Wakai Kyoushu

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Here is the twelth chapter. This is Wufei's reunion! I hope you like it!

Note: I made a few changes in the story. Not big ones, just little ones.but I'm too lazy right now to go and repost all the chapters...the main diff is that all the boys are fourteen now. Not thirteen, like three of them were, but all fourteen! So, I apologize if certain dates and number of years don't quite add up all the time, please forgive me.

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Wufei sat with his knees pulled up under his chin. Normally he would have meditated while he waited, but he really didn't feel like it now. He was too busy thinking. A fiance. He had a future wife. He recalled reading how some clans from where he came from arranged marriages when children were only babies, but he had never imagined he'd have one. Chien, Meiran. He wondered what she was like. He didn't like girls, much. He respected them greatly, but he didn't like all of them. They were always too arrogant and...well, too masculine these days. He didn't want a competitor for a wife. He wanted someone strong, yes, but not overpowering. Someone kind. Someone he loved.

The door clicked open and Wufei let his feet drop to the floor. He stood up as the girl stepped inside. She was quite beautiful, with raven tresses framing her face and small dark eyes. She looked smaller in stature, and was dressed in a chinese skirt tied at her side, with a light blue shirt on and a bracelet around her wrist. Her eyes latched onto Wufei and she smiled, which brightened her entire face up. She closed the door and walked over to him.

Wufei bowed in greeting as she spoke. "You must be Wufei. I'm Meiran. Do you remember me?"

Wufei looked at her in confusion. Why would he be able to remember her? He had never met her before in his life. At least, he didn't think so. "No."

"Well, that's okay," she said, sitting down. Wufei followed her and stay back down beside her. "It's been ten years since we've seen each other. I can barely remember you, but my mother told me enough about you before she died two years ago."

"I'm sorry for your loss, but I don't understand," Wufei said. "I've never met you before."

"Yes, you have, but we were only four so you probably don't remember," Meiran explained. She dug in her bag and pulled out a small book. "I brought this with me. My mother started this photo album when we were both born, and I continued it after she died. It's full of pictures." She opened it to the first page, and lifted out an ancient yet still beautiful pressed flower. "You gave this to me a week before you vanished. I think your mother set you up to it so they could watch what we did, but it was still nice." She handed the flower to Wufei, who looked at it in his hand.

A faint image of someone big and blurry putting it into his hand flittered into his mind, and then someone holding his hand. Another image came into his head, but he didn't know where it was he was seeing. "There was a flower field..."

Meiran smiled. "You remember that place? It's beautiful. It was where our mothers always took us to play. Here," she turned another page and showed Wufei another picture. It was of two small children, a boy and a girl, sitting in the flowers. The girl was looking at the camera with an innocent smile on her face, but the boy had been looking curiously at a beetle on a flower beside him. The two of them were holding hands.

"This is us?" Wufei asked, and Meiran nodded.

"That's us when we were four. And these," she turned the page again. "Are our families."

Wufei looked at the first picture. It was of a regal looking man standing behind a nicely dressed and smiling woman who had a small girl on her lap. It was obviously Meiran and her mother and father. The second picture was of a laughing woman sitting in the grass outside with a happy little girl who was perhaps a year younger than Wufei in the picture on her lap. A man was on his hands and knees beside her, grinning up. On the man's back was a small Wufei, holding tightly around the man's neck with a smile on his face.

"This is my family," Wufei said. The scent of lilacs came into his mind. "My mother. She smelled like lilacs. Who is this?" he pointed to the little girl.

"That's your little sister, Maia," Meiran explained.

"She died...," Wufei recalled. "They all died. How?"

"It was when you dissapeared," Meiran nodded sadly. "We were attacked in the night, and half the clan was killed before we defeated them. Your mother and father and my father were killed in the fighting. They looked for you and Maia for hours after. They found Maia in the woods, but you were nowhere to be found. Everyone thought you were dead, too."

"He killed Maia," Wufei whispered. "I remember. I...I was holding her hand...and mother told us to run away..and he killed her and..."

"Wufei?" Meiran asked consolingly. Wufei had his eyes closed tightly and was shaking. "I'm sorry, Wufei. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have brought it up." She reached her arms around Wufei's neck and set her head on his shoulder. Wufei stiffened at the contact, but eventually he relaxed and set his head on hers. He noticed that she smelt sweet.

"I don't want to get married, Wufei," Meiran suddenly said. He pulled back and looked at her. "It's not that I don't like you, no. I feel like you're my best friend. It's just that I'm only fourteen! I want to finish school and start my life before I get married."

"Why don't you, then?" Wufei asked.

"My uncle, who is leader of the clan right now, insists that I follow the traditions. He said since you were dead, he'd choose another husband for me. I am so glad you're not dead. My uncle wants me to marry a twenty two year old I don't even know."

"That's insane," Wufei frowned. "You're fourteen!"

"Exactly."

"I wasn't going to marry you," Wufei revealed. He continued at Meiran's expression. "I was only told about you yesterday. I wasn't going to marry a complete stranger. I wasn't raised in our clan, and I don't understand the traditions or follow them."

"My uncle will force you," Meiran said.

Wufei laughed. "No one can force me to do anything."

"He will," Meiran insisted in a worried voice. "He'll claim gaurdianship over you or something."

"I'm emancipated, Meiran, I know I am," Wufei explained. "Master O did it a year ago for some reason. I'm officially under my own rule."

"He'll make it void. He'll nullify it. He'll say you're too young."

Wufei sighed. "Meiran, I'm an assassin." Meiran frowned at this, but he continued. "I am. Your uncle isn't going to do anything to me. He can't. I could kill him..."

"Don't talk like that!" Meiran protested.

Wufei understood how she didn't like it and changed his pattern. "I'm not going to marry you, Meiran. At least, not while you're a somewhat stranger and we're both so young."

"If you don't marry me," Meiran said. "I'll have to marry that other man."

"Don't!" Wufei said. "Don't let your uncle rule your life. Leave him. Run away."

"To where?" Meiran scoffed.

Wufei thought for a moment. "Here. You can claim protection from the Preventors. You could go to school with me, and live here."

"Somehow I don't think the Preventors will go for that."

"I'm not going to let your uncle ruin your life."

Meiran looked at Wufei and gave him a small smile. "You've only known me for twenty minutes and you're already acting like my protector."

Wufei frowned. "Is there anything wrong with that?"

"No," Meiran said. "It's okay. It's perfectly fine." She leaned forward and suddenly pressed her lips against Wufei's. His eyes opened wide in surprise. Just as quickly as she had done it, she withdrew.

"What was that?" Wufei asked. He wasn't angry or annoyed. He was more shocked and stunned.

"Well, I figure that if I'm going to take the risk of running away from my uncle and coming and living with an assassin I was arranged to marry, then I might as well make you my official boyfriend."

Wufei looked at her in amusement. "You can't just make me your boyfriend, you know."

"Fine then," she smiled. "Chang, Wufei, would you do me the honor of becoming my boyfriend, so I can be your girlfriend?"

"Well, Miss Chien," Wufei replied. "I must admit to you that I find this all rather quick. But, I feel as though you're a long lost friend, so, yes."

"Your going to have to meet my uncle," Meiran said. "He came with me and insists upon meeting you. Lady Une barely managed to keep him away for today."

"I must remember to thank her. And ask her about you staying."

"This worries me, Wufei," Meiran admitted. "My uncle is very persuasive and commanding."

"And Une has a high moral code," Wufei told her. "Don't worry. I'm not going to have my first girlfriend married off to some adult she doesn't even know."

"Thanks."

"Just one thing," Wufei said. "Next time, make sure I get to participate in the kiss as well. You seem rather impulsive sometimes." Meiran laughed and hugged him.

Did you like it? I hope you did, I hope I wrote it well. Duo's reunion is next! So review, and I'll post it!

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