Hey everyone! This is my first Pretear fanfic; I haven't seen the anime but when I read some other fanfics I thought of making up my own of Pretear fanfic since I'm so interested into it. Even though I never have seen the anime; I have three of the discs out of four of Pretear. I'm not going to watch them just yet, it's a promise to my friend so we can watch it together. But anyways I hope that's enough explanatory for you. I might mess up a little since I never have watched the anime... but I hope to catch on....Thanks :) .

CherryBlossom210

Chapter One: One Night to Remember.

Everything was back to normal.

The battle was finally over. Everyone's happiness grew after the snowfall, and things went to their selves as if there was no Princess of Disaster at all.

Sasame and Takako marry, Mayune went back on pulling pranks (even though I'm quiet use to them), Goh continues to work at his restaurant, and the others...well like I said everything went back to normal.

Everyone was happy; I'm glad everyone was happy, but they don't know how I feel right now.

That's because I never tell them, I don't want to see their happiness taken away by my sorrow. I always love to see them smile, so I act as if I weren't hurting at all.

I let the pain seep into my heart, and I'll continue to do that for the sake of every one of my friends' smiles that I love to see so much. Especially Hayate's smile. He doesn't know how I feel, I wish he did or I wouldn't be going through this kind of pain, that is slowly tearing through my heart like a knife...... I'm scared to what he thinks of me, that's why I keep my feelings hidden so I won't go through what Takako went through in the past. I don't want to be the next Princess of Darkness.

Himeno lays on her bed staring at the ceiling. It's in the mid of night, around 3:25 a.m. This was her third night of being sleep deprived by her own feelings. She just lays there, not taking her eyes off the ceiling, waiting for time to tick by so the clock could hit the morning where the sun swims above the horizon like a fish.

She hadn't ate for two days, she was hungry but she felt to weak to eat. She wanted all these emotions to go away, but every time she would try to think of something else; Hayate's face pops up out of no where. She felt so alone, so left out, while everyone was happy of the way their life was now.

She closes her eyes for a minute do she could get some sleep. But her pain won't let her so she gets out of bed and walks to the window watching it rain.

"Somehow, every time I try... I can't get you off my mind." She says to herself.

"Can't get who off your mind?", some familiar voice said behind her.

She jumps from unexpecting someone to be in her room.

She turns to see Hayate sitting on her bed. Her face begins to flush up from embarrassment. "Wwwwhat are you doing here Hayate! Ssshouldn't you be sleeping by now?", she yells.

"Shut up Tulip-head or you're going to wake up everyone in the house." , he says as he throws one of her pillows at her, smacking her in the face.

"Fine. But why are you in my room?", she says with a calmer voice.

She felt a little better, since he was here.

She couldn't help but smile a little bit.

"Just to check on you. I wanted to make sure you were alright."

This was the first time he acted so calmly to her. No yelling or punching, just calm.

"Thanks...", she says breaking the silence with a smile.

She picks up the pillow and walks over and sits on the bed next to Hayate.

"So tell me why you are not asleep.", Hayate says.

'Oh, I've been thinking about how to conceal my feelings from you.' She says in her head. She couldn't say that. "Oh it's nothing really." She says with a cheep smile and turns her face the other way with a slight blush. "Lier....I know there is something bothering you."

Himeno looks down at the floor. She didn't want to tell him the truth, all she knew was that he didn't love her back.

Hayate turns Himeno's head with his hand, forcing her to look at him. His face was full of concern, he wanted to know what was wrong.

"I....I just can't tell you." ,she says. ' I don't want to be like what happened to Takako.'

He pulls his hand away. He knew if he kept this up he wasn't going to get anywhere.

"You know you can trust me."

'I can trust you to protect me but, I don't know how to trust you to know how I feel about you.'

She shook her head no. Her pain was growing back in her heart, she wants be close to him but, and so much for wanting to be with him. She could not take the pain she was suffering now. She wanted to cry but she can't.

'The longer she stays awake, the longer it is for her to go to sleep.', Hayate thought.' I hate seeing her being worried, only if there is one way to ease her pain.'

"Hayate?"

He looks over at her and says,"Yes?"

"How come you've become a lot nicer since the end of the battle?"

Hayate blushes, he rememebers kissing Himeno when she looked as if she lost her life after defeating the tree of Fenril (sorry if I got the name wrong). Silence stood upon them for a few minutes; Hayate still didn't answer her question. It stirred in his head, he couldn't get the scene out of his mind and her question that was left out there in the open.

"Hayate."

He snaps back into reality, realizing that he still left the question unanswered.

"Oh, sorry. About that question...I...I really don't know why I became a little nicer."

Even though he was a "little" nicer, he's still violent as ever, but not as argumentative as he use to be in the past. He only changed a "little" for Himeno.

"Hayate, your face is red." She perks up a random subject.

He turns to look at her again.

"Uh...."

His face gets even redder by the moment. 'What come over me? It's like she's using magic on me.' He looks away in the other direction again trying to get his face back to it's usual color.

Himeno smiles a little bit with a giggle. 'Hayate, you look cute when you blush. But what are you blushing for?'She wanted to say it out loud but she knew that it would be embarrassing to say it, or he could look right through her and reject her on the spot. Himeno didn't want that.

"Your laughing at me tulip-head?," Hayate says.

"Oh no no. I was....just uh...thinking of something funny. Yeah....and....why are you calling me tulip-head?"

She stood up pointing at him strictly.

"Calm down tulip-head," Hayate says.

"No I won't calm down till you stop calling me tulip-head!"

"I said hush!," he says with a whisper voice. He grabbs her and puts one of his hands over her mouth.

She jumps a little for when he embraced her to calm down.'Why does he call me tulip-head so much, does he not like me?...Wait what am I thinking? Of course he won't like me....all he see's me as is a bratty Pretear.' She slumps down not saying another word for a few seconds.

"Hayate....why do you always call me tulip-head?," she says as Hayate removes his hand from her mouth.

He blushes a little. The real truth, behind the reason why he calls her tulip-head is from hiding his feelings from her. He's afraid if he calls her anything but tulip-head, he might confess his feelings on accident and getting dumped at the same time.

"I...I."

Himeno looks up to his dark blue eyes as she feels his arms loosening his grip around her body.

"Sorry....you don't have to tell me if you want to,"Himeno says as she leans on him with her eyes closed.

"H..H..Himeno?," Hayate starts to turn red.

"Hmm?"

She didn't care that she was making a scene, she wanted to feel better from all those restless nights. She still couldn't fall asleep, but she did feel better somehow just by knowing that he was beside her.

Hayate's Prov------

She leans up against me after I covered her mouth to shut-up. I don't really understand whats going were just fighting one moment, then a different scene comes on. Am I in a dream? No it can't be a dream..... if it was a dream, I wouldn't be feeling my heart beating so fast right now. I feel so guilty for not telling her how I feel about her, to when she first opened her eyes..... from what seemed to be my nightmare coming true, but I'm very glad she isn't dead.

I really want to kiss her right now; just as passionate from when I kissed her then. But I can't; I can't take the risk of getting my heart broken, being pushed away, because I know she'll never have the feelings of love for me....like I do for her.

Please....I wish that she would, but there's a high chance she won't.

I can't give in.....I can't kiss her...but it's so hard not to. I just love her so much.

End of Hayate's Prov-------

He reaches over her shoulder and pulls her to an embrace. He wanted to be so much more to her than just a friend or as her Leafe knight. He didn't want to take any bad risks but it's like his heart was using his feeling to control his body.

Himeno's eyes widen in shock, the color of red then starts pouring all over her face. She wasn't scared, because this wasn't the first time this happened to her between the same person.

Himeno tries to loosen Hayate's grip, but it was no use. His embrace still latches on to her tightly. Then she tries again, no luck, but that second time she did that it brought his face to hers. Their lips only millimeters away from each other; Himeno looks into Hayate's eyes hoping it was a joke, but she can see it was not. His eyes are softer than the last time she looked into them. He heart starts racing like a car engine, it was going so fast, it was a little hard for her to keep up every breath with it.

Hayate starts to lean in for his lips to touch hers, but she started squirming which only it made a kiss on the cheek.

Himeno's whole body stiffens after she feels Hayate's lips against her face.

Hayate had his eyes closed the whole time of the kiss. As soon as they opened he snaps back into reality.

'Oh...crap what have I done this time?'

He loosens his embrace around her. "H..Himeno, I..I..I'm sorry. I don't know what c..came over me."

Silence.

"Himeno?"

He looks at her with a scared look as if he was getting ready to be punched.

Himeno lifts her hand to her cheek where the kiss was laid. She smiles a little bit,"It's okay. I'm not mad."

Hayate's face turns bright red,'Is it just me, or has she just accepted the kiss?'

"Well, since you're not mad...I guess I'll be heading for bed," Hayate says as he walks over to the bedroom door.

"O..Okay, goodnight Hayate," Himeno says with a small smile.

Hayate's face turns red but even darker. "Good..d night Himeno." And he shuts the door behind him.

Himeno touches the spot again on her face. 'Wow...'

She suddenly started to feel very tired, as she looks at the clock it read 4:00.

She crawls into her bed with a smile on her face. She knew that she was getting a little better. Himeno slowly closes her eyes and drifts off to sleep.