A/N: Another chapter, just because I want to finish this, I'm in a Spider Riders mood and I'm at school so I can't watch it. Well, here ya go! Oh, and just for clarification, I do like Buguese x Aqune, but in this fic, since he was with Aria, I see them more having a father x daughter bond.

The Story Not Told

Chapter 11 Something New

"Buguese!" Hunter growled, standing up in the water. Corona was by his side, eyes narrowed at Buguese, but very surprised to see her sister here as well. She wasn't under Buguese's control anymore, why was she following him around? "How the hell are you here?"

"Hunter!" Corona scolded. The fight between invectids and riders may be over, but some things just never changed.

"A gift," Buguese told him. Aqune merely smiled at them. "A gift from Aria."

Hunter blinked his green eyes a few times. It took him a moment to remember the letter that his mother had left him. Then, he frowned. "Oh."

Aqune spoke up now, knowing this was hard for Buguese. "He wants to make things right, Hunter."

Corona looked back and forth between them, worried. She didn't want a fight to break out between the two, nor did she want Hunter to get upset.

"Aqune is right," Buguese told them, looking right at Hunter. "I want to begin...a new with you, Hunter Steele."

"So....you know then?" Hunter asked. Buguese nodded.

"I was not aware of this until Aria told me herself. If I had been, I would have never attacked you." Buguese told him honestly. Somehow, Hunter believed him.

"How did you find out?" Buguese asked, simply out of curiosity.

"When I got home, I found a letter from mom," Hunter rubbed the back of his head. "She told me everything."

"I see." That was all Buguese said. Despite the countless battles the two have had together, today sitting there on the shore, it felt very awkward. Corona rolled her eyes.

'Boys, they'll never change,' she thought.

Aqune gently nudged Buguese, urging him to do something more with Hunter. But the man wasn't quite sure what to say.

"Do you want to, Hunter?" Buguese asked him. The boy had been silent for a while now, so he wasn't quite sure what he was thinking. It was hard to tell from the look on his face.

"Hunter?" Corona asked softly, placing her hand on top of his. She knew this was probably a lot for him. Already he had lost his mother, and now he was actually getting a father?

Hunter looked right at Buguese, who was watching him carefully, and nodded. "Yes."

Buguese's heart beat fast. "Yes, you do?"

Hunter nodded, and what he said next made Corona smile. "Yes. I want a father in my life, Buguese."

'And I promise, to be the best one I can be, Hunter Steele,' Buguese silently vowed.

A/N: Awww! :) Well, there you have it, another chapeter.