Asuka walks into their bedroom after a few hours of last minute grocery shopping, wanting to sleep off the stress. But when she sees two wrapped gift boxes on their bed, she runs to them with a renewed vigor. She barely reads the note from Jin about being proud for training hard, that the gifts are something for her to wear at the tournament, and that he excused that staff for tonight because he has something important to show her outside. All she needs to know is that the gifts are for her.

She rips through the small gift box first and smiles when she sees it contains a beautiful pair of red heeled sandals.

"Oh my goodness."

She marvels at them for a moment. Then she puts them on and is happy they are a perfect fit. She walks like a model in front of their full sized mirror, her hand is on her hip and her cheeks sucked in. She laughs at herself before jumping back on the bed and tears through the large gift box.

She gasps at the modified geisha dress that's inside. She lifts it up and is amazed at the design: a black kimono with a white web motif, it has only a left sleeve to leave the right arm uncovered, the kimono is held together by a long red sash, and there is a blue braided cord that would go around her hip as a nice finishing touch. She screams with excitement.

She stands up in front of the mirror, puts the dress against her body, and is forming ideas on what to do with her hair. She screams with excitement again.

She carefully puts the dress down on the bed, exchanges the heels for her sneakers, and hunts down Jin.

She runs outside, closing the back door behind her. She ignores that it's raining, she's too excited to worry about her long sleeve shirt and her dirty pair of blue jeans; she should have put them in the laundry today anyway. She just hopes he's not too afraid when she jumps him like a savage animal.

"Jin!"

"I'm glad you liked your gifts."

"Where are you?" Asuka smiles as she tries follow his voice through the darkness until the automatic porch lights turn on. She sees him stand up from the bench near the garden. She takes a step closer, wondering why he's wearing a fur jacket.

But as he continues to stand it parts. She stands in place as he slowly steps into the porch light. When she sees that he has black wings on his back, her mouth is open from the shock. His skin is pale and yet unaffected by the cold of the rain. He immediately hides his claws under his wings as soon as she looks at them.

She sees past his long white horns on his head and looks into his sad red eyes as he says in a rough voice, "This is why I fight. I'll understand if…you'll leave me now."

Jin simply turns his back to her. But despite her fear, she walks to him, wraps her arms around his waist, and places her head against his cold, wet, damp skin. A song that has been stuck in her head for a week now seems to make sense. She sings to him softly Fake Wings by Yuki Kajiura.

After she sings, she asks simply, "If you can't find comfort in my love, then I'll leave."

As the rain continue to pour down on them, she tears and her heart skips a beat when she feels him hold her hands carefully and lovingly.