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Chapter 14: A Coma? Sounds Festive!

At the end of the school day, Setuko was sitting in the club room, resting her head on her palm as she listened to the quiet beeps of Kyoya's calculator.

"Looking at the numbers, if this were to continue, I'm afraid we'll have to stop offering our brotherly love package." Kyoya said. "We're down one pair of loving brothers. Oh, Haruhi, I just want you to know there's no reason for you to feel responsible, even if it was your tactless comment that started this whole feud between the twins in the first place, right?"

"Wow, low blow." Setsuko said, looking at him through the corner of her eyes. He knew this was fake, he was just being an asshole.

"I'm just stating the facts." Kyoya said with a shrug as he looked at her.

"Right, I forgot, you don't sugar-coat things."

"It's weird for Hika-chan and Kao-chan to be fighting like this. It's never happened before." Honey said, with Mori nodding in agreement.

"They've never fought before today?" Haruhi asked.

"That's impossible. I mean, they've been together their entire lives and they've never had even one argument?" Setsuko asked, tilting her head. Man, if this really is their first ever 'fight', I kind of have to applaud them on how well they're faking it, especially without any prior experience.

Honey shook his head, "I've known Hika-chan and Kao-chan since we were in pre-school. We weren't in the same year, so I never really got to talk to them, but I remember the two of them always played together."

"Yeah, that's true. I mean, I've only known the twins since they were in middle school, but they definitely stood out." Tamaki said, gazing out the window. "It seemed like they kept everyone at a distance except each other." A slightly amused smile came to his face, "Believe it or now, they were even more warped back then. When you stop and think about it, maybe this fight is a good thing for them. Maybe it means the twins are expanding their horizons a bit. We should leave them alone and let them work it out."

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How long are they going to drag this out?  Setsuko thought, sitting at a nearby window and watching as the twins were, once again, throwing things at each other. Hitting the other with the soft objects and somehow missing with the harder ones. She had planned on getting a nap since club activities were suspended but it looked like that wasn't going to happen. Eventually the twins had thrown everything that was laying around in the room, and it was piled up behind them, with Honey sitting innocently on top.

"Don't you guys think that maybe, it's time you give up all this fighting? It's driving me insane!" Tamaki said, a look of annoyance on his face.

"What'd you say? It's driving you insane? You've gotta be kidding me- how do you think I feel right now?" Hikaru said, then he looked over at Kaoru, "Every time I look in the mirror, I see his face. I'm sick and tired of constantly being mistaken for you, Kaoru! The truth is I hate your guts!"

"You took the words right out of my mouth. In fact, I hate you so much I bought this." Kaoru reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a familiar looking wooden doll and a black marker. "Belzenef, the curse doll!"

Tamaki screeched.

"I'm going to complete the curse, Hikaru, I'm going to write your name on his back. From this day forward, you're going to experience nothing, but misfortune and sorrow!"

Before he could finish writing on the back of the doll, Haruhi sprung forwards and punched the both of them in the head, which surprised everyone in the room- even Mori and Kyoya looked shocked. "Will you guys knock it off!? What do you think you're doing? You don't bring something like this into a petty fight! Both of you are at fault here but what's really sad is that you've brough everyone else around you into your big mess! Now apologize to each other! If you don't make up right now, I'm never going to let you come over to my house!"