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Katsu/Butch POV

A minute after the crash I lift my head up, but very slowly. I can feel it throbbing in pain, almost like my blood vessels were about to pop. But it didn't seem like anything was broken. My vision was a bit blurry. I looked ahead of me trying to get it into focus. Only then had I realized that I was upside down. That would explain the pounding in my head.

I try to get out but I'm struggling with the seat belt. It was hard concentrating when my brain was somewhere else. Like I had forgotten something…

I quickly turn my head and find Kaoru's motionless figure hanging from my side.

"Oh no!" I scream. "Kaoru! Kaoru wake up!" I nudge at her the best way possible but she doesn't move an inch. "Man. Kaoru!"

I'm fiddling with the seatbelt desperately now and when I hear the click I hit my head on the ceiling.

"Ow!" I mutter.

I open the door and come flailing out, tumbling to my back. I get up in the same movement making my head hurt more but I ignore it and run to the passenger side door. I haul it open and unbuckle her seatbelt, catching her before she could fall and pulling her out. I lay her on the wet grass a few feet from the car and start nudging her again.

"Wake up Kaoru!" I shout in her face. She doesn't even stir. My hands find her chest and I push down. "Come on Kaoru! You can do it. WAKE UP!"

"SHUT UP KATSU! I'M TRYING TO SLEEP!" Kaoru shouted, startling me and making me jump. She's sitting up now. "Gosh, Katsu! What's your problem?"

My body floods with relief but is soon over powered by anger.

"What do mean what's my problem?" I blurt. "I thought you were dead!"

"Yeah, well I guess you should have been paying attention to the road." she growls back.

"Me?" I exclaim. "You were the one distracting me! That will teach you a lesson about flirting with someone when they're driving!"

"Oh no you-" she cuts herself off and takes a deep breath. "You know, I really think we should stop fighting."

"Yeah, you're probably right." I agree. "We should do what those movies usually do after someone survives a car crash together." I say with a smirk.

"And what may that be?" she asks, totally clueless.

"This." I answer leaning in closer to her.

"What are you doing?" she asks bending back.

"Showing you what that may be." I answer, still leaning in.

"Oh no you don't." she says getting up and finding her way behind me.

"Well, why not?" I whine teasingly, getting up off of my knees and walking up to her.

"Because I don't like cooties." she answers.

"I'm a grown man." I say. "Men don't got no cooties."

"You? A man?" she bursts into laughter. "Not even close!"

I stand with my mouth agape but erase it quickly and reply, "Well at least I know you're a women. A nice, matured women indeed." I say looking her up and down.

She immediately stops laughing and glares at me.

"Now I'm going t-"

"No no." I say putting a finger to her lips. "No fighting, remember?" Her growl vibrates my finger. "Good."

I drop my hand. "So how will we be getting out of here?" I ask her brushing myself off.

"I don't know." she scoffs. "You got us down here, you get us out!"

"Fine." I roll my eyes and let them roam the field. A dark looking forest surrounded us. Everything around us looked dead, including the grass and remaining flowers. I sensed no animals near, not even close and the only way I could see a way for us to escape was a huge steep hill that would take forever to climb. Man I wish I could just fly out of here.

"Like climbing?" I ask Kaoru.

"No." she answers.

"Me either. But if we want to get out that's the only way." I grab her elbow and start pulling her towards the hill.

"What? No!" she tugs it away from me. "There's gotta be another way! That will take forever!"

"Honey," I say starting to get annoyed, "unless you want to go through that creepy looking forest, you're stuck here. Now are you coming or not?"

She sighs but follows me anyway. I grab her hand and use my super strength to speed us quicker up the hill. When we reached the top I sat back down, tired. She sat with me.

"This still counts as a date." she says. I don't even protests, but inside I'm mad from going through the effort of stealing Mamoru's tickets. What a waste.

"Fair enough." I answer.

"So how are we gonna get home?" she asks.

"Walk." I get up and reach my hand out for her to grab. She groans but takes it and walks beside me.

"I heard the first date's always the worst." she says. "Whoever made that up was stupid."

"What happened on your first?" I ask, hiding my interest.

"Went out with this crazy dude. Ended up going home spilled in various foods and his puke. Not a story I like to recall." she answers.

"Sounds bad." I say.

"Not as bad as this." she mutters.

"Sounds bad too."

She looks up at me and I look down at her, staring at her eyes. They were a lime green color. I looked closer and saw little specks of gold. Her pupil wide but small. They were the most exquisite I'd ever seen.

"Aren't you going to tell me?" she says knocking me out of my trance.

"Tell you what?" I reply.

"About You?"

"Oh, that." I mutter. "No."

"What? Why not?" she whines. "You almost killed me for heaven sake! I deserve to know!"

The ends of my lips pull down a little. "It's a little bit personal. I'm not ready to tell anyone yet."

"Is it really that bad?"

"No. There's just some things I can't tell."

She pauses. "Well, when you're ready you can always tell me." she says. "I'll be here."

"Thanks." I smile. Like truly smile. I know. Hard to believe. She smiles back. Wow. A day full of the impossible. How amazing. Then a thought pops in my head.

"Wait a sec. That car. I know that car." I mummer to myself.

"What?" Kaoru asks.

"The car." I say louder. "I've seen it before." My mind shows the image of it's blue headlights and the bright, sunshine yellow glinting in the dark. The scrape on the front too.

"What do you mean?" she says. "How do you know? It was too dark? How could you see it if you were looking at me? I don't understand. What's going on? Who was it?"

"You ask a lot of questions. You know that right?" I tease. She scowls at me. I talk quickly.

"It belonged to someone I knew, an old friend." I start. "Well, at least I thought they were. Guessed they proved that wrong tonight."

"Who? What's his name?" Kaoru asks.

"Carl." I answer. "Carl Skafish. We were friends way back in kindergarten. He's two years older than me. When I was fourteen he showed me the car. He was fixing it up since it was a bit old to run. His father had passed it down onto him and got a new one himself."

"How did you know it was his?" Kaoru says cutting me off again. "We didn't see the number."

"There's this old, rusty scratch at the front. It's deep. Not just the paint, but some of the metal. That was what was keeping him from using it since it wouldn't run. Guess he found a way after I left." I answer.

"So what you're saying is that your old friend tried to kill us?" she asks.

"Yes." I say. "But maybe he sold the car and it was someone else. Yeah, it must have been someone else." I give a nervous grin. "Okay, nothing to worry about now. Looks like we're here."

She looks up and at her house.

"I guess we are." she sighs and turns back to me. "Are you going to be okay?"

I just nod.

"Good. I'll see you in school tomorrow." she pulls her hand away from mine and walks to the door, then turns around. "Oh, and try not to do anything stupid without me, okay?"

I nod again.

She walks in and I stare at the door for a minute before walking away. I went over the problem in my head again, trying to figure out exactly what was going on.

Kaoru/Buttercup POV

I watched Katsu walk away out my bedroom window. Clearly, there was something wrong about his past. Something bad about it. I don't know when this thing would start to intrude, but I knew it was gonna mess his life up. Something was up and there were only three girls that could stop it.

Me: Thank you. Thank you. And your very welcome. I know, it was kind of me to upload the next chapter on the same weekend.

Buttercup: Yay! I didn't die!

Butch: Me either!

Buttercup: I wish you did.

Butch: *mouth drops agape*

Me: Anyway, thank you for reading and all your reviews. It means a lot to me. Just make sure you review even more, kay? Kay. I'll see you next week (hopefully) on The Z Life. Bye!