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Chapter 6:

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Now, the two felt completely helpless. She didn't stop crying. Kagome's shirt was already very wet from the torrent of tear she produced, her shoulders trembled violently but they didn't hear anything from her. In the short time they have been friends, Hana always found a way to cheer them up. And now that she's the one in need of cheering up, they couldn't do anything. So they just stayed with her the whole time until she fell asleep. Really, it was the only thing they could offer her at the time.

The two sleep deprived students woke up early that Sunday morn to check up on Hana only to find their dear friend missing. After they swiftly did their morning routine, they sped out to the direction where Hana's dorm room is located.

A girl with auburn hair slammed the door open. "Uh… What could you possibly want?" She spoke English in such a weird accent. No matter how many times they heard her talk, they never got used to it.

"I'm so sorry to… disturb you but my friend and I were wondering if by… any chance Hana is here right now?" Sango asked, pausing once in a while unsure if she spoke English correctly.

"I thought she was with you guys again. She rarely spends time in here." She rubbed her eyes to get rid of her sleepiness.

"Oh… she spent the night with us. But she was already missing when we woke up." Kagome interjected, "Thank you anyway." Not waiting for a reply, they both dashed towards the common room.

Sango and Kagome asked for the rest of the gang to help them in their search. They've searched for her all morning but she was nowhere to be found.

"Can't you smell her? At least we'll have some lead on her." Miroku walked to a frantic Sango. Even he, THE hentai, knew this was not the right time to play games with her. He can try to hold his instincts for a while.

"I told you I can't smell her. Besides, I even if I wanted to find her, she often covers her scent so…" Inuyasha smacked Miroku right at the back of his head. "I don't have a damn clue how she smells."

After a considerable amount of time of being ignored, Haru decide to make his presence known to the group and said. "I know. But too many scents cover these areas. So it is almost impossible to follow her now."

Miroku finally could not suppress his hentai nature. "Would you care to enlighten us as to why you know how she smells. Perhaps-" And Sango, efficiently cut him off by punching him right on his jaws. He is, indeed, a very battered hentai. Although he deserved it everything he gets…

Kagome suddenly had an idea. "Inuyasha would you like to take us to your brother's house…"

"What the hell! Are you trying to…? Sesshoumaru can wait a little more!" He implied, blushing at his own thoughts.

"No you idiot! He was the last one, beside Kagome and myself, who was with her. So if you just put all the pieces together, he should know more." Sango reprimanded him. And he just blushed. Looks like Miroku had finally rubbed on him.

When they reached the Taisho manor, it was already noon and Inuyasha's mother had been too busy preparing lunch to do anything more than welcoming them warmly. She always prepared lunch on Sundays, so Inutaisho was left to entertain the teenagers. When they mention to him about their lost friend, he immediately told them very helpful details. It seems that the man knows a lot about Hana. Besides, there was no reason for him to be ignorant of Hana's existence.

"Oh really? So you're looking for her? Well, you do have a very serious problem in your hands. You can't find her if she doesn't want to be located." He chuckled as he spoke about Hana.

"What are you talking about old man? How the hell did you know her?" Inuyasha gruffly told his father. The group stared at him in disbelief and wondered how he could talk to his father like he was just talking to another kid he could easily bully.

The older inuyoukai ignored his son's rudeness and just informed the group. "She is Sesshoumaru's first degree cousin. She rarely visited so you never met her."

"So she's my blood too?" Everyone just sweat-dropped at how dense Inuyasha could be.

"Sesshoumaru's. Not yours. Her mother is Sesshoumaru's aunt." Inutaisho elaborated.

"And you never told me about that because?" Inuyasha crossly asked his father.

"You never asked." Inutaisho smiled. Amusement clearly reflected in his eyes.

"Mr. Taisho, what did you mean when you said if she doesn't want to be found?" Haru asked.

"Well, she lived with Sesshoumaru for about 2 and a half years. Then she disappeared when he tried to convince her to go back to her parents. We tried to find her but we never got clue to where she stayed." Inutaisho's tone was very serious.

Going to Hana's house was very, very, eventful. Sesshoumaru had been forced to accompany them, for no one knew where her house was. Inuyasha's father explained to them how to go there but it was no use. There were many twists and turns, so they would probably get lost. They just walked towards the Taisho's residence so they had no vehicle. Almost everyone in the group was a reckless driver. Lastly they were too many to fit in the biggest car they could find, but they managed.

When they were done stretching their legs, they finally realized at how huge the house was. Who would have thought that their friend was filthy rich. She even wanted to work with Kagome at their restaurant.

When they entered the house, the first scene they saw was their friend with a very bad hair day crouching low grasping something at her back.

"HANA!" Sango squealed.

The said girl was too busy to even notice them ."Uh…. I'm a bit busy… Mother is in the gardens…" she muttered as she continued what she had been doing since they arrived.

"Damn it! We came all the way here just to be ignored!" Inuyasha yelled at her. That seemed to make her jump.

"Uh… hi… Uh… what are doing here?" she stuttered. Then something black appeared behind her back.

"We were worried sick! You just vanished." Sango's worry was evident in her eyes.

Haru decided to ask a question that has bothered him for a while. "Where have you been?"

"Ne, ne, oneecha… who are they?" a young girl about five tugged at Hana's pants. All eyes went from her to the young girl. She looked like a miniature Hana except that the little girl had a huge set of teal eyes, and a dirty blond hair.

"Who is that little girl?" Kagome asked. She just loved little children.

"Why does that man smell like me and you?" the little girl added on top of Kagome's question.

"WAIT! You're all talking at the same time!" she effectively shut everyone up, except Sesshoumaru of course. He didn't say anything to begin with.

"I'll explain everything to you guys later. Not here." But it seems that one was not pleased with her answer and tugged at her jeans again.

"Oh, yeah… Guys, this is little Shizune, my younger sister."

She made a little snort and said. "I'm not that little."

For the first time since last night, Kagome and Sango saw their friend smile, although it was a strained one.

"I'm sorry. And that man over there. He smells kinda like you because he is your cousin." The girl smiled brightly and didn't seem to be bothered by Sesshoumaru's blank stare.

Right that moment, her mother came inside to see what was all the noise was about. "Oh dear, I did not know you were expecting visitors."

She just sighed. "Mother. These are my friends… and uh… Sesshoumaru."

"Oh hello! Nice to finally meet all of you… My daughter told me a lot about you!" her mother pointed out. Surprisingly getting all their corresponding names correct. "Sesshoumaru! You grew quite a lot since last I saw you! Oh, is that you Haru!" she added.

"Ok… Mom, I'll go with them for a while and fill them up with the details… okay?" she asked. Saving herself from further embarrassment.

It took them quite some time to leave. Shizune, Hana's younger sibling, didn't want her to let go of her hand. She said that if she will let go, her oneecha might disappear again. So they decided to take her with them. Since they had to go back to the Yoshihito's they decided to just go to the park near there. That way, they could just walk back and so the child will be distracted while they talk.

Shizune became fast friends with Haru, so when they arrived at the park, they decided to let him watch over the child. She had quickly forgot about her amusing theory about her sister disappearing.

They stayed in a secluded area of the park where there weren't many people so they could interrogate Hana to their heart's content. Only Sesshoumaru stayed a bit away from the group, leaning against the tree.

Hana didn't want to go in details, well, at least not right now. So she just gave them a little overview. "Uh… Where should I start?" she spoke to herself.

"Feh. At the beginning woman!" Inuyasha retorted. With that, he earned the heated glares of all three women. Which effectively shut up his big mouth.

"I ran away when I was fourteen because my father and I had an… argument. I young then and I couldn't fend for myself, so I stayed with my closest relative." She paused to make sure they understood everything.

"The Taishos tended to all my need. After more than two years, Sesshoumaru finally tried to convince me to go back. It did work, so I went back here, but I got cold feet at the last minute so I went into hiding again. I didn't tell Sesshoumaru or anyone else that I'm back here. So when I saw him in the library, I fled and tried to avoid him as much as possible. I was… ashamed." And she ended her explanation there.

Inuyasha spoke first. "Why haven't I seen you before?"

"You never went to Sesshoumaru's flat so you never seen me genius." Hana smirked.

"Why didn't you just go back to Sesshoumaru?" Sango asked as she rubbed her back in a soothing way.

"My father knows I stay with him… He might come and get me. And if I told them where I was, if father asked them, they might be put in an uneasy situation. I know they wouldn't leak any information to my father but if he asked them, they also couldn't lie to him right?" She said as she stared at her sister playing on the swing near enough to see Haru and her, and far enough not to be heard.

Miroku was the next to talk after that. "So… why were you ashamed?"

"I was a burden to him for more than two years and I didn't even tell him where I was for the past eight months. I assumed that he thought I was ungrateful." Her voice was low. Barely audible, but he heard it clearly.

Kagome was very sad that they haven't patched things up to prevent all of this. They had no contact, whatsoever for already three years! She would have died of loneliness.

But she was curious as to why she really ran away. She had a feeling that Hana left something important out. Before she could stop herself, she blurted out her thoughts. "Was it so important for you to resort to such drastic measures?" Then when Kagome realized what she said, she added, "I'm sorry, you don't have to answer that… it's too persona-"

But she was cut off when Hana lifted her head up to stare at the sky and responded, " I didn't like his idea about what… uh… I should do when I am at the right age. You can change what you think about something but you can never change how you feel towards that something."

After a few minutes of silence, she spoke again. "Have you every been in love before?" Hana turned from the blue sky to Kagome.

Kagome was caught off guard by that question. Then she answered. "No… I… haven't been in love."

She quickly looked away from Hana who was smiling. 'It was just a small little, tiny, fib. Scratch that! I just have a little crush. It would soon go away, like my old crush on Inuyasha. I never told anyone about that though. But like I said, it vanished after a year. So I'm sure that I get over my infatuation with him... Sooner or later…' Kagome desperately tried to convince herself. Denial.

Inuyasha couldn't take it anymore. So he left. Saying that he has to stay away from all that sappy drama. How insensitive. Typical.

Sango on the other hand understood Kagome's feelings more than she let on. She knew that her precious best friend started falling for her 'crush' a few years back. 'She's in the stage of denial. Ha! Never thought that would happen.' Sango mused.

Sesshoumaru heard everything they discussed. And what his cousin had told Kagome bothered him. "You can change what you think about something but you can never change how you feel towards that something." Her voice rang through his head and he scoffed at that absurd phrase. And he hated himself for being bothered by it.

Hana tired to smile at her circumstance but it wasn't the same happy smile. Her happiness didn't reach her eyes as they usually do in her eyes… If only she would tell even just Kagome and Sango what was actually going on with her life.

"So Hana, are you going back with us?" Sango asked. She hoped she would go with them and prayed that she had a car. At least they wouldn't be all cramped up in one car.

She was more than happy to go back to the dorm but she was also very reluctant about leaving her younger sister here. Shizune will have have a fit!

"I'm sure she'd want to drive in her car with you dear." Her mother interrupted.

Hana was so confused. "What car?" she said.

Kagome smiled. She had a good guess that her mother bought her a car.

Mrs. Yoshihito was a bit nervous. The group was aware of that.

"I bought a car for you this year…." Her voice was very small

Mrs. Yoshihito always bought a gift for Hana. She didn't want to be empty handed if her daughter came home for her birthday or Christmas. And her efforts were no put in vain. Hana did come home. Only a few years late but at least she came right?

Hana's mother led them to a garage, where a brand new silver Porsche sat. Hana still couldn't believe that her mother bought her a car! She was dumbfounded. But she was snapped out of her trance when her mom offered the keys to the car.

"I wished my mom would trust me enough to buy me a car!" Sango groaned as soon as they were out of the Yoshihito's lands. Kagome and Sango rode with Hana while the men went with Sesshoumaru.

"Sango, you have to be a reliable driver so that your mom would get you a car. And that will be the day…" Kagome teased.

"Look who's talking?" She retorted. That definitely made their friend laugh. Hana had been slightly back to normal since she set foot inside the car. And other girls were grateful that she was back to normal again but they were worried that they will have an untimely death with Hana as the driver.

After that, there was a comfortable silence between the three of them and after a while, Sango broke it.

"And I thought Sesshoumaru wouldn't want unnecessary attention drawn towards him. If it was true, they why on earth would he drive a Ferrari? That's a pretty expensive car and that would make people curious as to who is the rich dude driving it around" Sango suddenly said, totally off the topic.

Their driver laughed again. "You thought he couldn't be a tad bit more arrogant than he already is! That is a total understatement. His arrogance can reach higher than heaven if he wanted." Hana said in between her laughter.

Kagome and Sango gave a sigh of relief when they arrived at Tokyo University, all in one piece and unscathed. It was a very long and exhausting trip but Sango seemed determined to see every bit of the car. So she was the one who found the numerous gifts at the back. 'Her mother sure loves her.' She thought as she saw all of them labeled "From: Mom"

'So the problem must definitely be her father… But what exactly happened?' she was dragged out of her musings when Hana uttered "Woah" when she saw what Sango was staring at.

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A/N: So… chapter 6 is done! Hana still has a secret, a very important secret… You have to stick around to find out what it is. And I hope I made sense when she said the line that bothered Sesshou. Anyway, thanks for all your reviews! Gimme more! Hahahaha.

If there are errors… Sorry! I was in a hurry… :D

I might have to change the rating to M for the next chapter due to uh…. Language…. Is that fine with you guys? I need your opinion… because I can always change the 7th chapter if you don't want to read something with bad language…

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