gomen it took so long! i'm working on a story at school too so that was first priority!

"Alright." Hatori answered her.

"What's at the cemetery?" Ayame asked.

"Ghosts!" Shigure replied getting into Hatori's car.

"Ha, Ha very funny!" Ayame snorted.

"Lets just hurry, I need to get there before it closes to visitors!" Miru said hurriedly getting her seatbelt on. Once they had gotten there she rushed to the gates. the old man that was closing them but saw her running just in time.

"Hello there, Managa-san!" He greeted her with a smile. Then he saw three boys running to catch up with her. "Oh and you brought friends with you this time. You just barely made, but you didn't have to run I would have let you in any way. I understand; a promise is a promise. Why do you think I'm working here?" He said with a laugh.

Her breath hitched and she turned to face the three boys. "It's okay you all can go home. You don't have to come in here with me. I know it's kind of awkward." She tried to convince the trio to leave but with no success.

"You don't really think I'm letting you walk home alone in the dark do you?" Hatori asked. He wasn't about to leave her there and she knew it.

"Sigh, I guess but then at least… just don't make fun of me for talking to a couple stones in the ground." She laughed.

"They're not just stones in the ground little Miru." The old man explained. "And you know that."

"I'm only joking!" She told him. She walked with them into the field of headstones. Then stopped in the middle of two headstones made in the same fashion.

"Daisuke Managa and Toiki Managa." Hatori read from the head stones of Miru late parents.

"Hey mom, and dad." She began. "I've okay, my friends came with me this time." She got up and proceeded to introduce them. "This is Hatori! This is Ayame! And this.." She paused. "This is Shigure! I told you about them, remember? Sorry I'm a little late, the trio here took me out to eat then to go see 'dirty dancing'! It was such a great movie! I wish you could have seen mom! I really think you would have liked it! These boys are too nice to me. I don't deserve any of it."

"Uh." Ayame was about to interrupt but was stopped by Hatori who grabbed his arm and shook his head.

"OH! And you know that girl I told you about at work? Her baby is due in about a month so her fiancé made her quit work. I think that's about the sweetest thing I've ever heard of! I'll probably never see her again. Oh well, people meet and people part I guess. " She continued. "Then one of the boys at my work said that for a journal entry in his English class, the class was asked 'if you could have anything in the world what would it be?' He was going around asking people at work what they would want. I didn't answer him but I knew right off what it would be. If I could have anything it would be to have you two back" her eyes started tearing up as she choked back a sob. "They say death is inevitable but it can prolonged right? Even if you guys were taken in the same way…" she closed her eyes and tears poured from them as she remembered that awful night and the nine-year-old that haunts her dreams. "I wish you were here…" she whispered as a cold wind blew which caused her to shiver. Shigure again put his jacket on her only this time she had her own jacket; it was just too cold for her. "Like you said dad" she continued turning to face her friends " 'it figures that a warm heart would create cold blood.' I know I hated when you said that but now I only wish you could say it again." She began walking away quickly followed by the trio. "Just so could hear your voice, I've forgotten what you sound like, the only thing I remember about you that has voice is your screams…" she whispered this so low Shigure just barely heard it and now wished he hadn't because of a sudden chill that went up his spine.

"Are you okay?" Ayame asked. She turned to face him and when her eyes met with his she immediately looked away.

"You know, I sort of forgot you guys were there for while. I…I'm sorry you had to see that. I know it's really awkward and uncomfortable."

"Not at all!" Shigure piped up with a smile trying to lighten the mood. "We all those dirty skeletons in our closets so there's nothing to be sorry about." He told her attempting to make her feel better and possibly even smile.

"Yeah I guess. But my skeleton actually has something to do with a closet…" She explained.

"What does your skeleton have to do with?" Ayame asked. (Hatori's not saying anything because he knows better.)

She shook her head. "I can't tell you not yet." She told them as they exited the graveyard. They pilled into Hatori's car again and he started down the road.

"So where is your house?" Hatori asked so he could drop her off. It was only 7:30 but it was really dark outside.

"It's not far from here." She said telling him which way to go. When they got to her apartment building she thanked them and went upstairs to her room. She went inside and laid on her bed, she then fell into a deep sleep…

"Miru." She heard a voice call out to her.

"Huh?" She opened her eyes to see a man and a woman crouched down beside her. "Who are you?" She asked. The woman had black hair down to her shoulders and the man had short dark brown hair.

"Eight years is a long time to be apart and well we figured we'd come and see you!" The man said.

"MOM! DAD!" She got up and hugged them both tears falling from her eyes.

"My baby." Toiki said hugging her daughter tightly.

"Mom? Mom…I…I can't…breathe…" Miru told her mother who was still hugging her.

"Oh! I'm sorry dear. It's just I haven't see you in such a long time. I missed you so much!" She said tears streaming down her face.

"I know, I missed you both too." She told them out of her mothers' death grip.

"Now down to business." Daisuke said after clearing his throat.

"Huh?" Miru asked confused.

"We think you should tell your friends, or Shigure at least." Toiki told her daughter.

"Not that I agree with you hanging out with a bunch of guys.." Her father told her.

"Oh Dais. Leave her alone!" Toiki scolded him.

"Um, well I don't think I can." Miru told her parents.

"Of course you can! We know you can. They will be there for you."

"Not that I want them to be there for you." Daisuke mumbled under his breath.

"Daisuke!" Toiki yelled.

"What I can't be concerned about who she's hanging out with! It's three boys! Three teenage boys!" He retorted. "I was one of them once. I know what's on their mind!"

"They aren't like that!" Toiki told her husband.

"Hmm.. I guess… I can tell them." She said

"You promise you'll tell them?"

"Promise" she giggled.

Miru awoke to her alarm going off. "That was weird." She told herself. But instead of getting ready for school she got ready to go get her hair cut.

Hair stylist "so, how do you want your hair cut?"

"I want all of it chopped off!" She told the stylist. "I want it to look like a boys hair cut."

Stylist: "what! Such beautiful hair, and you want it all cut off!"

"Yep."

Stylist: "alright. But you can't come back and complain about it."

"I won't."

The haircut she got looked basically like Shigure's and she stayed to help clean up her hair. There was quite a bit of it on the floor. Afterwards she paid for the service and went to get a uniform for the store. The thing about this uniform was that it was a boys uniform, not a girls. After changing into her new outfit, she began to walk towards the trio's school. The uniform she got was baggy so that no one saw some obvious signs she was a girl. When she reached the school it was their lunchtime. She walked into the school thankfully unnoticed and went to the back of the school. When she was right about to get to the door to outside (where the trio ate) she was stopped.

"Hey!" A boy yelled from down the hall. "What are you doing here?"

"I um… That is…" she stammered through her words. "I mean," she began with a pretend male voice. "I'm new to the school and I was supposed to meet up the some boys by the name of Sohma…" it was here that she was interrupted.

"Ahh, the mabudachi trio. Well I'll take you to them but first tell me…" he gave a grin that sort of reminded her of Shigure. "Since when are we admitting girls into an all boys school?"

"Huh?" She asked trying to keep her cool. "But I'm not…"

"Look I won't tell any one, just answer me one thing; why do you want to see the trio?" He asked her looking into her eyes. She noticed that his eyes where two different colors: one deep blue and the other garnet red. She almost immediately fell in love with his eyes. She shook her head to snap out of it.

"Well I need to tell them something." She told him looking away.

"You know, there have been some rumors about them having a 'girl' is that 'girl' you?"

"Um… well yes. I guess, I don't know if I'm really the person they were talking about but I could be." She started blushing.

"He, he…" He chuckled lightly at her. "What's you're name? You look kinda familiar."

"Give me you name horse master…" she told him

"And I shall give you mine." He finished.

"hee, hee. I'm Miru you've probably seen me at the dinner."

"Yeah I think so. I'm Kyetsu by the way." He told her with a smile. If she didn't know any better she would have said she thought her heart skipped a beat. "Come on!" He said and as he took her hand and lead her outside. When she noticed his hand in hers she began to blush. This blush only brightened as they reached Shigure and Ayame.

"Hey! Sohmas!" Kyetsu called out to the boys. They were sitting in their usual spot, under a tree they liked. They turned around to see who was calling them.

"Hmm? Zikon?" Ayame twisted around to see his classmate with some boy that looked strangely familiar.

"And who is this?" Shigure asked looking to the red-faced person standing to the side of Kyetsu. Shigure looked at 'him' very closely he knew there was something about that person that he knew but couldn't figure it out. Not until she smiled that is. She smiled from ear to ear and looked to Shigure.

"awww, gure-gure! I can't believe you don't recognize me!" She said in a pretend to be hurt.

"What did you do to your beautiful hair!" Ayame exclaimed jumping up and running towards Miru.

"Do you like it?" She said and twirled around. She could guess that Ayame didn't like the fact she had cut off all of her hair. He had always gushed over it and told her that he wished his hair were like that. But then she always liked his hair.

"Non, non! It's not that! I just cant believe you cut it all off!" Shigure was in a dead silence; he couldn't come up with a single comment to say to her.

Why in the world would she cut of all of her hair!

"Well how else would I sneak into your school?" She asked smiling at Shigure as if she had read his mind. This snapped Shigure out of his reverie and he looked up at her with those cute, little puppy-dog-ish questioning eyes.

"Is this so important that you couldn't wait until the end of school?" Shigure asked her then looked to Hatori for support on the matter. Hatori sort of expected this from her, especially since she now knew about Shigure's feelings toward her. He was expecting her to tell Shigure that she loved him but was soon to find out he was way more than wrong…

"Well Miru-chan, I'll leave you now and come back when there's about five minutes left 'till the lunch bell. Kay?"

"Right!" She told him as he turned and left. "Wait! Who are you calling 'chan'! I hardly know you!"

A/N: i didn't get to look over this and edit it so sorry if it's a little dorkified... (yes my own word 'dorkified' i just made up two minutes ago!) R and R onegai arigatto gozaimasu!

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