Hero | ohshc

XLIII

"You saw!" The twins crowed out, leaning close to a panting and very dishevelled-looking Kasanoda. 

"Yaahh!" Shudders wracked through his body, his yell almost defeaning. I winced at his loud voice.

"You saw, huh, Bossa Nova?" Kaoru leant down.

"You saw it didn't you?" Hikaru growled, mocking the same position so they were inches from Kasanoda's face.

The boy's legs shook. "I-I didn't look! No, I did get a glance, but it was just for a second so I didn't look. No, I did see what I saw, but no, I wasn't looking!" He attempted to explain, while Tamaki paled considerably. I rolled my eyes at his constant stuttering.

Honey took a step forth, "I think that people who can't make up their minds are scum." The small boy's eyes glinted dangerously. 

Kasanoda looked as if he was about to shit his pants. I stood, leaning against a pillar in the middle of the music room. My ankles were crossed as well as my arms, while my head rested against the cold architecture. I was starting to enjoy the show despite my aggravation with the group chastising each other.

"So," Kasanoda stood up straight on shaky legs, "Fujioka is really a girl?"

Hikaru turned to his twin, "he appears to have learned Haruhi's secret."

"That's no good, huh? What did you see?" Kaoru cross-examined the nervous boy.

 "How much of Haruhi's soft, maiden skin, unknown to us, did you see?" Hikaru continued, his arms behind his back. 

I fiddled with the hem of my skirt and stepped forward propelling myself from off the pillar, my own threats coming to mind at seeing the fair beauty of Haruhi. I raised my head and stood beside Kyouya. "Let me fight him."

Kyouya spared me a small glance and his lips twisted upwards ever so slightly.

"Well, she was changing, so I saw her in her underwear." He started to sweat.

"You saw Haruhi in her underwear!?" The twins yelled louder than before, jumping in Kasanoda's face. The hair on my body prickled and sweat started to drip down the back of my neck. I grumbled, "let me kill him."

"What do we do? There are no two ways about it. The first thing we have to do is clobber him, and make him lose his memory." The twin's eyes glowed and Hikaru grabbed Kasanoda and Koru raised a baseball bat.

"Now, now, stop that." Kyouya stepped up, "It's a lot of trouble to cover up a crime." He raised his hand and motioned to the twins then stared me down, "especially murder."

"Kyouya-senpai, how can you be so calm?" Hikaru questioned the glasses-clad boy.

Kaoru raised the bat towards my brother behind me, "Look! his highness is in such great shock, he's a mere husk of himself."

Tamaki sat curled up against the pillar where I once stood, his body deathly pale and unresponsive. I turned back around to glower at Kasanoda, the prickling of my raised hair worsening as my anger spiked.

"Well, now that the secret is out, we'll just have to discuss this." Kyouya pushed up his glasses, and I readied myself by popping my knuckles.

"Kasanoda-kun, Haruhi is hiding the fact that she is a girl due to certain circumstances. We have no right to make you keep quiet about this," a dark aura lurked around him, mingling with my own steadily growing one, "however, would you at least remember this much? Being a son from one of those sorts of families, you must have heard a number of rumours. If you make enemies of the Ootori family, the Ootori private police force, known in Japan's financial circles as the Black Onion Squad, will be mobilised. Such is a situation that of course, we'd like to avoid, right?"