Wait, why are we going home? We haven't stopped by Dawn's house yet. Akito said.

Too tired, I lied.

Fine switch over and I'll go.

You can't ride ATs.

I'll walk then. I sighed at this. Why was he like this?

Akito, why does she even talk to us? I asked.

Because we're her friends, friends talk to each other. He answered simply.

Friendships also benefit from one another and she's not getting a damn thing form us! Akito stayed silent for a minute.

Is this about the tuner the other kings have been telling you to get?

What the fuck? Shit. Why the fuck would I worry about that?

I told you, even if you haven't realized it your self, you like Dawn. You wouldn't want her to get the wrong idea by having a tuner.

Why the fuck would she even care? She doesn't even have a fucking reason to hang around us.

Maybe she is gaining something.

What the fuck in her perfect little life would she be gaining from us?

Well, maybe it's our company. Think about it. Have you ever seen any sign that she has any friends her own age or that she goes out, besides giving out the sweets? I didn't have an answer for that. It really never looked like she did anything besides bake and ride ATs. Why didn't Akito get it? It wasn't good for her to hang around us; she would just get board and leave.

Why are we still going home? Akito asked. He thought he won the fight.

I told you, I'm tired. Tired of thinking of how perfect she was.

Why can't we go see Dawn? Akito demanded.

It's only been three days and you're already whining? It's not like she needs us or something.

Shut up, you're just scared to see her cause you're getting a tuner tomorrow! Suck it up and just tell her that you love her and that no tuner could ever get between you!

Where the fuck did that come from?

You're right; you have to admit to your self that you like her before you think of telling her that you love her.

On what fucking planet have you been for the past month? I don't fucking-

You can't say it. Akito grinned after a few seconds. You can't say you don't love her.

Shut the fuck up. Damn it, what was happening?

If you love her, why are you staying away form her?

I told you, it's not like she needs us.

Oh, you're insecure about how she feels and you don't think you're good enough to be by her side. Akito paused for a second. I can see how you would think that. She read the manual in about a minute, won a match with out ATs, has about a hundred emblems now and can cook. That's very intimidating.

See she doesn't need-

Dawn has her flaws too though. The thing with the heights, there must have been something to cause that. And there are the flashes. What exactly is there that she doesn't want to remember? Dawn isn't perfect Agito, you don't need to be scared.

Who the fuck is scared? She'd be happier with out us and even if she wants to be with us now she might get tired of us later.

Us us us, we're talking about you! Dawn talks to you twice as much as she talks to me and she shows more emotion when you're there! She is herself around you! You're just too blind from self pity to see it!

I don't fucking pity! I'm doing what's best for her!

You're doing what you assume is best for her! Don't you think she should have a say in this?

So how the fuck am I going to say that? Dawn, I'm in love with you but I don't want to be around you because it could possibly put you in danger, what do you want to do? Like fuck I could say that to her face. SHUT THE FUCK UP! Akito was laughing at me. He was fucking laughing at me!

Sorry, it's just I didn't think you would admit you liked her so soon. That was too funny!

So you think this is just a fucking game? If we didn't stay in the same body I would kick your ass!

No, it's not a game, he said finally having stopped laughing.

So what the fuck do I do?

Have you ever thought of making her fall in love with you?

XXX

Tool Toul To was located in the middle of town, It was a nonprofit organization to assist the kings and those unfortunate enough to not have the money to buy parts, at least that's what the intro said. I still had no idea what I was supposed to do.

There were three girls that I would work with, Kelly, the name said everything, Milly, Dark brown hair and always had something to do, and Midori, her favorite color was green.

"It's not much," Kelly said.

"You're just filling in because we don't have anyone else free," Milly said, her nose nearly touching the page of a book she was reading.

"Yeah, but what am I doing?"

"Um, well, tuning," Kelly said reluctantly.

"Tuning?"

"Tuning is synchronizing a king with his regalia. To tune a tuner must listen to a person's biorhythm. To do this the tuner must have knowledge of how ATs work and have extremely good hearing. Also a tuner may only tune one person-"

"We don't have anyone left so that's why we need you," Kelly piped up.

"-because it is said that a tuner and a king share a bond greater than friendship, loyalty, and even lovers," Melly said.

"So you want me to tune a king," I said not really caring. "How do I tune?" I asked. Kelly looked overjoyed.

"Okay change into this first!" she said dragging me behind one of those paper walls, that you saw in old movies, to change.

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"I'm glad you agreed to this. Tuning will increase your power greatly," Spitfire told me.

"I'm only doing this because I want you guys to shut up. I'm more powerful than most of the kings, I don't need a fucking tuner." I told him. How the fuck was I going to explain this to Dawn?

"Wait, where do you think you're touching?" I heard someone say. They were projecting their voice without really yelling.

"They said that your tuner would be new, I guess that's her."

"So I'm stuck with someone that doesn't know what the fuck their doing." I said as we entered the main room. I saw Kelly try to pull some one out from behind the screen.

"It's see through!" the girl protested. Why the fuck did her voice sound so familiar? Oh, please God, don't do something stupid!

"Fine, it's not like we're tuning now any way," Kelly said handing the girl a large towel. When she came out I didn't know whether to curse god or thank him.

"You're tuning the Fang King," Kelly told her. She nodded and looked at me.

"Well it could have been someone I didn't know," she said sounding a bit relived.

"So you would have tuned anyone as long as they had asked you?" I asked her.

"Father told me to come here, so I didn't have a choice in the matter, but at least it's you." She said.

"I heard some rumors that said a newbie was hanging around you Agito," Spitfire said.

"She can't be classified as a newbie any more. She's only been riding for a month but she has at least a hundred emblems. Dawn wouldn't have a problem fighting in A class, well one problem,"

"A class is the balloon right? Yes that would be a problem for me," she was speaking like she was deep in thought.

"What would the problem-"

"Okay time to start tuning, so Spitfire, out, now!" Midori said, pushing Spitfire out.

"You sure you're okay with this Dawn?" I asked.

"You saw me jump in the dress I wore to the funeral right? There really isn't much to see after you've seen that," she shrugged. It looked like she was being too damn modest from the way that towel clung to her.

XXX

It was hard to keep my breathing steady but somehow I did. He was lying on my chest! He was lying on my chest when I was wearing a see through, skin tight, fabric specially made for tuning! At least he was kind enough to close his eye when I dropped the towel.

"Mind telling me what I'm laying on?" he asked. The nerve!

"Don't ask things you don't want to know," I said. Crap, was I blushing?

"Okay we're going to start things up now, better get comfy, tuning can last up to three days!" Kelly said happily. No one seemed to want to tell me anything today.

When everything was ready, I listened to Agito's heart beat and them focused on the sound of his blood flowing. I focused on his muscles and then his nerves. After what seemed like ages I started to listen to what seemed like his mind. I could separate him from Akito, but there was something else there, something more violent. I opened my eyes and gave the computer on my left the commands for tuning the Fang regalia. I closed my eyes again and found the "Third Person". I tried to get him to come out. Didn't he want to see the light? When I couldn't get him to come, I gave up and opened my eyes again. "Done," I said. The girl's eye's widened.

"Wow, how long was that?" Melly asked.

"About ten minutes," Kelly answered.

"No way! On her first time?" Midori said.

"Okay you can get dressed now!" Melly called. Agito lifted his head off my chest and faced me. I felt my face get hot.

"How was it?" he asked quietly.

"I finished in five minutes," I said, slipping out from under him.

XXX

What the hell did she mean by that?

She might be interested in you. That's good; she's your tuner so you can't push her away now! Akito said happily.

It's more embarrassing now that I looked at her.

You looked? Akito asked out raged.

She knows every detail of my body and them some!

But Dawn is a girl! And by some of your thoughts, a very…well developed one.

Shut up.

XXX

Agito and I didn't talk about our tuning session. Apparently that kind of behavior was only acceptable when in Tool Toul To. Not that I minded, it wasn't a subject that I really wanted to talk about. I mean, I knew I had a fairly decent body but because of Mother there wasn't a tailor in the world, male or female, that didn't know my three sizes. You would think I would be a little less shy, but no, I just had to blush like a silly little school girl! I was so glad when he didn't get the wrong idea by what I had said at the end. I was going to say I finished in five minutes because I found someone else beside you and Akito in your body. But he was looking dead at me and I freaked and ran! I am so stupid!

I just had to get some air. Thinking about this was going to make me skittish. I traded my T-shirt for a black camisole and kept my capri's. I put on my ATs and opened the balcony door. It was still too early for Agito to be out. The sun was setting and the May heat still clung to the air. I closed the door and jumped down from the balcony, not bothering to close my eyes for such a short distance. I was getting better with heights, mostly because of Agito's constant nagging when I couldn't do a trick because my eyes were closed. "Then keep them fucking open!" he would say.

I took a course I rode often. I was familiar with it and it was mostly shaded. Down the second ally, about a mile into the course, I was stopped by a dog. It was growling at me and barking loudly. I was surprised because I knew the dog. "Shhh, Lily, it's just me." Wait, if Lily was here then so was- I rode away as fast as I could, the headache already forming. I was caught after I had climbed on to the top of a building. He had one arm around my waist and the other around my shoulders. He rested his chin on my shoulder and whispered my name.

"Nagihiko," I said back.

"I'm so happy, we can fly together now!" he said. The bond between us was forming again, just by knowing he was there.

"No," I could feel him frown at my reply.

"Why not? You're not scared of the sky anymore, besides, we're twins!" he finished happily. Then he started to repeat the poem he had sent me. I wished for the first time since I was five that I could cry.

XXX

Who do you think that is? Akito asked. He was looking at the guy that had his arms around Dawn. He was whispering something into her ear. I'd never seen her disturbed before. She was gripping the guy's arm so hard her nails were bypassing the skin and drawing blood. She started to whisper something along with the guy, and then her eyes got wide from either fear of disbelief.

"No," she screeched. Her voice made me flinch. I had never heard her raise it before and now I knew why, it was terrifying. To think just her voice could make you flinch.

"I have my own wings, so let me fly!" she yelled. She was struggling to get away form the boy. When he only held her hand, her back started too glow and she grew wings.

"What the fuck?" I muttered. She had grown real wings, white with fluffy feathers; they spread out about four feet on each side. An angel. Agito whispered. She didn't look like an angel; you could see something behind her face that took away the glow an angle should have.

I felt the wind as she moved her wings. The boy let go of her hand and called her name. She disappeared into the clouds but the boy followed as if he knew where she was going. I followed the boy. I was surprised that I could keep up. Dawn's tuning really had brought me more power.

XXX

Before I knew it I was over a river. That was the perfect place. Nagihiko couldn't follow me into the water. I heard my name. I turned around to see a bridge was behind me and Nagihiko was on it. I hadn't flown as fast as I thought I had.

"Dawn, we are twins. We share the same soul. Our freedom is only with each other," he said breathing heavily. He wasn't going to let me go without a fight.

"No, that look you give me, the one I see when my blood is spilt, the one I ran from that night, it isn't freedom, its just a cage," The pity in his eyes, it showed that we weren't equal, like twins should be.

"You're walking into a cage by leaving! Those bloody wings aren't taking you to freedom!"

"I know. I've been bitten and dragged in to the deepest and darkest part of the ocean." Where I will remain for as long as I can.

"Just because you can breath-"

"No, although it may be tainted red, I can see the sky from there. In the cage you built for me, there was only darkness. It felt like the bars were touching my skin and doing everything to crush me. In this new cage, I can't even see the bars. If I can't see the bars, is it really a cage?" I could feel the retaliation coming. This would hurt, I had used a lot of power, but it was worth it. If I could make Nagihiko understand, it was worth my heart being ripped out, again.

"Jewel, we are twins, we belong to each other," My eyes widened in horror. To think Nagihiko would say that, the one thing that could rip me to shreds.

"I'm not a jewel! You can't own me and keep me in an iron case forever!" I yelled at him. "That's why I'm not Jewel any more," I whispered. If I wasn't jewel, I wasn't the other half of Naighiko. I had made myself whole, I had created another soul one of my own, because I was Dawn.

XXX

It looked like blood had exploded from her, but it was just spraying from the gashes that had suddenly appeared. What happened? Akito yelled. He was worried for her. I couldn't blame him, with the amount of blood she was loosing. I was strangely calm for some reason, like I knew that nothing would kill her.

"No matter how blood stained my wings are I will still be able to fly," she said. Then her wings disappeared and she fell into the river. I watched to see if the boy would go after her but he just turned around and started to walk away. "What the fuck, all this and he won't go after her?" I growled.

I jumped down from the top of the building I had been watching from, and took off my ATs. I dove in after her. She had almost touched the bottom when I found her. The current didn't seem to have any effect on her and when I touched her I couldn't feel it either. She was incredibly light as well, I had look down to make sure she was still in my arms. When I finally got her out of the water, I saw that she was breathing normally, like she was taking a nap. Also besides for the rips on her clothes, there was no sign of the gashes. Her clothes are dry. Akito said. They were.

"What the fuck do we do now?" I asked him.

Okay, this chapter was why it was rated T. I did my best to keep my imagination to a minimum during those parts. I've stayed up for about 18 hrs so I want to sleep now, that means I don't have any of the next chapter written but I know what I want to happen. I did my best on some of the internal fights between Agito and Akito. I don't know where to fit this in the story so I'll say it here. Akito pushed Agito to realize his feelings because he loves (not like that) Dawn and has accepted her as a sister. Also her becoming his tuner is what really stopped him from pushing her away, he is waiting and hoping that she will fall for him and save him the trouble of confessing. Okay that's all I'm giving away! Next chapter will be a real tear jerker, but first review and let me sleep for about 12 hours cause I need it! I hope you enjoyed this chapter!