(A/N~ Thanks for reading chapter 12! More is to come! Anyway...let's just get right to the story.)

"Hey Tono...where do we go from here?" Hikaru asks Tamaki.

"I I THOUGHT THAT YOU KNEW!" Tamaki yells at him. The three have come to a four-way path intersection. They are confused as to which path they should take.

"I say we take the right path. We've been out here for a while, and that path looks easier to take anyway." Haruhi suggests.

"Good thinking Haruhi! Daddy taught you well!" Tamaki said, giving her a thumbs up her.

"You're still doing that gig?" Haruhi rolls her eyes. "I thought you got over that from before Boston..." Haruhi says tells him.

"Heh...sorry..." Tamaki puts his hand on the back of his head and laughs.

"Knock it off,guys. Let's go." Hikaru tells them. He starts to walk down the right trail, ahead of Tamaki and Haruhi.

"Hikaru! Wait up for us!" Tamaki speeds up after him. Haruhi follows and they stay silent for a minute, walking in the brown water. The sunlight shines down, from the patches of leaves above, into small spots of light on the water.

"I have an idea pass time, guys! Let's play a game!" Tamaki bursts with excitement.

"No." Hikaru says in a rude voice.

"You and Kaoru really do change when you're not together, huh?" Haruhi grins, asking Hikaru knowingly.

"What do you mean?" Hikaru asks her.

"Well, when you're both alone, your personalities change, and you're more dependent on Kaoru when you're not with him." Haruhi explains.

"Oh this again? You already explained this to me back when we first met." Hikaru replies, making no eye contact. He keeps walking forward, with his head down staring at the water.

"Yes, I remember, but it is true. Like I said, when you're alone you become loud and crazy. You even get a filthy mouth and attitude to you. When Kaoru is alone, he is relatively calm and normal. He is less dependent of you than you are of him." Haruhi smiles at Hikaru.

"Hey! That isn't funny!" Hikaru exclaims, with an attitude, looking and then blushing at Haruhi who is smiling.

"See what I mean?" Haruhi says. Hikaru ignores her and looks down at the water even more.

"What about me, Haruhi?" Tamaki asks her.

"You tend to...uh...let's just say you become lonely and kid-like. You tend to goof off a lot and try to understand others feelings too." Haruhi smiles at him.

"Really? Wow! Thanks Haruhi. Guess you pay attention to people a lot." Tamaki smiles to her.

"And you're narcissistic..." Haruhi says to herself, rolling her eyes.

"Sorry, did you say something, Haruhi?" Tamaki asks her.

"No. Nothing." Haruhi replies.

They keep walking for a few minutes. The sun shines down upon them as they walk through the water. They can hear birds chirping from the trees and the sound of the leaves rustling from above.

Hikaru slows down his pace, to sense the bottom of the water better. He looks up to Haruhi and Tamaki.

"Does the water feel like it's getting deeper to you guys?" Hikaru asks, concern evident in his voice.

Tamaki stops and looks at him. "Now that you mention it...it does." Tamaki replies. He looks down at the water, then to Haruhi.

"Should we turn around then?" Haruhi questions, stopping in the water as well..

"Nah. Let's just keep going this way." Hikaru tells them. "The water feels like it's either getting deeper or the ground is sinking. Maybe we picked the wrong path?" Hikaru says. He Turns around and begins to walk back.

"Guess we're heading back then...this was a waste of time." Haruhi mumbles to herself. She turns back the way they came from, with Hikaru and Tamaki.

Hikaru takes a step in the water. He stops and feels the mud, his feet are in, move below him.

"Wha-!" Hikaru yells. He falls down in the water, having it completely soak him.

"Hikaru!" Tamaki and Haruhi rush over to him. His re-surfaces from the water, and he struggles to stand and breathe.

Tamaki and Haruhi grab one of each of Hikaru's arms, and pull him up from the sink hole he fell in.

"Are you okay?" Tamaki asks him, helping him stand in the shallower, part they're in.

Hikaru coughs up water. "Y-yeah...I'm okay. I think I just fell into a hole or the ground move. Something like that." Hikaru replies, getting the water out of his throat. "I was not expecting that." He continues to cough.

"Now you're soaked...take the blanket." Haruhi says, handing him the blanket, that they had before.

"Uh, thanks." Hikaru takes the blanket. He wraps it around himself then he begins to walk, Tamaki and Haruhi helping him along.

"Did you hurt your foot or anything?" Tamaki asks Hikaru.

"No. I'm fine, guys. I just fell into the water." Hikaru replies, breaking free from Tamaki and Haruhi, who were holding him. "But now I'm all dirty and cold." Hikaru mumbles, staring at the water.

"Try to be more careful Hikaru. I don't want you to get hurt, ya know?" Tamaki tells him.

"Yeah I know that captain obvious. I couldn't see through the water anyway. It's too muddy for you to even see your feet." Hikaru replies.

"Let's just go back the other way then. Do you think the others are looking for us, or at least someone?" Tamaki asks the small group.

"I'm sure someone is looking for people. The camp wasn't the only area flooded." Haruhi says, trying to reassure him. "How long have we been walking, too? I feel like we've been trying to find our way back for a while now." Haruhi sighs.

Tamaki turns his head to the sky and looks up past the leaves. The sky has turned to a clear blue with white puffy clouds floating like the storm never happened.

"I would say for a few hours or something. When we started to walk again this morning, the sun was low in the sky, now it is a bit past half way. Maybe 1 or 2 pm, I would say." Tamaki mentions, turning his head back down to the shady path with water.

"Let's hope we will get help soon, though. If it turns night again and we don't have any kind of shelter, we'll freeze. And if we don't have food nor water, we'll starve..." Hikaru sighs.

"Don't forget we need new clothes, since ours are soaked and dirty." Haruhi adds on.

Hikaru looks to Haruhi and rolls his eyes. "I'm more wet than you two, though." He says.

They continue to walk down the muddy flooded path for a while. They are silent the whole time, listening to nature and the sound of the water moving beneath them. The warm sun and air has dried off Hikaru somewhat, but he is still wet.

They arrive back at the four-way path opening where they first began.

"Which way now...?" Haruhi asks.

"We came from that way, and we were just on this path...let's stay straight this time." Tamaki says, pointing ahead to the path with determination.

"Deal. Do we have any more food, too?" Hikaru blurts out.

"No, we don't. We ate it along the way, but maybe we'll come by someone or a flooded camp that has some." Haruhi says, hopefully.

"Meh... even if we come by a camp, it's probably washed away." Hikaru groans.

They start to walk down the path ahead of them. They are unaware of the search teams that came to help them.

Meanwhile

The search team consisting of Mei, Takashi, Mitskuni, Kaoru, Kyoya and his staff, along with other search team members are making their way through the camp. They have been walking for a few minutes now, wading along the main path to the camp. The Leaves are blocking out most of the sunshine on the path, making everyone a bit chilly.

Kyoya's staff, Hotta, stops in front of the group at a two-way split path.

One of Kyoya's men turns around and starts to yell at them. "Mr. Otori! There's a two-way path up here! What should we do!?" Hotta yells to Kyoya and the others. He and the other members of Kyoya's staff are about thirty feet in front of the others.

Kyoya looks ahead, squinting his eyes towards to his staff, in order to see them clearly.

"Wait until we get there! We'll decide as a group on the best solution!" he yells back.

"There's a two-way path? Maybe we should split up the group to have a faster search for them." Mitskuni suggests.

"Yeah, we should. We would just need to divide our resources." Mei replies, looking at Mitskuni.

They walk up to Kyoya's mean, stopping at the split in the path.

"Mr. Otori, do you have any suggestions?" one of the men asked him.

Kyoya lets out a sigh. "We should split up into two groups, that way we can cover more ground. We would just need to divide ourselves up." Kyoya suggests, pushing up his glasses.

"Hunny-sempai, Mori-sempai, Mei and I could go one way with a few of your men, and you guys could go the opposite way." Kaoru recommends.

"Good idea, but how will we carry our supplies? There's only one boat, and Mr. I-don't-need-to-get-dirty, is in it." Mei says rolling her eyes at Kyoya.

"We have an inflatable boat, miss. We can inflate it, if needed." Tachibana tells Mei.

"What!? You have more boats!? Why didn't you let us use them?" Mei freaks out and whines.

"Because if we needed an extra, for some reason. For example, Mei, if we found them or if someone got badly hurt." Kyoya explains to her.

'Of course...' Mei thinks to herself.

"Okay! Let's split up then! Come on Mei-chan and Kao-chan! You too Takashi!" Mitskuni runs along in the water happily, calling back to his friends.

"Hold on Hunny-sempai! We need to get the stuff first and then we can go." Kaoru tells him.

Mitskuni stops and turns around to look at him.

"Oh yeah, you're right. Haha." Mitskuni laughs with a huge smile on his face.

"We'll get the extra boat ready then." Tachibana salutes to Kyoya. They go over to the back of his boat to get a box that has a blow-up boat in it. They open it and the boat springs out.

"Whoa. I thought you said it was inflatable? That just an instant boat. Do they even exist? I thought those were only real in spy movies or whatever." Mei says with confusion

"Maybe for a common folk it requires air, but ours blow up instantly." Kyoya remarks slyly. "And of course they require air. They just blow up instantly." Kyoya continues.

'Ugh...' Mei rolls her eyes at him, while Kyoya's men put some stuff into the new boat.

Mitskuni turns to Takashi in confusion, not be acknowledged by the others.. "What are spy movies, Takashi?" Mitskuni asks him. Takashi moves his shoulders up, not knowing the answer to Mitskuni's question.

Kaoru over hears them and buts in. "They're probably a simple commoners movie." Kaoru says, with his hands in the air.

"All done, sir! We can now part ways. Four of us will go with them, to remain in contact, and you and the others will remain together." Aijima salutes to Kyoya.

"Very well. You kids be careful now." Kyoya laughs at them with his evil smile. Him and his men start to go down the right side path.

"Why'd he call us kids? We aren't his kids...I think Tamaki got to him." Kaoru says, shocked

"Let's go Takashi!" Mitskuni prances in the water, in front of everyone else.

"Please be careful, Mr. Haninozuka." One of the other guards warns Mitskuni.

The rest of them turn down the left path together, to begin their part of the search.

Mei and Kaoru look around at the trees and their surrounding.

"A lot of the trees are tipped over, Geez." Kaoru mumbles to himself.

Mitskuni stops and points at the trees, ahead of them. "Look at the trees, Takashi! They're bent over because of the water!" Mitskuni announces, making his way back to Takashi.

"Yes, they are." Takashi replies to him in his emotionless voice, looking at the tilted trees.

"We better be careful around them, too. They could fall over, the way they're bent." Kaoru warns.

"Yep!" Mitskuni replies with a smile and laughs. He is trying to cheer everyone else up, and make them all happy, getting their mind off the others.

"What is we don't find them before dark, guys?" Mei asks, looking down at the brown water below her.

" We would come back here I guess. I can't say that for sure, though. We can worry about that when we get to that point though, in the mean time we should just stay on course." Kaoru says.

'He's clearly worried about Hikaru...I can tell by his facial expressions.' Mei thinks, looking at Kaoru with concern.

Kaoru notices her staring at him and turns his head towards her. "What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?" Kaoru asks her.

Mei jumps. "Oh! Nothing...I could just tell you were worried about Hikaru. That's all." She replies.

Kaoru looks back down at the water with his hands in his pockets, walking forward.

The group continues to walk down the path for while, looking at their surroundings, for a while longer.

(A/N~ Hey! Thanks for reading chapter 12! Sorry there wasn't a chapter for a bit. The computer broke . During that time, however, I found a new way to carry on the plot for a longer! :D I hop you will stay 'till the end, though. It would mean a lot. That's all for now, bye! (^w^)/"

Story Notes:

Kyoya has a private police force, which everyone knows, if you've seen the series. If you have read the manga, you would know that Kyoya has three main staff members with him: Aijima, Tachibana, and Hotta.Their job is to "protect" and watch Kyoya. (duh)

I just decided to put them in here now...so deal with it. ^w^

Just some fun facts to those who haven't read the manga. ;)