A/N: Okay, this chapter seems really weird to me but oh well, i can't come up with anything else so this will have to do. It delvs a little into Cecelia's past and you get a nice little ending. Hope you guys enjoy. Read and review or no updates!

-Cecelia-

It was rather awkward in the car, but I enjoyed the silence even if it was a little tense. After I'd explained to Raiden and the others that they had to wait until October to leave I left to go pick up my parents. They were waiting outside the Muokoshi manor and we were on our way back already, though we wouldn't be back for another ten minutes.

"So, how were things while we were gone?"

My mother asked and I tensed.

"Good, I did all the chores."

I said and she smiled at me.

"You're such a good girl Z-I mean Cecelia."

She said when I glared at her for starting to say my first name. Ever since that day I've refused to go by that name.

"Thanks."

I said as I turned my attention back to the road. The silence surrounded us again, this time it was more awkward than before. I could tell my parents were worried about me, they always have been since then, but I've tried my best to show them I'm okay. It happened, there really was nothing we could do about it.

"You'll notice I did some gardening while you guys were away. I hope you like it."

I said to break the silence and ease my parents' guilt. It did the trick, they both smiled at me and started asking me a billion questions that I answered as if on autopilot. I pulled into the driveway and walked behind my parents as we walked into the house.

"It's good to be home."

My father said and my mom nodded in agreement as she went into the kitchen. I leaned against the wall in the hallway as I listened to them in the kitchen. They continued their lives as if none of it happened. They'd mourned for about a month, but after that they went back to smiling and laughing as if the loss of someone so precious to them was nothing. Her getting sick had been an accident that happened because children were just being children, but if I had just jumped in after her maybe she wouldn't have gotten sick. Then maybe she wouldn't have-

"It's the eighteenth."

My mom's voice suddenly cut through my thoughts and I looked up to see her and my father looking at the calendar on the side of the fridge.

"It's in four days."

My dad said and I dug my nails into the palm of my hand as I realized I'd practically forgotten that day was so close.

"It's hard to believe it's been eight years already."

I heard my father say and felt tears stinging my eyes. I squeezed my eyes shut and slipped out the door, slamming it behind me. Once I got past the main gate of the shrine I ran, I didn't care where I was going, I just needed to get away from that house.

-No one-

Kogi and Mina flinched as they heard the door slam behind their daughter.

"She still takes it so hard."

Mina said quietly and Kogi walked up behind her and wrapped her in his arms.

"They were really close Mina, and she still blames herself for her sister getting sick."

Kogi said sadly and silence followed as they both remembered the day the neighbors came running to their house telling them of such awful news.

-FLASHBACK-

"Kogi dear, dinner's ready."

A woman with long flowing black hair to her waist and beautiful forest green eyes called as she set the roast on the kitchen table.

"Alright Mina, I'm going to go get the girls. I'll be back in a few min-"

A man with short blackish blue hair cut to his neck and strikingly cerulean blue eyes started to say, but the door suddenly slammed open making both of them turn to see what had caused it.

"Kogi! Mina! Come quick!"

The voice of a man with brown hair to his shoulders said and both raced into the hallway to see their neighbor with his hand on the doorway breathing heavily.

"Why? What's going on Denil?"

Mina asked as they stopped infront of him.

"It's your girls! They were playing by the lake and the ice fell through."

Denil explained, but Kogi ran past him the minute he'd said it involved his daughters.

"Kogi wait!"

Mina shouted after him, but he ignored his wife. The other two quickly followed him as they raced for the lake. It was mid December and the storm the other day had frozen the lake over and the kids had all gone out to play, though they were told to stay off the ice.

Mina and Denil caught up to Kogi as they ran through the trees surrounding the lake. When they burst through the trees the sight they saw made them stop. The rest of the neighborhood was standing around trying to comfort the other children, but that's not what made them stop. A few feet away from the other adults and crying children Kogi and Mina saw their two daughters next to an ambulance.

"Oh no."

Mina whispered in shock and that broke Kogi out of his state of shock and he ran across the clearing towards his two ten year old daughters and the EMT. He passed his eldest daughter as she was frozen in place staring blankly at the spot in the frozen lake that the ice had cracked through. He ran to his youngest's side only to see her unconscious with labored breathing on a stretcher. Her pale skin was an unhealthy shade of blue and she was shivering.

"What happened here!? Is she going to be alright!?"

Kogi shouted at the EMT, but he simply pushed him back.

"Sir please, we have to get her to the hospital."

"She's my daughter!"

Kogi shout and the EMT gave him a sad look that froze him in place. The EMT finished putting his youngest daughter into the back of the ambulance before it drove off.

"Kogi?"

The scared voice of his wife asked and Kogi looked up to see Denil and Mina walking towards him. He looked over at his eldest daughter who was still staring at the lake in shock. He walked over to her. He knelt down infront of her and grabbed her shoulders making her look at him.

"What happened!?"

He ordered and she flinched at his voice.

"Daddy, you're hurting me."

She said, but it didn't register in Kogi's mind.

"Dammit girl, tell me what happened!"

He snapped and his eldest daughter started weeping.

"W-W-We were just playing d-daddy. O-One of the b-b-boys said I was t-t-too chicken to g-g-go out o-on the ice and I was g-g-oing to I-ignore him, b-but s-s-s-issy said to p-prove him wrong. So I w-went out on the ice a-and when the o-others s-saw it was o-o-okay we started p-playing. T-Then there was a l-loud n-noise and then s-s-sissy s-screamed and f-fell through the I-ice."

His daughter explained as she continued to cry. Kogi's grip on her shoulders lessened as he listened to her explain.

"Why didn't you jump in after her? You know how to swim."

He asked after a while, staring into his eldest daughter's cerulean eyes.

"I-I was too s-scared. I c-c-c-ouldn't move. I'm s-s-s-orry daddy!"

-END FLASHBACK-

"Even now she still thinks if she had jumped in then she wouldn't have gotten sick."

Mina said and Kogi just tightened his grip around his wife to comfort her, wishing he knew a way to comfort his still grieving daughter.

-Katsume-

Everyone was so happy to know when we'd be able to go back. I myself was rather happy to have this chance. I'd come to enjoy my stay here in the human dimension, especially with the company of Cecelia. She'd grown on me and was rather entertaining to be around. She wasn't like the demon women in our dimension where they'd throw themselves at me just because of my title and my wealth. Cecelia didn't seem to care about superficial things like that. She'd opened her home to Daiki, Hikaru, and I even after having learned what we were. She treated us as friends even before we acknowledged her friendship ourselves. Then when Kouhai and the others showed up the little human surprised me yet again by saying they could stay as well. She'd shown kindness to six complete and total strangers, and had even forgiven me after I'd beaten her in that fight and stolen her 'first kiss' as she put it and sent me flying through her living room window. She'd shown such kindness and never once asked for anything in return, that's why when Raiden said he could give her her house we were all up to helping him. Though when it came down to it we didn't do anything but watch. We'd all grown attached to Cecelia and she to us, but I couldn't help but wonder what she was going to do once we left?

"Hey, has anyone seen Celia?"

Hikaru asked as he walked into the room. We all turned to look up at him confused.

"Is she not in her room?"

Kouhai asked and Hikaru shook his head.

"No. Her scent is there, but it's only from this morning."

He said and I frowned.

"Maybe she went to Algo's."

Daiki suggested and I started to relax as I remembered she liked to disappear and go there sometimes.

"I thought that too, but when I called Algo said he hadn't seen her."

Hikaru said and I froze.

"Didn't her parents get back today? Maybe she just went to pick them up."

Kenta said and I relaxed again when Hikaru nodded and sat down on the couch next to me.

"I hadn't thought of that. Though I've got to wonder, would it really take that long to pick them up?"

He asked and I pinched the bridge of my nose. He just kept bringing up things that kept making me worry about Cecelia.

"The human hasn't seen her parents in a while so she's probably spending as much time with them as she can."

I said and he nodded and the subject was dropped. Silence surrounded us as Kouhai and the others went back to their game that they muted after Raiden threatened to blow up the T.V because it was too loud. He may just be a human wizard, but I swear his hearing was just as good, if not better than my own.

Hours passed and the silence was finally broken when Kenta's stomach growled rather loudly. It was then that I realized it was getting dark and Cecelia hadn't called or anything. Ever since the first time she stayed out late and Daiki, Hikaru, and I freaked out at her disappearance she promised to call before it got dark. This was unlike her.

"Katsume…"

Hikaru said from beside me and I turned to look at him. He didn't need to say anything else. I could see the worry in his yellow eyes.

"Alright, we'll go out and search."

I said getting to my feet. Hikaru got Kenta and Kouhai and left. I rushed upstairs and got Daiki and Raiden from their rooms, explained the situation, then we all left to search as well. We searched all over the outskirts of town near her house, then went over to her parents' shrine. We picked up her scent and followed it, but it didn't go into town it went into the woods and I growled.

'Damn idiotic human woman.'

I thought with a frown.

"Split up. If you find her flare your aura."

I said and the others nodded before jumping into the trees to search. I sighed before going straight into the middle of the forest. I tried to pick up on her scent, but I could tell it was about to rain and it was fucking with my sense of smell.

'Dammit! Why'd she have to decide to disappear on a night like this?'

I thought with a frown before speeding up as I ran through the woods trying to find her.

-Cecelia-

It had been a couple of hours before I finally slowed down to a walk. I looked around and noticed with a sad smile that I was in the woods a couple miles away from the house Raiden and the others had given me. I walked around aimlessly and stopped when I came to a clearing. My eyes widened as I realized this was one of the places I'd gone to with her as a child. My eyes started stinging again and I squeezed them shut as I wrapped my arms around me tightly and walked away from the clearing.

'Eight years. Eight whole years. Why did I have to listen to her? Why didn't I just say no and not go on that ice like my father had told me? If I just had said no then the others wouldn't have started to play on it and then the ice wouldn't have been weakened. Then she wouldn't have fallen through.'

I thought and wrapped my arms around me tighter as I felt the stinging in my eyes get worse. Soon I couldn't see and slumped to the ground.

'Dammit! I almost forgot. I almost forgot that day, her day because Katsume and the others. I'd been so wrapped up in helping them and getting to know them that I almost forgot that day was coming up. What if I had missed it?'

I wondered as I felt the tears fall down my face. I brought my knees up to my chest and wrapped my arms around them as I laid my head down. I hated being weak like this. I didn't want to be weak. Because I had been weak back then she was in that water for so long and had gotten sick. Because of me she died.

There was a suddenly clap of thunder and I jumped before clutching my knees closer to me.

'Dammit!'

I thought angrily to myself. There was only one thing I was really afraid of and my stupid ass had to be outside when it happened. I felt a drop of rain, then another, then it suddenly started to pour and in no time I was drenched. I huddled in a small ball trying to stay warm as the tears fell down my face. They were a mix of my sadness and guilt as well as fear. I hated thunderstorms because lighting literally scared the living hell out of me. She had been the only one able to calm me down on nights like these, not even my mother could ease my fears, but she could. But I'd had to live eight years without her soothing words and comforting arms wrapped around me as she held me while I cried at every bright flash of light and loud rumble of the sky. I started to shiver, whether it was from my fear or the chill of the rain I wasn't sure. I didn't want to be here, but I was too scared to move.

'Why do I have to be such an idiot!?'

I wondered, but I knew why. I acted like a strong woman, but in reality I was just an emotional wreck. Ever since the day I lost her I haven't been the same. I couldn't be the same, how could I be when I'd lost my other half? The half that kept me together when I was scared, the half that gave me the strength when I was weak. The half that loved me when I needed someone to be there. I buried my head in my arms and cried. I really was pathetic. A loud roar sounded followed by a blinding light and I screamed before tightening my grip on my knees.

-Katsume-

I was about to give up and fucking get Hikaru and the others and go back to the house when I smelled the salty tang of tears. I froze and sniffed at the air. It was slightly affected by the scent of rain and the storm, but I could still pick it out. I ran towards it and stopped when I heard a scream.

'Cecelia!'

I thought as I ran in the direction I'd heard the scream. I passed by a clearing and stopped when I saw Cecelia on the ground with her knees drawn up to her chest with her head down. I could smell her tears as well as…fear? What in the world was she afraid of? As if answering my question there was suddenly a bright flash of lightning and she jumped.

'Is she….Is she afraid of lightning?'

I wondered as I walked closer to her. She didn't even seem to notice I was there until I was knelt right infront of her.

"Human."

I said, but she didn't respond. Her grip around her knees just tightened as a loud rumble sounded from the sky above.

"Cecelia."

I said and she looked up at that. My eyes widened in shock as I saw the tears streaming down her face. I had known she was crying because I could smell the salty tang of her tears, but to actually see it was another story. This little woman, who was usually so strong and so happy had such a terrified look on her face as the tears streamed down her beautiful face.

"K-Katsume?"

She asked hesitantly and I smirked at her.

"What are you doing here? Why aren't you-"

She was cut off by a rumble that shook the ground that was followed by a bright flash that had Cecelia screaming so loud I winced and had to cover my ears. She really was afraid of lightning. I looked down at her to see her shaking, I couldn't tell if it was from the chill of the rain or her fear.

"Cecelia, we need to get out of this storm."

I said, but she didn't respond. I sighed in exasperation at the woman before me.

"Cecelia."

I said and she just looked up at me. I sighed again before leaning forward and wrapping my arms around her. One under her legs, the other around her back as I lifted her bridal style. She seemed to curl up into a ball against my chest and I blinked in surprise before started to head for the house. Another clap of thunder sounded followed by a flash and she whimpered in my arms and I felt her hand grip the front of my shirt tightly. I growled soothingly and smiled when she relaxed some. I flared my aura to tell the others I'd found her just as I passed through the front door. I led her upstairs to my room and set her on her feet. She wrapped her arms around herself and shivered.

"You need to change out of those wet clothes."

I said as I walked into my closet. I pulled out a change of clothes for myself and quickly changed before grabbing a shirt and some pants for her and walking back into my room. She was still standing where I'd left her, shivering and dripping wet.

"Here, you can change in the bathroom."

I said holding out the clothes. She took them from me slowly before going into the bathroom. I waited as I sat on the floor in a meditative position trying to calm myself when I heard her scream. In an instant I was inside the bathroom, not caring if she was dressed or not, to make sure she was okay. She was huddled on the floor, thankfully fully dressed in dry clothes, with tears in her eyes. I sighed before picking her up again and carrying her to my bed. I laid her down and she curled up on her side and wrapped her arms around herself.

'She's really terrified of lightning.'

I thought surprised as I looked down at the little human infront of me. I'd always seen her so strong and she didn't seem to be scared of anything, but something as simple as lightning could send her into such a state. I started to get up, but a whimper from her stopped me. I turned when I felt her grab my sleeve. She was staring up at me, complete fear showing in her cerulean eyes.

"P-Please K-K-Katsume, stay with m-me."

She said as the tears streamed down her face and I felt something inside me tighten at seeing her so scared. It hurt me to see her like this and I nodded.

"Alright."

I said before moving around her and climbing onto the bed behind her. I wrapped my arms around her waist protectively without thinking and thought she'd pull away, but was surprised when the scent of her fear lessened and she seemed to relax in my arms. I could still feel her shivering as well as smell the scent of her tears and frowned. I tightened my grip on her a little and pulled her closer to me before leaning down and growling softly in her ear. She stopped shivering and her tears seemed to stop until a flash of lighting lit the sky outside the window. She whimpered and started to shiver again and I growled again and held her close.

"It's alright Cecelia, you're safe."

I whispered softly in her ear and she seemed to calm down. I could sense the others in the doorway and knew they were staring at us-more likely me than Cecelia-in shock before they disappeared. I didn't care what they were doing or what they thought, all I cared about right now was calming down the woman in my arms.