Forest

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Cain showed himself, his silver hair showing around his hazel eyes. "I am a new student to ouran if you want check the records or ask Shiro-hi when you see her, Ask Berry or Haru..."Cain said.

"I don't think so....Thanks though....."Akahana said.

"Well other people get commen names," Tori replied. "And some guys get girly names. Most people don't really like their names and then some people go and change it..."

"I like it enough to keep it.."Akahana said.

"So...do you happen to go to Ouran?" Tori asked. "Or do you live around here?"

"I attend ouran~"Akahana said.

"I love being around nature. Especially here." Haru said to Luna, who was walking beside her. "It's very serene."

"Well I love it when it rains," Luna said to Haru. "I love how it sounds and how it smells...not many people know it has a smell to it though..."

"I don't see how they can't." Haru said. She looked up at the sky. "I sometimes can smell the rain before it comes, you know?" she laughed lightly. "My mother used to say I should be a weather-lady. She was joking of course. And," she smiled slightly. "This may sound weird, but the rain is happy making to me. Unlike the people who get bummed out whenever they see a single cloud."

Luna smiled at her happily. "I comepletely understand what you mean. I love just standing out in the rain and letting it just fall on me. I don't care if I get cold or not. As long as I can feel the rain on my skin it's worth it." She glanced up. "But it's going to snow sooner or later..."

"You don't like the snow?" Haru asked. She stopped and stooped over to pick up a rock that caught her eye, and went to catch up with Luna.

"I never really got out and played in the snow before," Luna answered. "I never bothered to make friends until I moved here. I was busy with other things and the only thing that ever pulled me away was the rain. It would break the silence in the house and make me look at it. Snow is quiet and you don't hear it start to fall."

"Snow is quiet." Haru agreed. "But that's part of its beauty, the silence and purity. Even though its vast whiteness can sometimes be blinding." she laughed lightly. She looked at Luna. "So where did you live before you came to Ouran?"

"I lived in Kyoto," Luna replied. "But my dad got a better place to work in and moved here, and enrolled me in the school. But I have gone to America from time to time." She glanced over at Haru. "What about you? Where did you live before here?"

"I was born in America." Haru said, turning over the rock in her palm. "But eventually, after my mother passed, my father's real estate job uprooted us. We've been traveling a lot, and a lot of the places seemed to blend together." she sighed. "But now that I'm old enough to watch my sisters, we've settled and my father does all the traveling."

"Hmmm....how old are your sisters?" Luna asked. "And was it hard to keep moving all the time like that? It must be hard on your younger sisters to do that......"

"They're nine right now." Haru said, smiling slightly. "Our mother died when they were three, and we started moving around not too long after that, so it's really all they can remember doing. I'm glad they can finally settle down somewhere and lead a proper childhood." she sighed. "As long as my father's depression doesn't pick us up and move us again. I don't know why he won't just get a more stable job." Haru looked up at the sky.

Luna sighed. "It's alright for now, right? Maybe if you talk with your dad about that. How you feel about it and how you want your sisters to live normally....then maybe he'll listen to you." She glanced back at Haru. "It's at least worth a shot."

"Yes, you're right." Haru tucked the rock in her pocket to take to Hanako. She smiled at her newfound friend. "Thanks, Luna-chan."

Luna smiled back. "You are welcome." She glance around her and noticed they were close by the forest now. "Well we're almost there."

The first trees came into sight, and the rest of the vast foliage followed suit. On the forest path, Haru breathed deeply, never the one to take the beauty of oxygen for granted. "I love coming here." she said, smiling to Luna.

"I'll race you to the that tree over there." She pointed at a large tree and smiled. "There last one to make it has to tell the other what they're afraid of the most."

Haru sweat dropped and chuckled."What makes you guys think I'm much of a runner?" she muttered. Though she did go out for a jog often, so that was probably why.
"Okay. Ready..set.." she glanced at Luna.

"GO!" Luna yelled. Quickly she darted towards the tree. "Hey don't worry! I'm a klutz so you might win!"

Haru was right next to her. She laughed. "So am I, so same to you!"
The tree was fast approaching ahead, and Haru was trying not to stumble over the forest floor, so she couldn't pull ahead as she might have on other terrain.

Luna smiled and was really close to the tree. But on the very last step she tripped and fell into the tree, hitting her head. Quickly she clutched it in pain. "Owwwie....! That's not what I wanted to do to win....."