The night was dark and cold, and Tenchi Masaki was just about to slip into

an uneasy sleep. Just as he was about to cross the bridge of contiousness

and the uncontiousness he heard a voice, a voice that rang through the

night.

He slowly got up and went down the steps. As he walked out he saw Ryoko

standing out in the cold, singing the most beautiful and sad song that he

had ever heard. It went like this...

~And now i¹m all alone again

nowhere to turn,no one to go to

without a home, without a friend

with our a face to say hello to

and now the night is near and i can make believe

he¹s here

Sometimes I walk alone at night when everybody

else is sleeping

I think of him and then I¹m happy

with the company i¹m keeping

the city goes to bed

and can live inside my head

On my own

pretending he¹s beside me

all alone I walk with him till morning

with out him

I feel his arms around me

and when I loose my way I close my eyes

and he has found me

in the rain the pavement shines like silver

all the lights are misty in the river

in the darkness

the trees are full of starlight

and all I see is him and me forever and forever

and I know it¹s in my mind

that I¹m talking to myself

and not to him

and although I know that he is blind

still I say there¹s a way for us

I love him

but when the night is over

he is gone, the river¹s just a river

without him the world around me changes

the trees are bare and everywhere

the streets are full of strangers

i love him

but everyday I¹m learning

all my life I¹ve only been pretending

without me his world will go on turning

a world that's full of happiness that I have

never known

I love him, I love him

I love him, but only on my own~

Tenchi waited for the song to end and, when it was, he walked up to

Ryoko. He was afraid that he would hurt her. She seemed so fragile and

frail. He slowly walked up behind her and touched her shoulder. With a gasp

she turned around ready to strike the person that had touched her, but when

she saw who it was she stopped and steeped back.

³You should go inside,² she whispered as it began to rain, ³you could

sick out in the weather.²

³No, I won¹t leave you out here in the cold all alone² he replied, then

added ³ and you are not on your own, I will stay here with you.²

³ I am on my own, no one cares about me²

³That's not true²

³ When is the last time you did something with me? When is the last time

that you talked to me? Talking, not yelling at me for something that I did

to upset you.²

Tenchi was speechless. He could not think of anything to say to what she had

said. All he wanted to do was to hold her in his arms and *keep her warm and

safe.*[I will tell you what it means at the end] That is exactly what he

did. At first Ryoko was shocked that Tenchi would do something like that to

a demon like her.[I hate it when she thinks that about herself! she is so

pretty and cool and all that stuff, but I had to add that in cuz it added

flavor, he he :)]

³I¹ll talk to you you now² he whispered in her ear, but then told her

shivering form, ³forget talking² and pulled into into a soft,sweet kiss. The

kiss lasted for a good minute and when it ended Ryoko asked with tears in

her eyes

³What did you just do?²

He replied by kissing her once more and then telling her, ³what I have

wanted to do for a long time.²

I love him, I love him,

I love him, but only on my own



A tribute to Eponine the woman who loved a man so much that she would risk

her life to bring him to the woman that he loved. That woman was not her.

That it the love of a soul full of truth and light. In he loving memory I

write this story.

Keep me warm and safe is a line from the song ³A little fall of rain²

that was used in a story by That Lonely Little EmoKid. It was good. I

recommend that you read it.