Shunrei was running without looking back; all she could think is that she should had never born to know Shiryu. How could he be...a god...? He was immortal...she would never be enough to stay at his side...and Mei-Li looked very interested for the place. Maybe she could make him happier after all. At a least she would be able to be at Shiryu's side, always, a thing that her, in her fragile mortal form would never be able to do...
 "Shunrei!" she heard an infant cry behind her. "Shunrei-chan!!!"
 Without strength to run anymore, with all her energy drained by the infinite despair, she stopped and turned to watch Kiki, who came quickly to her side.
 The boy stopped in front of her, breathing fast to get some air into his lungs.
 "Oh...god...I ran a lot..." he muttered, closing his lilac eyes.
 She sat in the green grass, hiding her face into her hands, trying to stop her tears without any effect.
 Kiki sat at her side too, concerned.
 "You can't be like this, Shunrei..." he said, without knowing what had really happened at the cottage. But how could Shiryu appear with that woman and leave Shunrei like this? How could he hurt her so much?
 Shunrei left him to embrace her, while he continued talking:
 "What happened at all?"
 She couldn't say a word, and the boy turned his face to watch the sky, with all its stars...The Draco constellation was shining brightly, and he asked for it's help silently.
 "It's because of Mei-Li, isn't it?" he whispered softly. "Don't be like this, please.    I don't think she can get Shiryu from you...no way... Why the fear, my friend? Shiryu and you should talk more about this...you can't just ran away from the things you fear, leaving the rest behind you."
 Slowly, the words made some effect in the girl, and her tears stopped coming. She raised from the ground, and tried to smile to her little friend:
 "Kiki...Thank you...You're right...I can't run like a coward..."
 He nodded, his eyes shining happy:
 "Go ahead so!"

 Shunrei opened the house's door carefully, noticing that everything was dark. For a few moments, she thought he wasn't there, and maybe had left with the woman, but then she felt his Cosmos.
 She found him in the same chair they had talked before, sleeping, but his face was still concerned. He had in his hands a rose flower, the flower she loved most, and the same one that he had gave her sometime ago, before going to Japan and becoming one of Athena's Saints.
 The girl repressed her own tears, felling sorry for him. How could she fear him? She was the one that better knew him...he was her life...without him...what would be of her?
 Being careful to not wake him up, she took a sheet to cover him, since it was a little cold. When she came closer to him, she suddenly realized how fragile he was. His face was so concerned and at the same time childish... does it really matter is he had been a Dragon in the past? Today he was just Shiryu, the Dragon Saint, the brother who grew up with her, her last motive to continue living, her love.
 What was Mei-Li's feelings, comparing to her own feelings for him?
 Tears dropped from her eyes to Shiryu's cheek, and he wake up, watching her with sleepy and deep gray eyes.
 Surprised, she tried to hide her tears but she couldn't. When she turned her face away from him, she felt a gentle touch in her own face. Shiryu's hand was touching her cheeks and wept away her tears.
 Shunrei looked back at him, her eyes widened in shock. Felling his warm hand, she closed her eyes, trying to make that moment eternal.
 Suddenly, she felt hot lips touch her own ones.
 Shiryu embraced her in a possessive gesture, bringing her closer to him, caressing her hair with trembling hands, fearing she would ran away again.
 Felling everything get away from her mind, Shunrei raised her own hands to embrace him too, her eyes still closed, knowing no one could see them now. It was too dark, except for the moonlight that came from the windows.
 "Shiryu, Shunrei, I..." the two of them pulled back from each other, surprised with the interruption of the infant voice, both felling empty after breaking the kiss.
 Kiki had stopped into the room, his lilac eyes widened:
 "Er...hn...I didn't know you two would decide the things SO fast..."
 Shunrei knew her face had turned to red, and looking at Shiryu, she noted he was in the same way...
 She walked away a little more from her loved one:
 "Hn...I guess it's too dark here... perhaps I should turn on the lights...?"
 Kiki laughed, happy. He knew these two couldn't keep one too far from the other for much time...That was love! The same love Seiya felt for Saori, the same love Ikki felt for Emeraude...he wished that when he'd fell in love with someone the things wouldn't be so complicate...

 But out of the house, Mei-Li had to repress a hate cry from her lungs when she saw the little romantic scene.
 That damned mortal!!!
 In that moment, she swore to herself she would kill that girl.