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Okay! I'm finally starting Chapter 5 (or 6 if you count the prologue)! Sorry for the wait, I was staying with my nana because my dad came over from Australia, with my half brother from Canada.

Thanks so, so, so much for the reviews!

michievious-lil-kitsune I'll try and bring Clear back, but in later chapters, thanks for the suggestion!

Chapter 5:

Midnight and Morning Visits

Lisa lay wide awake in her bed. She listened carefully, but could not hear anything, there was no sign that either Kaze or Makenshi were anywhere in her apartment. It was so silent she could hear her own rapid heartbeat. It was pounding with anxiety and fear. Within the last day she had almost gotten married, ran away from her wedding to a dirty old subway, waited for a train that never came, and now lay restless in her bed, waiting for more trouble. She expected Greg to be he worst of her troubles at the time, but she was very wrong.

Suddenly there was a low rumbling, Lisa clutched her stomach. She hadn't even thought to eat all day. Maybe just a quick snack to help her sleep, or at least something to drink. She silently crawled out of bed. She didn't bother to put a dressing gown over her short nightgown, although it only reached the middle of her thighs. She carefully and quietly paced towards the kitchen.

She opened the door of the refrigerator only able to use its light to scan her surroundings. She lifted a jug of cooled water, placing it silently on the bench beside her, leaving the fridge door slightly ajar, as she opened a cupboard taking a glass from the self. She poured her water, putting the jug in the fridge and closing the door. Food should wait should really wait until morning, if she ate now she couldn't work it off even if she was famished, besides, water would fill her enough to stop the hunger pains.

She turned to go back to the room before she woke one of the men she assumed were sleeping. Although she suddenly made out the black clad figure of Kaze standing tranquil before her, utterly surprised, she backed up against the cold bench with an almost strangled gasp, water spilling from the glass down her front and dripping onto the tiled floor. Kaze looked intently at her, as she calmed down, sighing and backing up from the bench.

"You scared me." she smiled, blushing a little at the strange circumstances. "What are you doing up?"

she asked him rather curiously.

Kaze stood wordlessly for a moment. He had stood up from where he had been resting, curious to what she was doing. Before she had appeared in the kitchen he had been wide awake thinking intensely about what in the world he was doing in this place, and what he planned on doing now that the train hadn't come.

"I wasn't sleeping."

he told her in a quiet, hoarse voice, almost a whisper.

She stared at him in disbelief. She looked around for Makenshi, now that her eyes were adjusting to the black darkness. Makenshi was huddled on a chair, with Crux sleeping soundly in his arms. She smiled, it was hard to believe he was once supposedly working for Chaos. He was sleeping, so what was keeping Kaze awake? Something inside him, the same that was keeping her from drifting to sleep?

"Why aren't you-" she cut herself off, she knew better than to bombard Kaze with a thousand questions, even if she was almost finding it inevitable. How could she not? He was talking, which hadn't happened very often. "Is everything okay?" That was a better question.

Kaze simply nodded.

Lisa stopped throwing questions at him, leaving the room dead silent. She gazed at the floor this was quite a comfortable silence. She put her drink down on the bench beside her.

"Thank you." she whispered softly, making her way shyly towards him "Thank you so much for everything you did for me today... and before, for everything you did for this world. I never believed you were heartless, but I never expected you to be quite that selfless."

Her soft smile gently grew weaker, fading away, her face became full powerful emotion, one oddly familiar to Kaze. Lisa moved slowly, cautiously closer to him, reaching her arms out, letting her hands shakily hold his waist, and slowly progress to his lower back, she softly shifted herself against him, embracing him. All the while Kaze stood immobilized and astonished, she had clung very tightly to him before, but that was out of fear, this was different. This was out of affection. Another astounding fact was that she had built up the courage to approach him with an attempt of that sort of contact. Although it wasn't like he was complaining. He slowly pulled his left arm around her, drawing her closer, but he wouldn't dare do anymore than that.

After what felt like forever, Kaze let his hand drop, afraid Lisa had fallen asleep. She looked up at him, loosening her arms from his waist, and letting them fall limply to her sides.

"I had better go.." she whispered, beginning to feel slightly uncomfortable "I'll see you in the morning." she let a soft smile grace her lips, before turning and leaving to her room, picking up the water on the way.

Kaze gazed after her. Why was it that when she smiled at him, every time he found it more and more difficult not to smile back? That when she hugged him, he felt himself responding whether he wanted to or not? He had kept every feeling and emotion inside, that was just the code he lived by since he had lost everything, but now he felt as though his feelings and emotions for her were somehow escaping. He didn't even no how to keep them in anymore. It scared him, for the first time he was scared of a threat coming from his own self.

Sitting back down to try and rest, he wondered about the many emotions mixed up inside him, caused by one simple person.

Lisa stood in her room, resting her hand on her stomach, she had spilt water down it, she quickly changed, nestling back into the warm covers of her bed. She took a deep sigh, gazing up at the white, shadowed ceiling. She couldn't believe what she had just done, or why she had done it. What really made her head spin though, was that Kaze- the emotionless Black Wind- had actually responded again. All of a sudden he seemed so much closer to her. One who avoided even the slightest of human contact. A content, yet tired smile crossed her lips as she closed her eyes, finally able to fade into a slumber.

Morning came, and Lisa woke to a peaceful silence, the warm forthcoming sunlight beamed through the window beside the bed, giving off a cheerful sentiment. She let out a small yawn, stretching. She could, and would lay there all day enjoying the wonderful morning, but it was definitely the wrong circumstances.

She slipped wearily out of bed, dressing before going out to face the two foreign men in her living room. She observed the soiled wedding dress sprawled across the floor, she wanted to burn it, or dump it somewhere she cold never see it again. She wanted to forget the pathetic 'used spouse' life she had nearly encountered, and hoped wouldn't come back to haunt her.

With a stressed sigh, she opened her bedroom door, heading out to the kitchen for breakfast. Exiting the hall to the small kitchen, she was greeted by a calm silence. Makenshi looked over to her from the living room, barely separated from the kitchen, as did Kaze, causing her to blush.

"Good morning."

she murmured, running her fingers through her long tangled raven hair. She received a smile from Makenshi, and a blank stare from Kaze she took as a 'Good morning' that didn't quite make it from his mouth.

All of a sudden there was a forceful banging on the outside of the door. Lisa stared for a moment, wondering who would come knocking like that on someone's door at seven in the morning. Of course no one but the police-.

"Lisa Pacifist! If your here open the door!"

came the strong forceful voice of a young man. Lisa approached the solid wooden door, hesitantly opening it enough to see four policemen in blue uniforms.

"May we come inside, we had a report...or rather complaint.. by your fiancée, that you had been abducted, and presumed missing."

Lisa nodded unsurely, placing her hand on the chain lock on the door, she turned to see Kaze, Makenshi and Crux gone. She opened the door.

The policemen all came bursting in, pulling shotguns from their belts, pointing them all around the room. One man lowered his gun, turning to see Lisa standing shocked, a concerned frown coming upon her thin brows.

"Miss Pacifist, Mr Miner will be glad you are unharmed. Do you have any information on your kidnapper? Is he here? How did you get back?"

She slowly shook her head. Greg had gone to the police? She should have known she couldn't escape from the marriage that easily, but he had lied. He surely knew she hadn't been kidnapped.

The policeman nodded. Just then, Greg came through the door, an obviously false expression of relief on his face. She came up to Lisa, pulling his arms around her.

"Your okay!" he cried, then lowered his voice, hissing in her ear "What do you think you are doing, running away! The man didn't kill you so I hope you have a very good explanation for your behaviour."

Then suddenly she said it. It just came out as if they weren't even her words, like she wasn't the one speaking them.

"I don't want to marry you."

she stated firmly, stepping back from him. All the policemen froze, looking towards her.

"What are you talking about? You don't have a choice anyway."

he cried, trying not to raise his voice in front of the police.

"You know, most woman that run away from their weddings do it because they have second thoughts."

a policeman pointed out.

"I DON'T CARE!" Greg suddenly snapped, hitting the nearby wall with his fist "She has no choice in the matter, it's arranged!"

He hissed, his nostrils flaring out of rage. The chief policeman pointed his gun towards him.

"Calm down, I don't think she should be marrying a man like you anyway, for her own safety." he said, keeping a calm voice. "We are going to need proof that if has been arranged as well."

Greg let out a frustrated growl.

"She should have a copy of the old mans will, and I have a tape recording."

Lisa frowned at him.

"I don't have his will-"

"Check your damn mail, he died yesterday!"

Lisa's frown turned, her eyes welled up with hot stinging tears, as she felt a cold, hollow numbness flow through her body. He had died?

"I got a recording of him talking to her in the hospital, that should prove it."

Greg said flatly.

"You know that's invasion of privacy, a crime you will be fined for."

A policeman stated clearly. Greg snarled at him.

"I'll go get it from the hotel."

he muttered, leaving before the policemen could do anything to stop him..

"Don't worry Miss Pacifist, we will do what we can to keep him away."

a policeman comforted her, as she broke into uncontrollable sobs.

Greg returned within fifteen minutes, with a tape cassette and a small white tape. He played it, at first there was him talking to Lisa's uncle, and thanking him for letting him marry his niece. A bunch of lies. He fast forwarded it a while, stopping it on the sound of violent coughing, then continuing to fast forward. Stopping it again, there was the sound of a soft female voice- Lisa.

"Uncle, wake up."

"It's about time you got here! I fell asleep waiting for you."

"I'm sorry uncle."

There was a short silence.

"What's wrong?"

"I'm going to miss you..."

"Sit down Lisa, we need to talk."

There was another silence, only laboured breathing could be heard.

"Lisa. First, I have to tell you, you'll be fine without me. We have lived in different countries for so long, in a few weeks, you won't even notice."

There was another small silence. Lisa couldn't listen to it, she walked over to the other side of the room.

"You know everyone has to die someday, and when it's your time, you'll meet your mother and I again."

"...And Kaze..?"

Her whisper could barely be heard on the recorder, but Greg heard it. Frowned deeply, looking over to Lisa with a rage filled glare.

"That man who took you!"

A policeman looked at him in surprise.

"I thought she was abducted, the way you explained it! But she clearly chose this man over you."

Greg rewound the tape.

"...And Kaze..?"

"You mean the bastard was dead! Bt he punched me in the face!"

He screeched. Confusion filled the room. A policeman quieted Greg so they could listen.

"Who's this?"

"He was a man in Wonderland, he sacrificed his life to protect this world."

"And you feel deeply for him?"

The tape fell silent again, then the sound of Lisa crying could be heard.

"I just lost him, and now you."

"There, there Lisa. I have some more news for you."

The crying, after a few minutes, began to subside.

"Remember the marriage? I have chosen the perfect man for you. Remember when your mother died, and I got custody of you? I'd decided that if you were not married or engaged by the time of my death, I would choose a man for you."

"Uncle, I don't want to marry a stranger."

"This man will take good care of you, and he is wealthy. Don't you want that?"

"I want love.."

"I'm sorry Lisa. You know if I could give you that I would, but I want to insure you a safe future with someone I know will take care of you."

A policeman stopped the tape.

"Looks like uncle didn't choose so well." he joked "Well there is no law saying that you two must be wed, but you do know that means you will be outcaste from your family?" Lisa nodded, she didn't have ant family left anyway. "I only have one more question. Why wasn't there a file of this 'Kaze' man on our database? It's like he doesn't exist."

Lisa finally built up the courage to speak again.

"He doesn't come from this world, a few weeks ago I got back from a mission in the Inner World- Wonderland. That's where I met him, so there wouldn't be any files on him here."

The policeman nodded understandably.

"The bastard punched be in the face! He nearly broke my nose!"

Greg suddenly yelled, struggling in the police offices grip.

"Well between you and me I don't want to interfere with the Inner World or anyone from it. And I don't think it's even possible to charge him with assault without having to create files on him. Lets keep it a secret, and perhaps you two go back to the Inner World to stay out of trouble."

The policeman muttered to Lisa. Kaze wasn't from Wonderland but Windaria, but she didn't want to go into detail about him with this policeman.

"Greg was the one who threw the fist punch anyway."

Lisa admitted. The policeman smiled warmly.

"Well in that case we don't have to even say he exists."

Lisa thanked him, and Greg was escorted out, because of his threatening attitude. She closed the door behind them, then went to search for Kaze, Makenshi and Crux. All three of them stood against the wall in the hallway, Kaze had a deep scowl on his face.

He felt even more hatred towards Greg now, but he kept asking himself: Why? Although he knew very well exactly what the answer was. Because of what the man had tried to do to Lisa. Kaze wouldn't let anyone hurt her, he had a strange sudden need to protect her, even more than when Chaos was a threat.

"I think it would be a good idea if we left the apartment."

Lisa suggested, receiving a nod from Makenshi.

"I think Crux and I should take our own path for now." he told her, a calm, yet saddened look on his face "We must find out why the train hasn't come. I'm sure Kaze would stay to protect you where ever you plan to go."

Kaze looked at him for a moment.

"Will we see you again?"

Lisa asked hopefully, clasping her hands together. Makenshi nodded, smiling sadly.

"Come Crux."

he lowered his hand to the small doll-like girl, she took it.

"But how will you-"

Lisa began to ask as Makenshi walked past them and out of sight to the living room. A mist began to creep along the floor, and peering out to the living room, the white swordsman was gone.

"He can protect himself."

Kaze suddenly said in a detached voice. Lisa nodded in agreement, sighing wearily.

"I know." She leaned against the wall "I think we should leave. I don't know where to go, but we have to figure out why the train didn't come. Perhaps tonight we should go to the old station."

Kaze lowered his head indicating agreement.

For that day they were to wait for the right time of night to go back to the subway, where the search for a reason why they were stranded would begin, and so would their next fight.

Okay another chapter, this was my first free weekend since we got back to school, I'll try to get the next chapter up faster though. Please R&R.