BoomKat: thanks for the tips! and yu totaly qualified(sp? yet again..) to give me advice. it worked! guess which part! well, which part i was inspired most on...whateva, thanks!

Emarista the Toturer: i know, last one was bad. reasons hatori would be pissed:

haru gave away the sohma secret

and more stuff that i'll explain in time, but anyways, hatori is slightly pissed. ok, maybe just very angry.

k, on with the story!

Glass...All over the place...Didn't mean to...Never meant to...Not my fault...Red glass...It isn't supposed to be red...it isn't red..it wasn't...but now it is...Not my fault...

From the far edge of the room, he heard labored breathing.

"Haru...Please...Haru..."

"No!"

Haru jerked awake. He struggled to slow his breathing, and then he fell onto his back.

'Jesus...Not thinking about this...I'm not...In the past...Can't change it...Not my fault...'

After he regained control of hmself, he got up, got dressed, and found his way into the kitchen. He growled quietly as he turned on the light and let his eyes adjust.

'Didn't make cofee last night...Damnit...'

He sighed and looked at the clock.

'4:53...That coffee shop opens at 5:30...Nah...I don't want to worry about running into Kairi...Not right now...'

So he resigned himself to making coffee himself. When he finished that, we sat down at the bar and looked around his new apartment while he waited for the coffee.

'I liked the old place better...Oh well, I'll get used to it...The lights are too bright, though...Gotta change that...But it should take them awhile to find me again...Made sure not to leave any address or crap like that behind...And they can't find me...I can't go back there. I can't. What would be the point of leaving in the first place if I went back now? And if they find me, then they'll find Kairi too. Don't want that happening. Hatori would erease her memory. That would suck. I don't want her to forget...I don't...I want her to stay with me...But how can this work? I swore I wouldn't do this. I'm putting her in danger. . .But I don't want her to go...I don't want her to...And she won't get hurt. She won't. I'll be careful. She'll be safe. I care about her...I do...a lot...She'll be fine...'

The coffee maker beeped loudly at him.

Haru stood up, filled his mug, then went into the living room. He sat down on the floor and leaned back against the wall.

'No furniture...That's gonna have to change also...Damn, this sucks...I need to get a job...Maybe that's what I'll work on today...Maybe not...'

He took a sip of his coffee(any one wanna count how many times I've used that word?), leaned his head back, closed his eyes, and tried to relax.

"Mom! Something's wrong with Dad!"

"Wha-?"

"He's acting wierd, I don't know why! Mom, we have to do something! What's wrong with him!"

The young girl was close to tears.

"Kairi, honey. Calm down. It's ok. Just calm down."

The woman moved forward and took her daughter in her arms. After a few seconds, she stepped back and looked at the girl standing in front of her with a confused expression.

"Who are you?"

She asked, sounding slightly afraid.

The tears had come, and her voice was broken and paniced.

"Mom! It's me! It's Kairi! What are you doing! This isn't funny any more, tell Dad to sop! Mom!"

"Brian!"

The woman yelled, never taking her eyes off the girl.

In a few seconds a man came up the stairs and into the bedroom.

"What are you still doing here!"

"Dad! It's me!"

"Brian, who is this?"

"I don't know. She was downstairs a few minutes ago. She kept calling me 'Dad'. I told her to leave."

"It's Kairi, damnit! I'm your daughter! What the hell are you doing! I'm your daughter!"

Kairi screamed, her voice full of anger and fear.

"Listen young lady. I don't know who you are, or why you're in our house, but you have no right yelling at me and my wife like that. Now, you should get out and go back to your own home."

The man said angrily.

Kairi stood still, here throat too choked to speak.

"Get out! Or I'm calling the police!"

The man yelled.

Kari, not knowing what else to do, turned and ran. Away. She tore out of the house, and ran almost completely from memory because she could barely see through her tears. As she entered the graveyard, she slowed, and then collapsed by one of the tombstones, sobbing. This was her place. It was quiet, and peaceful, and family that had owned it had abandoned it long ago. Even now, it was totally silent, aside from the sound of her crying.

Now that's more like it! I was so totaly into it today, this chapter was the easiest to write so far! beisdes maybe the first on. or two. But, even if you don't loike it, i'm completely satisfied with this. even though i apologize for now having any kairi/haru interaction. review plaese!