A/N: For those that are about to start school again and those who have already started, good luck in your new school year! Enjoy the new chapter! These have been requested by Shortie87.
#21…Push people – just like it says, you can push people away from you.
#59…Brother bonding time – Taka and I spar all of the time. It is quality time together in the dojo.
#68…Used to stop brother bonding time gone wrong (Twins fighting or Hunny and Chika battling) – too much togetherness can sometimes lead to fights. This will help break it up.
#75…Rug beater – you have to get the dirt out of rugs using something.
#98…Back scratcher – for those hard to reach spots.
In a land far, far away…Okay, maybe it was only Japan and it seemed so far away because Ouran was not your typical school, and its students were definitely not your typical students. Some may call them out of touch with the real world (Haruhi was one of these people, dear reader), but most had good intentions…for the most part…maybe…at least in their minds…or in the inner mind theatre of Tamaki.
Now during Haruhi's second year of high school, in fact, it happened the week before midterms, Tamaki decided that since the twins were separated during one or two of their classes this year, they were in danger of destroying their brotherly bond (dear reader, I'm not exactly sure how he came to this conclusion, but there is a rumor that Kassanoda happened to mention – in front of Tamaki – that the twins were eating lunch separately one day). Panicked that the twins would start to fight again, kind of forgetting that the big fight during their first year in high school was fake, the blond decided he needed to do something to ensure the bonds of brotherhood remained intact and as strong as ever! (Dear reader, I'm sure you can imagine him standing at the t7op of a mountain with the waves of the sea splashing everywhere around him, with the rays of the sun shining down on him).
Tamaki believed the others would want to help him, but he got zero support. Haruhi told him that the twins were fine. Chika and Satoshi didn't want to get involved. Kyoya told him that he would worry about it when it started to effect the club's profits. Mori and Hunny…actually, they weren't there because they were studying for their own tests. His only ally was Renge. GASP! That's right dear reader, the only one who joined Tamaki in his inner mind theatre was the resident otaku and manager of the club.
In order to make sure the Hitachiin twins never came to hate each other, Tamaki cancelled the Host Club one day (and yes, dear reader, Kyoya wanted to kill him) and arranged a special event for Hikaru and Kaoru. What did he do and where did he get the idea? Satoshi. That's right! Straight from the list that Satoshi had created for Kyoya, Tamaki got the bright idea that he would give the little devil types each a shinai to beat each other up. Well, in his mind, he thought he could convince Satoshi to give them a kendo lesson. He should have known he was doomed to failure. This is what really happened.
Hikaru, Kaoru, and Haruhi made their way to Music Room Three and when they entered, they eyes widened and they all face palmed. Inside their sacred club hall (okay, maybe not sacred), the floors were covered with tatami mats and the area rugs were hanging over a makeshift clothes line…and Tamaki was beating the rugs with a shinai. Wait! Why…? Actually, never mind, this was Tamaki.
Hearing the door open behind him, Tamaki spun around with shinai in hand and found his victims…I mean Haruhi and the twins. "Haruhi! Daddy missed you so much!" He yelled as he ran towards Haruhi and tried to glomp her, but before he could wrap his arms around her, she was pushing him away with the shinai he had been holding. "Haruhi? When did you take that away? Give it back to daddy. It's a dangerous weapon."
"One more word, Tamaki-sempai, and I won't be responsible for my actions," Haruhi told him. "As you know, I have been training with Takashi, Satoshi, Hunny-senpai, and Chika, so I am more than adept at using this…probably better than you. Now what is going on? Where is all the furniture?"
"You don't know?"
"How am I supposed to know what's going on when you are beating rugs and the furniture is missing?" Red tick marks were starting to appear over her head.
Taking the shinai out of Haruhi's hand, Hikaru reached over his shoulder and started moving it up and down.
"What are you doing with that?" Tamaki demanded.
"Itching. There was a place I couldn't reach, so I figured I could use this big stick."
Sweat dropping, Tamaki gathered his wits and snapped, "That isn't a big stick. That is…"
Before the president could get too far into his rant, Satoshi and Chika walked into the room, and both of them asked at the same time, "What stupid idea did you come up with this time, Tamaki-senpai?"
"Stupid…? I DIDN'T COME UP WITH A STUPID IDEA! THIS IS A WONDERFUL IDEA THAT WILL STRENGTHEN THE BONDS OF BROTHERHOOD!" He screeched.
The sounds of steps coming closer to the group interrupted them (dear reader, all of them wanted to know how his slippered feet clicked on the tatami mats. First, his feet were wearing slippers. Secondly, the floors were covered). Whipping their heads around towards the sound, their eyes fell onto Kyoya who was pushing up his glasses. "If all of you are done, let us continue. Time is money, and we will resolve this today…or else," his glasses flashed evilly.
Suddenly scared for their lives, the group huddled together, holding each other as they silently started to pray to Buddha, God, and anyone else they could think of.
"Tamaki!"
"Y-Yes, mommy?"
"Explain your idiotic notions."
"MOMMY!"
Holding up his hand, the Shadow King silenced him, "Start explaining now." He should have just saved him the headache, but once again his best friend had surprised him. Had he known Tamaki was going to cancel Host Club for the day and turn the club room upside down, he would have informed him that the twins ate separately one day because Hikaru got into trouble and was sentenced to lunch detention. He thought maybe, Tamaki might do something that would increase attendance and profits, however, once again his friend did something he was not wholly expecting.
"Yes!" Tamaki extracted himself from the group and eyed the twins, "Hikaru, Kaoru, we know that things have been difficult for you since you have separate classes, but that doesn't mean that you have to stop being brothers!"
"Senpai, they can't stop being brothers since they are blood related and identical twins," Haruhi commented.
"That's where you're wrong my dear Haruhi! Due to the separation, they have grown distant with each other and a rift has started to form between them. One little tear, a little fringe will turn into a canyon and they will begin to hate each other," tears started to flow out of his eyes as he explained…very dramatically.
Hikaru and Kaoru looked at each other and frowned, "Lunch?" It only took a second for the lightbulb to shine brightly above their red hair, "Boss…"
However, Tamaki was on a roll and would not let them talk, "It starts with one lunch, then another, and another, and soon they will no longer share any meal together. It will then start to affect the club and the princesses. They won't want to host together and the Twincest act is then broken up. The girls are heartbroken and distraught. WE CAN'T ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN! That's why we are enacting, Keep the Brotherly Love Flowing Plan!"
"Not a very original title," Chika grumbled.
"That's what you're focused on? How about the fact that Tamaki-senpai has completely lost it?" Satoshi snapped at his cousin.
"I thought that fact was established long ago."
"That's true, but…"
"Both of you, knock it off!" Haruhi ordered.
"Hai!" They quickly said simultaneously.
"I swear you two caught the twin disease," she teased with a smile on her face. Turning to look at Tamaki, who was currently posing with one hand outstretched and the other placed over his heart, she rolled her eyes and told him, "They aren't fighting and their bond is not broken."
"Not yet! But I can see it happening. They will be hurt and broken and…"
"Okay! No need to explain further," her hand went up to stave off any further explanation. When Tamaki got an idea in his head, sometimes it was better to go along with him for a short period of time, "What are you proposing?"
"It was all Satoshi's idea!"
"What? I haven't even talked to you this week about Hikaru-senpai and Kaoru-senpai!" Satoshi rushed to defend himself.
Acting as if he never even heard his kohai speak, Tamaki continued, "Really that list has proven to be very insightful. We can repair their bonds of brotherhood using the shinai! Although, I'm not exactly sure how it works, but if the list says it's so, then it is."
Satoshi, Chika, and Haruhi face palmed, while the twins started to whisper quietly to each other causing a small chill to run up the formers' backs. This could not possibly be good.
"We'll do it!" Hikaru and Kaoru announced.
"Ugh!" The brunette and two first years groaned.
Holding up the shinai in his hand, Hikaru stated, "Kaoru has been ignoring me and I feel like he doesn't want to be around me any longer."
"You're right, I don't. You are annoying and keep getting me into trouble. Since we're being honest, I would rather spend my lunch hour away from you and the day you got detention, I felt like I finally had an ounce of freedom." He grabbed the shinai Satoshi was holding and swung it at his brother.
Everyone else moved out of their way, however, what seemed to start out as all fun and games, turned almost deadly. Hikaru swung the shinai at Kaoru's head, and if the younger twin had not moved in the nick of time, he might have been knocked out with the power behind the swing. Haruhi was sure they were playing, but as the fight continued, even she was starting to feel a little unsure.
Fifteen minutes later and the twins were still at it. Breathing hard, neither one would relent and they kept swinging. The others in the room almost got hit a few times, and that included Kyoya (dear reader, he was already plotting revenge).
"Do you feel the bonds of brotherhood returning?" The grin on Tamaki's face told everyone how proud of himself he was.
The others, on the other hand, were currently hiding behind one of the area rugs still hanging on the clothesline. Actually, Tamaki was as well since Satoshi pulled him out of the way of a wild swing before he lost his head. To everyone except the blond, this was brother bonding time gone terribly wrong…even if it was an act put on by the devilish twins. Something needed to be done, and quickly.
"Haruhi, since you were the ones that stopped them the last time, you should be the one to control them this time as well," Kyoya ordered.
"Me? Why not you, Kyoya-senpai?" She regretted talking back to him the moment the words left her mouth.
"It was Satoshi's stupid list, he should be the one to stop those idiots!" Chika volunteered his cousin.
"That list is not stupid!" Satoshi glared at his best friend.
"That's what you got out of that?" Haruhi deadpanned.
Rolling his eyes, Satoshi grabbed his spare shinai and stomped towards the battling brothers. As both Hikaru and Kaoru swung, he swung his own shinai, blocking their swings.
Golden eyes blinked and then turned towards the person holding the third shinai.
"Enough. Don't make me use this on you because I will!" The second Morinozuka son growled.
"We're not Yasuchika," Hikaru smirked.
"Nope!" Kaoru snickered.
As one, both twins, pulled back their arms and were about to swing at their kohai, but they stopped and grabbed their heads before they could manage to do any damage. Spinning around, they found Haruhi holding another shinai. "Stop it you two! This all started out as fun and games, but you took it too far! Now drop your shinais or you'll get it."
"What? Are you going to beat us up?" Hikaru mocked.
She shook her head and smiled, "No, I won't have to. I'll let Hunny-senpai do it."
Twin eyes darted towards the door where they found the two members who had previously graduated standing there. The shinais they were holding clattered to the ground as their arms wrapped around each other.
Sniffling, Kaoru cried, "Oh Hikaru, I'm so sorry!"
"Kaoru, you're the only one for me!" Hikaru cried out.
Tamaki crossing his arms over his chest and said, "See, it worked!" A moment later he was struck in the head when four shinais were thrown at him.