HEYYYY :D! It's been a long time since I've been on, but here's another story/chapter! These will just be one shots every chapter hehe. A spurt at the moment! Anyhow, please read!

It had been years since she had been in the area. Her job had forced her to come back. But force wasn't exactly the right word. She had a choice besides this location, but she wanted to be here again. To herself, she had no clue why as well. She left when things were unfinished; the air had suffocated her, and a stake in her heart.

Along the pavement filled with red colorful leaves, she smelled the air. It was crisp, and nostalgic. Things here had been modified to a point, but everything was still the same. Her short a-lined raven hair blew away from her face with the wind. She closed her misty lilac eyes and touched upon the cement walls leading to the stairs of a shrine. Her eyes led astray to the corner of the street, where she recalled hot summer days with her bike.

As the street light turned green, a large white dog ran into the crosswalk. The car beeped as it swerved. Her body on instinct jumped and grabbed it by the collar, pulling it to the curb. The driver held out their fist "Watch it!" and drove off.

"Are you alright?" she asked the dog, petting and cooing it. It barked happily. "That's a good dog."

"Mr. Tadikichi!" a little girl shouted out. Finally reaching them, she heaved in and out. "I'm so sorry, he usually doesn't do that, but today something went wrong."

"It's okay." She smiled. "So Tadikichi huh?"

"Yeah!" the little girl with two ponytails smiled. "Hi there, and my name is Chiyo Mihama. But my friends call me Chiyo-chan!"

The woman smiled. "Hello. My name is Miyuu Nakahara. Miyuu is fine."

"Hmmm Naka-ah!" Chiyo-chan looked at her. "You're the new veterinarian moving to this neighborhood aren't you?"

"Yeah." She smiled. "I used to live here. I heard they built a new high school here as well."

"Yep! Well, my friends are waiting at the park nearby for me, so I have to run." she waved good bye as she jogged away, as so did Miyuu.

She kept her slow pace at the wall. There was a heavy grasp at her chest. Maybe her deepest fear would come to life. What was she afraid of? There was no reason? He must've forgotten about her now. Perhaps all this fear was just anxiety for being here. And perhaps it would go away once she spent enough time there. Her gaze was kept low now, and when she turned the corner, she could hear heavy breathing.

As she turned the corner to see, she bumped right into someone. "Ow!" her eyebrows knitted together as she rubbed her head. When she finally caught sight of what she hit she panicked. "Oh my god!" The man fainted right at her feet, face down on the sidewalk. He was wearing sweats and sounded as if he was hyperventilating. She took the back of her hand and touched the back of his neck. "You're burning up!" she turned him to face her, with every second her heart beat faster. For the few seconds that she studied him. She knew immediately. Still after four years, his love of his bandannas did not die. Her panicking heart screamed frantically. "Kaoru!" she gasped.

In a haze, he reached for her cheek. "Mi-Mii-yuu?..."

Repeatedly she lightly tapped his cheek. "….Don't fall asleep, stay up. Wake up, wake up!" There was no other choice. She needed to take him out of there fast. She grabbed onto a rail nearby and pulled them both up. "Listen Kaidoh, where do you live?"

Nothing came out of his mouth but jumbled words. She dragged them all the way to her office and home. There she placed him on her bed. Blindfolded, she took off his clothes, and then covered him up. His head was elevated well with an ice pack on his forehead. Every hour she checked for his fever. "Well it seems like it's going down." As she left to change his ice pack, he grabbed her hand.

"Don't…don't go." he muttered with his eyes shut tight. His grip tightened.

She looked at him with mixed feelings. There lay the man who hurt her the most. Now at the age of 21, her stupid memories of being a teen still chased her. They were young then, what did they know. It should have been something easy to dwindle away, yet why had she held on? For all the anger she had boiled inside, she was sad, relieved, as well as overjoyed. There lay the man who hurt her the most, who taught her how to smile and laugh, and love a stranger. Even now, the question flowed in her mind. Did she love him now too?

The day had been long, considering the end of her arrival and long days of organizing her office home. Before she knew it, her eyelids came down faster than she could say goodnight.

"Miyuu. Miyuu…"she rolled her head heavily to one side still half asleep.

"Yeah." She tasted her mouth. "What is it?" a yawn escaped her lips as she tried to figure out who she was talking to.

"Are you awake..?" they cupped her cheeks together.

"I am!" she shouted persuadingly. And then her eyes went wide. "Kaidoh!"

His lips pouted and eyebrows scrunched at the unfamiliar ring in his name.

"You're awake!" she said still unbelieving. Then she looked at him red fuming at her cheeks.

He noticed himself too and blushed as well. "Do you, uh have any clothes?"

She handed him his clothes. "I washed yours from yesterday. Don't worry about it, I didn't see anything."

As he slipped into his clothes, he studied her secretly. Her face was the shade of a strawberry. An image he rarely saw as a teen. He thought it was cute then, and still did now.

"Hmm, that bothers me. What were you doing out anyways?! You had a fever crazy." She scolded him.

"I was just…" he paused to think. He knew she'd be able to tell a lie in his voice, but the truth would be too weird. "I…"

"Spit it." she motioned with her hand.

"Long story….short, I heard someone with the same name moved into the area, so I came to check it out." He winced at the last part afraid of his face. Would she be mad, or worse disgusted? All he wanted was for her to NOT hate him.

A shaky gasp was let out from her lips. She seemed to tremble as she spoke with water in her eyes. "You idiot…You could've gotten hurt very very," she sniffed up, "very very bad." Tears welled up, partially sad for his stupidity and the danger he put himself in, but partially for happiness, that he chose to remember her.

He smiled at her reaction, because she cried only when she was sad or happy, or for the matter chopping onions. He laughed a little, because it meant she still cared for him. His eyes became tender at the sight. There was a moment of silence for her tears, when finally he mustered the courage to ask. "What happened to you all those years ago?" He sat up more straight on the bed. "I..." his voice trembled. "Why did you have to leave?"

He stared into her eyes waiting for an answer. "I had to." She finally spoke. "My father was finally giving in, so I had to go."

The viper nodded his head in silence. Still the air was thick of awkwardness. She was a transfer student, who her, and her 6 sisters were adopted by a kind couple who bore no children. They were pure Japanese, but lived in America until the majority of them turned 16, they moved back to their homeland to get a feel for their culture, and it was then that he was lucky to have met her. He felt it at least. He knew all of this, but yet he also knew it was not the whole reason. His fists clenched together. If only that stupid incident didn't happen four years ago. If only. "Is that all." His voice came out a little rougher than expected.

She threw her hand up. He had caught her in a lie. "What do you want me to do?" she said as a lump was caught in her throat. "Are you still stuck on that little problem? There is nothing more here, so I suggest you just drop it okay KAORU!" her voice rose uncontrollably. Her nails dug into her palm as she begun to regret her words. "But don't worry, it's thanks to you that I began to bring myself up." She crossed her arms. "If you had never left me for Amai," the stuck-up wealthy girl came into mind, "then I would've never learned how to speak for myself. I learned from this mistake, so I guess" she bit her lips before spouting forward again, "you go on and do the same."

A look of anguish flashed before he zipped up his track suit. As he followed over to the door, he sighed. "This must sound like an excuse, but it's only the truth. She said she'd hurt you if I stayed with you." His voice was low whisper but enough for her to hear. "She told me what she would to your record, and I knew that school was important to you, so I…I had to. I don't expect for you to come running back to me or whatever. This is the truth, and I'll live by it." He finished putting on his shoes silently.

She reached out her hand, the lump in her throat preventing any of her words. Her knees were locked in place, but in her heart an ache called out to move. With his back facing her, he smiled as wide as he could. "I'm an idiot aren't I?"

"Huh…?"

"Because after all this time," his voice became breathier, "I haven't learned my lesson at all." He opened the door and waved before leaving.

Silence all around while the front door closed. She only stared at his disappearing fingers. Her eyes slightly widened in shock, she exhaled before falling down to the ground. "What…" her voice came through a rasp.

She forced herself up and pushed the door back open with a hand and the other one at her chest. 'Don't go…Don't go…Don't go!' She turned the corner, but he was nowhere to be found. Her eyes searched around frantic, 'Where could he be!? How could I not realize? How could I not have felt it? That no matter what happened or didn't I have always, and will always,….LOVE HIM.'

She spotted him across the street. The light was quickly turning. "Kaoru!" she finally called out. As she ran over, his eyelids enlarged. He panicked, wanting to shout, for her to stay put, but it was too late.

The cars honked as she swiftly crossed to him. Safely making it, she enveloped him in a hug full of quick exhales. "Kaoru…Kaoru…" she dug her head in his chest.

His shoulders released the tensions as he too wrapped his arms around her. "That was dangerous!" he scolded her. His head lowered to the nape of her heck as he held her tighter. He could feel her tears soaking his shirt. For a moments time he hesitated to himself. Momo would probably call him a sissy, but he felt as if a huge weight was lifted off of his shoulders, a feeling that was unexplainable in words. Streaks of tears slipped from his eyes. Grasping her closer, he smiled. She had felt smaller than before, or perhaps he had grown. "Miyuu…" the emotion and strength in her name made her cry more.

"S-stay, Kaoru." Her voice shook through sniffles. "S-stay, w-with me…"

Slowly, he lowered his lips to her ear in a gentle smile. It was quiet, and breathy, but she heard it. "I love you."

Did anyone catch who the two characters were at the beginging? LOL, I was just watching it, so yeah! Anyways, tell me what you think, okay? And more?