AN: Sorry it took so long to update. I don't own anything expect the doctors, nurses, the new dad too, and the plot. Sorta A/U and a little ooc

'***' Sceene changes '' thoughts
The door jingles and opens to reveal several figures standing in the doorway. Hitomi dimly wonders if it was time for her medicine or if it was her family who were visiting her.
Her friends, Amano and Yukari, had long ago stop coming to visit her since she had stop talking to everyone since she had been admitted into this asylum, claiming that it was too depressing.
Still, she hadn't said a word to anyone, not even to her mom, who had remarried to a man named Yushiko Tsunami, after her father's death several months after she had returned. She didn't like him, even if he was nice.
Her little brother, Mamoru, was the only one she would say anything to or give any signal to. He understood her, knowing what she had told him was true.
She looks up as five people entered the room. Her mom, a female doctor, and three male nurses, came towards her.
She cringed, trying to make herself even smaller.
"Hitomi?" Her mother's soft voice floated to her ears, "Please, talk to me, honey, so we can get you out of her."
Hitomi looks up at the older woman. Her mother had aged with gray hair lacing her honey brown hair. She looked tired as if she was straining against something.
She wanted to hold her mom, tell she would be fine, but she found that she couldn't. She couldn't move nor could she speak. All she did was stare blankly at them, willing them to go away.
"Hitomi," it was the doctor now, "If you speak to us, tell us what is wrong, we can help you." She told her, "Then you would get better an won't have to ever come back here."
A bitter laugh emitted from the young woman. It was a dry laughter that surprised even her, as it echoed through the room. She was surprised that she could even remember how to laugh, let alone do it.
"You....want to know what's wrong with me?" She asked, her voice was still a little raspy as she stares boldly at them, "What makes you think that there is something wrong with me?"
Her mother knelt by her, "Honey, you're sick. You've been talking about a place that doesn't exists, people who are no real, things that are not real."
The doctor nods, "It is true, Miss Kanzaki. You have been living in a fantasy world constructed of your own mind to retreat form the real world into one where you had a role, had things that you only dream of. And that is not how life works. There are no dragons, no animal people, no Gaea, no magic." She sighs, "Things like that just don't exist."
"Says you." She spat, "Van is real. Gaea is real." She stood up shakily on her legs, feeling awkward before getting her bearings, "I left it, leaving everything I loved behind, and for what?" She walks away, using her legs, "to be locked away in some padded room? To be left to rot here?" Tears welled up in her eyes as she slide down to the floor once again, "I left, thinking I needed to be here." She chuckled again, "And now, here I am, slowly going insane because I'm locked up in here where I can't see the sky, can't feel the wind or the sun, or rain." She looks at them, "And you ask me what is wrong? You're what's wrong with me. You've kept me caged like I would hut people when I haven't done a thing." She looks away, "If that is all you came here for, to analyze and categorize me, then leave, I don't want you to waste your precious time on me."
"Hitomi, please-" Her mother began.
"Mother, just go away and leave me alone, just like the others. Stupid mindless people in a world of white." Her eyes glazed over, "I want to go back, to Gaea, to Fanelia, to...Van."
Then something happened, something that they couldn't explain. A light came and surrounded Hitomi, carrying her up and up until she vanished and when she was gone, so was the pillar of light.
Hitomi's mother covered her mouth as the doctor and nurses stared at the ceiling. In a daze, they walked out, the doctor wondering how she was going to tell the council that one of her patients, literally, disappeared.
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"Lord Van!" a female voice shouts.
Van Slanzar de Fanel, King of Fanelia, winced at the sound of his name. He sighs as he ran his head through his raven colored hair and tried to resists the urge to roll his ruby-brown eyes as a well know figure came running up to him.
He turns towards the figure, prepared to fall as she tackled him, "Merle- oomph." The cat-woman tackled him, knocking the wind out of him as she licked his cheek. "Lord Van, where have you been?" She asked, her sapphire eyes twinkled into his. "The council wanted to see you!"
He rolls his eyes and sits up as she moves off him, "I know, that's why I'm here!" He told her and shook his head, "They want me to get married as soon as possible. Look at me Merle."
She did, tilting her head, "yeah?"
"Do I look like I need to be married now? Hell, I'm only twenty-four for gods' sake! I'm not that old yet!"
She nods in sympathy, but knew secretly that he was really waiting for his love, Hitomi, the girl from the Mystic Moon. She shook her head, inwardly sighing at the two people. "Well, it's that and also they have invited the princess, Sheila from Barsam, and the duchess of Lovington, Elvira Newton, to the palace. "
Van fell back and groans in annoyance. His advisers were annoying, but they mean well. He just wished they'd leave him the hell alone.
He rolls over onto his stomach. It had been a long time since the Destiny war and since Hitomi had left to the Mystic Moon. He had grown taller, perhaps one foot and half in the very least. His skin had a bronze tone to it from having been outside too much and his hair had grown a little longer but was still wild as ever.
Merle had grown as well, into a lovely young woman with shoulder length strawberry hair. She wore men's clothes for they were easier to move around in than those stupid dresses and her tail had more freedom.
Van sighs, "Do I have to?" He almost whines, making Merle giggle.
"Yes you do, and you better be nice." She told him and stood, "Even if they are boring!"
He shook his head and got up to leave, when the pendant, that Hitomi had given him to remember her by, started to glow brightly.
They stopped and stared at one another before he pulled it out. The pink jewel gleams in the sunlight as t began to swing in one direction.
Van looks at Merle, then they both dashed off to where the pendant swung. A pillar of light filled the sky, as they neared it, bestowing a single object to the ground. When the light cleared, Van's breath caught in his throat at the sight of the figure on the ground.
The figure was in a fetal position; its honey colored hair gleamed as well. The figure was wearing white and was barefooted.
The pendant around Van's neck grew brighter as they approach the body. He knelt, carefully, beside the body, moving the silky hair from the face. He felt the sting of tears behind his eyes as he gathered the body to him, holding it tightly, allowing one single tear slide down his cheek.
"Hitomi."
AN: A little sap, but that's it. It'll get better...or worse, depending on your pov. R&r