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Note: Clover and I share the credit to this fanfiction so if there's any problems, contact me or her.

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"So are you going to go?" Briar asked.

"Heck no!" Aria replied a little too quickly.

"Of course, she is! Even if I have to drag her there myself!" Kira said.

"Why do I have to go?" Aria whined.

"To see what that sleaze-ball wants!" Kira said.

"That's a first I've ever heard you call someone by a bad name." Aria exclaimed.

"It is?" Kira asked innocently.

"Yeah." Added Briar.

"Wonder why those words sounded so familiar?" Aria asked herself.

"We have to get Touga back for what he did to Aria!" Kira cried.

"Yeah." Answered Briar.

"Why do you think so?" asked Aria.

"err." Briar stuttered.

"Nevermine that, maybe we should play a trick on him" Kira smiled at Briar.

"Kira, I heard about your past and Aria's. No wonder she turned out the way she is, but I'm confused about you. How can you still be so nice and cheerful all the time after what happened to you?" Briar asked.

"You dare to spill what you had heard and I'll turn you into a flat kitty pancake!" Aria threatened.

"I guess I just put my past behind me, that's all." Said Kira with a huge smile.

Briar wasn't convinced that easily. He walked up to Kira and grabbed her. Then, he looked straight into her eyes. He saw the pain and torture she's been through.

"Ah-hah! So you use cheerfulness as a cover-up for your pain, right?" Briar asked.

"Ye." Kira couldn't continue. She had started to sob. Briar pulled Kira into his arms and comforted her.

"Good job, Sherlock Homes." Aria remarked.

"I didn't mean to make you cry." He said while patting her on the back.

"Now I know! He used those very same words on our very first date!" Aria shouted happily.

"What?" Kira sniffed.

"He told me to meet him under my window at midnight on our date, too. Just like he whispered in my ear ten minutes ago." Aria explained.

"Oh." Kira stopped crying, but she was still in Briar's arms.

"I'm still not going." Aria said abruptly.

"Yes, you ARE going!" Kira said with a sly smile.

That's when Niko walked in. (He has very bad timing, and so does Frostpine.) Niko looked from Briar to Kira and then, to Aria.

"What's going on here?" Niko asked when he saw red-eyed Kira in Briar's arms.

"Err." Briar began.

"I was looking for Aria's ring and I tripped over Briar. I landed on my arm and I think I sprained it. It hurt. a lot. That's why I cried. Briar was just trying to comfort me. Want me to show you how much it hurt? I can sprain your arm for you if you want." Kira said the last part with a big four-year-old smile.

"That won't be necessary, but thank you for the . offer." Niko said while walking out. He didn't want a sprained arm.

"Nice save, Kira!" Briar praised.

"Whohoo!" Aria cheered.

"The four year old thing gets them every time." Kira answered. The three of them started to bellow in laughter.

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It was night at last. Aria didn't want to go meet with Touga, but Kira pushed her out the door of the cottage.

"Let me in! Let me in!" Aria shouted as she banged on the door.

"Nope! Not until you meet with him." Said Kira with a sly grin.

"The least you can do is come with me."

"I am. I'll be above you in the window."

Aria started to whine. She walked to their window. Touga was standing there already. When she looked up, she saw Kira looking very bored. Aria chuckled to herself.

"I didn't think you would come, Aria." Touga said.

"I have no choice. I was forced to come by a so-called-friend!" She yelled the last part.

Kira almost fell out of the window laughing. Then, she glared at Aria with her arms crossed for almost making her land on top of Touga like Briar.

"Can I go now?" Aria whined.

"No, I want to talk to you." Touga replied sternly.

"Bye, bye!"

"Oh no you don't!" Touga grabbed her arms.

"Harsh!" Kira thought-spoke to Aria.

"Shut up and help me maybe?"

"No, I'm enjoying this one." Kira answered with another annoying smile.

"Can you at least listen to what I have to say?" Touga asked annoyingly.

"Make it snappy." Aria's face went from soft to a harsh stone mask. " I don't have time for more of your lies, so make it good!"

"Well. How have you been?" Touga started.

"Oh please, if this all that you have to say to me, I am outta here!" Aria was about to try her luck attempts to leave.

"Please stay with me tonight. I miss you." Touga said with a gleam in his eye. That made her shiver. She backed up. She looked up to Kira. Kira looked back a little worried.

"You are scaring me." Aria warned. "Are you sure I can't leave?" Aria pleaded with Touga.

"Why are you in such in a hurry to leave?" Touga asked. "Are you afraid of me? The night is still young."

This was getting to Aria. She looked around for help. Or. anything to hit Touga with. Anything to get him out of this weird state. Aria looked at Kira. Kira had decided to drop a ball of ice at Touga.

"Isn't that dangerous?" Aria asked Kira.

"I won't make it too hard. I'm sure his skull's thick." Kira replied with a sly grin.

"He he he." Aria thought. That made Aria even laugh out loud. Kira dropped a big heavy ice cube on top of Touga's head. Touga gets knocked out.

"Smooth, what now?" Aria asked Kira.

"Just get up here." Kira told her laughing. Aria flew up and into their room. They both got changed for bed and fell asleep.

Then, Dios snuck into their room. He snooped around for a while. Then, he spotted the necklace that would prove that Aria was the princess. He took it. Just like taking candy from a baby, he thought to himself. Dios snuck back out.

When he was in the hall, Daja saw him. She decided to follow him to see where he was going. She followed him to his room in the inn.

"Now, the princess can be brought back to her country." Dios said to himself. "And I'll get a handsome reward."

After hearing this, Daja ran back to Discipline to tell the others. It can wait till tomorrow, though. She thought to herself.