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Haruhi's phone rang early that morning. Groaning, she opened it to see that it was Hikaru calling, "It's really early in the morning Hikaru, what do you want?" she asked, but the words came through the speaker so fast that she couldn't understand him, "Say that again slower." But when he did, she almost dropped the phone.

Kaoru had disappeared; no one knew where he was. A pit dropped in her stomach to think that the killer had gotten a hold of him. "Haruhi? Haruhi!" Hikaru was yelling into the phone.

"I'm still here Hikaru, I'll be over at your house soon."

"No, stay there, I'll come get you! It's too dangerous for you to be out by yourself." and he hung up on her.

Haruhi was on the verge of hyperventilating. This was all to much to take in for her. If Kaoru was with the killer, then she was next. 'Calm down Haruhi, everything will be okay, they'll catch him since he kidnapped Kaoru and everything will be fine.' she got up and made herself a quick breakfast, all the while talking herself out of her fears.

As she was finishing her breakfast, someone knocked on her door. The tall stoic university student was standing outside her door, "Oh, Mori-sempai, I thought you would be Hikaru."

"I'm here to take you some place safe."

"You heard about Kaoru?" he nodded, "Well, Hikaru is on his way to come get me."

Hikaru ran up the stairs to her door, "Mori-sempai, what are you doing here?"

"They found Kaoru." Mori said.

"What where?"

"Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line."

"We have to go there!"

"You have to go some place safe."

"I'm going, come on Haruhi." he grabbed her arm and pulled her away. Haruhi was caught between the two of them. Mori's idea was more rational, but she wanted to make sure Kaoru was okay. The need to find out if he was okay overpowered any other thought as she got into the car with Hikaru. He quickly barked instructions to the driver and they sped off. Mori's car was right behind them.

When they got to the bridge, they found police surrounding a figure standing with impeccable balance on the bridge's railing.

"Kaoru!" Hikaru yelled as soon as he got out of the car. He tried to run to his twin, but the police stopped him.

Kaoru turned his head, "Hikaru, everything will be alright." he called with a smile.

Haruhi put a hand on the struggling Hikaru, "Calm down Hikaru, fighting the police won't do any good.

Mori joined them, "He knows Mitsukuni isn't dead."

Both of them looked at the older boy, "He does? So he's acting quicker on Kaoru?"

He nodded.

"Someone get Tamaki-sempai, he needs to be here." Kaoru called.

The twins parents showed up as well, fear in both of their faces, "Kaoru, honey," their mother called, "please get down from there."

"Everything will be alright mom." he said, "You'll see."

Another car pulled up and Tamaki got out, "What's going on here?"

Haruhi pointed at Kaoru, "Kaoru might jump."

Tamaki just stared in surprise, not saying a word.

"Kaoru why are you doing this?" Hikaru yelled at him.

"Because if I do this, then he'll leave you all alone. There's five of you left, you all need to live."

"There has to be another way!" His mother yelled, "Come down and we'll think this through!"

Kaoru laughed, "There is no other way! This is the only way to keep them safe."

"Do you believe him Kaoru?" Haruhi asked, "Do you really believe that he will leave us alone if you die?"

"I have to don't I?"

"It's not worth your life."

Suddenly Tamaki broke through the police blockade separating them from Kaoru and started to climb the rail too, "If you jump, I jump too." he said.

"Tono, get down!" Kaoru yelled, "You have bad balance!"

A police officer ran up and hauled Tamaki away, "Kaoru, you can't do this. You can't believe his word! This will not end until all of us are dead! Get down and lets talk."

There was a period of silence, "You're right tono, I'll come down." Kaoru started to come down, but his foot slipped. In seemingly slow motion Kaoru fell backwards while everyone rushed foreward to grab him, but they couldn't move fast enough.

Kaoru plunged into the bay of Toyko.

Everything went red in front of Haruhi's eyes and a buzzing filled her ears. She could just barely hear the screaming and crying coming out of the mouths of the people around her. Her legs failed her and she fell to the ground. Throughts and emotions raced through her brain as chaos ensued around her. A pair of strong arms picked her up and carried her to a car and put her in. By then she was weeping unashamedly. Someone put his arm around her and pulled her close and she cried into his shirt.

When she woke up, she was in her bed cocooned in her blanket. She untangled herself, got out of bed and walked to the kitchen. That's when everything that had happened earlier hit her like a train. Her chest tightened when she thought of Kaoru. There was no turning back to their old lives now this had happened. Someone knocked on the door and she considered pretending she wasn't home, but answered it anyway.

Mori and Tamaki came in, "Pack your clothes Haruhi, you're going to Kyoto." Tamaki said.

She stared at him, "I can't just leave my father here."

"He knows everything, we just told him, and he agrees with us. Hurry. Where's your cell phone?"

Haruhi handed him her cell phone and rushed into her room and threw her clothes into a bag, "I'm ready." They ushered her out the door and into the car. Mori got in the car but Tamaki didn't get in, "Tamaki-sempai, aren't you coming?"

"I have to stay here," he took her hands, "but be safe Haruhi, for me."

"Of course sempai."

Mori shut the door and they took off for Kyoto. The two of them sat in silence, Haruhi had a million questions she wanted to ask about Kaoru, but somehow she was still in shock and she couldn't bring herself to ask.

"Haruhi, you couldn't have stopped him from falling." Mori said about halfway to Kyoto. Haruhi looked at him in surprise, he had thought that she was feeling guilty, "There was some kind of lotion on the railing so that if he tried to get off, there was no way he could without slipping."

Her eyes widened, "Was there any evidence of the killer in the lotion?

He nodded, "A strand of hair." It was silent the rest of the way to Kyoto. When they were about a mile out of town, it started raining. Mori handed her a black curly wig, "Wear this."

Haruhi didn't approve of this, but put it on, then put on the raincoat he handed her as well. They pulled in front of a large mansion where a man was waiting for her with an umbrella, "Welcome to the Hanoinzuka mansion in Kyoto, Fujioka-chan." the man said.

She stepped out, but Mori stayed in, "Are you going back to Tokyo?" she asked and he nodded. "Well, good luck catching him Mori-sempai." He nodded one last time and drove off.

Tamaki looked down at Haruhi's phone. He had been in the car when they had driven her home yesterday and she had cried into his shirt. He had asked for her phone to check for any text messages, and then he had kept it so as not to worry her.

Three days.

It had come in late last night, the killer wasn't stopping with Kaoru.

Waiting for her inside the door was the little loli-sho boy who was supposed to be dead, "Haru-chan!" he yelled, hugging her and swinging her around.

"Hunni-sempai." she chocked out, "Slow down please."

He let go, "Sorry Haru-chan, I know what you've been through."

"It's hard Hunni-sempai."

"Come on Haru-chan." He took her hand and pulled her out of the entrance hall and down a maze of hallways. He paused outside a door, "Go on in Haru-chan."

Haruhi opened the door, and the air caught in her throat.

I must really like cliffhangers...

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For replying!

I liked this chapter because I knew I wanted one of them to sacrafice for the good of the others, and the way the card's played it was Kaoru. I'm getting this out early because I plan on putting the next three chapters out rapid fire, but it might be a few extra days for me to do that. That's all for now folks!

~Cloudy