Momiji and I walked into the kitchen, both rubbing our eyes. "Morgen." [Morning]

"Zao shang hao!" Runa replied.

Kyo rubbed his head sitting at the table. "You know we'd be able to understand you if you spoke the right language!"

We sat down next to him and smiled.

"Come on Kyo!" I teased. "You're just jealous because you only know one language!"

Yuki sleepily walked in with Hatsuharu attached to his sleeve. They joined us at the table as Runa gave us each a plate of food. Shortly after sitting she got back up and put another plate together. We all started eating without her.

I thought as I ate my food. Runa has never been outside the property? How could someone be stuck in here for their entire life? It would get really boring...

"Hey rat!" Kyo interrupted my thoughts. Yuki and I looked up. "We gonna fight today?"

"Me?" I asked, clueless.

"Of coarse not! You're a girl! I'd beat you with one hit!"

I pouted. "Nuhuuuh! I'm stronger than that!"

Kyo rolled his eyes. "Whatever." Yuki ignored him and kept eating. "How about the cow?"

Haru looked briefly up at him before continuing to eat his food. "Nope."

Kyo banged his fist on the table. "Come on! You're all a bunch of girls!"

Runa returned. "Kyo! No fighting at the table!"

"There is no fight! The stupid rat and cow think that they're better than me!"

"Maybe if you weren't so obsessed with fighting us then you would notice that you're the stupid one." Yuki calmly shot back.

"Uncalled for rat!" Runa yelled back.

Yuki finished his food and left the room with Hatsuharu following behind.

Kyo angrily went back to eating. "You just wait! I'll get them to fight!"

I sighed. "Good luck with that.."

Momiji sighed happily. "Yum yum! Das war sehr gut!" [That was very good!]

"It'll be okay. We'll show them we're better." Runa assured him.

Was being a part of the zodiac a competition?

Kyo ignored her and kept eating. I finished my food as Momiji skipped away. Runa began picking up dishes. I helped her, picking up Kyo's dish as he left.

"I'll be back." Runa said as she walked out.

I did the dishes, thinking to myself. When she returned I decided to open my mouth.

"We should do something fun today!"

She looked at me confused. "Like what?"

I smiled. "We could go outside! On the other side of the wall!"

She looked at me like I was insane. "I'm not allowed to go out there..." She looked down.

"Hatori doesn't have to know! He's gonna be in his office all day anyway!"

"But if Akito finds out..."

"He won't! It won't take that long! We'll just go out and look at a few things.. Then we can come back!" I tried to convince her.

"You sure...?"

I nodded. "Mhm! We will be back before anyone notices we left!"

"Okay..." She finally gave in.

"Yaaay!" I smiled. "Ich gewinne! Ich gewinne!" [I win! I win!]

"Shenme?" She didn't understand.

I grabbed her hand and started leading her out. "Noooootthhhiiiing!" I said happily.

We walked out of the main house unnoticed and skipped along to the gate. I let go of Runa's hand to open it and stepped out onto the concrete sidewalk. Does she know what concrete is? Or a side walk?

Runa stared at it. I looked at her confused. She apparently doesn't know what a sidewalk is!

I put my hand out to her, smiling. "It's a sidewalk, silly!" She hesitantly took my hand and stepped out, looking around. I shut the gate. "Isn't it pretty?"

She looked around at everything amazed. I smiled and started walking, dragging her behind me.

"I've never been out here before..."

"Why not!?" I asked.

"We're not allowed... Yuki did it and got locked in a room..."

"Oh... I guess they're just afraid that we'll transform while we're out here."

Runa nodded. "Mhm."

"It makes sense..."

I looked ahead at the park. Papa had taken Momiji and I there once. I didn't know it was around the Sohma house. Runa looked at it more curiously.

"What's that place!?" She said excitedly.

"It's a park! Momiji and I went there once."

"What's that?"

I thought a little before answering. "Where you can play around and buy yummy food! There are a lot of trees so it's shady!"

We walked into the park, looking around curiously. I hadn't been here in forever. The park was pretty empty since children should be at school and others should be at work. We walked up to the empty playground. I sat on a swing. Runa followed. I started swinging back and forth.

"This is my favorite!" I smiled.

Runa followed my lead. As she started going higher a man with black hair leaned against one of the poles supporting the swing set.

"Nice to see you getting some fresh air, Runa." He spoke.

He reminded me of Hatori, sending a chill down my spine. I stopped swinging. Runa stopped and hopped off her swing, backing away.

"Shigure! Um..." She exclaimed, surprised.

How does Runa know him?

Shigure laughed. "Who's your friend?"

"Um..." Runa looked down. "This is Momaji..."

"I'm sure that Hatori didn't approve of this." He seemed to just shrug me off.

I stood up. "It was my idea to come here! Runa has never left the house so... I wanted to show her around."

"So you snuck her out?"

"We snuck out..." I pointed out.

"Oh! So you're a Sohma!" Shigure asked like it made everything make sense.

I nodded. Runa looked down, nervously playing with her bracelet.

"Are you?" I asked.

He nodded. "Well I'll let you two have your fun!"

Runa looked up "You're not gonna tell Akito?"

"Nope!"

I was a little relieved. Runa hugged him, confirming that he was also a Sohma.

"Well I gotta get going." He said.

"Xiexie wode pengyou!" Runa said as he started walking away. He ignored her.

I grabbed her arm excitedly. "What animal is he!?"

Runa giggled. "The dog!"

I smiled. "What do you wanna do now?"

"What can we do?"

"I dunno... Walk around.. Swing some more.. Or there's a slide."

"Oooooh!" She said excitedly.

I led the way to one of the slides. She went up the steps first, stopping to look around at the top. I followed happily. Runa slid down, screaming with excitement. I followed down on my stomach letting out a small yelp. We played around on that until we got bored.

"I'm tired!" I exclaimed.

"Mee too.." Runa suddenly gasped. "We need to get back!"

"Okay, okay! Let's go back."

She nodded. "I don't know the way..."

I took her hand and led the way. While walking back I noticed Papa's building.

"Papa said he was gonna come back..." I stared at the tall building. "He didn't... Maybe he just got busy... That happens a lot."

"My dad's always busy."

"Mama always ignored us.. But papa tried to give us attention."

"Aw.. I never had a mama."

I looked at her confused. "Well of coarse you had a mama!... What happened to her?"

"I don't know. I never knew her..."

I smiled. "Well i'm sure that wherever she is she still loves you!" I stopped and stared at the doors of the building. "Maybe I should just see if papa's there..."

"Okay..."

I pushed open the doors. Everything here was so familiar to me. We had come here many times to visit papa. I walked over to one of the elevators and pressed the button. Runa and I watched as the employees walked around. The secretary typed on her computer. The door opened and we stepped in after a person exited. I pressed the button to papa's floor. The door closed and we began to go up. When the door re-opened we stepped out. The employees ignored us, going on with their work.

I led the way to papa's office, his door closed. I stared at the wooden door before lightly knocking twice. I opened the door and stepped in. Papa was busy writing something down. Runa watched him curiously.

When he looked up he was surprised. "Momaji! I thought you were your mother."

Of coarse he thought I was mama. He wouldn't expect that I would come to his office.

"You said you were coming back." I clenched my fists.

"Yes. Things have been busy around here. Your mother had to recover also." He shuffled around the papers on his desk. "She's doing a lot better now."

I took a step closer. "I don't care about that! You said you were gonna come back!"

"I told you that I was busy." He said as calmly as he could.

Liar. He doesn't want anything to do with us. He only cares about mama.

"Where's Momiji?" He changed the subject.

"He didn't come. Lügner..." I uttered the last part under my breath.

Papa ignored it, his expression still uncaring and cold. I'll love you and Momiji twice as much to make up for mama's love. Lügner. Liar. Liar.

"Who is this?"

I blankly stared ahead. Mama's voice was calm and nice... She had no idea of who I was...

I turned around and looked up at her in the doorway, blankly. She looked at me as if I was some random child. She didn't know me. I don't exist

"Just a child of one of my employees." Papa waved it off.

Runa pulled on my hand. "I think we should go..."

I yanked my hand from her grasp and marched out of the office, slamming my hand against the elevator button. Runa did her best to keep up, almost tripping on the way there.

"I hate him. Hate him. Hate him!" I angrily said, keeping myself from screaming.

"It was for your mama's health.." Runa softly said as we stepped into the elevator.

"He's a liar. He would of visited us if he wanted to. He's like mama... They don't want us anymore."

"He cares about you a lot..."

"No. He doesn't... He only cares about Momiji."

As the door shut Runa pulled me into a hug. She would never know what it's like to be rejected by her own father. I sighed and closed my eyes. Should I tell Momiji? That mama's alright? That papa's never visiting?

~|AUTHOR'S NOTE|~

This was a very long and never ending chapter! I decided to finish it here and continue it in the next chapter because it's long and annoying.

So if you noticed how Shigure and Hitori are the same ages as in Control Freak, I will explain! When Luna created Runa we didn't think of (or even know) Hitori's age. So Runa was Hitori's 16 year old daughter! We finally noticed this age problem after we posted about three chapters:

Hitori is 27 and Kana is said to be 25. This would mean that when Runa was born Kana was 9 and Hatori was 11! XD

So that is why Shigure, Hitori, and Ayame never age in our stories!

P.s. Sorry for spelling Hatori two different ways. I pronounce his name Hitori instead of Hatori and frequently end up spelling it wrong.

~|Adelina|~