Find Out What Makes Each Other Happy

Bearing in mind that X=42...

"Haruhi..."

…and Y=21...

"Ha-ru-hiiiiiiiii…"

…answer the following questions…

"Haru-"

"What do you want, Hikaru?" Haruhi finally gave in and glared at the boy who had been leaning on her for the last ten minutes as she fruitlessly tried to do her homework. He lolled over her with a tragic look, one hand in midst of messing with her hair; this treatment was nothing unusual.

"I'm bored."

"Well, find a book to amuse yourself with. We are in a library."

He pulled a face. "I don't feel like reading. Anyway, looking for a book's boring too. Kaoru's been looking for ten minutes!"

Haruhi rolled her eyes.

"Oh, the horror." She muttered before turning her attention back to more interesting matters; namely, her maths homework. However, she found herself muddled after being distracted and had to re-read.

Bearing in mind that X=42...

Frowning at her weird, homework-fuelled attitude, Hikaru grandly let himself fall into the opposite seat and propped his head up with a fist; why was Kaoru taking so long? His eyes began to wander out of boredom and he suddenly found himself staring straight at Haruhi as she worked; his eyes studied her face greedily.

Her working expression wasn't as blank as he once marked it out to be; he watched with a small smirk as her brow crinkled slightly as she stared intensely at the question, then, the answer having apparently revealed itself to her, her face relaxed as she jotted it down, as though a small triumph had been won. However, the triumph never lasted long as the frown made itself known again, when she moved onto the next mystery.

She seemed to be quite enjoying herself.

Hikaru tried not to laugh.

She was so damn cute… ah!

Trying to distract himself from the blush suddenly crawling over his face, he quickly thought back to his list, trying to remember which one he had set himself for the day.

"Eh...Ha-Haruhi." He began, not used to being so flustered; what happened to being the confident and flirty twin who thought nothing of eating a cookie out of Haruhi's mouth? Long gone, apparently. Sigh. "Can I ask you something?"

She didn't even look up, too absorbed in an equation.

"About maths, Hikaru?" She muttered, distractedly. "I thought you'd already done this."

"Not about the homework."

"…oh…"

Scribble, scribble.

Hikaru paused to sigh in irritation. If it was any other girl, Hikaru was sure he'd capture their attention more than algebra, but no, he had to fall for Haruhi, the hormone-less homework lover.

"What makes you happy?"

"Doing my homework in peace." She replied in monotone, not even missing a beat.

"No-ooo." Hikaru whined in frustration, spreading his hand firmly over her work. "Seriously."

"Seriously?" Haruhi parroted, looking up at Hikaru and raising an eyebrow. Now there was a word she could rarely associate with the Host club. "I don't know. Cooking, I guess?"

"Like, doing your Mom's recipes and stuff?"

"Yeah. Why the sudden interest?"

"What? Can't I be innocently curious to what makes our toy happy?"

"With you, not really." Hikaru replied with a huge pout. "And I'm not your toy."

"Fine." Hikaru sighed and looked at Haruhi as though she was the most unreasonable person in the world. "You're just our Haruhi then."

She sighed and pried his hand off her homework, conscious that she only had a tiny amount of work to show for twenty minutes in the library; and lunch was almost over. She didn't bother to retort that she didn't belong to anyone as she found that she weirdly didn't care enough to.

It wasn't as if belonging to something was the worst thing in the world.

Then again, it was the twins she was talking about here.

"I don't belong to anyone." She confirmed, to which he just sulked.

After a few minutes, where Hikaru finally shut himself up and let Haruhi get some work done (he was going through a cycle of staring at Haruhi, blushing, looking for Kaoru, then looking back at Haruhi again; it was keeping him entertained so Haruhi was content to ignore his lingering looks), he finally jerked his head up with a triumphant 'Aha!'.

Haruhi glanced up at him as he stared at the librarian's desk.

"Kaoru's finally checking out his books!" He told her, eyes still locked on his twin.

She watched as Hikaru's emotions took over his face one by one; first he looked triumphant (with what?), then he looked confused, then suspicious, then downright irritated.

"What the hell? He's just standing there chatting to the librarian! I swear he just looked over at us too." He paused before adding, as though it was the oddest thing in the world: "Who talks to the librarians?"

Kaoru, apparently. Haruhi thought to herself. And most of the other normal people in here.

Hikaru made to get up when he looked at Haruhi and blinked, a flush tingeing his ears. "Wh-what?"

Haruhi suddenly realized that, instead at looking at Kaoru's 'odd' behaviour, she had simply been looking at Hikaru's reactions flickering across his golden eyes. Snapping herself out of it, she quickly looked down at her work and began scooping it into her bag.

"Nothing, I was just thinking. We should get to lesson, it'll start soon."

And with that, she hastily started walking to the exit, only pausing at Hikaru's frantic 'Wait, wait!'.

When Kaoru had finally ambled over and cheerfully greeted his annoyed twin ("Kaoruuu! Haruhi and I were bored. You took ages!" "That I did, Hikaru, that I did." "…Huh?"), the three of them made their way towards their class; Hikaru claimed Haruhi's right side and Kaoru claimed her left.

Haruhi began thinking back to Hikaru's strange question as she listened and occasionally laughed at the strange observations Hikaru and Kaoru felt the need to make about the world around them as they walked ("Hey, that cloud looks like Tono's head!" "No it doesn't." "Yeah it does, look; it even has a cloud mushroom on his head!" "That looks nothing like Tono! It looks like Kyouya eating an ice cream! Duh.").

"What makes you happy?"

She smiled softly.

I guess I feel pretty happy right now.

"It just looks like a cloud, guys."

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