Welp here's more of this story. Next time I create something it will probably be the other story I had previously mentioned, although so don't be to sad if this doesn't continue for a while.

Disclaimer: If I owned Guilty Crown it wouldn't have ended the way it did.

Inori kept shoving on my shoulder ,but I was so exhausted I ignored her until she finally decided to slap me on the face.

"W-What?!" I said now fully awake.

She pointed out the window and my eyes widened. Two endlaves where clashing. Missiles ,bullets, and explosions cut through the silence of the night as the two metal monsters battled.

I hurriedly got up and ran to the exit of the bus.

"What are you-!?"

"I gotta get a closer look, get our stuff and wait for me on the opposite side of the bus."

"But-"

It was too late I was already jumping down on the side we'd come from before she could even protest. I took off in a dead sprint towards what looked like a death trap, but I didn't care. This was our chance ,if their were people arming themselves with endlaves in here escaping could become a lot more possible a lot sooner.

I hid myself behind multiple cars as I moved dangerously close to the battle. It was hard to tell who exactly I wanted to make it through the fight in one piece considering the two were identical. I could only pray that piloting one of those crafts would be someone who wouldn't kill me on sight.

Just then the turning point in the battle had come. One of the endlaves had managed to get itself close enough to put its mechanical claws around the others head joint. I heard one of the pilots scream in anguish as its head was pulled off. The machine then slumped to the ground. Silence filled the air. Now's my chance.

I stood making myself visible to red eyes of the Endlave that was no more then 20 meters from where I stood, a distance easily close-able within a few seconds with the machines size and speed. It was an incredibly stupid thing of me to do, I could already hear Inori yelling at me from behind. I took a step closer to it. It pointed its large machine gun at me and fired. I saw this coming luckily and ducked behind the car I was next to, but not before the bullet managed to graze my body. An explosion of pain appeared on my left side.

"Shit,"

I had gambled and I lost and as predicted the machine came to finish the job when... BANG! The sound of a bullet leaving a gun filled the air. Sparks rained down on me from where the bullet hit on the endlaves head joint. The endlave fell over smashing the roof of the car next to me. Inori stood on top of the bus I'd just come from. She had anger in her eyes I'd never seen before. Her skills were far more advanced then any military man as she'd managed to Shoot a bullet from a pistol into a 1 foot gap between the rectangular head of the machine and its body from a ridiculous distance. She jumped down and ran to my side.

"Are you kidding me Shu!? What the hell were you thinking!?"

I managed to pull myself. Inori was beyond pissed at me. She had her eyebrows knitted together and her fist was turning unnaturally white from squeezing the gun in her hand too hard.

"I was thinking we'd found our miracle." I said grasping my bloody side, the bullet hadn't made a very deep cut fortunately, but it was deep enough to hurt like hell. I winced after my first step, but got use to it after the next few.

I nearly passed out from pain after I climbed up and managed to jump down on the other side of the bus. Inori had to help me both ways. My bag was sitting on the stairs at the entrance of the bus. I ripped it open and managed to find my roll of medical tape. I took of my now blood soaked T-shirt. I was about to start taping the wound when Inori stopped me.

"You need to clean it first." She said, obviously still mad.

"We don't have stuff for that."

"Yeah we do It's in the first aid kit I put in your bag about a month ago while we were living in a hospital." She came over and managed to find it.

It was smaller then any first aid kit I'd ever seen probably why I had missed it. About the size of a radio. When she opened it I was surprised to see a variety of medicines as well as disinfectants. I was starting to regret having let her find it. I knew disinfectants hurt like nothing I could do is grit my teeth and bare with the pain as Inori applied it. She was trying her best to be gentle ,but it didn't make a difference.

"There." She said triumphantly as she finished wrapping the tape around me.

I stood, and to me surprise the pain in my side had eased a lot.

"What is that stuff?" I asked amazed at its effects.

"Its a new mixture that's suppose to act as a pain killer as well as a disinfectant, one of the best around I'm pretty sure."

I put on my ruined shirt.

"You scared me."

I looked at her,she suddenly looked like she wanted to cry.

"I'd be all alone if you died you know."

"I know I took a stupid risk, but this was a great opportunity Inori. If I could have made contact with the person piloting the endlave fighting GHQ maybe we could have joined up with them, then we'd be that much closer to leaving this shit-hole."

"Did you consider that the group of people who owned that endlave wasn't out looking for people to save. You know how selfish and crazy people have become in this place!" A tear fell down her cheek.

"Stupid Shu."

At this point I was beating myself up, what was I thinking. I was so excited I hadn't even accounted for the many ways my plan could backfire.

I walked over to her and hugged her. She tried to resist it at first, seeing as I was the one to make her cry in the first place-but then she gave in and cried into my chest.

Well i fucked up this time didn't I?

"I'm sorry okay? I'll try to be less stupid next time." I paused for a moment. "I'd never leave you alone."

I pulled away from her as she wiped the tears from her eyes. She never cried, she hated looking weak and vulnerable. Although it was nice to see she still had this side to her.

The sun was rising in the direction we were headed. We had explored the western half of the quarantine zone for nearly 3 years with no luck of finding a truly organized group of people. The closest we'd come was a small group of 6 which consisted of 2 kids around the age of five and 4 teenagers. We left them to there own business, they probably had enough trouble feeding themselves. The eastern side was a lot less dense with buildings as it moved away from the rural areas of Tokyo making it easier to be found and a lot harder to find simple supplies. But can we waste anymore time looking for something that might not even be there? I grabbed my bag and tossed it over my shoulder.

I looked to the north and I could see the giant wall that has held us in here for nearly six years.

"I think its time we put it all all the line Inori."

"What are you-"

"We're leaving, what just happened made me realize just how easily we can get killed in here, we can't keep this up for much longer."

Her eyes widened, "That's suicide Shu. You saw for yourself when we first checked one of the exits. There's endlaves everywhere, we wouldn't make it within a hundred feet before they'd kill us."

"We won't know untill we try."

"And if we fail?"

I kept quiet for a moment. "Then we die, there's nothing more to on." I started walking there was a rode that would take us all the way to the wall just ahead of us, but then I realized Inori wasn't following me.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm not going to let you do this."

I sighed and walked back to her until our noses were about two inches apart. I looked her right in the eyes and in a swift motion swept her off her feet and held her bridal style.

I tightened my grip on her to prevent her from wriggling free. She was wildly punching at me in an attempt to make him drop her. I ignored the pain and started walking.

"Let me go!" She was still yelling at me.

"Will you shut up? Just get some rest, I'll wake you up if I need to."

"Why should I?I already told you we're not doing this."

"And I'm telling you that its our last chance I'm not gonna die in this hell hole, and if I do its going to be helping you escape it."

"Why are you doing this, Shu?" She was lost.

"I already promised myself something the day we met and I've already told you a more times than I can count: I'm getting you out of here no matter please just sleep."

She had tired herself after squirming and punching for so long and I could tell it would take little convincing to make her fall asleep. She seemed to give up on talking to me so she just adjusted herself in his arms trying to get comfortable and closed her eyes without saying another word.

Stupid Shu.

Honestly I'd never seen him like this in the whole time I'd known him. Sure he'd take risks when he had to ,but most of the time he was rather conservative in his decisions and ended up having to take my advice. Right now ,on the other hand, he was completely confident in the idea that we could actually escape this place by ourselves and was throwing all common sense aside to take this risk which could easily end in both of their deaths.

I opened my eyes, it was around eight in the morning based on the position of the sun. I was actually surprised I managed to fall asleep in his arms like this. I shifted a little showing that I was awake.

"Good morning Inori."

"Good morning."I said as I yawned.

"Seems like you slept well."

"Yeah."

He set me down so me feet could touch the ground.I stretched and looked at him.

"You know how bad you smell?" I ask him jokingly. It was the truth he stunk, which was to be expected since he'd been walking all night and it was pretty warm around this time of year in Japan.

"You think your any better," He said glaring back at me.

"Not my fault you broke the one working shower we'd found in weeks."

"There's a small creak ahead, if your so desperate to get clean we can stop there for a bit."

"Sounds good to me," I said as I looked around, we were pretty far from the city, Shu had managed to cover a large distance over night. I continued looking and I spotted something that made my eyes sparkle. There was a lone gas station just a little ways from them. I pointed towards.

"We're going there first though."

Shu looked at me curiously. "There's no way we're gonna find anything in there you know."

"You need something to eat, there might be something edible in there."

He looked back at the small building in the distance. He knew I was right, he'd spent so much energy that night that he was probably close to starving himself to death, but I guess you get use to that feeling after a while.

"Alright."

The burst open the glass doors and looked upon the rows of candy-bars and other snacks.

"'No way we're gonna find anything in there,'" I said in a mimicking voice.

Shu completely ignored me and grabbed one of the plastic grocery bags behind the clerks desk he handed me one as well.

"Try to grab at least one thing that's somewhat healthy."

With that we began to clear out the store. It hadn't been left completely untouched, of course, but there was plenty to last Shu and I a for a long time.

After we picked clean what we thought was best, we exited the store and took off towards the river Shu knew about, leaving the city behind us.

Shu sat down all of his bags and started going through them on the river side. We had found a spot where the water wasn't moving very fast but was still fairly deep. While he was doing so I prepared myself to get in the water. When Shu turned around earlier than expected he received quite the surprise. I was completely naked.

"Holy shit!" He stumbled backwards and fell I could see his nosebleed from where I was.

I rolled my eyes,"Its not like you haven't seen this before."

"Yeah but most of the time I got warning!"

"Hmph," I grumbled as I walked in the water. I submerged myself in the water and closed my eyes as I lied back so just my face was above the water. It felt great to feel the filth that had gathered be slowly lifted off by the slow current of the river. Then I got splashed in the face. I looked over and saw Shu in the water.

"Revenge." He said.

"Oh really?" I splashed him directly in his face and started to swim towards the rivers other side.

He laughed."I see how it is."

We continued like that for who knows how long. It was fun, the most fun we'd had in a long time, it felt nice to have a break from our harsh reality and just mess around like normal kids. Unfortunately the time finally came when we had to leave. Shu had left his bloody T-shirt in the water as well and while it was now soaking it was at least a little cleaner.

They ate as they watched the water go by.

"We could probably stay here forever, Shu. " I was still thinking about the decisions Shu had made the night before.

"It would be kinda nice wouldn't it?But that's not an option ,we have to go back."

"Why?Its not like either of us have anything to go back to, you said that you family is probably all dead." I looked down ,"And if my parents are still alive they'd probably turn me in to GHQ and have me killed."

After hearing my words Shu slipped open a pocket on his bag that I had never noticed before. and produced six envelopes. He placed them in my lap. Each of them were abnormally large. I picked up the one on top and opened. Inside there was all sorts of money. No doubt there was at least this much in the other five.

"Shu how did you...?"

"Ever since I got here, even before I met you I had been gathering money. I knew my parents would be sad when they found out what happened to my ,I thought that my parents would be happy if I saved some money for them and maybe they'd get me new things that I wanted after they got me out of here. But after waiting for so long I realized that no one would be coming to save me. I became frustrated and angry by the fact that I had wasted so much time gathering it for the family I no longer had. I was close to throwing every last bit of it out ,but then I met you." He smiled as he reminisced. "That's when I started saving money for another reason, for us."

"How much is in here?"

"At least enough to buy us a new home when we get out of here, that's the life we're leaving for. "

"Shu..." I was shocked. "I'll never be able to repay you for all that you've done."

"As long as your alive, that's enough for me."