Title: Return on Investment
Character(s): Club
Pairing(s): Kyouya/Kaoru
Rating: G.
Disclaimer: Ouran High School Host Club belongs to Hatori Bisco and related companies.
Word count: 396
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RETURN ON INVESTMENT
"Not at all," Kaoru says in a patient voice that one would use on an abnormally dim child. "I don't agree."
The rest of the host club, gathered intimately around a vintage industrial cart that functions as the coffee table in the lounge room, stare at him with various degrees of confusion, horror and amusement.
"Huh?" Hikaru jerks with surprise and spills his latte – it overflows onto the saucer. Apprehensively, he looks between Kyouya and Kaoru. "Did you have a fight or something? Tell us next time, 'cos we don't wanna be caught in the crossfire."
Kyouya sips at his Darjeeling. "In which universe will you find me quarrelling in front of an audience, even if my partner happens to be your twin?"
"Hell I know," Hikaru replies breezily. "I only know that I never want to be present if and when you're pissed off."
"You quarrel with Tamaki-senpai in front of us all the time," Haruhi says under her breath, in between bites of a butter cookie, "Not to mention, you smile even when you're upset so it's not like we can tell."
"What was that, Haruhi?" Kyouya smiles pleasantly at her.
"Nothing!" She blanches and shifts slightly towards Mori.
"Let me get this straight," Hikaru asks his brother skeptically, "you don't think that Kyouya-senpai is basically the best investor alive? Even though I told you last month that I bought shares in Bibliography because you happened to mention that Kyouya-senpai did, and ended up $3.4 million richer? US dollars, not Yen? So who knows how much Kyouya-senpai earned and how much of that money went to you, you completely spoilt rotten idiot?"
"Exactly," Kaoru smirks. "Don't you see?"
"See what?" Tamaki raises his head from his sulky corner, the place he'd fled to earlier when Kyouya declined to take time off work to travel with him.
Kyouya has plenty of investments; Kaoru has need of only one – his lover's famed frugality in finance does not translate to the emotional sphere – or at least, once he commits to anyone whether friend or romantic partner, he's exclusively devoted in the extreme. Like interest that accrues, the return on this investment is staggeringly high, higher than any bank or company can offer, and –
"That makes me the best investor in the whole wide world," Kaoru informs them smugly.
"Very sound logic," Kyouya praises with a low chuckle.
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16/05/2012