Title: Touching Hearts (Title of a random poem I read)

Pairing: None

Word Count: 377

Summary: Haruhi with her mother in her last hours.

Five year old Haruhi lay on the hospital bed, holding her mother's hand. She listened intently for each heartbeat, hoping it wasn't the last; her father was on the other side of the bed, sleeping while holding his wife's other hand.

Haruhi couldn't sleep, she wasn't stupid, she knew what was happening and she was scared.

She stroked her mother's soft brown hair with her free hand and wondered if she could feel it, if it would stop her from forgetting them and going to heaven.

Haruhi stared at her mother's face, waiting for the moment when she hoped she could at least see her mother open her eyes and smile warmly at her, telling her everything is going to be ok, instead she remained still, her eyes flickering behind their lids every now and then as if she was stuck in a dream.

The little girl sighed and laid her head on her mother's shoulder, next to her heart and closed her eyes, praying and willing for a miracle to make her mama better. She wasn't ready to be left alone, her father wasn't. Why? Why take her away? She hasn't done anything wrong. Her bottom lip trembled but she refused to cry, she would be strong for papa, she had promised.

Squeezing her eyes even tighter she focused on her heartbeat and her mother's heartbeat, so much slower that her own. Maybe if she concentrated hard enough she could share her heart and teach her mother's heart how to beat, keep it strong.

'Please Kami-sama,' she whispered, 'keep mama safe, I hope you can save her heart.'

Within a few moments she fell asleep, exhaustion taking over her will power. A few hours later she woke with a start, confused for a moment as to what had woken her when all that met her ears was silence.

Silence! She panicked and pressed her ear against her mother's chest, listening frantically. There it was; one small thud.

Something in Haruhi's own heart told her this was the last time, a lone tear dripped down onto the hospital sheet before she pressed the emergency button and the doctors rushed in.

'Kami-sama, I trust you to look after my mama,' She looked out of the window and wondered if her mother would be able to watch her from heaven.