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Rio stood still, watching Kaizo as he moved closer and hugged her. Shaking a little from trying to hold in sobs, Rio lifted her arms to grab the back of Kaizo's Haori, resting her forehead on his right shoulder. "I-it's.... O-kay...." She spoke, trying to stop herself from stuttering as she pulled herself closer to Kaizo, hugging him tighter while turning her head to rest her right cheek on his right shoulder while looking out to the left. Silently, Rio continued to sob while calming herself down, closing her eye to relax herself as she felt Kaizo's comforting warmth. She was silent for a few minutes before speaking up in a quiet voice once her sobs had calmed. "Kaizo... I shouldn't of left your office.... I just... wanted to hug you so badly.... but we were on duty so I'm glad you kept to your role.... I guess... I'm not as strong as I'd like to think I am...." Rio continued to speak softly, holding tightly onto Kaizo, never wanting to let him go. "... I couldn't save my mother.... She died... to save me...." Rio sighed before opening her eye. "I'm sorry for worrying you Kaizo.... but there is no need to be worried about me.... as long as I have you, I'll be fine...." [/Quote]

As Kaizo hugged Rio he felt her shaking which caused the pain in his heart to increase as the tears continued to flow down his face, he listened as she spoke and hearing what she said only caused him to grip Rio's uniform "it's not right Rio, you shouldn't have had to go off and face this alone...I should have been there...I waited to long like a fool!" Kaizo bit his bottom lip as the tears came on harder "Rio..." Kaizo then broke the hug as he held her by shoulders and looked into her eye "Your the strongest woman I've ever known, you've been through so much...I...I'm proud of how far you've come, your mother...I know she is incredibly proud of you, of how strong you are...she did what any loving mother would have done to save their child...I know she is gone but" Kaizo then swallowed the knot in his throat as more tears streamed down his face "I promise you...I will never leave you, I will never let anything stop me from standing by your side and holding your hand no matter what happens...I will help you achieve any goal you want to attain even if it goes against everything I stand for! I will help you do anything because...I love you Rio..." Kaizo then wrapped his arms around Rio as he continued to cry...this was probably the first time he had cried since that day...