**Chapter 1**
Yoko returned home after an exausting day at work.
"The same old routine once again...I guess high school students are hard work themselves huh?" She muttered to herself.
After being in the army for years, firing rifles and shooting enemies, she decided it was about time she do something new in her life-as a high school teacher.
It's been 2 years sinced she'd took on her new life.
It had never occured to her: for her to quit the army and focus on shaping young minds.
Nevertheless, a peaceful life was good for a change.
Yoko threw her bag onto the sofa and sat next to it .
She thought of taking a shower first, but she was too tired to stand up.
Leaning back against the soft cushions, she undid her hair, which was tied into a bun, and unbuttoned her coat.
"Kamina, if only you were here...life would be so much different right now..." She suddenly thought, as she slowly drifted to sleep.
Kamina been Yoko's fellow comrade ever since they've started army training, and they've grown to know each other more as time goes by.
Soon enough, to Yoko, Kamina had already become more than just a friend.
And when she decided to tell him her true feelings, her kiss was returned by his, promising to give her ten times more than what she's given him.
During that time, Yoko had resigned from the army.
Kamina, with a boisterous, positive and unyielding personality, had decided that he would stay in the army longer.
That kiss, was their first and last.
Kamina was later dispatched overseas for a mission the very next day, and had not contacted her ever since.
Yoko herself, once being part of the army, understood the circumstance he was in.
Losing a life on the battlefield seem common for a soldier, but it was not all smooth sailing getting over the sorrow and grief that comes with it.
A month before, he was injured and had been in a coma ever since.
He was immediately sent back and lying in a hospital.
Yoko was petrified when she heard of the news, commiting to visiting him whenever she had the time, talking to him, hoping he'd wake up.
She cried, she worried, she prayed.
But he never once did.
It's not that Yoko had felt that it's hopeless, it's just that she had learned how soldiers should accept a comrade's death.
At least, Kamina's not dead. But with the state he's in, he looked like a corpse already. The hope that he'd awaken one day still resides within her.
All she hoped, was for time to pass and miracles to happen.