A/N: Hey everybody! That's right! The update you've all been waiting for! Special thanks to NightHunterDeath, lively-loving, and Time Angel Kiko for following and faving!

YuYuHakushoObsessor: Hahaha! Here you go! *accepts all the sugary goodies* I LOVE SUGAR! Thanks for the review!

Savage Kill: *tom hiddleston laugh* Ehehehehe... Maybe. How do you mean broken? Anyways, thanks for reviewing!

PheonixOtaku: Here you go! Thanks for reviewing!

loopyhutton: Thanks so much! Here you go! Thanks for reviewing!

caring16: Please don't take any offense, but I couldn't really figure out what you said. You think she has a leech on her? Is that right? And I should build myself a safe house from angry readers? Again, please take no offense. Here it is! Thanks for reviewing!

Seakitten: Thanks! I tried to keep him in character as much as possible. Did I succeed? Thanks for the review!

: Haha, thanks! Here it is! Thanks for the review!

NightHunterDeath: Eeep! *hides behind Russia* T-thanks for review...?

Allora22701: Hehe, maybeee~~~~... Thanks so much! Thanks for the review!

Time Angel Kiko: Here it is! Thanks for the review!

Disclaimer: Only own my Ocs!

Wow... that was a lot of reviews! Enjoy everyone!

~Honey's POV~

Rena-chan pushed me up onto land first before attempting to pull herself up and out of the water as well. She looked exhausted and like she wasn't going to be able to pull herself up all the way on her own, so naturally I helped. Easily enough, she too was on solid ground. She coughed out any remaining water in her lungs and flipped over onto her back. She just looked at the sky for a minute or two before she started chuckling. Then she started giggling. I half-expected her to say something like, "That was scary!" but she was laughing instead?

"What are you laughing about Rena-chan?"

She looked up at me, having to crane her neck in the process.

"That was some crazy shit." What? Definitely wasn't expecting that.

I was about to question her further when I saw her stomach. My eyes widened in shock and my breath I was going to use for words got stuck in my throat. That's why she wore a shirt.

Her stomach was peppered in scars. There were circular ones, skinny ones, fat ones, etc. But the most noticeable and definitely eye-catching one was a scar that went diagonally across her torso. I couldn't be sure exactly where it started because the shirt still hid it from me, but it stretched all the way from her right side, to her left hip, just barely touching the top of her bellybutton. It was pale in comparison to the rest of her skin, meaning it was an old scar. It wasn't completely straight either, it curved upwards subtly.

The scar closest to it looked like they were made from some type of surgery, for what reason was beyond me. The next largest scar I could see was on her left side. It was obviously a burn scar, even older than the first. It looked like it had been a second-degree burn, but what could've caused it?

The next one I noticed was just above her right hip, about three inches in length. It looked like another surgery scar.

The last scar was a small circular scar with a thinner scar cutting straight through the middle of it. A...gunshot wound? What had Lorena been doing over there in America? Why would someone want to shoot Rena-chan? Rage began building up inside of me, I felt Rena-chan was a good friend and just around the corner of being Takashi's girlfriend. That made her family. And no one hurts my family and gets away with it.

I looked back into her eyes, "Rena-chan, what happened?" I asked carefully, not wanting her to draw into herself and close me out. Close us all out.

She lifted her right hand - which I hadn't noticed until now was bleeding - and replied nonchalantly, "Oh this? Yeah, it got pretty scraped up from trying to hold onto the edge I guess."

"Not your hand...that." I motioned my head towards her exposed torso. She looked down.

Before I could even blink, she shot up and pulled her shirt back down-though not before I could see that the burn scar on her left side wrapped around her, the tips of a longer part brushing her spine.

"Sorry you had to see that Honey-sempai," she whispered apologetically. "It'spretty disgusting, huh?" She finished, her voice cracking a little at the end. Her head hung low, as if ashamed of it.

I gripped her shoulder and turned her around so she would be facing me, but she wasn't looking at me. Even though she was looking down at the ground, I could see the hopelessness and pain in her eyes.

Without warning, I hugged her. I gripped her as tightly as I did when we were still underwater.

"It's not disgusting, Rena-chan." I said strongly, leaving no room for arguement. I pulled back and made her look me in the eyes. "It just goes to show how strong you are! It shows that no matter what life threw at you, you got through it! You've survived it, everything up to this point, and you're not stopping. It shows that you're not someone to be messed with, 'cause you know what's what! It's not disgusting! It's beautiful! It tells us your story, and how despite it all, you still have the heart to smile and make others smile! Even if it isn't always a real smile?"

I could see her eyes get glassy, though not welling up tears just yet. She chuckled and shook her head, "Thank you Honey-sempai, but...you seem to be the only person to think that way."

"I'm not!" I insisted. "Everyone else will tell you the exact same thing!"

Panic flashed across her face, "You can't tell them Honey-sempai! Please!" She begged.

I hesitated, "Why wouldn't we tell everyone else? Don't you trust us?" Okay, that was a low blow, but she needed to get the ridiculous idea that she was disgusting just because of the bad things that had happened to her out of her head.

"No! I do trust you guys! You wouldn't believe how much I trust you guys! Just..." she looked for the right words, "just... I can't. It's not just a general, 'Oh hey, look at this!' type thing. I mean, it's not something you just bring up casually into a conversation, you know? I trust you guys... I just don't want to talk about it yet. I can't talk a bout it yet. Hey, I'm not even ready to talk about it with my family." I nodded, I understood that it was a very personal thing and not to be taken lightly. I don't know what specifically happened, but it was obviously pretty bad if she couldn't even talk about it with her family. And it wasn't my place to tell them for her her.

She let out a relieved breath and smiled a small smile.

We got up from off the uncomfortable ground and actually looked around.

We were lost.

~Lorena's POV~

We stood up. I couldn't help but think about what Honey had told me. I wanted to believe him, but the words of others still rang in my head, taunting me, beating me down.

"That's disgusting! Nobody wants to see that!"

"Cover up! There are kids here!"

"You're disgusting! No one will love you!"

I was broken out of this viscous cycle of bad memories by Honey-sempai. He was holding my hand and looking up at me. He seemed to be back to normal.

"Let's go try to find the others, okay?" He asked cutely, tilting his head to the side. I managed a weak smile and nodded at him.

He led me by my left hand, my right cradled against my stomach. It was now throbbing, though the bleeding had pretty much stopped. My feet were raw, but not bleeding.

As we walked, Honey was having a one-sided conversation, I occasionally made a noise to tell him I was listening. But I wasn't really. My mind was plagued with doubts and insecurities. Why did Honey-sempai react so differently than what I was used to? And if this was the 'normal' reaction, why hadn't others reacted this way?

"I bet everyone's worried sick about us." He continued, snapping me out of my thoughts-again. He looked back at me slyly, "Especially Takashi."

I scoffed lightly, "Yeah, about you maybe." Though, I couldn't help the involuntary dusting of pink on my cheeks.

"Nah, he wouldn't be that worried about me. But you on the other hand..." He trailed off. My heart beat involuntarily sped up, but I told myself not to get my hopes up. He probably only would worry about me as a friend, yeah, who wouldn't worry about their friend?

I decided not to argue about it any further, but that didn't stop me from shaking my head dissmissively. Unfortunately, he caught it from the corner of his eye.

"I know! Let's do a test! If it's rejection you're afraid of, he won't know it's a test! Whatd'ya say?" He looked at me hopefully.

I looked down at him skeptically, kind of afraid of what he would try to make me do. "What would I have to do?" I asked carefully.

"Just call him Takashi when I tell you to!"

"Say his name?" I questioned, confused. "What would that do? How would I know if he passed this 'test'?"

He snickered, "You'll know if he does, and if he doesn't, he won't know it."

"I don't know Honey-sempai..." I replied hesitantly, not knowing if this really was as good of an idea as he thought it was.

"I'm sure it'll work! You can do it Rena-chan!" He encouraged, looking up at me with doe-eyes.

"Fine.." I conceded. He cheered and jumped up and down a couple times in excitement.

I felt a raindrop on top of my head, then another. Then it began pouring. We ran under a particularly big tree and sat down on a dry patch of ground in a crevice of the big roots, sheilding us from the rain.

I leaned my head back onto the trunk of the tree and sighed. The pain in my hand had gone back down to a dull throb and it felt good to give my hurting feet a rest.

"Rena-chan, do your feet hurt? You should've told me." Honey scolded, just noticing how raw my feet were. I cracked an eye open at him.

"It's okay, it's not like it's bleeding or anything." I retorted, shrugging my shoulders dissmissively.

Honey opened his mouth to say something else when my stomach growled loudly, interrupting him. I lifted my head up and grabbed it with my left hand, sheepishly grinning.

"When was last time you ate today Rena-chan?" He questioned. I thought about it for a minute.

"I had a piece of toast from the landlady this morning."

"Rena-chan!" He whined. "Why didn't you eat lunch? That's not healthy!"

I shrugged, "I just don't feel hungry a lot of the time."

"Stay here." He demanded while standing up. He began climbing the tree. I rolled my eyes. Without needing him to ask, I put my left hand under his right foot and lifted him up as far as my arm could reach while I was sitting down.

"Thanks!" He chirped happily. I could hear him climbing for a couple more minutes when he threw down five bananas for me to catch before climbing back down carefully himself. He sat crosslegged in front of me while I moved my legs off to my right.

He peeled the biggest and best-looking banana before shoving it into my hands and demanding I ate it. I rolled my eyes, but ate it all nevertheless. He too, happily munched on a banana. I ate one more after finishing my first an he ate the other two. Hey, he was a - growing? - young teenage boy who needed a lot of food. And Lord knows how much food he can put away.

When we were finished with the food, the rain finally let up. We both stood up, brushing ourselves off.

"Are you sure your feet are going to be okay Rena-chan?"

I nodded in repsonse, touched at his concern. He grabbed my hand again and led us in a different direction than we were originally going. I decided not to question it, guessing he had seen something while up in the tree.

Around fifteen minutes passed in silence and my feet were really starting to hurt. But it wasn't anything I couldn't handle, so I kept it to myself. Soon enough we stopped, I could hear voices about twenty feet away from us.

A bunch of armed men were surrounding Mori-sempai and Haruhi, ready to fight. One was sent flying into a bush nearby by Mori-sempai.

They all lunged at them.

A/N: So? How was it? Worth the wait?