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Lolita

Kaoru sighed as he walked along the narrow path that lead to Lolita's house. He had to walk because the car couldn't fit on the cobbel stone path. As he walked, he got the feeling he was walking back in time, the trees that lined the path just made it more apparent, he was getting curious. Anyway, Lolita had been right. When he woke up that morning, Hikaru was gone. All the maids told him that Hikaru had left early to go to Haruhi's house. No surprise there.

Oh well, not like it mattered anyway, he had made plans already. Kaoru turned his eyes foreward when the cobbel stone changed into square stones. His eyes widened a bit, the house was beautiful. It was a old fasion mansion, two stories tall with a stone fence and wooden gate. It reminded him of something out of a history book. He pushed open the gate slowly, before walking along the path to the door. He paused to double check that he was at the right address, before knocking on the slidding door.

Then he waited.

He was about to give up and go home when he heard soft footsteps coming towards the door. He stood straight as the door slid open. He was then greeted by an intresting sight. Lolita hadn't answered the door, instead, and older woman had. He guessed she was Lolita's mother, the woman bore a strong resemblance to her.

"Oh, hello, you must be Kaoru. Lolita mentioned you might be coming by today, come on in."

"Thank you ma'am."

The woman moved out of the way and let Kaoru in. After he took his shoes off, the woman led him into what appeared to be a living room. He glanced around the house to find it not as old fasioned as its outside appearance, it looked no different than any other home on the inside.

"Why don't you have a seat and just get comfortable, Lolita's up in her room. She tends to be a late bird on the weekends. I'm Tsukine by the way, Tsukine Niyama. If you haven't guessed already, I'm Lolita's mother."

Kaoru took this moment to observe Tsukine. She and Lolita did look a lot alike. Tsukine had long black hair that she kept in a braid over her shoulder, dark brown eyes, and pale skin. Kaoru guessed that Lolita may look like her when she was older, if it weren't for her europian eyes.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Niyama-san, I'm Kaoru Hitachiin."

Kaoru bowed politly.

Tsukine stared at him a bit, making him nervous. Hope she doesn't think he's Lolita's boyfriend or anything, that would be really awkward.

"Tell me Kaoru-kun… your mother wouldn't happen to be named Yuzuha, would she?"

"Umm… I think so ma'am, why do you ask?"

"Aha! I knew it! You look just like old Yuzu-chan."

"Umm…"

"Sorry if I freaked you out a bit there, but Yuzuha and I were old school mates. Even went to the same college."

"Woah! Are you serious Niyama-san?"

"I couldn't be more, she and I used to pal around all the time. It's been so long, I really should drop in and say "hi" since I'm back in Japan."

"I could tell her you're here, if you'd like. Lolita always talks about your busy schedual."

"Really?! Oh yes please!"

"Oka-san! Quit harrassing my friend."

"Oh Lolita, I'm not harrassing anyone, besides he voulentired. Anyway, why don't I go make you two a study snack, hmm?"

Tsukine then walked into the hall and out of sight. Kaoru heard footsteps decending the stairs to his left. He turned when he felt someone standing next to him. His eyes widened a bit, for the second time that day.

Lolita stood next to him, her head at his shoulder, sighing at her moms actions. She was wearing a pair of black sweat pants that hung low on her hips. She had two tank tops on, a white one under a black one. She had bracelets on her wrists. Her hair was pulled into a pony-tail, her bangs framing her face.

"I'm real sorry about that, Oka-san can be a bit forceful."

She smiled up at him, and for some reason, he diverted his eyes away.

"It's nothing really, my mom's the same way."

"Well, I guess we should get started, follow me. We'll go work in the study."

"Ok…"

Lolita led him up the stairs and down the hall, where she opened a door to reveal a room filed with books. There was a table with sofas on either side in the middle of the room. Kaoru decided he would sit and get his stuff out and ready while Lolita went about what she was doing. He watched her as she went around the room gathering books and opening windows for light. For some reason, Kaoru couldn't take his eyes off of her. He couldn't figure out why, she wasn't acting any different than she did in class. What made now different than before? He felt his face heat up as he watched her reach up on her tip toes to get a book down from the shelf. Her cloths showed that despite his first impression, she did have a nice figure. He had to force his eyes away from her, and he made them stay on the books he had brought that were sitting on the table. He brought his eyes back up when a pile of books slammed onto the table.

"Ok! Now that we have everything, wanna get started?"

"Ok, I brought what we were working on yesterday. I didn't think to do anything to it last night."

"That's ok, we really did everything we could with the books at the school library. Trust me, these books here hold more info than anything the school has."

Kaoru lifted an eyebrow.

"Why do you say that?"

"Well… my Obaa-san and Ojii-san lived through WWII, and my Ojii-san is a real historian. He buys any books he can find about the war, so there."

Lolita stuck her tongue out to puncuate that sentence.

Kaoru couldn't help but smile at it.

With that, they got to work. After a little while, Tsukine brought them some pickeled vegetables to snack on. Lolita read through her grandfathers books while Kaoru took notes on what she found. As the time went on, Kaoru found himself glancing at Lolita more and more and he couldn't figure out why. Sometimes, she'd catch him staring and he'd shoot his gaze somewhere else, and his face would heat up a bit. It didn't make sense, what was wrong with him?!

Lolita hadn't been sure how this day would go when she woke up that morning, but it was going well so far. But now, she wasn't thinking that now. She was getting strange vibes from Kaoru, it was weird. For some reason, she kept feeling him looking at her. And when she looked, he would shoot his head in another direction with a light blush on his face. Oh well… she left it to him being a teenage boy with hormones.

After a while, stomachs began to rumble.

"You hungry?"

"Yeah, a bit."

"Ok… how about we go get something to eat, because honestly, oka-san's cooking is the worst."

"I guess so, we could use a break."

"Alright, why don't you head down stairs while I go change into something more suitable for the outside world."

Kaoru watched her walk down the hall, towards what he guessed was her room. He sighed when she vanished from sight, what was wrong with him? He shook his head as he headed back down to the living room he'd been shown to earlier. He plopped onto the couch and rested his head on its back. It didn't make sense, he was acting like Hikaru did around Haruhi, but he doesn't like Lolita like that. He knew that much, but still… why couldn't he take his eyes off of her? He guessed it may have been because he was seeing Lolita in her element, outside of the cramped school enviroment. That had to be it, and that might have been why he caught her staring at him… or maybe she was just doing that to get at him. None of it made sense!!!

Kaoru sighed as he sat up, hearing footsteps coming down the stairs. He got up to meet Lolita in the hall so they could go. He caught his breath a bit when he saw her though, standing on the third step. She'd changed into a pair of black jeans with a studded belt that hung loose around her waist. She now wore a v-neck, long sleeve, black shirt with a black velvet choker. Her hair was pulled into low pigtails, her bangs untouched. Black was definatly her color, looking at her face, all the black made her eyes seem smaller, more asian.

"This better?"

Kaoru deftly nodded his head, causing her to smile.

The next few moments were a blurr.

Kaoru guessed that Lolita had slipped as she finished her treck down the stairs. This caused her to fall down and land on him, as he had been standing at the bottom of the stairs. This in turn, lead to them landing on the floor, her resting on top of him.

And that led to their current situation. His head hurt, probably from hitting the wooden floor, and he was having problems breathing. Opening his eyes, Kaoru found out why. Lolita was laying on his chest, her body on top of his, her hands clutching his shirt tightly. As the pain in his head disipated, Kaoru began to realize what it must look like and began to internally panic. What if Niyama-san comes out to see what that noise was?! But, Kaoru paused, maybe this wasn't so bad… What was he thinking?! What was wrong with him?! He grabbed her shoulders, gently, and began to try to get her off of him. Lolita must of realized what she was laying on as she opened her eyes and blushed in embarassment. She soon got up and sat on her knees, head bowed to hide her blush. Kaoru kinda wished she wouldn't, it was cute… He was going to forget he thought that. They sat there on the floor for a few moments, just trying to calm down.

"I'm sorry… I forgot how clumsy I can be."

"It's ok, atleast nothings hurt."

"Guess you're right…" She lifted her eyes to him and smiled. "We should probably get going if we're gonna get some food."

"Yeah, heheh."

Kaoru then helped Lolita up before they both put their shoes on and began walking down the path to the sidewalk. Neither said a word as they walked, Kaoru guessed Lolita was still embarassed. He couldn't blame her, he was too. But now he was even more confused, why would he like being in that position with her? More importantly, when he was lifting her off of him, and their faces were so close…

A/N: I'm evil, aren't I? Mwahaha… and they still haven't eaten lunch yet, I think this weekend will be torture for poor Kaoru. What happened to him being more mature and able to understand his feelings than Hikaru? Anyway, I'll probably be updating really soon… I'm on a roll here! And as for Tamaki and his refusal to stay in his seat? I've had the twins tie him down. He won't be falling out of the fanfiction anytime soon. ^.^