Author's Note: Hey'all! I've been MIA for almost a year now and I'm back:) anybody glad at all? I'm ashamed to say I've neglected this due to school and stuff, but I'm almost out of highschool! Yayness. I'll be free for the next few months. Being away for so long, I've totally lost the momentum of this tale, but bear with me, yeah? It'll be right on track sooner or later. reviews then?

Her initial plan of trying to See his future again didn't work. She didn't have the time to focus with him kissing her. And now, it only hurt more.

He'll always be there for me, Reiko told herself. He'll always be there to fight for me, protect me, die for me. There isn't any other way to it. There isn't any other way but for me to do everything myself.

Night had fallen. The sun had disappeared behind Mount Taikyoku's peaks. Now, the jagged tops were illuminated by the sheer moonlight. Tasuki sighed for the millionth time.

"Why did I have to do that?" he knocked himself on the head. Reasons and excuses torrented through his mind. He tore at his hair and shouted.

"What is bothering you?" Taiitsu-kun came out from nowhere.

Tasuki screamed in shock. "Why do you people always sneak up on me?"

Taiitsu-kun ignored him. "If you really want to fix things, go to her. Why waste your time, wallowing in self pity and attempting to go bald?" A knowing in her eyes shone.

Tasuki nodded, and with a deep breath, he went to look for her.

"It may seem easy, but it's kinda tricky." Kaishi was teaching Chichiri some old Hokkan magic tricks.

"Very interesting, no da" he watched intently.

"You'd see much more of that when we get to Hokkan," Ryo interjected.

"If we get there. I had trouble getting out, how much easier can it get to get in." Kaishi pointed out.

"There is always a way." Taiitsu-kun floated in mid-air in a cross-legged position. She had her eyes glued to the door, as if expecting someone.

"We've got two sorcerors here, can't be much of a problem, right." Ryo said.

Just then, the door burst open and Tasuki came panting in. "She's gone, Reiko's gone."

"What do you mean she's gone, Fang-boy?" Ryo said curtly.

"As in not here, anywhere, Genius." Tasuki turned to Taiitsu-kun. "I've looked everywhere since you told me to-"

Taiitsu-kun closed her eyes and nodded, knowingly.

"You knew." Tasuki did not ask this as a question, suddenly it dawned on him that Taiitsu-kun had known.

"WHERE IS SHE?" He shouted. "WHY DID YOU LET HER GO?" He was moving aggressively towards her, Kaishi held him back.

"It is her decision. None can change it." Taiitsu-kun simply answered.

"DAMN YOU," he swore. "THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOUR STUPID THEORIES OF LIFE. THIS IS ABOUT HERS. SHE CAN'T BE OUT THERE ALONE."

"What do you mean her decision?" Ryo asked calmly.

"She has her path. Her destiny. Only she can pave that way."

"Where is she now?"

"That is not for me to say."

"GODDAMMIT," Tasuki continued. "SHE COULD BE HURT OUT THERE RIGHT NOW AND ALL YOU'VE GOT TO SAY IS THAT!"

"Will you shut up for a moment?" Ryo looked at him squarely in the eye. "Do you think by shouting you'd do any of us, or Reiko, any good?"

"For someone who's supposed to bloody hell care so much about her, you're showing alot of love here." Tasuki was still restrained by Kaishi.

"Don't you get it? She chose to leave. You think any of us can change that?"

"I WOULD HAVE TRIED." Tasuki raised his voice again. "And even if that didn't work, I'd go with her."

"What is this to you? Some kind of fairytale where she's the princess in distress and you're her knight in shining armor? This isn't about heroics, Tasuki."

"Then what is it about, Ryo?" Tasuki couldn't believe the unfairness of it all. "Do I look like I'm here for the glory? Nobody cares what we're doing here. But unlike you, I care for her."

"Don't you dare say I don't." Ryo said threateningly.

"I just did." Tasuki replied defiantly. Ryo lunged at him with a fist to his cheek. Tasuki rammed his head into Ryo's stomach as Kaishi could not hold him back anymore. The fight was brief, Kaishi and Chichiri using magic to separate them.

"Both of you stop this." Taiitsu-kun said firmly. "Reiko has her reasons, and you will respect that. While she goes her own way, we have ours."

Once the two seemed less violent, Kaishi and Chichiri let them go. With an infuriated glare, Tasuki left the hall. Ryo punched a column.

Tasuki sat on the railings with his hands clutching at his hair.

"It's not your fault she left, no da" Chichiri stood near him.

Tasuki made no sound, just constantly grasping at his own flamed hair.

"I know you think so."

"Dammit, of course it is." Tasuki looked at him. "I scared her when I kissed her, and now she's gone off."

"No matter what you think, it is not like that."

Tasuki continued to clutch at his hair. He shouted something extremely vulgar about Taiitsu-kun.

Chichiri knocked him on the head with his staff. "Do not say such things. How do you think you found Reiko in you forest? How do you think she was able to get from Hokkan to Mount Leikaku on foot so quickly? Taiitsu-kun helped her. She helped you to find her."

"To hell with Taiitsukun! She's just helped me lose her too."

"It's not like you won't see her again."

Tasuki didn't know what else to do but to return to grasping at his hair.