It was raining heavily as he stood at the highest point of the tower, giving him a view of the whole city. How long has it been? He wondered as he look at his left hand, bandaged to hide what was below. He was soaked to the skin but he did not mind. The rain seemed to cool the terrible burning within him yet it can't be washed away like the rainwater dripping into the buildings underneath. If only it could…… he would have gladly plunged into the world below-to his death. But that's impossible, he thought. As the sky thundered & lightning flashes lighting up the left side of his face, a burn under his left eye.

Normal?

Recca yawned sleepily as he walked into the school grounds, waiting for the commotion about to start. "RECCA!!!!!" Fuuko Kirisawa is running towards him at the speed of an ox. Give me a break, why does that monkey always have to do that every morning? "Recca, you baka!" Fuuko lunged for his head but he was faster. Recca ducked her next attack and jumped over her and made a beeline for his classroom. He opened the door to his class and walked straight in. Whew, he managed to survive the female monkey for another day. Recca relaxed. Until he hit something big and hard. Domon. Where the hell is his hime?

"Recca, you better apologize to Fuuko right now."

Recca snorted.

"Why do I have to do that? It's her own fault for acting like such a monkey. Why are you here anyway? This isn't your class."

"This isn't your classroom either!"

Fuck. Wrong class. He made for his class ignoring the big guy shouting behind. "Recca-kun!" Finally, a welcomed voice. Yanagi greeted Recca with a smile on her face as usual. Maybe this day isn't so bad after all.

Life has been pretty much normal since the SODOM incident. Aoi now lives with Tokiya.(surprised?) The only thing missing was Kaoru. Recca wondered what had happened to him. He had gone to the past with….Kurei. They had sort of made up before he disappeared into that time portal. But Recca isn't sure whether Kurei take him as his brother. Damn it! If he hadn't been confused before, then he's definitely messed up now. Thinking is never his strong point. Why the heck did he went back in time anyway? If he had stayed here Recca could just ask him straight away. Even if he had to gather some guts before that.

Come to think of it, he & Kurei had never really talked properly before. Every time they had met it would turn out into a fight. After all, they were enemies then.

The school bell rings triggering a chain reaction of students crowding the corridors of the school to go home. Recca, Yanagi, Domon & Fuuko are walking together to the school gate. (Tokiya had been mobbed by his fan club as soon as he walked out of his class so the rest of the Hokage decided to go on without him)

"Hey, Recca-kun? Do you miss Kaoru?"

"Hmm? Kaoru? Why should I, Hime?"

"Well, it's just that I'm kind of worried about him."

Just then, a huge shadow shaded them. Uh oh. Recca's senses are tingling like crazy.

Pooouuughhhh!!!

Completed with fangs and Kougan Anki, Kaoru Koganei beamed at the shocked teens as he landed right on Recca. Talk of the devil. What a coincidence. Recca thought as the impossibly heavy weight suddenly appeared on his back.

"Hey there, comrades! Yanagi-chan!"

Kaoru sniffed and hugged Yanagi.

"K-Kaoru! What the heck are you doing here?"

"Well, I missed you guys so much that I had to come back here to see you."

(If you had read the manga, I'd suggest you refer to volume 6 page 121-a perfect image of Kaoru that I was trying to picture)

"Kaoru-chan!"

"I thought I would never see you again!"

"Aren't you supposed to be in the past?"

Everyone tried to hug him except Recca who was still on the ground. And of course,

"OUCH!!!"

"Oh, sorry Recca-chan. I didn't see you there."

"You stupid retard!"

"Come on Recca, it's not every day that an old friend comes back from the past."

"That's right, Recca-kun. Don't be so hard on Kaoru-kun. Are you tired, Kaoru-kun?"

"What the heck are you doing here, Koganei?"

"Mi-chan! Look who is here!"

"I'm not blind, Fuuko. And stop calling me that you monkey-girl!"

"What did you said?"

"Mikagami! I missed you too!"

"Kaoru! Get off! Can't breath!"

poofm!

"Mi-chan, are you alright?"

Later

The Hokage, now reunited had gathered at Recca's house where Kagerou and Hanabishi-san are.

"What a surprise, Kaoru-kun!"

"Ha-ha, it's all in a days work."

"Well, Kaoru?"

"What, Mi-chan?"

"You haven't answered my question earlier."

"Which one?"

"Don't make me take out the Ensui."

"That's right. You haven't told us why you come back here all of a sudden."

Kaoru sighed as he looked at all the faces around him, waiting for him to speak. "All right. It's a long story. …………. Ouch!"

'I'm getting impatient here fang boy."

"You don't have to hit me!"

"Kaoru-kun."

Kaoru sighed again.

"Fine, I'm talking. Don't interrupt okay?"

Author

OOOOkay, this chapter's really boring because I don't like a story that starts off in the middle without explanations. Call it pride or self-rules. Don't hold back with the reviews, I can take it. psI got a feeling this would be a long fic.