Angelic: Hello readers and welcome to the Identity Journal chapter 3. I'm your host Angelic always bringing you stories of Hitomi's resolve to find her parents and the truth about herself. Today's side story will take a look at Daichi thoughts during chapter nine before Hitomi reeks chaos throughout the entire manor.

Mixed Feelings

The Stars were hovering brightly in the sky as Daichi sit on the porch looking at the stars in the night sky. Tomorrow his worse enemy Hitomi would be executed on the charges of killing Hoshi-sama who had been the protector of the village. Hitomi herself had said that she hadn't killed him, and in a sense he believed her seeing as he was the only family that she had. It was a very confusing position that they were in seeing as no one knew the truth at all. No matter how much Daichi hated her or how much he wanted to her dead. He just couldn't bring himself to believe that Hitomi was responsible for Hoshi-sama death. Letting out a light sigh Daichi looks up at the stars shimmering in the night sky. Memories of Him and Hitomi looking up at the night sky together floods his mind as they had been friends just for that one night. Shaking that thought away from his mind Daichi head back into the manor. His feeling of what to believe in absolute chaos.

"Why am I having such a hard time accepting Hitomi's punishment? This what I've wanted ever since I was eight, but now that its coming true why am I so confused?" thought Daichi as he began wondering the manor with no destination in mind.

"There you are Onii-sama! I've been looking for you," piped Eiji as he comes over to his brother's side who was currently in deep thought about something,

"What wrong Daichi you looked a little troubled," pointed out Eiji as Daichi just give him a small smile.

"I'm not sure what to believe anymore Eiji," whispered Daichi as her ran his hand through his short black colored hair while Eiji gave him a puzzled look.

"Is it about Hitomi?" asked Eiji causing Daichi eyes to glaze over in confusion as he was unsure about the whole situation.

"Hey Eiji what do you believe is the truth? Do you really think that Hitomi killed Hoshi-sama?" questioned Daichi throwing his brother off guard for a moment.

"I really don't think that she would do something like that, but who else could've possibly done it? I think this for the best since our village will finally have peace after Hitomi is dead," explained Eiji as Daichi let out another sigh.

"Your probably right but I'm not convinced that she done it," replied Daichi as memories of him, his brother, and the village boy teasing Hitomi come into play inside his head.

"Onii-sama do you truly hate Hitomi or do you like her?" asked Eiji as Daichi is completely caught off guard by this sudden question.

"What are you talking about of course I hate her! She nothing but a pathetic Hanyo who will amount to nothing in the end!" shouted Daichi as he felt a tiny visible pain within his own heart.

"That pathetic girl… She promised that she wouldn't allow anyone to kill her before I did!" cried Daichi as Eiji sees tears leaking from his brothers eyes. He didn't understand why he was crying or what brought it on so suddenly, but the only thing he could do to comfort his brother was to hold on tightly to him.

"Damn it all! When did it come to this I was suppose to be the one to end her life!" shouted Daichi as the tears would not cease coming from his eyes.

"Why don't you accept dad offer of executing her yourself Onii-sama?" questioned Eiji as he saw it as his perfect chance to fulfill his dream of bringing death to the Hanyo girl.

"It not the same! I want to kill her with my own strength with no strings attached, but now I'll never be able to do it now," sobbed Daichi staining his brother's clothing with his tears.

"Your desire to kill Hitomi and always attack her is your own way of showing that you care. Isn't it Onii-sama?" deduced Eiji as Daichi simply remains silent to Eiji remark.

Feeling slightly better Daichi wiggle out of Eiji hug and proceeds to wonder down the endless corridors of the manor. He wonders if what his brother said was true. That his determination to kill Hitomi was nothing but an excuse to always be near her, and to talk to her for that matter. Did he secretly yearn for Hitomi friendship as much as she yearn for his? He certainly had always envied her since she was shackled to no responsibility whatsoever. She was free to do as she please to go anywhere that she wanted. This was the freedom that Daichi had always wanted to be free from his responsibility of running the village when he was older, and because Hitomi had always taken that freedom for granted it had always made Daichi furious with her. Yes Daichi's countless attempt on Hitomi's life were mere excuse to be around her, or was it the fact that he had the freedom to hunt her that made him always try and try again. It wasn't Daichi responsibility to kill Hitomi. Yet he still was determine as ever to end her life at his hand, and regain the pride he had lost six years ago. However, that dream was dead now as the girl he was so determine to killed would be executed tomorrow morning. Clutching his fist tightly Daichi proceeds to go to his room not wanting think about the matter anymore.