Let's start with a scene from the first episode. Van has just killed a dragon near Hitomi's school and removed the energist from it's body. Hitomi approaches him to ask if he is alright, Van tells her he doesn't need her to worry about him. Hitomi slaps him for being so arrogant and ungrateful, especially after she helped him even though she had been very frightened. (Wish I had a picture of that. ^_-) Suddenly, the energist in Van's hand begins to glow! The pair find themselves enveloped in a column of light similar to the one in which Van arrived in. A moment later they are floating into the air, headed for Gaea. And so it began... ^_^

This is a really cute scene from the second episode in which a rather shocked Lum (a wolf-man) asks Van if he has really been to the Illusional Moon. Van, rather offhandedly, confirms that he has been there and affirms Lum's deduction that Hitomi is from the Illusional Moon. Van's nonplussed attitude makes this scene so hilarious. Van acts as if this other world he's just been to is nothing more than a neighboring town where he had to pick something up, and Hitomi is just an unexpected inconvenience, like a kitten that's followed him home. Meanwhile, Hitomi justs sits there, slightly stunned by the unbelievable situation she finds herself in.

In this scene from episode three, Hitomi and Van have been restricted to a locked and guarded room by Allen to keep them out trouble. They have just been visited by a rather unexpected guest, the mole man has just come up through the floor of their room! Hitomi recognizes him as the man who attacked her from the day before. Van is a bit suprised when Hitomi calls the mole man a "molester. " In fact, the looks on their faces in that scene are priceless. ^_^ I wish I had a picture of that moment, which occurs just a few seconds after the image in this picture.

This scene occurs soon after the last one. Van and Hitomi are following the mole man through the tunnels below the fort. Van is in search of Escaflowne. The mole man takes them to the place where the Astorian Guymelfs are stored and there they find Escaflowne. Hitomi asks Van what he is going to do. He matter-of-factly tells her, as he climbs into Escaflowne, that he is going back to Fanelia. She begins to protest, because of what Allen had said before, about Fanelia being completely destroyed and that they shouldn't leave the fort. Van isn't paying any attention to her though. It's kind of funny to watch an annoyed Hitomi chasing after and scolding this huge Guymelf. ^_^

This is my favorite moment from episode four. Hitomi and Merle both had fevers because of some seeds from the forest that got into their wounds. Van had left the room without saying a word and when he returned he had brought medicine he had made with some type of plant. Hitomi watches as he applys the medicine to Merle's wounds and she seems suprised by what he's done. She is even more suprised when he comes over to apply the medicine to her wounds. Hitomi is quite touched by Van's thoughful act. It's a really sweet moment. I think up to that point, Hitomi had thought Van was kind of self-absorbed.

O.K., here we have one of my all time favorite scenes, I just absolutely love it every time I see it. ^_^ In episode six, Van, Hitomi and Merle have been brought to Astoria by Allen. There they meet Princess Millerna. Millerna thinks Hitomi's clothes are not at all appropriate for an aquaintance of Allen's, so Millerna gives Hitomi one of her dresses. When Hitomi comes out wearing the dress, Millerna tells her it looks very nice on her and Merle makes a smart remark, which, of course, irritates Hitomi. But the best reaction is Van's, he doesn't say a word, he just stares at her in shocked suprise, because she looks so pretty. ^_^ Hitomi doesn't notice because she is busy arguing with Merle, whom Van silences without ever taking his eyes off Hitomi. I believe this is the first scene that really shows how much Van already likes Hitomi. ^_^

Another cool scene from episode six. Van is confronting Folken about his alignment with the Zaibach forces at a bridge in the Astorian harbor. Unknown to both of them Dilandau is watching from the Vione, preparing to fire on Van. Hitomi had a horrible vision about Van and is rushing to find him. She realizes that her long skirt is slowing her down and tears it to make it shorter. Dilandau fires the Alseides' lance, but before it can hit Van, Hitomi arrives yelling for him to watch out and then knocking him out of the way. Van is extremely suprised that Hitomi came to save him, I don't think he was aware that she cared enough to do something like that. Hitomi, on the other hand, is just very glad she made it in time.