The votes are in! .. not so shocking result I'd say. As follows:

Diamond - 7 (last time that I counted)

Gorgonic - 3

Accident - 1

HolyIce - 0

Damn people really don't like HolyIce xD As such, this crossover fic will be Diamondshipping aka Kaito x Rio. I'm sorry if you voted otherwise and... I will try and make the couple believable. I hope that I will succeed, lets go with that :/

Now, I'm pretty sure that Faker/Haruto didn't go with them, so if they did, take this as an even bigger headcanon/AU. Cheers!

Enjoy?

Kaito's Grief

A couple of minutes later, Rio and her companion were flying through the network back to Earth.

She still couldn't believe that her brother had picked Tenjo Kaito, out of all the people that were there with them, but she presumed that he trusted him the most out of all the possible males that could have gone with her. Personally, she didn't really mind Kaito. Sure, they barely ever talked (even after arriving in the Astral World for the first time) ... really, all they did was stand next to each other at times and they never really had a bond to worry about or depend on. Throwing him a sideways look, Rio saw that he was clearly deep in thought over something.

"Kaito-san?" she questioned.

Meanwhile, Kaito himself was wondering why Ryoga had chosen him out of all the males that Rio knew better (and who knew her better), yet his worry lay in his father and younger brother. If the world was really in danger (like Yuma had worried) there was a possibility that something could have happened to them. When Rio spoke up, he looked at her in slight surprise.

"Yes?"

"Are you alright? You've been quiet..." she wondered, uncertain of whatever that was normal or not. It's not like Ryoga had given her a Tenjo Kaito handbook. Now she was resenting him for not doing so.

"I'm fine." he told her simply, facing forward again as he began to see the outlines of his familiar homeland. "We are nearly there..."

Rio looked in that general direction too and nodded.

"That we are."

- Line Break -

Whatever they had expected when they arrived was certainly not what they found.

Instead of the usual bright and happy colours of Heartland, they were met with carnage and destruction. Rio looked around, obvious sadness and some guilt on her face, as she stared at some flames that were burning.

"Heartland... is completely... demolished..." she whispered and turned to speak to Kaito, only to notice that he wasn't beside her anymore. Blinking, the former Empress started to walk forward when she noticed him kneeling near what used to be Heartland Tower, holding what looked like two cards in his hands.

"Kaito-san?" she whispered, kneeling beside him. "What...?"

"They are gone..." he muttered, seemingly mostly to himself, clutching the cards. Confused, Rio looked at them and gasped...

"Impossible. Are they...?"

Kaito didn't answer as he stared at the cards. The cards which held the pictures (and souls, she presumed) of his father and little brother, Haruto. She found herself putting her hand on his back, trying to console him as she watched, stunned, as tears began to trickle down his cheeks.

"Kaito-san..."

"Who are you two?" a gruff, almost annoyed, voice growled and Rio whipped around, coming face-to-face with a guy (a teenager at best) with deadly, cold golden eyes and dark, ocean blue hair.

She stood up, ready to defend the still grieving Kaito when...

"Stop it, Shun, they are clearly not from the Fusion Dimension. Why would one of them cry over the loss of Dr. Faker and Haruto Tenjo?"

Rio looked around for the voice and another boy, this one obviously younger, with dark grey eyes and black hair with purple bangs.

"Welcome to Heartland you two... or should I say, what remains of it?"

Hope you liked this one! Once again sorry to everyone who didn't vote for Diamond but seeing how oddly popular it is, I honestly didn't expect anything different :/

Anyways, I presume that you guess can guess who the 'younger boy' is? xD

Thanks for reading!