The Settlement - Amaterasu's Ballroom

"Don't like to be the follower, do you?"

"Makes me feel weak.." She said slyly.

"You are not weak."

"Doesn't mean I don't feel it."

He laughed and said, "Such a headstrong woman."

"Better then being a clingy whiny one." Ayama scoffed. "Seen way to many of them in my life time."

"Very true. I never said I didn't like a woman being headstrong."

"You rather enjoy them don't you."

"Now you're catching on!"

Ayama laughed. "Prefer them?"

Hikaru grabbed Yuki's ear and brought him down to her level

"Watch it boy" she said with all the malice she possessed

"Sorry Aunt Hikaru." Yuki whispered his apology.

"Very much so. I've had more than my fair share of encounters with clingy women... They are not worth it."

"They make ya feel like... if you do one thing wrong, or even if you walk out the door your going to leave them. Their crazy..."

"They also have a habit of making you look like an asshole in front of everyone else when they start to cry."

"Bleh! The only time to cry is when death is near."

Hikaru scowled again...

"...great now i'm in a bad mood..."

Yuki grinned and picked her up once more, now doing the tango with her. "Have a little fun."

"Or if one extremely dear to you is dying."

"Thats what I ment by death is near. When people are dying, or even you, yourself."

He frowned when he remembered his and his sister's nightmare... Thank God he and his sister were close enough to defeat it, but he couldn't help but to wonder... What if she had killed him?

Ayama, guessing what he was thinking said simply. "If she had killed you, she would have felt like she had lost apart of her."

"I know... I would've felt the same... We make perfect halves..."

"Soul mates."

Hikaru heard Ayama and remembered The twins nightmare

Thank gods that Koaru hadn't been with her or they too might have been forced into a simmilar situation

she shuddered to think about it

but, mabye, if Koaru had been there her own nightmare would have been bearable...