Chapter Eleven
The lingering light was obliterated by the rapidly falling night. The once salmon and purple sky transformed into a vast expanse of jet-black that engulfed the spirit world. A canopy of luminous stars. Natsu and Maikeru were sitting on an old bench that was next to the cottage. "Hey Natsu." "Hmm." "What made you decide to come back to the spirit world?" Natsu slightly turned her head to face Maikeru and then looked back up to the luminous stars. "Can we skip that question for now; I want to know how you know me so much and why you love me too." Maikeru got up from the old bench and turned to face Natsu and put his right hand on his bottom chin and started to think. "Hmm…let's see. Well for starters I met you at the Seishin Academy I think we had the same class together. You are always stubborn because you didn't like to study your magic in class. You always fall asleep in class. You're loyal, Compassionate, Determined, wise, and a bit cold hearted, and wolf-like. You can have no Patience for others and would rather walk alone. I love you because you would do anything in the world to make others happy. You never give up at all and you always protect the ones you love." Natsu signed and got up from the old bench and walked towards Maikeru and putted her head on his chest. She couldn't look into his soft brown chocolate eyes so she just kept her eyes on the ground and said…. "There's a reason why I rather walk alone. I never wanted anyone else getting involved with the stuff I do or choose like my parents did when I was little." Tears started to fall from Natsu's face. "It's my fault that they died." Maikeru wrapped his arms around Natsu and hugged her really tight. "It's not your fault at all Natsu. It's not your fault that your parents died." Natsu looked up at Maikeru and pushed herself away from him, But Maikeru didn't let Natsu get away this time. Maikeru grabbed her right hand but Natsu slipped her hand free from his grip. When Natsu started to run away she didn't know where to go but even if she did know where to go and hide she still couldn't go anywhere because everywhere she ran to was shrouded by water. When a few...well seces passed by Natsu heard something running behind her but before she could turn around she felt two strong arms embrace her. Natsu knew it was Maikeru. "Natsu please stop running from me please. I understand that you are upset but you need to listen to what I have to say. I love you Natsu and I'm not going to stop loving you no matter what. I don't even care how long it takes for you to remember who I am. I'll wait for you to remember who I am. I'll stay by your side until you remember even how much you push me away I know that my Natsu will return to me by my side. I love you Natsu Nushi and I'm not going to let you blame yourself about your parent's deaths. It's not your fault at all. It was never your fault at all. Your parents died protecting you because they rather died protecting you then see you die right in fount of them. They love you very much Natsu so stop blaming yourself and open your soul beautiful blue eyes that I love and see what you have right in front of you."
Natsu had tears flowing down from her face and before she knew it she was facing Maikeru and hugging him. Maikeru hugged Natsu back and kissed the top of her head. Meanwhile back at Zeniba's cottage… Haku and Zeniba were sitting at the table drinking some rose Mary tea while No-face cleaned the table off. "Haku you need to stop getting mad at your sister. Can't you see that your sister wants you to teach her magic?" "I told you that I'm not going to teach her magic at all." "Why won't you teach her magic?" Haku signed and got out of his seat and walked to look out the window. "I can't teach Natsu magic because she is all I have left of my family. And if I did teach her magic I'll lose her again and Chihiro as well. Natsu keeps saying that she wants to go to the Gates of Life and Death and sacrifice herself to the gods to bring Chihiro back." Zeniba was quite for a moment then she put her cup of tea down and got up from her seat and walked to her big bookshelf and grabbed an old blue book. Then she walked back to the kitchen table and opens the book. The room was silent for awhile until Zeniba broke the silence. "Here it is the Gates of Life and Death. It says here that it will take a week to get there and it is very dangerous for a weak human or spirit to get there." Zeniba looked at Haku and waited for him to say something back but he didn't say anything back at all. He just stayed quiet and kept on looking out the window.