[Ouran High School Host Club]
Disclaimer: I do not own the fabulous Ouran High School Host Club nor any of its characters.
Our Objective Purposes
Hikaru is totally whipped, but she only wants to know why.
Hikaru is totally whipped, but she only wants to know why.
Two decades were quite some time, Hikaru thought, wondering how he had never felt the void in his heart that this girl he was holding in his arms suddenly filled. And yet, it's as though she belongs here with me...with us.
"Can you put me down now?" The girl said in a monotone, completely unimpressed.
Hikaru grinned foolishly, something he did only around her. "Of course, my love, anything for you."
"Don't call me that. It's creepy," the girl's voice was still emotionless.
Hikaru wondered if he was doing something wrong. Didn't all girls like to be treated like little princesses? What had his years as an Ouran Academy Host teach him? He thought he had it all down to an art; he was so sure that he understood the nature of females thoroughly. Then why didn't his compliments and overall Tamaki-style approach seem to work on the only girl he'd thus far wholeheartedly cared for?
"Hikaru." A dressed and an almost ready-to-go Mrs. Yuzuha Hitachiin was coming into the living room, looking like she'd lost something dreadfully important. "Have you seen the -"
The girl answered for Hikaru, "It's on Kaoru's side of the room."
"Oh, thank you, darling! You're a lifesaver!" Mrs. Hitachiin ran towards the boys' bedroom, the bedroom they shared even until today, while they were off on their separate roads. Some things shouldn't and wouldn't change, which the twins were grateful for.
The girl remained quiet for a while but then uncharacteristically looked at Hikaru. Hikaru looked back at her, gleeful that she was directing her attention to him and ready to give in to her every whim. She asked, "Where is anii-san?"
"Kaoru went out for a while. He'll be back to spoil you, so don't you worry, Ageha," Hikaru was unintentionally doing the Tamaki charm again out of habit, but it didn't affect the little girl sitting on his lap in the slightest. Why doesn't it work? Tamaki's got her under his thumb just by being all princely but when Kaoru and I try it, she's totally indifferent!
Ageha Hitachiin suddenly yawned and demanded of her older brother, "I'm tired and I want you to pick me up."
Hikaru was all but ready to worship her. "Of course!" He picked her up and carried her to her room, which was pretty much a nursery with a toddler bed in place of the standard crib. The family members liked to joke that Ageha was a full-grown woman trapped in a three-year old's body. She had made her transition from crib to toddler bed rather early and was already beginning to eye what her older brothers would stupidly call "big kids' beds." She herself knew she was ready but she thought her family wouldn't quite accept it yet so she was willing to wait.
When Hikaru placed her on her bed, he asked her, "Would you like me to read you anything? How about some milk or juice? Would you like a piece of candy, princess?"
She looked at her older brother with stoic seriousness, "No, no, and no. I'd like you to turn off the lights, please, and close the door on your way out, onii-san." She added the last word to sound a little more diplomatic.
He went wide-eyed at hearing his baby sister call him older brother and suddenly, he knew how Tamaki felt when someone called him tono. The resemblances between him and Tamaki-senpai were overwhelming him but now, he cared for nothing save Ageha, who had called him onii-san.
When Hikaru had shut the door, Ageha turned on her nightlight and pulled a book titled The Meaning of the Universe from underneath her bed (it was too heavy to place under her pillow without looking suspicious). She was only a hundred and thirty-five pages into the book and couldn't wait to start chapter two, which was going to explain how The Objective Purposes of Animals and Humans were interrelated and, quite simply, why their purposes were the same. Perhaps then she could understand her okashii brothers a little more.
~
