The morning when we left was sunny. There were no clouds on the sky, and it was pretty blue. No one could have expected it to turn out to be something awful, and neither did I.

"Who's riding in this car?" Natsume asked. He had decided to come at the very last moment. Azusa opened the door to the front seat and Hikaru grabbed me saying:

"Ema goes to this one."

"What?" I said, but Hikaru pushed me in the red car.

On the way I hadn't talked anything until Hikaru said:

"It's really refreshing to go on a trip. The most essential thing about trips is forgetting something. Have you already forgotten something?"

"Probably my toothbrush" I said and Azusa smiled.

"Somebody is facetious today. Well, Natsume, Azusa, what have you forgotten?" Hikaru said with a fake smile. He definitely was annoyed by my joke.

"I guess a lot of things from work" Azusa said.

"What about you Natsume?" Hikaru continued.

"Is it really that rational to talk about things we're supposed to forget?" Natsume said and I held in my laughter. Hikaru was getting really annoyed by us.

"Why won't you just say it, my dear little brother?"

"Why won't you say, what have you forgotten?" Natsume protested.

"Well, I have forgotten my fight with my friend", He said trying to make us make up. Both of us pretended not to hear anything. I looked out of the window and hummed, while Natsume was focusing on driving.

"Are you even listening?!" Hikaru snapped and I said smiling:

"Isn't it a beautiful day?" Azusa started to laugh. Hikaru sighed.

"Oh did you say something Hikaru? I already forgot, could you say it again?" Natsume said and I started to laugh with Azusa.

Evening came fast, and as the stars started to show up, we walked to the place, where the festival was held. I had a yukata that Kaname had ordered. Yukatas' pattern was very pretty. My hair was tied up and I had some trouble with walking on that costume.

"Onee-chan, you come with me", Wataru said and started to drag me to the festival. We walked around looking at all those stand where they sold different things. Masks, candy, sweets, everything. There even was this game where you try to get a goldfish. I looked as Wataru tried to catch one, but didn't really work. Then the seller gave one net and a bowl for me too. After a while of waiting for a good moment I tried to get one. But I failed; my net broke because the fish slammed it with its tail.

"That's a shame", I said to Wataru.

"Stupid fish, how dare you break my big sisters net" Wataru said to an innocent looking little fish. We continued our walking and watched as Fuuto had a show. He was so energetic on stage. Nobody of his fans really knew what kind of person he was. Night started to collect some clouds on the sky, nobody really noticed it but at the same time, people didn't notice the huge clouds that gathered around to the horizon.

"Wataru, let's go find others", I said to a shadow next to me. I heard no answer.

"Wataru?" I asked and looked next to me. There was no one there. I looked behind me to search for him, but I didn't see that boy. I turned back to the direction I came from and called out Watarus' name. Nobody answered and people asked me something in Japanese, but I had no idea what were they speaking of, so I just had to say sorry for them. I didn't see any of my brothers either. I walked out of the festival area. I looked around for some of my family members. There was a fence and behind was a steep grass covered hill. I looked down to the woods that stood at the end of the drop. The fence only reached my hips and it was really low. It could have use a better fence, since it was very low and weak. I stood there looking down, until I heard someone speak Japanese. I turned to the way where all the voices had come and saw this group of men. All men smiled in a twisted way. I had a really bad feeling.

"Hey, what is such a pretty girl doing here?" One of them asked me in Japanese. I couldn't get a word out of my mouth so I just shook my head as a sign of not understanding.

"Are you mute? Or are you deaf? Did you not understand, what I just said? You better answer me quickly or I'm gonna eat you", He said and his friends laughed with him. He came closer and grabbed my face. He turned my head and checked me out.

"You're not wearing any make-up? You're also a foreign. You're one weird girl. Come check her out", he said and I snapped. I slapped him straight to his face. One of his friends came over.

"What the fuck bitch?" he said and pushed me pretty hard. The fence behind me broke and I fell down. I tried to catch something I could hold on. I hit the ground pretty bad and let out a scream. My back hurt a lot and I tried to grab something on the ground, but all I got was grass and flowers. I tried to stop myself by turning horizontal, but instead I started to roll down. My body hit some bushes, but I wasn't fast enough to get a grab of them. And finally, my head hit a stump of a tree and everything went black. My body rolled down in the woods. It finally stopped when my stomach hit a rock. Clouds dark as the night, gathered around on the sky and somewhere, somebody was looking for my moving less body. It wasn't an animal, nor a human, it was something else.

"What do you mean you lost her?" Azusa said in panic.

"Well I went to look at a mask I saw at one shop, and then when I turned back, I couldn't find her", Wataru cried.

"Don't blame him, there are a lot of people here, I sure somebody has seen her", Masaomi said with a very worried face.

"Let's go look for her. This is like the time at the airport. I'm sure she's somewhere to be found. Ema's really smart, I'm sure she will find us before we can find her", Natsume said. He had a really worried expression. He was more worried than the time Ema had had a nightmare. Hikaru saw the bright side of the whole problem. He wished for Natsume to find her. That was the only way for them to make up.

I woke up on the ground, next to a big rock. Everywhere in my body hurt. I let out a couple of swear words and tried to sit up. I was shaking. Everything was still a bit fuzzy, but I still tried to get up on my feet. World was doing barrel rolls. Without even thinking I started to walk straight ahead, without even looking back. I had lost one of my shoes and my hair looked like a crow had been living there. I tasted a rusty red fluid inside my mouth, and the same liquid came out of my nose. My hands were dirty and had many scratches. Yukata had protected me from any bigger wounds. Once in a while I stopped to catch my breath and get some balancing done. I walked deeper in the forest without even realizing, that I wouldn't find my way back if I wouldn't stop for a moment to listen for noise of people or looking for stars. If you could even see stars trough that big mass of evil clouds.

Natsume was almost in the panicking point. No one had found her nor got any contact to her through her phone. Natsume ran around shouting for her. He stopped to ask people about her, and everyone had seen her, but didn't know where she had gone. He heard an ominous rumbling from the sky. Thunder. In panic he searched for a girl who was mortally afraid of thunder.

I heard a silent thunder. And even when it wasn't so loud, I started to panic. I knew that panicking wouldn't help the situation anyway.

"Someone… please… help me" I cried quietly and tried to run. I fell down immediately and heard the thunder louder every second. I got up on my legs that were shaking like it was the first time I was ever standing. Thunder got louder and louder and I tried to find a place to hide.

Natsume was still running, trying to find Ema. He had decided that if she wasn't inside the festival area, she was somewhere else. He had searched almost everywhere. They had called even Ukyo to help. Natsume met a group of men.

"Have you seen a girl in a pink yukata? She has a brown hair and she's foreign", he asked panting.

"Oh you mean that little bitch we met?" the guy who had pushed her said with a devilish smile.

"What the hell did you do to her?" Natsume asked keeping himself from strangling that guy.

"What will you give us for that information?" Their boss asked smiling.

"My fist in your arrogant faces", Natsume said. Ukyo got there just before a fight.

"Now, now, my dear gentlemen", He said and pushed Natsume away. Thunder got louder.

"These guys did something to Ema", Natsume said to Ukyo and the group protested.

"Now, I will call the police here if you won't tell us where she is. I'm a lawyer and I can you something called law as my weapon. I can get you in jail for a rape if I want so", Ukyo said and their boss answered:

"Look for her from the old fence. Though I can't promise she is there." Natsume started running to the fence and Ukyo stayed there as the group got away. When Natsume got to the fence he was shocked. He saw a broken fence and the hairclip Ema had had on her hair.

"Ema!" He yelled, but got no answer. He started to slide down the hill. He had to find her, living or dead.

I ran through the forest searching for even one sign of a house or a place where I could hide. The thunder was already on top of me. Huge thunderbolts painted through the sky and a powerful grumble answered. I screamed every time it flashed and tears burned my face.

"Natsume! Natsume where are you?!"I cried and tried to get somewhere. Why wasn't he there when I needed him?

Both of them ran through the woods looking for something. One for a place she could be safe and another for someone to save. So different things, yet so similar. It was just the matter of time when they would find each other.

"Natsume", I cried and collapsed to the ground. I cried while some big raindrops hit my head. After seconds it started to rain pretty powerfully. It was like someone was pouring the rain out of a watering can. Thunder slowly moved away, but left the rain. After a while the rain calmed down. I was sitting there soaking wet. Some random raindrops only hit me.

"Natsume, where are you? You promised that you'll always be there", I said and cried more.

"And I also keep my promises", I heard a voice behind me. I turned around quickly and saw an orange haired boy, with drenched clothes. He was panting. I got up and started to walk for him as fast as I could and did my best at keeping myself up. He started to walk for me and lastly he ran. I ran straight into his arms.

"I'm in heaven right?" I whispered while he gently stroked my messy hair.

"Then you wouldn't be this wet", He whispered.

"Where were you this whole time?" I asked and let some of my bitter tears out.

"Searching for you. I almost got a heart attack when I saw the place where you fell. I'm so sorry", he said.

"What are you sorry about, you had nothing to do with those guys", I said and looked at his face.

"I was so mean. I said some things that weren't even true. I was a total jerk", He answered and let out some tears.

"I didn't mean those things I said to you either. I'm sorry too. It was my fault anyway that I fell down. Please don't cry", I said and wiped his tears of.

"It's not your fault that you fell", Natsume said and hugged me tighter.

"Let's stop blaming each other. It's ridiculous" I laughed.

"Fine, it wasn't our fault", he answered and laughed. There we were, hugging each other, with our drenched yukatas on. Rain had already stopped and started to show us some sky. Natsume raised me up and started to carry me away from the woods.

"I will never forgive you if you let me go" I whispered.

"I won't, I promise", he answered and I hugged him tighter.

"Natsume?"

"Yeah?"

"I love you."

"I love you too."

Natsume found the way out quickly. He carried me all the way to the vacation home. Everybody came to us when they saw us on the road. Masaomi checked all of my injuries while Natsume went for a bath. I went after him. When I came from the bath and ignored everyone when they asked me about what had happened with those guys. I went into the room where Natsume was sleeping and laid down next to him. I pulled myself some of the blanket and closed my eyes. He put his arm around me and as I opened my eyes, he was there, smiling with his purple star eyes. I smiled back with my plain chestnut colored eyes, but I was sure, that Natsume saw something special about them too.

"By the way, happy birthday", he said to me. Indeed, it was my birthday. It was almost half past one on the day of my birth.

"How did you know?" I asked.

"I have my ways. I'll give you your present later", He said quietly.

"This is enough for me", I answered and pushed myself against his chest. We fell asleep before we even noticed it.

"Those two are really close", Ukyo said from the door. Hikaru leaned on the door frame. They watched as a girl and a boy slept.

"More close than you could ever know, Ukyo", Hikaru said and they closed the door.