Disclaimer: I don't own La Corda or any of the people in it... :(

Kaho ran for what seemed like hours (they were really only minutes) with Len trailing behind her, calling her name.

"Kaho!! Kahoko!!! Kaho-chan!!! Wait!!! I can explain," he called after her.

Kaho only ran faster, down some stairs, and onto a beach down below.

As soon as she saw that she had lost Len, she sat down in the sand, panting heavily.

As soon as she had caught her breath, she hugged her knees to her chest, and let her tears fall down her face freely.

"Dooshite kami-sama? Why??? Why is this happening to me," Kaho asked aloud, looking at the stars she had conversed with earlier.

Kaho lay down in the sand.

She closed her eyes and listened to the waves crashing onto the sand...

Kaho curled up on her side into the fetal position and cried.

"Why Len? Why did you have to do that," she sobbed.

Kaho was so immersed in her thoughts, that she didn't hear someone sit down next to her.

When she opened her eyes and turned on her side, she was surprised to see Len sitting next to her, looking out at the sea.

Kaho sat up suddenly, making enough noise that she caused Len to look at her.

Kaho tried to quickly stand up, attempting to run away from Len again.

Len grabbed Kaho's wrist, and she sat back down, her face in the other direction.

Upon seeing the tears streaking down her face, Len took Kaho's face in his hands, and wiped them away.

"I can explain Kaho," he murmured.

Kaho just shook her head, too tired to run away again.

Len scooted closer to her, so that their shoulders were now touching.

Kaho looked at Len and asked a single question.

"Why did you do that to me Len? If you didn't love me anymore, you could have just told me, you didn't have to pretend," she mumbled, gazing out at the horizon again.

Len looked at Kaho seriously.

"I do love you," he said.

Kaho scoffed.

"I'm sure... That must be why you were playing tonsil tag with Kanoko," she muttered angrily.

Len forcefully grabbed ahold of Kaho's shoulders and turned her to face him.

"The whole time she was kissing me, I was wishing it was you," he said angrily.

Kaho turned her head away from Len's gaze.

"You were still kissing her back though, and you let her unbutton your shirt," she said scornfully.

Len grabbed ahold of Kaho's chin, turned her head, and kissed her.

Kaho had absolutely no time to react.

Kaho's eyes gradually closed.

'It's a good thing I'm sitting,' she thought...

'Wait... SHIT... I'm kissing him back... I'm kissing the guys that just cheated on me,' she thought.

Kaho's eyes snapped open and she pulled away from Len.

"Can you at least tell me what happened so that i can try to understand what happened," Kaho inquired, giving in to Len's pleading eyes.

Len nodded.

"I was reading over my sheet music in the living room, and............."

(A/N: This is where he tells Kaho what happened between him and Kanako. I didn't wanna type it all again.)

Kaho shook her head.

"Do you have any witnesses," inquired Kaho.

Len looked at Kaho.

"To my knowledge, no one saw other than Kanako and I," he said stiffly, realizing how fake his story sounded.

(A/N: Shit. I'm making Len REALLY OOC... :( Sorry people... Feel free to give me tips on how to improve this...)

"He's telling the truth," called a voice over the sand dunes.

Kaho turned to see a certain thirteen year old girl standing among the tall grass in the sand dunes.

(Yes, Hitomi is 13 years old.)

"Gomen Kaho-sempai, but I wanted to hear what you and Tsukimori-sempai were talking about," said Hitomi.

Kaho smiled a little.

"It's ok Hitomi-chan.. Now, back to what you were saying," stated Kaho.

"Oh. Tsukimori-sempai is telling the truth. I'll vouch for him. I was sitting behind a curtain in the living room when it happened, and I followed then outside when they left the mansion," Hitomi said to the ground, nervously shuffling her feet as if Kaho were going to reprimand her.

Kaho shook her head disbelievingly.

'Why me,' she wondered.

Kaho looked away out onto the dunes.

Suddenly, a figure with long brown hair appeared, sprinting towards the trio.

Kanako had tears streaming down her face, and she had a look of pure grief on her face.

Before Kaho could do anything, Kanako had collapsed in her arms, sobbing and shaking.

"K-kaho-chan... G-g-gomenasai.... Y-y-y-yunoki-sempai asked m-m-me t-to. He p-p-promised me that if I g-g-g-got Tsukimori-sama to break up with y-y-y-you, Yun-noki-sempai would go on a d-d-d-date with me... I just r-r-realized that a d-date with him isn't w-worth our f-f-f-friendship.... G-g-g-g-g-gomen Kaho-chan," wailed Kanako as she crumpled onto the sand.

Len looked at her with distaste.

"Yunoki would never do such a thing. Why is it necessary to lie," he asked coldly.

Kaho looked up at him.

"Len," she murmured, "Kanako-chan may actually be telling the truth. Please just hear her out."

Len looked at Kaho incredulously.

"You're actually defending her? Even after she just tried to break your heart, you're still defending her? Do you have any idea how queer you are" he inquired with a large amount of surprise on his face.

Kaho simply nodded.

She turned back to Kanako and said, "You mentioned Yunoki-sempai Kanako-chan?"

Kanako nodded miserably.

"H-he t-t-told me that if I g-g-g-got Tsukimori-sama to b-b-break up with you that he'd g-go on a d-d-date with me," she whimpered.

A tear ran down Kaho's face.

'Why Yunoki-sempai? I'm finally happy and now you're trying to rip my happiness from me... Dooshite,' she thought.

Len saw tears forming in Kaho's eyes and knew that she wasn't just defending Kanako.

Len knelt down next to Kaho, held her face in both his hands, and kissed her tears away.

"Don't cry Kahoko," he murmured, pulling her close to him, "Everything will be alright."

Kaho shook her head into Len's shirt.

"Iie," she cried, pushing him away.

"Things will never be the same again," she exclaimed, standing up and running up the stairs.

Kaho ran to the cliffs beside the stairs.

'I hope you're happy now Yunoki-sempai,' she thought as she jumped off.

The wind whistled by her face as she fell face first to the water hundreds of feet below that would surely bring her doom.

As the water rushed up to greet her, Kaho thought only of Len.

"I love you Len," thought Kaho, a tear slipping from her eye.

Kaho prepared herself for the impact......................

*GASP*

Kaho abruptly sat up in the sand.

'Oh. I fell asleep while I was crying about Len,' she thought.

'What an awful day... It's too bad that Len's feelings were all a dream though," Kaho thought as she pulled her knees to her chest slowly, bringing her gaze out onto the horizon.

Tears began rolling down her cheeks.

'I should have known that Len loving me was too good to be true,' she thought.

(A/N: Kaho dreamt everything from Len sitting next to her on the beach to her jumping off the cliff...)

At exactly that moment, Shinobu was taking his daily walk along the beach, and he had happened to see Kaho.

"Hino-san," he called, jogging over to see what the matter was, "What's wrong Hino-san?"

Kaho quickly stood up and brushed the tears from her eyes.

"Nande Ousaki-sempai," she murmured.

Shinobu saw that Kaho's eyes were all puffy and that her nose was red.

Acting upon impulse and habit, (This had happened with his sister before), Shinobu drew Kaho into a tight hug.

Kaho rested her head on Shinobu's shoulder.

"Arigatoo Ousaki-sempai," she mumbled.

Shinobu placed his hands on Kaho's shoulders, put her an arms length away from him, and said, "Come, let's get you cleaned up. We wouldn't want Tsukimori-san to see you like this, ne? When Hitomi is done with you, Tsukimori will wish that he never hurt you."

Kaho looked at Shinobu with widened eyes.

"How did you know that Len hurt me," she questioned, still sniffling.

"Gut feeling," smiled Shinobu as he pulled Kaho towards the mansion.

( A/N: What will happen next???? :P Next chappie coming up soon! Coming up in next chapter: AMOU NAMI?!?!?!? DNA tests?????? ANOTHER SIBLING?!?!?!?!?)