A/N: Sorry this has taken me so long to produce. I have had a hard time (besides the teeth thing). Please go to my profile and click on the photobucket link if you want to see pictures that I have drawn for what all of my characters look like. They are not completed (and I am missing the children, those should be done soon). So please look again for the author note that will tell you when they are completed and colored (maybe). Please enjoy


Images flashed through his mind, images of a girl with long midnight hair and pale skin.

She was beautiful. Her hair shimmered as she walked and it framed her body like the night sky framed the Moon and stars. Her body curved perfectly and was envied or wanted by many.

She was always quiet, standing off to the side and looking regal, she never smiled; at least… not in public.

He knew her smile. He knew just how radiant she became when she smiled and she smiled only for him.

Images of her smile flashed through his mind along with images of their forbidden love, of her pale beauty against his slightly more tanned skin, of her lips as she told him the three words that were never allowed in public

'I love you…' She would whisper every night to him. 'I love you…'

He would only smile, leaving the return to her unspoken most of the time, but she knew, she knew better than anyone that he loved her.

The rare times he would respond her entire face would light up and he saw the rarest of all her smiles, her brilliant smile that hid nothing and showed him everything.

Images of her naked beside him, with her head resting peacefully against his chest made his heart tighten.

This was the woman he loved; this was the one that had shown him what it meant to love someone so much that it hurt to be apart from them. She was the one that he would forever hold in his heart.

No One. Not a soul. Could replace her.

As his dream continued he realized that he was seeing things that never happened.

"Cy…?" His deep voice questioned when an image of his lover came into view with her back to him.

She turned to him, her midnight hair shimmering in the sunlight; she smiled. "Yoko…" her soft voice murmured.

His heart lurched; her voice still ringing clear in his mind after the long years without her.

"Cytheria…" He answered back as he went to touch her.

She shook her head and held up her hand to stop him. "It's time…" She began.

"Time…? Time for what?"

The image of his human self appeared to her left, the red headed Shuichi Minamino.

"It's time to let go. Let him have a chance." She placed her hand against her heart. "My time is over. I will never be able to return to you, to your side. I will never be able to give you the love that I want to. But there is another that wishes to give her love to him…" She gestured again to Shuichi.

"I don't know what you're talking about" Yoko began

The pale woman smiled before her image and the image of Shuichi fade away and was replaced by another.

The girl stood before him with her back to him. Her golden hair was short, just barely brushing the base of her chin, as her cherry black kitsune tail twitched from side to side.

"Morna…?" Yoko questioned but stopped quickly as images flooded his mind.

The golden hair girl sprawled out on the floor of Koenma's office as her skin blistered from the iron. The girl curled unconscious and helpless in the arms of his human counter part. Of the girl sitting on his bed, mutely staring out the window into the dark night. Of her struggling to train with the boys to save Moon's life. Of her irritated aura as he kept the secret of being the former King of Thieves.

But most of all, her smile when she thought no one was looking but the little Yuki. Of how she wanted nothing more than to protect Yuki and bring her back her family. Of her determination to fight back and save lives when she was already punished far beyond the limit that she deserved.

When had he come to love her? When had he begun to take notice of the strong willed elf girl?

But most of all, when had his feelings for Cytheria begun to fade into the background…?

The last through tore at his heart like a knife.

NO! He shouted at himself. I will not loose her!! He cried to the empty blackness as he fought to keep Cytheria in the front of his heart.

The midnight haired girl returned to him once again, her face saddened as she watched him struggle.

"Please…" She begged, she could not handle watching him tear himself apart as he was. "You are not forgetting me. Only moving forward with your life." She reached toward the struggling kitsune, touching the side of his face gently.

"I'm still here. I'm still waiting for you…" She smiled as she ran her thumb against his lips. "Live your life to the fullest, be happy and healthy, and when your time finally comes to cross the river that separates life from death I will be there waiting for you and you and I can fly the heavens together, finally as one. No longer hiding the truth of our love.

"But until then…" She turned and the image of the golden haired girl shimmered into view. "Let Shuichi love the one that he has yet to realize he loves. Let my niece be happy, let your human half be happy, and never forget the times we shared together those long years ago…"

His dream ended.

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Faylinn stretched and moved to her feet silently. 'I'm going to do this alone…' she told herself. 'He has no need to go back into the castle.'

She had watched him struggle in his dreams and could no longer handle watching him in so much pain. 'He doesn't deserve that…' She told herself as she slid silently from the grove.

In the back of her mind a little voice called out. 'You don't either… You do not deserve to watch the man you have started to love struggle in pain over another lover.'

She stopped. Did she really love him? She turned to look one last time at the red headed boy.

It didn't matter now, she was certain she was going to her death.

'I just want to save Moon first…'