Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran High School host club, Hatori Bisco does.

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Chapter 3: Connected Hearts

Hikaru sat in his office as he observed at his younger twin silently. Kaoru had just briefed him on what had happened the night before. He told him of what he assumed had happened after he left. From the way Hikaru tensed up, the younger twin could tell that it bothered him but there was nothing that neither one could do.

"So you think Sempai is going to make Haruhi his mistress?" Hikaru asked disgusted.

Kaoru shrugged as he leaned back on the chair, "it's not like he can easily divorce Éclair, and if he went against his grandmother's wishes he could lose his job and his money."

Hikaru sighed, "Have you spoken to Kyouya-sempai?"

"Yes I have, he says he'll be back in the country as soon as he can."

"Even though he didn't inherit the family business, he's sure pretty busy lately," Hikaru commented as his eyes drifted towards the window.

It was a cool September morning but the sun was shining brightly through the floor to ceiling windows.

"You would think that she would make smarter decisions," Hikaru whispered a little lost in thought.

"Hikaru? Kaoru? Is everything alright?" A voice interrupted them. The voice was soft with a musical tone. Both men looked at the door as Hikaru's wife walked in slowly, glowing brightly from her pregnancy. Kaoru watched as she walked over to Hikaru and gently ran her fingers through his charcoal colored hair affectionately. Kaoru watched with fascination and a bit of envy, Hikaru, no matter how worried he was about Haruhi was happy with Kina. How could he not be? She was intelligent, beautiful and she loved him completely. They had met during Hikaru's most vulnerable time and she had been there for him ever since.

"How are you doing Kina?" Kaoru asked his sister-in-law, smiling warmly at her. He loved Kina as if she were his biological sister. She was the only other woman other than Haruhi that was close to the twins.

"I'm doing good Kao-chan, just waiting for our little man to arrive."

Kaoru watched Hikaru smile at his wife lovingly as he placed his hand on her belly.

Kaoru stood up slowly and stretched, "well it looks like I'm going to head to the office now Hikaru, Mom wanted to see us about our show in Milan."

"Oh that?" Hikaru said with little to no interest.

Kaoru knew that Hikaru had no interest in the Milan show because of his wife's due date and it was up to Kaoru to convince his mother that the show should be postponed for a few months.

"I'll talk to her Hikaru, don't worry." Kaoru picked up his coat from the back of his chair and put it on. He looked over at the two before waving and walking out of the office, and soon out of their residence and into his car.

Haruhi yawned quietly as she stretched her arms and legs. She was still lying in bed as the warm sunlight streamed into her bedroom. Her brown eyes looked over at her clock on the end table and groaned as she looked at the time, she was late, really late. While she knew that Yui was okay without her she still didn't like not being at the office during the weekdays. She reached over to grab her phone when a hand gently stopped her.

"What do you think you're doing Ms. Fujioka?" The raspy voice asked teasingly.

Haruhi looked at her guest hesitantly. She did not know how to feel after what had happened, or why she'd let it happened. However, looking into the eyes of the beautiful blond man that she was sharing her bed with made her heart flutter.

"Sempai, shouldn't you be getting home?" Haruhi asked as she sat up. She felt horrible, but she felt at ease at the same time. She was caught in a dilemma where she knew what she was doing was wrong but in her heart, it felt right. Now she was able to sympathize more with the mistresses and cheating spouses that came into her office, before she was unable to understand their feelings but now she was able to so clearly now, how ironic.

Tamaki sat up with a hurt expression on his face; he looked at Haruhi his violet orbs staring deeply into her brown eyes.

"I want to stay here, with you," he stated softly.

"You shouldn't have come here in the first place," she said as she hopped out of bed and grabbed her shirt and slipped it on.

"You aren't my mistress," Tamaki stated firmly.

"Sempai not this conversation again," Haruhi sighed heavily as she slipped on her skirt.

Last night Tamaki had come over after Kaoru left. Haruhi had not told him he could come; he just arrived on his own. They sat and talked for a few hours and when he tried to kiss her she had told him no because did not want to be his mistress. That had hurt the blond, in his mind he never once considered that to be a possibility. He had seen her as his future, not the other woman. They had talked and argued and eventually it led to them making love. Tamaki had not regretted any of it.

Snapping out of his short recollection of the previous night, he looked at Haruhi determined to make her believe what he'd said to her.

"I need you to understand that I would never give you such a demeaning title," the blond said as he got up as well. He slipped on his black, silk boxers and walked over to Haruhi and placed his hands on both sides of her hips.

"You are my best friend."

"I WAS your best friend," she corrected him.

Tamaki groaned in frustration, "Haruhi please."

"We can't do this again," she stated firmly.

Tamaki looked down at her, his eyes showing nothing but frustration. Haruhi knew his frustration was with more than her but this had not been the best idea. When he had come over she was filled with so much emotion and got carried away. But now that they were no longer covered in the embrace of the night, things looked so much different during the day. The daylight showed their encounter as adultery, not two individuals who loved each other and wanted to be with each other. If this continued he would be an adulter, she would be considered his mistress, and she refused to have him do this, he was better than that.

"Sempai, if I were your wife would you cheat on me?"

"No I wouldn't," he answered right away.

"So why is Éclair different? She's still your wife."

"I know but…"

"No buts sempai, we can be friends but this can never happen again, okay?"

Tamaki sighed and backed away from Haruhi. He walked back over to the other side of the bed and began to put on his clothing when his cell phone began to ring. Haruhi walked over to her closet and pretended to not listen but she was curious to know if it was his wife or not.

"Hello, this is Souh Tamaki," he said coolly into the phone. He paused for a few seconds before Haruhi heard him get excited.

"Kyouya! You're finally back!" he paused again as he listened to his male best friend on the other end. "You want to meet for lunch? Sure? When?" as he paused again Haruhi turned around and looked at him curiously, she hadn't seen him since she'd graduated from Ouran. She had heard good things about him but they had no contact.

"Okay I'll be there at 12:30, see you then," he said as he hung up.

"Having lunch with Kyouya-sempai?" Haruhi asked verifying what she'd just heard.

"Yes, he's been out of the country for the past three months, and he's finally back. Did you want to come? He hasn't seen you in years."

"No thank you," Haruhi said softly, "I have to get to the office, my paralegal is there alone."

Tamaki frowned, "you don't have other employees?"

Haruhi shook her head, "no, not yet, and that's by choice."

Tamaki shook his head signifying he understood a bit.

"Well I'm about to get into the shower, I'll see you later sempai, tell Kyouya-sempai I said hi," Haruhi said as she left the room, and left Tamaki in there alone, hoping he would be gone when she got out of her shower

Kaoru parked his Aston Martin in his company parking space. He exited his car as he activated his security alarm. He pulled out his phone and glanced at it noticing that he had missed a call from his mother. Instead of calling her, he decided he would just head up to her office instead.

Walking up to the building, he noticed from time to time that his female employees were staring at him in awe. He was used to it but was still intrigued by how fascinated they were with him.

Bypassing security he walked over to the elevator and pressed the up button, when it arrived he pressed the button to take him to the sixty-fifth floor.

When he got up to the floor, he knocked softly on his mother's office door. He could hear her on her phone so he just quietly let himself inside. She was standing at the office window with her back to Kaoru. Even as a mere chairman she still kept herself busy.

As she turned around, she noticed her son and excused herself from her phone call.

"Hikaru! Happy you made it, I have some things to go over with you."

Kaoru inwardly sighed, what mother was still unable to tell her twins apart after all of these years? "I'm Kaoru mom," He corrected her, when it came to his mother he loved her with all of his heart, but she mentally exhausted him.

"I'm sorry Kaoru," she apologized half-heartedly. "Where's Hikaru? I wanted you both to come in."

Kaoru cleared his throat, "that's what I wanted to talk to you about. His wife is due any day now and he wants to take a few weeks off to prepare for the birth of your grandchild."

Yuzuha frowned slightly, "CEOs don't have the luxury to take time off, I never took time off even though I was raising you two."

Kaoru sighed heavily, "and maybe that's why you don't understand your children's feelings."

Kaoru was irritated, why did she always irrigated him? He loved his mother but just maybe…

"Mom, there is another thing I wanted to speak to you about."

"What is it Kaoru?" she asked as she fiddled with her phone, possibly sending Hikaru an email.

"I want to give you my official resignation," he said pulling out the piece of paper and handing it to her respectfully. "I appreciate being given the opportunity to work here all these years, but this job is clearly made for Hikaru and not me. I think I'm ready to bow out of my position as Co-CEO."

Yuzuha put down her phone and stared at her son, "Kaoru, I gave you this job with both you and Hikaru in mind. You both may be identical twins but you compliment each other in several ways. Hikaru may be more outspoken with his ideas, but you help balance those ideas giving Hikaru the type of constructive criticism that he can take and better himself. You two are a wonderful team, that's why I made you two co-CEOs."

Kaoru looked down at his mother a bit shocked, if she knew all of this then, "you're able to tell us apart aren't you?" Kaoru asked waiting for her answer.

Yuzuha chuckled, "of course I can, I would be a horrible mother if I didn't know how to tell my boys apart. I just loved to see your reactions when I called you the wrong names."

Kaoru raised an eyebrow as he looked down at his mother, so this was a game to her all of this time? Kaoru laughed slightly as he now realized where their personalities truly came from.

Yuzuha picked up the resignation and handed it back to her son, "here you go Kaoru, I'll pretend I never saw it."

Kaoru nodded and pushed the resignation paper back towards his mother. He had thought this through and it was a bit unfair that both kids take over only one of their parents' business. His father had stated several times that Kaoru would be a wonderful addition to his company, and at his father's software company he could become more than just 'Hikaru's twin brother.'

"Mom, I still want to resign, I've been thinking about things and I think I would do so much better working with dad."

Yuzuha sighed softly, "I always knew that you would eventually go and work with your father. You have so much of him in you, so I'm not surprised."

"I'm like dad?" Kaoru asked a bit surprised.

"Yes, your kind-hearted nature, putting others before yourself, those are some of the qualities your father has and more. While Hikaru and I are a bit more self-absorbed," she smiled.

Kaoru smiled softly, "but that's why dad and I love you and Hikaru so much, for who you are."

"And the both of you also compliment Hikaru and I so well."

Kaoru felt bittersweet, "I'm sorry mom."

"No need to be sorry Hun, Hikaru will be okay on his own just like you will flourish on your own."

Kaoru stayed quiet, he didn't know how to accept that compliment.

"Mom, is it okay if I get some advice from you?" Kaoru asked changing the subject. There were some things he needed a woman's perspective on.

"Yea sure sweetie what is it?" his mother asked surprised. Kaoru never asked for advice, unless it was professional advice.

"It's about Haruhi Fujioka."

Yuzuha's eyes lit up, she was going to enjoy giving her son advice on love.

Tamaki Souh walked into the expensive French restaurant called L'Osier up to the hostess who was standing at her quarters. The blond was wearing a Grey Pinstripe Armani suit with a steel blue necktie with a white shirt. He wore glasses to make look more intelligent as he liked to call it. He also realized when he wore them women swooned over him more often than they did when he did not wear them. The hostess was a woman and when she caught sight of him he could see it in her body language that she thought he was attractive, he wanted to turn up the charm but he had promised he would be on his best behavior. Besides, he was already dealing with enough, naturally he wanted to flirt but he knew that he shouldn't, so he didn't. Besides, he was meeting Kyouya for lunch and had dressed for the occasion considering what restaurant they were dinning at.

"Good afternoon Miss, I'm here meeting a Ootori Kyouya."

"Mr. Ootori just arrived a few minutes ago, I-I'll direct you to his table," she stuttered slightly.

Tamaki chuckled as the girl led him over to the table where his long time friend was seated, tapping away on his tablet. When the blond approached the table Kyouya looked up at him sating his electronic down.

"I see you've been flirting with the hostess," Kyouya said as he watched her walk away flustered.

Tamaki looked at Kyouya shocked and he could feel himself slipping back into his old childish ways, "But I didn't flirt! She was just mesmerized by my beauty," he replied conceitedly.

Kyouya scoffed, "we need to talk, but maybe we should order lunch first."

Tamaki looked down at his friend seriously, he knew what this was about, and he had come prepared for it.

It was late, and Haruhi sat in her office, her cell phone and office phone was sending her messages straight to voice mail. She wanted to be alone at the moment. She found this ironic because just almost two weeks ago she detested her solitude and desperately wanted someone by her side, unfortunately for her she picked the wrong person.

A knock on her door interrupted her thoughts and before she could reply, the door knob turned and Hikaru walked in.

Haruhi looked up at him surprised about his visit, she had expected another visit from Kaoru but she was not expecting Hikaru to show up.

He walked into her office calm and cool; his long black over coat was unbuttoned revealing a double-breasted navy blue suit with a black tie. He walked over to the young lawyer's desk and sat down in the seat in front of it. He leaned back in the chair as he stared at her intently. At first Haruhi could not tell what he was thinking, but his features soon began to betray his trust, she saw love underneath his gaze.

"Hikaru… I wasn't expecting you," she said breaking the silence between them.

Hikaru sighed as he pinched the bridge of his nose, "I wasn't expecting me to come over here either, I guess I came without thinking."

Haruhi looked over him and his clothing, "you look nice, did you have a business meeting?"

Hikaru nodded, "Yes, I came over here straight from my business dinner. Your office wasn't far away so I decided to stop by at the last minute."

Haruhi smiled warmly, he had wanted to see her! They had not spoken in a few years, especially after she had broken his heart. She was happy he wanted to speak to her. She and the twins had been so close for years, it made her sad that they had all lost contact after she graduated. "Why did you stop contacting me after we graduated?" She asked curiously.

Hikaru shrugged, "you were so busy with Tamaki-sempai that it just kind of happened. Then Kaoru and I became the CEO of my mom's business and time just flew after that. And besides I had met Kina so my mind was occupied."

Haruhi sighed, she could not be mad or jealous about Hikaru's wife, Haruhi had been the one to turn him down after all."Kaoru told me about your marriage and your child's name."

Hikaru grunted, something was bothering him and Haruhi could tell.

"Is there something wrong? Hikaru?"

Hikaru raised an eyebrow as he looked at her, it was obvious he wanted to say something but she had no idea what.

"We haven't spoken in ten years and yet your actions still get to me Haruhi. I spoke to Kyouya-sempai who had lunch with the chairman earlier today. Why?" He looked at her wanting answers. "Why would you do something like that? You are better than that! You deserve better than that!"

"I was lonely," Haruhi stated coolly, "and I had a lapse of judgment."

Hikaru looked at her with a look of pain and frustration. Haruhi stared at him and expected a lecture but instead he stood up. They both stared at each other in silence as he walked around to the side of the desk and kneeled down before her. He grabbed her hands and clasped them into his own.

"Look, I can't tell you what to do or how to live. But I care, and I'm angry because there isn't much that I can do about it."

"Hikaru… I'm sorry…"

"Haruhi, I know this is weird… we haven't' seen each other in ten years right? But I never stopped caring. You were the first person who I had let into my world outside of Kaoru and that affected me a lot."

Haruhi slipped one of her hands out of his and caressed his raven locks. She'd always cared about Hikaru as well. Tamaki wasn't the only one she had thought about throughout the years. Now as a woman, she saw things for how they were. Hikaru closed his eyes as he laid his head on her lap. The two sat in a comfortable silence before Hikaru lifted his head. He let go of her other hand and brought it up to her face, caressing her cheek gently.

"Haruhi, I still love you, I think I always will."

Haruhi closed her eyes as she felt his caress. These men, the members of the host club, it was hard for her because once she was the center of their world. She had almost a possessive mindset when it came to them. She loved them all differently, some stronger than others but she loved them. Having them all grown up with their separate lives was hard, but she would have to get used to it.

When she opened her eyes, Hikaru was inching his face closer to hers. She could feel the spark between them. She had felt this spark with Kaoru too, but it was expected, they all had a special connection. Right when their lips were supposed to touch, Hikaru turned and kissed her on the cheek with so much love and tenderness.

"Haruhi, I want to but I'm married now, I'm sorry."

He stood up and looked down at her one more time before walking out of the office. Leaving Haruhi there in silence with her thoughts. That was the second married man she'd allowed herself to get carried away with, she needed to see a therapist.

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End Chapter

Author Note: I love the Haru/Hika pairing and that's why I had to have him married, he had to be taken so I wouldn't drift to that pairing! But I had to write a scene between them, I couldn't help it. Also I will have more host club members in the story, and I will try to have them more in character it's just that everyone is 10 years older, so they aren't the same as they all use to be in high school. I hope everyone enjoyed the chapter, please review.