I accepted that mission—if it was a mission. Balsamine caressed my forehead gently when I was back:"Are you crazy? Don't you know that Nephrite-sama is a tennou while we were only youma? You may die in his hand, Grape." I said nothing but smiled, I knew my friends cared for me, yet, I would not change my mind since I had made up my mind.

Moreover, it was for him.

"You're really crazy, Grape." Convallariae said to me with a pity look, "But you will have us with you."

I was taken aback for a while hearing that and could hardly believe in what I had heard. Beside her Balsamine nodded staunchly. At that moment, I felt an urge to burst into tears.

Staring at the two best friends of mind, I couldn't help asked:"Why, why do such thing for me? You both know that I'm seeking my doom…"

Convallariae held my shoulder with her hand:"Do you remember that Jadeite-sama had promised Thetis to care more about her if her plan had succeeded." I paused again, and Balsamine smiled and nodded to me as well.

I was grateful to the precious friendship they gave me. However, Jadeite-sama was single while Zoisite-sama had his Kunzite-sama already…Yet, I refused to think more about that. Needless to care more about me, even a single smile from his heart was enough to make me go through the baptism of fire willingly.

The night curtain enveloped the city of Tokyo, and the nighttime without stars was so dark and dusky. Balsamine, Convallariae and me was standing at the top of the building waiting for orders, and Zoisite-sama was leaning on the rail with his copper ponytail floating in the breeze. He was smiling with complete confidence, calmly watching Nephrite disappeared from the window of that human girl named Osaku Naru.

"Zoisite-sama!" I called as I thought it was the time. Even at such a moment, I felt the illusory honey and fragrance of rose suffusing between my lips and even in the air around me while calling that beautiful, sweet name.

"So, you heard that?" He turned to us still with a smile, and in his gaze there was confidence as if he had got everything under control. Well, he seemed not that strong as the other three tennou, especially Kunzite-sama and Nephrite-sama, but he was really indomitable and wise.

Balsamine said that Nephrite was a stupid man, and Convallariae, who was usually of impatient disposition, suggest that we should take care of that man immediately. However, the still-smiling Zoisite-sama stopped us from acting so indiscreet:"Wait for a minute, Nephrite is a powerful warrior."

He rested his sight on the window of that human girl calmly and said to us in his usual soft and tender voice:"Get that chick and press on Nephrite for his kurozuizhou, and that's enough."

He seemed not that willing to let us rush into the danger, although he was so eager to get the kurozuishou, his order was with propriety. Well, actually I understood that he would never really care about us as common youma, he just didn't want the Queen to blame him for our…death, as what she had done for Thetis to Jadeite. Yet, still I couldn't help but devoted into his tenderness.

"Hai!" My answer was staunch. For this young man, I was willing to scarify whatever I had, even my life, only for the sake of my love which was doomed to be hopeless.

That human girl named Osaku Naru was too weak to defend herself. Balsamine and Convallariae got her and stuffed her mouth, and I left a note to Nephrite inspired by Zoisite-sama.

I thought my handwriting was neat and pretty, and I appreciated it one last time before left the home of that human girl. I had wrote numerous pieces of love letters to him, Zoisite-sama, but at last I threw all of them into the fireplace and watched them burnt into ashes. I dared not to give them to him, since I clearly knew that even one day I collected all my courage and give those to that pretty man, he would just mockingly smiled and throw them away—he would not even bother reading them.

I hadn't expected that the first one who would have seen my handwriting was the enemy, was it a little ironical? I mocked myself quietly.

I raised my head to glance at the building we stood on just now after everything was done, and Zoiisite-sama was no longer there. I could imagine the graceful scene of his disappearing rounded by rose petals.

Every time I saw him sitting gracefully in the wind rounded by rose floating petals, I felt him like a prince in the fairytale. Well, or actually he was more like a princess than a prince, perhaps? Then Kunzite-sama must be his beloved brave knight. But whatever, I loved him, and I could not even get rid of such a hopeless one-sided love.

The next step was waiting for Nephrite to bite the hook.

Suddenly I felt really admire that fourteen-year-old human girl. She was no more than a fragile, weak human being, but she gain the love from one of the shitennou. Wasn't I higher-positioned than a HUMAN girl as a youma? However, in the eyes of the man I loved so much, there was only a glacier made of coldness and silver.

The deepest sadness to me as a female was the one who had wrested my love from me was a male.

However, as clearly as I knew that he was wanting the kurozuishou only for the sake of that man, I was still ready to scarify my life for him.

I forgot anything else when I saw Nephrite appeared.

The only thing I remembered was, it was this stargazer with auburn hair and starlit blue eyes who disturbed Zoisite-sama's working on his mission, it was this man who make the man l loved burst into tears! Balsamine and Convallariae began to attack after gave me a simple glance, as if they could read my mind.

We tried our best, yet, we were only youma, and we were still not powerful enough comparing with that tennou in front of us.

I used my final-attacked skill, the sharp rattans which could suck up one's energy. But again, he escaped. Nephrite took out his sword which he seldom used and pulled me against the wall before pressed the sword against my neck:"You tell Zoisite, that I would never let him get the kurozuishou!"

Zoisite. Even from the lips of an enemy in such a rude and rough way, the syllable of that name sounded so sweet and beautiful. At that moment I was calling that name quietly in my heart again and again, Zoisite, Zoisite-sama…

I thought Nephrite would had killed us at that moment.