I don't own YYH or any of it's characters. I only own Mikai, Yuzu, Sotto, and Reijii or course.

Last chapter was rather sad and this is going to get worse. Anyways, OOOOO means a flashback. Enjoy!

The ocean's waves hit the beach and dragged some of the sand back with it and even thought it was being selfish by taking sand back with it, the ocean left gifts of shells, and seaweed for the sand. The ocean gave something back to the sand as it took some of the sand back with it, and it was something that happened every minute of everyday. Somewhere, something was taking, and something was giving.

"Mikai…"

Kurama was standing near the ocean as he watched it move back and forth. He couldn't believe that Mikai wouldn't be coming back. Even though he knew that there was still a chance that she would come back, everything looked so grim. Ten out of one hundred wasn't good but it was better then nothing and even though Kurama told himself that ten percent was better then nothing, but that ninety percent chance of her never coming back just clouded everything else.

He looked down towards the necklace Yusuke had given Kurama, and he remembered when he had given it to Mikai, back when they were in the Makai.

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Kurama and Mikai were sitting down with each other, with nothing behind them or nothing in front of them. They were alone in the area and everything was silent around them. Mikai's head was buried in his neck, and Kurama's arm was around her, hugging her tightly to him.

"Hey Kurama?" Mikai asked gently as she looked out in front of her.

"What?" he asked gently.

"When we get back to the Ningenkai…," she began. "Promise to take me to beach. I've been waiting to go to the beach for some reason lately."

"I promise." Kurama smiled as he hugged Mikai even tighter. "A date."

"Hey." Mikai looked up towards the red head. "We've never been on a date."

"No…," Kurama said as he thought about it. "We haven't." His hand breezed past a small crystal he had found and took it out of his pocket.

"What's that?" Mikai asked as she looked up at it.

"Something I found. I stole it along time ago and I found it here when I was out the other day," Kurama answered.

"It's pretty." Mikai took it gently from Kurama's hand and looked at it.

"You can have it," Kurama said as he rubbed his face next to Mikai's. "I don't need it for anything."

"Really?" Mikai asked as she rubbed her face back against his.

"It can be a little reminder of our promise." Kurama laughed gently. "I'll put it on a necklace and give it you."

"Okay," Mikai whispered as she kissed him gently.

It was a moment they had to fight for. Both of them were trying to keep it a secret from Yomi and they had snuck out in order to have some alone time. It was a nice reminder of something they were trying to protect with all of their hearts and sometimes moments like this were needed in order to remind them of what they both wanted.

"I love you," Mikai whispered as she kissed him on the side of his mouth.

"I love you too." Kurama smiled.

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A part of him felt empty now. He would return home once more alone just as he had two years ago when he returned from the Makai.

"I'll keep waiting…," Kurama whispered as he watched the sun go down. "Until you come back…Mikai."

"Dammit why!?" Sotto cried.

Everyone expect for Kurama had retuned to Genkai's temple for they figured that Kurama needed to be alone for a while. They were all sitting in the main tearoom expect for Yusuke who was outside in the garden as fireflies flew around him.

"Sotto…," Botan said with sympathy.

"Why did she have to leave? She was my sister dammit! Why the hell….why the hell did she have to leave?" she yelled as she cried.

"What's wrong?"

Everyone looked towards the sliding doors and saw Hiei standing there with a smug look on his face. He walked over to his kitten and nudged his face next to hers.

"Mikai's…" Botan looked away. She didn't know how to say what happened to Mikai for there was still a chance that Mikai would and could come back but very thing looked so grim.

"She's gone!" Sotto yelled. "She's dead dammit!"

"Now Sotto she might not be dead," Botan said, trying to comfort Sotto. "We haven't seen her in Spirit World yet."

"Mikai's gone?" Hiei repeated in shock. "Hn." He looked away and wrapped his arms around his crying kitten.

"Hiei…," she whimpered as she clung onto him, hugging him tightly to her body.

"Kazu?"

Reijii and Kuwabara were sitting in a training room. They were back to back towards each other as they spoke.

"Yeah?" Kuwabara answered in a low tone.

"I'm sorry."

"For what?"

"Today…," Reijii said as her eyes began to burn once more. "You lost someone close to you…and I'm just afraid that no one will realize that you got hurt today too. You knew Mikai just as long as Yusuke did."

Kuwabara smiled even though small trails of water were falling down his face. He reached backwards and grabbed Reijii's hand, lacing his fingers with hers.

"And I'm sorry you lost a best friend too," Kuwabara said gently.

Yusuke was sitting in the garden as fireflies flew around him, lighting the dark sky even though a full moon was out. Everything looked so glum and dark to Yusuke though, as he sat there, thinking everything over.

"Hello dimwit," Genkai said as she walked over to Yusuke.

"She's gone…Genkai. Mikai's gone," Yusuke said with a low, tired tone.

Genkai's eyes widened and then closed. She sighed and walked over to Yusuke and gently sat down next to him, crossing her legs underneath herself.

"Did you see her die?" Genkai asked.

"She fell down a Rajon hole," Yusuke answered, not looking at the old woman but the moon high above him.

"Then there's still a chance," Genkai said, as she took looked up towards the moon.

"Ten. Ten percent."

The two were quiet for a few moments, both of them looking up towards the moon maybe almost wishing that they were both up there. Genkai had felt like this over and over again back when she had fallen for Toguro.

"Grandma?" Yusuke asked. "Can I tell you something?"

"Anything."

"When I was in the Makai, I fought Mikai…and in that time I discovered that…I liked her."

"You mean you care for her," Genkai corrected. "After all you still like her don't you?"

"Yeah." Yusuke sighed. "I don't know where any of the feelings came from."

Genkai laughed. "You never knew that Mikai liked you?"

"No!" Yusuke yelled getting rather annoyed that everyone had known that Mikai liked him but he didn't notice.

"Mikai…" Genkai placed her head down with a sigh. "A Rajon hole is difficult to get out of but if she does two things may cause problems."

"Like what?" Yusuke asked as he moved closer towards Genkai.

"She could end up in a world that we have yet to hear of, or she may end up somewhere such as Antarctica. But the other thing that worries me is that…" Genkai sighed. "She may have no memory of anything."

"No…memory?" Yusuke asked.

"She won't remember any of us or anything that's happened for a few years," Genkai explained.

"Dammit!" Yusuke punched the ground underneath him. "I've really screwed everything up this time! Dammit!"

"Yusuke…" Genkai raised her hand and smacked Yusuke on the back of his head.

"Ow dammit!" Yusuke grabbed his head. "What the hell was that for?!"

"Don't be upset about this," Genkai said as she crossed her arms. "Mikai will do everything she can in order to get back to everyone she loves."

"Genkai?" a voice from behind said; Yusuke and the older woman to turned around. There stood Kurama, his eyes now dry.

"Yes Kurama?" Genkai answered.

"Is it true…Mikai won't have any memory of me if she escapes the Rajon hole?" Kurama asked.

"It's a possibility." Genkai hated to tell Kurama the truth but it was better then lying to him and keeping everything hidden from him.

"I'm going home now." Kurama turned away from the two and began to walk away.

"Kurama." Genkai called, and the red head turned back around out of respect. "Don't give up on anything."

"Never abandon anything"

He had to keep going. He told Yomi never to give up on anything, or leave anything behind so he had keep believing in the fact that Mikai would come back. He had to keep believing as long as he could.

"I never want any of you to leave."

"Mikai never wanted any of us to leave," Kurama said as he looked at Yusuke. "And yet…she left us."

"It's not like she did it on purpose!" Yusuke yelled as he stood up. "Dammit Kurama you act like you're the only one who got hurt!"

"Yusuke." Kurama turned away. "I'd rather not discuss this right now."

"Fine be that way!" Yusuke hissed.

"Yusuke," Kurama hissed as he turned back around. "I've just lost the woman I love so I'd rather not be bothered right now."

"You don't understand either!" Yusuke yelled back. "Mikai was one of my best friends dammit! We went through everything together and now it's all over! We went and did everything together!" His brown eyes began to puff up.

"I understand Yusuke." Kurama looked away. "Mikai and I had so many promises between us and I'm going to wait as long as I can to make sure that those promises are kept and met."

"Kurama!" Yusuke yelled, getting ready to tell Kurama how he felt about Mikai. He opened his mouth to say something but Genkai smacked him on the back of head once more.

"Kurama, please go home and take a small break. I'll come and talk to you about everything soon okay?" she said with her tired voice.

"Thank you." Kurama turned away and began to walk off of the temple. Genkai waited until she couldn't hear Kurama's footsteps anymore before she looked towards Yusuke.

"What the hell was that for?" Yusuke yelled as he held his head once more.

"Kurama's not ready to hear you tell him that you like Mikai too," Genkai explained. "He might end up regretting letting Mikai stay with you if you say anything."

"Damn." Yusuke looked away. "I'm being so stupid."

"You're not being stupid," Genkai said as she began to walk away from the black haired boy. "You're just confused about your feelings like any normal teenager."

The old woman walked ahead of Yusuke and stopped when she found herself standing in front of one of her sliding doors. She placed one hand on the door but stopped moving when she heard Yusuke sniffling.

"It's good to have you back dimwit," she said gently.

Yusuke looked up and watched Genkai open the door, and walk in without turning around at all. He looked away, back up at the moon. It looked just like the moon, which looked down at him when he had that dream or whatever it was about Mikai when they were both in bed together.

When are you coming back…Mikai? Yusuke asked himself as he looked away from the moon and let small tears fall down his face.

Genkai walked into her room and looked around it. She sighed a bit as she sat down on her bed and began to think.

Someone like Mikai who has this much to live for can't be dead and there's no way that she can forget everyone. She thought. She'd better come back soon.

Kurama had caught the late trains home, and he walked into his house late into the night. He looked around his living room and saw that everything was dark. He sighed and walked back into his room, closing his door quietly behind him.

He was too tired to change into new clothes, and at the moment he didn't care. He fell into bed and looked up at the white ceiling, lined with popcorn.

Was everything true or was everything some kind of nightmare he was having? Could Mikai really be gone? He reached down into his pocket and pulled out the small necklace he had given to her when they made their promise to go to the beach together.

Everything can't be over. Kurama thought. We barely got to start anything.

Kurama rolled over onto his side and placed the necklace down in front of him. He looked away from it and looked to the right of his room where his eyes landed on the pure white promise rose, which stood there, waiting. Kurama realized what it meant and he got up, walking over to it. He picked it up gently, almost fearing that it would fall apart in his hands as it did so. He looked at it and discovered that it didn't show any signs of dying or fading away.

Mikai… Kurama thought as he gently touched one of the petals. If this rose is still healthy…then that has to mean that Mikai's still alive and…she's out there somewhere.

He felt happy somewhere in his head but then he realized what else it meant. Seeing the rose everyday meant that he would be reminded over and over again that Mikai was out there somewhere, but she wasn't there with him like he thought it should be. She was somewhere out there, with or without memory of him and he didn't know how long he could wait for her before his heart turned cold and bitter towards the whole thing.

When you're in love, you make promises you both wish to keep and can't keep. Kurama told himself. And I hope this is a promise you wish…and can keep.

Two weeks had passed since Yusuke had come back from the Makai and told everyone about Mikai. Everyone was now waiting, waiting as long as they could.

Kurama was standing in front of the cherry tree he had always climbed as a child. He looked up at it as small pink blossoms feel from it, and gently hit the ground beneath it. Kurama's red hair moved also, catching a few petals as he looked at the tree, seeming almost memorized by it.

Marriage promise. He thought.

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Kurama was standing next to the cherry blossom tree with Mikai, the both of them were looking up at it in awe.

"Wow Kurama," Mikai said gently. "It's really pretty."

"I used to play here all the time as a child," Kurama said as he smiled at Mikai. "I really love this tree."

Mikai grinned and walked over to the tree, placing her right hand flat on the tree. She looked back at Kurama as her hair moved in the small wind. Her eyes landed on his and created a gentle content feeling to run through the both of them.

"Let's get married under this tree Kurama," Mikai said gently. "Okay?"

Kurama smiled. "Yes."

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A small flashback, to Kurama but it still meant so much to him. To him, it made the cherry blossom tree that much more special. He remembered how the cherry blossom tree seemed to help him in his fight with Shigure.

This tree…it means so much. Kurama thought.

"Do you think Shuuichi is okay?" Kazuyu asked as he looked at Shiori. The both of them were sitting at a small white table with small cups of tea as they looked out towards Kurama.

"Yes why?" Shiori asked as she looked out towards her son.

"He just seems a bit sadder then usual," Kazuyu said with a low sigh. "I wonder why."

"Maybe he's just a little lonely," Shiori answered. "He told me that Mikai was coming back two years ago and he's still waiting. She was supposed to be back already but for some reason she hasn't yet."

"Who is Mikai anyway?" Kazuyu asked. "I've heard a few things about her but not that much."

"Mikai is a girl who Shuuichi met a while back. They've been going out for a while but a couple of years ago she went home to America and she was supposed to come back but she didn't. Then when we were on our honeymoon Shuuichi told me that he had found her but when we came back, she went back to America for whatever reason," Shiori answered.

"Poor Shuuichi." Kazuyu sighed. "Do you think he'll be okay?"

"He'll be fine." Shiori smiled. "I'm sure Mikai will come back to him. She didn't seem like the kind of girl who would just up and leave Shuuichi."

Kurama walked away from the cherry tree and up to where his mother and stepfather were. He began to walk past them when Shiori looked at him, remembering something.

"Oh Shuuichi?" she asked as she tugged on him. "This came in the mail for you."

"Thank you." Kurama picked up the small letter and walked away with it. He walked into his room and sat down at his desk, and opened it.

To Shuuichi Minamino

In response to your grades and high GPA we would like to once more ask you to attend our college here in America. Our school, Falling Star College, would greatly benefit from having someone like you at our college. Again, please attend our college.

Kurama sighed and placed the letter down. He didn't know what he was going to do anymore.

"Do you want to?"

What reason was there for him to stay in Japan? There was nothing there for him now, just old friends and old faces. There wasn't anything there for his future anymore.

Kurama began to look out of his window but something else caught his eyes. The small white rose which looked as good as the day Kurama had created it. That was his reason to stay in Japan. As long as that flower was still blooming and living, Kurama had to live in Japan, and wait.

R&R please!