Ouran High School Host Club Fan Fiction ❯ The Solitary Twin ❯ Clashing Tempers ( Chapter 9 )
[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
By: MirrorsO1984 
Anime/Manga: Ouran High School Host Club Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Hentai / Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 05.10.2011 | Pages: 4 | Words: 5.6K | Visits: 581 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Ouran High School Host Club Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Hentai / Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 05.10.2011 | Pages: 4 | Words: 5.6K | Visits: 581 | Status: Completed
Warning: Hika/Kao/Etsu-abuse/angst, long-chapter.
Chapter 8
"Now why did you go ahead and do that for, Kaoru? We were about to expose her."
That was what Hikaru had said a little after he had interrupted Etsu's ministrations on him.
At present, sitting in class Kaoru couldn't keep a wince from his face at recalling what had happened a couple of days prior. He didn't know what had gotten into him when Etsu had begun pleasuring Hikaru with her hand. Somehow the sight of his brother's shocked yet aroused expression had made him feel ill, especially since it was her that had been making him feel that way.
That was why he had fumbled with the cellphone in his pocket, making the ringer go off so everything would be put to a end.
Everything had felt wrong to him. The sensation of wrongness had been emphasized when he saw a flicker of relief combined with smugness in Etsu's lifeless gaze the instant his cellphone had rung. Though she was good in being an iceblock, she had been as happy as he was for the interruption.
Hikaru in the other hand hadn't been as happy, mostly because of how easily Etsu brushed off the incident as if nothing had occured between them. The girl was obviously an expert in forgetting about things or at least playing it off like such things didn't matter to her.
However, Kaoru knew the true reasn why Hikaru's hatred towards the girl had grown.
She made them feel worthless. Neither of them were used to being ignored and belittled. Even girls that held grudges towards them in the past for making them cry hadn't been that coolly hostile.
One thing for certain is that we were pressuring her to do something. That's probably why it didn't feel right.
If they had gone further, it would have been rape. He wasn't trying to exagerate his thoughts on this, but that was how he had seen things. They hadn't wanted to do it and neither did she... so his cowardly escape had been fully justifiable.
That was what he kept telling himself to take the sting of her indifference away.
From the corner of his eyes, he saw Hikaru glaring somewhere in front of the class while their teacher droned on about philosophy. He knew he was shooting daggers with his frigid glower at the calm girl taking notes. She hadn't looked at them once that morning; they might as well have been furniture from all the acknowledgement she gave.
To make matters worse, their mother had to 'surprise' them by leaving to Prague earlier that day. She rarely stayed for more than a week or two before disappearing off to some far-flung destination. Their father was no different... well he stayed for even shorter periods of time.
The continous absence of their parents along with the negativity Etsu kept stirring up had been making a difficult situation tougher than it was supposed to be.
Though Hikaru might not have noticed, Kaoru had figured out on his own their mother's insistence in dealing with Sakoi Exports. The company not only focused on exporting, but on creating international contracts via proxy, meaning that if all turned out well their mother would no longer have to leave Japan.
It should have made him happy but her future prolonged presence could threaten his unconventional relationship with Hikaru. Due to her not being around, their mother spoiled them and didn't question whatever outrageous purchases they made and what they did while she was gone. If she stayed longer, she would know just how close they really were.
With that impending danger and Etsu's knowing of their secret, Kaoru couldn't help feeling as if she had them cornered, regardless of the fact that she hadn't voiced any demands for her silence.
What could she be thinking?
All he could see of her was her back turned, with her waist length hair hiding most of her pale face. Nothing else. He couldn't even see what possible expression she might have if there had been any to begin with...
He shuddered visibly in his seat. It was hard for him to believe that such a detached person had the capacity of being so openly sexual to just turn around without a second glance or word. He would have expected her to a least show a bit of discomfort with the intimate experience.
***
All was right in the world. Etsu had never been happier. For the last couple of nights, she had been sleeping with a guilt-free conscience.
Perfection at its finest! I'm so thrilled!
The only thing that kept her from showing glee were the burnholes the twins had been boring into her back since class had started. That minor annoyance just told her that they weren't giving up on tormenting her as she had first hoped.
The teacher speaking in front of the class stuttered for the hundreth time. It was obvious that his nervousness had stemmed from the occasional evil little sneers that kept popping up on her lips.
I can't stop!, Her smirk showed up again and as she expected the teacher paled so much to the point that she thought he would faint. She knew it wasn't nice of her to frighten the poor teacher, but it wasn't her fault that all of her smiles came out so evil looking.
Wreaking havoc always satisfied her. Sometimes it even aroused her to scare people off, which explained why she was feeling so dastardly euphoric that day.
Accomplishing a 'mission' was absolutely beautiful, especially if she had regained some of her beloved solitude. Back in England she'd had no other choice but to socialize. It was her dumb luck that she had met some girls that weren't half as annoying as everyone else, so it had become bearable once her peers had grown accostumed to her odd behavioural quirks.
Those two know how to glare!, It took some effort to avoid fidgeting nervously. She was used to people disliking her for her rebuffing attitude, yet having those two pairs of smoldering eyes fulminating the back of her head as if willing it to explode was putting her on edge. She couldn't fathom why their stares bothered her so much...
Well... I did kind of jerk one of them off.
A grimace of distaste crossed her features at the ghastly memory. She did have some limits to her 'act' and playing with Hikaru had to be the most embarassing moment of her entire life. Since a young age, she had always prided herself on being open-minded, hence explaining why nothing really shocked her, yet doing something like what she had done to him went beyond.
Thinking about it now, she could still feel his supple half-hardened flesh becoming stiffer and warming, elongating and thickening as it throbbed to life in her palm. She had touched other boys, but never quite like that. To be fully honest, she had been going by simple theory more than anything.
Gentle kneading and up and down motions. It wasn't supposed to be that damned difficult. A penis was a organ that filled with blood, growing erect and larger in arousal; nothing out of the ordinary.
But I did that to him!, Trying to think scientifically wasn't helping her forget about it. The fact that he had been in her hand also reminded her how he had used that part of himself on his twin. Knowing that they both seemed to like girls in some level had been enough for her to guess what he wanted to do to her with that thing.
The twins were dangerous. They were not remotely similar to the virginal shy gentlemanly boys she had experimented with in the past. She doubted that they would settle for simple heavy petting and kisses. From what they had shown her so far, they didn't have an ounce of restraint and perhaps had already gone 'all the way' with a number of girls.
To put it bluntly... If they hadn't stopped, she would have been in real trouble.
The suspiciously convenient intervening ringing of Kaoru's cellphone had thankfully saved her of more terror. No one in their right mind would be alright with sharing his lover and that was what she had been targeting with her shameless actions, though it had come as a surprise how disappointed they'd seemed when she calmly dressed and didn't speak of what had been about to take place.
They sure contradict themselves, but I don't think I can continue teasing them like this... I'm giving them the wrong idea... I've never even had sex before for crying out loud.
The truth had her blanching at just how close she had gotten to losing her virginity. She, though people didn't believe it, did have a spontanious streak but having sex for the first time with two boys, and twins for that matter, bordered on the obscene. In fact if made her feel dirty to have considered doing it since she didn't like the bothersome pests.
I barely know them and I've already kissed and touched that smartass Hikaru and let Kaoru undress me! It's no wonder they think I'm a slut!
Shuddering at the bad impression she had dumbly given the demons, a smirk then began to appear on her lips unexpectedly once more. Many had deemed her as evil for her way of thinking, but she had been observing her 'enemies' for quite some time ever since they had begun their stupid futile little games. It would be downright lax of her to not keep a close eye on them just in case they tried another revenge tactic.
Everyday when she came to school she would see a bevy of blushing squealing yaoi fangirls around them and how the twins played it off like they actually had an interest on the bimbos. Etsu guessed that it was because of being members at the host club, but what truly amused her of their falseness was how much like exotic animals attempting to look human they appeared to be by flirting with the opposite sex. It was by far the funniest thing to her.
However, her smirk faltered.
This is starting to get bad... They won't have anything to lose, but me? I have plenty...
She was prideful. Everyone that had come in contact with her didn't insult her coldness or rudeness, but her pride in specific; that was her main flaw other than her explosive temper. She never liked admitting when she was wrong or that she couldn't handle any and all situations. Perhaps it was her independence and the fact that she had only herself as a rolemodel after her mother had tossed her away at a boarding school that had made her look at people as idiotic puppets she could manipulate and harm without remorse.
The sensation of their eyes on her was unsettling to her and the eerie skin-crawling sensation was driving her insane since those bastards had more staying power than all of her other victims.
Angered by them, she looked over her shoulder and met eyes with one of the exasperating monsters.
Kaoru..., Strangely, unlike someone with some sense would have done, he didn't look away from her and managed to hold her gaze without blanching.
She could tell them apart easily now. That particular twins' eyes always appeared softer, showing a hint of mellow rationale that clashed with the lively sharpness of Hikaru. She couldn't get why other girls hadn't seen that subtle difference, just like they couldn't tell Fujioka was a girl.
It's so obvious. What kind of 'boy' uses strawberry scented bodywash and has such girly hands? The moment she touched me I knew that she was girl. The air in Ouran must be infected with stupidity for people to not notice something as obvious as that., Being suspicious of all people that came in contact with her had made her especially observant of all of the physical and behaviour characteristics that person had. After the first two days in Ouran, she had already tagged every person with a unique trait that set them apart. The teacher was a wimp, Fujioka oblivious and conforming, the fat kid sitting next to her a smelly beavis, the girl behind her had asthma judging by her sometimes uneven breathing and the twins... Those two had yet to be fully read because as far as she had seen they liked to fake everything from their 'tame brotherly love act' to how open they had been in letting her 'play' with them. That made them far too unpredictable for her liking. They had even surprised her a couple of times which was more than other 'victims' could say.
He's nervous., she noted with mild interested when Kaoru's cheeks began to redden.
Dismissing him, in spite of the awkward moment of locked stares, she turned around to continue feigning listening to what the teacher was saying.
If someone thought that she was being just straight evil minded towards the boys, they were wrong because what made her react so negatively towards them was they kept fueling a petty little school feud. They should have given up on her already like she had given up on them from the first day.
Etsu had always made it a point to not waste her time on meaningless pursuits. If they wanted to keep playing, they would have to do it by themselves without involving her.
***
"Are you still mad about that?" Hikaru stiffened at his brother's question as they walked through the hallway on their way to class after the first break time.
"No, I'm not mad," he lied and felt a hint of annoyance at how Kaoru's perceptive eyes studied the side of his face. "I just wish she weren't so smug about it." The last part was said to smooth over his nervousness at being so readable to his twin.
She ignores us like we're nothing., That was what frustrated him the most about Etsu. She acted like they were no threat; something that could be easily brushed aside.
"You know we could try again."
Blood drained from his face at what Kaoru's words conjured up in his head. He didn't think he could take it for another round of 'playing' with the girl. What had happened at their house that one day had made issues he had never had problems with surface. He was disgusted that the simple way she had calmly dressed had him doubting himself.
That girl just doesn't care about the people she hurts. It's like she's dead inside.
"I doubt that she gives a crap one way or the other," he couldn't say that he wanted to end the game. At least not yet since the problem with Etsu's indifference was what kept irritating him. It was true that she didn't do anything to them at school, but the few times they had talked to her had been nearly devasting.
Nothing they did was working on her, like she was immune by twisting their game around and making them lose in it. That had never happened before and he'd be cursed if he was about to let it continue on that way.
"Hikaru, just because she acts inhuman doesn't mean she has no weakness... We just have to find out what that weakness is," hearing the lightness in his brother's tone, he looked at him and saw a slight smile on his face.
I've never wanted to hurt someone so much., That fact was what scared him. The way she toyed with them and made them feel beaten was a foreign experience. It was as if her negativity was contagious. Just when he thought that the game was getting boring, she had to do something to make it interesting again. He knew that she wasn't even trying to keep their interest alive, but she still did it.
Then there was the sure way she had touched him. He had even felt embarassed by it because of how stunned he had been. His surprise had been so intense that his body had frozen still with all rebuffing words silenced in his mouth as she had made him harden fully. He wouldn't have minded having her stimulating him if it hadn't been for his dislike towards her.
What could have been a pleasurable experience had been far too strange and awkward to be enjoyed because of her coldness. She might as well have been stroking a unfeeling pole for all the excitement she showed.
Sensing that Kaoru had stopped walking beside him, he frowned and glanced at him to see that he was staring at something off in a distance.
Following his eyes, he nearly snarled at seeing the infuriating iceblock Etsu walking carelessly towards their classroom door. Like always, she didn't show any signs of knowing they were standing there staring at her.
Only seeing the side of her fine girlish face and vacant eyes had him feeling as if his insides were about to combust at the slightest of things.
I'm going to put an end to this bullshit today! We're going to straighten things out and stop all of this!
Not giving his brother a fair warning, he rushed towards the girl. He didn't use hurried steps. No, he ran up to her, surprising both her and Kaoru that called out his name.
Grabbing the top of her arm, he said sharply, "We need to talk!" The widening of her eyes should have been a small victory since she barely displayed any expressions at all, but at the moment he didn't care if she showed anything to him.
"For your information, class has just started. Let go of my arm," regaining some of her icy composure, her dulled stare had a sharp threatening edge that only appeared when she was angry. He had noticed that about her. Her eyes always gave bits of what she was thinking given certain moments.
"Does it look like I care?!"
Narrowing that slightly irritated stare of hers, she pulled at the arm he had grasped and then frowned when he only tightened his grip.
Now her brow arched as she cooly glanced at Kaoru.
"You seem a bit smarter than your boyfriend, could you please tell him to leave me the hell alone?" the soft balanced tone she used was what made him snap.
He yanked at her arm, twisting his fingers in the process, hard enough to make a surprised squeak leave her as her startled eyes met his with fear.
Finally, some emotion!
She protested when he spun her body around and away from the classroom door. Vaguely, he heard his brother's questioningly calling out his name, but his fury had blinded him too much to listen. He wanted to end things and move on already and the only way to do it was by asking 'why?' It wasn't too much to ask, was it? To want to know why she treated them like crap before ever truly knowing them. To ask why she toyed with them and their feelings for each other, because he had noticed that she liked pushing their buttons by being sexually suggestive, purposely making them feel jealousy and uncertainty.
He already knew where to shout out these questions and already knowing the school by heart, he dragged the violently cursing girl through the hallways and out of the school altogether.
Damn does she have a mouth on her!
"You shit-eating abusive little motherfucker! Let me go right now!"
Having his ears reddened by the endless string of profanities that even he never would have used, he only stopped their violent walk once they reached the fountain just outside. Sick and tired of touching her, he not only let go of her probably bruised arm, but pushed her into a sitting position into a set of steps leading into the maze.
Hitting the ground hard, she stared up at him in disbelief while quickly rubbing the arm he had gripped so tightly on their way there.
"Hikaru! What's gotten into you?! We could get in trouble for this!" remembering his brother's presence, he shot him a sideways glance.
"I know we can get in trouble for it, but we aren't going back," he angrily pointed at the building looming beyond the maze behind Etsu's back,"in there until she tells us what crawled up her ass and made her such a bitch!"
Understanding what he meant, Kaoru closed his mouth, stilling any possible chastising words for his actions.
Taking a deep harsh breath, he glared down at the slip of a girl that had started all of that trouble to begin with.
"So?! Got anything to say for yourself?! Because if you don't have anything to say, I'll make sure none of us go back into the school until you tell us what your damned problem is!"
Blinking, Etsu straightened her back, taking away the soothing hand she had been rubbing on her injured forearm to fold it together with her other hand over her lap in a disgustingly ladylike manner. He seethed inwardly when her pale doll-like face became relaxed and icy.
This girl... She's two-faced., One moment she was a practiced seductress, the next as frigid as a blizzard and in other moments she was a cursing harpy.
His glare became a look of disbelief at seeing the transformation happening before his eyes.
How couldn't I have noticed that before?! It was right in my face!
"Just who the hell are you right now, Etsu-chan?" his voice had an odd tremble as some discomfort briefly crossed her composed features.
"I am who I've always been, Hitachiin Hikaru. You just happened to piss me off. How foolish of you to push my limits so callously. What would your fans say if they saw you behaving like this towards a young helpless girl?" was her soft reply.
"You're anything but helpless!" he spat and he didn't need to look at Kaoru to see that he had flinched at his tone.
I'm losing it.
"Kaoru, I suggest you take care of your brother's frazzled nerves, I think he's close to a nervous breakdown. We wouldn't want that, would we? It would be greatly disgraceful for the both of you," he could have sworn there was some amusement in those words, though her face didn't show any.
"Hikaru...?" his brother's presence neared his side. "It's pointless dealing with her..."
That was when he saw the slightest twitch on the corner of Etsu's unsmiling lips.
So this is what she has been after this whole time?! Why the hell is she making us go through all this shit for something as stupid as that?!
"You don't have anything personal against us, do you?"
She didn't answer that, keeping herself flawlessly impassive.
"You said something about twins that first day. You were kind of mad towards us for some reason and said we were offending twins," Kaoru was the one to speak and at this Etsu's calm face blanched as she nervously reached out to that same heartshaped locket she had been so lovingly touching that day.
"It's twins, isn't it?!" Hikaru couldn't keep a malicious smile from his face.
"Class has started," though pale, she didn't show any other signs of cracking.
A weakness... A weakness..., his eyes went for the locket that she still held between her white little fingers.
As if realizing that he was staring at her involuntary actions, her fidgeting hand abandoned the locket, letting it drop to the top of her chest like something she had promptly forgotten.
That thing obviously meant something important to her and because of the growing confusion and anger she brought up in him, he didn't care if he was being too harsh on her.
He rushed to her only to snatch the little white-gold heart. She flinched and tried to move back but all it did was help snap the fragile little chain that held the locket.
GOT IT!
Etsu stared at him as if he had ripped her own heart out when he stepped back and smiled triumphantly at her, dangling the locket from its ripped chain like it were a pendelum from his fist.
"Looks like I've found our innocent Etsu-chan's Achille's Heel!" he sneered
Due to not knowing all of the hidden facets of Etsu, her violent reaction came as a shocker to both him and Kaoru.
"YOU'RE GOING TO REGRET DOING THAT!" accompanying those bellowed words, the girl's surprisingly strong yet small form shot out towards him. She took advantage of his shock and the element of surprise to knock him flat on his back, her furious little body viciously tearing at him.
HOLYSHIT! THIS GIRL HAS GONE PSYCHO!
Hikaru couldn't say that Etsu was an able fighter, but what she lacked in skill was made up by her viciousness and determination.
An angry small used-to seem harmless feminine hand yanked at his hair so fiercely that he feared that she would tear his scalp at the forceful pulling. Her free hand was too busy clawing at the fist he held the locket, the apple of discord, in. She was most desperate about getting it out of his grasp.
"GIVE IT BACK! GIVE IT BACK!" he could have sworn there was actual sorrow in her shouts as her nails raked at his knuckles.
"LET GO OF HIM!"
KAORU!
Her slight weight was almost lifted off him until she wrapped her legs around his hips to keep from being pulled away. In spite of being such a tiny girl, she was a lot stronger than she appeared to be. Hikaru could feel it in the muscles of the legs squeezing him for dear life. Unfortunately, Kaoru's attempts of saving him had the fist on his hair twisting hard enough to make him shout.
I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAVE TO FIGHT A GIRL!, Gritting his teeth at the pain she causing, he let go of some of his pride and began to shove her off by slamming the palm of his empty hand against her chest.
She gasped, but still stubbornly held, even though he was firmly pushing at her. Clearly wanting to punish him for hitting her, her fist gave a long hard pull that had him feel some of his hair being yanked out.
SHE'S REALLY TRYING TO MAKE ME BALD!
From the way Kaoru had both arms wrapped aroung her waist, and how he pushed at her chest, her locked strong legs actually lifted his lower body off the ground with every upward pulling his younger brother did of her body.
Etsu was the very meaning of 'pissed off'. Screeching and tugging angrily at his poor abused scalp, she was lost to the rage he had stupidly brought out in her. He would have never expected her to have such a explosive comeback. He would have expected her to yell, or to say some frigid comment, anything but what she was doing in that precise moment.
Unbeknownst to them, a crowd that had perhaps heard the yelling had come out to watch and murmur amongst themselves in shock over what was taking place between the three on them on the grassy ground.
ETSU HAS TO BE A DEMON! IT'S NOT NORMAL FOR A GIRL TO BE THIS STRONG!, either that or her anger had given her the strength to take them both on.
"WHAT'S THIS?! THE THREE OF YOU STOP THIS AT ONCE!"
Her death-grip on his hair finally loosened, much to his relief. Just having her letting go off him had his whole head burning sharply as she let herself be pulled off by a worried pale-faced Kaoru.
Once she was standing, she pulled herself away from Kaoru that seemed to be happy to be freed of the contact. Her cool eyes looked ahead of her at the older man that had shouted, and ended their bizarre tug of war.
Swallowing, his eyes wide in disbelief over what had just happened, he looked at the fist that she had abused. The locket he had ripped from her chest was still held tightly within his grasp.
"Please... give it back to me...," his face hardened at her low request. She hadn't even looked at him... Not even a goddamned apology for jumping on him like a bratty girl. No... All she cared about was getting the blasted locket back.
"Hikaru! Kaoru!" he snapped his head in direction of the all too familiar voice and nearly yelped at all of the silent witnesses that stared at them in amazement.
Everyone... saw that..., All of the people that took class with them were there, as well as their teachers... But the one that had called out their names in a tone full of shock had been Tamaki that stared at them as if they had committed the most hideous crime in history. In fact, all of the Host Club had seen what had transpired.
This... This doesn't look good, does it?
The man that had shouted at them to stop, obviously the principal designated to the high school building, stared hard at them. He gave each one of them, including the serenely put together Etsu a hard stare.
"The three of you... My office now."
All this fuss for a locket., Giving a glance at the thing that had made Etsu reach such a breaking point, he clenched his jaw and reluctantly sat up on the ground without looking at the girl that was probably waiting for the little piece of jewelry.
Not giving her a glance, he wordlessly held out his hand, letting the locket swing from his fingers. He didn't need to be told that Etsu took hold of it, accepting it back in her possession.
It was a damn shame though, because as he let his eyes flicker to her small fist closing around the broken chain with it's mysterious closed heart, he regretted one thing...
Not knowing what was so protectively hidden inside of it.
***
A/N: Mills! Lovely Mills! I'm so happy that you found me here! Yay! Well, I'm posting this nutsy stuff here for archiving. In AFF it's gotten quite a number of hits and 18 five-star rates for being just a couple of chapters, mostly when people are mature enough to read summaries and understand this isn't typical yaoi! You know though that you can get email notifications by becoming a member (even if its just for getting updates). I'm planning a threesome for the next chap (sorry for leading you on with filler). I don't know if I should do any Tamaki/Haruhi scenes in here. What do you guys think? And Mills, don't go crazy on me! I know you're a yaoi/bi boy fangirl!
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Chapter 8
"Now why did you go ahead and do that for, Kaoru? We were about to expose her."
That was what Hikaru had said a little after he had interrupted Etsu's ministrations on him.
At present, sitting in class Kaoru couldn't keep a wince from his face at recalling what had happened a couple of days prior. He didn't know what had gotten into him when Etsu had begun pleasuring Hikaru with her hand. Somehow the sight of his brother's shocked yet aroused expression had made him feel ill, especially since it was her that had been making him feel that way.
That was why he had fumbled with the cellphone in his pocket, making the ringer go off so everything would be put to a end.
Everything had felt wrong to him. The sensation of wrongness had been emphasized when he saw a flicker of relief combined with smugness in Etsu's lifeless gaze the instant his cellphone had rung. Though she was good in being an iceblock, she had been as happy as he was for the interruption.
Hikaru in the other hand hadn't been as happy, mostly because of how easily Etsu brushed off the incident as if nothing had occured between them. The girl was obviously an expert in forgetting about things or at least playing it off like such things didn't matter to her.
However, Kaoru knew the true reasn why Hikaru's hatred towards the girl had grown.
She made them feel worthless. Neither of them were used to being ignored and belittled. Even girls that held grudges towards them in the past for making them cry hadn't been that coolly hostile.
One thing for certain is that we were pressuring her to do something. That's probably why it didn't feel right.
If they had gone further, it would have been rape. He wasn't trying to exagerate his thoughts on this, but that was how he had seen things. They hadn't wanted to do it and neither did she... so his cowardly escape had been fully justifiable.
That was what he kept telling himself to take the sting of her indifference away.
From the corner of his eyes, he saw Hikaru glaring somewhere in front of the class while their teacher droned on about philosophy. He knew he was shooting daggers with his frigid glower at the calm girl taking notes. She hadn't looked at them once that morning; they might as well have been furniture from all the acknowledgement she gave.
To make matters worse, their mother had to 'surprise' them by leaving to Prague earlier that day. She rarely stayed for more than a week or two before disappearing off to some far-flung destination. Their father was no different... well he stayed for even shorter periods of time.
The continous absence of their parents along with the negativity Etsu kept stirring up had been making a difficult situation tougher than it was supposed to be.
Though Hikaru might not have noticed, Kaoru had figured out on his own their mother's insistence in dealing with Sakoi Exports. The company not only focused on exporting, but on creating international contracts via proxy, meaning that if all turned out well their mother would no longer have to leave Japan.
It should have made him happy but her future prolonged presence could threaten his unconventional relationship with Hikaru. Due to her not being around, their mother spoiled them and didn't question whatever outrageous purchases they made and what they did while she was gone. If she stayed longer, she would know just how close they really were.
With that impending danger and Etsu's knowing of their secret, Kaoru couldn't help feeling as if she had them cornered, regardless of the fact that she hadn't voiced any demands for her silence.
What could she be thinking?
All he could see of her was her back turned, with her waist length hair hiding most of her pale face. Nothing else. He couldn't even see what possible expression she might have if there had been any to begin with...
He shuddered visibly in his seat. It was hard for him to believe that such a detached person had the capacity of being so openly sexual to just turn around without a second glance or word. He would have expected her to a least show a bit of discomfort with the intimate experience.
***
All was right in the world. Etsu had never been happier. For the last couple of nights, she had been sleeping with a guilt-free conscience.
Perfection at its finest! I'm so thrilled!
The only thing that kept her from showing glee were the burnholes the twins had been boring into her back since class had started. That minor annoyance just told her that they weren't giving up on tormenting her as she had first hoped.
The teacher speaking in front of the class stuttered for the hundreth time. It was obvious that his nervousness had stemmed from the occasional evil little sneers that kept popping up on her lips.
I can't stop!, Her smirk showed up again and as she expected the teacher paled so much to the point that she thought he would faint. She knew it wasn't nice of her to frighten the poor teacher, but it wasn't her fault that all of her smiles came out so evil looking.
Wreaking havoc always satisfied her. Sometimes it even aroused her to scare people off, which explained why she was feeling so dastardly euphoric that day.
Accomplishing a 'mission' was absolutely beautiful, especially if she had regained some of her beloved solitude. Back in England she'd had no other choice but to socialize. It was her dumb luck that she had met some girls that weren't half as annoying as everyone else, so it had become bearable once her peers had grown accostumed to her odd behavioural quirks.
Those two know how to glare!, It took some effort to avoid fidgeting nervously. She was used to people disliking her for her rebuffing attitude, yet having those two pairs of smoldering eyes fulminating the back of her head as if willing it to explode was putting her on edge. She couldn't fathom why their stares bothered her so much...
Well... I did kind of jerk one of them off.
A grimace of distaste crossed her features at the ghastly memory. She did have some limits to her 'act' and playing with Hikaru had to be the most embarassing moment of her entire life. Since a young age, she had always prided herself on being open-minded, hence explaining why nothing really shocked her, yet doing something like what she had done to him went beyond.
Thinking about it now, she could still feel his supple half-hardened flesh becoming stiffer and warming, elongating and thickening as it throbbed to life in her palm. She had touched other boys, but never quite like that. To be fully honest, she had been going by simple theory more than anything.
Gentle kneading and up and down motions. It wasn't supposed to be that damned difficult. A penis was a organ that filled with blood, growing erect and larger in arousal; nothing out of the ordinary.
But I did that to him!, Trying to think scientifically wasn't helping her forget about it. The fact that he had been in her hand also reminded her how he had used that part of himself on his twin. Knowing that they both seemed to like girls in some level had been enough for her to guess what he wanted to do to her with that thing.
The twins were dangerous. They were not remotely similar to the virginal shy gentlemanly boys she had experimented with in the past. She doubted that they would settle for simple heavy petting and kisses. From what they had shown her so far, they didn't have an ounce of restraint and perhaps had already gone 'all the way' with a number of girls.
To put it bluntly... If they hadn't stopped, she would have been in real trouble.
The suspiciously convenient intervening ringing of Kaoru's cellphone had thankfully saved her of more terror. No one in their right mind would be alright with sharing his lover and that was what she had been targeting with her shameless actions, though it had come as a surprise how disappointed they'd seemed when she calmly dressed and didn't speak of what had been about to take place.
They sure contradict themselves, but I don't think I can continue teasing them like this... I'm giving them the wrong idea... I've never even had sex before for crying out loud.
The truth had her blanching at just how close she had gotten to losing her virginity. She, though people didn't believe it, did have a spontanious streak but having sex for the first time with two boys, and twins for that matter, bordered on the obscene. In fact if made her feel dirty to have considered doing it since she didn't like the bothersome pests.
I barely know them and I've already kissed and touched that smartass Hikaru and let Kaoru undress me! It's no wonder they think I'm a slut!
Shuddering at the bad impression she had dumbly given the demons, a smirk then began to appear on her lips unexpectedly once more. Many had deemed her as evil for her way of thinking, but she had been observing her 'enemies' for quite some time ever since they had begun their stupid futile little games. It would be downright lax of her to not keep a close eye on them just in case they tried another revenge tactic.
Everyday when she came to school she would see a bevy of blushing squealing yaoi fangirls around them and how the twins played it off like they actually had an interest on the bimbos. Etsu guessed that it was because of being members at the host club, but what truly amused her of their falseness was how much like exotic animals attempting to look human they appeared to be by flirting with the opposite sex. It was by far the funniest thing to her.
However, her smirk faltered.
This is starting to get bad... They won't have anything to lose, but me? I have plenty...
She was prideful. Everyone that had come in contact with her didn't insult her coldness or rudeness, but her pride in specific; that was her main flaw other than her explosive temper. She never liked admitting when she was wrong or that she couldn't handle any and all situations. Perhaps it was her independence and the fact that she had only herself as a rolemodel after her mother had tossed her away at a boarding school that had made her look at people as idiotic puppets she could manipulate and harm without remorse.
The sensation of their eyes on her was unsettling to her and the eerie skin-crawling sensation was driving her insane since those bastards had more staying power than all of her other victims.
Angered by them, she looked over her shoulder and met eyes with one of the exasperating monsters.
Kaoru..., Strangely, unlike someone with some sense would have done, he didn't look away from her and managed to hold her gaze without blanching.
She could tell them apart easily now. That particular twins' eyes always appeared softer, showing a hint of mellow rationale that clashed with the lively sharpness of Hikaru. She couldn't get why other girls hadn't seen that subtle difference, just like they couldn't tell Fujioka was a girl.
It's so obvious. What kind of 'boy' uses strawberry scented bodywash and has such girly hands? The moment she touched me I knew that she was girl. The air in Ouran must be infected with stupidity for people to not notice something as obvious as that., Being suspicious of all people that came in contact with her had made her especially observant of all of the physical and behaviour characteristics that person had. After the first two days in Ouran, she had already tagged every person with a unique trait that set them apart. The teacher was a wimp, Fujioka oblivious and conforming, the fat kid sitting next to her a smelly beavis, the girl behind her had asthma judging by her sometimes uneven breathing and the twins... Those two had yet to be fully read because as far as she had seen they liked to fake everything from their 'tame brotherly love act' to how open they had been in letting her 'play' with them. That made them far too unpredictable for her liking. They had even surprised her a couple of times which was more than other 'victims' could say.
He's nervous., she noted with mild interested when Kaoru's cheeks began to redden.
Dismissing him, in spite of the awkward moment of locked stares, she turned around to continue feigning listening to what the teacher was saying.
If someone thought that she was being just straight evil minded towards the boys, they were wrong because what made her react so negatively towards them was they kept fueling a petty little school feud. They should have given up on her already like she had given up on them from the first day.
Etsu had always made it a point to not waste her time on meaningless pursuits. If they wanted to keep playing, they would have to do it by themselves without involving her.
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"Are you still mad about that?" Hikaru stiffened at his brother's question as they walked through the hallway on their way to class after the first break time.
"No, I'm not mad," he lied and felt a hint of annoyance at how Kaoru's perceptive eyes studied the side of his face. "I just wish she weren't so smug about it." The last part was said to smooth over his nervousness at being so readable to his twin.
She ignores us like we're nothing., That was what frustrated him the most about Etsu. She acted like they were no threat; something that could be easily brushed aside.
"You know we could try again."
Blood drained from his face at what Kaoru's words conjured up in his head. He didn't think he could take it for another round of 'playing' with the girl. What had happened at their house that one day had made issues he had never had problems with surface. He was disgusted that the simple way she had calmly dressed had him doubting himself.
That girl just doesn't care about the people she hurts. It's like she's dead inside.
"I doubt that she gives a crap one way or the other," he couldn't say that he wanted to end the game. At least not yet since the problem with Etsu's indifference was what kept irritating him. It was true that she didn't do anything to them at school, but the few times they had talked to her had been nearly devasting.
Nothing they did was working on her, like she was immune by twisting their game around and making them lose in it. That had never happened before and he'd be cursed if he was about to let it continue on that way.
"Hikaru, just because she acts inhuman doesn't mean she has no weakness... We just have to find out what that weakness is," hearing the lightness in his brother's tone, he looked at him and saw a slight smile on his face.
I've never wanted to hurt someone so much., That fact was what scared him. The way she toyed with them and made them feel beaten was a foreign experience. It was as if her negativity was contagious. Just when he thought that the game was getting boring, she had to do something to make it interesting again. He knew that she wasn't even trying to keep their interest alive, but she still did it.
Then there was the sure way she had touched him. He had even felt embarassed by it because of how stunned he had been. His surprise had been so intense that his body had frozen still with all rebuffing words silenced in his mouth as she had made him harden fully. He wouldn't have minded having her stimulating him if it hadn't been for his dislike towards her.
What could have been a pleasurable experience had been far too strange and awkward to be enjoyed because of her coldness. She might as well have been stroking a unfeeling pole for all the excitement she showed.
Sensing that Kaoru had stopped walking beside him, he frowned and glanced at him to see that he was staring at something off in a distance.
Following his eyes, he nearly snarled at seeing the infuriating iceblock Etsu walking carelessly towards their classroom door. Like always, she didn't show any signs of knowing they were standing there staring at her.
Only seeing the side of her fine girlish face and vacant eyes had him feeling as if his insides were about to combust at the slightest of things.
I'm going to put an end to this bullshit today! We're going to straighten things out and stop all of this!
Not giving his brother a fair warning, he rushed towards the girl. He didn't use hurried steps. No, he ran up to her, surprising both her and Kaoru that called out his name.
Grabbing the top of her arm, he said sharply, "We need to talk!" The widening of her eyes should have been a small victory since she barely displayed any expressions at all, but at the moment he didn't care if she showed anything to him.
"For your information, class has just started. Let go of my arm," regaining some of her icy composure, her dulled stare had a sharp threatening edge that only appeared when she was angry. He had noticed that about her. Her eyes always gave bits of what she was thinking given certain moments.
"Does it look like I care?!"
Narrowing that slightly irritated stare of hers, she pulled at the arm he had grasped and then frowned when he only tightened his grip.
Now her brow arched as she cooly glanced at Kaoru.
"You seem a bit smarter than your boyfriend, could you please tell him to leave me the hell alone?" the soft balanced tone she used was what made him snap.
He yanked at her arm, twisting his fingers in the process, hard enough to make a surprised squeak leave her as her startled eyes met his with fear.
Finally, some emotion!
She protested when he spun her body around and away from the classroom door. Vaguely, he heard his brother's questioningly calling out his name, but his fury had blinded him too much to listen. He wanted to end things and move on already and the only way to do it was by asking 'why?' It wasn't too much to ask, was it? To want to know why she treated them like crap before ever truly knowing them. To ask why she toyed with them and their feelings for each other, because he had noticed that she liked pushing their buttons by being sexually suggestive, purposely making them feel jealousy and uncertainty.
He already knew where to shout out these questions and already knowing the school by heart, he dragged the violently cursing girl through the hallways and out of the school altogether.
Damn does she have a mouth on her!
"You shit-eating abusive little motherfucker! Let me go right now!"
Having his ears reddened by the endless string of profanities that even he never would have used, he only stopped their violent walk once they reached the fountain just outside. Sick and tired of touching her, he not only let go of her probably bruised arm, but pushed her into a sitting position into a set of steps leading into the maze.
Hitting the ground hard, she stared up at him in disbelief while quickly rubbing the arm he had gripped so tightly on their way there.
"Hikaru! What's gotten into you?! We could get in trouble for this!" remembering his brother's presence, he shot him a sideways glance.
"I know we can get in trouble for it, but we aren't going back," he angrily pointed at the building looming beyond the maze behind Etsu's back,"in there until she tells us what crawled up her ass and made her such a bitch!"
Understanding what he meant, Kaoru closed his mouth, stilling any possible chastising words for his actions.
Taking a deep harsh breath, he glared down at the slip of a girl that had started all of that trouble to begin with.
"So?! Got anything to say for yourself?! Because if you don't have anything to say, I'll make sure none of us go back into the school until you tell us what your damned problem is!"
Blinking, Etsu straightened her back, taking away the soothing hand she had been rubbing on her injured forearm to fold it together with her other hand over her lap in a disgustingly ladylike manner. He seethed inwardly when her pale doll-like face became relaxed and icy.
This girl... She's two-faced., One moment she was a practiced seductress, the next as frigid as a blizzard and in other moments she was a cursing harpy.
His glare became a look of disbelief at seeing the transformation happening before his eyes.
How couldn't I have noticed that before?! It was right in my face!
"Just who the hell are you right now, Etsu-chan?" his voice had an odd tremble as some discomfort briefly crossed her composed features.
"I am who I've always been, Hitachiin Hikaru. You just happened to piss me off. How foolish of you to push my limits so callously. What would your fans say if they saw you behaving like this towards a young helpless girl?" was her soft reply.
"You're anything but helpless!" he spat and he didn't need to look at Kaoru to see that he had flinched at his tone.
I'm losing it.
"Kaoru, I suggest you take care of your brother's frazzled nerves, I think he's close to a nervous breakdown. We wouldn't want that, would we? It would be greatly disgraceful for the both of you," he could have sworn there was some amusement in those words, though her face didn't show any.
"Hikaru...?" his brother's presence neared his side. "It's pointless dealing with her..."
That was when he saw the slightest twitch on the corner of Etsu's unsmiling lips.
So this is what she has been after this whole time?! Why the hell is she making us go through all this shit for something as stupid as that?!
"You don't have anything personal against us, do you?"
She didn't answer that, keeping herself flawlessly impassive.
"You said something about twins that first day. You were kind of mad towards us for some reason and said we were offending twins," Kaoru was the one to speak and at this Etsu's calm face blanched as she nervously reached out to that same heartshaped locket she had been so lovingly touching that day.
"It's twins, isn't it?!" Hikaru couldn't keep a malicious smile from his face.
"Class has started," though pale, she didn't show any other signs of cracking.
A weakness... A weakness..., his eyes went for the locket that she still held between her white little fingers.
As if realizing that he was staring at her involuntary actions, her fidgeting hand abandoned the locket, letting it drop to the top of her chest like something she had promptly forgotten.
That thing obviously meant something important to her and because of the growing confusion and anger she brought up in him, he didn't care if he was being too harsh on her.
He rushed to her only to snatch the little white-gold heart. She flinched and tried to move back but all it did was help snap the fragile little chain that held the locket.
GOT IT!
Etsu stared at him as if he had ripped her own heart out when he stepped back and smiled triumphantly at her, dangling the locket from its ripped chain like it were a pendelum from his fist.
"Looks like I've found our innocent Etsu-chan's Achille's Heel!" he sneered
Due to not knowing all of the hidden facets of Etsu, her violent reaction came as a shocker to both him and Kaoru.
"YOU'RE GOING TO REGRET DOING THAT!" accompanying those bellowed words, the girl's surprisingly strong yet small form shot out towards him. She took advantage of his shock and the element of surprise to knock him flat on his back, her furious little body viciously tearing at him.
HOLYSHIT! THIS GIRL HAS GONE PSYCHO!
Hikaru couldn't say that Etsu was an able fighter, but what she lacked in skill was made up by her viciousness and determination.
An angry small used-to seem harmless feminine hand yanked at his hair so fiercely that he feared that she would tear his scalp at the forceful pulling. Her free hand was too busy clawing at the fist he held the locket, the apple of discord, in. She was most desperate about getting it out of his grasp.
"GIVE IT BACK! GIVE IT BACK!" he could have sworn there was actual sorrow in her shouts as her nails raked at his knuckles.
"LET GO OF HIM!"
KAORU!
Her slight weight was almost lifted off him until she wrapped her legs around his hips to keep from being pulled away. In spite of being such a tiny girl, she was a lot stronger than she appeared to be. Hikaru could feel it in the muscles of the legs squeezing him for dear life. Unfortunately, Kaoru's attempts of saving him had the fist on his hair twisting hard enough to make him shout.
I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAVE TO FIGHT A GIRL!, Gritting his teeth at the pain she causing, he let go of some of his pride and began to shove her off by slamming the palm of his empty hand against her chest.
She gasped, but still stubbornly held, even though he was firmly pushing at her. Clearly wanting to punish him for hitting her, her fist gave a long hard pull that had him feel some of his hair being yanked out.
SHE'S REALLY TRYING TO MAKE ME BALD!
From the way Kaoru had both arms wrapped aroung her waist, and how he pushed at her chest, her locked strong legs actually lifted his lower body off the ground with every upward pulling his younger brother did of her body.
Etsu was the very meaning of 'pissed off'. Screeching and tugging angrily at his poor abused scalp, she was lost to the rage he had stupidly brought out in her. He would have never expected her to have such a explosive comeback. He would have expected her to yell, or to say some frigid comment, anything but what she was doing in that precise moment.
Unbeknownst to them, a crowd that had perhaps heard the yelling had come out to watch and murmur amongst themselves in shock over what was taking place between the three on them on the grassy ground.
ETSU HAS TO BE A DEMON! IT'S NOT NORMAL FOR A GIRL TO BE THIS STRONG!, either that or her anger had given her the strength to take them both on.
"WHAT'S THIS?! THE THREE OF YOU STOP THIS AT ONCE!"
Her death-grip on his hair finally loosened, much to his relief. Just having her letting go off him had his whole head burning sharply as she let herself be pulled off by a worried pale-faced Kaoru.
Once she was standing, she pulled herself away from Kaoru that seemed to be happy to be freed of the contact. Her cool eyes looked ahead of her at the older man that had shouted, and ended their bizarre tug of war.
Swallowing, his eyes wide in disbelief over what had just happened, he looked at the fist that she had abused. The locket he had ripped from her chest was still held tightly within his grasp.
"Please... give it back to me...," his face hardened at her low request. She hadn't even looked at him... Not even a goddamned apology for jumping on him like a bratty girl. No... All she cared about was getting the blasted locket back.
"Hikaru! Kaoru!" he snapped his head in direction of the all too familiar voice and nearly yelped at all of the silent witnesses that stared at them in amazement.
Everyone... saw that..., All of the people that took class with them were there, as well as their teachers... But the one that had called out their names in a tone full of shock had been Tamaki that stared at them as if they had committed the most hideous crime in history. In fact, all of the Host Club had seen what had transpired.
This... This doesn't look good, does it?
The man that had shouted at them to stop, obviously the principal designated to the high school building, stared hard at them. He gave each one of them, including the serenely put together Etsu a hard stare.
"The three of you... My office now."
All this fuss for a locket., Giving a glance at the thing that had made Etsu reach such a breaking point, he clenched his jaw and reluctantly sat up on the ground without looking at the girl that was probably waiting for the little piece of jewelry.
Not giving her a glance, he wordlessly held out his hand, letting the locket swing from his fingers. He didn't need to be told that Etsu took hold of it, accepting it back in her possession.
It was a damn shame though, because as he let his eyes flicker to her small fist closing around the broken chain with it's mysterious closed heart, he regretted one thing...
Not knowing what was so protectively hidden inside of it.
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A/N: Mills! Lovely Mills! I'm so happy that you found me here! Yay! Well, I'm posting this nutsy stuff here for archiving. In AFF it's gotten quite a number of hits and 18 five-star rates for being just a couple of chapters, mostly when people are mature enough to read summaries and understand this isn't typical yaoi! You know though that you can get email notifications by becoming a member (even if its just for getting updates). I'm planning a threesome for the next chap (sorry for leading you on with filler). I don't know if I should do any Tamaki/Haruhi scenes in here. What do you guys think? And Mills, don't go crazy on me! I know you're a yaoi/bi boy fangirl!
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