PatrickRocks8800: HELLO! I'M ON A SUGAR HIGH FOR ONCE!

Cowgirl2: *thinking* Oh boy not again. I hate it when he's on a sugar high. Well I'm just glad that neither of us own pokemon, or else that just wouldn't be a pretty sight. Now where should I start this chappie? I know. Two months after the last chapter, which means that they'll be arriving in Japan. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Lynn, Yuri, and Akito were finally back on dry land. Lynn was being hyper, Akito was running around the port, and Yuri was just being her normal self pretending not to know either of them and waiting for the two of them to calm down as well. She was leaning against a wall, with her arms folded over her chest. She looked like a 15 year old school girl waiting for her ride. Then again she was small for her age, only 4"9, and her outfit didn't make it seem like she was any older. She was wearing her usual gray vest, white blouse, pleated gray skirt, gray tie, white socks, and black school shoes.

After ½ an hour of waiting Yuri's eye caught something that grabbed her attention. Midnight black hair, silver eyes, and tan skin female arguing with a mud brown haired, clear blue eyed, Japanese skin male. 'Yukina and Sora.' Yuri thought her face cracking into a smirk. They hadn't changed at all. They were still arguing over the simplest matters. She walked up cat like to them, unnoticed. "Is there anything that I can do to help you settle your argument?" Yuri asked waiting to see the looks on their faces when they faced her.

"N-" Yukina cut herself off at the sight of Yuri. Her eyes were as wide as saucers at the sight of her old friend. "YURI!" She exclaimed as soon as she got over the shock of seeing the forest green haired genius in front of her. Sora turned around to see her as well.

"How do we know it's really you?" Sora asked.

"Your name is Sora Ukimora. You were a fighter on the battle ship Grim Reaper. You're cousin is Yukina Kashine, who I was a cook on the Grim Reaper. Neither of you could agree on anything, and by the looks of it still can't. Believe me now?" Sora stood with his mouth open, looking at the Grim Reaper's old pilot.

"Sora, close your mouth. No one needs to see your tonsils." Yuri stated. He closed his mouth, for fear of being hit on the head. Yukina seemed to register what had happened and pulled the genius into a hug. Yuri pulled away from it rather easily. The second that she was out of Yukina's arms Sora gave her a noogie, forgetting that that action would receive him a whack on the head. Yuri pulled away from him as well, with slight difficulties, and then gave him a whack on the head.

"Ouchies. What was that for?"

"Messing up my pigtails." She stated as she started to take her hair down so she could fix it.

"Where were you going?" Yukina asked.

"I was going to go visit Yumi as soon as those two bakas calm down." They looked at the hyper female, and Akito, who had finally calmed down. Lynn was still hyper. Akito walked over to the trio of Grim Reaper crew members. He looked to be a bit tired. 'Idiot.' Yuri thought. 'He should know not to waste his energy like that.' Sora was watching Lynn out of the corner of his eye.

~*~ ½ an hour later ~*~

"How much longer do you think her sugar high will last?" Akito asked.

"Don't ask me. I just hope not to much longer." Just then Lynn decided to calm down. "That is very interesting." The trio said goodbye to Sora and Yukina.

"I think Lynn's cute." Sora said after the three had left, once again trying to get Yuri to talk. Yukina just sighed and shook her head.

~*~ 5 minutes later~*~

Yuri rang the doorbell to Yumi's house. Yumi came to the door, and the second she saw Akito and Yuri she brought them both into a hug. They both wrenched themselves free of her grasp. "Come on in." She chirped. Her voice as happy sounding as it used to be. The trio stepped into the one story house, it was a traditional style Japanese house.

"So Akito can you come to the reunion tonight?" Yumi asked him as soon as they sat down.

"What reunion?" He asked.

"The reunion for the crew members of the Grim Reaper silly."

"I didn't get an invitation." He kept an eye on Yuri the entire time to make sure that she wasn't feeling left out.

"You didn't? How come I sent them to your house a few weeks ago, they should have arrived by now."

"Oh. I haven't been home for a while." He saw Yuri stand up to leave.

"I'll see the two of you later." Yuri said, her voice sounded like always. She went to the door and left.

Yuri ran down the streets, tears threatening to fall from her eyes. 'So that's how much she cares about me? I never would have thought her to be that kind of person.' She ran towards her favorite place in Kyoto. A cliff out in the mountains of them. It was such a peaceful and quiet place. You could hear for miles, or so it seemed. She was standing on a cliff overlooking a lake. It was just so peaceful and quiet.

~*~ With the others~*~

"So can you make it?" Yumi asked still oblivious as to what Yuri had been feeling inside.

"I don't know. I'll think about it." Was his reply.

"Hey where's Yuri?" Yumi asked just realizing that the other girl wasn't there. Lynn and Akito looked over to where Yuri had been sitting earlier. "I'll go look for her, I'm inviting her to the reunion anyways." Yumi volunteered.

"No, I'll go. She's probably angry at you at the moment, and she hasn't opened up to Lynn yet." Akito stated and left to go find her. He was the only one with an idea as to where she would be anyways.

~*~5 minutes later~*~

Akito was panting after five minutes of running up a mountain and towards Ruri Lake. He was glad that when they had been taking some R/R in Kyoto that she had showed him her favorite spot.

~*~flashback~*~

"How much farther?" A ten year old Akito asked.

"Not much. Only a mile or so." A ten year old Yuri replied.

"A mile!"

"Don't be a baby. If anyone should be complaining its me. I'm the computer operator of the ship, and you're the fighter. You're in way better shape than me."

"Good point." After a few minutes they arrived at a cliff that was overlooking a lake. They both collapsed to the ground and just looked out at the scenery.

"I told you that it was worth the walk."

"Yeah, you're right as always."

~*~*~End flashback~*~*~

Akito looked around and saw Yuri sitting at the edge of the cliff. He could hear her singing a song to herself. He decided to stand back and let her sing. She needed to express herself, and singing was one the few ways, although he had only heard her sing once. He let the words wash over him.

How can you see into my eyes like open doors

Leading you down into my core

Where I've become so numb without a soul

My spirit sleeping somewhere cold

Until you find it there and lead it back home

Wake me up inside

Wake me up inside

Call my name and save me from the dark

Bid my blood to run before I come undone

Save me from the nothing I've become

Now that I know what I'm without

You can't just leave me

Breathe into me and make me real

Bring me to life

Wake me up inside

Wake me up inside

Call my name and save me from the dark

Bid my blood to run before I come undone

Save me from the nothing I've become

Bring me to life

Frozen inside without your touch without your love

Darling only you are the life among the dead

All this time I can't believe I couldn't see

Kept in the dark but you were there right in front of me

Got to open my eyes to everything

Without a thought without a voice without a soul

Don't let me die here there must be something more

Bring me to life

Akito gave a soft smile as she finished her song. He loved the way her voice sounded when she sung. It was so angel-like. The only thing that sounded different from her regular voice, when she screamed even that was a monotone. Her singing voice matched the emotions of the song, making it much more believable . (A/N the song that Yuri just sung is Bring me to life by EVENESENCE). "Hey." He said sitting down next to her.

"I didn't think that anyone was listening." Yuri said. She was startled, but hid it.

"Are you ok?"

"I'm fine. I should have expected something like that from her." Akito took a quick glance at her. Her cheeks were red from crying.

"Its ok to cry you know."

"I wasn't crying."

"Then how come your cheeks are red?"

'Damn you Akito.' Yuri thought with bitterness. She had been holding back her tears ever since she finished her song. She had been crying earlier, but stopped sometime in the middle. When she had finished her song she had wanted to start crying again, but had held them back. She now let them fall freely. Akito put a comforting arm around her.

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CG100 (Cowgirl100): Well that was sure a long chapter. It took me forever to write it.

PR8800 (PatrickRocks8800): *snores*

CG100: *sweatdrops* Well review. And before I forget we will not be able to update until the 18th at the earliest due to me going to go to visit a pain in the neck cousin of mine, and as far as I know I'm the only one that knows how to upload documents. Oh well I'm writing the next chapter anyways so it doesn't make much of a difference.