Gino and Yuna shopping

She looked at the mirror and then back at him. "Why?"

"Just tell me, what do you see?"

She looked back at the mirror and sighed. "I see a 16 year old girl." She then looked down. "Why are you making me do this?"

"Right, you see a girl. One moment." He walked to some storages with clothes, got some out, walked back and put them on Yuna. It was a large cape, a crown and a white tunique. "Now, what do you see now?"

"A queen?" She then looked at him. "What are you getting at?"

He put the stuff away. "As you saw, just by changing your outfit, you changed from a commom girl into a queen. The same is for your situation. Your outside may have changed, but your inside remains the same. Don't care what you are, Demon, Phoenix, girl, boy, you'll always be you. and if you love Anya, then focus your energy on that, not something as superficial as being girl or guy."

She looked down "I know..." She wiped some tears from her eyes. "Gino...thanks.." She then hugged him.

"What up with the clingy and all." He swung his arm around her neck. "Well, I'll just be expecting no more hard feelings then, haha." He pushed her out of the store, before she might have the urge to get back to shopping.

*Takumi walks into the mall, sulking and trying to think of what to do to impress Gino*

She nodded. "Gino....I made a promise to Anya I'm not sure I can keep." She looked up at him.

"What promise be that?"

She sighed. "I Promised I'd help her get her memories back some how."

*Takumi starts wandering around the mall, looking for something that might interest Gino*

"well, from what I know, minds can't be forced to remember. If a memory is gone, it's gone. So either her memories are gone, which makes it permanent, or something's blocking her memories."

She nodded. "But I do know of a way I think. But it would involve me probably throwing my pride away."

"Well, pride's something expendable anyway. Love, now that's something you can't afford to lose. Speaking of love, got a chick who's in love with me, but I unno how to approach such a thing. Crap!" He grabbed Yuna, and dragged her down to the ground. "Speak of the devil."

*Takumi wandered by a clothing store that sold weird outfits* "I wonder if this store has something that will help me?" *Takumi walks into the store*

"Ok, that should buy us time. Let's go." He quickly ran off, dragging Yuna along, and quickly disappeared around the corner. "Yuna, you're a girl... well, more or less. How the heck do you deal with such a thing."

She shrugged and looked down. "I've only been like this for about a week."

"Damn, have to face it the hard way then. You can go back, I'd prefer to do this myself." he walked back into the shop. "Takumi, hi, I saw you walking around, thought I'd say hi."

She watched and then got up and walked off leaving the mall to go see Anya back at Pendragon.

*Takumi turns around and sees Gino, then blushes* "Oh...when did you get here?"

"well, I was looking if I could maybe get you something if you made it through that exam, but I guess I forgot time, and damn, it's hard finding something for you, haha."

"I...see. Did you think about what I said earlier?"

"Yeah, and I'm not sure how to get going on that, I'm kinda new on those grounds."