"I heard there's a duel going on in the Kendo hall!" A girl exclaimed.

"Are Touga and Saionji at it again?"

A couple of girls ran down the hall, passing by Utena and Saya who were leaning against a wall reading a small book.

"A duel?" Utena wondered, which made Saya sighed.

"Not again." She mumbled before closing her book and followed the girls.

"Saya, wait for me!" Utena followed her.

They arrived in front of the fan girls, getting a front row view of the duel. "Oh, Touga!" and "Good luck, Saionji!" was the only things Utena and Saya could hear. Both Saionji and Touga wore their keiko-gi and hakama; Saionji held the kendo practice stick up in the air while Touga held his kendo practice stick in front of them. Finally, the girls got quiet before Saionji made a move; Touga made a move also, resulting that he got to hit Saionji before he could even hit Touga.

"Hmm, not too bad. Guess he's really isn't just a playboy." Utena said.

"Looks like Touga wins this one." Saya said.

The boys pulled away before the girls cheered again.

"Touga, you're so cool!"

"Saionji, you're wonderful!"

"Touga's the best!"

"That's my prince!"

'I'm going to get a serious headache from all of the girls' screaming.' Saya thought as her eyebrow twitch.

"Prince?" Saya looked at Utena and noticed that she was looking at her rose crested ring.

"Come, come…Don't look so angry with me…Old friend." Touga said with a smirk.

Saionji glared at him. "Who's your 'old friend'?!"

"How cold of you. Aren't you my friend like your cute little sister is?" Saya's face turned slightly red as she turned to Touga.

"Shut up! You leave Saya out of this! You're the one person I absolutely won't lose to!" Saionji snarled.

Saya was on her way to the academy's pool until she noticed Saionji and Utena were standing outside of the Rose Garden where Anthy was at.

"Why must you always come between me and Anthy, damn you?!" He shouted at Chu-Chu.

"That's your own fault!" He turned around and sees Utena. "Your stubbornness is your worst trait, Saionji."

"So, it's you, Utena Tenjou. Don't be so sure of yourself. I swear I'll beat you in our next duel. And then I'll take Anthy back. You…! Shut up!" Saionji kicked Chu-Chu and the frog that was on Chu-Chu away from him.

"I wonder if you even can beat me." Utena placed her right hand on her hip. "You couldn't even beat Touga Kiryuu before."

"You saw that? We've faced each other hundreds of times over the last ten years to see whose turn it would be to practice with Saya. Today was a fluke." Saionji stated.

"Oh…? You three have known each other that long?"

Saionji was quite for a brief moment before he said, "I won't lose to him!" He turned his attention to Anthy who was watering the roses. "I will possess the Rose Bride."

"Do you really love Anthy?!" Utena asked.

"Of course I do!"

"Then why did you try to win her in a duel?!"

"Because if I don't win the duels, I'll never beat him or protect my sister!" Saionji replied.

"'Him' …? You mean Touga, right? You're just competing against Touga?! Anthy's just some pawn for you?!"

"You wouldn't understand even if I told you. Together with Anthy, I will take possession of eternity."

"Eternity?" Utena got confused.

"Yes." Saionji placed a hand on the glass, staring at Anthy with his eyes filled with love. "She told me that she, too, desires something eternal."

It was raining outside, soaking the three kids, two boys and the girl, one of the boys and girl were riding on their bicycles while the other boy was holding on to the girl.

"See, it's coming down! That's why I said you guys should've quit at the tenth match!" The girl said.

"I couldn't help it. Your brother was the only one I know who'll let me practice on them." The boy on the other bicycle said.

"Well, I guess, but…"

Suddenly, they heard a church bell, causing the boy and girl to stop their bicycles and stare at the church in front of them.

"What's wrong, Saya, Touga?" The other boy asked.

"A funeral…" Touga mumbled.

"Someone must've died." The other boy, Saionij, said.

"You, there!" A voice shouted. They turned their heads to the left to see two men in suits. "Have you seen a girl about your age around here?" One of the men asked.

"What's wrong?" Saya asked.

"A girl lost her parents in an accident today. She disappeared after we let her out of our sight."

"We haven't seen her." Saya replied.

"I see. Thank you." Both of the men turned around and walked away. "You don't suppose she was kidnapped, do you?" One of the men wondered.

"Don't be ridiculous. Let's search around here a little more."

Saionji turned to his sister and Touga. "One of them just said she might have been kidnapped. Touga?"

Both of the siblings noticed that Touga was staring at the church, as if he was in a trance.

Touga got off his bicycle and walked towards the church with Saionji and Saya following him. He opened the door and walked in.

"Hey!" Saionji called out in a whisper.

"You really think we should just walk in here?" Saya whispered. "Hey, wait up!"

The three kids ran up to where they see three coffins.

"I thought I saw three coffins." Touga said as he walked towards a coffin that was in the far left. "I saw them through the door before." Touga placed his hands on the top part of the coffin and began to push it open.

"What are you doing?! Touga! Hey, cut it out! Stop it!" Saya cried out of fear, but Touga didn't listen to her.

"Stop it! STOP IT!" Saya screamed.

After a lightening flashed, they heard a small voice. "Don't open it…"

Saionji and Saya walked up to the coffin see a little girl with long pink hair inside the coffin filled with pink roses.

"Please, don't open it." The girl said.

"This is where she was hiding?" Saionji wondered.

Touga kneeled down towards her and said, "Everyone's looking for you."

"Will you tell anyone that I'm here?" The girl asked.

Touga gently picked up a piece of the girl's hair. "No, I won't tell anyone."

"But…" Saionji tried to say something.

"I'm an ally to all girls. I'm chivalrous, after all."

Saya kneeled down to the girl and asked, "But why are you hiding here?"

"Because I belong here." The girl replied.

"What do you mean?" Saionji asked.

"Because they're in the coffins next to me. My father and mother died today. But there was an extra coffin here. It must be meant for me. Living on…It's just making me sick."

"It is?" Touga asked as Saya and Saionji were staring her with such sadness in their eyes.

"Yes…It's making me sick…Why does everyone go on living if they all have to die someday? Why didn't I realize it before today? That there's no such thing as something eternal."

"Something eternal…?" Saionji said as Touga released the lock of pink hair from his hand.

"So, I've had enough. I'll never come out of this coffin." The girl stated.

"But, somebody will find you in there!" Saya said.

"Then I'll find another coffin to hide in. I don't want to be with anyone anymore. I'll never come out into the sunlight again."

After a while, Touga began to make his way towards the door with Saionji following him.

"Wait! We can't just let that girl do this crazy thing!" Saionji shouted.

"Then show her something eternal." Saya looked back at the girl one last time before following Touga and her brother.

Saionji, Saya, and Touga watched from a hill a group of people were standing in front of two graves and saw the same little girl they've met yesterday.

The next day, the girl left the coffin. And I could sense something different in her eyes.

"Did you…Did you do something for that girl yesterday?" Saionji asked Touga.

"No, nothing."

But then I thought that he had. He must have! He must have shown that girl something eternal. Touga Kiryuu…He's always been ahead of me. Always living in a world I can't imagine.

"You've also seen that castle floating in the sky. Eternity dwells within it. She and I will go there together. I won't lose to Touga!" Saionji said when suddenly the glass that his hand was on cracked.

"By the way, Utena told Juri and me that she met a prince when she was a kid." Saya said to Touga, Miki, and Juri, who were sitting on the bench, while Saya had her arms on the outer part of the pool.

"A prince?" Miki asked.

"Yeah. She said she came to this school because she wants to be with the prince from her childhood." Juri explained.

"That girl's a romantic. A prince…I see." Touga said with a trance on his face. Saya stared at Touga before sighing to herself and got out of the pool.

"Miss Saya…?" Miki called.

"I think that's enough swimming for one day. Any longer, then I'll be all prune up." Saya mumbled as she walked into the locker room with her towel over her head.

"A ring that will lead me to me." Saya recite Utena's words as she stood under the shower heads in the locker room, letting the water hit her naked body and trailed down to the wet floor. "To the princess, it was her unmistakable first love. And the ring the prince gave her must have been an engagement ring."

Saya turned off the water and wrapped her towel around her body before getting out of the shower room. "We'll meet again…"

Suddenly, she felt a pair of cold hands on her face which made her squeal from the coldness. Getting a good grip on the towel, she moved away from the person that was behind her and turned around.

"That's cold! What's the big idea?!" She was surprised to see Touga standing right in front of her, with her in a towel and inside the girls' locker room…alone.

"From behind, you seemed so lonely." Touga said as he smiled at her.

"What the hell are you doing here?!" Saya shouted as she turned around so that way he wouldn't see Saya's red face. "You know, don't you? About that castle."

"Castle?" Touga was trying to understand what Saya was saying as he got closer to Saya without her noticing.

"The castle we always see floating above the dueling arena. What do you think it is, really?"

She gasped when she felt Touga's arms wrapping around her towel-covered body from behind. "That castle is where Utena will meet her prince someday. Maybe you'll meet your prince up there too."

"D-Don't be an idiot!" Saya exclaimed before she felt a pair of soft lips on her neck.

"Would your prince be somewhat like me?"

"Stop that!" She got out of Touga's arms and breathed heavily. "Quit fooling around! Get out of here!" She shouted before walking to her locker, away from Touga.

'He's gotta be kidding!' She thought while trying to calm down her fast-beating heart.

A ringing noise came from a cell phone. It kept ringing until Saya answered it. "Hello?"

"Your brother, Kyouichi Saionji, won't be coming home tonight." A voice said.

Saya's eyes widen. "What?"

"Check out the dueling arena."

"Who is this?! Hey!" However, the person hung up. Saya stared at her phone before hanging up as well and rang out of her room.

While running to the dueling arena, she saw Utena going to the same direction as she was. Utena explained to Saya that she got an anonymous caller telling her that Anthy was kidnapped and that she should go check out the dueling arena.

When they arrived at the entrance to the arena, they walked up to the door until Utena tripped over something. "Ow! Ow! Ow!"

"Utena, are you alright?" Saya kneeled down to her before she turned her head to the object that made her fall.

"Oh, what is this?!" Saya gasped when she saw her brother unconscious with his upper body in the water.

"B-Big Brother?!" Utena and Saya got Saionji out of the water and on his back. "Big Brother! Wake up! Please, open your eyes!" Saya shook Saionji until he opened his eyes and saw her. "Saya…?"

She smiled with tears coming out of her eyes. "Thank goodness, you're all right!" She hugged him by surprise. "I thought I'd lost you…"

He hugged her back and said, "You can't get rid of me that easily."

"I hate to ruin this brother and sister moment but…where's Anthy?!" Utena shouted.

Saionji finally noticed Utena after Saya pulled herself away from him. "Anthy?"

"What were you doing?! You can't take her without beating me in a duel, right?!" Utena shouted.

"What are you doing here?" Saionji wondered.

Utena grabbed Saionji by the collar. "I was told to come here because Anthy had been kidnapped!"

"Kidnapped?! Kidnapped…Kidnapped…" His eyes widen when he remembered something. "Anthy! Where's Anthy?!"

"That's what she was asking you, Saionji!" Saya said after she pulled him out of Utena's grip.

"Look!" The girls turned around and noticed that the door was opened.

"Did one of you opened it?!" Saionji asked.

"No, it wasn't one of us." Utena said.

"It can't be!" Saionji got up on his feet and ran inside.

"Hey! Wait up!" Saya shouted as she and Utena followed him.

Once they finally reached up to the arena, they were surprised at what they saw in front of them.

"What the…?"

In front of them was a huge red rose made out of stone and in the middle of the rose was a coffin.

"That's…" Saionji mumble with his eyes widen like Saya's.

"It can't be…" She mumbled.

The coffin opened to reveal an unconscious Anthy in her Rose Bride dress and the coffin was filled with white roses inside.

"Anthy…" Utena mumbled.

"Anthy!" Saionji ran towards the rose with his sword in his hand; he stopped when a pillar came out of the ground and lifted the rose and Anthy in the air. "What?!"

Suddenly more pillars began to come out of the ground.

"What's happening?!" Saya wondered.

"Anthy!" Utena called out before a pillar came out from underneath and lifted her up, terrifying her to death.

"Utena!" Both Saionji and Saya called out. Utena opened her eyes when the pillar stopped. She looked around to see that she was close to the floating castle.

"What's going on here?! Doesn't matter! I have to save Anthy!" Before she could do anything, the castle began to shake; pieces of the castle began to fall.

"The castle…The castle is coming down." Saya said before she heard her brother laughing.

"I'm here! End of the World! Keep your promise to me! Give me eternity!" Saionji shouted to the castle

The castle began to fall into big pieces and the pillars began to disintegrate, but that didn't stop Utena from jumping from pillar to pillar to reach to Anthy. Saya and Saionji were moving out of the way from being crashed by the pieces of the castle.

"ANTHY!" A flash of light appeared, blinding everyone. When it was gone, everything in the arena was back to normal.

"What…? What's going on? What was that, just now?!" Saionji was shocked as well as Saya before she ran towards Utena and Anthy.

"Anthy! Anthy!" Utena called out, trying to wake up Anthy. "Anthy! Hey! Speak to me, Anthy!"

"Not like this…I was the one who was supposed to save her this time." Saionji mumbled before getting up with his sword in his hands. "The castle where eternity dwells…The power to bring revolution to the world… It all is to be mine!"

He unsheathed his sword. "The one Anthy is to go to the castle with is me!" He began to walk towards the girls.

"Anthy! Anthy!" Anthy slowly opened her eyes and stared at Saya and Utena who were relieved. "Anthy…"

"Anthy, you're alright." Saya said.

"Miss Utena…Saya…" Anthy said.

"Thank goodness. But what happened?" Utena asked.

"I don't know, either…" Suddenly, Anthy's eyes widen as she cried out, "Miss Utena!"

Saya looked up to see Saionji was about to attack Utena from behind. Saya got in front of her with her arms out to the sides. "Big Brother, don't!"

The bells rang as Saya's eyes widen in shock and fear; Touga came out of nowhere and took the hit for Saya. Touga fell into Saya's arms while she was being careful with the injury on his back.

"Touga! But why?!"

"Because your prince…is a guy like me, isn't he?" Saionji's sword fell out of his hands as he stared in shock at what he had just done.

"Why…? Why do you always?!"

Touga turned his head towards Saionji and said "Because I'm chivalrous…"

A ringing noise came from a cell phone before someone answered it.

"Yes, it's me…Yes I sent the letter Saionji received tonight…Yes, in your name…No it was a shallow wound…Well, I suppose I have a flair for the dramatic…Yes, Saionji's being expelled…I doubt it…A person who truly believes in friendship is a fool…" The person said while brushing a finger at a picture of Saya, Saionji, and Touga at their first day of student council. The person's finger was brushing slightly on Saya's smiling face and her lips.