Be Best Friends

There was something Haruhi was beginning to notice.

At the host club, Haruhi was always surrounded by so many people she didn't know nor care who was around her.

But during school, she always knew.

Hikaru would always be on her right and Kaoru would always be flanking her left, both laughing and joking and draping their limbs around her lovingly. Eventually, she found it odd if she glanced round to find the twins not invading her privacy.

Which was really worrying, when she stopped to think about it.

There were a couple of minutes before lesson, so the trio were sitting diligently at their desks, scribbling the last bits of their homework.

Haruhi didn't need to glance at them to know that Hikaru, on her right, would be going through Kaoru's physics homework while Kaoru, on her left, would be checking Hikaru's modern literature essay.

"Can neither of you just do your homework by yourself?" She muttered as she glanced over her own homework.

She didn't need to look to see the identical smirks spreading across their lips.

Haruhi couldn't understand why it took so long for people to even begin to tell the twins apart; Tamaki had just about got it. To her, it was obvious who was who.

Kaoru was the one who understood people's feelings easily while Hikaru was the one who tried and tried, but found it hard to understand much more than his brother.

Hikaru was the one to jump up and act out whatever extremes he was feeling while Kaoru was the one who had a degree of self-control.

Kaoru was the one who was always on her left while Hikaru was always on her right.

Haruhi sighed and tapped the desk with her pen in boredom, glancing up at the clock; still a few minutes to go. Why could teachers never be early?

Hikaru and Kaoru didn't need to look to know what Haruhi was thinking.

Without taking his eyes off Kaoru's work, Hikaru kicked his desk over to Haruhi's and then drug his chair next to her.

"Haruhiiii..." He grinned as he dropped Kaoru's work over half of her homework. "I don't know if the last question's right or not; will you check it?"

Kaoru pretended to frown at Hikaru's essay as he shuffled his chair next to Haruhi's desk and covered the rest of her work with the essay.

"Hey Haruuu…" He said in an almost sing-song voice. "Does this sentence make sense?"

Sometimes, Haruhi couldn't tell whether the twins were embracing the wider world, or she herself was just being sucked into theirs.

She really should care more, she mused to herself as she glanced to her right, then her left.

When she only replied to their whines with a 'quit-being-a-bother' look, Hikaru stuck his tongue out childishly and draped an arm over her head. She expected Kaoru's arm to mimic his twin's, for his actions were always a second later, but Kaoru just sat there, smirking softly. After a second, Hikaru's arm stiffened and he removed it, slightly pink and muttering something about 'idiot brothers'.

Kaoru sniggered.

As the teacher walked in, Haruhi tried to block out incident with her usual attitude but for some reason, Hikaru's arm kept cropping up in her mind. It wasn't like they never did things like that; it was rare for her to survive a week without getting nearly suffocated from a twin related incident (hugging, squashing, getting piled on… the list was endless). She set to her note-taking with an unusual vigour and completely ignored Hikaru when she felt him staring at her pitifully for help when he'd gotten lost in the lecture.

He'd been zoning out more often lately. She'd been noticing more often lately.

Luckily for Hikaru, after the lecture and after Kaoru had finished laughing at his scruffy notes ("Were you distracted,Hikaru?"), Haruhi and Kaoru promised to let him copy their notes down at lunch and the three of them set off for their next lesson.

Haruhi looked to the right and saw Hikaru. She looked to the left and saw Kaoru.

To her, it was obvious who was who.

Kaoru was the one who had began to forget things more and more, leaving the other two on their own to wait for him.

Hikaru was the one who had began to surprise her more and more, and she suddenly didn't really mind waiting with him.

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