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Warning: There will be a character death. Just thought I'd let my sensitive buddies out there know. Also, teenage pregnancy...and i don't think i mentioned it in the last chapter but this story is AU and it will have OOC but I'll try to the best of my abilities to keep everyone in line. I hope.

Sooooo... sorry for the long wait. My only excuse? things happens...and i didn't know how to upload this blasted chapter! New here, what can you say :) Atleast its up, right?

Lissome Dalliance: You are absolutely correct in your guess, though, i sadly admit that our heroine won't be showing up 'till the next chappie. I can't wait to here your other guess on who the our first chapter lover is ;)


CHAPTER 02: Are You There?

What is it about time?

How is it possible that it so easily trickled out of the cracks of our fingers like sand?

Is it that things were meant to be this way? What's the word – destiny?

Or was it because of the emotional choices that we tend to make that things end up being the way they are?

By the time our end comes, would there be proof that we were ever here?

In the end, we regret not having enough time

In the end, we regret the things we weren't able to do…

to start

…finish.

- laa-Lii

SLAM!

"Kanna is that you?" Kagura hollered as soon as she stepped out of her room. Jeez, did she really have to slam the door? She wasn't even supposed to be home 'till 5! Kagura thought as she walked down the hallway, past the framed, smiling faces that lined the walls on both sides. Somehow the silence that had followed the slam of the door downstairs had left a prickly thought that wanted to voice itself within Kagura loudly. She was paranoid enough, she didn't need something else intruding on her thoughts like a siren screaming for attention.

"Kanna!" she seriously couldn't stand how Kanna was so eerily quiet. "You brat! I'll kick you out if you're messing around with me."

Kanna doesn't have a key with her…a little voice piped up. Warning her.

Stopping at the top of the stairs, she looking down into the dark living room. Kagura had locked the door, there was no doubt about that, in fact, she was 100% sure. There was no possible way that –

A light scratch tore through the silence of the house, lurching her heart into her throat. The sound had been faint but it had made its presence well known, calling out to her.

Did she really need to go down there? She thought as she took a hesitant step down a stair. If Kanna had come in, she would have probably been standing at the bottom of the stairs staring up at her with her dull, black eyes; a ghost of a smile tugging at the corner of her mouth, letting Kagura know that Kanna was enjoying her nervousness.

"Kanna! I swear if you're fucking around with me, I'll strangle you!" Kagura shouted, stomping down the stairs. This was past creepy-Kanna and into a new territory that Kagura wasn't sure she wanted to venture into.

"Kanna?" she called out cautiously, stopping in the middle of the living room that was littered with the fading light that streamed in through the cracks of the blinds. A bookcase crammed with books towered over the rest of the furniture. The set of leather couches looked darker in the quickly dimming room. The red blinking of the telephone light lit up the coffee table with its red hue. She exhaled, realizing she had been holding her breath a bit too long.

The scratch that drifted out innocently from behind the swinging door of the kitchen was thunderous against Kagura's ears. Her heart raced in a frantic pulse.

Creeping closer to the lonely, stark door that stood out against the surrounding color of the wall, she outstretched her hand, her thin fingers lightly pushing against the door, cracking it open. Please let it be Kanna.

Please.

RING-RING!

"AHHHHHH! FUCK!"

"– FUCK!"

"You nearly gave me a heart-attack!" Kagura growled into the phone the moment she had it up against her ear.

"What's the point of having a phone when you NEVER answer it?!"

"I – sorry," Kagura breathed out, trying to relax her over-taxed heart. "I was down stairs…I thought I heard something."

"Huh. Well I'm outside already, open the door!"

"K"

"Oh hey, wait! Do you have someone over?"

"No," pause, "Why?"

"Well, there's a car parked out – "

CLICK

"So I've heard you're playing mommy, Ka-gu-ra." came a sing-song voice form behind her.

Panicked, Kagura whipped around. Her hand instinctively resting on her bulging stomach at the comment. Her stomach painfully knotted. The fluttering movements within her stomach only made the feeling overwhelming. It rose from the pit of her stomach and wormed its way into her lungs. Cutting off the steady flow of oxygen.

"What – " Kagura started but failed to finish her thought.

How?

"What am I doing here? Oh you know, thought I'd come and play housemate with you."

"K –" Kagura stuttered, trying to figure out why she was here of all places, acting like if she hadn't intruded, but her mind ran to dead ends at every idea her mind came up with.

Why was she hear? Kagura saw her every day, in every class she had, but not once had they talked to each other. Never even acknowledge each other's existence. Not even when Kagura had started talking to –

"Shhhh. It's okay." She coaxed, her almost black eyes glittering in anticipation. "I won't take too long. It'll be quite fun, actually."

A flash of anger drove her muscles forward, against Kagura's own conscious thoughts, her hand sliced through the air, palm making a stinging contact against soft flesh, "Get out!"

In that instant, her breath was knocked out of her lungs. Pain speared up her spine and around her stomach. Realizing too late that what she had seen coming at her had been a knife.

She looked down at where she had felt the intrusion. Watching her own blood flow out from a wound she knew hadn't been there before. She watched as her shirt got soaked in her blood, the warmth of it trickling down her bare thighs and splattering on her feet and the carpet. She wanted to laugh, even if this was hardly the occasion for it.

It's not real…is it? Her thoughts whispered to her in a calm quietness she never knew she was capable of.

Terror of the realization that was starting to dawn on her made her back away slowly. She winced at the pain that traveled up her spine in a sharp tug. The movements within her were more frantic now. Kagura felt her heart slow down yet her breath hitched faster, unsteadying her.

The second strike followed shortly after. Kagura felt – more like heard – the thud of the knife as it stopped from going any deeper. No pain, she thought randomly as the intrusion left her stomach.

Kagura lifted a lethargic, thin hand and clutched onto the wrist of others hand, steadying herself from falling.

"Don't touch me!" she hissed, shoving Kagura to the floor.

It's not real.

That thought repeated itself as she felt her world tilting to a side.

The third strike came. Faster. Harder. In horrid fascination, Kagura watched as the gleam of the knife entered her flesh again and disappeared in it. Tears burned behind her eyes at the thought of never getting another day. Of never giving birth to her little boy. Of never growing old to see her baby grow beside her.

The outer edges of her vision had disappeared, her mind scrambling at the last minute she knew she had left. Kagura frantically latched onto the only single thought that might be a possibility for this, but she denied it. He had promised her. He had promised her.

Her own breathing choked her. Coming in quicker pants now. "Why?" had left her lips unknowingly as her world drenched itself in darkness. As her slowing heart pounded a wavering beat after a wavering beat against her ears. The erratic movements in her stomach had stopped mere seconds, – minutes, hours? – ago.

Please let him be asleep, she restlessly prayed, tears burning against her cold skin.

She walked up to Kagura. Squatted down in front of her and told the barely alive corpse that limply lay there in a sing-song voice, "Be-cause, you were getting in the wa-ay. Besides! I want to play mommy too!"


A.N: Hope ya'll enjoyed. I'd luv feedback. See you guys soon...

And like I mentioned before, I really didn't know how to upload a new chapter. So forgive my earlier tries.