OMG I'M SO SOOO SORRY FOR THE LONG BREAK!!!!! I have been overwhelmed recently...so yeah I'm really sorry!

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Ok so anywayyyy....here's the next chapter! :)

I realized I must have been showing shock on my face, and instantly hid it behind a blank face. Calm down, Mikan. She won't recognize you. It's not like she every took time to really look at you as a child anyway. I kept telling myself I was safe, and she wouldn't realize, but I couldn't bring myself to believe that completely.

Tsubasa stood still with his gun still pointing at the two. I could see him glancing over towards Natsume and I every few minutes. Idiot! If they see you staring at us…

"Oh look, he's trying to protect the little kiddies." Yuka said, with false sweetness.

"Don't you dare touch them," Tsubasa growled, with as much hatred and disgust he could have.

"Oh, puh-lease." Luna said, stressing out the please. She started walking slowly around Yuka, so she could look at Tsubasa. "We don't want them. As Yuka said, we want a chase." She smiled, but it looked distorted.

I found my eyes wondering back to my mother, and then I saw it. She was loading up her gun. She was going to shoot him, or shoot everyone for that matter.

"YOU BITCH!" I found myself screeching at her. I don't know where that came from; My voice seemed to be acting on it's own. "You're a manipulating, conniving bitch! You haven't changed one bit!"

She slowly turned towards me, with some interest in her eyes. "And you are…?" I didn't say anything. She walked over towards me and grabbed my face roughly, looking deep into my eyes. I glared at her.

She then backed up, gun still loaded and ready to shoot. "Oh yes, you do look familiar…darling daughter."

I growled. "You aren't my mother. You were never anything to me!" I ran towards her, powered my anger and rage. I wasn't thinking rationally, having only my fists against her gun. It took her a second to get the gun aimed at me, which gave me enough time to reach her and get within hitting range. I hit her hit up and somewhat sideways, which can cause some major whiplash if I'm lucky.

She fired at the same moment I hit her, which just grazed my cheek. I grabbed the arm that had the gun in it and twisted it behind her back. I then proceeded to thrust down on the elbow, which caused it to break. She gasped in pain. I grabbed the gun from her and aimed it at her, as she lay gasping on the ground.

Luna lunged at me, causing me to fall to the ground. At the moment she hit me, it caused me to accidentally fire the gun.

Luna gave my head a hard shove into the pavement. She hit me, I hit her. I shoved my knee into her stomach, giving me some slack. Suddenly, she went limp. I looked up to see Misaki standing above me. She must have hit Luna's pressure point…

I roughly shoved Luna off of me and stood up. Everyone was silent, and I saw why. I looked over to see my mother, sprawled out on the pavement, bleeding heavily out of the base of her throat. Oh, my God…

My hands involuntarily when to cup my mouth in shock. I even felt tears welling up in my eyes, which hasn't happened since I was left alone in that alley. I quickly willed them away; I wouldn't cry over someone I hated.

I had never killed someone. I never wanted to kill someone. This was a living nightmare. I felt numb inside.

"Let's go. There's nothing for us here." I said emotionlessly. I crept through the shadows back to the woods, which was a silent walk. We decided to sleep in the woods, where was it dense with trees and plenty of leaves on the ground.

"Uhh…let's get some sleep. We need to cover some serious ground tomorrow to get away from the…scene." Tono said awkwardly. Everyone silently.

Everyone was asleep, but I laid awake. When I didn't hear any irregular breathing, signaling that someone was awake, I got up and started walking around. There was a lake that we passed when we were walking to our sleeping spot, so I decided to go there, to clear my thoughts. You killed someone. You killed your own mother. You're a bloody murderer. Murderer…killer… Voices kept resounding in my head, and I tried to push them away. I sat down by the water and sighed.

Leaves crunched behind me and a spun around into a crouch allowing me to spring at the attacker as soon as they came into view. Sadly, I saw my chance to get my mind off things and just fight was blown when Natsume came into view. I sighed and got back into a sitting position.

"What's got you down?" He said, casually sitting down next to me. I continued to stare out towards the water.

"Nothing." I said passively.

"Liar."

"Well then what do you think has me down? I killed someone today. Better yet, I killed my own mother!" I said with a laugh, but it came out forced and somewhat said.

"So what?"

"What the fuck is your problem!?! I kill someone and all you can say is 'So what?' How can you not value a human life!?!" I yelled, but not too loud as to alert anyone and anything around us. Throughout my years, I had trained my body to respond naturally to situations and know my limits.

"Yeah. I mean it was an accident, so it's not your fault. Could have happened to anyone." He sounded wise beyond his years and looked fragile for a moment.

"But it didn't; it happened to me. I'm responsible for ending her life; Me. Not you, not anyone else."

"Well you can continue to beat yourself up, or you can accept it and forget."

"I can never forget what happened." I said bitterly.

He shrugged. "Well you could try to forgive yourself, at the least."

"Look, you don't understand what I'm going through! I'm a monster!"

"…I understand." He said quietly, but I could still hear him.

"No you don't! You never will! You aren't anything like me!" I was borderline hysterical.

Suddenly I was pulled towards him into a awkward hug. "Cry." He demanded.

"But I---"

"I said cry." And that was all I needed to break down my walls. I cried for the first time in ten years. I cried for everything I had hidden away…

Was that deep? I feel like it was kinda emotional, but I don't know X] haha yeah I'm sorry it's not like, super long or anything. I always feel like my idea for a chapter is going to be so much longer than it really is, and then it's not. And like, when I'm planning it out, I know how I want it to end. So yes.

Anywayyy I hoped you enjoyed the chapter! I'm on Thanksgiving break right now, so I think I might be able to come up with another chapter before it's time to go back to school!

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