Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran, apparently some lucky duck named Bisco Hatori does…. Lucky.
When we last left the host club:
"We want to help you!"
"Help me with what?"
"Hikaru! Now just go to the front of your house, we'll be there any minute!" Eniko hung up the phone and Kaoru was left standing there still as stone. How did they know? Kaoru wondered, but he didn't have time for that, he quickly grabbed his coat and walked over to the front of his house to meet them.
EPISODE 9: Plan
It was easy for them to say, unfortunately for Kaoru the room Hikaru was sleeping in was the room at the front of the house. He waited right next to the door what seemed like forever, but then he looked at his older brother sleeping. He looked… so calm…so peaceful, usually people classified Hikaru as the more, intimidating one, and Kaoru was the softer of the two.
But when Hikaru slept, it made him wonder why people thought that. If you got the most scared child in the world, and sat him in front of the older twin while he slept, it would calm him down for sure. Nobody in the world would think that face was intimidating, no one. Kaoru was positive of this fact, he started walking towards his brother when the doorbell rang.
Kaoru jumped to open the door, but it was too late, Hikaru was awake. And he saw Kaoru with Nibira and Eniko in the open doorway. Kaoru tried to hurry them into the car as fast as possible, but Eniko stopped him. Nibira, Kaoru noticed looked very uneasy, and gave him an apologetic look.
"Hey, Hikaru." Eniko said taking a step forward. A confident smile on her face. Neither of the twins had seen Eniko look so strong, she was usually so shy. But inside Eniko's head, she knew. She knew she was doing something right. She was helping Kaoru.
"Uh, hi Eniko, Nibira." He greeted them confused, and groggy.
"Kaoru's going to be with us for the rest of the day if you don't mind. He should be back late tonight. Okay?"
"Alright, what are you guys doing?""Oh, just…stuff. Bye!" She said, and with that she pushed her other two friends out the door, and shut it behind her. A bewildered Hikaru still sat on the couch, trying to piece together what had just happened.
"Nibira would you please explain to me what is going on? Eniko didn't give me very much detail on the phone!" He said weakly glaring at the girl who was pushing them both towards the limo.
"I know! I'm so sorry Kaoru! But-"
"We'll explain it more in the car, get in!" Eniko interrupted, she pushed Kaoru in first, the Nibira.
"Eniko! We're both extremely confused here!" Nibira scolded.
"Shush! Just, look natural as we're moving out of sight, patience!" She said, she continued to argue with Nibira while Kaoru stared out of the window looking towards his mansion, he saw Hikaru staring out the window of the doorway watching the limo drive away.
Suddenly Kaoru leaped over the two girls and tried to open the door so he could run back to his older brother.
"Kaoru?!""What are you-? Ugh!" Eniko said as she grabbed him by the waist and pinned him to the floor.
"Let go!" Kaoru said, struggling.
"Stop it Kaoru! You'll be with Hikaru tonight, okay! Just sit down and let me talk!" She screamed and put him back in his seat.
"Where'd you get so strong?" Kaoru said, he was more calm now that the mansion was out of sight.
"Never mind that just listen." Eniko said, still a little irritable from Kaoru's recent outburst.
"What was that?" Nibira said, still in shock. They ignored her.
"So what is this thing with Hikaru you want to fix?" Kaoru asked now that they were driving.
"We want to help you win Hikaru back!" Eniko said enthusiastically.
"What?!" Kaoru asked, eyes widening.
"I still don't believe her Kaoru, so don't worry." Nibira said giving a small glare at Eniko.
"What do you mean win Hikaru back?"
"See he doesn't have a problem!" Nibira said lifting her hands up a bit.
"Hey! There's Hikaru and Haruhi!" She said pointing out the window. Kaoru quickly looked with a shocked and hurt look on his face, but saw nothing but trees. "See!" Eniko exclaimed.
"Oh my god you're right!" Nibira said, Kaoru blushed. And she put one hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry Kaoru! We're going to help!" Kaoru rubbed his temples, trying to sort out everything that had just been said.
"Okay girls! I do not have a problem with Hikaru." He said, trying to go for a completely calm smile. But both girls just put their heads in their hands.
"Kaoru." Eniko said, looking up. "We just left Hikaru at your house, and I pointed out the window saying he was out there with Haruhi, a highly unlikely case. Yet you still looked." She turned her head to her brown eyed best friend who nodded with a frown.
"I-I, it was just that! It was so unlikely I couldn't believe it! I was just making sure!" He suggested, but the two girls we not buying it.
"Then tell me this," Nibira said. "when you looked out the window why did you look so betrayed?" Kaoru was silent.
"Look the first step is realizing this fact, and opening up to the people that want to help." Eniko said, Kaoru glared at her.
"You make it sound like I'm some kind of drug addict!" He said, suddenly Nibira was on the ground, but she was laughing hysterically.
"H-he's right! You did sound like that!" She said between giggles, watching the mood switch so dramatically like that, suddenly Kaoru was laughing too, not long after Eniko. The three teenagers rolled around the limo's floor, tears streaming down their faces.
"Ugh, this floor isn't big enough for three." Nibira said, after they were all done laughing. She was struggling to get onto her seat again. "Kaoru, would you get your head off of my foot?" She whined.
"As soon as Eniko gets her foot off my hip!" He said, Eniko did as he said and all three of them sat up.
There was an awkward silence as they looked back on their last conversation.
"So where are we even going Eniko?"
"Where do you want to go?""Let's head to my place." Nibira suggested, and Eniko gave their driver their orders.
"You guys?" Kaoru asked, his face turned solemn again."Yeah?""Are you really going to help? Or is this some sort of cruel prank?" He asked, Nibira chuckled, and Eniko rolled her eyes."Kaoru, you and Hikaru may like doing those kinds of things. But not us, besides, both of us know that we wouldn't waste Nibira's family's awesome muffins on someone we we're pulling a prank on." She said, Nibira laughed, and Eniko smiled, she turned her green eyes back to Kaoru, her ponytail swaying.
"But…why?""Because, even though we haven't known you two the longest time ever. We know that Hikaru is a complete idiot." Nibira said.
"And this, is his worse feat yet." Eniko continued.
"You guys have been together since birth."
"You're best friends."
"And if he is just going to abandon you like this for some girl, well then, that's…that's just…" The girls trailed off. Kaoru arched an eyebrow, the girls had on angered expressions. But with each second they got calmer. Eniko sighed.
"Let's just say, we're going to help you get some sense to him."
Kaoru gulped. He knew that he should tell them. That it would help them immensely. And he knew how much they hated any one of their friends keeping a secret like this from them. But he had never even told Hikaru this, let alone anyone else. Hikaru was always the first person he told anything to, sometimes the only person. But he would never tell this to Hikaru, and for the first time ever he was going to tell somebody else his secret. He took a deep breath.
"It's uh, a little more than friendship." He said looking at his knees. Everyone was silent, and he risked a glance at the girls. Their eyebrows were furrowed, and their eyes widened at the same time.
"No……" They said synchronized. It reminded him, of him and his brother.
"Yeah…uh, I know it's weird…being in love with your brother and all, twin brother no less… But I still-" He suddenly felt a pair of arms around him, and saw Eniko over him.
"Kaoru…" She said, sounding so sympathetically . She hugged him tighter, while he felt a second pair of arms around his sides, Nibira was hugging him too.
"We're so sorry, Kaoru." They said together, Kaoru couldn't help but laugh. The girls broke free. "What?"
"You girls are being stupid, this has been going on long enough, that I've learned to-"
"What?!" The girls screamed, they both looked so furious and shocked at the same time.
"Huh?"
"Kaoru how long has this been going on?" Eniko demanded, fuming.
"It's alright it's just-"
"How long?" She asked again.
"Um, uh, I guess almost a year and a half?" He said putting a hand on the back of his neck.
"A year?!"
"And a half!" Nibira added.
"Kaoru! Why have you not said anything? Done anything?" Eniko asked, she almost looked disgusted. Almost.
"I just want him to be happy." He said, feeling extremely small.
"Have you ever even thought about what you want?" Nibira asked now at his side again.
"Well, yeah, but-"
"You're kidding yourself Kaoru." Eniko said on her knees in front of him. "Is this what you want?"
"Of, course." He said, Eniko rolled her eyes, and Nibira groaned.
"Is this what you want?" Nibira clarified.
"Uh, I don't know, maybe?" He said, and shrugged. Nibira looked at Eniko.
"He's just as big of an idiot as Hikaru."
"I know!"
"I'm still here!" Kaoru pointed out, a little offended.
"Uh… hate to burst your bubble Kaoru, but your brother, he doesn't have a chance." Eniko said, a little smug.
"What do you mean?""Have you even gotten a good look at Tamaki and Haruhi when they are together? They are totally into each other."
"Sorry Kaoru. But Hikaru, is not going to get Haruhi." Eniko said bluntly.
"And neither of you should suffer because of that." Nibira said.
"But if you just keep trying to get them together, Hikaru's heart is going to get broken. And his misery is just going to make you miserable too."
"And you've definitely suffered enough." Nibira said with a laugh.
"So how am I going to stop this? He's already fallen for her?!" Kaoru said, he tried to keep his tears at bay. Him crying would bring up all the hugging again.
"Don't worry. You have us!" Eniko said slinging an arm around Nibira's shoulder.
"Yeah right." Kaoru said under his breath.
"But here comes the hard part." Nibira said, biting her lip.
"What?" Kaoru said, getting more and more worried.
"If you are going to get Hikaru back, you're going to give him a taste of his own medicine." Eniko said.
"What do you mean?"
"That's why she was so… well, what's the word? Obvious in front of Hikaru, back at your mansion."
"We know this is going to be hard on you as well, but we are going to try and have you spend as little time with Hikaru as possible. If he's away from you long enough, he'll realize that he's taken you for granted and want to spend more time with you!"
"Uh….." Was all Kaoru said.
"Hello? Kaoru?" Nibira said.
"Y-yeah?"
"Is this going to be okay? Because we totally understand if you don't want to do this." Nibira said, looking at him obviously trying to read his expression.
After a few minutes, Kaoru said, "Yeah, I guess." he finished with a small nod.
"And don't worry, you'll still get to see him at school and at the host club!" Eniko said, trying to make him perk up a little bit.
"We're here." Nibira said, staring out the window.
A few minutes later they were inside the massive house owned by Nibira's family. Kaoru was in the bathroom, and the two best friends were in Nibira's kitchen one eating a donut, the other a slice of banana bread.
"God, Eniko. You really got us tangled into a huge mess, didn't you?" Leaning on the counter and taking a bite of her donut.
"I'm still trying to get over the fact that he's in love with him, it's so bizarre, yet…"
"So sweet at the same time." Nibira finished.
"Well, I told you for one of them it wasn't just an act."
"Poor Kaoru. A year and a half?"
"I know I feel so bad for the guy."
"He must have made some progress with Hikaru and Haruhi's relationship if he was at it for a year and a half. How are we going to get him to see what's right in front of him, if he has eighteen months of fog covering it?" Eniko sighed.
"It's going to be hard." She admitted. They heard footsteps coming towards them, and stopped talking when Kaoru then entered the kitchen. "Now that I think about it. I kind of need to use the bathroom as well. Be right back!" Eniko said, hopping off her chair and walking out of the kitchen, bread in hand.
"So what's up with her?" Kaoru asked, taking the seat next to the Eniko had been at.
"Excuse me?""Eniko. She just seems-"
"Oh! That! Yeah I know right? I was pretty surprised too."
"When we first met her she was so shy?"
"Yeah, but when she gets to know somebody well enough, she really opens up. She may even be a little more out going than me!" She said, laughing. Kaoru took a pecan muffin.
"How long did it take you?"
"I don't remember, it was so long ago. But I do remember I was pretty damn shocked." Kaoru laughed. "You know, I was actually pretty impressed today, seeing that she's opened up to you two now as well. It was actually pretty quick for her, two months. You should feel honored." He laughed some more.
"I have a question."
"Shoot."
"That first day we met you. Hikaru told me after the host club that Eniko kind of freaked out at him." Nibira arched an eyebrow.
"Go on."
"He said it was just because he pulled out her ponytail."
"He did what?" Nibira said gripping the counter top, her eyes were huge.
"Yeah, I was just wondering if that was just an act or if it was something more than that…" His eyes narrowed suspiciously and Nibira got nervous.
"Uh…."
"Hey! What'd I miss?" Eniko asked bouncing back into the room.
"Just the last pecan muffin." Kaoru said casually, and Nibira was washed with relief as she watched her friend glare at Kaoru for a second and then sit down in her chair beaming. She hoped that he wouldn't bring it up in front of her, that wouldn't go over well.
Next time:
"Hey Kaoru! We're here!" Eniko and Nibira said in the doorway, bags in hand.
"Hey come in." He said, the girls noticed that he was trying to fake happiness.
Eniko walked closely to Kaoru. "What's wrong?" She asked in a whispered voice.
"Look ahead of you." He whispered back. And to her, and Nibira's horror. The saw a short brunette with a boy's haircut. Sitting on a sleeping bag, next to Hikaru.
Author's note: Ooh… So Nibira and Eniko want to help, but they really don't know what they are in for. Will this be one of the biggest mistakes they will ever make? Ooh… Please R&R!