Fifteen minutes later, Neil had finally arrived back into Miki's barn with the animal medicine, and rushed into the barn.

Miki instantly noticed his arrival and grinned slightly.

When Neil was gone, all she was doing was keeping an eye on her cow that was ill; however, humongous guilt was consuming her since she couldn't even go closer towards her cow because of her fear towards animals.

"How is she?" Neil asked the farmer hastily as he was speed-walking towards Sapphire and his ruby eyas were firece.

"She was pretty quiet..." Miki answered quietly and frowned.

Neil gave some animal medicine to Sapphire and petted her head.

"You'll be okay..." he whispered to the cow, not wanting Miki to hear him, and he put some fodder into one of the stalls.

"Is she going to be okay?"Miki asked concerned and clasped her hands together.

"Uh... Well, I'm no doctor but she should be fine..." Neil replied nonchalantly, adjusting his hands into his pockets, and walked towards Miki.

"I'll come by and give her medicine everyday until she feels better," Neil stated and continued, "The best thing you could do is comfort her by petting her."

Miki's emerald eyes trembled. "I-I'm not sure if I c-can."

Neil rolled his eyes. "Don't be ridiculous. If you were sick and your cow had the ability to aid you, then she would totally aid you."

"Y-Yeah b-but-"

"Come on, Miki! What is she was DIEING!? You still wouldn't comfort her or even pet her!?"Neil yelled at the pink haired farmer enraged.

Miki's eyes grew watery as she knew words were true and she looked down in guilt. She knew that she should not let her fear for animals get to her; however, it ALWAYS gets to her every time.

"I-I'm s-sorry..." Miki stuttered, trying to fight back tears, and she avoided eye contact.

Neil sighed. "Look, I'm sorry... You being scared of animals just frustrates me sometimes..." Neil explained and then asked," Anyways, want to go somewhere to clear your head?"

Miki looked up innocently and nodded. "S-Sure."

"Let's go."

A half hour later...

Miki and Neil had both roamed the forest and they were finally successful at reaching their destination: the waterfall.

Both were looking at the furious but calm looking water fall and were standing in front of it.

"I always go here to clear my head..." Neil told Miki calmly and adjusted his hands into his pockets.

Miki nodded. "It's pretty peaceful here even though the water is crashing down pretty hard."

"Yeah. Whenever things go bad, I just go here... To forget everything..." Neil stated quietly and stared deeply into the waterfall.

Miki widen her eyes innocently and was rather curious. "What do you mean by forget everything?"

"Geez! It's none of your business!" Neil roared and looked away from her.

The pink hair farmer felt her eyes grow watery once again.

"S-S-Sorry..." Miki apologized weakly as tears escaped from her eyes and Neil winced at seeing her cry.

"I'm sorry! I'm just not... Used to trusting people..." Neil admitted and sighed.

"Well, you can trust m-me..." Miki stuttered, trying to make her tears vanish, and she flashed him a tiny grin.

Neil slightly smirked and chuckled. "You know... You're something else..."

Miki felt herself blush at seeing him smirk and avoided eye contact.

"W-What...?" Miki stuttered timidly and she still felt the blood rushing to her cheeks.

"EEK!"

Both Neil and Miki looked down the river to see a baby squirrel catch in the current.

"Shit we have to save it! Come on, Miki! Follow me!" Neil ordered and sprinted ahead of the squirrel's direction.

Miki followed behind Neil; however, she tripped on a gigantic tree branch, and fell into the river.

Once the animal dealer had heard Miki splash into the water, he turned around, and shouted, "MIKI!"

"N-Neil!" Miki gasped, trying to fight the current, and water kept getting into her mouth.

'I-I have to try to save that squirrel...' Miki thought weakly as her vision was fading and she abruptly collided into a huge rock and lost consciousness.

As soon as Neil saw that Miki lost consciousness, he dived into the river, and grabbed Miki.

He tried his best to keep her head above water and tried to fight the current.

"Dammit Miki, wake up!"

Neil then looked ahead to see the squirrel and thought with a scowl, 'I've got to save that squirrel too!'

From the corner of his eye, he saw a long tree branch extending out towards the river.

'If I grab that, I can probably get us out of here!' Neil thought and smirked.

He decided to swim quicker with one arm towards the squirrel and managed to get the furry animal onto his head by ducking his head under water and pulling it back up again.

With an extremely powerful grip, he held onto the branch with one hand, and held onto Miki with his other hand.

After many attempts of trying to put Miki on the grass, he was finally successful, and at the same time he managed to get the squirrel onto land as well.

Neil had finally managed to get himself onto land too as he instantly checked to see if Miki was still breathing as the squirrel fled the area.

"Miki! Miki!? Are you alright!?" Neil demanded in panic; however, Miki was unresponsive.

Neil bit his lip. "Dammit!" he whispered under his breath.

He knew he had to work fast if he wanted to save her life and he gulped nervously.

Neil felt the blood rush to his cheeks as he moved his head closer toward Miki's face and covered her nose with his fingers. He took a deep breath and was about to attempt CPR when suddenly Miki started coughing.

Neil widened his ruby eyes in shock as he stared down at Miki and she looked up to see Neil immensely close towards her face.

A scream escaped from her mouth as the two of them jumped back and blushed insanely while sitting down on the grass.

"S-Sorry..." Miki apologized and blushed while covering her lips.

"Uh... You okay?"Neil asked awkwardly and tried to make himself stop blushing.

"Did... Did you save me, Neil?" Miki asked in utter shock and her eyes trembled.

"Uh yeah... Are you okay?" Neil asked once again, since Miki didn't clearly answer the first time.

"H-how did you save me!?" Miki demanded shyly, blushing furiously, and covering her mouth.

'Did...Did he give me CPR...?' the pink haired farmer thought while blushing.

Neil was getting irritated. "JUST ANSWER THE DAMN QUESTION!"

Miki winced at his sudden outburst. "S-Sorry. U-Um, y-yes... I'm okay and where is the squirrel?"

"Okay, GOOD... and that ungrateful squirrel fled... And yes, I did save you..." Neil answered in a mutter while closing his eyes and crossed his arms.

"T-Thank you so much, Neil... Y-You're always saving me, I'm so sorry... I feel so bad... You keep risking your life... I...I..." Miki couldn't finish her sentence for she started to sob and looked down towards the ground.

Neil smirked as a chuckled escaped his mouth and moved closer towards Miki.

"You idiot," Neil chuckled and then hugged her while saying, "I don't care what happens to me, as long as you're okay, that's all that matters to me."

Miki was utterly speechless as her trembling emerald eyes widened and her entire face turned neon pink. She couldn't believe his words and tears of happiness streamed down her cheeks.

"Thank you, Neil."

Author Note: Woo-hoo! Done with this chapter :D thank you so much to my readers and reviewers! You guys motivate me so much! Thanks so much for everything! The next chapter shall be funny XD please read and review! Have a nice day :D