Well, I have no excuses as to what happened. Just that I was on major writers block and yeah...I wrote this chapter once before. And my computer decided it wanted to be stupid idiot and force me to do System Recovery which wiped out everything. :Cries: It was horrible. Well than. You guys don't really care about that. If anyone is even reading this fanfic anymore. Here's the next chapter.

Ch,6: Life

"So. See you in a few minutes." Kite said happily to Balmung with a big smile on his face.

Balmung nodded.

"Yes. Meet me at my house. We'll use my motorcycle." He said smiling back at Kite.

"Okay!" Kite answered still a big grin on his face.

They both then logged out.

"So what do you plan to tell them now?" Sora asked BT, a wide grin on his face. "Your plan seems to be working so far." He added with a small snicker.

"Yes. So it would seem." BT answered with a smirk on her face. "Now the plan enters phase 2."

"Oh. Phase 2. Think you can pull it off?" He asking teasingly.

"Of course I can. It's already being taken care of."

Two boys, the area in complete black and white, are shown walking out of a store in a mall. They both stop at the entrance/exit of the store, one with their arm around the other's waist. The shorter of the two is talking to, two other kids that look his age.

No words can be heard though.

The one talking frowns, no ones eyes can be seen, their hair covering them. He looks around. He frowns even more spotting a man on the upper floor of the mall looking down at them.

The man on the upper floor pulls a gun out and shoots the taller one. Everyone starts panicking and letting out silent screams. The shorter boy quickly grabs the taller one so he doesn't fall and tries to get him to stay up.

The whole mall seems to ripple. Everything is okay again. No man with a gun, no one bleeding to death. The taller boy this time looks around and sees nothing.

A man in a black coat quickly pushes his way down the mall path and shoves the shorter boy out of the way. The taller boy catches the shorter one before he falls, but as the taller one catches the shorter one, the man in the coat turns around and pulls a knife out.

He stabs it into the shorter boy's back and without a smirk leaves the mall quickly. The taller boy gets to his knees holding the shorter boy closely.

"Call an ambulance!" subtitles go across the screen and a few people nod and run off. The taller boy starts rocking the shorter one gently and starts shaking a bit.

(Back in the game)

"I wonder what Balmung called us here for." Blackrose thought out loud. Bear, Mimiru, Shadow, Tsukasa, and Wisemen were all in the area waiting for Balmung to arrive. As always he seemed a bit late. "There." She answered happily as his name showed up on her friend list. Soon after gold rings came into the area and Balmung's character took form.

"Forgive me for calling you all out at such a late hour."

"We forgive." Bear said with a smile. "It must be something important if you needed all of us here."

Balmung nodded slowly trying to catch his breath.

"I'm not currently at home." He stared folding his arms across his chest. "In fact, I haven't really been more for more than 4 hours these past couple of days to sleep…that's it."

A frown started crossing everyone's face.

"So…what is wrong? And hey…why isn't Kite here?" Blackrose asked just taking notice that their friend wasn't among the group called.

"Kite's here…next to me." Balmung answered taking a few breaths. "There's…been a problem."

"A problem?" Wisemen asked curiously. "What kind of problem my friend?"

"I was out the other day…in fact it was just when Shadow had pulled his stunt and left to find Tsukasa…"

Shadow blushed at this and looked away and Balmung continued.

"You see…Kite and I went out…to the mall on a date…and…while there we ran into some trouble." He took another few shakey breaths.

"If you can't tell us why don't you just have Kite?" Balmung shook his head before Shadow even finished.

"He couldn't tell you even if he wanted to…that's the problem. While we were at the mall, someone came in and stabbed Kite in the back….The area they stabbed him, it almost went through all the way and into his heart."

"WHAT!" Everyone ,but Balmung asked in shock. Someone had actually tried to kill Kite! But why?

"Are you seriously?" Shadow asked in shock. "Is he okay? Where's he at now? I haven't gone to school lately so I didn't even know!" He started pacing back and forth a bit frowning.

Tsukasa watched him a bit, he barely knew Kite so he didn't feel that sad about the boy getting stabbed. He did however feel bad ,because now Shadow would be depressed.

"Did they catch the person who did it?" Bear asked trying to get some straight answers.

"Kite's been out cold since than. He hasn't woke up once, and no they haven't. I wanted to go after him, but I couldn't just leave Kite on the floor to bleed to death…." His voice trailed off and he looked away. "I'm a horrible boyfriend…"

"No you did the right thing." Wisemen said trying to comfort his friend. "I know Kite. If he'd of woke up and no one would have been around him that he knew, he'd of freaked out. It's good that you stayed with him."

Balmung nodded slowly, but he wasn't to sure if he believe it or not. Why did all these bad things tend to happen to him or his friends?

"Alright…did they say anything after or before they stabbed him?" Bear asked now trying to come up with a reason as to why he was stabbed.

Balmung shook his head.

"Nothing. He just stabbed him, smirked, and walked away as quickly as possible."

"Why didn't anyone stop him?" Blackrose asked stomping her foot on the ground. "What happened to mall security?"

Balmung shrugged.

"They said they saw nothing…"

"What! How could they have not saw anything!" Blackrose growled slamming her sword into the ground. "Oh that's it! I'm going there right now and give those guards a piece of my mind!" She screamed.

"It won't do any good…they were fired that night."

"Oh…well at least it won't happen again. The people they hired this time won't screw up, not after something like that happened." Blackrose said the anger seeming to flow out of her.

"Actually…" Bear frowned staring at Balmung. "I've been keeping up with the news lately…I've heard nothing of this though. Wouldn't this have been in the newspaper?"

"I've wondered the same thing myself…it's like the whole thing is being covered up…,but I don't know why. No one knows that Kite is well Kite." Balmung sighed and he seemed to turn away. "No he hasn't woke up yet…yes, I'm just telling some of his friends what happened….yes I know…alright." Balmung turned back to the others. "I have to go. They're going to do some tests on him, I can't be in the room. I'll talk to you guys later and keep you informed." With that the gold rings surrounded Balmung and he logged out.

"This isn't good…What if someone found out who Kite was in the real world…and that's why they attacked him…?" Shadow asked frowning. "They might track down every one of us…and than…what happens than? Does Morgonna win?" He asked starting to shake. "Does the bad guy win?"

"Shadow. It won't end like that. We've gone through some pretty weird things before, this is nothing different. We'll pull through." Blackrose said trying to calm Shadow down. Shadow and Kite had been pretty close friends and she knew he was going to take this hard. It was good that he had Tsukasa around to help him now to.

:All this thought over one boy.: Tsukasa thought to himself. :Just what makes him so popular? I know I'm not either and I'm sorry for their lost, but what's so great that has everyone else fearing his absence:

"Hey Tsukasa…?" Mimiru asked walking over to him. He looked up at her.

"What?"

"I know this will sound weird ,but…before you learned you could no longer log out….do you remember what happened?" She asked a bit gently.

"What…happened?" He echoed.

(Flash back)

A scene of Tsukasa falling into the world, colors, sounds, letters, everything in a tunnel like form surrounding him. His body a mere blackish gray shape on the colors screaming as he fell.

( End flash back)

He was shaking a bit, but shook his head.

"No. I don't remember." He lied.

"Are you sure?" She pressed thinking that perhaps he was hiding something. "Because…it could have to do with why Kite's in the hospital now…and possibly stop us from getting hurt as well."

"I already told you." Tsukasa glared falling back into his uncaring and unemotional state. "I don't remember."

Mimiru nodded slowly, but she just didn't believe him. Call it a hunch, but she was pretty sure he was hiding something from them.

"Maybe Subaru knows something…" Mimiru thought out loud nodding.

"Subaru? You mean Lady Subaru?" Blackrose asked looking up from hugging Shadow.

"Yeah. We're kind of close, I guess. Either way she might have some information on what's going on…that and Skeith."

Tsukasa glared at them. Why did she want to bring Subaru into all of this? It had to all be lies. Kite was probably fine, and Shadow didn't care how could he? And Blackrose and Mimiru, all of this was just some kind of game they were doing to hurt him.

"Tsukasa?" Bear asked taking notice in Tsukasa's expression. "Is something wrong?"

"Wrong?" He asked emotionlessly. "What could possibly be wrong? Everything's fine. Let's just go find Subaru." And with that, he logged out of the area to Mac Anu.

TBC

Yeah this story is taking a long time now. Eh. I'm trying to get out of that habit and update all my fanfics all the time. I really like .hack a lot…I've read the manga, played all 4 games through ( just have to resurrect you know who and finish the item collection contest ) and I saw both series…I like it a lot. I want to get the .hack encyclopedia to. (Sadly that's not going to well :Sweat drops: ) Oh well…I hope if anyone is even paying attention to this fanfic anymore, that you enjoy this chapter. I'm sorry for the long wait…and eh…I don't plan on making updates that long inbetween anymore. Especially with summer here. I hope to update on a regular biases now like the other main ones!

Thank yous:

Lil Empress of the Heartless: Eh, thanks I'm glad you wanted me to update. You gave me a spark I had lost a while ago (though I never should have had with the love I have for .hack ) and I updated. Finally y'know? So thank you. Yes I know. I'm very well aware. And in fact. This is my reason why he's a guy now. I might even write it into the first chapter. His family hated him as a girl, so while he was in a coma, they gave him a f'in sex change. HAPPY EVERYONE ELSE! Great. :Grins: I'm glad. Lol not yelling at you, just some other idiots who really piss me off sometimes.

Okay with that thanks for the review and I hope you enjoyed the chapter. It was a bit sort, but eh I tried. I hope you read, review, enjoy and have good times until next time!