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Aftermath	By : DanielGar Category: +M to R > Ouran High Host Club Views: 2929 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran High School Host Club or any of the characters in the show. I make no money off of this story.

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The smoke drifted into the master bedroom causing the twins to cough in their sleep. While they did cough, they continued to sleep nonetheless. It wasn't until the smoke alarm released an ear tweaking belated beep that the twins awoke. They launched themselves into a sitting position and looked at each other. The smoke detector continued with its ear piercing alarm. Hikaru jumped out of bed and grabbed his robe, and slipped it on. Kaoru on the other hand ran straight to the door. He opened the door and a thick cloud of smoke rolled into the bedroom causing both twins to cough more.
Through the smoke Kaoru could see a fire raging in the kitchen. "The kitchen is on fire!"
Hikaru coughed and while the idea of saying 'duh' had crossed his mind, it decided to focus on joining his brother as he left the bedroom instead. Kaoru ran and grabbed the nearest fire extinguisher and began to spray part of the fire with it. "Go get the other extinguisher from the deck!" Kaoru shouted at his brother. Hikaru nodded and ran past his brother and the fire and made his way up the stairs to the deck.
Kaoru cursed the fire and continued to spray it as it flared up. The fire was spreading quickly and he had to work even faster to try to keep it contained, a task that was becoming easier as the extinguisher became lighter with every passing second. While he was busy fighting the growing fire, he began to think of worst case scenerios and glanced at where they had left the satellite phone. He shouted a string of vulgarity when he saw that the fire had already raged where they had left their main source of communication. Kaoru continued spraying the fire, but while the canister became lighter and lighter the fire was not shrinking in size. Kaoru began to cough again and had to pause from extinguishing the fire, as his coughing grew worse. It soon grew to the point that Kaoru had to set the extinguisher down in order to hold his sides while he coughed.
Kaoru's breath had just returned to him and had picked the extinguisher back up when things took a sudden turn for the worse. What Kaoru hadn't noticed was that the fire had reached the liquor cabinet. The pressure in the glass bottles had been building up due to the heat from the fire. While some simply cracked and released their flammable contents into the fire to be quickly consumed, others exploded violently sending both shards of glass and flaming liquid. A scream of pain filled the yacht.
Hikaru had just managed to detach the other fire extinguisher from where it was strapped when he heard his brother's painful scream. "KAORU!" He sprinted back to the door. He swung the door open and ignoring the black smoked that bellowed out, leapt down the steps. He reached his brother, and saw him rolling on the floor swatting at his side and his left arm. Hiakru grabbed his brother and saw the burns that now ravaged his body. "Kaoru, hold on. I'm taking you outside."
Kaoru looked up at his older brother with tears in his eyes and he nodded. Hikaru placed an arm under his brother's leg and behind his back, making sure that he didn't touch any of the burns that were causing his brother pain. He carefully carried him up the steps and onto the deck. He laid him down gently on one of the pillowed bench seats. "Kaoru…"
Kaoru shook his head, "I'll live. Now go back and put the fire out or else we won't."
Hikaru looked at his brother, making sure he was fine enough to be alone. Kaoru reached out with his good arm and gave his brother a push. "Go!"
Hikaru rushed back through the door to try to extinguish the fire. Kaoru took a deep breath and stood up, gritting his teeth as tears fell from his eyes. Once he was standing however he felt pain shoot from his burns as the skin stretched. He vision waned and he fell back onto the seat. He took a few deep breaths to try to counter the pain that was crippling him but he could not seem to curb the pain. Tears fell from his eyes due to the pain that he was feeling physically and the emotional pain he was feeling from not being able to help his brother. He sat on the bench watching the door to the galley, hoping that any moment that his older brother would emerge with a victorious grin on his face. It didn't happen. Instead the lights from around the ship shut off plunging the vessel into darkness. Kaoru looked about the best he could with the aid of the moonlight until two dim lights flickered on.
After an eternity of waiting the door flew open letting out a large billow of black smoke to blend into the night. Out emerged Hikaru with an armful of clothes and a first-aid kit. The look on his face was anything but victorious.
"…Fire…out…?" Kaoru managed to ask through clenched teeth.
Hikaru rested his hands the best he could on his knees and coughed, feeling as if his burning lungs would be coughed up. He looked up at his brother, and with a rough scraggly voice answered "No, when it hit that alcohol it just took right off. Do we have another extinguisher?"
Kaoru shook his head, trying to keep the bile that was climbing up his throat from escaping his mouth.
"Can you make it down to the swimming platform by yourself?" Hikaru questioned.
The younger twin's eyes stung from the smoke and pain, which mixed with the shame of losing his independence, forced him to clinch his eyes shut and once more shake his head.
Hikaru dropped the items in his hands and picked his brother up once more. He hastily carried his brother down to the swimming platform. Having been left on his side, Kaoru curled into a ball the best he could and waited for the worst. Hikaru meanwhile, returned back to where his brother had previously been seated. He lifted the bench, and beneath it in a cubby was a large yellow rubber bag, He lifted the bag out of cubby and set it aside. He looked back in the cubby and saw that there was another rubber bag, however this one was longer and thinner and colored red and yellow. He drug them both down onto the swimming platform and laid them next to his brother. But before he could rush back he had to take a small break as his small coughs had now grown to shake his whole body. Once his coughing fit subsided he ran once more and picked up the clothes and first aid kit he had brought up earlier and took them to the swimming platform as well.
"radio?" Kaoru groaned up at his brother.
"No dice. The fire got one before I even thought to grab it. We could use the other one but in case you hadn't noticed the power is off."
A loud groan of pain and disappointment came from Kaoru.
Hikaru looked down at his brother. The burns on Koaru's body looked red and painful. The scrunches in his forehead and the tears escaping Kaoru's clinched eyes showed just how much pain Kaoru really was in. He wanted to ease his brother's pain but saving his brother's life was currently more of an issue.
Hikaru set the block of rubber known as the life raft at the edge of the water and pulled the string inflating it. Then watched in quasi-amazement at it appeared as if somebody had magically pitched a red and yellow tent on the ocean. The cackling of the fire and another groan from his brother brought him back to reality. Hikaru tossed the yellow rubber bag inside the raft and then the clothes and first aid kit.
He paused for only a second on how to get his brother into the life raft. He could try to toss him in but he was worried about injuring his brother further. If he tried to pack him in there himself, there was no guarantee that either one would make it inside as there would be no one to hold the raft. There was only one other option. He crouched down to his brother's ear. "I know it hurts Kaoru, but I need you to crawl into the raft for me. I'll hold it still but you'll have to crawl in. Do you think you can do that for me?"
Kaoru let out a pitiful whimper in response but rolled onto his hands and knees. Keeping off of his left arm as well as trying move the rest of the left side of his body as little as he could, Kaoru slowly made his way into the raft. Once his brother was off to the side, Hikaru stepped into the raft with one foot and with the other pushed off from the yacht. He searched around the raft for a paddle and having spotted one, grabbed it and began to paddle away from the yacht.
When Hikaru deemed them to be a safe enough distance from the yacht he stopped paddling. He sat next to his curled up brother and watched as the yacht was slowly consumed from the inside from the insatiable hunger of the fire.
While Hikaru watched the burning of the yacht, Kaoru laid on his side on the raft. His eyes were still clinched shut and his jaw was locked closed, while his stomach wanted to empty whatever contents it had. He whimpered softly. He felt a shift in the raft and knew his brother was closer.
"Kaoru?" Hikaru asked softly. Looking down at his brother the best he could in the darkness.
"Hikaru…it hurts…" Kaoru managed to say.
"Let me grab a light and the first-aid kit." Hikaru said, ashamed that he had forgotten for so long that his brother was in such pain. He felt around for the yellow pack and opened the bag and groped around until he found a flashlight. He stuck the lit flashlight in his mouth to free both hands and then continued searching in the bag until he pulled out a small bottle of water. He looked through the first-aid kit and found a small packet of ibuprofen. He put them into his brother's mouth. He then went back to work and picked up one of the shirts he had grabbed from the yacht and tore it into strips. He soaked the strips in the water and then gently laid them on his brother, who flinched and groaned as the cool strips touched the fiery skin. His brother's groans grew louder along with his sobs. Hikaru spit the flashlight out of his mouth. "I know they hurt Kaoru, but you have to stay strong for me ok?"
Koaru nodded the best he could in response. The two twins sat without speaking another word, the only sound was the noise of Koaru's restrained whimpering. Hikaru watched the yacht, as the fire had consumed most of it. After a few minutes Hikaru turned his thoughts back to his brother. "The burns should be cooler now. So I'm going to put some cream on you now, ok?"
Kaoru didn't respond he just let out a faint whimper. Hikaru removed the first strip, which caused his brother to gasp and kick a leg out. He removed another strip, this time the gasp was weaker and the leg didn't kick. By the time Hikaru removed the last strip, he could hear his brother crying again. He grabbed the medical cream and slathered it on the best he could. Every time the cream touched his skin, Kaoru took in a sharp breath.
"We're almost done Kaoru, just have to bandage you up now." Hikaru unwrapped the first gauze sheet and when he placed it on his brother, Kaoru screamed and jerked away. "Damn it Kaoru! You have to hold still!" Hikaru shouted at his brother.
The cries coming from Kaoru's mouth were loud and painful. Hikaru could feel his heart break at the sound of his brother in such pain and knowing that he had caused some it. "I'm…I'm sorry Kaoru, I didn't mean to yell at you."
"It…h..h..hurts…" Kaoru cried, "make it stop."
Hikaru let out a sigh and scooted closer to his brother, what did his brother think he was trying to do? When he tried to place the gauze on his brother once more, Kaoru jerked away before it could even touch him. Hikaru stared down on his brother. Hikaru bent over his brother and tilted his head until their heads were almost touching.
With what light there was Kaoru could see one of his brother's eyes shimmering. "Hikaru?" Kaoru asked weakly. Hikaru just smiled and shushed his brother. In the next instant Hikaru's lips gently rubbed against Kaoru's. Kaoru let out a small gasp of surprise but it was soon lost as his brother's lips locked tighter against his, capturing all the sound coming out. When the kiss finally broke, Kaoru's breathing had changed; it was no longer one of crying, but one that came from trying to gain one's breath after a moment of passion. Koaru could hear Hikaru rummage around with something but had no idea what, as he was too busy trying to process what had just occurred. He wasn't sure why his brother had suddenly kissed him, he was just glad that he had.
Kaoru had just regained his breath when he felt his brother's lips upon his again. This time his lips were firmer and more aggressive. They pushed against his and Kaoru pushed back the best he could.
When this kiss ended it left Kaoru more breathless than the previous one. His breathing was heavier and louder. He hadn't caught his breath before his brother was once more nipping at his lips. This time during the kiss he felt something else brush against his lips instead of just his brother's lips. Kaoru stopped kissing back. He froze, which caused his brother to pause as well. Hikaru began to pull away, but at that slight feeling of disconnect between the two sets of lips Kaoru pushed his lips against their matching pair. However the kiss didn't last much longer, and when it ended it left Kaoru with a hunger growing inside of him.
The fourth time their lips met Kaoru's mouth opened wide, and soon found it had been welcomely invaded. Hikaru's tongue probed foreign yet familiar territory. The tongue began to wrestle with his, but Hikaru's tongue seemed aggressive and experienced while Kaoru's clumsily flailed about. Kaoru moaned out but the sounds were lost in Hikaru's mouth. Kaoru let out a whimper of disappointment when the kiss broke. But this time things were different. His brother slowly raised his arm and whispered in his ear, "Almost there."
He could feel his brother wrapping something around his arm, causing his mind to go wild with possibilities. His brother leaned back close to him. He could feel his brother's hot breath against his ear and his neck, his body tingled and a shiver went down his spine. "All done." Hikaru whispered tenderly into his ear. He then felt his brother's lips once more, but it wasn't against his lips like he had desperately hoped. Nor were they upon his collar bone, nor were they against his earlobe. His brother's lips instead fell upon his forehead like they always had, that was until a few minutes prior.
Kaoru groaned with disappointment. "What's done?"
Hikaru chuckled and smiled at his brother. "You are. You're all patched up." Kaoru looked at his forearm and saw it was wrapped in gauze and then turned his head to see his side, which was also covered it gauze.
Kaoru looked confused for a moment. Then came disappointed. 'It was all just a ploy…'
Hikaru crouched back down to his brother's ear. "I'm glad to know I can erase your pain."
Kaoru laid there thinking about those words as his brother turned the flashlight off and moved away to look out the opening. Hikaru looked across the water and saw that all the yacht had been consumed and that the emergency lights were no longer running. He took a few deep breaths as he watched the fire raging in the distance. Finally calming down since the moment he had first heard the fire alarm, he began to realize just how tired he was. After all he had been woken in the middle of the night, and had been going around like a mad man since then. He felt his eyes grow heavier. He lay down next to his brother and through the sliver of moon light that came through the opening he saw that his brother was already asleep, a pained confused look on his face. He scooted closer to his brother and placed a soft tender kiss on his brother's lips. "Goodnight Kaoru. Sleep well." Hikaru slide back away, but as he did he would have sworn that a smile had crept upon his brother's face but the raft had shifted in the sea, blocking any more moonlight from shining in.
Hikaru reached out into the darkness and found his brother's hand. He took it in his and joined his brother in sleep.
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Author's Note: I would like to thank EternalFalsity and Rave-And-Thorns for assisting me in my homework by answering my questions, your assistance is greatly appreciated. I didn't realize just how amazing the world of fanfiction was until I started this project and am now very proud to say that I am part of it. I would also like to thank Angebex for the review, and I am glad you are enjoying the story so far. There is still plenty to come.
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