After breakfast, everyone walked to class together, even Kuonichi, who walked close to Wakaba until she had to go to her own class. She was the same age as them all, but she was in a different class. She grinned at Wakaba and waved to her as she entered her classroom. Anthy, Heime, Utena and Wakaba walked together to their class, until Utena spoke up, grinning at Wakaba.

"Well, it seems Kuonichi seems to have taken a liking to you, Wakaba."

Wakaba gasped. "How could you say that, Utena! You know you're my one true love!"

And with this, Wakaba once again tackled her way onto Utena's back.

"Oi! Get her offa me! My back can't take much more of this!"

Heime sighed and handed Anthy her book case as she walked over to Wakaba cuddling Utena's neck, and lifted her pleated skirt to reveal white panties with pink hearts on them. At this, Anthy snorted a giggle behind her hand as Heime grinned at her and gave a resounding slap to Wakaba's frillied butt.

She screeched and dropped off of Utena as quickly as she had jumped on.

"Hey! Only my Utena can spank me!"

Utena and Anthy both blushed red as Heime burst out laughing.

"Wow, Tenjou! I didn't know you were so kinky!"

Utena blushed harder and tried to stammer that she wasn't kinky, and Anthy very much looked like she wanted to say something, but she held her tounge. They continued on to class and took their seats as the bell tower rang, signaling the beginning of class. The class was boring, as always, but they got their work done. This is how the day pretty much went until lunch. They all sat under the big oak tree atop the largest hill just outside of the school grounds and ate, chattering away until Anthy asked to speak to Heime privately. She agreed, and they walked away, down the gentle slope of the hill.

"Miss Heime, I don't think what you said about Miss Utena was nice, and it's not true. Could you...could you apologize to her, please?"

Heime rose her eyebrows before smiling down at Anthy. "You really do love her, don't you?"

Anthy's dark cheeks went red, but she nodded all the same. "Yes...yes I do."

Heime nodded, an almost sad look in her eyes, but Anthy didn't see it. "Okay, then. I'm sorry I said that about her, Anthy. It was inappropriate of me. And I'll apologize to her too."

Anthy smiled and nodded. "Thank you, Miss Heime."

Heime nodded as they began their trek back uphill. "So I'm assuming that Wakaba is the kinky one?"

Anthy nodded. "And she's in love with Miss Utena, so she get's jealous."

Heime laughed a bit before she heard a piercing cry. Anthy and Heime turned to see Saionji kicking a person lying on the ground. Anthy recognized the short green hair. It was Kuonichi. Before she knew it, Anthy was following Heime down the hill at breakneck speed. Heime barreled into Saionji, knocking him aside. Anthy helped Kuonichi up, wiping blood away from her nose and mouth with a handkerchief.

"Are you all right?"

Kuonichi nodded.

"Get away from her, Anthy!" Saionji was furious, raging. "She is not your concern, she disobeyed! She needs to re-learn her lessons."

Heime grimaced. "You're sick. Leave Kuonichi alone, you perv. Anthy, too."

Anthy flinched as that wild look stole into Saionji's eyes, as she had seen oftimes before.

"Anthy is mine," he spat. "Mine! Do you hear me! She's mine to command! She is my bride! She loves me! I'll prove it! Anthy, come to me. Prove to this two-bit whore that I am your true master!"

Anthy's eye's narrowed just a little bit as she stepped forward.

"You see!" he cried. "She obeys me!"

Anthy looked up into his eyes and then she smiled. "Saionji?"

"Yes, my bride?" he said.

"You don't own me anymore. Go home and forget about me. I'm Miss Heime's now."

She turned away as the look of shock grew on his face. But before she got far, Saionji tackled her to the ground, turned her over, and began to beat her face in.

"This will teach you to speak to me like that," he screamed, punching away, and hearing something crack. Most likely her skull. He fell to the side when Heime delivered a crushing roundhouse kick to his jaw, shattering it. He lay there, cradling his bloody face as Heime scooped Anthy into her arms.

"Kuonichi, get Utena and Wakaba. Tell them what's happened and then get yourself to the clinic."

She nodded and went off to fetch the others as Heime made a mad dash for the hospital. She dodged people in the halls, some staring as she sped past, others jumping out of the way, one of them being Juri Arisugawa. "What the hell?" Heime heard her cry, and then heard her footsteps following. She crashed into the clinic, shouting at the top of her lungs.

"Somebody! Help her!"

The doctor rushed over and pulled her away from Heime, barking orders to a few nurses.

"I'm sorry," one of them said. "But you can't be in there."

Heime shook her head. "I'm staying with her."

The nurse nodded her head to the two big security guards and they grabbed her and dragged her out to the waiting room.

"No!" she screamed. " Let me stay with her! She'll be scared!"

They eventually got her to calm down and wait outside, but she wouldn't stop pacing. Utena, Wakaba and Kuonichi arrived, and Wakaba was in tears over Kuonichi's battered state, and Utena seemed the same with worry over Anthy. Kuonichi checked herself in to be taken care of, assuring Wakaba that she would be okay.

Finally one of them was allowed to go in and see Anthy, and everyone agreed that it should be Utena. She went in, hat crushed in her hands, and nearly went to tears at the sight of Anthy's broken face. There were bruises and splits in her skin that made her look dead, though she was breathing regularly and the moniter beeped with her steady heartbeat. Utena took Anthy's limp hand and kissed it over and over again, tears streaming down her cheeks. She called the doctor.

"Please," she sobbed. "When will she wake up?"

The doctor sighed. "I'm sorry," he said. "But there isn't much hope for Miss Himemiya of waking up. She's in a very deep coma. You see how her eyes move under the lids? That's a sign of how deep it is. She's probably living out some sort of dream like world right now. There haven't been many studies on this but--"

But Utena didn't hear any of it. All that kept going through her mind was the idea that Anthy might never wake up. She may never get to see the sky again, or the birds that she so terribly loved to watch out her window. Utena numbly went out and told the others. Wakaba burst into tears and Kuonichi held her, her face pale. Heime put her face in her hands, and to Utena's shock, she saw that her shoulders were shaking. Utena went over and sat down, placing a gentle hand on Heime's trembling shoulder. She lifted her face, and tears were glistening in her eyes. They smoldered with fury.

"I'll make that bastard pay for what he's done to Anthy...I swear...i'll make him pay."

A single tear rolled down Heime's cheek, and even as it did, Utena saw it freeze.