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Prologue: Legend of the Kyuuketsuki

Ancient Japan, Onogoroshima

Onogoroshima…

Crown jewel of Emperor Sakana…

Home to Prince Kisshu, Emperor's ward and descendant of Izanami, goddess of Yomi…

Birthplace of Lady Ichigo, Emperor's mistress. No other man was allowed to touch her.

Lady Ichigo finally climbs the last fleet of stairs of the tower of Izanagi and turns to her left towards the Shoji doors. She pushes them open and closes the doors behind her once entered. Across from her is another shoji door that leads to the outside and a shrine up against the wall halfway towards those doors, but she walks towards the small shrine instead and sits down before it. She lights the incense and prays. During the middle of her prayer, something moves in the shadows. She already knows what it is as she finishes her prayer. She shifts her body to the back of the room and there in the shadows stands Kisshu, gazing at her with eyes full of love and care he has for her. She couldn't help but smile in his presence.

Ichigo stands up and walks across from the Shoji doors she entered to the other Shoji door. She opens it door and stands by the door frame to gaze up at the beautiful full moon and to breathe in the fresh air of spring. From the view, she can see how the glow of the moon shines across the land and the cherry blossoms in full bloom below.

When Ichigo turns around back to Kisshu, he's already by her side. He grasps her hand and lifts it up to his mouth.

But for their love, they were willing to risk life itself.

Kisshu kisses her palm as her other hand rises to his face and gently brushes the back of her finger against his cheek. Then he leans down to her face and softly presses his lips against hers. She kisses him back, her hand moving to the back of his head to push him closer. They kiss again and again. Their hands continue to grasp the other as Kisshu's free hand smoothes its way to Ichigo's hair. Her hair is up in pigtails, an unusual hair style, and his hand goes to one ribbon and starts to undo it.

Bam

Both Kisshu and Ichigo stop and turn towards the shoji doors across from them. They appear startled and a bit surprised to hear that. Kisshu lets go of Ichigo and rushes to the rail. He looks down and he sees two guards outside the door. He knows who those guards belong to.

Then they both hear, "Ichigo!!" It's Emperor Sakana.

Ichigo quickly rushes to the shrine and there's a candle. She lights it and blows out the match. She turns to Kisshu and motions him to hide. He rushes back to the corner of the room where the darkness can still hide him as Ichigo tries to look like she's praying.

Within moments, the shoji doors suddenly open and Ichigo looks startled, not by the fact that it is the emperor but because he opened the door so quickly and with so much force like he's angry. His eyes appear angry as well. He stares down at Ichigo and walks towards her.

He asks, "Who has touched you?" He points to her hair, at where the loose ribbon hangs on her pigtail.

Ichigo's hand rises to the pointed pigtail and gasps in surprise of the feel of the loose ribbon. She looks back at the emperor in a hint of fear but now she sees something else. Her eyes look towards what's behind the emperor and he fallows her gaze. When he turns around, he sees Kisshu standing behind him, glaring. When the emperor turned completely towards him, Kisshu grasps the emperor's sword and pulls it out. He points it at the emperor and Ichigo goes to her sleeves while the emperor is distracted.

"Kisshu!" the emperor exclaims. Ichigo takes out a dagger and quietly stands up. "My son!"

Ichigo raises the dagger and thrusts it down the emperor's back. The emperor screams out in agony as he begins to fall to the floor. Kisshu slices him midway. As the emperor continues to scream and fall to the ground, Kisshu and Ichigo stab him multiple times – blood spraying on their kimonos and faces.

Bam

Both Kisshu and Ichigo stand up from the sound of that and they both have an idea who that is as the emperor's corpse lies on the ground.

"Emperor's samurai," Kisshu mumbles.

Ichigo runs to the open doors that the emperor entered from and runs to the rail. She looks down and she sees the samurai from the outside climbing up the stairs. Quickly, she turns to Kisshu and runs back inside. She closes the doors and locks it. She stands in front of Kisshu and grabs his sword. She tells him, "You must go! Save yourself!"

He tells her, "No!"

"Only you can resurrect me!"

Kisshu stares at Ichigo in shock then. For being a descendant of Izanami, there have been beliefs that Kisshu hold powers, one of which he can raise people from the dead. Ichigo never really believed that, until recently. Kisshu is surprised that she mentioned that.

Then they could hear the samurai coming closer. Kisshu grasps Ichigo's hands and tells her, "I won't leave you!" But she just pushes him through the open shoji doors to the outside.

Ichigo's eyes reveal to him pain of the separation but also her belief and trust in him. Her hand rises to his face and she uses the back of her fingers to gently brush against the skin of his cheek. She whispers, "I love you." His eyes look even more tragic from her words. She didn't waste time to pull her hands back as she closes the shoji doors in his face. She also locks it when Kisshu tries to get back in. She tells him through the doors, "Go!" Then doors across from Ichigo are hit by the samurai, an attempt to open them. Both her and Kisshu don't have a lot of time.

Through the doors, Kisshu quickly tells Ichigo, "You shall live again. I WILL resurrect you." By the time, Ichigo look back at the doors to at least see his shadow, she sees him running to the corner, where he cannot be seen.

Then the shoji doors burst open and Ichigo turns around to see the samurai's coming in. First they look at her and were surprised to see the blood on her but when they look down at the ground, they are shocked to see their emperor dead.

Ichigo tells them, "My body is no longer his kingdom." Then she raises the sword in her hand and thrusts it down upon herself.

Kisshu, who was watching the shadows, sees his beloved stab herself and looks away as her body falls to the ground, dead.

To resurrect Ichigo, Kisshu broke into her casket and stole her body. They raced over miles of water and into the deepest of forests, taking Ichigo's corpse to the island Yomotsuhirasaka, the entrance of Yomi and where Kisshu's dark powers are at his strongest.

For his love, Kisshu dared Izanami's anger by going deep into the entrance where he took the black Scroll of Izanami from its holy resting place. Ichigo's soul already rests in the dark clutches of Izanami, her body washed from blood and her orifices are blocked with cotton.

Kisshu lays the scroll on the table next to Ichigo's corpse. He unravels it and begins reading the writing. He chants the words over and over, the fire goes in and out from the gust of wind within the room, and an eerie feeling fills the room. He ignores what's happening around him to continue as the chanting begins to work.

The shadows in the corners began to form shapes of demons, their claws reaching our or their tentacles wiggle. But one shadow moves father than the others. It looms over the table Ichigo's body rests but stops under her body. As Kisshu reads the last of it, he looks up to see the shadow cover Ichigo's body from under her and completely cover her body before dissolving inside. Her eyes shot open and she took breath, gasping for the first time since she died.

Ichigo's soul had come back from the dead.

Her body was shaking as Kisshu took out a dagger. Her eyes look up at him as he raises it over her heart. Right when he was going to stab her, two samurai barge into the room and stop him.

But the emperor's samurai fallowed Kisshu and stopped him before the ritual could be completed.

Ichigo's body stopped shaking and the shadow that dissolved into her body appears back. It started to rewind of how it got to Ichigo's body as Kisshu watches in terror. The shadow released Ichigo's body and went back into the shadows, the demon claws and tentacles fading away as well.

"NO!!!"

Kisshu was condemned to be buried alive through the ritual of the Kyuuketsuki, a ritual so evil it was never once been bestowed.

Kisshu's blood was drained from him, enough for him to be weak but not enough to die just yet. They stabbed a wooden stake half way through his chest, just barely touching his heart. They beat him for days and because of his lack of blood, he was not able to defend himself. His bones were broken and his nights and days were only pain. On the day he was buried, he was to be sealed away in a coffin with the company of poisonous snakes, either to die of lack of oxygen or the poison of the snakes when they bit him.

He was to remain sealed in his shrine at the mountain on Yomotsuhirasaka half way down from the entrance, the undead for all of eternity. The priests of Emperor Sakana would never allow him to be released for he would arise a terrifying monster, a plague upon mankind, an unholy blood sucker with the strength of ages, power over the winds, and the glory of invincibility.