Hello everyone. I'm sorry for the lateness of this update but the whole holidays and all interrupted my writing, I promise will update sooner from now on.

As usual thanks to the super cool, super cute (please don't kill me) Hikari no Okami for being the beta for this

I won't make you wait more, enjoy

Blinding Sunshine

-One month earlier-

The bright sunlight forced Yuji to wake up. The sight he witnessed when he opened his gray eyes took his breath away: A beautiful young girl with long black hair was sleeping next to him resting her head in his chest. He had always thought that Shana was pretty, but watching as she slept so peacefully convinced him that she was the greatest beauty on earth. Yuji felt the urge to embrace her tighter to his body and kiss her, but he didn't want to wake her up. Filled with happiness, Yuji smiled to himself.

"Impossible!" Bal Peor panted again, holding her injured shoulder "Bale Masque can't be defeated this easily!"

"Who are these people?" asked Sydoney from the floor. He had a deep wound in his chest

The victorious figures simply smiled from the darkness of the room

Trying carefully not to wake Shana up Yuji left the bed and changed his pajamas. When he was finishing a low moan let him know that Shana was waking up

"Sorry, did I wake you up?" asked the boy

"Uh? Eh no, not really" Shana said still sleepy and incorporated to her knees, rubbing her eyelid to get rid from sleepiness

"Fine then, I was worried I woke you up, it relieves me it wasn't my fault" he smiled "Good day Shana" and walking to the girl he gave her a kiss in the lips

Angry and shocked Shana pushed Yuji away from her "WHAT ARE YOU DOING? WHY DID YOU DO THAT?"

"Well, since we kissed last night I supposed it was ok!" a confused Yuji apologized weaving his hands in front of his face

"WHA...?" Shana started to argument but suddenly stopped as images rampaged to her mind when she recalled the events from last night. She blushed madly at the memory of them kissing some hours ago in that same room "SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UUUUP!" her yells reached three blocks

After repeating the good morning kiss thing at Shana's request, and once she had also changed her pajamas both of them went downstairs, hands together. Shana was keeping her head low, trying to conceal a mayor blush; Yuji, was also blushing a little, but had his head straightened proudly. They were glowing.

"Yu-chan, Shana-chan" called Chigusa's voice from the dinning room "could you two please come?"

The teens entered the dinning room and found Yuji's mom sitting at the table with a tea cup in front of her. Two more cups and a tea pot

"Take a sit please" she asked calmly and waited until they were seated at the table and had, each, a cup full of tea in front of them "I don't mind the two of you sleeping in the same room..."

"Mom! It's not like that"

"Yuji, let me finish, like I was saying, it's alright if you sleep next to each other. However, I'll put some rules and I expect you to follow them. First, clothes will be kept on under any conditions whenever you two are in the same room. Second, even if you aren't interested in it now, I want both of you to remain virgin until you become adults, ok? Besides that, as long as it doesn't interfere with your responsibilities you have my consent" she stood up, went around the table "did I make myself clear?" and asked with a serious tone. Both Shana and Yuji nodded with their faces blushing to an impossible red. Chigusa gave them a hug and kissed each on the cheek once. "CONGRATULATIONS! BOTH OF YOU!" she cheered happily

………………………..

"I can't believe we slept 'til so late that it will soon be lunch time" said Yuji

"We missed morning training, we'll have the session in the evening" told him Shana walking at his side

"Ok" Yuji sighted "but right now we most focus on buying the stuff my mom asked us to"

They were in the market district because Chigusa had send them to buy some vegetables and fish for dinner while she prepared something for them to eat because they had missed breakfast

"Say, Shana, how about buying some snack while we are outside? I'm starving"

"Your mother is already cooking. It would be disrespectful to eat something outside now and leave what your mother will have prepared when we return" reminded him Alastor

"I'm so hungry it won't matter, and there is this place nearby where they sell the most delicious melon bread ever!"

"Melon bread?!" interrupted Shana, now interested

"Yes, we could buy some, what do you say Shana?"

They went and bought the fish and vegetables, then stopped by the bakery Yuji mentioned. There they paid for two pieces of melon bread and started their journey back. Yuji carried the bags with the vegetables and the other stuff while Shana carried the paper bag with bread inside.

"I won't be able to eat my melon bread like this" said Yuji envious taking a look at the bags in both his hands, and then to Shana who was happily enjoying eating hers. He sighed.

"Open wide" said Shana seriously while holding the melon bread piece in front of Yuji

"Shana?" Asked Yuji confused

"Will you just do it?!" She sounded angry, but was blushing

"Yuji took a bite of bread, also blushing. They continued walking home, Shana feeding Yuji some melon bread from time to time.

…………………….

"We are home" said Yuji opening the door and allowing Shana to enter the house.

"Very good, could you please bring what you bought to the kitchen?" asked Chigusa's voice

The teens did as they were asked and found the brown haired woman cooking there.

"Thank you very much, I made you this" she said, holding a plate full of sushi which Yuji took

"What are you cooking?" asked Shana looking at the large pot on the fire. In the end Shana had come to love cooking, making it her hobby

"Oh, just some soup for the dinner" explained the older woman

"Can I help?"

"Sure Shana-chan"

Taking an apron, raising her hair into a pony tail, and showing a smile Shana began helping Chigusa. Yuji stayed in the kitchen, watching that bright smile in the mouth of the girl with long black hair. After a few minutes his hungriness made him remember the plate full of sushi in his hands. Taking a pair of chopsticks he ate one, and another, and another. He walked to Shana and feed her some sushi

"What do you think?" ask the boy to the girl as she tasted the food "Delicious, right? I totally loved them" praised him

"Uh-huh, they taste very good. Chigusa-san you are really a great cook" agreed the girl

"Well thank you, I don't think they are that great but I really appreciate it. And you yourself are already pretty good at cooking, Shana-chan. You learn very fast"

"I totally have to agree with that, I love your cooking" seeing Shana blushing Yuji prepared for her usual reply

"Shut up, shut, shut up, shut up. You are interrupting us, get out of the kitchen!" said the girl pushing away the boy.

Yuji started to walk out when Shana stopped him by the wrist and made him turn to face her. Using her hand she cleaned a bit of rice that was in his cheek and ate it, making both of them blush again. After that she pushed Yuji once more. He started to walk again, yet when he was leaving Shana stopped him one more time. What now? Yuji asked himself facing Shana again for what seemed like hours. The answer to the question came one second later when the girl pulled him so that he was at the same height as her and gave him a sweet kiss in the lips. However, before the grey eyed could answer she broke it and pushed him all the way out of the kitchen, closing the door after that.

………………..

The fuzetsu covered the area. She attacked projecting all her killing intent, but her opponent dodged the blow, it was the first time that ever happened with that ease. She attacked again, but missed her target, he was moving with great speed and agility towards her. There it was, if she messed up one more time he would get to her. Focusing she used the other end of her staff, hitting the man in the gut, effectively stopping his movements.

"Ouch!" said the defeated man

"Stop complaining, it all happened because you are too weak"

"It's true I'm still a weakling, but that doesn't allow you use all that strength, it's only the training, Shana, give me break"

"If training isn't hard enough you will never improve" Said Alastor

"Alastor is right Yuji, if we trained any other way you wouldn't become strong fast" stated Shana, her eyes and hair where red

"I know" he sighed

"Anyway, I'm amazed by your progress in this short time" admitted Alastor

"Thank you" said Yuji happy

"Shut up; don't get so happy over something like this. You still have a long way to go!" scolded him Shana

"Fine, fine"

"One more time" she said

Yuji stood up and nodded I can't get to her like this; I need to do something about that wooden staff. I know! Yes I could do that! I'm not sure if it will work out, and if I'm not careful I might end up using more energy than needed. It's dangerous, but…it's to fight side by side with Shana. I have to try out, and call it out if it gets too dangerous, she will scold me again one way or the other.

Shana raised the staff and attacked Yuji again, but he stopped the staff with his bare arm, and started his dash towards Shana, who kept attacking with the staff with poor results as Yuji dodged and blocked all the attacks. When he got near her again, the flame haze used one more time the other end of the staff. But this time, the gray eyed was ready and stopped the staff with his hand. Pressing the staff, Yuji's hand started to glow as the staff shattered into two pieces. Shana couldn't believe her eyes. She felt a terrible pressure; Yuji had got way too close to her. Acting more by instinct than by reason she summoned her black coat and pulled the long katana, Nietono no Shana, out of it. The sudden actions of Shana and the keen edge of the sword stopped Yuji on his tracks

"Sh-shana?" asked the brown haired boy

"Wha-what was that?" asked back the girl

"Nothing; why did you pull out your sword? This was supposed to be only training"

"She acted based on her instinct as a flame haze" explained Alastor "right now; you were able to feel the killing intent?"

"Well, yes" admitted him "that's why I was able to block and dodge the attacks"

"But, you only felt her killing intent?"

"Yes, why would it be any different?"

"The reason behind her actions was…"

"Your own killing intent" finished Shana

"What?! But I would never do something to harm her"

"Killing intent doesn't always means the desire of taking away the life from someone, it can simply be the will to fight" explained Shana

"Something you were thinking about at that moment released a great killing intent, or a great will to fight if you prefer to call it like that. Shana and me, who were underestimating your capacity, got surprised by your actions. That made her flame haze instincts show up, making her pull out a real weapon"

"That desire to fight was so strong I felt it was crushing me, what were you thinking? It is crucial in a real fight to be able to maintain the killing intent"

"Well that won't be hard then" said relieved Yuji

"Why, what were you thinking?" asked the girl

"That killing intent probably came out of the desire of becoming strong, so I could be with you" he said smiling

Shana blushing raised her voice to say "shut up, shut up, shut up!"

"Yet, the desire to fight, no matter how strong it is, doesn't explain how you blocked the staff with your arms, your speed to dodge it, and your strength to break it up, using only your body" said Alastor

"Well I used power of existence to do all that! I covered my arm in some of it to resist the hit, and in my legs to move faster. I also broke the staff with a small projection of it around my hand" explained proudly Yuji

"What? That was a reckless use of your limited power of existence!" said Alastor coldly

"I knew I would get scold for doing it" accepted Yuji

"Then if you knew, why did you do it? Look at your flame! It's very thin now!" said alarmed Shana, scolding him, again

"Well, it will be enough power of existence to survive until midnight" apologized Yuji rubbing the back of his head

"Anyway it was too dangerous!" Shana continued the scolding

"Well I did it before to defeat a rinne that attacked Sato-san and me the other day"

"What? You mean have been able to do this since some time ago?" asked Shana

"Yes, a pair of months I think"

"If we would have know this sooner we could have gone with a harder training than this" said Alastor

"Even harder?!" said Yuji with a worried tone in his voice

"Stop complaining, anyway, this training is over, we can't keep going with you in that state" the flame haze sheathed her katana inside the black coat and with a movement of her hand it disappeared. Finally she raised her hand and thus unlocked the fuzetsu.

"Let's return" said Alastor

"Ok" sighed Yuji

The black haired girl and the gray eyed boy started to walk towards the house of the later; it was a short walk from the river bank where they had been training to the Sakai residence.

"Shana?" asked him

"What is it?" replied the girl with her usual tone

"Have I improved? Maybe a little bit?"

"Haven't we already said that you have improved considerably?"

"Then…maybe…could I…"

"Out with it"

"No…ne-nevermind"

"What do you want? You already started"

"No, don't worry, it's nothing"

"What do you want?" she repeated herself, a little pissed

"No…really…it's…very silly" but the glance he got from her let him known that there was no way out. He had to say it "O-ok…I was wondering…if…"

"OUT WITH IT!" no doubt, she was pissed

"MaybeIcouldgetakissasreward?..."

"WHAT!?" the flame haze could feel the color in her cheeks again

"Told you it was silly…" apologized Yuji blushing also "let's go back" the boy took two steps before falling down, face first, into the ground of the river bank

"Yuji, are you alright?" Shana ran to him truly concerned

"Ugh, I can't move…"

"You used a lot of energy at the same time; your body is not used to manipulate power of existence, and now that the energy you used in your legs and arms is gone, you can't move them. That's why we need to make the training harder" she crouched and helped Yuji to stand up "can you walk?"

"No, I can't stand"

"Ok, I'll help you then, come" he passed an arm behind her neck and she help him standing. They retook their way. Neither said a word, and Yuji never saw it, but Shana cheeks still showed that pinkish color in them

………………….

"Yu-chan! What happened?!" asked his mom worried when they appeared at the door, and saw Shana was helping him to walk

"We…were…uh…walking and I twisted my ankle" he lied

"Oh my! Are you alright?"

"Yeah, don't worry; I'll be ok in the morning"

"We are going to sleep now, good night Chigusa-san" said Shana helping Yuji go up the stairs

"Good night mom"

"Sweet dreams, sleep well. Are you sure you don't need anything?" asked the woman still a little worried

"Don't worry mom, I'm alright, pay no mind. See you in the morning"

"O-ok then. Good night"

The teens went upstairs and entered Yuji's room. Shana left Yuji sitting at the bed so he could change into his pajamas while she went to use the bathroom to change her clothes.

A low music entered the second floor. It was coming from the garden where Chigusa was listening to her old music discs with a pleasant cup of green tea. The events of the day had made her recall when she was as young as the two children who where upstairs. As Yuji and Shana got into their own pajamas, the song filled their minds

Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time

Shana came back to the room fully changed and found Yuji watching through the window, also in his pajamas. She slowly came to him and put her arms around him while she let her head rest on his back

If you said goodbye to me tonight
There would still be music left to write
What else could I do
I'm so inspired by you
That hasn't happened for the longest time

He turned to face her, and gently ran his hand through her cheek

"About, what you said earlier" she said out of nothing before giving him a small kiss "it wasn't silly" she finished blushing and avoiding eye-contact

Once I thought my innocence was gone
Now I know that happiness goes on
That's where you found me
When you put your arms around me
I haven't been there for the longest time

They stood there, looking into each others eyes, enjoying the presence of the other in complete silence . In the darkness of the room, only the moon's light allowed them to discern the shapes around them.

Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
Oh, oh, oh
For the longest

They entered the bed, and covered with the banklets, still in silence

I'm that voice you're hearing in the hall
And the greatest miracle of all
Is how I need you
And how you needed me too
That hasn't happened for the longest time

"Shana?" asked the brown haired boy "that means you are my girlfriend now?" a pink shade appeared on the cheeks of both of them

She turned and gave him the back, covering herself even more with the blankets

"Shut up, shut up, shut up, go to sleep, we have school tomorrow" she said rather coldly staying silent after that. Yuji's eyes showed his dissapointment, and his confusion "of course I'm" she said as if stating the obvious, making Yuji smile again. He embraced her

Maybe this won't last very long
But you feel so right
And I could be wrong
Maybe I've been hoping too hard
But I've gone this far
And it's more than I hoped for

"I love you" he said in the embrance

Who knows how much further well go on
Maybe I'll be sorry when you're gone
I'll take my chances
I forgot how nice romance is
I haven't been there for the longest time

" I love you too" she replied smiling

I had second thoughts at the start
I said to myself
Hold on to your heart
Now I know the woman that you are
You're wonderful so far
And it's more than I hoped for

The dark man smirked in the shadows of the nearby buildings while watching the couple. Soon, very soon. He laughed being heard by no soul

I don't care what consequence it brings
I have been a fool for lesser things
I want you so bad
I think you ought to know that
I intend to hold you for the longest time

Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time

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That's all for chapter two, make me happy, please read and review, see ya next time