Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran. I don't even own the twins! Isn't that sad?
When we last left the host club:
"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 would not go over well.
EPISODE 10: Sleepover
The next few days after Eniko and Nibira had filled Kaoru in on their plan, went very smoothly, at least in the girl's perspective. Every day would go on normally, until school ended. The twins would walk out of the school, expecting to see only one limo for them, but instead seeing two. One would have their regular driver, the other would have either Eniko, or Nibira hopping out of it and dragging Kaoru inside, leaving an extremely confused Hikaru with the other. The girls would be with Kaoru at Nibira's place doing homework, and just hanging out until around the twenty-third hour of the day, when they dropped him off at his house again.
At first it was pretty hard on Kaoru, being away from his brother that long. He was used to spending almost every second with him, now the only times he got to actually talk to him was at school. But after a day or two he got more used to it, and he learned to value the time he did get to be with him.
It was a Saturday now, so that meant the host club was open again. The hosts eagerly came in ready for their customers, except for Kyouya and Honi, who were both still slightly irritable. Because the king had told everyone that they would have a special early host club opening so their guests could be with them longer. This frustrated Nibira, and Eniko because they were planning on taking Kaoru in the early morning and bringing him to the host club with them, but now Kaoru got to spend a little extra time with his brother, and after the girls thought of this, he'd probably earned it.
The twins were talking strategy when the two girls sat across from them. "What's up?"
"Nothing, what about you?" Hikaru asked leaning back, Kaoru's eyes went back and forth between the two couches.
"We have a little problem actually." Nibira said, leaning forward. The twins arched their eyebrows.
"Both our parents are having business parties tonight… all night." Eniko said.
"Yeah?"
"We both hate the parties our parents throw, they last all night long, and it is so utterly boring." Nibira continued, the identical red heads still were not catching on.
Eniko sighed, "So, whenever one of our parents throws a party like that, we spend the night at the other's house." she hinted. The twins expressions were blank.
"But now both our parents are having a party,"
"and we really don't want to endure the countless hours of adult chatter." Eniko finished, the twins still had not understood. Nibira put her head in her hands, and Eniko rolled her eyes.
"Can we spend the night at your house?" Said Nibira directly, the girls could practically see the gears turning in their heads, finally putting together everything they had said. Idiots, the girls thought.
"Sure." They said together, looking extremely calm.
"Great! Thanks!" The girls started to walk off, just when Tamaki was calling the hosts to get into position.
Kaoru suddenly sat up, and walked over to the girls, Hikaru trailing slowly behind. "What's up? Why are you being so nice to Hikaru all of a sudden?" Taking the opportunity to talk to them, while his brother was still out of earshot.
"What? He's still our friend right? Just because we may prefer you now, doesn't mean we can't still talk to him." Nibira whispered just as Hikaru came up from behind.
Later, Eniko was picking Nibira up from her house to head out to the twins. When Nibira had slid into her seat and they were driving Eniko smirked, "This is your best idea yet." she said.
"I know." She responded smugly.
"Seriously, how did you even come up with that. Having a sleepover at the Hitachiin mansion? I cannot believe they bought that both of our parents would have parties on the same night!"
"Me neither, but then I remembered that they were both complete morons. And decided, why not?" Eniko laughed.
"Oh man, this is going to be great!"
"Hikaru is going to get so jealous, I can feel it!" Eniko exclaimed bringing her clenched fist to her heart.
"I still can't believe you talked me into another one of your "plans" they never really work." Nibira said, and her pony tailed friend gave her a sour glare.
"This one will. It has to. Or it will kill Kaoru."
"You may be over estimating this Eniko."
"You didn't see the way he looked at Hikaru when he was running after Haruhi the other day. It looked as if something was eating him from the inside out."
Nibira looked at the ground, "Kaoru's our friend, what if we hurt him?" she whispered.
"If we do, we can fix it. I wont allow Kaoru to get hurt because of us, he's been hurt enough already." Nibira nodded in agreement.
They sat in silence until they reached the twin's mansion, then they both perked up, got their stuff and hopped out of the car. Eniko bounded past Nibira and knocked on the door, she just caught up to her when it was opened.
"Hey Kaoru! We're here!" Eniko and Nibira said in the doorway, bags in hand.
"Hey come in." He said, the girls noticed 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. They saw a short brunette with a boy's haircut. Sitting on a sleeping bag, next to Hikaru.
"Let me guess, Hikaru invited her." Nibira said, being careful not to let them hear. Kaoru's response was a small nod.
"I told you to only tell Kaoru. It would've been better if Hikaru had been surprised anyway." Eniko whispered, all of them still slowly making their way over to the two.
"What?" Nibira shrieked in a whisper, "It was your idea to tell Hikaru!"
"Yeah, but you could have talked me out of it." Nibira scowled at her friend, they had reached the place where Haruhi and Hikaru were talking. The only other girl greeted them with a smile.
Eniko and Nibira hastily returned them, "Hey Haruhi." they said.
"Hey guys."
"Uh, me and Kaoru will go get some snacks. You guys want to come with?""I'll go." Haruhi said standing up.
"No thanks, surprise us."
"Will do."
"And take your time! We don't want to go back home with food poisoning!" Eniko said, as they were walking away, they smiled, and turned the corner.
Once they were out of sight, Nibira slumped more in her soft chair, while Eniko jumped up and started pacing the floor.
"This, is, not, good." Nibira said slowly.
"You think?" Eniko snapped, her pacing sped up.
"Ugh, why her? Of all of his friends at the host club, why did he have to choose her?" Nibira whined.
"Uh, duh. Because he's in love with her? That may be a pretty good hint!"
"So?""Ugh! This is just great! We planned this whole thing, so Hikaru would see how much he misses Kaoru. But instead all three of us just got front row seats to Hikaru's drooling fest!"
"Eniko, you're going insane, over this."
"I'm not. We have just hit a little dilemma." She said still pacing.
"Oh? So what are we going to do all night? We can't just let Hikaru be bug eyed over Haruhi, in front of Kaoru the whole time!""Maybe we could be all nice to Kaoru, and mean to Hikaru?""No. He wouldn't even notice it, he would be too preoccupied with his "soul mate"."
"Okay. Here's what we're going to do." Eniko said standing right in front of her. "Whenever Hikaru and Haruhi may start one of their "moments" we'll just spoil the mood. And then we'll do something nice for Kaoru straight after. It would make Hikaru so pissed."
"Ha ha, Hikaru's hilarious when he's pissed."
"True." Eniko said, she continued pacing. "Tonight may have ruined our plans, but maybe some progress will actually be made." She rubbed her temples.
They heard a single set of footsteps coming back towards them, Nibira got into a casual position. While Eniko was too stressed and continued pacing.
"Eniko! Sit down!" Nibira hissed, Eniko just scowled, as Hikaru emerged from the shadows.
"Hey they're bringing the food I just came to get,… um…" He trailed off as he stared at the pacing Eniko.
"What? You've never seen a girl pace before?""Uh, well sure. But why are you pacing?""Just uh, another way to burn calories, I forgot to go to the gym this week." She said, slowly sitting down in the chair next to Nibira
"Alright then, I came to select a movie to watch. Do you guys prefer anything?"
"We really like action adventure." Nibira said, Eniko leaned over to her.
"But we don't like it." She whispered.
"Better than a romance film though.""Oh."
Now Kaoru and Haruhi came in Kaoru was holding up a large tray full of treats and Haruhi was clutching her finger.
"Ah." She moaned.
"She accidentally scraped the top of one of her fingers trying to lift this herself." Kaoru explained. Hikaru quickly walked over to her, Oh boy.
"Here let me see." He said, gently grabbing her hand. Kaoru watched them silently, which made the two other girls fume. Nibira sat up and walked over to them."Move." She said, and pushed Hikaru to the side. Eniko tried to hide her smirk from where she was sitting.
Nibira, inspecting the small cut, squeezed Haruhi's fingers. "We need to put some pressure on it, when we don't have a bandage. Hikaru go get one."
"Kaoru's faster than me."
"He's carrying the food tray. Go on." She said lightly waving her hand. Hikaru left reluctantly.
Kaoru was grateful that he had some people to talk to now. He really was. He was happy to have two people who understood, and that wanted to help him. But wow, did they have to be so obvious. He thanked the lord that Hikaru was an idiot, and that Haruhi was totally oblivious to anything that had to do with love. And prayed that, that wouldn't change. Eniko and Nibira were being obnoxious, and the only people that seemed to understand why were them, and him.
Haruhi yawned, "It's almost three, I think I left my pillow back in your room. I'll go get it." she said.
"I'll go show you where it is." Hikaru said, helping her up. Nibira looked as if she were going to protest, but she quickly caught Kaoru's warning glare, and shut her mouth.
Once they were around the corner, the girls got up simultaneously and started towards where they left, but much more quietly.
"Hey! Stop it!" He said, the girls looked back at him. Eniko rolled her eyes, and grabbed Kaoru's wrist.
"We're not going to do anything. We're just going to follow them, and see if we need to move forward with our plan." She said, and dragged him along with them.
They silently made Kaoru show them to his room, the door was open a crack, and they all peered in on what the two were doing.
"It's just over here." She said, picking up the fluffy looking pillow.
"Alright, let's- whoa!"
"Hey!" They both tumbled to the floor. Tripping over something they couldn't quite see.
Hikaru looked as if he was pinning Haruhi down on purpose, although they all knew that wasn't true. The pillow was near them, on the floor about a yard away. Kaoru, Eniko, and Nibira all noticed that Hikaru wasn't moving off her, his eyes fixed on Haruhi's. Haruhi didn't seem like she wanted to move either, her eyes were on Hikaru as well.
Kaoru started walking back towards the stairs, clearly having enough. Eniko clenched and unclenched her fists, then started running after him, Nibira trailing behind.
"Kaoru! Kaoru!" They said, running down the stairs, they continued calling him, until he reached the bottom of the stairs. He spun around quickly and glared at the so hard Nibira staggered back up a few steps.
"I'm fine alright!" He yelled, the girls arched an eyebrow.
"Um, I think you're sending a mixed message." Eniko said.
Kaoru stopped glaring, as he looked towards the floor. "Don't worry. This is what I wanted, remember?"
"But-" Suddenly Kaoru started running away, "Kaoru!" she yelled as he turned the corner, they waited at the bottom of the steps. But he didn't come back. "Damn it."
Nibira sighed, and went to where Eniko had sat down on the bottom step. "You know what this means?"
"What?"
"We need to take this to the next level."
Next time:
"This is the perfect solution to our little dilemma!" She said her eyes bright.
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