Chapter five:

I close my eyes tightly and shake my head. "No. He's strong. He's ok." I tell myself. "He's just skipping today to hang around town. Yeah that's it." I open my eyes and raise my head only to head back to class. I need to believe in my brother.

… However….. Day after day passed….. And Kaoru is still missing…..

I spend most of my time searching for him since the others don't seem to really care that Kaoru has gone missing.

It's been three days and I finally decide that I've had enough.

I head out and begin looking once again. I stop where a crowd is and I know that everyone looks to me to be the perfect heir to my famous mother so I know they know me. "Please. Please help me look for my brother." I ask of the people.

A police man comes over. "We will do our best son." He says reaching up to slightly adjust his hat.

Soon the police are scouring through the city in search for Hikaru's lost twin.

I am also still looking for my brother hoping and wishing that he is alright.

Pretty much everyone loves me so they also joined in helping me search.

It's nice of them even if they are really doing it to help me in order to try to make sure I become the person they expect of me.

My vision gets a little blurry as tears come to my eyes. "I'm sorry." I whimper then continue as I close my eyes. "I'm so sorry for what I said and did so please…." I open my eyes as tears fall down my face. "Come home Kaoru." I honestly do regret that I allowed myself to follow through with his idea of letting me get my stress out by using him and I regret everything mean I said to him. I regret it all… and…. I just want my brother to be back in my arms.

Right then and there I vow to never do anything like that to him again.

EVER!

No one's P.O.V.

People looked and looked but so far nothing has turned up on the missing twin.

Hikaru is getting more and more anxious and worried as the days pass by with no sign of Kaoru anywhere. He's stopped going to school ignoring anyone telling him to go to school to allow the police to try to find Kaoru, to search for Kaoru hoping that something turns up. "Kaoru." He sniffles as tears come to his eyes. "I-I'm sorry. I'm so so sorry. I didn't mean what I said." His tears begin sliding down his face. "Please come back to me. Please…." He breaks out into a sob.

… Two months have passed… they have found no sign of the younger anywhere at all still…

Hikaru is in agony in regret and worry, desperate for his twin to be back home safe and sound.

There are rumors that have been recently spreading for a while mow saying things like that some believe Kaoru may have left going insane and is waiting for his first victim to come around or he may have already found one.

Hikaru hates those rumors saying that they are just the delusions of people who never cared to get to know Kaoru before he disappeared. He still continues to search but the longer he doesn't have his twin there safe and alive he is slowing losing his mind as he needs Kaoru more than he realized.

People began trying to get him to stop searching and try to get back to being the boy he was before but Hikaru refuses to listen no matter how hard the people try to get him to forget about looking for Kaoru in favor of going back to the boy they expect of him.

….. Another two months passed….. It's the day that marks the exact day that Kaoru left the mansion disappearing four months ago…. Something has turned up…..

"I heard that they found something." Haruhi says as she runs into Hikaru while she is heading back home after some shopping. "At the forest."

Hikaru perks up upon hearing this. "Really?" He then rushes off to get to the forest with high hopes that with whatever has been found will help them find Kaoru or at least be Kaoru himself. He arrives to the forest and skids to a stop as he finds a crowd at the edge of the forest muttering to each other.

Quickly making his way through the crowd Hikaru hurries to the front of the crowd.

"Kaoru!" He begins only to stop and his eyes widen as he arrives at the front of the crowd.

There is police tape and something Hikaru never wanted to think he would ever have to face.

The possible murder of someone he loves…

There's a tree covered in blood, well mostly the trunk really, at the edge of the forest with ashes in a bottle found next to the tree beside the bloody tree.

Hikaru can only stare in horror and disbelief at the scene as tears begin to form in his eyes. He falls to his knees as if his legs can no longer hold him up. "No…" He can barely find his voice as his body starts to shiver wanting to just burst out into sobs. "This….. This wasn't supposed to happen…. Kaoru….. Please don't let this be you….." He pleads shutting his eyes tightly as tears stream down his face. He can only hold onto that small spark of hope inside of himself that this is the murder of someone who isn't Kaoru.

People close to him give him sympathetic looks and one or two place a comforting hand on the older twin but Hikaru doesn't even seem to know or acknowledge that anyone else is there.

As people slowly dispersed heading off on their way Hikaru instead choses to stay behind to wait at the scene to wait to see if he hears or gets any information on this case.

Hikaru can hear a few dogs barking which is probably the police trying to track down the body but he doesn't pay any mind to that at least as much mind to the scene in front of him.

The sun is starting to set but Hikaru remains determined to hold on to that small spark of hope that Kaoru is still alive.

A police officer approaches him finally as it starts to get dark.