Recap: 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

Kim's pov:

"I'm so damn bored!" I say aloud, playing with a strand of my hair. "How about finishing that one manga Haruka-chan lent ya?" abi offered, looking at her candid pictures of uryu at gym. "Finshed them after she gave them to me! By the way- WHERE THE HELL IS SHE?" I scream, making everyone jump back in shock. "You got me on that one Kim" abi answered, going back to her pictures. Suddenly and cautiously, abi put down her pictures and looks at me with a puzzled look. "What is it, abi?" i ask."Hasn't haruka-chan been acting strange lately?" she asked. "You have a point. She hasn't been to school for three days now-" "We didn't have school Friday and it was the weekend kim" abi interupted. I gave her a glare and she shut up. "She also missed school last week, she hurt her arm supposedly washing dishes..."I finish as I start to trail off. "And then those new guys show up!" abi and I say at the same time. "Then it's settled!" abi said, clapping her fist in her hand. "Yeah! We head over to haruka's place and get some answers from her!" I say. "Oh. I was gonna say you interrogate everyone else and I can get some answers from uryu- but your right!" abi said as I glare at her. "That's what I thought! Now let's go!" I say as I grab abi and leave through the door.

Abi's pov:

On our way to Haruka-chan's place, me and Kim were silent. I could almost guess why.

"Hey Kim?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you think something bad happened to Haruka-chan?"

"I hope not! That's why we're going to her place to find out what the hell is going on!" Kim said with determination in her voice.

After that, Kim decided to run the rest of the way to Haruka's place, while dragging me behind her. Let it be known that I did not suffer from being friends with these two-but from their antics and whimsical whims! After we finally arrived at haruka's place, we knocked on the door but at first no one answered like they usually did. After 5 long seconds, Haruka's mother opened the door. "Oh, if it isn't Kim and abi-chan. Please come on in" she said, sounding sad. Me and kim look at each other with the same bewildered expression. "Mrs. Ashikage, what's wrong? Where's haruka-chan?" Kim asked as soon as she sat down. "She's-she's..." haruka's mother started until she started to cry. "She means to say that haruka has run away" haruka's father says as he steps down the stairs and goes to comfort her mother. "WHAT! haruka's gone?" Kim started to yell. "Kim! Quit it! You're not helping!" I say in a whisper as I see haruka's siblings on the stair case watching us, sadness painted on their faces. She caught on and sat back down. "Do you girls know why she did this?" her mother asked, a faint light in her eyes as she looked at us both. "We're sorry but no we don't ma'am" we answer, sending her mother to cry over her husband's shoulder for comfort. "Did Haruka leave a note or anything saying why she left?" I ask, hoping haruka left behind something to help. "She just left this note. We don't know why she left!" her father said as he handed them the not. Me and Kim get a bit closer to read the note:

"Good-bye Halcyon Days"

Me and kim look at each other and for once we don't know what to say. "I'm sorry but Abi and I have to get home now. We'll keep an eye out for haruka-chan!" Kim promised as we got ready to leave. Her parents saw us out to the door. "Thank you girls so much!" her parents say as we walk away. The walk is even more silent than it was on the way there.

"Kim?"

"Yeah abs?"

"Why do you think haruka ran away?

"I don't know abs"

"Haruka wouldn't leave like this unless she told us or there if there was a good enough reason!"

"I know abi"

"There has to be a good reason for her to do this! We're her friends and she should have told us-"

"I KNOW ALREADY ABI NOW SHUT UP!" Kim shouted, stopping both of them in their tracks.

"I'm sorry abs but no matter how you say it, it doesn't change the fact that haruka is gone! I know that she wouldn't leave without a good reason! The question is why?" Kim said, her expression turning into a frown.

"Kim? What if it really had to do with those new guys that showed up?

Me and kim look at each other with worried expressions.

"But haruka couldn't have been involved with them though. They just got here! I say.

"But when they showed up she started acting weird. And I've always felt that she was hiding something from us. Something important" Kim said. "Then it's settled for sure" I say. We both look at each other with determined expressions. "Tomorrow morning we are going to investigate!" We both say in unison.

In the morning and in no one's pov:

Abi and kim are on their way to class while discussing some sort of strategy to find investigate.

"What if we ask the janitor?" abi asks.

"Why the janitor?"

"Hey, it's a start!"

"No it's not!"

"Well you have any better ideas! Besides- HE CREEPS ME OUT!"

"Well no..."

"So there, Kim!" abi says as she opens their classroom door. Abi looks in the room and drops her stuff. "Abi, What's wrong?" Kim asks as she waves her hand in abi's face. Kim looks in the same direction as abi and drops her things too. Sitting in haruka's desk is haruka reading a manga. She notices them and looks up. "Oh hey guys! What's up?" haruka asks while waving them over. Abi and kim pick up their things, drop them off at their desks, and run over to haruka's desk. "Where were you? Your parents said you went missing yesterday! What the hell happened?" abi and kim yell in unison. "Well you see, I went to the bookstore that night and when I started to go home, I saw a parade and I started to follow them and before I knew it I got lost! It took me all night before I managed to find my way home!" haruka explained. "Well what about then note you left behind?" kim pressed. "Oh that? It was from a line I saw on an episode I was watching and it kinda sounded cool to me so I wrote it down and forgot to put it away before I left" haruka explained. Before kim and abi could ask any other questions, Byakuya walked in. "Take a seat everyone so we can start the lesson for today" he announced. Abi and kim felt uneasy as they sat down. "There's something fishy going on" abi whispered to kim. "No kidding" kim whispered back, careful not to get detected by byakuya. "We definately have to investigate!" abi whispered. "And we will find out what's going on because that can't be what happened" kim said, eyeing haruka's arm. "What do you mean?" abi asked, keeping her book up to hide her conversation. "Last time we saw haruka, she had a bandage on her right arm and now it's not there!" kim said, pointing to her arm. "Your right!" abi said. "Do you girls have something you want to say to the rest of the class?" byakuya asked as everyone stared at them. "No sir" abi and kim answered in unison. After turning his back to them to write something on the board, kim and abi got a bit closer again. "So it's agreed we start right after school?" abi asked. "Yeah! Because there is no way in hell that that's haruka!" kim whispered back. Haruka secretly looked back at them and waved. abi and kim nod at each other and get back to their classwork.

Meanwhile at the same time at an abandoned dojo somewhere in karakura...

Haruka fell to the ground as she hit the wall for the fifth time. Haruka tried getting back up, panting like a horse as she did but fell back down. "You've got some nerve-thinking you get to take a break before me! Now Get your ass up haruka! You're nowhere near done!" a stern looking woman ordered as she walked to where she was at. Haruka got back up and looked back up. "Are you kidding? Was that the best you got?" she asked teasingly. "Oh? It seems like you haven't had enough yet" the woman said as she stopped walking when she was a foot away from haruka. "You sure about this kid? I'm not gonna go easy on you now just because you knew my granddaughter" the woman asked. "I wouldn't have it any other way you old hag" haruka replied, already in a fighting stance. The woman smirked and grabbed her sword and ran towards haruka with her katana drawn. "Then be sure you don't regret this" she said as she almost sliced haruka in half. "Oh I won't" Haruka promised as she dodged the woman with determined eyes, drawing her own katana. "Show your wrath, Teitaka!" she cried as a gust of wind appeared.