Here's another chappie for you people…Y'no..you could review at least a li'l more. I'm really sad. I'm not receiving as much reviews nowadays. Read this at night, it's gonna be kind of scary.

Lost in a forest-of death…

"Len! I've told you a million times! I'm getting suffocated in this mansion! I want to go out!!!" Tamera pleaded for the tenth time. She hadn't been out for almost three weeks. Len glared at her. She pulled a face and stuck her tongue out and angrily poured orange juice in her goblet, spilling almost half of it. She waited for Len to give an answer. He didn't and calmly kept on drinking milk from his mug. She got up angrily, "That's it! Now you've done it!!!" She pulled up a jug of water and splashed it on him.

"Hey!!" he got up angrily, running his hand over his soaked shirt "What was that for!!!"

"That was for not listening to me!" she replied nastily.

"When was I not listening to you? I told you no! You can't go out!!"

"I can't live inside forever! I will have to go out sometime!!" she shouted. "Have you ever thought about this?? She will be after me forever!! That does not mean I stay in forever!" She banged her fists on the table. Len looked at her and sighed. "I know Tam…but I'm just too...uh," he searched for the right word, "concerned. It's my fault she's after-"

"My fault again!! No! No, no! Not your fault for the hundredth time," she sighed and lied down her head on the huge dining table. Len got up and walked to her side "Okay," he grumbled, "Come on. We'll go for a walk," he said dryly. Tamera looked up happily

"Oh!!! Thank you!!! I love you!!!" she hugged him tightly. Then she looked at him shyly and kissed him. Len blushed and looked away, trying to hide his pink cheeks.

"Yeah…come on," he managed to squeak. Tamera took his hand slowly and they walked out of the house to the most nearby park. Len specially looked at everyone very suspiciously, thinking it might be Xui in disguise. Tamera giggled slightly at how conscious he was being.

They entered the park. A lot of little children were playing around. Tamera breathed in the fresh, cool morning air and brushed a wisp of pinkish hair of her cheek. It felt so good. She looked at Len who was now turning around and around, looking at every child who passed them by.

"Len?" he didn't answer. "Hey!" he snapped back to her,

"Yeah? What is it?" he asked, tearing his attention away from a small, purple-haired girl.

"Stop looking at people like that. You'll creep them out," she whispered.

"Well, how can I be sure one of them is not Xui!" he said irritably.

"Well, for one thing," Tamera sighed, "All of them are under eight!" she tried hard not to laugh. "You can't expect Xui to transform herself?" then she thought and added, "Can you? But there's no shaman who can do that. Right?" Len looked at her, worriedly,

"You're right…but I have no idea how much Xui's furyoku level has raised by now. She doesn't posses normal abilities. You saw that. She can practically strangle or hypnotize people just by looking at them," he spoke slowly.

"Not by just looking at them. The other person has to look at her eyes too. So that means that as long as I don't gaze in her eyes, I'm safe from hypnotism," then she started to add some compliment about Len's fighting skills when they heard a noise behind them. Len swirled around quickly. His yellow eyes scanned the whole area. No Xui. He looked back at Tamera

"I think someone's following us," he whispered and clutched her one of her hand tightly and put an arm around her waist, "Stay close," Tamera was practically almost getting completely squeezed.

"Not that close!" Tamera squealed, "I think you're gonna suffocate me. Not Xui," Len quickly loosened his grip,

"Uh, sorry," he said, but didn't let go. "I still think someone's there." He looked at the back with the corner of his eye and twisted around suddenly, his kwandao sharp and glinting in his hand.

"Maybe you're right," she whispered, as she heard the rustling of twigs beside them. They had walked out of the park and were now in a completely deserted are surrounded by tall trees. Tamera almost choked and stuttered, gripping Len tightly. "Where are we? Len, I'm scared!" she buried her face in his shoulder. Len looked around, confused, taking in the surroundings. There had to be a park nearby, but yet he had never entered this area. Not even when he went to completely deserted places to train with Bason. How he wished Bason was there right now, but he was on a spirit vacation with Amidamaru.

"I," he hated to say this, especially to Tamera, "I don't know. I've never come here before."

"Huh?" Tamera gasped, "But you live nearby don't you? So why-"

"I've never seen this place before, even though I went much far off with Bason. I just don't understand. It's as if this place didn't exist before."

"Do you think it's a hallucination? You know, maybe Xui's making us imagine we're here." Tamera suggested, whimpering.

"I don't think so," he said, his head spinning, "It's like I've seen this place before." Tamera looked at him suddenly,

"What?" she squeaked. Len suddenly looked back at her, realizing what he had just said.

"What did I just say?" he gasped. "I have no idea about this place," then he went in a trance again, his eyes lost color, "Yet it seems so familiar, like my home."

"Len!!" Tamera shrieked, shaking him but his eyes remained the same. Suddenly he looked at her at both his arms went behind her back- and he hugged her. The hug became tighter and tighter-he was squeazing her- to death! Tamera shrieked loudly, trying to wake him up.

"LEN!!!!!!!!!!!!" she shrieked, tears soaking her face. The yellow color came back to his eyes and he dropped her. She fell down struggling to breath. He looked down at her, shocked

"What did I do!!!!" he cried. "Tamera!" he bent down and breathed air in her mouth. "No! Please be okay!" Tamera regained her senses soon and, looked up realizing Len was all right. She fell down on him and sobbed,

"I was so scared! Thank goodness you're okay!!" she tried to say through her choking, hoarse voice. He looked at her, tears glittering in his eyes.

"I almost killed you!"

"It's okay! You were possessed!" she wept and tried to brush his hair off his eyes. Then she wiped her tears. He looked at her

"I'm sorry," he whispered. Tamera broke into a tight hug and buried her face in his chest again.

"It's okay, Len. I still love you and I always will," she whispered. Len was trying to overcome the fact that he had just tried to kill her when she suddenly looked up and kissed him. "I want you to know I'll always love you! No matter what happens now! And you promise never to blame yourself again!"

He looked at her eyes and smiled, "I will try not to," he said weakly and then added, "I never told you properly but I'll always love you too Tamera and I'm sorry for every thing that's happening," Tamera smiled back and shrugged her hair off her shoulders.

"Don't be sorry for the millionth time!!!!!" she yelled angrily, suddenly.

"Okay, okay," Len spoke softly, "Fine. But I still want to protect you,"

"Of course you can!" she said, suddenly frightened again. They got up and walked further.

The pale full moon was shining overhead. Never had the stars seemed so far away. But now Tamera was sure, Len meant everything to her and she'd forgive him no matter what. It would always be the same………

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Creepy huh? I'll tell what they do in that creepily evil forest in the next chappie. Cya! my pals. Love you all.

Saori