So I know I'm really late on this update, like really late…I feel bad…but I come bearing a new chapter so I hope you enjoy it and don't forget to review! ALSO! Please READ the authors note at the end.

Meet the Older Brother (and New Competition?!)

Carissa was awoken from her sleep by her cellphone ringing. Groaning, she haphazardly felt around her night stand until she grabbed the phone and answered it.

"He'o," she slurred out.

"Whoa! Man voice! Sorry sis, did I wake you?" the voice on the other end of the line laughed out.

It took Carissa a minute to fully recognize who she was speaking to, but when she did, she shot up, looking at the name that was displayed on the screen.

"Tigger?!" she exclaimed, now fully awake.

"Hey! Don't sound so surprised to hear from me sis! Is it such a shock that I decided to call?"

"No, no! It's not that…it's just that…it's been a—"

"While? Yeah I know. Sorry I haven't called sooner but man, Oxford keeps me busy."

"Well~ you chose to go to that University…all the way in England."

"Well at least it's better than choosing to go to high school in Japan.Wait…it's Japan now, right?"

"Yes, it's Japan brother." Carissa replied, rolling her eyes at her brother's idiocy.

"Oh ok, just checkin. Anyways, how's Bri? Dad still givin her hell?"

"She's good and yep. Listen, not that I don't love hearing from you, but what's up? Why'd you suddenly decide to call?"

"Ouch. I can't just call to check up on my lil sis?" at her silence, Tigger chuckled nervously. "Alright, alright, jeez…well, I called to let you know that I will be stopping by Japan for some business. So I was wondering if you and Bri wanted to hang out and catch up?"

"OMG REALLY?! UH DUH! OF COURSE I WANNA SEE YOU!"

"WHOA! Ears Char!"

"Oh, sorry. But omg! I can't wait! When are you coming?"

"Next week, Monday. Oh, by the way, instead of paying for a hotel, I was wondering if I could crash at your place?"

"Yeah! I mean, obviously I'm going to have to ask Bri, but she'll say yes."

"Ok, well, I'm sure you need to get to sleep so I'll let ya go. Don't forget to call and let me know Bri's answer,"

"Kay! Talk to ya later!"

"Bye, Char."

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"So, Bri. Guess who called me last night?!" Brianna glared at her friend, wondering why she was being so unnaturally cheerful this morning.

"Who?"

"No, silly! Guess!" at her glare, Carissa sighed. "Okay, okay, fine! I'll tell you. It was my brother, Tigger!"

Brianna blinked in shock, her sleepiness, and grouchiness, leaving immediately.

"Whoa, really? What'd he want?"

"He called to tell me that he's coming to Japan, next week, Monday! And that is it ok if he crashes at our place instead of dishing out money for a hotel."

"Oh wow, sure he can stay, I don't mind."

"Okay, cools! I'll text him!" Carissa pulled out her phone and shot a quick text message to her brother, telling him the news.

He quickly texted her back saying "Tell Bri I said thanks!"

"He says 'thanks'." Brianna nodded her head as she grabbed her bag.

"Alright, well, let's head out to school and Friday we're gonna go shopping."

"Ok! Ugh! I seriously don't wanna wait now!"

Brianna chuckled as she walked out, Carissa following her.

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For the rest of the week, Carissa was in an extra cheery mood, so much so that even the hosts noticed it.

"What's got Carissa all cheerful?" Hikaru asked Brianna, watching as the red head nodded to a song playing inside her head.

"She just is." Brianna replied, continuing to read her book.

Hikaru glanced at Kaoru and Haruhi, who just shrugged.

They tried asking Bossa Nova but he didn't know either, and he was too afraid to ask because in his experience, anyone who was that happy was up to no good. The hosts tried for the entire week to figure out what had Carissa so happy, but at the end of the week, she snapped and said "Can't a person be happy for no reason?" and that caused them to leave her alone.

Monday-

"Milord…why are we here?" the twins asked Tamaki as they, and the rest of the host club, stood outside Brianna and Carissa's apartment door.

"Because! Don't you want to know what's got Carissa in such a good mood?"

"Yeah but…Char-chan was scary when she snapped on Friday." Hunny said, clutching his bunny closer.

"Just leave them alone, Tamaki." Haruhi grumbled, upset that she had been kidnapped and roped into coming.

"Whaaa~ not you too, Haruhiiiiiii~" Tamaki whined loudly.

The others tried to shush him, but he didn't calm down. All of a sudden, the apartment door swung open.

"What the hell? What's a guy gotta do to get some rest around here?" the hosts all looked at the speaker shock.

The person who opened the door was a tall man, around six feet, with spikey, jet black hair with a red streak running through it, and had coal black eyes that were familiar. He was undoubtedly Japanese, but the thing that shocked the hosts the most was the fact that he was only wearing a pair of black boxers, leaving his chest bare.

The hosts looked at the apartment number, then back at the guy, and then repeated the process two more times; trying to make sure they had the right apartment.

"Hey, Tigg, whose at the door?" the hosts mouth's dropped open as Brianna appeared in the doorway. "Oh…it's you guys."

"You know these loud mouths, Bri?" the man, "Tigg", asked, turning to face Brianna, who sighed and nodded her head.

"Yeah. Char and I go to school with them."

"Oh…well can you tell them to keep it down cause I'm tired~" Tigg whined as he leaned over far enough so that his head was resting on top of Brianna's.

The twins, Kyoya, Hunny, and Mori all glared at the man.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, just go back to sleep…and put some clothes on, would ya!"

Tigg had begun to walk away, only to stop and turn back around.

"You know you like what you see~" Tigg sang, gesturing towards his body.

Brianna smirked and shook her head, turning away from him to face the hosts.

"So…what are you guys doing here?"

"Whose that guy?" Hikaru practically hissed out, still glaring in the direction the guy had gone.

Brianna raised a brow at his behavior.

"Tigger? He's Carissa's brother." The hosts all stared at her in wide eyed shock.

"Carissa's brother?!" the twins, Haruhi, Hunny, and Tamaki all shouted.

"What about my brother?" the hosts all turned towards Carissa, who appeared next to Brianna in the doorway.

"We didn't know that you had a brother…" Tamaki said.

"You never asked. Plus, I'm pretty sure Kyoya knew." Carissa said, shrugging.

All eyes turned to Kyoya, who readjusted his glasses and nodded his head.

"Yes…he owns his own business, repairing and selling old and new musical instruments…correct?"

"Yep. He's the one who taught me how to play all those instruments."

"Well, anyways, we gotta get ready for school, so see ya." Brianna said, slamming the door in their faces.

The hosts all glanced at each other, before heading back to the car to go to school.

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Host club activities had ended, and everyone was cleaning up, when the door to the club room swung open.

"I'm sorry princess but the club is cl—?!" Tamaki cut himself off when he saw who entered the room.

"Do I look like a damn princess to you, blondie?" Tigger snapped, blowing cigarette smoke into Tamaki's face.

Tamaki took a quick step back, coughing slightly.

"N-no! Of-of course not!" Tamaki squeaked, waving his hands around in fear.

"Good." He stated, taking another puff of his cigarette.

Brianna marched over and swiped the cigarette and snuffed it out.

"Hey!"

"You shouldn't be smoking. It's bad for you. Plus, Carissa doesn't like it."

Tigger grumbled and shoved his hands in his pocket, but didn't complain anymore.

"Hey bro! Glad to see you found the club alright!" Carissa said as she appeared from the kitchen.

Tigger smirked and wrapped his arm around Brianna's shoulders.

"Yeah, well, it was thanks to Bri's map that I was able to find this place. Man, you guys sure did pick a fancy school."

The twins, Hunny, Mori, and Kyoya all glared at the guy, annoyed over the fact that he was touching Brianna so casually. To their surprise, Brianna didn't even try to shrug him off, which pissed them off even more.

"Yes well, we should prob get going. Bye guys~" Carissa called as she skipped out the door with Tigger and Brianna trailing behind her, his arm still wrapped around Brianna's shoulders.

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For the rest of the week, Tigger would show up after the host club hours and would manage to piss off the hosts (excluding Haruhi and Tamaki) by finding a way to touch Brianna.

On Friday, however, is when it all came to head.

Friday-

"Yo, Bri, Char, ya'll ready?" Tigger asked as he walked into the club room.

"Yeah, just let me grab our stuff." Brianna said as she grabbed hers and Carissa's belongings.

"Oh Bri, we still on for tonight at eight?" Tigger asked, leaning against the door.

"Yep."

"Wait…what do you mean by 'we still on for tonight at eight.'?" Kyoya asked as he readjusted his glasses.

"Bri and I are goin out tonight." Tigger answered, smirking as he watched the irritated expressions of the hosts.

He wasn't dumb, he knew the twins, the midget, the tall one, and the glasses wearing kid all liked Brianna, which was why he had been purposefully doing things, like touching the girl, to irritate them.

"Just…the two of you?" Kaoru asked.

"Yep." He replied, popping the 'p' just to irritate them even farther. "Hey Char, Bri. Let's go already." Tigger said, beginning to walk out the door.

"Coming." Brianna and Carissa quickly walked after him.

Once the door closed, Tamaki burst into a fit.

"There's no way I'm letting my daughter go out on a date! Men! We must stop this date!" he yelled, while Haruhi shook her head.

"Tamaki…no one is going to help you with stopping their da—"

"Yes…we'll stop this date." Haruhi shivered in fear at the scary tone the rest of the hosts used.

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At eight o' clock sharp, the hosts were parked outside Brianna and Carissa's apartment. They watched as out came Tigger, dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, followed by Brianna, who was dressed in her normal wear.

"You know…you could've at least tried to dress nicely." Tigger said teasingly, gesturing to Brianna's attire.

Brianna snorted and shook her head.

Tigger laughed and threw his arm around her shoulders. This garnered glares and jealous looks from the hosts inside the car. The hosts tailed them until they stopped at a restaurant. It was nothing fancy, but it was still a nice place, and it wasn't crowded. In fact, it was practically empty.

Disguising themselves quickly, the hosts followed after them and sat at the table next to them.

"So Brianna…how are you feeling, really? I hadn't gotten the chance to ask since Carissa's been around."

"I've been…as fine as I could be, considering…"

"Yeah, I figured. But I was shocked to hear that you chose to go to such a high profile school. Aren't you afraid—"

"The fact that it's such a high profile school makes it the last place he'll look for me. He thinks I'll lay low, so this will throw him off for a bit."

"I see…that's smart. What about those kids at your school? The ones you and Char hang out with? Do they know about—"

"No." a dark look crossed over Brianna's face.

"Will you ever tell them?"

"No."

"Why not? They all seem to care about you."

Brianna turned and looked out the window, a forlorn expression on her face.

"That's right…it's because they care that I can't tell them. Hell, even Carissa wasn't supposed to know but because she was so damn persistent, she got dragged into the mix. Now that I'm out…there's no reason for anyone else to be involved."

Tigger gave her a pitying look.

"You have to let other people in Bri. You can't just keep them at arm's length. It isn't healthy. Besides, you deserve to have people who care about you and who try to understand you. They won't leave you, or look at you any differently, just because you tell them what happened."

Brianna gave him a broken smile.

"I don't deserve any of that. I don't deserve it from Carissa, and even though she tries, I still keep her at arm's length on a lot of things. The other's…well…they would look at me differently. They're nice people, annoying most of the time, but nice nonetheless, but there's just no way they wouldn't look at me differently. I'm a monster. A dark, twisted, broken monster. I've done and seen so many things that if I were to tell them half the shit I did well…" she let out a humorless, broken laugh. "They'd run. And I'd encourage them too. No one should ever get too close to me. I'm not worth getting close too."

Silence befell the two and the hosts sat in stone cold silence and shock over her words.

'Did she really think so little of herself? Of them? She was their friend! How could she think that they'd just toss her to the side? What could have happened to her that would make her this cynical?' thought the hosts.

"Brianna…" Tigger placed his hand on hers, but Brianna jerked it back and shook her head.

"No. I don't want to discuss this anymore, I—!" she bit her lip, looked down at the table, and balled up her hands into fists. "I just…can we please just enjoy our meal in peace?"

Tigger nodded his head, reaching over and squeezing her fist.

"Ok. Sorry for bringing it up."

Brianna looked up and gave him a tired smile.

"It's okay…"

The two smiled at each other, only to jump at the sound of glass breaking.

Looking over at the table next to them, they raised their brows at the scene the group was making.

'Hold on a second…those seven look awfully familiar…' getting up, Brianna approached the group while they were distracted.

Reaching over, she grabbed the nearest person's hair and pulled it off.

"What the—?! Hikaru?!" Hikaru stared at her in shock, while the others began to sweat nervously at her murderous expression.

"What, pray tell, are you guys doin here?" she snarled, glaring at them, while Tigger looked at them curiously.

"Uh…well…" Hikaru tried to get out.

"Well?" she hissed.

"Wethoughtyouweregoingoutonadatelikeanactualdateandwedidn'twantthattohappensowecameherewiththeintentionofruiningyourdate!" he rushed out.

Brianna blinked. "What?"

"We thought…you were…going out on a date…like an actual date…and we didn't want that to happen so…we came here with…the intention of…ruining your…date…" Kaoru reiterated, shrinking in fear.

It was silent for a moment until Tigger burst into laughter.

"Brianna and I?! On a date!? And you guys tried to—?" he banged on the table as he laughed, tears rolling down his face.

Ignoring him, Brianna began to speak.

"First of all, Tigger and I are not on a date. He was just taking me out as a thank you for taking care of Carissa and because this is his last day here because he has to return to England tomorrow. Second, even if we were on a date, which we're not, it wouldn't be any of your concern. Lastly, Tigger already has a girlfriend." The host stared at her in shock, before turning to stare at Tigger, who had his cellphone out.

"Yep! I'm already taken." Tigger showed the phone to the hosts.

On the screen was a picture of him, Tigger, and a pretty blue haired, green eyed, Japanese girl.

"That's my girl. Her names Fabby Cardonna and she's half white, half Japanese, hence the eye color, though she does dye her hair, as you can tell." Tigger said, pride and adoration in his voice and on his face as he talked about his girlfriend.

The hosts opened and closed their mouths, eyes wide as they tried to take it all in.

"I…see…well then! I guess we owe you two an apology…erhm…have a good night!" Tamaki stuttered as he rushed out the door, followed by the others.

Brianna shook her head at them, sighing as she sat back down.

"You're friends are weird."

"I know."

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Carissa cried as she clung to her brother, begging him not to go.

"Well, it was nice seeing you again, Brianna." Tigger said, ignoring his crying sister, as he ruffled her hair, only to have his hand swatted away.

"Yeah…it was nice seeing you again too, Tigg."

Prying his sister off of him, he kissed her forehead and smiled at her sadly.

"I'll miss you squirt. Be good ok?"

Carissa sniffled and nodded her head.

"I-I'll mi-miss y-you too."

Tigger smiled at the hosts, who had shown up in order to say good-bye.

"See ya guys. Too bad we couldn't get to know each other more."

The hosts all mumbled and waved good-bye awkwardly.

Snickering, Tigger turned to leave, but quickly swiveled his head around for one last parting shot.

"Yo redheads, glasses, bunny boy, and Mr. silent, I expect you guys to take extra good care of Bri, okay?" at their confused looks, he winked at them.

Realization dawned on them.

'He knows?!'

Seeing their red faces, Tigger laughed and ran away with a parting call of "See ya!"

Once he was gone, Brianna turned to the five of them with a puzzled expression on her face.

"What did Tigger mean by that?" Tamaki and Haruhi also looked at them curiously.

Hikaru and Kaoru turned bright red and spluttered, Kyoya readjusted his glasses and turned away, Mori looked down at the ground, and Hunny laughed awkwardly.

Carissa burst into laughter, understanding why her brother had said those words.

'My brother is so awesome!'

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