CS: This is more reviews than I expected but that's a good thing.

Yami CS: Yes thank you for the reviews.

Seto: Ok enough jabber lets get on with the story.

Yami CS: It's not polite to interrupt someone.

Seto: Like I care.

Yami CS: You will. *holds up a journal *

Seto: Umm..nevermind that. What I meant was the readers would like you to continue.

CS: That sounded much better.

Yami CS: I know hehe..

Seto: *growling standing to the side *
~Jou Pov~

It was true I cared for Seto like he was my brother at one time. Neither of us cared for many but we would give all we had to the other if they were in need. Though as we got older I will admit the love I held for him grew greatly. I never spoke the words aloud, especially to him.

Then he took Shizuka that spring day. That was the day the sunshine betrayed me. How could the sun shine on that day? How could the birds sing?

I was still asleep but there were no dreams, which I found comforting. I also felt a slight shifting. He was in the room with me, and no less on the bed. Why did he seem to show me such care and tenderness now?

I managed to open my eyes, which were greeted by a pair of cerulean ones that seemed to hold relief and sympathy. I sat up looking at him.

"Why are you in here with me? Tome for another snack?" I spat at him in annoyance.

He sighed and shook his head "No I was concerned you fell asleep so suddenly I was afraid I had taken too much blood from you."

I looked at him hardly believe a word he said. Though I just nodded looking at him coldly. I wondered how I could have loved him.

Seto sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

"I suppose I should tell you why I did what I did." When I looked at him his eyes were hazed and watered.

I nodded "Yes I would like to know why you murdered my sister."

He nodded and closed his eyes before he began to speak.

"I was young and foolish when I did that. I am sorry for the pain I cause you but doing that to her hurt me as well even though you may not think it did. She knew I was different when I saw her again. She knew I was ill so she offered herself to help me. I hadn't yet taken anyone. I was afraid but she smiled and nodded reassuringly to me. She told me she would do anything to help. I didn't want to but I did. I am ashamed of that. Because of that I lost Mokuba."

I was taken aback by his tone and the grief he seemed to show before his brother's name came into play. I did something that startled us both I took his hand lightly. He opened his eyes and looked at me. Then he continued.

"I am so sorry word cannot express the sadness and grief I hold. I loved your sister as though she were my own. I lost you as well someone I had come to love so strongly."

At that point he began to weep. Had I been too hard on him? He had killed Shizuka but he..seemed as miserable as I. I pushed the blankets over me aside moving closer to him. He half paid attention to what I was doing. I sighed and put my arms around him lightly as a comforting gesture he accepted this without hesitation.

If this was all some cruel joke I would cut out his heart and feed it back to him slowly. He seemed so heartfelt and sincere though.

I could feel his chest rising and falling with his now lightened sobs. His head on resting on my shoulder turned toward my neck. He held lightly to me. I was beginning to think I had done him a great wrong. This man wept for all he had done as I had wept. I kept one arm around his shoulders lightly and raised my other hand running it gently though his hair. He made no move to stop me so I continued this.

"Thank you."

I heard him say quietly I could barely make it out.

I just nodded weakly closing my eyes still smoothing his hair to calm him. I felt like I was comforting my dear Shizuka again. Though I knew it was not she my heart felt heavy and burdened. I felt my eyes begin to tear even though they were closed.

Seto had made a point earlier. Without the other we were all alone. I could not kill him and I knew this now. Then I also realized he could not kill me either or he would have most likely already.

"You should get some rest. I interrupted you before now I will not." I said laying him down on the bed. He looked up at me as though pleading with me to stay. I had never seen him like this before. I hesitantly laid down a space between us.

That seemed to be enough for him. It was not long until he fell asleep. I looked at him my hands behind my head as I lay there staring at the ceiling thinking.

In his sleep he soon was curled up against me. I did not push him away. I had not wanted to even if I had I did not have the heart to do that to him.

I began to feel my own eyes grow heavy. As they slowly closed I heard something. That something turned out to be Seto's heart beating. I smiled faintly before letting myself fall into my dreams.

I hoped that no nightmares would find me. The last thing I needed was to wake up weeping. I must seem weak enough to him already.

There was nothing horrible in my dreams.

Just some old memories that would not be all too painful or so from the beginning it seemed so.

~Dream~

I stood on the roof looking out at Domino. I smiled faintly looking at the cape I wore that flapped in the wind. The moon was in the sky. It was a crescent moon. It was not overcast but no clear. I walked along the rooftop. I stopped turning as I heard the ruffle of cloth. I turned to see Seto smiling at me.

I smiled as well relaxing. The years of hunting must have made me jumpy. He walked toward me and put his arms around my waist once he got to me. I smirked and was about to say something when he let go. Seto turned growling carefully making sure I was shielded. I looked a little unnerved by all this.

It took only moments to happen. I heard it the click of the metal. A sword? Or dagger maybe? Then I saw a blur of something dash by us. It all happened so fast. I watched as Seto fell to his knees weakly. My eyes widened in horror.

God no not another one of them gone.

I looked at Seto.

"Seto?" I asked quietly my voice sounding weak and alien to me.

He looked at me and smiled. He was about to fall forward but I caught him tears stinging my eyes threatening to become rivers of my sorrow. I looked at him a long slash down his side and a dagger still buried in his chest.

I felt the tears falling down my face but I made no sound. I pulled out the dagger and wrapped the wounds with part of my cape that I tore off.

In the end it was hopeless. I could not save him I knew I could not. I lifted him up , he felt alarmingly light. I rocked him back in forth in my arms as I cried into his soft hair. He smiled a bit looking up at me.

"Jou.you know I love you and I will for forever and a day."

I was beginning to choke up this could not be the end dear god it could not. Someone save him he's just a fallen angel. His wings need mending.

He slowly went limp in my arms. He had spoken his last to me. I was powerless to save him. Just like Shizuka.

I prayed to god to bring him back to me. I pleaded to the heavens and hell that I would do anything for his return. My pleas were in vain. They went unheard.

I stayed on the roof holding him weeping clinging to his lifeless body.

I had lost them all. I was alone. Now.nothing mattered any longer.

I remember hearing something about loving. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. I doubted that highly at the time.

I stayed like that for hours. The police came along with an ambulance crew. They could not tear me away from him.

They all pitied me. I continued to cry more so when they finally took his body away from me. I had lost everything so quickly. Everything.