A/N: As always. I hope you like this chapter!

The Beginning of Love

Chapter 3

Hayate awoke with the feeling of warm breath on his neck. He opened his eyes to see Himeno lying against him. She had one arm around his chest and her head was in the crook of his neck.

He loosened her arm and rolled off the bed. "Mmm.." He stretched and walked over to the balcony. He noticed his own jacket thrown across the desk beside the glass doors.

After putting his jacket on her walked out onto the balcony and was just about to teleport away when two arms found their way around his waist.

"Thank you for staying with me." Himeno said from behind him. He turned around and looked her in the eye, then he smiled slightly.

"Your welcome." He ruffled her hair and let her walk away. Himeno watched as he disappeared, and she closed the glass doors.

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Hayate teleported down to the pond and was about to walk down to the gate when Sasame appeared. "Hayate! Didn't you feel that? There's a Demon Larvae around here somewhere." He had a very stern look.

"What?" Now that he thought about it, he did sense something. "Damn!" It was near the mansion. He teleported back to Himeno's balcony.

"Hayate! What's going on?" Himeno asked. She was fully dressed and had seen him teleport back. "I sensed the presence of a Demon Larvae." Hayate noticed she was holding her stomach.

"Come on." He took her in his arms and flew out the window. "It's around here somewhere." They looked around quickly just as all the other knights flew towards them.

"It's down there!" Kei shouted pointing to the garden just past the trees around the house. They all landed and confronted it. "Beyondios!" Shin used the containment field and everyone took position.

"Himeno! Prêt with me!" Himeno nodded and placed her hand in Hayate's. Flash! She was the Pretear of Wind. She drew the wind sword and looked around. There were so many places where the core might be.

"There!" She pointed the sword towards the smallest crook in the monster ahead of them. "It's going to be hard to get in there. Kei! Goh! Cover me!" Himeno shouted to the nearest Knights.

They rushed ahead of her and attacked the monster, drawing its attention towards themselves. Himeno flung herself at the monster and sliced right into the crook.

Suddenly they were back in the normal world, but there was a loud voice laughing at them. "Hahahaha! Good to see you can still Prêt Himeno, now I will actually have someone to Fight with." It kept laughing, but it got quieter and quieter.

Hayate drew himself out of Himeno, as she fell to the ground. There had been no reason to Prêt for the past several months so she had obviously used up most of her strength. He looked at her face. "Himeno! What's wrong?" He asked as he saw tears run down her face.

She looked up at him and wiped her eyes. "I…I…saw…him…the man who was talking." She completely broke down and fell onto the ground in sobs.

Hayate stood for a moment as everybody stared at him and Himeno. He dropped down on his knees and drew her into his arms, finding tears coming out of his own eyes. "It's all right Himeno." He rocked her back and forth, holding her tight against himself. They sat there for who knows how long, just crying in eachother's arms.

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It was already past noon by the time Hayate and Himeno got up off the ground. The others had all wondered off to scavenge the grounds for any sign of the body of which the laughing voice had come from.

"Himeno. Are you going to be alright?" Hayate asked in a very concerned manner. She nodded and rubbed her red, puffy eyes. He wiped the last tear from her cheek and walked her over to a nearby bench.

"Hayate…?" She looked up into his eyes.

"Yes?" He took her chin in his palm before wrapping an arm around her shoulder.

"Is there a way to show other people things…from dreams, or something like that?" She knew that her question was not worded well, but she didn't care.

"Yes. But why would you want to do such a thing?" He replied to her question and leaned back a bit on the bench.

"So I could show you…I mean…what that man looked like.." She backed up and pulled herself out of his arms. "Please tell me how?" Her eyes narrowed, as if to cry again.

He nodded and lifted his arm. "Place your hands here." He brought her hands over to his own head, and placed them on each side of his head. "Now close your eyes and think really hard about what you want me to see. Picture what you saw in your own head."

Himeno closed her eyes, and thought of her nightmare from the previous night. She saw the black forms on the ground, then the one standing ahead of her. Then the lights appeared and she saw the man again. Cloaked in black, she could mostly just see his eyes, which shined a greenish-yellow color.

The figure pointed towards the spot a few feet away. Himeno shook her head. 'No.' She thought to herself, but she couldn't stop it. She saw her own feet moving in the direction of Hayate's dead body.

The body came into view and Himeno began to cry. Hayate was seeing himself, bloody and mangled. Himeno heard herself yelling out his name, though her own lips weren't moving. "NO! I'm not going through with this again!" She shook her head and tried to turn away, snapping her eyes closed, as tight as they would go. "NOOOOO!"

Himeno opened her eyes and looked up. She was sitting on the ground with her head in her hands; the ground was wet from tears.

Hayate was sitting on the bench still, too shocked from the sight of his own dead body. So that's what the screaming was about, last night. He thought to himself. He shook his head and got down onto the ground.

Himeno backed away from him and jumped to her feet. "You weren't supposed to see that." She stated before running into the trees ahead of them.

"Himeno! Wait!" Hayate pulled himself up and ran after her. Damn. Why does she have to be so fast? He was falling behind, so he took to the sky.

Himeno ran as quickly as she could, she felt her side start to pain her, but she didn't care. I'll never be able to face him again. She ran to the gate at the end of the Awayuki residence and ran through them. She had no idea where she was going, but she was going nevertheless.