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Chapter 1 Beginning of a New World

Chaika has lost all of her memories in the process of killing her father, Gaz. After a series of discussions, Toru decided to come back to the town next to the ocean. Chaika was still physically weak after the three day travel time to Cliffside town (Clay Morgan's Town, not officially named), also being know for it's large amount of surround cliffs next to the ocean. On the ride the red Chaika, who had stuck with Toru's group, had informed her two partners that she was having trouble figuring out what to do with her life now that she knows her purpose is essentially fulfilled and decides to help Toru with Chaika's recovery. Toru decides to move Chaika to a solitude area for her to recover physically and hopefully mentally. He decides it's best for only him to go with Chaika, fearing that stimulating her memories with the large group of people would be harmful. Akira instinctively went against this and forced herself upon them. While the red Chaika insists on coming to allow her to decide on what she wishes to do with herself. Toru agrees on the condition she makes minimal contact with the white Chaika.

The air was warm and the skies clear for the sun to shine down upon the retired heroes. Toru looked over to Chaika and gave a smile, what he thought was a smile at least. Chaika looked at him and returned the expression.

"I'm glad you're feeling better, Chaika," Toru said softly with joy.

It had been a week since the events in Hartgen, three of which were a painful ride back to the town. Chaika had been very weak the last six days and would most likely stay in bed. Toru would force her to stand and walk outside. Chaika didn't mind as much when she walked out and felt the ocean breeze and summer sun on her skin. Today Chaika took the initiative and asked to go for a walk.

"I'm grateful for being in your care, Toru," Chaika chirped back, widening her smile. Toru looked back at the mesmerizing cherry blossom tree.

"Is there anywhere else you'd like to go for now?"

"Can we go down to the ocean?" Chaika asked excited.

"Sure, let's just head back and tell Akira where we're going,"

The two stayed a few minutes longer admiring the scenery of the ocean and great grassy plains before heading back down the hill. Toru's heart sank when he saw the door was kicked in, no doubt red Chaika's doing, and heard a conversation coming from within the cabin. He sighed and put a hand to his forehead.

"Chaika wait out here, i'll try to make this quick," Chaika nodded and stayed a good distance from the shack to enjoy the sun's radiance.

Toru walked in to see the red Chaika and Akira talking with papers in both of their hands. Akira's eyes gleamed with excitement as she flipped through them and would often give one to Chaika. The red Chaika struggling to read and understand everything Akira was trying to explain to her.

"Ehem," Toru said loudly. The two ladies stopped and look at the door way Toru was stand in. "Would someone tell me why the door is not on the doorway?" his voice filled with frustration with slight anger as his eyes were on the red Chaika.

The red Chaika found his gaze embarrassing and started to feel heat rush to her cheeks and adverted her gaze to the other corner of the room.

"Door. Fault," Chaika explained weakly.

Akira looked up at Chaika raising a brow. She had noticed that Chaika was extremely odd with Toru around now more than ever. Obviously she knew of Chaika's obsession with her brother but had let it slide as she was not a treat, but now it worried Akira so much that she had started writing her story of two saboteurs. Along with writing a story of the past year and the events that occurred since meeting with the white Chaika.

"Akira couldn't you just have fixed the door already?" Toru's gaze landed upon Akira, his voice was practically a growl.

"I refuse to fix the door," Akira's expression unfazed by Toru's familiar irritation.

"I'm taking care of Chaika, all you've done is sit on your ass and scribble on that paper since we've got here!" Toru complained.

"I came here to make sure you did not do anything vile to Chaika in her weaken state, you vile womanizer," Toru's face radiated with anger. He wasn't in a mood to argue with a wall.

"Akira when I get back this door better be back up, and you," he pointed to the red Chaika who had returned her eyes to Toru, "Don't kick the door, don't kick anything down here!"

"U-understand," the red Chaika said weaker than she intended.

Toru walked back out into the grassy noel leaving the girls alone again.

"Foolish Toru," Akira sneered with a grin.

"Akira. Door?" Chaika asked while giving Akira the papers she held in her hands.

"Brother will fix it," Akira turned returning back to work on her story.

The red Chaika stood in silence staring back at the door where Toru was, thinking about him, about what do to.

"He hasn't noticed yet," Akira stated not looking up from her work. Chaika's face flared red and jumped in surprise at Akira's statement. As if she was reading her mind.

"What. Akira. Meaning?" Chaika said bewildered.

"Toru hasn't noticed your feelings for him, nor do I think brother will ever notice, he may be smart, but he's also incredibly dumb,"

"What. Chaika. Do?"

"Tell him,"

Akira froze the moment the words left her mouth. What was she doing? She came here to prevent Toru from falling in love with white Chaika and she was now telling the red Chaika to confess to him. In any case the red Chaika was more dangerous than the white one! Toru may not be charmed by the slender sexy body of a woman such as Akira's but he was still a man, and still had a little devil the resided in his pants that would definitely fall for the red Chaika's choice of apparel. And while she wasn't some innocent little girl, the way she was presenting herself as of late and her speech would definitely give off the sense of innocence that had charmed Toru during the fight in the Floating Fortress. Akira was lucky that the four were so busy afterwards that Toru nor Chaika had the time to follow up on their kiss, yes kiss, that Chaika gave Toru. Akira had gotten the story out of Toru while on the road to Hartgen. Akira noted that Chaika's spell had given them a bubble of air, meaning the kiss was not to give Toru air. Akira balled her fist and felt anger rise in her. How dare Chaika swoop under her nose and steal Toru's lips from her! And now the other Chaika was looking to do the same.

"I mean tell him he's an idiot, and look for someone who will notice your feelings," Akira blurted out trying to cover up her mistake.

"Feelings. For. Toru?" the red Chaika asked in complete bliss. This girl… Akira thought.

"No, feelings you have for that person,"

"Feelings. Only. For. Toru." Chaika stated firmly. Akira grunted, this was going to be harder than she thought.

Toru and Chaika had managed to reach the shore within only a couple of minutes. Toru had explained what happened on their way down to the shore line and why he had lost his chipper mood from earlier. Toru then realized he hadn't even told Akira why he had stopped by in the first place. Chaika had managed to revive some of it with sweet words and a genuine smile. The sand underneath their feet was a little too hot for comfort as they pranced to the water's edge and started to walk along the dampened sand.

"Toru, can I go for a swim?" Chaika asked innocently.

Toru was weary about the notion. She was still recovering, who knows when she might give out. However, swimming is a great form of exercise and doesn't hurt the body. The body… Toru thought slowly. He looked over to Chaika and noticed she was only wearing white. His hair stood on end realizing what would happen.

"Uhhh, maybe another time Chaika, you're still recovering," Toru lied.

Chaika's face fell to a sad frown, as if a child was told no. Toru's heart also sank at the sight. Why did she have to be so damn innocent?

"Sorry Chaika, but for now we can enjoy the sand and sun," Toru tried to lighten the mood.

"Sure!" Chaika seemed to agree.

The two started to do the usual sand activities: building castles (without tools must be hard), barring each other in sand, collecting shells, watching wildlife, etc. Before they knew it, it was already past mid day and the two were hungry. Returning to the shack, Chaika had lost a lot of her earlier energy and was beginning to become sluggish. Upon arrival, Toru was shocked to see the door had been put back up. He pushed the handle as the door fell flat on the ground. His face was then filled with annoyance and then complete understanding. Both Chaika's jumped as the wooden door slammed into the ground making a large crashing noise. The red Chaika, who waited because she wanted Toru to see her gift, bolted from the seat next to Akira with her sword drawn. Noticing Toru she instantly relaxed, only to tense once more as she saw his less than amused face.

"Akira, care to explain this?" Toru said slowly. Akira had not stirred from her work on the desk.

"You broke the door, brother," Akira stated plainly knowing it would infuriate him more.

"Damn it woman! I said to fix this door, standing it up isn't fixing it!" Toru shouted. Akira smirked.

"You only said to put it back up, my dearest brother," Toru's eyebrows twitched in anger.

Akira noticed that ever since Chaika's near death experience at Hartgen, her brother had become much more expressive and spent less energy on concealing his thoughts. Possibly due to the contract he formed with Fredrika, or more likely he had simply changed. Toru sighed realizing it was again pointless to argue with Akira, the most stubborn person he'd ever known.

"Did you at least get some food?" Toru saw the basket of grapes on the table next to her and walked up next to them to inspect them "Ah! At least you did something,"

"As much as I enjoy the credit, it is not mine to accept,"

Akira said continuing to work. Least she was determined to work on her story. Toru quickly put it together that it must have been Chaika who was the one who gathered the grapes. The white Chaika entered the room stepping on the door with caution.

"Thank you Chaika, you didn't have to run errands for Akira," Toru said gratefully. Chaika let her heart enjoy his phrase but felt a little a taken aback that he assumed he did it for Akira.

"Chaika. Did. For. Taru. Not. Akira," the red Chaika said simply wanting to clear up the misunderstanding.

"Oh well, then thank you," Chaika's heart once again fluttered with joy as she feared her heart my jump from her chest.

"Was. Nothing," Chaika looked away blushing. She was letting her feelings rule her too much. The white Chaika noticed the grapes and slowly walked over to inspect them herself. She picked one up and eyed it with curiosity before putting it in her mouth and chewed it. Her eyes shot open with excitement.

"These are wonderful!" she exclaimed as she began to grab a whole vine and pick of grapes to shove into her mouth. Toru smiled at her reaction, one he remembered from their trip to Claudia's vineyard.

"You loved the grapes we had at Claudia's place," Toru explained.

Chaika looked at Toru with a questioning gaze. Toru explained how they had stopped at Claudia's looking for what he called an artifact continuing to remind her how they were on a quest to restore all the artifacts together. He continued to tell how Claudia was one of the original eight heroes to defeat the Emperor but unlike the other heroes she had found a new purpose to live for and was happy.

Chaika's expression never changed, to Toru's disappointment. She was very fond of Claudia and the grapes having found somewhat of a mentor in Claudia's Gundo skills but now Chaika's memories displayed no hope of ever coming back.

"I want to go there!" Chaika chirped excitedly.

"We can when you get stronger,"

"Right!"

A/N: Okay looking back at this chapter... kind of bland but I always criticize my work negatively, who doesn't. First paragraph was a little summary of what I thought happened between the time of Gaz's death and the ending of the season 2, structured horribly might I add. I try to use logic when writing stories and keep characters true to who they are, let them run the story. That said, Chaika is really weird to make dialogue for so it's hard to keep her on point (help me with that if you would). My reasoning behind white Chaika having lost her broken speech is because at the end she says "Thank you" not "Grateful" as she always does, so I know it's small and flexible in use but I think that was intended. I'd love some critique, please explain don't just say "work on detail cause it sucks". Next chapter will be… more on the lines of what i've wanted to happen in the story for a while, though might be a little out of character. Anyway, sorry for the long note, I hope you Enjoyed!

-Rose's Requiem