Standard disclaimer

In lieu of putting Anata back on my writing rotation I've opted to head towards its completion. It's so close that I want to give it all my attention until its finished. So look out Mars here we come.

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Anata no Ichiban ni Naritai

Chapter 20 – Sometimes the hardest thing to say is…

How things had gotten so out of control so fast was a mystery to Ruri and Inez. One moment their major concern was the likelihood of Ruri's survival and for Inez keeping her ward from spiraling into depression. Now however three days after Akito and the younger Hoshino ventured off for a small vacation in Peace Land, the two of them were seated in there room with a third party. "Now Miss Wong can you please just get to the point about why you're here harassing my subordinate?" Inez asked while gesturing to Ruri.

Erina's eyebrow rose slightly as her lips curled up in a tight grin, "Right to the point, I like that about you Fressange." Leaning back in the simple metal backed chair that she had been provided, Erina felt her back pop out of place. Sliding several documents across the table for the two's inspection Erina had to fight back her elation. She was in control here, she had the power. "You see Miss Hoshino we've been looking for you for some time now. And what I want is information that I think you can provide for me."

Her problems with Akito temporarily forgotten in light of a greater threat, Ruri thumbed through Erina's files. Photos of her outside her suit from the Nadesico's jump from Mars to Earth space, dual sign-ons for Omoikane's higher operating systems, and numerous other small slips and mistakes both Inez and she had. It was all very telling but not enough to link her as 'being' Ruri Hoshino. "And this is supposed to do what? Scare me, anger me, make me do your biddings? I don't see anything that would prove I have any information for you or why you're calling me the name of that kid on the bridge," Ruri responded dropping the files back on the table.

Recollecting the photos and papers, arranging them neatly and putting them all back in the folder they had been brought in, Erina drummed her fingers over the manila folder. "If this alone was all I had all I would be doing would be to kill you and Inez for being a security breech. Illegal hacking of Nergal property, lying to a military panel, and stealing private information are all punishable with extreme prejudice you see." Erina was upset when the two women across from her showed no signs of being intimidated. She continued, "But what I do have, and what was the final piece to the puzzle, was this."

Erina pulled a small disk out of her belt pack and tossed it to Ruri. "What's this supposed to be, more doctored evidence to prove some fantasy plot of yours that I'm some sort of time traveler?" Ruri's voice warbled slightly and it pained her to realize how frightened she was. She was trying her best to keep her hands and voice steady, to show no fear, but she was on the verge of cracking. What Erina could do to her if she was found out was easily one of her worst nightmares.

"Just play it Naka, we'll deal with Miss Wong's delusions after we see her 'pieces." Inez put a comforting hand on Ruri's shoulder. Unlike Ruri, Inez was in complete control of her fear and it robbed Erina of having sum control of the discussion. We were careless and now we'll have to face the consequences. Rubbing her fingers against her thumb, her only nervous tick, Inez watched the video feed play. It was from the moon, an unseen at the time security camera. Inez watched and felt the numbness in her chest expand and encompass her whole body.

The coldness in both women was intensified as they watched Akito call out to Ruri in shock and amazement as the artificial respirator was smashed revealing her identity. Ruri felt her stomach lurch and had to fight back the bile. They were caught, and it was Akito that gave them away. Trying to find a more comfortable position in her chair, Erina hunched over. "Yes it seems that Tenkawa-kun has been somewhat important to you Ruri. We didn't know he had a past with you and well after we viewed this we did some digging in his past looking for ties to you." Ruri covered her mouth as it dropped open, they had gone that far back? "It seems you know what we've found. Nergal never did find that hacker back then did they, well let me be the one to say 'gotcha ya.'

Inez watched as Ruri's head dropped and her arms folded inward, she watched as Ruri was defeated. The hope, plan, or even need to cling to the belief she could have kept herself hidden torn from her and used to slap her in the face. Inez watched this and the fear in her was burnt away in a blaze of hatred. The room almost seemed to bleed away as she focused every nuance of her will on Erina, "So get to it. What does Nergal's favorite little pump want with us? A way out of whatever manager's bed you've been warming maybe? How about we cut this little game short and you just come out with it already!"

Clenching her hands tight at her side, Erina heard her knuckles crack. How dare that bitch say such things, she wasn't happy with how she had to be used in order to stay afloat in her career but it had to be done. "You're going to tell me everything you know about Boson Jumping. How it works, how you are what you are, and maybe if you don't piss with me anymore I won't be watching as your lifeless corpse is dumped out an airlock." Erina yelled in the small room. Her breath hot and humid washed across Inez's face. "I'll give you two weeks to write your report and if its not acceptable I guess we could always use you as a test rat, something I think you know a lot about already. You were basically engineered and not raised right Hoshino?"

Inez was on her feet in moments, her hands gripping the table edge painfully as she thrust it aside. A resounding crash as the small circular table bounced off the ground sending papers, disks, and an assortment of other possessions scattered about. "Get the hell out of here now!"

Erina had been to her feet as soon as Inez's small rage exploded. Breathing heavily while trying to keep her body from fleeing, she could feel her heart beating in her throat. Her voice came out in small patches, "I'll…see you in two weeks…I suggest you play along." She attempted to keep her composure as she left the room, running away, and headed to bridge to see what that insipid captain was doing now.

Back in the severely redecorated room, Inez hid her face behind her hands. She had just made things much worse. Shame was etched on her features, as why she hid it from Ruri. Why had she let Erina's words get to her, not kept herself under better control? Now Erina would be harder to deal with, to manipulate as the woman would be on edge around them. Drawing in several deep breaths to calm her rattled nerves, Inez turned to Ruri. "Guess we've our work cut out for us don't we."

Slowly turning to look at Inez, Ruri's eyes large and vacant held little life in them. "Yeah, lot of work," she parroted in flat robotic tones. Moving on its own, her body started to clean the room while Inez left the room to collect herself. "What's it matter anyway?" Ruri asked herself as she dropped the papers in her hand back to the ground. Sitting on her bed she quickly felt depression sinking back in as she lay down and let sleep take her. As she slumbered she missed Akito's call and asked her to meet him later so they could have their talk.

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With an extra bounce in her step, Yurika and Akito walked down the corridors of the Nadesico together. While her progress with Akito had been favorable she was still upset that she couldn't yet call him hers. "So what do you think Akito-chan?" she asked after taping yet another poster to the wall.

His face light up with a smile, "I think you're crazy Yurika, but then again it fits you." His comment was met with Yurika puffing her cheeks out in fake anger, her eyes betrayed her as they were nothing but adoring. Turning his full attention to the poster again, "But are you sure you want to have a beauty contest with being the captain as the prize?" Akito couldn't follow Yurika's plans sometimes, she to was a genius in the truest sense.

"Be the captain? But it's only for a day. See." Yurika pointed to the poster where there should have been a disclaimer about the length of time the winner would be captain. Finding thing her finger number fell down. "But I was…I put it…" Turning back to Akito with watery eyes Yurika milked the wounded look as much as she could, Akito always caved in for it she found.

She was right as Akito quickly set to cheering up his friend. "Don't worry I'm sure you'll win," he offered. Yurika's eyes dried as she cooed and wrapped her arm around his, nuzzling his arm with her cheek. Arms interlaced the pair continued down the hall stopping every so often to put another poster up. With Yurika on his side, Akito felt oddly good. For a short time he was afraid he was using the captain as a way of distancing himself from the pain he felt from Ruri's betrayal. But as time passed he grew to understand that his feelings for Yurika were genuine. If they were love he didn't know yet but he did like her, like her a lot.

The pairs talk of general happenstance and goings on shifted suddenly as the last of the posters was adorning the wall. A few minutes of silence had been shared comfortably between them but as they stood outside of Akito's room, Yurika couldn't hold her tongue. "Have you given any thought to what we talked about the other day Akito-chan?" the softness of her voice had the young man off his game. Where usually Yurika was so animated and boisterous, this question was meek, subtle, and oh so dangerous.

While they had talked of many things, ranging from outrageous to very pleasing to him, Akito knew exactly what Yurika was asking. She'd asked him to quit being a pilot and become cook full time. She as him to let Nakushita take over for him. His finger stalled over the open button to his door. "Yurika I did think about it, a lot." He saw the expectation, the hope on her face. "I'd like to do that," Yurika's heart lurched in her chest, thundered in her head, she was so close to her dream. "But it wouldn't be fare. I want to protect the ship, to protect you. I'm not sure I trust Nakushita to keep us, to keep you safe." Seeing the mournful understanding on Yurika's face, Akito didn't like it, didn't like seeing her hurt at all. Taking her hand in his he squeezed it softly, "I want to keep you safe because I care about you."

Her face was smiling but her mind was storming. Yurika was always aware of Akito's carefully used words. He'd say care, like, worried, and a host of other words that were so close to love but not the same. Why wouldn't he let down the walls around himself and let her in. "I understand Akito, and you're right. It's selfish of us to not think of the others. But what about us though? Aren't we entitled to a little happiness of our own?" A wicked yet fully enjoyable idea came to her mind. Keeping a tight grip on his hand, Yurika moved where his hand had stalled and opened his door. Pulling the confused man into his darkened room, Yurika led him to his bed and sat on it with him.

"Yurika what are you doing?" the hitch in his voice alerted Yurika to his nervousness. Moving the hand she held to her cheek, she again marveled at the heat it generated and the size of it compared to hers, dwarfed hers. "Y-Yurika?"

Inching closer to him, her legs now pressed against his as they dangled over the edge of the bed, Yurika looked in Akito's eyes. Looked for anything she could find be it love, fear, lust, or even disgust. I love this man. She let go of his hand and was happy that he didn't move it. "I've been patient Akito, ever since you came on board I've been waiting for you. I've seen you go from depressed to happy and back many times and I wanted to be there for you, like this."

Akito opened his mouth to speak but she stopped him. His hand moved away from her and the coldness set back in. "Let me be here for you Akito. I've told you already and I think you finally believe me when I say I have feelings for you. But you…" She looked away from him, looked to her interlaced fingers on her lap. All her life she'd needed an anchor, something to keep her going through all the hardships. Her training, the prejudice she had to endure from her heritage, the abuse she had to face because of her sex, and the resentment inherited from her family line. Though it all she kept going back to her early memories of times before the hardships. In those memories was the boy turned man before her. The dreams she had of him, of her with him, of happiness outside of a military uniform.

Summing up her courage into herself she looked back at him and saw the questioning look on his face. That goofy unknowing face of his that she'd fallen for, "Tell me Akito. I know you do, maybe not as much as I for you but tell me now. Do you love me?" Her hushed words floated around the room like a cloud.

Yurika was right, and Akito knew it. He did harbor strong feelings for her yet he danced around it. Tried not to face it or acknowledge it. To give in to Yurika's demand meant to abandon his feelings for Ruri. Could he do that? The vision of Ruri saying how mistaken she had been to sleep with him came back, and Akito knew his answer. "I do."

Tears? Why was she crying? Yurika couldn't venture a guess as to why she'd started crying, she didn't know she was. Weight that had been on her for ages it seemed fell of, she was almost positive she heard their metallic clang on Akito's floor. Throwing her arms around his waist she cried against him. She felt his hand running in circles along her back, stroking her hair and rocking back and forth slowly. All she remembered was that she was repeating in voiceless words, 'Thank you.'

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He couldn't place the feeling he was having, but Akito knew it was a positive one. After Yurika calmed down and cleaned herself up she realized she had bridge duty to attend to. While reluctant to head off so soon after hearing what she'd waited years for, she wasn't about to place her own happiness above the lives of her crew. With nothing else to do but think about the current shift in his life, Akito headed to the mess hall for an early lunch. While picking at his food he couldn't fight off the gnawing feeling though. Why can't I be just let her go and be happy with Yurika?

The girl of his past had been brought back to his mind as her younger namesake walked in. "Ruri-cha, care to eat some lunch with me?" The time spent with her in Peace Land and the subsequent journey to her school had brought the pair closer together. Akito wasn't about to push her aside just because of the resemblance she shared with the girl he grew up with. Seeing hesitation on the child's face, Akito raised his hands, "No funny stuff, just wouldn't mind having some intelligent conversation over lunch. Just don't go over my head."

His statement whether it was meant as a joke or rueful stating of facts elicited a smile a light blush from the computer operator. "I will join you Tenkawa-san then." Grabbing a Mars bowl, she'd always get one when eating with Akito as he recommended it, she sat by the man. "You are looking happier than usual Tenkawa-san, has something good happened?"

Rubbing his chin, Akito chuckled, "Am I that easy to read? Well I guess you could say something good has happened, but I won't bore you with it. How about you things going well for our ships most gifted computer hacker?" Knowing so little about computers himself, it wasn't hard for Akito to state that the girl by him was vastly superior in there use. However being as smitten with Akito as she was, Ruri fumbled over her words.

"I needed to leave the bridge as the other helmswomen have been badgering me over my reluctance to enter the 'Miss Nadesico' competition." Ruri's brow furrowed in irritation and frustration. Why Minato and Megumi were so insistent she enter the captain's foolish pageant was unfathomable to her. It is not like I could truly compete, though… Taking Akito in with her eyes she wondered how he would see her if she entered.

Eating a few bites of his own lunch, Akito thought of what Ruri had said. "Why don't you enter Ruri? It might be fun and you never know, you might end up as the captain." He added a wink at the end to brighten up the dower child's disposition. She always looked so sad and alone to him, like his Ruri did he remembered back on Mars. "It couldn't hurt and you'd have an excuse to take some time off. You work harder than most people on the ship."

He thinks I could win. Her mind was a daze, foggy and clouded as possibilities and hopes ran rampart and battled with common sense and better judgment. She knew she was a child and he a grown man, but she could have hope right? Nothing was wrong with hoping. "I will think about it Tenkawa-san. You have many valid points." The two's conversation lulled into pointless small talk, but talking to one another each felt the confusion and oddness of their lives fade slightly, the important things less prominent.

Taking in the last of his meal, Akito stood. "Well I better get to the hanger and get some training in or Ryoko will never let me hear the end of it." Walking around the table and patting Ruri affectionately, "Take care now Ruri ok?" Her blazing cheeks went unnoticed by the pilot as her hair masked her face as he walked away. Watching him leave, Ruri was struck with an odd notion, one that she didn't know if was a good feeling or a bad one.

How would things have been if we were the same age…if we were together before you met the others. Shaking such a foolish idea out of her mind, Ruri bussed her tray and headed back to the bridge only one word was spoken as she took her seat, "Baka."

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"So how did the visit go Erina?" Akatsuki asked in the smug tone that send chills down Erina's spine. The fact that he came walking into her room unannounced hadn't been ignored either, but what could she do?

Wanting a shower badly, Erina needed to get her boss out of her room. He's not here for just information. Another chill, her neck hairs started to raise as she could almost smell the testosterone flowing out of the man. "I gave the two of them two weeks to comply and make a full report about everything they know. Added in a little threat so I'm sure they'll fold." She could feel his eyes on her, she unconsciously pulled her cloths a little closer to her body.

Walking further into Erina's room, taking in the sights of what little decorations she had. "Glad to hear it. Don't know though if I buy the full story you have, but I'll take what I can." His statement took on a double meaning as he looked her up and down and his grin widened. Since the captain wasn't biting he'd have to find another pole to scratch. "What do you think about the captain's little game?"

Through clenched teeth Erina said, "That stupid 'Miss Nadesico' thing? Well it could be a way to wrest control of the ship without needed to pull a full assault force in. We're going to have to sequester the crew if not detain them eventually for their knowledge of the Jovians." It wasn't something that sat right with Erina but the rest of the Nergal board as well as top ranking UN Spacy command that the fact that the Jovian's were human be kept at all costs.

Letting out a throaty laugh, Negara lapped his knee playfully, "You think you could beat her at her own game? Sorry Erina but I see that young Hoshino girl beating you before I see you winning out over our dear Misumaru." Yes Erina was attractive but with her connections among the crew being what they were, Akatsuki would have been shocked if they didn't vote her dead last. Wiping the tear out of his eye, "Seriously though we will be needed to attend to the crew soon however. We'll let things play out a little more, maybe if you use that fact against our two little connivers you'll get more out of them."

He had a point, a good point. With what she knew about the older Hoshino, Erina could tell something passed between Akito and her. Something she easily could use to get more compliance from them. When did I get so dirty? Slapping her face lightly to rid herself of guilt, Erina had to do what she did. Lie, cheat, steal, and sleep your way to success? "No," she said under her breath. She didn't like the person she'd become but to change now would put her life in jeopardy. "Was there anything else that you needed?" She hoped not.

"Just one last thing Erina," Akatsuki said as he walked to her door and locked it and walked back. The revulsion didn't leave Erina's skin until long after Akatsuki had left and she was well into her second shower. Is power worth this degradation? Erina didn't know that answer, and hated the other women aboard the Nadesico a little more because of it. Because her life choices led her to this place, these people, and this feeling. "Maybe…maybe I'm wrong about this…maybe I should help them instead."

But how, and who?

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"You said you wanted to talk Ruri. I'm here so let's talk." Akito didn't want to sound as ruff as he did, but found it hard to when he was called in the middle of the night to head to one of the VR-rooms. From her body language Akito could tell she was apprehensive yet determined. He had to get proficient at reading her that way as she wasn't one to express herself vocally.

She didn't really know what to say or how to go about saying it, all she wanted was to salvage some of what they had. "I wanted to apologize Akito. I've hurt you so much with my secrets and lies. I just…wanted to tell you I'm sorry." Her head hung low, the new mask in her hands.

He wanted to be angry at her, to yell, scream, to hit her, anything but forgive her. But he couldn't do those things. Seeing her standing before him, just as confused and afraid as he was inside, remembering the good times they'd shared. "Ruri how can you ask me that. How can I trust you knowing what I do now? You lied to me for over a year. I cried on your shoulder over your 'death.' Then on the moon…you said you loved me Ruri. We…we made love and then…" He trailed off unable to continue speaking.

With each accusation Ruri shank back further and further into her mental shell. He was right and she knew it. People can only take so much before they learn, or change. "I had to Akito. Things are complex for me, I'm sorry for lying to you. Sorry for what happened on the moon." But she wasn't. It was a dream now to her and it seemed very far off. She'd have taken him right then if he'd have her but knew better than to offer.

Slamming his fist into the wall, his mind unable to express the anger and frustration any other way, Akito yelled. "Then tell me about it. Oh wait I asked you that already but you can't answer. I'm just supposed to trust you on blind faith after you played with my heart like a yo-yo?" Ruri stepped closer to him at seeing the blood on the wall, he'd broke the skin of his knuckles against the wall. But he waved his hand angrily at her, forcing her off. "It's fine."

Just say it, a moment's courage. She willed herself to act. With an unknown amount of time left to live Ruri was not going to live it in regret. What she really wanted to tell him wasn't an apology, it was the truth. Not a full truth but what truth she could afford. "Akito…back on the moon…I lied."

"Yeah I know you lied, you said you lo…" Akito turned and said, he was cut off by an unexpected presence against him, Ruri. Ruri's lips to be more precise, she was kissing him almost forcefully. Bewildered by her sudden change in action, Akito pushed her away from him, "What are you doing?"

"Baka! Did our time mean so little to you, did you not trust me at all anymore," Ruri said as tears started to flow again. She'd been crying a lot since she'd lied to Akito on the moon, she hated it as it showed how weak she'd become. "I lied about saying it was a mistake! I love you Akito Tenkawa you damn pig headed idiot!" She rushed up to the dumbfounded man and started beating on this chest. "I didn't want to hurt you, don't want to, but I have to! HAVE TO!" She screamed in his face and wet his shirt with her tears.

His hands moved to hug her, stopped, closed in, pulled away, finally he hugged her as her punches lost power. "Ruri?" asked softly? Don't trust her, it's another lie. He wanted to think that, to believe it was all just a ploy to get him to do what she wanted again. Another lie would be easy to believe, but his nature prevented it. And he wanted to believe her, no matter how he tried to demonize her, to hate her, he just couldn't.

"Don't talk right now…just hold me," she sniffed back the mucus running down her nose, "just hold me." She knew he would, it was how he was. You're using him again. She shut the voice in her head up instantly. She needed comfort and he was all the comfort she could get, needed. She'd seen him and Yurika so many times together since her younger self went to her home, and each time she'd felt her heart ache, a nail driven into the soft tissue.

Unsure what to believe in, Akito did as Ruri asked. He didn't say a word and just held the sniffling woman. Just as he was about to move on passed their relationship she had to do this he thought bitterly. It wasn't fair to him, to Yurika, or even herself but Ruri had done it anyway. But isn't it what you wanted? Her in your arms again. He didn't know anymore, part of him loved her and would always but was it enough to forgive her for all the pain and lies? Time would tell he guessed, but for now at least he could hope for a friendship again.

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"I'll tell you one thing, Omaikane sure can write a song can't it?" Inez said from her chair. Leaning over and pushing the off switch, the screen that had just played the 'Miss Nadesico' pageant had just ended. Turning to give Ruri her full attention, Inez was perplexed by the sudden change in temperament her ward was having. "I take it something goods happened aside reliving your glory days as an idol singer?"

With all the problems aboard the ship with Erina, her love life, and the fear of death Ruri couldn't see them right now. "Yes things are good. Well better. I never told you about my talk with Akito did you?" Ruri said while running her fingers through her hair.

"Didn't that happen last week sometime? And no you never did, but with all the work you've been doing on the Aestavalis and my research I guess we haven't had much time to talk lately." Inez said after a few moments of reflecting on the last week of Boson Jump research.

Taking out the pair of rings she'd received from her surrogate mother, Ruri felt the metal warm in her palm. "We made some amends. I told him the truth of about a few things. God you'd have been so disappointed in how I acted during our talk." She said almost bashfully and giggled at the end.

Smirking Inez could put two and two together. "You cried like the little girl you are and declared your undying love for him didn't you." When Ruri's eyes widened and her jaw dropped, Inez started laughing. "Wow and here I was taking a shot in the dark. Quite the flare for the dramatic you have going Ruri. So how are things then?" She didn't want to say it but Inez couldn't accept that Akito would be as forgiving as it seemed.

"Well not a lot happened mind you, I might have over exaggerated that part. But he seems to have forgiven me and he's been helping train me again." Inez nodded and let out a voiceless 'aah.' It explained why Ruri had been more animated about her training sessions, and even attending them for what it was worth. "Its like we got a fresh start. Friends again and as we just watched I'm still looking good here."

Pointing to the blank screen Inez shook her head, "No she was looking good, you're just hoping things are going to get better. Can't blame you but don't get them too high Ruri. Rumors are flying that Akito and Yurika are getting real chummy lately." Not liking to be the barer of bad news, Inez hated watching the small smile on Ruri's face vanish at the sound of Yurika's name.

Looking down at her feet then back at Inez several times, Ruri debated on if she wanted to respond or not to that comment. Making her choice, Ruri opted to speak her mind. "You think I don't know that Inez? I've seen them together and if our captain is any indicator she's about to burst with happiness. But you said it yourself. I have to live my life and if I don't die during the tests I still have to face him…her…us. I have to try something or what's the point?"

Inez then did something that Ruri hadn't expected after her rant. She clapped, and not sarcastically. "Glad to hear it kid. I was worried for a while that if things didn't go right for you two, you'd end up some after school special about suicide and unhealthy relationships." The scientist had no problem believing that love was great but it could be destructive too, and she had seen it at work on both Ruri and Akito. "I wish you luck Ruri and for better or worse we're going to find out soon about you. I bet my work on Boson Jumping is going to have Erina itching for some tests. Good thing is I'd have had this done without your help anyway so we can just fake your involvement."

"Thanks for everything Inez, I mean it," Ruri said downcast. The woman had been imperative to Ruri's survival and plans. Inez had kept her secret at personal risk, never asked her to betray secrets of things she couldn't say, and was a great confidant. "I'm going to get some sleep. Things are going to be hectic soon and I don't want to be caught unprepared for it."

"You do that Ruri, goodnight," Inez followed Ruri until she rounded the corner to the sleeping space and turned the light off. Inez prayed that if a God did exist he gave Ruri a chance to live through this. Erina was soon to be appeased and with it the event that would either save or destroy Ruri would occur. After that, well it was in the hands of God if Ruri and Akito could salvage their relationship of any sort. So many factors were against her on many levels, but Inez had faith in one thing. Not God or machine but in Ruri. She'd watched the girl face hardships unthought-of by sane men. And she'll face this one with a clear head, I can do that much for her.

It was a long while before Inez joined Ruri in sleep.

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Author Notes

Another chapter and this thing is going to be over. A few places in this chapter were a little rough in my opinion but I couldn't see it happening anyway else. The Akito/Yurika talk was one such scene but I can't see Yurika being any other way. Well hope you liked this chapter and look forward to the conclusion.

I've made a lot of mistakes along the way of creating this story. But I've grown as an author too. Looking back at the first two chapters I wonder how it was possible for me to make such progress, I hope you see it too and enjoy what I create and look forward to more.

Thanks to all of you for reading and taking this trip with me. Its been a blast.

Ja Mata

Zentrodie (zentrodie-at-secondimpact-dot-com)