"Good Morning Sera!" Amu greeted her friend once she walked through the door of their joint business café. She bounced up to the younger one and linked arms with her, "Mm? What's with the exhausted face?" she asked.

Sera let out a long yawn before answering Amu, "Just a long night," she lied. She dragged her way tiredly to the closest booth and sat down, "Amu, can you bring me a cup of black coffee?" she asked while stretching.

"Sure," Amu answered. She bounced happily into the kitchen and got to work with the black coffee.

Alone and peaceful from her friend, Sera's mind went back to the dream she had last night. How did it start? She couldn't remember. All Sera knew was that at first she had a dream of being a princess back in the Samurai days and then the scene switched to the cornfield with her running frantically through it, trying to get away from her follower. She reached up and grabbed her left arm. The hold that her follower from her dream had on her felt so real. As if it actually happened. She squeezed her arm tightly, trying to get rid of the feeling she was having.

"Here you go," Amu chimed in and placed a mug of black coffee in front of Sera.

The aroma of the coffee wafted into Sera's nose, knocking her mind back to reality, "Thanks Amu," she said and grabbed the mug by the handle.

Amu slid into the seat across from her friend and watched Sera sip her coffee, "So…," the older one began while drawing imaginary doodles on the table top, "how did it go yesterday?" she asked.

"Hm? Yesterday?" Sera asked, not quite understanding what Amu was asking.

"Did you really forget?" Amu asked and slammed both of her palms loudly on the table, "the date?"

"The…date…oh that!" Sera shouted loudly, remembering what yesterday night was, "well…it was okay I guess," she said and placed the mug back on the table.

"What do you mean only okay? Fill me in with all the details," Amu squealed like a little girl seeing candies.

"Nothing much happened," Sera answered, "we went to the movies together and then he sent me home afterwards"

"That's it?" Amu asked and blew out a puff of disappointment, "well…that was dumb."

Sera chuckled at her friend, "Amu, thank you for the date but right now, my life is too busy for any men," she got up from the booth and made her way over to the bar area.

"But Sera…," Amu whined and ran after her friend, "you're still so young, don't you want a hot looking man to be your lover?" she asked and sat down on one of the bar chairs.

"Not really," Sera answered. She grabbed her apron off the hook on the wall and looped it around her waist, "I have this business I'm running with you, and school, and my mom to look after," she began listing off the busy pointers in her life, "what makes you think I have time for man? I can look after myself completely fine."

"That's the point!" Amu shouted and threw her hands up in the air, "your mom is currently in a relationship and must I add, it might seem like this relationship is serious, and yet her daughter," she pointed a finger at Sera, "is stuck being the mother of the two."

Sera chuckled at Amu and poured coffee beans into the grinder, "I'm okay with that," she insisted, "after all, I do prefer my mom to find her happiness first"

Amu heaved out a heavy sigh and placed both of her hands under chin, "I give up," she murmured.

Sera pressed the on button the grinder and spun back around to face her friend, "Don't worry Amu, when the time is right I'll let you know when you can hook me up again," she stated and pinched Amu's cheeks.


"I've decided," Mr. Kazakiri announced. He reached into his pants pocket and pulled out a small box. He placed it on the countertop and slid it over to the person across from him.

"What's this?" the person across from Mr. Kazakiri asked.

"Open it," he suggested.

The person reached out and grabbed the small box. He flipped open the box and there sat a small ring, "This…," he glanced back up at Mr. Kazakiri.

"I know I know," Mr. Kazakiri began, "you and her have not met but," he reached out and grabbed the small box back from him, "don't worry Yamato, you'll like her."

"That's not it father," Yamato stated, "the divorce papers with mom hasn't even been finalized and yet you want to get married already?" he asked.

Mr. Kazakiri let out a sigh and patted Yamato's hands, "the papers has been finalized Yamato," he corrected his son, "it went through last week Friday."

"Oh…," was all Yamato replied back with.

"I'll set up a dinner with Yoko and her daughter soon," Mr. Kazakiri shoved the box back into his pants pocket, "Yoko's daughter is younger than you by a year by the way," he stated and slipped into his suit.

"Okay…and?" Yamato asked, not quite sure why his father was telling him this.

Mr. Kazakiri gave Yamato a shrug and grabbed his car keys, "I thought you might just want to know," he suggested, "anyways I'll be home later so please eat dinner without me," he grabbed for his suitcase and made his way over to the entrance of the house.

"Oh…," Mr. Kazakiri stopped midway and spun back around to face Yamato, "if you wanted to know, Yoko's daughter has a café here in Tokyo. It's called Summer Café, maybe you should go pay her a surprise visit," he suggested, "but don't tell her that you're her soon to be step brother," Mr. Kazakiri placed a finger over his lips and smiled, "her name is Sera by the way."

"Sera?" hearing the name immediately perked Yamato.

"Mm that's right," Mr. Kazakiri answered, "anyways, go pay her a visit," and with that he left Yamato alone in the house.

"Sera…," Yamato called softly.


"Aaaachoooo!" Sera sneezed loudly and wiped her nose with a Kleenex.

"Bless you," Amu said from beside her, "did you sleep with your windows open again last night missy?" she asked.

"No," Sera answered and threw the dirty kleenex into the trash bin, "must be the dust flying around that caused me to sneeze."

"Right, you mean the imaginary dusts," Amu corrected, "this place is clean, how can there be any dust flying around?"

"For your information smarty pants," Sera tapped Amu on the head, "dust can exists without you seeing it and just because you cleaned the place yesterday doesn't mean that it didn't come back this morning," she rubbed her nostrils and walked to the kitchen, "by the way Amu, can you flip the switch for the open sign? It's almost 8."

"Sure thing!" Amu shouted and walked over to flip on the switch. She then made her way over to the door and unlocked it. Amu opened the door but stopped once she saw someone standing there, "Can…can I help you?" she asked, a bit creeped out with the person.

"Are you guys opened?" he asked.

"Um…yeah," Amu answered. Hearing that all the person wanted to know if they were open or not calmed Amu down, "welcome, come inside," she chimed happily and held the door open for him.

"I heard that you guys got the best coffee and pastries here," he said and took a seat the bar.

"Oh we do," Amu said proudly, "all thanks to my wonderful cook Sera."

"Oh? I would like to meet with this Sera," he stated.

"Sure," Amu replied, "give me a minute, she's in the kitchen right now," she disappeared into the kitchen.

A few minutes ticked by and Sera came walking through the kitchen. His eyes laid on her and immediately the familiar sensation hit him. The sensation that he had been having for the past so many years. She looked exactly like how she looked in their past lives. Long black hair. Small face. Beautiful big dole eyes. Plump full pink lips that were asking to be kissed right then and there. Everything about her was the same as he remembered. His heart pounded so loud that he was a bit concerned that she would hear it. Ever step she took approaching him made it seem like she was floating. Floating over to fall into his arms. Floating over to tell him how much she searched for him. He couldn't wait, couldn't wait until the day he had her in his arms. Sera…his Sera. His Sera who he has been searching for so many years in this lifetime was standing in front of him. But of course she doesn't remember who he was. She never did and it was like that every lifetime. All because of that promise…

"Hi, I'm Sera," Sera introduced herself, "my business partner Amu said that you wanted to meet me?" she asked.

He smiled and got up from the chair, "I did," he answered, "I'm Yamato, Kazakiri Yamato…"