly after the meeting. For the first time she wanted to know what they thought they would get out of these dates. Sure, they all liked her. They all wanted her to like them back but this was insane. Did they expect her to make a choice when this was all over?

Right now she really wished she could talk to Kaoru. The younger twin had a knack for putting her at ease. He would explain it to her. He had a way of understanding her and how she thought that the others didn't comprehend. But she couldn't talk to Kaoru because he was part of this whole disaster. He was also her next date and that scarred her shitless.

If sweet innocent Hunny would break the rules then what would the twins do? They were far from innocent. They always were touching her and she had become their personal toy. Would they use their dates to further play with her?

If she was honest she would be forced to admit she liked the fact that the twins took in an interest in her. She was the only person in the entire school that the Hitchan brothers had taken a likening to. But she knew them all too well. Those red-headed devils would take advantage of this deal.

She would have to spend the next two hours fending off Kaoru. Of course he wasn't as bad as Hikaru. Hikaru acted on rash impulses. Kaoru thought things through. That made him the more dangerous of the two.

Casually her mind flipped back to her date with Hikaru. It had just been two friends enjoying each other's company. Nothing bad had happened except for maybe their fight but Hikaru had come back and taken care of her. She knew he had the emotional range of a five year old but he had taken care of her while she shivered during the thunderstorm. It would be alright.

She kept repeating that to herself. The entire club meeting the twins sat smirking. They were up to something.

Why had she agreed to this stupid deal?

She sat there waiting for him not knowing what he was planning for the date. She didn't trust the twins anymore than she could launch them from a cannon. She didn't know what they had planned and frankly she was a little scared to find out.

Hikaru fumed silently. It wasn't fair that his brother got to go before him. Kaoru was the sensitive one. He was the one that would win her over in the end.

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Kaoru's date wasn't insane. He had thought it out exactly. He didn't want it to be the typical date with flowers or dinner and a movie.

Hikaru's mouth dropped as he watched his brother take Haruhi to the library. He followed closely. He didn't care that they had made this bargain. They had never argued before, they had never both wanted the same before and not wanted to share. Like hell he was letting Kaoru manipulate this situation. He loved her first and damnit he was going to be the one to win her over.

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Kaoru led Haruhi over to the corner of the library.

"What are we doing here?" Haruhi asked. She had expected Kaoru to drag her to amusement park or make her play dress up. The twins were always trying to get her to change her clothes.

"I thought you could tutor me on the date," Kaoru replied casually—too casually, what the hell was he up to?

"What subject are you failing?" Haruhi groaned.

"I'm not failing anything but I'm getting a D in math."

"WHAT?! I helped you study for the last exam!"

People in the library started to turn towards the two of them.

"Please Haruhi, explain it to me," Kaoru begged.

Hikaru groaned from his corner. Kaoru wasn't getting a D in their math class unless a 79 was a D. What was his brother playing at?

Haruhi began looking through their geometry book.

"Alright Kaoru, you need to memorize this formula: a2+b2c2."

Kaoru nodded placing his head on Haruhi's shoulder as he peered over the book.

Haruhi continued to go through the math book. She didn't notice Kaoru's hand going to the back of her shirt. Gently he rubbed her back and rubbed her ankle with his feet.

Haruhi groaned softly that felt good. What the hell was he doing?

She looked up to give him a glare but Kaoru just looked at the book both hands spread out in front of him.

The game of cat and mouse between them went on for the entire date. Haruhi didn't even feel like stopping Kaoru from touching her. She didn't want to. It felt good.

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Hikaru felt like he was in hell. His brother was making a move on Haruhi! Screw sharing her.

He glanced at the clock. It had been three o'clock when the entered the library and now it was seven o'clock. Haruhi had went over two hours!

He didn't stand a chance.

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Haruhi gasped as she looked at the clock. She hadn't expected to spend that long with Kaoru. She knew he had done it deliberately.

She looked at him suspiciously. "You're not really failing are you?"

Kaoru didn't say anything as he gave Haruhi a hug. "Thanks for a nice date Haruhi."

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Haruhi walked slowly out of the library. She was tired.

"Haruhi, are you okay?"

She turned to find Hikaru standing in front of her.

"I'm fine," she smiled.

"I hope you'll still give me a shot," he said slowly before walking into the shadows.

Haruhi froze on the steps.

What did he mean?

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Kaoru stared at his brother. "You watched?"

"I wanted to see all my competition."

"Hikaru, I don't know how she feels about us."

"I don't know either Kaoru."

"Are we still partners?"

"Yes."

To be continued…