A/N: I know, I know, I missed a day. It happens sometimes. I'm actually hoping to finish two stories this weekend, this and "Three Days Of Separation". If you like Bleach humor and Shiyori/Rosa/Kenshiro, that's what TDOS is, and people seem to like it. Anyway, let's get going before I forget what I'm doing. Believe me, that's happened before.
Disclaimer: I don't own Ouran High School Host Club, and I make absolutely no profit from this.
"Where is Nara?" Hikaru asked the next day, eyeing Niyah with a suspicious look. "Where is she? I can't find her."
"She stayed home today..." Niyah murmured. "She said she wasn't feeling well, but she didn't appear to be physically sick at all..." Where had Kaoru gone? After all, Niyah still didn't like being alone with Hikaru. Something about his loud and sometimes rude demeanor made her want to hide.
"Fine." Hikaru snapped. "Then Kaoru and I are coming home with you, because I have to talk to her." He didn't like that Nara hadn't come to school; he hadn't had a chance to make sure she was ok before she got away, after he had slapped her.
Niyah's chin dropped to her chest. She didn't like being told what to do, but unlike Nara, it just made her shut down. She didn't fight or scream or hit, like Nara. She just shut down and let whoever it was get away with it. Well, in most cases.
"Hikaru!" Kaoru grinned, eliciting a grin from his twin as well. "Sorry I'm late. Honey wanted to talk..." He trailed off, looking at Niyah. "Niyah, are you alright? Hikaru, what did you do to the poor girl?" His last sentence was teasing as he tilted his twin's chin up.
Niyah blinked, blushing, but watching them. "Why..." She began softly. "Why did you guys switch?" Both twins looked at her and burst out laughing.
"Anyway," The twins grinned at her, speaking in perfect unison. "You're going to need to take us home with you so we can talk to Nara."
"R-Right..." Niyah murmured, resisting the urge to go hide somewhere. "Well, my car is probably waiting, so we can go whenever..."
"Operation save the sisters is in action!" The twins grinned at each other. Niyah blushed and looked away. In truth, it wasn't that she loved their "brotherly love"; it was more that she was jealous that they were so close. If she could help it, she'd never admit that she was jealous of them, but in her heart, the green monster had taken up residence.
The ride to the Jamil house was strange to say the least. Niyah felt awkward sitting beside Kaoru for some reason, and Hikaru's perfect silence wasn't helping.
"This way..." Niyah led them down a long hall, keeping her eyes on the floor. Her and Nara's rooms were in completely separate parts of the house, just another sign. Nara had moved out of her neighboring room after the incident with her boyfriend, and Niyah hadn't fought the decision.
"Get away from me!" Nara yelped from just inside her room, evidently she had heard them coming. "I hate all of you!" The lock clicked on the door, and Hikaru and Kaoru just laughed. It took them a matter of seconds to pick the lock and let themselves in.
"Get. Out." Nara lay in her bed, looking angry, and even slightly panicked. "I want to be alone!" She heaved a pillow at Hikaru, which Kaoru caught deftly. "Shoo, pests!"
"You know what we think?" Hikaru and Kaoru spoke in unison, grinning. "We think that secretly, you're just like your sister. But you don't want to be identified as a twin, or even someone with a relationship to Niyah, so you shun her. We bet you're just as insecure and scared as Niyah, if not more, so you hide it with a bad attitude."
Nara glared at them, but she also looked like she might cry.
"We think the reason you got mad at Niyah over that little incident-" The Hitachiin twins had decided not to go into detail, better to not upset Niyah, "Was that your boyfriend was the only one who indulged you and made you feel better about your insecurities, even if he only wanted you for his own nefarious reasons."
Nara bolted, out of the room, then out the front door minutes later.
"Seems we hit a sore spot." Hikaru mused.
"It seems we did." Kaoru nodded.
Slowly, they noticed that Niyah had crumpled to the floor, and was crying silently. Both twins knelt beside her, looking at her with worried eyes. "Niyah?" They murmured, each putting a hand on one of her shoulders.
"Go after Nara, make sure she doesn't get too far, Hikaru. Please." Kaoru murmured, watching Niyah worriedly. Honestly, he didn't know what to do, but Hikaru being boisterous would only get in the way of calming Niyah down. Besides, someone did need to keep an eye on Nara.
Hikaru hesitated, but eventually followed the path Nara had taken.
Kaoru studied Niyah for a moment, and then gathered her into his arms, rubbing her back. He understood what she was feeling, though he hadn't been through it with Hikaru.
He just hoped that that they could still make their plans work.
A/N: Here's one chapter, and I hope to do another before the day is over, and I'm hoping to finish this pretty soon. Anyway, tell me what you think and all that, please?