"Don't worry so much Amu," Tusk was currently trying to reassure Amu about Sera's wellbeing, "I'm sure she's enjoying her time with Yamato right now."

Amu bites her bottom lip and smooths her cellphone screen.

"Yamato isn't a bad guy at all," Tusk continues after seeing that Amu wasn't going to respond to him, "Actually, he's too much of a good guy that he fails to notice when a girl has a crush on him."

"That's not the point Tusk," Amu finally speaks up, "It's just that, Sera, she's living in japan alone and because of that, I just feel a bit over protective of her."

Tusk wraps an arm around Amu and pulls her into him, "Sera is fine," he repeats what he had said earlier, "Sera seems like a strong individual anyways. Plus, if she was uncomfortable about being left alone with a total stranger, she wouldn't have gone off with that stranger."

"I guess you have a point there," Amu points out. She clicks the sleep button on her phone and faces Tusk with a smile, "Sorry for being such a worry butt."

Tusk shakes his head and pinches Amu's nose, "it's fine. I understand why you'll worry about Sera so much," he gets up from the bench and offers Amu a hand, "now, how about that date that we both planned?"

Amu chuckles at Tusk's offer and reaches out to claps her hands in Tusk's, "Hai hai."

Sera yawns from exhaustion plus being tired. She falls back on the green grass and shuts her eyes, "The wind feels so nice," she hums out and smiles. Right now for some odd reason, Sera felt like everything was perfect. Her day with Yamato at Sensoji shrine was spectacular and she didn't expect herself to have so much fun, but she did and she enjoyed that part the most. Sera enjoyed how Yamato followed her throughout the shopping street at Sensoji Temple. She had ran from one place to another examining everything that each vendor had. The best part? Yamato didn't complain once about her running around like a child. For once in her life, Sera felt like she was a kid again. She opens her eyes and places a hand over her forehead.

"Felt like being a child agan…," she says softly.

Sera notices that with her personality and attitude, she's usually very self-cautious around strangers. She would not let her guard down and even when the said stranger wanted to purchase something nice for her, be it dinner or just a simple thank you gift for hanging out with him for the day, Sera would refuse the gift. But, if the stranger insisted on purchasing a gift so much, she would allow it but it would usually be something small and simple, nothing extravagant. Sera reaches into her purse and pulls out the small doll. Even though the small doll wasn't anything extravagant, somehow Sera felt happy and warm inside. She doesn't know why and she doesn't want to figure out why either. She drops the doll on her chest and shuts her eyes once more and continues on to think about her date so far with Yamato. Somehow with Yamato, Sera felt like she could completely be herself. She doesn't have to act strong or put up an invisible wall between her and Yamato. Something about Yamato made her feel like home, as if she came to visit Sensoji Temple with her family and not with a date. Her thoughts about Yamato leads her to compare her first date with Kyo. Their first date was a bit awkward, Sera had to admit, but maybe it was due to the fact that Kyo was a teacher assistant at her university and she wasn't about to get expelled for showing interest towards a teacher's assistant. But then again, Kyo isn't a teacher so the no dating between a teacher and a student doesn't apply to his status. But…yet then again, her first date with Kyo still made her nervous and she still had to put her up defenses just so that Kyo wasn't able to pursue anything further on that particular day. She also recalled that, when they went to get something to eat, she would offer to pay half and when Kyo denied her request, she pushed and pushed until he gave in. But with Yamato, all it took was a simple "It's okay, I got this" and a smile from those perfect lips made Sera sink back like a child waiting for their parents to buy them food. Sera takes in a deep breath and lets it out, wanting to block all the comparison that she was doing at the moment. She felt a bit bad that even though she and Kyo are talking, she had went on this double date and enjoyed it more than any dates that her Kyo had gone on. Was that wrong? Sera ponders. To enjoy something so much more over something that has been going on for a couple of months now. Sera had to also consider that she barely met Yamato earlier that week. So how is it possible that Yamato is able to make her feel like a child and just forget everything? Sera doesn't know and that worries her a lot.

With trying to block the thoughts racing like mad cows in her mind, Sera takes in another huge deep breath and allows herself to drift off to sleep slowly.

Sera awakens from her sleep and she immediately senses that there is something wrong with her surroundings. She felt that instead of lying on the green grass that she was lying on before drifting off to sleep, she was lying on something cold and wet…and white. She sprang up from her lying position and surveyed her surroundings. Somehow spring had turned into winter and up ahead was an oncoming furious snow storm. The angry gray clouds were rolling in along with thunder, lightning, and snow. Sera stands up from her sitting position and runs back towards Sensoji Temple to where Yamato was last seen before she had decided to go take a nice nap under a tree. Down the hill and into the shopping street, Sera sees Yamato paying for their foods. Seeing that Yamato was okay, Sera felt her heart relaxed a bit.

"He's okay," she whispered. Sera watched as Yamato turned towards her direction and waved at her with his free hand. He motions to the food then to his mouth and then back up to the tree where she was just at. Sera took that as "let's eat up there by the tree behind you" from Yamato. Sera nodded and was just about to walk down the rest of the way to Yamato when a shadow from behind Yamato emerges and immediately grapples him. Yamato dropped the foods and reached up to grab the arms of the shadow. He struggled to get some air into his lungs as he was being strangled by the shadow. His mouth opened to scream but Sera couldn't hear him screaming. Seeing that Yamato was being attacked, Sera's heart sunk and she immediately ran the rest of the way down to help Yamato. Just as she got closer to reach him, the shadow swallowed Yamato.

"What…," Sera said in disbelief…"what did you do to Yamato?!" she shouted at the shadow.

On the face of the shadow, an evil smirk appeared with no eyes and no nose, "What the old lady told you was true," the mouth said, "you should have never lose sight of him because after all, he is your light to your troubles," the right hand of the shadow lifted up and quickly grabbed Sera's neck, choking her. The shadow then pulled Sera in and the smirk became wider than before, "fool little girl," the mouth lets out a wicked screeching laugh, "you should have believed him."

Sera felt herself losing conscious as she watched the shadow in front of her continue to laugh.

"Sera!" a voice called out for her. Her body shook violently and immediately her eyes opens. A worried Yamato came into view. From behind him, the sky was clear with no clouds. She felt the sun shining down on her through the leaves of the trees. Sera immediately sat up and glanced around her surroundings. Everything was the same as before she dozed off. The trees were still green and so was the grass. She worriedly felt the grass around her and felt not sign of wet snow.

"Are you okay?" Yamato asks, giving her a worried look.

Sera glances back at Yamato and immediately cups his face in her hands, "No marks," she breathes out, examining Yamato's neck.

"Marks?" Yamato asks.

Sera lets go of Yamato's face and touched her neck as well, "Are there any marks on my neck? Like hand print marks?" she asks and Yamato shook his head. She finally lets out a sigh of relief and fell back onto the grass, "it was just a dream," she breathed out.

Yamato places the foods between them and took a seat beside her, "When I got here, you were thrashing back and forth as if someone was choking you," he says, "I was worried so I woke you up."

Sera smiles and turns to face Yamato, "Thank you Yamato," she says.

"No problem," Yamato tells her and hands a bread bun to her, "here let's eat, I'm sure you're starving by now," he says. Sera takes the bread bun from Yamato and began chomping it down.

"So, what did you dream about?" Yamato asks, grabbing a bread bun for himself as well. Sera recalls the dream that she had and then the elderly lady from before.

"Yamato," she says, "Earlier at the food vendor booth, did you notice an elderly lady beside me?" Sera asks.

"Hm?" Yamato turns to look at Sera with his mouth full, "Mm…nope," he answers.

"So was it my imagination?" Sera says to herself.

"What are you talking about?" Yamato asks.

Sera shakes her head and bites into her bread again, "Nothing. Just forget it," she says.

After a long fun day at Sensoji Temple, Yamato and Sera boarded the city bus to return to their meeting place with Tusk and Amu. Once again, they both took the seat at the very back of the bus but neither one exchanged any words. The both of them sat in silence with Yamato watching the scenery through the window and Sera staring at her right palm. Sera wasn't able to get the dream or the old lady out of her head. Was she going crazy? She thought to herself. Or maybe she was just exhausted and what the old lady said her somehow got into her dreams. But, this was the first time ever that Sera had a dream so realistic. She heaves out a sigh and closes her hand.

"There you guys are," Tusk says as he sees Yamato and Sera exiting the bus.

"Sera," Amu runs up to her friend and grabs her hands, "did you have fun?"

Sera nods.

"Goodie! I was a bit worried that you would be bored," Amu says and chuckles.

"Sera," Yamato calls from behind, "can…can I talk to you for a bit?" he asks.

Sera nods and follows Yamato a few feet away from their friends, "What's up?" she asks.

"Are you really okay?" Yamato asks, "Back there, you seemed a bit bothered."

"Um…I…,"

Before Sera was able to say anything else, Yamato immediately bows, "I'm sorry if I made you felt uncomfortable today," he quickly apologizes.

Sera looks at the bowed Yamato and then laughs, "Eh?" Yamato peeps and straightens his posture, "what are you laughing at?"

"Yamato, I had a lot of fun today," Sera says, "you made my day enjoyable and I loved it," she reaches into her purse and pulls out her phone, 'let's exchange phone numbers, maybe we can hang out again."

"Huh?" realizing what Sera was asking for, Yamato quickly reached for his cell phone too, "o…of course," he stammers.

"Seems like I won't have to worry about Kyo after all," Amu comments with a chuckle.

Sorry if this chapter was shorter than the previous one. I couldn't write long since I'm super duper tired from work and I'm wanting to go nap like right now. Hope you guys still enjoyed it~ until next time! Maybe after I wake up from my nape or something. lol.