Trying to calm her pounding heart from the flurry of emotions that she had felt after seeing Cain with another woman and battling head to head with him in a libidinous struggle of dominance, Kyoko longed for a quiet retreat and was glad for the long hallway that held the locations of the toilet facilities and also lead to the back entrance of the night club.

Thinking that some fresh air would help sooth away her inner conflicts and clear her thoughts, she stepped outside and unknowingly into the middle of an argument between two very large men.

In stunned horror, Kyoko watched as one of the large men lifted a heavy fist and swung at the other who instantly dodged the attack and she felt an instant crushing pain explode across her thoracic when his strong fist landed on the side of her rib cage instead, sending her hurling towards the brick wall of the building where she lost all consciousness.

Cain had been quietly following several feet behind Setsu as she walked through the long hallway before he lost sight of her when she stepped through the door. Quickening his footsteps he ran towards the door and he opened it in time for him to see a large man swinging a punch at his petite sister. And a storm of anger swept over him before he could even control himself.

Stepping up towards the two men, Cain threw himself at them in his uncontrollable rage. Pounding at one to the point of unconsciousness, he lifted himself up and walked stealthily towards his second target who after seeing the bloodied massacre that had been left by Cain took off sprinting down the alley.

Without any hesitation, Cain instinctively ran after him. It was at that point that Setsu regained her consciousness and seeing Cain take off after the man who had accidently hit her, she shouted after him to stop, as she lifted her aching frame from the ground and began to half run and half jog, in a desperate chase after her brother.

All thoughts of her prior anger towards Ren disappeared as she began to worry over his state of mind instead. Hoping she could prevent him from losing his mind in another senseless fight.

Having begun to grasp the internal struggle that Ren was fighting within himself, Kyoko did not want this misunderstanding to spin him out of control to a point where it would usurp even his own consciousness.

Since her act as Setsu had begun, she had been consciously aware of the subtleties within Ren whenever he got into a fight and noticed his tendency to lose control of himself.

She was even able to identify with these kindred emotions that were born from an intense negative energy, as hers was being driven by hatred, such as when she lost herself, unable to control her emotions because of Sho and had wanted to strangle him during the filming of the 'Prisoner' P.V.

While Ren's had something similar that was hiding deep within him, though it was more like another self existed, which she had gathered when President Lory had vaguely suggested over the phone when he mentioned the possibility of Ren battling himself. But this other self of Ren, could quickly emerge with the landmine of any such words like 'true cold hearted bloodthirsty murderer' and exploded when he found himself in any form of a physical battle.

Needing to stop him from making a big mistake with his career over an incidental and non-significant occurrence, Kyoko set aside her own personal conflicts with Ren and increased her pace as she hurried along through the dark alleyway that seemed to stretch on forever until it finally ended onto a busy street.

Her heart was racing in worry, desperation and another vague emotion that was beginning to stem from somewhere deep within her. With the fear of being too late to stop his aggression, she continued to race into the middle of the busy road having not stopped running since the alleyway, and having not paid any attention to her surroundings.

But her eyes widened in surprise when she finally realised she was standing in the middle of the street, and it was at that moment that her body came into contact with an oncoming car that was swerving even as it hit her. Her last conscious thoughts were of wanting utterly to help Ren to the point where she was even resigning and willing to sacrifice her own life. And where she once had willing lived only for Sho, she was now willing to die only for Ren.

Cain was already across the street and was gripping the shirt of the now unconscious runaway assailant when he heard a loud commotion behind him as a car came to a tire burning and screeching stop. Spinning around instantly, the color of his face paled and an icy chill crept up his spine.

As if in slow motion, he watched in silent horror, as Setsu's delicate frame was hit by the side door of a swerving and oncoming car and she was thrown several feet down the street. He could hardly move as he saw her body land with a loud 'thump' into a placid heap and blood began pouring eerily from beneath her small stilled body, staining the already dark cement even darker.

The image was familiar to what he had once witness and triggered a cold dark abbess from deep within him to take form. Like a bottomless blackness that could blot out and completely dissolve everything in despair it threaten to take him back to that moment, when Rick's death mingled with Tina's frantic screams echoed once again within him, pulling his consciousness away.

If only you did not exist!

This is all your fault!

You murderer!

A clingy freezing coldness climbed up his body and Ren began to submerge into the blackness echoing Tina's words, before he began to vanish. Unable to step forward or retreat backwards, he was held imprisoned and completely unable to move as he once again became embedded into that icy darkness, withering and disappearing into its freezing layers.

Somewhere in the envelop of the darkness a soft whimper penetrated, tearing through to the suspended Ren like a beam of light as if someone was extending a hand down towards him. Freeing him from the decaying darkness, it help push him back into consciousness and Ren's eyes widened in reaction as he labored to break free from the chilling darkness that had almost left him completely catatonic and trapped within there.

His movements were slow as he fought to disentangle himself from the coldness that surrounded and gripped at him. But as his heart tore out of his chest in denial of the restrictive black abyss, consciousness gradually flooded back into his mind, enabling him to take another step towards the fallen body of his love.

Then as another whimper sliced through the night, a fullness of consciousness returned instantly to Ren, slamming him back to reality and escalating his body into motion. Running frantically over towards Kyoko's broken body Ren fell to his knees on the ground and trembling in fear he reached out shaky hands tenderly towards her fallen form. While cradling her motionless cold frame in his arms, Ren cried for the first time in over a decade.

"No!" he screamed as pain ripped through his soul at seeing her limped body. He looked into her closed eyes with tears running down his face as he searched her serene face for any signs of life. His body turned cold and ached severely over the stillness within his arms.

"No!" he cried again, shaking his head in denial as he clung desperately to her frightfully quiet form. His hot tears pouring down over his face and falling onto her pale translucent skin. Feeling like his entire form was ripping apart and unable to stop himself from trembling in anguish as he rocked her body against his own, he was willing to offer up his own soul in exchange for her life.

Looking up into the dark sky, Ren silently begged, "Please God, not her too. You already have Rick, please don't take her too. Take me instead. Just don't take her. I promise I will never hurt another person again. Just don't take her."

He let out a heart wrenching groan of sorrow as he pleaded with the heavens in desperation. His own body clenched up in so much agony that he was barely able to cope with his new found sanity and he longed for his own death as long as she would go on living.

"Please, please, please," he continued to shed tears of pain as he buried his wet face into the side of her neck.

"Not her too!" he repeatedly wept soulfully, until he heard her take a soft breath. His heart thumped heavily in his chest as he listened intensely for another sound from her. Lifting his head to look into her face, he searched desperately for a reaction. And with the faintest whisper, her breath broke through in a small sigh, as blood came spilling out of the corners of her mouth.

Trying to cox her away from death, he whispered heartbrokenly into her ears, "Don't leave me, now that I've found you again, please don't go anywhere."

Every part of him was suffering in severe pain at the thought of her dying, as he watched for her face to acknowledge him. To even see a small flinch or crease cross her face would have sent joy into his hurting heart but still she remained motionless, as her blood continued to seep out from her delicate mouth.

"Kyouko, please don't leave me, I am nothing without you and I have been nothing until I found you again…Kyouko, it's me Corn, your childhood friend… please don't leave me," he urged brokenly at her quiet form and paused to see if she would register his admission. But when she continued to remained quiet and still, his shoulders shook from the dam of emotions pouring out from his inner being, as tears continued to fall down his sorrowed face.

Crying despairingly as he finally spoke the words that had been deeply buried in his heart, tenderly into her face, "I love you. I love you. I love you, please come back. Don't go anywhere. Don't leave me. I don't want to live without you!"

"Please, don't die!" he begged her as he continued to cradle her limp and bloodied body, even as the ambulance pulled up towards them.

A/N: Hi everyone! Hope you enjoyed this chapter as this was the chapter I wanted most to write.

I often believe that life is a classroom where you have to repeat your tests until you pass. So, as most of you can tell, this is similar to Rick's death but I used a lot of 'Ren' instead of 'Kuon', hope it was believable!

For those interested, I researched not only the latest ch of SB but also ch 165-167 to create this.

I appreciate your patience, encouragements, support and all your reviews! Thanks again.