Okay new chapter. A necessary new character in this chapter, also one reason for the title is explained, and just in case you don't pick it up I've explained it at the end of the story. Anyway Enjoy.

Memories forgotten by the heart.

Chappy 6- The beginning of something new-

Horo sat on the bench at the train station. He looked out across the platform as another train passed by. He had been sitting there for thirty minutes waiting for a train, with someone he had never met on it.

"Ok can you please explain why we are here?" he turned to Mia as he said this. She smiled at him as the train pulled away.

"All in good time." Horo sighed. This is all he had gotten off of her since she had mysteriously rang him this morning telling him to leave the house with a big smile, saying if asked where he was going that they'd find out when he returned, and meet her here at the train station. Another train pulled in and he watched as a girl who looked slightly older than him walked towards them. Mia moved herself off of the wall she had been leaning against. The girl threw her arms around Mia almost knocking her back against the wall. The girl pulled away and said with a huge smile on her face.

"I've missed you Mia, where have you been? You suddenly vanish of the face of the planet for days and then ring me asking me to come here." Mia smiled and turned to Horo.

"Sutera this is Horo. Horo meet your new girlfriend." Horo smiled at Sutera until he heard the word 'girlfriend', when which his jaw dropped and her stared in shock at Mia. Sutera looked at Mia and said.

"When you said are you up for pretending you're a girlfriend for awhile, as part of one of your schemes no doubt, I had hoped I'd be yours for that while."

"I don't have 'schemes'. I have careful plans and that plan contains Horo and Ren, not me. Sorry but you agreed." Sutera sighed. Horo shook his head in an attempt to pull him from his shock, it didn't work as well as had hoped but it worked enough for Horo to question Mia.

"Why do I have a girlfriend? Aren't you trying to get me and Ren back together? I don't get how this will help!" Mia motioned to the bench behind Horo, he and Sutera sat and Mia stood in front of them.

"The first part of my plan is to get Ren to think you've moved on, put his guard about relationships back up. He'll begin to think all of his relationships are doomed to failure. I'll make him see yours wasn't without him realising, he'll get jealous and then we can move on in the plan and you can stop pretending you're together. That's why you need a girlfriend and as we want no more pain for anyone else we needed a neutral person who will stay neutral no matter what you do. That's why I picked Sutera, my lesbian friend."

"This won't work! Ren won't get jealous! He'll know we're not together as well; I can't just turn up with a girl I met out of nowhere. And what's the rest of your plan that you have yet to tell me? This plan contains me yet you only seem to tell me what I need to do."

"I have asked you to go out randomly for hours at a time so that when you tell everyone that you have a girlfriend and introduce her later it seems that you were with her, she won't have appeared from nowhere. As for the rest of the plan, I will tell you when it unfolds. As it will because my plans never fail." She smiled and turned, as she walked off she turned her head and said, "Get to know each other and in around two or three hours come back and you can introduce Sutera to everyone, oh and remember this will be our first meeting to." With that she walked out of the station. Horo sighed and turned to Sutera.

"So how did we meet?"

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"Guys I'm back and there's someone I want you to meet." Horo shouted as he walked through the door, Sutera right behind him. Horo took a deep breath and turned to walk in the living room, he felt Sutera grab his hand and entwine her fingers in his. In the back of his mind he wanted to pull his hand away, it felt so wrong, the last hand he held was Rens. He remembered clearly that moment, Ren was shouting at him for something Horo couldn't remember but he could tell Ren was angry as the Japanese language he understood turned slowly into the Chinese language which he could never quite grasp, tears began to fall from Rens eyes and Horo grabbed his hand and pulled him close, Ren stopped shouting and Horo kissed his tears away, Ren looked at him, eyes sparkling from the tears, he buried his head in Horos chest and uttered one word which Horo was privileged to hear, 'sorry'.

Horo blinked back the memory and walked into the living room, hand still held in Suteras. Yoh and Ren looked up at him, the other two occupants of the room made no acknowledgement that they were there. Horo looked at Ren and surprisingly saw a small hardly noticeable look of confusion cross his face. Horo smiled a fake smile and said,

"Guys, this is Sutera, my girlfriend." Sutera smiled and gave a shy wave as Horo introduced everyone in the room. "This is Yoh, Ren, Anna and Mia, who is Rens friend."

At the mention of her name Mia looked up and simply said "Yo" before returning to the book she was reading. Ren watched as Horo sat on the other sofa in the room, his girlfriend next to him. He looked at Horo who looked back at him, he looked away. He could feel the tears as he held them back, Horo had moved on, and yet he was stuck trying to let go. Ren could feel his eyes start to water as Yoh began to ask Horo about his relationship, Ren couldn't take it and left the room. As he did he didn't notice Mia smile to herself as he walked past her. Horo noticed it however and would have smiled to if he had not seen the tears in Rens eyes, Mias plan seemed to be working.

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Mia entered Rens room and closed the door. The Chinese shaman lay on the bed, buried in covers, looking out the window. She sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Rens tearstained face.

"Why are you crying? It ended long ago, and you made it clear that it could never happen again."

"It hurts though. It hurts so badly. He's with her and he seems happy but it hurts. The memories hurt."

"Memories?"

"Memories of us together, the last time he kissed me, the last time he held me. I want them to leave; I don't want to remember any more."

"They'll never leave Ren; maybe you should try to make new memories with someone new. First times not last times."

Ren continued to stare out the window. No one else would understand as Horo did. Horo would accept it when Ren would shout for no reason known to him; he would stand and take it because he knew Ren needed to shout at someone to let out his frustrations. Ren shouted at Horo because he loved him and longed not to, yet his heart would not give up, it wanted to love. Horo had held him close when he had cried, even though he didn't realise he was the cause. That it was because he had, at that moment, accepted that he loved Horo and that it scared him more than anything else. He had kissed him and let him cry, he didn't comment like anyone else would when he had apologised either, he just held Ren until Ren wanted to move. And this memory hurt the most because the next day Ren had cried because Horo had cheated and it broke his heart, and the love he had only just accepted haunted him, even to this day.

The two memories given in this chapter are the same. This just shows the link between Ren and Horo.

Ren states the memory hurts, it's a sad memory for him because he admits to himself he loves Horo but is hurt a day later. This helps show how much damage Horo did to Ren.

The title 'Memories forgotten by the heart' links to how Ren wishes to forget his memories that he has with Horo because it hurts as it shows how much he loves Horo. This isn't the main reason why it is called this but I'll explain that reason when we get there.