Unrequited Love

Kapitel 9: Nostalgic Familiarity

A/N:So how do you guys like the revamped version?

Disclaimer: If I owned 07–Ghost, I would make sure to never end it! So…Yuki Amemiya, can I have it?


Kapitel 9: Nostalgic Familiarity

I walked around the church aimlessly. I was trying to find Teito, but so far had no success in doing so. I tried asking the people around the church, but they had just shrugged me off saying that they didn't know. One time, I had asked three nuns where Teito was, and their eyes sparkled. "Are Teito's girlfriend?" they asked keenly. I gave them a weird look. I was not ready to get involved in a romantic relationship, and probably never will; especially with Teito.

'Why are there so many corridors? I think I'm lost… it's like a labyrinth in here! Seriously, how will I find Teito?' I thought to myself in despair.

As I turned a corner, I bumped into someone and got knocked to the floor. I scowled and came face to face with a certain blonde bishop. He held out his hand to me and smirked.

"And what may a pretty lady such as yourself be doing on the ground?" he asked. I glanced and shied away from his hand, disgusted at his attempt of trying to flirt with me and stood up without his help. Realising he was probably my best bet to finding Teito, I reluctantly decided to ask him where the brunette was.

"Do you know where Teito is?" I asked him wearily.

"I think his in the library preparing for the exam," he replied.

"Exam?" I asked, confused.

"Yeah., for the bishop exam," he confirmed.

"Oh."

I turned around to leave go find Teito, also wondering why he would want to become a bishop, but after a few steps I realised something. I mentally face-palmed at my stupidity and I quickly ran around the corner again, just in time to see Frau already halfway down the corridor. I ran and clutched his robe. He turned around, eyes widened with surprise, but when he saw me, they softened. He chuckled.

"What do you want now?" he asked, putting up a gentleman act. I sighed and turned around, blushing with embarrassment.

"I don't know where the library is. Can you take me there?" I mumbled. He smirked triumphantly.

"Of course, what kind of gentleman would I be if I didn't?" he said. I rolled my eyes.

He started to lead the way and I followed. Later, we had ended up in front of the library's doors. They were big, smooth, polished oak ones, similar to the ones the military used. My heart ached as it reminded me of my grandfather. We entered the room and I scanned my surroundings, trying to commit them to memory. Frau tapped my shoulder and pointed to a study table in the corner. I looked at him in the eye, and saw a plan slowly forming as his eyes glinted mischievously. I was vaguely aware of what he was planning and was going to stop him before he could since we were in a library, but he did it before I could.

"BOO!" he exclaimed, jumping in front of the residents of the table. They were caught off guard and you could see the how alarmed they were because it was written all over their face. Teito turned red with embarrassment from being caught alarmed and resumed his signature angry faced. Frau smirked triumphantly at his success as I face-palmed in the background. I could feel the glares of the other occupants in the room piercing our backs, silently telling us to get out of there. Besides Teito, Bishop Labrador and Castor and a boy with blonde hair tied into a ponytail and purple eyes were also at the table.

"Yumiko!" Teito exclaimed when he saw me. Then he glanced at the blond sitting across him and decided to introduce us. "This is Hakuren."

I stared at Hakuren, wondering why he looked so familiar. He looked back at me and a smirk slowly formed on his lips.

"I know you cannot resist my beauty, but I must ask you to refrain from staring at me," he said, a tone of authority clearly detectable in his voice. Then it hit me. He resembled Shuri Oak, a lot. I looked at him and smiled a sarcastically polite smile.

"Oh sorry, it's just that you remind me of the idiots from the disgraceful Oak family," I told him. I could see the slight movement of his jaws clenching.

"Is that so? And may I ask what is so idiotic and disgraceful about them?" he asked, putting on a smile similar to my own. I remembered the military exam. And my smile broadened. I just couldn't help but poke fun at the Oaks since they were such a stuck-up family.

"Well, during the Barsburg empires military exam, halfway through the exam, Shuri Oak ran up to the examination room's window and started banging on it, pleading for help," I explained.

"Oh. And does that mean it effects the whole family?" he questioned me. I nodded.

"Of course it does. His actions affect the reputation of the entire family and reflect his terrible upbringing. His very actions tarnished the family name" I stated calmly. We paused and glared passively at each other, sparks of invisible lightning flashing and colliding between us.

"Um…..guys?" Teito said hesitantly. We snapped out of our glaring contest and focused it on him.

"Yes?" we asked in unison. He shuddered and looked at us nervously before continuing.

"You're causing a scene," Teito told us in a low sheepish voice. We looked around and calmed down, blushes creeping onto our faces due to all the unintended attention we were gaining.

"It's your entire fault!" I hissed at him.

"My fault? You were the one who started it!" Hakuren snorted. We glared at each other. Somebody separated us by pulling us apart.

"Now, now, stop your bickering," intervened Frau who was the one who stopped us. He gave us warning looks that were able to shut us up.

"You're lucky that Bishop Frau was here to help you," Hakuren grumbled.

'More like you were lucky Frau was here to help you,' I fumed.

"What was that?" I asked him, although I had actually heard.

"Nothing," he claimed quickly, just adding more suspicion to his claim. Everybody sat down in their spots on the table again. I pulled out the chair next to Teito and sat down, Frau doing the same on the other side. I looked at the bible Teito was reading and the others stacked in two piles around him.

Probably stacked in the categories of the ones he already read and the ones he hasn't.

I picked up the first volume and flipped to the first page casually. My eyes widened. This didn't go unnoticed by the others.

"Is there anything wrong Yumiko?" asked Castor. I didn't answer. I stared at the words written on the page. They were somehow familiar even though I had never read a bible before. I blinked a couple of times and shook my head before looking again to make sure that my eyes weren't playing tricks on me. I stared again, and this time, I knew I wasn't hallucinating. The words were slithering across the page, moving and forming different word than before. I snapped the book shut and put it down. I put my fingers on my temples and rubbed them in a massaging movement.

'That was weird,' I thought to myself.

"Yumiko?" Labrador questioned. I looked at him, his lavender coloured eyes locking with my carmine ones. I smiled weakly.

"Nothing's wrong. I just think I've read these bibles before, they seem awfully familiar," I told him. Castor arched his eyebrows.

"Well then, let's see if you have." He said with a smile. I nodded with an unsure look. I was pretty sure I'd never read them before in my life, but the words were familiar.

"…volume 20, chapter 3, "Into the sea…" Castor recited.

"About the sins and punishment of the fallen babel," I answered automatically. Everyone blinked; I did too, in surprise.

'How did I know that? I haven't even read these before and I am somehow able to finish off the sentence…' I wondered in puzzlement.

"Wow, it took me three years to remember all of these and I had the worst partner ever, but suddenly you and the brat come along and somehow know them, claiming that you think you've read them somewhere before! How do you do it? There must be some sort of trick!" complained Frau. I shrugged.

"I don't know. It suddenly popped into my head and out of my mouth," I supplied him hesitantly. I started to back away and ended up behind Teito with a look of uncertainty in my eyes.

"What's wrong?" Frau asked, confusion present on his face.

"Um, look behind you…" I trailed off. Frau slowly turned around and gulped.

That was how I found out that the horrible partner that Frau spoke of was Castor.


A/N: A light-hearted chapter to counter all the ones where Yumiko was going through emotional turmoil J