Hitachiin Household

"Mom?" Kaoru asked as he walked into the kitchen, and found his mother waiting for him. "What are you still doing home?"

"Oh! Kaoru!" His mother chimed, smiling brightly at her younger son. "I just figured I should wait home so that you wouldn't feel lonely!"

"Lonely?" Kaoru growled. "I'm perfectly fine. It's not like I miss Hikaru or anything. We got seperate rooms a few nights ago anyway, it doesn't really matter."

"Hey... Kaoru?" His mom asked as Kaoru was about to walk out of the house without breakfast. "I heard... something interesting."

"Hmm? What is it?" Kaoru asked, turning around.

"People are calling you homosexual," She worried.

Kaoru shivered, scowled, and yelled, "I'm going!"

With a large slam of the front door, Kaoru was gone, and heading off to school. Of course, Kaoru wasn't even sure how he could pull school off with the way he was feeling right now. Everyone would think he was gay, but he wasn't.

"Could it be Haruhi-chan?" His mother wondered as she sat aloud. "That's right, doesn't everyone think she's a boy?"

"Stupid Hikaru," Kaoru hissed as he kicked a can in his way. Tears tugged at his eyes, and one was starting to break loose. "Stupid... idiot... baka!"

Kaoru kicked the can even harder.

Thunk!

"Wha...?" Kaoru gasped. "Oh my god! I'm sor-"

"It's okay," The person replied, rubbing their head and turning around to face Kaoru. "It doesn't hurt that bad."

"What're you doing out here, Tono?" Kaoru finally growled. "Are you slinking around, trying to see where Haruhi is this morning so you can attempt to seduce her?"

"Ahh, that's gross," Tamaki hissed. "Why would I try to seduce my own daughter? Now I'm trying to think about why I was out here in the first place, thanks to your little can."

"Tono..." Kaoru whispered.

"What?" Tamaki tried to growl.

He was waiting for me.

Blushing, Kaoru pushed ahead of Tamaki.

"Kaoru!" Tamaki gasped, trying tot grab his shoulder.

"I can walk," Kaoru hissed as he ran ahead.

"That's running!"

Kaoru stopped at the stoplight ahead of him, gasping for breath, and trying to calm down his beating heart. "Stupid Tono, I can take care of myself."

When Tamaki had almost caught up to Kaoru again, the light for him turned green, and Kaoru dashed across the road, but one car didn't yeild, and it looked like it almost ran over his foot. Now Kaoru stood still, his hair standing up in a few places. Tamaki dashed across the road and pulled Kaoru onto the sidewalk before the light turned red and the other side came at him.

"What were you thinking?" Tamaki shouted at Kaoru.

A few tears strode down Kaoru's cheeks, but he pulled away from Tamaki and started limping along.

"What's wrong? That car didn't actually hit you, right?" He worried.

"Stupid idiots!" Kaoru cursed. "Talking on cellphones while driving, how dumb can these damn commoners get?"

"Kaoru?"

A few more tears fell down Kaoru's face, and he leaned against the wall of a building. "Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!"

"Kao-" Tamaki was about to call again.

"You manupulative bastard!" Shouted someone as three men walked up behind Tamaki. "What did you do to yourself!?"

Clenching his teeth, Kaoru walked away from the building, and tried to walk normally to school, despite the screams of pain shooting up his leg and numbing his stomach.

"Don't let him see your face," Kaoru told himself as he continued walking, his teeth so tightly together he thought they would surely shatter. "You'll be okay as long as Hikaru doesn't see your face, just keep going. Keep--- ahh, ahh."

"Sorry Mister!" A little girl apologized as her soccer ball tread up Kaoru's foot.

"It's oookay!" Kaoru cried, trying to stay calm.

The little girl ran over to Kaoru and picked up her ball, then walked past him, and looked at Hikaru in the group behind.

"Sorry I hit your foot mister," She apologized to Hikaru.

"But you didn't-" Hikaru was confused, but then he looked ahead to the slightly limping Kaoru and sighed.

"Does your hair change color in the light and dark?" The little girl asked as she waited for her mommy to stop apologizing to Kaoru about her daughter's misbehavior.

"Yeah," Hikaru lied. "Cool, huh?"

"Yeah!" She giggled and ran off with her mom.

"Baka," Hikaru cursed. "What happened to him?"

"I think a car ran over his foot," Tamaki wondered aloud.

"What!?" Hikaru freaked. "Seriously?"

"I think," Tamaki emphasized.

"Oh, Kaoru," Hikaru cried a bit. "My poor brother."

"Ohh, Kao-chan," Hunny sobbed. "Is he gonna be okay?"

"I think he will be," Mori tried to reassure, but he wasn't even sure himself. "I think Kaoru can handle that."

When they had almost made it to school, they heard a familiar voice, and were all shocked to see who it was.

"Haruhi!?" They all gasped.

"Oh, Hi!" Haruhi greeted as she turned around, dressed in her school uniform. "Dad wanted me to go today and see how things were going. I'm supposed to be here today, pick up some study papers, and then attend classes for the day. I'm supposed to study just in case my dad comes home in time for make-ups. He came home- He's getting a lot better, at least that's what his doctor told me, anyway. I don't really know, can you really trust doctors?"

"Haru-chan talks a lot," Hunny pointed out, but no one could hear him over Tamaki's screams of joy.

"HARUHI!" Tamaki screeched as he ran up and glomped her. "I can't believe it!"

"Sempai!" She hissed. "Get offa me!"

"I knew they couldn't kick you out!" Tamaki sobbed. "I'm sooo happy!"

"Wonderful," Haruhi growled as she finally pushed Tamaki off and walked over to Kaoru. "You hurt your foot? Clumsy."

Kaoru blushed; he wasn't doing a good job at concealing his foot.

"I'm fine," Kaoru lied.

"Baka," Hikaru hissed, scooping Kaoru up in his arms. "Let's get you to the nurse right away."

"H-Hikaru!" Kaoru protested. "You can't just do this to me!"

"Sure I can."

"Let me down!" Kaoru growled.

"You can hate me later, but right now we need to get you better."

Kaoru quieted down at the word "hate".

"Why would I hate you?" Kaoru whispered the question, the tears choking him even more, but not from the pain anymore.

"I made you cry yesterday," Hikaru sighed as he carried him down the hallway. "I'd feel better if you hated me. It was wrong of me to act that way. You were just... getting me so mad."

"Maybe I do hate you," Kaoru growled, struggling a bit in Hikaru's arms.

"Fine," Hikaru hissed. "But hate me once you get home. That foot needs to be looked at, it could be broken."

"Hikaru..." Kaoru sobbed a bit.

"I'm your big brother," Hikaru explained as he put Kaoru down on a bed in the nurse's office. "You do what I tell you to do."

"What I dun wanna?" Kaoru asked, tears escaping as the nurse poked his foot, trying to see the damage. "What... if I don't want to?"

Hikaru couldn't stare at his brother any longer, and he looked away. Kaoru was sobbing because the nurse was touching his foot, and looking at his foot, Hikaru saw it was all black and blue. The nurse shook her head, and Hikaru began to feel uneasy.

"I don't think it needs surgery," The nurse explained. "But he has to stay off of it."

"Right," Hikaru nodded his head.

"I'm fine," Kaoru sobbed. "It doesn't hurt at all."

Hikaru began to shake as he watched his little brother, and he began crying himself.

"Don't cry," Hikaru sobbed as he bent down and hugged Kaoru. "I'll... I'll... I'll cry for you."