Thank you for reading this story. I hope you are enjoying it. Please feel free to read and review. If you see anything I need to work on please let me know, I'm honestly trying to improve my writing skills.

Also don't be surprised when I switch back and forth between Ryu-chan's two- sided personalities. It's the number one thing I love about his personality.

Author's Notes

Futon: Traditional Japanese Bed
Chapter 3: Light Purple Pajamas
"I'll get a futon made up for you then. We can figure out what to do in the morning."

Ryuichi looked blankly at her before a large dazzling smile slowly began to spread it's way across his face.

"Really? I can stay with you? It's all right? Thank you!"

Narumi hadn't been braced for the full body slam that Ryuichi delivered to her. She found herself hitting the floor with a not so light Ryuichi wailing a giant thank you and giving her a giant hug.

He really is just like a little kid isn't he?

"Your welcome, now if you'll just let me up I'll get the spare futon pulled out."

Narumi did her best job of untangling the two of them and getting them both to stand up. She was more than a little surprised to see the tears in his eyes.

What had happened to him, anyway?

"It will just take a minute." She reassured him with a smile.

She walked up the stairs and into her room. The spare futon and bedding was in her closet; she pulled them both out and began to carry them back into the living room. She was surprised to see a smiling Ryuichi standing right behind her.

He took the blanket from the top of the pile and ran with it back into the living room while humming a song. It sounded so light and happy, Narumi was surprised at how warm it was and how it made her feel happy too. It made her smile.

"You're a very good singer."

Ryuichi looked up at her and smiled happily at her praise. He really did remind her of a little boy. He was so very endearing.

Still that serious expression was what stayed on her mind. What had happened exactly?

It was obvious that he had been kicked out of where he had been living at, but something told her that there was more to the story than that.

Still, he was a stranger and she had no right to ask him such details. Besides it had been a long day for both of them. For now that song he was humming was enough. Narumi was just happy that she had managed to make someone else happy today.

It didn't take long for her to have his bed made, and she wished him a good night after repairing the damaged bunny. So she went upstairs to her own bedroom. It was already very late, and she was extremely exhausted from that morning's classes.

She wondered if things would turn out to be all right in the end. She hoped it would be.

The moment her head hit the pillow she was sound asleep. The melody Ryuichi had been humming ran through her mind on repeat.

The morning light came in through the window. It cast its gentle glow directly into Narumi's face.

It was a Sunday morning, the only morning she didn't have to work, and she only wanted to stay in bed.

She rolled over so that she was no longer facing the sun light. She was lost in her mindless slumber and the sounds of someone else's breathing took more than a few minutes to penetrate her half asleep brain.

She forced her eyes open.

Who was there? Had something happened?

It took her a few moments to remember what had happened the night before.

There was a guy, right? He was staying the night. She could remember that clearly, but... hadn't she made him a futon downstairs?

Her eyes scanned her bedroom and at last when they came to the foot of her bed there he lay curled up in a ball, with his quilt from downstairs, covering both him and the big pink bunny in his arms. He was sleeping so peacefully.

It took a moment for it to register the fact that she had just spent the night with a total stranger in her bed.

She was wide awake after that. What was he...? How did he...? Did I just...?

Still the fact that he was sleeping on the foot of the bed, he could have taken advantage of the situation but he hadn't... maybe... maybe he just hadn't been able to sleep in an empty room?

She wasn't sure how she felt about it. Either way it made her feel very uneasy. She did her best to just pushed it as much as she could out of her mind. It wasn't quite that simple.

She got up out and out of bed as quickly and quietly as she could, and went downstairs. She found the futon and it was in a very messy state.

Maybe he had a nightmare?

Wait a minute he isn't a little kid! She chided herself.

"Everyone has nightmares." She whispered. "Real ones or dreams, they are still nightmares."

"Narumi!"

She heard Ryuichi's voice sobbing her name.

She turned around to see Ryuichi come flying down the stairs, tears in his eyes, and Kuma in his arms. He stopped at the bottom of the stairs and started to sob into his rabbit.

A part of her wanted to comfort him. He was so much like the elementary children that she taught. It really made her heart hurt seeing him cry like that. All thoughts of what she had awoken to were wiped from her mind.

She walked over to him and gently patted his shoulder.

"I thought you had left me too!" He wailed.

Left him?

"I thought I was alone again!"

"Of course not!" She chided. What had happened to him? If he was this afraid of being abandoned something awful must have happened, and last night couldn't have been the start of it. Not for this kind of reaction. What kind of people did he normally deal with? "I'm not gonna just leave you. I promise."

"Really?" He looked up at her afraid to believe and yet afraid not to believe.

"When I make a promise I do everything I can to keep it. My momma used to say a promise has to be kept no matter what."

Chapter 4