Wow, this one's really long. I hope you like it. I also hope you tell me what you like, or don't like if that's how it is.

Chapter Six: Adia

Botan stood before Koenma's desk gripping her oar tightly with both hands.

"What are we going to do Lord Koenma?" She asked in such a soft voice that Koenma thought he must be hearing things. He looked up at his best ferry girl and realized that it was her worry for Kurama that was making her so miserable.

"I'm sure he is fine Botan." He reassured her once more. "He is more then capable of surviving a demon stupid enough to challenge him, much less a short drop to the forest floor.

"Even though he and Youko were still separate?" Botan asked, wanting to believe Koenma, but they had been so high and the breach had closed so suddenly.

"Separate they are even more of a challenge to deal with." Koenma said, carefully avoiding any more mention of the fall. He could not have his best team distracted right now with Xryna as the threat.

Botan looked more like her old self. "Yes, yes you're right, I'm sure they're both fine." She wiped her eyes and then met her prince's gaze.

"Good, now I need you to go find Hiei. He's in Makai waiting for instructions. Tell him to inform King Enki what we know about Xryna."

Botan bowed. "Yes sir."

Kurama struggled to swim to the surface of consciousness. He felt…lightheaded, like he had had too much cough syrup or some other household medicine. He thought he could hear voices floating around above his head, but they were faint, like someone was talking from another room.

"Is he okay?" A familiar worried voice whispered hoarsely, like it had been crying often within a short amount of time.

"I don't know dear." Another more mature, but equally worried voice answered. "We've done all we can and now we just have to wait until he wakes up."

Kurama didn't move as the two women talked on the other side of the room. What had happened? One moment he had been with Botan about to return to Spirit World and the next…

The next moment the gap was closed and Kurama was fifty feet in the air without an oar. He had fallen and amazingly enough he hadn't died. That puzzled him. Even with his demonic powers and body structure, he should not have been able to survive that fall while separated from Youko.

A soft sound reminded Kurama that the Cullens were still nearby.

"Come on hon, let's let him sleep." Mrs. Cullen said as she opened the door as quietly as she could.

"Okay," Aria's voice still sounded strained. "I'll be there in a minute." She stayed quiet as her mother closed the door behind her with a soft click, then she just as quietly tried to gain control of the sobs that still escaped her. Kurama couldn't take it.

"I'm not dead Aria." He said giving no other sign that he was awake.

At least not yet. After Aria practically jumped on him in her relief he wondered briefly if the white stars dancing in front of his eyes were part of the white light he had heard about. Fortunately they weren't, otherwise Aria may have brought him back and killed him again for dying.

Fresh tears stained Kurama's already dirty shirt. It took him a moment to calm Aria down again.

"Aria," He spoke softly so as not to alert her mother. "Aria you're overreacting. I am fine."

She glared at him with red eyes. "Liar," she said and then poked him where her mother had placed a large bandage on his arm. Kurama bit back a yelp. From the look on Aria's face however, he hadn't succeeded as well as he had hoped. As politely as he could, Kurama shoved Aria off him and then looked down to see the extent of his injuries while she made herself more comfortable on the edge of the bed.

They were not as bad as he had first thought they would be. Maybe the fall hadn't been as severe as he had estimated.

Or, he thought looking around for a familiar silver fox, maybe it was worse.

'Youko?' Kurama asked silently as he searched for his other half in his usual places inside his head.

'Yes, I'm here.' Youko replied sounding like a sulky kid who had been forced to go to his room. 'Yes, I'm alive. Yes we are back to normal. And yes I'm stuck in here. Can I come out again?'

Kurama did not have time to answer. For a moment, however brief, he had completely forgotten that Aria was still there, sitting next to him on the bed.

"Are you talking to him?" She whispered, startling him.

"What?" Kurama wondered what she could be referring to when Youko added in a bored tone, 'I suppose I should mention that Aria was the first one to find us as well.'

Kurama's eyes snapped up to meet Arai's brown ones. He was perfectly still; waiting for the outrage or fear that he was sure would follow once Aria realized that he was not as human as he appeared.

But it never came. Aria continued to stare at him, waiting for an answer. Finally Kurama regained enough of his composure to give her a small, "Yes," but still she just sat next to him, looking shocked.

"I saw him," She tried to say, but could not seem to find the right words. "I saw him…jump into you." She tried again. "At first I thought I was just seeing things, but then you started to get, better," She said her voice growing steadier as she continued. To Kurama's surprise, Aria looked more amazed at his inhumanness than anything else, but then again she might have just been hiding her terror while he was close by.

Kurama remembered Aria's show of grief the day before and her enthusiasm when he woke a few moments before and decided that Aria could not hide her stronger feelings if her life depended on it.

So why was she so calm? Apart from Kuwabara and Yusuke, humans who discovered Kurama's true nature usually needed a good dose dream pollen before they returned to normal.

"So," Aria said slowly, getting Kurama's attention. "Is Botan a, a-whatever-you-are too?"

Kurama laughed. "No," He said before lowering his voice to a whisper. "But she's not exactly human either." He confided.

"Oh," Aria said still looking more confused than frightened. "Is she okay? We couldn't find her anywhere and when I saw the, the uh-" She stuttered and Kurama finally heard the fear he had been waiting for.

"The what?" He asked softly, not wanting to scare her more than he undoubtedly already was.

Aria looked up at the red haired fox, her brown eyes filled with terror as she met his steady gaze. "The man." She said in a low whisper. "He was there when Youko and I found you. He was…had-" Aria's voice cracked like she was going to start crying again. Kurama took her hand and squeezed it gently, not knowing what else to do, and then waited patiently for Aria to continue.

After taking a shaky breath, Aria continued. "He had a, a long glowing rod." She said grabbing a pen and a pad of paper out of the bedside table drawer and drawing what looked like a stick figure holding a wriggling stick with her free hand. "It was neon yellow and it kept throwing off sparks." She drew little twisted lines connected to the stick and then handed Kurama the paper. "I think he was going to stab you with it."

Kurama studied the picture, trying to think of anything that resembled the electric staff that Aria had seen, but nothing came to mind. "What did he look like?" He asked instead.

"He had black hair, but I think he dyed it because I could see bits of bright yellow showing near the top of his head and his eyes were a dark gray, like clouds during a really bad storm." She said with a little shudder at the memory, clinging tighter to Kurama's hand.

Kurama did not mind that she was squeezing the life out of his hand. Neither did Youko, which surprised him. "Youko?" Kurama asked as Aria let her attention drift back to the night before. "What are you doing?" Kurama felt strange, like he was vibrating, and he was sure that it was because of the deep rumbling sound that only he seemed able to hear. Or feel rather. "Are you purring?" Kurama asked in disbelief wondering if that was even possible for a fox to do.

Apparently it was, or at least it was for spirit foxes that lived in a human body, because Youko denied it in a happy voice that made his other half think of little kids when they were being sneaky.

"I don't think I've ever heard you act like this with an ordinary human woman before." Kurama said, wondering if there was something the old fox had not told him. Like maybe Aria was a descendant of a demon like Yusuke or some kind of psychic like Kuwabara or Genkai.

"Oh," Youko said still sounding ridiculously happy. "We go a lo-ong way back Adia and I."

Kurama wondered if maybe Youko was intoxicated in some way, shape, or form to be saying Aria's name wrong, but he had never heard of a way where Youko could be drunk, for example, while his body was not.

Aria finally drifted back to reality. "What are we going to do?" She asked her voice scared as she looked over at Kurama. "I don't think he was human and he only ran away when Youko and I appeared. He didn't vanish or anything."

Kurama sighed, afraid for some reason to tell Aria that he would have to leave as soon as he could. "I'm not sure. I think it would be best if we just stayed put and didn't do anything noteworthy. Maybe this, man will reappear and I can find out why he's keeping me here."

"Keeping? You're trying to leave?" Aria asked, her face going white as she clung even tighter to Kurama's hand. "When? To where?"

Kurama tried to slow the stream of questions as Aria started to panic for some strange reason he was afraid to comprehend. She could not like him that much so quickly could she? No, that was stupid. But then again, if she knew Youko from once upon a time like the old fox had said then maybe there was nothing more to this than friendship, even she did not seem to remember him.

Youko laughed as Kurama tried to calm Aria down.

"I'm not leaving soon I suspect," He said trying to sound soothing. "Don't worry." He smiled at her and freed his hands so he could put one on each side of her face. Then, unexpectedly, he kissed her. Right on her forehead.

"Lord Koenma, there's something I don't quite understand." Botan said as she placed a large stack of papers on Koenma's desk. Each paper made some mention, no matter how stupid or trivial, to Xryna and as soon as Ogre was done weeding out the dumb and unimportant ones, it was Koenma's job to find what may be necessary to Yusuke and the others.

"What is it Botan?" Koenma asked already busy with another stack of papers.

"Well, during the three days that Youko was missing here, he said a year had passed in Aria's world."

Koenma nodded. "Yes, there's some kind of time distortion that no one here has been able to understand yet."

"Yes, but Kurama and I were there for almost five days and about three days passed here again. Shouldn't either less time have passed here or more time passed there or something like that?"

Koenma looked up from the paper he was scanning. "You have a good point Botan." He said slightly ashamed of himself that he had not realized the fluctuating time difference before. He drew a line under what he had already read, marking his place before he placed the paper he was reading off to the side. "I'm not sure what could have caused this shift to happen." He admitted as his mind worked fiercely to try and figure out what might have caused the difference. "He I suppose could be playing with the times, making them more compatible with each other. That would make it easier for Kurama and Youko to return here. But it doesn't make sense to me if that's what he's doing, especially since he's the one trying so hard to keep them where they are." Koenma put his chin on the tips of his fingers and gazed into the distance, looking for some explanation that made sense.

Botan quietly thought about what the child-like prince had just said. "Maybe someone else is trying to make it easier for Kurama to get back." She hoped optimistically.

"Maybe," Koenma said softly. "But that would take an enormous amount of power. He would be able to do it, but it would be difficult especially since he's still trapped and unable to use his full power."

Botan nodded and went to go get another stack of papers from Ogre. She was just about to slip out the door when she thought she heard Koenma speak, but when she turned to ask him what he wanted, he waved her on without saying another word.

"Just what we need," Botan had thought he had said, "another superpower playing with humanity."

Aria sat stone still on her porch. She stared out at the budding greenery before her without seeing it as strange images played over and over in her mind. The strange part was that most of the images had really happened not five minutes ago when Kurama, her friend Kurama, had kissed her on the forehead.

Aria touched the spot again, above and in between her eyes, where Kurama had kissed her. She felt…funny. Clean was a better word actually. It kind of felt like a dam had broken and a stream full of memories and emotions was rushing around in her head, cleaning out all of the dusty corners she had forgotten were there.

It was weird. Especially some of the pictures that Aria was half sure were real. Like the image of the white haired man with pointed ears growing out of the top of his head and the man with black hair and wings showing over his shoulders. They were thieves she thought. Dead thieves if these suddenly flowing memories were true. She remembered the man with white hair mourning the death of the one in black and she had been there. But that could not have happened. First of all, these people had wings and animal ears and second, she was only seventeen, going to be eighteen next month. She was not even alive when the bird man died. How could she remember them at all?

But another voice was asking her, "How could you forget?"

Kurama lay in the room that Botan had been using while they were at the Cullen's. He had told Aria's mother that his sister had had a sudden emergency come up with one of her friends in the next town over and would get back home from there. Fortunately, Mrs. Cullen believed him and had left him alone so he could rest. Little did she know that he was already well enough to leave, but since he was supposed to be human, he figured he should act like one.

Which meant he was left alone, doing nothing except talking with Youko for most of the day. Kurama was sure it should be classified as a form of torture since the spirit fox was still loopy from whatever effect Aria had on him. Mostly he just sighed and rolled over in whatever corner of his mind that Youko lived in.

"Sigh"

Kurama closed his eyes and leaned his head back against the headboard in frustration. "What is it now?" He asked silently, hoping that Youko would actually answer him this time.

"You know I don't tell you everything." Youko said, sounding a little saner then before. Kurama sighed, used to the old answer even if it did aggravate him. Kurama knew very well that Youko kept a few things to himself. The miscellaneous thoughts and memories weighed down on Kurama's mind like a locked trunk. They were heavy and whenever Kurama asked about them, Youko would either ignore him or tell him to mind his own business.

"Would you like me to show you, or tell you?" Youko asked, shocking Kurama. "Well?" Youko prodded his human half trying to get an answer.

"Show me." He said wanting truthful answers instead of lies that he was afraid Youko would tell to make his story sound better.

He could almost feel Youko smirk at his unspoken thought, but he did not say anything as he opened his trunk, letting part of the bundle of memories out. Once it was open, he just sat back and let the contents rush out to let Kurama see.

Kurama felt like he was watching a movie through Youko's eyes. Dark trees passed swiftly by on either side as Youko ran through one of Makai's many forests. He was almost to the small river that marked the end of Aheen's territory and the beginning of his own. In a way Kurama could feel Youko's emotions and expression's even though this had happened more than a decade ago at the very least.

Youko laughed as he burst through the trees into sight of the slowly running water, thinking he was safe and far from anyone else. He jerked to a stop when he saw that someone was bent over the smooth river water. He thought for a brief moment that it was another bounty hunter trying to collect the reward that one of the three kings had slapped on his head, but he changed his mind when he saw that what he thought was a weapon was only a plate filled with water. The water sparkled in the shallow dish making a mirror that reflected the face of the woman holding it.

She was obviously a fox. That much was clear from her ears, tail, and unique energy signature that most fox spirits had. What was strange about her was her hair. It was blue. As far as Youko knew, only Ice Maidens and a few water elementals had naturally blue hair, and this was a fox. Maybe she dyed her hair, but both her tail and ears were the same color and it was much more difficult to color those. Youko should know; he had tried it before.

The woman finally noticed him. She stood up quickly, startled by his presence. The water fell out of the dish as she lost control of it and clutched the shallow bowl to her chest like she was afraid that he would take it away from her. It was not a completely unfounded fear, but Youko had seen, and stolen, much finer dishes then the one she had.

"Who are you?" The woman asked.

Youko smiled. "You stole the words right out of my mouth lady." He said. "Who are you?"

The lady eyed him. "I asked first." She said persistently and lifted her chin in a show of stubbornness.

Youko was slightly surprised that this stranger did not know who he was. "Youko Kurama." He said hoping to spark some sort of recognition.

It did not work. "Nadia." She said. "But I prefer Adia."

Youko took a few steps forward, Adia watching him cautiously the entire time. "So Adia, how did you get your hair to turn that amazing color?" Youko asked wondering if he had just found a new disguise.

Adia looked confused. "Well, I'm afraid you'll have to ask my parents that question and since I don't know where they are you'll just have to wait like the rest of us to meet them."

"Your parents permanently dyed your hair blue? Why did they do that?"

Adia rolled her eyes. "No," She said annoyed. "I was born like this stupid."

Youko nearly laughed at Adia's audacity to insult him, but her honesty kept him in check. He had heard rumors of odd colored kitsune's, everybody had. Mothers had been telling stories about foxes with blue, violet, and sometimes greenish colored fur that had abilities beyond the normal illusions that most of them had. The stories said that these colorful foxes had more elemental powers like water, earth, and, very rarely, light. They also said that the reason the elemental foxes were different colors was because they grew so close to their element through their gift that they absorbed enough of it to alter their appearance. So a blue fox, like Adia, would control water, which could also explain the mirror she had made with the stream water.

"So you are looking for your parents then?" Youko asked wondering if he had accidentally stumbled upon something greater then a new disguise. Adia nodded, still unsure of Youko and his intensions, as she ought to be.

Youko saw her suspicions and decided not to push her too far. "Well if you need any help," He said nonchalantly. "I'd be glad to give you a hand."

"Yeah, as long as I give you something in return." Adia spit. "So what is it? What do you want? Wealth? Power? I think I've heard them all by now and quite honestly I'm sick of it. It's like I can't travel anywhere without people trying to get something from me."

Youko smirked. "You're a smart girl Adia. I guess that's why no one's succeeded at tricking you yet, yes?"

"Just because I've been sheltered all my life doesn't mean I'm stupid." She said, losing some of her viciousness. Youko watch, amused, as the fur on her tail smoothed out from the puffball it had turned into as Adia got angrier.

A sharp cracking sound got both foxes attention and they stood still trying to figure out what was rushing through the forest at this time of day. Youko figured it out first. He swore quietly before grabbing Adia and leaping across the stream and into a very leafy tree. He ducked behind the many shifting leaves and branches, holding Adia still next to him. He kept one hand over her mouth in case she decided to protest, but once she saw the creatures that burst out of the trees on the other side of the flowing water, it was not necessary.

Aheen had sent a handful of his worst guards as well as one or two brilliant ones to search this area of the forest. He must have been expecting Youko to try a different way because the thief knew that Aheen had a much stronger force then these pathetic demons. Most of them were thick and pig like, snorting through the underbrush looking for a clue as to where Youko had gone. All they really had going for them were their strength and size. Their eyesight and sense of smell were terrible so Youko was not too worried. They would not be able to find them high in the tree hidden behind the dense foliage because of their own physical limitations.

But from the look on her face, Adia was not so sure. She must have lived a very sheltered life Youko assumed if she had never even seen these common grunts.

The pig guards left soon enough and Youko nimble jumped out of the tree. He was about to leave, Adia was too inexperienced to be any help to him, when he saw that she was still sitting on the branch, clinging to the bough for dear life.

"Adia?" Youko asked softly so as not to startle her. "Are you going to come down?"

"What was I thinking?" She spoke so quietly that Youko could barely hear her.

"Excuse me?" He asked wondering if she was even talking to him.

"You should have never left home. I don't care if it was burned to the ground. You could have rebuilt it. You would have been safe and instead you're out here with a power hungry fox and a gang of pig things." Adia whined to herself ignoring the fox thief.

"Are you going to come down or should I leave you here for the grunts to find?" Youko said more loudly then before.

Adia looked down, the fear that had covered her face melting into some mix of anger and astonishment as she saw Youko standing there waiting for her.

"Why haven't you left yet?" She asked not sure whether she should be anger, suspicious, or grateful that Youko was still there.

"Why haven't you let go of that poor tree yet? You're starting to hurt it." Adia looked down and saw that her sharpened nails were leaving little gouges in the thick branch. Carefully she unhooked herself from the tree and jumped to the ground.

"Well," She said when she was standing in front of Youko. "What do you want?"

Youko thought about that. He was sure he could find some use for her, especially if Adia was as strong as the stories said most elemental foxes were. Then again her display in the tree had shown she was incredibly naïve by Makai's standards, which could make it difficult for her to live among Youko's followers, but then again, he was sure he could help protect her from some of the crazier thieves and it seemed she could deflect most of the others.

"I don't know." Youko said truthfully as he cocked his head to one side and looked at Adia a little while longer. "You are a very strange woman Adia." He said in an almost complementary tone. "And I will be glad to have you as my guest," he said smilingly almost playfully, "for awhile at least."

Adia did not know quite what to think of that. "And what do you want in return?"

Youko smiled again. "I would like to see what you can do. You certainly have a very powerful gift and that would be a great help to me but," His smile widened. "I'm not sure that you're cut out for the life I lead."

Adia only rose part way to the bait. "Who says I want to lead the life you do?" She said placing her hands on her hips in a show of disapproval. Then she grew very serious, thinking over Youko's offer. "If I help you, will you help me find out what happened to my parents?"

Judging from her tone, Youko guessed she already had a good idea of what had happened to her parents, but he saw no harm in helping her confirm her guess. "Alright." He shrugged.

"Deal." Adia said quickly before she had time to change her mind and locked hands with Youko. "My help for yours."

Youko smiled. "Very well then, home is this way."

Kurama started to draw back from the movie like images of Youko's memories of Adia. There were many more besides the one he had just seen, but he could see those later, as dreams or movies like before when he had more time. He quickly scanned over the rest of the memories to get a better understanding of what had happened between Youko and Adia.

"She was your mate." Kurama said quietly to Youko.

"Later on." The fox agreed.

"And she died shortly after Kuronue."

"Yes."

Kurama thought about the chances that Adia had done the exact thing as Youko had and merged with a human body. The chances seemed small, but the possibility was still there.

"Especially since I'm sure that Aria is Adia." Youko growled in Kurama's head, mad that he would not trust him when he said that Aria was a demon like himself.

"I think we should go find Aria." Kurama thought as he slowly got out of bed, stretching his unused muscles.

"That's the best idea you've had all day." Youko answered slightly exasperated as Kurama left the room to go find the girl.

Aria still felt funny. The clean clear feeling had spread throughout her body so that instead of feeling like she was in water, she was made of it. Aria breathed in deeply, enjoying the beautiful feeling. She closed her eyes and let the wind and sun touch what used to be her skin. She imagined that the pale dust cover she was usually shrouded with had turned into a clear slightly shimmering coat. She sighed dreamily and imagined the faint glow it gave off even in the afternoon sun just as the door opened and closed behind her with a loud bang. Aria lazily opened her eyes as Kurama sat down next to her on the steps. He was quiet long enough that Aria let her eyes close again and let the crystal clean feeling wash over her like waves on a beach.

"Aria?" Kurama finally spoke in a soft voice.

"Yes Kurama?" She said noticing with a slight surprise that her voice sounded different somehow, like she was listening to someone speaking from far away. It was strange considering she was the one talking. Aria shrugged it off, assuming it had something to do with the clean sensation she was currently enjoying.

"Have you ever heard of someone named Adia? Or maybe Nadia?"

"Sounds familiar," Aria said her voice sounding more distant than before, like she was listening to a dream of herself speak. "It reminds me of flowers, blue roses I think."

Although she could not see it, Kurama nodded. He was quiet as he thought, but Aria did not notice as she let her attention drift and waver between half finished thoughts. Strangely enough, she felt like a bit of her was spinning off from the whole like a little cloud. It made her feel lightheaded to try and think because it felt like the little cloud had taken the main portion of her thinking abilities with her.

Kurama started talking again. "Aria, you know that I am a fox spirit right?" Aria nodded even though Kurama had never told her what he really was before. "And you know that I am really close to three hundred years old?" Aria nodded again, her head bobbing languidly. "Did you know I never told you any of this?"

Aria was almost shocked out of her dream like stupor, but her little cloud self only laughed. Aria watched the little cloud start to take on a shape and form that she almost recognized. Slowly the cloud body moved to the very front of Aria's mind, struggling to maintain her shape as she did so.

"Aria," Kurama said when she did not say anything. "What is the earliest thing you can remember?"

The cloud whispered to Aria, asking for one last chance to speak. Aria agreed and the misty looking woman took control of Aria's body, letting Aria watch just behind her.

"I remember how the sun would show nearly once a year and the way the sky lit up in streaks of red and orange when it did." Adia opened her eyes and tilted her head back to stare up at Kurama. "I'm afraid that's not my earliest memory, but it is much more beautiful."

Kurama was stunned into momentary silence when he saw that Aria's eyes were not brown like they usually were. Instead they were a clear blue that reminded him of tide pools where he could see straight to the bottom without any trouble. Youko, using Kurama's temporary shock, slipped past him and took over.

"Adia," He said warmly, letting his affection show.

Adia did not bother to try and hide any of her feelings for the silver fox demon either. She reached up and wrapped her arms around his neck in a hug.

"I thought you died." He said softly after a moment of silence.

Adia let go of Youko's neck and slid back so she could see him better. He still looked like Kurama for the most part, but his eyes had changed from the more human emerald color to the amber that he had had in Makai. "I missed you." She said. "I'm glad that I get to see you again through my own eyes before we completely merge."

Youko's warm feeling suddenly disappeared. "Merge?" He asked suspiciously as Kurama listened from the back of his mind.

Adia nodded. "Yes, I don't know how it happened, but somehow I ended up here," she gestured the world around her, "after I 'died'. I vaguely remember someone telling me what to do, which is how I found Aria, but I don't think that I was really supposed to end up here in the first place. I think if I was I would have ended up more like you, sharing a human body with a more human personality. Instead I merged with Aria so that we turned into one person. I kept a fragment of my old personality apart so that I could hide my memories from her and see you without her help if I ever got the chance." She smiled sweetly. "And here you are." She said joyously and hugged Youko again.

Youko was a little less pleased. "Can't you stop it?" He asked pulling her back so he could look at her. "Can't you preserve yourself just for a while longer at the least?"

Adia shook her head. "No, but I'll still be here. Aria and I are the same person."

Youko did not believe her. "She's different from you."

"Only because I'm different from before. Just like you're different. Growing up with humans has had its affect on us Youko. I promise that I'm still me." Adia looked down at her human body. "Basically."

Youko snorted an almost laugh that made Adia feel better. Encouraged by his slight lift in attitude, Adia inched as close as space allowed and rested her head on his shoulder.

She did not stay still long, she could already feel herself molding together with the rest of her new self as the sun sank lower in the sky. She drew back from Youko far enough to see his face and kissed him soundly on the mouth.

"I love you." She said.

Youko smiled at her and moved to kiss her again. "I love you too."

The sun sank below the horizon, its oranges and yellows blending with the purple and blue of the night sky creating a thousand different colors. Just as the last piece of Adia's mind floated into its proper place, completing the change that made Aria who she was.

I'm sorry if that last bit was confusing, it made sense to me when I wrote it. Actually it still makes sense to me, but I usually know what I'm trying to say. So if anything doesn't make any sense for whatever reason, please let me know. Or if maybe you want to tell me what you think. Please? Pretty please?