I opened my eyes, and found myself alone. Kaoru was gone. I was sitting in the middle of a grove in the woods. It was a cloudy sky above me, and there was a cool breeze. It would've been nice, if I hadn't been so scared.

I hated being alone. All my life, I'd had Furukia with me. I'd never had to worry about being alone. But now I was.

Rather than sitting around crying and whimpering, I got up to look for Kaoru. I wasn't one of the damsels in distress that were always in need of saving in some of Furukia's stupid romance books.

"Kaoru?" I called.

A bird fluttered out of a tree. A frog croaked from a nearby pond. The breeze rustled the trees. Nothing else stirred.

"Kaoru?" I called again, walking into the trees.

I walked a short ways, but there were no footprints, no snapped twigs, or trampled leaves. No signs of Kaoru, or any people.

I climbed one of the trees to look around. The woods ended a little further in the direction I'd been walking. There, looking completely out of place, was an abandoned looking carousel. It was two levels, and it looked like it would still work. It was just in the middle of nowhere. There were no other buildings in sight.

"It's like a Nowhere Land," I muttered.

"Do you need help, princess?" Tamaki's voice said.

I turned and looked down at the ground, but Tamaki wasn't there.

Great. Now I'm going insane.

"Do you think we're insane?" my identical's voice asked.

I turned to look beside me or my twin, but she wasn't there, either.

"I'm hearing voices…" I whispered.

"Whose voices do you hear, Zaki-chan?" Honey's sweet little voice asked.

"Ahh!" I screamed.

"What is it? What's wrong, Zakia?" Hikaru asked.

"Leave me alone. Leave me alone!"

"Zakia…" Mori's quiet voice beckoned.

"You're not real! None of you are!"

"It's alright, no big deal," Haruhi reassured.

"Go away," I moaned as I climbed back down the tree. I curled up in a ball at it's roots.

"What a strange thing to say. Do you enjoy my company, Zakia?" Kyoya asked.

"Zakia? Zakia, where are you? Are you alright?" Kaoru called.

"It's not real, you're not real! Leave me alone!"

"Zakia? Where are you?" The voice was still Kaoru's. He'd walked in the door with me, hadn't he? Or was I in some strange come, doomed to madness?

"Zakia!"

I couldn't help it. I started to cry. It was too much. The voices, so like them. But none of them were there. I was alone. And now, I was driven mad because I couldn't stand being alone.

Furukia, and I, that's how it had always been. Always together. She was always there. And now, I'd lost her, and the others who'd I'd just been beginning to care about.

"Zakia! I was so worried. You weren't there when I opened my eyes. I've been roaming the woods looking for you. Why didn't you answer my calls?"

My tears only came harder. I kept hearing his voice. Why did it have to be his? The one I was just getting close to?

"Zakia, are you okay?"

A hand brushed the hair out of my face. And there was Kaoru, kneeling next to me.

"They keep talking. In my head. They won't stop…" I sobbed.

Kaoru picked me up and carried me out of the woods. The other voices became a rumble of talking at the edge of the woods, before all but one vanished. Furukia.

"Where have you gone, Z-z?"

When Kaoru looked down and noticed I was calmer, he stopped. We were about twenty feet from the carousel. At least thirty feet out of the woods.

"What happened? You were crying when I found you."

"The voices. They kept talking, in my head. I thought I was going crazy. I still think I am. They weren't there, any of them. And I still hear her voice. She doesn't go away."

"Whose voices?"

"The other hosts. And my sister."

"You and your sister are hosts, now. You know that, right?"

"Whatever. But, that's who I heard."

"Did you hear me?"

"I don't know how much of it was fake and how much was real."

"Well, I'm real. As real as you."

"But, am I real?"

"Of course. How can you not be?"

"What if none of us is real?"

"But how can that be?"

"I don't know."

"Then it can't be. So, stop talking about voices and such. You wanted to play this game, didn't you?"

"Just don't leave me, okay? Promise."

"I promise."

"So do I. I'm always with you," Furukia's voice said.

"Thank you," I whispered, and hugged him. He hugged me back, tight, like he was afraid he would lose me again.

We walked back out the door.

"What? But, how?"

"What did you guys see?"

"I went mad, and Kaoru found me, and most of my madness went away… My madness was caused by your voices. I heard you, all of you. But none of you were there. Then Kaoru carried me out of the woods, and I still kept hearing Furukia's voice. I asked Kaoru to promise he wouldn't leave me, and we hugged, and we walked out the door."

"Wow. Yours was...different," Honey said. I scooped up the small boy and hugged him. I was that glad that my real friends were in front of me.

"Um...Zakia?"

"Yes, Honey?"

"Are you a girl?"

All the other hosts looked at each other. Most grinned, but Furukia, Kaoru, Hikaru, and I all burst out laughing.

"Why are they laughing, Takashi?"

"I'm surprised you didn't tell him, Mori," Tamaki said, his eye lit up.

"Takashi, what's he talking about?"

"It's alright, Mitsukuni. I also found out today."

"So Zakia is a girl? Is Furukia a girl, too?"

He nodded.

"Why didn't anybody tell me?"

"Hikaru and I promised not to," Kaoru told him.

"I didn't think it was right for me to tell when they promised to keep my secret, Honey-senpai. And I made Tamaki promise not to tell, either," Haruhi explained.

"I simply enjoy seeing all of your reactions when you find out something you weren't expecting that I already know," Kyoya said cooly.

"I'd expect something like that from you, Kyo-chan. But Takashi, why didn't you tell me?"

"I am sorry, Mitsukuni. I didn't know if they would be okay with that. I didn't think it was right to tell you their secret when I only found out by accident."

"Oh. Okay. You know, you can put me down now, Zakia."

I set him back on his feet, and he smiled before grabbing Usa-chan from the bench by Mori and sitting on Mori's lap.

"So, how many keys do we have left?"

"All of them, don't we?" I asked.

"No. The used keys seem to have disappeared from everyone's pockets. So, how many are left?"

"One for Kaoru and Hikaru to go together, one for Furukia and I to go together, and yours."

"Then you four may go. I will wait until you all return before entering."

Kaoru and Hikaru went first. My sister smiled at me before grabbing my hand. We ran in, laughing.

This time, I opened my eyes to moisture. It was raining, and I was quickly as soaked as the rest of the land. Looking around, I was alone again.

"Foo?"

Thunder rumbled after the lightning that cracked across the sky, and I got up and ran. The wind blew against me, slowing my place, but I kept running. I didn't want the voices to come. I wasn't sure I'd hear them over the storm, but I didn't want to find out.

"Furukia!"

"Zakia, I'm over here! I'm stuck!"

I followed the direction I'd heard her voice. I didn't find her until I tripped, falling into a hole. She was in the whole, too. It was pretty dark, and water sloshed around our ankles.

"Zakia, I'm scared. It's dark here."

"I know. It's not a nice place, is it?"

"You know, it's kinda funny."

"What is?"

"Normally, I'm acting like the big sister for you. But here, in the dark, you're the one acting older."

"I'm not scared of the dark like you, though, Foo."

"That's why back in England, we always had a nightlight."

"We haven't had one here. That's why I haven't been sleeping well."

"I know."

We stood in the dark for a long time. Foo seemed lost in thought. I was in a daze. The water kept rising in our hole.

"Furukia, do you know how to swim?"

"It isn't hard, Z-z. Don't worry. If the water rises too high, we can swim out."

When it was to my waist, I squinted into the downpour, trying to make out how far up the edge of the hole was. It must've been five feet over our heads.

The rain didn't stop. It kept coming and coming, with no end in sight. The water reached our shoulders, and it started raining even faster, harder.

When the water reached the point where I had to tilt my head back while I was standing to keep my head over water, Furukia started doggie paddling around our hole. It was about eight feet in every direction from me.

The water covered my face, and I rose to my tiptoes. That put my entire head out of the water again. But that could only last so long.

I started having to jump from foot to foot to get air. Furukia stayed in place now, but still easily kept above the water.

"Zakia, you have to swim. You have to try.

A sudden wave of water filled about two more feet of water. I tried to swim, I did. Another wave filled most of the hole.

I pushed at the water, surfacing, sinking, surfacing, sinking. My clothes seemed to drag me down, and the water wasn't being kind. I resurfaced in time to get hit by another wave, which pushed me down to the bottom of the hole.

I struggled, kicked, pushed, and squirmed towards the surface, but I couldn't reach the top. I couldn't see Furukia. My lungs were screaming. My muscles were weakening.

My body came to a rest at the bottom of the hole, laying under feet of water. Defeated.

Foo…

No. I couldn't give up yet. I had to try, for my sister. New strength filled my limbs as I got up, pushed hard off the bottom of the hole, and shot towards the surface. It was almost enough. Almost. My hand breached the water level. I kicked with what little strength I had left, but I couldn't bring my head above water. I fell unconscious as something grabbed my hand.

A glowing line of light in the darkness. That was all I saw. The glowing line was a lifeline, a way back. I grabbed the light, and suddenly, I was whisked back to my sister.

I spluttered and coughed, hacking as I pushed off the ground and water drained out of my nose. I opened my mouth, and more water poured out.

"Are you alright, Zakia? I thought you were right behind me. And then, when I got out, I couldn't see you. I saw your hand for a moment, and I grabbed you and pulled you out."

I grabbed my wet sister. Clinging to her, I took in what a wreck we were. Soaked, our clothes hanging on us like we were skeletons. No food. I'd nearly drowned. We weren't doing so well. But I didn't care.

"Thank you, Foo. I'm glad you're okay. I kept trying. For you, I kept trying."

Furukia hugged me back, clinging as tightly as me. We were both frightened.

And we walked out the door.

"What happened? You guys were gone a while," Tamaki said in a worried tone.

I looked at Furukia. We looked completely normal. Not a drop of water on us.

"Um, something that should stay between us."

"We won't tell anyone else, Zaki-chan," Honey said.

"You can trust us," Haruhi said, smiling.

"We were in this place where it was endlessly raining. I arrived in a hole, and Zakia fell in not long after. The water filled the hole up. Zakia almost drowned, but I figured out how to swim. Her hand came out of the water, and I pulled her out the rest of the way," Furukia described.

"You're not even wet," Tamaki commented.

We shrugged, as clueless as they were.

"We hugged, glad we were both okay and scared out of our wits, and we appeared back here," I said.

"Where are Hikaru and Kaoru?" Furukia asked.

"They haven't come out yet, either."

We sat on the bench, I sat next to Kyoya, watching him do something on his netbook, though Furukia couldn't tell what because she couldn't see. She was next to Mori and Honey.

"They will be okay, Furu-chan," Honey said, smiling at her.

He was right. A moment later, the twins appeared, laughing, their arms around each others' shoulders.

They sat next to us as Kyoya got up, putting his things away.

"I suppose it's my turn now."

"At least wait until we hear the twins' story, first," Tamaki said.

"Well, we were in this same amusement park, see," Kaoru started.

"Except everybody but us was gone. The rides still worked, but nobody else was here."

"We rode a few of the rides."

"Before we ended up going on the Octopus again."

"We don't know why, but it ended up making us laugh, and we held on to each other, like earlier."

"And before we knew it, we were back here."

Kyoya took out his black book and wrote something. I'd been right about him already knowing we were girls before we even came. But I wondered what was in that strange little book he always carried around.

"Come on, Zakia," Kyoya said, walking to the door.

"You want me to come with you?"

"That's what I just said, isn't it?"

"But...why me?"

"Because you are the one I choose. Are you coming, or are you going to sit there, with that slack-jawed expression on your face?"

I glared at him. What was he suddenly in such a bad mood about?

"You don't want to go with me. It hasn't turned out well either of the other times I've gone in with someone."

Kyoya crossed one arm over his chest and put the other to his forehead.

"Just come on, will you?"

I got up and went to stand next to him by the door.

"Zakia!"

I turned to my sister, and caught the phone she tossed to me.

"In case, you know?"

I nodded. I glanced at Kaoru's hurt face, and Hikaru's confusion. The rest of the hosts seemed confused as well, except Haruhi. She frowned in thought.

The door opened in front of me, and Kyoya took my hand, jumping in. I had no choice now but to jump with him.