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With a strong sweep, the paper fluttered in the air like broken birds, the sound of pens clattering to the floor the only noise apart from the harsh breaths of the two boys in the third music room.
Kaoru, golden eyes open wide in surprise was pinned to the desk so suddenly cleared of its contents, Kyoya's firm weight pinning him onto the hard surface.
The younger boy blinked before gulping slowly. "How did this happen?"
The Shadow King offered a thin smile. "I don't know."
One hour earlier.
The young ladies fanned themselves in the heat of the host club, its members having declared a tropical theme for the day to fight the creeping chill as summer turned to autumn. Their sharp eyes watched the young men, drinking them in greedily, smiling and giggling at any opportunity to catch their attention.
One small group were not disappointed at all when their attention was blatantly ignored as, with a small gasp, Kaoru fainted, his brother catching him easily, identical arms linking, one catching a waist, the other a shoulder.
The elder's eyes widened. "K-Kaoru?"
"I'm fine, it's just…" The younger eyes diverted to the side as a blush crossed his face. "The heat…and after last night…"
The girls started to squeal as Hikaru brought his lips close, but not quite touching, to his brothers.
On the other side of the room, Hunny ate some fruit cake and asked the girls if they preferred theirs, like him, much sweeter? Mori was standing faithfully by his side, inclining his head every so often to a girl that asked him a question.
Haruhi though was having much more difficulty as, trying to speak with the other girls, Tamaki grabbed her hand.
"Why aren't you wearing the costume I picked for you!"
She simply glowered at him. "It was unsuitable!" By 'unsuitable', she meant that it was a grass skirt with a seashell bikini – something she would never be seen dead in.
He simpered, she ignored him, and all was watched by Kyoya standing at his desk, taking notes, working out sums and calculations. Already they had made a profit and there was still half an hour before the club closed its doors for the day. Although he reasoned that anyone would choose to stay inside the tropical heat than the dreary rain that darkened the sky outside.
And so it continued until, with a flourish, Tamaki led the last of the ladies out of the door and closed it firmly behind him.
"Another great day, don't you think?" He grinned, turning to Haruhi. "And my daughter -"
She marched past him, opening the door and shutting it firmly behind.
Surprised, Hikaru and Kaoru exchanged glances, the younger sighing only to himself as Hikaru rose to his feet and quickly followed. After a moment, Tamaki did the same.
Pushing glasses up his nose, Kyoya frowned, looking at the room that had yet to be tidied. The cleaners of course would do most of the work, but anything he wished to have kept for the next tropical theme, and so save the clubs budget, would be thrown out if he didn't salvage it first.
"Kyo-chan?" Hunny smiled sweetly. "I'm sorry but I have to go home early today."
The Shadow King smiled as he pushed his glasses up his nose again. "Of course, it's your aunt's birthday, correct? I hope staying for so long hasn't been an inconvenience for you."
Hunny grinned. "It's alright!" After a few more moments, he left with Mori and his pink rabbit toy, both silent.
Leaving only Kaoru and Kyoya to do all the work. The younger Hitachiin simply sighed before heading to the back room. "I'm going to get changed."
"That's fine. Will your brother be returning?"
Kaoru stopped and, glancing out the window where he saw Tamaki and Hikaru arguing with each other as Haruhi simply watched, knew the answer and the outcome to it immediately. "No, Hikaru will be escorting Haruhi home, where he will then summon our car to pick him up."
Making a few notes, the darker boy simply nodded.
Neither spoke again for ten or so minutes into the cleaning process, by which point the room had lost its golden glow and was now looking almost like its normal self, except wrapped in the lengthening shadows as the sky outside grew darker.
"How did you know?"
Looking up, Kaoru frowned. "Know what?"
"And there I thought you were a mind reader."
A smirk crossed his face that matched the other boys. "And how do you know I can't, but simply couldn't be bothered reading yours?"
Kyoya lifted up a fake coconut. "So I'm not worthy of being one of your toys?"
"Ours." Kaoru replied absently as he finally finished putting the last of the plotted plants to one side. "And I knew what Hikaru would do because I simply knew." He looked at the other boy under his eyelashes. "Does that never happen to you? Or is there no one special enough?"
"I find making calculations to be more than suitably accurate." Kyoya replied, frowning slightly. "Is something bothering you?"
"Too easy to read?" Looking out of the window to the rain filled sky, Kaoru sighed softly. "Everything's changing."
For a moment, the Shadow King was silent. "Isn't that a good thing?"
Sharp golden eyes turned round to glare at Kyoya. "Not when you're the only one that isn't changing." Biting back his words, the young Hitachiin sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "Its nothing, it was inevitable someone would guess right at the 'who's Hikaru?' game."
Moving over to the other boy to look out the window, the other smiled. "You think he's leaving you?"
"He is." Kaoru shifted his weight uncomfortably. "It's nothing, just forget I said -"
"If it was nothing you would never have said anything." Kyoya replied quietly. "And it's good that Hikaru has found someone, he's letting you breathe, become an individual -"
"I don't want to be one!" The red head blinked, surprised at his own words and, with a sigh, ran a nervous hand through his hair. "It has always been 'us', and 'them', and now there's 'her'."
"Haruhi." The Shadow King mused. "And now you fear it'll be 'you' and 'everyone'?" He laughed at the pained look. "No, I think you'll find that you'll be a part of 'everyone' easily if you simply let them."
Koura simply stayed silent, watching the rain, thinking. "Hikaru has Haruhi, as does Tamaki and Hunny has Mori, and who do I have?" He looked at Kyoya. "And you? Who do you rely on?"
Tapping his notebook, Kyoya smiled. "I don't rely on anyone."
"Then you're more alone than I am." Kaoru blinked as he had his face caught, Kyoya's suddenly just inches away. But this wasn't like his routine with Hikaru, it felt odd, and clumsy, the other too close.
"I'm content to watch."
"And let everything pass you by?"
Kyoya smirked, removing his glasses slowly, still pinning the smaller boy. "Should I take every opportunity?"
Ignoring his common sense that was screaming at him loudly, telling him he was a fly caught in a spider's web, Kaoru managed a smirk of his own. "Of course, its -"
Soft lips on his own, a hand sliding to the small of his back, and then Kyoya had pulled away, watching the other.
"Like that?" The Shadow King whispered quietly before leaning forward again.
The soft kisses met no resistance, the younger boy either waiting for him to push it further, or simply too surprised, Kyoya finding that he strangely didn't care as he deepened his kiss.
Kaoru blinked in shock, panicking slightly at the turn of events, even more so when the other boy knocked the items off his carefully organised desk and he was pinned down, then his eyes widened as the reality of it all finally sunk in.
The younger boy blinked before gulping slowly. "How did this happen?"
The Shadow King offered a thin smile. "I don't know." He leaned forward, stealing another kiss. "Just seizing the moment."
"But why?" Kaoru watched as the other boy paused, looking at each other for a moment before he pulled away, placing his glasses back on. "Kyoya?"
Picking up his notebook and pen, the darker boy paused and looked at the page in front of him with no expression. "I believe I reacted a little too much to your words of advice."
"A little?" Sitting up on the desk, and noticing the mess now around him, Kaoru blushed furiously. "It was only a -"
With three strides, Kyoya silenced the young Hitachiin with another kiss. Pulling back, he smiled slightly. "You annoyed me, even with all my calculations I can only predict so far, and yet with a look you seemed to know what I was thinking."
"About being alone?" Kaoru smiled weakly. "Everyone feels like that sometimes."
"But we shouldn't have to." Leaning forward, Kyoya placed a chaste kiss on the younger boy's lips. "Don't you think so, Kaoru?"
In reply, the red head leaned forward and placed an equally chaste kiss on the others lips before heading to the door. "Hikaru should be home by now; I don't want him to worry." And with that, he closed the door.
Looking at the mess, Kyoya simply smiled and pushed his glasses up his nose. He'd leave this one to the cleaners, right now, he needed to think.
And to recalculate.
Could this be happiness? Or simply convenience?
Please review – first boys love fic so input is really appreciated!