"Why is it whenever I leave I always feel guilty?" I asked myself out loud. I've almost made my way to the sound village, maybe just another's day walk and I'll get there. God I really hope that Kousei will actually be there. Then this whole trip would have been for nothing.

"If I didn't know you any better I'd think you were crazy." I heard a familiar voice behind me. I turned around.

"Aito!" I gave him a hug "It's been so long!"

"Yeah, too long if you ask me." he said smiling, but his eyes weren't; they were sad eyes, eyes I'd never think he'd have "You've changed." He continued

"Yeah, I don't carry the sword anymore."

"And you're much happier."

"Well I did like you said, I settled down."

"Oh yeah? Where at?"

"Leaf Village."

"That's good to hear. So why are you here now?"

"Looking for my brother."

"Again Hazuki?"

"Hey, you and I know very well that I never give up."

"Yeah…" he said smiling, likely thinking of our history together.

"What about you? Why are you all the way out here?"

"No reason really."

"Aito. Don't fib."

"I kinda followed you."

"Again? See if I didn't know you that would be creepy."

"Well, it's what we do."

"Yeah, I guess it is."

"Mind if I tag along?"

"Not at all."

We walked along, engaging in friendly conversations. Talking about our lives, you know the usual things. I'm always able to talk to him as if no time at all had passed

"So I told the story of the untouchable wanderer."

"You did? You're normally not one to brag about that."

"Yeah, but it was just the time and yeah." I didn't really want to tell him I had found someone to replace him. It would be too hard on him. It was hard enough when I broke it off with him. Yes, Aito and I were a couple, did I forget to mention that?

"Did they believe you?"

"Not at first. I had to show them the book."

"Maybe when you go back I can come with you to prove to them I knew you. And maybe gain some friends in the process."

"Yeah, that be nice. Although I know a few people who might not like you if they knew our history."

"Really? You've found someone else?"

"How did you? You know what; I'm not even going to bother to ask." He smiled, Aito was always good at figuring things out when it came to; well; me. We continued to walk. We were outside of the Sound Villages gates, okay so maybe it wasn't a day's walk, I need to pay more attention to these types of things.

"So where should we look first?" Aito asked pushing up his sleeves, making me smile.

"How about we actually walk through the gates first?" I suggested.

"Yeah, that sounds like a good plan to me."

"I've been meaning to ask you something Aito." I said while we walked through the gates "Why are you're eyes so sad?" I said looking at him; his face went from smiling to the look of depression.

"You saw through my mask huh?"

"The eyes tell all. They give things away. Especially when I know you as well as I do."

"I ran away from home."

"What? Why?"

"Because, my parents were getting on my case, they were always yelling at me. Telling me how shitty of a child I am. That I do nothing around the house and that I'm basically no good." I grabbed his wrist and looked at it, no doubt there were cuts. Self inflicted too.

"Aito, never ever cut your wrists ever again." I said starring at him intensely.

"Why? It's not like you'd care." He said pulling his wrist out of my hand. A sudden change in character.

"Aito, don't be like that. Of course I would care. Just because I found someone else doesn't mean I've forgotten about you. You're still a really great friend to me."

"But that's just it Hazuki, that's all I'll ever be, a friend." He said almost yelling. This isn't like Aito at all. I glared at him and hit him hard outside the head.

"Aito, you know I was there. I always was; you were the one pushing me away. We were a couple and you wanted nothing to do with me. What other choice did I have? If you weren't going to take the time to spend with me why should I have stayed with you? Answer me that!" I said, a hint of anger in my voice "You can't keep on blaming me. It's not my fault. Grow up already."

"Now that's the Hazuki I remember. The one always blaming me, always finding something wrong with me."

"Oh come on! Don't give me that shit. What happened to you? You were so kind back then, even if you were never with me. At least you weren't a total jerk like you are now. People get depressed all the time Aito, some can get out of it, I just hope you're lucky enough to get out of it, because if I hear that you died. I will be very pissed and very sad that you didn't even consider the possibility that I would be sad that you died, that your family would be sad. You have to deal with it Aito, I did." I walked through the gates leaving him behind.

~~~side note~~~

Okay so yeah it's shorter, sorry about that. I just needed to update because truth is I likely won't be able to for awhile. So yeah this is chapter 26, and yes there will be more, I'm not going to give anything away. With the last chapter I found it very hard to not give away the fact that Hazuki was leaving until the very last moment. Yeah, there's gonna be an internal war with myself until I get the next chapter written and put up.

Speaking of which, I've widened the spots for getting the whole name and personality thing. I'm in the mood of giving. I have no idea why.

So I lost the sheet again, the one with the kid's ages and such, only now they're on two pages and I freaked out. Yeah I really should type it up. Way less likelihood of losing it. But I did eventually find it. I was very happy.

Okay so yeah, last chapter before a new character is introduced. So the 50th reviewer, likely won't get to that much due to my lack of giving you fine people notice so the last two people to review on this chapter will get the spots and I'll send you a private message. Which means because of all the messaging the next chapter might take longer because I have to get a feel for the new characters and what they're like because someone else chose it to be like them or whatever and I want to do the characters justice. I normally wouldn't do something like this and keep it all purely from my head but it was a random time and well I was tired, I tend not to remember what I said in the last chapter because I'm often subconsciously writing. But none the less I keep my word and so there will be two people to be 'featured' in a way I guess in this chapter.

This is actually the second time I've updated today too, so this was written in a day, not even a day. I think I'm getting faster at writing. (the other story I updated today was 'An Unlikely Friendship' and I'm very happy I did so! I normally don't update both stories in one day. But I guess today is different. So yeah, happy days. Bye.

Okay maybe not completely. Figuring out titles for these chapters are really really hard and I always feel that I have to up myself. God why am I like this? Ok I'm done.

Peace out!

P.S. Really sorry for the short chapter. I wanted to update and it just didn't work with the part that was in it before so I had to take it out, which meant minus a page. Very sad I know. Again I'm sorry.)

Also I would like to thank: Ninja Trio's Best and Shakilove for their reviews, it really does make me very happy.

Okay I swear I'm done this time!