"Hey," Aidou looked at the new girl. She was extremely beautiful, more beautiful than he had last seen her.

"Oh! Hi! I'm Ashita," she said with a smile, giving him the name he already knew and recited like a speech.

"I'm Hanabusa Aidou," he said, as much as it hurt him to re-introduce himself.

She rubbed her topaz eyes. "I'm so tired… I barely got any sleep last night. My room-mate kept me up."

Hanabusa laughed. He couldn't help it… complaining was just typical Ashita.

"What?" she asked with a meek smile of complete innocence and bubble-gum-pink lips.

"Nothing," he said. He wished he could tell her… why had he let them do this to her? Why?

He knew it had to be painful for Akatsuki too; she was his little sister. But the difference was simply that Hanabusa harboured a painful, taboo love for her. He knew that Akatsuki was aware of this and totally disproved of it but never said anything. He knew that it wouldn't get easier.

Every day, it would be harder for him. But he would make her fall in love with him again.

He would make her.

In the dead of the night, he heard a slight whimpering sound. He knew it was Ashita. He got out of bed and followed the sound.

He could see Ashita through the crack of the door. She was in the lounge-room with his Uncle, Ashita and Akatsuki's father, and his own father.

"Ashita, you must marry Kito. You must," his Uncle Rayo spat.

"No! NO! I want to marry Hanabusa, he said we'd marry and we will!" the little girl demanded.

"Incest. Only purebloods may act in such a manner and be forgiven. You cannot marry your cousin, Ashita, don't be stupid."

"I love Hanabusa."

"Stop it! You are to marry him and that is final!"

Hanabusa rushed in. "She's twelve! You can't make her get married!" he shouted, hugging his little, younger cousin to his chest.

"Yes, we can. And, you shall be punished for telling her you will be married.

"We will be! You'll see!" Hanabusa shouted back.

"No, we won't. And neither will you. We should punish you too… it seems you have had some secret relationship behind our backs?"

"No, we haven't! But… but we love eachother! Don't you know what love is?"

With a look of sharp disappointment from his father and sheer anger for his uncle, his uncle replied, "Idiot. I know exactly what we'll do. If you like the idea of love so much, we'll get rid of all the love you ever had."

All of our love.

Gone.

"No!" Ashita screamed. "Even if you tried, I could never forget Hanabusa! Never!"

Yes, you can.

You did.

I'll show you a sweet dream next night.