When Tomoyo woke up she felt her hand gripping onto something smooth. When she looked down, she saw that it was Huni's hand that she held. He sat beside her bed on a chair; his head bobbing repeatedly like his neck would break if he kept it up. A thought entered her mind and she began wondering why Huni was there and wondering more why his hand was holding hers. But when she looked closer, it was the other way around, her hand was holding his.

As she let go, Huni jerked up and woke up. He turned from side to side as if he was lost. Then when their eyes met, Tomoyo softly said, "Morning."

Huni rubbed his head and his eyes before congregating the energy to say, "Good morning."

"Why are…you here?", she asked.

Huni's tired mind wondered elsewhere, but as he registered the words he slowly asked, "You mean you don't remember?"

Tomoyo recoiled in confusion. "What do you mean?".

Sighing for a moment and still trying to wake up, Huni answered, "I heard you groaning, so I came to check up on you. You were squirming quite a bit. Then when thunder stroke, you woke up…then I guess I decided to just sit beside you encase you got scared."

"You….slept like that the whole night?" asked Tomoyo.

Nodding, Huni chuckled and replied, "I'm starting to wish that I would've dragged my bed in here because my neck hurts like hell now." Standing up, Huni rubbed his neck and took a stroll around the small room.

Sitting up, Tomoyo covered herself, remembering that all she wore was her bra since she had let her shirt make an attempt to dry. She watched Huni rubbing his neck and then ruffling his hair. From what she could tell, he was hurt and stiff. ''All because of me?'', she asked herself. She glowered, then said:

"I'm sorry…you couldn't get a good night sleep because of me."

Huni stopped ruffling his hair and began twisting his back.

"No sweat" he said. "I'd rather have gotten some sleep than be awake listening to you whimper in bed all the time."

Mortified, Tomoyo swung the blanket to the side and moved to the other room. She found her shirt lying on the floor and picked it up. It wasn't as dry as she had hoped for, but she figured that it would have to do. Pulling her shirt over her head, Tomoyo walked out into the hallways. A yellow and misty glow shimmered around a corner, catching her attention. She made her way there and, through the school windows, saw a bright dim yellow mist outside. The rain still patted hard, but it was as if the sun's rays tried to breach the mist and failed miserably.

Feeling Huni's presence beside her, she said, "It's beautiful."

Huni agreed with a simple ''Hn'', but he felt bummed that it continued to storm. Though thunder and lightning was now off, the rain still hammered miserably.

"But it's still raining pretty hard", said the white haired male.

"Today's Saturday right?"

"It is…"

"How are we supposed to survive today and tomorrow?"

Shrugging, Huni made his way towards the bright yellow window. He then stared off into a hallway and made his way down it. Around the corner of that hallway, he met the schools foyer room. A long stretch of benches started on one end of the room and ended on a far opposite corner.

Looking through the windows, he could see the schools baseball field. Past the field were houses no less than two blocks away. The thought of breaking a window and running across to a house for help certainly was now an option, knowing that a window had already been broken the other day.

After a thunder, Huni calmly said to Tomoyo, "It's going to storm the whole weekend." He waited for her to acknowledge that as she came up to him, he continued. "If you want, I can-"

"Stay here", Tomoyo interrupted.

Huni cocked an eyebrow. She added, "I-I don't want you getting hurt anymore and…I want your company. You know, thunderstorms and me. Even though it's bright, it's still a storm."

Tomoyo swallowed hard and blushed. What she said was true, every last word. But it wasn't the full truth. On a side feeling, she enjoyed being with him, but what she enjoyed most was having the time she thought she would never have had ever since the fourth grade: a time to just be one on one with him, Kurotsuki Mitsuhuni, her childhood friend.

During the stretch of their unfortunate friendship, Tomoyo did hate Huni. But, it was the hatred that left sorrow within her, a feeling that she had to endure but didn't want. She thought back to when Ino asked her if she had ever thought about life with Huni and her still friends; she reminded herself that she always dreamt of that life.

"So please, Huni-Kun", said Tomoyo. "Please stay."

Huni stared at her mellowed face. Her eyes closed, her hands together in front of her as if she was getting ready to kneel down before him. But her posture and innocent voice wasn't the one that caught him off guard; it was what she had called him.

He blushed at the added –Kun to his name. Trying to remain calm in order to make the blushing disappear he walked closer to Tomoyo and flicked her forehead with a finger. She flinched after the contact and touched the sore spot with her hand.

"Ow," she complained. "What was that for?"

"You're it." said Huni.

"What?" said Tomoyo in confusion.

Huni back-pedalled and slowly jogged across the foyer. "We're going to be here for another thirty-six hours, why not pass the time with a little game?", he suggested.

Tomoyo cocked her head to the side, surprised at his request. But then again, it was true. They had had a long Friday night and were only going to endure another day and a half if the storm was going to continue throughout the weekend.

Smiling as she watched Huni fly across the room, Tomoyo couldn't help but to laugh in her head. She was now going to play a child's game, a game that she hasn't played in such a long time.

"You better run!" she yelled across the room.

Would she be able to keep up with him? It was never tested before, nor was there ever an opportunity to do so. Tomoyo wasn't going to let up this opportunity; the opportunity to laugh and play just like she once did a long time ago. But also, the opportunity to catch up on the years they have missed with each other.

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The yellow mist had cleared but the thunder and lightning came back as thicker clouds strode over the school. It was only a few hours since their awakening, early afternoon from what the two could tell, but the school appearance was dark, not nearly as dark as the night, but a dim day with no lights.

Tomoyo and Huni found themselves back in the detention room where they first began. The two sat down side to side on a far wall across from the windows telling stories of past events that they each had missed out on. It was the few hours they've spent in their situation not talking about the gruelling past they had once had.

"-is that really how it happened?"

"Believe it or not, it's the truth", replied Huni. "Sasuke just turned his head and since Naruto was soooo close they actually kissed. I really wish it didn't happen too, things like that can give you nightmares."

Tomoyo tried covering up her laugh with her hands. "Sad."

As silence soared between the two, Tomoyo sighed. She didn't want a great conversation going still, not now at the least. She thought up some options in her head, some weren't worth asking, but when she found one to ask, she hesitated.

"Have you ever been in love?" she asked.

Huni stared at her with stern eyes and replied with "Define love."

"How can I define it? It's just simply…love."

Giving a moment to think, Huni didn't know how to answer. He thought back at every relationship he had with girls. He recalled several, but didn't know if any were the ones he would call love.

"You know, when I think about it, I guess I have." said Huni.

Tomoyo stared at him with amazement. "Really?", she said, exaggerating it.

"Don't say it like that!" Huni immediately said. "You make it seem like I have no soul."

Laughing, Tomoyo gave herself a moment to sigh before saying, "Fine, go on."

Huni paused. "Go on? What else do you want me to say?"

"I don't know, maybe her name, and when", said Tomoyo shrugging.

"Oh please, you expect me to tell you all that?"

"Aw come on, you're over her right? So what if I know!"

Syaoran hesitated for a moment, then shook his head aimlessly.

"Are you saying that you're not over her?" exclaimed Sakura with an enthusiastic face. "You haven't forgotten about her? Left her in the past?"

"Hey, hey don't make fun of me!" said Huni in his defence. "You never quite forget your first love, you know?"

Tomoyo giggled. "Yeah I guess…but to think, you actually fell in love!"

"Hey!", Huni retorted. "Now you're really making me seem like I don't have a heart."

Impersonating the living dead with her hands out and fingers wriggling, Tomoyo made an uneasy face towards Huni and pushed him to the side.

"Oh, heartless indeed, just like a Grim Reaper, neh, Shinigami-sama?" she then added a laugh at the end.

"Shut up", said Huni pushing her back. After a shared laugh, Huni cleared his throat and started to make his presentation. "So let me ask you something then: back when I was applying the patch to your shoulder, why on earth would you start talking about me staring at…you know." He quickly peered down at her chest then back up to her eyes.

Tomoyo instantly blushed as a strong feeling of heat ran from her neck up to her forehead. Though she couldn't see it, she was sure that her whole face had turned red. She felt heavy, not wanting to answer, but found a forceful feeling that made her.

"I don't know", she said playing with her index fingers. "I guess I'm a girl…I-we like to know things like that once in a while."

"Really?" asked Huni with aspiration. "Girls really like that?"

"Yes-I mean…we-wow it sounds like I'm talking to my mo-"

Suddenly an awkward silence tamed them both; a word that wasn't just any regular word, but a taboo.

For the next half hour, the two were quiet; one trying to fall asleep from the silence, one trying to find out more ways to endure the time being in a more enjoyable manner.

Huni's eyes rolled aimlessly, his head bobbed continuously, his mind wandered off into another dimension; things he thought of didn't even make sense to him. He could've sore that he said something out loud, but he couldn't remember it. Since Sakura didn't seem to react to anything, he was sure that it was just his confused thought.

His thoughts were snapped when he heard the hums of a soft luscious voice. He turned to Tomoyo and saw her with her head up high facing the ceiling, her knees resting below her chin with her arms around it, rocking as if it comforted her from the clamours of the thunderstorm that just started to reinforce once again.

The hum was sweet and musical. As he thought back to his childhood days, he started to become fond towards her hum, then came to remember that she was humming a song from one of his favourite childhood movies.

The Beauty and the Beast.

It was a song that pictured two imperfect beings that met each other due to a faulty incident. Then as their differences started to tear them apart, one saw deep into the others soul, and out came the life that everyone wanted, but no one expected: the love of a girl whose beauty broke into the beast, and the love of a beast who was seen through to the inside.

When the humming stopped, Tomoyo glared down beside her to Huni who had his vision set at her. She wasn't sure if he was looking at her or past her, but as his eyes shifted straight into hers, an answer was given.

"The beauty and the beast?" commented Huni.

Sakura nodded, "My mother would always sing the song to me every night before I went to bed—especially when thunderstorms occurred. It was a song that had such a comforting and soothing tone; it put me to sleep easily. She'd also tell me the story of how she and my dad met, saying that their relationship was just a close as Belle and Beast had."

Huni smiled at the story, then cleared his throat and asked, "So, Belle-Chan, would you like to dance?"

It was a moment before Tomoyo catalogued the words and figured that the request was for her. She gave Huni an immediate look that asked if he was serious. As she saw his smiling face, she couldn't tell if he was or not.

"Right here…right now?", she asked.

Nodding, Huni cleared his throat once again and said, "Well, you do owe me a Dance Star sticker."

Tomoyo shook her head, not believing that he had brought up something minor that had happened in their past. "First of all, it wasn't a sticker…it was a piece of paper in the shape of a star that our sensei would clip on to our shirts-"

"If you danced!" interrupted Huni. "And if I remember correctly, you wouldn't dance and since you were the only girl that didn't want too and I refused to dance with a guy I wasn't able to get a sticker."

"It was in the fifth grade and I didn't want to be late for lunc-"

"I could've cut in line for lunch!"

"You brought food from home every day-"

"But I never brought dessert."

"Can't you let that go? You know I hated you back then."

"Hey, I was young and dumb, of course I can't let it go."

Tomoyo found herself slapping her head and laughing quietly. She wanted to roll on the floor and digest how much a silly paper star had meant to him back then. It was true, young and stupid, most of the kids wanted that little star attached to them by a paperclip. Those who didn't get it cried and complained.

Getting up, Huni pushed aside several desks that were in front of them. Then as he was satisfied at his rearrangements, he turned back towards Tomoyo who still sat skeptic against the wall. He held out his hand with a small bow.

"Belle-Chan," said Huni, "I'll ask you again… would you like to dance?"

Shaking her head in her incredulous situation, Tomoyo silently continued to laugh at herself, and then said, "I can't believe you're doing this."

"I can't believe I didn't get my star", Huni said back.

"We don't even have music to dance to."

"We'll improvise."

"We?"

"I'll improvise."

It took another long moment of aimlessly arguing, but Tomoyo finally gave in. She held out a hand and took a hold of Huni's, then as he pulled her up to her feet, she couldn't help but to give out another laugh.

"Well, Beast-Sama, I accept your request." she said, then walked to the clearing of the desks.

The two clutched a hand through the fingers, then Tomoyo's nose flushed with a blush as she felt Huni's hand move down to her waist. She quickly forced herself to ignore his hand and set her own hand on his shoulder.

As the two stepped closer to each other, they were able to feel each other's breaths. So close…closer than they would have ever imagined together.

"You know," started Huni. "That star thing wasn't really a big deal."

Tomoyo raised an eyebrow. "You know, now that I recall it…didn't you end up getting one?"

"I stole it."

"Figures…it wasn't a big deal huh?"

Huni shook his head, "Not now."

"So then why the sudden no big deal thing?"

Turning to the side for a moment, Huni turned back with half a smile, "Because I want you to dance because you want to, not because of some dumb star."

Tomoyo stared for a moment and acknowledged his words, then said, "A dumb star that you cried over."

"I'm not crying over one now…."

The two shared a short laugh, then as fast as their eyes met, they turned away. "So, are you going to lead?" asked Tomoyo.

"Only if you really want to dance", replied Huni.

Tomoyo cocked her head to the side and smiled, "Lead, Beast-Sama."

As Huni began to hum the notes to 'Beauty and the Beast', they began to move, picturing the music and their surroundings equally; Huni lead just as if everything were real.

Entrusting her movements to his lead, Tomoyo closed her eyes halfway, trying to feel comfort in her movements as well as wanting to build a trust in him. As thunder screeched across the top, the sound seemed to have been hindered by Huni being so close to her; all she heard were the hums of her favourite lullaby.

She could feel herself being let go of and twirled around, then softly coming back into his arms. His grip on her waist was firm and yet unassailable, a slight push or tug was all it took for her to follow his movements. The grip on her hand was as if she held onto angels' hair; it wasn't like any other man's hand, Tomoyo was surprised to feel that Huni's hand was very soft and warm.

Huni's movements were that of a professional. During the dance, Tomoyo felt complete trust in him and completely closed her eyes. She felt their movements blowing her school skirt to the side, then as she spread apart and back to him, she felt an even firmer grip on her waist that made her collapse onto his chest.

The dancing had stopped, and just as she reopened her eyes, Huni had just finished humming the last few notes where the vocalists would sing, '-beauty and…the beast…'

Tomoyo felt Huni's hands move from her waist to her back and she didn't hesitate to do the same. It was as if he had grown within their moment of dancing together; now when she looked up, Huni seemed taller. His eyes made a bridge to hers, and as Tomoyo tugged on his white shirt, Huni bent down until their foreheads met.

Then their nose…

The two stood skin to skin for a moment, just as their lips were able to breathe in each other's oxygen, they parted and turned to opposite sides.

"…Awkward huh…?" said Huni clearing his throat and trying to hide his blush.

Tomoyo felt her blush creep from the bottom of her nose to the plateau of her forehead. She wanted to reply back, reply back with anything, but she thought to herself and approved to herself that she certainly wasn't going to agree with him.

"Are you okay?" she heard Huni ask.

She tried to turn to him, tried to face him, but her body wouldn't move no matter how much she tried.

She felt a vehement sensation irking the back of her head. She felt it, then as her legs felt weak and uncontrollable, she collapsed.

Huni was there to break her fall, catching her under the arms.

"Hey, are you okay?", she heard him say. His voice was a hollowed, quiet, and drained. "Tomoyo-Chan, wake up, wake up!" Her eyes narrowed until the last thing she saw was Huni above her with apprehensive eyes.

"-moyo-Chan!"

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When Tomoyo opened her eyes, she found herself still on Huni's arms in the floor. Looking up she found him bending over her.

"No!" she yelled, "It's not, it wasn't…" trailing off, she finished her sentence in her head, ''awkward…?''

"What happened to you?", she heard his voice which brought her back into reality.

Tomoyo took a moment to focus, then as her eyes narrowed onto Huni, she flushed and turned away.

"Come on, let's get you back down to the office, you probably need some rest", Huni tried to help her up, but was pushed away.

"It's okay, I can walk", she said kindly and softly.

"Are you sure?" asked Huni. "I carried you once, I can do it again..."

Nodding, Tomoyo slowly made her way to the door. ''It wasn't awkward…'' she repeated in her head.

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Huni watched as Tomoyo tucked herself in bed. She didn't say a word to him; she didn't even look at him. All she did was compose a solemn face. Then, as she made herself comfortable, closed her eyes and fell asleep just as fast as she had collapsed on him.

Grieving over what had happened and the sudden drop of existence, Huni said, "Get up when you feel better…", and left her to rest.

His feet led him to the foyer room and he stared at the sky which was now as dark as it was at the beginning. But as the wind screamed viciously and trees thrashed, the clouds started to spread apart in a circular direction. Huni examined the sky for almost a full minute, then slowly cursed to himself. He saw small objects flying towards the circulating clouds. A few rocks, a small bush and even cans of soda. From every direction, something light would eventual fly from the ground.

He knew what this meant…

"No…" he whispered. "Not now… not now…"

*End of Chapter 5*

Author's notes- Ok, one more chapter done and one more to go. After the next I'll get back on writing my other fic so just have a bit more patience please! Hmmm, please leave reviews and I hope you enjoyed this chapter!