A/N: Sorry for the long wait guys. A lot of stuff has been happening at home so I've been really busy lately and updating fanfics just completely slipped from my mind. Anyhow, here's the promised update. I hope you enjoy what you read. Drop me a review and let me know what you think. :)

Tomoyo could only watch the warrior with saddened eyes as he reveled in the blood he shed, grinning like a true madman as the blood of his slaughtered opponents rained down all around him. True, those men had been assassins sent to kill her, but…to be so thirsty for blood was a craving only a true monster would enjoy. Suppressing the shudder that crawled down her spine, Tomoyo tried to pretend that there was still something in the demon-eyed man that could be salvaged. All those years ago, when she had found him amidst the carnage of slain oni, she had never expected the boy to be making promises to the corpse of his own mother.

It had been impossible to get him away from the shrine without helping him preserve the body of the late priestess inside by using her own magic and the pearl white feather with an intricate pattern that had fallen from the sky. She had never imagined using her magic for something of this sort, but she had sworn to help save the boy. She did not want him to be killed. His parents had, after all, rendered great services to her sister and it would be an insult to their memory to not help their only son. But as she turned away from the ninja who shot a feral grin in her direction from the grounds below- the blood of the assassins now torn to remains that could not even be identified as human- he looked no different from the monsters that had taken away his parents.

Trying not to let the tears spill from her eyes, Tomoyo knew she would have to send him away. After all, Hitsuzen demanded he go on that inevitable journey, even if she stood to lose him forever by sending him away. She knew what his wish would be. She had always known, and it hurt her to think that the last time she would ever see him would be to see the look of utter betrayal on his face as she cursed him and cast him away.

A/N: What do you think would his wish be? I'm putting up the next chapter along with this one as a treat for you all but before you click on the next button, review! *shot* that is all. ;)