A/N thanks to all who reviewed, your reviews keep me motivated. Thanks to those individuals who also gave me some constructive comments on improving this story. Those are also appreciated a great deal. This chapter is filled with dialogue, and is very jumpy, but it is one that's still setting up the story. I promise it will get better soon! Also just a bit of a warning… I often give discriptions of chars in my stories who look nothing like they actually look. This is because I can't see, and no one has really described to me what they look like, so I've given them their own images. I think it's a nice twist! Please don't flame me for this… and hope you enjoy! Thanks again and please enjoy and read and review! Any suggestions are welcome!

Van had no idea what to do or say. The girl in front of him was beautiful, and now she wanted some answers. It was really too bad that the advisors hadn't given him a crash course on Mystic Moon edikit, and now with this beautiful girl, he was bound to mess something up. He really wished that he could just summon the pillar of light and go back home. He thought this vacation was supposed to be easy, not difficult. Hitomi continued to stare up at him, anxious for answers.

"How did you get in here? What happened here that there is a hole in my roof!"

Van struggled to gain the words to explain, but figured a lie might be easier for the time being. He didn't want to alarm her. He noted that she had already looked very weary.

"Well, ummm, you see, I was working on the roof up there. Fixing some…. vents and the bricks fell through."

That would have worked, other than there were no bricks. Van didn't think of this when he made up his story, and now that he noticed the problem, he knew he was doomed.

"You're lying; there are no bricks even in here! How the hell did you manage to break in here, without destroying anything."

Van had no idea what to do now, other than to tell her the truth. Before he opened his mouth, he saw her look to his belt, and spot the sword he forgot he was carrying. Why didn't he remember to get rid of that thing… This was not his lucky day. Hitomi's mouth dropped open, and she tried to scream, but for some reason couldn't get the sound out. Van felt thankful for that. He tried desperately to rectify the situation.

"Look Miss, this isn't how it looks. It's a very complicated story, if you just let me let myself out, then we can forget we'd ever met."

Those words jolted Hitomi. She would never forget this young man. This was the first time she had been attracted to a man since Allen, and she had no idea how to deal with that or what to do. Maybe that was why she wanted to get him in to so much trouble. Maybe she was afraid of the consequences of this man. At the same time, she didn't want him to leave. She felt completely emotionally pulled.

"No no, I don't want to do that. I just well, I don't understand how this happened. Not to mention, I can't let you go out through that door looking like this. People will wonder who you are, and there's a good chance you will get arrested. I don't think you want that. Also those clothes, they're… well strange to say the least, and people would wonder. Why don't you just stay in here, until the end of the workday, and I will smuggle you out after that."

Van looked at her strangely. She wanted him to hide out in this room all day? What was he going to do? In the same right, he didn't want to leave the green eyed girl. Something was pulling him toward her, and to be honest with himself, he had no one else who could talk to him. Maybe this girl would teach him a thing or 2 about how to live mystic moon, and how one survives here without causing alarm in the general population. He decided to agree to her offer, and before anything else could be discussed footsteps were coming toward Hitomi's door. She flinched, and gestured for Van to hide under the desk. He wasn't sure how he was going to fit in that small space, or what to do with the sword on his belt. Hitomi ripped the sword from him in a blink of an eye, and hid it inside the desk. He was completely dumbfounded at this girl and her movements. No one on fanealia would even consider taking his sword away. He managed to stuff himself in to the small space under the desk, but not with out some violent cursing, before the door opened.

A large man stepped in to Hitomi's office, and instantly stared her up and down. Van was peaking out from underneath the desk, and did not appreciate the way the man was looking at Hitomi like she was some piece of meat. He had the urge to dig in to her desk, and do some major damage to this man with his sword. The attack would be so quick, so unexpected… As soon as the thought crossed his mind, he blocked it out. He didn't want to get arrested. Not that he knew what arrested was, but this girl seemed really concerned about it. The large man gestured to the hole in Hitomi's roof.

"Hitomi, what the hell happened to the roof!?"

She gave the man a smile.

"I honestly have no idea. I was just getting ready to call you guys up when I saw it. I don't know what even did that, or how brick could just split perfectly like that."

The large man looked puzzled for a minute. Then a smile crept across his face.

"Well Miss Kansoki, I think that someone's trying to tell you something. Did you ever have any clients before who did not like you? Did anyone ever threaten you?"

Hitomi tried to think back to when she had clients. That seemed like such a long time ago now, but she couldn't remember anyone being annoyed or angry with her. Most of her clients felt that Hitomi was very compassionate, and respected the young woman. Infact, that made most of the other social workers upset, because most of them had trouble with a few clients at best.

"No Dilandau, no one's ever been angry that I know of."

He pursed his lips.

"Well, just to be safe, I think you should have one of us stay with you at all times while you are at work. Just incase someone is trying to get at you. You never really know what these people are capable of these days. They may not seem angry to you, but they still might be out to get you. I'm going to check with my boss, to see if I can stay with you. Also, I will go and get the matinance guys to come up and fix that hole in your roof, before anymore damage happens."

Before Hitomi could object, Dilandau was turning around, and walking briskly out the door. This really was turning out to be a bad day. She turned to go and sit at her desk when she heard an angry sigh that jolted her. She had momentarily forgotten about her guest hiding underneath the desk.

Van managed to unstuff himself enough to talk to her for a minute. He figured the disgustingly creepy man was going to come back any minute, and he would have to hide himself once again.

"Who the hell was that weird guy?"

Hitomi smiled at Van's anger toward Dilandau.

"Oh, he's one of the security guards here at work. He thinks he can protect, and sleep with, every woman in this office. Ever since my, well ever since a while, he's been hitting on me. Discussing man."

Van noted her slip of the Tung, but decided to let it go for now. He didn't want to pry too much.

"If you don't want him guarding you, then why don't you tell him?"

Hitomi thought for a moment.

"It won't work. He's one of the boss's favorite people, and he always gets what he wants. If I object to him guarding me, even for a little while, he'll automatically assume something's up, and start a bunch of unnecessary gossip or worse, just try harder. I'd really rather that not happen."

Van felt really annoyed with this guy, and didn't even know him. The urge to damage him with the sword resurfaced in his mind.

"I think you should do something about him. He doesn't seem very friendly, and he's got something up his sleeve."

*****Dilandau's POV

Dilandau walked down the corridor toward his boss's office. He finally had Hitomi right where he wanted her. He wasn't sure how the massive hole got in her roof, but he was incredibly thankful it was there. Now he had a reason to spend more time with her, to hopefully get in her pants. Now that she was rid of that Allen guy, he could finally concur the conquest he really wanted. He had been eying her for years, and all he had to do was wow her. He reached this bosses office, and strolled in.

"Good morning rob."

"Morning Dilandau, how are you this morning."

Dilandau didn't want to make small talk, and rushed straight to the point.

"I'm fine, but Miss Kansaki, the case worker upstairs, is not."

Rob looked up from the reports he was filling out.

"You mean that pretty green eyed broad upstairs?"

"Yeah her, someone broke in to her office through the roof. We're not sure how it happened, and she doesn't believe that there was a break-in. she thinks it might have been from matinance, but no one was up there lately yes?"

Rob took a minute to think about it, and flipped absently through some pages.

"Nope, no one's been on that side anyway. Who you think broke in?"

"I think it might have been a client or something. You know how those people can be sometimes. Always angry at the people trying to help m out."

Rob shuffled more papers.

"I suppose, do you want me to get matinance to go up and take a look at the roof?"

"That's one thing I want, yeah, but I was thinking, maybe someone should accompany Hitomi around the workplace for a few days. Just to make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen again, and to protect her incase it does. You just never know."

Dilandau winked at his boss for one quick second.

Rob knew exactly what Dilandau was getting at. Most of the men in the office had taken at least one good look at Hitomi in the last while, including himself, and rob had to admit that what Dilandau was doing was a good plan. He knew as well as dilandau did that no one or nothing was going to happen to her, but wanted to help his friend out.

"I think that's a great idea. Dilandau, let me know how this works out ok?"

Dilandau gave Rob a huge smirk.

"Will do sir, I'm sure things will work out splendidly."

With that last statement, he let himself out, and walked back toward Hitomi's office.

*********V/H POV*****

Hitomi sat at her desk, Van looking up at her. He noticed the stressed look on her face.

"This has been a very very terrible day…"

Van had no idea what to do or say. He didn't do well with emotional females. The last time Merle was at all emotional toward him, he didn't say anything, and she clawed him. He didn't want the same thing to happen again. He tried to think of something to say. Before he could, she spoke first.

"I'm sorry, just ignore me. It's just been an incredibly strange morning is all. I'm just feeling blah today. You know, over emotional female stuff. Anyway, Dilandau's coming back, I hear his footsteps, and you should probably stuff yourself back under that desk. Sorry about this."

Van obeyed. He felt like some kind of pet, but knew this was his only way to learn anything about the Mystic moon, and to spend time with the girl."

********Gaea*****

The King of Fanelia has finally departed. Things are working out so well in our favor now. Such a Terrible Accident that was, when his mother and brother were lost. Too bad it wasn't really an accident."

"Yes, this is very true, it really is too bad. Now we may finally be able to gain rights to fanealia, and austuria. Austuria is so rich, and Fanelia has so much livestock and agriculture. We will be able to have the best and largest empire around."

"Exactly, start getting the army trained, it is believed that the King will be gone for sometime, and we need to have the army mobilized and ready before his return. That way the attack is unexpected and there is nothing he can do about it."

"Will do sir, it's really too bad that neither country sees this coming. To think they thought Zyboch was obliterated. We rise again! mawahahahahahahaha!

To be continued…

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