Hello everyone! Sorry about last week but I was kinda sad to write anything. I'm still a little depress but I'm better so I finally finished writing it. Thank you so much for the reviews I was reading them yesterday. I'm getting more and more reviews with each chapter, I'm glad. BTW, I was reading some of the chapters again and I noticed I had a few grammar mistakes so I'm gonna try to correct them and fix the chapter when I have time. If anyone notices or has noticed, could you please tell me to fix them? Thank you!

Another thing, chapter 1 I made a mistake, I uploaded the wrong version and I just noticed. Oh well, I was planning to leave the "fake Yori" nameless but whatever. I guess this works too so from now on, when I'm referring to the "fake Yori" I'm just gonna call her by her real name. You don't have to go to chapter 1 and see her name (if you don't remember it) I've writing it on this chapter.

One more thing, this is the last, I promise. I'm looking for a Beta Reader who has experience. I figured I might as well have someone help me revise my mistakes and to keep the characters within character. Ok, now on with the fic, enjoy!

Chapter 11: Unexpected part 3

She heard it clearly; the footsteps of someone, or in this case, a group of people coming. The squeaky sound of the wooden stairs, it became a little louder as they got near. They were right outside her room, she knew. She wasn't sure who exactly was out there. Everything was still dark, with a quick gaze at her cat shaped wall clock she learned it was still one in the morning.

The doorknob started turning. Almost as if it were a reflex she jumped out of bed and went under it. It happened in less than five seconds but even so she was careful not to make much noise when she opened and close the doors. Her bed was tall and while many beds had drawers, her had doors. She wasn't sure why but now she was glad it did.

The carpeted floor of her room muffled the noise of their footsteps. They were searching, and she was sure it was for her. She couldn't be sure how many were there in the room. She felt scared. Who were they? What did they want? One thing she was sure of, they were the same men who had been following her. Actually, she wasn't one hundred percent sure but, who else?

"She's not here." She heard the voice of a man grunt.

"She has to be," said another with a tone of frustration. "The rest of the house is empty and she hasn't left the house."

She heard a sound, she wasn't sure what it was but then she heard the door of her hiding place being opened. Her eyes widen as she tried her best to form a ball with her body. She moved as far of sight as possible. The light of the flashlight coming so close made her heart race. It became hard to breath normally. They closed the door.

"Good call, but no, she wasn't there. Let's go."

Yori let out a silent sigh of relief as she felt her heart calm down a little. She stretched her legs again but accidentally ended up hitting the door.

"What was that?"

She panicked. She knew they were coming back. She turned; she'd had to run for it. The door was opened and she kicked the man in the face, who ended up falling backwards and on the feet of two of his companions. She stood up and ran out but not before taking her cell phone from her desk which was next to the door.

It took them a couple of seconds to react and by the time they did. She was already halfway down the stairs.

"After her!" yelled the man who had been kick, blood running down from his nose. The others finally reacted and followed.

By the time they had reached the stair, they saw her shadow go out by the door. They tried to follow but didn't know which way she had gone.

"Sir, I'm afraid we lost her." the man who had been kick, the leader of the group, said regrettably.

"She already knows now, so forget about being inconspicuous and get her!"

Yori ran and ran through the night city, still wearing her pajamas. The night was chilly and wearing a tank top and Capri with running barefoot was not the best combination. Not to mention running without a destination. She had run towards the school without realizing it, probably because that was the only path she was actually familiar with. She continued running.

Going to Ralph was out of question, since he lived next door and there was no way she could turn back, not without risking getting caught. Where? Where could she go? She didn't know how to get to Aki's house and the twins, she couldn't go there either.

She came to the park where she sat on one of the benches to catch her breath. Being there reminded her of her talk with Yusei the day before.

"Yusei!" she called after him. He turned around. She looked at the ground, shyly. "Why are you…doing this?" she asked meekly.

It caught him off guard. He didn't answer. He was still thinking when she started again.

"Yusei, you really don't have to walk me or help me. I know you're doing it because of Aki but you don't have to force yourself." She said as she tried to not sound bitter or sad. She knew though, she knew very well that to Yusei she was only a friend of a friend. Or maybe the friend of the girl he liked, though she really didn't want to think that.

"I'm not forcing myself." He replied. "I'm doing it 'cause I consider you a friend too."

Those last words echo in her head.

'Cause I consider you a friend too.

She stood up.

I consider you a friend too.

She took a deep breath.

A friend too.

She started running. She knew the way but unlike the other times when she had gone with Aki and taken a bus to go down from the tops, she'd have to run all the way.

She was breathless but she was close now. She could even see it, just down there. However, she would have to make a detour since she was in the border of the tops but the exit to the city was not there. She could go down too using that cable that was connected to a building and then get down using the emergency stairs but it was going to be dangerous. She was a few hundred feet of the ground and she'd have to use something to slide on the cable. So, it was out of the question.

She kept walking, since she was tired and hadn't seen anyone following her. In one of the interception she saw the lights of a car. She turned towards the light.

"Get her!" a man yelled.

She fled. She ran back to the place with the cable. It was going to be her only option. The car was approaching and she needed to something. She found a metallic bar which was about one yard long.

"I hope this works," she said to herself as she stood on the small wall put the bar on the cable, balancing it. And sledded through it. It was harder than she imagined it'd be. She was trying hard to keep it on the middle but it was leaning too much to the right. She was leaning too much. If she too kept it up like that her hand was going to hit the cable. Sliding at that speed, she knew it was going to be bad, really bad.

Her right hand was coming closer to the cable and so was she to the building. She was almost there when she felt it. As soon as she felt it touch her skin she let go. She was falling. She grabbed on the first thing that was close, which was the metal stair of the building she had intended on landing.

She was holding as hard as she could while trying to climb. She felt the blood running down her arm and dripping to the ground. It really was hard when it was hurting so much. Somehow she managed to climb the stairs.

She looked at her hand. It was bad. Everything from the end of her wrist to half of her thump was covered by blood. She winced in pain and held her hand. Carefully, she went down the stair and started her way to Yusei's.

She tried to evade the people by walking on the shadows. She finally made it and knocked the door. She was feeling extremely tired and a little lightheaded by the time she reached the place. She waited a little after the first knock but there was no response, she started knocking with her left hand as hard as she could; unable to find her voice to yell.

"Who dares comes at this hour?" she head someone grumped. She didn't recognize the voice as Yusei's or Crow's so she guessed it was Jack. The door opened, a tall blond man looked down at her slightly irritated.

Again she held her right hand in front of her. "Hello, Jack," she said weakly.

"Who are you?" he asked, not so angry anymore. He saw her wound.

"Who is it?" Crow yawned. "Yori?!" exclaimed Crow when he saw her standing outside.

"Yori?" Yusei asked as he came down.

"Hi guys," she greeted weakly.

Crow looked at her bleeding hand. "What happened?"

Yusei looked too. "Come in," he invited. Jack stepped aside to let her in. "You need a doctor."

"I'm fine," she looked away though she knew it wasn't truth. "This is nothing." She walked down the ramp. Yusei walked up to her and held her wrist, she winced in pain.

"You're not." He said sternly.

She looked away from him and to the ground.

"Crow, get Dr. Schmidt." Yusei said his eyes not leaving Yori for a second.

"Let go," she protested. She felt angry. Not at Yusei but herself for being weak. He released her.

"Oi, anyone mind telling me who is she and what's going on?" Jack said from behind her.

"I'm off," Crow announced as he left on his D-Wheel.

Without saying anything Yusei instructed Yori to sit down on the chair he had pulled. Obediently she sat down and continued staring at the floor, she felt too tired to even talk; not that she wanted to anyway.

"Her name is Yori," Yusei offered. "She's a friend." He added as he saw her yawned.

After a minute of silence she started. "I was attacked," she said quietly but loud enough for them to hear her. "I was being followed but I think I lost them." She pulled up one of her legs, leaving the other in the floor. She hugged it and rested her head on it. "I don't want to talk about it, not now."

"It's okay; you don't have to say anything now." Yusei said gently as he patted her head.

"Yusei!" started Jack. "I understand that she's in danger but you can't just let her stay her without knowing anything."

Yusei turned towards Jack. "I'm sure she will tell us what happen after she has rested a little," he turned towards Yori again who was looking up to him. "Won't you?"

Yori nodded. "I'll tell you everything you want to know but I just want to rest for now." Jack sighed. "I've ran all the way from home to here." She yawned again, this time not even bothering to cover her mouth like before.

"You ran all the way here?" Yusei said surprised.

"Where is she?" said Dr. Schmidt as he entered the room with Crow.

"Over there," said Jack as he pointed to the half sleep girl on the chair.

The middle age doctor cleaned her wound. She winced at the pain but as he stitched her, she only pressed her lips and eyes close and hold the wooden chair as hard as she could. Dr. Schmidt bandaged her hand, covering the five stitches. He didn't ask anything to her, he could see she didn't want to talk.

"Please go to the hospital in a few days to remove the stitches," he said to Yori who nodded.

"Thank you," she said to him before he left.

"That must have been painful," commented Crow. "You must be pretty tough to not have cried."

"I won't cry," she said her voice sounded distant. "I won't cry for something like that."

Yusei looked at her. He remembered that a few hours before he had seen her crying face and now she looked so different. It made him wonder what kind of things would make her cry. Apparently pain, wasn't one of them.

Jack and Crow were a little surprised by what she said and how she said it.

"I guess we should get some sleep now. It's past four already." Crow broke the silence that followed.

"Yori come, you can sleep in my room," said Yusei.

Yori nodded. She thought that under other circumstances, she would have been thrilled but now, it didn't feel like such a big deal. At first she didn't want to go into the bed since she became self-conscious and also because her feet were so dirty. Upon Yusei telling her it didn't matter she finally tucked herself in and fell asleep almost instantly.

Yusei watched her sleep for a moment. It seemed something was bothering her but it didn't seem like a nightmare. It was probably just from the fear of being chased and the exhaustion from running, he decided.

He went down and met with Jack and Crow, who apparently were waiting for him.

"Yusei," Crow began. "What do you think?"

"We have to protect her." He replied.

"From what?" asked Jack.

"You heard her, she was attacked and being chased." He looked at the ground thinking.

"Someone wants her, huh?" Crow stated.

"The other day when I went to the Academy I saw her some men in black who said to someone 'the target has gone inside the building'. Those men are the ones after her, I'm sure." Yusei told them.

"How can you be so sure, they are after her?" Jack asked.

"Because they've been following her," Yusei replied. "I went to pick her up because I knew she was being followed but I wasn't sure if she knew. She didn't look like she knew either."

"Well, this is her problem. It has nothing to do with us." Jack said.

"We can't leave her like that, Jack" Crow said.

"She came here because she wanted help. We can't turn out backs on her" Yusei said sternly.

"I get it, fine. She can stay her as long as likes," Jack said resignedly.

"Jack…" Yusei said as Jack was making his way up the stair.

"I'm going to bed," Jack announced. "Good night."

"Please open your eyes,"

Yori groaned as she slowly opened her eyes. It was bright and she had to squint before her sight got used to the light. Everything was white. It was like being on the clouds, except there were no clouds. She felt like she was floating yet she was standing on what felt like ground but there was nothing to stand on. It was very strange.

"Finally," said a gentle voice that sounded a lot like hers. "I'm glad my voice finally reached you." A shadow appeared as it got closer she noticed it was a girl. The girl was her, or at least looked like her.

Yori gasped, her eyes widened with shock. "W-who-?"

The girl smiled gently at her. "Don't be afraid. I'm not going hurt you." Yori believed her and felt relieved but that didn't answer her question. "I am Sayori Tenma, but everyone knows me as Yori." The girl said before 'Yori' could say anything. "I'm glad to finally meet you, Cindy."

Cindy, as that was her real name, was confused and wasn't sure what to say or how to react. "Thank you!" she exclaimed agitated as it was the first thing that came to her mind. "Thank you for letting me borrowed your body. I will return it, I promise." She babbled. Here she was making a promised she wasn't sure she would be able to keep.

The real Yori smiled. "I'm glad you are using it, actually. I should thank you."

Cindy looked at her slightly confused.

"I have been trying to talk to you for so long but I'm still too weak." Yori began. "Having you use my body and saying you have lost your memories have been a life saver. You have really saved my life. But I'm afraid I have put you in danger." She said concerned.

"I don't understand what you're saying," Cindy said confused.

"What sent me to the hospital was no accident," Yori explained. "Someone tried to kill me and I'm afraid he might be after you."

Cindy gulped. "W-w-why w-would they try to kill me? And who is that person?"

Yori let out sigh, or at least it seemed light a sigh to Cindy. "My uncle."

"You're uncle?" Cindy said surprised expecting Yori to elaborate more.

"You've noticed you can do stuff you couldn't, right? Like karate?" Yori panted, changing the topic.

"Yeah," Cindy replied, finally noticing Yori seemed to be out of breath as if she had ran a marathon. "Are you ok?"

"I don't have much time." Yori said tiredly. "Always keep your cool. If you don't you wont' be able to control it."

"Control what?" asked Cindy.

Yori turned into white smoke and dissipated. She mouthed two words but Cindy didn't know how to read lips and her question was left unanswered.

Yay, we finally know who the culprit is, kinda. BTW, this is the result of the poll:

the winner was *drum-roll* "Rival Company!" closely followed by "Other" those who voted other didn't tell me... hard to know if they guessed.

I'm going to hold another poll: Should I refered to Yori as Yori and to Cindy as Cindy or continue calling Cindy Yori when she's the others as I've had been doing? You can reply on reviews or the poll on my profile. Till next time! Don't forget to review please.