Rin cursed himself, over and over. He was pacing the floor in the room he shared with Haruka while doing so. He hadn't slept much that night, and what little sleep he had got had been full of nightmares. They were mostly about the past, him running through the streets of Shinjuku in search for Haruka, and then turning the corner to find him. The first time he was dead, the second time he was badly injured. Then Rin had been stabbed in the back by an unknown force and awoke.

However, he had had another dream. He wasn't sure it was really a dream. It was just a series of colors, red, green, yellow, purple, navy, pink, black. They had ended with an unclear picture, of someone with blue eyes, the face wasn't clear, only the eyes, so Rin couldn't point out exactly who it was, but the eyes reminded him of Haruka's. Meanwhile he had this strange dream, he heard his mother's voice as she explained to him and Haruka, what their father had done back when they were still only babies.

At around 4 in the morning, Rin had gotten tired of waking up in cold sweat and got up to pace the floor and pass the time. He had turned on his laptop and read on the internet to find some news about either that serial killer or missing people in the past. Maybe that would give him a clue of something, but nothing had turned up. The last one who had gone missing was a 101 year old woman who was demented. At the bottom of the page, it did say she had turned up again the day after the article was written.

Now Rin was back to pacing the floor. He heard someone knock on someone's door. Knowing that it wasn't his door, nor was it him knocking, he could figure it was Kisumi and Makoto who were interacting. Shortly after the door opened without a response, and this assured Rin that it was Kisumi knocking on the door to Makoto's room.

It didn't take long before Kisumi came back out and went to knock on Rin's door. Rin opened before the purple-eyed male got the chance.

"What is it?" he asked.

"You're already up," Kisumi smiled.

"Been for a while," Rin answered.

Kisumi got a concentrated expression as he studied Rin's face. "You didn't sleep much I see," he just said with a soft smile. "Maybe you should stop thinking so much of Haru?" he suggested.

Rin found himself getting irritated. "That's a little difficult when he is all I seem to be able to dream about!" he exclaimed.

"Relax, I was just trying to be nice," Kisumi attempted to defend himself.

"Wrong time," Rin answered.

Kisumi nodded. "Sorry," he said. "I'll go prepare some breakfast. Do anything you want, but please leave Makoto be until Nagisa and Rei come home," he said.

Rin nodded. There was no need to disturb Makoto. He didn't need to see the man to know he hadn't slept much either, if he had even slept. Somehow Rin doubted that fact.

Kisumi shut the door and went to the kitchen. Rin went to pick up his phone for no particular reason. He was just simply bored. He had searched the internet. He had even gone as far as playing some boring game on there. He couldn't come up with anything else to do.

He turned on the display and smiled slightly as a text from Sousuke was revealed on it. He typed his password and opened the message.

From: Sousuke

Subject: None

Are you okay? Remember, you can come to me with whatever.

Rin smiled. He knew that. Last year, he and Sousuke had been attempting to solve that case with the serial killer. They had had a lot of fun while doing so, or so Rin had thought. It had also come in need when they ended up getting involved with the serial killer. If he hadn't taken the time to figure out a pattern, he would have maybe not rushed to Shinjuku to find Haruka and save him. Or maybe he would have done it anyway. Haruka would have done it, and he never tended to let his emotions run away with him like Rin did.

Rin decided to text Sousuke back, just to let him know he had understood and that he would contact him if needed.

From Rin

Subject: None

Thanks, Sousuke. I'm alright but I'll remember the offer.

Rin sent it.

He sat with his phone in hand. He was thinking, first about what he wanted to say to Sousuke, what he would need to say, if he would ever be in need of saying anything. Then he thought of what to look for. Haruka couldn't turn up on his own when being kidnapped. It wasn't like Rin didn't have faith in him, but he was sure, for someone to take Haruka by surprise, they had to be pretty smart. Who could even kidnap Haruka like this?

Suddenly bits and pieces of the dreams Rin had had last night, returned to his mind, the running in Shinjuku, the story, the strange picture of blue eyes and ever changing colors. What was all of this supposed to mean anyway? Did it mean anything or was Rin just trying to have it make sense? Could be both, could also be none or one of them. Why did he even have to think so much in the first place? Rin's head was starting to hurt from all this thinking.

Suddenly it was all interrupted by his phone vibrating. It was a text message. It couldn't be from Sousuke. He would not respond unless it was something that craved an answer. Rin's message didn't crave an answer.

Rin looked at the display and nearly dropped the phone when he saw the ID of the sender. He opened the message and started reading, in shock as his eyes scanned every word.

From: Haru

Subject: Hey There

Hey Rin

I am the one being with Haruka. I have a question. Do you want to know how he is?

Rin had to read the text another time to be sure that he had understood it correctly. Did he want to know how Haruka was? He had a feeling the information wasn't going to be released for free. He wondered what the price was.

From: Rin

Subject: Hello There

You're asking stupid questions. Let me ask you two. 1: Who are you, 2: what's the prize?

The guy wasn't late to respond. It only took a matter of seconds.

From: Haru

Subject: Hello There.

1: don't speak to me in that tone. Haruka won't like it. 2: If you get over here, I will answer your first question too.

Rin threw his phone on the bed in frustration.