The journey was quiet and very long and tiring. All in all they had gotten on and off trains five times! By the time that arrived at Utena, it was dark." Lavi! Yuri!" We both turn and see the founder, Duncan, coming towards us." Welcome to Utena! not that you can see it much in the dark." Duncan chuckles a bit as does Lavi, but I just stand there. Lavi looks at me, with a sad expression on his face. Lavi looks at Duncan" Is there a hotel we can stay at?" Duncan Smiles a bit" Yes. I've already got the rooms booked. I did wonder if you guys would turn up in the evening, so i did the task of booking the rooms before hand." Lavi nods." Thanks." Duncan gestures for us to follow him. After a bit of walking, we end up at the hotel." ah, now we've got a bit of a problem." Duncan says whiles turning towards us." I was only able to get two bedrooms. One single and one double." Lavi looks at me, and he can tell i wouldn't care at this point who had what." You have the single, and we will take the double. You'll properly need the space for all that stuff you've got." Lavi says while chuckling a bit. Duncan laughs at the comment." True. I will need the space. Alright then, I will take the single." It was agreed then. Lavi took the double bedroom key, and we both headed to our room." My room is just down the hall a bit. Just call if you need me." Duncan bows and head towards his room. We enter the room and Lavi flops down onto the bed." Man! What a tiring journey. I'm done in! Don't know about you?" Lavi sits up and bit to look at me, and sees me looking out the window. His expression softens a bit. He get's up of the bed and comes behind me." The smell is the same..." I suddenly say. Lavi glances down at me and a faint smiles comes across his face." Yeah... a lot of people who return to their birth place, tend to remember little details, like smell." We both just stare out the window for a bit." I think we should try to get some rest. We have a big day tomorrow." Lavi says whiles placing a hand on my shoulder. I nod and closes the curtons. I turn around and then it dawned on me. They literally mean a double room! There is only a double bed! I glance at Lavi, who was heading to the bathroom, and started to blush. I'm going to be sharing a bed with Lavi!?" I won't be long in the bathroom!" i hear Lavi shout from the bathroom." O...okay!" I stutter a back. God get a grip! I mentally slap myself. I let out a big sigh whiles taking my jacket off. Just deal with it Yuri!. I put my jacket over the chair in the room and I slumped down into the chair. This mission is going to drag so much!
I bend down to start taking my boots off. God I need new boots! I'm struggling to get the boots off, when Lavi comes back out of the bathroom." Struggling are we?" Lavi asks amused. I blush while I still struggle to get my boots off. The next thing I know, Lavi is kneeling in front of me. "Here. let me help you." Lavi starts to undo my boots for me. I look away, embarrassed." hehe, there's no need to be embarrassed!" lavi chuckled." I...I'm not!" I say defensively. He smiles at my response." There. all done." " thank you." i say whiles getting up. At the same time, Lavi stood up. I look straight at his chest and realise how manly he is right up close like this. I can see his muscles through his shirt and his sent engulf my nostrils! I had no idea Lavi was thinking similar thoughts as mine. Standing this close to her is like a dream! I can feel her short breaths on my chest and it sends a shudder down my spine. I look down to see her looking up at me with a faint blush on her cheeks. I brush my fingers over her cheek, and she shudders at my touch. I feel his fingers brush over my cheek and it sends a shudder down my spine. Why does he do this to me!? I look into his eye and see emotions swirling within it. Does he really feel the same towards me!? I feel my eyes start to water and i turn away from his touch. I...I can't do this! " thank you for helping me with my boots." I say whiles brushing past him to go to the bathroom. I closed the door and press my back up against it. I press my trembling hand to my heart and takes a deep breath. I just stand there and see her go into the bathroom. Dammit! I brush my fingers through my hair and sighed. Get a grip Lavi! You can't do this to her or yourself! I know I feel different with her, but I've always managed to keep it under control, but lately I've not been able too. I sigh again and head to the bed. I'll just try to get a good night sleep, and hope I can get to grips again. I hear her open the bathroom door and hear her heading towards the bed. When I calmed down a bit, I exited the bathroom and realised that Lavi had gotten into bed. I sighed as I headed towards the bed and crawled under the sheets. I reach to the lamp beside the bed and turned it off. I sigh as I turn over trying to get comfy. I could just about feel the heat from his body next to mine. This is going to be a long night...
Me and Lavi woke without saying a word to each other. I wanted to, but what do I say!? I mean, it was so unusual of Lavi to do what he did yesterday. It's like he showed me a side of him, that no one else ever seen. He took off his mask and I saw his emotions. I steal a glance at him, whiles walking out of the hotel to meet Duncan at the market and I see he's put his mask back on. I look down and keep walking. Not only am I dealing with my emotions with Lavi, but my home town too! Now there's daylight I can see the village clearly. I stop dead in my tracks as we come upon the market. Lavi notices and stops and turns towards me. I can see the pain in her eyes as she looks on at the village. All the bad memory's come flooding back and I have to take a deep breath before I can go ahead. I place my hand on my chest where the scar is and I can feel it pull. It...it hurts! "Yuri?" I snap out of it when Lavi calls my name. I look over to him and see a concern look on his face. I give a small reassuring smile "Sorry, Let's go." I say before continuing walking. There are lots of stalls and people are laughing and it's just as it was when I was younger. It's hasn't change at all. A faint smile comes across my face, as I look around. Lavi glances down and sees it. He smiles to himself. That's the Yuri I know." Ah, Yuri, Lavi!" Duncan comes towards us from the crowd. "OH there you are Duncan." Lavi says." I've just been speaking to a couple of people, and another person went missing last night!" " What!?" We both say. Duncan nods with a sad expression on his face." And it wasn't anyone. It was a girl." We both stand there, in shock. Duncan speaks up" I'll go out and find more information about the girl. Why don't you two see if you can scout out anything else unusual happenings." We both nod." Yeah, that's a good idea." The three of us split up and see if we can find anything else happening in the village. Why this village!? " What do you think it is? do you think it's the work of an innocence?" Lavi turns to me as he asks. "hmmm, I'm too sure. I mean it's not unusual for Akuma to randomly attack a village." I say as I was looking around. My eyes stop on a small figure at a stall. My heart stopped! In the distance I can see the back of a young boy. Kaylin!? I start to breathe really heavily and I couldn't speak. N...no...it...it can't be!? Before I knew it, my legs started moving towards the figure. "Yuri?" Lavi says whiles looking at me. I was now at full sprint. My legs just kept moving." YURI" Lavi yells as he sees me running. Kaylin! KAYLIN!
I reach my hand out to the boy and I spun him around." Wah!" The boy stares at me with a scared and confused expression on his face. I am now breathing really heavily. It...it's not him... The boy looks like he's about to cry." What are you doing!?" I see that a woman has come up beside him with an angry look on her face." I...I'm sorry...I thought he was someone else." I say quietly. I let go of the boys shoulders and bow." Come on son. I told you to never leave my side. You don't know what sort of strange people there are around." with that, the mother grabs the boy's hand and dragged him away. "Yuri...?" I turn and see Lavi with a pained expression on his face." You thought that was your brother...didn't you?" He asks softly." I...I..." I was at a loss of words. I couldn't do anything else though, because I was pulled into an embrace." I'm sorry..." He whispers into my ear. All the emotion I was holding in came rushing out and I grip onto Lavi and started to let it all out."Why... I...I know he's gone but...I just..." I couldn't finish the sentence without hiccupping. Lavi starts Stroking my hair" shhh, It's alright... let it out..." I hiccupped a bit for a while, I then pull away and wipe away the tear stains on my face. I look up to see Lavi looking at me, with a loving and caring look. I was a bit taking aback by the look." Are you feeling better now?" He asks whiles stroking my cheek. I give a faint smile and nod" Yes, thank you." He smiles back. I look down to the floor as I was thinking." Umm, if it's ok with you, I would like to go to my family's graveyard and put some flowers there?" I ask. Lavi just smiles and nods." Sure. I think that's a nice idea." and with that, we brought some flowers and we made our way to my family's old home, were they are buried." It's just up this hill." I point as we keep walking up the path." Wow. You lived all the way up here?" as we got to the top, you can see the village. I nod" Yeah. Me and my brother used to roll down this hill all the time when we were little..." I smile as I recall that memory. Lavi chuckles" Yeah I bet that was a lot of fun." I turn and I started walking to a willow tree. Just under it's leaves, you can see three headstones." Heya mum and dad and Kaylin..." I kneel and started to place the flowers on their graves." ...I'm sorry I haven't visited recently, It's just...I..." My eyes started to water when I tried to explain why I haven't visited." I... don't know actually..." I say while I let the tears fall. Lavi just stands there watching the sad scene before him." I hope you would be proud of me..." I say whiles wiping the tears away.