Disclaimer: People have been asking why Tomo seems to remember Yui when he was supposed to forget her. Well, the explanation is quite simple. I got too carried away writing the story that I seemed to forget the events that were supposed to play in this story. So yes, forgive me for that and for the extreme lateness of my updating of the story. I am grounded for a freaking of two years so I will kinda have a problem updating for you. (until 2010 mind you.)

I know I am kinda late in congratulating the arrival of a new year, 2009. Well, as the saying goes, happy new year and may you start with an exciting, amazing and great beginning. Well, on with the story!

RECAP

"I do that only because you're my priestess and that I'll travel by your side to the end of the Earth if need be..." Tomo smiled at her and noticed that she slept with a smile. "Yea, I will gladly do that...A warrior dies a honorable death if he dies after fulfilling his purpose." He too slept with a smile. Outside, the rain decided to stopped and allowed the two to sleep in peace.

Somewhere in a forest, a man that appeared like a wolf came sprinting in no particular way. His howl pierced into the silence of the forest, a shrilling howl at that. I hope I meet up with the priestess soon! The man vowed to himself as he sprinted away and dodged the flying spears that stab through the sky. Shit this mortals! He continued to sprint only to fall into a big hole. Dang the brains of these people! "Well, well, well...That was a great chase I would say," a man that looked like the leader of the group of clowns who hailed from Kutou to capture him, "Hahaha, he will fetch us a freaking big fortune! We'll showcase him during our night show at the circus in 3 weeks time! We'll allow the audience to throw stones or whatever they can at him at a price of course!" The man continued to laugh at the weakling that fell into his hole.

"That's brilliant boss!" one of the other few remarked and praised the leader who had his nose up in the air, "And only you can plan out such flawless idea to capture this wild man." The others cheered as they lowered a metal bar cage into the hole and locked the prey in. They will pay for the torture they have done to me! The caged up man promised himself ultimate revenge against those clowns as he like to put it. I swear to the existence of Seiryu that I will kill them myself, even if it means death!

Up into the heavens a man sighed heavily. "My humble warrior, please do not kill yourself just for the sake of wanting revenge. Though revenge may be sweet but it will never end. It will be the poison that kills you slowly." The man sighed once more and stride out of his kingdom to meet with his phoenix of a brother at Mount Taikyoku, where they say his 'mother' lived.

"Harh, harh..." Yui panted as she woke up. The feeling was absurd, it was as if waking up to escape a horrible nightmare only to land in a different and more horrible nightmare. She felt violently shook up by the shoulder by someone, someone who wanted her to save him or her. "Was it just a nightmare? Or was it reality?" She turned to look at Tomo from her bed and from her angle he was dead asleep. Had he not felt or seen what she had? Is it just her being sensitive or was it really destiny calling out to her. She walked over to Tomo and gently shook him up. "Tomo, I need to talk to you about something," Yui pleaded into his ear as she shook him, "Please Tomo, it's important."

"Hmm?" Tomo replied her as if he had been awake all along which isn't a lie. He too had seen a vision of one of his comrade being brutally tortured. "What is it that Your Eminence wants to talk about?" Yui walked him down to the kitchen and lid a candle between the two of them. The candle made scary shadows that seemed to linger around the walls, the floor and the ceiling of the kitchen just so they had a chance to hear what the priestess wanted to discuss about.

"Did you well, erm," Yui had a hard time finding the words to explain it but she could not find the right and correct precise words to explain the feeling in her. "Well, I er, had a...how should I say? A nightmare of a man being brutally whipped. No, to be more precise, he was tortured and laughed at."

"So? You had a vision...? Then what do you want to do about it? Do you even know who that man is?" Tomo challenged her, he was still not comfortable knowing the fact that she knew his name before he introduced himself. But then again, people knew him as the most famous actor or drama king in the world as far as he was concerned. So maybe, she knew his name through that way. Yet, even as he thought that reason was convincing, he was still unsure about it. As if there was another more interesting way she found out what his name was. Maybe through magic, maybe she can read minds. That was possible too.

"Well, yea and I intend to save him," Yui determinedly replied him and her eyes were so full of being sure that she could save him somehow. Though Yui hoped it was not her man that was brutally tortured, she still could not help but think he was in that situation.

"You don't even know him, so why should you want to save him?" Tomo asked her but inside him, he thought that his priestess may just have the ingredients to be his ideal girl but he was not one to jump to conclusion.

"Well, I think I know that man somehow and I think he knows me too," Yui hopefully answered him and she was honest; that made her even more impressed with herself, "I don't know about you, but I don't wish to see someone I think I know and close to being brutally tortured while I just stand by and watched helpless."

"Hmm, fine then," Tomo finally satisfied, he closed his eyes to think for a moment. What Yui had told him really impressed him and made him want her even more. Want her, did I really typed that? Well, I guess. Tomo reopened his eyes and smiled one of his more charming smiles that warmed Yui's insides. "Like I said last night, I will help and protect you till your calling is over and what you hoped to accomplish are fulfilled." Tomo finally realized just what he meant, he had promised her that with his life at the hanging.

Well that ends our fourth chapter. They're on their way to rescuing Ashitare from a living hell that may soon cause him to kill him if they do not arrive soon. Please review.