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Rayan's eyebrows perked up upon hearing Sakura's suggestion. "Glue? What, am I a piece of furniture now? Gluing my arm back together sounds like a grand plan." Despite his words, however, Rayan could not help but wonder if there had been some recent medical technology advance to replace stitches. At length, Rayan shrugged his shoulders.

"All right, bring me to this glue of yours, since you're so uptight about a little blood." Rayan turned towards Sakura Ai, and offered her his non-bloody arm. "If you would join us, please, do me the honor," he said, with a nonchalant gallantry about him. His gentlemanly gesture was intended to help her get over her fetish about blood.

Turning back towards the fairy Sakura, Rayan said, "All right, then, lead the way, if you would. I have... a bad history with nurses." Rayan shuddered at the thought of his past incidents. Nurses were scary, let alone the fact that his mother had been one, and she was... not a typical mother, either.

Rayan paused after hearing Sakura Ai's monologue. He studied his good arm, dumbly suspended in the air. The mentioning of the girl's healing ablities had made him look a fool. Yet his eyes remained calm and indifferent as he looked back at Sakura Ai. He stood silent as he considered his options. Slowly, he let his arm drop to his side.

"You're a healer?" Rayan asked her, and after another moment added, "All right, then. While I doubt that medical technology would be uncapable of curing such a condition, I'll do anything to avoid the nurses. If you command the powers of restoration as much as you say you do, then use them." With his good arm, Rayan gently removed fairy Sakura's hand from his arm, and tore off all the bloody napkins from his gaping wound. He then held up his arm, presenting it to her as if he were the commander of a losing army offering his sword in defeat to the victor.

(I'll be away until tuesday... so this will be my last post until then, sadly. Try not to miss me too badly.)

Rayan's bright green eyes gleamed brightly as a pure, holy light descended upon him. The sparkle of Sakura Ai's magic intoxicated him, combining with her enchantment to put Rayan in a kind of trance. He felt himself suddenly feel much lighter, not in weight, but in mind and soul. Then, he winced as an acute pain shot through his brain. His wound was sensitive to the intense amount of magic it was receiving, and even though it was meant to heal, Rayan still felt pain because his body was not used to this kind of magic flow. But soon the pain subsided, and a cool, soothing feeling swept over him. It was like the spring breeze, twirling the petals of flowers in the air majestically, with sunlight pouring out of heaven. Rayan felt that he could almost relive some of the past happiest moments of his life. Then a vision entered his mind. It was only present for a moment, and then it vanished. It was her. The picture had not been clear enough to stick in Rayan's mind, nor could he recall a name. All that remained with him were the shards of past emotions and fragments of lost hopes.

Rayan put his hand to his forehead and shook his head. Too many thoughts were filling his mind at once, and it pained him, far worse than the gash that had been on his arm. Rayan cursed his sentimentality internally. He was letting his emotions control him, he was being irrational. Emotions were no substitute for calm consideration and thinking, thus they were rarely to be trusted.

Shoving his sporradic thoughts out of mind as he noticed that the light around him had faded. He held up his arm and examined it, his mouth slightly agape. To Rayan's wonderment, his wound was entirely healed. Rayan felt a smile creep over him. "Thank you, Sakura..." he said. "Your kindness is greatly appreciated."

**Warning from: SaKuRaBaBy**
You are not supposed to use *'s for actions. As for the talking in your posties, I'll review them over so it'll help you in the future. Let's use your first quote.

It should be written as "Oh! Excuse me," Riley apologized. It can also be written as...Riley apologized, "Oh! Excuse me." To make it clearer as for who it's speaking, please start a new line. The second paragraph was a little hard to tell who was speaking.

Riley stepped in. Sakura Ai brushed past her, leaving. "Oh! Excuse me." Riley apologized. She then turned her attention to the cafeteria. It seemed lonely, except for the constant screaming of the insane lunch ladies. She walked over to the counter, put some money on the table, and took some jelly. "HOLD IT!!!" Screamed a paranoid lunch lady. Riley jumped, startled.

"JUST WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!?!" She hollered. (did I spell that right? eek ) "Um..I was just getting some fo--" She grabbed her arm, "Have you ever been in jail!?! Does your hair bleach in the sunlight!?! Am a looney of limbo!?!" she threw questions at her this way and that. When she finished...

10 minutes later....

20 minutes later...

*checks watch*

*sigh* This is a waste of time. She nipped her, causing her tightened arm to become loose. She grabbed her money, placed it in front of the lady, and sat down, ignoring the annoying shouts for her to come back.

Unfortunately, she resorted to violence. Not long after Riley sat down, she started throwing unidentified flying objects at her. "Ai!!!! Ya ya ya ya!! Ai!!!" It seemed the first UFO was a spatula. The second was a frying pan. "Wah!" Riley ran outside, brushing past some people who were bewildered at this site. She sat down, and ate her jelly in peace near a patch of toadstools. (toadstools are mushrooms if you don't already know)

::EDIT:: Sorry...I'll be more careful from now on. 3nodding

Rayan saw that Sakura Ai's smile was incincere. He knew it wasn't healing him that was her problem, but something from her past. Her smile made Rayan wonder what that past event was that was forcing her to fake her own happiness in front of others in order to prevent from dragging them into her problems. He tensed slightly; he wanted to help her, yet said nothing. If Sakura Ai wanted to pour out her heart to Rayan or anyone else, that was her decision. It was not for him to interfere in her affairs, unless he was already involved in some way.

Sakura Ai had her back to him. She looked back over her shoulder, and said, "I have to go." She then gave him a salute and another smile, and then walked away, and left the cafeteria. Rayan nodded in reply to her salute, then stared at her silently as she left. I hope that we may meet again. You are such a nice girl, he thought.

A few moments later, fairy Sakura said to him, "Well, now that you're healed...how bout some food? I bet you're starving!" Rayan gave her a half smile in response and said, "That would be wonderful. I just hope I'm not being a burden to you in any way."

Sakura blinked on confusion at the teacher's response. What had gone through his head for him to even have such a thought. It wasn't like she had to carry him or feed him. Besides, she wouldn't be going out of her way to eat with him because it was lunchtime already.

"Of course you won't be a burden! Go put down anything you don't want to carry at that booth over there, and then let's go get food!"

Sakura pointed to the booth that she and Kurai were sitting at originally. She then proceeded to grab a tray and load her tray up with various mouth-watering foods. She grabbed a small bowl of tortilla chips with blue crab salsa, a wild field salad, and a plate of calamari with marinara sauce for her entree. Sakura had a stomach that seemed like a bottomless pit; she could eat and eat and somehow always be hungry. Not in the mood for sweets, Sakura decided that she would get dessert if her craving came back after her lunch.


Sliding her student ID down the slot to pay for her food, Sakura looked around for the teacher.

Rayan smirked slightly at Sakura's amusing response. The look on her face had been priceless. "Good. I'd hate to be tieing you down in any way," he said to her. Having been more or less ordered to join her for lunch, Rayan walked over towards the item-holding booth. He undid the belt that kept his katana at his side in its red sheath, and gently placed his sword it down in the item storage area. After doing so, Rayan strolled over to check out what food was being served.

After browsing through for a short time, Rayan froze as he saw his meal of choice. "Oooh... steak and pineapple! No way!" he said, and quickly snatched as much as he could and filled his plate. Rayan decided that he would gorge himself on just that for now, and go back for more later if he was still hungry. He walked over towards Sakura and said, "Well, I'm all set." Rayan stood there, hoping that Sakura had planned to extend her kindness as far as paying for him- he was dead broke.

Rayan smiled his thanks to Sakura, finding it slightly humorous that she was too busy obsessing over her strange, delectible-looking fruit to pay him much attention. He walked over to a table and sat down, placing his tray in front of him. Rayan realized that he had forgotten silverware, and so he stood back up and went back to get a fork and knife. Once he had obtained them, he returned to his seat, wiping away the drool hanging off of his teeth with his tongue. He hadn't eaten a steak that looked this good in months, and it was all the better because of the pineapple slices that decorated it. With little hesitation, Rayan cut it into bite sized pieces and inhaled as much of it as possible in the least amount of time.

"So... good..." he said to himself happily, as if in a narcotic dream. "Thank you soooo much for buying this for me. I really owe you one," he said to Sakura, smiling brightly at her before he sunk his teeth into another chunk of steak.