Disclaimer: I do not own any of the charaters included in this fanfiction.

Author's Notes: I am revising this story!

Healing Tears

Author: Emilee1

Chapter 5: Where did you go?

Ulrich was now with Odd in his room. They were talking as Odd explained the tornadoes seeming that Ulrich really didn't remember being hit by flying glass. Yumi was in a state of depression at her house and wouldn't come to school. She hadn't been told that Ulrich was alive.

"Odd, where is Yumi? Shouldn't she be here in class?" Ulrich asked Odd leaning down in his chair where the teacher wouldn't see.

"I don't know where she is. I forgot to tell her about you anyway." Odd replied.

Then Jeremy decided to talk as well. "Ulrich I think I figured out why you came back."

Odd and Ulrich both looked at Jeremy strangely. How could he come back? The question went through all of their minds.

Jeremy began to explain his theory. "Yumi started to cry in Lyoko, and her tears rose into the air creating a light and then disappeared in a rainbow of colors."

Yumi cried over me? Ulrich didn't quite understand why this occurred. He was left to ponder over it for a while.

Jeremy began once again, "Luckily no one remembers that you were dead except for me, Odd, and Yumi. If they did, we might have had to explain about Lyoko."

Odd leaned back in his chair, "Yeah, but Yumi doesn't know that he's alive."

"I guess we should tell her," Jeremy replied.

"Yeah I guess so. This is probably why she is still at home."

"After class I'll go and talk to her." Ulrich said looking at the clock.

"Yeah, but do you think you can remember?" Odd asked laughing to himself.

"Very funny... I won't forget in an hour." Ulrich replied pointing at the clock.

"Wow! A whole hour? You will be tired of remembering by then." Odd started to laugh again.

Ulrich sighed and decided not to debate on it any further.

"So you have fifteen minutes left, do you still remember?" Odd asked snickering.

Ulrich ignored him or at least tried to.

"Okay, okay. I'll stop. At least you didn't hear what Sissy said during the storm." Odd said smiling.

"What do you mean?" This caught Ulrich's attention.

"She said something about you always being mean to her and never asked her how her day was or anything like that. She was really sad."

Maybe I should just be a little nicer to her. It wouldn't hurt to at least once.

RING

"Okay so you remember right?" Odd asked walking beside Ulrich.

"Yes already!" Ulrich balled up his hand into a fist.

Ulrich stopped by Sissy and said as nice as casual as he could, "Hi Sissy how has your day been going?"

"Um...uhh...hmph Like I should tell you anyway. It isn't any of your business." She stuck her nose in the air and walked off.

Ulrich smiled; At least she won't be waiting on me hand and foot all the time. Now that that's out of my system, I will go to Yumi's.

He arrived at her house and rang the doorbell. He hoped she would answer it considering her parents were at work.

She opened the door, but she still did not come to realize who was there. He was hiding to make sure she wasn't at school because of him.

Sure enough there were tears in her eyes and she tried to wipe some of them away.

"Yumi?"

"Who's there?" she asked abruptly.

She looked around and Ulrich came out from the bushes.

Yumi just stood there not knowing what exactly to think.

"Ulrich..." She took one step further and then ran into his arms crying hysterically.

He brought her closer to him and said, "Don't cry, everything is all right."

"But how?" She drew away from him blushing.

"I'm not sure. Jeremy said something about you...crying in Lyoko," Ulrich replied.

Yumi smiled and they walked inside. They sat down one her couch and continued talking.

"So...um did I miss anything at school?" Yumi asked trying to find something to talk about.

"No not really, you just missed a boring class."

"Class is always boring so I don't think I missed anything." She replied laughing. She wanted to stay off the subject of previous events.

Ulrich accidentally put his hand on hers making them both blush. Then they looked each other straight in the eye and turned away frantically.

Ulrich turned back around and said, "Um look... I guess I ought to tell you this. Yumi I don't know how long I have, but I have feelings for you. Not just as a friend but..."

Yumi turned back around slowly. "Well I have something to tell you too... I feel the same way." She smiled though she didn't do this accidentally. She put her hand on his.

The looked each other straight in the eye and started to lean in.

Their lips were an inch apart when suddenly the same ray of light had surrounded Yumi and made her disappear.

"Yumi?" Ulrich looked around for her but couldn't seem to find her anywhere. Where did she go? "YUMI!"