Recap: Byakuya decided to go back to the Urahara Shouten for now since he was supposed to change places with Captain Hitsugaya. As he was heading back Haruka's sleeping image stayed in his mind. "Why can't I forget her? Why do I feel so...drawn to her? Am I falling in love again?"

Haruka woke up to the sound of her alarm, sweat coming off her face from her re-occuring nightmare. "Why do I keep having this nightmare?" she thought as she wiped her face with her sleeve. As she wiped her cheek, she noticed a faint presence there. "Was someone in my room last night while I was asleep?" she thought as she started to get dressed. While buttoning her uniform top, she thought of who it could have been. "Next time we meet I will kill you, Haruka!" Amidamaru had said when they last met each other. She shook her head and tried to forget the meeting as she finished getting dressed. "I can't let everyone get dragged into this!" Haruka thought to herself. She then saw the picture of the three of them. She looked at Miyumi, remembering her precious friend. "I won't let anyone else I care about die because of me!" she thought. "Haruka! One of your friends are here! Hurry and get down here already!" her mother shouted at the steps. "Coming!" she replied, already knowing it was Rangiku downstairs from her loud voice. Before she closed the door to her room, haruka took one last glance at the photo, sighed heavily and closed the door on her memories.

As Byakuya was teaching the class, haruka stared at the window, lost in thought. "What am I going to do? If Amida is back, then the longer I stay here, then the more danger everyone will be in!" she thought. Miyumi's face flashed in haruka's mind. "No!" she thought. "Ashikage-san please come to the board and solve this problem for the class" Byakuya ordered. Haruka got up and started to walk. After solving the problem and walking past her classmates, she looked at her friends. Kim who was secretly reading a manga book behind her textbook , and Abi who was daydreaming with a bored expression. As she sat down in her seat, haruka thought: "I definatley won't let everyone I care about get hurt! I will protect them!" she thought with renewed resolve.

Later that night at dinner, haruka looked at her siblings who were laughing and playing around. "I wonder if that's how we were going to turn out?" she thought. She then shook her head furiously. "No! I have to keep up my resolve or else I can't protect them!" Haruka told herself. As she put her siblings to bed, sayuki looked haruka in the eyes and asked: "Are you going to leave again nee-chan?" Haruka widened her eyes and then went back to normal after a moment. "No I'm not. What made you ask?" she replied. "Because you look worried and scared nee-chan" sayuki answered, showing concern in her eyes. "Well I'm not going anywhere you two" haruka said. She tucked them in and as she closed their door, haruka said, "I love you two. Good night."

Haruka went to her room and sat on her bed with her head on her palms. "What am I going to do?" She asked herself as she tried to think of what to do with her problem. She then laid back on her bed on her back. She reached her hand into the empty space above her. "Why does the past have to hurt so much?" haruka thought. She closed her eyes as a memory slowly came to mind...

"I don't think it's bad to remember the past" Miyumi said as she sat next to amidamaru. The three had been talking about their painful memories. "What do you mean?" Amidamaru had asked. Miyumi looked at the setting sun as she replied. "Well I think that it's good to remember the good and the bad about the past. Because no matter what, you can't move forward without keeping hold of the past." Miyumi looked at them both and smiled brightly.

As the memory faded, haruka opened her eyes. She looked at the picture of the three of them.

"But you have to let go of the past at some point in your life you know" amidamaru had said then. Haruka grabbed the photo.

"That's true, amida. But I believe that the past will help you move forward. We can't live in bliss forever" miyumi had said afterwards.

Haruka put the photo back where it was. "They're both right" haruka thought to herself. She then got up and picked up her pre-packed bag. "I can't run and I can't hide. But I can put a stop to this!" she thought to herself. Haruka wrote a letter and left it on her desk. With a map to the Urahara Shoten, Haruka opened her window with the wind blowing rain on her and took one last look at the world she was leaving behind and left through the window then closed it to avoid getting the rest of the room wet.

In the morning her mother came into her room and found the letter. It read :

Good-bye Halcyon days