"Hatori…Sarah's gone."

Hatori Sohma yawned ilently to himself and asked, "What do you mean she's gone?" He resed his head against the side panel of the door way.

Shigure sighed as he looked at his friend while memories streamed back to him. He sighed and started again, "Sarah's gone. Akito gave me an envelope to give to her and I knew something was up but I dd what he told me…She opened it and ran away…somewhere…

Hatori grabbed his jacket and slipped it on while walking out the door.

Sarah noticed a gas station on her left with its lights shinning bright. She walk toward it and opened the door open. She got chills as a wave of cold air hit her skin. She wished now that she had taken some time to put a coat on and maybe some shoes.

"Sarah?"

Sarah turned her head to the aisle on her right and spotted Saki Hanajima who was dressed in all black. Sarah waved even though she thought she looked like shit. Hana sort of glided over to her and asked, "Sarah? What happened to you? Your waves…they're very…Are you ok?"

Sarah placed a fake smile on her face but noticed it was already to late so she said, "Hana…Is there some where we can talk?" Saki nodded and slipped off her shoes and handed them to Sarah before she could object and reached for the door handle.

As the car came to a stop water splashed every where. Hatori sighed and said calmly, "Shigure. Get out."

"What? You can't just leave me here! What about that poor young girl walking in the cold with no shoes that has the name…oh I don't know…maybe her name might be…Sarah!"

"Shigure, it's not like I'm leaving you out on the street to walk in the rain back home. I'm right outside your house. Maybe 45 steeps away. Don't worry about Sarah…I think I know where she's going."

Shigure sighed and opened the car door. He watched as the car drove off, from the porch. He turned and before he entered his house again, he smirked to himself.

"Mother…stop here please." Hana said calmly to her mother. The car came to a slow stop before Sarah got out. She bowed to Saki's mother and thanked them both. She closed the car door and turned to look around her. She soon heard the car drive off.

Only 30 minutes before she had been walking on cold streets wearing no shoes but now she was fully dressed. She had walked with Hana two blocks before Saki said where they were going. They we're going to her house only three blocks away from the gas station they were at before. When they arrived at Hana's house, Hana opened the door and led Sarah to her room.

It was covered in all black. This sort of made Sarah laugh and Hana asked her what was so funny she just shrugged. Then she remembered why she had run out of Shigure's place in the first place. Hana sat down on the floor and gestured for Sarah to join her. Sarah walked over to her sadly and sat down. She opened her fist and looked at the crumpled picture in her hand. She un-crumpled it and laid it down by Hana. Hana looked down at it and said, "Sarah. I sense great sadness from you…what is…the story?"

Sarah sighed and told her every thing except that she was part of the Sohma family and part of the zodiac. But she did tell her about her real parents and her "other" family. After she was finished she cried on Hana's shoulder…something she had not done in years. After almost and hour, Sarah told her where she had to go and Hana and nodded. Nothing more. Just nodded and went to get her mother.

And there she was standing in front of a shrine not knowing if to go in or…to just walk back to Shigure's which would take almost the whole night. She sighed and started to walk. The black shoes she was wearing splashed in the water as she walked.

Hana had given her clean cloths to wear and even some of her shoes. She was lucky Hana was the same size of shoe as Sarah. Sarah was dressed in a long black skirt and a tight black tank top. Hana had also let her barrow one of her caps encase it had started to rain again.

She walked into the shrine and walked over to a head stone shaped black. It reminded her of head stones she had seen in the United States at cemeteries. She looked at the block and sighed. Then the rain began to pour again…