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This is a short chapter longer one for chapter 4 I promise.

Chapter3: burning the body

Sasame and Mawata stood above Himeno both with a look of concern plastered

On their face. she had awoken the house with her screams and now she lie in her bed thrashing around and her face cringed up as if she was in terrible pain.

"Mawata get a knight get Mannen" Sasame directed his desperation filling with every word. What Himeno needed was a knight, a knight who was in Leafenia and not here with her.

Mannen who was very angry about being awoken and then being beckoned for came in with a look of complete impatience, walked to Himeno's bed, and smacked her in her face.

"Hey you stupid idiot wake the hell up and stop keeping everyone awake… you are very annoying" Mannen said not really meaning for it to sound as rude as it came out but it did the trick for Himeno's eye's flew open.

"Wha... Hayate? No… I… I am a failure aren't I," She whispered softly and a tear strolled down her cheek.

"That's right you failed everyone, Hayate, Sasame, and all the Leafe knights so if you don't mind I'm going back to bed!" Mannen said and Sasame looked at him in total shock and disappointment it was not suppose to end up like this. Sasame now held the tear stricken Himeno was shivering and shaking.

"He's right I… I failed Hayate," She muttered and her eyes went glassy and she fell silent no more tears came she was now stuck in her own world.

"Damnitt Hayate get back here" Sasame said and hugged Himeno closer, Mawata watched from the side she wanted Himeno to smile again for three years now the smile was so rare and now… now it was invisible.

Hayate grabbed his chest, fell to the ground, and screamed in pain, Himeno… Himeno he could not feel her presence all he felt was her sorrow overwhelming him it was worse than Leafe being sucked out of your being. It felt so terrible all he could do was roll into a ball and stay on the ground.

Kei and Goh raced to the fallen knight's side and assisted in getting the sweat drenched Hayate up to his feet.

"Hayate," Kei said with a shake of his head "it is time we returned to the Pretear I think"

Goh nodded his head in agreement but Hayate shook his head no and cringed to speak.

"A… little bit longer…. Just a little. Yukio can get a little bit stronger just… rest me somewhere, where the sun is" Hayate muttered and his head lolled backward.

Goh and Kei shook their heads negatively towards their older knight and did as he told them all the same. If he felt Yukio needed more time, even though his condition war worsening they would make it so that Yukio would have more time.

"Mr. Tanaka what do you mean the limousine broke down, and that's the excuse your using for not taking these pamphlets to the police station to find my daughters friends?" Mrs. Awayuki said with her eyes glowing red towards the completely bald Mr. Tanaka.

Mr. Tanaka jumped and his heart rate increased a billion percent and he turned bright red "I'm sorry Madam but the car just isn't working I am looking into it I can fax the pamphlets if you want"

"I see dock 3 month pay from Mr. Tanaka for not taking into accounts our needs" Mrs. Awayuki said and headed towards Himeno's bedroom it had been days and Himeno sat in a Veg state her eyes open they had doctors come the doctors didn't know. She was an empty shell no one was there. When she entered Carlos and Mayune greeted her.

"She is still not awake mother" Mayune said and cried into her fiancés shoulder Mr. and Mrs. Awayuki spent several days drilling Carlos and they came up with the fact he was a nice gentleman for Mayune.

"I know…. I'm very sorry Carlos that you meet us at such a bad time, but Himeno is very special" Mrs. Awayuki said and gave her stepdaughter a kiss on her cheek.

"It quite ok Mrs. Awayuki I completely understand he said and tried to smile but couldn't with his crying girlfriend on his shoulder. "I am sorry she is in this state." He muttered softly and hugged Mayune wrapping his arms around her body as if to protect her.

Mannen sat in silence, Shin and Hajime asked what was wrong with Himeno to Sasame had told them to ask Mannen. Mannen didn't want to tell them that he was the reason for her state, didn't want to admit to being the one who caused Himeno the pain. So he sat there finally someone spoke up.

"Mannen was trying to make things better and they had the opposite reaction" Takako said with a warm smile she didn't enjoy seeing Mannen full of all that guilt and not have a hand out of it. Her belly was now growing rapidly she was in her 6th month and the thought of Sasame's child was all she had in her head she loved her husband so much. She held her stomach feeling sickness coming on she was hoping it would pass though before she would have to run to a bathroom.

"Mannen did you make her cry?" Hajime asked his eyes lowering, Mannen had been acting like a jerk lately and Hajime could only imagine all the things Mannen would do to hurt Himeno.

Mannen jumped up and punched Hajime in his face and the two of them started fighting, wrestling each other to the ground. Shin started sobbing and Takako picked him up and left the scene.

"STOP IT!" Sasame said and glared at the two younger boys who had froze.. "You two can not be fighting at a time like this, no one ever considered that Himeno would be in this state, we all thought she would grow out of it." Sasame said and shook his head. "You boys can not fight."

Hajime and Mannen got up and apologized quickly to Takako and Sasame both feeling all around guilt.

Mr. Awayuki sat out in the garage as Mr. Tanaka worked on the limousine.

"I just don't know what I did!" He sobbed into a bottle of sake and just blundered on and on about how they all tried so hard and now Himeno was practically gone to him she was gone absolutely gone. He loved all three of his daughters, Himeno was always there though and now his blood was hurt and he could not do much more than drink his pity down into oblivion.

"Troubled girl she is… should never have got involved with that older man." Mr. Tanaka offered briefly, before he hit at the engine some more with a wrench. He really had no idea what he was doing, but he had to appear to try as to please his heartthrob Mrs. Awayuki. Who someday would be Mrs. Natsue Tanaka oh he could not wait to get that Awayuki alcoholic who was overly annoying out of his loves life.

"She loved him, and I thought he cared for her that… that trashy handy man!" Mr. Awayuki said and slammed the bottle of Sake down dismissing himself and leaving Mr. Tanaka. Who shrugged and went back to the limousine.

Goh and Kei watched over Yukio for a while in silence then Kei spoke up.

"The sooner we get Hayate out of here the better, he Is not needed here… Yukio can come to without Hayate's presence." Kei said and nodded "I'm going to take him back tonight."

"How?" Goh asked amazed that Kei had such an idea.

"I don't know yet… but its time he returns" Kei responded and shuffled his hair back out of his eyes. "The problem is Hayate seeled us in here… and we aren't leaving without breaking that seal"