K well I hope I surprised you when I told you that Mimori was an Alter User! I love surprising people, anyways here's the next chapter

Chapter 3-What if….(The Promises)

Ryuhou walked into his bedroom and started at the 2 pictures that he had clutched in his hand the entire time he was walking down the hall. 'This is going to complicate things… I won't be able to convince her to go back to the mainland now… Now she has a legitimate reason to stay…'

Scheris knocked on Mimori's door angrily. Mimori opened the door and Scheris stomped in. She was obviously freaked out about something. Her eyes were red and her cheeks were red because she was still sick.

"Scheris you should be in bed, what are you doing? You need to recover quickly!" Mimori insisted.

"Why was he here in your room!" Scheris demanded. "Cougar said he saw Ryuhou in your room!"

Mimori smiled to herself at the thought of Ryuhou. "Why don't you just ask Ryuhou?"

"FINE THEN I-" She started coughing and fell to her knees. Mimori bent down to look at her. She was obviously in pain.

"Scheris you okay? Come on I'll help you back to your room."

"No!" Scheris insisted. "Not until you tell me why he was here!"

Mimori sighed. "The reason Ryuhou was here earlier was because I dropped some pots and pans and he came in to see if I was ok," She replied, hoping that he hadn't seen Ryuhou enter her room the second time. Luckily Cougar had seen no such thing.

"Oh…ok then… that's………. good…" Scheris smiled and passed out.

"Scheris!" Mimori picked her up and carried Scheris to her room. She went to the sink and wrung the excess water out of a rag. She took a seat beside the now conscious Scheris and put the rag on her forehead. "Well I guess it's a good thing I work in the medical center!" 'Although I won't be in that department for much longer once the commander finds out…' she thought.

"You realize this doesn't change anything right? Just because you're helping me doesn't mean I wanna be your friend."

"Yes I know," Mimori replied. Scheris and Mimori talked for a while, mostly of Ryuhou. It turned out Scheris wasn't that bad of a person, nor was Mimori, despite their jealousy of each other. And, of course, Ryuhou walked in later.

"Scheris are you ok?" Ryuhou asked, then glared at Mimori.

"Why are you in her room? What did you do to her? Did you use it on her?"

Mimori was shocked. "No… I didn't…" She couldn't believe he said that to her, especially in front of Scheris! Sure she and Scheris had their differences and their rivalry, but that didn't mean she wanted to hurt Scheris, especially with an alter power she couldn't control yet. The nerve of him! And not only that, but before he walked in, she and Scheris were on the verge of forging a friendship! How dare he accuse her of something like that! "Why would you say such a thing to me?" Scheris looked back and forth between the two, thoroughly confused.

"Well you said yourself you couldn't control it," Ryuhou explained.

"Control what?" Scheris asked, trying to piece together what they were talking about.

Mimori was now angry at Ryuhou, and grabbed his arm and dragged him outside of Scheris's room. Ryuhou would've refused had it not been for the fact that Mimori was strong when she was angry, and he didn't want either of them hurt so he just went along with her.

"I thought you said you wouldn't tell anybody!" Mimori demanded, her eyes welling. 'Oh no.' she thought. 'Don't tell me I can't control when I cry now?'

"I didn't," he said cautiously, noticing her eyes shimmering with unreleased tears.

"Then what was that back there!" She pointed to Scheris's room, trying to hold back the tears that were threatening to fall. She didn't want to cry, she wasn't sad, she was simply angered at Ryuhou, but her Alter power wasn't under control, and the only time that she was ever able to release her alter power was when she cried.

"What was what?" He asked, still oblivious.

"Scheris was in there too! Watching the both of us and putting together everything you were saying!"

"So you blame me for something that you can't control?" he asked, trying to sound calm but there was a tinge of annoyance and anger in his voice.

"I never said I was blaming you! And you make it sound like it's so easy! If I remember correctly in that 6 months when I knew you when we were kids you weren't able to control your alter! I've known about mine for one day, if even that! So sorry if I can't control it!"

"Then learn to control your emotions!" Ryuhou shot back. "Learn to control them or don't have any emotions at all, otherwise you will never succeed." He watched as a single tear glistened down her cheek, leaving a burn mark as it trailed down. The moment it hit the floor, an immense fire started. Ryuhou was barely able to grab Mimori and jump out of the way so they wouldn't get burned.

"Miss Kiryu stay here!" He said as he summoned Zetsuei. He tried to make wind in order to extinguish the flames, but nothing would work. Mimori was getting madder because he referred to her as 'Miss Kiryu' again.

"Why can't you just call me Mimori?" The fire grew as she said this, and Ryuhou was forced to back away from the fire.

"Fine then Mimori control yourself! It seems that you control the flames so calm down!"

"I can't!" She shouted in a scared voice. The flames were getting bigger and they were spreading, soon they would begin to burn down Scheris's room, along with the ill Scheris. The flames headed towards Mimori and Ryuhou, and something in Ryuhou sparked as he jumped in front of Mimori to black the attack from hitting her. The HOLY suit that he was wearing now had a whole in the back from the flames.

"TRY!" He demanded as sweat dripped down his forehead. He pulled out the 2 pictures from his back pocket, thankful they weren't already burned to ashes, and held them in front of Mimori's face.

Immediately upon seeing the pictures her heart stopped racing and the fire died down. The hall was now filled with scorch marks, and other members of HOLY now approached the scene. Ryuhou ran into Scheris's room with Mimori.

"Scheris if anyone asks don't tell them Mimori and I were here okay?" Scheris was as confused as ever but nodded her head. "We'll see you later."

They snuck past the other HOLY members and into Ryuhou's room.. It was only when they arrived that Ryuhou turned his back towards Mimori to go sit down in a chair that Mimori noticed the scorch marks on his back and the hole in his suit.

"Ryuhou your back…" Mimori looked sad as she stared at it.

"It's nothing I'm fine, even Kazuma has done worse to me than this."

"But I inflicted it on you… I'm sorry."

"Like I said it's fine so drop it." He handed her a cup of water. "Here."

"Why did you save me?" She asked as she looked down at her cup.

"Because I may have changed a lot over the years, but I'm not a liar and I don't break promises."

"Promises?" Mimori looked confused.

"Well then I guess it's my turn to show you something, wait here." He went into his bedroom and came out holding a tape.

"It seems I'm not the only one with tapes."

"Hai." He put the tape into his VCR and sat down next to Mimori.

It was a few days before Mimori was leaving, and both Mimori and Ryuhou were sad because of it. Ryuhou's only and best friend was leaving him for what seemed like forever. The same thoughts were going through Mimori's mind as the day drew closer.

"I don't want to leave," Mimori complained.

"I don't want you to either."

"I'm scared to go back, I don't wanna go, you're my best friend! And plus now who's going to protect me against the boogieman?"

Ryuhou laughed. "Tell you what, I'll make a promise to you. If we ever meet again I'll protect you from anything that threatens to harm you."

"Okay!" Mimori smiled. "Don't worry, we'll meet again! I'll make sure of it! I'll find you no matter where you are! I Promise!"

Ryuhou nodded. "Ok so we have a deal! When you find me I'll keep you safe right?"

"RIGHT!" Mimori exclaimed in agreement. "Wait… How do I know you're not a liar… I mean, you ARE a cheater!" She laughed, referring to the card game.

"I am not a cheater!"

"Maybe not, but you ARE IT!" Mimori tagged him and he grinned and ran after her, both of them laughing and running around in his room.

Ryuhou stopped the video and ejected it. Mimori had forgotten about that day. "So it seems we both held up our ends of the deal." Ryuhou said.

"Yah, I didn't even remember that we had made those promises."

"Well that's good to know, especially since you claim to be living in the past." He said sarcastically.

"I don't think it is the past, and excuse me but who's the one who showed me that tape?" She smiled. It seemed that every time he watched one of the tapes, she would see the old him for a little while.

"Whatever, I-" he was cut short by someone knocking on the door. He opened it to find Cougar at the door.

Cougar looked past Ryuhou's shoulder and saw Mimori. "Well then I guess it saves me the time of having to go to Miss Minori's room." The look in his eyes changed back to their usual distant and cold look.

"It's Mimori," She said stubbornly. Now both Ryuihou and Mimori had serious looks on their faces.

"Why are you here?" Ryuhou glared.

"The Commander wants to see both of you." Cougar shrugged. Both Mimori and Ryuhou walked past him when he said, "Oh and did you hear about the fire just outside Scheris's room? Strange huh?" Mimori and Ryuhou stopped for a split second, then quickened their pace. Luckily Ryuhou had changed into a different, un-torched uniform before they left.

They walked into the Commander's office, and he gave both of them stern stares and a look of annoyance. He sighed, and Mimori gulped while Ryuhou stood at attention.