Title: Being Normal
Pairing: HikaHaru, KaoHaru. Maybe one-sided
Word Count: 354
Summary: The twins go to visit Haruhi on a Saturday afternoon; she's not home so they go looking for her. Kaoru thinks about Haruhi and the solar system she is at the centre of. Kao POV.
I watched Hikaru kick a can along the sidewalk absent mindedly while looking in the different windows of shops and cafés hoping to catch a glimpse of our absent from home favourite 'toy'... we really needed to stop calling her that, we're almost as bad as Tono with his daughter complex but I guess Tamaki-senpai and Hikaru though. I mean in the way that neither of them know how to express their feelings in a way that is entirely true.
I did. But I chose to lock them away for Hikaru's sake, he needed Haruhi more than me.
I realised that while I had been thinking Hikaru had stopped, his hands pressed to the glass of a café window, his gaze directed to within the building. It looked like he was pining for something he couldn't have.
I didn't have to look in the window to know Haruhi was there but I did anyway.
Yes, Haruhi was there. And she was with her middle school friends as Ranka had told us. As I turned she smiled and laughed at something one of the others had said.
'It must be nice,' Hikaru said suddenly, 'being normal.'
I guessed he was more interested in being with Haruhi than being 'normal.'
'Yeah, she seems happy,' I replied.
Hikaru nodded then paused, 'happier than she ever looks at school or host club,' he finally said, I understood the tone of his voice.
'That's not true!' I objected although I wasn't sure myself. Hikaru shrugged and scuffed his shoe on the ground.
'Maybe we should go home, leave her alone like she's always asking,'
I turned to follow him, there was no point in trying to change his mind, and it might just make him wallow further into self pity which was not a pretty sight.
As we were leaving, walking down the unfamiliar street to call our ride, the café door opened and a familiar voice called out to us, Haruhi leant out of the door smiling.
'I thought it was you, what are you guys doing here?' she didn't sound mad.
'We were looking for you,'
By the way, it's meant to be normal, not normality at the end, I just liked it more *shrugs*.