Lim stoof up straight from the bed, putting the bandage roll on the nightstand table. The person he was examing wasn't Raiden this time, but it was their own little girl, Riku.

They were in her new room after the accident at the huge now-burnt-down mansion. Everyone was worried about her, and didn't know what to do about it. Lim and Kaito were in a mission at the time, but Lim came back immediatly when he heard the news.

Riku had on a her white spaggetti strap nightgown with the covers just below her shoulders. As she slept her hands fell on the pillow on the side of her face, she looked normal. But the sad part was that under her bangs bandages wound around her eyes.

"She''ll be alright." Lim informed, nodding his head. "It'll be awhile before she can see again. Just don't take the bandaged off of her eyes and she'll be just fine."

Zumi smiled and let out a sigh relief, sitting by Riku's side. Meiko was on the other side of the blind girl, sobbing happily and patting Riku's head like she was her own child. Kaito sighed in relief and Mamoru smirked and clapped slightly, startling Riku slightly. Rin was sleeping beside Riku, and Miku was trying to comfort Meiko.

Lim nodded to them and walked towards the door that lead out of the room, where the cold-looking Raiden and the distant eyed Len.

"What is it?" Radien asked, refering to what happened to his little sister,

"It a rare poison that has to be injected through blood. It attacks the eyes and weakens the mucles for a certin amount of days, and how frail our girl is, it will take awhile." Lim informed Raiden, not looked at Len. "She has been temporarily blinded. But the poison will soon fade away and she'll get her eyesight back. Nothing to worry about. But she can't see light for awhile after the poison fades, it'll ruin her eyesight permenatly if she does."

Len just stared at the people who were whispering around the two sleeping girls with emotionless eyes. It was all his fault. His Hime-sama has become blind because of his clumsiness.

Raiden dissmissed Lim and the black haired college student headed back to the front of the house so he could get ready for nightschool. The scarlet eyed leader growled under his breath and walked into the room.

"Len." Raiden muttered under his breath low enough for the blonde teenager would only hear. He narrowed his eyes slightly and had a scowl on his face. "I don't want you to talk to my sister for awhile."

Len's straight stare turned shoked as his eyes widened when he heard the order.

"No, don't even go into her room. I advise you don't see her, alright?"

Len almost talked back, but the bedroom door slammed in his face before he could say anything. He frowned slightly and ran away from the room, down the hallway and out of the house until he was in the forest. He breathed heavily as his knee's gave out and he fell to his knee's on the floor.

His eyes drooped down as he thought about not seeing Riku's smile or hearing her voice for more than three days. He frowned and flinced, his eyes stinging as he covered his eyes and hung his head.

"I'm so sorry....."

-:-

Raiden walked in right when Rin and Riku woke up. Riku still wasn't accustomed to seeing only back, and freaked out in her mind for a second. She let Rin help her too a sit and put her hands on her lap, and she blinked in the bandage tha covered her eyes.

"Ri-chan, your going to be alright!" Zumi said in the darkness. Riku shook her head as she heard voices bounce from everywhere.

"Ri-chan, you look soo cute~!" Miku said, trying to cheer her up.

"You took one hell of a hit, Ri." Mamoru said, she could hear the smirk in his voice.

"You want some icec ream?" Kaito asked, making Riku smile a little. Whatever the situation was, Kaito always wanted ice cream.

A hand brushed against her cheek and she perked up slightly, smiling and leaning against the hand like a little kitten. Len! But the hand wasn't as soft as Len's were.

"Are you hurt anywhere else?" It was Raidens' voice.

"No, onii-sama." Her smile faded slightly and she shook her head.

She wanted Len there instead! She wanted to apoligize for leaving Len and going with Suzaku. For all the trouble she might've put him in with her brother. She took the hand off of her cheek and held it, looking at the direction she thought her brother was.

"Onii-sama, where's Len?"

"Yeah, where is he?" Rin asked, holding onto my other arm.

Brothers' hand slipped away from mine and she heard foosteps, whispering, then somone left her room an closed the door.

"Well, sweety." She heard Meiko instead, so it scraced her what she might say. Her brother never let anyone tell her something so important to her. "Len isn't going to come and see you for awhile...."

"......" Her face was as smooth as marble. What?

-:-

She turned thirteen without being able to see or hear Len a couple of days later

It's been a couple of days since she'd been locked up in her room, and she's already itching to stand up, run back to Len's room, and jump into his bed and sleep forever.

But she couldn't, and she knew it too well. But the assasination group couldn't stop her from trying. They might as well tied her hands to the headboard to stop and keep her from wandering around her room and tripping over somehing.

Usually she wouldn't act like this, I guess she was annoyed by the fact that Len hasn't come to see me yet.

She had nothing to do but ponder and fantasize about her future while laying down and having a bandage covering her eyes.

At day the only thing she could do was put on her earphones to listen ot music or try to find her way around her room. And at night the only thing she could do is lay in her new large empty bed and wish that someone could crawl into bed with her and whisper with her until she would fall asleep.

Sure, everyone but Len would come once in awhile. But with missions and school and they're own personal life, they didn't have enough time to come and make small talk with Len always refused to go out until he made sure she was safe, but now that he knows she's locked up in her new room, he might already have a girlfriend and be kissing!

She had that thought slip into her mind everyday, she thinks it right when Lim comes to check up on her heart and eyes at twilight everyday.

She would instantly try to shake the thought out of her system aan try to think happy thoughts. She knew she was getting too dependant on Len, but she didn't care all that much anymore.

Len wouldn't leave me alone!

....

Would he?

-:- L -:-

Kaito and Mamoru had moved Riku's clothes from his room and put them in her room, so this must mean that she couldn't sleep in his room anymore once she was better. Len felt alone as he layed down in his bed at night, and he would spend half of his time awake, just waiting for the childish blonde to come and sneak into his bed.

He couldn't bare the fact that Riku was a doorway away from him and he couldn't talk to her. Sure, he leans against the doorway and watches as Rin talks to Riku, their hands intertwined as Rin talked. But right when Riku opened her mouth to talk, Len turned his head away and close the door, walking away.

He knew he shouldn't feel like crying, that wasn't assasin-like. But he felt like the time where he couldn't find Rin in hide and go seek when they were 3, he felt like he lost part of his life. Thus, making him feel like crying. But he didn't, if he did everyone would hear him and he would never let it down.

So after a week of watching Riku and Ren talk, he didn't bother to even go down that hallway anymore. If he did he knew he would go straight up to her and glomp her the way Rin and Miku did every time they saw Riku.

So, he decided to take up more missions to get his mind off of it, not even trying to think of his Hime's name.

-:-

Len didn't come today.

Riku thougth as she listened to Rin bable on and on about this hot guy at her school that was finally walking. Riku looked like she cared, but if you took off her bandages you would see tht she was bore out of her mind and she didn't care about this guy. I want Len!

"So, Ri-chan!" Riku blinked under tha bandages and turned her head. Rin held her hand like Len did all the time, but when someone else did it it felt and was waaaay different. Riku couldn't quiet put her finger on it thought.....

"Yes, Rin-onee?" Riku asked, her voice still as innocent as it always was. "What is it?"

"You seem sooo out of it." Rin said, her blue eyes filled with worry. She looked at the girls face, where the bandages covered her eyes. "Usualy would be so happy for me. But you don't seem to care about anything anymore. Are you sad because Len-chan's hasn't been talking to you?"

"N-No......"Riku managed to lie. She turned her head to where she thought Rin was sitting and smiled to most realistic one she could muster. "No, I'm not sad. There must be a reason why he's not seeing me. Can we talk about something else now?"

"Oh...Okay." Rin said, feeling helpless at the fact she couldn't get Riku happy enough to be her regular self. She then tried to smile as well. "So, I've heard you can take off your bandages at night son."

"Yep!" Riku said, nodding and smiling again. "I'm happy, too! I don't like sleeping with it on, it makes my head feel like it's suffercating and-"

Rin laughed, then clutched Riku's hand harder as the younger girl started to rant. Her eyes saddened.

"Oh Ri-chan......"

-:-

Len came back from another mission late that night, and expected everyone to be asleep.

He was wearing all black and was cut only slightly after finding and assasinating a Boss by himself. He knew he was was getting way better, and as soon as he tells Raiden, the red-eyed Leader wouldn't be made at him anymore.

Then I'll get to talk to Hime-sama! Len thought like a excited little kid. He then shook his head and became sober again, Hime-sama.....

Len had bought a little music note charm for Riku's charm bracelete, and he was going to give it to her when he was allowed to see her again. The charm bracelete was givin to Riku by Rin, and no one knew about it except for the two blonde girls and Len. And since he hadn't given her a present yet, he decided it was the best he could do.

But he knew he wouldn't haven't he permission for a long while.

He walked into the living room and dropped his backpack to heard a "OW!" He whirled around to see his twin sister, in her white and yellow nightgown and bunny slippers. Rin looked like she's been sleeping on the couch, waiting for him to return. Just like Hime-sama.

"Rin! What're you doing still up?!" Len asked, now angry for some reason.

"Calm down, Len-chan." Rin yawned and waved her hand at him. She then glared up at him and pointed at him, her finger so close to his nose he had to lean back so she wouldn't touch him. "You need to go see Ri-chan!"

"WH-What?!" Len asked, then glared back at his look-a-like. "Why are you saying this now?"

"You haven't talked to Ri-chan for over a month now!" Rin said, her voice rising. "She's been acting differently, she doesn't smile as much anymore. Everyone might be fooled by that fake-ish smile, but I'm not! And I know you've been feeling different as well, because you've been going out more and more! At least go to her room and hold her hand, just for a little bit. Please?"

Len was taken aback at what Rin was saying. And he knew she was right. Len gripped the box the charm was in in his hand, and shut his eyes tightly. He then opened his eyes again.

"Alright.....But you should go back to your own room, alright?" Len asked, ushering Rin up to her feet and helping her upstairs. Rin didn't protest, and instantly fell asleep when her face hit her pillow.

Len closed the door behind him and walked down the hallway corridor, towards Riku's room. Once he was at the closed door, he debated with himself.

I shouldn't go.

But I want to see her so much!

I shouldn't!

I want to!

I can't!

I wont!

It's against Raiden-sama's wishes-

But Hime-sama wants to hear you so bad!

"Damn." Len whispered under his breath, then put his hand on the fancy gold doorknob and opened the door.

He tip-toed into the darkness until he went to the big bed, that was shrowded. And there was his Hime-sama, sleeping on the bigger bed.

She was sleeping on her side, her face peacful as her blonde hair sprayed around her face and pillow case. One hand on the covers pulling it up to her chest and the other hand layed on the pillow jus waiting for someone to hold like it usually did. The bracelete glistened in the moonlight, and it caught Len's eye.

Len walked around and sat on the chair next to where she was facing. He reached out and brushed her bangs out of her bandaged eyes and she moved slightly, her hand twitching. Out of habit Len clutched his Hime-sama's hand, more gentle than he expected. He twitched and let go instantly.

He put the gift box on the nightstand and ran out the room, shuting to door behind him and shutting himself up in his room for another day or two, not wanting to see anyone else.

-:-

"Morning, Ri-chan!" Zumi called, opening the curtains and making grey light wash in. Riku moaned and turned her body around, pulling her covers over her head. Even if she only saw black everyday and the very rare nights when Lim would take off her bandages, she still hated the mornings.

It was yet another cloudy day, and it looked like it wasn't going to show sunshine annytime soon. So, Zumi thought today would be a happy day for her Ri-chan. The raven-haried girl tip-toed out of the room and came back with Lim trailing behind her, his lab coat trailing after him.

"Wake up, Ri-chan." Zumi said softly as she sat on the side of the bed.

She helped Riku up to a sit, resting the drowzy teenaged blonde's head on her shoulder. Riku moaned again softly and curled up to Zumi's side, the conforter tangled up in her legs as she clutched onto Zumi's jacket with both hands like a little kid.

"Hold up you head slightly, Ri-chan." Zumi said, and Riku felt a hand go under her chin and tug her face up slightly. Riku would've asked up a storm, but since she was still in her lala land, she allowed it without hesitation or asking any questions.

Lim leaned over the blonde girl and reached his free hand around to the back of her head, a little Pluck! sound was heard and Lim slowly unwrapped her eyes, the bandage slowly falling to the bed space beside her. While Limw as slowly taking off the girls' bandages Zumi texted Rin and Raiden to come in, she knew the others were still asleep. Soon a pile of white bandages were on the bed beside her feet, and the girls' eyes were still closed.

She opened her eyes slowly, and they were so bright it looked almost like they changed. She blinked and looked at the four people by her bed, a confused expression on her face. Zumi was almost in tears as Rin jumped on Riku's bed and tackled her to the bed again, hugging her around the neck. Raiden was laughing and hugged his little sister too,well, ater Rin was done hugging her neck so hard she couldn't breathe.

"This is a little present, so enjoy it, Ri-chan." Lim said, laughing along with his leader/cousin. "I'll have to put the bandages on before you go to sleep tonight, though. And you still can't come out of your room."

"Aright." Riku said, smiling. She then yawned. "I'm still sleepy....."

"Okay, you could rest a bit longer." Raiden said, kissing Riku's forehead before shooing the three out of the room and closing the door behind him.

Riku smiled to herself and fell back to her pillow, curling up and giggling against the pillow.

She dozed off, and looked at the closed window before everything went gray, then black. She opened her eyes again, it didn't feel like she fell asleep at all. She didn't know what time it was, but she knew it was late and it was raining. She sat up and looked to the side, seeign the presents on the nightstand.

Miku had bought her a music box that played a catchy tune, and Riku was in the middle of making up as song that went along with it. Meiko had given her a new doll, it had strawberry blonde hair and a cute smiling face. It was sitting on the stacks of romance books Zumi and Mamoru had given to her. Lim gave her the gift of helping her give her eye sight back, so she didn't accept anything from him. Riku smiled sadly at the memory without Len and something caught her eye.

It was a small white box with a yellow ribbon tied around it. Riku blinekd and reached for it, she didn't remember getting this. Maybe Lim disobeyed her protest and given her a gift....?

With the wrist that had the silver charm bracelete dangled on it, she picked up the box and put it on her lap. She took the end of the ribbon and pulled iit up, undoing the bow and letting it fall beside her feet. She opened the top and gasped.

It was a music charm for her bracelete. No one knew about her bracelete! So how.....?

The news dawned to her and a wave of tears brimmed her eyes. It was a gift from Len. She knew it. But why didn't he talk to her?! Was he mad?

She pciked up the music note charm and clipped it onto her bracelete, staring up at it. The tears fell and soon her soft crying turned to full out sobbing and crying loudly. She clutched the bracelete to her chest, leaning over a bit and crying so hard the tears were a stream. She didn't care how loud she was crying, she was just so sad.

Maybe I'm too disobedient? She thought as she continued to cry. Maybe I'm to childish? Too much of a daydreamer of whinner? I'll change! I will! I just want Len with me!

-:-

Len sighed as he through his bag to the couch. The shirt he was wearing was all cut up from the gazed bullet wounds and we were his pants, his skin also grazed and still some were bleeding. He knew that everyone wasn't going to come near him, he as still out of it.

He sighed as he walked up the stairs slowly, he just wanted to die in his bed. He might as well......

He stopped in mid-step and his eyes widened when he heard distant sobbing. He ran up the rest of the stairs and down the hallway he dared not to go down, he knew that crying voice. And then he was at teh cclosed door of his Hime-sama's room, and he opened the door with both hands, clumsy with how he felt.

He stood in the doorway as he saw Riku sitting up from her bed, crying as she leaned over slightly adn clutched onto her wrist. When she heard him she opened her eyes and shot to a sit, her head turned to him.

He was so surprised when shocked yellow-eyes met his, not the nothingness of white bandages. Tears till came down her eyes as she stared at him, not blinking as her eyes continued to be wide.

"L-Len....?" She asked, shocked. He dashed away from the doorway, not out the room, but in.

He tackled her, making her gasp in shock as her back hit the bed so hard she let out a gasp. Riku looked down at Len to see that he wasn't looking at her, instead his face was buired in his chest, his hands clutching onto the back of her nightgown like he was going to die if he let go. Riku blinked when she noticed his shoulders were shaking, and her eyes widened.

Her best friend was crying.

"I-I'm sorry!" She heard him yell into her chest, his voice muffled. Riku's gold eyes softened as Len continued to rant, soaking her gown. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!! You could've died! And I wasn't there to save you. I didn't mean for you to lose your eyesight, even if it was temporary! I'm so sorry....."

"It's alight, Len." Riku said, smilng happily as she rested her cheek ontop of his hair and stroked his back like he did to her when she was crying. That was all Riku said, she was too relieved that Len wasn't mad at her. Len continue to cry for awhile until all of his tears were dried out and he was left sobbing.

"Shush, it's alright." She said softly, so soft after two or three times of repeating it, Len fell asleep. She soon fell asleep as well, her arms limply next to Len's head.

-:-

The group came in through the front door together, exausted with the earlier days events. The house was quiet, except for the echo's of rain outside. Rin took off her jacket and threw it on the couch, seeing Len's backpack sleew across it as well. She sighed.

"I wonder if Len's back from that independent mission yet." Rin whispered with another sigh. She knew her brother was getting more and more depressed.

"I feel so bad for him." Miku whispered back, sighing as well with her best friend. The two teenagers looked at Raiden and glared, making him feel their eyes on his back. Raiden sighed and turned away from Zumi, growling at the two girls.

"What I said was final!" Raiden said, glaring back at them. The two girls squeaked and dodged behind Mamoru and Kaito, who were pigging out on candy while standing up.

Zumi and Meiko looked at eachother with equally worried faces. They knew what Miku adn Rin where whispering about was true. Len was getting all limpish and depressed, and the life was slowly comeing out of him. And they knew the reason was that Riku wasn't around him. He never told his feelings to anyone else, either, so keepping his feelings bottled up the way they were just made it worse.

"They're right, Leader-sama." Zumi said, making Raiden blinked and turn around to the two. "You know it."

"You are being too harsh to Len-kun, and you know it!" Meiko said, her voice equally informational. "Len's been totally depressed, and you can tell just by how fake his smile's are now. You know keeping him away from RIku without some resolution with her he will keep on being glumy until something in him snaps."

Raiden glared and turned his head away slightly, he knew he was wrong. But he was still mad about the idea. He still thought his punishment should go a little farther, but he knew the four girls were going to bother the hell out of him until he did.

"Alright." Raiden growled, heading up the stairwell. "We'll see how Ri-chan feels about seeing Len. But if she doesn't, I won't allow it."

Meiko smiled down at Zumi while Miku slapped Rin a high five. Mamoru adn Kaito blinked and gave the "What the Hell just happened?" look to each other. Raiden stomped up the stairs with the teenagers following his footsteps, eager to see Riku's reaction when Raiden told the news.

What they found was a shocker. They were both laying on her large bed, sleeping.

Len was curled up against Riku's body with his arms under hers and around her body, her gripped onto the back of her nightgown like he wasn't going to let go anytime soon. Riku had her arms limpily around Len's head, looking like she was comforting him before she fell asleep. Tears stained their cheeks, so it was evident they were crying at the reunion. And Riku's bandages were aronnd her eyes, so Lim knew about this and redid her blind.

Raiden's red eyes were wide in shock, his hand still on the doorsill. Meiko was smirking as Zumi hopped quietly up and down, silently cheering behind Raiden. Rin adn Miku were quietly protesting the fact that Mamoru and Kaito were covering their eyes, blushign and thinking perverted thoughts.

"They look so happy together." Meiko whispered to Zumi as Raiden sighed and smirked.

He knew Len would disobey him sometime, bt didn't expect the blonde to do it so late.

-:-

Len shot up in his bed and rubbe his eyes, seeing the sunshine outside. He sighed.

It was all a dream......

-:-

"Come on, Len-chan!" Rin said, pulling Len into the rose maze out back after school one day.

It was a week after Len had tht promising dream, adn he grew more hopes after it. He started to smile and soon the smiled were real again. He knew that one day that dream would come true.

"What is it!?" Len asked, annoyed with his twin. "I have to do Home-"

Len blinked at what he saw.

Zumi was standing at the end of the maze, laughing and holding hands with a girl. She had a black and white uniform and long blonde hiar. Len's eyes widened and he stopped on his tracks. The girl turned her head to the side to talk to Zumi, and she had yellow eyes.

"R-Ri-chan!"

"Huh-Gah!" Riku blinked and turned her body slighty before being tackled to the ground.

Len was happy, she was happy but dustiy from rollign around on the ground. Zumi was laughing, Rin joined in. Meiko was sipping sake in the kitchen, Mamoru and Kaito were playing XBOX. Lim was informing Raiden about something that was comign up on the next "moon" and Raiden looked at the four outside, smiling to himself.

Yep.

Happiness.

Too bad long stalled Secrets would come up and spoil it again.

-:-

Okay dokay! I am finally done for this part. Sheesh, I need to pick up on my chapters, peeps are starting to wonder!

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