"Why?" Rin asked Akari.

"You should be asking yourself that question, crybaby." Akari told him.

Rin and Akari stopped talking for a moment, the falling rain covered their silence. The rain fell harder and harder on to them.

"I have dreams. I've been dreaming a lot in the past five months. " Rin told Akari. "Dreams of you, me and Kiko."

Akari's heart began to beat wildly. What what Rin saying? What does he mean?

"In those dreams, you... you loved me. Loved me more than I could ever know. Loved me to the point of loving me in the next lifetime. Loving me more than I deserved. Over and over, you loved me, but I couldn't see that love. I resented you. I... Kiko... and I... we... together we... treated you unfairly." Rin confessed. "We caused your death. Over and over again, we were the reason why you died. That's why... every time I woke up, I promised myself that I would treat you well. That I would not cause your death."

Had it not been for the downpour, Rin would see that Akari was crying. Tears fell down her face, her heart ached so much. He remembered. Rin remembered. She wasn't alone in remember their past lives. She didn't feel so alone.

"I don't know if my dreams are true. However I just wanted to let you know. I'm sorry." Rin told her. "I'm glad that you're my friend, Akari. I'm glad that we've become friends."

Rin stared at Akari's face however the rain was getting in the way of his sight. He couldn't tell what Akari was thinking or feeling.

"So tell me, Akari. Why is it that I always go back to Kiko?" Rin asked. "Are my dreams real? Did it happen in our past lives?"

Akari couldn't help herself, she stood up on the branch. Her tears kept falling as it mixed with the rain. The rain pour down harder and harder.

"You already know that answer. You just have to find the answers within yourself." Akari told him.

"I knew you wouldn't tell me anything, you rotten girl!" Rin shouted as he became mad. Why didn't she just tell him. Why was it so hard for her to just answer a single question?

"Rin." Akari called out Rin's name, bringing his attention back to Akari. "You... take care of yourself."

"What are you saying?" Rin shouted louder.

The rain, rained harder as if it was a monsoon It was raining so hard, the rain bounced back up.

"I just want you to be happy." Akari told him. "I'm glad... that this lifetime, we've become friends too."

Her heart became shreds with her words. 99 lifetimes. 99 trials to teach her a lesson that to love someone, was to let them go.

"What!" Rin shouted.

Rin watched as Akari told him to go back inside with her hands. Her hands kept shooing him away. Rin began to run back to the academy, but half way he stopped. He looked behind him and saw that Akari was already gone.

"Rotten girl." Rin whispered as he ran towards the academy again. "Always disappearing from me."

"Rin!" Kiko shouted as Rin reached her. "What did you have to say to Akari that it couldn't wait?"

Rin shook the water off of him and grab hold of her hand.

"Lets go back to the dormitory. We need to take a hot bath and change our clothes or we'll get sick."

Kiko raised her eyebrow, but let him lead the way. They ran through the rain again and separated at the door. Kiko went to her room as Rin went to his.

After a long hot bath and a change into warm clothes. He ate dinner with Kiko before she left because of curfew. Rin laid in bed and his instincts were telling him that something was wrong. Rin tossed and turned throughout the night as the rain poured down. Lightning lit up the sky as the thunder clap loudly, keeping him up. He felt as if he was missing something.

Shane was kept awake as Rin was tossing and turning in bed. Shane came in a couple of times, checking in on him, however Rin told him to go back to sleep. He was just restless and couldn't go to sleep.

That whole night, his senses were telling him to find Akari. He had to find her. However because it was deep into the night, he couldn't leave his room. He silently watched as the rain came down harder and harder. To get his mind off of Akari and his gut telling him to find her. He opened up his books and read them.

When the sun rose, Rin didn't even change out of his sleeping clothes. He didn't even wear proper shoes. He ran straight to Akari room and pounded the door.

Shane had ran after Rin, wondering why he was acting so strangely. Rin pounded the door so hard that the other doors next to Akari's room opened to see what was happening.

"Akari!" Rin shouted. "Open up! Akari!"

Girls and their maids looked out their doors, questioning each other why Rin was there.

"Akari!" Rin shouted desperately. The feeling of never seeing her again came over him. "Akari!"

"Coming!" Lena shouted. "Coming!"

Lena opened the door. Her hair was wrapped in a towel as if she had gotten out of the shower. Her clothes were in disarray as if she just threw them on in a hurry.

"Akari!" Rin shouted as he pushed through Lena and went inside. Rin began to panic as he saw Akari's empty bed. "Akari!"

Rin went to the bathroom, looking if Akari was there instead, but her everything in room was empty.

"Where's Akari?" Rin asked as he looked at Lena. "Did she wake up already? Is she at the academy?"

"What are you asking about Young Master Rin?" Lena asked confused.

"Where's Akari?" Rin shouted.

"The Young Miss? She...she's gone." Lena told him.

"Gone? Gone where?" Rin shouted as he took several steps towards Lena. Lena walked back until her back hit against the wall. "Tell me now where she went!"

"Her... her Master came to get her yesterday... she already left to study at Neboto Mountain."

"But... he wasn't supposed to come until she turned 15 years old." Rin said desperately. "How could he come get her so early?"

"Young... Master Rin... today is her birthday." Lena reminded him. "He came to get her the moment she turned 15 years old."

Rin's face fell. The loud sound of thunder and the bright streaks of lightning from last night came to his mind. He felt his heart stop and a hard stone fill up it's place. Tears began to fall as he knew he should have listened to his instincts. The whole night it was telling him to find her. To see her one last time. To try to hold on to her. He felt horrible. So many years together and he forgot her birthday.

Images of Akari celebrating his birthday flooded his mind. 99 lifetime's worth of birthday celebration with Akari. 99 lifetime of him and Akari celebrating at least one birthday of his together. Never one of them, did he celebrate her birthday. It was always his birthday they celebrated. Even in this lifetime, they didn't celebrate her birthday. 99 lifetime's worth of memories, and yet he knew nothing about her. Not even now. Not even someone who he considered his friend.

"That rotten girl... she... left... disappeared without saying a word." Rin said softly. "She's gone... and I'll never be able to find her... "

Rin's tears fell down harder. He lost strength in his legs and he fell down. Shane caught him when Rin fell to his knees. Rin knelt as he cried loudly. Regret. He regretted so much. Suddenly his head started hurting. A high pitch ring rang loudly in his ear. More memories of his lifetime with Kiko and Akari filled his mind. His life with Kiko after Akari's death. Those memories... they... were not pleasant.

Rin screams at the top of his lungs as those unpleasant memories filled his mind. Betrayal after betrayal. Lies after lies. His death at the hands of Kiko. His wish to be reincarnated, so he could kill Kiko. His wish to relive his life avenging himself and his family against his enemies. His wish to not make the same mistake with Kiko and returning Akari's love. His vow to love Akari back, just as much as she loved him for 99 lifetimes. 

Darkness consumed him as he remembers the promises he made to the Gods and to himself, when he wished to redo his life over again. 

**** A/N:  This was a hard chapter for me to write bc it brought up so many feelings inside of me.  I cried a few times and had stop for a few minutes before I could continue writing. This will be my last chapter for tonight. I hope you enjoyed my mass release today.  Goodnight. -ptd xoxo