*Untamed~Angel~11*




"Hitomi what's wrong?!" Dilandau asked lowering his sword. Her eyes were dialated and her lip was trembling. She shook her head and started to stand. Miguel walked over and helped her up, but she pushed him away and walked away towards her room. Dilandau watched her leave, then put away his sword, told the other Slayers to get back to practicing, and followed her. He found her walking down the hall, and to his surprise, walked right passed her room. She threw her sword across the hall and walked into the hanger, combing her fingers through her hair. Dilandau picked up her sword and walked into the hanger to find her standing on the ledge, watching the fields gliding by, her hair being ruffled slightly in the wind. Dilandau was
shocked at how she looked. He shook his head and walked over to her. "Hitomi." She jumped and turned to look at him.
"What is it?" She asked, her voice barely above a whisper.
"I can tell something is wrong, now what is it?" She looked at him with an emotion in her eyes that Dilandau could not identify.
"I'm surprised you noticed, Dilandau-sama." She said, her voice full of resentment.
"What are you talking about?" He demanded.
"Well, all you seem to care about lately is whether or not your Dragon Slayers are strong enough to win this battle, or take over that country. I'm surprised you noticed anything outside the warfield." Her words seemed to hold more hatred then Dilandau
ever felt at once.
"Hi...tomi? What, what are you-I, I don't understand." She laughed.
"I am not surprised. You males are all the same." She bit her lip, then looked down and laughed again. "I should have learned by now, but like the fool I am..." She turned to him. "...I thought I had found someone I could trust. I guess once again, I was wrong."
"Hitom, what are you saying?!"
"I'm saying goodbye, Lord Dilandau. I can't stand this warlife anymore. I wasn't raised like this. I wasn't taught to needlessly slaughter men and families just to say I own a country." Dilandau was shocked. "Maybe sometime, you'll run into me again." She let out her wings, standing on the edge of the hanger. "I hope not." She then jumped off the edge and took off.
"D*mn!!" He hissed. He looked around the hanger, then back at Hitomi as she landed on the field, then streaked into the forest. "We will meet again, Hitomi. I'll make SURE of it."
Hitomi sat in front of a fire, staring at it blankly, thinking about Dilandau. *I can't believe it. I can't believe I had the guts to trust another male. You'd think that after my father dying on me, my brothers disappearing and my first crush cheating on me, that I would learn that you just can't trust males.* She laughed, then looked up at the sky. *Well, I shouldn't say that my brothers disappeared. I found both of them again, didn't I?* "So where are you now, brother?"


Van stood on his balcony, overlooking Fanelia. *I heard Dilandau call her Hitomi. Why does that name seem so familiar?* He turned and walked back into his room, studying an old family painting. *And she seemed so familiar.* He focused on the small female in the photo that was his little sister. Her hair was the same color as Hitomi's but much longer, and her eyes were a vibrant emerald green. "Wait a minute!!" He ran into the room where Allen was.
"Allen!! Your family has been friends with mine for a long time right!?" Allen looked startled.
"Yeah..."
"What was the name of my sister who disappeared when Fanelia was first attacked?"


*Woods~outside~Fanelia*
Hitomi stirred the coals of the burnt out fire and looked up at the sky where the two moons hung.
"Should I go and find him? I mean, he may have abandoned me, but still, I don't have any other family left." She stood up and grabbed her bag. Something fell out and she looked down to see what it was. It was her dagger. She paused, studying it, then kicked it out of her sight and headed towards the kingdom.


Van stood on the wall, steaming. "What does Allen mean, 'he doesn't remember'?!" Van sighed and walked over to the edge of the wall, looking down. He ran a hand through his hair. "Why in the world can't I shake the feeling that I know Hitomi as more then just an aquaitance?" He shook his head. "This is really getting to me." Van pulled out his sword and started to go through the paces, but stopped when he saw a figure walking through Fanelia. He lowered his sword. "What? Who's out in the village in the middle of the night?" He got down and walked through the castle until he got to the bottom floor and walked outside, ignoring the guards that were begging him to go back upstairs. He walked through the village until he saw the stranger pausing by one of the stands. *My guards were warning me about a theif* He pulled out his sword and stalked towards the 'theif'. The person froze and turned at the last second as Van charged at them and knocked them down, causing the hood they were wearing to fall down. He stared at the person in shock. "Hitomi?!" She twisted uncomfortably under his weight, an extremely annoyed look on
her face as she struggled to get free from under him.
"Nice to see you too, brother."



I have been forgetting the disclaimer so, regretfully, I do not own Escaflowne. *sniff* My life is so unfair!!

Dark Angel ^_~