Chapter 17

(Yuu's POV)

It felt like a funeral. But I guess in a way it was. Unfortunately, the only people who are actually sad is Haruhi, Kenpachi, Yachiru, and of course I am. I'm carrying her dead body for pete's sake!

There were shinigami looking like they were going to attack us right now but thankfully Kenpachi glared at them enough for even the toughest shinigami to back off.

But I think it was the rare look of sadness he had in him.

I know... OOC right?

But even if it's Kenpachi anyone would be depressed and sad if they know that Kaoru died. That little girl was close to very harmful but in a way she was as innocent as a child. She was my little sister.

Finally, we reached the fourth division, the weather changed to the same feeling of the moment. Cold wet rain falling and, to me, feeling like many needles hitting my body. I was hoping that the fourth division would be like before, smile at us, ask us "What happened this time, Yuu? Kaoru?", and happily of not willingly help us.

But this time we were greeted with fourths in a barricade with zanpaktous ready for fight. Curse the man/woman/whatever that had the freaking zanpaktou that was about to do this!

With rain falling down my face, I put Kaoru's body on the ground and ready my zanpaktou. Not realizing a fire zanpaktou like mine will be useless in the pouring rain. Screw it. I'm going down with a fucking fight.

Yachiru and Kenpachi followed suit, which caused the fourths to back down and step back.

"Now, Now... No need for a fight." a soft voice said in the back of the barricade. Said barricade broke apart in the middle and all the shinigami crashed and bumped into each other clumsily still a bit shaky from the menacing glare from Kenpachi. Reveling Captain Unohana walking toward us with that smile of hers. "And who are you?" That smile was gone and replaced with that fake one that scared the living crap out of everyone, with her eyes that seem to drill holes right into you.

"Takeshi Yuu." I said quietly. I set my zanpaktou to aim right at her incase she tries to do something funny. Unohana chuckles to herself, places two fingers to my blade and lowers the katana.

"Like, I said. No need to resort to violence." She leaned in close to my ear. "I haven't been affected by the mind erasing. I know who you are. I'll help you. Just play along alright Takeshi-kun?"

My eyes widened, I felt like a ton weight has just been lifted from my shoulders. Thank the heavens for Unohana!

"We want you to help us with our friend." I demanded. Unohana doesn't look like she was taken back so she just nodded her head.

"Alright. Pick up your friend and lets see what I can do." She turned around but I shot my arm out to grab a hold of her shoulder. Then I shook my head sadly.

"No, We just need to get her out of the rain. She's..." I took a big gulp. " Already passed." The air became tense. Unohana tried to keep her motherly poker face but it was easily read that she was shocked.

"...H-How?" She managed to choke out.

I was so close to just screaming out, 'That damned Captain Hitsugaya killed her!' but Unohana looks distressed enough... she doesn't need to know that it was a Captain that killed the hyper ball called Kaoru.

"She lost a fight." Was all I said.

Those four words lingered in the air for a while. 'she lost a fight she lost a fight she lost a fight she lost a fight' seemed to echo in my head.

Where was the hyper ball when you actually needed her to be a hyper ball?

(Kaoru's POV)

".. So, now that we have that settled, how about you, you know, make everyone remember me and Yuu?" I said a little too angrily. Sure, yeah, I believed she was my long lost sister from a really badly written fan fiction but still, who wouldn't be pissed to the extreme?

Kairu scratched the back of her head in a nervous manner. "Yeah, about that-" "Don't about that me! No beating around the bush! Straight on tell me or I flip out." I snapped, can we end this nightmare yet? I just wanna know that I won't killed in my sleep if I try to go home. Plus, what the hell happened to Haruhi? We seriously need to get her home! "Okay, okay, I can't. Unless someone that was affected remembers you or that kinda cute blond friend of yours." Oh jeez, she better not be hitting on him.

…..

? "What the hell do you think we were doing these past hours?" I shouted full on at her until I had to take many steps forward towards her.

"I know! That's what is so complex about my zanpaktou!" "C-Complex? You mean stupid right? Majorly stupid?" "Excuse me!"

"You are excused! Know fix this!"

"I can't!"

"I can't nothing! It's your zanpaktou! You know how to handle it!" "That's kinda not the truth! I don't know how to control this zanpaktou!"

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"YOUR A NOOB TO YOUR OWN ZANPAKTOU? H-H-How?" Kairu placed a hand on my shoulder.

"That's the almost complete truth...calm down sis." I shoved her hand away, with a growl.

"I don't think you are in position to talk to me that causally." There was a tense moment before I sighed deeply. "Make yourself useful. Help me. You're not in a position to say anything against me. Now come on. I think I now where my body is." "...But We're Shinigami. We're already souls."

"Just shut the hell up and we'll be buddy buddy by dinner time."

(Yuu's PoV)

Usually, when I'm at the 4th division I am almost always greeted with happy greetings or 'Hey look one of the 11th division that doesn't actually beat us up!' but today, I got scared looks and full on glares. I've never would've thunk that the 4th shinigami could give scary glares. Even Hanatarou seems to be half glaring at me. It was seriously getting uncomfortable.

Like they were gonna attack at any given moment...

"Boy," Unohana called to me. "I have to run some errands first. Just stay there... and hold on to your friend there.."

I simply nodded and stood awkwardly in the middle of the glare fest. Haruhi, though, seemed to be completely unfazed but the heated glares and frightened looks. All she was looking at was the ground in silence. I wonder... if she has ever been in a moment where you see your own loved one die right before your eyes... I doubt that.

"Haruhi... I'm really sorry that we dragged you into this.." I whispered hoarsely. She looked up from the ground and stared right into my eyes. Her brown ones looked dead. Like there was no more life into her.

"No.. It's my fault. I acted out of character and did something completely stupid and rash. I—I'm sorry..." She croaked. "But right now don't be worried about my being... Kaoru needs the attention."

I smiled as best as I could. And gently laid a hand on her head.

"You're a strong girl... I promise you can see the world of the living again." I stopped looking at her eyes. And stared straight ahead. Making that promise a mission.

I heard a choked sob.

CRASHBOOMBANG!

Everyone's head shot up at the loud noise, that seemed to be coming from outside. There were many many muffled multiple screaming out there along with more crash boom bangs.. Did I just say that with a straight face? I'm going insane..

"HARUHI!" That was the first shout to not sound muffled. Wait, did the person know Haruhi? I looked at the body in my arms. She and I were pretty much the only people... Unless..

A small blur rushed into the room causing the wind and rain to pour in, the small blur continued to be a blur until it was in front of me and Haruhi.

"H-Hunni-Senpai?" We exclaimed. H-How the hell did he get here? I know these people are rich but even that one Bill Gates person couldn't get into here unless he died!

"Hunni you didn't die did you?" I shouted without thinking. Bad habit of mine I can't help it.

Hunni stood up and looked at us with serious eyes. His face twitched.

"H-H-H" twitch twitch. Then in a millisecond that seriousness vanished and he ran into Haruhi's arms sobbing. "HARU-CHAN! We were so worried about you!"

"It.. Really is Hunni senpai!" Haruhi exclaimed hugging the small upperclassmen eagerly, over joyed to see a familiar face from her own world.

The doors slammed some more and in came Mori with two smallish shinigami on his back. The two looked like they lost their zanpaktou and were currently pounding Mori attempting to stop him from coming in. and failing pretty badly cause he was speed walking quickly to a sobbing Hunni. Never had I ever seen Mori so... scared? Angry? I couldn't tell, but there was this expression in his eyes that was a emotion I couldn't tell.

Sirens sounded, when there was a loud explosion blowing the entire wall up and completely destroying it leaving no trace. Then there stood Tamaki, Hikaru, and Kaoru lined up and looking as if they just ran hundreds of miles...Wait, minus their current looks... how the hell did they be able to blow an entire wall? They're just humans! Hold on a sec... Shooting my arm into my pocket I pulled out the cell phones that Urahara gave us a while ago (Remember? The ones that were introduced a long time ago but you never heard anything about them? Yeah they finally get a spotlight!) and pulled up the camera mode. Before the three could move, I snapped a photo and the picture popped out instantly. But instead of a photo it was a silhouette of them with a color shading it. There was a key on the side of the screen that told which color meant what, their color was dark forest green. A.k.a the color of unknown.

What the hell? How is there such a thing as unknown reiatsu? I thought to myself, staring at the picture with shock. But then again when we first met these people we always sensed their strange reiatsu, but that still doesn't explain why they were here! W-Whatever! Get a hold of yourself Yuu! Look pro here!

The voice of Hunni broke my train of thought. "Oh there you are Yuu-chan! C'mon! You have to come with us! Hurry we have no time to...to..." He's voice trailed off, and his eyes widened. Wondering why he just stopped mid sentence I look at where his eyes are looking at.. only to look at the body in my arms.

I shake my head. "Hunni, its a long story. Let's go, you said we have to time to lose." Hunni shut his eyes tightly and shook his head also. "O-Ok. Let's follow Takashi!" He ordered running to the tall stoic boy, who managed to know out the two shinigami that were on his back.

Shifting Kaoru to my back, I grabbed Haruhi's hand and drag her to the other three hosts who were defending themselves from the never ending line of shinigami that were attempting to attack them. Tamaki instantly saw Haruhi, pushed the nearest shinigami and tackle hugged Haruhi with so much force they almost fell to the ground. Without hesitation, Haruhi hugged back. Right when their eyes landed on Haruhi, they all pushed the shinigami away from them and got into a big group hug, each one of the hosts thinking;

The family's back together again!

I cracked a smile at the scene. Then frowned as I glance at the only family I had. In most of the stories I've heard from people who have been in situations like this they always say that the faces of their (now dead) friends always looked peaceful. But, Kaoru's looked like she's having one hell of a bad dream. Only without the screaming crying and thrashing around.

I shake the thought out of my head. The hosts were done with their reunion and were now staring at me and the body in my arms with disbelieving eyes.

"It's a long story. Let's.. just try to get you all home... and maybe find a way to get all these memories out of your minds.." I said so softly it sounded like a soft whisper.

"No!" Haruhi shouted. Everyone stared at her confused at the sudden outburst. "Yeah, I know this was a really traumatizing experience but... we don't want to forget about you guys.. especially not Kaoru.." Her voice pained at the sound of her name.

"I agree with Haruhi." Kaoru spoke up. "Maybe it might be a little awkward for people to say my name for now on.. and even if the rest of us don't know the full story of what went on, we still want to remember you guys..."

"... and your a part of the ouran host club whether you want to or not." Hikaru continued.

Tamaki, who was still squeezing the life out of Haruhi, also added with a big smile, "And we expect you to remember us too!"

There was a big sqeeze in my chest, and I felt as if I wanted to cry happy tears. But instead I smile brightly and walk towards them.

"..Let's... get you guys home.."

..I know. And I am soooooooo—wait. Never mind. Don't forgive me I deserve to get my house bricked.. (but not today, my basements flooded right now.) This is so late... and I am super sorry D:

This was actually done a few weeks ago.. but because I was unhappy with the result I revised from head to toe. :( and I am very sorry... But hey! Look at that! A kinda not

cliffhanger! And its also happy and sappy! :3

but I figured.. if I keep going on with this pace, I'll never get a sequel done before I go off to high school... so I guess I'm just gonna end it with you (hopefully) satisfied. But because that probably wont be done in a while. I'm just gonna give you a quick spoiler.

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I hope you can('t) read that :D

Thanks for everyone who read this story. But I don't think I'm gonna stop writing fanfics... maybe long ones like this (psh long? Some people can write over 100 chapters :O) I don't have the patience or time to write that long a story D: but maybe, like, one shots? XD

I love you all and hopefully... you like me even tho just a little :D

~Hau~ THP says baiii~ :D