Dusk hit the sky and it was time to head back. I led Zorro down the trail back to the village. When we made it back to the bakery we all said our goodbyes and went our separate ways except Haruhi and me. I turned to her with a loving smile.

"I had a really great time." Haruhi said, a smile touching her lips as well.

"I'm glad, I was really worried at first that you weren't going to like Tamaki's idea."

She chuckled. "Well, I don't usually do things like this, but it's fun to change it up a bit. Maybe we can have another picnic at the grotto next year for my birthday again."

"Yah, that would great." We just stared at each other for a bit. We were still a little damp from swimming a couple hours ago.

"Oh," I said, I unhooked and reached into my saddle bag. I pulled out the box with the necklace and handed it to her, "here I got you this."

"Thank you." She took the box from me and opened it. She gasped at the sight of the necklace and looked up at me. "Hikaru I can't take this, it looks way too expensive."

I shrugged my shoulders as I slightly leaned on Zorro. "It really isn't a big deal. I'm a prince, I have way more than enough money. That was barely anything."

She smirked. "Yah, from our taxes."

"Hey I didn't say I was necessarily proud of it." I matched her smirk. "But I won't deny that I enjoy it all."

Haruhi playfully punched my shoulder and chuckled. "You're a jackass."

I chuckled as well, and when we quieted down we stared at each other for a bit.

"So, would you like to come in. I'm sure my dad won't mind."

I smiled. "Sure, I would love…" But I was cut off by the clock tower bells ringing. One, two, three, four, five, six...six rings. MY eyes widened. "Oh no."

I threw the reins over Zorro's head and pulled down the saddle stirrups.

Haruhi looked at me confused. "Hikaru, are you alright?"

"I'm really sorry but I have to go, my family is going to be home soon." I walked up to her moved her hair out of her face before kissing her forehead. "I'll see you as soon as I can."

Haruhi looked up at me sadly. "Alright."

I went back over to Zorro and hopped on his back. I looked back over at her. "I promise I'll be back soon." I reassured.

Haruhi just gave me a nod. "I'll wait for you."

I smiled at her, then turned Zorro and kicked him, making him start to gallop away.

Haruhi watched as I went out of sight. "Hopefully I don't have to wait long."

I galloped through the woods, finally seeing the castle. Instead of stopping and opening the gate myself, I kicked Zorro to go faster then jump the fence. But as he landed back on the ground my stirrup broke, making me fall off. I hit the ground with a loud thud causing me to gasp in pain. Zorro stopped and looked back over at me, seeing that I was lying face down on the floor. When he noticed that I wasn't moving he trotted over to me and began nudging me with his nose.

I groaned and slowly began getting up. "I'm alright. Don't worry."

I grabbed my stirrup that broke off then quickly led Zorro to the stables. I handed him to a stable hand and gave them my stirrup.

"Put Zorro away and fix my stirrup."

The stable hand nodded and I began running towards the castle. About half way my legs began to burn and the pain in my side from where I fell. I clenched my jaw and groaned in pain as I climbed up the stairs of the porch. I opened the door and started making my way towards the throne room, but as I turned the corner I almost ran into Naomi who was standing there. Luckily, I was able to stop in front of her before I could run into her. She had a glare on her face, which would've made me nervous if I wasn't already exhausted.

"Where were you?" Her voice was stern, she definitely was mad.

"I uh...I was riding Zorro...around the estate." I said through pants.

"I, nor any other staff members here saw you anywhere around the estate for six to seven hours." Her glare hardened when she noticed my cloak. "You were outside the castle walls, weren't you?"

I gulped. "N-No I…"

"Then why are you out of breath if you weren't out of the castle grounds. It seems like you're worried to get caught."

"I...I…"

"Hikaru, tell me what you were doing."

I sighed defeated. "Alright fine, I snuck out of the castle grounds." I looked at her with pleading eyes. "Please don't tell my parents, I don't know what they're going to do if they find out."

Naomi sighed and folded her arms over her chest. "Alright fine, I won't tell your parents about you sneaking out." She looked back up at me. "Is this your first time out?"

"...No…"

Hey glare returned to her face. "Hikaru!"

"Look I'm sorry, but I felt so suffocated being locked up in here for sixteen years that I couldn't take it anymore. So, I left one night when my parents were away, and now every time they leave I sneak out of the castle grounds."

"Does anybody know about you?"

"No...not really.'

"Hikaru!"

"Just a couple friends of mine that accidently found out. But I promise that they're the only ones who know and they don't know anything about my powers."

Naomi began rubbing her temples, feeling a headache coming on. "At least they don't know about your powers. But you can't let anyone else find out about you."

"They won't." I reassured. "I use the hood of my cloak to hide my face. So, you won't have to worry about that."

"God, I sure hope so." She looked back up at me. "Do you plan to sneak off again?" I hesitated for a bit, afraid to answer, then I nodded. Naomi sighed. "Fine, I won't stop you." A smile spread across my face as she continued. "But you have to promise me that you'll be careful."

"Yes, yes I promise." I hugged her. "Thank you so much."

She smirked as she hugged me back. "You're lucky that I like you."

I chuckled as I separated from her. "Yah, I'm very lucky."

Right after I said that, we heard the front doors of the castle open. Naomi unhooked my cloak.

"Go greet them. I know how excited Kaoru is to see you."

I nodded and gave her another quick hug before entering the throne room. Kaoru had an agitated expression on his face as mom was gashing about something to him as they were walking in with Dad trailing behind them. As I trotted into the throne room Kaoru's expression changed to a smile when he saw me and began running towards me before hugging me.

"Oh thank God you're here. I can barely stand listening to mom gush about that family anymore." He unwrapped his arms around me then began leading me towards the stairs. "Come on, I got something to show you."

Mom watched us as Kaoru led me away. "Oh Kaoru," she called out to him, "remember to think about what I told you."

"I already said no mom and my answer won't change."

Mom sighed disappointed, but then looked back up at us as we disappeared down the hall. "He'll change his mind one day. She seems like a nice girl."

Dad walked up behind mom and put his hands on her shoulders. "I really hope he does, and maybe we can get Hikaru together with her twin sister."

Mom's smile grew as she placed her hand over dad's. "Yah, that would be great."

Kaoru tugged me into our room and closed the door. I rubbed my wrist as the pain began to set in from him dragging me, I looked at him.

"So what did you want to show me?"

Kaoru's smile grew. "You know how we're identical twins but we somehow have different colored hair."

"Yah…"

"Well yesterday when I was talking to one of the princess', she pointed out that there was something dark in my hair. So, I went to the bathroom to see what it was and look," he walked up to me as he moved a part of his bangs away and I saw a small lock of hair in his hair that was dark brown, almost black, just like my hair. I just looked at it in shock as Kaoru put his hair back in place, leaving the strand of dark hair a bit noticeable by the ear. "Isn't it cool? I always noticed something dark in my hair when I put on my crown, but I just thought it wasn't anything. Isn't it amazing?"

I just continued to look at him at shock. "Yah it is. But do you think it means anything?"

"I don't think it does, but it means a lot to me. I know it seems stupid to care a lot about something so small, but it really does means a lot to me. I just can't believe that I never really noticed this before."

I thought for a bit as I looked at the dark hair, then drifted my eyes back to him. "Maybe that's why mom and dad always had you have bangs, so it would be hidden."

"Maybe, I don't know. But I'm not going to hide it anymore." He sighed happily and laid down on his bed. "Now if only I had powers."

I gave him a soft chuckle as I sat on my bed. "Trust me, you don't want them."

"Are you kidding me?" He said as he shot up and looked at me. "I would love it, especially if you had powers as well."

My smile fell and I looked at him sadly. "But you'll be locked up in the castle all the time. You wouldn't want that."

He smiled at me. "If you're here I wouldn't care. I would be way more happier hanging here with you all the time then be out there."

I just stared at him for a bit, then a smile returned to my face. I'm really glad that he didn't have to suffer being back in the castle because having powers, but I'm glad to know that if he did he would always be happy being around me, and I feel the same way.

It's been about two months since Haruhi's birthday. I've snuck out of the castle quite a bit, and now that Naomi knows she sometimes helped me sneak out when my parents were still here by going through the secret hidden door in my study room that led to outside right next to the stables. My parents would rarely ask where I was and if they did Naomi would tell them a little white lie saying that I was studying or riding around the estate with Zorro.

Because I've been able to leave the castle more, I've gotten to get closer to Haruhi. Ever since we kissed at the grotto our relationship grew stronger every time we met up. We would go on little things she called "dates", when she first brought them up I first thought she was talking about the fruit, then got embarrassed when she told me what they actually were. I read about characters going on dates in books a couple times, but that was a while ago so I guess it slipped my mind.

I sat at the counter as I watched her bake, a smile on my face. She noticed me smiling at her and looked at me.

"What are you smiling about?" She asked.

"Just at you." I said, making her rolling her eyes. She then smiled and looked back at me.

"How about you come over and help me finish these before the guys get here instead of you watching me?"

"You know, I would love too, but I'm a prince so I don't do those kinds of things."

She chuckled. "You're a jerk."

"But you love me." I teased.

"Yah, I guess I do...a little." I scoffed playfully, making her laugh. "I'm just joking."

"You're lucky that I like you or I would've sent you to the stocks," I smirked, "or even worse the dungeon."

She just laughed and continued baking. About an hour later the rest of the gang arrived. Tamaki walked up to a table in the kitchen and slammed an unrolled map on it.

"Alright this is the plan for today." Tamaki pointed to a trial on the map. "I've heard that there is an amazing waterfall at the end of it."

Kyouya looked at the trail Tamaki pointed to and pushed up his glasses. "Tamaki that's Stormholt, it's the most dangerous trail in Avalon."

"What's so dangerous about it?" I asked.

"They named the trail Stormholt because it's surrounded by mountains so when it rains the trail gets hit the most. Because off all the rain fall the dirt from underneath the boulders are very thin so a lot of boulders fall, even with the slightest amount of wind, and it rained last night so the trail will be even more dangerous."

"But it's worth it." Tamaki looked over at him with sad puppy dog eyes. "And it's almost my birthday, I really want to go."

Kyouya was unfazed by Tamaki's look, but soon the look intensified when tears began to weld up in his eyes. Kyouya's eye twitched and he let out a frustrated sigh.

"Fine if you really want to go we'll go."

Tamaki's smile returned as he closed the map. "Thank you Kyouya." He faced all of us. "Ok the Stormholt trail is about two hours to a beautiful waterfall so we should leave soon so we'll have enough time to enjoy it."

After he said that we broke off into groups. I was with Haruhi packing up the food and water. I looked over at her and saw that she had a concerned look on her face.

"Hey," I said, getting her attention, "are you alright?"

"Yah I'm fine, it's just," she sighed as she went back to packing up the food, "I'm really nervous about going down Stormholt trail. I've heard about people going down the trail and never coming back."

I moved her hair behind her ear and kissed her head. "Don't worry, I'll protect you."

I promise that.

We were about half way down Stormholt trail, and I haven't noticed anything dangerous so far. I didn't want to bring Zorro because of the potential dangers so Mori was carrying the picnic basket. I held onto Haruhi's hand as we walked down the trail, trying to keep her comforted as we walked down the trail.

I looked down at her. "Are you still nervous?"

"A little, but not as much as before."

I gave her a small smirk. "Well I can feel the sweat from your hand seeping through my gloves so I highly doubt that. Unless," my smirk widened as I leaned down to her ear, "you're nervous being around me." I purred.

Haruhi blushed and playfully hit me. "Stop lying, my hands are not sweaty."

I chuckled. "Yah, sure."

She huffed out frustrated breath and looked back at me. "Why do you always wear gloves anyway?"

My chuckling stopped and I looked over at her. Should I tell her the truth, about my powers? I don't want to keep the secret of my powers from her forever, but if I do would she fear me like my parents warned me about?"

"Hikaru?" Her voice broke me out of my thought. She had a confused look on her face. "Are you alright? You've just been staring at me after I asked you that question."

I blushed embarrassed. "Sorry, I just got lost in thought." I cleared my throat. "So, I wear the gloves because...because I don't know. I just like to wear them."

Haruhi eyed me a bit suspiciously as if she didn't believe me, but then just shrugged it off. "Alright."

We continued walking down the trail and as soon we were surrounded by the mountains Kyouya was talking about. There were huge boulders all over them and if one tumbled down it could crush us.

"Aw man."

I looked back at the trail and saw Tamaki standing in front of a boulder that was blocking the trail.

He sighed as he put his hand on the rock. "How are we going to get around this?"

"Tamaki let's go home." Kyouya said through chattering teeth, his arms wrapped around himself. "It's getting really cold and the winds are starting to pick up even more which is making the trail even more dangerous."

"Come on we can't go back now Kyouya, we're almost there. We just have to find a way to go around and then…"

But soon Tamaki grew quiet as we heard a creaking. We all looked up and saw a loose boulder began rolling down the mountain towards us.

Tamaki looked at us panicked. "Everybody get out of the way!"

Everybody ran away from the boulder except for me. I just stared up at it as I watched it tumble down. I then felt someone grab my hand.

"Come on." Haruhi yelled.

She then led away from the boulder, but as the boulder hit the ground, the impact made us both fall on the floor. As I heard creaking again I quickly looked up and saw another boulder tumbling down right where Haruhi was, who landed a couple feet in front of me. She was looking up at the boulder in horror.

"Haruhi move!" I yelled, but she didn't listen. "Haruhi!" I looked back at the boulder and my eyes widened when I saw that it was about to hit her. I quickly reached out my hand. "No!"

Haruhi covered her head with her hands, waiting for the boulder to hit her. But after a few moments passed and nothing happened she opened her eyes and saw that there was a shadow around her. She then looked up and grew horrified when she saw the rock was levitating in the air above her.

"Haruhi!"

She looked over at me and saw me having trouble keeping my arms up as if I was trying to hold up something. "Hikaru…?"

I looked at her, gritting my teeth in pain. "Hurry up and move, I don't know how much longer I can keep this up!"

Haruhi did as I said and when she was safe I quickly made my way over to the group before letting the boulder drop. I hunched over and tried to regain my breath.

"Hikaru…"

I looked up at the group and saw everyone but Kyouya looking at me terrified.

"So it's true," Haruhi said, making me look over at her, "the powers, the different colored hair...It's all true."

"Haruhi…" I tried reaching out to her, but she just backed away from me."

"No don't touch me, please...Get away." She said as she hid behind Tamaki.

I just stood there, tears burning my eyes. Mom and Dad were right, the towns people would fear me because of my powers… and think I'm a monster.

"We should all get back, I don't want to risk another boulder hitting us." Kyouya looked over at me, a sad expression on his face. "Hikaru if you want I can…"

"No I'm fine…" I said, my bangs covering my face. "I'll...I'll just stay here for a bit."

"Are you sure?"

I didn't respond to him and soon they all began walking away. When they were all gone I began clenching my fists, starting to feel the heat from the fire coming from my hands. I then looked up, my bangs still covering up my left eye. As the anger became too much for me to handle I just let it go.

I leaned on to a boulder as I tried to catch my breath as I tried to catch my breath. I looked at the damage I did and saw that half the mountain was burnt with some patches of grass still on fire, while the other half of the mountain was covered in ice. I've never done anything like this before…

When I caught my breath I slowly made my way over to a boulder that was covered in ice. The gravel under my boots turned into snow as I approached the boulder. I looked at my reflection from the sheet of ice and grew horrified at what I saw.

My eyes were no longer hazel but a glowing green color, but then they soon turned back to normal. I put a hand near my eye.

"What just happened to me?"