Hi guys! I am sooooooooooooooooooooooo sorry this is really late, but I have been sooo worked up with homework and school, it's not even funny. Anyways, as a little apology andChristmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa present (screw the political correctness), I'm going to write two chapters to each of my stories—including the ones like Black and Gold and Flying Without Wings! So yeah, I'll try and get as much done as I can, and this is the first chapter for this story. One more for the present, and I promise updates will come a little quicker.

Anyways, I did it again. I wrote the last three chapters to this story when I haven't even gotten there yet. So, when I catch up with it, I'll post the last three if I get enough reviews and you won't have to wait too long.

Also, E and I are doing a sequel to this story, but she's writing it. It's going to be a YYHxPretear crossover and we've already got the first two chapters (strange, I know).

One more thing, (I promise) E has finally registered with FF! Her sn is I AM E (since "E" was already taken).

Now on with the long-awaited chapter!

Disclaimer: I no own Pretear!

Chapter 10

A/N: This chapter is gonna be split between Yumi, Akane, and Sakana. When I switch POV's, it doesn't mean that time has passed, ok? And I'm still gonna stick with the third person POV. Just so you know.

--Akane and Hayate--

"So, where exactly are we going?" Akane asked. They had been wandering around the city for who knows how long. Akane hadn't been keeping track; it just seemed like an eternity to her.

One thing did keep her busy for a while, though. Akane had been admiring the scenery around the town. Even after passing along the road a million and one times on the bus to school, she still never got tired of gazing at the vivid color of the numerous flowers. Everything seemed so peaceful to her, she sometimes wondered how evil could exist in the world.

BONK!

"Ow!" Akane rubbed her forehead. "Stupid pole," she cursed under her breath.

Hayate looked back and sighed. Shaking his head disapprovingly, he muttered, "Idiot, watch where you're going." Akane looked up from the ground and came face to…hand with Hayate's palm. She stared quizzically at it for a while.

"Well, are you going to take it or stay on the ground like an idiot?" Hayate hissed, annoyed. Akane scoffed and slapped his hand away.

"Well, if you're going to be that much of a jerk, then no thanks," Akane stood up and dusted herself off. Head held high and proud, Akane stalked off down the sidewalk as if nothing so awkward had just happened. Then as if things couldn't get more embarrassing, a large stalagmite rock just happened to be sticking out of the sidewalk, right in Akane's path. (You can probably guess what happened)

"Ahh!" Akane, not seeing the almost-impossible-to-not-notice rock, tripped. She closed her eyes, expecting to hit the concrete sidewalk, which she did…

…almost.

A powerful hand grabbed her arm and kept her from falling. She spun around, almost tripped again over her feet, and came to be staring into Hayate's deep, blue eyes. Hayate narrowed said eyes at her.

"Klutz," he said and let her drop ungracefully on her butt. (lol…I had to spell it like that)

"Ow!" Akane groaned, rubbing her behind. "What was the point of catching me if you were just going to let me go! And did you have to drop me like that?"

"Keep it up and I'll be dropping you at home," Hayate retorted and walked away. Akane scoffed and quickly jumped up, dusting herself off.

"Hello, Mrs. Cleveland," Hayate greeted when they reached a considerably large house. They had walked around the whole town in silence at least twice before the came to stop in a rich development close to Akane's house. Why they hadn't just walked next door was beyond her.

"Oh, hello, Hayate!" The woman who answered the door bell was dressed as if she was just about to leave on a dinner date. She gazed over The Wind Knight's shoulder at the small girl and smiled. "I see you brought a friend with you."

"I had no other choice, and I wouldn't exactly call her a friend," he replied, receiving a glare from said girl.

This only made the woman's smile broaden. "Well, just don't do anything too rash. The children are still here."

Akane blinked and blushed slightly. Why in the world would she think she and Hayate, the "handsome-but-heartless" Knight would be boyfriend and girlfriend? Akane's eyes widened. Did she just think what she thought she thought? (A/N:…ugh…that's confusing) She shook her head of the thoughts, though she knew any girl would totally agree with her.

Mrs. Cleveland drove off in her car, waving goodbye to the two on the porch.

"So, where exactly is she going?" Akane asked.

"It's Sunday, so she's probably off to church. She's in charge of the kid's department, but it's still a formal thing," the Knight answered.

Silence…awkward silence…

"So, what exactly are you supposed to do here?" Akane interrupted the beautiful sound.

"They are moving in a few days, so they hired me to help move boxes."

"Oh joy…" Akane groaned.

--Sakana and Goh--

"Wow, you work at Benihana?" Sakana stared wide-eyed at the Japanese-looking restaurant. Though it was pretty expensive, the food was definitely worth paying the extra money for.

(A/N: I love Benihana's! It's sooo good! I love their fried rice! And soup! And salad! And shrimp! And steak!E:…ok, calm down…It's not the end of the world…unless you're in MG's classroom." MG btw…stands for Mrs. George. Stuck in hell? Life too boring? Then buy some MGO's! It's evil…in a box! Lol…we actually made a little ad for them)

"Yep. I'm a waiter and deliver stuff." Goh led the two into the restaurant. Warm, delicious scents of fried rice, steak, and shrimp filled her nose, making her mouth water.

"Do they have cookies?" she asked.

"Uh…" Goh fiddled for a response she'd like. "There are fortune cookies, if you want."

"Ok! Yay, I get some cookies!" Sakana began to jump up and down in excitement, but was quickly stopped by Goh's hand on her shoulder.

Looking around, she saw several people staring at her, some shaking their heads disapprovingly. (I've been using that word a lot lately…in my stupid FCAT essays, in my stories…) "What? Why'd you stop me?"

"We're in a restaurant. Please act somewhat normal, because I'll lose my job," Goh pleaded.

"Oh, sorry." Sakana smiled and straightened out.

"Goh! Hurry! There are many deliveries to make!" A voice called from the kitchens.

"Coming! Sakana follow me," Goh commanded and led the two into the kitchens.

"Goh, what took you so long? And who is the onna?" a towering, buff male stood over Goh, easily casting a long shadow over the both of them.

"Uh, she's…uh…"

"My name's Sakana Sakamoto. I'm here with my friend Goh because my parents are out of town and no one else is at home," Sakana saved Goh from answering.

The man stared at her skeptically. "Well, fine, but don't make a mess of things."

"Arigatou…uh…"

"Hibiki-san," the man introduced himself.

"Hibiki-san!" Sakana finished her old sentence. Hibiki smiled.

"Well, go on. Thos orders aren't going to deliver themselves, you know," Hibiki ordered with a smile.

"Thank you, Hibiki-san!" Goh bowed and Sakana followed suit. Straightening up, Goh grabbed the first order on the pile and Sakana's arm and headed out the door.

"Hey! You don't have to grab so hard, you know," Sakana jerked her hand free of his grip and proceeded to walk calmly next to Goh. "What's with the rush anyway?"

"N-nothing. That guy just creeps me out sometimes," Goh slowed his pace so Sakana wouldn't have to keep running to keep up. "How do you know Japanese, anyway? I thought you guys were American?"

"We are," Sakana answered.

"Then how come you know Japanese? And you names are Japanese?"

"Oh, well you didn't ask that," Sakana said. Goh sweat dropped.

"Well, can you answer it, then?"

"Yes, I can."

Silence.

"Aren't you going to answer me?"

"You never asked me to answer it," Sakana explained. They came to an intersection and waited for the right moment to cross the street.

"Yes, I did."

"No you didn't. You just asked if I could answer it, and I said I could. I never said I was going to," Sakana said. (A/N: I have always wanted to do this to someone!)

Goh sighed. "Well, then, will you answer my question?"

Sakana stared at him strangely. "What question?"

Goh knocked himself in the head several times, almost knocking himself out if Sakana hadn't stopped him.

"There's empty space in your head," Sakana said and knocked Goh on the head a few times.

"Stop, that hurts!" He swatted her hand away.

"Oh, sorry! Did I give you a boo boo?" Sakana asked in a baby-ish voice and rubbed his head where she hit him.

"Stop, I'm fine," Goh pushed her hand away and laughed uncertainly. He still had a couple of hours to kill before he could go back and have some peace and quiet.

--Yumi and Sasame--

"Wow, you're a radio personality?" Yumi and Sasame arrived at a tall radio tower on the outskirts of her town. They hadn't traveled far, only about eight blocks, and arrived just in time.

"Sasame!" Squeals of voices frightened Yumi, making her jump five feet in the air.

"What the hell!" she shouted, scanning the area for the source of the noise. A pack of girls stood at the bottom of the stairs to the building, all holding flowers, candy, or cards. She stared at the pack of fan girls as if they had grown two heads.

The girls waved and began racing up to them. Yumi hid behind Sasame, who just chuckled.

"Hello, Sasame!" The girls all said at once.

"Hello," Sasame answered calmly with a smile.

"Are you going to record your radio show now?" one asked. Duh, what do you think he's doing here, sightseeing?

"Yes, so I have to go," Sasame answered and walked into the fancy building. Many of the girls sighed dreamily as they watched his retreating form; the others, however, shot daggers at Yumi when they saw her.

"Who are you and what are you doing with our Sasame?" a girl asked. She seemed to be the leader of the pack, since she smelled the strongest and wore the most revealing outfit, not to mention everyone else quieted and stared at Yumi once she spoke. She had long, dark raven curls of hair and dark brown eyes.

"Wow, I wish I could control my sisters like that," Yumi muttered.

"Don't change the subject!" the girl spat.

"Well, it really is none of your business, so don't stick your abnormally large nose where it doesn't belong," Yumi retorted. The girl's minions gasped and prepared to fight a girl's fight, waiting for a command from their leader. All Yumi could think was, God, I'm hungry.

"I wouldn't be talking, you whore. Leave our Sasame alone. He belongs to me and only me!" the girl hissed in her face, spraying her with spit.

Yumi growled. "How can you call me a whore when you don't even know me? And I don't see your name anywhere on him or a piece of paper saying he belongs to you so shut the hell up and go back to your mall!" Yumi countered and raced inside before those girls could tackle her.

"Yumi, are you alright?" Sasame appeared in a doorway. Yumi leaned against the wall, panting slightly.

"Yeah, except for the fact that I now have a whole horde of fan girls after my head, I'm perfectly fine," Yumi joked.

"Alright then. Don't worry about them. Come on, let me show you around," Sasame motioned for her to follow him.

Yumi was led into a double room. One side had comfortable couches and bunches of recording equipment; the other side was separated by a wall with a glass window. It had a radio mike and scripts on a single table in the small space.

"Good morning, Sasame!" one man greeted.

"Good morning! Are there any postcards for me to read?" Sasame asked.

"Yeah, hold on," the man disappeared through a door. Yumi and Sasame waited patiently in their spots. Yumi began to sing the "Jeopardy" song, earning stares from several people around them. Sasame chuckled slightly and a blush crept to her cheeks.

"Here you go, Sasame," the man reappeared, making Yumi jump.

"God, don't scare me like that!" she scolded from behind Sasame. He chuckled and the guy looked at her strangely.

"Sorry," he apologized and handed Sasame a script of postcards. Sasame scanned through the book and stopped at a certain one, eyes widening.

"What is it, Sasame?" Yumi asked and looked over his shoulder. "'Hello, Sasame. I don't know if you would remember, but when my mother lived in Japan, she always used to send requests to your radio show there. She died recently and left everything to me, and I just happened to come across those cards. I enclosed them here.'" Yumi finished reading the card. "You guys used to live in Japan?"

"Yes, that's where Himeno was," Sasame replied.

"Then who sent this postcard with the postcards?" Yumi asked. (Isn't that a bit confusing?)

"Yes," Sasame pointed to the signature at the bottom of the letter.

"How can you tell anything from that?"

Sasame's voice was quiet and sympathetic. "Her mother signed her postcards as "Miss Silk"."

--Many hours later when everyone gets back home--

Yumi and Sasame were the first to reach home. Seeing no lights through the windows, Yumi sighed and took out her key to the mansion and unlocked the door. They would've been home a couple hours earlier if Yumi hadn't insisted on a tour of the radio tower and a walk around the town.

"Where the hell is everyone?" she asked as she opened the door. The darkness inside welcomed the two. Yumi cautiously stepped inside and made sure to look both ways before advancing any further into the dark room. Sasame chuckled as he shut the door behind him.

"I don't sense anyone else here; you can relax now," Sasame joked. Yumi turned to glare at him, which only made his smile broaden.

A suddenly rapping came at the door. Yumi screamed and immediately hid behind an amused Sasame, who knew exactly who was on the other side of the door.

"Did you have to ride on my back?" a familiar voice asked.

"Yep! Now, onward steed! Into the house!" a voice answered the first. Yumi's eyes twitched. She got scared over them?

The door opened, revealing Goh's tired and aching form with an ecstatic Sakana on his back.

Sakana's face dropped when she saw Yumi and Sasame. "Aw, we're not the first one's here!"

"Well, we would've been if you weren't riding on my back," Goh muttered.

"Nice to see you, too, Sakana," Yumi pouted and came from behind Sasame.

"What's your problem?" Sakana cocked an eyebrow.

"You guys scared her when you tried to open the door," Sasame answered for the girl.

"Sasame!" Yumi blushed furiously and ran upstairs. Sasame laughed.

"Hey, are Akane and Hayate here? Goh asked.

"No, not yet."

"They better not do anything that I wouldn't do," Sakana smirked.

"And what wouldn't you do?" Goh asked.

"Jump off the Empire State Building and dive 15,000 feet into the ocean where I would lock myself in a soundproof room with earmuffs," Sakana answered. Goh sweat dropped.

Suddenly Sasame perked up. A knock came at the door followed by a small groan.

"Well, I guess we all know who that is," Goh laughed and opened the door. Who he expected to be there was in fact not the person at the door.

"What the hell were you three?" he cocked an angry eyebrow.

"Well, you see," Mannen started up an excuse, "We were really bored and we didn't know where you guys went; so we went to the park."

"You could have sent someone to tell us where you guys were. We thought you would've been at home by now!" Goh scolded.

"Hey, sorry! We were hungry!" Mannen defended and adjusted Shin's wait on his back.

"And just how in the world did you get food?" Kei asked as he came up to the door.

"ACK! Don't scare us like that!" Hajime and Mannen shouted, waking up the little bundle on his back.

"W-what time is it?" Shin asked groggily.

"It's 8 o'clock, Shin. Did you have fun at the park?" Sakana asked, taking him from Mannen's back, which the Knight of Freezing was grateful for.

"Yeah!" he gave Sakana a toothy grin.

"Come on, we'll go upstairs and play some video games!" Sakana suggested, which Shin agreed to enthusiastically. Mannen and Hajime started to follow, but were stopped by Goh and Kei.

"And just where do you think you're going, hm?" Goh smirked. Mannen and Hajime laughed nervously and shifted their feet. Seeing no way out of this, they sighed and proceeded to explain and apologize to the older Knights and beg for their lives.

Once they had finished their story (which Goh and Kei took as acceptable), a knock came at the door, followed by a groan and loud curse.

"This time we know who this is," Goh said as Kei answered the door.

Hayate stood at the door with a sleeping Akane riding on his back, looking annoyed as ever.

"What happened to her?" Kei asked and let Hayate in. Hayate dropped her on the couch, and even then she didn't wake up, but shifted to a more comfortable position.

"Man, she sleeps like a rock," Goh pointed out.

"No kidding. She was so wiped out she almost collapsed as we were walking home. And she's so heavy!" Hayate rubbed his sore back. "where's everyone else?"

"Sakana's upstairs with Shin and Yumi and Mannen and Hajime are…hey, where did those two punks go!" Goh and Kei looked around the room for the two Knights but found they were no where in sight.

"Shit, I knew we should've strapped them down," Goh cursed.

"Well, I'll go upstairs and looked for them Goh, you make some dinner or something; Akane and Sakana are going to be starving when they wake up or come down," Kei ordered and walked up the stairs.

"Why am I always stuck cooking everything!" Goh whined.

"Maybe because you're the one who works at a restaurant?" Hayate pointed out.

"Oh yeah…that sucks," Goh sighed and trudged into the kitchen.

Hayate, finding nothing else to do, decided to watch some TV and keep an eye on Akane for a while.

A/N: Ok, this chapter done! Yay! Again, sorry this took awhile. Anyways, E's story (which is on my account), A Stone and A Fish, is going to be moved to Inuyumi's account. E doesn't want to write it anymore, so Yumi's gonna finish it (very doubtful…lol…j/k, nat!)

Now please feed me your wonderful reviews! Me want food! (lol) BTW, for anyone who's wondering, Sakana and Akane will be fighting another demon larva in the next chapter! They aren't dead!