"Wow, her lips were... pleasant."

Thinking about what just happened, all I could do is keep walking, and touch my lips. Shiori kissed me, and on top of that I kissed her back, and left several dark red marks on her neck, those would surely be talked about tomorrow. I'm not sure what came over me, my body felt really warm and I couldn't control attacking her lips and neck.

I reached my destination without thinking too much, the hill were Makoto and I played together on before she faded from my arms, even tho this hill brings sad memories of my lost friend, I had some difficult thoughts to work through, with that I lay down thinking of my argument with Mai, and the kissing I shared with Shiori. Had I betrayed Mai by kissing Shiori? Shiori said she loved me, would it be OK for me to have feelings for her? What would Kaori say when she saw Shiori's neck?All these questions swarmed through my head, and as they danced in my brain, I drifted into sleep.

"Anyways, why don't you go dance with someone? Might as well since you came"

I turned around, I recognized that as my voice, immediately I remembered this scene, lots of teens around my age, all the men dressed in handsome black tuxedo's and the females dressed in beautiful dresses of all the colors in the rainbow with no straps in the back. The room was beautifully decorated, red table cloths upon the tables, a beautiful chandelier above the tables, and the tiles on the floor were a nice gold, with red designs around them. I turned to see myself by a table all the way in a dark corner, and next to me was the most beautiful woman I could ever see, on this day Mai shone brighter than the largest diamond in the world. She wore a beautiful pink dress with no straps on either side, pink elbow length gloves, collar with a cross attached to it, and pink ribbons around her beautiful hair which was in three pig tails, one down each shoulder and one down her back. Her dress did her so much justice, I clearly saw her curves under the dress.

"Who?"

"He'll do, he doesn't look like he has a partner"

Why did I say something so stupid, I should have immediately jumped up and told Mai I wanted to dance with her, to feel her soft body under my hands."

"No Yuuichi, I want you Yuuichi." Why, why didn't I take that time to realize Mai had forgiven me, and that she wanted me to like her in a romantic way?

"When it comes to dancing I can only do the monkey dance." As the word dance escaped my lips Mai's head turned and she looked a little excited, as she did when we talked about animals.

"Monkey-San?"

"No, its not something I should be doing here"

"I'm not used to places like this, I want you to be by me." She took a bite of her hotdog and I could see by my body language that I had realized she did like me, at least a little.

"So what if you not used to it? All we need to do is have fun" I extended my hand, and Mai just stared at it. That was one of the things I loved about Mai, she was smart, but so clueless.

"Your supposed to take my hand" I laughed out loud, but for some reason I was a different body, I wasn't apart of this scene, this was the past. Mai took my hand and we began our waltz. Mai had to be lying, from the start her movements were on time and graceful. The way she danced brought tears to my eyes, why am I seeing this scene? Mai and I danced around and eyes became glued to our waltz, I wasn't too bad myself, but Mai's performance was just amazingly beautiful.

"You can dance! You must have good reflexes."

"I'm starting to get a feel for it."

Soon everyone was staring at us, guys with dropped jaws, ladies not any different.

"Who is that? Shes so beautiful."

"Isn't it Kawasumi-san from the senior class?"

"What? The person who always causes problems? She looks so different!"

I could feel the smile upon my face as I kept watching, I could see the Yuuichi from the scene get excited.

"Your making a great impression! Good job Mai. Be happy!"

It was in Mai's nature to keep a composed face, she couldn't help not looking helpful.

"Yeah" She turned around to look at me, then she grabbed my hand with both of hers. "Thank you Yuuichi." Why didn't she notice that I would do everything I could in my power to see her smile? Why did she seem bothered?

"Ah... Being so straight-forward about it is kind of..." The word I was looking for was cute. I didn't get that chance, because just then Mai's hands let go of mine, her beautiful eyes turned very vigilant, and a glass broke.

"The glass I put her just..."

"That's strange, no one touched it."

Those guys were unimportant, my attention returned to the Mai and Yuuichi of this scene.

"What is it?"

"It's here"

"Here? You don't mean..."

Suddenly the windows so high up in the room began to shatter, the falling down in both a beautiful, and eerie way. Tablecloths and food began to fly left and right, kids running in terror, something was trashing the place, this beautiful memory was turning into a nightmare. People began flying left and right, the thing that was causing so much trouble was heading towards Sayuri.

"Sayuri!" Both Mai and I screamed. It was too late tho, One second Sayuri's eyes fixed upon something that made the area look distorted, and the next she was hit flying into a wall, she feel as she was knocked out cold. As I was running towards Sayuri, Mai stopped dead in her tracks. She had never looked so frightened, so angry, so sad.

"Sayuri-san! Sayuri-san wake up" As I tried to shake Sayuri awake, Mai made a run for it, this is where things got even worse. Mai ran back in the room with her sword, she had to avenge Sayuri.

"Mai! Wait, stop it, Mai!" It was stupid of me to call out to Mai, I should have ran to her. I should have held her, stopped her from making the situation worse, but I couldn't. Mai charged at the monster and began crushing tables with her each slam of her sword. Her dance was beautiful, it was the rage in her eyes that scared me. I had never seen her so angry, but this wasn't only anger, it was sorrow. Mai had already loved Sayuri by now. Here had been where she really knew how she felt about Sayuri.

"Mai! Stop it! Stop it Mai! Can you hear me!" I knew this was pointless, but I had to try. It was here where she came flying down with her sword, screaming as loud as I've ever heard her scream, she missed the monster.

"You've done it now Kawasumi-san." All Mai did was turn around, it was obvious she didn't care that she was in trouble with the president of the student council. "You know what this means, don't think your going to get out of this!"

Why didn't I charge? I should have tore his head off, no one should be able to yell at Mai like that without dealing with me.

"Mai.." Sayuri called back, she knew why Mai charged, She could only think about Mai in that instance. Again I was in shock, I couldn't move, I had just sat there looking stupid with my mouth open.

The Dream ended, everything went black, I woke up to a purple/orange sky, it had to be about six, maybe six-thirty. My resolve was forged. I stood, and turned towards town. Running at full speed with the air whipping my hair out of my face, I had to get home. I ran past markets, all the kids bonding and taking pictures with each other, that should be me. Couples eating dinner in diners I ran past, that should be me. My heart began to beat heavily, I soon arrived at the place I called home, the gate was opening meaning Akiko-san must have boiled water to melt the lock for me, I'll have to thank her later.

"I'm home" I called as I ran up stairs, I crashed into my familiar room, threw my coat on the computer chair, and pulled out a coupon book, I had been saving this for a time when my savings began to dwindle. With that I grabbed my wooden shinai, put my coat back on, and ran back out the door. Making my way back to the market area I stopped at a ramen shop.

"Two beef bowls please," I asked as politely as I could when I was in a rush. The sky was now completely purple and the lights in the market area became more beautiful. The chef handed me my beef bowls and I tore down the road, school was about 10 minutes from here if I ran, and I was hoping I'd find what I was hoping for when I got there.

The gates were open luckily and I ran up to the 3rd floor, at night the windows always made the school look very pretty, but also very eerie. Sitting in the hallway, the a beautiful woman sat with her sword sheathed. She turned her head slowly and her eyes were cold and uncaring at 1st glance.

"Yuuichi..."

And cut! I'm sorry the flashback was so long, I just thought it was a very important scene between Mai and Yuuichi, I also thought it showed a part of Mai that isn't shown so often. That part was only triggered when she saw Sayuri get hurt =-O. I'm not sure how this chapter turned out, but I'm actually excited to do the next two chapters. Well I did only get 1 review last chapter, but it was very important and it helped a lot. I'm also sorry if I didn't describe the surroundings so well and I intentionally didn't describe Mai's features, Which I will be doing for the next chapter. Ty for reading (If you got this far) Review... peace and love.. TkRawr[Trademark]