After saying our goodbyes, me and Kanade ha started our walk to the train station.

"It's getting dark." she said, holding my hand a bit tighter.

I squeezed her hand lightly to assure her that there was nothing to fear.

But she was right, the sun was setting, and we still had a long walk ahead of us.

It was a shame that our departure had taken so long, now it would take me a much longer time to get home then expected.

But I wouldn't mind doing it for Kanade, I'd give up anything for her.

She had started to shiver, cause it was also starting to get cold too.

"Here you go," I had paused, taking off my jacket, and wrapping it around her shoulders.

"You didn't have to do that." she was snuggling my jacket, covering up the bottom half of her face so her nose and hands weren't cold. But it could have also been that she was trying to hide the fact that she was blushing.

"I would do anything for you Kanade," I said "plus, you could catch cold and I wouldn't stand for that."

She covered her face with my jacket, but not before I saw her turn a bright shade of red.

"Y-Yuzuru," she stammered.

I had stepped in front of her, blocking her path, and bent down a bit so I was her height. I had then lifted part of my jacket off of her face, so I could look at her eyes.

"What's wrong Kanade?" I asked

"I-I can't feel my legs," her teeth were chattering and her lips had started to turn purple.

"It's alright Kanade," I said "I'll just carry you there." I tried to keep from worrying, it was no big deal, Kanade was going to be just fine. But I wasn't too sure.

I had bent down so she could climb onto my back, and secured her feet after standing up. She had seemed to go limp, as if she were asleep.

"Kanade?" I asked.

She mumbled in reply, saying my name.

"Yuzuru... I'm so... tired."

"It's okay," I said "We'll get you home in no time."

And at that, I had started running a fast pace to the train station.

It shouldn't be taking this long, but it felt like the longest run of my life, I had almost fell a couple of times, making Kanade grip on my shoulders tightly.

What could be wrong with her?

This thought had crossed my min numerous times

Flu?

That didn't seem likely, she would be heating up, not freezing cold, but that did explain the weakness.

A cold?

Why so sudden?

What's going on?

What's wrong with Kanade?

How come I can't help her?

Images from my past life came flooding in. I remember being in a situation like this not long ago. I remember the lights and the weight of my sister sleeping on my back, or at least it was her final rest.

Her sickness, was this what Kanade had?

It couldn't be, I comforted myself, burning the thought out of my mind, leaving a shadow of doubt.

I had looked at my watch, the train was about to leave very soon. I could just see the station right ahead of us.

A burst of energy went through me, speeding up the pace to the train station.

By now, the horizon was a bright orange, leaving the rest of the sky a deep blue.

I had to get there in time for Kanade.

"Wait!" I called "Wait, we need on!"

Passengers were now boarding the train, very few of them, but I had to get there.

I was now in a full dead sprint, Kanade being juggled on my back.

"Yuzuru," she said "slow down!"

I apologized "Sorry Kanade, but we have to get there in time."

She moaned and wrapped her arms around the top of my head, practically taking off my cat ears.

I had rushed into the station, almost running into people, and quickly boarded the train.

We had made it just in time. Good thing too, it was the last route of the day.

"Are you alright?" I had asked Kanade, who was still hanging onto my head.

"Mhmm" she sighed, releasing her grip on my forehead and back onto my shoulders.

I had set her down in a seat next to an air vent, hoping that it would help warm up her legs.

"What's wrong?" I asked, meaning more of the sudden change.

"I don't know." She said, "Is something wrong?" She was still clinging to my jacket, and I could tell she was half-awake, so her answers weren't entirely normal things that she could say.

"Do you feel better?" I asked.

She nodded, shivering a bit again.

I was rubbing her arms and hugging her, trying to warm her up.

Whenever I hugged her, i could feel her shivering in my arms.

Eventually she had stopped shivering and had fallen asleep in my arms.

I had thought about letting her go, but I had decided otherwise.

We had sat there together, she asleep, I awake, until the train had come to our stop.

I had tried to wake up Kanade.

"Nmmmm..." she moaned.

"Kanade, we have to get off." I pleaded.

She had moaned again in reply

"Kanade, I'm serious."

"I don't wanna," she had protested, still keeping her eyes closed.

"I don't wanna do this," I said, "but you leave me with no other choice."

I had lifted Kanade up and carried her out the open door of the train and into the station. She looked angry at me.

"Y-Yuzuru," she yelped, "put me down!"

"It's okay," I said, "you don't have to do anything, I'll do the walking for you."

"Yuzuru," she started.

"Please, Kanade, just let me do this for you." I pleaded.

"O-okay." She had given up, and I could barely hear her surrender over the sound of the passing train. She had only surrendered because it was better then arguing, if she hadn't I knew tat we would have been there all night arguing.

I had smiled and laughed about how stubborn she could have been. It was surprising because her appearance seemed so submissive. I guess that she could have changed a bit, but at the same time, so have I.

I was still as worried as hell for her, but not as much. Maybe this thing was normal for her. I've herd or weird habits like this before you go to bed. Just like a dog circling three times before lying down.

I wonder if this is what it was.

But now I had to get busy, she needed to go home and get a good rest.

After a while, I had saw that her cat ears were starting to fall off, so I had stopped to take them off fore her, then started walking again.

Kanade was fast asleep in my arms by the time we had finally reached her house.

I had remembered during lunch that she had told me that her parents were on vacation and that it was just her at the house.

"Kamade," I whispered "do you have your house key?"

"Under the rabbit," she said still half-awake

Under the rabbit?

I had no idea what she could be talking about.

I had seen several lawn decorations, but no rabbit ones.

"Where is the rabbit?" I asked Kanade

"Asleep." she said.

Maybe she was the rabbit and it was in one of her jacked pockets?

I didn't want to search through her pockets without being sure.

"Where does the rabbit sleep at?" I asked her

"In the cat." she sald.

Once again, I had thought that the rabbit was the key, and she had it in her pocket or something.

But I wasn't sure.

My only other answer was that a rabbit was in one of the cat lawn decorations, and inside the rabbit was the house key.

Why was this so confusing and yet precise at the same time?

Lucky for me, I was able to find it right off the bat.

It was in a black cat lawn decoration.

After opening the door, I had set Kanade down on a couch to sleep.

Maybe I should leave. I mean, why not? It was late anyway.

But for some reason I had decided to stay.

I had this feeling that was nagging at me. What if something happened to Kanade and I wasn't there? She was all alone and had nobody to take care of her. She might start to worry if she were to have a nightmare or something.

I had gone to lock the front door and when I had came back, I had called my mother, letting her know that I was spending the night in town, so she and Hatsune didn't have to worry about me.

By 'in town' I had told her that I was at Hinata's place hanging out.

She was very reluctant to let me stay, but had decided that I was responsible for getting to my job interview on time.

I had told her goodnight and then went off into the living room where Kanade was sleeping.

I had found a blanket that was hanging off of a chair that was folded neatly and decided to wrap it around Kanade to keep her warm.

She had snuggled the blanket tightly as if to absorb all of the warmth out of it.

I had smiled at her and had decided to sleep on the floor next to the couch she was sleeping on.

"Goodnight, Kanade" I whispered.