Ouran High School Host Club Fan Fiction ❯ The Solitary Twin ❯ The Twins Lose ( Chapter 10 )
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By: MirrorsO1984 
Some threeway content (no lemon), light bondage, yaoi
Anime/Manga: Ouran High School Host Club Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Hentai / Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 05.14.2011 | Updated On: 06.01.2011 | Pages: 6 | Words: 7.4K | Visits: 558 | Status: Completed
Some threeway content (no lemon), light bondage, yaoi
Anime/Manga: Ouran High School Host Club Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Hentai / Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 05.14.2011 | Updated On: 06.01.2011 | Pages: 6 | Words: 7.4K | Visits: 558 | Status: Completed
Warning: some threeway content, light yaoi, bondage, VERY long chapter, nothing major, just moving the plot along. (mostly Etsu's POV)
Chapter 9
She had gotten them suspended. Kaoru still couldn't believe it, but Etsu had actually made herself look like the victim in spite of her practically tearing Hikaru's hair out in front of half the school.
"Do you still think it's pointless dealing with her?! That girl is a menace! Did you see how she conviced the principal that it was our fault that the whole fight started?!" Hikaru was having a hard time getting over it. Sitting on the bed, resting his back against the headboard with both arms crossed, his face was a heightened red of pure anger over the shame Etsu had made them go through at the office hours earlier.
"You have a point, Hikaru," he murmured, sitting on the edge of the bed as his twin went on yet another rant that said word for word what Etsu had done to them.
Afer they had all gone to the office, the principal had of course go off in a long speech about the reputation of the school. During this long-winded one-sided conversation, Etsu, who was turning out to be quite unpredictable, had burst out crying, startling all of them. In horror, they watched as she tearfully said a totally different version of what had occured, saying something along the lines of them 'attacking' and 'kidnapping' her from class to insult and 'abuse' her. The overly dramatic flair and endless stream of tears she convingly shed had made the principal apologize profusely for yelling at her for what the 'troublemaking Hitachiins' had done to her.
Kaoru still felt shocks of rage at what the girl had pulled off. He had thought that she had an evil streak, but nothing as horrible and cruel as what she truly was when she wanted her way. Through tears and wiping her face with quickly soiled tissues the principal supplied for her, she was one hell of an actress. Even though her sobs were perfection itself, he had detected laughter in her cries. Because she kept her head lowered most of the time during her performance, none of them had seen the obvious victorious smiles on her tear stained face.
The principal had then demanded to know where their parents were so they could be called to pick them up since they would have a five-day school suspension. That was when they had to go through the awkwardness of explaining to the livid man that their parents, like always, weren't in the country for which they had to endure yet another rant.
"What am I doing to do with the both of you?!" the principal snapped as Etsu weeped on a chair not far from them. "Every time you sneaky little brats do something in this school your parents are conveniently in either Venice, or Hawaii, or some other unreachable place in the globe! When are they going to take some responsability for the things you do?!"
It had stung them greatly. He wasn't sure who it had hurt the most; him or Hikaru. From what the principal had said, he had made it sound as if their parents didn't give a damn about them. To make matters worse the man had continued to confuse their names and when Hikaru had snapped saying that he wasn't Kaoru, he had retorted that it didn't matter, that a 'troublemaker' was still a troublemaker. What had made the situation more uncomfortable was that Etsu, with her fake crying, had had enough freedom to morph her laughter into sobbing during the shameful speech.
Then, as icing on the cake, when they had been escorted out of the office, everyone had nosily been listening outside the door hearing everything that had been said to them.
The most humiliating day of our lives., It was almost funny in a ironic karmic way since in the past they had made other people live through humiliations and now... The one they'd been trying to destroy had easily defeated them time after time, giving them a bitter taste of their own games.
In fact, when Etsu had been walking out, one of the girls they hadn't spoken to since middle school had given her two thumbs up as if she had done a good thing. It came as an unpleasant shock that there were still some girls in school that hadn't forgiven them for their cruel name-switching pranks and insults.
What a disaster!, Grimacing, he dragged a hand over his face at the memory. Etsu was like an avenging demon thrown at them as a slap in the face.
"Let's try one last time, but if she wins, we quit," Kaoru gave up, looking at his fuming twin sharply. "And I mean it this time, Hikaru. If she wins and makes us go through something like this again, we'll just stay out of her way."
For a moment, he thought that Hikaru would refuse, but after a few tense seconds, his brother gave a stiff nod without saying any other words on the matter.
This will be the last game we'll play on Etsu.
Hearing a certain ringtone interrupting the silence between them, Kaoru's face became cold.
"That's senpai," Hikaru's uneasy eyes glanced at the vibrating ringing cellphone on the nightstand by their bed.
Knowing that his brother would A: Let the phone ring or shut it off. Or B: Answer it and make a unrepairable mess out of things, Kaoru sighed and held his hand out.
"Give it to me, I think I can handle this."
He didn't even know where to begin, because dealing with a high-strung Tamaki during his theatrics was close to impossible for anyone.
When we get back at Etsu we'll have to make it extra good., Never feeling so angry before, he clenched his jaw and accepted the cellphone that had an almost impatient note to its usual cheerful ringtone. Flipping the phone open, thankfully stopping all the noise coming from it, he steeled himself to hear the longest fit in history, courtesy of Tamaki-senpai also known as 'tono'.
"HOW DARE YOU TWO DO THAT TO A POOR YOUNG LADY-?!" he flinched, pulling the ear-smartering thing far away from his ear.
"He's on the roll today," Hikaru muttered hearing the shouting even from a distance.
"I'VE NEVER BEEN SO TERRIFIED AT SEEING TWO OF MY HOSTS MANHANDLING A INNOCENT GIRL IN SUCH A MANNER-!"
Then unsurprisingly, Tamaki probably suffering from hormones, started wailing about 'naughty vulgar children'.
"MAAAAMMA! WHY DOES DADDY HAVE TO SUFFER SO MUCH?! WHERE HAVE I GONE WRONG WITH THEM?! HAVEN'T I GIVEN THEM ENOUGH LOVE AND... AFFECTION?! AFTER I'VE TAUGHT THEM HOW TO MAKE GIRLS HAPPY! WHY?! WHYYYY?!" loud wet hiccuping followed his dramatic yelling.
Craddling his head, Hikaru moaned, "Oh, man..."
Kaoru understood the feeling all too well...
This was promising to be one long phone call.
***
Everything should have been picture perfect but with Etsu something always had to botch her small victories. What she had done to the twins was meant to end their stupid 'Piss Etsu-chan Off Game'... yet when she had walked through the imposing front gates of Ouran Academy that morning the stupidest thing had been done to her.
Some asshole, perhaps the mouthy imp she had jumped on for breaking her necklace days earlier, had thrown eggs on her hair. She hadn't seen him actually doing it but she suspected that it was him. It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out something as simple as that.
That cock-sucking-Grr! Wait till I get my hands on him!
Wasn't it enough that her mother, that didn't believe her side of the story, had taken all forms of entertainment from her room for the exact amoung of time the demon twins were suspended? No, it wasn't enough! She had been stuck in her own damned room with her homework like some ordinary grade-school brat that had done something wrong. She had been so bored out her mind that she even started a journal though that whole 'Dear Diary' crap was considered lame by her.
Having to wash egg yolk and pieces of broken shells sticking to the back of her head in the girl's bathroom sink wasn't enough either! Neither was having to see the demons surrounded by hoards of squealing girls in class while they laughed as if they hadn't been making her life a living hell on earth.
She hadn't been able to leave her room to even get her necklace fixed. That beastly Hikaru had snapped it's fragile little lock. The only thing about the incident that had given her some peace of mind was that both him and his twin hadn't seen what she liked to keep close to her heart.
The last pictures her and Iku had taken together. Of course their faces had been cut out to fit the locket. Iku had had the same locket... the one she had been buried with. Though some people might have found it corny for her, a high school girl, to wear such an unfashionable piece of jewelry, to her that locket was something no one was supposed to touch.
The news of her having a deceased twin wasn't really new. Everyone in high society knew about it, or at least the people that had come in contact with her and her sister when she had been alive. The thing was... that everyone, out of respect for the Sakoi family didn't speak of the 'tragedy'. She was sure that kids in her new school didn't know about it, but that didn't mean that their parents didn't know of the sad incident that had splashed front headlines for months.
Pictures of an eight year old Etsu had been all over the papers and news networks and people, wanting to know what the 'living twin' looked like had stared at her like she was even more freakish than ever before. Some mean cousins of hers, that resented all of the attention her and Iku had gotten for being the only twins in the family, had even scornfully teased her by saying 'Where's your other half? Oh, she's dead! I guess that makes you ordinary now!'
She had put up with it... only because Iku would have been upset if she started fighting to defend her. Iku had never liked it when she fought with family members for their hateful teasing and pranks, especially if it was for her sake, so even in death she had respected that. In spite of being the 'younger sister', Etsu had always been fiercely protective of Iku. When alive, no one in their right mind would dare to look at her the wrong way unless they wished to have Etsu pouncing on them.
Respecting her dead twin's wishes by trying to tame her vicious temper had worked until that little shit had touched her locket. It was yet another reason to hate the Hitachiin twins. Not only were they making her see them together, but they, or should she say Hikaru, had soiled her sister's memory by taunting her in saying it was her 'Achille's Heel'.
But what the fuck did those assholes know? Just because they were twins didn't make them have anything in common with her. They didn't know the first thing about her! The only thing she wanted of them was to be left alone. Yeah, she had made a huge mistake in stirring their interest by insulting them that first time, but she had never intended for them to turn it into a full-blown battle.
And people think I'm irrational! That I let my emotions think for me! These bastards seriously want me to blow up when I'm the victim here! It's two against one! Where's the fairness in that?!
Etsu was indeed pissed. So pissed that it was hard to keep all anger from her face or forsaken twitchy left eyebrow. People who didn't know her were giving her a wide berth because her aura clearly screeched "Fuck with me and die."
That evil aura didn't leave her for most of the morning classes. It lingered and hovered over her skin, putting everyone in the classroom minus the smirking little demons, on edge. In the back of her mind, she got the feeling that they had thrown the eggs at her head just to goad her into a fight.
Damn it all! They got my attention alright! If they want to have things set straight, then I'll fucking set them straight and call it quits before I go to jail for homicide!
Those were her thoughts as she slowly walked through the halls in Ouran. The first break time had started and since she had nothing else better to do, because making friends wasn't part of her agenda at that blasted preppy school, she walked listlessly without really thinking on where to go. Sometimes something interesting popped up like the week before when she overheard some kids fucking in a closet. It had surprised her because of how prim the kids in Ouran liked to appear, but then it wasn't anything new that should impress her. Rich brats had a bad habit of thinking their dirty secrets remained secret. The twins were lumped into that same ordinary mass as well.
It gave me a couple of laughs at least.
Suddenly she stiffened and stopped her leasurely stroll, her back straightening, all of her senses coming alive.
Don't show him your fear... He can smell it.
"Wow, Etsu-chan! Why the bad mood?!"
It was one of her tormentors that had spoken. The reason why she had stopped was because the heavy sensation of being watched had made the back of her head itch.
"What do you want, Kaoru?" she wasn't going to give him the pleasure of having her looking at him.
There was a pregnant pause. A pause that confused her until she heard the smirk in his voice when he spoke up again,"I just wanted to know what has you so moody... You know everybody is scared of you. No one is going to want to be your friend if you keep this up."
Haven't you realized that's exactly what I want?!, her fisted hands trembled at her sides. These bastards really knew how to push her and that had her at a disadvantage. Since when had she become so easy to read?
Damn them.
"I asked you a question and that's the best answer you could give me?" it was hard to keep a growl from her voice. Staying cool-headed was becoming increasingly difficult when it came to the twins.
"Hmph! Sorry for trying to be nice to you!"
This shit is annoying me!
Spinning around, she glared sharply at the lone boy standing just a couple of feet from her that grinned as if he were having a pleasant conversation. She was momentarily puzzled at seeing him alone, but she pushed that thought to the back of her mind.
"It's much better to talk face to face, isn't it?" his cheeky grin widened. "When I heard about the whole egg thing I was worried that you might be upset. Some people in Ouran can be really childish, huh?"
Her eyes widened.
This hipocritical little mother-fucker!
With her left eyebrow going a mile a second, she grabbed the smiling boy by the front of his school jacket and slammed his back against the wall. He didn't even bother fighting back, his smile not faltering as if he had wanted her to react that way. She should have known that he was allowing her to abuse him in order to draw her in.
A trap!, Just as the realization hit her, she tried to pull her hands away from him only to have her wrists imprisoned gently by his hands.
"Now, Etsu-chan, you weren't planning on hurting me, were you? And here I was so concerned about you!" she would recognize that falsely melancholic tone of his anywere. Even the sad face he showed her was practiced.
Narrowing her eyes, she clenched her jaw and gritted, "What are you up to?"
His eyes grew large in exagerated offense.
"Whatever made you think I was up to anything, Etsu-chan?! I just want your happiness like any best-friend would!"
Now she didn't know which of the twins was more evil. Hikaru with his smartmouth or Kaoru with his false 'gentle' demeanor. If she had ever thought he was the one with more sense between the two, she had been dead wrong.
To top it all off, being much shorter than him was annoying. How could she be intimidating when the top of her head barely reached his chin? Mostly when he was giving her such a patronizing smile?
"You need to really loosen up...," his voice lowered as his mischiveous grin softlened. The fingers surrounding her wrists softly squeezed. Nothing painful or too agressive. However small the touch, the firm pressure and the heat of his long fingers on her skin had blood rushing to her face.
What the hell...? Is he doing what I think he's doing?
"I think...," his long body shuddered, and she blanched when he moved his hips to brush the bell skirt of her uniform, "I should apologize for what Hikaru did... If you'd let me."
Being instinctively dubious, she arched an eyebrow, "If you are so desperate to get some sex, go to your brother. I'm sure he would be very angry if he found out about your apologizing methods."
Kaoru chuckled, cocking his head to side to study her through heavy-lidded hot gold eyes.
"He was the one with the idea and me being a good little brother, I'm more than happy to do it."
These are the most fucked up twins I've ever had the misfortune of coming across.
"Where's Hikaru?" not answering that, Kaoru bit his lower lip in a attempt to look sexy or to smother a laugh.
Tugging at the hands holding hers, she made a face when those gentle hands tightened forcefully.
"He's never that far."
Her heart began to pound in earnest at what those words meant.
An ambush!
"You really are a tough act to follow, Etsu-chan, but it's not that impossible to keep up with you!" Hikaru laughed behind her.
Feeling understandable fear, she turned her head at the sound of his voice which unfortunately didn't give her enough view of what he had in his hands and that he had slyly moved to stand beside them.
"We are going to finish our game. Make sure to hold her wrists still, Kaoru."
Game?!, hearing him so close to them, she snapped her frightened eyes and saw both of their smiling identical faces.
Holding up a tie, that he had obviously taken off himself, Hikaru's eyes twinkled, "I'll admit that breaking your necklace was mean of me, but you getting us suspended really took first place! We're going to apologize as long as you make up for it!"
"We think it's time to let bygones be bygones-!" Kaoru added.
"-and put all of this behind us!"
"What the fuck are you idiots talking about?!" she snapped as both of the twins rolled their eyes.
Looking defeated, Kaoru murmured to his brother, "Maybe we should gag her."
"Nah... We'll gag her and tie her up better once we get her into the music room," was Hikaru's bored response.
Say what?!
Terrified, the truth of what they were planning sunk in and she began trying to pull herself away desperately to no avail because her wrists were already being firlmy tied by Hikaru. That didn't stop her from thrashing though.
"Relax already! We're not going to hurt you or anything! We even set some easy rules!" Kaoru frowned at her, confused by her violent reaction.
Rules?! WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT RULES?!
"I don't really get why you're fighting so much. We thought you were into this kind of stuff... I mean, by what you've lead on this whole time. Aren't I right, Kaoru?"
"Clear as crystal."
She ceased her struggles, though her instincts told her to flee. That feeling of complete and utter stupidity for not thinking her strategies more carefully came back like when she had felt cornered the day the twins had her at their house.
"What are the rules...?" her voice came out in a traitorous tremble, giving them hints of how afraid she was. They were setting up a game and she wasn't willing to lose in it.
Giving the tie around her wrists another knot, Hikaru looked at her, "You won't know them until you go with us to the music room."
"They're pretty simple though. Last time we didn't even have any rules. This time things will be easier for all of us," Kaoru beamed, clearly pleased with their way of thinking.
"We're just tying you up as a precaution."
"You're pretty scary when mad. We wouldn't want to have another bad incident."
She gulped loudly, her eyes looking from face to face.
They're staging their shit again... Or are they really? I can't tell anymore!
"Tell me one of the rules and I just might decide to go with you."
Stupid me! But I said 'might' so it isn't a promise that I'd do whatever bullshit they ask of me.
They looked at each other as if weighing their options. Coming to a wordless agreement, they both looked at her again.
"Keep your clothes on," Kaoru was the one that answered.
That doesn't... sound that threatening.
"Fine. Let's go," she nodded as they both grinned.
"See?! We knew you'd like it!" without having the courtesy of untying her, Hikaru pulled at her bound wrists, just as Kaoru finally released her.
"You know that by agreeing to this, you have to abide by all of the rules. If you decide to get out before the third stage of the game, we'll have to make you do something totally humiliating in front of the school."
"Now we'll definitely make you take that punishment, though everything in the music room has to be done willingly," Hikaru continued explaining his brother's words as she was lead to the music room, the room she hadn't visited since that one cursed day that she had first set eyes on them.
Public humiliation and being willing during the game?
"Exactly how long are you guys planning on playing this?" she asked slowly and they both stopped to glance at her, wearing mysterious smiles.
"As long as it takes."
I shouldn't have agreed to this!, The more they said, the more she felt as if she would lose in that game. The two of them had obviously thought things out carefully before starting their move.
They don't think I can win. That's why they're doing it! Not for me to play the game, but to lose!
Paling, she kept her tone as flat as possible, "Sounds interesting."
"It is!" they were too good at acting. They might even rival her own skills.
Reaching the dreaded room, Kaoru pulled out a key from his pocket and unlocked the double doors.
"Doesn't this bring back bittersweet memories?!"
They're trying to make me cave in... But I won't!
Once the doors were opened, the large dark room was almost beckoning them inside. Giving a gentle tug at her wrists, Hikaru pulled her along with him, following Kaoru's lead.
So far... nothing out of the ordinary., Her eyes scrutanized the room. It looked the same as the last time she'd seen it. Tables, couches, vases. Just an ordinary entertainment room.
"I'll lock the door. If someone sees it open, they'd get nosy."
Hikaru nodded as his twin went to do just that. Looking at her as if just remembering she was there, he widened his eyes.
"Now are you ready to hear the rest of it?"
He dares to ask that?!
"Yes. I've waited long enough."
The smirk that quirked his lips didn't bode well with her.
"You know that one of the rules is to keep your clothes on..."
She nodded, impatient to hear more since he was making a point at having her wait longer.
"There's another rule that says to keep your underwear on..."
Uh-oh!, her breath quickened.
"Then there's my favorite one..."
She swallowed anxiously. Her facial muscles were struggling in not expressing her nervousness.
"You naked and not giving in after all we do to you."
What. The. Fuck?!
"Hikaru! You're scaring her!" Kaoru complained, walking back to them after completing his task of locking the door. "You didn't tell her that we have to go by those rules too! That way she won't be embarassed about being naked by herself!"
That's worse!, she started to pant in disbelief.
"Oh, yeah, I kind of forgot about that," Hikaru didn't sound all that apologetic as he shrugged.
Taking a deep shuddering breath, she asked in a measured tone, "I now know those rules, but what can assure me that you won't break them and do more to me than intended?"
"You don't have to worry about that, Etsu-chan!" laughing and waving a dismissive hand at her, Kaoru smiled, "If we lose control, we have each other to keep in line."
"Pretty convenient, huh?"
"Yes, very," she didn't trust them for a second. However... the punishment issue still loomed overhead. "What will happen if I don't follow these rules and give up during the middle of the game?"
"Nothing much... After you give up, we'll just make you walk around in your hands and knees wearing a dog-leash in front of the entire school."
"And you'll have to lick our shoes. We even got a video camera to immortalize the moment."
"WHAT?!" she thundered. "HOW THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU COULD MAKE ME DO THAT?!"
"She's so hopeless," Hikaru stared at her dully.
"We got you tied up now; what makes you think we can't make you wear a leash?" Kaoru asked a bit too innocently.
"You must be feeling pretty stupid now...," smirking evily, Hikaru playfully tugged at her wrists that still had his tie holding them together.
Of all the callous things to come up with, they made up a freaking game they know I can't win because I won't go through with it!
Her face hardened.
"Just know this, if you back out now, you'll be humiliated in front of everyone before the school day is over..."
Evil, insufferable bastards!, her whole body trembled as she opened her mouth to say things as they were. It was the only way she could deter them from doing such a thing to her.
"I've...," her face heated in mortification when those identical orbs stared at her expectantly, "I've never done it before."
"What...? Being with two guys at the same time?" Hikaru asked drolly.
"It's okay." Kaoru smiled, "We've never shared a girl before either. I guess this will make it our first time!"
Shit! They're missing my point!
"C'mon!" pulling at her wrists to usher her towards some distant doors on the other side of the room, Hikaru didn't seem like he gave her words much thought, "We're wasting time just standing around here!"
"Bu-But-?" she sputtered helplessly as her smaller body was yanked hard enough to almost fall on the floor. Managing to only stumble clumsily while keeping some balance, she didn't give a shit if her cool facade was falling apart. The situation was escalating out of her control and when things did that in her supposedly carefully organized plans, she panicked.
"If you're backing out this early we already got the dog leash ready for you!" Kaoru laughed, walking alongside his brother.
Closing her lips, she bit her cheek. She doubted she could wiggle herself out of the tie Hikaru had bound her with and there was two of them while there was only one of her. That incident that had happened the week before had only been possible because she had caught them by surprise. It would be impossible to do that a second time.
Me and my stupid mouth!, Being accostumed to having people fall into her traps hadn't prepared her for dealing with the likes of the Hitachiin twins. Her plans were becoming a unrepairable disaster all thanks to them being so perverse.
But they said I didn't have to give in...
"I'M A VIRGIN!" that shout made an eerie silence take over as the twin boys in front of her froze.
"Did she just say what I think she said?" she heard Kaoru murmur when her chest began heaving in nervous speedy breaths.
"Yeah..."
Forcing her breath to steady with her face brilliantly red in mortification, she detected a loud snort.
What the...?
"You're so funny, Etsu-chan!" the evil boys looked back at her, their mirrorlike smiles blinding her.
Not hiding the real nervousness she felt, she cried, "I'm not lying!"
"Yeah, right... You should have come up with a more believeable excuse," just a couple of more steps and pulling at her wrists and the doors they had been heading to were pushed open showing curtained dressing-room like alcoves.
"This is more like it!"
Hating them with every fiber of her being, she could feel an uncomfortable sting in her eyes. She hated to lose in anything and having the twins that had easily become her enemies dominating her was probably more humiliating than being paraded around the school like a dog.
Maybe I should just risk it!, Curbing her pride was nearly physically impossible. She wasn't used to degrading herself for the sake of others. Hikaru and Kaoru only wanted to make her regret shaming them publically...
Swallowing repeatedly, her suddenly dry throat aching, she allowed herself to be led into one of the dressing rooms that had been lit while the other rooms stayed dark. The sliding of the curtains made a strange sound as the rings dragged over the metal bar. Just hearing it closing slowly had her flinching.
"We'll make it worth your while...," looking at the devil twin that had spoken, she saw Hikaru mentaining his condescending grin. A smile that said they had won that round.
"You'd better," she wasn't kidding in her words. If they were going to torture her for making them lose face in front of the school, they'd better make it worth her while for putting up with it.
Kaoru, who had closed the curtain, walked up to his brother's side, trying to fake sounding helpful, "If you like, you could go first."
As if I'd do that!
"Better you two...," she muttered, giving a specially dark glare for him for saying something like that.
"Aw... she's shy, Hikaru!" feigning excitement, Kaoru wrapped an arm around his brother's waist, eyeing her with a convincingly elated blush on his face.
"Yeah, she is..."
***
Everything they had in store for her was in ruins! Hikaru had thought everything was perfect until she had begrudgingly agreed to become a 'part' in the game, which wasn't what was meant to happen. The tying of the wrists was meant to happen but so was her protesting and rejection. That whole 'virgin confession' didn't count since her little act at the principal's office had made what little trust they might have had in her disappear.
We should have been walking her around the school by now!, Ever since she had played along, both him and Kaoru had been going by a different script to cover up that they didn't know how to proceed.
Damn it!
"Yeah, she is..." he narrowed his eyes on her pale, angered features after his brother's exclamation.
Giving up for the time being, since he sensed that she wouldn't be able to handle what they were implying, he yanked hard at her, making her small body fall towards them. Her face hit the top of Kaoru's chest with an 'umf!' that nearly had him smiling since that had definitely not been his idea.
"Not so rough, Hikaru! She's not as sturdy as me! She's a girl!"
Pulling her head up from Kaoru's chest, she fulminated him with a glower that would have scared anyone with a lick of sense.
"Sorry about that," he made sure to sound snide in his apology.
With her wrists tied, he held her only means of escape. He still gripped his mangled tie, even though Kaoru wrapped his arms gently around her stiff form.
"Hikaru has gotten too much of your attention lately... Maybe you should pay more attention to me," his brother's words made him uncomfortable, especially when Kaoru's hands, the hands that touched him cupped her face to tilt it back so that her black eyes could focus solely on his.
The redness of her cheeks was noticeable as Kaoru hovered his lips over hers. She didn't even blink, watchful of his every expression as if any of that would give away their combined falseness.
Now I know what Kaoru felt.
When his lips touched hers, Hikaru felt as if all blood had been drained from every vein in his body. That was the sensation of jealousy and helplessness even in both sides. The way in which his twin's lips caressed Etsu's parted ones and the low encouraging sounds he made when she started responding had his pants tightening immediately.
Gripping the tie that had Etsu under their control, he snapped, "Stop hogging her so much, Kaoru!"
Jerking his head from her in surprise, his brother's confusion was evident.
"But, Hikaru, didn't we already agree that we're going to share her? Besides, that one time you kissed her, you took way longer!"
***
They're going to give up any minute now!, That was what she hoped, but the looks on the faces of her 'kidnappers' wasn't giving her much comfort. She could almost sense their arousal clogging up the atmosphere in the room.
"Sorry for making you jealous...," Kaoru whispered and before her half-lidded eyes, he gave his brother what could have been a reassuring peck on the lips. That supposedly apologetic kiss turned into more, when Hikaru that seemed to be upset by his brother's kissing her, pressed harder on his pursed lips, his free hand grabbing the back of his head to deepen it.
She should have been happy that they were now paying attention to each other, but seeing them doing that up so close to her, just mere inches from her face, was nerveracking. Seeing them in the maze couldn't have prepared her for such a 'in your face' performance.
The passionate kiss they shared was more like an unspoken warning or stamp of ownership, or at least that was what she thought. She would have pulled away and ran for cover if it hadn't been for Hikaru still holding her and Kaoru's hands encasing the sides of her face firmly as if forcing her to watch them.
Oh, God, why are they making me watch this?!, Her heartbeat sped at the sight, just like the day she had witnessed the full extent of their brotherly love act. It still disgusted her like it had back then, yet intrigued her.
It wasn't normal. That was what she told herself to keep from being aroused by it. Seeing sibblings so openly loving each other wasn't morally right. Nothing was correct about it!
However... that didn't keep an unwanted ache from forming between her thighs that had her legs trembling uncontrollably.
Closing her eyes, she tried to keep herself from shuddering and that was why when hot open lips covered her own shocked her into snapping them open.
Hikaru apparently wanted to make her feel like a part of their sickening love play. To have her participate in it, or to lead her into thinking that was what he wanted. His lips were so eager and rough that she even started to believe that he was warding her off from the both of them. It was hard to keep up with him, his teeth sharply nipping at her lower lip to keep her open for him whenever his tongue darted inside her mouth.
He was barely allowing her to breathe. The little arousal that had grown while watching them was disappearing at a fast rate.
What's wrong with him?!, the somewhat comfortable warmth of Kaoru's hands abandoned her face, making it difficult for her to keep her head from being pushed back by the intensity of Hikaru's kiss. She was so preocuppied by the feel of the angry lips devouring her that she barely noticed when Kaoru began to untie her wrists.
Suddenly pulling from her mouth, Hikaru gave her a hard stare that puzzled her.
"I hope you're happy now!"
"What... What are you talking about?" she asked numbly, her eyes darting to Kaoru that was for some reason avoiding her searching stare.
His eyes trembled in misdirected anger before she felt her freed hands forcefully yanked out toward their lower bodies. Her breath hitched when her palms were met by two very aroused lengths that hungrily jerked under their school pants.
"He-Here's the key to doors...," blushing what looked like an honest blush for once, Kaoru shoved a hand in his pocket to pull out the key that he had used to lock them inside the music room.
"I-I don't understand!" she trully didn't. They were actually angry with her.
Jerking her hands away from them, Hikaru glared.
"Don't you get it, Etsu-chan?! You've won the stupid game!"
Her jaw dropped.
Here I thought I was the coward and it turns out they're bigger ones than I am!
Closing her mouth to not look like an idiot, she nodded and held out one of her hands so Kaoru could give her the key.
Who would have thought that their strange love could run that deeply? Is it their love that made them stop or was it because they didn't know how to go on?
Studying them, she was confused by how they stood by each other, with an actual distance between them that hadn't been there before.
Somehow seeing that small distance was heartbreaking to her. She found it out of place.
It isn't meant to be there.
"I... I'm sorry," feeling embarassed when they looked at her in equal shock, she turned around and stiffly walked out of the dressing room before they saw too much of her unwarranted regret for creating that awkward space.
The game was over, according to them. Or was it really? There was no way of knowing, because though they were angry at her for making them give up, she was sure that they were chasing her away because they had been about to go through with it.
What the hell kind of mess have we gotten into?
***
A/N: I understand where you're coming from with the Haru-centric stuff. Don't hate the girl but she got the K-syndrome. (the 'being repeatedly used as the only fem-love interest with all males/females in a anime universe thing'). When a heroine gets that 'ailment' I lose all interest in using her as a pairing choice. Still like her, but will not write fics centering on her though she'll have her star moments in here. And the twins can be pretty darned evil. They have been tested time and time again by our 'Etsu-chan' and have finally snapped. She got them suspended and doubting each other for crying out loud! I mean I'm making her as unlikeable as possible! (weird, huh? LOL) About Kyo/Tama, still thinking about it. The threeway relationship is pretty intense right now, so I'll have to see how I'll incorporate those two into a side story in this fic, though I can't promise that Haruhi won't get some love from somebody at the host club.
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Chapter 9
She had gotten them suspended. Kaoru still couldn't believe it, but Etsu had actually made herself look like the victim in spite of her practically tearing Hikaru's hair out in front of half the school.
"Do you still think it's pointless dealing with her?! That girl is a menace! Did you see how she conviced the principal that it was our fault that the whole fight started?!" Hikaru was having a hard time getting over it. Sitting on the bed, resting his back against the headboard with both arms crossed, his face was a heightened red of pure anger over the shame Etsu had made them go through at the office hours earlier.
"You have a point, Hikaru," he murmured, sitting on the edge of the bed as his twin went on yet another rant that said word for word what Etsu had done to them.
Afer they had all gone to the office, the principal had of course go off in a long speech about the reputation of the school. During this long-winded one-sided conversation, Etsu, who was turning out to be quite unpredictable, had burst out crying, startling all of them. In horror, they watched as she tearfully said a totally different version of what had occured, saying something along the lines of them 'attacking' and 'kidnapping' her from class to insult and 'abuse' her. The overly dramatic flair and endless stream of tears she convingly shed had made the principal apologize profusely for yelling at her for what the 'troublemaking Hitachiins' had done to her.
Kaoru still felt shocks of rage at what the girl had pulled off. He had thought that she had an evil streak, but nothing as horrible and cruel as what she truly was when she wanted her way. Through tears and wiping her face with quickly soiled tissues the principal supplied for her, she was one hell of an actress. Even though her sobs were perfection itself, he had detected laughter in her cries. Because she kept her head lowered most of the time during her performance, none of them had seen the obvious victorious smiles on her tear stained face.
The principal had then demanded to know where their parents were so they could be called to pick them up since they would have a five-day school suspension. That was when they had to go through the awkwardness of explaining to the livid man that their parents, like always, weren't in the country for which they had to endure yet another rant.
"What am I doing to do with the both of you?!" the principal snapped as Etsu weeped on a chair not far from them. "Every time you sneaky little brats do something in this school your parents are conveniently in either Venice, or Hawaii, or some other unreachable place in the globe! When are they going to take some responsability for the things you do?!"
It had stung them greatly. He wasn't sure who it had hurt the most; him or Hikaru. From what the principal had said, he had made it sound as if their parents didn't give a damn about them. To make matters worse the man had continued to confuse their names and when Hikaru had snapped saying that he wasn't Kaoru, he had retorted that it didn't matter, that a 'troublemaker' was still a troublemaker. What had made the situation more uncomfortable was that Etsu, with her fake crying, had had enough freedom to morph her laughter into sobbing during the shameful speech.
Then, as icing on the cake, when they had been escorted out of the office, everyone had nosily been listening outside the door hearing everything that had been said to them.
The most humiliating day of our lives., It was almost funny in a ironic karmic way since in the past they had made other people live through humiliations and now... The one they'd been trying to destroy had easily defeated them time after time, giving them a bitter taste of their own games.
In fact, when Etsu had been walking out, one of the girls they hadn't spoken to since middle school had given her two thumbs up as if she had done a good thing. It came as an unpleasant shock that there were still some girls in school that hadn't forgiven them for their cruel name-switching pranks and insults.
What a disaster!, Grimacing, he dragged a hand over his face at the memory. Etsu was like an avenging demon thrown at them as a slap in the face.
"Let's try one last time, but if she wins, we quit," Kaoru gave up, looking at his fuming twin sharply. "And I mean it this time, Hikaru. If she wins and makes us go through something like this again, we'll just stay out of her way."
For a moment, he thought that Hikaru would refuse, but after a few tense seconds, his brother gave a stiff nod without saying any other words on the matter.
This will be the last game we'll play on Etsu.
Hearing a certain ringtone interrupting the silence between them, Kaoru's face became cold.
"That's senpai," Hikaru's uneasy eyes glanced at the vibrating ringing cellphone on the nightstand by their bed.
Knowing that his brother would A: Let the phone ring or shut it off. Or B: Answer it and make a unrepairable mess out of things, Kaoru sighed and held his hand out.
"Give it to me, I think I can handle this."
He didn't even know where to begin, because dealing with a high-strung Tamaki during his theatrics was close to impossible for anyone.
When we get back at Etsu we'll have to make it extra good., Never feeling so angry before, he clenched his jaw and accepted the cellphone that had an almost impatient note to its usual cheerful ringtone. Flipping the phone open, thankfully stopping all the noise coming from it, he steeled himself to hear the longest fit in history, courtesy of Tamaki-senpai also known as 'tono'.
"HOW DARE YOU TWO DO THAT TO A POOR YOUNG LADY-?!" he flinched, pulling the ear-smartering thing far away from his ear.
"He's on the roll today," Hikaru muttered hearing the shouting even from a distance.
"I'VE NEVER BEEN SO TERRIFIED AT SEEING TWO OF MY HOSTS MANHANDLING A INNOCENT GIRL IN SUCH A MANNER-!"
Then unsurprisingly, Tamaki probably suffering from hormones, started wailing about 'naughty vulgar children'.
"MAAAAMMA! WHY DOES DADDY HAVE TO SUFFER SO MUCH?! WHERE HAVE I GONE WRONG WITH THEM?! HAVEN'T I GIVEN THEM ENOUGH LOVE AND... AFFECTION?! AFTER I'VE TAUGHT THEM HOW TO MAKE GIRLS HAPPY! WHY?! WHYYYY?!" loud wet hiccuping followed his dramatic yelling.
Craddling his head, Hikaru moaned, "Oh, man..."
Kaoru understood the feeling all too well...
This was promising to be one long phone call.
***
Everything should have been picture perfect but with Etsu something always had to botch her small victories. What she had done to the twins was meant to end their stupid 'Piss Etsu-chan Off Game'... yet when she had walked through the imposing front gates of Ouran Academy that morning the stupidest thing had been done to her.
Some asshole, perhaps the mouthy imp she had jumped on for breaking her necklace days earlier, had thrown eggs on her hair. She hadn't seen him actually doing it but she suspected that it was him. It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out something as simple as that.
That cock-sucking-Grr! Wait till I get my hands on him!
Wasn't it enough that her mother, that didn't believe her side of the story, had taken all forms of entertainment from her room for the exact amoung of time the demon twins were suspended? No, it wasn't enough! She had been stuck in her own damned room with her homework like some ordinary grade-school brat that had done something wrong. She had been so bored out her mind that she even started a journal though that whole 'Dear Diary' crap was considered lame by her.
Having to wash egg yolk and pieces of broken shells sticking to the back of her head in the girl's bathroom sink wasn't enough either! Neither was having to see the demons surrounded by hoards of squealing girls in class while they laughed as if they hadn't been making her life a living hell on earth.
She hadn't been able to leave her room to even get her necklace fixed. That beastly Hikaru had snapped it's fragile little lock. The only thing about the incident that had given her some peace of mind was that both him and his twin hadn't seen what she liked to keep close to her heart.
The last pictures her and Iku had taken together. Of course their faces had been cut out to fit the locket. Iku had had the same locket... the one she had been buried with. Though some people might have found it corny for her, a high school girl, to wear such an unfashionable piece of jewelry, to her that locket was something no one was supposed to touch.
The news of her having a deceased twin wasn't really new. Everyone in high society knew about it, or at least the people that had come in contact with her and her sister when she had been alive. The thing was... that everyone, out of respect for the Sakoi family didn't speak of the 'tragedy'. She was sure that kids in her new school didn't know about it, but that didn't mean that their parents didn't know of the sad incident that had splashed front headlines for months.
Pictures of an eight year old Etsu had been all over the papers and news networks and people, wanting to know what the 'living twin' looked like had stared at her like she was even more freakish than ever before. Some mean cousins of hers, that resented all of the attention her and Iku had gotten for being the only twins in the family, had even scornfully teased her by saying 'Where's your other half? Oh, she's dead! I guess that makes you ordinary now!'
She had put up with it... only because Iku would have been upset if she started fighting to defend her. Iku had never liked it when she fought with family members for their hateful teasing and pranks, especially if it was for her sake, so even in death she had respected that. In spite of being the 'younger sister', Etsu had always been fiercely protective of Iku. When alive, no one in their right mind would dare to look at her the wrong way unless they wished to have Etsu pouncing on them.
Respecting her dead twin's wishes by trying to tame her vicious temper had worked until that little shit had touched her locket. It was yet another reason to hate the Hitachiin twins. Not only were they making her see them together, but they, or should she say Hikaru, had soiled her sister's memory by taunting her in saying it was her 'Achille's Heel'.
But what the fuck did those assholes know? Just because they were twins didn't make them have anything in common with her. They didn't know the first thing about her! The only thing she wanted of them was to be left alone. Yeah, she had made a huge mistake in stirring their interest by insulting them that first time, but she had never intended for them to turn it into a full-blown battle.
And people think I'm irrational! That I let my emotions think for me! These bastards seriously want me to blow up when I'm the victim here! It's two against one! Where's the fairness in that?!
Etsu was indeed pissed. So pissed that it was hard to keep all anger from her face or forsaken twitchy left eyebrow. People who didn't know her were giving her a wide berth because her aura clearly screeched "Fuck with me and die."
That evil aura didn't leave her for most of the morning classes. It lingered and hovered over her skin, putting everyone in the classroom minus the smirking little demons, on edge. In the back of her mind, she got the feeling that they had thrown the eggs at her head just to goad her into a fight.
Damn it all! They got my attention alright! If they want to have things set straight, then I'll fucking set them straight and call it quits before I go to jail for homicide!
Those were her thoughts as she slowly walked through the halls in Ouran. The first break time had started and since she had nothing else better to do, because making friends wasn't part of her agenda at that blasted preppy school, she walked listlessly without really thinking on where to go. Sometimes something interesting popped up like the week before when she overheard some kids fucking in a closet. It had surprised her because of how prim the kids in Ouran liked to appear, but then it wasn't anything new that should impress her. Rich brats had a bad habit of thinking their dirty secrets remained secret. The twins were lumped into that same ordinary mass as well.
It gave me a couple of laughs at least.
Suddenly she stiffened and stopped her leasurely stroll, her back straightening, all of her senses coming alive.
Don't show him your fear... He can smell it.
"Wow, Etsu-chan! Why the bad mood?!"
It was one of her tormentors that had spoken. The reason why she had stopped was because the heavy sensation of being watched had made the back of her head itch.
"What do you want, Kaoru?" she wasn't going to give him the pleasure of having her looking at him.
There was a pregnant pause. A pause that confused her until she heard the smirk in his voice when he spoke up again,"I just wanted to know what has you so moody... You know everybody is scared of you. No one is going to want to be your friend if you keep this up."
Haven't you realized that's exactly what I want?!, her fisted hands trembled at her sides. These bastards really knew how to push her and that had her at a disadvantage. Since when had she become so easy to read?
Damn them.
"I asked you a question and that's the best answer you could give me?" it was hard to keep a growl from her voice. Staying cool-headed was becoming increasingly difficult when it came to the twins.
"Hmph! Sorry for trying to be nice to you!"
This shit is annoying me!
Spinning around, she glared sharply at the lone boy standing just a couple of feet from her that grinned as if he were having a pleasant conversation. She was momentarily puzzled at seeing him alone, but she pushed that thought to the back of her mind.
"It's much better to talk face to face, isn't it?" his cheeky grin widened. "When I heard about the whole egg thing I was worried that you might be upset. Some people in Ouran can be really childish, huh?"
Her eyes widened.
This hipocritical little mother-fucker!
With her left eyebrow going a mile a second, she grabbed the smiling boy by the front of his school jacket and slammed his back against the wall. He didn't even bother fighting back, his smile not faltering as if he had wanted her to react that way. She should have known that he was allowing her to abuse him in order to draw her in.
A trap!, Just as the realization hit her, she tried to pull her hands away from him only to have her wrists imprisoned gently by his hands.
"Now, Etsu-chan, you weren't planning on hurting me, were you? And here I was so concerned about you!" she would recognize that falsely melancholic tone of his anywere. Even the sad face he showed her was practiced.
Narrowing her eyes, she clenched her jaw and gritted, "What are you up to?"
His eyes grew large in exagerated offense.
"Whatever made you think I was up to anything, Etsu-chan?! I just want your happiness like any best-friend would!"
Now she didn't know which of the twins was more evil. Hikaru with his smartmouth or Kaoru with his false 'gentle' demeanor. If she had ever thought he was the one with more sense between the two, she had been dead wrong.
To top it all off, being much shorter than him was annoying. How could she be intimidating when the top of her head barely reached his chin? Mostly when he was giving her such a patronizing smile?
"You need to really loosen up...," his voice lowered as his mischiveous grin softlened. The fingers surrounding her wrists softly squeezed. Nothing painful or too agressive. However small the touch, the firm pressure and the heat of his long fingers on her skin had blood rushing to her face.
What the hell...? Is he doing what I think he's doing?
"I think...," his long body shuddered, and she blanched when he moved his hips to brush the bell skirt of her uniform, "I should apologize for what Hikaru did... If you'd let me."
Being instinctively dubious, she arched an eyebrow, "If you are so desperate to get some sex, go to your brother. I'm sure he would be very angry if he found out about your apologizing methods."
Kaoru chuckled, cocking his head to side to study her through heavy-lidded hot gold eyes.
"He was the one with the idea and me being a good little brother, I'm more than happy to do it."
These are the most fucked up twins I've ever had the misfortune of coming across.
"Where's Hikaru?" not answering that, Kaoru bit his lower lip in a attempt to look sexy or to smother a laugh.
Tugging at the hands holding hers, she made a face when those gentle hands tightened forcefully.
"He's never that far."
Her heart began to pound in earnest at what those words meant.
An ambush!
"You really are a tough act to follow, Etsu-chan, but it's not that impossible to keep up with you!" Hikaru laughed behind her.
Feeling understandable fear, she turned her head at the sound of his voice which unfortunately didn't give her enough view of what he had in his hands and that he had slyly moved to stand beside them.
"We are going to finish our game. Make sure to hold her wrists still, Kaoru."
Game?!, hearing him so close to them, she snapped her frightened eyes and saw both of their smiling identical faces.
Holding up a tie, that he had obviously taken off himself, Hikaru's eyes twinkled, "I'll admit that breaking your necklace was mean of me, but you getting us suspended really took first place! We're going to apologize as long as you make up for it!"
"We think it's time to let bygones be bygones-!" Kaoru added.
"-and put all of this behind us!"
"What the fuck are you idiots talking about?!" she snapped as both of the twins rolled their eyes.
Looking defeated, Kaoru murmured to his brother, "Maybe we should gag her."
"Nah... We'll gag her and tie her up better once we get her into the music room," was Hikaru's bored response.
Say what?!
Terrified, the truth of what they were planning sunk in and she began trying to pull herself away desperately to no avail because her wrists were already being firlmy tied by Hikaru. That didn't stop her from thrashing though.
"Relax already! We're not going to hurt you or anything! We even set some easy rules!" Kaoru frowned at her, confused by her violent reaction.
Rules?! WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT RULES?!
"I don't really get why you're fighting so much. We thought you were into this kind of stuff... I mean, by what you've lead on this whole time. Aren't I right, Kaoru?"
"Clear as crystal."
She ceased her struggles, though her instincts told her to flee. That feeling of complete and utter stupidity for not thinking her strategies more carefully came back like when she had felt cornered the day the twins had her at their house.
"What are the rules...?" her voice came out in a traitorous tremble, giving them hints of how afraid she was. They were setting up a game and she wasn't willing to lose in it.
Giving the tie around her wrists another knot, Hikaru looked at her, "You won't know them until you go with us to the music room."
"They're pretty simple though. Last time we didn't even have any rules. This time things will be easier for all of us," Kaoru beamed, clearly pleased with their way of thinking.
"We're just tying you up as a precaution."
"You're pretty scary when mad. We wouldn't want to have another bad incident."
She gulped loudly, her eyes looking from face to face.
They're staging their shit again... Or are they really? I can't tell anymore!
"Tell me one of the rules and I just might decide to go with you."
Stupid me! But I said 'might' so it isn't a promise that I'd do whatever bullshit they ask of me.
They looked at each other as if weighing their options. Coming to a wordless agreement, they both looked at her again.
"Keep your clothes on," Kaoru was the one that answered.
That doesn't... sound that threatening.
"Fine. Let's go," she nodded as they both grinned.
"See?! We knew you'd like it!" without having the courtesy of untying her, Hikaru pulled at her bound wrists, just as Kaoru finally released her.
"You know that by agreeing to this, you have to abide by all of the rules. If you decide to get out before the third stage of the game, we'll have to make you do something totally humiliating in front of the school."
"Now we'll definitely make you take that punishment, though everything in the music room has to be done willingly," Hikaru continued explaining his brother's words as she was lead to the music room, the room she hadn't visited since that one cursed day that she had first set eyes on them.
Public humiliation and being willing during the game?
"Exactly how long are you guys planning on playing this?" she asked slowly and they both stopped to glance at her, wearing mysterious smiles.
"As long as it takes."
I shouldn't have agreed to this!, The more they said, the more she felt as if she would lose in that game. The two of them had obviously thought things out carefully before starting their move.
They don't think I can win. That's why they're doing it! Not for me to play the game, but to lose!
Paling, she kept her tone as flat as possible, "Sounds interesting."
"It is!" they were too good at acting. They might even rival her own skills.
Reaching the dreaded room, Kaoru pulled out a key from his pocket and unlocked the double doors.
"Doesn't this bring back bittersweet memories?!"
They're trying to make me cave in... But I won't!
Once the doors were opened, the large dark room was almost beckoning them inside. Giving a gentle tug at her wrists, Hikaru pulled her along with him, following Kaoru's lead.
So far... nothing out of the ordinary., Her eyes scrutanized the room. It looked the same as the last time she'd seen it. Tables, couches, vases. Just an ordinary entertainment room.
"I'll lock the door. If someone sees it open, they'd get nosy."
Hikaru nodded as his twin went to do just that. Looking at her as if just remembering she was there, he widened his eyes.
"Now are you ready to hear the rest of it?"
He dares to ask that?!
"Yes. I've waited long enough."
The smirk that quirked his lips didn't bode well with her.
"You know that one of the rules is to keep your clothes on..."
She nodded, impatient to hear more since he was making a point at having her wait longer.
"There's another rule that says to keep your underwear on..."
Uh-oh!, her breath quickened.
"Then there's my favorite one..."
She swallowed anxiously. Her facial muscles were struggling in not expressing her nervousness.
"You naked and not giving in after all we do to you."
What. The. Fuck?!
"Hikaru! You're scaring her!" Kaoru complained, walking back to them after completing his task of locking the door. "You didn't tell her that we have to go by those rules too! That way she won't be embarassed about being naked by herself!"
That's worse!, she started to pant in disbelief.
"Oh, yeah, I kind of forgot about that," Hikaru didn't sound all that apologetic as he shrugged.
Taking a deep shuddering breath, she asked in a measured tone, "I now know those rules, but what can assure me that you won't break them and do more to me than intended?"
"You don't have to worry about that, Etsu-chan!" laughing and waving a dismissive hand at her, Kaoru smiled, "If we lose control, we have each other to keep in line."
"Pretty convenient, huh?"
"Yes, very," she didn't trust them for a second. However... the punishment issue still loomed overhead. "What will happen if I don't follow these rules and give up during the middle of the game?"
"Nothing much... After you give up, we'll just make you walk around in your hands and knees wearing a dog-leash in front of the entire school."
"And you'll have to lick our shoes. We even got a video camera to immortalize the moment."
"WHAT?!" she thundered. "HOW THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU COULD MAKE ME DO THAT?!"
"She's so hopeless," Hikaru stared at her dully.
"We got you tied up now; what makes you think we can't make you wear a leash?" Kaoru asked a bit too innocently.
"You must be feeling pretty stupid now...," smirking evily, Hikaru playfully tugged at her wrists that still had his tie holding them together.
Of all the callous things to come up with, they made up a freaking game they know I can't win because I won't go through with it!
Her face hardened.
"Just know this, if you back out now, you'll be humiliated in front of everyone before the school day is over..."
Evil, insufferable bastards!, her whole body trembled as she opened her mouth to say things as they were. It was the only way she could deter them from doing such a thing to her.
"I've...," her face heated in mortification when those identical orbs stared at her expectantly, "I've never done it before."
"What...? Being with two guys at the same time?" Hikaru asked drolly.
"It's okay." Kaoru smiled, "We've never shared a girl before either. I guess this will make it our first time!"
Shit! They're missing my point!
"C'mon!" pulling at her wrists to usher her towards some distant doors on the other side of the room, Hikaru didn't seem like he gave her words much thought, "We're wasting time just standing around here!"
"Bu-But-?" she sputtered helplessly as her smaller body was yanked hard enough to almost fall on the floor. Managing to only stumble clumsily while keeping some balance, she didn't give a shit if her cool facade was falling apart. The situation was escalating out of her control and when things did that in her supposedly carefully organized plans, she panicked.
"If you're backing out this early we already got the dog leash ready for you!" Kaoru laughed, walking alongside his brother.
Closing her lips, she bit her cheek. She doubted she could wiggle herself out of the tie Hikaru had bound her with and there was two of them while there was only one of her. That incident that had happened the week before had only been possible because she had caught them by surprise. It would be impossible to do that a second time.
Me and my stupid mouth!, Being accostumed to having people fall into her traps hadn't prepared her for dealing with the likes of the Hitachiin twins. Her plans were becoming a unrepairable disaster all thanks to them being so perverse.
But they said I didn't have to give in...
"I'M A VIRGIN!" that shout made an eerie silence take over as the twin boys in front of her froze.
"Did she just say what I think she said?" she heard Kaoru murmur when her chest began heaving in nervous speedy breaths.
"Yeah..."
Forcing her breath to steady with her face brilliantly red in mortification, she detected a loud snort.
What the...?
"You're so funny, Etsu-chan!" the evil boys looked back at her, their mirrorlike smiles blinding her.
Not hiding the real nervousness she felt, she cried, "I'm not lying!"
"Yeah, right... You should have come up with a more believeable excuse," just a couple of more steps and pulling at her wrists and the doors they had been heading to were pushed open showing curtained dressing-room like alcoves.
"This is more like it!"
Hating them with every fiber of her being, she could feel an uncomfortable sting in her eyes. She hated to lose in anything and having the twins that had easily become her enemies dominating her was probably more humiliating than being paraded around the school like a dog.
Maybe I should just risk it!, Curbing her pride was nearly physically impossible. She wasn't used to degrading herself for the sake of others. Hikaru and Kaoru only wanted to make her regret shaming them publically...
Swallowing repeatedly, her suddenly dry throat aching, she allowed herself to be led into one of the dressing rooms that had been lit while the other rooms stayed dark. The sliding of the curtains made a strange sound as the rings dragged over the metal bar. Just hearing it closing slowly had her flinching.
"We'll make it worth your while...," looking at the devil twin that had spoken, she saw Hikaru mentaining his condescending grin. A smile that said they had won that round.
"You'd better," she wasn't kidding in her words. If they were going to torture her for making them lose face in front of the school, they'd better make it worth her while for putting up with it.
Kaoru, who had closed the curtain, walked up to his brother's side, trying to fake sounding helpful, "If you like, you could go first."
As if I'd do that!
"Better you two...," she muttered, giving a specially dark glare for him for saying something like that.
"Aw... she's shy, Hikaru!" feigning excitement, Kaoru wrapped an arm around his brother's waist, eyeing her with a convincingly elated blush on his face.
"Yeah, she is..."
***
Everything they had in store for her was in ruins! Hikaru had thought everything was perfect until she had begrudgingly agreed to become a 'part' in the game, which wasn't what was meant to happen. The tying of the wrists was meant to happen but so was her protesting and rejection. That whole 'virgin confession' didn't count since her little act at the principal's office had made what little trust they might have had in her disappear.
We should have been walking her around the school by now!, Ever since she had played along, both him and Kaoru had been going by a different script to cover up that they didn't know how to proceed.
Damn it!
"Yeah, she is..." he narrowed his eyes on her pale, angered features after his brother's exclamation.
Giving up for the time being, since he sensed that she wouldn't be able to handle what they were implying, he yanked hard at her, making her small body fall towards them. Her face hit the top of Kaoru's chest with an 'umf!' that nearly had him smiling since that had definitely not been his idea.
"Not so rough, Hikaru! She's not as sturdy as me! She's a girl!"
Pulling her head up from Kaoru's chest, she fulminated him with a glower that would have scared anyone with a lick of sense.
"Sorry about that," he made sure to sound snide in his apology.
With her wrists tied, he held her only means of escape. He still gripped his mangled tie, even though Kaoru wrapped his arms gently around her stiff form.
"Hikaru has gotten too much of your attention lately... Maybe you should pay more attention to me," his brother's words made him uncomfortable, especially when Kaoru's hands, the hands that touched him cupped her face to tilt it back so that her black eyes could focus solely on his.
The redness of her cheeks was noticeable as Kaoru hovered his lips over hers. She didn't even blink, watchful of his every expression as if any of that would give away their combined falseness.
Now I know what Kaoru felt.
When his lips touched hers, Hikaru felt as if all blood had been drained from every vein in his body. That was the sensation of jealousy and helplessness even in both sides. The way in which his twin's lips caressed Etsu's parted ones and the low encouraging sounds he made when she started responding had his pants tightening immediately.
Gripping the tie that had Etsu under their control, he snapped, "Stop hogging her so much, Kaoru!"
Jerking his head from her in surprise, his brother's confusion was evident.
"But, Hikaru, didn't we already agree that we're going to share her? Besides, that one time you kissed her, you took way longer!"
***
They're going to give up any minute now!, That was what she hoped, but the looks on the faces of her 'kidnappers' wasn't giving her much comfort. She could almost sense their arousal clogging up the atmosphere in the room.
"Sorry for making you jealous...," Kaoru whispered and before her half-lidded eyes, he gave his brother what could have been a reassuring peck on the lips. That supposedly apologetic kiss turned into more, when Hikaru that seemed to be upset by his brother's kissing her, pressed harder on his pursed lips, his free hand grabbing the back of his head to deepen it.
She should have been happy that they were now paying attention to each other, but seeing them doing that up so close to her, just mere inches from her face, was nerveracking. Seeing them in the maze couldn't have prepared her for such a 'in your face' performance.
The passionate kiss they shared was more like an unspoken warning or stamp of ownership, or at least that was what she thought. She would have pulled away and ran for cover if it hadn't been for Hikaru still holding her and Kaoru's hands encasing the sides of her face firmly as if forcing her to watch them.
Oh, God, why are they making me watch this?!, Her heartbeat sped at the sight, just like the day she had witnessed the full extent of their brotherly love act. It still disgusted her like it had back then, yet intrigued her.
It wasn't normal. That was what she told herself to keep from being aroused by it. Seeing sibblings so openly loving each other wasn't morally right. Nothing was correct about it!
However... that didn't keep an unwanted ache from forming between her thighs that had her legs trembling uncontrollably.
Closing her eyes, she tried to keep herself from shuddering and that was why when hot open lips covered her own shocked her into snapping them open.
Hikaru apparently wanted to make her feel like a part of their sickening love play. To have her participate in it, or to lead her into thinking that was what he wanted. His lips were so eager and rough that she even started to believe that he was warding her off from the both of them. It was hard to keep up with him, his teeth sharply nipping at her lower lip to keep her open for him whenever his tongue darted inside her mouth.
He was barely allowing her to breathe. The little arousal that had grown while watching them was disappearing at a fast rate.
What's wrong with him?!, the somewhat comfortable warmth of Kaoru's hands abandoned her face, making it difficult for her to keep her head from being pushed back by the intensity of Hikaru's kiss. She was so preocuppied by the feel of the angry lips devouring her that she barely noticed when Kaoru began to untie her wrists.
Suddenly pulling from her mouth, Hikaru gave her a hard stare that puzzled her.
"I hope you're happy now!"
"What... What are you talking about?" she asked numbly, her eyes darting to Kaoru that was for some reason avoiding her searching stare.
His eyes trembled in misdirected anger before she felt her freed hands forcefully yanked out toward their lower bodies. Her breath hitched when her palms were met by two very aroused lengths that hungrily jerked under their school pants.
"He-Here's the key to doors...," blushing what looked like an honest blush for once, Kaoru shoved a hand in his pocket to pull out the key that he had used to lock them inside the music room.
"I-I don't understand!" she trully didn't. They were actually angry with her.
Jerking her hands away from them, Hikaru glared.
"Don't you get it, Etsu-chan?! You've won the stupid game!"
Her jaw dropped.
Here I thought I was the coward and it turns out they're bigger ones than I am!
Closing her mouth to not look like an idiot, she nodded and held out one of her hands so Kaoru could give her the key.
Who would have thought that their strange love could run that deeply? Is it their love that made them stop or was it because they didn't know how to go on?
Studying them, she was confused by how they stood by each other, with an actual distance between them that hadn't been there before.
Somehow seeing that small distance was heartbreaking to her. She found it out of place.
It isn't meant to be there.
"I... I'm sorry," feeling embarassed when they looked at her in equal shock, she turned around and stiffly walked out of the dressing room before they saw too much of her unwarranted regret for creating that awkward space.
The game was over, according to them. Or was it really? There was no way of knowing, because though they were angry at her for making them give up, she was sure that they were chasing her away because they had been about to go through with it.
What the hell kind of mess have we gotten into?
***
A/N: I understand where you're coming from with the Haru-centric stuff. Don't hate the girl but she got the K-syndrome. (the 'being repeatedly used as the only fem-love interest with all males/females in a anime universe thing'). When a heroine gets that 'ailment' I lose all interest in using her as a pairing choice. Still like her, but will not write fics centering on her though she'll have her star moments in here. And the twins can be pretty darned evil. They have been tested time and time again by our 'Etsu-chan' and have finally snapped. She got them suspended and doubting each other for crying out loud! I mean I'm making her as unlikeable as possible! (weird, huh? LOL) About Kyo/Tama, still thinking about it. The threeway relationship is pretty intense right now, so I'll have to see how I'll incorporate those two into a side story in this fic, though I can't promise that Haruhi won't get some love from somebody at the host club.
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