Never Thought it was You

Ever since they were little children training together, she's been in love with him. Now she watches the relationship between Yoh and Anna grow stronger everyday with a broken heart and dry tears in her eyes. Although she has been running away from it for years, she knew all along that she had to abandon that love as soon as she can and find her true love, the love that will be born between both sides, because she was just tired from this one-sided love that she has been living for years…

Tamao walks down the stairs in the city park, which are lined with trees towering over her. She hears a strange sound coming from her right side; yes it's just beyond those trees. She walks down and turns right to find out the source of that strange noise, so she hides behind some bushes and she stares at that figure that seemed to be training alone in a deserted area in the park. She recognizes the shape of that boy's hair, and that cute outfit, it's Ren. She never thought she'd see Ren here. She didn't know why, but she found herself unable to take her eyes off him, unable to narrow her widening eyes. She didn't want to blink, afraid that she might miss something, because everything he did was interesting and showed just how powerful he is. She kept on watching him, after about five minutes he lowered the weapon he was holding and just raised his head to the sky looking at the clouds, a smile spreading on his face. Wow, she thought, I never thought Ren would look so handsome when his face is relaxed, and his smile is just so cute. Suddenly he turned his head toward her. She jumped and didn't feel herself sweating. He walked over to her.

"What are you doing here, Tamao? It's hot, you should go back home."

"Hai.." she lowered her head and turned back to go home. She stopped in her tracks, her heart beating fast from a disturbing thought. What's wrong with me? She thought, why am I feeling depressed all of a sudden. She turned to look at Ren. He was sitting in a nearby bench with his eyes closed, she didn't feel herself blushing. She resumed her walking, deciding that she'd like to have a walk in the park. As she turned left she found a little shop selling water, juice and some other stuff and snacks. For some reason she thought of Ren. She found herself walking into that store and buying some fresh orange juice. She felt happy while walking toward Ren's training place, wondering how his react will be, he might get angry, she thought, he has a bad temper and he doesn't hate anything more than disturbing his training, but she didn't care, he really seemed like he could do with something cold to drink after training for hours in this hot sticky weather. She retraced her steps earlier to his training area, she looked down but he was not there. Where is he? He was just here a minute ago. Her face fell as she realized he must have gone back home.

"Yo." she screamed and almost dropped the juice she had brought.

What's with her? Ren thinks as he steps up from behind her. But he looks down at what she's holding. It seems to be a bottle of juice. He smiles at her, a smile from deep within his heart. He hasn't done that in a long time.

"Is that for me?" he asks her, his eyes locked on hers.

"Hai..I thought you looked thirsty and tired, so I thought this would help." she smiles innocently at him.

"ummm….Arigato" and he turned his back and resumed his training without another thought. .