Whoohoo! chapter four is up! I'd like to dedicate this chapter to the wonderful kim-onka, without her reveiws I probably wouldn't have had the motivation to update this story.

I sat at the piano, my eyes closed tight, trying to remember the last note of my favorite song. It was unlike me to forget a note to any song let alone my favorite song! but somehow as hard as I tried I couldn't recall that one note.

I had virtually lived at the piano for the last week due to my injured left leg. Playing music was fun, and it kept me busy so no one could ask me about Fai. Speaking of Fai, I hadn't seen him since I had injured my leg; I wanted to see him, to hear his voice say my name. E! the last note of the song was E! I knew it was! Just to make sure, I played the last line of the song and it fit perfectly. I let out a sigh of relief, my forgetfulness was gone.

"Miyuki!" I heard Miss Elmara calling my name. "Miyuki, there's some one here to see you!"

I jumped to my feet, unfortunately, my left leg gave out and I fell to the floor. I let out a groan of humiliation, glad no one had seen me fall. I grabbed my crutch and hobbled over to where I heard miss Elmara's voice coming from.

"There you are, Miyuki!" I barely heard her voice; my eyes were focused upon the person behind her.

"Fai-san is here to see you." Elmara finished, immediately I felt ashamed that Fai had to see me injured, it wasn't just that, I had only just recovered from a cold, so I was still pale. Fai gave me a small bow.

"Hello, Miyuki-chan!" he said cheerfully.

"Greetings, Fai-san." I felt awkward around Fai, despite how much I had wanted to see him. Now I felt so shy with Fai, as if he were a stranger.

I decided to play the piano for him, since I felt too self conscious to make conversation. I started by playing a song I knew well, so the odds of me making a mistake were low, I played the piece slower than i usually do, so mistakes were practically impossible.

When I finished he applauded loudly, I was so nervous that his applause might make the other children notice his presence, but there was no one to be seen.

"Hyuuu!" he continued to applaud.

"Huh?"

"I can't whistle so I say hyuuu," Fai explained, I laughed. I felt less awkward now, like we were old friends; not that I would know what it's like to have old friends, Fai is pretty much the only friend I've ever had.

We broke into conversation, Fai seemed so cheerful that I didn't want to ask how he had escaped his fate for fear it would take his cheerfulness. It was so nice to finally be able to have a long conversation with him; I wished that he wouldn't ever leave me again.

"Time to go," Fai said abruptly.

"So soon?" I asked in dismay.

"I gotta go back to the castle," he explained "Ashura-ou will be waiting."

"Oh," I tried to hide my disipointment. "Good bye."

"Didn't I tell you? your coming back to the castle with me! Ashura-ou want to treat your leg." I was dumbstruck.

"R-really?"

"Yup!" Fai smiled, "come on, let's go!" He offer me his arm, I took up my crutch and stood up. "You won't be needing that," he said indicating my crutch, I was confused, how would I walk? "You don't like that crutch, do you?" he had practically read my mind. "I'll carry you so you don't need a crutch!" I smiled. We traveled to the palace via Fai's magic, he carried me piggy back style.

"Ashura-ou, this is Miyuki-chan." Fai told the king then dropped down into a low bow, I followed suite. King Ashura-ou was tall and he had a kind expression on his face, even though he was king I didn't feel a bit nervous around him like I often do when I meet new people.

"Show Miyuki-san to her room, Fai," Ashura-ou instructed. "I will treat her leg tomorrow morning."

Fai rose back up to his feet and once again lifted me on to his back, he gave the king one last respectful nod then began to climb a flight of stairs.

"Isn't it hard to carry me up all these stairs?" I asked once he was climbing the third set of stairs.

"Nah, this is the last flight any way," he replied cheerfully as we reached the top.

We entered a hallway with light blue walls and white carpet, there were four doors on each side of the hall, each painted with beautiful blue and white designs and silver door knobs.

Fai stopped at the second door at the right side of the hall. "This is your room," He announced as he opened the door. "I'm just across the hall, so don't be afraid to ask if you need anything."

He set me down on the bed in my room and said Ashura-ou needed him and left. The room was like my old room in Valeria, it had a white and gold canopy over the bed which had blue covers with elaborate designs on them. the walls were blue and the floor was white, there was a white doored closet in one corner of the room. That was when I realized it, this place was home. More of a home than any of the other places I had lived.

That's it for chapter four! please review!