Aspera: Well, time for another update! Hope you enjoy. (By the way, this chapter is all about Regina and her point of view on all of what's going on. Arigato.) Sorry it is so short, but all comments are welcome.

A New Beginning Chapter Twelve: Much to Amend for.

Regina worked her way up through the layers of sleep that seemed to close in tighter and tighter around her. Not making it through them, she once again fell back into the unconsciousness. There, she seemed to be crowded in by images of her father and her mother.
Then, she found herself standing in an endless grove, surrounded by tall, green grass and a few, rare cherry blossom trees. The sky was dark, drabbed and covered in gloomy clouds that foretold a storm, a dangerous one. Regina took in her surroundings and began a slow, careful pace across the dirt path beneath her feet.

She seemed to walk and walk, seeming to do so forever. Abruptly, she stopped. There, before her very eyes, she saw her mother.

Akina sat beneath the cheery blossom tree, unawares of her daughter. Her lavender eyes seemed to be fixed out on the darkening horizon. Only when her daughter knelt beside her side, did she notice she was even there.

Regina tried to touch her beloved mother's face, only to see her hand go straight through as if she weren't even there. Hoping her mother could at least hear her, she asked, "Mother?"

Akina smiled absently and answered in an almost spiritual voice, "Ah, Regina, my daughter. I wondered when your revenge set path would bring you to me."

She raised a brow, "What do you mean, mother?" She sat fully next to her mother, but did not touch her, seeing as she couldn't seem to anyhow.

"I do not mean you are dead, Regina," she said as she smiled softly, "I meant you've been brought here to receive the message I've been wanting to give you."

"Message? What message do you mean? I see nothing you need to tell me about mother. I really don't." She told her in all honesty.

"I've just come to you in your dreams to tell you to get off your path of revenge. Join Momiji and Kusanagi, Regina," She said, slowly disappearing from sight with the surroundings as well, leaving Regina to float back into an empty abyss.

As she floated back to her unconscious body, Regina heard her mother's voice again, "Take care of them, Regina. They are going to need your help on the near future. The path ahead it going to be much, much rougher."

She sighed, drawing Kusanagi's attention for but a moment as she said, "I will mother. I'll take care of them."

Kusanagi blinked and then looked back down to the pale Momiji in his arms. Though he found it hard, he smiled softly, "You have much to make amends for, Regina, but I'm sure you'll find a way to do so."

Regina smiled slightly and settled onto her side, dreaming and thinking of what she would do when she awoke.

~*End of Chapter*~ Aspera: Some feedback, eh? Please.