A/N: So it seems only one person likes this story enough to review, making me realize how shy people are…or are you simply lazy? I thank the kind person who did review my story and I hope someone else will review this too.

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Toya looked at Emi in surprise. "You know?"

Emi nodded and looked away from him. "I knew when I saw the way that Asato was looking at you back at the hospital…Normally, he doesn't get so worked up by my guy friends, but when he reacted so strongly to you I knew something was up." She clicked her heels together as if she was nervous. "I heard the two of you discuss the accident…Toya, why didn't you tell me sooner?"

The bodyguard watched her carefully. "Would you have dated me if you knew I was the one who put your brother in a coma?"

"We'll never know," Emi whispered, turning her purple gaze back to him. She nudged him gently. "Toya…do you still work for the Mikage clan?"

"Just the son of the previous boss, Aki…He wants nothing to do with celestial maidens and their powers." Toya gently nudged her with his elbow. "Are you -?"

The young artist nodded and sighed. "Asato told me that my mother was one, but that she found her feathered robes when my father grew tired of her. She left me here to be raised by a human mother who…" She trailed off and frowned. "My human mother and father died eight years ago…They tried to sell me off to the Mikage clan, but my uncle and Asato kept me hidden away from that fate..."

Toya was startled to see her lips turn up at the corners. Even more so when she laughed at the world. She turned her back on the window where her brother could be seen watching them and brushed imaginary dust off of Toya's shoulder.

"Is this the end of us, Toya?" she asked, peering into his eyes. "You ride off into the sunset, harassed by my brother's words, while I stand in the middle of the road, watching you go and whispering 'come back' even though no one can hear me." She put her hand on his chest, feeling his heartbeat quicken at her lightest touch. "Is that how this three month relationship ends?"

"Three months and four days…" Toya said quietly, wrapping an arm around her waist, his hand at the small of her back. "And it doesn't have to end that way…"

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Asato watched his little sister stand by the car that had nearly ended his life three years ago. Of course, he realized that the car's paint had been changed from red to black. It made it less conspicuous, but Asato felt he would remember the car even if it had been modified or chopped up for parts. And it angered him that Emi didn't seem to recognize the threat that was wrapped up in a handsome package.

Her boyfriend! Asato thought darkly. Why couldn't she recognize the Mikage symbol on his choker? Uncle and I have drilled it into her head to avoid that damned clan and all its associates. Yet, she fell in love with the bodyguard of one of the Mikage clan members…His eyes narrowed in anger. How could she be so stupid?

He watched Emi lean in close to Toya and couldn't help but wish that she was giving the would-be murderer a kiss of Death. That, he felt, would be the proper ending to that farce of a relationship.

I have to take her far, far away from here, Asato thought. The Mikage clan can't take her away. Her mother made me swear on my life to protect her…I can't let the Mikage asses do what they did to other girls with celestial maiden blood running through their veins…

Asato's eyes narrowed into slits as he watched Toya put his hands intimately on his sister. She was seventeen dammit and Toya was…Well, Asato could tell that Toya was several years older, even if he had an ageless face. Asato was sorely tempted to throw open the window and jump from it, just so he could break the two lovers apart.

Emi get back in here!

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Emi had listened to Toya's words and she could feel her brother's anger permeating onto the street. She found she could forgive Toya for nearly killing her brother because he had saved her life as penance. But she couldn't forgive her brother for his anger directing towards the man she loved without acknowledging the fact that Toya had taken care of her and saved her klutzy butt several times in the recent months. Emi allowed Toya to escort her around his car and he opened the passenger's side door like a perfect gentleman.

The daughter of a celestial maiden looked back up at the apartment window that her brother was standing in front of. Hard gray eyes met soft purple and Emi tried to convey the love she had for her brother through their unwavering stare. When he blinked and put his hand on the glass pane, Emi had already made her decision of what she was going to do.

Emi lifted her hand and waved. "Goodbye Asato," she whispered…

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A/N: This is the end of this story. I can write no more on it without it getting into Cheesy Mary-Sue Soap Opera Land. It's just that terrible. And no one but ONE FAITHFUL reviewer, reviews it. So, I give up on this story, no matter how short this chapter was.

Thanks for reading and I hope more than one person reviews. ~ Scarlet