Akane had tears in her eyes. she was trying to hold them back but was failing. Her tears glistening in the twilight of the stars and the full moon. The faint breeze of the night was making her hair sway sometimes catching in her eyes but she never batted them away. Suddenly, she raised her hand and slapped the person in front of her.

"Baka!" she choked out those words as she ran away into the night to cry. The figure looked shocked and dumbfounded.

"Akane." __________________________________________________

'That baka. why did he have to do that? Why?' Akane was sitting under a bridge crying to herself trying to comprehend what had happened and why. She loved him SO much and yet. he did the stupidest things. 'Why does he always try to push me away? Doesn't he like me? Aren't I good enough for him? Didn't we have fun..'

"Akane?"

A sweet feminine voice called out for her. Akane just continued sobbing.

Kasumi walked under the bridge next to where Akane was sitting. She kneeled down next to her and immediately Akane latched on to her crying her dear little heart out. Kasumi wordlessly held her as she comforted her like a mother would.

"Why Kasumi. Why?"

"Shhhh.. I don't know why. Now let's go home before daddy starts to worry." Kasumi always had such a soothing voice.

"I can't go there. HE'S there. I can't go back.." Akane sank her head further into Kasumi's loving arms.

"You have to go back eventually. You'll have to see him again eventually. why not just do it now?"

"Can't I. Can't I just stay here with you.. Just a little while longer?" Her brown eyes were hard to see in the darkness of the night but with the full moon out, you could see the tears reflected in her longfull gaze. She just wanted to be comforted. she had no desire to go home.

"I guess that's alright but we do have to go home before you fall asleep. I'm not strong enough to carry you, you know." Kasumi smiled with a little chuckle at the last statement she made.

Akane chuckled a bit too with a little smile, "Agreed."

So Kasumi and Akane just sat there. watching the ripples in the water and listening to the crickets. occasionally they gazed at the stars up in the sky.

"They're beautiful, aren't they?"

"Hmmm? What do you mean Kasumi?"

"The stars. without a care in the world. just twinkling. Not caring if the other star is prettier or brighter or if the other star likes it. Always content in just being itself. I wish it were so easy for us." Kasumi looked very thoughtful gazing at the stars. like she had been thinking of this for a long time but just needed a time to say it. A time that it would matter. A time when someone would listen.

"Yeah. I guess so." ' I wish it really were that easy.' Akane briefly closed her eyes and reopened them with a vigor. Her face with new confidence as she stood up, ready to face the world. "I think I'm ready to go home now Kasumi."

Kasumi smiled as she stood up, knowing that it was her who had inspired this new confidence. "Alright then. Let's go then"

"Thank you Kasumi. for staying up with me and helping me. You're the greatest sister ever."

Akane and Kasumi embraced. "You just needed help. I did what any sister would do. "

They broke apart, both with large smiles. "Well, I don't know about ANY sister."

They both chuckled although they both knew that Nabiki would help them in any way she could, it just doesn't seem that way on the outside.

Both went home holding hands. not knowing what would happen when they arrived.

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Author's notes- I'm not one for finishing fanfics usually so if it's bad, it's because I wrote it on a spur of the moment thing. I want to write fiction that isn't a fanfic so. Oh well. I'll try to do the other side of the story, From the other person's side. I know who the person is but I'll leave it like this so that you can use your imagination for now.