A/N: Yep, another chapter is up of my lovely story new motives. My friend keeps telling me to stop beating up Yoshime, but I can't help it. He is so easy to beat up. Sorry all Yoshime fans.

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Kino and Himeno walked into town, Kino still feeling uneasy about Himeno, when Himeno felt something. Demon larva Himeno said to herself they pick the best times to show up.

"Hey Kino, do you think you'll be alright by yourself for a bit? I've just gotta do something."

"I'll be fine." Kino replied and Himeno bolted off down the street.

When Himeno finally got to the demon larva it was already half-dead, but no-one was there who could have done it, none of the knights were around. Then Himeno realized that the demon larva was surging with electricity. No, not electricity...lightning.

Hayate and Sasame appeared in there knight's uniforms and ran over to Himeno.

"Himeno did you do this?" Sasame questioned.

"No, it was like this when I got here," Himeno replied, she was still surprised.

"No-one without the power of a leafe knight or the Pretear could have done this." They all turned to see Kei walking up to them.

"You're right Kei, and none of us were here except Himeno. And she says she found it like this." Hayate announced.

"Oh no! What about Kino?" Himeno shouted, she ran as fast as she could down the street.

Kino grew impatient of waiting for Himeno and decided she'd meet her when she got home. She started wandering down the road and further into Awayuki town. She walked aimlessly around by the sea for a while, until she bumped into someone.

"Oh sorry." She said, hardly even thinking about it. When the guy didn't reply she turned to see if he was okay.

She found the reason for the silence. It was he guy from before, Yoshime…

"Urghh…Hi…" Yoshime said to Kino.

Kino slowly looked up at Yoshime to find he was still staring at her; both of them did nothing until Kino finally coughed up a 'Hi'

They both immidiately turned away from each other and went a very bright shade of red. Yoshime turned back to Kino but she didn't turn back to him.

"You're probably wondering what the guy and I were talking about. Am I right?"

"Yes…But I know it has nothing to do with me, so I shouldn't need to know, it was just being nosey and I am sorry for that."

"There is no need to be sorry Kino, this does concern you though."

Kino turned to Yoshime, the embarrassment had gone from her face and was now replaced by fear, fear of how the conversation the man dressed in black and his conversation could have had anything to do with her.

"How…How do you know my name?" Kino asked. Yoshime looked over Kino's shoulder and saw a little desolated restaurant.

"Would you…Heh…Would you like to go sit down? I'll explain in somwhere more private."

Kino did want to sit down. Her legs had pins and needles, her knees also felt very weak. And she wanted some answers. Kino decided to go with her gut instinct and followed Yoshime from the beach to the little restaurant. Her shoes were getting filled with sand so, instead of thinking about what would happen at the restaurant, she started to estimate how many grains of sand could be in her shoes. She guessed roughly about 128.

When they finally got to the little cafe, the place they had been standing before was almost invisible.

"Come this way." Yoshime said in a kind and calm voice.

Kino followed Yoshime through the café. They were the only ones there, but they still sat unnoticed in the corner. It was about a minute before anyone spoke.

"So you really want to know the secrets I've been keeping, right?"

"Yes, I want to know what it has to do with me."

"Well first I'll tell you the basics; I'll start with your friends."

"My friends?"

"Your friend Himeno and the men you met right after you met me. Remember?"

"Urghh…Yes I remember. Why do they have anything to do with our conversation?"

"You wanna know? Quite a lot actually." Yoshime told Kino, "on the day at the mansion, you heard my b…Urghh, that guy in blacks and my conversation. Yes? Well can you remember us talking about a Pretear?"

"Umm…Yes, I remember that too."

"Well your friend Himeno is the girl who is the Pretear, in simple terms she seems to have an outstanding magical power that flows through her, also the men she calls her friends are called leafe knights, they help the Pretear."

A smile crept onto Kino's face, she couldn't help but laugh. She tried to hold it in but it came out in a sudden burst. The chef in the café kitchen peered around to see if anything was wrong. Yoshime glared at Kino.

"What's so funny?" Yoshime scowled, not realizing that this would probably be anyone's general reaction to being told about a magical girl who happened to be a fun loving, non-stop, evertalking chatterbox.

Kino regained her composition and apologised. I find it hard to believe, my new friends keeping this big a secret from me.

"So what have I got to do with this?" Kino asked growing impatient that Yoshime still hadn't told her the part she was to play in this, what seemed to be, on-going chess game- A/N: I know bad description.

"You may not know it, but you have incredible power inside you, nearly equalling that of a Pretear." Yoshime explained. A long while there was an awkward silence until Kino finally figured out.

"And you know all of this stuff, how? What are you hiding?" Kino interrogated Yoshime, glaring at him. Yoshime scratched his head again. He could feel sweat building up on his forehead.

"Well I am…"

"Giving away too much!"

Mayuke was back again, and wasn't happy. He once again summoned the black ball and sent Yoshime flying across the beach form the café. Kino could see that Yoshime was nearly at the place they were standing before. That ball of shadows, it was just like the one I saw at the manor…Was that the same person? Kino thought to herself.

Yoshime slowly managed to push himself up and suddenly…changed clothes? Kino was puzzled. Either he had a portable wardrobe or he was using some kind of magic. Yoshime dodged another 'shade ball', as Kino decided to call them, and threw a ball of lightning which Kino knew all too well at the other guy. The lighting pool had saved Kino before when she was at the manor. She cheered Yoshime on silently as she watched the two men throw the balls at each other. It reminded her of a tennis match, but in this match Yoshime was loosing badly, and the stakes were so much higher. Kino decided to take action.

"Come on Yoshime! Get up…Please."

Yoshime, who was on the floor, looked through his bangs to glance at Kino, her dark blue hair clashing with the sea's.

"Oh yes I forgot you were here." Mayuke said not caring at all for what his plans were.

"Kino watch out!" Yoshime screamed as Mayuke emitted a ball and threw it at Kino. Yoshime disappeared and reappeared in front of Kino.

As the ball plummeted towards the couple Yoshime put up a shocking yellow barrier. Yoshime tried with all his strength to deflect the ball and in the end he succeeded.

Mayuke's expression went from pleased to angry. He flew down to Yoshime.

"You have been getting in my way ever since we were children Yoshime!"

Mayuke flung Yoshime aside and hit him with a final ball.

"I am sorry Miss, but now it's your turn to join Yoshime." Mayuke said.

He flew back a few paces and started to build up energy from his hands, Kino knew what was going to happen next.

The dark ball flew at Kino as she moved to dodge. She realized with horror there was no way she could avoid it and decided that if she was going to die, why delay it?

Kino stopped running and stood completely still. She stared at Yoshime; he lay dormant on the floor. Kino shivered at the fact that he might be dead. The hairs on the back of her neck stood up when she thought that she would be with him soon.

"So you finally realized you can't win then?" Mayuke had a smug look on his face; he fired a wall of shadows now. The wall glistened in the sunlight and Kino swore she saw spirit like creatures wriggling through it.

The wall closed in on Kino but before it could reach her Kino suddenly heard a voice which she had been longing to hear.

He wall was torn down by a blast of wind which was shaped like a dragon. Kino's eyes danced with delight as she saw Himeno, who had also changed clothes, descending from the air and half floating but half running towards her.

Mayuke had been hit, and seemed to realise he was out of his legue. With a final scowl he turned and dissappeared.

Himeno changed out of her clothes which Kino was also surprised about, even though she knew Himeno's secret. She also noticed when Himeno changed, Hayate appeared beside her. Weird.

"Kino, are you okay?" Himeno asked.

"Yes I'm fine thanks, but…" Kino remembered something, "…Yoshime!"

Kino ran over to Yoshime and tried to see if he was okay. She checked his pulse, (A/N: Do leafe knights have pulses?) it wasn't there.

"Those clothes are strange." Hayate pointed out the whole of the gang was here now. Yoshime was still wearing his knight uniform from fighting Mayuke.

"You're right Hayate." Replied Go. "Seeing them now, they remind me of knight's clothes."

Mannen whacked Go around the head then whispered "Go! The girl is here so you know you're not supposed to say crap like that!"

Kino's face now had tears streaming down it, she never felt this much pain since she was first abandoned. The tears felt like they were burning Kino's face but she still heard what Go and Mannen were saying.

"I know about leafe knights and the Pretear." Kino announced, pure shock spread over all the knight's faces. Himeno's too.

"B, but…How?" Himeno splurted out.

Kino smiled and replied "Yoshime told me."

"Yoshime?" Himeno didn't have a clue who she was talking about when Sasame butted in.

"Is that boy there Yoshime?" He asked, pointing to the person Kino had in her arms.

She quietly replied 'Yes' and said nothing else before the clothes Yoshime was wearing slowly started to dissolve into the air.

"Huh?" Kino's eyes widened

Yoshime's casual clothes were now left as he started to glow a bright shade of white.

"Himeno! For this boy to survive you must give him some leafe now!" Kei shouted, Himeno jumped.

Does this boy's fate really lie in my hands?

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A/N: This is the longest chapter I have done so far and that's only because it has a major scene in it…Hopefully I will be able to do many more chapters which are this long! Hope you liked it… Do you think it's obvious what happens next?