Yamato slowly turned the knob as he opened the door; it was Amu in her disguise. Though he wasn't aware of this. She looked around behind her to make sure no one was around before looking back at him.

"Can I help you?" Yamato questioned to the disguised Amu.

"Yamato, it's me." Amu quickly lifted up her mask. So only he could see her face.

"Amu? What are you doing here?" Yamato panicked as he looks around outside. Moving aside so she could go in, quickly. "Quickly come in."

Amu steps into the cottage, the place appeared to be simple but relaxing. It was a nice home to live in. She took off her mask as she let it hang around her neck. "This place looks nice. It's such a lovely home you have here, Yamato." She remarks happily. "Oh look at that animal sculpture." She goes over to a nearly finished sculpture of the most recent animal he was making. Fitting as it was a shark. So it reminded Yamato the pain of leaving Sera. Despite the fact she let him go though Amu didn't know that he using it as a reminder to return to the castle when his Uncle is well. Of course it hasn't been touched in days so it had gotten dusty.

"Thanks." Yamato nods his head in agreement.

"Yamato, why did you leave? Did you not want to stay with us?"

"No, it's not that at all." Yamato tells her.

"There wasn't any reason for you to stay?" Amu questioned to him.

"Amu? I have no time to answer these questions." Yamato embarrassed, he attempted to change the subject.

"And I have no time to ask them." Amu tells him, irritably.

"What are you talking about?" Yamato asked her, confused. He didn't get why she appeared to be so angry at him. "Are you mad at me? Did I do something wrong?"

"Oh, what does it matter? It's like you don't care." Amu angrily tells him. "It really is all hopeless." Amu told herself, she was holding back tears.

"Yamato . . ." Mario calls out to him as he gets out of bed. He goes over to the room where they're in. He sees Amu without her mask. Naturally he begins to freak out again. "It's . . . am I so sick. I delusional." He begins to fall together.

"UNCLE!" Yamato screamed as he goes over to him to make sure he is okay.

"It's one of those creatures I saw at the castle . . . they come to follow me." Mario fearfully says as he begins to wave his arm. "Send it away! Send it away!" Yamato knew these remarks would be hurting Amu's feelings.

"Calm down, Uncle. There not hallucinations. This is my friend, Amu." Yamato explained to his Uncle. "And you're hurting her feelings when you're saying these things you know . . ."

"Oh, it's a pleasure to meet you then . . ." Mario shook her hand. "Forgive me; I never spoke with a talking tiger before. It's not something you see every day."

"It's all right. I am use to pretty freaking out. If anyone stumbled on the castle since they were lost, most usually ran away screaming." Amu admitted to them.

"You can stay here for the night." Mario insisted as he let out a few coughs.

"Thank you." Amu addresses, bowing her head respectfully.

There was another knock on the door, the following afternoon. Amu quickly put her mask back on to cover her face then put her hood back up over her head. Yamato this time it was an old man with small glasses and a mustache, which he played with as he talked to Yamato.

"Are you Yamato Kazakiri?" The old man questioned. There was a crowd of people behind him, below the deck.

"And what if I was?" Yamato asked, acting if he didn't know what he was talking about.

"I have been advised under strict orders to take a Mario Mori with me."

"Where too?" Yamato defensively questioned. "Why do you need with my Uncle?"

"To the insane asylum, of course." The old man answered.

"An insane asylum? My uncle isn't crazy." Yamato defended him.

"Tell that to her, she told me what happened . . . "

"Go ahead, Mario. Tell everyone here what you told us." Nami taunted.

"She was a shark-like creature. She was going to keep both of us prisoner . . ."

"Uncle, don't talk about her that way. . ." Yamato scold him.

"See he is insane. Take him away." Two guys came out of no where as they lifted him off the ground. Forcing him away as he weakly got to his knees.

"Minako!" Yamato angrily yells out.

"Yes, my love." Minako addresses Yamato. He was too angry to tell her to not call him that.

"Tell that guy to let him go, can't you see my Uncle's sick. He needs his rest." Yamato demanded.

"I could do that . . . if . . ." Minako was giving Yamato a ultimatum.

"If what?" Yamato questioned.

"You marry me." Minako answered, her voice was serious.

"NEVER!" Yamato told him. "I will never love someone like you." Minako anger was only was building up. She wanted to make him miserable for the continue rejection.

Yamato ran inside and got the magic mirror. As he goes back out and looks at the crowd. "MY UNCLE ISN'T CRAZY AND I CAN PROVE IT!" He looks at the mirror. "Show me Sera." The mirror glows as he turns the mirror and shows Sera's image. This scared the crowd due to her appearance.

"He is telling the truth." One person in the crowd said.

"Would she hurt us?" Another questioned.

"No, she's not!" Yamato informs her. "She's kind, generous and pretty . . . she wouldn't hurt anyone I promise." Minako jealously had risen to his peak. It was clear that Yamato was in love with someone else. Not even someone who normal and beautiful. She couldn't comprehend on why he could love someone so hideous in her eyes."

"If I didn't know any better. I say you have feels for this monster." Minako envious tells him as she takes the mirror away from

"He does love her?" Amu whispered out loud to herself.

"If anyone is the monster, it's you Minako." Yamato screamed at her. Unlike the res

"A monster, someone with this hideous appearance." As she forcibly takes the mirror out of his hands. She snaps her fingers as another two guys come to hold him back. Another two guards held Amu. She was struggling to break free.

"And what about this one. The girl with a mask. Let's take it off." Minako forcibly took off Amu's facial mask as all of them look in horror. Everyone begins to gossip among themselves.

"Another one? You see how can we trust them. When they're hiding freaks like this roaming around. We ca

"NO!" The group of people in town all called out.

"What are we suppose to do?" A man in the crowd asked.

"They could attack our children." A woman calls out as she holds her children close to her.

"We kill them of course? Everyone single one of them. Except this one. SHE IS MINE!" Minako laughed wickedly.

"NO!" Yamato screamed out.

"We can't let Prince Charming attempt to save his little girlfriend." Minako looked at Yamato as she puts her hands to his face. "Don't worry, hon, once I kill this little girlfriend of yours." She looks at the mirror "Then we can be together, and I will forgive you for this little affair. Then we can be together forever. No other obstacles will be in our way."

"You're insane. I won't let you." Yamato tells her.

"Well there's nothing you can do about it. Can you? Put him in the basement with the others. Let him suffer with no way to escape. As he sits there helpless."

Yamato was thrown in the basement as it was locked. He goes over the door trying to get it open. "SERA!" he sulked to the ground as he stood near the door. He began to cry, Sera could be dead in a matter of hours and it was all his fault. He couldn't bare the thought of losing her. It had finally got through to him what he was always denying. He was in love with Sera.

Author's Note: What do you think of this chapter? Please read/review.

Yes, there is a complete misunderstanding between Amu and Yamato. While she knows the reason Yamato left, she believes he has no intention of returning to the castle. That he never really loved Sera in a romantic way. That's until she hears him talk affectionately about her and Minako outright saying it. This restored her hope on breaking the cruse before it's too late. There also will be a talk between Amu and Yamato in the next chapter.