"Please, do recall that you should not talk to such filth unless the family image is going to be ruined by him." the woman told him, her dark violet eyes the only thing visible from her place in the shadows.

"Of course, I will never even look his way." he replied, his own violet eyes were a more blackish color, glowing with the usual mirth that was there almost all the time.

"My own son has failed me by marrying that wench and then producing a child such as that, he is unfit to be the heir of this company, do not dare fail me."

"Yes, grandmother, my cousin shall never have what would have been his." he answered, his eyes still glowing with the ideas he had in mind for his dear cousin, Hanataro.

"Hanataro, are you alright?" Haruhi asked her friend, seeing that he was more jumpy than usual, Jack wasn't around because she had gone off somewhere with Hunny.

"I'm fine, just nervous, my cousin is in town, and I really want to avoid him." he answered, looking around the corner of the hallway before he continued.

"Why do you want to avoid him?" she asked, having no cousins herself and wondering what it would be like to have them.

"Oh only cause I hate him and he hates me." he looked out a window, apparently looking for something then turned back to looking in front of him, "I'm just lucky he's not here yet." and they entered the classroom, even there Hanataro looked nervously around him.

"Are you scared of your cousin?" Haruhi asked disbelievingly,

"Believe it or not, yes, that boy scares the shit out of Me." he admitted,

"Why?"

"He locked me in a closet when I was five, and there was three girls in it, all of whom had crushes on me, and if you don't recall, I was scared of girls back then." he answered, occasionally twisting in his chair to check behind him, "And he kept on doing stuff like that to me, up until last year, when our grandmother told him to stop, she didn't tell him to stop earlier because, well, she hates me and likes him, since I'm her first born's son, and yet I'm unworthy of inheriting the business because I'm gay."

"Are you scared he'll be in this class?"

"Yeah, because, even though he's older, he usually comes into my class just to piss me off or something."

"You mean like right now?" a new voice asked, making Hanataro jump three feet away from his desk, and making Haruhi stare in shock at her usually unshockable friend.

She turned to stare at the boy that was obviously Hanataro's cousin, even though they looked nothing alike, he had black hair, Hanataro had red hair, he had pale skin, Hanataro was more tanned, the only near similarity was the fact that their eyes were violet, even though his eyes were more black than violet, and Hanataro's were more like the purple color. He wore the boy's uniform, which looked good on him, as opposed to Hanataro who always seemed a little off while wearing it. It was difficult to believe that they were related.

"Why do you have to do that?" Hanataro asked the still nameless being, glowering coldly at him,



"Oh just to piss you off of course, I wouldn't be a very good cousin if I didn't, now would I?" he asked, his dark eyes glowing with mirth.

"That's right, you would be a wonderful cousin, but of course we can't have that happening, now can we, Shiro?" he said, glowering even more.

"I'm glad you see it my way after all." Shiro smiled, "Well, I have to get to class now, take care." and he waved off to Hanataro as he exited the room.

"Damn him." Hanataro said, even before Shiro left the room, "Knowing him, I shouldn't eat at school for the next few days."

"Why?" Haruhi asked, confused why he said something so strange,

"He'll probably convince the entire lunch staff to put sugar in my food, just so that he can laugh when I get suspended, or whatever punishment I receive."

"What exactly is it that you do when you have sugar, Yaledem-san mentioned not to give you sugar, and that he almost killed you the last time you did have it, but he didn't say anything else?" she asked.

Hanataro gave her a strange look, then quickly turned his attention to Jack who came into the room shortly before the teacher did, sparing him from having to answer that question with the rather embarrassing answer.

Hanataro stared at the food that the twins got for him for lunch, before he turned his head to look at them, "Do you really think I'm going to eat this, I already said, I'm not eating the food here until Shiro leaves." he glared at them, but not in the same way he had with Shiro, with Shiro, the look was full of hatred, with the twins, it merely held annoyance.

"But it doesn't have sugar, we swear." they told him, even though they were lying through their teeth,

"I don't care, I am not trusting any food here at school until Shiro is gone." he said stubbornly, but well knowing the twins would have more than likely tainted the food with sugar.

"If he doesn't want to eat, then he won't." Haruhi told the twins, defending her friend, since Jack apparently couldn't because she was paying attention to something else.

"Hana-chan, who's Scary-kun there?" Jack asked, pointing over to Shiro who stood over at the door, glaring at Jack for calling him Scary-kun.

"Well, at least the fag has plenty of men to play around with." he said, sneering at Hanataro, who merely stared calmly at him,

"Ah, but not one is nearly as handsome as my greatest love who you shall never know." he retaliated, apparently upsetting Shiro enough that he grimaced.

"As much as I detest this task, grandmother told me to give you this." he said, changing the topic to something that appeared to please him, and he tossed a small package to Hanataro, Hanataro stared at the small parcel before opening it and staring blankly at its contents, "She said to make sure you eat it." he smirked.

Hanataro looked blankly at his cousin, "Here Hunny." and he gave Hunny what appeared to be some sort of candy, "Really Shiro, such a weak attack, grandmother would never send me such an item, that would attract attention to me, and I'm supposed to be the nearly invisible son." he smirked at his cousin.



"Of course, that was from me, but that note isn't, surely you saw it." he said, smiling, it seemed so misplaced on his face, a smile that almost looked kind, with such dark and menacing eyes.

Hanataro stood up from his seat on the couch, "Hm, I suppose I did, but do remind grandmother, that since I am an invalid, she should not care at all what I do, so I kindly ask that she keep her long, oily, nose out of my business." he requested, ever so kindly, note the use of sarcasm, of his cousin.

"Of course, but that does not change what she has decided, for it shall happen anyway." and with that, Shiro left the room,

"Bye bye Scary-kun!" Jack said excitedly, not realizing that he had basically had an argument with Hanataro.

"I really hate that guy." Hanataro mumbled to himself, wishing that life wasn't nearly so bothersome,

"What did he mean by that?" Haruhi asked, but Hanataro was staring out the window, and took to twirling his hair around his finger, he had a far away look, making it seem as if though he wasn't paying attention, "Hanataro?"

"Huh?" he asked, not turning from the window, which he gazed nervously out of, he was nervous, Haruhi had never once seen him nervous.

"What did he mean by that?" she inquired once more, while he stared out the window, once again transfixed by something in the distance,

"I have no idea what you're talking about." he said, with such a serious face that Haruhi nearly believed him, but he still twirled his hair around his finger nervously, "I have to go take care of something." and he left the room, Jack following quickly after him, and left the Host Club to ponder over the strange meeting between the two family members.