It was turning dark when the young diclonius suddenly hugged Kaede. Kaede, shocked, couldn't say anything, but when she finally found her voice, she asked the girl "Who are you?"

The girl who finally let go of Kaede's leg said, "I'm Lilian. You should remember that Auntie" Lilian giggled at what she thought was Kaede's forgetfulness.

Kaede was more confused when the girl called her, her Aunt. She didn't have a niece, didn't she? "You can't be my niece, Lilian, because I don't remember even having a brother or a sister."

"Huh?" Lilian asked confused too. 'Doesn't Aunt Kaede remember me?' Lilian then realized that this wasn't her Aunt that she knew. She started tearing up while crying out "Auntie! Aunt Kaede!"

Sting stepped up to be beside Kaede and looked at the girl and than to Kaede. "What are we going to do?"

"I have no idea" Kaede replied while Lilian was still crying. She felt bad, so she picked Lilian up in her arms and gently rubbed her back, which made her stop crying. 'I didn't know I had any motherly instincts' she thought then realized something while holding onto Lilian. Kaede looked at Lilian, who was starting to fall asleep in her arms.

Sting's eyes somewhat widened as he realized that this young diclonius girl called Lilian looked an awful lot like Nana and Rogue. Sting began to say something, but was cut off by Kaede's glare. It was as if she was telling him not to say anything. Sting nodded his head as Kaede walked on. Seeing what her intentions were, he followed her to the train station.

On the way there people gave Kaede looks, because her clothes were all blood stained. They were all frighted because they thought that she had just killed a person. They could only move out of the way so that Kaede and Sting could get by. Kaede just ignored them and continued walking on with Sting to the station.

They arrived at the sation and payed the money to get out of the train. Once on the train, Kaede and Sting found an area with two booths. Kaede carefully laid Lilian down on one booth while she and Sting sat on another. They hadn't really sat side by side on a train before, since Kaede was always on the opposite side of Sting. Turning her head away so she could hide the blush that was beginning to form on her cheeks.

Hearing Lilian turn in her sleep, which almost made her fall off the booth and onto the hard ground below. Kaede seeing that used her vectors to stop her from falling and lifted her back up into the booth. Luckily the four year old didn't wake up.

With a sigh, Kaede began to watch her supposed niece with a smile on her face. 'I wish I new what she mean by I'm her Aunt.'

Sting somewhat realizes that Kaede was feeling confused, asked in a whisper careful not to wake Lilian up. "What's wrong, Kaede?" He asked.

Not turning her head to look at him, she replied back in a whisper, "I was just thinking what did Lilian mean by that I'm her Aunt."

"Yeah, should we take her with us to Sabertooth or leave her to an orphanage?" Sting asked.

Kaede froze when she heard the word 'orphanage' from Sting. Remembering what her life was like in an orphanage, she told him, "We should take her to Sabertooth. An orphanage will do her no good"

The train soon arrived at the stop they were supposed to get off at. Kaede gently picked Lilian up from the booth and put her in her arms. To her surprise Lilian didn't even wake up.

"She must've been more exhausted than we thought" Sting said as he stood up.

Kaede nodded her head and the three headed out of the train and onto the platform.

Kaede and Sting were walking down the streets towards their guild when suddenly a cold burst of wind blew by, which caused Lilian to shiver. "Let's get her to the guild. She can't wear those rags forever" Kaede said.

"Yes, she will catch a cold at this rate" Sting replied.

The two walked until they got to the guild. Kaede happened to spot a blanket in the middle of the floor. She didn't care if it were dirty, she just wanted to put something on Lilian.

"I'll be going to my room now" Sting said.

Kaede nodded her head before saying "I'm going to do the same."

With that, the two went their separate ways. Kaede went up to her room and placed Lilian down carefully on the bed, but not before pulling the blankets back. She didn't want to disrupt the child's slumber.

Kaede then left the room, closing the door as softly as she could so she wouldn't wake the diclonius.

"Yukino!" she called the white-haired girl's name, causing the girl to turn around. "Do you have an outfit for another diclonius?"

"Sure." Yukino then raised an eyebrow. "Who is this other diclonius?"

Kaede felt tension build up inside of her. She sighed "Don't say anything to Nana and Rogue, okay?"

The girl's eyes relaxed as she gave the pink-haired girl an understanding nod. "I promise."

Kaede then told Yukino how the mission had gone, including how she and Sting came across Lilian in the first place. She had brought this up as to not confuse the Celestial Wizard.

Yukino nodded, then excused herself for a moment so she could find a small outfit. She appeared a minute later with a small outfit, giving it to Kaede.

Kaede smiled. "Thank you." Yukino welcomed her in return.

Kaede then made her way back to her room with the small outfit.

Kaede went into her bed, which Lilian was currently laying on and fell asleep immediately.

XXX

Sting and the rest of the guild were awake and eating breakfast. However, Sting was worried about Kaede since she was sleeping so long. He mentally sighed and thought 'I guess I'll wake her up' He stood up out of his chair, but before he could get far Rogue asked him

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going to wake Kaede up She has slept long enough. It is past ten after all"

Rogue didn't say anything, he just nodded his head to show that he understood.

XXX

Kaede was still sleeping, although Lilian was wide awake and waiting for her Aunt to wake up. 'I wish Auntie would wake up already, I'm bored.' Lilian thought laying back on the bed and staring at the ceiling.

There was a knock on the door and Lilian went to get it. However, she couldn't open the knob, so she used one of her vectors to open it. When she did, Sting came inside and saw that Lilian was awake.

"You're awake, Lilian?" He asked

"Yep, I am Uncle Sting."

"I'm going to wake Kaede up now"

"I'll help!" Lilian said excitedly running over to Kaede and jumping on the bed. "Auntie! Time to wake up!"

The movement of the bed caused Kaede to open up her eyes. She saw Lilian standing on the bed and Sting on the other side of the room.

"What's going on here?" She asked.

"Well, I went here to wake you up, but it seems that Lilian did it instead" Sting answered.

Kaede knew that she needed to get her and Lilian dressed, so she told Sting. "Get out, me and Lilian are getting dressed for the day"

Sting didn't say anything, he just left the room and went downstairs to the others.

Kaede sighed, then looked at Lilian and smiled. "Well, let's get you dressed into the nice outfit that Yukino gave you"

"Okay!" Lilian said smiling happily.

Kaede walked over to Lilian and took off her clothes that were rags. She then went to where Lilian's outfit was and got it out. It was a blue dress with white sparkles on it. 'It seems like Yukino has a good sense of fashion'

Kaede walked over to Lilian and put the dress on her. Kaede then got undressed herself and put on an outfit. It was a red sleeveless top with blue jeans. "Alright, let's get our hair combed and towards where everyone else is."

"Alright, Auntie" Lilian said. Kaede got out a brush off of her dresser and began combing Lilian's hair. When she was done, Kaede combed her own hair.

"Well we're finished so let's just go greet everybody, alright"

The two walked towards the guild hall where everyone was at. Once there Kaede introduced Lilian to the guild. "This is Lilian, she's new here so be nice to her."

They all sad "Hello" to Lilian and then went back to doing what they were doing at first.

Lilian looked around the guild hall and spotted Rogue and Nana, her parents. 'H-how, weren't they dead?' Lilian thought while tears formed in her eyes. They dropped to the ground as she looked at her parents who were alive again.

Kaede seeing what was going on put her hand on Lilian's shoulder and told her "Everything will be okay"

Lilian sniffed and wiped her tears away with her arm. "O-okay." she said.

"Alright, you all. I'm going to be showing Lilian here around the guild." The rest of the guild didn't say anything, but Kaede could tell that they all understood. She looked down at Lilian, who already knew around the guild.

'But the guild looks different somehow than what I remember it being like. Maybe I really do need Auntie to show me around' Lilian thought.

"Is it okay if I show you around Sabertooth, Lilian?" Kaede asked gently not wanting to scare the young diclonius girl.

Kaede and Lilian then began walking side by side around the guild. "The place you just been at was the guild hall. Everyone eats their food there."

"Uh-huh" Lilian said, nodding her head.

The two turned a corner and came to the dormitory of the guild.

"These are the dormitories. It's where everyone sleeps at. You already know where I sleep at, right?"

"Yes, I do." Lilian looked like she wanted to say something else.

"Lilian, is anything the matter?" Kaede asked concerned.

"U-um" Lilian began, but stopped. 'Can I really ask where my parents' rooms are?'

"You know, you can talk to me about anything"

'I guess I can ask her' "I-is it alright, i-if you showed me where my parents' rooms are at?"

"You want to know where Rogue and Nana's rooms are?"

"Yes, please" Lilian said with a pleading look in her eyes. Tears started forming while thinking that Kaede might not take her to see the rooms.

Kaede smiled warmly and said "Of course"

Lilian's tears went away and she started following Kaede to where Rogue's room was. "Here is Rogue's room. Although I don't want you to go i there. At least not now, Lilian."

"Okay"

Next we go to Nana's room. It's the same thing here, don't go in that room either."

"Auntie?" Lilian questioned.

"Yes, Lilian?"

"Why can't I go into my parents' rooms?"

"Well, it's because we don't want Rogue and Nana knowing that you are their child?

"Why not?"

Kaede sighed, she didn't want to answer yet another question from the four year old.

"I can't answer that right now"

"Alright" Lilian said looking downcast.

Kaede had an idea that might cheer Lilian up. "Hey, why don't we go to the guild hall and meet your parents."

"Really?!" Lilian asked cheering up some.

Kaede nodded her head and the two began walking towards the guild hall.

They began to turn a corner, when Kaede was suddenly tackled by a red exceed with black eyes. Kaede realized that it was Lector, "Lector?" she asked while looking down into her arms where she was holding him in.

Lector happened to glance at a young girl that was beside Kaede. He was curious as to who the girl was so he asked, "Who's this new girl beside you?"

"That's, Lilian" Kaede told him. She looked beside her to see Lilian hiding behind her left leg. Lilian was scared, but not scared enough to go into her shadows.

"Lilian, why don't you say hello to Lector?" Kaede asked, trying to get Lilian to come out from behind her left leg.

Eventually Lilian came out from behind Kaede and said timidly to Lector "H-hello" She didn't know why, but Lector glared at her, which made her go into her shadows and to another part of the guild while she was in her shadows.

"Lector" Kaede said in an upset tone.

"Yeah" Lector said kind of afraid of Kaede for the moment.

"Why'd you glare at Lilian. You knew she was scared" Kaede put her hands on her hips while looking down at Lector whom she put on the ground.

"I-I" Lector stuttered. He didn't want to apologize, but he knew that he had to. "I'm sorry that I scared Lilian, alright" he said then flew into the guild where Sting was in.

"Great" Kaede sighed "Now I have to find Lilian. I don't even know what part of the guild she went to."

XXX

Lilian was close to the guild hall, but didn't want to come out when she was in shadow form so she went into a corner of the guild right near the guild hall, but not in sight and appeared from out of her shadow form.

She went to the guild where she saw Sting and the others. She ran up to Sting where he picked her up. She giggled as she was in her arms.

Rogue looked over towards where Lilian was in Sting's arms with a curious look.

Lilian looked over at her father and asked Sting to put her down. Sting puts her down and Lilian ran out of the guild hall and into her shadows again.