Chapter 1

In the dark streets of Tokyo, Kyoya, the shadow king, sits on a street bench crying, not caring that passerby's are watching him. He doesn't care what they think anymore, he just wants his mother back, today is the 10th anniversary of his mother's death.

'He hears the whispers of others saying, 'Who do you think that is?'.

'He almost looks like mister Kyoya Ootori, but it can't be, he would never be caught in this part of the city.'

'Yeah, let alone crying, you've seen the Ootori's they never cry.'

Kyoya stops crying at this statement, stands up thanking God he left his glasses at home. He walks toward the man who said such a thing and asks the man, "Do you know where the Fujioka residence is, sir?"

The man stammers but says "Yes, I believe its two blocks down the street and on the right side". "Thank you, have a nice night", replied Kyoya and started off in the direction the man pointed out.

About half way through the first block Kyoya looks up at the sky and notices it has started raining. "Oh great, so now I have to walk another block and a half to get to Haruhi's house" he growls. He picks up his pace so he doesn't have to stay in the rain as long as he would have. He notices a black car behind him when he reaches the stop sign. He starts walking even faster and the car speeds up, swings in front of him, and the backseat window rolls down.

Kyoya was not in the mood to fight anyone off tonight, but when he sees the person sitting in the backseat he relaxes. He asks, "Mori, what are you doing here?" Mori looks at his fiend and says "I heard what he did".

"Oh" is all he can say as he looks down at the ground.

"I wanted to know if you wanted to stay at my house being as your father won't let you back in to your house. So?"

Kyoya looks up startled by the offer that came out of his friend's mouth. He realizes he is just staring agape at Mori and shakes his head, "Thanks for the offer Mori but no".

Mori nods and says, "Ok then, goodbye Kyoya".

"Goodbye". Kyoya continues to stand there as he watches his friend drive away. After a minute he continues to his destination.

Once he gets there he looks up at the apartment and slowly starts walking up the stairs. He gets to the door and knocks, the door opens and there stands Ranka looking like he's heading off to work.

Ranka says, "Oh thank God Kyoya can you stay with Haruhi, there is supposed to be a thunder storm tonight?"

"Of course Ranka, where is Haruhi?" he asks as he walks in. After not hearing an answer he turns around and Ranka is gone. So he heads to Haruhi's room after removing his shoes. He gets to the door and a boom goes off outside, he realizes it's the storm, and as he turns the door knob to her room he hears weeping from inside.

He gets in and looks around the room and Haruhi is nowhere to be seen. He checks under the bed and she isn't there. BOOM! He jumps up and hits his head on the bed, then starts to hear more weeping coming from within the closet. He walks to the closet doors and opens it up there all wrapped up in a blanket with headphones on is Haruhi crying. He kneels down and picks her up.

Haruhi yelps at being picked up and moved. She opens her eyes to see who it is, but all she sees is a blury face that looks to be that of a man. She takes a deep breath and smells the scent on the man's shirt and recognizes it as Kyoya's cologne. She asks "Kyoya is that you?"

The man says something but she couldn't hear because she still has her headphones on. He sets her down on the bed and she removes the headphones and wipes her eyes. She looks up at Kyoya and hugs him saying "Thank you for being here".

He replies, " Of course I was on my way over here when it started raining".

"Why are you soaking wet? Oh my goodness, did you walk here?"

" Yeah my father and I got into a fight and he kicked me out. So I had to walk, I would have been here sooner but I realized what today is".

"Oh Kyoya Im so sorry I forgot!"

"Its ok".

"No, no its not", She says as she gets up and hugs him. He hugs her back and looks down at her. She looks at him and says, "Well you can't stay in those clothes you'll catch a cold".

He looks at his clothes and says, " these are the only clothes I have, though"

"Its ok ill just give you some of my fathers clothes to wear and ill put yours in the washer".

"Um ok thank you. Can I take a shower please?"

"Oh, of course, go right ahead".

Kyoya walks in to the bathroom and heads to the shower. He turns it on and starts stripping his wet clothes off. When he has all his clothes removed, he tests the temperature of the water, to find it just the way he likes it. He steps in and stands directly under the spray of water.

Once he has successfully gotten warm, he grabs a bottle of strawberry fragranced shampoo and squirts it into his hand. He starts rubbing it into his hair, when he hears a knock at the door. He says," come in".

Haruhi pops her head in and says, "Here is some of my Dad's clothes and a towel for you. Ill leave them here on the counter for you".

"Thank you Haruhi, for everything", he responds.

"Your welcome. Ill be in my room if you need me".

After she leaves, he goes back to washing his hair with the scented shampoo. After hes done with his hair he searches the shelf for some soap for the rest of his body. He found a bottle of vanilla scented body wash and fortunately found a sponge to use to wash it on. Once he was done lathering it all over his body he stepped into the spray once again and rinsed. He stood there for a few moments, replaying the events from earlier in his head, and before he knew it he was crying once again.

AN: ok so this is my very first story, so I would like feedback. I'm open to suggestions as to where it should go. So please review and I've already started writing Chapter 2… Let me know what you think… 3