After everything that had happened, Rin made his way out of his classroom. In all honestly he just wanted to go home and sleep. He was so happy; soon he could finally be with Haru again.

"Going home now Rin?" The receptionist said with a smile.

"Yeah, Christ, it has been a long day that's for sure."

"Well get lots of rest!" She called as he walked out the door.

"You too." he called back. At least some teachers in this school weren't corrupt.

He started walking down the stairs when he saw a student sitting on the bottom step. He instantly knew who it was without seeing his face.

"Makoto?" He asked nearing the boy. The brunette child didn't turn around.

"Why are you still here? It's," He check his watch. "Five o'clock, Jesus Christ where's Haru?" Rin asked, sitting down next to Makoto.

The green eyes boy moved away from him to the other side of the step, not turning to face his English teacher.

"Makoto, please. I'm just trying to help you." Rin said hanging his head in shame.

"No." Makoto said, his voice deadpan and held no emotion. "You don't get to help me, you left me."

Rin felt his heart break into a million pieces. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry but I had to leave you don't understand-"

"Of course I don't understand- you two never tell me anything! I had to fix my dad's broken heart and I don't even know why it's broken. Rin, why won't you ever tell me the truth? I know I'm young, But I can handle things like this. I lost you and part of dad went with you. Please tell me why?" Makoto said, his face was turned to look at Rin now, tears falling down his cheeks. This was worse that the time before.

"There was a more important reason for why I left that why we lied last time. I think… I think it's all over now. So I'll tell you now. I'll tell you everything." And he did. He told Makoto about Goro and the blackmail and that someone was behind it but they didn't know who yet. He mentioned how he had to leave to save all of them and how he didn't want to go. Then he told him of the plan and how it worked and hoe now finally, maybe they could all live in peace.

Makoto stared up and Rin, hanging onto his every word, listening to every crack of his voice, every tone of anger. He understood now why he shouldn't have known. But either way he wanted to, and he was glad now that he did know.

"So you didn't want to leave us? You didn't want to leave me?" Makoto said, his bottom lip trembling.

"I'd never want to leave you or Haru, Makoto please always believe me when I say that." Rin replied, suddenly being embraced by the child, feeling his shaky breaths as he cried. "I love you and Haru, I wouldn't leave you like that."

Makoto sniffed "So you can come back now right? With us? Home?"

"Everything's sorted out now, so I hope so buddy." Rin said with a soft sigh of contempt.

A small laugh came from Makoto as he moved over to hug Rin. "Me too. I missed you. Daddy missed you."

"I know, but I'm back now." He smiled.

Rin lifted his head slightly. "Still, I have no idea where Haru is." Rin pondered out loud.

"He's been working on his art a lot lately. Maybe he's asleep?" Makoto suggested.

"No, he'd never forget to pick you up. Are you sure he wasn't going anywhere today?" Makoto nodded his head. "Strange." Rin said, his sharp teeth nibbling at his bottom teeth in worry.

"Oi Rin," The red eyed man heard a voice call. He turned to see Sousuke walking towards them. "Oh, and Makoto. Why are you still here Mako?" Sousuke questioned, looking at Rin for an explanation.

"Haru hasn't arrived to pick him up." Rin replied.

"What? What do you mean? Haru wouldn't not turn up." Sousuke said calmly.

"Yeah, I know that. I can't think where he'd be." Or what could've happened to him.

"How come you two are…" He gestured to the two of them hugging. "Close again."

Rin was about to answer when the little boy answered for him. "Rin told me everything!" He began with a big grin. "He didn't want to leave us Sousuke Can you believe it? He was made to leave! Apparently bad people work here."

Sousuke nodded. "Indeed. But hopefully not for much longer."

There was a slight pause before Rin spoke again. "Should I call him?"

"That's probably a good idea, Makoto doesn't have a phone so he can't've tried that yet," Sousuke said as Makoto nodded in agreement. "Wait, why didn't you come and get one of us earlier?"

Makoto shrugged. "They don't let you back into the school after hours unless you've lost something and the way round to the pool is locked. I did ask the lady at reception to call but she said the signal wouldn't go through. I wasn't that worried, dad usually has his phone off anyway, and I got some of my homework done while waiting!" He said positively.

As Makoto spoke, Rin had already clicked on Haru's contact and placed hi phone to his ear, hearing the rings.

"What am I supposed to say-?"

"Just say you're name!"

"Haru."

"No! Just say… you can't take their call and you'll get back to them."

"What If I don't want to get back to them?"

"Haru-Chan! Just gimme the phone."

"Nagisa- get off me just-"

"Give me the phone you-!"

"Leave a message after the tone."

Rin smiled a little upon hearing Haru's voicemail message, but swiftly turned into a frown when he heard the automated voice ask him to leave his message, reminding him that Haru hadn't picked up.

"Uh, Haru? It's Rin. Where are you? I'm here with Sousuke and Makoto; did you fall asleep or something? Makoto needs to be picked up from school. I mean, I'll take him home if you want but I was just worried. You're okay right? I love you, I'll see you soon." He spoke into the phone before hanging up.

"No luck then I assume?" Sousuke asked.

"None, Christ, I guess I'll just run Makoto home then, it'll give me a chance to talk to Haru too. After the whole 'break' I kind of wanna see him again."

"Understandable. If you want, I can take Makoto for a while and let you guys… reconnect." The taller man said, subtly implying what he meant due to Makoto being around.

"Nah, it's no problem. It'll be nice to spend some time as a family." Rin smiled at Makoto, who returned the facial expression.

"Well if you're sure. I'd better-" His thought was interrupted by the sound of Rin's ringtone from the phone in Rin's hand.

"Ah! One moment, it's Haru!" He said, his face lighting up. He accepted the call.

"Hey sleepy head, what's going on? You've never been late to pick up Makoto before." He joked teasingly.

When he didn't get a reply he tried again "Haru?"

Suddenly he head sobbing through the phone. A sob that didn't belong to his boyfriend.

"E-excuse me, but who the hell is this?" Rin began to panic. What the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuck?

"M-Matsuoka Sensei?" A childish voice said from the speaker. "Oh god please, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry." Kisumi whispered before breaking down into tears.

Rin's eyes went wide. What the hell was Kisumi doing with Haru's phone? And more importantly, why was he sorry?

"Kisumi? Is that you? What the hell?" He saw Sousuke and Makoto look at him in confusion upon mentioning the pink haired boy's name.

"I didn't want them to do it, I swear! I didn't want them to take him." Rin tensed.

"Kisumi. You need to calm down right now and tell me what's going on. Where is Haru?" Rin asked firmly, the hand holding his phone turning white from the pressure of his grip.

"I don't know!" He all but screamed into the phone. "I don't know! It all happened so fast. Mummy said I could stay off school today, she said we would do something fun. But it wasn't fun. It wasn't. It hurt, It hurt so much." He cried

"What happened Kisumi?" Rin tried again.

But Kisumi just continued talking. "And then she told me to get in the car, we had to pick someone up she said. And daddy told me that if I was a good boy we could go home quickly. So I stayed quiet, but he lied! He stopped the car not at home, and suddenly H-Haru was in the car with us. And he wouldn't wake up! He wouldn't wake up!" Kisumi started to hyperventilate .

At the same time the phone fell out of Rin's hand and onto the floor, not shattering luckily. He couldn't hear anything, he couldn't move. Everything was slowly coming together in his mind, like the final puzzle piece was being slotted into place.

He was vaguely aware of the commotion going on around him. He saw Sousuke picking up the phone, trying to talk to Kisumi. He felt Makoto tugging on his sleeve, asking him what was wrong. But he couldn't respond to anything. He couldn't breathe.

And then suddenly he could. And all he could see was red.

He turned and walked up the stairs again, back to the school, ignoring the calls of 'where are you going?' from Makoto.

Two words ran around his mind. Goro Sasabe.

He all but kicked the door to the reception open as he stormed through, scaring the receptionist.

"Open this door." He whispered angrily.

"M-Matsuoka sensei, I'll need to know what it is regarding." She stuttered, obviously scared.

"I understand you're just doing your job, but I swear to god, if you don't open this door right now, I'll smash my way through it." He spat, glaring at his reflection in the glass.

The woman fumbled with her papers as she moved them to press the button that unlocked the door.

"Thank you." Rin muttered at he yanked the door open and thundered into the school.

He moved quickly making his way to Goro's office. This time he really did kick the door open. He watched as the head teacher flinched and then sat up in his chair with a smirk.

"Rin, Rin, Rin. We've been through this; I thought we were finally making progress this afternoon. If you keep making a fuss we will-" Unfortunately for Goro, he never got to finish his sentence as Rin's fist collided with his mouth before he could.

"Son of a bitch!" The blonde yelled, clasping his hands over his bloody nose. "What the fuck you piece of shit?" He yelled, but Rin wasn't about to back down now.

"No, you're the piece of shit," He said as he walked up to the teacher and grabbed his shirt collar, pulling his face next to the angry redheads. "You're a filthy, low life mother fucker. A slimy bastard with no sense of humanity. A real piece of work if I ever saw one." He brought his knee up to collide with Goro's stomach, causing the blackmailer to double over in pain, winded.

"I swear Goro, on my father's grave; I will kill you right now if you don't tell me where my boyfriend is." He shouted with venom pouring from his lips.

Goro, through his winded state, began to laugh. Almost hysterically. "Y-You really think after everything I've done for them, I'd give the game up now? You dumb sick faggot! I was never in this just for the money. I wanted to see you and all your little faggot friends dead!" He cried out again in pain when Rin's knee collided with his balls this time.

"WHERE IS HARU?" Rin screamed so loudly, his throat hurt.

"Hopefully… dead by now." Goro wheezed out before Rin threw him to the floor.

"Son of a bitch!" Rin yelled, kicking the head's desk with such force it cracked. Rin let out a cry of frustration as he moved towards the door.

"What?" Goro panted from the floor. "Not even going to finish the job?" He smirked.

Rin walked back and slammed his foot into Goro's stomach as a final blow. "Scum like you aren't worth my time." He said in a deadpan tone.

He rushed outside again, not sparing even a glance for the poor reception woman as he made his way back down to Sousuke and Makoto.

"You know where Kisumi lives right?" Rin asked Makoto as soon as he reached them again.

Even through his distressed state, he noticed Makoto was staying strong as ever. "Y-yeah. I've only been there a few times but I think I know the way."

"Good, we need to see if Haru is there." Rin stated as he walked a few feet away to his car.

"We already know the answer to that," It was only then that Rin realised Sousuke was no longer on the phone. "Kisumi is there. His parents and Haru are not."

As Makoto trembled, Rin ran his fingers through his hair in anger and confusion. "So where do we go? I don't know where he is…"

"We go to Kisumi's house."

"But you just said Haru's not there-"

"No, Haru isn't there, but there's a scared little boy who needs our help right now and there's no way I'm not going to help him." Sousuke said, standing tall and dominant.

"Shit, shit Sousuke you're right, fuck. I'm sorry I'm just…" Rin stammered.

"I know, I know, it's okay. Let's just go see Kisumi. He might be able to lead us to Haru. Give me your keys, you're in no state to drive." Sousuke answered, holding catching the metallic chain of Keys Rin threw at him as he clambered into the passenger side while Makoto got into the back and Sousuke started up the car.

The night was only just beginning.

When Haru awoke the first thing he realised was that he couldn't move his body. He was bound to a chair, arms behind his back to make sure he was completely immobile. His head was pounding like hell, and he was sure that if the room had been light enough to see, his vision would've been blurred.

Jesus, what had happened?

Slowly but surely the events from the past couple hours came back to him. Haru began to panic, he tried to steady his breathing and think about calming things, but nothing seemed to help him, he needed to get out of there!

He pulled his hands against the rope that bound his arms. No use, the rope was so tight it would shed off Haru's skin before it gave way. He let out a groan of frustration when he felt his feet where in the same situation too.

"Shit." He whispered to himself as he slumped back in the chair.

The only thing he couldn't quite remember was who had taken him. He remembered their faces, sure, but he couldn't place where he recognised them.

Suddenly, a door opened. The light streaming in seemed bright enough to blind him. He noticed two shadowy figures in the doorway.

"The queer is up then?" He head a female voice say.

"Looks like it." The more masculine voice answered as they drew closer to Haru.

"W-What? Who're you?" Haru asked demandingly.

"Oh! A feisty one!" The woman giggled. Haru glared back at her in response.

"We just want to help you Haruka, why can't you see that?" The man asked, his head tilting to the side in an innocent way that made him look all the more creepy.

"I don't need any help. The only help I need is help out of these fucking ropes."

"Do you like them?" The man asked again. "I had to take a class to perfect that rope knot. Must've thought I was into some BDSM shit."

"No, no, you're more of the kidnapping type, right?" The blue eyed boy murmured sarcastically.

"I fear we may have gotten off on the wrong foot. My names Ryuga Shigino, and this is my wife Kaede." He said holding out a hand and then chuckling sadistically as he motioned to Haru's tied wrists.

"Wait- Shigino?" Where had he heard that name?

"Ohh look, I think he's finally got it!" Kaede rolled her eyes at him.

"Holy crap." He gasped when it hit him. "You're… You're Kisumi's…" He trailed off.

"Bingo." She smirked.

"I don't… I don't understand. What do you want with me?"

"We're here to help you." Ryuga stressed again.

"Help me with what exactly?"

"Your midlife sexuality crisis." Kisumi's mother stated bluntly.

Suddenly it all clicked for him. Goro was all their doing. They were the reason Rin and he had to be apart for so long. They were the reason his son was unhappy for weeks. They were the cause for everything that was currently going wrong in Haru's life.

And my god was he pissed.

But he took a deep breath and tried to calm himself. If he lost it now he wouldn't be able to figure a way out of this mess. He stared at the ground as he thought about what to say to them.

"I'm not in a crisis. I don't need any help. I love Rin. I love him so much." Haru pleaded, trying to get through to them.

"Vile." Kaede spat as she stood up and moved closer to Haru. He flinched away from her.

"What is he was a woman? Would you not love him? Just because he wasn't the opposite gender you'd sacrifice everything you had together?"

"Irrelevant. If I were a woman, we never would've gotten together because we know that that is wrong." Ryuga said with a matter of fact tone.

"Anyhow, commencing onto the first treatment." Kisumi's parents nodded to each other, causing Ryuga to get up and leave the room.

"Hey! Wait! Where's he going?" Haru asked, panicking a tad. He did not want to be alone with this woman.

"Oh he won't be needed for now. You see, the choice to be gay is a wrong one, so we're going to fix you. Luckily, you have Makoto as living proof you can tolerate women as well. Some men just don't listen to us when we tell them to change. They insist they can't like women," She laughed under her breath "They're such liars. We were made to procreate! We were made to be heterosexual."

Haru wanted to be sick. Never in his life had he met someone as homophobic as her, and she had been right under his nose the whole time.

"People like you are easy to change. Your 'boyfriend'… well, he'll be a little harder but we'll find a way to get through to him."

"Don't you DARE go near Rin!" Haru screamed at her.

"Oh? No Rin? Well then how about your son?" What? What was she talking about? "Yes, little sweet Makoto. You don't even see it yet do you? No, a blind father like you wouldn't. Open your eyes Haruka! Your faggot of a son made out dear Kisumi… Like a boy." Haru felt his firsts clench in anger. "Well, Kisumi happily took his punishment from us this morning. How about we bring him here and teach him too."

"No!" He cried out. "You can do whatever you want to me, but don't ever hurt my family." He whispered.

"That's exactly what I was hoping you'd say." Kaede grinned. "Now we can get started."

She moved over to him and sat in his lap. "I think we'll start with the physical stuff." She trailed a finger down Haru's chest. He watched in disgust as she ran her hands over him.

"Let's watch you squirm."

"Kisumi, it's us! Let us in please!" Sousuke shouted as he banged on the front door harshly. In less than ten seconds the door was being opened. A small pink haired boy emerged, tearstains covering his face, one eye turning black and thousands of marks covering his body. "Oh my god…"

"Kisumi!" Makoto screamed from where he was waiting by the car. "Oh god, what happened? Are you okay?" He examined Kisumi's face as he wiped the tears from his face and pulled his boyfriend into a hug. Kisumi winced, but hugged him back with just as much ferocity.

"I'm… better now that you're here." He smiled sweetly at the brunette boy and blushed as Makoto moved in and kissed him on the cheek.

"Kisumi." Rin said from the doorway. "You need to tell us everything that went on. It may sound harsh, but what your parents are doing, to you and to Haru, is sick. They need help. You need to tell us everything."

Kisumi wiped his nose and eyes again, nodding bravely. He lead the three men through his house to his living room and sat down with them.

"My parents never liked gay people. They always thought they were wrong. I just thought it was one of those religious things, but over time I realised it ran deeper than that. Which sucked for me because after you, Rin, had that talk with me I knew I was… gay. But I didn't feel repulsed, or angry or ashamed. I felt the same as I always had. I thought this was a good this, I thought I could tell my parents and they wouldn't get so upset by everything that involved homosapiens-"

"Homosexuals." Makoto corrected.

"Homosexuals, thank you, so I told them about the new gay teacher we had at school. I didn't even get to tell them I was gay before they had started ranting again. Yelling about the school system and how it was wrong for you to teach children. In a way, I guess it's my fault." He whimpered, his bottom lip trembling.

"No," Rin started, moving over to the young boy and hugging him tightly. "None of this is on you. It's them Kisumi. They… they're not right, in their heads." He comforted.

"I… I know that now. But at the time I didn't. I just continued how I had always done. But then they saw me and Makoto holding hands outside of school one time. And they-" His eyes squeezed shut from the memory, he made himself stop crying. "They hit me… a lot. And told me I was bad," Makoto reached out and held Kisumi's hand. "I-I didn't want to be bad, so I tried to stop looking at Makoto as a boyfriend. But I couldn't, because I loved him too much. I stood up for myself, and they didn't hurt me. I thought I had finally got thought to them! But then… Today. Today was the worst. They hurt me so badly, they lied to me, told me we were having a family day. But instead they tried to make me something I'm not. They got bored of me quickly when someone called and said they thought someone was onto them. That's when we got Haru. But they dropped me off here and haven't come back since. I don't know where they took him. I'm so sorry Rin!" Kisumi finished, finally breaking down.

Rin made Kisumi look at him. "You have nothing to be sorry for. Please Kisumi, don't cry over something you didn't do. I know it's hard, and I know I can't relate to you in anyway, but trust me when I say you did nothing wrong in this situation. You're an amazing little boy, you're parents seem to have taken that for granted."

Kisumi looked up at Rin and, despite everything he'd been through, gave him the biggest smile he'd ever seen. "T-Thank you Rin."

"Okay, Sousuke and I are going to take a look around the house, maybe they left something here that can tell us where Haru is." Rin softly kissed the top of Kisumi's head and got up, making Sousuke follow him.

Makoto looked over at Kisumi, still holding his hand. "You're so brave." Makoto awed.

"I'm not. I'm not, I couldn't do anything to stop them." Makoto moved to hug the weeping pink haired boy.

"That's what made you brave, you're were right to not do anything."

"How can you say that? I let them take your dad! Why don't you hate me?"

"We're going to find my dad." Makoto said, even though deep down there were feelings of pessimism. "He's going to be fine and we can all live happily after this. Rin said to me before, everything has to go back to how it was before."

"How do you stay so optimistic?" Kisumi whispered, looking up into Makoto's green eyes with admiration.

"My dad taught me to be." He smiled.

"You're lucky to have two amazing dads."

"I guess I am."

There was a moment of silence before Kisumi said something unexpected. "Hey Makoto?"

"Yeah

"Kiss me."

Makoto looked at him in confusion. "Yeah, that's your name, I don't understand?"

"No," He giggled softly. "Kiss. me." He whispered, bringing their lips together. As they were only young, the two didn't really know how to kiss, but just having their lips touching gave them a sense of comfort.

When they broke away they both smiled softly. "I think I love you too y'know." Makoto said, as they held hands and one again slipped into a comfortable silence.

"Fuck!" Rin practically yelled as he threw an empty draw across the room.

"Rin. You need to calm down." Sousuke said in a powerful voice.

"Shut up. Just shut up, there's no way I can calm down right now! I just got the love of my life back and he's fucking gone! Again!"

"Yes, I understand that. But you have to understand that there are two children downstairs to stay strong for, and to be honest, their being more of a grown up than you are right now." Sousuke wasn't speaking to anger Rin, but he wanted him to calm down. They weren't going to get anywhere if Rin was in a state like this.

Rin's legs gave way underneath him, causing him to fall to the floor. His shoulders began to shake as he cried silently. "I thought it was over." He whispered so quietly even Sousuke couldn't hear him.

"What?"

"I thought we could finally live as a family again. I'd move in with Haru, we'd get married, hell; maybe we could have a few more kids if we wanted too. But that's all gone now."

"Stop speaking like he's dead!" Sousuke boomed. "Haru isn't dead! From what Kisumi said about his parents I get the vibe that these people aren't killers. Sick as fuck? Yes. Murders? No."

"You can't know that."

"You can't know that I'm wrong then either."

Rin shakily got back up onto his feet. "I'm sorry. I'm just angry and upset and so tired of all this bullshit."

"Me too, but we can't- hold up." Sousuke said, interrupting himself.

"What? What it is?" Rin exclaimed as me walked over to Sousuke and looked at the photo in his hand. The picture showed three people, a family, outside what looked like a log cabin. They were smiling and holding fishing rods. On the back of the picture there were words.

'Shigino Family Summerhouse- 2011'

"Holy crap! Do you think…?" Rin stammered.

"It's a long shot. But there's nothing else here to say that they had anywhere else to take him." Rin took the photo out of Sousuke's hand and began downstairs.

He burst into the living room. "Kisumi!"

The pink haired boy jumped and tilted his head. "Yeah?"

"Where is this?" He said, getting excited now as he showed the picture to Kisumi.

"Oh, that was um… Not far from here. It took us an hour to get too. There was a lake, and lots of tents and-"

"What about a location?"

"Uhh… I… I don't remember. If I heard the name I'd know it, but I can't remember, it was a long time ago."

Rin felt himself tense up again. This was there only clue. They needed to find out where that lodge was!

"There's three lakes about an hour from here," Sousuke said, looking at his phone as he walked into the room. "Lake Nemugi, Lake Cobvala, and lake-"

"That one!" Kisumi shouted.

"What one?"

"Cobvala! I remember because I always joked it sounded like cobwebs!"

"That gotta be it." Rin said desperately.

"Come on Rin, it's not a definite thing and its and hour away."

"Sousuke please," He begged. "Even if he's not there we have to try!"

"…Fine. Dammit okay fine, we'll go. But I'm calling the police on the way. If he's here we don't want to be in over our heads"

"I thought you had to wait a day to do that?" Makoto said sadly.

"Don't worry Mako, I know someone. They'll be able to help us out. They'll check out other possibilities for where Kisumi's parents are too." He nodded, picking up the keys and tossing them to Rin, who caught them with ease.

"You okay to drive?" Sousuke questioned.

"Yeah, I'll be fine now," He gestured to Makoto and Kisumi. "Come on then."

Makoto smiled widely and jumped up, running to the car with Sousuke, so happy they were going to save his father.

"Kisumi?" Rin said when the boy didn't get up.

"Why would you want me to come along, I'm not family."

Rin held out a hand for Kisumi to take. "Family or not, I care about you. And I'm never leaving you on your own again."

The little boys purple eyes looked from Rin's hand to the floor before he sat bolt upright and clasped Rin hand.

"Okay!" He cheered.

As they got in the car Rin started up the engine and spoke in his mind to his boyfriend.

'I'm coming Haru. You don't need to be scared anymore.'