realityshifted | ♘ I hope the day will be a lighter highway

[on one end of a swing set on the Plane, his hands gripping the chains so tight, his knuckles have turned white, sits Kaoru. he's in the suit he arrived in for his match against Remus, the trousers all one piece again like the shards of broken porcelain never cut the expensive material. the tea cup the Twins gave him lies empty on the ground nearby.

besides the lingering sensation of a drugged fog in his mind, he doesn't seem any different. everything is still in place--he still feels like himself--but he wears a worried, frightened expression. he doesn't know how long he's been gone and worse still...he doesn't want to see what his blood looks like now.

his mind goes to Hikaru and he suddenly lets out a mournful little groan, his grip tightening on the chains as he slumps forward, his body wanting to curl in on itself. of all people, he doesn't want Hikaru to know what he did, even if he did it to protect the Hosts and Renge, because...no, he can't stand thinking about that possibility.]

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[Kyouya doesn't even smile at how stupid that sounds to him.] If you think that you dying in any way protected us, then you're lying to yourself. The facts don't support that theory at all.

[He takes one step back, ready to leave.] Call me whenever you're want to go home. I'll contact the others.

[takes a step forward, horrified that Kyouya will just leave things like this. this isn't what he wanted!]

Kyouya-sempai, wait! I'll say it to the others when I see them, but I'm...I'm really sorry.

Are you? For what you chose or for the consequences of it?

[There is a difference, one that Tamaki once insisted on months ago. This is so much more terrible than even that. And Kyouya is still half-ready to walk away from this. He wants his notebook and his piano recordings and time enough to make this disaster somehow okay.]

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[quietly] And if I said both? You have no idea how much I... I've never been so scared. [and he still is, but for another reason]

Why did you do it?

[what he said before is the truth, but...] I...I didn't want to see anyone die. I couldn't. It--it's not like in the movies.

And that's why I didn't want anyone to know or see! They should have been spared it. I asked Remus to put on the blindfold so he wouldn't have to see either, but I don't... [he frowns. his memory's a bit hazy. he's not exactly sure just how much of what he said actually was said] ...I don't think he listened.

I thought it'd be easier to be the one to die, but I was wrong! And I've messed up everything.

Don't be so arrogant. You couldn't mess up everything if you tried.

[It's an odd sort of admonishment. Kyouya adjusts the angle of his glasses and, quietly, sighs.]

From Haruhi at the beach, this sort of idiocy is understandable. I wouldn't have thought a twin would forget that people are better off when they don't act on their own.

[opens his mouth to protest that he's not being arrogant--but decides to close it, casting his eyes down]

I was terrified! I didn't... [trails off, taking a moment to ask something he doesn't want to know the answer to, but...he'll find out eventually, won't he?] Kyouya-sempai, how long was I gone?

Six days.

[If he checked his cell phone, he could get the time in seconds. But in whole numbers, six days: six visits that he made to the Twins' shop to check on the resurrection.]

Six days?! But it doesn't seem like it's been that long.

[he wonders if the poison is why it took so long for him to come back]

It wouldn't to someone dead.

[He still doesn't feel at all inclined to pull punches.]

[frowns] No, it wouldn't, would it?

[a bit more firmly] But I'm back now, and that's what matters, right? I don't know what's been done to me yet, but...I still have everyone. [he hopes]

Do you doubt that?

[smiles faintly] Well, I think Haruhi is going to be very mad at me.

[a pause; mutters under his breath] And no doubt you'll be bringing this up for a long time to come...

[Kyouya slips his hands into his pockets. He still isn't smiling.] You should talk to Remus. If he's a wizard, he may be useful to us.

Ah, yeah... I wanted to find him anyway. He has something of mine.

Something of ours?

[pouts] And mine.

...Unless he found you while I was gone?

I was occupied.

Okay, let's go find him, then! [the sooner, the better. he doesn't want to explain to anyone back home why he needs to pay for a lost carriage, horse, and very expensive tea set.]

I think I've cleaned up after your messes enough for one week.

[If it were Haruhi, this may have come out as 'It will cost you extra.']

You probably want to talk to him as much as I do. It won't hurt you.

I can talk to him later.

Then, maybe we can go somewhere else? Maybe the ons--[but as he says it, is thinking about going there, he suddenly appears in front of that tall building]

Uhh...

[Whatever Kyouya was going to say, it's cut off by the fact that Kaoru just disappeared.]

[He didn't think Kaoru would go back home suddenly like that. By accident, perhaps? But if that were the case, he'd return immediately.]

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