Ahem… This chapter is like… uh… yeah… I have no idea what I'm writing half the time anymore… So, enjoy my pointless typings of random crap…!

Remember the Times...

Chase had told Kimiko she needed to pull herself together; he was right. Crying about her situation wasn't helping anything. She needed to figure out how she was going to get home without killing everything.

Kimiko rubbed her red eyes again. Chase got to his feet and looked down at her for a little while.

"You know… it's strange…" she said softly, looking up at him, "I hated you so much back then… Now… I was so happy to just see you again… It was like you and I were never enemies…"

Chase watched her as she spoke. He smirked and turned away from her as he said, "I don't find it strange at all… You'd rather have the company of an evil person, rather than the company of no one at all…" Chase had walked to a plant in his palace, plucking a flower from it. He walked back over to her and tucked it behind her ear. "Perfectly natural…" he finished, positioning the flower in her hair.

Kimiko felt her cheeks heat up as Chase put the flower in her hair; he was being so kind. And when Chase ran his fingers behind her ear, moving her hair back, Kimiko couldn't resist him any longer.

Kimiko moved her head forward just enough for their lips to meet. Chase seemed shocked; his eyes widened. Kimiko ran her tongue along his lower lip; she didn't understand why she felt this way towards Chase all of a sudden, all she knew was she needed him to feel the same way.

Chase pulled his head away from her. Kimiko looked sad, disappointed, and hurt. He was rejecting her?

She stared at him, her eyes showing all of her emotions to him; Chase stared at her for a little while longer, before he got up.

"You…" he spoke, he had stopped, he was trying to find the right words that wouldn't make her start crying again, "you shouldn't get so attached to me… When you go back… things will be just as they had been before. I won't be able to remember any of this… And you'll need to forget as well…" Chase had turned away from her again, staring down into the pool of water as he spoke.

Kimiko felt tears well up in her eyes, but she swallowed back her sorrow; he was right. She couldn't fall for him like this; none of it would be this way when she returned home.

But a question rose in her throat. She found herself asking before she could stop herself.

"What if I don't want to forget?"

Chase turned to her, his eyes wide again.

He swallowed and stated slowly, "You will have to…" she looked sad again, but Chase continued, "You won't have any choice…"

Kimiko started to protest, but Chase held up a hand to silence her. "Back in that time… I… I would use it against you… I would betray your trust… Back then I'd… I'd break you…" he stated, his eyes cold, but his voice portraying how he felt.

Kimiko blinked a couple of times, a single tear rolling down her cheek. Chase knelt down and wiped the tear away with his thumb.

"How will I get home?" she asked, not trying to hide the blush that rose to her cheek at his touch.

Chase sighed. He stood up again and began pacing. He muttered to himself as he did. "Sands of Time… No… Didn't use those to get here… Tiger Claws… Mmm… No… Freezing yourself would only send you further…"

Kimiko watched Chase pace back and forth; she was trying to think of a way to get home too. What if she didn't go back? What if they sent someone else?

She voiced her opinion to Chase, "What if you went back and unfroze me?"

Chase stopped dead. He turned his head to her and said softly, "That might work…"

Kimiko smiled; she had been helpful! Chase was trying to figure out how this would work out. He sat beside her and asked her how she thought it should work. Kimiko suggested he take the Sands of Time and the Star Hannabi and unfreeze her and then just return to his normal time. Chase thought about that.

"No…" he said softly, "The Star Hannabi was destroyed by Hannibal hundreds of years ago…" Kimiko's face fell.

"Well that won't help much…" she grumbled. Kimiko continued trying to think, but eventually her mind wandered to memories she had of the past. She remembered how fun it had been to spend every day with Omi and the others. She remembered how angry she got when they stole her PDA; she felt terrible about it now. She wished she had gotten to spend more time being nice to them. She had always been angry. She wished she had been kinder; like Raimundo had been. He had always been kind to her.

Kimiko remembered how much she had hated Chase back then. She never fully understood why she had felt such a burning hatred for him. Was it just because he was evil and she was good? Kimiko tried remembering when they had first met Chase. When she first laid eyes on him.

She had felt hot when she saw him for the first time. She had felt her skin tingle at the very sound of his voice. She felt weak when those golden eyes had first been placed upon her.

That was why she had hated him so very much; Chase made her feel weak. She had such a burning passion for him that she had to cover it with hate. In actuality, Kimiko had been in love with Chase back then, but she had been too frightened to show it. If she had admitted her feelings, the guys would have labeled her a traitor and Chase might not have even accepted her.

Wait. Kimiko opened her eyes, wider than necessary. She knew a way for this to work out!

She turned to Chase, it was time to get this plan into action; it was time for Kimiko to go home.

This story is going to be very short. Five, six chapters at best. I just wanted to give it a shot. You know? Try my hand at the wheel…