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The car door slammed shut.

Haru's mind raced.

He knelt beside Kisa and spoke in a low voice.

"Whe he reaches that dark board," he ponited to a spot on the floor about 10 feet from them,"I want you to run as fast as you can to the back door, and head for the city. As fast as you can Kisa, you can't t stop running. I'll catch up to you as soon as I can, but you have to keep running. Do you understand?"

He asked urgently.

She nodded, her mouth seeled shut to keep from crying.

"Ok. Don't worry Kisa. I'll catch up to you."

She nodded again, and Haru stood up to face the door.

They flinched as the heard footsteps coming up the driveway. Nobdy spoke. The room was dead as the front door slowly slid open.

Haru could feel Kisa's body stiffen beside him.

"Hello Kisa."

An oily voice came from the dark front room.

'She'll stay strong...He's trying to mess with her head...she'll stay strong...'

Haru thought.

"It took me quite a while to find you. I should have know you'd be staying with Shigure..."

His footsteps were painfully slow as he stepped onto the floor of the main room.

"But the cow...I wasn't counting on him being here...lying to you..."

He stopped advancing.

There was an intake of breath from Haru.

'Oh god...No...'

"He's been telling you that you'll be ok, hasn't he?"

Kisa trembled slightly, starting to lose her focus.

"He's been saying that he'll protect you from me...But he's lying...He can't do anything for you...He can't stop me..."

Haru felt Kisa move apart from him a little.

"And you can't escape me. Ever. He's been lying to you Kisa...And eventually...He'll hurt you the way everbody else does...Everything he told you...It was all lies..."

Akito knelt so that he was eye level with Kisa, enjoying the complete terror that he'd put in her eyes. Then, quietly so that only Kisa could hear clearly, he whispered.

"Everything will be ok, Kisa. I'll protect you. I'm here for you."

Kisa's heart broke in that moment, hearing Haru's promises coming from the one who'd hurt her so badly.

Akito stood up, and started quickly walking towards them.

"Kisa..."

Haru whispered.

"Kisa, remember what I told you..."

Kisa's head came up, all her doubt gone.

Akito neared them mark Haru had pointed to.

"Kisa!"

Haru whispered urgently.

His foot hit the board.

"Kisa, now!"

Haru yelled, springing forward.

Kisa ran. Pushing her body to it's limits, she ran from the house and into the woods, following the path that Tohru had shown her into the city.

"You fuckining bastard! You think I'm going to let you get away with what you did to her! You don't deserve to live! Dd you really think I wouldn't make you pay!"

Haru felt himself going black, and he gave himself to it, enjoying the thought of revenge.

He'd gotten his hands around Akito's throat.

"Haru, don't!"

Shigure tried to break them apart, but Haru threw him away with one hand.

Akito chuckled.

"You can't kill me. And you can't help her. She'll never trust you again. She'll hate you."

He managed to wheeze.(i hate that word.)

Haru tightened his grip, letting all of his hatred and fury come through.

"Don't speak! You're a liar! And a worm! God, I should have killed you years ago! I had the chance, you know."

His voice dropped to an eerily quiet level in his last sentence.

"I was 13. The New Years Banquet. You had left something in your room, and went through the garden to egt it. I saw you. Nobody was there. Nobody would have heard you."

He whispered.

Akito laughed quietly.

"You were as weak then as you are now..."

"Haru! Stop!"

Hatori burst through the door, helping Shigure to his feet.

"Haru! You have to go after Kisa!"

Shigure yelled urgently.(this is my 'word' for today)

Haru eyse went from Hatori to Shigure, and slowly, he felt his black side slip back into the subconsious(sp?) state where it had come from.

He loosened his grip on Akito's thoat.

Akito smiled.

"Weak-"

Haru hit hit in the face, and Akito fell unconsiously(i'm not spelling that right.) to the floor.

"Haru...Go..."

Shigure said.

Haru looked Shigure in the eyes, nodded, then turned and ran.

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