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Aiko.

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Rei Hino. Haruka watched the priest moving slowly to her. She was surprised to meet a girl who looked younger than her and wasn't an old grey haired priest. She had heard about her and her youth but she was an Ewige and for that probably about 1000 years old. For Ewige a pretty young abbess but the blackhaired woman was born gifted and taught from that day to be an abbess someday however the blonde didn't know with what specific gift.

"Don't look like that! I do know that you're a girl and I'm not interested." Rei said serious staying just a few meters in front of the blonde who was eyeing her up and down.

"What I didn't…" She protested.

"I know, it was just a joke." She smiled. "I just wanted to loosen the situation. You looked really nervous and stiff. By the way you can call me Rei. I don't like this abbess and priestess stuff!" Harukas mouth stood open. Rei took a walk around the blonde and examined her. "You know if I wouldn't know that you're a girl…" Haruka felt the blackhaireds breath near to her right ear. "… I would love to…" She chuckled staying in front of Haruka. "… do some swordfights, but as a girl I think you're not as strong as you were before!"

"What? Who are you to assess me? I'm one of the strongest swordfighter!" The blonde protested.

"Oh you are!" She smirked. "For a half-blood indeed you are in the world of the humans, but as I said before you are not that strong as you were before."

"What does that mean 'before'? I haven't been this strong before as I am now!" And with that Haruka dragged her sword and attacked the priest and placed the knife near her neck.

Rei looked surprised but more of the blondes words than her movement. "I see. That's why you're here. You don't know yet." And with the last word the priest chipped the sword off and placed her own sword at the blonde's throat.

How many times do I have to have a knife at my throat? Haruka was amused by the repeating situation.

"That means you don't use it yet, do you?"

The swordsmith frowned. "What do I not know yet? I don't know what you mea…?" She inhaled sharply the moment she understood. "The amulet!"

The priest turned around and packed away her sword. "So that means you do have it, but don't use it and moreover you don't know about you and the amulet." Rei took a moment to think about the situation. "I've foreseen you're coming." She swirled around and twinkled. "As many times before. But that's 'your' first time!" She pointed with her index finger on the other woman. "Personally I have seen almost all of you except the one who died as a child and the first woman of you who was kept a secret and never was awakened. But believe me I have seen all of you in my dreams and no one looked as good as you, no female and no male one." Again the twinkle.

"What are you talking about?" The blonde shook her head in confusion.

"Don't you have dreams of your past lives yet?" A black brow rose.

Haruka looked unknowable at first but the next moment she remembered all the dreams and the hints she had in her life especially when she got the amulet and intuitively she grabbed for it. "The amulet."

Rei nodded smiling. "You are a reincarnation and if I counted right you are all in all the ninth but the third woman of them. The amulet belongs to you and your former ones, it's hiding your true strength." The priest was overcharged. "Actually everyone of your past lives came here with the knowledge of themselves. I know Hotar sent you but I can't tell you more. I'm not allowed to. You have to get to know it by yourself. I can only advise you to get to the bottom of yourself with the help of the amulet and come back when you know how to use it and your training here will begin!"

Haruka was speechless and shook her head to wake up. "And that was all? So just tell me of who I am the reincarnation!"

The priest waged her head. "You know the answer already. Somewhere deep inside it's waiting to be found by yourself. So Haruka, I'm sorry but I'm not allowed to tell you. Your past belongs to you. But I can tell you it's at least not only your own past, it is also connected to someone else past who you get to know really soon. And the most important girl linked to your lives you've met already." And with that Haruka saw the last twinkle of Rei for that day when the priest vanished behind the altar. "Come back when you know who you are and I'll tell you for what you already came here today!"

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"The princess of Nepta, Michiru Kaioh." A servant introduced the aqua haired woman to her brother who sat in a richly decorated stool at the other side of the entrancehall.

The duke of Odenwald had the same hair color as his youngest sister. They were cut short and matched his blue ceremonial uniform perfectly. All in all he looked like 35 but his real age was almost 4300 years old. He was the first child of their mother, the Queen of Nepta.

"My princess." He rose to his feet bowing deeply.

Michiru waved him to get up and blue eyes met a brownish pair. "Don't be like that Ryoichi. At least I'm your sister and you are as well the prince of Nepta!"

"Pah. But not the heir of the throne." He said disdainful.

"You will never forgive me for that, will you?"

Ryoichi shook his hand. "I'm not allowed to refuse something to the future queen and in that case my forgiveness for you!"

"Ryoichi. You should hear yourself sounding like a child, so behave yourself now and exercise your office as a duke and a brother of the princess of Nepta!"

Brown eyes looked surprised and searched for the familiar voice when the servant quickly introduced her while she stepped through the gate and stood right beside his sister. "My highborn, Baroness Setsuna Meioh, the guardian of time."

Ryoichi took some steps forward to the two women. "You two travel together? The last time you did was about a century ago and ended only some years after the last fall of Uran. Now I wonder if there will be the next fall of Uran in the near future or…" He inhaled sharply and his eyes locked with his sisters the moment he understood. "My daughter!" Michiru shuddered hearing her brother calling her daughter his one. "No, you can't. You brought her and left her and now you want to take her back again?"

"Royichi, no one wants to take her away from you and your family." Setsuna said calmly and Michiru nodded reluctantly.

"I believe Setsuna when she told me that you really love her like a biological daughter and I don't want to take that feeling from you. I don't want to take her from you. You are her father and and your wife Itoe is her mother and your sons are her brothers. Nobody wants to change that. Neither do I!" Michiru cried inwardly about the words she just said. She imagined the day she got to know that she was pregnant the moment she only wanted to peg to that child and the birth when she had to give the girl away. The sad blue-haired woman's eyes never left her brothers, who lightly nodded telling her that he understood and believed her. "Where can I find her Royichi? I just want to see her."

"You can't see her?" Her brother was surprised. Her sister was the most talented seeress he had ever met. "Why?" His eyes squinted but his sister didn't react. Michiru stood silently waiting for the answer of her question.

Royichi sighed. "She went for a ride." He then said with a certain undertone.

"You say it like she wouldn't come back." Michiru furrowed.

"You know everytime she goes for a ride I get her some guards but she always manages to lose them and then she's away for some days or weeks. But she always comes back healthy that's the most important." He smiled like a loving father. "She's so much like you when you were a child." He chuckled. "And even now I've heard you disappear sometimes. I know that you should be on your way to Uran and there is a YOU on the way but the real you is here. So…?!"

That sounds like me and her father. Michiru smiled to get to know something about her daughter. "When…"

Her brother shook his head. "I don't know but I will send her on a trip to Uran to meet you there when she's back home. At least you will be there for the ball and some weeks after it and I think she will be quiet interested in meeting her aunt."

Michiru smiled at him. "Thank you." And with that Setsuna and his sister turned around to go.

"I do love her. She's my daughter and the sister of my three sons. Please don't take her away from me and don't tell her."

Setsuna looked to his sister. Red eyes told her that the answer was her decision and that she didn't have to do what he's begging for.

"I won't." She whispered sadly.

"Thank you my princess. My sister."

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"There we go again and nothing has changed. I wish we would live just like before and that amulet wouldn't have appeared!" The blonde and her brother stood in front of the two horses preparing them for the coming ride. Heidelberg was already some hundred meters behind them invisible by the forest.

"I know how frustrating it is Haruka. Maybe you just should use it. At least the abbess and father told you to use it." Arat stated.

"She hadn't said it like that and father had said that when I think I should use it then yes, but actually I don't feel like it. Every time I used it more or less, there was an eerie power flooding me. It was so strong that it kind of controlled me and I wasn't me anymore but someone else." Her brother nodded understandingly.

"Come on, just let us get going." Arat finally said petting his horse.

"I hope you don't mind to take me with you?" Both heads snapped backwards to search for the familiar voice. The girl from the woods suddenly appeared from behind the bushes keeping the reins of her brown horse which stepped behind her. She was in a dark blue travel coat made of expensive Cynester which was a specialty of the Ewige in Heidelberg.

"That's like I told you, that we would see her again." Haruka whispered to Arat. Behind them the girl smiled widely hearing them nevertheless how quiet the two would speak. "Something is weird about her…"

"I know. I know. Probably we should leave her behind and just go without her. But she could follow us and she knows where we head to. So I think it would make no difference." Arat stated speaking under his breath and Haruka nodded agreeing with him.

"Why should we take you with us?" Haruka tried to shook her off.

"As you said just a moment before I can follow you and I know where you head to!" She chuckled when the blonde and her brother looked surprised but both nodded.

"I hope that you first of all won't keep a dagger against my throat and maybe you could tell us your name this time!? That would be nice to know." Haruka's orbs locked with deep blue ones.

The blonde girl smiled. "My name is Aiko. And no, I won't keep a dagger against your throat anymore, because I left it at home, but what I have is a sword and bow and arrow." She twinkled whilst Haruka sighed. Next to her stood Arat furrowing about her name who felt too familiar.

"So Aiko then. Where are your guards this time?" Haruka asked.

Aikos smile grew wider. "They were not as good as the last ones and got lost after a few meters in the forest." And with that she jumped on her brown horse and passed them. "So you should hurry up if you don't want to get lost as my guards did!" She vanished in the bushes.

"You know Haruka, you're right something is weird about that girl. Why would she like to accompany us to Uran. She's definitely from Heidelberg and probably belongs to a noble family. I've heard her name before I'm sure. It sounds so familiar."

"How many girls have a name like her? Child of love. I think there will be more than one." Haruka watched her brother but knew she couldn't destroy his doubts. By all means she hadn't heard of that name before. "Now, come on or she will be away. At least now she's alone and we should see it like that, that she's the one who needs us as her alternate guards. I don't want to bear the blame if there's happening something to her!" Haruka smiled faintly at her brother.

Arat nodded reluctantly. "At least she doesn't have a dark aura and YOU definitely cast a covetous eyes on her."

"What? No, never!" She tried to protest but Arat laughed at her jumped on his horse and rode the way where Aiko vanished.

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