Hello! Sorry this took so long to post up. I was at Penn Relays making myself known! It's the best experience ever! Good looking boys, nice races, Olympic deals, it was great. I'm looking forward to go next year, so now I'm going to work hard. Anwayz, here's the chatper.

Started on April 22, 2006.

Finished on April 23, 2006.

See the stone set in your eyes

See the thorn twist in your side

I wait for you

Sleight of hand and twist of fate

On a bed of nails she makes me wait

And I wait...without you

-With our Without you by Utada Hikaru

Who'll raise you to heaven and drop you to hell all at once

By: Rampaging Sorrow

Chapter Two: And I'm already up to some old and some new tricks

"I haven't seen her in three days. She just came home and after that day of happiness and stuff, she left… that's not the point, Asahi. Ask Michael where she is… he's gone too? This is weird, brother. I want to know where she is. I have Yahiko and he's told me everything about what he's done there, but I need to hear from her.

"It's as if she just came to show she was back and just said fuck it after we knew she was here."

"I understand you. I feel the same way about Michael. His siblings are worried about him because he only stayed in this house for ten minutes. After that, he just got up and left. He said he would be back, but he's been gone for two days, not three. They're probably together, but I doubt that a little bit because they left on different days."

"This is confusing. I'll get back to you when I figure out where she's at. I'll try calling her again, but she most likely won't pick up. Whatever she's doing, she does not want to tell me or let me get the slightest clue."

"I'll call Michael again as well, Shinji. Talk to you later, okay? Watch your family over there."

"I am... alright. Bye."

Shinji Kamiya hung up the phone and he looked at his two oldest children before he shook his head. They sighed and they shut their cellphones.

"We text everybody and they said the same thing. Nobody's seen her. Kenshin's out looking for her right now with the boys and Misao and Tara, but they keep coming up with nothing."

"Did she take clothes?" the two nodded and put up five fingers.

"Five outfits and two pairs of shoes are gone. I wonder if Yahiko knows where she is."

"Nah; she wouldn't tell him. He can't keep secrets to well as we all know. Let's keep thinking of places to look."

As they looked on a map again, the small feet that belonged to Yahiko jogged off to the stairs. He pulled up his pants before he took each step at a time, his small hands holding the banister as he didn't want to fall. Once he got to the top, he jogged to Kaoru's room and he saw the small blue phone that was laying on the bed.

Yahiko shut her door quietly before his face changed from a smile to a serious expression. He went to her bed and he climbed up on top of it before he grabbed a pencil and paper. He opened the flip phone before he thought about the number he was supposed to dial.

"Oh yeah! Kao-kao put it in my hand." He opened his hand and then he pushed the buttons that he was supposed to use to call.

879-198-223-5684

He put the phone to his ears with his chubby hand before he whistled and he waited as it was going through. He then let out a soft irritated sigh as his attention was running low. Just as he was about to hang up, he heard his name being called out from over the phone.

"Kao-Kao, are you there?" he asked quietly.

"Yeah. What's going on over at the house right now? Are they still looking for me, Michael, and Uncle Tytto? Remember, no english right… now."

"Hanno inviato Kenshin di Zio e gli altri fuori da cercarla. Il papà, Shuichi, e Genia sono nelle persone di chiamata di hosue."

"How much of the map have they finished searching?"

"La mappa si quasi fatto e ho sentito che vanno alle altre città che lei ha visitato l'anno scorso."

"I see…are they anywhere near Nealc Dna Elpmis? This is most important."

"Uh uh. They're far-Ooops."

"It's okay. Keep this phone with you and write this down. After you write down what I'm about to tell you, keep it in your pocket. Somebody's going to call you in thirty minutes and you have to read this to them and tell them that Kao-kao said it. But make sure the first three numbers are 881. Okay?"

"Okay."

Yahiko went to Kaoru's small laptop before he pressed a button. The screen instantly lit up again and as he said he was ready, Kaoru spoke very slowly and loud since there was music blasting behind her. Yahiko pressed the keys with his small hands as fast as he could and after Kaoru made him spell-check the whole thing, he had the words correct and he printed it out after Kaoru told him what to press.

"Good. Now delete all of this and turn the computer off. Take the chip out that hold my information and hold it for me, okay? I'm gonna come pick it up tonight along with you."

"Okay. Bye-bye, Kao-kao."

"Bye-bye, Yahiko. And thank you very much for helping me out. You'll get a treat when I get home."

"Okay!" Yahiko heard her laugh and he giggled himself before he hung up the phone and he put it in his pocket with the paper. Taking everything off the computer, Yahiko turned it off and jumped out of the chair. As he went to the door and he opened it with the rope that was tied to the handle, he made sure her computer was turned off before he shut her door and went down the hall.

"Ssssh." Shinji said and as they saw Yahiko come in, they sighed and they started talking again. As the baby of the family went to the screen door, he looked back with narrowed eyes before he stopped and listened to every bit of information that was being said. His eyes opened and as he went outside, he slid the screen shut and he ran around with the ball and the dog.

'I gotta call Kao-Kao. Daddy's heading for that area.'

"Kaoru, you better not be lying to me!"

"I don't lie! I swear on the ground I walk on that it's all gone! We sold everything before we left Italy and there's nothing left. Now, my request… is out."

"What?"

"We want out!"

Kaoru spun around as she clapped her hands and she criss-crossed her legs before she began to walk sideways to the right in fast steps. She criss-crossed again with the person in front of her before she moved back to the left and she took his hand before they locked legs and hopped around until they had switched sides.

"Why do you want out!"

"I'm home now, so there's no reason to do this anymore! I can't have this coming into my life over here! It could cause some serioud damage to them and I don't want to be the reason that people over here are getting in the cross fire! If I go down, then let me just go down by myself! That's what me and Michael decided!"

"I see!... We'll have to finish everything and I promise I'll let you out!"

"Thank you so much." Kaoru said with a smile and as the two put their arms above their head and shook left to right, Kaoru winding her body around until they started to criss-cross again. They jumped in opposite directions and then came back to face each other before Kaoru's phone vibrated in her pocket. The two began to hop and spin around in circles as they laughed and sang the words. Her phone vibrated again and then she stopped and sighed.

She opened it up after taking it out before she narrowed her eyes at the message. She read it a few times before it finally sunk in. She cursed loudly before she called Michael and told him to hurry up.

"I'm right here with Tytto!" Kaoru looked over to their voices and she jogged over before she bounced and gave a worried glance.

"What happened, Kaoru! I was getting some digits!" Tytto stared at her with bored gray eyes. His hair was black and it was slightly spiked up as he crossed his arms, Michael laughing and shaking his head at the built teen's glare.

"Shut up and listen! Yahiko text me-thank god I taught him- and he said that they're starting to cover this area! Is the car parked away safely!" the two nodded before Tytto looked over at the screen, his deep voice coming up as he smiled and pointed.

"This video's amazing, Kaoru. It's so crazy that it's cool. Us Japanese got issues, huh?" she nodded with a smile as she took his hand before the two boys joined in the dancing. Kaoru smiled at them and as they put their hands in the air and shook left to right, they skipped the criss-crossing and they started to hop around while spinning in a circle, the Kamiyas having the most fun as they laughed and joked about.

"Ciao… questo è Yahiko.(Hello…This is yahiko)"

"Are you Kaoru's baby brother, Yahiko?"

"Uh huh! Il Kao-kao me ha detto di la leggere una carta con le informazioni su esso. Lei amerebbe per lo che io leggere a lei?(Kao-kao told me to read you a paper with information on it. Would you like me to read it to you?)"

"It would be greatly appreciated if you could read it to me, Yahiko."

"Okay, mister."

Yahiko went in his pocket and as he pulled the paper out, he cut his finger. He felt tears rush to his eyes, but he quickly swallowed it down and sucked on the hurt digit. After he let go, he opened the paper and he smoothed it out. He then looked at the words and he started to translate them mentally so that he wouldn't get caught.

"You ready to say the stuff for me, Yahiko?"

"Yup." Yahiko blinked and he read it again before he started to speak. As he told the man, he pinched his injured finger until it couldn't bleed anymore and then sucked on it like he remembered Kaoru doing to her small cuts. Once he was done, the man on the other end sighed.

"Thank you very much, Yahiko. Tell your sister I said that she has a few more deals and after that there's nothing else for her to do, okay? Remember this for me because this is very important."

"Okay. Bye-bye mister."

"Laughs Bye-bye Yahiko."

Yahiko hung up the phone and he tore the paper up into shreads before he put it in the garbage. He heard big footsteps and he grabbed the phone before sitting in the chair and grabbing the crayons that were left there from before. He started to hum and color innocently and as he looked up, he saw Kenshin with Aoshi as they went into the fridge.

"Hey, Yahiko." Yahiko giggled as Kenshin messed up his hair and then the two boys grabbed their drinks and their snacks before they picked up the phone that was attached to the wall. Yahiko went back down to his coloring, but his eyes shut as his hearing kicked into overdrive. It was something that Kaoru had taught him to spy and he thought that he should use it now since they looked serious.

Aoshi's mouth moved and as Kenshin listened, he looked over at Yahiko to see his eyes shut and his hands still moving as if he memorized what he was coloring. He arched his eyebrow at that before he pointed. Aoshi looked over as well before he shrugged his shoulders and went back to the conversation.

"You're saying that you saw her car, but she was driving towards us and not away? Where the hell is she going then, Tyler?"

"I don' t know, but I tried to follow her. The farthest I got was past your town. After that, I lost her. It was as if she just picked her car up and floated away or something. She's learned how to use her car perfectly. I'm about to enter Nealc Dna Elpmis. "

"I see… get back to us when you think you've found her, okay? Try calling Michael again and if he doesn't pick up, text it and I'll tell my dad… Okay. See you later."

Yahiko's eyes opened and he turned the page before he smiled at Aoshi again and waved. Aoshi gave him a soft smile and a wave before they started to walk out the room. Yahiko's smile slowly faded and he narrowed his eyes as his lips formed a thin line and he watched their bodies retreating.

"Kao-kao's gonna get caught… she has to come home…" he wrote something down in the picture and he opened his camera before he took a picture of it and he started to program the phone to send it. As he sat there and did it slowly, he only hoped that his big sister wouldn't get in trouble.

Kaoru yawned as she drove through her town and she listened to the CD. Michael and Tytto were asleep in their seats, their arms crossed and their heads leaned back as they looked to be ready for anything.

"Finally… I'm home." She turned off her radio at the beginning of her street and she drove down quietly before pulling up into the driveway. She tapped the other two before they woke up and yawned.

"We here?" Kaoru nodded before she picked her phone up and called her favorite sibling.

"Yahiko. Open the door, okay?... the back door, kiddo…. I'm home now…" Kaoru hung up the phone after he said, 'okay' and they got out before she opened the trunk and grabbed the suitcase that was there. They carried it instead of rolling it and they moved to the back quickly. She dropped to the floor and she put her ear to the dog door before she sighed.

"Yahiko, put the alarm system in. It's 70-02-90-03." She heard a small 'okay' and buttons being pressed before she unlocked the door and they let themselves inside. She picked up the pajama-wearing boy before she kissed his cheek.

"You did what I told you to do?"

"Uh huh. He said thank you and that have a… a few more deals. Then you're done." He smiled as he remembered and she nodded before she set him down and they sat the table. Kaoru kept the lights off and as she locked the door and put the alarm system back on, Michael pulled out a map and sat Yahiko in his lap while Tytto munched on a sandwich that he had been holding.

"So, what are we going to do now? We told him where the stuff's at in Italy, but after that we have to get over here if we want our share."

"I know, I know." Kaoru bit her thumb as she pulled her hair behind her ear and then she heard footsteps. Michael cursed and rolled the map up quickly before Tytto grabbed his weapon from his hip. He stood at the door as the other two hid and once it opened, he raised it and pressed it against red hair.

"Don't move." Tytto felt something pressed against his stomach and he looked down to see a gun similar to his. He glared harder at the red-headed person and then he heard his voice.

"Drop your gun and I won't put a hole in your stomach."

"That's a lot of words coming from somebody who's about to get blown the fuck away."

"Stop it, Kenshin. Quit it, Tytto." Tytto looked over at Kaoru as she came out into focus and she turned on the lights before she sat Yahiko down and asked them to drop their guns. Tytto put his away with an angry glance towards Kenshin before he went back to his seat and pulled Yahiko into his lap since he had taken it.

"This is your boyfriend?" Kaoru nodded as he put his gun back. She heard more footsteps and then she cursed before she hit her head against the table repeatedly.

"So much for us sneaking to bed safely, huh?"

"Can it, Mike."

Yahiko wiped his tears as his father came down on him hard. Kaoru tried to explain that it was all her doing, but Shinji wouldn't have any of it as he wanted to teach Yahiko a powerful lesson.

"Yahiko, you need to learn that whenever we're looking for Kaoru and we're worried about her, that you need to speak up and not hide any information from us."

"B-but Kao-kao told me not to! I made a promise to her that I wouldn't tell!"

"I do not care, Yahiko. You can't always listen to your sister. Obviously, this whole year has not taught her responsibilities like I thought it would. I was a fool to let you go and learn how to lie like her."

Kaoru balled her fists and as her father sighed and he tried to pull Yahiko away, Kaoru got up and she moved farther away with him.

"Put down my son-"

"Listen to me, father." Shinji glared at her tone of voice and as she shifted Yahiko, he rested his head against her and she ran her fingers through his hair before she spoke.

"Yahiko's not apart of what was going on. If you're going to punish somebody, then punish me. I told Yahiko to call me and I told him to make sure that he listened to you guys in case you were close to where we were. If you were close, we were going to leave and head straight for home. Seeing as you never came close, we never came here earlier."

"That's not the point! The point is that he has to learn not to listen to things that might hurt him afterward!"

"Look, if I knew that you were going to slam the mallet down and take all of his things away, I would have never made him do it. I asked him to do it to help me, not to help him get punished!"

"You're not understand my methods Kaoru. Stand down."

"Cut the child some slack! We've been together for a fucking year and as far as I was concerned, he was my son over there because we did everything together and I've been raising him with what he needs to know!"

"Don't you dare curse at me, Kaoru. Show some respect!" Kaoru gave him a dirty look and as Yahiko coughed, she rubbed his back and told him to calm down.

Tytto got up and Shinji looked at him before he turned to face him and he put his hand out as he bowed politely

"Kamiya Tytto, Uncle Shinji. Watashi o shira nai ga, watashi ha anata no yori furui shimai de ichiban toshishita no kodomo de aru."

"Oh really now? And which sister is this?"

"Ayame Kamiya. She sent me to Italy once she had found out that Kaoru was over there with just Michael. I was basically her free ticket to Japan and during the holidays we were in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Okinawa with the family that is over there."

"Oh really? And why are you here?"

"Because I'm going to school here now and I'm going to find my own place to live. My father's left me millions of dollars and I'm going to learn how to live by myself. Kaoru promised that she would find me a place to live that's close to here so that I won't be living in a big place by myself."

"I see… you may have a seat." Tytto sat down before he cracked his knuckles and gave Kenshin a glare. Kenshin returned it in the same intensity before he turned his head to Yahiko blowing his nose.

"Now back to you, Kaoru. Put him down and let him walk to me." Kaoru ignored the command and she got up. With a spin of her foot, a crack was heard and she walked right past her father and up the stairs. Yahiko's soft cries could be heard as he cried about all his toys and his PSP being confiscated by his father for the next two weeks.

"That girl is going to get it. I swear when she gets back downstairs I'm going to let her know what's going on in this house. She will not come here and think that she can run my household."

"You don't know a damn thing about what we did in Italy! Don't stand here and talk like you've been with me for the whole year attached to my hip and taking pictures for everybody to see! That's total bullshit if you think I'm going to settle down the way you want me to."

"I don't give a damn what you think is bullshit! You sure as hell aren't going to be in my house with the kind of bullshit that you're giving right now! If you want to keep doing it, then get the fuck out and go back to Italy."

"I'd love to! Fuck this place! As far as I'm concerned, this place could kiss my ass! If it were up to me, I would've stayed there for another year and just did what the fuck I was doing! Better than this place!"

"You're not going to come in my hosue cursing at me as if you run things in here! I don't give a flying fuck if you have some anger issue with me and I sure as hell don't care if you want to rebel. But you're not going to do it in my house! I'm tired of you rebelling, Kaoru!"

"I'm not rebelling! I just got here so how can I rebel!"

"You haven't been here for three days! You came home and left! And so did you, Michael! Your father is outraged!"

Michael noded with his head down and then Kaoru got up. Kenshin saw her arm shaking and he told her to sit down.

"Kaoru, calm down and relax."

"It's better for her to speak her mind right now and get it out of the way."

Kenshin's hard violet eyes turned to Tytto as he spoke from across the room. He didn't like him one bit and as he folded his hands, Tytto returned the glare that was coming to him.

"Kaoru should speak her mind now because she doesn't want this fight again later on. It's best that she expressed her feelings so that his household doesn't have the same problems as before."

"True, but it's not wise that Kaoru end up swinging at her father. Why not just rest on this and be calmer in the morning." Tytto rolled his eyes at Kenshin's calm methods and then he spoke up.

"Kaoru has more sense than that. They should just speak now and let it go."

"It's late. You can tell that they're both tired and angry. Sleep on it, relax, and talk in the morning."

The two kept arguing about it until Tytto got tired of Kenshin's answers. To him, Kenshin was WAY too calm and he needed to learn something real quick if they were going to learn to stand each other. As he got up, he stripped his jacket and Shinji saw his gun.

"What are you doing with a gun, Tytto?" Tytto shook his head to say 'nothing' before he ran his fingers through his hair and he pinched the bridge of his nose. After that, he spoke.

"You, Kenshin, are what we call back in Japan a "Ikuji nashi no roba."

"No you didn't.Kaoru gasped and she put her hand over her mouth as Kenshin got very angry.

It didn't help that he was tired and Tytto just made it worse by insulting him and calling him a "Sissy Ass." Kenshin cracked his knuckles and then he gave a soft smile. Kaoru knew he was going to do something, but as he walked over to him, Tytto glared at him and was ready for anything.

"That was a nice name, kid. Really humorous if you look at it from my eyes. But there's something you should know."

"Oh really? And what is that?" Kenshin's smile faded into a glare and he pushed him down into the chair before he glared at him.

"You haven't been here for a good minute. Don't come around here thinking that just because you say something that I'm going to follow. If that's how they've listened to you, then you've got another thing coming with me. I'm not one to be fucked with and I'll put you in your place real quick."

"I haven't been here for a minute, but I know more about your girl than you do."

"Wha'd you just say?" Kenshin grabbed him by his collar and Tytto told Kaoru to stop as she was going to grab Kenshin and tell him to relax. Kenshin's eyes were gold and he glared at him before Tytto spoke with a slick smile.

"I said it. So what? I know way more about her than you do. I know how she thinks… how she reacts… how she feels… how she does things…everything about her that you think you know, I do better.

"It's been a long year, red-head. And even though people don't change… not everybody falls under that category."

Tytto grabbed him and he threw him off before Kenshin turned and aimed for his face. Nobody ever saw Kaoru move, but they saw her hand holding Kenshin's as she stood in front of Tytto and blocked the hit. A smacking sound was heard, but it wasn't that painful as Kaoru grabbed his fist and looked at him seriously.

"Tytto. Arresto che scopa intorno con la sua testa. Kenshin. Calm your ass down and relax yourself. He's messing with you."

Kenshin pulled his hand away and the two went to their seats before Shinji ran his fingers through his hair and sat down. Before Kaoru could speak, Shinji opened his angry eyes and he said what he had to say in the most dangerous voice possible.

"I'll say this only once and I'll never say this again. As long as youare living under my house with my money holding you up and taking you through your education, you won't ever dare pull some stupid shit like this with my youngest son again. I don't care what the fuck you were doing, and how it was being done. You won't ever talk Yahiko into doing anything and you'll leave him out of any daring stunts that you want to do.

"That goes for you two boys as well. Leave my children as well and Asahi's youngest too. If I find out that they were used for something, then say goodbye because your asses are gone. Understand me?"

They nodded, but the three secretly had their fingers crossed as they bowed their heads in apology. Shinji told them to go to bed, so as they left, Tytto went and got his things. Kaoru went to the kitchen and as Michael and Tytto went upstairs, Kenshin sighed and he put his head in his hands.

"I'm losing my grip. That brat had me on the fritz just now."

"It's alright, Kenshin. It's late and we're all tired. Let's just wait until they're upstairs and settled in before we head to bed. I don't trust Kaoru one bit right now because she's pulling some dysfunctional stunts that are getting her in trouble. I can tell."

They stopped talking as they heard singing and they turned to see Kaoru walking with a chocolate milk in her hand. She had bounces in her step and as she reached the steps, she went backwards before she started walking up the steps. She went backwards down and she just laughed to herself before she began to spin on the middle step. Once she jogged up the steps and was out of sight, Kenshin frowned.

"What's wrong, Kenshin?" Kenshin let out a breath of irritated air before he looked at Shinji with tired gold eyes.

"Kaoru didn't even address me. She's hiding from me now, and she's never done that before. It was the other way around for a little bit."

"It's okay, Kenshin. She'll open up to you after she gets settled in."

"I know, but I'm worried about her, Shuichi…

"She's really not the same."

R.S: Alrighty! And the second chapter is done! The new character is Kaoru's cousin Tytto from Japan and he and Kenshin do not like each other at the moment.

What is Kaoru doing that has Yahiko delivering messages? What does she want to get out of?

They'll be answered through the story and you'll just have to wait and see what happens.

Preview for Chapter Three:

I don't want to tell you, because I know how you'll react

"You're the best at dancing to this song, huh?"

"It is my song, so why not bring out the romance and dance to it?"

"Kaoru, will you sit and talk to me?"

"There's nothing to talk about, Kenshin. There are just somethins I can't tell you right now."

"You act as if you know me! Don't sit here and talk like you know my lifestyle, dammit!"

"My father is dead, so get the fuck out of my face talking as if you know about him!"

"Look here, punk. I don't give a fuck who you are and where you're from. Fuck with me again, and I swear that you're going to end up with some stiches."

" Like I said before, I'm not one to be fucked around with and you're lucky you're her family. Otherwise, I would fuck you up."