Hatsu's date

~Kyo's POV~

I lied on the the roof, replaying what had just happened at the cemetary in my head, after I walked over and hugged her, thinking about what Haru said.

"What did he mean by that... Surely she remembers on her own, doesn't she?" I asked myself, moving my index finger in circles on the roof tiles.

"Kyo, are you okay?" I looked over to see Sakura climbing out the window.

"I'm fine" I growled, still playing with my finger and the tile.

"Kyo, please tell me, I know what Hatsu said, he told me too..." I looked at her.

"Why is it that she remembers everyone? But... me...?" I asked, feeling a bit guilty as I said it.

"It'll take time-" Then Sakura pursed her lips. "Or she may never remember"

My heart flashed back to that moment, when Haruka was looking at the stone and Haru and Momiji said the same thing.

"I just feel lost..." I sighed.

"Look, I'm sure everything is okay, she'll remember, for sure!" She gave me a thumbs up and started to turn away, she was standing the whole time, but she slipped.

I dove for her and we both landed on the ground, and we turned into our designated zodiac animal.

"Okay... this never happens with Yuki!" She yelled. "Why is this so confusing?" that's when the bushes rustled and Haruka stepped from them.

"Are you two okay?" She asked, bending down to our level. "Let's get you inside..."

I noticed that her hair was wet, she must've just gotten out of the bath or something, but she picked our clothes up and we followed her inside.

~Haruka's POV~

I still had blurred memories, but these ones didn't make my head hurt, I was relaxing in the tub when I saw these blurred memories, but it didn't last long, the water was turning cold.

And when I got out, I heard something falling from the roof and to my surprise, I see Kyo and Sakura in their zodiac form.

"If you guys need anything, just hollar" I said. "But not too loudly, Yuki and Shigure are sleeping"

I walked upstairs, letting the blurred memories play in my head. Of course, as luck, or fate, would have it, I dreamt of those memories, still blurred, but still... My heart was breaking this time for no apparent reason, not my mind.

The next morning, I walked over to Kyo, he was drinking out of the carton again, but I walked over to him anyway, and gave him a hug. He was surprised, but hugged me back. None of the memories became clear.

"Why aren't these memories clearing up?" I pondered.

"Haruka, what's wrong?" Kyo asked.

"I have blurred memories" I said, tracing his face with my mind. "But I can't remember, no matter what I do..." I looked him in the eyes and felt myself blush, my heart racing. Kyo had my cheek and was looking in my eyes.

For some reason, I didn't fight, and no, he didn't kiss me, I didn't fight him being so close, holding my cheek, just staring into my eyes.

"Kyo..." I whispered. "What's wrong?" He looked closer, wrapping his free arm around my waist, again, no protest.

"Your eyes... They're different" He said. "You're eyes are showing confusion" He released me from my waist and removed his hand on my cheek.

"I AM confused" I told him, feeling something I wasn't quite sure. "Kyo, I know-"

"No, it's not that..." He said. "You're eyes are trying to read something that is right in front of you" I didn't know he was this deep, he never really showed this side of him.

"Okay... Now you just made me MORE confused!" I cried, gripping my head.

~third person~

"Go out with me" Kyo told her. Haruka tried to read his eyes, trying to find his motive. But, she couldn't find any.

"When?" She asked.

"Next weekend" He told her. "Wear something comfortable"

Haruka was still surprised, but tried her best not to show it. He was telling the truth, no strings attatched. that's when the phone went off, Haruka went and got it.

"Hello?" She said into it.

"Hey, it's me..."

"Oh, hey Hatsu!" Haruka smiled.

~Haruka's POV~

I stared at the wall as he breathed for a couple of moments.

"Are you free today?" Hatsu finally asked.

"Yeah..." I said, completely confused. "Why?"

"Meet me at the park" I smiled.

"Okay..." I smiled. "When?"

"Now" And that was it, he hung up.

"Who was it?" Kyo had a riceball in his hand.

"Hatsu, I'm going to go meet him at the park" I walked upstairs and got ready, just as Sakura got up.

I put my hair into two low pigtails, the scrunchies near my neck, and I wore a yellow cat t-shirt with a black skirt, Sakura finished the look with a black cap and short boots, saying that the yellow was over powerering.

"I'm leaving now" I told Kyo before I left.

I walked to the park, thinking why Hatsu just wanted to meet me. I found him at the park, but he was hanging upside-down from a jungle gym.

"Hatsu!" I yelled. He looked at me, he was wearing blue jeans and a grey and black striped muscle shirt, covered by a green jacket with patches ironed on it.

He jumped down and looked at me. "Are you ready?" He asked.

"Ready, for... what?" I raised an eyebrow. He grasped my hand and started walking, I followed behind.

"Our date of course" I was going to stop but he was too strong, What the bleep is going on? But he took me to a coffee shop not too far away, and we ate there. I had a giant cholclate chip cookie, and he had a banana muffin.

"Why didn't you tell me this was a date?" I asked him.

"I didn't think you'd go... It's just one date, what's the harm?" He shrugged.

"You kissed my sister" I pointed out.

"That was a while ago..." Hatsu grabbed my hand, I spit the soda I was drinking and pulled my hand away.

"I'm sorry... I just don't understand... Why do you want me when you kissed my sister?" Haruka stood.

"Because, Sakura has a good boyfriend, but you have no one" He smirked.

"Okay, you are starting to freak me out..." I told him.

"Just eat your cookie" He told me.

I did, and afterwards he grabbed my hand.

"Where are we going now?" I asked.

"You'll see..." He told me calmly.

~Third person~

To Haruka, it didn't feel right, the date with Hatsuharu, she felt strange, uncomfortable... Like she was betraying someone important to her, those blurred memories flashed again.

She then finally was able to pull away.

"Where are we going?" She asked, stopping.

"You'll see..." He went for her hand again. Haruka slapped it away.

"I can walk myself..." and they walked together, and they were soon at a karaoke place, Hatsuharu had rented out one of the rooms for them to hang out in.

"Really?" Haruka said, freezing in the doorway.

"Just sing..." Hatsuharu threw a mic at her.

After the karaoke place, Hatsuharu got them lost on the other part of town from their houses.

"Are you sure you know where you are going?" Haruka asked, looking around the night.

"Of course..." He said, taking a turn to a deadend.

"Okay, maybe I should take us home..." Haruka looked around and found a cat not too far away, she talked to it. "Okay, c'mon" she grabbed Hatsuharu's sleeve so she wouldn't lose him.

"What do we have here?" Haruka stopped, it was three guys wearing smug smirks.

"It looks like we've got a new toy..." The boys eyed Haruka with interest.

"You guys are annoying" Hatsuharu stepped in front of Haruka in a protective way.

"What? Are you her boyfriend?"

Soon, Hatsuharu was beat to a pulp.

"Now, where were we?" The guys surrounded Haruka, but she rolled her eyes.

"Come and get me" And they lunged, at the same time, Haruka ducked, making two of them hit each other's heads.

"You're a little brat!" The what seemed to be the leader, lunged and pulled back a punch, but Haruka flipped him over her shoulder before he got the chance.

To her, these guys were hardly practice, they were thugs trying to take advantage of a girl, Haruka wanted to hurt them, but didn't want to hurt Hatsuharu, that's why she couldn't get fight him.

But then a whole bunch of guys came over, they looked at their fallen comrads.

"You think you could beat up our people and get away with it?" One of them stepped up, he grabbed Haruka's wrist. "I think you should give me a payment..." He smirked and started to lift her shirt, his friends restraining her from making a move, she started to cry. But beyond the tears, the guy stopped, suddenly being flown to her left, and the grip from his friends loosened.

She cleared her eyes for a second to find Kyo, he was standing in front of her. Yuki and Sakura were there too, Sakura pointing guns at the guys of course, Yuki wasn't standing too far away. Haruka stood there for a second, letting the tears fall from her cheeks.

"Why'd you let them do that?" Kyo asked. "You know how to kick butt..." But Haruka hugged him, her fears falling away with the tears, Kyo held onto her too.

~Kyo's POV~

We walked home, Yuki carrying Haru on his back, and Sakura and I were holding Haruka's trembeling hands. But when we finally reached Shigure's, she loosened up and ran inside.

"That's not herself" Sakura said. "Usually she can beat those guys no problem, something must be holding her back"

"You're right..." I said. "What to do?"

"Maybe it's some kind of memory, you know? It's probably blocking her thinking..." Sakura said.

"Hm... Maybe..." But Sakura went to Yuki, of course. I went on the roof, Haruka was there thinking, gazing dreamily at the stars. But I also saw tears flowing from her eyes. But she saw me, and wiped them away, sitting up.

"Okay, what's wrong?" I asked, sitting next to her.

"Nothing!" She faked a smile.

"I know you're lying, what's wrong?" I was saying it softer the second time.

"I'm just not strong enough..." She sniffed.

"You mean to defeat those thugs?" I raised an eyebrow at her.

"They hurt Hatsu..." She said.

"Look, punch me as hard as you can okay?" She looked at me as if I was crazy, but I knew what I was saying. "Go ahead, I can take-" Before I could finsh, I felt something get in contact with my face, sending me flying. I fell off the roof, falling on the grass below.

"Oh my gosh! Are you okay?" I sat up as Haruka jumped off the roof and run over to me, kneeling next to me to check me all over. She spotted the bloody nose.

"Oh dear, c'mon..." She grabbed my hand and quietly pulled me through the back door, trying not to wake Haru up, Sakura was doing dishes when we walked in.

"What happened?" Sakura looked at me as Haruka twisted tissue for me to put into my nose.

"I told her to punch me" I told Sakura.

"Why would you do that?" She asked, crossing her arms and forgetting the dishes.

"He's helping me with my confidence" Haruka told her, putting the tissues in my nose.

"Oh..." Sakura shrugged and went back to cleaning dishes.

Sakura looked at her.

"By the way, the person at the cafe called, said you start tomorrow after school" Sakura put the final dish in the dishwasher.

"You got a job?" I turned to look at her.

"Yeah, at a cafe... Shigure told us one of us needed to get a job..." She sighed.

"Where is the cafe?" I asked her.

"What, are you worried?" Sakura smirked.

"No!" Haruka walked out of the room when I said this, not depressed but she went to give Hatsuharu a pack of ice.

~third person~

"He what!?" Uncle was in a rage, Hatori, along with Kisa and Hiro, escaped.

"You can't even control your own new family" Uncle spun around, a young man in a suit was standing on one of the beams that held the house.

"What are you doing here?" Uncle snapped at the man.

"I'm here to collect..." The man shrugged as if it was no big deal.

"Black Card, I know as well as you do, you are not here to collect but here to take" The man jumped from the beam and looked at the older man.

"Well, I AM head of the family now..." He said.

"What?! Since when?" Uncle snarled, Black Card sneered.

"Since you couldn't successfully capture the girl! Elder was tired of giving you the second head title, so he gave it to me! You both Uncle Ryu are stupid, but I will give you a chance to redeem yourself... Father..."

~Third person~

So the next day after school, Haruka rushed to work, unaware of Yuki, Sakura, and Kyo following her. They went inside and sat at a table off to the corner.

"Hi may I help you? Oh my gosh! Prince Yuki!" The girl screamed happily, but another girl walked over.

"I'm sorry, can we help you?" This girl was wearing glasses and short green hair was held by two red berretts.

"Uh, I'll just get a chocolate doughnut" Sakura said, sliding the menu towards the two girls.

"A fruit parfait please" Yuki said, also pushing his menu towards them.

"Oh, just to tell you guys..." The green haired said. "We have a new special, it's called the Honey Strawberry, caramel cake, of course there is chocolate..." the green haired kept babbling.

"Here" Haruka set a piece of the cake down. "I'll go get something to wash it down with..." Haruka left.

All the waitresses were wearing maid dresses, the green haired was wearing blue and the first girl, that had blue pigtails wore pink, while Haruka wore orange, she came back and put down three cups of water in front of them.

"I'll be right back to take your orders!" Haruka bowed and ran off.

"It feels like she's been here forever" The pigtails said.

"I know..." the green haired look at Haruka for a second. "Now, what would you like?" The three took a bite out of the cake and all three of them ordered it.

"Alright, I'll bring it right away" The green haired scampered off and the pigtails went to clean up some broken glass that was part of a cup.

~Sakura's POV~

After we had eaten our cake, Haruka walked over, still wearing her maid uniform.

"Hey guys, can you hang for a bit?" She asked.

"Sure... Why?" I asked her.

"It's my break right now..." She said, slumping into the seat next to Kyo.

"How long is your break?" I asked her.

"10 minutes..." She sighed. "I've used five already" She looked at the ceiling, as if something interesting was happening.

But after the five minutes passed, she went back to work and we walked home.

"It's going to be dark by the time her shift is done, I wonder if she'd be safe on her own..." I said, looking at the setting sun.

But I knew Kyo would automatically jump at the chance to walk her home.

"I'll pick her up afterwards..." He said grudgingly.

"Really, you would?" I looked at him and smiled.

"Yeah, yeah..." He said.

We went home and at around eight o'clock, Kyo left, taking a jacket for Haruka since it was getting cold.

~Haruka's POV~

I finally finished my shift and was getting back into my street clothes, when my boss walked over.

"Haruka, can you do me a favor?" She asked.

"Sure, what is it?" I closed my work locker and secured the lock. My boss pointed to a stuck door behind me.

"The back door is stuck again, can you get it on your way out?" I nodded.

"Sure thing!" I smiled.

"Oh yeah, tomorrow you're locking up, okay?"

"Yeah..." I bent down to pick up my bag, when a hand beat me to it.

"Kyo!" I looked at the oranged haired boy. "How'd you get in here?" I asked him.

"The back door was open" He shrugged as if it wasn't a big deal. That was the same door that was stuck.

"Oh, but that door was stuck... Hm... Maybe I should have a guy around just to unjam that door, but Haruka you do it well" she started to ramble on, I felt something being drapped around my shoulders, I looked to see Kyo putting a jacket over them.

"It's cold outside" He told me. "I'm sorry, We have to go... But also, do you mind if I stay here all day tomorrow?" He looked at my boss.

"Why?" She looked at him weirdly.

"It would be a shame to leave a girl alone while she locks up, if the other employees are busy to stay, then I will and make sure she's safe..." He still had my bag and threw it over his shoulder, of course still holding on to it.

"If you want" My boss said.

We left and I felt myself blush, looking at my feet, for some reason, I was shy by his actions, Kyo never acted like this. But I was too busy looking at my feet to realize where I was going, I ran into someone pretty hard, almost falling when I felt some one catch me.

"Be careful, and watch where you're going" Kyo grumbled to me. I blushed even harder and scrambled away from him, he looked at me and sighed. "We better get going..." He trailed off, seeing someone step out of a black car.

"Hatori?" Kyo asked, looking at the black haired man. He grabbed my wrist and pushed me into the black car.

"Get in Kyo..." I heard the man say sternly. He did, and the man climbed in the driver seat, Kyo was sitting next to me.

"I'm taking you guys home, if you don't mind..." He was mainly looking at me. "By the way, I'm Hatori..." I blinked.

"Haruka..." I said.

"Hatori, why are you here?"

More memories, but this time all I had to do was touch Kyo's hand. Hatori... I now knew who he was.

"You were the one that erased my memories..." I whispered, suddenly feeling disappointed. "You made me forget everything!"

"Haruka, now-"

But my markings spread, my anger boiling over the top, my eyes bulging... Until Kyo covered my eyes and grabbed my left wrist, twisting my body so I would lean on him, seriously, this car needs seatbelts. But he got me to a point where I wasn't mad, I was sad. He uncovered my eyes and let go of my wrist, but I stayed in that position, leaning up against him, my head on his chest.

"It's okay, Haruka" He was comforting me like that, until the car came to a sudden stop, I looked out the front window, a black, bulky shadow was right in front of the car.

TBC...

Haruka: The author is sorry for the wait, she was busy with other stories... Thanks for you patience!