That night, Miss Akashinshi provided no obstacles for the twins; she was passed out in her room. Kaito and Hitomi gathered their things, and agreed to meet at the tree.
Hitomi was about to slip out her open window into the night, then came up with an idea. She opened her door as quietly as she could and tip toed down the hallway to Miss Akashinshi's room. The lady laid in an awkward position on her bed, surrounded by bottles.
Hitomi scowled at the woman that had abused her constantly for five years. She then spotted what she was looking for; Miss Akashinshi's purse. It was sitting at the foot of the bed, and Hitomi knelt and unzipped it as quiet as possible.
Inside was a leather wallet, which Hitomi took a couple hundred yen out of. She then scrambled back to her room, put the money with her belongings in a paper bag, and climbed out the window into the night air.
Crickets chirped. The night was a warm one, and little lights floated in the nearby woods.
"Fireflies," Hitomi said to herself.
She took one last look at the orphanage, just the same as her mother had five years before. She then walked into the woods, carrying her paper bag of her few belongings. The trees seemed scarier at night to the young girl; the branches looked like claws that were going to snatch her up.
A fox's eyes glowed as it watched her from where it sat in a thicket. When Hitomi caught sight of the eyes, she hurried along a bit faster. By the time she reached the tree, her lip was trembling.
Hitomi ran to her brother, who was standing under the tree.
"How do you always get here first?" she asked.
"I don't know," Kaito said simply. "What are we even going to do? We have no money."
Hitomi shook her head. "I took some from Miss Akashinshi."
"Well, where are we going to go?" the teal haired boy asked.
"Away," Hitomi said, turning away from her brother. As she began to walk out of the woods, she heard a loud crunch from underneath her foot.
"What was that?" Kaito asked.
Hitomi pulled out her almost dead flashlight and flicked it on. When she saw what she had stepped on, she instantly recoiled. Nenyoti's skull had been crushed underneath her foot.
"Forgot bout the bones," she muttered. She picked a flower up off the ground and placed it on the crushed skull.
She looked at Kaito, who nodded. They both then continued out of the woods, and then to a road. The twins walked down the road and into the main city.
Nobody paid any mind to the children marveling at the lights. They stared in awe at the city, with the cabs and flashing signs and shouting people.
"This is a lot bigger than I thought," Hitomi said in awe.
"Yeah," Kaito said, looking inside a candy shop.
"Look," Hitomi said, pointing to a convenience store.
"What about it?" Kaito asked.
"Come on," Hitomi said, tugging on her brother's arm.
The two children walked into the brightly illuminated store and gazed in awe at the rows of packaged junk food and the cases of chilled coffee, soda, and juice. Kaito, eyes gleaming, walked over to the candy isle.
He grabbed several bags, but Hitomi yanked them away from him.
"Give that back!" Kaito said. "That's mine!"
"Can't eat that," Hitomi reminded him. He frowned and reluctantly put back the sour worms he had picked out.
"What are we here for?" Kaito asked, yawning. "I'm tired."
Hitomi walked over to a rack that displayed batteries.
"Hey," Hitomi said to the sad looking man at the register. "Which one do I get?"
The man came over from where he stood at the checkout stand. "What are the batteries for?" he asked. "Where are your parents?"
"This," Hitomi said, pulling her flashlight out of her paper bag and neglecting to answer his second question.
The man took the flashlight from her small hands and examined it. "Double A batteries," he said. He took a package of batteries off a hook. "Where are your parents?"
"How much?" Hitomi asked, pointing at the batteries, still not answering about the whereabouts of their parents.
"$2.50," the man said gruffly. "Do you have any money?"
Hitomi did not understand money, so she just pulled a wad of bills out of her paper bag and handed it to the man. He took the money, gave Hitomi and Kaito an uneasy look, and walked over to the register.
He scanned the batteries, gave Hitomi her change back, and bid them goodnight.
"Can you put them in?" Kaito asked.
The man replaced the batteries, flicked the flashlight on to demonstrate that it worked, and sent the twins out the door.
"Where we gonna go?" Kaito asked his sister once they were back out on the street.
Hitomi shrugged. They walked for awhile, and finally, Hitomi turned down an alley. Kaito halted at the entrance to the shady alleyway.
"Where are you going?" he asked. "This don't look safe."
"There's a box," Hitomi said, pointing to a large refrigerator box that was laying on its side. "We can sleep in that."
"I ain't sleeping in no box," Kaito said, clenching his fists.
Hitomi turned around. Her green eyes looked defeated and tired. "Please," she said, voice broken.
Kaito sighed and followed his sister into the alley. The walls were close together, and the ground was dirty cobblestones. Along with the box, there was a few crates and an empty dumpster.
Hitomi hid her paper bag behind the dumpster, taking out only a blanket she had taken from the orphanage and her flashlight. Kaito hid his bag next to her's, and pulled out his blanket. With that, they curled up inside their refrigerator box with their blankets.
The twins cuddled together, and then cried themselves to sleep.