Tsuzuki, will you...?
Katt: Ok you guys I'm back and with the sequal to "Dreamers Reality" and just like before I do not own "Yami no Matsuei" nor do I own "Phantom of the Opera", but I do own Seren and Katsumi and one other character, but that will be mentioned later, oh and course warning: There will be some yaoi and a little bit of yuri too
Tsuzuki: Yey! we're back
Tatsumi: Yes, but what will be happening in this one?
Katt: You'll just have to wait, so for now ladies and gents...enjoy the show!
Dark and cold night, running through what looks like a park and seeing a blood red moon ahead, Katsumi; in the dead of night was running as fast as she could, trying to get back home. She was almost home, just a block away from the park, right when she thought she could make it, she stopped immediatly when she saw a girl; her silvery white hair in a long high ponytail, her bangs off to one side, covering her right eye while her left silver eye was looking directly at Katsumi. Wearing a huge white coat, white long sleeved shirt, a short white skirt, white boots that were walking over to her.
" Oh Katsumi, no matter what you do, you cannot escape me, but I promise you...I'll be gentle"
At that moment...
The two happy couple were walking back into the office at four a.m in the morning after a certain lilac colored eyes had forgotten his house keys at his desk when they heard screaming coming from the break room.
" What was that?" said Tsuzuki
" I think someone is in trouble" said Tatsumi.
They rushed on down to the break room where the screams keep getting louder and louder. Tsuzuki trys to open it, but with any luck it was locked.
" Damn it, Tatsumi do you have the keys to the break room"
" Yes"
As he digs his keys out of his pockets, they hear another scream.
At that moment...
Strapped down onto the cold steel bedding setting up where Katsumi can see around her other then up. Struggling to get herself free as the girl removes her coat and hanging it neatly on a single wooden chair next to a small wooden table with two glasses of red wine, a bowl of strawberries and a vase full of white lilys.
" You can stop struggling now Katsumi, I made sure that those restraints wouldn't come undone or break easily, so lay back and relax. Look I have red wine for us"
She steps closer to Katsumi, so close that another inch and they could practically kiss, holding the wine as she looks into Katsumi's eyes. She brings one hand up and touches her cheek.
" My, such soft, warm rosy cheeks and yet your so pale, so much beauty to consume so little time, but that's ok..."
She takes a sip of her drink and puts it down.
" That just means we'll just have to skip the nice wine and dessert and just jump straight into the main course"
She grabs the collar of the shirt and yanks it open so hard the buttons break, revealing her beautiful figure and full breasts covered up by a small white laced bra. Katsumi tries struggling once more, but that only excited her and as she pulls a pocket knife out of her pocket to cut the bra off. At that moment she felt a pair of hands on her and a bright light surrounding her.
At that moment...
Finally when Tatsumi found his keys, they opened the door and flipped the lights on to find Katsumi on the couch; her hair messy and sprawled on the pillow, wearing a old high school tee shirt and shorts, one of her legs hanging off the couch and tossing and turning with the blanket wrapped around her waist. They run over to her. Tsuzuki right next to her and starts shaking her to wake her up.
When she finally comes around the pupils of her eyes are dialated, sweating, pale and out of breath. She hadn't even realized that it was Tsuzuki and Tatsumi that woke her up. Tsuzuki was holding her hand and Tatsumi was taking a cold wash cloth he grabbed from the cabinet and wiped off the sweat from her brow.
" Katsumi, are you alright now?" said Tsuzuki
" What are you doing here still Katsumi, shouldn't you have gone home by now?" said Tatsumi.
She looked at them both so scarred, her bottom lip quivering, Tsuzuki could feel her hands and arms shaking.
" Da...da...DAD!...MOM!"
She went straight to Tsuzuki and bear hugged him and cried in his shoulder. Not knowing what to do, all he could do was hold her and rock her to try and calm her down. In the meantime Tatsumi had called Seren to ask her to come in to the office and asked her to bring in breakfast and have Hisoka and Watari help her. When he hung up, he went over to them, sat next to them and trys to have Katsumi sit up, but all she did was go straight over to him and crys on him.
" Um, Tsuzuki you want to start making some coffee for us, I got a feeling it'll be a while"
" Alright Tatsumi"
It was seven a.m when Tatsumi and Tsuzuki had finally gotten Katsumi to go back to sleep after Seren, Hisoka and Watari came in with muffins, breakfast sandwhiches, cartons of milk; both white and chocolate, orange juice, and some fruit and had gotten Katsumi calmed down enough to eat and drink something. They cleaned up and went on out and left her alone in the break room to sleep.
Worn out, both Tsuzuki and Tatsumi sat down while drinking their coffee, still trying to wake up after almost having no sleep whatsoever.
" So what happened to Katsumi?" said Hisoka.
" We came back to the office around four cause Tsuzuki forgot his keys and figured that you were still on a date Hisoka, well when we got in we heard screaming and found Katsumi in here having a nightmare I guess"
" It was horrible, she was so scarred she wouldn't say a word to us about it"
" Well Tatsumi is right about one thing, it was a nightmare" said Seren.
" How did you find out?"
" For once it had actually appeared while I was checking others"
" You were awake at that hour?" said Watari
" Yes, but I wasn't tired anyway it turns out she's been having nightmares everytime she's went to sleep since she's been here."
" But she's sleeping just fine now" said Tsuzuki
" I think it was because you and Tatsumi comforted her that she is able to sleep now, but I don't blame her"
" Why do you say that?" said Tatsumi
" Her nightmare seemed more like a horrible memory"
" Well she did say that she has been having nightmares that has to do with her memories" said Tsuzuki
" And once again, you know more about her then her own partner, but that's ok, your her parents. So you found her in the break room asleep, some how I'm not surprised"
" Why you say that?" said Hisoka
" Cause I've never had to pick her up for work, she's always the first to arrive and last to leave, i've never once had been to where she lived so I'm guessing that she's beening living here"
" Well it would explain how she could save money on housing. That's it, Tsuzuki remember what we discussed earlier?"
" Yeah"
" I think she needs to as well"
" I don't know Tatsumi, if she's as stubborn as you, she may not be willing to right away"
" We're her parents, we're responsible"
As they discuss over the issue of Katsumi and her living quarters, Seren had brought up her laptop and the dream. She had Hisoka watch hers and ask if a certain someone looks familier. His eyes turned dark and have gotten as big as saucers, his bottom lip quivering wondering how? how could he? he couldn't have.
" So am I right?"
" But how? there's no possible way"
" But that's the point, it is possible and that's the proof of the future that we look forward to."
" So what does that tell us now?"
" It tells us that somehow, someone ends up producing...her"
" But who is the question"
As Seren closes her laptop up, they turn to see Katsumi and Tatsumi stubburnly argue about the situation of where she should be living instead of the break room at work as Tsuzuki goes over to his desk drawer and finds something on his desk. A crisp clean envelope with a note attached to it. He read through it and smiled, thinking that surely this would break Tatsumi and Katsumi's fight soon and bring everyone's spirits up
(excuse the pun there)
" You guys look!"
" Hey Tsuzuki what's in the envelope" said Hisoka
" A present..."
" Oh from your secret admirer, I must admit it it's only been one day and already someone is trying to tap Tsuzuki ass here with gifts" said Seren
" What?!" said Tatsumi
" No you guys got it all wrong, Yuma and Saya left me the present"
" So now the double-mint twins are hitting up on you" said Seren smirkingly
" Seren!, why must you do this to me?" feeling exhausted and embarressed by her
" Cause, I care, so what's the real reason they gave you this present?"
" It's a congradulatory gift for me and Tatsumi getting together, as they put it"
" Ok so what's the present, maybe they gave you a coupon for pink house for once instead of me" said Hisoka
" No, they gave me tickets to go see "Phantom of the Opera" they said it's being performed tonight at eight o'clock and we got balcony seats"
" Really?! Oh I've heard about that, I so wanted to go, but broke all the time you know" said Seren
" So how many tickets are there?" said Watari which everyone just now noticed him
" Six, enough for everyone here"
" That's very thoughtful of them, we should thank them when we see them Tsuzuki, now then since we're all here anyway I say lets get to work early and in the meantime, Tsuzuki, Hisoka I want you two in my office...and you too Katsumi" said Tatsumi
Just when she thought she had escaped the arguement of her living on a couch was over, he reels her back for something else, atleast though she isn't alone. They walked in and closed the door, but a pair of curious shinigamis stood by the door to listen.
" So Seren, what are the chances that Katsumi and Tatsumi will just start arguing?"
" Nine-ten"
" Why nine-ten?"
" Cause that one is where Tsuzuki jumps in and becomes the overlyprotected mother tells her husband to stop yelling at their daughter"
" True"
When they walked in, Tsuzuki and Hisoka took a seat, Katsumi on the other hand stood between the two and Tatsumi sat up on his desk with a file and some paperwork at hand.
" Katsumi, listen Tsuzuki, Hisoka and I had agreed earlier that since me and Tsuzuki are going to be together that we should all move into one house. Here in my hand is the paper work for a beautiful three bathroom, living room, den, dining room, five-star kitchen, laundry room, work room, and four bedroom house. Now of course until later on in the future me and Tsuzuki will have our own rooms as well as Hisoka, but we do have a spare."
" Ok so why not turn it into a guest bedroom"
" Yes we've thought about it, but when time comes when me and Tsuzuki decide to...um share the same room we would still have an extra bedroom"
" Ok then turn it to a library so mom doesn't destroy this one again"
" Wait a minute, how did you know that?" said Tsuzuki
" Future, hello mom I know everything that happens in this time, including the destuction of the library...twice, first time shame on demon, second time shame on you"
" Anyway, what we're trying to get that even though those are all good ideas, well we've decided that..." said Hisoka
" You should live with us" said Tatsumi
She sighs and puts her hands to her hips. She walks up to the desk and slams her hands onto his desk and gave him the stare she seemed determined to stand her ground and not need anyones help
" Once again dad, I'm fine living on my own..."
" Now before you continue that statement Katsumi, please think about it, you'd be living with your parents...and essenctially your uncle Hisoka" said Tsuzuki, looking over at his partner with a huge smile on his face as he gives the look of grief
" Plus don't you miss having your own room, a bathroom where you can shower freely and with a door, miss home cooked foods, a comfortable bed to sleep on, now I know that old couch there is pretty good to take naps on, but you really shouldn't be sleeping there. Katsumi, please look at me"
She didn't want to, she had a horrible feeling that once she did, she'd see something she didn't want to see, it was the one thing that could defeat her father no matter what as well as her, although in her own curse she had inherited it, it wouldn't work on her mother. She prayed that the sound of her mother voice was false and when she turned around to look up, it was the look; the look of plead and sad and asking and cuteness and sappiness as well as pathetic.
" Please Katsumi, for your sake, your father and for mine, please say yes"
She tried to resist, she didn't want to go down so easily, but then when the dog ears and tail appeared, it got worse. She tried not looking directly into her mothers eyes, she tried thinking of other things, but in all attempts she failed and agreed to it, her disappointment and Tsuzuki's triumphant glee.
" That was a good try, I must admit Katsumi, I've never seen anyone last so long without breaking when it comes to Tsuzuki, not even from your own father" said Hisoka
" It's a curse...I inherited the curse from dad and mom's curse as well, it's a nightmare"
" Now then I shall go ahead and sign the paperwork and go on ahead to turn it in, Katsumi I suggest you start packing your stuff from your locker and the break room for the new house, oh by the way do you have anything to wear for tonight?"
"huh? me? like you mean dressy dress kind of nice?"
" Yes I mean a dress"
" Nope, haven't worn dresses since I was eight"
" Well young lady you'll have to for tonight so later after work we'll take you shopping for one"
" I warn you, I don't do dresses"
" You will tonight"
" They make me look hippie"
" That's why we're going for elegant"
"elegant makes me itch"
"then we'll get silk and beautiful"
" I got scars on my legs thats very visible"
"then the dress will be long"
" I sweat a lot"
" then we'll get you a small travelers fan"
" I can't wear heels"
" then we'll get you classy sandles"
" but i..."
" no matter how many excuses you got sweetie your still going to wear one tonight"
" I'll make sure to get the most expensive one"
"good, then you'll just have to wear it more"
"then I'll burn it the minute we get home"
he cringed abit, he could almost hear it now, money being burned in the fireplace along with the silky dress he would buy for her. He smiled and cleared his throat
" Then I'll burn the rest of your clothes before you even leave the house so the only thing you have is that dress"
"then i'll go stark nude"
"Then your never leaving your bedroom little alone the house, which Tsuzuki and I will buy you all new outfits that are skirts, dresses and blouses with brown hush puppies and grey pantyhose"
" Ekk! fine, you win, man what a way to kill someone"
Later that morning, Tsuzuki had came down to the locker room with a container of pizza bagels and two bottles of soda at hand when he sees Katsumi asleep at the bench and beside her three small boxs; one of her clothes, one of her personal things and the other her blanket, pillow and a few other things. He sighs to see her with only a few essentials, good ones but so few. Then pondered if by chance she had any pictures or momentos of them in the future, but thought best not to look and instead sat down and woke her up.
" So is this everything Katsumi?"
" Yeah, I had only brought what I believed would be needed"
" Which is good, clothes, feminine hygene, your pillow and blanket"
" Yeah, I did bring some of my jewelery just in case and make-up"
" You wear make-up?"
" Sometimes, but shh... no one knows and the minute Seren finds out it'll spread throughout our department, after all I got an image to protect"
" Understandable, oh I thought you would be hungry by now and thought that you would like to share a box of pizza bagels and have a soda with me"
" But it's only nine-thirty in the morning"
" I figured you needed the caffine and some fuel, but shhh. don't tell your father, he'd shoot me for feeding you junk if he found out"
" My lips are sealed"
She reaches for her coke and a pizza bagel and chomps it down. As she did Tsuzuki just smiled at her, making her nervous and confused.
" Why are you so happy?"
" I heard you and Tatsumi try to argue about you wearing a dress, I must say you are a lot like your father; stubborn as ever"
" That's what everyone says, but I don't really like wearing dresses, they get in the way of work and they're a distraction"
" A distraction?"
" Yeah, to boys, straight ones"
" Oh that's right. So you want to talk to me about the girl in your nightmares?"
she stopped in midbite and stared. Tsuzuki had almost laughed when he saw half a pizza bagel sticking out of her mouth, but with the frightened stare he was getting from her it was best not to, so he didn't
" Sorry Katsumi, that's probably something you don't feel ready to discuss yet, but Seren; who was able to catch it and save it showed it to me, so please tell me if I'm wrong but she's Muraki's daughter in the future am I right?"
She didn't answer, she didn't want to. To think of her all over again would just push her back to the corner she was in when she thought of her or ran into her so she stayed quiet. They sat there for a few in silence as they ate and drank when Tsuzuki remembered his other reason for coming down here.
" Oh by the way, we got a meeting to get to about a new case that you and Seren can help with so we need to head on up now, here lets carry those boxs up and set them at my office before going in"
Tsuzuki had grabbed two of them as Katsumi grabbed the other one and both headed back up. When they got to the conference room chief, Tatsumi, Seren, Hisoka and even Watari was there waiting for them to take a seat.
" Well, glad you two could make it here, now Tsuzuki, Hisoka your case is extremely important, last night there was an attack of over twenty people; all female, dark brown hair and between the ages of fifteen-seventeen. All the victums have one other thing in comman, and that's the bite marks, one set on each side of the neck and their hearts has been surgically removed and sewed back up, drained of their blood as well"
Leaving everyone in the room disgusted and shocked, but figured out the only person who could of done that.
" So I take it's probably Muraki this time" said Tsuzuki
" Yes, but if that's the case then why have Seren and Katsumi in this investigation too" said Tatsumi
" Cause the night before I had gotten twenty nightmares at the same time of a monster that drank blood and stole the hearts of women everywhere, it was these twenty women that had the same dream and the same women who died just last night" said Seren
" Were you able to see just who or what this monster was?" said Hisoka
" No, it was too dark in the dream, but I did see one thing, a glowing silver eye"
" Then it has to be Muraki! Who else could do something like this"
" You might be right Tsuzuki, we can't rule him out, but unless we have absolute proof, then we can't prove that it was him"
" That's why we're involved, if we can clear the picture out more where we can see this monster then it'll help, in the meantime while me and Watari are looking at the videos, I'm having Katsumi go with you three"
" What?!" said both Tsuzuki and Tatsumi
" But isn't it supposed to be only those from the dream department looking through dreams?" said Katsumi
" Only if we're both not needed, but you are so you shall go with your laptop as well, to send me pictures of evidence and cliff notes and such, it makes getting the work done easier which is why Watari will be working with me as well"
" But...But..." said Tsuzuki and Tatsumi, wanting to think of an excuse of why she shouldn't, till Hisoka chimmed in
" You guys, don't you have any confidence in your own daughter that she can do on-the-sight work, I'm sure she'll do fine, you two will be near by and as will I, so there's nothing to be worried about, am I right?"
" Well I guess when you put it that way, I suppose it couldn't hurt" said Tatsumi
" Good now that we are all in an agree...wait a minute you two are her parents? I mean I know you two have been around for a very long time but I never thought you two were even together little known had a daughter and how is that even possible" said chief Konoe
" Opps, I guess we never explained to chief about this" said Tsuzuki
" Um how to explain this delicately..." said Tatsumi
" I'm their sixteen year old daughter from the future, they had just recently discovered their deep fund of love for each other and not exactly sure how long it'll be till its invented but the sex-change potion is how tsuzuki ends up getting pregnant and having me"
" Ok, bluntly works" said Tsuzuki
" I wonder where she gets that from?" said Tatsumi
" It's possible it's from you, after all your both stubborn as donkeys" said Hisoka
" I got a feeling it's not just from him" said Seren
" Hmm"
" What is it chief?" said Watari
" You know I always thought that if this was to ever happen that for some reason that Tsuzuki would be the female in the relationship"
They all just kind of tilted over far enough that they fell off, except for Katsumi who just got up and walked over everyone and grabs her coat and throws it on her.
" So chief is the meeting adjurned?"
" Oh yes my dear it is, you know unlike your mother there atleast your serious about your job"
She smiles a lovely smile and removes her glasses, letting her lilac eyes shine in the artificial light towards the chief and everyone else in the room.
" Oh grandpa, please don't flatter me with comments, after all I've learned from you"
" Did...did she just call him..." muttering Seren
" Grandpa? oh that's just so sweet that you refer to me as a family member and that you've learned from me, well I'm glad to know that in the future someone looks up to me"
" Well of course, I hope you didn't mind me calling you grandpa, it's just kind of foreign for me to call you chief still"
" Well of course dear, it's alright by me"
" Aww, your such a sweet ol' dog grandpa" said Watari
" That doesn't mean the rest of you get to, understand?!"
" Y..eee...sss sir" said Watari
" She certainly knows how to suck up to the chief" whispered Tsuzuki
" I think she gets that from you Tsuzuki" whispere Tatsumi
" Well you know what they say, " The apple doesn't fall far from the tree" and that applys to you two the most when it comes to Katsumi" whispered Hisoka.
" Well what are you guys waiting for, get going. You guys get started on the case tomorrow"
"Tomorrow?" said Tatsumi
" Yes, as i recalled from Katsumi, you guys have a performance to attend to tonight and Katsumi needs a dress, here dear go buy whatever you want"
Tatsumi's and Tsuzuki's eyes almost dropped out of their heads. He had given her 268,000 yen, which in america it's 2,000 dollars.
( I did this by the currencies back of februrary of 2002 where it says its 134 per US $1 dollar, look it up on wikipedia under japanese yen, bold Post-bubble years, if I'm wrong, let me know, thank you)
" Wait, why are you giving her that much money?" said Tsuzuki
" We don't have that much in budget just to be giving and besides she's sixteen and she's saved a lot more money then that" said Tatsumi
" For one this is My Money and two she's my granddaughter, she's basically all the family I got down in this hell hole and I'm allowed to spoil her"
" Aww, thank you grandpa, well, we'll see you later"
She puts her glasses back on and the money in her pocket. She grabs an arm from both Tsuzuki and Tatsumi and smiled.
" Come on mom, come on dad lets go"
They couldn't argue for some reason and smiled as those three, Hisoka, Watari and Seren walk out of the chiefs office smiling all the way. Once they were out of the chiefs sight Tatsumi and Tsuzuki stopped and had Katsumi look at them both with boldness in their eyes.
" Uh, what?" said Katsumi
" You know what...how the heck did you get him to give you money?" said Tsuzuki
" Yes, you certainly couldn't get that from us, Tsuzuki has no talent in saving money little known receiving it and I don't like asking" said Tatsumi
" But that's just it, I didn't ask. By grandchildren law that states that either or grandparent or grandparents to give the child or children either candy, clothes, or money which in this case it was money, so...even if you did burn my wardrobe and got me new clothes i'd just burn them and buy me new clothes"
" Wow, she's good. Plus her logic is correct. In most cases grandparents do like to spoil the kids since the parents do not" said Watari
" This is sad, his weakness is his granddaughter. Plus she flattered him, I bet he would of only gave her a thousand if she hadn't" said Hisoka
" What are you talking about, in the future he gave me money for just saying hi. In this case he considers this petty money"
" Petty money? how much does he normally give you when you see him?" said Tatsumi
" Between 536,000 and 804,000 yen" (that's between four to six thousand dollars in u.s )
" What?! "
Tatsumi's face paled, to hear someone giving a kid that much money was like throwing all the departments savings out the window and Tsuzuki felt like crying, that was more then he's made within three years with all the duebts he owes and everything.
" Gez girl, your rich. Maybe you should be buying them the house instead the otherway around" said Seren
" Sure, if it wasn't suspicious for a teenage girl from the future with a ton of dough to be buying her future parents a house"
" True, what are we going to do now? we pretty much got the day off" said Watari
" First we're getting Katsumi a dress and shoes then some stuff for her new room" said Tatsumi
" Why a dress? I've seen people wear nice dress pants, even Seren is going to be wearing a nice pair of pants"
" No I'm not"
" Say wha?"
" Tsuzuki, remember The Dress? "
" Are you nuts? that...thing"
" Yeah I know, it's what made him realize that he was into guys more then girls, it didn't turn him into a drooling dog"
" It's that good?" said Katsumi
" Well, I can let you borrow it for yourself to see"
" NO!, No Seren. I can let you give her many things, but not that. I forbid it" said Tsuzuki
" Wow, not even a woman yet and already your making sure she doesn't wear that kind of stuff, but since I am the only one with real sense of female clothes, just let me go with you"
" She makes a good point Tsuzuki" said Tatsumi
" Ok, but we are not hitting your usual stores."
" Ah, but I like her stores. Although I never do get it with the men's section, it's just a bunch of..."
" Uh, Katsumi lets carry your stuff to your parents car and not discuss the men's department."
" Anyway...that's the deal or no going Selen" said Tsuzuki
" No problem, but does that mean I have access to the funds for her entire outfit"
He cringed, the thought of money being burned again came to Tatsumi's mind as he sees Selen shoveling money into a fireplace while Katsumi tears the dress up to make something he doesn't want to know out of it.
" Ok, it's fine with me"
Ok everyone that's it for now
Tsuzuki: Ah, but I was just getting into it. (sees Tatsumi curled up) um...what's wrong with Tatsumi?
Tatsumi: Burning...it's...all...burning...money
Katt: I think he's gone money crazed and in a complete opposite way. Anyway I'll be back with more of Katsumi and Selen consuming money...
Tatsumi: Money...all that hard earned money...burning.
Katt: Anyway...As well as to where they get to see the opera, what's so special about going to see it, well you'll just have to wait, keep those comments coming and see ya.