Yay, chapter two! :P

Thanks to ALL of you who have been supporting my story; those reviews gave me a lot of confidence :D. Well, I hope this satisfies your "Kain Akatsuki" fever as well as the first one...I have to more to say, so please enjoy! I love you all! 333

"We reach out with our hands, brush away the clouds and piece the sky,

to grab the moon...

but we still can't reach the truth."

--Anonymous

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It happened thirteen days after the ten students transferred into the school.

It began as a normal morning, but the morning was dark. Then it was the screaming, a loud, horrified shriek that lasted only a few seconds. It happened all so suddenly, the entire school knew about it in the next hour.

Hakura struggled through the mob of terrified students. She'd heard a female student had fainted during class transition and was eager to see what happened. But the crowd was too noisy and pushy, getting to the crime scene before the adults took care of it was impossible this way. Luck seemed to disguise itself when someone accidentally knocked the curious girl onto the floor.

"Oi! Watch it." She said while rubbing her head gingerly. Hakura froze when a she found herself smack in front of a fallen girl. But that was only a portion of the reason why she was so shocked.

Fang marks, on the side of the neck...crimson blood staining the white collar of her uniform...

A hand involuntarily covered her mouth. Oh god...

"So it finally happened, eh?"

Hakura felt like her neck almost snapped when she saw a frowning Kain standing behind her. He helped her up, but kept his eyes on the girl.

"What do you mean by, 'it finally happened'?"

Hakura's question was drowned out by another round of screaming, but it was more squealing than actually screaming.

"So, Kuran Kaname finally shows off...what an idiot."

Hakura, for the second time that day, almost broke her neck.

"AIRI!"

Airi pointed toward the handsome upperclassman. Hakura focused her attention on him and noticed he was heading straight towards the victim. Wordlessly, he picked her up with ease and walked toward eight beautiful students standing away from the mob of people.

"Gotta go." Kain was gone before Hakura could react.

"Wait!"

Hakura pushed her way out of the students and ran after she escaped toward the now departing group. She sped up, and years of placing first in track granted her wish.

She spred out her hands in front of the Kaname, who seemed to be leading the group, after catching up.

"Why are you taking that girl? Shouldn't the teachers be taking care of this?" Hakura barely noticed the dark aura he emitted when she observed him before.

"You little-!"

A gray head bobbed from behind the man standing in front of Hakura. If looks could kill, this was it. Ruka looked like she was about to stab Hakura before Kaname stopped the angry female.

"Ruka, stop. There's no need to, she's only curious." Kaname smiled slightly at Hakura. Ruka retreated, still glowering at her. "Isn't it Ishizuka-san? Don't worry, the teachers let us take care of it."

Hakura felt a shiver down her spine and didn't try to ask another question. He knows my name, she thought, giving her the creeps. She watched Kaname shift the girl in his arms and kept walking, seeing the rest follow him. Aido, whom she had never talked to, suddenly walked to Hakura and bent down, nose barely centimeters away from her own.

"Hey baby, what's your blood type?"

Hakura was just about to slap him when a strong hand caught hers in mid-action. Kain nearly picked up Aido off the ground while still gripping hers.

"Hanabusa."

"Hai, hai," Aido replied meekly. He rubbed his head and strolled away like nothing happened. Kain released Hakura's hand and sent her a forgiving smile. She kept looking even when they passed, uncertainty rushing through her veins. No, I have to follow them, she convinced herself.

Quietly trailing behind the quickly disappearing group was a challenge. They were all moving swiftly like shadows in the dark. The ten students finally stepped into an empty classroom, a click sounding to tell Hakura that they locked the door.

Hakura pressed a ear on the wooden door of the locked classroom to overhear a suspicious conversation.

"Kaname-sama..." a female voice echoed quietly. Hakura guessed it was Juuri from the tone.

-sama? Why is she using an honorable suffix? she wondered.

Hakura heard the slightest of a sigh. "We'll have to erase her memory, just of today's. Kiryuu-kun, please help me." Kaname's voice was soft but serious.

"Mataku...again?"

The emerald-eye girl frowned. What the hell? Erase her memory? Again?

Hakura knew that this was going too far. She was about to kick the door open, but her foot stopped a half an inch away from the wooden surface, as if a force was preventing her from making contact with it. Now she was really suspicious, about to yell out to the people in the classroom.

"Hey-"

It went as quickly as it came, a spilt second of a flashing purple light almost filling the entire hallway. Hakura's vision went onyx black, and she knew no more.

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The headache was as bad as hell. Hakura felt it could explode any moment when she sat up into sitting position on her bed.

While she was adjusting to woozey vision and enduring the pangs of pain, Hakura looked around and was confused to see the famailar cotton blue walls of her room and pearl white sheets of her bed. She tumbled out of bed, getting a good look at the vase of crimson roses she collected the other day to make sure this actually was her bedroom. To her amazement, it unmistakedly was.

"O...o..ka-saaan!" Hakura yelled, speech slightly slurred.

There was a series of footsteps up the stairs and quickly did a beautiful woman appear at her doorway. Hakura was a spitting image of her mother, Kurosaki Asuka-san...sleek hair with tumbling curls at the bottom, slender figure, heart-shaped face...the only thing that kept people from mistaking them for one another was that Kurosaki-san had the deepest purple eyes, like amethyst.

"Do you need something, Hakura?"

Hakura's hand flew to her forehead as another round of mini explosions went off in her head. "How'd I get here, wasn't I at school?" Hakura tried recalling what happened, but only remembered getting to school, purple lights and ending up in her current position.

Her mother gave Hakura a weird look. "Don't you know? You fainted during transition when I think, according to him, everyone was running around trying to see what happened to the girl, right? You were never good with loud noises with that sensitive, or do I daresay, extremely sensitive ears of yours."

"Wait...who's 'him'?" Hakura asked after managing to comprehend what her mother said.

"I'm suprised you're not in love with him yet, Hakura. Very nice young man, carried you all the way home after you fainted in school. Tall, gorgeous dark blonde hair, wears his uniform untucked...decently mature. He told me his name was Kain Akatsuki-san if I'm right." Asuka cupped her face, looking sweetly at her dumbfounded daughter.

Hakura's senses jolted. "AKATSUKI-SENPAI?"

Asuka nodded innocently. "Yes..."

Dammit.

"It's past dinner, but want anything to eat?" Hakura shook her head.

"No, I'll do a bit of my homework and go back to sleep."

Kurosaki-san smiled and closed the door, leaving Hakura her rightful privacy.

Hakura washed up and got dressed her pajamas. After finishing her essay, she turned off the light and rested her head on the window sill, enjoying the cool October wind carassing her face. Hakura was soon lost in thought as she tried to fetch out what happened today from a blurry memory, but no success.

What was that purple light? she wondered. Why did Akatsuki-senpai carry me home? Why did I faint? Hakura kept bombording herself with her own questions.

Why...did she loose her memory?

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Sorry if it was kinda short...I meant to make it longer, but it seemed if I stopped here, the chapter name would make more sense. I'm working on Chapter Three...it should be up shortly, so please stay in touch! Again, please review, I'll appreciate it :).