Mythia: Hello! I love all of your support, seriously! You guys are awesome, thank you~!

I must apologize though for my absence in FF, I had 'Prince of Tennis' episodes to watch. It's my new obsession. $_$ My eyes are literally glued onto my laptop, watching Eng Subs. So sorry about my laziness.

The votes are in! Arigatou, hontoni desu (Thank you, really)! The answer is...

A! Because of you, Kurusu Syo feels the urge to rush in the room and save Haruka from the mysterious Saizo in the secret golden warehouse! Though, you might want to think this through...

Or not. XD

Enough blabbering, on with ze story~!

Kurusu Syo was starting to get frustrated. He didn't even know what the heck he was is suffering in there! She will die if this keeps up!

I have to go in and save her! That was his final decision.

Syo put his hand on the door handle, yanked it down, and pushed the door open so forcefully, the whole building shook and creaked for a bit.

The man with the mask, Saizo, looked up. So did Nanami, who frightfully squeaked, "S-Syo-kun...!" Her eyes were pleading him to leave, making him wonder intensely. "Syo-kun, go! Run away!"

"No, Nanami! I came here to save you! Please, understand that I came here for you!" Syo shouted, glaring at the amused-looking Saizo.

No way in hell was Syo going to lose Haruka again to that...that Saizo.

A smirk played on the masked man's lips. "Well, well, well, what do we have here? Kurusu Syo from the petty boy band, STARISH? I'm honored that you came to visit us!" Saizo laughed with the knife still at Nanami's neck, irking Syo by the minute.

"I don't give a d*mn about your 'jokes'! Let go of Nanami, now!" Syo continued to shout, his voice echoing through the dark warehouse. For barely a second, Syo was surprised at his bellowing voice, since he had forgotten that gold was surrounding him instead of wood.

Saizo smirked. "Oh? What has gotten you to think you can make me do that?" He pressed the knife back on Nanami's neck with his other hand, provoking Syo. He clenched his fists, fighting the urge to kill him on the spot. But this was Syo, and fighting urges weren't his thing, when he knew he wouldn't win against it.

"BET THIS WILL!" Syo charged at Saizo, fist aiming at his face. Then, the blonde suddenly saw him put on a devilish smile, staying completely still. His fist was about to meet with his mask, when Syo suddenly changed his course and he punched Saizo's neck.

Surprised, Saizo smacked his head on his throne, his head and neck throbbing. for a moment, his grip loosened on Haruka. And at that moment, Haruka strained for her escape, and wriggled herself out. Syo sighed in relief for barely even a second before he felt his retreating arm being held tight. Then, it twisted, making him cry out. "D*mit, argh!"

"S-Stop, don't hurt S-Syo-kun!" Haruka sputtered in alarm and fear, her voice barely audible through the painful cries of Syo.

"You, shut up," Saizo said, as he moved pulled out his knife and threw.

And then it happened. Everything seemed slow, like the clock's second hand was slowing down. Tick...tock...

It happened so quickly, it didn't even feel real. In one second, there was blood on the floor. Whose blood was that...?

Syo didn't have to think.

The tears just came to the shocked blonde.

Blood.

The smell of copper blood.

The sight of red blood.

The smell and sight of none other than Nanami's blood.

Syo didn't want to look as her body fell on the ground, laying limp. Yet Saizo was more than sick enough to force Syo's head to jerk at Haruka's body, forcing his eyes to stay open. Saizo was laughing maniacally all the way.

But Syo didn't hear his painful laughs. The only thing he heard were the memories and voice of Nanami flying through his stricken brain, one by one.

He forced his eyes shut.

Nanami was lying on the ground. Her throat was cut open, blood pooling out onto the ground. There was no sign of life left in the body...being a soulless body.

Saizo had finally released his death grip, and so Syo felt limp and fell on his knees. I failed, was what he thought. Nanami died. She's gone. Dead.

Syo's tears couldn't stop falling. I couldn't protect her.

The knife was on the ground, as guiltily bloody as Nanami's blood. Glancing at the dark, red liquid, Syo felt himself start to shake violently. He said her name over and over again. "Nanami...Nanami...Nanami...! NANAMI, DON'T DIE, BAKKA (idiot)!"

"How do you like that, Kurusu Syo?" Saizo snickered at Syo's defeated look plastered on his face.

Saizo killed Nanami. Those were the blonde's thoughts. Gathering up the most of his strength possible to muster, Syo hurled a punch at the masked man right on the jaw, and he was caught off guard.

"D*n you...I'll teach you not to mess with me!" Saizo grabbed the knife next to Nanami. Twirling it, he pinned the short shota on the ground, beside Haruka. His blonde locks were soaked red from her blood.

"Now, what to do? What shall your punishment be?" hummed Saizo. He began to run the blade of the knife on Syo's face, creating a small red wound. It trailed down to his neck, then...

"How about...HERE!"

Syo felt a sharp pain surge through his body, with blood was gushing out of his right shoulder. His blood.

He screamed with utter agony.

"Muahaha! You like that? Then how about HERE!" Even with the bright light of the room, Syo saw the glint in Saizo's eyes, and in them were maniacal amusement. Then, the knife was aimed at Syo's heart.

He felt like it was all over. There was not a thing he could do under his weak strength, with Haruka's corpse right beside him. He supposed that...he should just let fate take its toll, if this was what he was destined for. To die at this young age, with Haruka beside him...

Well then, Syo thought, at least through all of this, my death would cause me to see Nanami again. And kamisama...

Then, a bright light appeared out of nowhere, not that the gold walls weren't blinding enough. Syo opened his eyes, and saw...Haruka. Ivory wings adorned her back, with an angelic feathery white dress on her, and it all looked transparent. Syo squinted his eyes.

She smiled at her friend kindly and assuringly, and somehow managed to grab Saizo's arm, preventing him from stabbing Syo's heart.

"W-What is this? I can't move my arm!" Saizo shouted. He stubbornly tried to move, but Nanami was surprisingly strong, holding her iron grip.

"Nanami...! Nanami! I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry!" Syo cried, still sobbing away. He failed to protect her, yet she still helped him live. He shouted in his mind, How can she be so kind to me?!

Then, something bright and sparkly surrounded him. The last things seen through blue eyes were Nanami's dead, bloody body, Angel Nanami's forgiving smile, and Saizo thrashing wildly around, trying to move.

Suddenly, Syo disappeared, ending back in the Master Course dorms. But he returned with his head drenched with sweat and a mixture of Haruka's and his own blood, his right shoulder looking like gravity pulled it harder than his left, and his expression pissed out of his mind.

He wanted to return victorious, but failed. The memory of Nanami's death replayed over and over in his mind. Syo was there, yet...he couldn't protect her!

Then, his shoulder, as he noticed, was completely numb. Perhaps it was broken, worse unusable! Yet his thoughts were selfless, as he thought about how his bloody arm was nothing compared to what Haruka had went though. She went through death.

"Syo...chan..." Natsuki walked up to Syo slowly. He couldn't believe his eyes! Were his glasses fogged up, or was the sight of blood no mirage? "Your shoulder...UWAH! We need to take you to the doctor right away!"

Syo hadn't uttered a single word, even when he collapsed and it was all dark for him. The last words he heard were, "HANG IN THERE, SYO-CHAAAAAN!"

Before he knew it, Syo had woken up in a hospital bed, in a hospital. His arm was wrapped and bandaged, his cheek stitched with medical thread, and his hair dried off of Haruka's blood. Before him were STARISH, but no Haruka.

Syo didn't say anything because he hadn't known what to say.

There was nothing to share, since it'd just hurt them if they'd known what happened to him. Perhaps Ittoki would understand, since he had gone through something with Haruka, though Syo knew he was hiding something behind those red eyes and pained expression. Even though, he didn't see Haruka freaking die before him! So no, he'd never understand either!

As would the rest of them. So Syo didn't care anymore.

"Hey, Otoya," Syo finally spoke, surprising the others. Especially Ittoki. "What are you hiding...?"

Ittoki's eyes widened. "W-What?"

"...What really happened...between you and Nanami...when you were first...?"

Eyes turned to the redhead, whose face turned red for some reason. It gave it away, STARISH was wondering what Ittoki was hiding. "W-Wh...What about you, Syo?" Ittoki turned the tables back to Syo, who had closed his eyes.

He was hoping, holding on to hope, as if that was all he had.

Without Haruka, Syo didn't know if there was any other source of happiness for him. Music would just be the dullest, and shopping for cool stuff would just be barely a blur.

It would never be the same for STARISH. It wouldn't be the same for QUARTET NIGHT, heck, for the Shining Agency! STARISH would be no competition for HEAVENS, or the Raging Agency either, and the Happy Pulse wouldn't come for another decade, maybe even centuries!

Haruka was important. That was the only thing supporting Syo, as he hoped. Before, he had hoped it was all a dream.

However, when reality had struck him...he was left with hope in the others, that they'd bring back their composer: Nanami Haruka. Someday...

He knew it in his beating heart.

Mia: Aw...Sorry, you have gotten the bad ending! "One Beating Heart, One Smitten Soul."

Though I was hoping you'd pick this one, not because I don't like Syo (because I LOVE him), but because I would have NO idea what to write if you'd chosen the other one.

Okay, I do have a few, but they'd suck and I'd get tomatoes being thrown at me through the computer. Who wants magical computer tomatoes? Well I've had some, and they taste like those really disgusting I-don't-even-know-what-color-this-is medicine. Or Natsuki's cookies. XD

So...who's next? Hum hum...oh yes!

Tokiya's chapter is coming next! So stay tuned, it'll be posted up probably next week nya~! :D