A/N - I do not own the characters, they belong to Pink Hanorami. This is purely fan made.
Gaito left, thinking. Whatever he could to help. But there was nothing he could think of.
Unless…
'Morning, Gaito,' greeted Kaito cheerfully. 'What's for breakfast?'
'Whatever you can find. You do know, Kaito, Panthalessa descendants can go for decades without eating or drinking one iota of food. But you seem to be hungry all the time!' Everyone laughed cheerfully, then Gaito spotted Hippo in the corner of the room, talking to a small fish.
'Hey Hippo, Yuri, what's up?'
'Nothing that concerns you, Gaito.' Hippo didn't even pretend to have forgiven Gaito.
'Look, Hippo, I know you hate me, and I understand why, but I have an idea to change Yuri.' Hippo's eyes widened a little. 'if you just let me hold her one minute…' Yuri swam over to Gaito accordingly. Gaito closed his eyes, and focused on the power flowing from him into Yuri…
'Gaito, NO!' Sara screamed, suddenly realising what was going on. ' It'll drain you, kill you! You don't have enough power to do this!'
'But Sara, it's like you said, I should do whatever I could to help.'
'Not at the cost of your own life. Please don't do this, please, Gaito.'
'I'm sorry Sara. But it's for the best. Now you don't have to worry about me, and can go and live with your human.'
'But Gaito… I don't think I want to. Not anymore. Tarou-chan taught me how to love… But in the end you were my heart's true desire.'
'Sara…'
As Gaito and Sara looked at each other, tears running down their face, slowly their lips touched. That is how they were, as slowly all the life was sapped out of Gaito. Hippo and Yuri can be together forever, but Gaito and Sara were separated just as they found each other.
A/N - It is really rather depressing, huh? I don't know how this weird spin on things happened, but it did. I was going to end it here, but thought I'd rather end on a happy note, so added an epilogue. It is a bit corny, but a lot more cheerful. Please R&R.