After finishing their snowman, Kagura and Hana were having fun tossing snowballs at each other as well as Kyo. When Hana turned around, she saw that Yuki wasn't going to join in with them. Hana left Kyo to Kagura and went over to Yuki.

"Yuki, don't you want to play snowballs with us? It'll be fun so at least just play for a little while?"

"No thank you. I can just watch you play. I'm alright." Yuki replied.

"Come on, just play with me! You should play games with us too! It's normal for children to play games all the time, not sit on the floor and do nothing."

After having a few moments with those sparkly, green eyes of hers, Yuki finally agreed to play, only for a little while. "Ok then. First you take a scoop of snow and roll it into a ball, and then when you finished your snowball, you throw it to someone as hard as you can. Ready? Throw!"

And with that Yuki threw his snowball and hit Kyo's face until he fell to the ground. Everyone gasped and so did Yuki. Kyo got up and saw Yuki and he started to shout, "What do you think you're doing? You're not supposed to throw that hard!"

"I'm sorry, I didn't know I threw it that hard." replied Yuki. Kagura kneeled down to Kyo and asked if he was hurt. "No, I'm fine! I just don't want to play with him anymore!" and went walking back to the lake house.

"I'm sorry, Yuki. If I didn't tell you to throw so hard, Kyo wouldn't be mad at you already." but Yuki answered Hana that he and Kyo were never really good friends, that's why he would rather stick with Kagura instead. Hana didn't understand the situation then.

Kyo heard Hana talking to Yuki but he didn't look back. He just kept on being ignorant. Kyo remembered his days at the lake house as well as Hana and Yuki but he always thought them as useless memories.

"And here's one from after my accident at the lake. This is one memory I'll never forget." said Hana as she showed Tohru another photo. There she was, lying in warm covers with, none other than, Yuki sitting beside her. "Wow, were you sick that day? What accident? Did you get hurt real bad? Was Yuki there too?" asked Tohru.

"You see, the accident was completely my fault. Once, I tripped over and twisted my ankle so I couldn't walk. An adult checked me over and said that I wouldn't be able to skate until my ankle would feel better and it was left bandaged. I was a bit sad that I couldn't skate that I didn't eat lunch that day. I knew Yuki was worried for me because he tried to cheer me up and stuff. Then he told me that I had to eat something or not I would get sick and when I looked into his worried eyes, I decided to eat something. Instead of leading me to the kitchen, Yuki said he would get the food for me so he left me alone on the patio."

"That was so nice of Yuki. I guess he hasn't really changed, hasn't he? He's still as caring and thoughtful as he was before." said Tohru.

"True, but when he left me on the patio, I was alone. This was when I began being careless. I simply took my skates and walked, or limped, all the way to the lake. I just had to see the lake to calm my mind because it saddened me that I couldn't skate on it that day. But at the lake, I tripped again and my skates went sliding to the lake and instead of calling for help, I wanted to get my skates myself. That was pretty darn stupid."

"Well, maybe not 'stupid' but it's dangerous to do such a thing. What happened, Hana?"

"What made it worse that it was the thin ice part of the lake. I tried using long sticks to reach my skates and 'fish' them out but it was no use. I just had to get them somehow. Then I decided to go the other way around. I went to the thick part of the ice to reach my skates but either way, the ice was hard to walk on so I crawled my way to my skates. But I wasn't careful enough . . ."

"What happened?"

"I broke through the ice and I can still remember the chills it gave my spine. Even though it cooled down my ankle, the water was freezing cold making it difficult to breathe. I tried to climb out from the hole but it was too slippery. I tried to call out for help but I was almost out of breath and no one could've heard me. As I hung onto the ice, I had a black out and the rest was a blur."

"You fell into the water?? Oh no!" cried Tohru.

"That was what I was told after I woke up. When I did, I saw Yuki by my side, holding my hand. He looked as worried as ever. He asked me why I would do such a thing without telling him or anyone else and then I said the strangest thing. I guess I was still dizzy from it all happening so fast." said Hana with a weak chuckle.

"What did you say to him?"

"Yuki, you have such long hair . . . you look like a girl, and I laughed. I could see him smile and told me to rest. At the far corner, there was someone else in the room with us and I saw it was Kyo. He just sat there and Yuki told me that Kyo came to see me too, just to see if I was feeling better. I thanked Kyo but he wouldn't say a word; just look at me."

"Maybe he was just worried he had nothing to say. Or maybe he was shy to talk to you then." said Tohru.

"Maybe, and Yuki told me Kyo wanted to come see me but he didn't say anything. Then Yuki left the room to get my lunch for me since I didn't eat yet and when I was alone with Kyo, he came closer to me. He wanted to sit by my side like Yuki did and that's when we began to know each other.

Kyo could also remember . . .


r and r!