Sorry to all of you who felt offended by my previous author comment, I was having a reeeally bad day, and well. It was not meant as a threat, I will not end this story when I'm so close to finishing it But I do like you to review anyway you should know

"calm before the storm." That's what this chapter is, just a shortie before the ending chapter, which will probably blow your mind:D I hope.

"It has been a month already; do you think she'll be back?" A woman asked. Kyoshiro turned around aggressively. His eyes flared and the woman understood that she had gone too far. No one dared to doubt her arrival, she would come.

"If I had been Kyo, you would have been dead now, Okuni." She nodded and smiled.

"I know that, that's why I asked you. But I remember the time, when you were worse than him." She said sweetly and poured him a cup of tea. She sighed and stopped, placed the tea pot on the floor and the cup just beside it.

Kyoshiro watched her.

"You miss her too, don't you?" He asked her, she dropped her gaze to the floor.

"She was kind; I didn't have to act, as I always have done. It has always been my way of using people, to act and make them fall in love, or think I'm their friend. Yuya, she saw the worst of me, still she accepted my presence. Maybe, she was the one I should have fallen in love with, not Kyo?" She looked at Kyoshiro, and for the first time Kyoshiro could remember, he saw real tears slide down her cheeks.

"We all miss her; we all need her for different reasons. She's our glue Kyoshiro; we're all gathered again, just because of her."

"Kyo, I need to speak with you." Kyo didn't bother to turn around to greet him, and he knew he wouldn't care. They all knew how Kyo was, so it was no big deal.

The older man sat down beside him and placed his sword at his left side.

It was amusing to Kyo that this commander still looked as feminine and young as seven years ago.

"I've been thinking, and it seems like all of us here are happier than we've been in seven years. We're gathered like a family, we talk and laugh together. Just like we used to." He stopped. Kyo turned and shoot him a glance.

"What are you suggesting?" He asked and his red gleaming eyes seemed to light up. The black haired commander smiled his mystical and feminine smile.

Kyo understood and nodded.

"Inform me when you're done. " And the conversation was over, if you could even see it as a conversation at all.

Her eyes, like empty shells of the life they used to hold. Her skin, like dust from a once lively fire. Her hair, like a forest of dead trees unable to spring into life. This was her appearance, this was how people saw her, but inside. She was still very much alive. She was so alive that she felt like she was burning up. Her heart beatings like a madman and she could feel the blood rushing trough her veins, like an angry northern wind.

Her almost dead body, was just a prison, she could break free from it any time and leave. She knew that much. What of Kyo then, would he wait forever for her? Yes, he would.

"Girl, you're hurt." A male voice broke trough her barrier and she could actually hear his voice. She hadn't heard a human voice in several days. She tried to speak, but her throat was dry, as she hadn't drunken any water the last two days walking in burning heat. She turned to look at the man, as a gesture that she had heard him. And in the very next second, pain shoot trough her body, starting from the wound in her stomach and spreading outwards until it reached her fingers and toes. She broke down into a shivering heap, pain burned in her throat as she tried to scream. How long she was consciously in pain, she knew not, but she knew that when the man who had spoken to her, lay his arms around her and lifted her up, she knew, that the pain soothed somewhat. The man, looking somewhat familiar took her to an Inn, summoned a doctor and let the doctor do his job. Immediately when the man left the room, pain exploded inside her, and a heart breaking scream filled the air.

"How is she doctor?" The man asked. The doctor shook his head.

"She's unstable, and should have been dead several days ago, but her strength; I've never seen anything like it. Who knows if she'll survive or not, it's all up to her now. " The doctor wiped his forehead with a cloth and walked away. The man opened the door into her room and stared at her lifeless frame, what power lay there in her, which he had not seen seven years ago? That wound in her stomach was from a sword, and a very strong man had showed it into her. Had she been in a battle? He didn't want to think of it, what mattered now was that she became well again. It was something she needed to do; he had seen that much in her eyes before she had fainted into his arms. She had looked like a machine.

He knelt beside her and placed the bokken over his lap, and there he sat, watching over her.

"Maybe I'll go with you back to Japan, Yuya-han, maybe I will…"

So review please, it's important for me to see if there is something you don't understand, after all this is kind of a strange story, with characters who's not in the anime, only the manga. I'm sorry if this confused some of you. I'll give anyone of you a short briefing on the characters you'd wish, just ask

Peace and love.