The night of the dance. Yumi had the worst case of stage fright before she got on stage. Aelita, Odd, and Ulrich had the music she wanted for the song saved on a record that Aelita could play, Aelita was the DJ. Ulrich had told her a hundred times to just keep her eyes closed and she would be fine.

"Yumi Ishiyama, your on after Sissi." Jim said. Yumi new Sissi was performing now, so she would be up soon.

"You OK Yumi?" Ulrich asked.

"No." Yumi said.

"You can do this." Ulrich tells her. "Have you ever had a good luck charm to help you?"

"No." Yumi said nearly laughing. "Only a few words my mom used to tell me."

"What words?" Ulrich asked.

"They were ingraved on a pendent, she gave to one of her friends three years ago. I remember exactly what it said. A true worrior is judged not by the size of his blade" Yumi began.

"But the size of his heart." Ulrich finished. Yumi was shocked.

"Yeah, how did you know?" Yumi asked.

"My mom has a pendent like that." Ulrich said. "It's in Japanese."

"That's normal, all Japanese pendents are in Japanese. My mom had that on costem made by my uncle." Yumi said.

"White gold with red symbols?" Ulrich asked.

"Yeah." Yumi said.

"Is it possible were talking about the same pendent here?" Ulrich said.

"I don't know, mabe." Yumi said.

"Well, good luck." Ulrich said leaning over and quickly kissing her on the lips.

"Yumi Ishiyama, your up." Jim called. As soon as Yumi got on stage she closed her eyes and waited for her starting point in the song.

"You make me feel out of my element
Like I'm walkin' on broken glass
Like my worlds spinnin' in slow motion
And you're movin' too fast

[Chorus]
Were you right, was I wrong
Were you weak, was I strong, yeah
Both of us broken
Caught in a moment
We lived and we loved
And we hurt and we jumped, yeah
But the planets all aligned
When you looked into my eyes
And just like that
The chemicals react
The chemicals react

You make me feel out of my element
Like I'm drifting out to the sea
Like the tides pullin' me in deeper
Makin' it harder to breathe

We cannot deny, how we feel inside
We cannot deny

[Chorus]
Were you right, was I wrong
Were you weak, was I strong, yeah
Both of us broken
Caught in a moment
We lived and we loved
And we hurt and we jumped, yeah
But the planets all aligned
When you looked into my eyes
And just like that
The chemicals react
The chemicals react

Kaleidoscope of colors
Turning hopes on fire, sun is burning
Shining down on both of us
Don’t let us lose it (don’t let us lose it...)

[Chorus]
Were you right, was I wrong
Were you weak, was I strong, yeah
Both of us broken
Caught in a moment
We lived and we loved
And we hurt and we jumped, yeah

We lived
We loved
We hurt
We jumped
We're right
We're wrong
We're weak
We're strong
We lived to love

But the planets all aligned
When you looked into my eyes
And just like that
Watch the chemicals react
And just like that
The chemicals react
(The chemicals react)"

As the crowd applaud, Yumi opened her eyes and took a bow. As she walked off stage Aelita hugged her friend.

"You did it Yumi." Aelita cheered.

"I'm going to go rub it in Sissi's face." Odd said.

"Wait for me." Aelita called and followed.

"Hey, I've got to get this on tape!" Jeremie said following the group with his video camra.

"Come on." Ulrich said pulling Yumi into the dorms. Ulrich unlocked his room door and let Yumi in. Yumi took a seat on his bed as Ulrich retrived the pendent.

"Found it." Ulrich said as he sat down on the bed next to Yumi with the pendent in his hand. Yumi looked at it and turned it on the side and opened in. Ulrich never new it could open up. Inside was a picture of Yumi's mom and Ulrich's mom in Ulrich's grandfather's dojo.

"Wow." Ulrich whispered.

"I know." Yumi said. The two looked at the picture for a long time.

"Come on." Ulrich said leading Yumi into the peaceful woods outside of Kadic. Ulrich and Yumi sat near an old tree. Ulrich jumped when he heared barking. Soon a black and brown shiba inu came running near Yumi.

"Hey Dojo." Yumi said petting the small dog.

"That's your dog?" Ulrich asked.

"Yeah, Dojo." Yumi said as the dog started jumping around Ulrich's legs.

"Cute little guy." Ulrich said. "Like his owner." Yumi blushed. The two talked for hours.

"It's 10:30, want me to walk you home?" Ulrich asked.

"Ok." Yumi said as they started down the street with Dojo running around them. As they reached the Ishiyama house Dojo sat by the gate.

"See you tomarrow Yumi." Ulrich said as he stared back.

"Your forgetting something." Yumi said. Ulrich spun around.

"What?" Ulrich asked. Yumi leaned over, wrapping her arms around his neck, and kissed him. Ulrich kissed back and wrapped his arms around her waist.