OHSHC: Host Hopping

Kaoru Sunday

I woke up this morning alone in Hikaru's bed. I sat up and scanned the room to find the other twin sitting on a chair next to the bed reading a book. He drew his attention away from the book and when he made eye contact with me his bored look turns into a smile. He is immediately at my side with his arm around me. "So you finally got up huh? Are you ready to hang out now? We should get out of here, because Hikaru is already getting jealous we're hanging out alone." he says in a cheery voice.

I loved hanging out with Kaoru almost more than the other guys. Not that I didn't love them all, but Kaoru was simple. He wasn't confusing for me. We had established a completely platonic relationship and we were both sure we weren't interested in each other. That made it easy for us to become close. With the other guys it's confusing, I just don't know who I'm gonna end up with.

"Yeah let's hang out. Where are we going?" I ask.

"Well I was thinking we could just go swimming. I rented out Kyoya's resort so we could hang out there together." he said. It may sound weird but trust me, we DON'T have feelings for each other.

"Well I didn't really bring a bathing suit. Sorry, I didn't know we were going swimming..." I say sheepishly and Kaoru just giggles and says "Oh don't worry, I have a bunch of my mom's designs ready for you to choose from. I figured you were going to forget a swimsuit." I sighed and smiled. "Thanks I really appreciate it," I say and he just nods his head.

As we're walking to the room where Kaoru says he has the swimsuits he stops me in front of the door. "K-Kaoru, what are you doing?" I ask nervously. "Oh don't worry I'm not doing anything funny, just wanted to let you know that I didn't choose any one pieces. Strictly bikini, Haruhi." He says with a sly grin.

"Ugh come one Kaoru, why would you do that? I don't have much of a figure anyway and why would you wanna see that anyways?" I complain, looking at him with my annoyed look. "It's gonna be okay Haruhi, nobody's gonna be there to see you so no need to feel self conscious, and I'm not doing anything to you. I just wanna see you be a little more confident in your feminine side since it's almost nonexistent..."

I can't help but think what he's saying is super sweet, so I wrap my arms around him briefly and he returns it with a small pink tint on his cheeks. We're just friends, I tell myself as I walk into the room and change into a swim suit that I like.

The top is a pastel blue that ties around my neck and has small ruffles, and the bottom is just black with little strappy detailings on the sides just for looks. I take a good look at myself in the mirror and I actually feel good about myself. Now that I think about it my figure isn't so bad. I almost look like a skeleton in my opinion, I have pretty small curves but I still think I look pretty nice. I turn around and go out the door, grab my things, and walk over to the front door of the mansion where Kaoru is waiting for me. I haven't seen any trace of Hikaru yet which is weird. He usually says hi to me or stays with me as much as Kaoru but I haven't seen him all morning. Maybe he's decided to leave me alone for a day...

We both step into his limo and sit down next to each other. It starts driving and I could've sworn for a second there I thought I heard a thump in the trunk but I didn't pay any attention to it and just made small talk with Kaoru. He played with the ends of my hair while we were talking because he was just like that. We were really best friends.

"Haruhi you should grow your hair out." he said tugging at it.

I just rolled my eyes. "Short hair's so much easier to take care of."

"Awww, but you'd look so much cuter with your long hair! All the boys would love you." Kaoru replied, staring off into space.

"If I had short hair then how would I be in the host club?"