A/N: Hey, sorry for the long updates,but I hope this chapter will make it up. I'm still not sure if anyone reads this anyways, but who cares. This story can be a slight YohxOC and definite HaoxOC.

For all the things I did for you, do I have a place in your heart?

All my life I always wanted someone to trust, to believe in. Sometimes in my solitude I feel as if wanting to cry. Cry out my pain and suffering. Nothing changes. Nothing will change. I'm not entirely sure if I will ever change. Maybe change can be inavoidable. Maybe...maybe nothing is what it seems. Everything...everyone is different through the eyes of another. Isn't that true? I want to feel belonged, belonged and acknowledged.

Yoh's house turned out to be an enormous inn. Maybe...just maybe I'll act like myself here..with Yoh. Unexpectedly, his fiance, who I believe to be Anna, stepped out of the kitchen. Her face was cold as ice, giving off an aura of impatience.

"Yoh? Who is this girl?" she asked in a testy ice tone. I stood there, finally realizing that Yoh was not by my side. Then he rushed out of the kitchen wearing a gridded pink apron.

"Oh! Anna don't kill her!" he cried hurriedly, "She's a shaman!"

"So? what? I'll never know that you two are dating," she replied coldly.

I blinked. "We're not going out," I answered flatly. Anna was unimpressed.

"Why would we anyways? I'm Yukiko Kasakura, a transfer student from Izumo and Yoh and I had only just met. Got it?"

The last two words had slipped out of my mouth, I didn't mean to say them. A hand came flying at my face. From instinct, I stopped the slap with my left hand.

"What!" Anna backed away.

"Wow!" Yoh was clapping until Anna shot him a glare.

"Sorry, that was a defense reflex," I apologized hastily. Anna turned around,"If you're a Kasakura, then you must be an elemental master. It is a family tradition for a Kasakura to be taught elemental training before learning any else."

With that, she left back into the kitchen. I grimaced inwardly and proceeded up the stairs to my temporary room. Close behind me was Yoh. He had an intriguing expression on his face, one I could not explain.

"Yukiko-san! Do you want to go to buy groceries with me?"

I gave him an uneasy smile, "You fiancee?" He signaled to me that he had not told Anna about this. My uneasy smile shifted to a confident one.

"All right, I'll go." Personally, I would like to see that mortified face of hers.

The grocery store was abundant of the basic necessities of life--food. Shelves upon shelves were every type of food imaginable. Yoh had been lingering in the American food section of quite a long time now. I glanced at him as I dropped a jar of kimchi into a basket. "There's a spending limit, right?" I reminded as I saw him grabbing boxes of frozen dinners and not to mention frozen hamburgers. He sighed and put back several boxes.As we continued browsing the store, Yoh told me about his life with Anna and why he was engaged so early.

"You should now that the shaman population is declincing and my parent are determined."

I smiled uncomfortably. Anna seems to such a mismatch for a lazy, laid-back person like himself.

"What about you?" I was startled on this sudden question.

"Me? Well..." I explained that I was indeed engaged, although not on my parents' intentions.

"Your parents didn't make it? Weird..."

I was laughing uneasily,"You see, my parents were about to arrange an engagement for me to marry a 'good' Asakura, but that all changed."

Yoh sighed heavily, "I guess we're the same. I never like Anna in the first place, just after one thing she did, my parents thought she would be the one," he muttered quietly.

I blinked, "Then who?" Yoh did not reply until we left the store on our way back.

I knew I had to give him some time to consider his answer.Then finally he answered.

"I wanted to marry a Kasakura that lived near my old house. I can only remember some memories of her. The last time I saw her, the last words she said were: 'Yoh-kun. I can't come over to your house anymore and you can't come to mine either. This is the last time and this is good-bye'." Yoh paused, "She was the only friend I ever had back then."

I smiled vaguely at him. That was me, but you can't seem to remember, can you? I remember it too,"Yoh-kun. I can't come over to your house anymore and you can't come to mine either. This is the last time and this is good-bye. But we'll see again right? I'm sure of it! It's a promise!"

"What are you smiling for?" he asked me playfully.

I was taken off guard,"Oh! Um, you just don't seem like the type to fall in love easily," I explained, still with that mysterious smile,"She must have meant a lot to you."

We were still carrying the groceries back to the inn. The sky was now darkening and murky grey clouds moved in subtly. I suppose I did have a friend back then when I thought was entirely alone. It was you, Yoh, you're the one who brought those memories back. You're the one after all.