CHAPTER 7: THE PAST 1

Zia dabbed her mouth the shocked expression not leaving her face for even a second.

"Are you sure what you saw was her?"

"Unless you tell me that I'm going crazy I know what I saw and what I saw was her." Shun said getting exhilarated. Zia could not believe what she heard.

"But she died. I saw her."

"Do you say that I was not there." Shun said while standing up and approaching her.

"I saw her myself." Hurt was evident in his voice but his face remained stoic, void of any emotion. Zia looked even more confused than before.

"When did you see her?"

"Tonight. Two hours ago." She couldn't remember who I am. Anyway since my face was covered." Zia looked at Shun with a loopside smile already getting what he wanted to find out.

"You knew her more than any of us. I will look into it. But I don't think she lost her memory."

"What are you are suggesting is that someone blocked her past memories." Zia was always at Shun's speed in understanding situations with just a little help.

"Yeah. But we need to know who and why?" Shun looked at her indicating that he would handle that.

"One more thing Shun, you do remember how many people would like her dead?" Shun knew what she meant if those people found out that she was still arrive they would kill her without a second thought.

"What you are suggesting is?" Shun already knew what she meant and it was something that didn't quite fit well with him. Zia knew she would not agree on it but it was for her own sake.

"You have to stear clear off her. You know how good you are at getting in trouble?" Shun raised one of his eyebrow after the latter words.

"You told me that i'm handsome. so maybe trouble is a girl who has a crush on me and follows me everywhere I go." Zia could see mischievous smile in his eyes. She was glad to see his normal self back.

"I can't promise to stay away from her because I also need to protect her. " Zia knew how stubborn Shun was but him staying near Aqua was like giving her a direct death wish. But when Shun removed a small bottle with a bluish liquid inside, she knew the reason why.

"Where did you get this from?"

"From a fat friend of mine. Why what is it?" Zia knew whoever it was would not be arrive by then. She just shook her head and took the portion from him.

"This is use to poison the nerves of all immortals making them weak and easier to kill. The hunters are working really hard to kill us ain't they?"

"That's makes it even more fun."

"But the only problem they have is that it doesn't work for long and looses its effect after sometime."

"Well that good then. But this guys stop until they find what they are looking for. They are asking for this." Shun stood from the sofa and left the house.

"One more thing, find a way to make the antidote." Zia nodded her head as she put the portion in a secret compartment.

Just as Shun was about he bumped into a young lady with red hair that reaches her neck she looked dumbfounded by the site in front of her. Shun coughed and the lady's cheeks turned scarlet from embarrassment as she had been caught staring.

She apologized before she bolted into the room. Shun could hear her heart beating so hard that he was afraid it would fall from it's cage. Shun was already used to this reactions. The sun was already shinning in the horizon. When he entered the streets. He could feel daggers shooting towards him from the men he was passing.

'Geez is it my fault I'm more handsome.' Shun thought to himself if looks could kill he would have died a thousand times.

"Who was that?" The lady asked as she approached Zia. Zia knew that the lady was already smitten to Shun.

"A friend, why do you ask?" Zia tried to be friendly to her because she was a frequent customer. Zia knew what she would ask next.

"You can ask his name later when he comes next time. He's a frequent customer too." The young lady beamed at those words. But Zia that Shun would kill her If he found out what she had done.

*****

Aqua was still confused about what happened last night. Jade came to wake her up but what she saw made her freak out.

"Oh my goodness what happened to you? You look like a mummy. "

"Don't you think you are exaggerating I don't look that bad. " Aqua said as she rolled her eyes.

"Was the bed not comfortable? Did you have a nightmare?" Jade bombarded her a million gazillion questions.

"Jade if you don't stop showering me with all those questions my head is going yo blow up." Aqua said as she covered her ears. Jade went to the dressing table where she was seated. She took the foundation and helped her cover her eye bags.

"Your hair is all tangled up. Let me guess you've woken up late." Jade thought that it was wierd since Aqua went to sleep even before so she couldn't understand why she looked so tired. Aqua kept yawning every time and she looked out of place.

"Aqua you are not concentrating on your training just go and rest." Aqua apologized to the coach and walked towards the benches. Those grey eyes kept appearing in her mind. She wondered what he was doing in the forest.

As the days passed by Aqua had not has from him again since never stepped out of the grounds at night. After one week the incident had already stared clearing in her mind but grey eyes always haunted her at night.

On that friday Aqua was so tired that she fell asleep immediately after the shower. A man in a black shirt and faded jeans appeared in her room. His pale pink lips pulled up at the site of the sleeping figure in front of him. Both his hands we're in his pockets as he leaned on the wall.

His silver hair was ruffled up that some strands came to fall on his face. His grey eyes we're glued on her. He could hear her steady breathing and the steady rhythm of her heart beat. Her delicate lips we're slightly parted. His smile widened as a memory crossed his mind.