Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran. Ugh, you do not know how much it pains me to say that unless you have said it yourself.

When we last left the host club:

"Yeah." Kaoru said smiling, as Hikaru sat next to him, and put his arm on his shoulders. Kaoru leaned his head against his brother's shoulder. Maybe I could forgive them, now that they've done this. Kaoru thought. Just maybe.

EPISODE 13: Promise

The next week on a Saturday the host club was getting ready open for business. Eniko and Nibira were especially perky today.

"Eni-chan! Nibi-chan! You're really happy today!" Honi said bouncing up to them.

"Yeah. I guess we are. Don't you agree Eni-chan?" Nibira asked plopping down into a chair across from Honi.

"Completely Nibi-chan!" She said, taking the seat next to Nibira.

"Is there something special happening?" Haruhi asked, leaning on the chair by Honi.

"As a matter of fact there is."

"What is it?" Tamaki asked, curiously. His eyes twinkling.

"Tomorrow is Eniko's birthday." Nibira said, Eniko smiled sheepishly.

"Really?" Kyoya said appearing with Mori. "Then considering the circumstances I suppose you and Nibira can have the day off tomorrow."

"And we," Kaoru said popping up behind Eniko and leaning over her chair. "will take the day off as well and walk them around the city." Kyoya gave him a subtle glare then went back to scratching pen to paper.

"Hey Kaoru. Where's Hikaru?" Eniko asked.

"He's running a little late, but he'll be here any minute." As if on cue the doors of the host club quickly opened and closed before it was opened. Instantly all the members disappeared from where they were except Kaoru, Eniko, and Nibira.

Hikaru walked over, and at first they all wondered why the other members were fleeing. But then they saw his face. He had a nasty scowl/ death glare strewn across his face. And he was pointing it at Nibira. She stiffened and her lips formed a hard line, then relaxed.

Kaoru stood up and walked over to sit next to Hikaru across from the girls. Hikaru moved his gaze from Nibira to Eniko and smiled.

"Hey, I heard it was your birthday tomorrow."

"You heard correct." Eniko said.

"So has Kaoru told you were going to take you guys to the city?"

"Just did right now." Nibira said. He ignored her.

"Hey! Get into your positions you four!" Tamaki yelled from the distance.

--

Eniko had just slid into the limo with Nibira after yet again another busy day of hosting.

"Oh, my, god. That little-"

"It's fine Eniko. I knew this would happen."

"And I told you that it kills me to see him treat you like this after what you did to help him!"

"I don't care."

"Don't give me that bull!"

"Eniko-"

"No. Listen he should at least be treating you like a normal person. And I'm going to do whatever I can to make that happen."

"So you'll try and get Hikaru to talk to me again?" Nibira asked, a huge grin growing at her lips.

"Of course I will, you deserve it after what you did."

"You're the best Eniko."

"I know."

"You really don't need to."

"Yes I do. I promise come tomorrow, you and Hikaru will be friends again."

"Promise?"

"Promise."

--

The next day couldn't come soon enough. Today was the day Hikaru would be her friend again. Eniko promised. And even though Nibira had tried to act cool about it, she was really happy Eniko was doing this. The limo pulled up to her house at about the tenth hour. She recognized it as one of the Hitachiin's. The driver opened the door, and she heard laughter and loud music coming from inside.

"Hey!" Eniko said sitting next to her.

"Hey! Happy birthday!"

"Thanks."

--

The group yet again lapsed into silence. They were at an outside table in an ice cream parlor, waiting for their orders.

"Wait. How can you like pistachio ice cream?" Eniko asked, Kaoru, her head tilting.

"Um, it's good?" He asked, laughing.

"But it's green." She stated.

"It's just the nuts."

"What kind of nut is green?"

"Pistachios."

"What do you think Nibira?" She asked, giving a silent hint to join the green nut based conversation.

"I tried pistachio ice cream once, it wasn't terrible."

"Ha! Told you!" Kaoru said.

"I didn't say it was good." She said smirking at Kaoru.

"But you have to choose." He said.

"Well it kind of depends on the-"

"Why are we even talking on pistachio ice cream when we all know chocolate strawberry ice cream trumps all." Hikaru asked, looking confused.

Nibira watched as her best friend, continued on with the conversation. Just letting Hikaru get by being rude to her like this. What happened to her yesterday, it was like they had switched places.

"My favorite is coconut." She said, when Eniko asked her. Hikaru ignored her again. But this time when Kaoru was talking, he stole a glance at her that was really a glare. Then went back to listening to his brother. Eniko looked at her, clearly showing she had seen, then went back to listening like nothing ever happened.

And that was it.

Her fists clenched under the table as the ice cream was served. She slowly poked the scoop of blueberry on top of the coconut with her spoon.

"Hmm, Nibira your blueberry has bits of actual fruit on it doesn't it? Hikaru's strawberry doesn't have any, that's weird, I didn't notice that." Eniko said, peering at her ice cream.

"You seem to not notice a lot of stuff these days." Nibira said with a fake sigh.

"Huh?" Eniko asked, looking confused. Hikaru and Kaoru had stopped eating as well.

"Like you didn't notice how much alcohol was at that party remember?" She asked glaring. Eniko gasped as she realized what she was talking about.

"Nibira?"

"Hey knock it off, it wasn't her fault." Hikaru said.

Nibira flattened her hands on the table. "Oh, so he knows too? Of course he does."

"What are you guys talking about?" Kaoru asked.

"Don't act like you don't know. You two share everything don't you? Although recently I've noticed you've been keeping a lot more from each other than I thought."

Hikaru and Kaoru looked at each other quickly. Then Hikaru broke his gaze to look at Eniko. "Did you tell her?"

"What? No!" Eniko said, remembering what Hikaru had told her.

"Tell her what?" Kaoru asked, Hikaru.

"So now you're keeping secrets from me Eniko. I should've known." Nibira said, Eniko turned back at her, but this time she was glaring.

"Shut up Nibira! Just shut up for a second! It's so hard to think!"

"You shouldn't be the one who's mad! That's me! You're the one that isn't keeping your promise so well!"

"What?"

"You can't even remember one you made less than twenty four hours ago?!"

"Oh, my, god." Eniko said, recalling the conversation they had in the limo.

"Yeah, you're not doing a very good job." She said, screeching her chair back and standing up. Ignoring the stares from other customers. "He still hates me!" She said pointing at Hikaru, whose eyes widened. Suddenly Nibira wasn't there anymore, Eniko looked around and finally saw her running down the streets.

"Oh, god I'm an idiot." She threw her napkin down and abandoned her ice cream, running after her best friend.

Hikaru hurriedly took out his wallet and put the money on the table. And followed after them trailing behind Kaoru.

Nibira had a head start, but Eniko was a little faster, by the time she was only halfway through a street of shops, Eniko had made it to the beginning. But Hikaru and Kaoru were also faster than all of them and were only about ten yards behind her.

"Nibira! Wait!" She yelled, but just then a lady with a baby carriage was walking out of a store, and Eniko was bolting straight towards her. Eniko tried to stop, but doing so she staggered backwards a few steps and hit a column with a small ledge sticking out, which her head hit. Hard.

Pain shot through Eniko's skull. Dizzying her. Her vision starting swirling right before her. And then she was falling. The last thing she registered was her head hitting the cold, solid cobblestone. Then, black.

The twins saw her when she fell. "Eniko!" Kaoru yelled.

Nibira making her way out of the street. Stopped in her tracks when she heard that word. It was almost as if time stood still. And she slowly turned around, expecting, and dreading what she was about to see. "Eniko?" She said, then she was running straight back to her.

By then the twins were only about ten feet behind her when she fell, but Kaoru tripped on a cobblestone getting to her and fell forward.

"Kaoru! Are you okay?" Hikaru asked.

"I'm fine." He said getting on his hands and knees over Eniko.

"Eniko! Eniko!" They heard Nibira say running back to them, and standing on the opposite side of her Hikaru was standing. "Is she all right?" She asked Kaoru.

"She's breathing if that's what you mean." Kaoru said.

One of Eniko's hands clenched into a fist. "Hey. I think she's waking up." Hikaru said. And in a flash, it suddenly occurred to both him and Nibira what Eniko would think if she saw Kaoru on top of her like that. "Kaoru, get off."

"What're you talking about, I need to see if she's okay."

"No, just get off."

Kaoru continued to argue with Hikaru when Nibira had a sudden flashback of a lesson taught in Madame Tsushima's self defense class. Eniko thought that they should take after that party.

"Oh, so you girls want to know what to do when that happens?" She asked giving a light chuckle.

"Please." Eniko said, her hair in a ponytail.

"Well, a very good move to make if someone has you pinned like this." She showed them, by lying on her back against the floor. "Is simply take your best leg and go like this," She raised her left leg slightly, "therefore somewhat trapping their legs, and take your opposite arm and do this," then she took her right arm and put it across her body, "then finally flip." she quickly shifted her arm and leg across her body again.

"That's it?" Eniko asked.

"Yes. If you do it hard enough, you'll get him to go about three feet away."

"That isn't very much." Nibira said arching and eyebrow, the woman touched her cheek.

"Child. If he hit's the ground hard enough. Three feet is like a mile."

"That's so cool!" Eniko said, beaming.

"Yes. And if you practice hard enough. I predict you'll be able to do it without even seeing the person you're doing it to."

"You don't even have to see them?"

"No. All you need is the strength."

Nibira looked to where Hikaru was standing. It was a lot closer than three feet. She looked at Eniko's legs, right was her good one. If she hit Kaoru hard, enough she'll get them both. She always caught Eniko practicing that one move at least once a month since that class.

Eniko winced, and her head rolled to the other side. "Ugh." She groaned. Hikaru was still trying to get Kaoru off.

"Hikaru! Kaoru! Move!" She yelled.

"W-what?" Eniko asked, her eyes fluttering. But her eyes weren't focusing enough. Instead of seeing Kaoru, she just saw some random figure above her.

"Oh, no." Neither of the twins were moving, so she decided to take action. She ran around Eniko to push Hikaru out of the way.

"Hey!" He yelled, she just shook her head.

"Ugh!" She heard someone grunt. And turned around just in time to see Kaoru flying towards her.

"Ah!" She yelled as he hit her and lurched backwards, luckily she held her head up so it didn't connect with the ground but it scraped all the way down one of her forearms, and she groaned in pain.

Kaoru quickly getting off from on top of her knelt down beside her. "Nibira, are you okay?"

"Kaoru!" They heard Hikaru yell, he was at their side in a second.

That yell for Kaoru is really what snapped Eniko out of her dizziness. Her eyes finally focused and she remembered where she was. "Ouch." She said, rubbing her head.

"I'm fine it's a cut, I'll just clean it off. And put a bandage on it." She heard her best friend say from beside her a little farther away. She turned to see the Hitachiin twins staring at her. Kaoru just looked like he was in shock from something, and Hikaru was staring at her like she was some sort of monster. Nibira was just inspecting a large gash on her forearm. Then she turned to look at Eniko. "Oh, no."

Eniko finally pieced together what exactly had happened from the scrape on Kaoru's knee, and the gash on Nibira's arm. "Oh my god." She said, using her legs to push her farther away from the three.

"This isn't her fault." Nibira said, and the twins turned to look at her with dumbfounded expressions.

"I…" She said, they turned back at her, she looked at her left arm and right leg, both still with red marks where she must have hit Kaoru. "I'm so……… I am so sorry." She scrambled to her feet and ran, faster than even the twins didn't think they could catch.

"What?….What just happened?" Kaoru asked, turning to Nibira.

Nibira turned to look at Hikaru, "You know about that party right?" he nodded.

"Kaoru." She said, turning back to look at him, he looked slightly irritated. "Eniko almost got raped." Instantly the irritated look left his face.

"So it's true?" Hikaru asked.

"Of course it's true! I was with her at the party! Remember? I saw her talking to some guy, and then I didn't see her for a little bit, then one moment I'm listening to music, the next I see Eniko walking up to me, zipping her jacket all the way up, and putting her hair into a ponytail, something that I had barely ever seen her do before." The twins stopped her.

"You can't be serious." They said together.

"Dead, serious. She started pulling me out the door, saying that she'll explain once we were at her house again, then finally, once we were in her bedroom with the door locked, she told me."

"Poor girl." Hikaru said shaking his head.

"Yeah, even worse than me being a commoner as a kid."

"What?" The twins asked together, Nibira blinked.

"Oh, you didn't know that? Damn it."

"You were a commoner?"

"Yep, hard to believe right? Yeah, I think it was seventh grade when we suddenly became rich. You remember the first day me and Eniko came to the host club right? How Eniko could tell Haruhi was a commoner by the smell of the coffee? It was because she had a lot of it when I wasn't rich. We met at summer camp, and then after wards we found out we lived close, and then eventually that she was rich, and I, well wasn't. But she didn't care, we hung out wherever, whenever. And then… my father won the lottery. It was as simple as that, he started a baking business, and it grew, and grew. And now we're just as rich as Eniko."

"This is a lot to digest." Kaoru said rubbing his temples with his index finger and thumb.

"I know." Nibira said, laughing slightly. Hikaru looked to where Eniko had ran off.

"Is she going to get home all right?"

"Oh, sure. Probably by now she's found your limo and told the driver to take her home without us." Nibira said cheerily.

"No she didn't." The twins looked at her skeptically.

"Yeah, she probably did. She's done it to me before." Nibira nodded, the brothers looked at each other, and Hikaru took out his cell phone to call another car.

--

"Eniko! Open the door!" Nibira called, she had requested the brothers drop her off at Eniko's house so she could talk to her.

"No! Go away!"

"If you don't I'll just knock it down! I'm just as strong as you, you know that!" Eniko opened the door.

"Please don't, I just got it painted."

"Thanks for inviting me in." Nibira said, sourly entering the yellow room.

"So? What do you want to talk to me for? Say that now they hate me, and like you again? I don't exactly blame them."

"No."

"Then what?"

"They know."

"What? You told them?" Eniko said.

"Hikaru already knew."

"But Kaoru didn't! The only reason I told Hikaru that was because-" She stopped herself, "-because he was really upset seeing you and Kaoru that day." she said instead, it wasn't entirely a lie.

"Kaoru would've just been terrified of you if I didn't. Would you rather have that?"

"I don't know."

"If it makes you feel any better… they found out about me being a commoner as well."

"You told them? Why?"

"My big mouth slipped again." She shrugged, Eniko wasn't glaring at her anymore.

"We're any other secrets slipped today?"

"I don't think so." Nibira said laughing. "But speaking of that… what were you and Hikaru talking about back at the ice cream place?"

Eniko got a little nervous remembering Hikaru asking her. "Um, I have a feeling you'll figure it out in the near future."

"Mm, a challenge."

Next time:

"Dark magic club?" Eniko asked, arching an eye brow.

Author's note: Aw… their all pals again! Yay! Please review, I like my reviews! You all can probably tell by now!