Kawana's POV

The first thing I saw when I awoke was Hitachii. I smiled up at him. "Long time no see. Where are we?" He touched a finger to my face. "We're in your apartment. You need to get dressed. We'll wait for you in the living room." He left before I could question him. I slipped out of the bed and slowly walked to my closet. As I finished pulling on my cheongsam someone knocked softly on the door and came in. it was Hatori with a purple bruise just below his hairline. I stepped back.

He frowned slightly, "I'm not going to hurt you." I shrugged and replied softly, "You cant, but your precious Akito can. How do I know he wont just jump out of the closet and attack me?" Hatori stepped closer. "Because he's at home sick with a fever. He was ordered to stay in bed for the next couple of days." I frowned. "What do you want Hatori? You heard precious Akito. I'm not allowed to speak to you." Hatori closed the space between us and slammed his fist against the wall beside me.

"Stop calling him that! He's not my Akito as you so kindly say." Needless to say I was pretty surprised by Hatori's outburst of anger, so I did what any other girl in my position would do. I leaned over and softly brushed my lips against his. "Of course he isn't." I turned and left the room.

I felt my heart literally stop when I entered the living room. Seated calmly in between Tohru and Yuki with her hands tied firmly in front of her was a brooding Nariko. "What is t-this thing, doing in my living room!" Hitachii stood and motioned for me to take his seat. "Here, sit. There are some things we need to discuss with you." I glared at them and said dryly, "I'll say. Please continue explaining to me as to why my archenemy is in my living room." Rei, who was leaning against the wall, said in a guilty voice, "Well…while you were gadding about with Hatori the other day Hitachii and I found Geisha's journals. What we found in there was pretty er… interesting." I tapped my foot against the floor impatient. My blood was just itching to fight and hurt Nariko. "Well? Spit it out."

Rei hesitated and glanced at Hitachii before blurting out, "you can't kill Nariko! The two of you are connected. If you kill her, you die. If she kills you, she dies." Nariko and I both leaped to our feet and exclaimed furiously, "What! You're joking!" Hitachii sighed. "I wish we were but we're not. One night a little while after we had activated you, Dr. Geisha turned both you and Nariko off and implanted two tiny chips into the two off you. Let me explain, it won't go off if someone comes and tries to destroy it; it'll only go off if either of the hosts of the chips attempt to disarm the other." Nariko rolled her eyes and snapped, "Not everyone speaks scientific. I understand any language except that one."

Hitachii glared at her before saying stiffly, "I said that only the two you can set off the chips. If that happens the two of you will shut down and become like a shell. Dr. Geisha wanted you two to live together in harmony." I frowned and asked, "Well how come we've never been affected like this before? I mean I've been fighting Nariko for 6 months." Rei smiled uneasily. "Remember that necklace we gave you? Well…the journal said that the necklace activates both chips and that you're only stronger when you fight together, not against each other." My mouth dropped. My hands were instantly around my neck trying to remove my necklace when I realized with a start that it wouldn't come off. I stood up feeling as if my whole world was bursting into flames and then being doused with extremely cold water. There was no way that Hitachii could have not known about this. For all I knew he could have helped Dr. Geisha! The thought pissed me off entirely.

Was this my unlucky day? First I cant even like some idiot guy because his head family member was a prick and obsessive. Then I find out that I'm not able to destroy my archenemy because some ridiculous bomb will go off? No that was too much. This was too much. I took in a deep shuddering breath and said quietly, "Are being for real Hitachii? After all, you did help Dr. Geisha make me. I find it hard to believe that you learned all this from a journal." The look of guilt that came and went from his face was all I needed to see. I stood and bowed to the others before stomping out the front door.

Tears streamed down my face. Why on earth was this happening to me? Did I ever ask to be cloned? Did I ever ask to have some psycho robot try and murder me? No. I didn't. So why the hell did these things always happen to me? And Hatori. Who did he think he was ordering me around like some kind of slave driver? I rubbed my hands over my arms and growled. "Cold?" I nearly jumped a mile into the air before I realized Hatori was seated next to me. "Oh it's you. What do you want?" he stayed silent for a moment before saying quietly, " Akito-san has instructed me to erase your memories. I'm sorry Kawana but it has to be done."

I backed away from him and yelled, "What is your problem? Why is it that you guys listen to that jerk?" Hatori stepped forward and said in a voice that was completely unlike him, "Kawana, relax. We're friends remember?" "Friends? You don't know the meaning of the word, Hatori Sohma. A true friend wouldn't attempt to erase his friends memories." Hatori closed his eyes for a moment and said softly, "I have a duty to my family Kawana. I'm sorry." The tears streamed down my face and I stepped back to Hatori.

"I'm sorry too Hatori. I'm sorry I actually started to believe I… you know what? I don't care. I hate you. I HATE YOU!" the words were ripped from me and I fell to the ground sobbing. After what seemed like an eternity I felt arms surround me and press me close. I looked up frightened. "Ha-Hatori, what are you –" his mouth cut me off.

Reader's POV

For an instant Kawana felt her eyes widen and tried to push away.

The next instant her arms were around his neck pulling him closer. It was then that Kawana knew the meaning of 'desperate kiss'. Hatori pulled away and said stiffly, "I wasn't planning to do that." Kawana said dryly, "I can tell. Let me go Hatori before I slap you." Hatori hesitantly dropped his arms and stood.

Hatori's POV

This was not what I had planned. The moment she fell to the ground I knew it was my chance to get rid of the memories. But what had I done? I had allowed my feelings to get in the way and I had kissed her.

The last girl I had kissed had been Kana and look at how that had turned out. When Akito had forbidden me to marry her and had injured me Kana had blamed herself. I tried to convince her other wise but she refused to listen. In the end Kana had left the main house with no memory of whatever happened to us. It had hurt fiercely but I had ignored the pain and had attempted to go on with my life.

Then Kawana happened. She was so different from Kana. Kana was sweet and loving. Kawana? The complete opposite. She was rude, sarcastic, and at times she could be real annoying. Then other times when she was with her friend's she was sweet, sensitive, and beautiful. She was always beautiful…

"Well, well, well. It seems I've found you two." Kawana and I turned around and found Noriko standing behind us.

Reader's POV

Kawana glared at the other girl. "What the hell do you want Noriko?

I hope you guys liked this chapter! lol the chapter after this is the last one! There are 11 chappies plus an alternate ending so…enjoy! B.T.W. pray for all those poor people hit by the hurricane. REVIEW!