"Perhaps I am stronger than I think." -Thomas Merton

Gravity

Chapter Twenty-six

I was only able to sleep for a few hours before my restless mind kept me laying in the dark completely wide awake. I tried desperately to go back to sleep. I could see from how dark it was outside that I still had a few hours before I needed to be awake for training. But it was no good. Sleep evaded me like a man dying of dehydration needing rain in the desert. After about an hour I gave up trying to force myself to sleep.

I crawled out of the comforting warmth of my bed, careful to not disturb Mi, and dressed for training. I needed to keep my mind busy. As I left my room I grabbed my bo and the gold ribbon hanging on the top of it and quietly made my way down the dark hall to not disturb anyone. I stopped in the kitchen long enough to grab an apple and eat before heading outside to the beach where the posts were.

The wind and rain from the day before caused some of the posts to lean sideways in the sand and the stones they had been holding up laying a few feet away from them. I took a few minutes to straighten them and packed the still damp sand around the bases of them and balanced their rocks on the top of them. I wiped the sand off of my hands onto my leggings before wrapping the ribbon around my eyes. Though the darkness I could see the energy from everything around me, morphing into shapeless globs of pale light. With a heavy sigh I lifted the bo into stance and tried to focus my mind on forcing the globs of energy into the shapes they were supposed to be.

My mind started wandering away from me and worrying more about a certain ruby eyed demon. How could he tell me that the kiss hadn't meant anything? I could feel his emotions and the way they flared around me. The dragon was all but wrapping itself around me when I bandaged his arm. Except when I tried to apologize for kissing him he told me not to apologize because there was nothing to apologize for. I had taken that as maybe he wanted me to. But maybe, I had read into it wrong. Maybe it was because I didn't need to apologize because it hadn't meant anything.

God, how could I have been so stupid to think that Hiei would be interested in someone like me? I was weak. I couldn't even make these stupid energies take shape of what they were supposed to be. I couldn't protect myself from attack. He was only here because Koenma told him that he had to be here. He wasn't doing it out of the kindness of his heart. He was just the only one who could do it. Koenma made him to it because I was too weak to protect myself. Even when I was taken I was too weak to escape. He had to come and save me like some damsel in distress.

Now I had gone and done something stupid. I kissed him and then expected it to mean something to him like it meant something to me. I was so stupid. Stupid and weak. Hiei would never be interested in someone like me. Even if his dragon was for some unknown reason. He probably thought I was just some stupid and weak human minded girl.

No, I thought with a growl. He thinks I'm pathetic.

That made my blood boil. I was not pathetic. Just because I had all of these powers pushed onto my shoulders and I didn't know how to control them did not make me pathetic. The energies around me began to shine brighter, and concentrate down to smaller shapes. I felt my own energy begin flaring around me, forcing the shapes to become tighter and smaller, forming shapes in the globs of light.

As I focused more through my anger, everything around me started to take shape. I could see where everything was. Each of the trees, the sand, the ocean, the posts with the rocks on top. I could finally see in the darkness with the energy every living thing and non living thing gave off.

I wasn't pathetic. And I would prove it.

Hiei felt her energy flare from over half a mile away. The dragon churned under his skin, but brought no further harm to his right arm. He had spent most of the night sealing the dragon away under the bandages. After he had let her leave after confessing her feelings, the dragon had begun tearing away viciously at his arm, roaring in his ears loud enough to nearly deafen him. He had to make it stop before it permanently damaged his arm beyond repair.

The dragon had fought him and tore against his flesh while he placed the seals across his arm. The blood was seeping through the bandages from the wounds it had caused, but he didn't bother to worry about changing them. If he took the seals off, the dragon would just cause more damage. The bleeding would stop on it's own.

He could still feel the dragons rage under his skin, but it had been dulled by the seals. The energy that the girl was giving off made the dragon even more restless. He was certain that the sudden flare of energy would wake her half breed teacher and her shadow demon friend so he didn't bother to move from his perch in the large oak tree he was sitting in.

He knew that this sudden flare was caused by him. Her power, like the detectives, was triggered by emotions. The girl had been hurt when he denied any feelings for her. But it was her own fault. Did she really expect him to feel anything for her? Someone so weak she couldn't even protect herself?

But she would get stronger the back of his mind whispered. He pushed those thoughts away. It didn't matter. There was nothing to gain from being with the girl and mating with her. He doubted that she even knew what would come with being with another demon in that way. She had no idea what she would be getting herself into.

He wouldn't feel guilty for turning her away, no matter how much he or the dragon wanted her. There was nothing to feel guilty for. He had done much worse in his past than hurt a weak girls feelings. She was too innocent for her own good. It was best for him to just keep his distance from her.

Yokuto joined me on the beach as I knocked the last stone off of it's post with a baseball bat swing, sending it soaring out into the ocean. I turned to face him as the rock splashed into the ocean.

"You can see," he observed, coming to stand a few feet away from me. "How long have you been out here?" he asked, crossing his arms over his chest.

"An hour or two," I answered, with a shrug. My anger was starting to simmer away. "Couldn't sleep," I continued, "I just figured I'd get a head start for today." In reality I had just wanted something to distract my mind from thinking about Hiei. It hadn't worked, but at least it pushed me forward in my training.

"How well can you see?" he asked, shifting and drawing his two tonfa out of the sash at his waist.

"Well enough," I said with a grimace and raising my bo into stance. It was a strange sensation to be able to see while my eyes were shut. The energy that surrounded everything gave shape, but my brain added in the color. Some colors were more vibrant than others. Such as, Yokuto's eyes were the same molten silver that I had come to know well. But his clothes were a dull color somewhere in between blue and green, but at the same time could have been gray. I quickly realized that the colors of things that I was familiar with my mind could easily place, but the colors I wasn't familiar with were mostly gray. Things were still a little hazy around the edges, but I had a feeling that it would get better with time.

I watched hesitantly as Yokuto twirled the tonfa in his hands. He lunged at me and knocked the bo out of my hands, landing a hit on my ribs as I tried to recover. I ducked under another hit, snatching the bo up out of the sand and swung at his legs. He jumped over it with ease, and I had to reel back and skirt away from another onslaught of spins from his tonfa. Before I could fully find my footing, he spun and sent a kick to the side of my head, sending me to the ground with stars spinning around me. I was fairly certain that the blow had knocked me unconscious for a few moments as I laid there in the sand. Yokuto came to stand over me.

"You're doing better," he said with a smile.

"You just knocked the shit out of me," I said with a painful hiss. "How is that doing better?"

"Because I was only able to hit you twice out of the twenty other times I tried," he said, reaching his hand down to me to help me up. I took it grudgingly and let him pull me to my feet. "I was correct in my assumption that forcing you to use your telekinesis and blocking your sense of sight is going to be a determining factor in your strength."

"What does that mean?" I asked with a sigh. "Human terms please."

"When you use your sight you over think shit," he said plainly, but I could see the amused smile on his face. "I doubt you'll ever be able to properly fight without a blind fold."

"Oh," I said with a huff. "That makes sense..I guess. But, why?"

"I believe it's because of the trauma you went through at Seikatsu's castle," he said quietly, his smile disappearing. "The darkness causes you to have a fight or flight response. Even though in your mind you can see, your eyes are still seeing nothing but darkness. It triggers in your subconscious."

I paused for a moment to let that sink in. "So, you're saying that in a round-about and twisted way that Seikatsu..helped me?"

"Seikatsu doesn't want you dead, Daelyn," he said, his voice even softer than before. "He wants you to become stronger. What he did, wasn't in around about way. He did help you to become stronger. We're just approaching this at a different angle."

I grit my teeth at his words and turned my head to look out over the ocean. I felt my stomach twist painfully. Yokuto was right. In his own sick and twisted way, Seikatsu was trying to make me stronger when he drugged me and stuck me in that dark room. There was no doubt in my mind that he was evil, through and through. But he had helped me. Not only had he given me an approach to my power and strength that made it easier for me to better myself, but he gave me a reason to better myself. I needed to get better, to get stronger, to protect myself and everyone I cared for, against him. I wouldn't let him catch me off guard again.

"Well," I said heavily. "I'll just have to thank him when I kick his ass," I said, turning back to face Yokuto with a smile. "But, he knows that I'm here," I added on a second thought. "He comes into my dreams to talk to me."

"I'm aware," he nodded. "Hiei told me," he continued, and I forced myself to not flinch at Hiei's name. "But a good friend of mine taught me a long time ago how to protect my lands from any demons that mean ill intent on me or any one on my lands. He actually had a helping hand in Hiei finding you. His name is Hisao."

"Huh," I hummed. "I'll have to thank him someday."

"I'm sure he would enjoy meeting you," Yokuto said, smiling once again. "Now, enough talking. It's time to continue 'knocking the shit out of you'."

I sighed and raised my bo into stance. I had a feeling I was going to be nursing some bruises after this.

David let out a heavy sigh as he sat on the couch, placing Daelyn's mp3 player next to the letter he had just finished writing. He had just gotten off work long enough to shower the smell of sickness and death off of him, and write his response to her letter. His body was worn and ached all over. The beginnings of a head ache had started to throb behind his eyes. He leaned his head back against the back of the couch and pressed the base of his palms into his eyes trying to ease the pain away before it got too bad. But he knew better than that.

These were the headaches he was becoming all to familiar with. He had been working in the ICU for the last two and a half weeks. Two of his patients had died today. One had been an older gentleman who had sustained a head injury. He had woken up and was stable for a few days before falling into a coma, becoming virtually brain dead. After three days of no response, his family decided to pull the plug. He hadn't even left the room when he heard the heart monitor flat line. The other patient was a young girl who had been sick with some unknown disease for a long time. She lost her battle with it early on in his shift, casting a heavy and dark air over him for the rest of his twelve hour shift.

Losing patients was inevitable. He knew that. But as he rubbed his hands down his face and stared up at the white ceiling he knew that each death would hit him as hard as the first death he had experienced under his care. Some days he wondered if perusing this career was even worth it, or if he had wasted all of his time and money in school to just not be able to help people. There were some good days that reminded him that it all really was worth it, to see families cry out in joy that their father, brother, mother, sister or any other family member that was important to them, had pulled through. They were going to live and they were going to be okay. He silently prayed to whatever God there was that tomorrow would be one of those days.

"Oh!" came a surprised voice, causing David to startle and sit up straight. His eyes landed on a coal eyed, ash colored haired man in the corner of the room, just stepping out of the shadows. "You're here. I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were home or I would have teleported outside and knocked."

"It's alright," David said, the tension easing in his body. "Tetsuya, right?" The demon nodded with a bright smile.

"I came a day early but, yesterday Daelyn took me with her to Misawa to do some shopping. She was really patient with all of my questions so I figured if you had written your letter that it could be my thanks to her," he said, rocking on the balls of his feet.

"I just finished," he said nodding to the letter and the mp3 player. "How is she doing?" he asked as Tetsuya crossed the room in two long strides to pick up both items. "Really. Not some generic answer she would give me if I asked her."

"She's doing really well," he said confidently. "She's getting stronger every day. Yokuto definitely pushes her, but it's nothing she isn't handling."

"Good," David said with a sigh. "That's good. I'm glad." He let his shoulders slump and rested his elbows on his knees, clasping his hands together. "How are her hallucinations?"

"I don't think she's had one since her first day of training," Tetsuya answered after giving a moment of thought. "At least, that's what Yokuto has said. But, I have to be getting back before Yokuto get's mad that I'm taking too long."

"Alright," David nodded. "Send my thanks to him for taking care of her, please."

"Will do," he said, crossing the room to move into the shadows in the corner. He paused to look over his shoulder. "And man, I know it's not really any of my business, but you don't look well. Maybe you should call someone."

David sent the demon a small smile and then he was alone as Tetsuya morphed into the shadows. Silence crept over him like a sickness, leaving him cold. He let his head hang in between his shoulders as he closed his eyes to listen to the faint ticking of the clock in his room. Days like these were the hardest with Daelyn gone. He hadn't realized before how much she livened up the house with her presence. Her snarky responses and general life goal to annoy him kept his mind preoccupied from wandering into places he didn't want to think about.

With a sigh he reached into his pocket to pull out his phone. Perhaps Shizuru was free.

I gave a quiet groan as I lowered myself into the hot spring. It was after sunset now, and I was covered in sand and bruises. The steaming water eased my aching muscles as a small smile etched across my face. It had taken me all day, but I had finally landed a hit on Yokuto and it had surprised him just as much as it has surprised me.

I spun away from one of his wide swings and batted the other tonfa away with my bo. My ribs protested against me, but I lunged forward and slammed my shoulder into his stomach, knocking him off balance. Before he could recover his footing, I swung my bo around and landed a hit to the side of his knees, knocking him to the sand. With my bo gripped in both of my hands over my head I swung it down, stopping just centimeters from the tip of his nose. He stared up at me in surprise as I blinked dumbly. He gave me a proud smile and I grinned in response.

Even though I had plenty of bruises littered over my body and I was extremely sore, I was proud of myself. The aches and pains were definitely worth it. Yokuto had said that we would spend a few more days on combat in order to finely tune my attacks and blocks, but we were close to getting into the next stage of my training: unlocking my telepathy. He had said that it would be the same as before, when I drew out my telekinesis. I would need Hiei's help to buffer away my own emotions from taking control over me.

My smile fell as his name crossed through my mind. I could sense his familiar simmering energy somewhere near by. The darker energy was almost non existent. I could barely sense it over his own energy. I really didn't want to have to face him, and I definitely didn't want him in my head while tried to unlock my telepathy that I had sealed away in myself, because of him in the first place. It seemed like such a long time ago that it had happened. I wasn't even fully sure of how long I had been at the temple. The days just seemed to run together.

Was this what Tetsuya was talking about with losing track of time as a demon? Time didn't matter because I wasn't really aging? I didn't have anything to worry about besides getting stronger? I wasn't really sure if I liked this feeling. Sure, it was nice to not be plagued by the thought of time, but it made me wonder what was going on outside of the temple. Normal people were eating dinner right now, then heading off to bed for school or work in the morning. Normal life was going on outside this temple, while I was here learning how to use my powers and worried about a demon with a mood problem not liking me back.

It was almost laughable. I would probably laugh about it in time when it didn't hurt anymore. It was strange. I didn't feel the same way about Hiei that I did Tetsuya. I know that I had realized it before, but I still couldn't figure out what the difference was. What I felt for Hiei was..stronger. A raw emotion that was stronger than my own will. Maybe his own emotions were effecting me and that's why I was feeling something for him. Perhaps I wasn't able to discern others emotions from my own as well as I thought I could.

That didn't make it hurt any less though. Maybe I had just over romanticized the idea of my first kiss. It was just a kiss. Just a stupid meaningless kiss. People kissed each other all the time without it meaning anything. It was foolish of me to think that it meant anything. I gave a quiet laugh. I was beginning to even sound like him, calling myself foolish.

But it wasn't meaningless to me. It meant something that I didn't understand. I wanted him and I wanted him to want me. Perhaps that was foolish and stupid of me, but I didn't care. Something about him made my body feel alive when he was near. I just needed to find a way to prove myself to him, or find a way to get over it. There weren't any other options.

With a sigh, I stepped out of the hot spring and wrapped the towel around myself. I walked over to the shelves and dressed quickly, then headed out of the bathing area and into the hallway. My stomach rumbled at me, reminding me that I hadn't eaten today. I braided my damp hair over my shoulder in it's usual style and headed for my room to find Mi. I found her curled up on my pillow. Her blue eyes slid open as I moved towards her.

"You hungry?" I asked her. She stood and stretched while letting out a large yawn. She stared up at me and gave me a mewl. I picked her up and she crawled onto my shoulders. She nuzzled her face into my still damp hair, and began purring as I headed for the kitchen. As I turned the corner, I came face to face with Tetsuya. He smiled brightly at me and held out a folded up piece of paper and my mp3 player.

"I went a day early to see if he had already responded or not so I could thank you for taking me around Misawa," he said brightly. I returned his grin and took the two items from him.

"Thank you," I said, clutching them to me. He followed me to the dinning area and kitchen. I sat the letter and mp3 player down on the table and headed into the kitchen to find something for Mi and myself to eat. I had stocked up on plenty of canned chicken for her, so after filling her bowl with a can of chicken for her, I settled on just some left overs from the night before. I noticed that the plate that I had saved for Hiei was missing out of the refrigerator. I shook my head, trying to push all thoughts of him away. I didn't want to think about him right now.

I sat at the table, and unfolded the letter.

Well, I suppose if Yokuto and Hiei trust Tetsuya, I won't worry too much about him being there. I'd say I'd trust your opinion, but you don't have many friends for me to judge on your choice of friends. Unless you count Yusuke, but then that's not working towards your favor right now. He seems pretty excited to fight with you. I'm beginning to feel like I need to step in for your own well being.

If becoming nocturnal was your life goal, I have failed as your older brother. Not because I crushed those dreams for you, but because they were your dreams to begin with. I must say, I am looking forward to meeting Yokuto. Don't doubt that I will find a way to prevent you from stopping me. You weren't the only one that got Mom's stubbornness. I need to figure out his method of making you actually do something productive.

Misawa is beautiful in the spring and fall time. I figured being secluded from the general populace would be something that you enjoyed. You've never been one to enjoy being out and around a crowd of people. Maybe turning into a demon has done you some good. Now instead of just looking like a weirdo, now you are a weirdo, even though I always knew that, and maybe you're trying to subconsciously make up for that.

How is your training going? I don't know if I can afford to replace all of the dishes in the house again, so it better be going well. Everyone misses you as well, Keiko definitely the most. She's really worried about you, and Yusuke isn't doing much to help saying that training is probably going to be one of the most difficult things you've ever gone through or done.

Shizuru is a nice girl and I do enjoy spending time with her. She understands what it's like to have an annoying kid sibling that likes to pester her. I hope things are going better between you and Hiei. I'll always be here if you want to talk about it.

I miss you. Come home soon.

I folded the letter back together with a shake of my head. If only he knew about what had actually happened between Hiei and I. But it was going to be a long time before I actually told him, if I ever told him.

"Everything okay?" Tetsuya asked. I looked up at him, to see him with a drawn expression.

"Yeah," I answered. "He just thinks he's funny. I doubt I'm going to live down breaking all of the dishes in the house any time soon," I said smiling.

"That is some feat," he chuckled. "But it was an accident, right?"

"He knows that," I assured him. "And I know that he knows that. It just a big brother's job to make his little sisters life difficult. Just like it's my job to annoy him. If it wasn't like that then the world would be set off balance."

He laughed and nodded at my statement. We spent the rest of the time of my eating talking and laughing. It kept my mind busy and away from the subject of a certain demon, who's energy poked at the back of my mind.

Three days flew by. I spend most of that time with Yokuto, trying to perfect my bo technique. He talked me through each block and attack, and I tuned my body into meeting each of his attacks head on. I blocked most of his hits, only being hit a handful of times. He was able to block most of my hits as well, but I was also able to hit him a hand full of times, which was a lot more than when I first started.

The ribbon blind fold did a lot to help me. At one point I had tried to fight with Yokuto with out it, to only come to discover that he was right. With out it, I over thought my every move, causing me to hesitate and thus, gaining more bumps and bruises. I quickly learned my lesson and went back to using the blind fold.

When I wasn't with Yokuto training, I was with Tetsuya. He sat with me every time I would sit down to eat to talk to me about things other than training. It was like he knew I needed some normal conversation to keep my mind sane. I soon realized that I was thankful to have him here. He was becoming a good friend. It kind of made me sad that my crush on him was fading. He was an absolute sweetheart, but the more I got to know him, the more he just became a good friend.

In those three days I hadn't seen Hiei once. He kept his distance, his energy and presence only lingering in the back of my mind. It hurt that he was avoiding me, but I wasn't going to go out of my way to try and talk to him. If he wanted to keep his distance, then fine. I was going to let him.

But today was different. Today was the day that I had to try and unlock my telepathy that I had locked away inside of my own head. I stood at the back door of the temple, trying to steady my breathing and ease my nerves. I could sense him outside on the beach. This was the closest I had been to him since that night that I had talked to him and he brushed me off. I tried to tell myself that it wasn't a big deal. He was just going to act as a buffer to my empathy while I was in meditation. But that meant he was going to be right next to me in my meditative state. He was going to be within arms reach in the physical world and standing right next to me in my subconscious.

Was he even going to say anything to me? Was I going to say anything to him? My nervousness built in the pit of my stomach and churned painfully as I slid open the door. I stepped outside and closed the door behind me, and slowly made my way to the beach. I could see him leaning against one of the poles that Yokuto had set up while I was trying to learn to control my telekinesis. He didn't turn to face me as I walked up to him and stopped a few feet away.

I swallowed at the dryness in my mouth, and tied the ribbon that I had clenched tightly in my hands around my eyes and sat down in the sand with my legs crossed. I heard him shift, but I refused to look up at him. I focused my mind on drawing into itself. It was easier to do so now that I had grown accustomed to using my telekinesis. I could use it to push everything out of my mind. I found myself standing in darkness. Hiei slowly began to appear next to me.

My eyes fell on his right arm. The black fiery energy that had engulfed it before was now just a dim light, while his own energy was still burning around him normally. He ignored my questioning stare. I pursed my lips and didn't bother to question him out loud. I doubted that he would answer if I did. So instead I moved forward, the colors erupting into a vibrant dance around us. The violet glow from his Jagan intensified, forming a protective circle around us. When he did that I could feel his emotions again. They washed over me, twice as strong as they were on the outside. I felt his anger and frustration. Beneath those were the tell tale signs of regret and denial. Just beyond that I could feel his want and lust, wrapped with the anger of the dragon. It caused my breathing to hitch. His eyes flashed over to me in a glare.

"Focus," he growled.

I couldn't find it in myself to answer him, so I gave a meek nod. I did my best to turn my attention away from him and listen to the darkness. I could hear in the distance the sound of my telepathy calling out to me. With his emotions still wrapped around me, I started towards it. It was hard for me to focus with his emotions running rampant around me. The anger was the strongest of all, but at the same time it felt fake.
Like it was a front to the other things he was feeling. It was if he was trying to drown out the other emotions with his anger, keeping me from searching too far into his feelings.

Even though the want and the lust were the faintest of all, they were still extremely powerful. The longer we spent walking in the direction of where my telepathy was sealed away, the stronger they got, reaching out to me and urging me closer. I could almost hear the dragon even though it's energy was weak. It called out to me, asking me for help, but at the same time whispering promises of things that made my skin flush. It didn't make sense. He had said that the kiss meant nothing, but his emotions told me otherwise. I didn't know what to believe. His words, or his feelings.

I did my best to ignore it, but it kept pushing forth and wrapping itself tighter around me. I wasn't sure how long we had walked through the sea of colors, but eventually we came to a glowing orb of pale blue light. It had been incased in a glass box and the flames of its energy was desperately trying to escape. Thousands of voices whispered to me, muffled by the glass walls. I started to reach my hand out for it, but paused, and turned to look back at Hiei who stood a few feet away from me.

"I don't understand you," I said quietly. His eyes flashed brightly, narrowing into a glare. "You said that the kiss meant nothing and you let me walk away. I thought I was stupid because I believed what you said. Now, I feel stupid for believing what you said. Your emotions don't lie, Hiei." I turned away from him and I could feel his eyes burning into the back of my head. "I just wanted you to know that I know that you lied."

With that, I reached out and touched the glass box. It began to shatter slowly, then split into a thousand glittering pieces. I gripped the orb tightly in my fingers. There was a bright flash of light, and then darkness.

YEAH DAE-DAE YOU TELL 'EM.

I'm sorry this one is so short. Buuuut this is the last chapter before we move onto the next part of the story with more exciting things. So, please forgive the shortness, and know that more excitement is to come with reappearances of a couple of characters.

So! If there is anything you would like to see more of, or any characters you would like to see more of, let me know! Now is the time to tell me while I spend the rest of the day brainstorming the next chapter!

dewa95: We're doing fine! The storms have all passed for now, and the clean up is going quickly. Hiei definitely needs to remove his head from his ass. Hopefully sooner than later. But we'll see:).

Pixie Faolan: I know Texas was getting hit pretty hard too! So I hope you and your family are safe and doing well! Tornado season is pretty rough haha.

Heve-chan: Awe, don't be mean to poor little Hiei. He's just scared and confused... No. Actually, be as mean as you want to be. He's an ass. He deserves every gash and burn the dragon gives him. The dragon is just doing it's best to help him, and he's ignoring it. So he brought it on himself. I love David and Shizuru together. When I originally came up with David I actually didn't have him paired with anyone. But I was going through and rewatching YYH to kind of brush up on everything before I started writing again and I just paired them up instantly. David is a high strung worrier and Shizuru is more laid back and chilled out. They'll do well to balance each other out. The storms have cleared off mostly. We have a few days of rain coming, but they aren't saying that they'll be sever, so hopefully we'll just have a few weeks of calm weather. But who knows haha. I do what I can for my readers:) I don't like to leave you all hanging.

Guest: Although her crush on Tetsuya is fading, he's definitely not down for the count! Who knows, he might make a come back.;) I'm not done with jealous Hiei just yet.

Ince: I'm glad you enjoy it! Everyone who reads this story is the whole reason I keep up with it. So I hope you keep enjoying it:)

Ashley: Well, I hope Gravity doesn't keep you from anything too important haha. I try and keep a fast update schedule, so you won't have to wait too long between updates. I hope you enjoyed this one!

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