Disclaimer: I still do not own Code Lyoko. And I will not in the next chapter. Or the chapter after that. Or the chapter after that…

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The door opened, and in the doorway stood the future version of Ulrich. He wore black clothes now. "It's you!" he said. He only seemed to notice Yumi. He hugged Yumi, and Yumi wasn't sure why. "Yumi…it's really you!"

"Yeah, it's really me," said Yumi. "It's also really Jeremie, Aelita, Odd, and you."

"I haven't seen any of you since high school," said the future Ulrich. "Well, except for me."

"Jeremie and I are married in the future," said Aelita. "We have a cute little girl named Rita."

"Are you married?" Jeremie asked the future Ulrich.

"No," said the future Ulrich. "I can never love another girl again. Not after…"

"After what?" said Jeremie.

"I don't know how to say this," said the future Ulrich.

"You don't know how to say what?" asked Jeremie.

"I don't know how to say that Yumi…Yumi died."

"What?" everyone said.

"We defeated XANA when we were in tenth grade, and Yumi was in eleventh grade. We didn't know that XANA had given Yumi a virus that linked her to him, so when XANA died…so did Yumi."

Everyone burst into tears at this horrible news about Yumi. No one wanted her to die. Yumi only had two years to live…

"Everyone mostly got over Yumi after a while, but I didn't," said the future Ulrich. "I dropped out of school and moved here. "I try not to think about Yumi, but it's too hard. I really miss her."

"I wanted to kill myself after Yumi died," said the future Ulrich. "I wasn't getting over Yumi, and I thought that if I died, I could be with her. But then I thought about how Yumi would want me to live, so I decided not to kill myself."

"I'm sure I would have wanted you to live," said Yumi.

"What do you do besides think about Yumi?" asked Aelita.

"Thinking about Yumi is the only think I do now," said the future Ulrich. "During the day I think about Yumi and at night I dream about Yumi. I just can't believe she's really here…"

The future Ulrich was starting to smile. "Yumi, I have to tell you something I never told you when I was alive. I really loved you, and I still do."

"I loved you too, Ulrich," said Yumi. "I can tell you loved me."

"How did you get here?" asked the future Ulrich.

"I designed a program to bring us here," said Jeremie.

"Maybe you can design a program to go to when Yumi died, and save her!" said Aelita. "Go to the factory and ask us if you can use the supercomputer!"

"When Jeremie's designing the program, can we find the future me?" said Odd.

Jeremie went to the factory, and everyone else looked up Odd in the phonebook. "I found me!" said Odd. They found the future Odd's house, and rang the doorbell.

Instead of Odd opening the door, Sissi opened it instead. "Hi," said the future Sissi. "Want to come in?"

"Sissi changed a lot," said Ulrich. "She doesn't sound so mean anymore. She didn't even call me Ulrich dear."

"It's you, Yumi," said Sissi. "You're…not here anymore." The future Sissi was holding back tears. Sissi hadn't liked Yumi before…why was she crying? And why was she at Odd's house?

"Where's the future me?" said Odd.

"I'll get you!" said Sissi. She turned around and shouted, "Odd dear!"

"Odd dear?" said Ulrich.

The future Odd ran down the stairs. "You're here," said Sissi.

"Yeah, I'm here," said the future Odd.

"No, I mean you're really here!" said Sissi, pointing to the door.

"Hi, me!" said Odd. "Why is Sissi at your house?"

"Sissi's my girlfriend," said the future Odd.

The present Odd shouted, "NOOOO!"

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Four minutes later, Ulrich said, "Odd, will you quit screaming?"

"Sissi's my girlfriend? How?"

"After Yumi died, I thought Ulrich could finally be mine," said Sissi. "But he wouldn't talk to anyone. Later he left school, and I never saw him again."

"After a while, I started to fall in love with Odd. He fell in love with me, and now he's my boyfriend."

"Sorry I screamed, future Sissi," said Odd. "You're just…really mean in the present…"

"I changed after I fell in love with you," said Sissi.

Ulrich turned to Yumi and said, "You know what's really weird?"

"What?" said Yumi.

"I finally confessed my love to you, and it wasn't even me," said Ulrich.