Title: Not Alone

Pairing: KaoHaru

Word Count: 382

Summary: Dreams can seem so real...

I was standing alone on what looked like flat pile of dirt, ew. The thing is, all around me all I could see was endless sky and clouds, and I was alone.

The wind threatened to push me off, it whispered in my ears, like laughter, mocking me.

The something brushed my face as if a bird's feather had fallen, but I could see nothing.

There it was again, there were two of them, semi-solid forms that flickered as a white flame. They came closer and I could just make out the sad morning faces whispering my name.

'Kaoru... Kaoru...'

'No,' I screamed, they weren't real, why was Haruhi there too? Why did Hikaru refuse to leave my mind?

The reached towards me with their spectral arms, eyes wide and sad.

'Come... we miss you,'

'No! Hikaru you're gone, give me Haruhi,' they shook their heads sadly at me. I tilted my head to the sky, 'why did you have to take her too?' I was sobbing so hard I could barely breathe. I felt sick.

The wind was getting stronger, the ghostly figures of Haruhi and my dear brother swayed delicately in the wind.

'Come... come or we'll be gone... gone...' the wind blew from behind me and pushed them away, their outstretched arms were getting to far away for me to reach. I was going to be left all alone, nothing worth living for. I stumbled forward and jumped to grab their hands.

'I'm coming,' I shrieked through my tears. But, of course, they were only ghosts, my hands slipped through their translucent flesh and I fell, back to Earth and back to reality.

'Kaoru, Kaoru, wake up!' Haruhi was shaking my shoulders; I was still sobbing and by the disarray of the bed sheets, most likely flailing wildly. I looked into her eyes, they were real, not the hollow, lifeless ones from my dream.

'I thought,' I chocked then leant on her thin, soft shoulder, my face buried in her neck, breathing in her scent, 'I thought they'd take you too, you were gone.'

'Shh,' Haruhi soothed, rubbing him back rhythmically, 'I here, I'm not leaving. Hikaru is in your heart and soon,' she stopped to place his hand on her stomach, 'our son, Hikaru, will be here too.'

One of my very few serious drabbles