MARS and VENUS
The Truth

Disclaimer: I do not own MARS even though I wish. I do own Crystal Sung so no one can use her without my permission!

Author Note: I'm back! Thank you so much for reviewing! But when you review I also want to know the bad stuff on it, so maybe I know how to "improve" it. I don't mind ideas and advice either! Sorry that it took me awhile to update, but I had no clue what to put up for the next chapter. Well, I hope you like it!

Kira turned around and watched Tatsuya and Crystal walk away. Kira noticed that Crystal's expression had quickly changed from happiness into sadness as she turned around and faced home.

Kira asked Rei, "Hey, Rei. Is something wrong with Crystal?"

Rei was also watching Crystal as he answered, "I'm not sure."

Kira and Rei continued to walk toward Kira's house in silence. But the silence was edging to break sooner or later.

Rei looked up at the stars and noticed a small little red dot and then he asked, "Hey Kira, isn't that the planet, Mars?"

Kira looked up and asked, "Where?"

Rei walked up from behind her, he had gently took her hand and pointed toward the sky where the planet Mars was as he whispered in her ear, "There. See it?"

Kira's eyes widen and her cheeks started to turn a slight shade of pink as she felt Rei gently touch her hand and guide her to the planet. It seemed not to matter if she saw it or not, but she nodded. She can feel his warm breath on her neck and his hand slightly caressing hers. As Rei moved their hands slowly around her waist, he held her other hand close to her heart. Rei placed his head on top of hers. He could smell the flowery fragrance and could feel the softness of her hair on his cheek. Kira closed her eyes and wished that this moment can last forever. Several had passed by and had smiled as they remembered their treasure moments with their loved one or gave them scornful looks. But the two didn't care. They just wanted to hold each other.

The cold wind of reality had sent shivers running down Kira's back as Rei slowly removed his gentle grip over her, but he held onto her hand and he asked, "You don't mind?"

Kira smiled and said, "As long it's your hand, I don't mind at all."

Rei smiled and the two continued their walk to Kira's house as she asked, "Rei, have you ever gotten hurt from racing?"

Rei sighed as he answered, "Yeah I did. One time I broke my collar bone, once my leg, once my... err... maybe I should just stop there."

Kira looked at Rei shocked as she asked, "And you keep racing?"

Rei laughed as he answered, "Yep. Akitaka says that I am either incredibly talented or incredibly stupid. I am personally leaning over to the incredibly talented cause ya' know I got skills!"

Kira laughed at Rei's response and he felt like he was the happiest man in the world. He loved to see Kira smiling and laughing and able to talk. He especially loved it to see her smiling, laughing, and talking to him.

Kira smiled as she asked, "You really do love to race, don't you?"

At first Rei was hypnotized so much by her happiness that he hadn't responded for a few second. But Rei snapped back into reality and nodded as he asked, "I love it. Just like you love to paint and draw and you are really good at it."

Kira looked down at the ground blushing and didn't know how to respond but Rei had gently taken his hand and guided her face to look at him. He smiled to see her blushing but the most hypnotizing thing for him was her eyes, so innocent and kind. Kira looked up to see Rei's gentle and soft side which she loved very much. She use to fear his eyes and described them as cold eyes, but now it's a different story. Rei leaned closer to Kira's face and had closed his eyes and Kira also closed her eyes. Then she can feel his smooth, soft, and gentle lips touch hers. Rei pulled her closer to him and she felt his arms wrap around her protectively to her amazement they were shaking a bit. Her whole body was shaking but she slowly placed her arms around him as they kissed. She was probably shaking more than he was, but he didn't mind.

The next day Tatsuya groaned a bit as he saw the bright light hit his eyes, his mother was standing in the doorway and apologized, "Oh, I'm sorry Tatsu. I thought you were awake... well sense you are awake now, you have a phone call from Rei."

Tatsuya rolled his eyes and took the phone from his mother's hand, he looked over to the alarm clock next then he asked Rei with a slurred and tired voice, "You jerk... waking me up 7:00 in the mourning. What do you want?"

Tatsuya's mother rolled her eyes and walked out of the room, "Boys will be boys... well at least there is finally a girl in the house to help me cook!"

Crystal always woke up at 6:00 to get ready for school and also to persuade her father to get up and go to work. But this time she didn't even bother to call him to remind him to go to work. She was standing over the stove making bacon, eggs, and biscuits. Tatsuya's mother didn't really even help her. She just got everything for her.

Rei responded to Tatsuya, "Well, that's a great mourning greeting. Anyways I was wondering if you guys wanted to go to the park and hang out."

Tatsuya yawned and said, "Yeah, I'll just go and ask Crystal."

Rei then yelled in the phone, which made Tatsuya move the phone away from his ear, "CRYSTAL SLEPT OVER AT YOUR HOUSE?"

Tatsuya yelled back in the phone, "HEY! I just woke up! Don't yell at me! And yes, she slept over...she" he remembered that he promise not to tell Rei and Kira so he had to make up something on his feet, "She called her dad on my phone and he wasn't home. So she came over to my place."

Rei then asked, "You guys didn't do anything... did you?"

Tatsuya groaned a bit and said, "I could only wish... but hello! I am in my house! You know, I don't exactly live by myself like you!"

Rei then asked, "Well, can you go to the park or not?"

Tatsuya rolled himself out of bed and responded, "Hold on... let me go ask Crystal."

Tatsuya walked out of his room and he could all ready smell the breakfast aroma in the air. His stomach began to growl hungrily as he walked closer to the kitchen. Standing at the stove was Crystal making the breakfast.

Tatsuya then asked, "Hey Crystal, you want to go to the park today?"

Crystal turned around and asked, "What time?"

Tatsuya then asked Rei on the phone, "What time?"

Rei then responded quickly, "In about an hour. So you guys can get ready."

Tatsuya then answered Crystal's question, "In about an hour."

Crystal thought about it for a second, wondering what her father was doing and if it would be all right if he was by himself a little more. But she knew if she went home right now her father would try to beat her again so she smiled to Tatsuya and nodded.

Tatsuya let out one more yawn as he said, "Yeah we'll be at the park. I'll bring my skateboard. See ya later."

He hung up on the phone and asked Crystal, "So what is for breakfast?"

Crystal put the plates and the silverware on the table and said, "This mourning we are having bacon, eggs, and biscuits made by yours truly."

Tatsuya took a seat and the table and smiled said, "Sounds good. Let me be the first to eat!"

As he was about to stab the bacon with his fork, a newspaper had swapped his hand and to their surprise it was Tatsuya's father and he said, "Don't you have any respect? You are supposed to let the elders eat first before you eat your own food. And plus, I want to be the first one to eat Crystal's food."

Tatsuya glared at his father, holding his hand limply and didn't say anything as he waited for his father to dig in. His father took the bite of the bacon and smiled.

He complimented Crystal's cooking, "Wow. This is really good Crystal."

Crystal smiled as she began to eat her own breakfast and Tatsuya gobbled down his foot quickly. The family would talk and laugh at the table which was very odd for Crystal. She never ate with her father, because he was either gone all the time, or just plain out to drunk to find a seat at the table.

Crystal gathered the empty plates and was going to start cleaning them up when Tatsuya's mother smiled and said, "Oh dear don't worry about it. You cooked so I should do the dishes. Plus, you're going to go to the park in a few minutes because Tatsuya is almost ready."

Crystal nodded and walked out of the kitchen. In the living room were several pictures of Tatsuya and his family. Some of the pictures were at skateboarding contests, some were at school, and some were just plain family pictures. All of them were smiling and happy. Tatsuya walked out of the hallway and noticed that Crystal was looking at the family pictures on the wall.

Crystal noticed he was next to her so she said, "I am so jealous of you Tatsuya. You have a family." Tatsuya looked up to the pictures the filled his memories as she continued, "Whenever you feel you're alone you have your parents to comfort you. You have a lot of memories."

Crystal smiled as she looked to the ground and said, "I will never be able to have those memories."

Tatsuya never really realized how much he had as he stared at the pictures. One of the pictures was the first time he took a step. Another one was the first time he got his skateboard. He remembered the first time he fell off his skateboard and scratched his knee, he started to cry but he got up and started to skate again.

He sighed then looked over to Crystal and said, "Well, let's go."

Crystal smiled and nodded. Then the two headed out of the door and started to walk toward the park. In Tatsuya's arm was a skateboard and Crystal couldn't help but look at.

Crystal then asked, "Tatsuya, is it hard to skateboard?"

Tatsuya stared at the skateboard then back up to Crystal as he smiled and answered, "At first it is because you have to learn to balance. After awhile you just get use to it."

Crystal laughed a bit as she said, "Last time I tried to skateboard the board flew in the sky, I fell on my back, and the skateboard almost hit my face."

As they laughed Rei and Kira looked up and they both yelled, "Hey!"

Crystal and Tatsuya looked up and noticed Kira and Rei were waiting for them on the jungle gym.

Crystal raced off waving her hand, "Hey guys!"

Crystal and Tatsuya climbed at the top of the jungle gym, Crystal sat below Rei and Kira and Tatsuya was next to Crystal but standing up on the Jungle Gym. The four sat on the Jungle Gym talking and laughing. Tatsuya got off the Jungle Gym and started to roll around on his skateboard and Kira followed behind so she can sketch him do some tricks.

Crystal and Rei sat there silently and waiting for the question that Rei hoped she would ask. But he knew she was going to ask and she has a right to know.

Crystal sighed and had finally asked, "Rei, how did he die?"

Rei closed his eyes and asked, "Do you want to know?"

Crystal didn't look up to Rei as she said, "I don't want to know, but I should know."

Rei then silently whispered with no emotions at all, "He jumped off the school building after you went to South Korea, two years ago."

Crystal gripped the cold metal tightly and she felt the cold tear fall down her cheek. Her memories of Sei were probably the only reason why she was alive. She remembered all the times they laughed, cried, and the many times she had to defend for him. She remembered the last painting he was painting before she left...

Crystal watched Sei paint quietly and patiently. The room seemed to be filled with sadness. They wanted to talk, but there were both scared that they were going to burst out crying.

Crystal looked at one of Sei's drawings and said, "Nice painting Sei."

Sei looked up and said, "Thanks."

Then he continued to paint and Crystal placed her head on his shoulder and asked, "What is it called?"

Sei was still painting as he answered, "It's called "My Life"."

Crystal noticed the painting looked very sad, gloomy, and the person was hidden in the corner holding himself. It was looking up confused and hopeful. The person looked like Sei but he was probably using Rei as a model so it would look like him.

Crystal then asked, "How come it looks so sad and alone?"

Sei sighed as he answered, "Because that's how I feel most of the time."

Crystal placed her hand on top of his hand that was holding the brush and she said, "I'll paint with you, so you won't feel alone then."

Sei laughed as he said, "Then I'll change the title to "My Life Before You"."

As the continued to paint the lonely picture, at the corner there was someone holding out a hand to the person in the corner.

Crystal couldn't take these memories anymore. She jumped off the Jungle Gym quickly and ran off to find a place to hide. Rei watched her run off but didn't bother to move. Tatsuya looked up and noticed Crystal had run off.

Tatsuya grabbed his skateboard and ran over to Rei asking, "What the hell Rei? Why she ran off? What did you do? Damn it, never mind!"

Crystal wanted to run home, but if she did that she would just run into another hell. She didn't know where to go. She just wanted to run. The tears continued to fall down on her cheeks. Then Crystal felt someone call out her name, which happened to be Tatsuya. Crystal stood there and Tatsuya had run up to her.

He looked at her concern and asked, "What's wrong Crystal?"

Crystal shook her head and still cried. She didn't want to talk about it. She didn't want to say it. She didn't want to admit it to herself. She didn't even want to think about it, but is seemed that the thought is forever going to haunt her. Tatsuya held her close and tried to comfort her as best that he could. He didn't understand why she was crying, but he didn't care. It hurt him so much to know that she was hurt inside and he isn't able to fix it. He stroked her hair gently and placed his head on top of hers. He let her cry on his shoulder and gradually she stopped crying.

Rei sat there on the Jungle Gym and took it all in. Kira climbed back up on the Jungle Gym and sat next to him confused and shocked all together. Her eyes looked up to Rei's face worried also.

Kira asked, "Rei what happened?"

Rei didn't answer for awhile then he said, "Kira... I have a twin brother named Sei. Sei and Crystal were going out, until she moved to South Korea. And then, two years ago, he jumped off the building."

Kira looked at Rei shocked. She didn't know what to say to him but she knew she had to do something. Kira gently held his hand and looked up at Rei. Rei looked at her in the eyes and her gentle eyes seemed to drain all the sadness from him. He held her close to him.

Tatsuya stood there holding Crystal confused. But he didn't care. As long he was there to hold her, to help her, he didn't care. He didn't have to know, he just wanted to help her. Slowly she moved back looking down at the ground, but Tatsuya took his hand and made her look at him.

Tatsuya looked at Crystal confused and asked, "What's going on Crystal? If you don't want to answer that's fine... but I..."

Before he could finish Crystal began to explain, "Rei had a twin brother named Sei. Sei and I were going out during middle school until I moved to South Korea. And Rei told me that he... he did suicide."

Tatsuya was shocked to know that Rei even had a brother, and then the shock doubled to know he was a twin, and the shocked tripled to know that he went out with Crystal, and then the shock went beyond to know the fact that Rei's twin brother did suicide.

Tatsuya stammered to say something but nothing came out so Crystal said, "I'm fine for now."

Tatsuya and Crystal looked at each other both sad for somewhat the same reason yet at the same time a different reason. Both lost someone. Crystal lost someone she loved and Tatsuya believes he lost someone he loves.