Feels Like the First Time

Chapter Nineteen - Spies

Takashi and I broke apart, staring intently at where the sound came from. Before I could blink, Takashi had pulled me behind him but I still looked around, placing my hand on his back so he knew where I was. After a few moments and no more sounds, Takashi began to move away but a flash of blond out the corner of my eye made me grab onto his tense arm to stop him. He looked at me questioningly, but my eyes were locked onto the mirror at the end of the hallway that I had seen the movement in. As I watched, a head popped up making me jump but I instantly recognised the annoying creature that head belonged to.

"Tamaki!" I shouted making Takashi turn back towards the noise, instantly understanding what had happened. A few seconds later, a guilty looking Tamaki shuffled round the corner from the living room.

"Why were you hiding?" I asked him, folding my arms and putting on my disapproving aunt face. He looked up at me with puppy dog eyes that shimmered with tears before looking back to the ground.

"Tamaki," Takashi prompted, his eyes glinting slightly. Tamaki raised his eyes again, this time to Takashi, but realising they had no effect he decided to answer.

"We came round to see you. We were waiting in the dojo but I needed to use the bathroom and then I saw you and got scared so tried to hide but then broke your vase." Tamaki rambled his puppy dog eyes growing larger with every word.

"Again, why were you hiding?" I asked. Tamaki's eyes shot between Takashi and I now looking panicked.

"Tamaki, what's taking so long? Takashi will be here any min-" Honey said as he walked round the same corner as Tamaki to stop dead when he spotted Takashi and I.

"Mitsukuni," Takashi growled next to me. Honey paled but his eyes went wide, mimicking Tamaki's earlier expression. "Why are you here?" Takashi asked, his anger clearly showing.

"We just wanted to see you but you weren't here so we waited." Honey insisted. The puppy dog look worked better for Honey but I could tell Takashi was too angry to be effected. I, on the other hand, just thought it was hilarious but I kept my thoughts quiet knowing that Takashi needed to handle this himself.

"Mitsukuni!" Takashi warned. His eyes glinted again and I saw Tamaki nervously start to back away.

"We just wanted to see you!" Honey insisted, he puppy dog eyes now replaced by an irritated look. Clearly he didn't like it when Takashi didn't believe him. Both Tamaki and I could feel the tension building but it was fortunately broken by the Hitachiin twins who seemed to appear out of nowhere on either side of Tamaki.

"What's all this about?" The one on the right asked.

"Yeah, we were just about to leave. It was so boring!" Said the one on the left.

I was once again reminded that I should learn the names of the twins. There were clear differences between the two but I didn't have a name to place to each one.

"Who else is here?" I asked, eagerly latching on to the opportunity they had given to calm the situation. 

"Haruhi is back in the dojo." They replied in sync and I saw Honey's eyes widen slightly at the mention of her location. A voice in the back of my mind reminded me that Mei had known about Takashi and I training together and I noticed that Takashi had come to a similar conclusion to me.

"I think Mei said that you two were helping her with her wedding dress. How's it coming along?" I asked them desperately trying to shift the tension now as Takashi continued to glare at Honey. 

"Oh yeah! We have the sketch book." The one on the right said.

"We can show you." Said the other.

"That would be great!" I exclaimed somewhat too enthusiastically and speed walked over to them. I looked over my shoulder at Takashi as the twins guided me through the house and saw that he had held back Honey and he looked a bit calmer. He caught my eye and gave me a nod of appreciation for giving them some space and I smiled warmly back at him before following the twins and Tamaki.

I sat on the white sofa as they instructed while they went to get there bag and Haruhi. Tamaki awkwardly sat next me and I raised an eyebrow at him.

"I'm sorry," he mumbled, his deep blue eyes staring a hole through his lap.

"For what?"

"For seeing you two ... you know."

"Ah, I thought that was why you were hiding. It's okay, Tamaki. Besides it's not really your fault."

"It's not?"

"No. I think it's more Honey's fault for bringing you round here to spy." I saw Tamaki's eyes widen in surprise at my comment.

"How did you know?" He asked, shocked.

"Mei already knew that Takashi and I were meeting to train and she'd previously enlisted Honey's help. It wasn't too hard to put two and two together." I chuckled. Tamaki nodded solemnly before his eyes went wide again but this time with excitement.

"So are you and Takashi together?" Tamaki gasped. His hands grasped mine and he wiggled in his seat like a puppy making me chuckle at his strange actions.

"I don't know. We haven't really spoken about it yet." I replied.

"Do you want to be?"

"Well," I paused remembering what Mei had said about my conversation with Nanako. "Yeah. I think I would." Tamaki wiggled again in his seat at my response.