Chapter 3

Momiji banged on the door. "Hari Hari! Open up"

Hatori opened the door "Momiji...What brings you here?" he asked.

Momiji panted. "Yume…alive…she's still alive"

Hatori took a step backwards. "Momiji…what did you say…?" he had a hopeful look as his words flew from his mouth.

Momiji nodded and walked inside, he plopped down on Hatori's small futon.

Hatori sat at his desk, looking at the cloth the 'Hitori' girl dropped, then to a picture of Yume.

"She's alive" he smiled.

Momiji explained what he had heard and saw.

"Hari you should talk to her more next time you see her...Okay? She misses you…a lot." Momiji looked at Hatori and smiled. "No more sadness okay?"

Hatori nodded. "Well I think I will talk to her next time…but for now…go home and don't speak of you seeing her to anyone…understood?" He asked with his normal cold tone.

Momiji nodded and went outside and started to skip home.

Hatori couldn't get the thought of Yume being alive out of his head.

Later that night Hatori woke in a hot sweat. He had yet another dream, about her, about Yume.

"I must see her" he murmured.

Hatori got out of his bed and walked outside.

He popped a cigarette from his half-empty pack into his mouth, and then slowly lit it with a silver pocket lighter.

He took a few puffs before he noticed someone in the shadow's approaching his house.

The person slowly revealed their identity.

It was the very person he had just thought about…it was Yume.

She gasped suddenly then turned to run.

Hatori wasn't about to let her get away from him again.

He followed after her inexorably, uncertain as of what he would or even should say.

Hatori grabbed her wrist. "Yume" he said to her in a stern voice.

She jumped a bit when she heard her name flow from his mouth like it used to.

"Umm my name isn't Yume.You have the wrong…" her voice was cut off by Hatori's.

"No I have the right person, you are my love, you are my Yume."

Yume blushed and turned to face Hatori. A smiled flew across her face. He smiled and spoke softly "Come back to my house."

Yume hesitated to answer. "O...okay." she walked back with him, their hands intertwined with one another's the whole way back.

Yume walked into his house and sat down on his futon softly." Your house," She smiled then continued her sentence. "Hasn't changed a one bit."

Hatori declared. "Oh but it has. Come, look on my desk." Yume jokingly sighed, got up and walked over to his desk and immediately noticed the difference.

The picture of Kana…was now…her with a small diamond ring beside it.

She smiled and cried tears of joy slowly flowed down her small pale cheeks.

Hatori sat down on his bed, as well as Yume.

Hatori looked at her. Yume gulped hard then spoke. "I'm sorry, Hatori…but I must go…I'll…hopefully see you later." She quickly snuck out.

Hatori felt useless as she left. He felt as if that was the last time he would ever see her as "Yume".

After that he would only see her as "Hitori", as alone.

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Well there it is!! Only a few more to type. And I apologize to my readers for not updating

By the way Hitori means Alone...So...There's a little Japanese to English lesson for ya.