Disclaimer: I don't own anything in this fanfic except the plot and the chars Raquel, Dagao, and Kouta.

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Previously:

He stepped out of the shower and she took a couple steps back, but stopped as she felt the wall against her back. He stepped in front of her and put his hands against the wall next to her head, and put his face close to hers so that their noses were almost touching.

"H-Hiead?" She asked nervously.

He stared at her silently before violently claiming her mouth.

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Raquel's eyes grew large and stared at him with a flustered, confused, and embarrassed look before her mind was able to process what he was doing.

/Oh my goddess, oh my goddess, what is he doing? Is he actually kissing me? And didn't he just get out of that shower so he is- Shit is my nose bleeding now? What is going on have I gone crazy or am I just dreaming this all up? Didn't I just have bloodlust with him? So why is he kissing me instead of hitting me? I'm so confused! This is all wrong, why isn't he hitting me? I just attacked him and tried to be superior to him, but he's just kissing me, I can't stand this! This is way too much, just get off, hate me, I don't deserve you!/

She abruptly pushed him away then burst out, "What are you doing?! I just tried to up you, be superior, subdue you! I just almost killed you! Why are you kissing me?! I don't deserve this, just hate me!"

At first, just for a couple seconds, he was surprised, but that passed and he smiled at her, she miss took it as a real one when only it was a fake smile. She ran out of the room and down the halls, not able to take it anymore, feeling like now she should be hated, cursed, and stoned to death by him, not kissed then smiled at.

The instant she ran off he wiped the normal smile off his face and replaced it with a smirk. /I suppose I'll have to giver her a little time, let her think it through and let it sink in. Eventually she will accept it, I know she will. But for now I'll just bide my time, get my ideas, and set the trap./

He then shut the door and stepped into the shower again.

*** the next day***

Hiead ran down the hall, 10 minutes ago training had ended and Raquel had never shown up. He had already asked Kizna and Saki, who she shared a room with, but they said she had never come that night.

He was about to turn another corner when he saw a door open. He turned to see Raquel walk out of the relaxation room and start walking in the direction of her room.

Hiead ran up behind her and, putting a hand on her shoulder, turned her around. "Where have you been?!" He yelled, then added, "And what have you been doing?" As he looked from her wet hair to her soaked clothes.

She glared at him with a surprised, angry, and annoyed expression. "Why do you care?" She snapped and turned away and started walking again.

He grabbed her and shoved her up against the wall. "Because you just made me miss a practice, you want to let Zero get ahead of me?"

"You, you, you! It's always about you isn't it? It all started with YOU wanting an upgrade so YOU can be better, then YOU not wanting to go to Rill because of your stupid ego, now all you can think about is how YOU can be the best, you don't care one bit about anyone else, its always YOU! Why don't you think about someone else for once? Just get off of me!" She then shoved him away and started walking away.

"Okami get back here now!" He shouted.

She ignored him and kept on walking, so he ran up behind her and turned her around, she hit his hand away and growled, "Don't touch me." She then turned around and started walking away again.

He then shoved her up against a wall again, but before he could say anything she had shoved him away again and yelled, "I SAID DON'T FUCKING TOUCH ME!" She glared at him for a few seconds, as if to finalize it, then started to walk away.

"Okami..." He said in a low, dangerous voice.

She kept on walking, but raised her hand and flipped him off.

He was just about ready to kill her, but then he remembered his plan and didn't want to ruin it anymore than he already might have just now, so he growled to himself about how annoying she was becoming and stomped off in the other direction.

Raquel walked back into her room to see Kizna and Saki talking, but she didn't seem to notice and walked past them. They both stopped talking and looked up at her walking towards the bathroom.

"Raquel?" Saki and Kizna both asked, and when she just ignored them and didn't respond they stood up and walked over to her. Kizna put a hand on her shoulder while Saki waved her hand in front of Raquel's face.

"What do you want?!" She yelled and shrugged Kizna's hand off her should and pushed Saki's hand out of her face then turned to glare at them.

Then were both momentarily dumbfounded by her sudden outburst and slowly backed away.

"That's what I thought..." Raquel muttered as she walked into the bathroom and locked the door behind her. She then took a shower, washing off all the blood, then came out, changed her clothes and started off back to Hiead's room.

When she got there she opened the door and walked in as though she owned the place. Hiead was quietly thinking to himself about only hell knows what, Clay was lecturing Zero about not listening to him, and Zero just wasn't listening to Clay.

"Hiead get fat, lazy-ass up off that bed, now! This time, I'm fucking taking you to Dr. Rill, and your not able to do anything to stop me this time." She said firmly and both Clay and Zero stopped to stare at her.

Hiead sat up and looked at her, one of his eyebrows rose.

"Hiead I said get off your lazy ass, now if you don't do it I'm going to carry you there, but no matter how much you complain I'm not stopping until you get those cuts taken care of." She said, placing her hands on her hips and glaring down at him.

"They're just fine, they've stop bleeding, and they don't hurt." He said, annoyed at her worry.

"I don't care what you think they feel like, they still haven't closed up yet and they could get infected, you ARE going to go with me, NOW!" She said.

He studied her for a few moments, there was a fierce determination that could even challenge his own, there was also worry, but anger along with it. /Jeez, she really cares that much about me? Normally I would never do this, but I need her to start thinking that I will listen to her and do some of the things she tells me to. It all fits into my plan./ He thought, so after a few seconds he stood up and started to walk out with her.

"There, that wasn't so hard now, was it?" She asked cockily, but he didn't answer.

Zero and Clay stared at the door as it shut, Clay pushed up his glances and muttered 'interesting'. Zero was the first to speak, "Did we just see Hiead actually do something someone else told him to do? And something that normally he would NEVER do for anyone?" He asked.

"It seems so, though it does not make sense, I wonder what he was thinking about before he stood up..."

"It's best not to try and think about what Hiead thinks about, it can mess up your head. I know, I've tried it."

"Well that's evident." Clay said, his lips twitching up into a smile.

After a few seconds... "Hey!"

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She silently started walking beside him towards the infirmary, pondering what to do and say, and wondering if she had dreamt up the whole thing. /Jeez, Hiead sure is acting strange lately, first he kisses me, and doesn't seem to be mad about my bloodlust, and now he actually did something I told him to do, am I dreaming?/

She pinched herself, feeling pain a troubled look came upon her face. Hiead had seen her out of the corner of his eye pinch herself and he smirked.

/Maybe I am still dreaming but I can feel pain in my dream even though I'm not really hurting myself maybe just because my brain thinks I'm hurting myself when I'm not... Does that even make sense? But I have to be dreaming.../

She stopped her train of thoughts because they just arrived at the infirmary. But then a sudden thought came to her mind. /Wait... usually after my bloodlust I can still feel it trying to take over but I can control it, but I don't feel it at all, why? I'm surprised it didn't start to kick in again when he kissed me, but it was just such a shock I don't think even my wolf side could do anything. But that doesn't matter now, I'll think of these things later./

Dr. Rill glanced up at them and sighed, annoyed at having to deal with Hiead today, she had been hoping for a Hiead free day. She stood up and walked over to him. She glanced at Hiead then Raquel, then back to Hiead.

"What's wrong now?" She asked in an irritated voice.

Hiead silently glared at her as he took off his shirt. She studied the claw marks and glanced over at Raquel.

"Another case of bloodlust kicking in?" She looked back at Hiead and muttered under her breath, "Maybe we should just shoot her out into space... Damn, now I'm starting to sound like Azuma..."

Raquel heard her comment and glared at her. Rill waved off the glare by walking past her and rummaging through various needles and different colored liquids. She picked a needle out and began to fill it with a green liquid.

"There's no need for that, my bloodlust is completely gone." Raquel said.

"Well that's what you said last time to wasn't it?" She replied and finished filling the needle then walked over to Raquel.

Raquel glared at her but offered no reply but just stuck out her arm.

Dr. Rill took her arm and pushed the needle in it and pushed the green liquid into her blood. Raquel glared at the needle as though it was the reason for all her problems and clenched her teeth as all her muscles tightened of their own accord. After a few minutes her muscles relaxed and she let out a small sigh and put her arm down as Rill walked away, putting away the needle then coming back to start cleaning out Hiead's wounds.

Raquel stayed as Rill cleaned and sewed up Hiead's wounds, but when he started to leave she didn't follow. "I'll be right out." Is all she said before Hiead walked out.

Raquel walked over to Rill, "Have you been able to find the cure yet?" She asked impatiently and Rill turned to glare at her.

"Well I've been studying it and I'm sorry to say, but there is no cure. I've been studying your blood samples I took both before, while, and after you had your bloodlust, and there's no difference, it's part of your genes and you can't change it."

Raquel glared at her as though it was her fault and stiffly nodded before walking out. Raquel glanced over at Hiead. He was usually always mad after having to go to Dr. Rill but now he was silently smirking to himself, sharing some evil plot with himself as she was left to wonder in horror what he could possibly be thinking about.

She started thinking of when he had kissed her only a little while ago and wondered if she had been dreaming, she decided to take a chance and ask him about it and what he and meant by it. So she slowly took in a breath and let it out, trying to get over her anger.

"Hiead..." She began and he stopped his train of thought to glance at her, "I was wondering, about that kiss you gave me..." She said slowly, choosing her words carefully. When he didn't say anything she continued, "Well what I mean is am I just going insane, or are you the one who's gone insane, or am I just dreaming?"

He smirked at her, then turned to her and grabbed her, pushing her against the wall and pressing his lips to hers, forcing his tongue into her mouth. The kiss lasted till the need for air was becoming a big problem. Hiead pulled away then turned and started to walk off before he paused and said over his shoulder, "I'm sure you can answer that for yourself." Then left her to ponder his odd behavior.

Raquel then silently walked down the hall thinking to herself about Hiead's sudden change in actions. /Jeez, he doesn't make any sense at all, I thought he would be as mad as hell, but then he just goes acts like he doesn't care at all and actually likes me. But that's not possible, he's to fucking cold for that to be possible./ She then got back to her room and threw herself onto her bed, picked up her head phones and turned on her music, slowly falling asleep, even though the music was blasting in her ears.

Raquel glanced around, she recognized this place at once, she had seen it so many times, and every time she loathed it more and more, but every time she was never able to stop it. She could hear the muffled sounds of screaming mixed with angry shouts, but the sounds were a bit muffled as though they were being made behind doors.

She glanced over in a corner to see a small girl, no more than 6 sitting curled up in a ball, trying to cover her ears as she helplessly whimpered, her body shaking from fear, anger, and tears. The little girl was wearing what used to be a blue sleeping gown, but it was now covered in blood and ripped in several placed, and evidence of old rips being sewn and patched up.

Raquel tried to cover her eyes with her hands, but to no avail, for she could still see all of what was happening. The rest was a blur to her as the dream went by, more screams of pain and blood was shed until all that could be seen was covered with the beautiful shades of blood, and all that could be heard was the soft crying of a child. Though the rest was just all a blur, Raquel knew everything in perfect detail.

Raquel sat up quickly, she was in a cold sweat and breathing heavily. The look of terror slowly faded from her eyes as she slowly laid back down onto her bed as she recognized her room in G.O.A. She glanced over at the clock to see that it was 2 a.m.

She laid like that for a while, to scared to close her eyes and have to face once again the haunting memories of her past. She slowly got up after a while and grabbed a towel then walked into the bathroom. She got undressed and stepped into the shower, she drew in a quick breath when cold water hit her bare skin, she quickly adjusted the water and leaned into it.

She put her back up against the tile wall and slowly slid down it until she was sitting down. She put her head on her knees and grabbed her legs, unwanted tears slowly started to roll down her cheeks as she sat there and let the warm water rush over her.

Ever since she was a child she had always loved the water and would always jump at any chance to go swimming or anything like that. Her and her brother would often go down to the lake and take a swim when their mother was either gone or to drugged up to care.

Her tense muscles and stressed mind slowly relaxed as the water washed over her body, she slowly stood up after a while and sighed. She then grabbed the shampoo bottle and started to lather it up in her hair and said to herself, "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that are inconsolable..."

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Ok, well that's chapter 5, hope you like it. OK, well the last thing Raquel said, "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that are inconsolable..." Is a quote I got from a picture on oekakicentral.com. It was done by Wanderer, the pic is called Remorseful Love, and if you want to see the pic this is where you can anyway I got this out before Christmas like I planned, yay! Anyway Merry Christmas everyone!