CHAPTER TWELVE

Haruhi and walked to school together again; though today instead of going to class as I normally would, I followed Haruhi. I was curious to see if the twins had made up yet. I also figured that the rest of the club would be there anyways, and I wasn't to keen on being alone in class if Mitsukuni and Takashi weren't there. Also Sakura was spending most of her free time with Sora, not that I minded but I'd rather have a person to talk to while waiting for class to start. I stood next to Haruhi, in the yellow marshmallow of a dress, as she pulled out her stuff for the day. As she pulled her stuff out we heard Hikaru say,

"Hi Haruhi." As I looked up I found that I couldn't look away, Hikaru had done something completely ridiculous. He had dyed his hair bright 'flamingo' pink. I stood there, staring in utter shock. This was something Kin would have loved to see. I kept standing and staring at Hikaru until Haruhi asked,

"Hikaru? What's up with your hair?" Apparently I wasn't the only one confused here. "Why is it pink?" We both knew he had dyed it, but not why he did. I really couldn't believe that he and Kaoru were that mad each other, though I am shocked that they didn't come in together, I assumed that they did that everyday. Maybe they really were that mad at each other…

"It looks good on me. Isn't it cute?" Cute? On a guy? That's not really something you hear to often… "Starting today, the pink one is me." Does that mean that Kaoru also did something to his hair? I frowned; these boys seemed to be making a big deal out of nothing. "I couldn't bear being mistaken for Kaoru forever." Kaoru then walked in, standing next to Hikaru… but his hair was a bright blue. Though I have to say that the colors looked good together, well at least to me.

"Good morning, Haruhi." It was then that I noticed that both Hikaru and Kaoru didn't greet me. I frowned saying,

"Hey guys… What about me?!" I was almost glaring at them; I hated being ignored when I was standing right in front of people.

"Oh…Hi Katherine."

"Oh…Hello Katherine." They both spoke together, but spoke a different greeting. I tilted my head to the side slightly confused. How did they manage that, even when they were fighting? Haruhi lightly sighed before speaking to the twins,

"Kaoru, you went with blue." Though it almost sounded like a question when she spoke. Then Kaoru started to speak again,

"Last night, I had the rare chance to gracefully sleep by myself, but I had a bad dream. You see, my hair was dyed pink… of the most garish shade, in this dream I was having." Then somehow Hikaru leaned over, stretching his leg out, and knocked Kaoru's chair over right before Kaoru had sat down in it. Then Kaoru managed to knock over Hikaru's chair, while Hikaru was still in it. I then took this as my cue to leave. I sighed before saying goodbye to Haruhi and scurrying off to class, I didn't want to be late after all. Throughout class I sat at my desk, barely paying any attention, since I was actually starting to worry about the twins. I also tried to think of other reasons that they could be fighting but I came up blank. This continued until around noon.

I walked through the halls with Mitsukuni and Takashi, until we met up with Kyouya and Tamaki. After meeting up with the two underclassmen, we all continued on our way to the cafeteria. Mitsukuni was on Takashi's shoulder, as usual, and I was skipping next to them, while trying to avoid Tamaki and his squealing death hugs. Though I think Haruhi got much worse death hugs from Tamaki then I did… I wonder why? Tamaki spoke up after we saw Haruhi once we reached the cafeteria,

"I thought it was getting noisy in here." As Tamaki spoke, Haruhi turned her head to look at us all, well mainly to look at Tamaki since he was the one speaking but…. It didn't really matter. "Are you two still fighting? You're embarrassing the Host Club." The five of us just stood there for a second, listening to the people talk about us.

"It's the Host Club, and Katherine." One guy with short brown hair and brown eyes said.

"Oh I love the Host Club." A girl with brown hair down to her shoulders, and light caramel brown eyes spoke.

"I've never seen them all together like this." Though there was much more fangirling and squealing, I blocked most it out after those three comments.

"Okay, break! You're both to blame for this fight." Oh no… I had a feeling that this wouldn't end well. "Hika-chan and Kao-chan go halfsies on this cake, go and make up! Okay?" This definitely was going to end horribly… "Oh, but I want to eat some, too, so I guess we have to go thirdsies." I think he just kept digging himself into a deeper hole. "We can't split the strawberry, so what do we do?" At this point you would have to stay quiet, and keep the cake to yourself. "Maybe I should just take it." At this point both of the twins were getting extremely agitated, and I started inching closer, hoping that if Takashi didn't get him out of there then I would be able to. "After all, I love strawberries, so that's okay, right? Oh, but then, Hika-chan and Kao-chan, do you like strawberries, too?" If they did we have more cake in the Third Music Room… I was beyond relieved when Takashi stepped in, lifting Mitsukuni up with ease, and moved him and his strawberry cake out of the way.

"You're just making things worse, so stop." Takashi told Mitsukuni, as he kept moving him a little bit further away. Then Tamaki noticed Haruhi…but I had started to learn to ignore almost everything that Tamaki says. Even though I hated ignoring other people, I also didn't like listening to Tamaki's ramblings. His ramblings just weren't interesting enough for me, unlike Kin's ramblings, those almost always kept my interest. I basically ignored everything that was going on around me; it was almost like a talent of mine to ignore things. I only started to pay attention once the twins started a food fight. Hikaru had used Tamaki as a shield for a moment, again this is something that Kin would love to be seeing right now. At one point the twins even some how threw Mitsukuni in the air, while he was holding the cake still. Takashi and I reacted in different ways. Though we were both worried about Mitsukuni, I quickly backed away, while Takashi went in to save Mitsukuni. I knew if they had been able to throw Mitsukuni, then they could also throw me with ease, and I did not want to go in the air. Poor Haruhi was stuck in between the two obnoxious twins. The twins also threw Takashi and Tamaki, though I wasn't really sure how. Looking around I noticed that Kyouya had disappeared to somewhere earlier. I wonder where Kyouya went? Haruhi then said,

"I think I'll eat in the classroom after all." After grabbing her box lunch Haruhi walked out of the cafeteria, going back to her classroom I guess. I noticed that Mitsukuni and Takashi were once more thrown in the air. I sighed once more, noticing that I had been sighing a lot since they started to fight, and left to go back to my own classroom. I would have told either Mitsukuni or Takashi that I was leaving, but they were both still in the craziness, so I just left.

I spent the rest of the day thinking of more reason for the twins to fight. I still thought that they weren't really fighting, if they really wanted to fight I feel like they would go even farther, or wouldn't even speak to each other at all. Their arguments just seemed a little to pre-setup. By the end of class I decided that the twins were trying to annoy, or trick Haruhi into something, though I had no clue what. I guess it all had to do with something that Kin and I had missed at the last club meeting.

After class I went down to the school parking lot, it was mostly empty. I guess most rich kids just take a limo; I wasn't really sure why they even had a parking lot at this school. I went and sat at the curb of the parking lot, waiting for that shiny blue motorcycle to show up. I couldn't wait for Kin to show up, even though I had seen her the day before. As soon as I heard the wonderful purr of her motorcycle, I lifted my gaze from the black tar parking lot, seeing Kin swiftly pull her motorcycle into a spot two down from where I was currently sitting at. Today she was wearing a black shirt with some skulls on a pink and black-stripped fingerless glove on her left non-dominant had, another red pleated schoolgirl like skirt, her classic black boots, and grey and black stripped thigh high socks. I smiled at her, like I always do, and hopped up from my sitting position walking over to her.

"Hi Kin!! So the twins dyed their hair pink and blue, just to warn you. I actually think you would have enjoyed watching them all be idiots today. Though it's getting annoying and repetitive. I also think that this isn't a real fight. I think that the twins just want something from Haruhi, and she said no, and this is their way of getting what they want. Personally I think that they're just acting like two spoiled kids, who are throwing a temper tantrum. Though I figure that I should just let things play out, and not say anything about it. Oh sorry I'm rambling again aren't I." The whole time that I was rambling Kin just smiled at me, shaking her head and laughing lightly. Though she wasn't laughing directly at me just my attitude, she probably knew that I was very hyper right now.

"Hi Ellie. Just breathe and calm down. That all sounds just about right to me. Those twins are stupid enough to do that. So why are you so hyper today?" I giggled lightly, still having a huge grin on my face.

"Oh… well normally I give half of my sugary foods to Mitsukuni at lunch, but today he got left in the cafeteria so I ate twice the amount of sugar then I normally do." She just shook her head again, but still gave me a smile and a light chuckle. We both then started to walk back to the Third Music Room.

As we quietly entered the room I noticed that it was closed… I guess Kyouya didn't want to risk scaring away the customers. Having finally calmed down some I spoke quietly to Kin, not wanting to pull any attention to us, "Oh… sorry Kin it looks like the clubs closed from the fighting." I frowned lightly, they were taking it way to far now. I noticed that, once again, the twins were throwing things back and forth. Looking up at Kin I saw her choking down her laughter at the twins. I guess she was trying not to laugh at their hair, or maybe it was just the silliness of the situation. Looking on top of the giant pile of stuff, which I wasn't to sure on where they got from, I saw that Mitsukuni was sitting on the dangerously high pile, holding Usa-chan. I kept Kin and I a safe distance away from everything and by the door. I doubt any of them even noticed us come in except for Mitsukuni, and he only noticed because he was facing our direction. Tamaki then spoke up,

"After going this long, haven't you gotten over it yet? You brothers are putting us out."

"We're putting you out!? We're putting you out, you say!?" Hikaru stated, sounding slightly angry. I think they knew exactly what was going on and how badly everyone around them were effected, and just didn't care. I frowned at them; I was even glaring daggers at them. I was pissed off. I wasn't exactly sure how much longer I would stay calm on the outside. "You've got to be kidding! I'm the one who's put out! I'm the one who's got the same face as Kaoru." When Hikaru said that I could feel my anger start to get even worse. Even if you don't mean it you should never, never say anything like that. "I'm sick and tired of being mistaken for you! The truth is, I hate your guts!" I almost leapt forward and hit Hikaru in the face. My anger was worse then it was with the Sora incident. I would have gone and beat up the twins, mainly Hikaru, but Kin put her hand on my shoulder. She was both calming me down, and warning me not to jump in yet, and if I did jump in then she would stop me. I knew she was as angry as me, she just can control her anger better then I can. I hardly ever get angry, so when I'm angry I am very angry and have a extremely hard time containing my anger. Kin also knew that I would probably seriously hurt the twins.

"You took the words right out of my mouth. Look at this! I bought this from Nekozawa-senpai, Belzenef, the curse doll!" Kaoru then pulled out a small wooden doll, Belzenef, which seemed to freak out Tamaki a whole lot. I figured it was something else that Kin and I had missed. If I weren't so angry I bet that I would be very confused. "I'm writing your name on this thing's back Hikaru." I let my head fall towards the floor slightly, letting my hair cover my face. I was trying, and failing, to hide my anger. I was almost shaking from my anger. I might not have known what Belzenef was or what it did but I knew that they were stupid for using it. "From here on, you're going to meet with lots of misfortune and sorrow!" Kaoru the started scribbling on it, I only know that from the scribbling noises that the pen made. My head was still tilted down to the ground, so I didn't see the hosts reactions to this. I did hear Kin make a growling sound next to me, and heard Tamaki give a scared gasp off.

"Enough already!" Haruhi, Kin, and I screamed at the same time in unison. We were all completely fed up with this, though I think it was for different reasons. Though Kin and I stayed back while Haruhi had run forward and hit them both on the head. Which was something that both Kin and I had wanted to desperately do, but we didn't, we settled for glaring at the twins. Haruhi then continued to speak,

"You don't go bringing something like this into a simple fight! You are both to blame for this fight, but you're even more to blame for bringing in everyone around you with it! Now say you're sorry! If you don't make up right now, then I'll never let you come over to my house, as long as I live!" I felt my eyes widen in shock from my realization that all of this had simply been because the twins wanted to go to Haruhi's house. The twins smirk, as I just leaned against Kin, it all made me want to cry. They were really making it hard to prove to Kin that they weren't complete idiots. As normal the twins started to speak in unison,

"Then, if we do make up, Haruhi, we can come over to your house, right?" Kin then covered my ears, after hearing Haruhi scream. I just kept my head against Kin, to tired to bother trying to see what the twins were doing.

"Oh geez…you stupid twins save that for your fangirls." Kin muttered as she gently moved me away from her. In my half-awake state I didn't even care, I just moved to sitting on the floor listening to everyone else. Being angry almost always made me really sleepy after, another reason I hated being so angry. I knew that I would soon fall asleep before I made it home. Mitsukuni was screaming at the twin about how they were faking the whole time.

"Well, we were bored." The twin simply replied.

"Twins with too much free time… are the devil." Was the last thing I heard Tamaki, or anyone say, before I drifted off in to a dreamless, anger induced, sleep.

The next day went by normally and the Host Club was open, and Kin had come again today. I had heard several girls saying how glad they were that the twins had 'made up'.

"Okay, let's play the 'Which one is Hikaru game'!" Oh man… why were they still playing this, I was fairly certain that know Kin could tell them apart most of the time, and she has only known them a little while and heard what I've said about them. Also Haruhi and I could tell them apart so what is the fun? I think that they were just trying to confuse the girls and everyone else, since they changed colors today.

"Um, the one with the pink hair is Hikaru." One of the girls that was in the cafeteria yesterday 'guessed', though I must say that they would be easy to find and describe to people if they kept the crazy colors, or if they didn't switch the colors.

"We have a winner!" Kin and I both frowned over at them, they were going to make these girls even worse then they already are.

"You may have made up, but your hair will still stay that way for a while, huh?" Asked a girl with long brown holding a ribbon in it. Well if they hadn't of use temporary dye then it would, but everyone else thought they had done real dye in a real fight. "Still, I'm glad it's easier to tell now." Oh how naive these girls were sometimes…. rather most of the time.

"No it isn't." I smiled at Haruhi as she spoke, "Today the pink one is Kaoru, and the blue one is Hikaru. You've swapped colors, huh?"

"Yeah they used temporary dye. Other wise they wouldn't have been able to switch. You two should give up this lame game." Kin and I both spoke in unison, smiling at each other. We had dyed our hair with the temporary dye before… though Kin had gotten some on the wall by accident so we haven't done it since… Haruhi then walked away, with Kin and I following her.