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Haruhi was quickly finding this experience more tiring than the last one. At lease when she was in Kaoru's body, her mind was her own which was not the case now. She was constantly having her thoughts interrupted by that of the twins and it was quickly giving her a headache. Though to be fare, she was probably having the same effect on them.
Hikaru mentally snickered. Maybe not. 'Calm down Haruhi, it's only bothering you because your thinking about it too much.' his tone light as he patted her on the shoulder as they sat in the Hitacchin limo on their way to Haruhi's house in order to drop her off.
'In fact, you thinking about it so much is making us think about it too.' Kaoru thought as he gazed out the limo window that she could almost see through his eyes. Not quite.
'So do us a favor, and try not to think about it.' Hikaru finished as he leaned back in his seat.
Haruhi grumbled in annoyance at their double teaming her. Also at the face that they still seemed to have silent communication with each other. She was in their head! How the hell could they know what the other was going to say before they even think it!
They burst out laughing at her disbelieving thoughts. "It's a twin thing" they said through bursts of laughter.
"Though I have to say that I didn't think you thoughts would be so... excited." Kaoru wiped stray tears of laughter out of his eyes.
"Ya, you act so calm most of the time." Hikaru grinned at her. It momentary made her heart beat faster before she quickly got herself in check again. "It's surprising to see that you are really very energetic inside." She breathed a sigh of relief that they didn't notice her momentary lose of control over her emotions and lapse in sanity. That, she decided, is what she was going to call theses...feelings that she was having. She was just so glad that they could not read her emotions too. She would just die if they could.
'What are you going on about Haruhi' they both thought at the same time.
'Nothing important' she thought in a lofty tone. It seemed, that they could only hear the thoughts in the forefront of her mind, and the rest, was just static in their ears. For that, she was eternally grateful. As long as she thought of something more, she could have privacy in her mind. Though it would take a lot of practice to think of two things at once successfully.
'Huh? Is that so?' Hikaru pondered. 'We'll see how long you can keep from us whatever it is you are thinking...'he challenged with a cheeky smirk. Causing her eyes to go slightly glassy for a moment.
'skull, humerus, radius, ulna...' Haruhi began to recite.
The twins looked at her in disbelief. 'Are you naming bones to block me out of your thoughts?' Hikaru thought Incredulously.
Her thoughts began to work more furiously. 'vertebra, sternum, ribs, pelvis...'
"You can't be serious!" Hikaru voiced out loud as Kaoru's thoughts worked furiously, though where being blocked out by Haruhi's mind shouting.
'sacrum, femur, tibia, fibula...'
Kaoru eyed her with interest, and mild suspicion. It had been for a brief moment, but he could have sworn that what caused her to react this way... was Hikaru.
He would have to listen more carefully in the future. It was true, that Haruhi had found a way to block them from her real thoughts, but she wont stop blocking until after she begins to think something that she really didn't want them to know, That left his time to catch a glimpse of her secret. And he was dying to find out.
Half an hour after she was dropped, Haruhi could be found in her room sitting on her bed with a pillow clutched to her chest.
She could still hear their thoughts. But now it was a faint whisper in the far reaches of her mind. Easy to ignore. Another interesting thing is, it seemed that the bond got weaker with distance. A small favor she thought wryly.
She quieted her self for a moment and listened to their thoughts to see if they where paying any attention to hers. They seemed to be having a conversation with their parents, and where currently, not paying her any mind.
Haruhi berated herself for her lapse of sanity. She couldn't allow this to happen any more. She was sure, that given time, these newly developed feelings would go away. At least, that is what she kept telling herself.
Who was she kidding. She sagged over her pillow, face being buried in the process. Her feelings where not that fickle. She knew that when she fell, there was no getting out of it. She would just have to deal with it the way she dealt with everything else. Bury it under the heavy weight of her books and dreams.
Haruhi sat in class with the tip of her pencil tapping against her notebook irritation. She was trying
to listen to the lecture, and trying to take notes, but the twins didn't seem to be able to shut up!
'Calm down Haruhi' she heard Kaoru think.
'Ya, it's not like you don't already know this.' Hikaru's mentally voiced in a lazy drawl.
Haruhi huffed in exasperation. 'There is a reason the teacher is reviewing the material.' she thought slowly as if it where a concept that would be difficult to grasp. 'We have a test on it tomorrow, and I can't afford a low grade on this with the grades that Kaoru,' she shot him a glare, 'has been getting for me.'
'Hey!' he shot her a defensive look, 'I didn't get you a grade lower than a B-!'
'And I'm here on a scholarship!' She shot back. 'I have to have the highest GPA or I risk being kicked out.' She looked back down at her blank page. 'So stop distracting me.'
She turned her attention back to the front of class and listened to the teachers droning voice lecturing on and on. At least now they where trying to keep their thoughts quiet.
"Hey Haruhi, can you make me a commoner lunch tomorrow?" Hikaru asked with a grin as they sat down together at lunch.
Haruhi looked up from her bento box, slightly confused. "Why would you want what I make when you have that?" she pointed to the rich food on his silver trey.
"Because Kaoru got to have a commoner bento when he was you, but I never got to and he was telling me about how good it was and everything, so I want one too!" he said in a slightly winy voice as he stabbed his steak with his fork.
Kaoru observed as Haruhi's thoughts seemed to stop for a moment, and her cheeks took on a light blush that was hardly noticeable, and he would not have seen if he had not been looking for it.
Haruhi focused her thoughts on her lunch that she was staring at intently. "It's nothing special." She said after a moments pause. She shoved a chunk of rice in her mouth.
"Just make it for me okay." He said with a happy grin. "If you don't I'll starve."
And that, apparently, was the end of the conversation as the next moment he turned in his seat to face his brother that was sitting next to him.
Haruhi sat on a sofa in the host club room reading one of her text books, and getting a head start on her homework while the twins where still distracted with their costumers, and she didn't have any to entertain.
"Haruhi!" she heard Tamaki exclaim half a second before she felt him pelt at her from behind over the back of the couch.
"Senpai!" she struggled to get out of his grasp. "Let go of me!"
"But I'm just so happy that your back to normal!" He held onto her with a vice like grip. "It has been too long since I have been able to hug you like this my child!" he tried to pull her over the back of the sofa so that he, she suspected, twirl her around in that ridiculous way of his.
"Shut up!" she glared at the wall in front of her. "This is why I didn't tell you which one was me" she said referring to the time she pretended that she was really Kaoru. "And if you keep talking about that, people will begin to question what you are talking about. Baka." she added as an after thought. She was in no mood to put up with this with the way the twins have been distracting her lately.
Tamaki's arms fell to his sides as he rushed into his corner of woe, his ego wounded at her harsh words.
"Tono, looks like you where rejected." Hikaru teased as he came up to Haruhi's side who was now standing and panting from the effort of throwing him off. He slung his arm around her waist as his twin followed his motion with her shoulder.
Tamaki sunk further into the shadows in dejection. Haruhi looked at Hikaru in irritation. "Your not making it any better."
"What do you expect Haruhi?" Kaoru questioned with an impish grin. " Tono just makes it too easy."
Haruhi had no qualms with showing her irritation. "It just causes more problems for me later." she shrugged their arms off. "Your not the one who has to deal with his hugs and winning."
"You don't mind too much." Hikaru gave her a sly look. "it get's one of us rich bastards off your back for a little while, and gives you the chance to escape."
Haruhi's glare intensified. "Don't use my thoughts against me!"
The twins broke out into laughter at her expense. Hikaru patted her head in a slightly patronizing manner. "Don't worry, it can be our little secret."