|OHSHC| Separation • Hikaru X Kaoru fanfiction

Prologue

Prologue • Kaoru

An act, that's what we had agreed. Only an act. Though, to both of us, it was obviously more than that.

Regular brothers, even twins, would cringe at the thought of acting like they had a deeper passion for their older/younger brother merely for the entertainment of rich pretty girls.

Gay is what they would call it. A hoarse word, even thinking about in. Hikaru hadn't paid any mind the sneers we would get from any guy outside of the club so I naturally copied him. Whenever this happens I can't help but think back to a sentence I had heard Haruhi mutter.

"They're pretty harsh about guys outside of their inner circle" is what she said. Or at least what I had caught of it. No, I thought at the time. We don't want to be. We have to be. The only one of us that doesn't get the harsh treatment in any form outside of the club would probably be Hunny-Senpai considering how he's like a martial arts God.

Although, going back to my point, it couldn't be just an act. It... Could've started out that way but now, when the club ends for the day and there's no one to watch, our act keeps going as if a burnt out spot light glared on us in an empty theater.

Before the host club, our in sync behavior was the result of our naturally harsh monochrome outlook on life, and because we were essentially two sides of the same unchanging coin. Now that we're older we're obviously different on our own. Our sync is now fueled by our flirtatious connection, our movements fueled by perhaps an underlying feeling of temptation.

My only concern, is what happens if the act goes to far? Or the curtain shuts and we're alone in the dark behind a dusty curtain.