Once Kioshi had finally stopped punching Daigo's face into the tree, he let go of his throat and jumped a couple of feet back with his knuckles all covered in blood. "I...Is he dead?..." he asked himself looking closely into the darkness of the basically hollow tree now.

"Nope.." Daigo said within the darkness as his face was all beaten up this time and bleeding uncontrolably. Quickly out of no where hundreds of his clones came out of the hollow darkness as they all had their katanas out surrounding Kioshi. "You didnt think....I...I'd let you beat me...th-this easily...did you?.."

Kana looked up at what was happening, she didn't know what had happened, but she saw Kioshi surrounded by hundreds of clones and she slowly stood to her feet. "K-Kioshi?" she asked quietly, a single tear slowly ran down her face. She was truly scared now, of him and for him, and she didn't know what to do.

Kioshi looked back over toward Kana as she stood up, he frowned deeply and looked back as he saw all of the clones jump into the air with their katanas pointed at him. He didnt do anything as he just curled up onto the floor letting the blades just go into his back rather then hit him anywhere 'too' fatal.

The orginal Daigo looked from the darkness of the hollow tree as he grinned and tilted his head. "hmm?..." he said quietly to himself looking over toward the side and seeing Kana, not even thinking if he had killed Kioshi or not.

Kana ran toward Kioshi, screaming his name. She practically slid on the ground she dropped to her knees so fast. "Kioshi...if you're still alive...PLEASE try and keep it that way. If you don't get very much more wounded I'm sure with patience, time, and lots of bandaging I can fix you. Just...don't get very much more hurt...I'll try and handle it...again." she said, sighing and frowning a bit. She stood up and looked at Daigo. "Look, I know we killed Mamoru, but it was only self defense, please don't hurt us!" she begged.

"no....not this time..." Kioshi said laying under the pile of clones on top of him. "Not again...I wont make you go through that pain again...not on your own." he said as the ground began to shake once more as pillars of stone bolted out of the ground slamming each and everyone of the clones off of him and making them land either on the ground on stuck in the trees.

Daigo looked around at the clones hanging from everywhere as he bit down onto his lower lip looking over at Kana and Kioshi now standing next to each other. "You two.....are REALLY geting on my nerves!!" he said walking out of the darkness with the katanas gripped tightly in his hands.

Kana took deep breaths in and out and looked at Kioshi, then gripped his shirt. "Please don't get hurt...I can't stand to lose you..." she said quietly. "Please!!!" she begged, the tears like mini rivers down her face. She readied herself and waited for Daigo to make his next move.

Kioshi looked at Kana crying as he frowned deeply, he slowly began to wrap his arms around her pulling her close to his body and looking down at her with his expression getting sadder by the minute. "Kana....I....I'm sorry..." he said with a whispering tone as he burried his face into her hair a bit.

Daigo looked at both of them stand in front of him as he gave a little sickened look on his face and threw one of his katanas at them, but right as it got close to them both, Kioshi slammed his foot into the ground causing a little wall to come out of the ground and catch Daigo's katana.

Kana sighed. "I just wish I could go back to the time when we met...and run away with you right then and there, to a place where nobody could bother us, we could be safe and live a normal life and get married now instead of waiting while you sit in the hospital trying to get better after this fight...I wish I could take it all back." she whispered into his chest, not aware if he could hear it or not. She sighed and hugged him close, feeling the dampness on his shirt from her flooding eyes.

Kioshi looked at Kana still with a deep frown as his own hands began to shake since he was beginning to get a little scared himself. "Kana...I want you to get out of here..." he said with a whisper leaning back a little and touching her cheek gently.

Kana shook her head. "No...I won't leave you here to die. If something happens I need to be here to save you." she said quietly. "I can't lose you, Kioshi." she added.

Kioshi looked into Kana's eyes carefully as he frowned deeply and looked up at the stone wall he made. He saw how it was slowly beginning to break down from Daigo attacking it now. "Please...Kana....jus...just go..I'll be fine." he said with another whispering tone as he ran and touch the wall trying to strengthen it some more.

Kana slowly walked away, but little did those two know that she wasn't very far away. She didn't trust Kioshi enough. She knew he wasn't strong enough in the condition that he was in to kill Daigo, maybe damage, but not kill. For now, she would stand by in fear, and wait for the moment to jump in.

Kioshi looked at Kana run away as he smiled softly and relaxed his arms on the wall. Thank you... he thought as he felt the stone wall beginning to crack and finally giving through making the wall itself to explode from the amount of damage it had taken. It made caused Kioshi to fall to the floor and looked up at Daigo standing over him with a grin now. "Ehehe....Y-your stronger...t-t-then most humans..." he said coughing a little blood onto the floor.

Daigo looked down at Kioshi on the floor grinning as it quickly turned to a frown when he realized that Kana wasnt around. "Where is she?..." he demanded.

Kana sat up in a tree, practically right above them and watched carefully. It was mostly to make sure that Kioshi would be okay. She knew he was much too weak.

Kioshi kept breathing a little heavily as he looked at Daigo having no clue that Kana was still watching. "Sh...shes no where you'll ever find her..." he said frowning and glaring at Daigo.

Daigo bit down onto his lower lip and glared back at Kioshi putting his katana right at Kioshi's neck. "Tell me or else you'll be missing one head." He said with a cold tone slicing his neck a little and making his neck bleed slowly.

Kana glared and hopped down, punching Daigo in the temple, making him pass out, possibly killing him. She looked at Kioshi and smiled a little. "Dear, this is why I stayed close, now, you may have the pleasure of finishing him off." she said, looking at the limp Daigo. "That's all it took." she said, setting a hand on his throat and setting in on fire a little, should he have woken up.

Kioshi looked down at the unconcious Daigo with wide eyes as he glanced back up at Kana and stayed quiet because of how shocked he was. "Y...You were watching...?...this whole time?..." he asked looking back down at Daigo wanting to give the final blow but for some reason couldnt. Sh...shes saved me so many times...h-how can I even tell her that I want to help her...wh-when I cant even save myself?!!? he thought with anger boiling inside himself.

Kana sighed and looked down at Daigo. "Yes, I was, because you were weak and I knew what would happen." she said. She knew that Kioshi was angry at himself for not being manly or whatever, but she needed him to kill him. "Kioshi!!" she screamed. "Kill him dammit!" she yelled.

When Kioshi heard Kana scream his eyes flung open as he gasped and looked back down at Daigo hearing him groan as if he were waking up. "fine.." he said closing his eyes and putting his hand onto the floor forcing a boulder out of the ground. He stayed quiet from there on as he just moved he boulder to leviate over Daigo's head and slammed it down with all his might crushing his skull under all the pressure. Once Daigo was dead, Kioshi slowly got up to his feet and kept his head down hidden from Kana's gaze and turned around to begin limping away.

Kana watched the dying Daigo until the boulder smashed down onto his head, then she sat and stared at him for a little while, then turned around to find Kioshi, but low and behold, he was gone. "Kioshi?" she asked quietly, more to herself. "Kioshi?!" she yelled, starting to run. When she finally found him, he had absolutely no energy and he was barely even walking. Kana ran up and hugged him for support, and just because she was glad she found him. "Kioshi, why'd you run away?" she whispered in his ear.

Kioshi nearly fell to the ground once again when Kana came and hugged him. At first, his eyes flung open wide again but once he realized it was Kana his eyes went back to normal as he just stayed quiet and stared down at the floor. It hurt him to see how much pain she had to go through and all because her parents choose him to be her husband.

Kana sighed. "Kioshi, the silent treatment isn't going to help anyone." she said quietly, gently kissing his dirty cheek. "Please just tell me why you ran away." she said, gently rubbing his back. Her legs were shaking a little as she tried to hold up the both of them, but she would manage...somehow.

Kioshi looked back at Kana as his eyes were slowly looking as if they were filling up with tears. He quickly wrapped his arms around her tightly and looked down at her with tear finally coming down his cheeks. "Kana...I...I dont think...y-you should marry me...I...I've brought you so much pain...I...I dont want you hurt anymore.." he said with his voice cracking up because of his tears.

Kana laughed a little. "Dear, of course I'm going to marry you. I'd die without you..." she said, slowly wiping his tears. "And, I'm not hurt...the only pain you have caused me is right here, right now, thinking that you have caused me pain. Mamoru would have come for both of us, and without eachother, we would have both been dead right now." she said, trying to reassure him. "We're getting married." she added.

Kioshi looked into Kana's eyes carefully as he placed a hand onto her cheek. "Y...You really mean it?..." he asked slowly getting a smile onto his face. It made him really happy to know that she was actually going to stay with him even though all the things that had happened to the both of them.