Recap: Ayuma's POV

"Weaklings never win and get what they want!" Houlka declared proudly. I winced as Ren coughed out blood. He turned towards me and climbed on the mont. "Let's go Ryoukin. Take us home."

"Ayuma..." Ren whispered as we started to move away. "Love..."

I love you Ren, and because I love you I must leave...It's my turn to protect you. I whispered in my mind. I sighed and wish he could hear me...

Ren's POV

"Ayuma..." I whispered with the strenght I had left as she started to go. "Love..."

I then felt the earthen hand let me go, I fell to the ground and lost consioucness. But before I lost complete conisous, I heard one thing.

"I love you Ren, and because I love you I must leave..." Ayuma's voice whispered though my mind. "...It's my turn to protect you..."

Ren's POV

"..." I groaned as a gained coniciousness. I sat up straight and opened my eyes, which I immedatialy regretted as I felt a headache comeing up. I leaned back on the bed and close my eyes. "Wait, bed! Where the hell am I?"

I open slowly open my eyes and slowly sat up in a bed. I looked around and took in my surround. It was a simple log cabin room with flowers and pictures of animals hanging here and there. I slowly pushed the white sheets off of me and climbed out of the bed. I noticed that I was wearing a slightly larger t-shirt and some baggy jeans.

I stumbled a little, because my legs felt like they had been turned into jelly. I slowly walk to the door and opened it. I peeped my head out and saw no one. I breathe a sigh of relief and head to my left down the hallway. I saw what I believed to be a door leading out and I ran, or should I say fastly limped, towards the door. I was almost there when I tripped over something.

"Chi..." I muttered in pain and looked up. Jun was there staring at me serious and dissaprovingly.

"And where do you think, you're going?" She asked helping me stand up.

"Outside for some...fresh air..." I lied. She rolled her eyes.

"Right...And I'm a monkey's aunt." She stated and grabbed me by the arm. Her hand was firm enough to drag me and gentle enough that it didn't hurt. Once to the room, she made me lie down again.

"But Jun, I need to go after her-"

"No!" Jun said frowing. "You want to go after her, but you need to rest... "

"But-"

"She's right Ren..." Mom said entering carrying a tray of tea and food. She sits it on my bed and pats my head. "You need to rest."

"No! You're both wrong!" I snapped and kicked the tray off the bed as I jumped out of it. "You don't know what I need! I need her! She's the first person that I...I...I...love..." I swayed and then fainted.

Ayuma's POV

"..." I sigh as Houlka's maids started fitting me for a wedding gown. I growled in frustration as one pricked me again. That's enough "..."

I shook away the prying fingers.

"But, we're only part way finish." Said one maid. I climbed off of the stool and stepped out of what little white they had put on me. "We're not done."

I'm done! I don't want to try on or eat anything else! I snapped in my mind and slapped away the hands trying to grab me. And if Houlka doesn't like it, he can go to-

"What's the problem?" Houlka said walking in with his eyes narrowed in annyoance at the dress not being done.

"She does not wish to be fitted..." A maid mumbered. Houlka glanced at me and sighed while rolling his eyes.

"Again?" He said in an exasperated voice. I ignored him and sat by the window to look outside. "Did you get her measuerments?"

"Yes sir..." The same maid answered.

"Then get someone of the exact measurements to pose for her." He said, then waved his hand. "Now leave, you're all dismissed." They nodded as gathered their materials and headed out the door as fast as they could.

"..." I snorted as I glanced at them then out the window.

"Is something bothering you?" He asked sitting in a chair across from me. I frown and ignore him.

"Are you still not talking?" He asked. I looked at him and rolled my eyes. Talk about stating the obvious. He sighed and ran a hand through his hair, a nervous habit I learned. "Why is it that you won't talk?"

Stupid questions for Houlka: 2. Why I want talk! Why I want talk! You're why! I shouted in my mind. He stood up.

"Fine, if you won't talk to me...I'll just have to take away that bear that I have allowed you to keep." He said and started towards a sleeping Saut. I gasped.

"Don't..." I whispered. He looked at me victoursly and walked back to me. He grabbed my chin gently, forcing me to look up at him.

"What was that?" He asked.

"..." I glanced at Saut. "Please, don't hurt him..."

"I won't." He said, then kissed me. After he pulled away, he declared. "If you just do everything that I say, nobody will get hurt and everyone will be happy."

"..." I frowned at him and shrugged his hand off my face. He frowned slightly.

"I must leave now, I have a meeting to attented. I'll be back in a couple of hours." He stated while walking to the door. "I'll see you later.."

He left the room and closed the door, while locking it. I sighed.

"Maybe he's right..." I whispered while walking over to a sleeping Saut and petting him. "But then again...Maybe he's wrong..."

Ren's POV

Dream Sequence

"...What the hell?" I said and looked around. I then heard a small child crying. I turned around and looked for the source of the sound.

"...Sob..." The crying got louder at everystep that I took forward as though leading me to the child, which I now saw in front of me. I cleared my thoart and the child's head snapped up. I saw tears streaming down her face. "Who...are...you sniff?"

"Um...I'm Ren..." I said squatting down to have a better look at her. I gasped. She looks like Ayuma! "Um...what's yours?" I asked hoping that my assumptions were correct.

"...Ayuma..." She whispered and wiped her face with the back of her hands and sniffed.

"Ayuma." I repeated. She srink back in fear.

"You know me?...You came to take me! I don't want to go!" She shouted and started crying again.

"I'm not here to hurt you!" I declared holding my hands up in a gesture. She stopped crying.

"How do I know you're not like HIM?..." She asked defensively. I thought and then reached under my shirt. I pulled out the locket that Ayuma gave me.

FLASHBACK

"You said you wanted to see me?" I asked Ayuma while sitting next to her on the outside bench in the backyard, in the garden. She nodded her head as a blush painted her nose and the top of her cheeks.

"Um...I've been here for about 2 months since I first saw you..." She stated and paused. I nodded her head for her to continue, which she did. "And I...I don't know when I'm leaving."

"Leaving?" I asked frowning and she nodded her head looking down. "You can't- I mean you don't have to."

"I don't want to but..." She sighs and bits her bottom lip. "I might have to and Ren?..."

"Yeah?"

"I...I want to leave you something...to remember me if we..." Her blush deepens. "are to part ways..."

"Leave me something?" I asked confused. She nodds her head while still looking down. She raises her right hand and opens it. It's a sliver locket. I take it and open it. Inside is a picture of her, Jun, and me. I saw something else was behind it, so I removed the picture. Underneath was another picture of a young man and woman holding a baby. "Whose this?"

"That's my mom and dad..." She said scooting closer to have a look at it.

"Why did you put this picture over them?"

"Because...because of you guys, I was able to stop looking at the past...and able to look at the present..." She stated, looking straight into my eyes. "I was able to move on..."

"Because of us..." I repeated and smiled slightly while placing the new picture over the old. "I'm glad...I'll keep this safe and with me at all times no matter what." I placed the locket around my neck and sent her a bright smile. Her blushed would have put a tomato to shame. She looked away from me and at a butterfly that was flying past her. It landed on the end of my nose and stayed there.

"Wow..." She whispered.

"What?" I asked, making the butterfly fly away. "It's just a butterfly."

"Yeah, but it landed on the end of your nose." She said excitedly, her blush gone.

"And?"

"It's a good omen." She explained. "Something so fragile, beautiful...it trusted you with its life in that little time as if it knew that you wouldn't harm it, which you didn't."

"I don't get it. What is it suppose to mean?" I asked confused while crossing my arms.

"I don't know, but it will be something good." She said nodding her head while standing up. I watched as she started walking around my uncle's garden.

"Maybe the omen's a little late..." I whispered to myself.

End of Flashback

"Do you remember this?" I asked her. She looked at it.

"That's mine!" She declared, then seemed to remember me. "Ren!" She glomped and hugged me tightly.

"Yeah..." I said smiling and when I looked down, she was the regular Ayuma (the older version). Our eyes locked and we leaned towards each other. "Ayuma..." Our lips brushed gently at first; and as soon as we went to kiss, water was poured on us. I screamed at how cold it was and Ayuma looked at me sadly.

"Bye Ren..." She whispered as she drifted slowly away from me. I tried to run after her, but I couldn't move. With all the stenght I had I shouted.

End Of Dream

"Ayuma!" I shouted as I awoke jerking upward. I panted as I looked around and saw a guilty looking Pailong along with Jun, Bason, a bear spirit, and Mother. I sighed and laid back. "That dream...I have to go after her."

"Ren, you must rest and think first." Jun stated.

"Maybe you're right..." I said sighing again, but held determination in my voice. I gently gripped the locket Ayuma gave me. "But then again...Maybe you're wrong..."

I'm sorry I haven't been updating !I plan to update all of my other fanfictions especailly this one and the Yugi-Oh one! Thanks for the reviews and I hope you will continue to review!