Author's Note: For this chapter, I highly recommend you play "Hanging By The Moment" By Lifehouse while reading this. Domo arigatou and I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Chapter VI: Hanging By The Moment

Out there again, behind the bushes, up in the trees, watching. Behind every

corner, behind every tree. Following.. Following her endlessly.

=I'm desperate for changing... starving for truth...=

Raiha had been sitting on that tree branch for a while now. School doesn't end till

4:00 and he's been there since 3:00. An hour. It didn't seem very long when you

don't really pay attention. The school was nearby and the bells could be heard

right away. Then finally it did.

=I'm closer to where I started... chasing after you...=

There she is, the one with the short violet hair that flows calmly with the wind.

There she is passing by, walking straight with her eyes ahead. She was alone, as

usual. She did not pay attention to those perverts around the corner, whistling,

admiring the nice curves of her body with the face to match it. Her blue eyes just

stared ahead, minding her own business. Walking... walking... she went on.

Turning on street corners, just following the path.

=I'm fallin' even more in love with you...=

Raiha moved quickly, switching from one tree branch to another, landing on the

ground every now and then, hiding behind tree trunks or bushes, anything that

will conceal him. He wondered if she sensed. He wondered if she knew. It did not

matter anyway. They both know that they'll meet each other on the end of this

path. In the forest, near the cliff. The place where they see each other every single

day. It's sort of funny, in a way it's like their rendezvous.

=Letting go of all I held on to... I'm standing here until you make me move...=

She got there first but of course, he's right behind here. She threw her backpack to

some random tree, she sighed and took off the overcoat of her top uniform. She

was a bit sweaty and all, after all, that overcoat was thick and was searing inside.

Her walking half a mile did not help ease the sweating either. She threw her

overcoat to the bushes where Raiha's hand caught it diligently. He stood up with

that goofy, almost shy, smile on his face, holding the overcoat on his side as he

walked up to her.

=I'm hangin' by a moment here with you...=

Today, she did something differently. She took off her shoes and sat down on the

edge of the cliff, overlooking the rest of the green forest. A dove soar up in the

sky, causing Fuuko to look up. As the bird flew by past them, it's shadow cast on

her face, causing a lovely shadow that only existed in a matter of seconds... but,

Raiha caught the landscape anyway.

=Forgetting all I'm lacking... completely incomplete... I'll take your invitation...=

Raiha sat down beside her, looking straight into the horizon.

"Thanks..."

Raiha suddenly turned his head to face Fuuko who was shyly looking down on

her lap. Her hands were tapping her thighs nervously as she bit her lower lip and

continued.

"... for yesterday...."

=..you take all of me now..=

"No problem." Then he just turned his head back to the scenery, his face or

emotions not even stirred. 'What kind of response is that? No problem? That's it?

You won't even say anything?'

Fuuko looked at him slightly shock and... slightly hurt. Is that it? It seemed like

he did not care at all. She then stood up, brushes off the dirt on her skirt. "I'm

going home."

=I'm fallin' even more in love with you... letting go off all I held onto..=

She grabbed her overcoat which layed beside Raiha and started off, heading to

the place she had dropped her backpack. Raiha's watched her by the corner of his

eye, catching her every move. The way she slowly stood up, her feet pressing

firmly against the grass, leaving a mark, the way her hand dusted off her skirt,

waving in the air, the way she turned, causing her hair to alter its movement, each

strand floating within the wind's tender touch. He had seen everything without

even flinching or moving.

=I'm standing here until you make me move, I'm hangin' by a moment here with you. I'm livin' for the only thing I know. I'm runnin and not quite sure where to go? And I don't know what I'm diving into.. just hanging by a moment here with you...=

Raiha did not even look behind him to see her leave. 'Maybe it's better this way,'

he thought silently to himself, watching the breath-taking sun set all by himself.

'Sorry Fuuko-sama... I did not mean to be so unfeeling... I just can't be too close

to you... I am Raiha of Uruha Jyushinshuu... I must remain loyal to nobody but

Kurei-sama...'