Author's Note: Hello everybody! Alice here, and I have brought to you Searching! Originally, this was going to be the prequel to Stolen - but after watching a beautiful video for a movie/book called Never Let Me Go, I just got all this enthusiasm and ideas to write this as a sequel instead! :D So, ya, sorry if this all seems really rushed, but I wanted to write it before I forgot about my idea. Hope you enjoy, and please review! :D

Rated T for now. Rating may change in future chapters.

Searching

Chapter 1

"Karma!" She laughed, looking up at him, holding her hands out to him, the light catching on the diamond ring on her left hand. "Karma..." She smiled, pressing her lips against his cheek, and wrapped her arms around his neck as he wrapped his arms around her, picking her up and spinning her around. "Karma, I love you with all my heart. Karma.. I really do."

"Karma.."

"Karma Akabane?"

A soft, feminine voice called out to him.

The red-headed man lifted his head from his arms, and sat up straight, seeing the nurse walking towards him, with a clipboard in hand.

"Kanzaki," he said, getting up.

"The operation went well." She informed him.

Karma breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a weight lift off of his heart at her words.

"Takebayashi will be here in a moment."

Karma nodded his head in thanks, and watched as she left the waiting room. He was alone again with his thoughts. He was relieved to hear her operation had gone well, but still, he couldn't stop thinking about that night.

"You two want to get married in Kyoto?" Nagisa asked, walking beside the two.

"Yes, we plan on staying at the same hotel from when we were in middle school." Manami smiled fondly, squeezing her fiance's hand, and leaning against him.

Karma squeezed back as they turned the corner, walking down the empty little street to their apartment building. They always took that road - it was a shortcut. Up ahead a man was walking towards them, carrying a bag full of groceries in his hands. The man was rather pale; he had stringy black hair, and brown sunken in eyes. His clothes were torn and dirty from what they could tell. He wore a pair of sneakers which looked to be falling apart. His shoe laces had come undone, and he tripped over them, dropping his bag of groceries on the pavement. The man coughed into his hand, struggling to collect his groceries, and get up at the same time.

"Are you ok?" Manami walked towards the man, picking up the bag of groceries, she held them out to the man, giving him a friendly smile. Nagisa and Karma walked towards them.

"Thank you," The man smiled, reaching out with one hand towards her, he pushed the groceries out of the petite girl's hands and revealed a knife in his other hand. With one swift motion he stabbed her in the chest. He withdrew the knife and stabbed again.

"Manami!" Karma yelled, as he reached out to her.

Nagisa ran forward, attacking the man and taking the blade away from him, he threw it on the ground, putting the man into a choke hold, his eyes piercing the man, anguish and blood lust written on his face.

Manami slumped forwards as Karma caught her small form in his arms. She choked for air to breathe, coughing up blood.

The man started to laugh maniacally, "The job is done."

"Karma."

The red head snapped back to reality and looked at Takebayashi, questioningly. "Can I see her?"

"Well," Takebayashi adjusted his glasses on his face, and looked away. "Karma, there's something you should know."

"What is it?" Karma asked, not liking the uncomfortable look on Takebayashi's face.

"She woke up, before I started to operate." Takebayashi said, frowning. "She asked.. she asked why she was there, why she hurt, and well, who I was."

"Takebaya-"

"She may have retrograde amnesia. She probably won't remember who you, or anyone else is."