Haru stood in his kitchen going through his cabinets seeing what he had and decide what he would take with him to the states. But he really wouldn't need any of it. He would soon be living in a group house along with twelve other wolves that chose to live without an Alpha or leave an alpha that didn't want anything to do with them. That's what he was doing, but why did it make him feel like he was running away. "Grandmother I wish you were still here sometimes, you always knew just what to say when I didn't know what to do and could always help me when I had a problem." his fingers drifted across the top of her small alter that sat in the living room. Going back to his bedroom he gathered the things that he had yet to pack and placed them in his bag. Soon this house would be nothing more than a memory; he couldn't believe he was leaving. Picking up that old photograph again he looked over it. It had been taken the week before I left, they had been so young and innocent, or well Haru had been at least. The other two's wolves had presented and Haru's hadn't until just recently. The three boys in the photo smiled at him, two large goofy ones and a small ghost of one that was on his own face, he hadn't smiled much since then.

~FLASH BACK~

Rin sat on the edge of the pool dangling his legs and laughing with Haru and Makoto, they had just won their first relay. Haru had to admit it had felt nice to be part of a team that worked like a well-oiled machine. He was sure he would never forget this day, and all the fun had had. "YOU GUYS WE WERE AWESOME!" Rin shouted once they had left the swim club and were on their way to their respected homes. Makoto smiled and Haru merely nodded his head slightly. "Oh! My mom wanted me to tell you that we're having a party on Thursday to celebrate our win," his voice took on a not so happy tone. "As well as a going away party." Haru stopped dead in his tracks and Makoto looked stunned. "Going away party?" Makoto asked confused. "Yea, I presented as an Alpha last month and Seijuurou is sending me away for the safety of the pack." his voice was just over a whisper.

Haru couldn't take it he had to get out of there. So he ran, he just ran he didn't care where he ended up he just had to get away from that news, but no matter what it followed him. Followed him when he was in classes, sleeping, it even followed him when he sat in the bath trying to block everything out. He didn't want Rin to leave. He had wanted to grow up with Rin and for him to be there when his own wolf presented. It wasn't fair why couldn't he present before Rin left, but then it would make it so much harder on all of them because he was as bound to Rin as it was and if his wolf bound to him the separation would kill them.

The party on Thursday went without a problem one until Seijuurou stood in the door with Rin's coat over his arm and a plane ticket in his hand. His mother tried to plead with him but it did no good. Rin was to leave and never return. That day had been the start of Haru's downfall from being slightly social to almost completely a hermit had it not been for his grandmother and then Makoto.

~FLASHBACK END~

Rin's steps slowed as he got closer to the house where a freshly presented Omega lay in wait to leave to and go to a pack of wolves that weren't even really a pack. They were merely wolves who hated authority. Haru couldn't go to them. He wouldn't let that happen, couldn't let that happen. Rin steps started again only this time with more energy, he was sure that he could change Haru's mind and if he couldn't he would revert to plan B. He would cry and beg him not to go. The house soon loomed before Rin making plan B sound like a good idea, but he would not cry. He would be a man about this and calmly ask Haruka to stay and become part of his pack.

Haru was standing in the back garden when he heard the front gate open he was sure it was either Makoto or Seijuurou coming to tell him something about his choice of leaving. It's not like he really wanted to, he just couldn't be the omega of an alpha that wasn't his, and Seijuurou had understood that perfectly fine. He discarded the visitor and continued to clean the small pond he had drained for the winter months.

"You still leave the doors unlocked even after all these years Haru, you should know that s not a safe thing to do in a community of horny wolves." that voice had Haru's back go rigid and his arms freeze mid-scrub. There was no way that voice should be there that voice had been thousands, millions of miles away only a day before why was he here. Turning slowly Haru looked up at the man who stood just off his back porch, and that is just what he was a man. He was beautiful his hair glossy and his eyes still filled with that spark of challenge that they had shared before he'd been sent away.

"Rin….what are you doing here?" his voice sounded more monotone than normal and he wished he hadn't asked. Rin looked a bit disappointed at Haru but didn't hold it against him.

"Well I was in the neighborhood and thought you might want to see me as much as I wanted to see you after all these years Haruka guess I was wrong." He turns for the door "I also came by to try and talk you into maybe staying here and joining me in my pack. Haruka I want to be your Alpha." Haru didn't move he was afraid that if he did that this would all dissolve and he would wake up. "You're really here aren't you; I'm not dreaming like I usually am. Rin..." Haru didn't know what to do. He didn't want Rin to walk out of his life again. His problem now was that he couldn't just tell the pack of wolves he was going to, that his alpha had come home and didn't hate him but wanted him, actually wanted him in his pack.

Rin couldn't just stand there and not do anything so he went against all things alpha and did something that the normal humans did. He threw caution to the wind walked over to Haru and pulled him into his chest in a tight embrace. Haru fought it for a moment, then he accepted it and rubbed his nose against the scent glands in Rin's neck earning a soft sound from him. This… this right here is where he belonged, not with some wolves he didn't know but right here in this mans arms surrounded by his scent.

Haru didn't know how long they stood wrapped in each others arms scenting but he never wanted it to stop. He was in heaven, but at last rin pulled away ever so slightly to look down at him and whisper "Haru you are killing me with just scenting please let me claim you as my own. I hate even the thought of losing you to that compound in the states with those wolves." Those words floated in his mind before he could answer Rin's lips had drifted to his neck and teeth had pierced the tender skin of his shoulder earning rin a sound that Haru would never know if it had been fantasy or reality.