Haruka looked ahead to see Kuroha's spirit vanish beneath from the depths. He smiled at Takene at what he thought was one last time. He felt tears falling from his face as they all disappeared to return to their own world.
"Oy, what are you crying for."
His head jerked up and he turned looking at a long black haired girl with a bright red jersey.
"Shintaro-chan..." He said almost wistfully. "What are you doing here?"
Shintaro gave him an uncomfortable face scratching the back of her head. "that's..." She stepped forward and crouched where Kuroha was last seen "you gave up your freedom for Hiyori-chan."
He nodded.
Shintaro sighted deeply, "I never had anything against you, if anything I thought you were weird, smiling at everything and everybody...it's kinda ironic. You should have been the one to live. You, Takene, and Ayato. This world is pretty cruel."
"Shintaro-chan..."
"But" she stood stretching a bit "there's no going back is there?"
Shintaro walked towards him keeping her head down flashed a small smile. Her hand went to ruffle his bed head. " Momo's gonna wanna bite my head off, I don't think the others will be as sad." Her voice choked up at the last words.
Haruka's eyes widened. " Wait-"
"It's already too late for me, Kuroha made sure of that. Please, look after them for me. And live happily for a long time."
Haruka felt something cover his shoulders, he turned reaching his hand out for a now black shirted figure giving him a smile, mouthing "Sorry, for forgetting."

Haruka's eyes opened wide as he looked around, he was in his old classroom every diagram and even the skeleton were in place.
"Hah?! You like Takene?!" A voice said.
He looked up from the desk he was sleeping at and saw a younger Shintaro wearing their old school uniform a distance away from him.
"Eh?" He said coming into focus.
Shintaro sighted crossing her arms, "I really shouldn't be surprised, Ayato and I noticed a while back. But you should probably try avoiding talking in your sleep in the future."
" A-ah, gomen." Haruka looked down at his desk after being scolded like a child.
There was a brief awkward silence between the two before Shintaro spoke again, "you should tell her,"
" huh?" Haruka tilted his head.
" don't make me spell this out for you airhead." Shintaro sighed rubbing the back of her head. "you two complement each other perfectly and even though I think Takene's annoying as hell along with Ayato..." Shintaro's face. "I don't give them enough credit for the things they do. They're always nice to be around." Shintaro head faced towards the sky as Haruka giggled with a smile.
" Neh, Shintaro-chan you like Ayato-kun don't you?" Haruka asked with a smile.
Shintaro's eyes widened as she looked towards Haruka blushing red "o-of course I don't, idiot!"
Haruka laughed out loud while Shintaro looked away, "Shintaro-chan! " the shounen loving kouhai looked at him with a bit of annoyance " Let's all stay together for a long time."
Shintaro opened her mouth as if to make a snarchy remark but closed it in defeat after looking at the airhead's hopeful smiling face.
" Idiot," she held out her arm extending her pinky like a child.
Haruka's smile glowed as he intertwined his finger with hers touching thumbs to secure the promise.
Just then Takene walked in with Ayato, they both stared at the two.
" what are you two doing?" Takene asked with her hands on her hips.
"Nothing" Shintaro and Haruka shared a smirk as spoke at the same time.
Ayato and Takene exchanged a glance, "Neh, Shintaro chan we have to leave now." Ayato said.
" Yeah yeah," Shintaro ruffled Haruka s hair before speaking in a low tone so only the two of them could hear, "keep your word, airhead."
Haruka smiled as she walked past Ayato and Takene. "See ya." She held her arm up in a good bye gesture.
Haruka smiled at Ayato who returned the smile as he jogged after Shintaro.
Takene sat next to him putting in her headphones and began to work on her sumer extra work. Haruka put his head down dozing off again, never realizing that it was their last day together, all four of them.

Sorry Shintaro we all left you after that summer. But you weren't the only one to forget the promise we made.

Please Review,

This is my first Kagerou fic, and I just wanted to add some gender bending for fun.

I'll be posting more stuff later on to tell an alternate version of the story.