1I approached the edge of the forest apprehension grew inside or me. I slowed down a bit reconsidering going into the village. Someone might remember me, there would be a riot. I pulled my hood over my head and looked around the trees. The village was quiet except a few people I had never seen before, nobody important. I stepped out of the trees and walked down the road with my head down. A few people walked out of a café that wasn't there when I was little. I glanced at them but stopped suddenly.

There were five people in the group. One had spiky blue hair was fighting with another shorter kid with purple hair. I ignored the unusually tall man with odd hair talking to a guy wearing a lot of plaid with green hair. My attention wasn't with them though it was with the last member of the group. Even through the cheerful smile and short hair he looked exactly like Hao.

"Anomria?"

I looked in the opposite direction. My eyes settled on the village leader standing a few feet away from me.

"What are you doing back here?"

"I was... well..."

As I fumbled for the right words the rest of the people on that street crowded around to see what the commotion was about. A few more officials of the village were questioning my return a few were threatening me. I backed off and tried to leave, forget about the whole thing, but someone else showed up.

"What are you doing here?"

I turned around. The person standing in front of me now was worse than the officials or any mad villagers. It was Lukira Sifer he was my fiancee before I was exiled. I hadn't seen him for three years.

"Lukira..."

We had a fight before I had to leave, he wanted to come with me but I wouldn't let him...

FLASHBACK

"What happened Anomria?"

The girl looked at the ground and bit her lip. She walked past him and stood next to the open window.

"Anomi?"

She smiled at his pet name for her but her happiness was insignificant compared to her fear.

"They're exiling me Lukira."

"Oh my god" he whispered almost inaudibly.

"I don't know what I'm going to do."

"I'll go with you."

She looked at him with thankful but still sad eyes.

"No, I won't let you. Not for me."

"It's okay Anomria, I love-"

"NO YOU DON'T."

She backed away from him.

"It wasn't our choice to get engaged. We don't love each other, I don't love you. I won't let you come with me."

She turned to walk out of the room but he caught her arm before she got to the door.

"Anomria you don't believe that."

The pain her eyes was flooded over by anger. It was fake but she couldn't let him get hurt.

"No, I believe it. You don't."

She walked out the open door. He watched her walk away.

"Anomria!"

She turned around.

"Don't come back."

Her features didn't change until she turned around again. She would never see him again... for every ones own good.

END FLASHBACK

"I thought you weren't going to come back. "

"I wasn't... I didn't want to."

The village head stepped in and broke up the painful reunion.

"You were exiled for causing a death with your demon magic. The penalty for return is death."

I looked at him then at Lukira. I couldn't attack them and I couldn't run. Guards crowded around me I took a few hits from the aggressive ones but a voice yelled out from the front of the 'audience'.

"Hey! Leave her alone."

I looked toward the voice, it was the same boy I had been looking at earlier. I glanced at him skeptically.

"Don't help me... I'm not worth it."

He helped me up and his friend with green hair held me up while the person I had distinguished by then as Haos brother argued with the chief. I could tell by the way he pleaded with the chief he didn't want to fight. The whole time he had that happy tone in his voice, he was nothing like Hao... so I couldn't let him get hurt over me. I started talking to the green haired kid helping me.

"Hey who is that?"

"Yoh Asakura... why?"

"Don't let him get in a fight with these guards."

"Don't worry about him... he's handled worse."

I decided to act like I had never heard of him to avoid looking guilty.

"You said Asakura?"

The boys face darkened slightly.

"Yeah."

"That sounds familiar..."

"It probably is... uh oh... ask someone about it later."

I looked back where Yoh was arguing, he was being attacked by what looked like the villages whole defenses. The rest of the group was already halfway there to help him.

"All this over you?"

I looked behind me toward the voice. Lukira grabbed my arm and dragged me off before I could say anything to him.

"What are you doing?"

I asked him in a worried voice. He pulled me into the café that I had seen Yoh and his friends come out of earlier. He released me from his grip when we got inside, I staggered away form him angrily.

"Why did you come back?"

"Well I... it's...,"

I stopped suddenly remembering the fight we had gotten in three years earlier.

"It's not really your business."

He looked at me skeptically for a second.

"Are you still mad for a fight we got in three years ago?"

"I have better things to do than deal with you"

"Listen Anomria, I don't want you getting hurt here."

"I can handle myself."

"There's five people outside fighting for you, you can't handle yourself."

"No one asked them to do that."

"You would have been killed if they didn't help you."

"I don't care! What do you want Lukira? I'm sorry I had to come back it wasn't my choice okay? I didn't want to come."

"Who made you?"

I looked at the ground.

"I can't tell you."

"Why? Just tell me Anomi-"

"Don't call me that Lukira, we're not engaged anymore."

"Just don't be mad at me anymore okay?"

I nodded at him and he smiled. I didn't love Lukira anymore that was the truth. The door to the café opened and the kid with green hair stumbled in.

"Oh good you're safe. There's only a few guards left and their retreating they'll probably let you go now."

I followed him outside where the other four members of the group were approaching the café. I winced when I saw one of them had a bloody gash on his arm. A few others had a series of bruises.

"WE'RE LETTING YOU GO THIS TIME ANOMRIA!"

I watched the chief and what was left of the villages fighters. I looked back to the exhausted team that saved my life, who's death I would be responsible for.