Well what is there to say really? I have really had this itch to write for a couple days now but didn't know if I should and I thought since I had tried this once to try again and see how good it came to be. So first I would like to say his is alternate universe story normal characters but in other world kind of. I am not so good at making names for unknown places so just bear with me I might not be able to think of a name for the place. Also since is alternate universe Gen will be OOC I guess but I will try to keep him normal as much as I can so here it is my second fanfic written. (And like 10000th thought of XP)

Disclaimer: I do not own Kekkaishi nor do I get any profit from this story.

Servant or More?

Chapter 1 Meeting

Yoshimori Sumimura was the only child of a priest and priestess of a village's shrine. His parents had died when he was a baby trying to protect the village from monsters or sometimes known as ayakashi to those who fought and studied them. Hw now lived with his grandfather who had once been the villages priest before his mother had taken over and then met his father. Now there family has been the protector of the village since it was first started because they are the only few people that have the power to fight off the monsters.

Today was a special day since Yoshimori's grandfather was old and being 14 with little training at the time they needed help to protect the village and Yoshi's grandfather looked really annoyed and mad for some reason as they were headed to do some unknown shrine business outside the village.

"Grands are you mad at where we're going and where are we going anyways we are good bit away form the village now wont it be bad if something happens to it?" little Yoshimori said

"Yes we must get this over with quickly and return to the village … and as to your first question I am disgusted we have to do this but it has to be done to protect the village." his grandfather said.

Yoshimori wasn't the brightest kid in the world he knew that but when it came to helping and protecting people he understood. Now again he had not much training yet to protect the village but he knew one day he would have the strength to protect the village.

They had stopped walking about 5 minutes ago and seemed to be waiting for something. "Grands what are we.." before he could finish a large covered wagon came rushing up to them and a woman stepped out.

"Hello my name is Atora Hanashima you requested my presence sir" she said in a bit serious voice but Yoshi could kinda tell that was not her most normal speak . It seemed she was asking more of a question like she could not think these were the people that called her.

"Yes I have called you here" Yoshimori's grandfather must have caught onto it because he said in all seriousness way.

"My humblest apologies sir but a priest is never who I expected to call someone like me"

"Well I never would have but it is a great need at the moment and I see no other choice"

She looked a bit skeptical but quickly held her opinions to herself better to not insult a customer. "So what were you looking for sir anything in particular?" she asked

Yoshimori was a bit confused what were they here to buy exactly but he had feeling it would be something they didn't expect.

"Nothing in particular I guess preferably nothing big since it will be used to help protect the village and we don't want it to scare the people too much." Yoshi's grandpa said.

"Well you're in luck sir cuz fairly large ones have to be prerequested all I have on me right now are small and medium sized ones" she said in an oddly cheerful tone.

While they were talking Yoshimori had snuck over to the wagon and was about to look underneath the cloth, curiosity was bad habit of Yoshimori's. "No don't touch that kid" Atora said but it was too late Yoshi had lifted a portoin of the cloth and what he felt and saw scared him so bad he fell backwards on his butt.

"Grands theres freaking ayakashi in there!" Yoshimori exclaimed as he ran over too his grandpa

"Should has said first I guess" said Atora "This cloth I have over the top is maid to hide the presence of them as not to scare people that could sense them also to keep wild ones from wanting to fight them."

Yoshimori was still flustered "Are we gonna buy one for the village?" he asked "Yes we are, they can be trained with some work but its harder to train larger ones." his grandfather replied with a look of shame on his face.

"Well I guess come on and see what you want then." Atora said as she went to undo the cloth to let them see. Yoshimoiri was prepared this time so dint feel as scared when he felt the monsters again.

His Grandfather didn't seem fazed at all he had too much experience with them already. He began to look at all the creatures then. Yoshimori hadn't wanted to see the things but he didn't want to left his grandpa's side either so he simply counted the cages as his grandpa looked there was about 30 good sized cages stacked on top of each other and although he didn't want to pay attention to the creatures Yoshimori had looked at them and noticed in cages them only seemed scary and couldn't get to him also they were muzzled and chained.

Yoshi's grandfather stopped to closer examine one in front of him and yoshi had unconsciously keep moving slowly forward to get closer looks at the others.

"How about this one" Shigemori (yoshi's grandpa) asked. He had stopped to look at what appeard to be a dog or wolf Ayaykahi.

"Him you can have cheap he is an okay fighter but you see he has this odd behavior." Atora said. "By odd what do you mean?" Shigori asked.

"She means this old man I can talk" the wolf/dog said. "You can talk!" Shigimori was a bit surprised by this. "Yes I can why you think only humans can talk ha humans are pathetic" it said.

Hoping to finally have a chance to ditch this one Atora spoke up, " You can muzzle him if you really have too I can give you one if you want and he is simply obedient to who ever has food that's how I caught him."

"Ya right I aint some lost puppy I .." just to prove her point before he finished she pulled out a bit of dried meat she had on her and gave commands he did as was told. She then tossed him the food and after he swallowed it he realized what he did and felt ashamed.

"So do we have a deal?" she asked Shigimori "Yes we'll take him" he said "Yoshimori lets head back now." but when he turned around Yoshimori wasn't there.

Yoshimori had wondered to the back of the wagon behind some of the cages at the very last cage he thought he felt something a bit different so he went to check it out and what he found really surprised him not scared him but it was a bit of a shock in the cage there was a boy about his age in straggly clothes. The boy had spikey hair that semmed to never go down, his skin had a light tan to it, and when he looked up when he had approached Yoshimori noticed a bit of a dead look in his eyes and his eyes looke a bit feral also.

"Hey what are you doing in there, you ok?" he didn't reply.

"There you are Yoshimori we have to go now the village has been left unprotected for too long" Shigamori said.

Atori followed suit and noticed where Yoshimori was looking and her expression sort of faeded into a sad look of remorse. "Ahh I see you have found him." Yoshimori was about to ask why he was in there but she answered his unasked question "I did not put him in there he chose to be in there if you want to you can take him with you I never really planned to sell him he just never wants to go anywhere."

"What we cant just take some random boy with us back to the village." sigmoid staed but then yoshimori cut in and said "Come on gramps he obviously has no home and I don't think living in here is the best place either." again Yoshimori with his want to help others no matter what another bad one of his traits that he just couldn't help.

After some serious thought his granfather gave up with a sigh "very well but he better not cause trouble or he will be out of the village."

Atori looked a bit pleased that they had accepted him of course she hid this from their site and proceeded to let the boy out of the cage but as she was about to hand him over he started to growl in an animalistic way. This kinda put Shigemori in a fighting response and he was thinking maybe to reconsider. After hearing this sound Atora quickly turned the boy around and gave him one of the most serious stares Yoshimori had never thought possible. He simply looked down defeated at the look and walked over toYoshimori and his grandfather. And then atori handed the caged dog over to Yoshimori with a muzzle on and the dog was obviously none to pleased.

"He can be a bit stubborn and has to get used to people so sorry about that little spat he should be ok and if anything you can contact me if you change your mind." Atora said the last part in a bit of stuttered I hope you don't though kinda way but this was not noticed by the two priests.

"well goodbye and thank you for your business" she covered her wagon and was now ready to leave and she saw the other group heading back to the village she dint know why but she had a feeling that boy Yoshimori he gave this feeling to her that he would be a good influence on that that the boy and that it was best he got to go with them. Then in the faintest of whispers she said " Please Gen live a good happy life with them." With a bit of a sad smile on her face she sped off.

Ok now I would like to say that I did some last minute editing so there might be some small parts that don't quite fit so sry about that. So now it up to the readers to decided I was originally gonna make this a one-shot but it turned into this and I don't know if I should make it longer but if the readers want it I can try so plz R&R I had hoped to get another chapter today but things happen so hurry and review so I know how to make the story go XD.