Yuuki had put her arm around Mineko's shoulder pulling her close; her crying face being hid under the shadow of the kitchen light. Neither one of the ladies had yet gone to sleep, as worry had kept them unabe to. "It will be ok Mineko, she will come home i just know it!" Yuuki said loudly and encouragingly to try and uplift her friends spirit. "What if she doesnt though..What if instead she is lost forever, or already left?" Mineko was trying to ask her friend without crying anymore, as if it mattered. Without her only child what good was she now? They had been together through thick and thin. And yet, in this point in time she didn't want to battle this all alone.

Sakurai and yuna were behind the door way listening in; eavsdropping onto the conversation like rats awaiting the leaving of a cat guarding cheese. "What does she mean by already left?" Sakurai asked in a suspicious voice. Knowing that he wasnt aware of any vacations she was supposed to be taking, or at least that she had informed him of. She did inquire about getting Shinji a present, however. And that was an all of a sudden thing out of the blue. "'I'm not sure but I can't hear over your big mouth anyway!" She told him in an angry whisper, slapping his shoulder. Both of them took a seat on Shinji's bed and thought deeply about what was going on. They hadn't seen Tenshimi and know a police officer and a strange story? Sakurai himself was no Sherlock Holmes but even that couldnt stop an obvious thought of something beyond the ordinary happening. "Let's go into my son's bedroom, you need some rest." Sakurai and Yuna jumped at the thought of them finding out they had been snooping the entire time. "Quick!" Yuna whispered,"Under the bed!"

Yuuki had laid her down and put a blanket over the bed to try and get her eyes to close. Mineko could only lie there helplessly and cry as she grabbed the cross around her neck and started to pray, hoping that she would be heard. Yuuki knelt down next to her and took the cross on her neck as well and started to pray, knowing it was the only thing they could do. "Heavenly Father, please hear our prayers tonight as we come to you in asking of the finding of my little girl." Mineko said squeezing her cross so tightly the blood flow to her hand had stopped. Sakurai and Yuna didnt wait around to hear the rest as they wanted to get out as fast as possible. They had started to sneak out from under the bed, keeping themselves low so as not to be seen should they open thier eyes.

Yuna and sakurai had rushed out the door and tried to get in touch with Shinji using their cell phones once again, but to no avail. It had appeared that Shinji's cell phone bettery had died about 2 miles back. He had been walking all night and was near out of breath as he came collapsing down onto the paved road in a no traffic area. Was it all a dream? Was everything done up to this point for nothing, in vein perhaps? No, he couldn't let that happen. Try as it may be however he lied there lifelessly, unable to fend for himself. Eyes closed, when a vision suddenly came up. He saw Tenshimi with wings, flying away... but to where? Where was she going, where was he?

Sakurai had started his car as Yuna made calls to her friends to get them to help look for both of their now lost friends. "Who are you calling?" Sakurai asked with great concern, knowing that her friends were going to make fun anyhow. That just wasn't very important anymore however, as a friend there was a much more important issue at hand; And he knew the duties of a friend, the sacrifices that had to be made. Even if it means putting up with a bunch of snoodballs.

A stranger in a black cloak had started to approach Shinji's body and picked it up as it was carried away in an old shopping basket, away from the street. He was headed down a dark alley, even for the daytime. it was much darker and the walls had spray paint on them; paint chipped off; it must have been really old. Almost like an old cathedral looking unit. the building itself however was more like an 18th century english castle, with a church like design given to the windows. Shinji had woken up to a rather unpleasant odor however, thinking it had came from the stranger pushing him. "Where am I?" He asked the stranger, scratching his head in curiousity. The stranger kept pushing, barely grinning looking suspicious. Shinji was puzzled, as he looked at the old man pushing him. He couldnt have been taller than 8 feet, and looked like he hasnt had a bath in years. The beard was dangling as if it had never been cut. He didnt know what was going on and asked the old man again where they were going.. The only response was a finger pointing to the cathedral looking unit. Shinji at this point was starting to get spooked.

Mineko lie in Shinji's bed crying herself to sleep, and the hands still holding tight to the cross where they had been for the last hour. Yuuki had came into the room with a hot cup of tea, hoping that would maybe clear some of her friends sinuses; overall allowing a deep sleep. Mineko finally let go of her cross, her own two hands blue from no circulation. Reaching for the tea they were shaking so bad she couldnt even pick it up..they were numb. Seeing this Yuuki held it out to her friend and was reaching the cup to her lips to be able to sip it. The lips meeting the cup halfway took a sip and lied her head back down on the pillow in an upright position. The eagerness to drink letting her say the words her mouth couldnt.

Tenshimi knew that she couldnt let anyone see her like this; as three pairs of wings were a bit much. She couldn't hide them, there was nothing she could really wear over them. They stood on their own around 6 feet in lenth and about a foot in height. This wasn't supposed to happen until about 3 more weeks. She didn't have much time left, and didn't want to go without telling Shinji everything. It was the least owed to him she felt.