Heya! I'm really having a lot of fun updating!

... plus... shh don't tell anyone... but, i've also been getting some... er... threatening reviews! XD

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I also made some changes to the plot a little... So you might have to re-read ch. 3 to get it...

and also... I kinda jacked up ch. 2... so now ch. 2 and three are the same thing... . im an idiot... sigh so now i have to re do that one... BUT I DON'T REMEMBER ANYTHING THAT HAPPENED IN IT- can someone fill me in please? maybe you remember? please please tell me! T.T im pathetic...

n e ways! on with the show! chapter 6!

Hige stared at the photo for awhile. "That's..." He looked up at her. "You're..." He looked back down at the photo. "How..." He screwed up his eyebrows.

Aya laughed quietly at his expression and smiled. "I thought I had recognized you... But I can't remember how we met... I don't even really remember anything about my past. Just that I had a younger sister, and an older brother, who died in a fire at our village. I've been having these weird dreams though... Last night... I dreamt about when Haru died..." Aya looked down at her feet, trying to hide her stinging eyes.

Hige looked up at this, his happy eyes changing to stern and sympathetic. "Hey... Don't worry about it... His death wasn't in vain..." He smiled fakely, but when she didn't reply he raised an eyebrow. He looked down at her and leaned over, whispering something in her ear. (a/n: i can't tell you what it is! you'll find out later though!) When he still got no response he became concerned. "Hey... Are you alright?" He said, waving his hand a bit infront of her face.

She looked up at him, her tears rolling down her face. "Huh? Did you say something?" She said, wiping her face on her coat sleeve.

"Uh... Yeah... But, nevermind..." He looked at her and she smiled.

"I'm deaf..." She said, grinning as if it was no big deal. Hige didn't take it so well.

"What! Since when!"

Aya read the expression on his face and smiled. "After the fire, I was taken in by foster parents. There was a care accident one day and I hit my head pretty hard. (a/n: i don't know if you can loose your hearing that way, but that's how it's gonna happen in this story;) The doctors said I probably won't hear again. Both my foster parents died in the accident. I kinda realized that for awhile death had been following me around... So for awhile I've been living by myself... Oh! And my cat, Masuki!" She said, grinning again.

Hige looked at her for a moment. "Man. Had a bit of a rough life since the fire I guess then, huh?"

Aya nodded. "Yeah... But I got used to it after awhile.. and it's kind of back to normal... Except for the not hearing part!" She smiled and then looked at her watch. "I've got to get home..."

Hige raised an eyebrow. "It's like, 1 o'clock in the morning... How far do you live from here?"

"Um... I live about 15 blocks away..." Aya said, looking up the street and then the other direction.

"It doesn't matter, because after what happened a little while ago..." Hige said, signalling to the piles of boys on the ground. "You aren't walking home by yourself..."

"Um... Okay..." Aya said shyly.

Hige grinned and stuffed his hands into his hoodie pockets. "Alright. Lead the way."

Aya nodded and started off down the street towards her house, all the while looking at the ground, thinking of the dreams and memories she had been having the past few days. So... He... She thought to herself, looking at Hige out of the corner of her eye. He's a friend of mine... from my past...

Hige noticed Aya looking at him out of the corner of her eye and smiled as they walked. She quickly looked away and went back to her thoughts.

Dammit... But what is my past... I've been having these weird dreams about wolves... In the one last night I transformed into one... (a/n: i might have already said this but... (1) Aya thinks she's human and (2) Hige doesn't know that Aya thinks she's human... okie dokie? ) Why the hell would I dream about something like that... And... Paradise... What could that mean..?

"Which way?" Hige said as they stopped at a corner.

Aya was pulled from her thoughts for a moment as she stood at the corner. She looked up at Hige.

"Oh yeah, right." He said, grinning sheepishly, having forgotten that she couldn't hear him. "Which way is it to your house?"

"Oh.. Uh..." Aya looked around for a moment. "Right... I live down this street." Wow... we've already walked about 15 blocks... She thought to herself, noticing that she must have been thinking for awhile for them to get this far.

Hige nodded and they both turned the corner, Aya paying closer attention to where she was going, not wanting to miss her house. All the while, Thoughts were running though Hige's mind as well. She's deaf... That's gotta be harsh... Whoever thought about a deaf wolf... I wouldn't be able to stand it... I wonder how she's gotten this far... He looked down at her out of the corner of his eye, observing her features. Long dark brown hair. Blue green eyes. Frail face. She hasn't changed a bit... He thought with a mental smile. His eyes went soft and he smiled gently on the outside. "Still as beautiful as I remember..." He said aloud.

Aya stopped infront of her house and smiled up at Hige. "Thanks for walking me home..."

Hige smiled, pulling himself from his happy thoughts. "What kind of gentleman would I be if I didn't?"

Aya smiled again and nodded. "I guess I'll see you around?"

Hige nodded and watched her walk across the street. She turned around and waved and he returned the gesture. As she disappeared into the house, he stared at her door for awhile. Then after a few moments decided it best to head back. He stuffed his hands into his hoodie again, staring at his feet as he walked.

"She hasn't changed a bit on the outside... But she doesn't seem the same..." He said to himself as he turned the corner. He flipped this thought around in his mind as he continued home.

Aya walked into the house, slipping off her shoes and realizing she had left everything out of the closet, sighed. I'll pick it up in the morning... She thought to herself as she walked by the mess. A sudden urge came upon her though, to look into the closet one last time. She did so, and back in the corner near where her photo album had been sat a litle red book, words scribbled onto the front such as "Personal! Don't read!" and "You read, You die!"

She knelt down and reached back, picking it up gently, noticing it being just as aged as the photo book. Walking into her bedroom and slipping her coat off, she plopped down on the bed, gently petting Masuki.

"Whaddya think, Masuki? Look like a diary?"

Masuki lifted her head off the pillow at her owners voice and sniffed at the book. She simply mewed, one silent to Aya, and layed her head down.

"Thanks a lot... You're a great help!" Aya said, rolling her eyes. The cat simply flicked her tail a bit and then drifted off to sleep once more.

Aya sighed and ran her fingers over the book. "I guess its my old diary..." She said, turning it around in her hands. "Looks pretty old..."

Just as slowly as she had opened the photo album hours before, she opened the cover of the book. The pages were yellow with age and the writing was scirbbly at first, improving as the entries went on. There was one entry in particular that had caught her eye.

April 23

It's my birthday! I'm 14!

Today, Leena and Haru went to visit some of Haru's friends. He left Tsume in charge! He he... Can you imgaine Tsume taking care of teenagers! He kept acting like we had coodies or something! I thought that was halarious!

Me and Hige snuck off to the park and had lots of fun! We had a swinging contest, which we haven't done since we were little, made a sand castle, which we also haven't done for awhile.

I didn't really notice how cute Hige was until today... I mean, He's got that adorable pudgy little nose! Ha ha! But seriously. He really is cute... I never really thought about it until now... I think the best feature about him is probably his eyes... I'm starting to creep myself out a bit now! I mean, Hige's just a friend! He's my best friend in the entire world! ..Right...? Argh! Now I feel all nervous! Man... I can just see Hige's face if he read this... He'd probably laugh and stuff and be like 'Oh really now! Aya's got a crush on me!' Then he'd go ranting and raving through the village... God! My life would be over!

Gosh... Anyways... He said he had to go get something out of his little bag and he ran off while I was working on the sandcastle. All of a sudden he tackled me and started to shmush sand in my hair! So then we had a sand war and went home covered in... YOU GUESSED IT! SAND! He he... Tsume had a cow when he saw us... But then he just kinda shrugged it off and went back to trying to calm Toboe down! I sware... I think Toboe had a bit too much candy! He he

Anyways, I've got to go... Haru is doing is checking to make sure Leena's asleep and he'll be in here in a minute, so gotta go!

-Aya

Aya sat for a moment, staring at the diary entry she had written only 3 years ago. "So me and Hige really were good friends..." She said with a smile. She had to give herself credit for noticing that Hige was cute at that age. She smiled again and with that thought in mind, layed down on her bed, falling asleep with happy dreams for once.

Okie! I updated! Now remember! I need you ppl to tell me what happened in chapter two! plz tell me you rememeber! if you do i can use all the help i could get so I can type it back up... email me and put 'chapter two' in the subject bar so i know what it's for!

plz and thank you!

-Leiko-