Updaaaate~ I hope you like it. Even if it hurts xD

Kayano ran as quick as she could when she finally made an arrangement with Nagisa. They were going to a café in town and the black haired girl was so worried about him. She had been scared the last week for not being able to get a hold of the bluenette. Now that she finally would get to see him again made her run as fast as possible. She hoped he was all right. They did not have a long conversation and only made a deal of meeting up. She came near the café.

Nagisa sat by the window, just looked down on the empty table he sat by. He held onto his sleeve. His thoughts were focus on how he should talk to Kayano. It had been a while since he had talked to anybody except Karma's parents. He was nervous for how he would manage to get out with words that had been buried deep down inside of him. A memory suddenly appeared in his view.

"Nagisa… How did you get that bruise?"

Nagisa gulped as he remembered another time he had a tough time opening up to anyone. It also happened back when Nagisa told Karma about his mother's way of treating him.

"It's nothing. I just tripped."

"But Nagisa… That's a handprint."

It was impossible back then. Impossible to hide it from Karma, when he had seen it.

He sighed and wondered if it was possible to do with those. He moved the sleeve of up a bit to see the dark-red cut marks on his wrist. He sighed and hid them again. He had to hide those. He did not want to concern any other person. It might lead to another faithful destiny. That thought made him press his fingernails into the sleeve where the scars were hidden. It hurt again. He somehow enjoyed the hurting and dug the nails deeper.

It was then he heard a female voice call out his name.

"Nagisa!"

Kayano had just entered the door and sprinted over to the bluenette. Nagisa flinched at her voice and quickly let go of his wrist.

The black haired girl panted a whole lot while she stared shocked at him. She looked at the boy, who was still facing the table. She calmed down after a bit more panting. She could already feel the sadness spread out from him through the atmosphere. She sighed heavily to calm down from all the rushing. She then took off her jacket and sat down in front of the boy. It took Nagisa some time to even look at her.

"I missed you…" She confessed sadly, leaned back into the seat. A nervous feeling struck her. How should she start a conversation? She had not even thought about what to say to him when they would finally meet up again. She fumbled with her fingers while being deep in her thoughts. Feeling her anxiety, he felt more easy to talk to the black haired girl. Nagisa smiled sadly at her.

"I missed you too…" he said. Kayano felt her whole body go light-weighted. Finally, she relaxed. He tried his best not to be too much of sulking wreck. She looked at him and smiled a little more as she felt secured. Still a bit unsure of what to say, she tried something out.

"H-how have you been?" she gulped a little. Nagisa did not say much. He opened his mouth but then closed it again as a waitress came over to their table.

"I see you finally had company. Would you two want to order anything?" she asked with a smile on her face. Kayano looked at her and ordered a soda. She looked at the bluenette who suddenly changed his mood. He smiled brightly at the waitress and ordered a cake with ice-cream. Kayano stared at him. When the woman left them after writing everything down, Nagisa's face turned gloomy once again. The black haired girl sat for a moment and got pretty worried once again.

"Nagisa… What in the-"

"It's easier to trick people I don't know…" he cut her off with a wry smile. He looked at her shortly before turning he eyes to the window. He looked out at the once again falling snow. "It's hard to do it with you… or the others… That is why I avoided contact for so long. I felt… yeah…" He looked at her once again. Kayano looked at him with a sad glance.

"I see… But. Are you doing better now?" she then asked. Nagisa thought hard about what to answer. He looked down at his arms and thoughts of the scars, which clearly told him that he was not doing better. Rather worse actually. He looked up again, smiled a little less sad, and lied.

"Yeah. It has been hard, but K-karma's parents helped a lot…" The mention of Karma gave the bluenette a lump in the throat. It made him wanting to throw up. He hated saying his name. It hurt too much. Lying to Kayano was also painful, but either that or feeling like a burden, making her worry this much. Kayano sighed heavily relieved, taking in the lie, not knowing he was lying to her.

"Sounds good… I am so glad…" she said with a warm smile. The waitress came back with their orders. She left with a 'here you go'. Nagisa grabbed a spoon and looked at the black haired girl.

"I was thinking… What have everyone been doing since… yeah… we last saw each other…?" he asked curiously, wanting to talk about something else. The girl looked at him and thought about it.

"Well… Most of them have been worrying about you, but otherwise. They have been busy with school or what they decided to do after E-class." She answered with a wry smile, drinking a bit of her drink. Nagisa nodded even though knowing about how everyone worrying about him, made it a little painful to go on with a conversation.

"I-I see… How about you…?" Kayano looked surprised at him for asking about her. She blushed a bit.

"Well… I had a little hard time in the beginning. Worried about you most of the time… I did get to film a few advertisements the last few days. So… I finally got the energy to do something again. How about you? Have you done anything new? How about school?"

The mention of school shocked Nagisa. He had not been to school for over 3 weeks. He looked away and shook his head. He did not answer on the question with his voice, but Kayano understood. She smiled sadly.

They continued the small talk until the two of them finished their food. They exited the café and stood on the street.

"I hope you will be doing fine. You know you can call me anytime. Right?" Kayano said with a warm smile on her face. Nagisa returned the smile.

"Yes. I know…" he answered and faced a ground. She then hugged the boy out of the blue. The bluenette gasped shortly and then sighed with a smile. He returned the embrace, enjoying it for a short while. She then let go of him.

"I'll see you soon then!" Kayano had actually taken time off to see him, but he meant too much for her not to find time for him. Nagisa waved at her as she hurried on. A great sense of relief left his body and he felt empty inside once again. It was like the nice and cozy time he had had with her, had been forgotten. He sighed sadly. He actually liked it, but now. It was gone. He turned to walk back to the Akabane residence.

On the way home, he was deep in thoughts. He felt so empty and yet so determined of a thing he wanted to do. He felt less heavy and had finally a will to do something.

He entered the main entrance and met a dark hallway. The only source of light came from living room. The light escaped an open door. Nagisa followed the light and the soft sobbing. Clearly coming from a woman. He walked as soundless as possible and then stood in the door. He stared at the two adult, sitting in the coach with candles lit on low table. The father had his arms around the mother while the both of them hid their faces in their shoulders. Nagisa froze at the sight of them and got nervous. He stood there for a moment until they looked up at him.

"Nagisa-chan…" the mother whispered, sobbing. Nagisa stood still while thinking. A feeling of uncertain trust came to him. He suddenly wanted to do something for the sake of them. His hand turned to a fist in front of his chest and he silently entered the living room. He gave in to some thoughts he had. I want to honor Karma… He smiled sadly, but had a determined look on his face.

"We-welcome home, Kid. Sorry you had to see us like this." The father apologized and let go of his wife, who nodded in agreement to the apology. Nagisa walked over to them in a shortly quick pace. He shook his head.

"Don't… You seem to need it…" he said while having the determination outside. "I… I was thinking of… going to K-Karma's grave… I did not go yesterday…" he said with a low voice. The two adults looked surprised at him.

"Are you sure?" the mother asked. Not sobbing anymore. Nagisa was sure. He had not seen the grave yet. After the funeral, he had not gone near the graveyard. The thoughts hurt too much. The thought of not visiting the grave yet and the one of not doing it on his late boyfriend's birthday. It all pained him. He let his hand fall to his side and knuckled it.

"I never got to wish Karma happy birthday… This year was our second year of our relationship. I… never…" he felt his throat drying and the palate hurt as tears started to form in his eyes. "I never got to say goodbye…" he started sobbing, lifting a hand to press the side of a fist against his forehead, hiding his eyes behind his bangs. Without him noticing, the parents rose from the coach and went to hug him.

"I never got to say goodbye…" it was the first time since the accident he had ever said out loud how much it pained him, that he never got to tell Karma this. There were also a lot of many other things he wanted to tell the boy. Nagisa gasped when he suddenly felt two pair of arms wrapping their touch around his little fragile body.

"We understand…" the mother said with a warm smile.

After calming down, the three of them opened to Karma's shrine behind a pair of small doors. It had gotten too late for visiting the grave today, Nagisa agreed to do this for today.

Karma's father got a new pair of candles and placed them perfectly by the picture of the red haired boy who was smirking at the time the picture was taken. Nagisa held an unlighted candle and let the mother turn on a match. She lit the candle in the bluenette's hand. Nagisa then turned to the shrine and lit the other candles with his candle. He breathed out as they were all on. The three of them sat back and looked at the picture. Nagisa felt the tears come again, but all they did was falling. He did not make a sound. This one silent minute was for Karma. No one else.

After a few minutes of silence, a smile came to Nagisa's face.

"Happy Birthday, Karma…" he said, another tear fell.

Nagisa was sleeping in his bed. The small ceremony yesterday brightened his heart a lot. He finally felt that he had found the path to get up from his endless pit. Everything seemed brighter to him as he got out of bed on his own. He walked over to the curtains and pulled them to the side. It surprised him how much better he felt today. He smiled to himself as he looked out at the snow. A comforting energy flew through as he saw the snow glitter in the morning sun. He knew what to do next. He walked out in his nightwear and headed for the bathroom.

The bath was relaxing. The feeling of the warm water streaming down his pale, naked skin was astounding. His heart beat gently and slowly. He drove his fingers through his hair and sighed heavily. He enjoyed the bath, but some thoughts were on his mind. He wanted to see if he could go back to school now. He knew that he had to have something to do to forget the pain that was still deep inside of him. He could still feel it. Every time he thought of Karma.

He got out of the bath and got dressed. He looked around as he went out of the bathroom and looked for the parents. He got down to the kitchen where he saw the two of them eating breakfast.

"Nagisa-kun! Good morning kid." The father smiled warmly at him. The mother looked up at the mention of the bluenette. She looked slightly concerned at him.

"Good morning." The bluenette answered and went over to sit down in front of them.

"How are you today? Dear." The mother asked. Nagisa looked at her with a warm smile.

Nagisa grabbed a bowl of rice that the father prepared for him. "I am actually pretty well today… It helped a lot yesterday. The mother nodded, relaxing a whole lot more.

They talked about going to the graveyard as promised from the day before. Nagisa was a bit nervous even if he was the one wanting to go. He was nervous for breaking down after finally recovering a bit.

They went by car and drove quite a way to get to the graveyard. They had a private graveyard for the family only. Nagisa was not surprised due to the amount of their money. They arrived by a big beautiful iron gate. They went past the gate and walked through a small garden – of course – covered in snow. Nagisa looked around, observing his surroundings. The way that they had their family buried was weird to Nagisa. It was not the usual Japanese way with all the graves in a small area. This area was big… and green in the summer. They walked and came to a secluded area with a few western style gravestones. Nagisa looked and noticed the biggest one had Karma's name on it. He felt his whole world freeze. He did not see anything around him but that big stone.

'Akabane Karma' Written in Kanji. Nagisa felt sick all of a sudden and covered his mouth. He bended over at feeling of wanting to vomit. He then felt the tears start streaming once again. Dammit… Why do I have to cry again!? Nagisa cursed himself, but then the world around him became light as a touch on his shoulder brought him back. The nauseous feeling suddenly disappeared.

"Are you okay?" it was Karma's father. The bluenette nodded and could now only feel the tears stream down his face. He smiled sadly.

"Karma… I am finally here…"