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AN: In this chapter time is going to go by quick and a lot is going to happen really soon because I didn't have any other way to write it. It will also be long.

Chapter Two:

You Wouldn't Understand

Back at the palace it didn't take long for the others to realize that Elenya wasn't all she seemed to be. She often disappeared for long periods of time and then reappeared wearing a forced smile and a forced cheerful attitude. They all tried their hardest to get to know her better and see if she would talk about what is wrong, but the only one that could really get near her so far was Tasuki.

One night after dinner after Elenya had once again gone off, everyone ganged up on Tasuki,

"So, what has she told you?" Nuriko demanded picking Tasuki up by the front of his shirt and shaking him violently.

"Nuriko, if you keep shaking him like that you are going to knock what common sense he has left out. No da." Chichiri said ducking as the table flew past his head.

"For you information the only thing she told me, was that it takes a while for her to trust people and that even if she did tell me I wouldn't understand!" Tasuki yelled fuming at Chichiri and still trying to wriggle out of Nuriko's grasp.

Chichiri thought about this for a moment then he said, "Excuse me." And he left the room and went outside to the walkway. He sighed and looked around him, then he saw Elenya sitting on the pavilion railing that was overlooking the pond, she was staring up at the pale moon.

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I feel so insignificant. Elenya thought looking down at her reflection. Compared to Miaka and Nuriko, even though Nuriko is a man, I am nothing. Elenya was upset by her reflection, she had a plain face, and other than her horrid past, and her magical abilities there was nothing unique about her. She let out a sigh and tilted her head so that she could look at the beautiful stars, "Even the stars mock me."

"I have a feeling you are hiding something." Said a voice behind her. Elenya didn't turn around, but whoever was behind her came up and took a seat next to her on the railing, out of the corner of her eye she saw it was Chichiri,

"As are you." Was all she said, from the moment she had met Chichiri she could tell that he was hiding something from the others as she was.

"Let's just say, I'd rather forget my past." For a moment Chichiri considered removing his mask, but he remembered that Elenya had never seen him without it and he didn't want his scar to disgust her.

Elenya turned her head away from him and said, "I just feel, out of place. Nothing about me has gone right even my past."

"Would you like someone to share it with?"

Elenya remained silent, a few tense minutes passed and then she said quietly, "No, not right now."

"Are you sure? I might understand, and maybe I could help you. No da" Chichiri said trying to inch her along and tell him.

"NO! YOU COULD NEVER UNDERSTAND!" Elenya suddenly burst out, she looked at him for a moment, tears in her eyes and then she slid off the rail and ran off.

Good job you idiot. Now she will never trust you. No da. Chichiri said mentally smacking himself in the forehead. Then he thought to himself about the stuff that she had let slip to him in their conversation 'Nothing about me has gone right…' Now why would she think such things about herself, true she doesn't have the looks of a beautiful woman, but I'm sure someone out there will fall in love with her… Unless she had another meaning behind that. No da.

Chichiri shook his head, he had given up and it was getting late, he decided to head back to his room and get some sleep.

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"So Tamahome was acting under the influence of Diedu." Elenya said after Chichiri had informed her of what had happened when they had gone to get him back from Yui. "It's no wonder you couldn't reach him, I know I would have surrendered to it before long." Elenya shook her head and opened up her hand, for a moment her eyes glowed green and a brush on her bedside table did the same as it was lifted and placed into her hand. Elenya had telekinesis and whenever she used it her eyes glowed green and so did the object she was lifting. It had been a long time since the incident at the pavilion and Elenya now trusted everybody.

As Elenya began to brush her hair, Chichiri left having no more to say. He was down the hall when he heard a blood-curdling yell. "That came from Elenya's room! No da." He turned and sprinted down the hall, he threw open Elenya's door to see Elenya kneeling on the floor, there was an arrow sticking out of the left side of her chest, right where her heart was.

Standing right above Elenya was a large man, he wore nothing but black, and his eyes were cold and heartless. Reaching down he grabbed the arrow and wrenched it back out of Elenya's chest, Elenya yelled again and clutched the bleeding wound. Right behind Chichiri the rest of the warriors arrived.

"You have eluded me for far to long, but I have finally found you." The man said, then he turned to Chichiri and the others, "I have been watching all of you, and I know one of you can heal wounds, but I wouldn't try it with her." He broke open the arrow and some clear liquid came out. "This is my own concoction you can't heal, open wounds, poisons, paralysis, or illness with magic otherwise she will die."

"H-How did you find me?" Elenya asked still kneeling on the floor. The man turned to her and said,

"I will say it wasn't easy, you did a good job hiding yourself using magic. As a matter of fact, why don't we show all you friends just how well." Elenya's eyes opened wide as the man pointed his index finger at her and muttered a spell.

There was a blinding flash of light, when everyone could open their eyes, they saw that another woman was kneeling right where Elenya was. She had long black hair that went to her mid-back, a very pretty face and stunning green eyes. The man laughed cunningly,

"You did a very good job hiding yourself with magic, changed your hair and eye color, made yourself shorter, even hid you extraordinary beauty, just to hide from me." Elenya stood up and the man continued, "You should have known that you couldn't hide from me forever, oh wait, I forgot, you even hid you ears." The man brushed a strand of hair away from her ear, Elenya's ears were pointed, "You never told them you were an elf, did you?"

"HOW DARE YOU!" Elenya hit the ground and swung her leg, tripping the man and making him fall on his back. Pulling a dagger out of one of her boots she hovered over the man, her face was tear streaked and she looked furious, the man said nothing, but just grinned maliciously up at her.

Elenya's face suddenly went from anger to shock, she blinked slowly and looked down, right where her arrow wound hand been was her other dagger, the man gave a short laugh and lunged the dagger deeper. Elenya gasped as the dagger went right through her heart and out her back on the other side. The man pushed her off of him, Elenya landed hard on the ground bleeding terribly and the man ran out the window and took off.

Chichiri ran forward and held Elenya, she looked up at him, some blood was trailing from her mouth, "C-Chichiri, help me." She was crying, and Chichiri was trying his hardest not to, he pulled out the dagger and applied pressure to the wound trying to get the bleeding to stop.

"Just h-hold on, stay with me." Elenya's eyes slipped out of focus and she lost consciousness, "Oh, no she getting paler. No da."

"Guards bring me a doctor and hurry." Ordered Hotohori, the guards rushed off in search of a doctor.

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It had been nearly an hour since Elenya's secrets had been revealed and she had been stabbed. Everyone was outside of her room waiting as the doctor's and Mitsukake tried their best to stabalize her. Miaka looked over at Chichiri, he was sitting next to Elenya's door, his hands and clothes still covered in Elenya's blood. His knees were up to his chest and his arms rested upon them, he wasn't wearing his mask and he appeared to be in deep thought.

Moments later Mitsukake came out, he was wiping his hand clean, and everyone looked up at him except Chichiri who still seemed to be lost in thought.

"She should be fine, but we will need someone to stay in her room and make sure that not too much pressure it put on the wound. We don't want it to open up again and her to bleed to death on us while we sleep." Looking down he saw Chichiri, she crouched down next to him and handed him the rag.

"Here, it looks like you were the one who was nearly killed." Chichiri snapped out of his thoughts as Mitsukake spoke to him. He took the rag and wiped his hands clean,

"I'm sorry Mitsukake, now what were you saying earlier. No da."

"I was saying that someone needs to stay in the same room with her so that they can make sure she doesn't accidentally open the wound up again." No one said anything, so Chichiri figured that no one had volunteered to do it yet.

"I'll do it. This may seem odd, but I have a sixth sense when it comes to my friends, I will know if anything happens that shouldn't. No da." Mitsukake nodded his head,

"Alright, if anything serious happens let us know."

Chichiri nodded, his head, he had volunteered because somehow he felt that Elenya's injury was his fault. He should have intervened but for some odd reason, he hadn't, If I had stepped in she wouldn't be in such critical condition right now. This is all my fault.