No one of members of the Tachibana family slept much that night. Sure Rin and Haruka did fall asleep as soon as their heads hit their pillows. How could they do otherwise when they were as tired as they were, regardless of how much they worried about Nagisa?

It had been about 1 in the morning once they finally went to bed, and when they got up again at around 6:30, Makoto was already up and sitting by the dining table. Haruka looked to Rin once he saw this. He highly doubted Makoto had been to bed at all that night.

"Good morning…" Rin said in a slightly insecure tone. He wasn't sure how to approach Makoto when he was like this. Haruka wasn't of much help because he didn't know either. He just went and started making breakfast.

"Good morning Rin, Haru," Makoto smiled at both of them, but there was a hint of worry in his eyes and he looked very tired. If Rin had to put words on it, he'd say Makoto looked 10 years older than his 37 years. How did he even manage to age so much overnight?

Kisumi came out as well and asked just that question. Makoto laughed in response.

They discussed on what to do about Nagisa being missing. It couldn't be reported to the police yet and probably shouldn't. If the police found out a teenage boy had gone missing there was a chance they would assume it was a murder, and right now a depressing cloud like that over their heads wasn't exactly what they needed.

"Here's my idea," Rin said. "Haru and I will go to school and while we're there, we will investigate what happened at that history class on Monday," he said. "Also, we should clear out what happened between Nagisa and Rei," he said.

"I'll talk to Rei," Haruka said and everyone turned to him with surprised expressions.

"Okay," Makoto snapped out of the surprise as the first one. "Then you talk to Rei," he said it softly. "Meanwhile I wi-" He was cut off when Kisumi rose his hand.

"You'll stay home and sleep in," he said. "Judging from your appearance this morning, you didn't sleep at all last night,"

"How do you expect me to do that?" Makoto asked.

Kisumi let out a frustrated sigh. "We're working on it," he said. "Nagisa will be back before you know it, but until we know what to do. You might as well just rest. You cause way more trouble when you're exhausting yourself like this," he said.

Makoto nodded while looking down at the table. He knew Kisumi was right, but he didn't like being forced to sit at home and do nothing when he was the one responsible for Nagisa.

"Well, it's time to go," Rin said before standing up and grabbing his school back. "Haru, let's go," he waved at Haruka who stood up and followed him outside.

At school things were a lot more stressful than Rin and Haruka had expected. Sure they were at their third year, but they hadn't expected to fall much behind from missing three days of school. But they got a lot to think about other than a missing Nagisa, a worried Makoto and a murder on the loose. They were lucky they had some kind classmates who were willing to copy their notes for them.

It was only when Rin passed by Nagisa's history teacher that he remembered to ask about that history class. Haruka wasn't there at the moment. He was out copying notes with another classmate. Rin would have to do this without him.

"Excuse me?" He asked and the man stopped.

"Yes… you're Matsuoka-kun, right?" he asked. "What can I do?"

Rin took a deep breath. "I heard Nagisa was acting out in history class this Monday. Do you mind telling me what happened?" he asked.

The teacher looked confused. "Sure…" he said. "I gave the class a task to look up if they were related to some historical person or perhaps to one another. I don't know why, but after I explained, Hazuki-kun claimed that he refused to do it and left the classroom. Matsuoka-san went after him shortly after. They never returned. But Hazuki-kun has also acted out in other classes, according to his math teacher, he had had to send him out,"

Rin nodded. "Thank you, sensei," he said.

The teacher nodded. "No problem Matsuoka-kun," he said. "Is there a particular reason why you ask?" he asked.

"Nagisa and Gou have both gone missing and we learned from a friend of theirs that something happened in your class that could explain why," Rin said.

The teacher nodded. "I hope I haven't done something wrong," he said.

Rin nodded and continued down the hallway. He had to tell Haruka about this. He had a feeling that not a single piece of info he had gotten from the teacher was unimportant.

However, when Rin told Haruka about this he got a strange feeling that Haruka was already aware of at least some of it. Haruka stood up as Rin finished explaining and grabbed his phone.

"Haru, class is starting in two minutes," Rin said.

"I'll be late," Haruka just answered before heading out of the classroom while dialing Rei's number on his phone. He hit the green bottom to call the older one and waited patiently for Rei to pick up as he went to the roof.

"Hello, it's Ryugazaki," Rei answered as he picked up.

"Rei," Haruka said in a slightly hard tone. "Nagisa has run away,"

Rei was silent for a bit. "So he has?" he asked.

Rei's words angered Haruka more than he expected. "Originally I called to know what your argument was about, but I'd also like to know if there are a few things you are even aware of?"

"Such as?" Rei asked.

"Did you know that Nagisa was kicked out of math class?" Haruka asked.

"Isn't that his own fault for not keeping up?" Rei asked.

"He tries," Haruka said. "But he can't without your help. You have left him behind, Rei, and that upsets him," he explained.

"Haruka, I don't see where you get all this from," Rei said in an impatient tone.

"I got it from Nagisa," Haruka said.

"As to what we argued about, we argued about various things," Rei said. "He was being irresponsible and he spied on me for who knows what reasons," Rei said.

Haruka nodded. "I think Nagisa wanted to help them out because their situation is a bit similar to how ours was three years ago," he said. "He wondered when you'd notice,"

"So?" Rei asked. "Haruka, I don't have the time to talk about this, the project in Osaka is craving all my attention so I will go now,"

"Osaka is not where you should be," Haruka mumbled but Rei had already hung up and didn't hear his final words. He looked at the display of his phone. At least he had gotten some answers and spoken to Rei. He could just hope that Rei would realize that he had to make up with Nagisa if everything had to be okay again.