AN: This story takes place in between episodes 10 and 11 of Pretear. Enjoy the story. Please Read and Review. I'll write more if you review.

Unexpected Gift

Chapter 1

"Sasame, as my servant, you have a purpose to fulfil," said Takako, reaching her hand out for Sasame's.

"The Knight of Sound, the Sasame you knew, no longer exists," Sasame told them all as he reached out his hand and placed it on top of Takako's. With those words said, they flew up, disappearing into the sky.

Now, the two were at the old broken down church. Takako stood in front of the altar, while Sasame kneeled before her. "Sasame, who are you and what is your purpose?"

"I am a dark knight, your servant of darkness. I obey you and you alone. My purpose is to gather leafe for you," he said with sincere eyes gazing at her.

Takako gave a small pleased smile and said, "Very good."

A few minutes later, Takako was still standing at the altar by herself because she had sent Sasame out to gather up more leafe for her. She was thinking to herself. Tomorrow, was her birthday. Not that it mattered anyway, since there was no use for remembering. It wasn't like anything would happen. She didn't expect anything to. She had 15 birthdays alone while she was imprisoned and she had 15 birthdays on Earth that were meaningless to her. The only one birthday that Takako had worth while was her 16th one with the Leafe Knights when she was Pretear. Although, this became meaningless as well since she couldn't care less about the Leafe Knights. How would this be any different? Even though Sasame was there now with her, it didn't really matter. She highly doubted that he would remember. Takako didn't understand why she was thinking all of this.

The Next Day

After flying around for a while, Sasame absorbed a great amount of leafe in an area far from where the Leafe Knights would expect it to run out. As he flew back to the church, who should he see, but the Pretear and her Leafe Knights themselves. "This is going better than I had hoped," he thought, "they're heading straight for the church."

Sasame arrived at the church before they did. "I have brought you something," Sasame said to Takako.

"What is it?" Takako asked.

"I brought you some leafe," Sasame said reaching out his hand. Takako took his hand and he transferred the leafe that he had gathered to her.

"This is incredible," Takako said astound, "how could you have gathered such a vast amount of leafe?"

"But there's more than just this," Sasame said, "I have something else to give you." Takako was surprised at what he was doing and what he was saying. Exactly what more did he have to give to her besides leafe? "Wait here and I'll tell you when it's ready," Sasame said as he took his hand away from Takako when she absorbed the last of the leafe the knight had gathered up. He left and took one of the already full grown demon larvae with him. Takako wondered what he could be up to.

Goh and Kei each supported Hayate's arms. Himeno walked along side them while the kids ran ahead. Suddenly, very unexpectedly, the three kids were hit by a giant tentacle. "Oh no! Mannen, Hajime, Shin!" Himeno shouted and ran toward them.

"Himeno!" Kei yelled.

"Watch out, Himeno!" Goh shouted, but it was too late. Himeno had gotten hit by the tentacle as well. Goh ran after her and was hit by a powerful dark energy blast. He fell to the ground. Kei looked up, to see that the blast had came from Sasame.

"What are you doing, Sasame?" Kei shouted out. He put Hayate down and then fired a light energy blast. Sasame blocked it and redirected it back at Kei. Kei got hit.

While all this was happening, the demon larvae kept using its tentacles and attacked everyone even though they were down. Hayate slowly opened his eyes as he tried to get up and saw Sasame in front of him. "Sasame?" Sasame then fired a small dark energy blast at Hayate. Even though it was small, it was powerful enough to injure him because of the close range. Hayate fell back down in the middle of his attempt to getting up.

Sasame went back to Takako. "It's ready," he said smiling at her.

She went to him and said, "And exactly what is ready?"

"Follow me," Sasame said and they left the church. Sasame had led Takako to the area of where the battle was taking place.

Takako's eyes widened as she saw this horrific scene. She couldn't believe it. There, her enemies, the Pretear and the Leafe Knights were on the ground suffering as her demon larvae kept attacking them.

"It's wonderful," Takako said with a pleased smile.

"I'm glad you like it," said Sasame, "Happy Birthday, Takako." Takako's eyes narrowed after hearing him say this. He remembered. He actually remembered her birthday and even gave her a gift. No, two gifts. First was the leafe and now was the suffering of her enemies for her to behold. As astounded and astonished at what had happened as she was, she was even more surprised when Sasame kissed her on her lips. She could feel his arms wrap around her and she unexpectedly did the same.

Takako's heart raced. She had never felt this feeling before. She knew that she didn't love him and yet, why was she so happy? Her heart was racing faster now. For a moment, she could feel a stream of warmth flowing through her heart and body that she thought had all gone away long ago.

Sasame enjoyed this moment of his and his princess's lips being pressed against each other. He loved the feeling of her soft, smooth, moist lips smothering his. His heart pounded faster and faster as he could feel his love's arms wrapped around him. This moment of holding and sharing a kiss with his beloved would always be a wonderful memory of his that he would keep in his heart.

AN: If you were confused about when I was explaining Takako's memories of her birthday, I think this is a better explanation. I aimed for her to be 31 going to be 32 on this birthday. Please review. By the way they're not going to die. After a while Takako and Sasame will leave and then the Leafe Knights and Pretear will recover. I just didn't want to write all that in the story because I found it unnecessary and it would have ruined the ending that I wanted for the chapter.