Disclaimer: If I did own Ouran I would be screaming it to the world… believe me I would.
I do not own X-men either, although some of my friends might think that would be even cooler than owning Ouran… and now I am caught babbling.
When we last left the host club:
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."
EPISODE 11: Solution
"Can you pass some popcorn?" Eniko asked as Nibira sat down with the large metal bowl.
"Here."
"What movie did you pick?" She asked grabbing a handful.
"Um, I think it was, the first X-men?"
"Mm."
The girls watched the movie in silence for awhile, and it was broken not by a voice but by a sound. Nibira jumped in her seat when she heard the clang of the popcorn bowl hitting the floor, the remains of the popcorn inside exploding everywhere.
"Ice man." Nibira heard Eniko say, as she stared at the fallen bowl. She jerked her head now to stare at Eniko who was staring wide eyed at the screen, and in sudden movement snatched the remote and paused it.
"What?" Nibira asked.
"Oh…"
"Eniko?"
"my…"
"What the hell is going on?!"
"god!"
"Eniko do you need some help?"
"Look at that Nibira, that ice dude and the girl! Now just think for a moment!"
"I don't get it."
"Love!"
"Yes, um it seems like they like each other, but I wouldn't say it was love too soon."
"You idiot Nibira! I'm not talking about x-men anymore!"
"You're not?"
"No! Hikaru and Kaoru!"
"What do they have to do with this?" Eniko groaned loudly and slammed her head on her knees.
"Love."
"Uh, yeah, if you weren't paying attention to basically anything that has been said, Kaoru loves Hikaru."
"I know that."
"So why are we bringing it up?"
"We're idiots."
"Um…"
"This whole time we thought that merely friendship would make Hikaru jealous, but the real thing is right in front of our noses!"
"And that is?"
"Ugh, love you moron!"
"Love?"
"Yes! And you're the one that's going to help!"
"Me?"
"Yes! You!"
"But why me?"
"Because from first impressions you are the more spontaneous one, you're the most confident one."
"Hmm, okay."
"We need to find Kaoru."
"Right now?"
"No, it isn't that urgent, but we need to find him."
"And do what?"
"He's pretty mad at us now, you dope. You think he'll just go along with a crazier plan just like that?" Nibira sighed, and put her hands on her head.
"This is exhausting."
"We haven't even started."
"And that's saying something."
"Oh whatever."
The next day at the host club would seem to a guest or a more oblivious member totally normal. But to the less dense, you could practically taste the awkwardness. Kaoru refused to speak to Nibira, or Eniko, even when Hikaru, still having no clue what had happened a few nights ago, was talking to them like nothing was wrong. Eniko and Nibira were filled to their ears with guilt, but they were both watching the clock, waiting for the host club to be over.
Finally Kyoya announced that the host club was over, and Eniko made the first move. "Hey, Hikaru! Wait up!" She called.
"Oh. Hey Eniko."
"We need to have a little talk with Kaoru, but don't worry it'll be short so he asked you to just wait in the car for him."
"Um, alright." Hikaru said with a shrug.
"Great, I'll see you later." She said, leaving before Hikaru had a chance to respond.
Kaoru was picking up his coat and his bag when he felt, two hands grip his shoulders. Before he knew it he was being pushed against a corner. Eniko and Nibira's face were in front of them, determination in their eyes. He looked around for some help, but saw that the room was empty.
"What do you want?" He asked, glaring at the girls.
"To help."
Kaoru scoffed. "Yeah, right. I already tried letting you help before. Remember?"
Eniko flinched, "We know we messed up." she said softly. "But give us a second chance."
"Why?"
"Because we have a better strategy now." Nibira said, Kaoru raised an eye brow.
"Yeah? What's that?"
"Love." They said together, the young twin blinked.
"L-love?" The girls nodded.
"If Hikaru thinks you're in love," Nibira said,
"he'll have a much greater chance of getting jealous." Eniko finished.
"But I thought the point wasn't to get him jealous, but to just get him to pay more attention to me?"
"Getting him jealous, is the key to winning him back Kaoru, if he's jealous he'll want to see more of you."
"Okay, but what's with this whole "love strategy"? Are you saying you're going to make Hikaru think I'm in love with someone? Who?"
Reluctantly Nibira raised her hand, but a smirk grew slowly on her face. Kaoru blinked again.
"You?"
"Is there a problem?"
"But-"
"There is no reason for Hikaru to think it's a lie. We've recently been with you almost all the time. Why wouldn't he think that?" Eniko asked, a little amused.
"But…" Kaoru started again, but trailed off.
"Admit it Kaoru." Nibira said.
"Admit what?"
"This is the perfect solution to our little dilemma!" She said her eyes bright.
Kaoru looked at the ground. "Alright."
"Tomorrow." Eniko said. The other red head looked up at this.
"What? But tomorrow is school."
"Exactly, so he wont be expecting it."
"How are you going to get there."
"Tomorrow's a day off for us."
Kaoru put his hand on the back of his neck. "Are you sure it's going to work."
"Yes. Eniko's going to come with us too, to keep watch, and maybe comfort him a little." The twin flinched at this.
"Okay, one more chance." He said warning, with that he pushed past him with his bag and coat and half walked, half ran out of the room.
Tomorrow came faster than Kaoru wanted it to. Straight after school, Nibira and Eniko quickly found Kaoru, and got him into an empty classroom. Eniko, took a note posing as Kaoru saying that he needed a book from that room and to meet him there, and put it on top of Hikaru's bag when he wasn't looking. She then hid in another empty room close by the room the other two were in to keep watch.
"Okay, I'm in the room. Hikaru isn't coming yet." Eniko whispered into a walkie talkie.
"Thanks." Nibira said from the other end. Kaoru looked at her.
"Why couldn't you just use your phones?" He asked.
"Duh, because using walkie talkies makes the situation feel a hell lot cooler." Kaoru's eye brows furrowed, as he nodded.
"Hikaru's coming!" They heard a rushed whisper come from the other end.
"Alright, we're getting ready." Nibira hurriedly said to her. She quickly pushed the talkie into a drawer, and set a large text book in it's place. "You ready?" She asked, he responded by shaking his head, she gave a little laugh. "Well, hurry up."
By then they could hear footsteps coming closer, Kaoru gulped. "Do I really have to do this?"
Nibira thought about it as she got closer to Kaoru and put an arm around his neck. "You don't have to do anything." She whispered extremely close to his ear. "But just know, that if you don't Hikaru may never be yours."
The footsteps were extremely tangible by now, Hikaru was getting extremely close. With a deep breath, Kaoru gently held Nibira's torso, and pressed his lips to hers. Nibira returned the pressure, as she moved one of her hands to tangle in his hair, the other pulling his body closer. One of Kaoru's hands he willed to touch Nibira's cheek, as he heard the door open, and he had to relax his face.
--
Hikaru opened the door expecting to see Kaoru waiting for him, but instead he saw Nibira with him. One hand was tangled into his hair, and the other was wrapped around his neck. Kaoru had his lips on hers, one hand on her cheek, and another was on her waist. Their bodies were against each others, but what really struck the older twin, was their faces. Nibira's was calm, and so was some of Kaoru's, but also in Kaoru's face was something his twin hadn't seen before. Some sort of yearning, a longing. They didn't even notice him staring at them, even with such a pained and betrayed expression on his face, they just continued.
Hikaru ran, slamming the door behind him.
--
Once they heard the door slamming, the two immediately pulled apart. Kaoru stared at the door, with clenched fists, his eyes filled with tears. He was overwhelmed with guilt and started to walk towards the door, but was stopped by a another hand grabbing his wrist and keeping him there.
"If you go after him, he's going to know that it was all fake." He heard Nibira say to him, he sat down on top of a desk.
"I can just picture his face… I shouldn't have done it, I should have just…" He trailed off, and they both went silent.
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From the room Eniko was in she could hear the loud slam of the door, and the running footsteps she assumed to be Hikaru's. She opened the door and walked into the hall to see that she was right, when Hikaru saw her he jerked to a stop and stared at her with a bewildered expression.
"Eniko?!" He asked half in a yell. Eniko was a little taken back, she knew that he was just very confused, but he also looked furious, and a great deal hurt.
"Uh, hi?" She said, a little nervous.
"What're you doing here?"
"Um, we came to see Kaoru." She said, "Speaking of which where is he? I can't find him, or Nibira, anywhere." she added.
Hikaru just stared at her, his eyes getting wider by the second.
"Are you alright?"
Without a word, Hikaru grabbed her wrist, and pulled her into the room she was once in. Once they were in, Eniko backed up as he punched a wall.
"Hikaru! What is going on?"
"Kaoru! Kaoru he-" He broke off, and dumped himself into a chair.
"He what?" She asked kneeling beside him, all of her worry true. She knew he'd be upset, but not this upset.
"He and Nibira, I caught them in the other room. K-kissing."
"What?" She asked, the automatically froze. Crap! She wasn't supposed to say that. She was supposed to act like she knew about them. But it was uncontrolled, her mind knew that she had planned to be calm and tell him that she knew and then comfort him, from the fact that Kaoru couldn't tell him, of all people. But for some reason at the last second, she said that.
"Yeah, you don't know either?"
"N-not a clue." She said nervously.
"They've been keeping this from everyone haven't they?"
"Most likely." She said, relieved he couldn't see through it.
"Why? How could he do this to me?"
"Well, we've been hanging out a lot, so eventually I guess feelings grew."
"You should have seen his face." He said looking at the ground, Eniko tensed. "It was like he longed for something, I don't know if it was for her, or what it was, but it killed me."
"But… Hikaru-"
"I can't help it okay!" He yelled, he looked at her with a face with such ferocity that she felt her self scooting back a couple of inches. "I know it's weird… being in love with your brother and all, twin brother no less… But I still… I still…." He trailed off quoting his brother from just a little over a week ago.
Eniko felt hollow, like all the energy had just been sucked out of her. Her arms went limp, and it felt as if her heart was standing still. She stared at Hikaru with bug eyes. Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is not good. She quickly averted her gaze from Hikaru's and sat on the cold marble floor beside his chair. She needed to grip the leg of the chair hard enough to keep herself from telling Hikaru that Kaoru loved him too, but he needed to find out for himself, or Kaoru needed to tell him, not her. Change subject Eniko! She screamed at herself, and she froze even more at probably the one way to do that.
After a deep breath, "If it helps, I have a secret too." she said. Hikaru looked at her with a face that told her to go on. "You know the first day, me and Nibira came to the host club, and you pulled down my hair, and I freaked. Well… that wasn't an act… I had a reason for it, a pretty damn good reason at that."
"What?"
Eniko sighed, "It was my first high school party. True I'm home schooled, but we do have some other friends that go to a real school, and we were invited. Nibira and I were really excited, we got all done up and everything, and I wore my hair down.
"So we were there and having a good time, I noticed a couple of times that kids had alcohol but I just disregarded it. Then I met this guy, he was really nice and funny and charming. He said he wanted to show me something, I was also pretty outgoing with anyone then, so I said okay.
"Instead, he took me to a dark empty bedroom, I was still a little confused, and then right before he forced me onto the bed, I finally saw that he had a cup of beer with him, that he threw down. He started hurting me, forcing off some of my clothes, it seemed like my struggles weren't even affecting him at all. But thank the lord, when it was getting seriously scary, the psycho drunk passed out, and I pulled myself out from under him and ran. But I still remember the one thing he said to me in that bedroom, he said I'm sorry but I just can't help my self, your long red hair just looks so sexy down it's addicting.
"Since then I have never had my hair down, at least not in front of people, even Nibira. And when I meet new people and I don't have her to help me, I'm so extremely shy that people usually don't want to talk to me."
She looked up at him when she was done. He was looking straight back at her with such a shocked expression you would think he just witnessed his best friend murdering someone. "E-Eniko, I'm so sorry, I mean, I didn't know."
"That's alright, I know you didn't, barely anyone knows anyway."
"Well, did you call the police? Did they catch him?"
Eniko nodded, "Thank god they did too. If they hadn't I probably wouldn't leave my house." Hikaru rubbed her shoulder. "But anyway, my point is made. Everyone has a secret, and luckily you can do something good with yours. I think it's best if you just tell him."
Suddenly the hands that were rubbing her shoulders gripped her tight, she was up on her feet and pressed against the wall in a second. She let out a little yelp, and he instantly held her more gentle. "Sorry. But I can't do that. Kaoru would think I was some kind of pervert or something! And you can't tell anyone either! I swear to god if you do I'll tell everyone your secret."
"I was never going to tell anyone." She said quietly, his expression softened.
"I know, but… no one can know, you hear that? No one knows about this, except me and you. No one." He ordered, stepping back. She let out the breath she was holding and nodded. Silently Hikaru walked out the door, as soon as she could no longer hear his footsteps, she ran to the room Kaoru and Nibira were in.
She barely noticed the way Kaoru's face looked when she first saw him. How awkward he looked, and probably felt. And Nibira who was sitting two desks away, just looking bored. She had something a little more important on her mind right now, to notice any of that.
"Not good." She squeaked once the door had opened. Kaoru looked up worriedly.
"What? What happened?" He asked. She wanted to scream it at him. She wanted to so bad. But she couldn't, she promised, and Hikaru would tell everyone why she always wore her hair up. And that couldn't happen, it couldn't .
"Um, Hikaru's just a little bit more mad than we thought he'd be." She covered, now Nibira stood up.
"A little?"
"Yeah, and by that, I mean a hell lot more." She noticed that she was breathing heavy, and tried to calm herself.
"Damn it." Kaoru said, and before they could stop him, he was running down the hall.
Next time:
"Everything's gone wrong, Eniko."
"I know."
"How do you think we're going to fix this?"
"Honestly? I have no idea."
Author's note: O_O Ooh….. Well please review if you like it! I'll try to update as soon as possible.