OH MY BOB!! I HAVE 16 REVIEWS!!! 16!!!! AND I ONLY HAD 2 CHAPTERS UP!
THAT IS LIKE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO COOL!!! OH AND I GOT A FEW
REVIEWS SAYING STUFF LIKE 'HOW COULD YOU NOT HAVE HITOMI AND VAN TOGETHER?'
well truth is......

THIS IS A HITOMI AND VAN FIC!! I AM SOOOOOOOO A VAN AND HITOMI FAN!

THANK YOU EVERYONE THAT REVIEWED! AND PLEASE REVIEW AGAIN! AND IF YOU WANT
TO KNOW WHY I'M YELLING WELL I'M EXCITTED AND THATS THE ONLY REASON, HAHA I JUST
LIKE CAPS! HAHA ok then.......

oh yeah and sorry about the spelling again, i have no one editing this....oops,
it's just spencer takes to long, haha BUT I LOVE YOU SPENCER! lol. but thats
because she is really busy with her own fic's.

OK! oh this is a good chapter! cliffhanger! well not really kinda, hahah.
oh my i'm hyper! :)! well hope you like this chapter.



Chapter 3

"Allen, Celena I'm glad you could come." Van greeted his two friend, Merle at
his side.

"Van, you too." Allen nodded his head.

"Hi Van!!! MERLE!!!" Celena and Merle clobbered each other with their hugs.
They were really great friends, when the couldn't see each other they would
write the other, not that writing to each other was bad it's just 'three'
times a 'day' at the 'minimum' is a bit much.

"Celena how have you been!?" Merle chirped.

"You think she'd know with the letters they write." Van murmured to Allen,
Allen nodded.

"Lord Van!" a man came running towards Van. "Lord Van! Your advisers request
you meet them right now."

"Are you sure it's important?" Van asked a little upset, it would be very
rude for him to leave his guests. The man nodded. "Allen I-" He got cut off.

"We understand Van." Van nodded in thanks and went off with the other man.
"Merle-" It was Allen's turn to get cut off.

"I know, he's not acting like himself." Merle answered before the question
came.

"Yeah, I noticed too, something's wrong. Do you think it had to do with the
meeting he's going to now?" Celena asked.

"No, it's something personal, I can tell." Allen was still looking at where
Van had left.

********************

"HITOMI! HITOMI!!!!" Hitomi put the pillow over her head to muffle her
mother's voice that was calling her. She then heard her mother say something
like 'go on up'.

'Oh my god!! Could it be him? The guy?! No mom would have woken me up, it's
probably my brother or-' But before she could finish thinking a head popped
in under the pillow with her.

"Good morning sleepy head," Said a familiar voice.

"YUKARI!!!!!" Hitomi screamed and jumped up in bed a hugged her friend to
death. Both girls laughed as they hugged each other still on the bed.

"Hitomi," Another voice was heard from the doorway. Hitomi froze, then turned
her head towards the voice.

"AMONO!" Hitomi jumped up on her bed and ran of the edge and literally jumped
into him hugging him. "Haha hi! Where did you two come from!? And why so
early!?" she laughed as she let go and went back over and sat on the edge of
her bed. Yukari joined her.

"Hitomi, first of all we live here, and why so early, well truth is it's not
all that early." Hitomi looked at her watch. It said '11:43'.

"OH MY GOD! I got to go to the mall!" She jumped up and started going threw
her drawers, picking out clothes she would wear. "Umm....Amono?" Hitomi
blushed as she was about to hall of her shirt then remembered.

"Oh, hahaha, ok?" Amono turned 100 different colors red with a sweatdrop and
left the room closing the door. Yukari then turned around, her back facing
Hitomi.

"Mall you say? Hey, I wanted to go out shopping too, can both of us go?"
Yukari asked still back on.

"Sure!" Hitomi answered while she haled on a pair of jeans and a white
halter top. She then brushed her hair and let it hang loose. Hitomi turned
around, she just then noticed. "YUKARI!" She screamed and ran over hugging
her friend once again. "Why didn't you tell me you were engaged?!" Yukari
who almost suffered from a heart attack smiled.

"Me and Amono were waiting for the right time to tell you." She laughed as
Hitomi let go of her.

"So when's the wedding?!" she laughed but then froze at the word wedding,
she remember what happened yesterday, and 'why' she was going to the mall.
Yukari noticed this.

"Hitomi are you ok?" Yukari looked at the now sad girl in front of her.
"What's wrong?" Yukari tried again.

"I guess that makes two of us," Yukari looked confused but then remembered,
Mrs. Kansaki had told them about their 'plans'. Yukari suddenly felt horrible
for Hitomi.

"Oh Hitomi," Yukari hugged Hitomi again who almost cried but forced herself
not to.

"Come on, lets go. Amono's waiting for us." Yukari watched her friend with
sad eyes as they descended the stairs.

********************

Merle had been worried all day about Van, he just wasn't acting right. She
had this strange feeling it had to do with Hitomi. It wasn't so bad now that
Celena was here to help occupy her mind, and keep her going. It was great
having someone around the castle you could talk and hang out with. Usually
she would be bored out of her mind, unless she was with Van. The court lady's
were so boring! How she hated to be even near them! Anyway, back to the
problem at hand, Van. If only she could get him to open up, but she had only
seen Hitomi do that. Though sometimes she could get him to, but, not like
Hitomi could.

"Merle you hungry?" It was Celena.

"Yeah, want to go back to the castle and get something to eat?" Merle and
Celena had wandered somewhere into the garden.

"Yeah sur- Merle what's that?" Celena had spotted something. It looked like
a cave or tunnel, behind all the vines and plants. When Celena got it all off
they looked in. It was like a long skinny hallway, Celena walked in.

"Celena where are you going?!" Merle wasn't sure about this, something didn't
smell right, or wrong, that's what scared her.

"Going in, what does it look like? Well, are you coming or not?" Merle froze
for a second, then scurried in after her. She nodded, they then carried on.
As they got farther in it got wider, they must have been walking for at lest
10 minutes when they came across a room, if that's what you wanted to call
it. It was round, but in the middle of the cave room there was a glowing
light. Merle grabbed Celena's arm as she started to walk towards it. Celena
looked back at her confused.

"Stop, something's not right." Celena looked back at the light. She turned
back and nodded.

"Should we tell Allen and Van?" She asked. Merle nodded.

"I don't know about you, but I want to know what it is!" Celena smiled and nodded,
they both turned around and ran out.

*******************

"How about this one?" Hitomi walked out of the change room wearing a plain
yellow sun dress with spaghetti straps.

"It's ok I guess, how about this one?" Yukari asked holding up a blue one
just like it.

"Yukari, this ones yellow that ones blue what's the difference?" Hitomi
smiled at her friend, she was enjoying the day, even though she was in a bad
situation.

"The difference is that this one is blue, that ones yellow," Hitomi laughed
and grabbed the dress from her and walked back into the dressing room. Amono
had stayed back at Hitomi's, he was having tea with her parents talking about
the wedding.

"Ok let me see it!" Yukari called out. With that Hitomi walked out in the
blue dress. "Oh that ones nice, try this one on now," Yukari held up another
dress.

"Yukari!!!" Hitomi looked at the girl in shock. Then laughed. "No I don't
like that one. Got anymore?" With that Yukari lifted another one from behind
her.

"Yup, how about this one?" Hitomi took it and went back in, when she came out
Yukari had a big grin. "That is so the one!" Hitomi looked herself over in
the mirror, she was wearing a orange skirt which went to her knee's, with
yellow flowers on it. Her top was a white sleeveless shirt with orange
trimming.

"Yeah I'm getting this," She took it off and bought it. "Yukari hungry?" She
nodded. "Ok lets go have lunch, my treat." Yukari picked up her bags and they
walked away chatting and laughing like teenagers.

*******************

"LORD VAN!!!!!!!" Merle called as she ran down the hallways of the castle.
"LORD VAN!!!! WHERE ARE YOU!!!!!!!!!??????"

"Merle?" Van's head popped out of a doorway.

"LORD VAN!!" She jumped. She hadn't expected him there.

"Merle did you want something?" Van asked stepping into the hallway. Merle
grabbed him and started running dragging him behind her. "MERLE! What are
you doing!?!?! Merle stop!!!" but she didn't she just kept running.

*******************

"Allen open up now!!!!!!!" Celena was banging on her brothers door. "ALLEN!!"
she screamed to him.

"Celena what do you want!!?" Allen opened the door. But she didn't answer she
just grabbed his arm and pulled him, running to the garden were they would
meet Van and Merle. "CELENA! What are you doing!!?" Allen yelled trying to
keep up with his younger sister.

********************

"Mom, Dad, Amono?!" Hitomi called when they entered the house.

"Yeah, Mom, Dad, Amono?!" Yukari called, Hitomi gave her a weird look then
laughed. Actually she wasn't surprised, Yukari was like her sister, she
basically lived at her house even when Hitomi wasn't home she could be found
here.

"We're in here dear's'," Hitomi's mother called, emphasizing the word dear
with an 's'. They walked in with bags in their hands. "Well looked
like you cleaned the stores," Hitomi's mother commented.

"No," Yukari laughed, "But we got some nice stuff."

"Oh and congratulations Yukari, Amono told us the news," Mr. Kansaki smiled.

"Why thank you," Yukari said after kissing Amono on the check. Then taking a
seat next to him.

"Yes I guess Hitomi's told you about her good news al-" Mrs. Kansaki got cut
of by her daughter.

"I wouldn't call it good news, and yes Yukari knows, but Amono doesn't I
don't think," Amono shook his head left to right telling them he didn't know,
but by the sadness in Hitomi's eyes he wasn't sure if he wanted to.
"Amono I'm sorry but I, -it'll have to wait" Hitomi choked on that sentence,
trying to keep in her tears. Everybody noticed. "Excuse me." With that Hitomi
grabbed her bags and ran to her room.

"Hitomi!" Yukari called, she was going to go after her but Amono grabbed her
hand.

"I'll go," He said simply, he stood up and kissed Yukari's forehead and
walked up to Hitomi's room.

********************

"What is the meaning of this?" Van asked as Celena and Allen joined them.

"Ok you wont believe this," Merle started.

"We probably wont," Van mumbled but she heard and gave him a look.

"But you will when we take you there!" Celena jumped with excitement. "Ok we
were walking in the garden, way, way, out back, when we came across a cave of
sort. When we walked in-" Merle interrupted her.

"We found a 'something'!" Merle jumped and Celena just kind of sulked cause
she didn't get to tell the good part, but it soon left as she wanted to get
going.

"A 'something'?" Allen asked, but very curious. They nodded in union.

"Come on!" Merle yelled as she and Celena ran off, Allen and Van followed,
both were interested now.



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