~*the beginning of an adventure*~

Meimi held the telephone close to her ear. Her eyes were open wide and never once blinking. The person on the other side of the phone was a man, she could tell. He talked in a scruffy, raspy and sickening voice. She knew she had heard that voice before.but where? After the person stopped talking they hung up, not waiting to hear meimis anwnser, not that she could give one. As shocked as she was.

A few moments after the beeping on the other line started, Meimi hesitantly put the phone back down in the cradle. So slowly that she felt that if she had slammed it, the phone would have shattered, along with her entire world, would have shattered.

Meimi then recalled what the man had told her. He knew she was saint tail for starters, and he had somehow found out threw Seira. [a.n. don't worry Seira didn't spill Meimis secret] another thing was that something bad was going too happen to seira. All this information was spinning around in Meimis head, so she was totally oblivious to the fact that a certain green haired person was now sitting next to her on the sofa. There was a dead silence in the room for a long time, that made meimi shake slightly.

"is there something wrong?" the silence was then broken, by Asuka .jr who was asking a very obvious question.

Meimis head shot up, only for her eyes to be met with Asukas worried and confused ones. Meimi then found that she was able to speak, without thinking thought.

" I-I don't know." she stuttered. Meimi then relized what she said. 'stuped answer meimi!' she scolded herself. Asuka looked at meimi, even more confused now.

"how are you not sure?" he asked leaning closer to her and looking her straight in the eye. Which to meimi, made her even more uncomfortable, if that was possible.

"I don't know." Meimi answered the same as before to asukas new question.

" what did that person say over the phone?" asuka pushed the subject further. Meimi looked down to the bottom of the sofa, trying hard to avoid the question. Unfortunetly for meimi though asuka was never one to give up easily. Asuka brought his hand up and cupped meimis chin. Making her look straight at him.

"please meimi.tell me. You can trust me. I promise." Asuka said to meimi softly, as he continued to stare at her. Meimi then saw a light blush cover his face. "your realy important to me meimi. and I could never stand to see you get hurt or be upset knowing I could have done something about it," his blush deepened, " so please.tell me who was on the phone?" he asked his un answered question from before.

Meimi looked at him. She had heard the words he said, understood them, and was stunned. She knew she could trust him, with anything, even with the fact that she was saint tail for all it mattered. she looked deep into his eyes. Trying to read his soul. Finally, after a moment of compelling silence she spoke.

"I know I can trust you with anything asuka." She said softly, and smoothly. She then reached up and her hand stroked the side of his cheek. He pressed agenst het palm in return. He smiled.

"so tell me who was on the phone then." He said returning to his usual serious exterior.

Meimi felt tears sting at her eyes, and she buried her face in asukas chest. He brought a hand up to her back and rubbed it soothingly.

"is ok meimi.don't worry.whatever it is im sure it will be ok." He tried to cheer her up, but was doing very little to help.

"no, no, no.seora its seira!" meimi then felt tears not only sting her eyes, but soon they started to poor out.

"what happened to seira?" asuka asked confused as ever.

"I don't know!!! But something will." meimis hand lached onto the material of his shirt.

"you mean someone called and sent a threat to you, saying seira would be hurt?!" asukas mind slowly but finally caught on. Meimis sobs grew larger, and this was all the response asuka needed. He then stooped rubbing her back and brought his other hand up, and wrapped it around her. Crushing her to him.

"its ok meimi.everything will be ok.you'll see." he took a brief look at the petite red head. After a moment of looking at her he rested his chin on the top of her head, and began to try and clam her down. Then he realized something. There was no denying it anymore. He had defiantly fallen in love with this girl. her snile would often turn him to mush on the inside, and right now, all he wanted was to bring back that smile that he had known to love and cherish.

~*~

Seira smiled as she looked at the well polished floor of the st. paulia church. Today had been a very long day. There had been so many people seeking salvation today. Including a new and upcoming reporter. [a.n. its not sawatari] It warmed her heart to know that people would come to there little church to pray, and ask the lord for redemption. Suddenly the doors of the church opened. 'who would be here at this time, its midnight?' thought the young nun-in-training.

Seira could here the clacking of shoes on the cold tile floor. Suddenly a cold chill ran up here spine. Something just wasn't right, she had heard those shoes before, just today.

"um.is someone there?" asked the slightly frightened nunu.

"are you alone." Demanded the voice.

As a nun seira could not lie. "yes." She said heasitantly.

The figure smirked, "then you will be the one to help me."

"what do you mean?" asked seira.

"don't worry, I, not after you, its your friend." The voice said. Suddenly a bitter sweet smell engulfed the air around the young nun, and she feel to the ground. [a.n. don't worry, seira wont be hurt, and no this is not a scary story. I don't like scary stories. Yes, it will have a good ending. So please keep on reading] As she feel to the ground the only things in her mind were Meimi and the sweet smell of cotton blossom perfume. [a.n. sorry, I love cotton blossom perfume, and lotion, and things like that]

the figure smirked and looked at the young nun. "don't worry you'll be ok, but little meimi doesn't know that." And with one last look at the girl, the figure turned and walked away, the clacking of his shoes echoing threw the silent church.

~*~

the doors of the church flew open with such forceity, the doors made a small dent in the wall. Meimi ran inside the small church and over to her best friend. A few minutes after meimi entered the church in cam a huffing and puffing asuka .jr.

"gezz meimi where..[ huff puff] .where did you [huff puff].learn to run like that?" he leaned agenst a near by wall for support. He then noticed meimi kneeling on the ground. He then regained his composure and wlaked over to her.

"what is it?" he asked. He then saw seira liying limp on the floor. It was to dark for him to tell weather she was breathing or not.

Meimi, in the meantime, slammed her fist in defeat agenst the cold hard floor. "WE WERE TO LATE!!!!!!!!!!!" little did she know that her friend had only been put to sleep with perfume. [ a.n. kinda makes you wonder dosen't it lol] asuka stepped closer to meimi, and placed his hands on her shoulders.

"don't worry im sure its not as bad as it seems." he squezzed her shoulders slightly. Meimi then picked up seiras left hand and felt her pulse. It was strong, like normal. Meimi sighed in relief. Hand held back a fit of sobbs, of joy. [a.n. sorry I hate to see people get hurt in a fic]

"your right its not as bad as it seems." She stood up and faced asuka. Then she put her forehead on his chest. " I realy need to calm down." She said simply, taking deep breaths.

"don't worry this would be hard on anyone." He then looped his arm around her back and lead her out of the church. When out side asuka reached in his pocket for his cell phone, and called his dad. A few minutes latter he hung up and walked over to meimi. "I called my dad, and he will contact the station about this." He then looked at the little red head, and knew that it was best if they were not here when the police were. Meimi had already been threw a lot tonight.

"c'mon why don't we go home." His voice was so soft and comforting. Meimi looked up from the ground and into his eyes.

"don't you need to be here when the police are?" she asked weak and pitifully. Asuka simply shook his head. "no I can talk to my dad latter." With that they dismissed this conversation and headed out of the school grounds.

On the way home meimi and asuka stopped in a small park and sat on a small bench, in front of a moonlit lake. Asuka slipped a hand around her waist and pulled her closer to him, which she hand no abjection to.

" ya know meimi, no matter what I will always be here for you." Meimi turned to face him. She then smiled slightly, but not much.

"is that a promise?" here eyes meet with his.

"promise." He answered. His grip tightened on her waist and her fingers intertwined themselves with his. Meimi and asuka both turned to look at the sky that was lit with stars and guided by the moon. They both sat like that for a long time, not wanting to move. Meimis leaned her head on asukas shoulder, and let sleep take her away for sometime. She was not embaresssed to fall asleep on asukas shoulder, for she knew he would get her home, and that he understood what she was going threw and would not laugh at her.

Asuka smile inwardly. He knew meimi was bound to fall asleep sooner or latter. Of course it was sorta hard to realize meimi had fallen asleep right here and know. for he was certain that she had a high sugar intake. He smiled slightly and looked at the sleeping girl. he then put one hand under her knee and one behind her back, and lifted her up. then he stared down at her. She was so peaceful when she sleept you would enever guess she was such a terror when she was awake. Then asuka bent down and placed a soft, sweet, and innocent kiss on her lips. He pulled away and smiled. Then looked up at the sky one more time before heading home.

~*to be continued*~

a.n. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! there I did it I added a bit more mush to the story!!!!!!!!!!!! I would like to use this space to thank dark tail, for the wonderful ideas for this chapter. I also want to thank all of you who reviewed. It means so mush to me!!!!!!!!!!! So don't worry.seria will be ok.and there will be a happy ending to this fic. Asuka and meimi should get a bit more.uh.'mushy' you could call it I guess. So sorry it took me so ,long to do this chapter. actually it only took me 1 hour to write this. Im just lazy!!!!!!! Well thank you to all of you who reviewed it means so much to me. it brings tears to my eye. How corny did that sound? Well any way my typing thing is all screwed up right now so I have to stop typing. I will try to post the next chapter as fast as possible. But I post faster the more you review. Because it reminds me. so review!!!!!!!!!!!!

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~*chibikins*~