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Note: ((I wrote this note a while back so I'm not sure if I'll stick with this, but here is what I wrote originally just incase:Ok! I can't decide on what exact ending I want to go with, so I'm going to give you people a choice of which ending you'll read. There will be three different endings and when the time of the split comes, You'll be able to tell from the titles, they will start repeating themselves for one direction of a certain ending. A warning to you is that no ending has a truly complete 'happy' ending. Your choices will be:

The Darkness Within: If you favor Haru when he's in his 'Black' mode.

Conscious Light: If you favor Haru when he's in his placid 'White' mode.

Double Despair: If you don't care and/or if you don't mind…well, just look to the title for clues.)) I won't know exactly what's going to be done for sure until I do it. It all depends on the reviews I get, what kind of time I have, and how I feel at the time of writing. Hope you enjoy this chapter…

Oh, and one more thing…Not to sound rude, but…can't you people read!? I'm not pleased to see people complaining about the Haru&Yuki pairing when I specifically warned you readers about that in chapter two, did I not!? If you don't like shounen-ai (or that pairing): don't read! --or just bear through it if you're that interested in the story plot. I love hearing what people think, but I don't like to hear people fuss about pairings that they were warned about before-hand. Now…on with the fic. (I hope this doesn't chase away too many of you… o.o; )

Chapter 4: Sanity vs. Insanity

As I continued to stare at the door which Yuki has gone through, an image suddenly flashed into my mind. The door broken open, splattered with blood…and a body lying on the other side, visible through the hole that it had made while going through it.

The call of a bird washed this image out of my mind and I continued with my plan to once again seek out Yuki. I first went our room and decided to take a nap first, to help clear out my thoughts. It was but a few seconds before I fell asleep.

[…Water…nothing but water. A deep blue ocean lie before my eyes and yet I'm able to stand on top of the waves as if they were solid ground…or merely as if the water was, in truth, only centimeters deep.

:whisper:

"You again?"

:whisper:

"Yes, you know that already. What is it that you want with me?"

:whisper:

"Danger? The cure? You're not making any sense."

:whisper:

"The cure…to our…curse?"

:whisper:

"Danger…Bla--"

A shockwave suddenly shot through the air and caused me to lose my balance. As I try to push myself off the 'ground,' the water changed into a blood red color. The color seemed to come from the spot in which I knelt.

"Hatsuharu…"

"You again? Does this mean when I wake up, if I wake up, I'll find myself in a pool of blood? …It's you that's doing this to me."

"You're too smart for your own good…but there is something that you have yet to discover…"

"What? …Who you are?"

His laughter could be heard all around, and yet from no true source.

"Correct, again…When you can name me, that's when the real fight begins."]

"HARU!"

My eyes flash open to see Yuki hovering near me, with a look of terror in his eyes. After scanning the area around me, he came in closer to see if my 'wounds' were real. He found none, just got my blood onto his nice, once white, shirt.

"Yuki, I--"

A tight embrace from him cut off my words and all I could do was return it until he relaxed a bit. I then pulled away from him a bit and asked,

"What did you see?"

The look of mixed sorrow and horror that he gave me only made it more important to know.

"Tell me, what you saw."

"I-I can't."

"Why not?"

He's playing with me, and that feeling had already been pricking at my mind ever since he'd woken me up. He could sense that he was treading on thin ice from the pure fact that I was heading towards true anger. Not as 'Black Haru', but as myself.

"Because…"

I watched in a state of horror as Yuki began to cough, hard, and blood dripped out between his fingers and down the hand that was being held over his mouth. The blood began to flow harder from his body as he started to collapse.

"Yuki!!"

"What!? Haru!?"

Within the blink of an eye I realize that I had grasped Yuki's shoulder's, but he was fine.

"What's wrong, Haru!?"

"Wha…What just happened?" I let go of his shoulders to cover my face with one hand as he said softly,

"I'm not sure. I was about to answer your question when your pupils went to pinpoint and your eyes weren't focusing on anything in front of you…You began to shake slightly just before you yelled my name and grabbed me. What's your story?"

"You…you were dying…coughing up a lot of blood, more than should have been coming up…I got scared…and went to catch you as you fell…but when I touched you, you were fine…It was just…a hallucination, maybe? I don't really know."

"Haru…"

He started to bring his hand to my face but pulled back when he heard,

"We're back!

Momiji…The others were home. Yuki stood as he said,

"You should go wash up, I'll go talk with Hatori."

"…Right."

I got up and went out the door, heading for the bath. I passed through the living room, only to see Tohru lying on the floor, with her head a few feet away from her body and blood steadily creating a larger pool between the two.

"Tohru!?"

"Ha-hatsuharu-san!? What's wrong?"

A shaking hand is placed onto my shoulder and I see Tohru in front of me, with fearful tears forming in her eyes.

"Uh…N-nothing. I'm sorry. I'm heading to the bath now. Excuse me."

I quickly darted away leaving the poor girl shocked, confused, and worried.

The bath helped me to relax a bit, but I was beginning to worry about all the odd things that have been happening to me lately. What exactly is that guy's goal?

"Hatsuharu."

My train of though broken, I looked up to see Hatori standing by his room door. I automatically went in before he could say anything else. I sat down in the same spot I had before and he did the same.

"Haru…Yuki told me what he knew about what went on while we were gone…Tohru then told me that you did something similar to what Yuki had described to me. Do you have any clue what's causing these reactions? You haven't had any serious blows to the head during one of your fights, have you?"

"No. I haven't even fought Kyou since we came to this place. To my knowledge, I haven't had anything really happen to me except weird dreams and waking up in a pool of my own blood."

"Hmm…You had another dream, correct? Was it a new one that you haven't told me about?"

Yes. In this dream, I was standing on water. The girl's voice speaks to me again…she mentions danger…and a cure…"

"A cure? To what?" Hfatori's face had become very dark, as if he had an ominous feeling of some-sort…

"To…to the…"

Hatori let out a groan of pain as he doubled over and fell out of his seat onto the ground. Another cry escaped from him as he clutched his chest and seizures went through his body. The pain caused him to keep his eyes shut and his teeth clenched, I couldn't do anything but tremble as I sat there watching Hatori--

"Haru! Snap out of it!"

A slap to my cheek from Hatori's hand brought me back to see the truth once more. Words can't describe the look that Hatori had on his face as he looked at me, with his hand still outstretched just incase that first slap hadn't done the trick.

"Hatori…What…what's wrong with me?"

He relaxed a bit before letting out a haggard sigh,

"I don't know, Hatsuharu…but I will do my best to find out."

"Do you need to know what I saw?"

"No, I don't want to know. If you can wake up in a pool of your own blood and still remain clam, but have a reaction like that to some image flashing into your mind…I really don't want to know what that image is. If there is a need for me to know though, I shall inform you."

"Ok. I'm going to lay down for a while."

I then left Hatori to do whatever he had to do and headed for my room.

((AN: So? Good? Bad? How do you feel about the story so far? Please review!))