Yush! Its finished!! After two months it is finished!! YAY! All four-ish chapters after this are pretty easy to write so this will hopefully be complete by the end of next month. Credit for inspiration to write goes to- First part and first paragraph of second, strife-lover – rest of second part up till tree bit, Ame – rest goes to my best friend and boredom. Anyway Enjoy!

Oh and answer to review, I've read the Loveless manga and yes Soubi is named after Soubi.

Memories forgotten by the heart.

Chapter 9- Returns-

Mia sighed. Her life only seemed like endless sadness. Her parents hated her, for something she could not control. Soubi, the only person who she considered family, had vanished, no trace or hope of finding him. Now she had lost the only person she would and could ever truly love.

As Mia walked her senses clicked and she knew she was being watched. Keeping her eyes ahead as not to scare her 'stalker' she walked towards the nearest fork in the path and turned her eyes flicking towards a tree, sure enough the dark figure sat amongst the branches, long hair flowing. She smirked as she left his view. This could be interesting if he showed his face.

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Mia lay on the roof, not visible from the front of the house. She was watching Ren, who lay watching the stars in the middle of the grass. Horo walked towards him and sat down. Mia could not hear what was being said but smiled anyway. Ren did not look sad or hurt. Maybe, just maybe there was hope for their relationship to bloom once more. Her smile faded when she saw the same dark figure, in the tree at the bottom of the garden, which had been watching her earlier that day. She looked back at Ren and decided that he needed to know the truth of what happened that night.

She jumped down from the roof, her agility had always been more than an average human, she suspected it had something to do with her power. She landed on her feet and crept around the house towards the tree, keeping in the shadows. Luckily when she got to the tree none of the three people outside had noticed her presence, the figure was too engrossed in Ren, and Ren himself was to busy with Horo to notice Mia or the figure.

Mia smiled, this had all been too easy, something was bound to give, but she wouldn't let that happen just yet. She drew Soubi and positioned herself so she could strike the tree enough to nock the figure form it.

"Fore!" she screamed as she sung Soubi at the tree. The figure noticed too late and fell from the tree. She ripped Soubi back out and stabbed the ground next to the fallen figure. "So nice of you to join us, I was wondering when you'd show your face."

Ren and Horo came towards Mia and the figure after only noticing them when Mia screamed. Ren looked at her with confusion, "Who the…" His voice faltered once he recognised the figure on the floor. "Hao?!" Hao looked up at Ren then back to Mia and growled. He flung himself forward so Mia jumped backwards then ran backwards in a vain attempt to get away, but Mia ripped Soubi from the ground and stabbed Hao through the back until it would go no further. Hao gripped the blade protruding from his chest and hissed.

"Now now, you don't want to leave without saying hello to your brother do you?" Mia smiled and stepped forward causing Hao to also step forward. "Come along we don't want to keep him waiting." She carried on walking pushing Hao forward, he hissed in response. Mia turned her head and called back to Ren and Horo. "Are you coming or are you just going to stand there?"

Horo and Ren followed Mia into the living room. Yoh, Lyserg and Choco instinctively jumped up when Hao and Mia entered the room, Anna's eyes widened and she slowly got to her feet. Mia stopped in the middle of the room and then very forcibly pulled Soubi from Hao. He hissed and swore and then fell to his knees. Mia just smiled like this was an everyday occurrence. Anna turned to Mia.

"Why is he here? Yoh killed him." Mia smiled and looked at Anna if she had asked the most obvious question ever.

"I know."

"That's not an answer Mia!" Ren was on edge and Mia could tell he wasn't happy that Hao was here. Mia looked at Hao, still on his knees, bleeding, who was looking back at her.

"Oh dear, Ren doesn't seem happy to see you. Poor you." Hao growled in response.

"Mia! Tell us why he's here!"

"Ren, I thought that was obvious."

"Obvious! He's DEAD!!"

"We've established that."

"Then why is he living?!"

"He's not."

"He's blatantly living! I mean he's bleeding all over the carpet!"

"So he is… But he is dead."

"How can he be DEAD if he's BLEEDING in front of us?!"

"Simple because Yoh isn't bleeding in front of us." Everyone now looked confused, except for Ren who seemed to be on the verge of cracking.

"WHAT?" Mia sighed.

"Well it's quite simple. Hao is dead but is 'alive' because half of his soul is still connected to this world, until the other half of his soul, which is to say Yoh, dies then his soul can not pass on and reform, therefore he is trapped inside his human body until that day comes. God you're all stupid." At this point Ren cracked and punched the wall, creating a small hole. Mia looked back at Hao. "See now you made him angry."

"Me? I didn't do anything."

"Now that's the biggest lie I've ever heard, short of what Peach says."

"What do you know? Nothing. That I tried to create a shaman kingdom? That's nothing, your just some stupid little girl."

"Excuse you, but I'm six foot, that's hardly little. And I know plenty! Shall I astound you with my knowledge? I think I shall." Mia coughed; Ren could tell she was taking the mic just to annoy Hao.

"Where shall I start? Ah yes lets start with the night Horo and Lyserg slept together." Everyone, except Ren, now looked at her with wide eyes. They all knew that was a touchy subject around Ren. "On that night," She continued ignoring the faces. "You decided that enough was enough and that Ren should be yours. So you sneaked into this house drugged Horo so he had no clue what he was doing, or who he was seeing, got him to think it would be a good idea to sleep with Ren, who now looks exactly like Lyserg, so that he would go flirt with him, then because Lyserg didn't know that he was with Ren or didn't care because he's completely in love with someone he cant have, and wants to get laid, slept with Horo. Ren then found them both and well everyone knows the rest." Mia looked round at all the shocked, or masked in Ren and Horos case, faces. She smiled again. "Can I take the silence as I've astounded you and that I was right?"

Lyserg decided he should break the silence.

"So Hao likes Ren? And was one cause of Ren and Horos break up? How do you know all this?"

"Yes, yes and Horo told me."

"Horo told you?"

"Yes."

"How? Horos said he doesn't remember half of that night."

"Memories are difficult to keep track off, but you remember everything to an extent."

"Care to explain?" Mia sighed, she hated this subject.

"Your memories are like a book in two different languages. One language you know and understand, the memories you remember. The other is an old language you once knew but can't quite grasp anymore, the memories you don't remember. The majority of the book is in this old language. Your brain will remember it you wont. Understand?"

"Yes, I think but that doesn't explain how Horo told you." Mia shrugged.

"I know the old language."

"I don't quite…" Lyserg started but was cut off by Ren, who had snapped again.

"She sees people's memories when she touches them! That's how she knows!" Ren turned to Mia. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"You wouldn't have believed me."

"You didn't even try!"

"Ren if I turned round and told you a dead person was the cause of your pain, you'd ask me if I'd killed Horo." Hao decided to use what Mia said to his advantage.

"You know Ren she's right Horo is the cause of your…" Haos sentence was cut of by a groan of pain as Mia had pushed Soubi through unhealed skin.

"I didn't say you could talk, and I never said you could lie!"

"He's not lying. It makes no difference, I still slept with Lyserg." Everyone turned to Horo. He met no ones eyes as he turned and walked out of the room. Mia went to shout after him but Ren got there first following him out the room. Mia smiled.

"Looks like your plan didn't work."

"That's you're fault. I'll get you back for it!" With that Hao pulled himself from Soubi and walked to the door.

"How's that then?"

"I'll make your life a living hell!" He shouted back as he left.

"Good luck with that! It already is!" She screamed after him, whether or not he heard it she did not care.

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Ren knocked on Horos door but there was no answer. Ren walked in anyway he had only just seen Horo come into his room and wanted to tell him what he had said wasn't one hundred percent true. Horo sat on the window sill, one leg on, one leg off. Ren walked a bit further into the room.

"Horo?" Horo turned his head towards Ren, hurt filled his eyes.

"What is it?"

"Horo I just wanted to say that what you said was wrong."

"How was it? You can't honestly say that I didn't hurt you by sleeping with Lyserg."

"Well… No… But…"

"Then it's not wrong then, is it?"

"No but…"

"See he's right."

"Horo please…" Horo sighed. "I don't blame you for sleeping with him." Horo tilled his head.

"What?" He moved closer to Ren.

"I don't blame you. I know it doesn't change anything but I don't blame you any more." Horo pulled Ren into a hug and kissed him. Ren pulled away, but stayed in Horos arms.

"Horo…"

"I know… nothing changes. I just hated the fact the last person I kissed wasn't you. Sorry." Ren put his head on Horos shoulder. Horo felt Ren begin to shake and felt the tears on his shoulder. Horo just stood there holding Ren, wishing it wasn't like this.