The next morning Tamaki awoken to an empty bed but to a smell that made her stomach growl. She stumbled out of bed and let her body move towards the kitchen. She found Takuma in there setting down two plates of pancakes with maple syrup on the table. He looked down and nodded then turned around to go wake her up but to his surprise she was already up and wandering about, once he saw her in the doorway he smiled and walked over to her.

"Good morning my dear, today's breakfast is the scrumptious pancakes made by the one and only me," He chuckled whilst embracing the half-awake bride to be. She smiled and welcomed his warmth, she was incredibly happy to be in that moment, everything was perfect. They sat down and attended to their meal, also talked about various things, one of them being how they were going to tell the rest of the group.

"Takuma, how are we going to tell the world about our engagement?" Tamaki brought up after finishing her second pancake of the five.

"Can we run away and marry then return and drop the bomb on them?" He joked she laughed at him then returned herself to calmness.

"No, we have to tell them properly, I do also want them to attend, because they're our friends, they're important to me." Tamaki reminded him.

"Okay, but not Ryou." Takuma said with distaste.

She looked at him quizzically, "Why not?"

"Well, not yet anyway." He cleared his throat then started clearing the table as he was already finished.

"Come up, eat up." He ordered. Tamaki wolfed down the rest of her breakfast then followed Takuma back to the bedroom to get dressed.

Takuma wanted to go back to his to get changed back at his place with clean clothes and so they agreed to meet up in front of her place in an hour and a half.

Tamaki wandered out 15 minutes before they're supposed to meet only to find herself being picked up and taken around a building of the temple. She squealed and tried to scream but a hand covered her mouth.

"Hush Princess, no need to scream." A familiar voice growled.

"Ryou, why are you here; and why can't you start a conversation like a normal civilized person and not kidnap them?" Tamaki questioned.

"It's only you I kidnap." He teased.

"That makes me feel a lot better," She inquired with a hint of sarcasm,

He snatched her left hand and investigated the ring. Tamaki stood still, her thoughts her jumbled, what was she supposed to say in a moment like this, Takuma said to not tell Ryou of this at all, could she lie, could she gently push it off and move onto another subject. His eyes glared at the ring for a little then he sighed and gently released her hand.

"So he was quick to it," Ryou muttered, looking her in the eye, "Are you sure you want Takuma?" He questioned as he backed her up against the building held her hands so she couldn't fight back, she couldn't find her voice, the question struck her, she loved him a lot, but why did the question hurt her.

"You could do better, a lot better than that demon." He murmured into her neck taking in her scent, she whimpered and tried to push him off.

"Tamaki?!" Takuma's voice was heard. Ryou kissed her neck and glanced at her with remorseful eyes then ran off.

She wandered out from behind the building still confused from the previous event. Questions flowed through her mind; her heart was still beating from the surprise kiss he gave her.

"Tamaki, where have you been?" He asked, and she said nothing and looked at him.

"Are you okay?" he asked with a glint of curiosity and uneasiness in his eyes and voice.

Takuma could smell Ryou on her, he growled and looked around peering through the trees to get a trace of Ryou, but he couldn't see him anywhere.

"Was Ryou here?" He asked her.

"Uh… no… I just don't feel well, that's all." She muttered and turned away feeling as if she didn't deserve his attention right now, or did she feel like she didn't want it…

He was taken aback as she lied to him; he scooped her up without her consent and carried her inside to the bedroom, ignoring her struggle and orders to let her down. He placed her on the bed and pinned her down.

"Tamaki, I can smell Ryou on you, what did he do?" he asked as he touched his forehead with hers.

"He kissed my neck." She replied before she could explain anything he placed long soft kisses on her neck in several places which silenced her. He then looked up at her and moved to the side, he embraced her and changed their positions.

"A kiss I can deal with, but he were to ever do anything terrible to you I will deal with him personally, please Tamaki, don't lie to me again, please let me help you, don't leave my side when he is around," Takuma said while stroking her hair and embracing as much as her and he could.

"I'm sorry Takuma, I won't let something like that happen again." She promised and then drifted off into a sleep.