Wooooooohhh! Did ya guys really like THAT chapter? I thought it was stupid, really, really stupid =.=

Thanks to Ah Young Song for reviewing every chapter. YOU R KOOL! THANKS! I LOVE YA! ARIGATO! GRACIAS! AND MANY OTHER CRAPPY THANKS! Ah, I'm so happy some ppl think is good.

An' to WereWolf (I like ur nick!), Gomen Ne ^^'' I was really tired and I fell asleep on my keyboard and my mommy told to get the friggin' hell to bed, so I just ended it, and yes, it was a little too rushed, sorry for that too. I doubt I am talented O.o I have this psychotropic trauma, I have a couple of pyromaniac problems, that's why I got interested in Escaflowne, because of Dilandau-Sama.

Yeah, well SORRY FOR MY SPELLING ERRORS!!!!!! (Just how many times I've say that O.o??)

Disclaimer: Heck! I used to have a parrot that used to scream: VAN-SAMA!! But suddenly the lawyers pulled his beak off.

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CHAP 8: The Melody for The Blue Eyed Angel

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Zenji's mind raced for a solution as he saw the clock swinging back and forth. Was this how everything had to be? Just when he thought it was good, was he going to give half his heart in exchange for the other? Of course Alia's marriage would get annulled and she would get free, but what about Tsuki? HIS Tsuki?

He admitted it to himself. The short time she had been with them, it was enough, he had fell in love with her. A couple of glazes at her emerald eyes were enough to bewitch anybody. Even if her eyes were could and burned with hatred, he could still see love and hope. I tiny bit, but it was there, and that was enough to live. The little Neko had stolen his life with a couple of glances, and a few words from her angelic voice.

He knew from the beginning that Cat Folk and Land Lords weren't allowed to couple, but he didn't care. They could run away, they could ignore the world. He could give everything away for her. Because her courage taught about the will to live, it taught him about as bad as a situation seemed, it kept surviving, her inner force amazed him.

As he twisted the thoughts around, it was harder for him to decide. Suddenly he tried to look ahead. What would happen if he lose either of them. It didn't matter whom, life would be totally sad.

"Anything yet?" Said Stephan as he kept dangling the clock. The silver chain sparkling with the sunlight.

Zenji stared attentive at it, as it made its way till the chain could not lift more. Anything that was silver reminded him of Tsuki, and the simple thought drowned him for hours, as time seemed endlessly everytime he watched her.

"Ahhhh, gray one," Said Stephan as he retracted the pocket clock while in mid air with one quick swing. "Shall I say, 10 o'clock?" He said as he opened the clock with a flick from his finger.

Zenji looked at Stephan puzzled. It was obvious that he had no idea for the time requested. He watched as Stephan stood and walked to the door. Calling a couple of his own servants. While Zenji stood confused, glancing occasionally at Alia who had been amazingly quiet.

"T... ten o'clock?" If he had known, he wouldn't have asked.

Stephan turned around and faced Zenji. His golden eyes clawing holes at Zenji's soul, as he slowly walked towards him again.

"Yes, Ten o'clock. You must have one by then, and the other one will go with me." Stephan turned once again, walked out without a care on the world, leaving a shocked Zenji behind.

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Tsuki saw Stephan walk away. Her own thoughts threatening to kill her at any instant they could.

She had been stupid. Why did accept their offer? She brought no more than problems. Sometimes she just wished to wake up and watch his smiling face at the breakfast table, always so happy and delightful. But she couldn't go back. Her beloved was happy now without her.

Her sad love story was written in her eyes, but no one besides her beloved and the golden birds could read it. Green eyes telling of a faraway place, where she was gladly settled on.

Too many times she was told, 'he's not for you, forget him now and live on.' Sad words engulfed her soul, as sad nights went by. Her love story a sad one was. Uncorresponded love all the nights. Plans for him had been made, and she was not on them

She overheard the evil plot, and she had been whiling to die for him. All she did, how her loved one reacted, what the people thought, it was for her heart to keep, and only for the angels to read.

She saw Shasa walk in and pick up Lady Alia. They left Zenji alone, with his thoughts to accompany him.

Then, when he thought he was the only one to see, a couple of wet streaks were summoned to his cheeks. And she felt moisture at her own eyes while seeing his ice blue eyes.

She jumped at a lower branch, nearer to the window, and hid behind the fresh smelling green foliage. She carefully rolled her tail up and crouched behind. She felt guilty. Very guilty. If she had trusted Zenji and hadn't come to check on them, the Midnight one wouldn't have seen her, and her dear Zenji wouldn't have to drag his feelings...

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He felt tears run down his cheeks. He hadn't cried since his mother died. He had be the nicest Land Lord in this whole region, but there's no room in his heart for anybody but his sister.

Sometimes you wonder how can you change so fast, how can you give you ideals for something totally different. Her Moonlight Neko had showed him so much in so little. But somehow she didn't do what she taught, live on forwards. There was something in her heart she kept waiting for, and she would wait for till the end of her life, and even more. So many secrets seemed impossible to bear in her heart, but she kept them for her alone.

His mind kept going back to the Neko as hard as he tried no to think about it. She was almost human. She was more than a simple Neko. More than anybody.

His heart ached. So many years. He didn't want his sister to go. Stephan had hundred for girl falling for him, why his sister when there were so many others? So far he had 3 options; he could give Alia, he could give Tsuki, or he could go to battle, die, and then Stephan would steal them both.

Everything was closing around him, everything seemed so tiring. He could no longer stand up. The emotional stress was more than he could take, his legs failed him and he was soon sprawled on the floor, his silver hair fanned around his tears stained cheeks. When had he become so weak? When? .... Why?

He closed his eyes, all happiness drained totally from him. He felt his fists balled up, and how his legs didn't want to move. Just as it happens when we wish to die and leave everything, don't care about anything... just forget...

He felt a swift breeze play with his silver bangs. Inviting him to fly far away. To forget... a breeze... he remembered the window was closed. He tried to look, but there wasn't any ounce of strength left in his body. He just lay there defenseless.

He felt a presence next to him. Alia. He sure was just sorry that she had to see him like that; broken down, hopeless... pitiful... Had he failed as a son and also as a brother? Things couldn't get worse what all that could fit on his head. The same words dancing in his head: Just Forget.

"'m sorry....." He said hardly, words struggling to keep inside him. "'m sorry... I've failed you as I failed my mother and father... I..."

He felt soft hands caress his skin, lifting his head and laying his head on her lap. She brushed his silver bangs and wiped his tears stained cheeks, gently stroking his pale face. She took his hand in hers and took a deep breath.

Zenji felt a warm drop fall on his cheek, making its way down the once soaking trail. Another and yet another one followed it. As a tear made it's warm way down, his heart and soul warmed more and more.

"You didn't fail anybody," The soft words made their way to Zenji's clouded mind. It was the angel's melody. The one who watched over him. Somehow it was always there when he needed it the most.

"Wishing on a dream that seems far off,"

What was that? Zenji felt this heart been torn with the sweet voice. He knew who the angel was. It was obvious from the beginning, but why now?

"Hoping it will come today..."

He wanted to cry, he wanted to yell, he wanted to die, he wanted to love and suffer..... He wanted to know how to feel.

"Into the starlight night,"

She kept singing as she gently stroked his face and held his hand in hers; there were times like these she had suffered through and knew how lonely they felt.

"Foolish dreamers turn their gaze,"

She hadn't had anybody's shoulder to cry on, nobody to listen to her, nobody to help her when she fell...

"Waiting on a shooting star..."

Zenji wasn't ready to suffer. He would eventually have to, but not now, not while she was there. Not while she could do something....

"But... what if that star is not to come?"

She felt Zenji loosening on her lap. He was relaxing, falling asleep... As she once wanted to do in the cold nights...

"Will their dreams fade to nothing?"

There was only one exit to this, one way to finish his suffering. So young and handsome to ruin his life for a pesky cat girl.

"When the horizon darkens most,

We all need to believe there is hope...

Is an angel watching closely over me?

Can there be a searchlight I have yet to see?"

Once again she had to repeat the safe curse. Not physically, but emotionally. Her heart belonged to her beloved, and it always would...

"I know my heart should guide me, but...

There's a hole within my soul..."

She was the rock in the boot, the falsehood in love, the thorn in the rose... how could they love something that caused so much pain?

"What will fill this emptiness inside of me?

Am to be satisfied without knowing?"

She felt Zenji breathing steadying up. She wiped her tears and stroked Zenji's hand.

"Now all I need...."

She pulled a cushion from the sofa, and proceeded to lay Zenji's head on it. She kneeled and pressed Zenji's hand shut.

"Is my star to come..."

She stood up, watching Zenji bathing in the afternoon sunlight. Tsukiakari, moonlight, jealous of the sunlight who could be with anybody, carelessly from the deep blue sky. While her name told of beauty, it was nothing but sadness.

"Bye, Zenji. I wish I could love you too. But you deserve someone better, someone special. Bye, my dear. Don't let the ghosts from the past scare you. Sometimes it's better the way it finished all up. Live while you can, and be sure to always keep a drop of hope in your sweet heart."

She closed the window, so the night air would not wake him, and left as quietly as wind. Always glancing back, hoping she could have his face chiseled in her broken heart forever.

Her eyes were hard as stone once again and she went downstairs, to the only way she could help.

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Zenji woke at the white light hitting his face, like if it were biding him to wake up immediately.

He stood and looked at the source... The full moon ... moonlight... Tsukiakari .... Tsuki...

Before his thoughts hit his brain, he was already running down stairs as fast as he could. He didn't care if he fell and broke his neck, he just know he had to be down there.

At the last steps, he tripped and was sent sprawling to the ground. As he prepared to stand up, he could hear cries in the main hallway.

"Z..Zenji! A...are you ok?!" He heard Alia's heart broken cries.

"Where's Stephan? Where's Tsuki?" He babbled out, his fear getting the best of him.

"He took her! She went with him! She... she..." Zenji stood up again and ran to see Alia siting on the cold floor, Shasa and a couple of servants trying to get her to sit on a chair.

As soon as he saw she was ok, he opened the main door. And he could see at the distance, the cart lights riding into the vast darkness, along with his heart.

"Zenji. She said something!" Said Alia, before Zenji could leave. She saw him turn around and face her, like if it wasn't something strange.

"Wh...What did she said?" Asked Zenji slowly, watching Alia s she stood up and walk towards him.

She wrapped her arms around his neck and starting sobbing, almost choking with her sobs, she whispered in his ear.

"Sh..She said: 'Please, don't look for me.'"

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Uhhhhhhhhhhh! Lil neko gone bye-bye! It was a long chapter... IT WAS! DON'T TELL ME IT WASN'T!! I spend all the day writting it, so I hope to get at least ten reviews. That's weird, I've seen 4 chapter long stories that have a hundred-dunno-what reviews, and their sories are so cliché O.o! That's weird.

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