The morning shined in the brightest way as the water droplets on the houses froze to ice. But at the Sohma compound, while Momiji and Kagura were talking about what hat Momiji was supposed to wear, Akito came out of his house and started to say something to his new driver.

"So, Hatori still didn't come back from Shigure's house, hasn't he?" Akito asked in a small creepy voice. The driver was silent at Akito's question.

"I see… Hatori has been disobeying my orders again and he must be punished." Momiji and Kagura heard this from their hiding place and both of them were very alarmed.

"Hari's going to be punished…?" Momiji silently thought, remembering the time that he heard about Hatori's eye.

"Hatori-san is going to be punished?" Kagura whispered to herself.

"Get the car ready in one hour," Akito said to the driver, "I have to find out something first." As Akito and the driver left, Momiji and Kagura started to come out of their hiding place.

"We better do something or Hari is going to be in trouble!" Momiji said with a very worried face. Kagura nodded and decided to see what's going on by hiding at the walls of the main Sohma house. As they were about to eavesdrop on Akito, a quiet voice went to them.

"What are you children doing here?" The driver asked, staring at them with his stern eyes. Momiji and Kagura were surprised to see him and without a word, they were hypnotized by his eyes.

"Trouble makers like you two will not be tolerated." He said as he dragged them away from the main house.

The air started to freeze once more as drops of snow fell from the sky. Hatori started to wake up from the nearby inn and as he looked around, he started to tap Ayame's shoulder.

"Ayame. Wake up." He said as he started to shake him a bit. Ayame started to wake up and looked at Hatori with his majestic golden eyes.

"Tori-san, have you been sleeping against the wall this whole time?" He asked, rubbing his eyes. Hatori just got up from his knees and started to pick his tie up from the hanger.

"We better get going or they might be worried about us. We don't want that, especially when it's Tohru-kun." He said, tightening his tie. Ayame's eyes started to light as he came up to Hatori.

"Oh I see! So that's why you wanted to go back to Gure-san's house that badly last night! You didn't want poor little Tohru-kun to be all worried about you! That's so sweet, Tori-san!" Hatori started to sigh as he lit his cigarette.

"In any case, Ayame, we better move on." Hatori said to Ayame.

"Easy for you to say! You would never move on from the memories of…" Ayame covered his mouth before he shouted Kana's name. As he turned away, Ayame started to say, "I'm sorry, Tori-san, I must have gone over my mind again." Hatori took his coat off of the hanger and started to walk out.

"Let's go, Ayame. The day is too clear to be inside." Ayame slowly took his hands off of his mouth as he started to follow Hatori out of the room.

"You are so forgiving, Tori-san…" Ayame thought as he and Hatori walked side-by-side outside. "I really love your kindness more than anything in the world… well maybe not as much as my job but I really like it." But the chill of the cold air hit Ayame's face as his long silver hair flew in the hair. While Ayame tried to warm his hands, Hatori sighed and took off his coat. He put his large coat over Ayame's slender chilled body as he said.

"I guess I forgot that you're sensitive to chills. Put that on so you won't transform." Ayame held onto the ends of the coat so he could insulate some heat to his body. Ayame just stood there as he looked at Hatori walking right in front of him.

"Thank you…" Were the only words he could say as he went dead silent with sudden joy.

"Just make sure you don't transform before we reached a bus stop. I don't want to erase anyone's memories at the moment."

Tohru was down at the kitchen when she heard a crash from above. She decided to see what was going on so she wiped her hands on a towel and went up.

"Is everything all right up there?" She asked, putting her hand on the doorknob. As she opened the door slightly, she couldn't believe what she was seeing. She just saw Yuki on the floor while Kyou was knocked out right on top of him. Hatsuharu was right in front of them, glaring blankly at them as if he meant for this to happened.

"What's going on?" Tohru asked as she came near them. Kyou started to get up as he started to shout.

"That stupid brat just tripped us when we were about to rumble!" Yuki got up after that remark and looked at the ground. Like the first time she met Hatsuharu, there was a long piece of string on the ground, tied on the sides of the walls.

"I didn't want Shigure-sensei to wake up so I had no choice but to do this." Hatsuharu said, putting the string away.

"But unfortunately, it was the crash that awoke me." Shigure said to Hatsuharu while rubbing his very tired eyes.

"Shigure-san, you're awake?" Tohru asked as she looked at him with her cheery face.

"What do you mean Tohru-kun? A person must wake up some time of the day. That's how they make money." Shigure said to her.

"But you always tend to wake up in the middle of the afternoon and you always act like a moron." Yuki butted in while he took the string away from Hatsuharu.

"Yuki! That is so mean of you!" Shigure squealed while waterfall of tears came out of his eyes as he swung his arms up and down. Shigure then jumped up to where Tohru was and whined.

"Am I always a moron, Tohru-kun?"

"Ano…" Tohru tried to say.

"Do you think I always wake up at the latest time?"

"A…"

"Tohru-kun…?"

"You're very noisy for someone who sleeps in the middle of the day." a familiar and mature voice came to them from behind Shigure, "The door was mysteriously opened so I let myself in."

"Actually, it was I!" Ayame shouted as he came out from behind Hatori.

"What?" Kyou shouted as he grabbed the snake by the neck.

"Well…" Ayame started to say. "This is what happened…"

Hatori started to knock on the door while Ayame was humming really cheerful tunes.

"There's no answer." Hatori said to himself. That's when he turned to Ayame.

"Ayame, would you come here please?" Ayame happily hopped over and that's when Hatori took away his coat. The sudden chill in the air started to cover Ayame's body as he turned into a snake.

"I want you to get in through that opening in the paper door and I want you to unlock it." Hatori said. Ayame looked at the door curiously and said.

"But there's no hole." Hatori closed his eyes and punched a hole in the door.

"There's your hole." He replied as he squished Ayame inside. Ayame slithered through the hallways until he found a place to warm himself. After a couple of seconds, he turned back and he went to open the door. When Hatori was about to get in, he saw Ayame naked and shoved his clothes right in front of him. Ayame put his hands on his hips as he slightly frowned.

"What's wrong?" He asked.

"Just put it on." He said with a blank face. Ayame shrugged and then took his clothes.

"And that's what happened! Very ingenious, isn't it?" Ayame asked. Every one of them except Hatori was dumbfounded by the whole story.

"That was so dumb, especially for you, Hatori." Yuki said as he put his hand on his face.

"That was so stupid! Tohru was at the kitchen, you didn't need to punch a hole in the door and let yourself come in freely!" Kyou shouted

"My door! My poor, poor little door…!" Shigure cried as he was crying waterfalls of tears.

"I have no fault in this…" Hatori said to himself as he lit his cigarette.

Momiji and Kagura were in a dark, blank room that looked like a place where a person gets mentally tortured.

"Do you know where we are, Kagura?" Momiji asked as he went to the door. The door was locked from the outside and there was a wooden door that was covering the paper doors.

"I don't know either Momiji… I'm too scared…" Kagura said, cuddling into a ball against the wall. But as Momiji was scanning the doors, he heard the driver and Akito talking nearby.

"Are you ready, sir?" The driver asked.

"Yes… and this time, both of them would suffer… this is what he gets for seeing her without my permission…" Akito said in his creepy, sadistic voice. But as the two were about to move, Akito came near the door as he said.

"I'll deal with you two later once I come back." Momiji shuddered as he looked at Kagura. Momiji sat next to Kagura and started to comfort her.

"It's going to be all right, Kagura. Hari will come for us and he won't be hurt by Akito again." Kagura started to cry from fear as she put her arms around Momiji.

"I'm so scared! Akito is going to not only hurt Hatori but we're going to be victims too!" She started to break down. Momiji felt really broken down too as he heard and felt Kagura crying from fear. This reminded him of his mother, crying and shouting from the sight of him and it made him very uneasy. He tried to comfort her as best as he could but it only made it worse for both of them. But at that moment, a small sound of footsteps started to come near the room. Momiji quickly snapped out of his trance and dashed to the door as he shouted as loud as he could to the person that was passing by.

"Hello! Is anyone there?" There was a large silence for a few minutes before a bratty, obnoxious voice came though the door.

"What do you want?" The voice asked.

"Hiro? Is that you?" Momiji asked.

"Obviously you dumb rabbit! Who else?" Hiro shouted at him.

"Keep it down, I really need you to tell Hari that he must find Kana before Akito does!"

"Why should I? For all that matters, I don't even care about all of you." Hiro said in a very mean voice. Momiji clenched his fist as he replied.

"Please… for once, Hiro." He pleaded. Hiro was silent for a while and then he said.

"Then you must make a deal with me." Momiji stepped back as he knows what kind of deals he would make. But after seeing Kagura cracking up and hearing the plans of the sadistic Akito, he felt he had no choice.

"I will do anything… just go tell Hari the message." Momiji said in an indecisive tone while Hiro smirked from the other side of the door.

"All right then…" he said, "But first, here's what I got to say."

Finished no. 3! I know I promised that I would be sooner than the second chapter but I was very stuck and this is the result. I'm sorry if it didn't turn out better than the other chapters.