Lilyflower991028: Hey guys! I hadn't even realised I was neglecting this story. So I'm writing this early! :D

Ikuto: Where am I in the story?!

Amu: Where'd you come from? Who are you?

Ikuto: Who are you?

Lilyflower991028: Woah! Ikuto, you come later. Get outta here! *Pushes him off cliff*

Amu: Why the heck are we on a cliff?!

Lilyflower991028: ...oops? And also, you guys have talked together in this opening for 3 chapters, and you still don't know each other?

Amu: ...

Ikuto: Damn...you...

Lilyflower991028: *laugh nervously* Enjoy!

Amu: Hey!

Amu POV

Recap: "We have to go out," Kukai said.

I laughed humourlessly.

"You can't be serious!" I said. Kukai gave me a serious look. I stopped laughing. "Don't be so naive! Do you know how late it is? The sun's already down. There's probably a few of them roaming around outside the house right now!" I shouted, but low enough so others won't hear.

"I agree with Hinamori. We can't go out now!" Tadase agreed.

"We can't have people starving! They'll get weaker, and weaker without food. Then what if we get attacked? They don't have a chance of surviving, and we can't help them if we don't get enough food either!" Kukai argued.

"But there's more chance of someone dying if we do go out!" I shouted, my voice getting louder.

"You guys, keep it down," Rima walked over to us. She saw Kukai and I arguing and stopped. "Is this what I think it is? You can't be arguing about that, could you?" she asked.

The only time Kukai and I argue, and I mean the only time, is when it's about foraging for food.

Tadase nodded his head at Rima's question. Rima sighed and rubbed her temples.

"So, who do you agree with?" Kukai and I said in unison.

"I don't know," she said.

"Well right now, it's 2 against 1. My way," I said. Kukai glared at me. Nagi walked over and put his arm around Rima.

"What's up?" He asked. Rima blushed.

"They're fighting over if we should have a smaller dinner tonight, or go out and forage for food," Rima answered. Nagi sighed.

"Again?" He asked. Rima nodded.

Yaya jumped over to us.

"Yaya wants to get in on the conversation!" She said.

"What do you guys think we should do?" Kukai asked.

"What's happening?" Yaya asked.

"Food," was all Nagi needed to say to make Yaya understand.

"This is troublesome. There are six of us. It could end up equal..." Nagi said.

"Well, it doesn't matter. Just vote," Rima said.

"Ok, who votes we go and forage for food?" Kukai asked, putting up his hand. Yaya put up her hand.

"Yaya thinks it's exciting!" she shouted.

"Who votes we stay?" Tadase asked, putting up his hand. I put up my hand as well. We all looked over at Nagi and Rima.

"What's wrong? Aren't you guys going to vote?" I asked.

"We're kinda conflicted about this. Or more like, we don't care." Rima said, emotionless.

"Where have I been the past 2 chapters?!" I turned around and saw Utau.

"Utau!" I said, smiling and taking her hands into my own. "Talking to your imaginary friends again?"

"They're not imaginary, they're the readers and the author," she replied. I laughed.

"Sure," I said.

"It's true! We are imaginary characters made up from someone's imagination," she said.

"Whatever. Anyway, you can settle this!" I said, smiling. She looked at me questioningly.

"What?" She asked.

"Go out, or stay in?" I asked. She looked at me understandingly.

"What about you guys?" She asked.

"Kukai and Yaya: Go out. Me and Tadase: Stay in," I said. She looked over at Kukai and slightly blushed. 'Oh no. Why did I tell her Kukai was on the opposite side?' I wondered.

"Uh...well, I think we should go out..." she said quietly. 'Great, of course she's going on Kukai's side!' I thought, irritated.

Kukai ran over and hugged her, making her blush. I sighed.

"Come on, Tadase, let's get the equipment," I said, walking up the stairs. Tadase scurried behind me.

"We can't lose another person...another Fighter...another...friend..." I whispered, opening the door to the armoury.

Tadase rubbed my back.

"Don't worry, this time, I'll make sure we don't lose another person. I'm sorry you lost Kentaro..." He said.

"No, it's not your fault, you have nothing to apologise for," I said, forcing a smile. Tadase smiled back, making me wonder how perfect a guy could be.

FLASHBACK

"You sure we should do this?" Kentaro asked me.

Kentaro Hideki, practically my best friend, and maybe...more, was part of our group. Well, that is, before a month ago.

"Well, you heard what Kukai said, right? He has pretty good reasoning, and I don't see why not. You told me we've never lost anyone before, right? I don't think it's gonna happen now," I replied.

Kentaro mumbled something I couldn't pick up.

"Pretty much everyone uses swords, right? How are we supposed to know which is which?" I asked. It had only been a few weeks since I joined, and in that time we had never had to go out and forage for food.

Kentaro opened the door.

"It's pretty self explanatory," he said, pointing at the labels above each sword. But one caught my eye.

"Yorukozu!" I screamed gleefully, picking up my katana and looking over it. I didn't need her, so I hadn't seen her the past few weeks.

Kentaro patted my shoulder.

"Calm down," he said, chuckling slightly. I blushed.

"Ok, Tadase, Kukai...Rima, you...Nagi...and me. That's all, right?" I asked, already starting to pick up swords. Kentaro nodded and started helping me.

SHORT TIME LEAP

"Ok, everybody ready?" I asked, swinging Yorukozu onto my back. Kukai laughed.

"You sound like you're the leader or something. You've only been here for a few weeks!" Kukai exclaimed. I wacked him softly.

"Shut up!" I said. He laughed again.

"This isn't the time," Rima practically sighed.

"Yeah, yeah, I get it. Let's go!" I said, about to open the door when I was stopped in my tracks.

"Yaya wants to go!" She shouted, pouting.

"I'm sorry Yaya, but you're too young and inexperienced. I'm sure when you get more training, you can come with us," Tadase said, smiling apologetically.

"We'll come back straight away. I'm sure there's nothing interesting going on out there," I added. I patted Yaya's head and smiled. "See you later," I said, opening the door. Or at least, I wanted to see her later.

TIME LEAP

"This is getting us nowhere!" I whispered, diving behind a tree. "We haven't found anything yet; vampire or food!"

"We just have to keep looking. Not many people go out to forage for food at night, so there should be places we can pick at," Nagi whispered back.

"Rima, put on your night-vision goggles, and I'll put you on my shoulders. That way we can see better," Kukai said, crouching down.

Rima obliged and climbed onto him, looking around.

"Do you see anything?" I asked. Rima didn't answer.

"Rima? What's wrong?" Nagi asked. No answer from Rima.

"Rima, this isn't funn-" Kentaro started.

"Oh crap," she whispered.

"What? What's wrong?" Tadase asked.

"Run!" She whispered, jumping off Kukai's back. I gave Kentaro a confused look, but followed Rima. I caught up and ran next to her.

"What's wrong? What happened?" I asked.

"I saw one of them," she said.

"Then why are we running?!" I whispered. "We should just fight! There's only one, right?"

"Don't be naive! Have you ever seen them fight a human? We hardly stand a chance!" Rima hissed.

"It's six against one! How could we lose?" I asked.

"Ok, let me rephrase that. Have you ever seen one of them fight humanS?" She said.

"No, what's the big deal?" I asked, itching to fight.

"Ugh, just run!" She practically shouted. I looked behind us.

"Oh great. We've lost them!" I said to no one in particular.

"What? How's that possible? They were right behind us!" I looked to my right.

"I see Kentaro!" I whispered, pointing to him. He waved to signal to us, and I waved back.

Kentaro POV

"Amu, what are you doing?! Move!" I whispered, hoping somehow she would hear me. I gestured at her, but she mistook it as a wave and returned it. I gave myself a face-palm. 'I'll just have to get to her quick enough!' I thought.

I swerved sideways and started towards her.

"Amu, move!" I whispered, wishing for a miracle.

Amu POV

Kentaro started moving towards us. Now that he was closer, I could just hear what he was saying.

"Move!" He whispered. I gave him a, 'what the hell' look. He slapped himself on the forehead.

I looked around and only then saw the vampire closing in on us.

"Oh god," Rima said. We couldn't out run a fricking vampire, those things were like, inhumane. Oh wait. They were.

I tried to swerve out of the way, but the vampire wasn't faltering. I gritted my teeth and braced myself for impact. Until I saw something jump in front of me.

It took a few moments to realise what-or who-it was.

My eyes widened. I couldn't even gasp-I was too shocked.

"KENTARO!"

Lilyflower991028: Hey guys! Hope you liked this chappie. It was a bit short, sorry for that.

Amu: Kentaro!

Rima: Oh god, oh god, oh god!

Kukai, Nagi and Tadase: Where are those guys?

Lilyflower991028: ...why is it even after the chapter ends, you guys just HAVE to continue?

Amu, Rima, Kukai, Nagi, Kentaro and Tadase: *stops running in mid-air*...

Lilyflower991028: Review?