Aoyama closed the door and went upstairs where Ichigo was. He took the key out of his pocket and opened the door. Ichigo stood up when he came in the room. Aoyama went inside and closed back the door again.

'W…What do you want?' Ichigo couldn't find the courage to look him in the eyes so she looked away instead.

'Your friends came here,' Aoyama looked at her and sat down.

'What?'

Ichigo couldn't believe it. Her friends were here and she never got the chance to see them! If only she knew, she could have tried to escape and when they knew that she was here, they could have taken her home. How she wished she could go home.

Ichigo just looked at Aoyama, he didn't say anything, 'I hate you,' Ichigo whispered, tears filled up her eyes and soon streamed down her face.

'I know,' Aoyama smiled looking at her.

How could he smile so easily? How could he smile in that type of situation?

'But I will make you love me, it will just take time.'

'I will never love you,' Ichigo shook her head, 'not after all of this.'

'That's fine, I will always love you.'

That was not fine at all. Even if he did love her, she couldn't love him back. What happened to him for that whole year? What exactly happened to him after they broke up? He was never like this before. He used to be caring and kind, she used to love the way he smiled at her. The way he would hug her when she was upset.

But now he completely different. He still smiles at her a lot, but that smile isn't the same as before. There was something missing from there. Almost like that side of him was gone.

'Why are you doing all of this?'

Aoyama didn't answer.

'I still don't understand,' Ichigo said.

'You will never understand,' he whispered.

'You are right, I never will because you aren't bothering to explain to me.'

Aoyama sighed but didn't say anything.

'You know, they will find me,' Ichigo looked outside the window, wishing that she could just go there and jump out of it. Then she would finally be outside and manage to escape. But there was no point in doing that, she knew that the window was locked, 'You can't keep me here forever.'

'I won't let you go.'

'You will, just like that day when you decided to break up with me.'

Aoyama looked at her sadly. Soon there was a little tear in his eye too. It took a little while for Ichigo to notice it, 'How does he do it?'

'Who?'

'That alien.'

Ichigo became quiet when he suddenly bought him up in the conversation, 'You mean Kisshu?' Ichigo whispered quietly.

'How does he do it?' Aoyama asked again.

'Do what?'

'Make you smile. How does he make you happy? Why do you like him so much?'

'W…Was h…he here?'

'Yeah,' He answered.

More tears streamed down her cheeks. Kisshu was here. He was here and she didn't even know. He was probably still mad at her, but she missed him a lot. She missed everyone. Lettuce, Pudding, Zakuro, Mint, Keiichiro, the aliens, her parents and even Ryou.

'Why were they here?'

'They were looking for you,' Aoyama gave a small laugh, 'and they asked me to help look for you.'

'What did you say?'

'I said I was going to tell them if I found out your whereabouts.'

Ichigo couldn't take this anymore. She sat down in the bed and started crying. Aoyama walked over to Ichigo and let out his hand to comfort her but she just moved away.

'Don't touch me,' she sobbed.

He gave another long sigh and went out of the room, leaving Ichigo alone crying.

Why didn't she see this side of him before? And the way her friends were all falling for his tricks made her hopes vanish. She was alone. No one could save her now. Looks like she just has to save herself.

Everyone was still in the café. When Ichigo's parents were told that they didn't have any luck finding Ichigo they became heartbroken.

There were news of Ichigo everywhere on the TV and in the newspapers. But she was nowhere to be found. She has been gone for a week, anything could have happened to her by now. What if Ichigo never comes back home?

Everyone were busy asking everyone if they found Ichigo and but all of this was seeming pointless. Every single time the answer was the same. It was always a no. No one knew where she was.

The only person who wasn't helping was Kisshu. He stood in the balcony staring in the sky. He felt a hand in his shoulder. He turned around; it was Mr Momomiya, Ichigo's father. He mother was next to him.

'You are Kisshu, right?' he asked.

Kisshu nodded. He never really talked to Ichigo's parents very often. They didn't even knew he existed until a few days ago.

'Are you alright?' Mrs Momomiya asked giving him a comforting smile.

Kisshu smiled back even though he didn't feel like smiling but it felt too rude to not do so, 'I am fine.'

'We are all upset that Ichigo isn't here,' Ichigo's father said.

'Ichigo never talked about you before,' her mother said.

'I know,' Kisshu looked back in the sky.

Everyone stayed quiet for a moment but soon Kisshu broke the silence.

'I will find Ichigo,' Kisshu said.

'We hope you do.'

'I will. I won't let anything happen to her,' Kisshu promised.

Mr Momomiya sighed, 'you really like her don't you?'

Kisshu laughed, 'yeah, I guess I do.'

'I don't know if I can let my daughter date an alien though,' Mrs Momomiya tugged his arm for saying that and smiled at Kisshu. Ichigo's father had always been like this over his daughter.

'We will just have to see,' Ichigo's father smiled a little, before both of them left and went back to where everyone else was.

But Kisshu stayed there. He had a very weird feeling that he couldn't take off from his mind. A feeling that Ichigo was so close to him but he still couldn't find her. Like she was right there but he still couldn't figure out where she was.

Kisshu stared at the sky, 'that locked door,' he whispered to himself, 'what exactly was in it?'

Ok, so here is the next chapter! I am starting to get really busy so it will probably take me longer to update sometimes. But I will still do my best to update quickly. please keep reading, please keep reviewing and I hope you have enjoyed this story so far!