And here's the last episode for this season, guys! I hope you like it, guys! I should be uploading the next season pretty soon, but until then you have this one :3

Enjoy the episode!

Biology reports

Katie sighed as she walked into Ouran Academy High School. I was the second week back from the Christmas holidays, and she already couldn't wait for March. Her mum had arranged for her to go on a visit to England over the Easter break to visit her friends and maybe see her dad, and she was so excited about it. She walked into the school and down the hallways to her classroom, Class 1A, and walked over to her seat.

"Hey, Katie!"

She looked up to see Hikaru and Kaoru walking into the classroom, waving at her. Their uniforms were immaculate as usual, and their hairstyles were in their usual style. But something was different about Hikaru to Katie. His smile didn't seem as identical to Kaoru's as it usually was. Then it struck her. It was brighter. Millions of thoughts ran through her head as she smiled and waved back. He's much happier than Kaoru. Maybe he got a better night's sleep, or he's in an overall better mood. Or maybe, just maybe… "Hey Hikaru! Hey Kaoru!"

The boys set their bags at their desks before heading over to hers.

"How are you this fine morning?" Kaoru asked, smiling at her.

"I'm good thanks," she replied, smiling at them both. "How about you two?"

"We're great!" Hikaru exclaimed.

"I see someone got a great night's sleep," Katie noted as she unpacked her stuff.

Hikaru just chuckled. "I guess I just had sweet dreams."

Katie laughed. "Good for you."

Kaoru just shook his head lightly. The obvious flirting was too much for him. And yet they didn't realize they were in love with each other? What idiots. "So, we have that Biology project to do, right?"

Katie nodded.

Hikaru looked down at her desk and noticed the huge pile of papers. "Did you do all that research for Biology?"

Katie nodded. "I found a load of stuff about the subject we picked." She looked up at him. "Did you?"

"Meh."

She smirked at him. "You didn't find anything, or you couldn't be asked to do the research?"

"He couldn't be bothered," Kaoru answered for his older brother as he walked away to prepare his information. "He was too busy planning on how to get Tamaki next in his free time."

Katie's smile dropped and she raised an eyebrow at Hikaru. "You were?"

Hikaru nodded slowly. "Uh… yeah…"

Katie glared at him. "Hikaru! That research was to write that paper today!"

"It was?" he asked. He thought about it for a little while. "Meh, I'll wing it."

"'Wing it'?" She narrowed her eyes at him. "'Wing it'? Why 'wing it'? Do you always 'wing it'?"

Hikaru looked away. "Maybe…"

Katie sighed. "I don't get how on earth I'm meant to work with you, Hikaru…"

Hikaru shrugged. "We're just writing up the report, Katie. It's our teacher that has to read it. And then they'll get the third years in the middle school to use them for their Biology experiments."

"But if we screw this up—" Katie started.

"Don't worry," Hikaru reassured her as he sat on the edge of her desk. "It's highly likely that our reports will be given to Class 3A in the middle school – it's what happened to us when we were in that year. This class is generally thought of as the smartest, so we shouldn't have many problems with choosing the usable information."

Katie just started at him before it turned into a glare. "…Get your arse off my desk, you lazy little prick."

Hikaru pouted at her before getting off her desk. "That was mean."

"Well, you were being lazy and couldn't be asked to find anything extra," Katie muttered. "So you'll be looking through all this to make notes for the paper."

"What?" Hikaru exclaimed. "Oh, come on!"

She narrowed her eyes at him. "Don't push me, Hika. You're doing your part of this work whether you like it or not. It's only fair."

Hikaru crossed his arms childishly. "I don't want to."

"Hikaru…"

"What's he done now?" Kaoru called out.

"He won't do his share of the work!" Katie explained. "I did all of this research, and he's going to make me write up this whole report!"

Kaoru raised an eyebrow at his brother. "Hikaru? Is this true?"

"I didn't ask to do this project!" Hikaru argued. "I usually work with Kaoru on this!"

"Well you're not working with Kaoru today, are you?" Katie snapped. "You've got to pull your own weight in this!"

"I don't want to pull my own weight!" Hikaru argued. "I never have to pull my own weight!"

"Well now you will!" She picked up the pile of research she had done before walking over to Hikaru's desk and dumping the work on there. "Read it. Make notes. Get back to me when you're done."

Hikaru pouted. "But that's not fair!"

"Life's not fair! Deal with it." Katie walked back to her desk and got out her notebook before writing down a plan for the report they would write up – an essay structure for her to remember, taught to her by one of her old teachers, Mr Hadlow.

Hikaru pouted as he stared at the huge pile of papers at his desk. How much research did she have to do? He picked up the pile and shoved it into his bag, only just about managing to get it to fit it in there. He sighed.

There was no way he was going to do all that work.

"Welcome to the Host Club!"

"Hello, ladies! How are you all today?"

"Oh Tamaki! You're so handsome!"

"Why, thank you!"

Katie sighed as she walked into the Host Club. When she'd gone to see if Hikaru was in the library – where he was supposed to meet her at lunch to start putting together the report – she'd found the room absolutely empty apart from some second years and other first years doing their work. So now she was going to the next place she knew she'd find him.

With Kaoru at the Host Club.

"Katie?"

Katie stopped and spotted Kyoya staring at her, an eyebrow raised. "Hey, Kyoya-senpai."

Kyoya frowned. "I thought you were taking today off to focus on your project?"

"Yes, I am, but my partner seems to have other ideas." She turned to face where Hikaru and Kaoru were standing, doing their 'brotherly love' act. "Idiot."

"Ah, you're working with the older Hitachiin," Kyoya said. "Good luck, then."

"I think I'll need it," Katie muttered before storming over to them.

Hikaru grabbed Kaoru before he could fall. "No, Kaoru! Watch out."

Kaoru slipped and fell into Hikaru's arms. "Ow…"

"Kaoru, are you alright?" Hikaru asked, drawing his brother into a close hug.

"I feel better now that you're here," Kaoru said dreamily.

Hikaru smiled at his younger brother. "Kao, I'm always—"

"Hikaru Hitachiin!" Katie yelled.

Hikaru dropped his brother in shock, causing the younger boy to yell out indignantly before crying out in pain. "Katie! Uh… hi!"

Katie glared at him. "Have you forgotten something, Hikaru?"

Hikaru frowned before shaking his head. "Uh… nope. Don't think so."

"She told you to meet her at the library to continue with the project," Kaoru groaned from the floor.

Hikaru glared at his brother. "Shut up!"

"So you knew?" Katie asked, folding her arms. She waited for his answer.

"I… uh…" Hikaru tried to think of what to say. She's kind of cute when she's angry… but I don't want to get on her bad side again… "I… forgot?"

"No you didn't!" She reached forward and grabbed his ear, pulling him away from the fangirls and over to the Host Club door.

"Ow, ow, ow!" Hikaru whined. "Where are you taking me?"

"To do our project, idiot!" Katie turned to Kyoya. "Hikaru's taking the day off as well."

"Go ahead," Kyoya said impassively. "He isn't needed much today anyway. Kaoru can work alone."

"What?" Hikaru pouted. "Nooooooooooooooo!"

Katie sighed as she sat opposite him. "For goodness' sake, Hika, get it right!"

Hikaru frowned at her. "How can I get this right?"

"How can you get it wrong? It's so easy!" She threw a highlighter at his head. "Maybe you should be concentrating rather than staring out of the window!"

Hikaru winced when he felt the highlighter hit his forehead. "Ow!" He rubbed his head. "Look, I didn't ask to be here. I don't want to be here! I just want to get this over and done with so that I can leave!"

Katie glared at him. "Too bad this project has been carried on into next week, Hikaru." She pushed the pile of research towards him. "That means we have a whole extra week to get this done, meaning that you will pull your weight in this project." She placed a highlighter on the pile. "Now find useful information for our notes, please."

Hikaru pouted. "Why do I have to do it?"

"Because you're my partner. And you didn't find any information. If you had, you would have annotated yours and I would have annotated mine."

Hikaru pouted. "Are you saying this is all my fault?"

"Hikaru, you know this is your fault."

He sighed and pulled the papers closer to him. "Fine, I'll start annotating." He picked up the highlighter and started reading through the research, picking important pieces out of it with the pink highlighter in his hand.

Katie gave a tired smile. He's finally working… She pulled and planning sheet over and started to go over the plan again, editing certain parts of it such as the reasoning and the possible structure of it. Well, I could change this… but then I would have to change this… oh, this is all wrong! She rubbed out a whole block with her rubber. Let's start again, shall we?

Hikaru looked up from his annotating to see Katie rubbing out a whole part of her planning furiously. He frowned. "Do you need any help with that?"

"No," Katie stated. "You continue with your annotating. I've got this." She wrote over her plan again, correcting the parts she wanted to change for the report. She frowned. "No… this is wrong…" She rubbed it out again and re-wrote it.

After about five minutes of constantly rubbing out and editing, Hikaru sighed. "Do you want help with that?"

"I said I'm fine, Hikaru!" Katie snapped.

Hikaru jumped slightly. Okay… she's ultra scary when she's angry. "You don't look fine."

Katie glared at him before sighing. "Do you want to know what's got me so worked up, Hikaru? Fine. I'm annoyed. First, you come into school without the necessary information for our Biology project, which we were meant to start fully today. Then, you attempt to ditch me at lunch in favour of the Host Club, leaving me alone in the library to do most of the work, and finally you refuse to do any work, even though you're meant to be my partner in this project! Then, I'm getting extra frustrated because this plan won't work!" She slammed her pencil down on the table, nearly snapping it in half, before putting her head down on the table.

Hikaru stared at her before he realized her shoulders were shaking. "Katie? Are… are you alright?" When he didn't get an answer, he got up and moved around the table to stand beside her. "Katie?"

"What?" Katie mumbled. Her voice definitely sounded as if she had been crying.

Hikaru knelt down beside her awkwardly and rested his head on the table, as they did in the movies. "I… I'm sorry, okay?"

Katie didn't look up. "Leave me alone."

Hikaru hesitated before slowly putting his arm over her shoulders. "I… I mean it. I'm really sorry Katie. I didn't mean to hurt you."

"Go away."

"But Katie…"

"Go!" She looked up at him sharply. "To be honest, you aren't helping me here!"

Hikaru removed his arm and moved away from Katie. "O… Okay." He bit his lip. "I'm really sorry…"

"GO! NOW!"

He stood up quickly before grabbing the pile of research and the highlighters. Why… why is she still mad with me…? He took one last glance at Katie before walking out of the library.

Once she heard the door close, Katie lifted her head and wiped her eyes with her sleeves. She gave a small sniffle. Stupid Hika. He's so self-centred… and childish… and… and… quite cute actually…

"Katie?"

Katie looked up to see Kaoru walking in nervously. He looked quite scared, actually. "Yeah?" she asked.

"I heard shouting," he said. "Are you alright?"

Katie wiped her eyes again and nodded. "Perfectly fine."

He joined her at the table. "You look like you've been crying."

Katie huffed at him and turned away. "So what? Why would you care?"

Kaoru frowned at her. "Because you're my… my friend, aren't you? I want you to be happy."

"Well, I'm clearly not happy."

Kaoru sighed. "I saw Hikaru walking out of the library, and he looked distressed. He wouldn't even look at me." He glared at her. "What did you do to my brother?"

Katie glared back at him, causing his glare to falter. "So it's my fault? It's my fault that your brother didn't attempt to actually work with me until I shouted at him?" Tears built up in her eyes again. "It's like he doesn't care! Why doesn't he care about something we're working on together, Kaoru?"

Kaoru felt for Katie. She tried so hard to make sure this project worked, and here she was, struggling with Hikaru. He, himself, was lucky enough to work with Haruhi for this piece of work, but Katie… "He does care."

"No he doesn't."

Kaoru sighed. "Hikaru just doesn't know how to show that he does, Katie. He's easily distracted."

Katie just stared at him. "You're taking his side, aren't you?"

"No!" Kaoru answered quickly. "I'm just speaking from experience."

Katie sighed. "Yeah, well, now we aren't going to get this project done." She stood up. "Maybe he should learn to concentrate." She grabbed her bag and walked out of the library, leaving all of her other papers on the table.

Kaoru just watched her leave and sighed. She wasn't ready to forgive him yet… He picked up some of the papers on the table. The planning for the Biology report… Katie had left it behind. He gave a small smile. Maybe… maybe Hikaru could find this useful? He folded the papers and stuffed them into his pocket. Even if he wouldn't, it would be best to give it to him.

"Hey, Hika!" Kaoru walked into his brother's room and smiled. "You wanna play a game?"

Hikaru was sat at the desk in the corner of his room, focusing on something that must've been important. His uniform had been thrown haphazardly on his bed, and he had changed into a pair of tracksuit bottoms only, despite how cold the weather was being. His hair was messed up, which was surprising as he usually cared a lot about his appearance. There was a highlighter in his hand, poised above the page that he was currently annotating. The pile he was annotating had been split into two, with more than half in a pile to the left of him on his desk and the rest in front of him, ready to annotate. He turned to his younger brother with annoyance clearly shown on his features. "What?"

Kaoru paused at the door. He hadn't seen his brother look so annoyed with him before… "I asked if you wanted to play a game with me?"

Hikaru huffed and turned back to his work. "I'm busy at the moment. Leave me alone."

Kaoru gave a small pout. "Just for a few minutes?"

"No. Go away."

"But—"

"Go!"

Kaoru turned to walk away before pausing. "Is this about Katie, Hika?"

Hikaru froze. Okay… so that was unexpected… "Why do you want to know?"

Kaoru gave a small smile. "It is, isn't it?"

"Leave me alone, Kaoru."

Kaoru walked up to Hikaru at his desk slowly, making sure his brother knew that he was walking into his room. "Hika, what are you doing?"

Hikaru span in his seat to face his brother. "I told you to leave me alone!" he snapped. "This is none of your business!"

Kaoru looked taken aback for a second. "Hikaru… I just want to know…" He peeked over his brother's shoulder. "Is that your Biology research?" he asked.

Hikaru glared at his brother. "No. It's Katie's. She wanted me to annotate it," he answered shortly. "Go away."

"Oh… that project she got annoyed with you about…"

"Kaoru! Go away!"

Kaoru nodded. "She's really mad with you, you know." He seated himself on Hikaru's bed. "And do you know why?"

"Kaoru, I don't want to listen to you talk anymore."

"It's because you're too short tempered and have a short attention span," Kaoru continued to explain. "So you don't concentrate when you have projects like this."

"Kaoru…"

"You should learn to concentrate better if you want to get along better with her," Kaoru pointed out. "She'd be a lot happier."

Hikaru gritted his teeth together. If he doesn't shut up now… He turned back to his work and picked up his pencil, hoping that he could ignore him.

"And you want to do that, don't you? Because you have a crush on her, right?"

Snap! The pencil in Hikaru's hand suddenly became two. The elder twin turned to shoot a death glare at his brother. "Get. Out."

Kaoru seemed unfazed, even though on the inside he was trembling. He'd never seen Hikaru so… angry with him before. "Hikaru…"

Hikaru picked up his bag, which still had all of his school supplies in it, and launched it at his brother's head. "Leave me alone, you idiot!"

Kaoru dodged the flying bag. "Why should I? You got yourself into this mess! Learn to deal with it, you prat!"

Hikaru stared at his brother. "Then why don't you leave me alone to deal with it?"

"Because you won't deal with it, Hikaru! You'll just repress it, or take it out on somebody else! That's what you always do!"

Hikaru stared at his brother, slightly hurt. He didn't believe that he could deal with his problems… only that everyone else should deal with them for him… He turned back to his work.

Kaoru stared at his brother. "Hikaru…"

"I'm fine. Thanks for asking. Now leave me alone."

Kaoru noticed his brother's voice catch slightly at the end. He definitely isn't fine. "Alright, then." He walked up to his desk and took something out of his pocket and put it on Hikaru's desk. "I'll see you later." He walked out of the room, shutting the door behind him.

Hikaru put his head in his hands. I'm confused, and angry, and… He frowned when he felt something wet in his hand. And apparently crying… He wiped his face furiously. He wasn't meant to cry. He was a sixteen year old boy – soon to be seventeen (actually, that was about four months away…). What… what am I meant to do…? He looked over at the piece of paper Kaoru had left on his desk and unfolded it. He frowned before giving a small smile.

Kaoru could be such an awesome brother sometimes.

Kaoru rubbed his eyes sleepily as he walked out of his room and into the dark corridor. He looked down the corridor. Everyone was asleep.

Or, at least, they were meant to be.

He frowned when he spotted the door to his brother's room slightly open, and a faint light emerging from it. Hikaru never slept with the lamp on. He walked over to the door and opened it slightly, peeking in. And what he saw shocked him.

Hikaru was still up, working on that report.

Kaoru sighed. "Hikaru…"

Hikaru turned to look at him. "Kao?" He rubbed his eyes. "What are you doing up?"

"I was thirsty…" Kaoru explained. "So I got up to get a glass of water…" He frowned. "Are you still working on that project?"

"I didn't get to finish annotating," Hikaru explained before yawning. "I… missed out a lot of information…"

Kaoru shook his head. "Maybe you should head to sleep. It's two a.m."

"I will…" Hikaru said sleepily. "In a minute. I just need to finish this."

Kaoru nodded. "Alright, then." He headed back out of the room to go and fetch himself some water.

Hikaru sighed as he annotated the last sheet of paper. His eyelids felt incredibly heavy. Katie picked… so… much… info… His head dropped onto the desk, his eyelids falling rapidly.

When Kaoru returned to check on Hikaru, he frowned when he realized the lamp was still on. He sighed. "Hikaru, I thought I told you to go to—" He paused when he entered the room to hear a soft snoring. He gave a small smile when he saw Hikaru asleep at his desk. He must be exhausted… He walked into the room, turned off the lamp and draped a blanket over his brother before he headed backwards out of the room and shut the door slowly, making sure not to wake him up. He smiled. "Sweet dreams, Hika."

Bright light… turn off… now… Hikaru attempted to cover his eyes to block the sunlight. Why is it so bright? Tired… neck hurts… head on desk… desk? Was studying? No… annotating… for school…SCHOOL! His head shot up. "Wha…" He rubbed his eyes. "How did I…" He looked down and noticed the scattered papers on his desk. He frowned as he vaguely remembered what happened the night before… How did I get this blanket? And the lamp… He touched it. It wasn't hot. He sighed. So Kaoru had come to check up on him… He pushed himself away from the desk and stood up, stretching.

"Hikaru! Time to get up!" Kaoru called out as he walked into Hikaru's room.

Hikaru stared at him. "I'm up."

"Then hurry up! We've got fifteen minutes to leave!"

Hikaru nodded and grabbed his clothes before running to the bathroom.

Okay, so Katie was still mad at Hikaru for not helping her and working with her during the project. And mad because he'd just walked out on her. She sighed. He was probably working with someone else already…

She frowned when she saw him walking into class with slight bags under his eyes. He hasn't been sleeping well? "Hey, Hika."

Hikaru looked over at her. "Oh. Hi." He looked away quickly.

She felt a little hurt. His greetings are usually more enthusiastic… "How are you?"

"Fine. You?"

"I'm good." She sat in her seat beside him. "So… what have you been up to?"

Hikaru shrugged. "Studying. You?"

"Same."

The two were quiet for a little while.

"Well, nice conversation."

"Yeah. Nice talking to you." Hikaru stood up and walked over to Kaoru's desk to talk to his brother.

Kaoru frowned when he saw Hikaru walking over to him and Haruhi. "Hika? What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

Kaoru folded his arms. "You're avoiding having a conversation with Katie."

Hikaru shrugged. "I… I don't think we're alright yet…"

Kaoru sighed. "Have you apologized?"

Hikaru shook his head. "No. Not yet."

"Then go and apologise.'

Hikaru shook his head. "I… I'm still… I'm still working on it."

"Then continue to talk to her, Hika. It'll only get harder," Kaoru told him.

Hikaru pouted. "I… I find it hard to talk to her, Kaoru. I keep feeling so guilty… and angry with myself… but…"

Kaoru frowned. "'But'…?"

"I… I feel something else as well. Something… stronger," Hikaru answered uncertainly.

Kaoru gave him a small smile. "Has Hika got a small crush?"

Hikaru blushed furiously. "No! I mean…" He looked away. "Never mind."

Kaoru gave a small laugh. "It's nothing to be ashamed of, Hika."

"She probably doesn't like me, anyway."

"Don't talk like that," Haruhi said. "Have you asked her?"

"No! That would be… awkward…"

Haruhi frowned. "You're really shy, aren't you?"

"This… this is different to when I liked you, Haruhi. It's…"

"Stronger?" Kaoru asked.

Hikaru quickly looked up at him. "What?"

"This feeling is stronger, isn't it? That's why you're trying so hard to make it up to her," he pointed out. "You stayed up all night to get that annotating done for your project. And you kicked me out to concentrate. Usually you don't mind me sitting around talking to you whilst you do it."

Hikaru blushed even more. "Look, maybe I do like her, but why do you want to know?"

"It's more than just liking her," Kaoru pointed out. "Hika, you're falling for her, aren't you?"

Hikaru just stared at his brother. "I'll tell you when I find out, Kao."

When Katie noticed Hikaru walk into the class that morning with bags under his eyes, she thought it was just going to be a one-off.

So when she saw him come into school for the rest of the week with bags growing under his eyes, she got really worried. She could tell that he wasn't getting enough sleep by the amount of times he fell asleep in class.

By the last lunch time of the week, Katie had decided to confront Kaoru about it.

"Okay, Kaoru, tell me the truth – what's going on with Hikaru?" she demanded.

Kaoru paused with his spoon halfway to his mouth. "What do you mean?"

"He's not himself. He's always avoiding me. He won't talk to me. He's constantly falling asleep by our third class. He spends all of his lunch times in the library, 'studying'." She grabbed Kaoru's spoon and put it back onto his plate. "What's going on, Kaoru?"

Kaoru sighed. "I was going to eat that."

Katie glared at him. "Kaoru, there are other places where this spoon could go."

Kaoru's eyes widened. "Look, just… come over tonight. Meet me outside the Host Club after school. Hikaru usually goes home before me."

Katie frowned. "Why don't you just tell me?"

"I want you to see for yourself."

She narrowed her eyes at him before nodding. "Fine. I'll meet you there."

Kaoru smiled. "You're really concerned about him, aren't you?"

Katie raised an eyebrow. "Of course. He's my friend." She started to eat her lunch, ending that part of the conversation.

Kaoru nodded. I know it's more than that…

Katie sighed as she followed Kaoru into the Hitachiin mansion. "Look, Kaoru, I don't know what you want to show me, but I just want to know whether Hikaru is okay or not."

"You'll know if I show you," Kaoru told her. He led her up the staircase and onto the upper landing before leading her over to Hikaru's bedroom door. "Go on in."

Katie frowned before knocking on the door.

"What?" came the frustrated response.

Katie frowned before opening the door. "Hikaru? What are you doing?" She walked into his room.

Hikaru jumped and turned in his seat at his desk. He wore a singlet with his tracksuit bottoms, and the bags under his eyes were even worse than usual with the bed in the room to tempt him. "K-K-Katie? W-w-w-what are you doing here?"

She walked over to where he sat at his desk. "I… I was worried about you. You've been looking so tired... like you're ill, but you aren't. I can tell when you're ill."

"Y-y-yeah, well, I'm fine." He attempted to hide the papers on his desk.

Katie frowned and reached around him to grab a pile of the papers. She read through it quickly. "Is this the report, Hikaru?"

Hikaru blushed. "Uh… yeah… I… I felt really guilty about not doing anything so… I started doing it myself."

Katie just stared in shock at everything he'd written. Everything was so… precise. There were very few mistakes, and the structure could be changed a little to flow better, but overall it was brilliant. I didn't know he could write like this…

Hikaru looked away from her. "Sorry if you don't like it."

"Don't like it?" She stared at him. "How could I not like this, Hikaru? This is amazing!"

Hikaru frowned. "It… it is?"

Katie hugged him tightly. "It's brilliant!" She gave him a peck on the cheek. "I didn't know you could write so well!"

Hikaru went bright red again, though whether it was due to the compliment or the kiss, he didn't know. "Yeah… well…" His eyes felt droopy, and he yawned.

Katie looked at him. "Hika, have you been staying up late to do this?"

Hikaru shrugged. "I needed to make progress on this. I wouldn't be able to do anything with just four hours after school." He lay his head on Katie's shoulder.

"What time do you go to bed?"

"Whenever Kao wakes up to… to get… a drink…" He could feel himself dropping off, and he tried earnestly to stay awake. The lack of sleep was affecting him now…

Katie tried to get Hikaru to stay awake. "What time do you go to bed?" she asked again, shaking his shoulder slightly.

Hikaru blinked heavily. "Kao… what time do you get a drink?"

Kaoru walked into the room. "Around two a.m. I get really thirsty."

"Two a.m.?" Katie shook her head. "And you wake up at what time?"

"Six."

"Four hours? Hika…"

Hikaru attempted to keep his eyes open. "I'm sorry. For… for everything…"

Katie gave him a small smile. "Hika, I forgive you."

"You… you do?"

She hugged him tightly. "Of course I do."

Kaoru smiled. That was all his brother wanted. He walked back out of the room to continue on his project.

"You know what? How about you get some sleep and I continue the project?" Katie suggested.

Hikaru shook his head stubbornly. "I… I want to… to help…" He knew he could fall asleep any second now, but he really wanted to help now.

Katie sighed but smiled. "Alright. I'll just get a chair. Think you can sit up on your own?"

"Ha ha." Hikaru pulled out of her embrace. "I'm tired, not frail."

Katie smiled. So he still has his sense of humour… She grabbed another chair and dragged it over to the desk. "Okay, so can I see the plan?"

Hikaru nodded and handed her a sheet. "That's the plan I thought up. What do you think?"

Katie nodded. "Some of the paragraphs could be switched around…"

"I spent most of my time writing out the… paragraphs… in draft form…" Hikaru yawned and blinked heavily. He could usually stay up a little longer. It was only four thirty.

"Can I see them?" Katie asked.

Hikaru nodded and handed her a pile of sheets. "What… what do you… think..?" Yep… about to… drop off… He frowned when he realized he wasn't even thinking straight anymore.

Katie raised an eyebrow at his frown. "Hikaru?"

He struggled to keep himself awake. "Yeah?" he slurred. He blinked heavily and rubbed his eyes. "I… I'm… fine…"

Katie sighed. "Hikaru, go and lie on the bed. I think I can handle this."

Hikaru frowned at her before sighing. "Fine." He stood up and wobbled a bit before stumbling over to the bed. As soon as he lay down, his eyes shut and he was out like a light. He didn't even have the chance to wrap himself in his covers.

When Katie heard light snoring, she looked over to see Hikaru fast asleep already, spread out on the bed. She smiled and walked over to him on the bed, picking up a blanket that lay on the floor. She draped it over him, before draping his duvet over him as well. She smiled at him before placing a small kiss on his forehead. "Sleep well, Hikaru." She walked back over to the desk to continue with the work.

And she didn't notice the small smile that grew on his face as he slept on.

Katie sighed as she walked out of Hikaru's room, holding a pile of papers for the report.

"Hey, Katie."

Katie turned to see Kaoru walk out of his own room. "Hey, Kaoru."

"How's Hika?" he asked.

"He's been asleep for hours…"

"Really?" Kaoru smiled. "He must've been really exhausted, then. He spent four days doing this."

"Four late nights in a row?" Katie whistled lowly. "That must be tiring."

"Yeah… he really struggled with school and everything…" Kaoru sighed. "It makes me wonder how Kyoya-senpai does it so much…"

"Yeah…" Katie shrugged. "He's probably used to it. Hika… Hika just isn't."

Kaoru peeked into his brother's room. "He should be out until tomorrow morning."

Katie smiled. "Good. He needs his rest." She turned to Kaoru. "Besides, I want to ask you something."

"Sure. Shoot."

"Well… I'm going on holiday to England over the Spring break, and I was wondering if you two wanted to come along?" she asked. "I'll be with all of my friends most of the time, and I'll be staying in a hotel."

Kaoru smiled. "Sure! I'm sure Hikaru would love to! Besides, I'm sure we can all stay in our holiday home instead – we have one in Sawbridgesworth. No need to stay in a hotel."

Katie smiled. "Alright, then." She looked at her watch. "I've really got to go now. Would you mind telling Hika for me?"

Kaoru nodded. "Sure, I tell him." He gave Katie a small hug. "See you later."

Katie smiled and hugged him back. "See you!" She waved at him as she walked out of the mansion.

Kaoru smiled as she walked out. "England, huh? Interesting…"

And that's it for this season! Review!