*Hello all.sorry for the lax in my updating lets just say that AP English really sucks. Anyways this is somewhat of a filler chapter not too much happens in this one, I'm planning on more for the next chapter, so I do know what's gonna come next. I pretty much have the story planned out its just finding the time for it, but as long as ya'll keep reading then I'll keep writing!!!

I don't own Saint Tail

*We All Need Something to Believe In

It's been two weeks and St. Paulia's most famous couple was that, still a couple. Which exceeded most people expectations but for someone reason when you looked at Meimi and Asuka Jr. together there was just something that said 'Yea, they do belong together.'

"Morning Asuka."

"Hey Sawatari, Rina." Asuka answered sitting at his desk waiting for class to start.

"If I may ask where is Mrs. Asuka?" Sawatari asked teasingly triggering a snicker from Rina.

"Shut up Saru tari for your information I don't know where Meimi is we aren't joined at the hip or anything."

"You could have fooled me." Rina remarked under her breath. Asuka just shot them a glare and focused on anything else in the room. But he did have to admit that they did spend a lot of time together in the short time that they were a couple. Couple, it was a hard to get used to being referred as that but he did have to admit that it was kind of nice. And plus he didn't really mind being around her.

"Ahh there she is, Meimi your husband has developed something of an attitude problem." Sawatari commented as she entered the room.

She looked at him confusingly but shrugged it off and walked over to Asuka who had his head on the desk staring in the opposite direction. She sat in the seat next to him.

He looked up at her and smiled. "Hey Meimi."

"Hi Asuka, what's wrong you looked like you were actually thinking?"

"Haha very funny I'll have you know that I think about important things all the time. Let's see there's well um." He got a thoughtful look scratching his head.

"Who looks like a monkey now?" Sawatari quickly remarked then looked away.

"Sawatari leave my boyfriend alone. Besides he looks cute that way acting like he actually thinks about anything else than me." She grinned.

"Oh no Sawatari, Asuka's egos gotten to her she's starting to sound like him. Soon she'll be going out with guys the breaking up with them after a day."

"Rina!" They both yelled at her as Sawatari rolled on the floor laughing. "They're perfect for one another."

Asuka and Meimi sighed simultaneously trying to ignore their friends in the background.

"Morning students."

"Morning!"

"Well so far we have most focused on the more on the romantic side of love but I think that we should also focus on the love that is shared by families and friends. That's also another concept of love that I think most of you can believe is real." She turned used a projector to show a painting.

"As you can see this is a picture of a mother and her son. Now what I want you to do is to write your thoughts on what this painting is trying to say. I want you to look beyond the superficial value of it. Look deeper study the face of the mother try to sense the emotions that are displayed at that exact moment. Think about what the painter must have felt when he painted this picture and hopefully you can find a way to connect it with your own life."

All the students started to write their thoughts most not really taking her advice but Asuka Jr. just stared at the picture as though he were trying to absorb that one scene of maternal love into his memory and if you look closer there was an obvious sense of longing behind his eyes. Meimi looked over and saw his intense gaze, and pieced it together.

"Hey Asuka." She reached over and touched his hand lightly bringing him back to earth.

"Yeah?"

"Are you ok you got this really intense look. I guess that it must be hard to talk about thing like moms and -"

"Meimi it's not that I was just spacing out happens a lot this class is so boring I'm just gonna start this paper."

Meimi turned back to her paper and as much as he tried to deny it she knew that he was really hurting but how could she help him.

Asuka Jr. returned from a long day at school. As much as he hated to admit it English class did manage to shake him up a bit. He told himself that he got over wishing and hoping that his mom would be waiting at the door to greet him after school.

"Dad I'm home!" He called out a bit surprised to see his dad's car parked outside so early in the day.

"Asuka come into the living room."

He walked into the room and froze when he saw the woman sitting in across from his dad. She had long brown hair and wore a bright colored sun dress. She looked to be in her early to mid forties.

"Asuka, my how you've grown." She said walking over and hugging him. His arm remained limp at his sides not quite breathing until she let go. She brought a hand up to his check.

"I've missed you so much I wish that I could have contacted you or-"

"What are you doing here?" He asked with a steely expression.

"Asuka that's no way to talk to your mother like that." His father scolded.

"No, it's ok that's more than I deserve. I know that you are angry, I'm angry too and I know that you will probably never forgive me but I want to be a part of your life. I want to be there for you-"

"What? You think that after all these years you can just drop in and become my mom just because you feely guilty. I've done fine on my own thanks."

"Asuka" His father said once again warningly.

"No dad she left us, she gave up on us. If anyone should be mad it should be you, she left you on your own to raise a son and we never heard from her. Birthdays, holidays she was never there for anything and now she thinks that she can just come in and make up for all of that" He angrily spat.

"Asuka please hear me out." His mother pleaded.

"No why should I because you were never there to hear me? You know what I can't take this I'm going out." He announced storming out of the room.

"Where are you going?"

"You know it's a bit too late to be playing to protective mother." Slamming the door to add his point.

"Aren't you going to stop him?"

His father shook his head. "If I know him he's going to his girlfriend's house and she is probably the only person that can convince him to listen to you."

Asuka jumped in his car and pulled out his cell phone he punched in a few numbers then waited for an answer. "Hello?" And if by some magic hearing her made him less angry.

"Meimi, do you mind if I come over right now?"

"Asuka? Um sure what's wrong?"

"My mom came back."

"What? She did?"

"Yeah. I'll tell you more when I get to your house alright."

"Yea I'll see you in a bit."

"Yea bye."

Asuka raked a hand though his hair as he waited for the light to change green. All he ever wanted was to have a mother but now that she was there he couldn't wait to get away from her.

Meimi paced around the room worried about Asuka, after living without a mother for ten years and to have her all of a sudden show up, she couldn't even begin to imagine how that must feel. She walked to the door when she heard the doorbell ring. She saw the hurt look on his face and the only thing she could think of doing was pulling him into a hug. She rubbed his back soothingly. "I'm here for you alright?"

She led him over to the couch, he laid his head across her lap.

"I just can't believe that she came back. I remember coming home everyday after school hoping that she would be there but she wasn't. Then I come home today finally getting my wish it only took ten years. I can't forgive her Meimi. I can't forgive her for abandoning my dad and me. For never being there when I just really needed someone. For a long time there was no one. My dad was hardly home he just worked and I can't blame him someone he loved just left him. But I didn't have work that I could just focus on when I wanted to get away. Why did she have to come back things were going fine she didn't need to come and screw everything all up." He paused and short silence passed over them.

"Asuka listen I can't even begin to try to understand just how you feel but she came back. There has to be a reason, she didn't all of a sudden say 'Oh I want to go see how the family I left behind is doing?' I think that she knows that you can't forgive her and I don't even think that she would want your forgiveness I think that she just wants to experience what she missed out on. Maybe she realized all the things that she missed by leaving you. I'm not telling you to become best friends with her but at least listen to what she has to say, find out just why she came back. If you push her out of your life you may never know if there could have ever been anything worth saving. Take a chance, I took one on you and look how that worked out."

He let out a long sigh. "Meimi, I'm scared what if I finally get what I want, I get a mom and things go great for a while but then she decides to leave again. I can't be rejected twice by the same person it's too hard." He sat up and stared at the ceiling.

"Listen if she is really that horrible and mean to leave you a second time then you don't want someone like that in your life. I mean you've done fine without her for years but maybe its time that you let someone take care of you rather than always taking care of yourself. If you don't give her a chance for yourself then do it for me, I hate seeing you suffer like this."

Asuka stared and saw the pure care and concern in her eyes, "Fine, I'll talk to her."

"Alright and if it doesn't work out then you know that at least you tried right? I just don't want you to be left wondering forever."

Asuka pulled Meimi over for a hug and she cuddled against him. "You're amazing you know that?" He whispered into her hair.

"No I'm not." She said back her breath tickling his neck.

"Oh but you are, see you're the only one who could even convince me into talking to her. It's like you have some weird control over me."

"Yea well so do you."

Asuka smiled and leaned over so he could stare into her eyes.

"Meimi um do you mind if I kiss you?"

She smiled shaking her head then closed her eyes. Asuka leaned closer and as soon as their lips touched Meimi's whole body felt weak and she held onto Asuka tighter. The feelings that passed between them was indescribable, almost like they were seeing colors for the time, it was exhilarating. They both reluctantly released their hold on one another smiling brightly.

"Well we're going to have to do more of that you know." Asuka said grinning.

"Uh huh."

Asuka hung around for another hour trying to prolong not going home but eventually Meimi convinced him to go back.

"Memi really I don't need to go home I can just stay here. I don't eat much I can even sleep out here on the floor."

"Asuka you need to go home and don't tell me that you don't eat a lot. Just get it over with. I'll see you tomorrow ok?"

"Yea I guess that I have to go bye." She closed the door behind him but before she could get two feet she heard the doorbell.

"Asuka I said go." She told him opening the door.

"I know and I am but can I have a little good luck kiss before I do go?"

Meimi shook her head amusingly and leaned over giving him a quick kiss. "There happy now go."

"Alright, alright you know most girls would love for me to hang around their house."

"Yea well like I told you I'm not like most girls. See ya later."

Asuka walked with a heavy heart to the door of his house, most people probably didn't know that he joined basketball, constantly went to parties and dates partly because he just didn't want to be at home. There was nothing there for him but Meimi was right and he had an actual chance to have a family. This is why he was shocked when he smelled something good coming from the kitchen.

He saw him mom walk over to him. "Hi Asuka. Um I doubt that you would really want any but dinner is going to be in a few minutes."

"Ok look Despite what you did you're still mother, the fact that you put up with me in your stomach for nine months has to say something. I don't know why you left me and dad, I really don't want to know why but let's just say that I trust Meim's judgment and maybe there could be something here worth saving." He said then looking away not wanting to face her.

"I want you to know that there wasn't a day I didn't think about you and your father, the truth is that I never stopped loving either of you. I'm so sorry and I don't want you to forgive me, I don't deserve it but I really hope that we could go back to the good times, like being at the lake. Thank you for giving me this chance."

Asuka had the slightest urge to hug her but restrained himself, he nodded then headed towards the kitchen. But for his mom that action was more than she could have asked for.

*There you go I hope that you didn't hate it too much, I promise that it will pick up soon I just really felt bad about not updating that I really wanted to get this up it will get more interesting soon ok!!!! Have a great day!!!!