Disclaimer: I do not own Ceres.

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A/N: So… my first Ceres fic. I'm not really sure if this idea is a cliché or not… but I'm doing it anyway. I was going to write this one Inuyasha idea, but I decided against it because I felt it was too… eneh…. So here we go with this one. Let's hope it does okay!

Date(s): February 8th, 2006

February 13th, 2006

February 14th, 2006

THIS FIC CONTAINS SPOILERS… if you haven't read the entire manga.

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Two Years After Volume Fourteen of the Manga

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AYA POV

"Mommy? Mommy, where is Daddy going?"

I wiped the tears off of my cheek. "Daddy's just going away, sweetie…"

"Why are you crying, Mommy? What's wrong?"

"Nothing… I'm just going to miss him."

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The next few mornings Yuuhi came to see me. He said every time he stepped into my apartment it got worse and worse. But I wasn't surprised. I just lay in my bed all day. I couldn't get up. How could I? My soul mate just died… and he left me and my precious daughter, Tenhime, all alone. I couldn't get up and clean or cook or do anything. All I could do was hope to rot the sadness away, but the longer I lay in that bed, the more it festered. I could still smell his hair from his pillow, and I couldn't even roll over to his part of the bed. It was like he was still there… But when I realized he wasn't, the loneliness grew.

Yuuhi would come in and sit on my bed and talk to me… Try to cheer me up. But it would never work. I couldn't even talk. I couldn't move… I just lay there, cold and stiff.

It was the next week that I began my life over again.

Yuuhi came in like he always did, except this time there was a certain vibe coming from him that was different. He look straight into my eyes and shook his head. "How can you live like this? You haven't cooked for you or Tenhime for almost a week now! Aya, your daughter is dying! She's skin and bones, and so are you! You can't just sit around like this waiting for everything to be okay because it's not going to be okay. Tooya is gone, and he's always going to be gone. He's not coming back. And you laying here and torturing yourself isn't going to help any!"

I blinked, and rolled over.

"Aya, don't you care about anything anymore?"

No response.

He sighed, frustrated and ready to give up. "Aya… I can't let you live like this. I can't just sit here and watch Tenhime get skinnier and frailer every day. You're coming to live with me."

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And that's how I ended up here, I guess. It wasn't my decision. At all. Yuuhi got all of my bags into his guest room, which his about the size of my old apartment. His house is huge. I guess that would make sense, since he is a gourmet chef. His restaurant is attached to his house, and it's busy from the time it opens to the time it closes. He has a lot of other chefs working there, and a lot of girls working as hostesses and waitresses, including is wife, Aniishi.

Yeah, that's right. He has a wife. They were recently married. So you know how those newly weds are. They're all over each other. Well that's how these two were. It was driving me insane, especially since I just lost the one I loved. I didn't exactly want to see some couple act like me and Touya did a few weeks ago.

So to stay away from all the PDA, that's Public Display of Affection for the rest of you, I locked myself in my new room while Oda Kyuu took care of Tenhime. My new room was empty, and that's exactly how I felt. Empty. Every now and then Yuuhi would come in and take care of me, and talk.

Yuuhi eventually took days off from his work to try and cheer me up. He would bring me food and everything. He sat down to talk to me all day long, and eventually I got to talking. I wasn't all depressed anymore. But I still hurt inside. And that hole wouldn't fill up.

"Do you miss him, Yuuhi?"

"Yeah, I actually do. I've been thinking a lot about him lately. Do you… want to visit him sometime?"

I smiled. "I would really like that."

"Aya, why are you still so sad? It's been weeks… Aren't you a little over it?"

"Yuuhi, I know we just sort learned to get over Chidori and Shuro, but I just can't accept Touya's death. It's so strange… because I thought he died once before, and I was actually learning to accept it. But now that we have a family… we have Tenhime, so now I feel even more attached to him. I don't know… It's like he made me complete, now I'm only a fragment of a person. I still have that hole that needs to be filled, you know?"

He nodded. "Yeah."

"And it really sucks because when you're feeling down you need to go to your lover… and now I don't have one. I don't know what to do…" I sat up straighter, and repositioned myself to face Yuuhi.

"I'm sorry… I don't know what else to say. Uh…" He looked around the room. "Is there any thing else you want?"

"…you." It was a tiny whisper, and one I regretted.

His eyebrows furrowed together in confusion and he cocked his head. "What?"

I pressed my eyes together and said the words that were surfacing in my head. "Yuuhi… Please… Don't let me be lonely anymore. Please…" I placed my hand over his and planted a soft kiss on his lips. "Please…"

He backed away, a scared look on his face. "Aya… I can't do that! You know that! I'm… I'm married! I have Aniishi. I would have helped you… in that way… if it were a few years ago, but I can't do it now. I'm sorry."

"No… You're right. I'm sorry too. I shouldn't have done that to you. Just… forget it, okay?"

He gave me a half smile and a nod before quietly leaving the room.

I flopped down on my bed, feeling stupid. This was a complete repeat of volume eight! What was I thinking? Yuuhi was freakin' married for Christ's sake. I was obviously desperate for some lovin'… But who was going to give that to me? I couldn't just sit here all alone forever. I am a dependent woman, and I can't live alone. If I was going to be alone again, I'd just end up like I was before. Depressed and super glued to the bed.

But how could I meet new people…?

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A/N: Yeah… Okay, I have to say that really SUCKED. I hated it… :( But hopefully the next chapters will be better. This is only to get a little more popular on And because I'd feel weird airing my cliché fic all by itself, since it sucks so bad. Maybe it's like this?

Bad fic + Bad fic 5 weeks of semi-good fics?

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