WARNING: There is explicit language in this chapter that may not be appropriate for all ages.

It had been a week since Aidou and Taka had had their fight and Takara hadn't attended class since. Ichijo happened to stumble upon her sitting by the pond while on his way to the library. At first he thought that she was just relaxing next to the water until he noticed how red her eyes were, he looked closer and noticed the tears that were slowly making their way down her cheek. He approached her but noticed that she wasn't paying him any attention but was instead focused intently on the single finger she was gently dragging across the top of the water. He almost kept on walking, she probably wouldn't have wanted him involved in his business, but as he watched her he decided that she looked like she needed someone to be there for her. He sat himself down next to her and silently watched as she continued to make patterns on the ponds surface. After a few minutes he finally decided to speak up.

"So Takara how have you been lately?"

As soon as the question left his mouth he realized how stupid the question had seemed. Almost everyone in the night class knew that she and Aidou had had a spat and it was obvious that she was feeling less than happy.

"I'm okay I guess…"

Her answer was vague and he could tell that she wasn't fine even if she said she was.

"Are you sure because from what I can tell something's bugging you."

She sat there for a moment, almost as if she wasn't sure how to react to what he had just said.

"How could you tell?" Her question was quiet but it was obvious that she was unsettled by how well he was able to read her.

"Don't worry, it's not obvious. I just managed to catch you when you were having a weak moment, "She twitched at the word weak but didn't say anything about it, "so what's going on with you."

"Aidou started to flirt with the day class girls and then he started to ignore me, when I tried to ask him about it he said that I was blowing him off for Zero and then he called me a bitch. I went to talk to zero about it but all he did was tell me to break up with Aidou. He wouldn't listen to me at all and now I don't have anyone to talk to…" By the end she was sobbing her eyes out and Ichirou leaned over wrapping his arm around her shoulders in a comforting hug. They sat together for a while before he was finally able to coax her up and back to the dorms.

The following weeks brought more pain for Takara. Aidou stopped ignoring her but instead started to insult her every chance he got. She never retaliated and to most she didn't seemed fazed but to those who knew her it was clear that they were taking their toll. Ichijo offered her all the comfort he could but it wasn't enough. Zero had taken to avoiding her after their fall out and she in desperate need of the security he usually gave her. She slowly got worse and worse until she finally decided it would be better if she just ended it. Ichijo walked into her dorm just in time to find her preparing to slit her own wrist. He bolted into the room and ripped the knife from her hand quickly chucking it to the far side of the room. He then wrapped his arms around her tightly slowly beginning to rock her back and forth as she cried into his chest; it took her a full hour to calm down.

"I can't take it any more Ichijo, I can't take another day of the man I love insulting me, I have to leave. Please, I need you to cover for me, tell the others that I am sick so that I'll have time to get away."

Ichijo didn't want to do it, he wanted to tell her that she needed to stay here and that everything would get better but he knew that it would be a lie. She had just tried to commit suicide and if she stayed at the academy she would probably try again, and there was no guarantee that he would be there to stop her the next time. After another minute or two he finally nodded and she let out a sigh of relief.

"I know that this is going to be hard on you but I'm begging you, don't tell anyone that I've left until you absolutely have to."

"Fine I won't tell anyone until I have too but you have to promise me that wherever you go you'll take care of yourself."

She packed her bags that same night and left under the cover of dark. Ichijo was sad to watch her leave, they had become close and he didn't like the idea of leaving her to fend for herself. When she didn't show up for class the next day nobody really questioned it but after a few days they became suspicious. Ichijo made up the excuse that she was sick and so she wasn't able to attend class that excuse only worked for so long though. Aidou kept making snarky comments every day and they were slowly grating on Ichijo's nerves. After two weeks people were starting to figure out that he was lying. Finally Aidou said something that caused Ichijo to snap.

"I bet she hasn't been sick at all, I bet that she's just been too much of a coward to show her face."

In an instant Ichijo is right in his face yelling at him.

"She is anything but weak you fucking bastard, and your right she hasn't been sick in fact, she hasn't even been here. She left because she was sick of being put down and made fun of by you! Oh and let me tell you another thing, she was never cheating on you she was just hanging out with her best friend. So when you started flirting with other girls and ignoring her she had no idea why you were being so cold to her, you're the reason she left and now she's somewhere out in the world with no friends and nowhere to go because you jumped to conclusions like an ass. And before I forget, she was going to commit suicide, I walked in on her holding a knife to her wrist, because she thought that dying would be better than dealing with your verbal abuse another day. I was just barely able to get her to reconsider."

He was relieved that he was finally able to tell the truth but he couldn't stand being in the same room as Aidou for another minute. He stormed out leaving Aidou to stand in the middle of the class room, frozen in complete shock.

Hey guys, so the 10th chapter is finally up! Sorry it took so long, writers block is killer. I'll try to post the 11th chapter faster but I make no promises.