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DATE : 2nd September 2007

LOCATION : Unknown.

TIME : 2:59 am

Haru was moved to a tiny room with a sheet and a small blanket and the next to the room is a bathroom. It's been 7 days and it's driving her crazy. All that she could do was stare at wall or write something with chalk. The security breach was really tight, if she tried to escape, there will be a couple of security guards coming to get her.

Her routine is pretty simple. She will wake up on 5:59 am and clean herself. Someone will send her breakfast at her room (usually stale cereal with cold milk) and then she will do anything she want except going out. Then at lunch, food will arrive (sandwich with weird looking meat and apple juice- Haru's hated juice)

After, that nothing-do. Then dinner (boring old mush with mineral water) then to sleep. But tonight she doesn't know why she's not asleep and she's not feeling any slight of tiredness or fatigue on her body.'Maybe, i'm not even awake.' As she puts her arms around her shoulders. It was very cold that night. The blanket given was full of holes so it was really ineffective.

As she form her own self into a ball, there was a blue flame coming out of nowhere. She felt really warm when it got closer to her. "T-Thanks..." As she saw a child in front of her. He was wearing a large sweater (too large for his age and also very baggy, that kinda remind Haru about Harry Potter) He was heterochromian (left :gold, right : silver), his hair was black with blue fading. 

"Hehehe, you're silly." The boy smiles. "Huh?" Haru was really confused. "Dad sent me to help you out." He enlarges the flame to give Haru more warmth. "I'm sorry. Who is your dad?" Haru asked in confusion. "How can you forget him. Dad and father." The boy replies. "I can't seem to remember... But, I'll be glad if you'll stay with for the night." She opened her arms out for the boy. The boy then smiles as he went into Haru's arms. And they both fell asleep in each others' arms...

༺WHILE THE OTHERS༻

Kang and Bryan has been going to the underground hatch for hours and haven't found anything at all. They bought a flashlight, some stones to mark their journey back and go, and some water. It seems that the flashlight is really dim due to 7 days non stop searching. Bryan suddenly sighed on their journey as he went to sit down. Kang then asked "What's wrong?" 

Bryan replied "Ah nothing. Just some sore feets." Kang then sat down beside Bryan "We should get some rests." After 50 minutes of resting, suddenly Kang saw a blue flame, held by a child (same as the child that was with Haru). "Hey. There's a kid there." Kang points at the boy. "Let's go follow him then!" Bryan picks up his backpack and ran towards the boy. Kang immediately grabbed his bag and followed Bryan.

The boy lead them to a dark and dry road as they went up and down and finally a dead end. As both reached the end, the boy then disappears. "Hey where did he go?" Kang asked. "Maybe he went up there." Bryan points at another hatch door. He climbed it and opened it up. "Well, welcome to the hideout." It was a large warehouse there were light but it was dim. Maybe didn't want the unnecessary attention. 

They both climbed down. "Now... How do we get back?" Kang asked. "Well you can use your portal." Bryan asked him. "My Ruie (a energy same as chakra in Naruto but in their universe) is used up due to that long walk."  Kang explained. Suddenly...

A child waved.

He was another child. He had shiny white hair with glowing ruby red eyes. Then someone tapped on both of their shoulder. They turned back and it was the boy they saw earlier, he gave them a torch stick then lit them up with a blue flame. Kang and Bryan then followed their other boy back home. This time, their journey was smooth. It was long, of course. Yet it was straight and no upside-downs.

They arrived at their home hatch and once again they turned their back to see both of the children smiling and holding each others' hands and waving at them. They waved back as they went up to tell the others...

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