Disclaimer: If I owned Code Lyoko, Yumi and Ulrich would be together and William would be…. Well it's best not to talk about what I would do to him.

Perfection

It was a cold snowy evening on the day "it" happened. William and Yumi were paired together for a history project, much to Yumi's dismay. William had been staring at Yumi for months. Everywhere she went William was close behind. His stare was creepy to say the least. It haunted her like an evil spirit. Yet when Yumi asked Jeremy to do a search on campus for Xana, it wasn't found anywhere.

Finally Yumi decided to get the project over with and just ignore William except when they were working on the project. They were in the library when William acted strangely.

"You know," said William in a slightly threatening voice, "Ulrich doesn't deserve a beautiful girl like you. Why don't you want to be with me?"

"William," said Yumi in an uncharacteristic nervous voice, "I don't like you that way."

"Ulrich is nothing but a selfish brat that's been getting in my way for some time!" William half-shouted and half-sneered. William stood up from his chair and walked slowly towards Yumi.

Yumi backed away and secretly messaged the first person on her buddy list on her cell phone. She didn't care who would come; there was something not right about the way William was acting. Something in her heart to Yumi that William wasn't behaving right. Yumi looked around, but there was no one in the library but her and William.

"Ulrich is my friend," Yumi shouted as she momentarily stopped walking backwards, "And I love him!"

Needless to say, this was the worst possible thing Yumi could ever say to William. Yumi looked in his eyes and she saw something take over. Something within the human heart itself. Enraged William pushed Yumi against a wall and hit her. He punched and kicked her until she moaned in pain.

After Yumi fell to the ground in her pain. William did the absolute worst thing imaginable. He began to try to undress her. Yumi fought all she could, but she was too tired and hurt to hold him off for long.

"No William, this isn't right," moaned Yumi.

"I don't care," snarled William.

Just then, when all hope had faded, Ulrich burst in the library. He was taking a walk in the woods when Yumi's message for help came to him. Immediately Ulrich rushed back to campus and began looking for her. Finally, he heard an anguished cry from the library of all places.

When he rushed into the library he was horrified from what he saw to say the least. Why wasn't the librarian there? How could William hurt Yumi like that? When he saw Yumi hurt and William on top of her Ulrich became furious! Sure, Ulrich never liked William, but he had never imagined in his wildest dreams this would be happening. After a brief second Ulrich charged at William.

William in turn charged at Ulrich. In his twisted mind his feelings of lust, anger, and passion were because of him. William was going to make him pay.

When they collided Ulrich gave William everything he got. How dare he hurt Yumi like that. However, William was stronger. Ulrich was out of breath and tired when he came to the library and William was being fueled by his sinful feelings.

William had Ulrich on the ground with his foot on Ulrich. Revenge was so sweet.

"Ulrich," said a voice, "You must get up. You cannot allow William to win!"

"He's too strong," said Ulrich despairingly, "I can't fight him."

"Yes Ulrich, you can," replied the voice urgently, "Yumi needs you. Get up!"

"How?" replied Ulrich, "I don't have the strength to get up.

"You do too," came the voice, "Now get up!"

Ulrich got up. He suddenly had his strength back. He felt the way he felt in Lyoko. This boy was nothing, but another brainless, ugly, opponent in the game. Ulrich lunged at William. This time he had the advantage. He cannot and will not allow William to hurt Yumi.

Yumi watched as Ulrich fought William. Weird feelings surged within her when Ulrich was knocked down . She was immediately relieved when Ulrich pushed William's foot. Now William was the one suffering the blows; after what seemed like hours of fighting William fell down in exhaustion.

"Ok," said William, "I give up."

"Why did you do this?" asked Ulrich.

"Because she is a bitch," said William pointing a Yumi as she was leaning on the table and trying to stand up, "And you are a bastard."

To make a long story short Yumi and Ulrich took a protesting William to the head's office where they learned that William was a stalker who was thought to have been rehabilitated. After having Yumi treated at the nurse's office and Ulrich being briefly thanked Ulrich offered Yumi to walk her home. Gratefully Yumi accepted.

As they were walking Ulrich asked, "Are you ok?"

"I'm fine," said Yumi, "I can't believe I thought William was a friend."

"Me neither," said Ulrich blushing, "Uh, Yu-Yumi I have something to-to tell you."

"What is it?" asked Yumi also blushing, it was like they were a couple by the way they were so close together, "And I also have something to tell you," she said.

"What is it?" asked Ulrich jokingly imitating Yumi's voice.

"You go first," sad Yumi.

They stopped walking and looked in each other's eyes. Yumi saw nothing in Ulrich's eyes she had ever seen before. They were caring, nervous, and worried.

"Yumi." said Ulrich blushing more than he ever did in his life, "I lo-love you. It's like when I'm with you everything is ok, perfect. I know you probably don't like me that way and I understand. It's just that when I saw William on top of you I was never more scared in my life."

Tears filled in Yumi's eyes; she had been feeling the same way for months now.

"Ulrich," she said, "I love you too." The gap between them closed. On that day William had kissed her out of lust. She and Ulrich had kissed out of pure love for one another.

A/N. Whoa! This is the longest chapter I ever wrote. Note that I have only seen a few episodes of Code Lyoko. Please review! I want to know whether I should continue or not. Reviews please!