Hey guys! Here's my technically first fanfic, but i deleted my other one...it was just to awkward to continue...heheh but anyways, hope you guys like it!
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN KEKKAISHI OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS. except mine.
R&R Please! Thankies~
-EPILOUGE-
"Naoko-chan! Naoko! Where are you?" The 8th legitimate successor of the Sumimura frantically searched for his partner. Naoko Yukimura, a young kekkaishi that just entered her twenties seemingly disappeared after chasing mysterious figures that appeared at Karasumori. The young man had searched all night to no avail. He was left with only her staff and the last words of his secret love. Who exactly were those people? After many years, the young man gave up the search outwardly, but hoped and prayed that his love would return one day. He made note of her disappearance and the Yukimura and Sumimura households subsequently declared her officially dead after her disappearance three years later. From then on, both households grew distant and were always in argument. Note was taken and put away in the scrolls that belonged to the legitimate successors and forgotten. Until many, many years later, a figure dressed in all black seemingly fell from the sky one night and appeared to blend into society, remaining unnoticed by most. -CHAPTER 1-
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"Yeah, got it. Bye."Gen switched off his cell phone and prepared to leave his apartment flat. "Hey guys, I'm heading back to Headquarters, I'll probably be back here in a few weeks."
Yoshimori and Tokine nodded understandingly and smiled.
"See you then."
"Bye Gen-kun, see you in a few weeks."
Yoshimori and Tokine left the apartment and walked home together. Dusk was falling, turning the sky a deep purple, stars starting to pop out of the sky. Both said their goodbyes and returned to their homes, Tokine telling Yoshimori not to be late again. Unknown to them, a pair of watchful eyes had followed the two figures home, keen ears listening to their conversations.
"Argh, crap, crap, crap! I woke up late again! Sorry dad, I can't eat dinner at home today, I'll eat on my way to school tonight!" Yoshimori hurriedly tugged on his purple Kekkaishi uniform, slung on his yellow backpack, slipped on his sneakers and grabbed the bento box his dad packed all in one motion.
"Be safe, and have a nice night, Yoshimori!" Shuuji, his dad smiled from behind his glasses and waved goodbye at the door.
"Mmf, bye dad!" Yoshimori responded between mouthfuls while running down the street with a yawning Madarao. Yoshimori arrived at the school's back gates to find Tokine sitting leisurely on the entrance overhang, talking to Hakubi, her spirit dog.
"Ah, Honey, look who came late tonight." Sneered the black and white spirit dog.
"Hmm, seems like his brain can't remember what I told him this afternoon, I bet tonight's ayakashi are too much for him, as usual." Tokine smiled and laughed with Hakubi while gazing down at a huffy Yoshimori.
"Shut up, my sleep helps me grow taller!" Yoshimori stalked off into the school yards to look for ayakashi. Madarao, Yoshimori's white spirit dog sniffed the air daintily.
"Yoshi, you better hurry before Tokine gets the ayakashi that just appeared."
"Where? Tell me!"
"The main courtyard, two small ones. Seriously, you're always so slow that you even let Hakubi's crappy nose get to it first."
"You shut up too! It's not my fault you don't tell me where it is!" Yoshimori hurried off towards the courtyard only to find Tokine surround the two ayakashi with her green kekkai.
"Ugh, not again! Tokine, you always get them fist, can't you save some for me?" The boy pouted.
"Yoshimori, how many times do I have to tell you?" Tokine sighed and crossed her arms, "If I keep them for you, they're just going to get more powerful and it will be harder to destroy them."
"Oh...right..." Yoshimori looked down at Tokine's hand, his face clouding over at the thought of getting her hurt again. Then, Hakubi and Madarao both howled and covered their noses.
"Honey, get rid of this ayakashi fast! It reeks like the one Masamori defeated!"
"Yoshi, I'm gonna die, its near the cherry trees! Oh, the smell!"
"Let's go then, I'm so gonna beat you, Tokine!"
"Yoshimori, wait! We need to work out a plan! Ugh, never mind, he always runs off..." Tokine jogged after the young teenager. As the two teenagers reached the cherry trees, they spotted a giant, lumpy ayakashi, which really smelled like a cesspool as they approached. Then, out of nowhere, a figure clothed in black landed next to the ayakashi, blew a torrent of fire onto the monster, and surrounded it with a red kekkai and quickly destroyed the ayakashi, leaving only a scorched ground.
"Hey, who the heck are you?! That was mine!" Yoshimori angrily stamped his foot.
The intruder gave no response, but simply turned away to leap over the school walls in one swift movement.
"Yoshimori, that's dangerous, you don't just approach a stranger like that! Besides, didn't you see that person's eyes? They look like those of a cats', and I felt a strange aura coming from that person..." Tokine reprimanded Yoshimori. He only huffed in response and mumbled that dawn was breaking and headed home. Tokine sighed and decided to return home as well, seeing that the sky turning a pale rose color, as the sun began to rise.
"Honey, what are you going to do? After that ayakashi was destroyed, I smelled a scent close to that of Gen's, an ayakashi-majiri, but also kind of like yours and that Sumimura boy, a Kekkaishi's. Furthermore, that person used a kekkai, and I have not heard of any other kekkai-users other than those from the Yukimura and Sumimura clans."
"Hmm...I'll ask grandma to look into it tomorrow, I'm going to sleep before I go to school. Thanks, Hakubi, you did well tonight." The two parted inside the Yukimura courtyard.
"Good morning, class! Sumimura, at least stay awake for the first five minutes of class, we have a new student entering in our class today!" The teacher walked towards the door and let in the new student. Every one shifted in their seats and started to chatter amongst themselves upon seeing their new classmate. A slender girl, with short, layered, jet-black hair with a burgundy tint that framed her face and nearly brushed her shoulders, glared across the room. What most of the students were chattering about, was not her serious expression, but her eyes. One, a deep sapphire blue, the other, a piercing emerald green, both with dilated, slit pupils of a cat's.
"Everyone, please welcome Heiyata Honomi, she has just moved into our city, so please treat her nicely. Is there anything you want to say, Heiyata-san?"
"No."
"Then, you can sit...there. There's an empty seat next to the window in the back row. Is that all right?"
"Yeah. " The girl brushed past the teacher, and silently went to her seat, making almost no sound.
"Well then, everyone stop talking and open your books to page 38..." With that, the day continued on into the break period. As soon as the bell rang, Yurina jumped from her seat and dragged a half-awake Yoshimori outside.
"Sumimura-kun, don't you feel anything weird today? That new student, she's really scary, and she smells like blood, kind of like Shishio-kun."
"Uhh...don't worry, it's probably just your imagination...if that's all, I'm going back to sleep..."
Yurina looked uncertain as she returned to her seat, glancing at the new girl, who was staring out the window, into the cloudless sky. To be honest, Yoshimori did feel slightly unsettled by the new girl, the air around her seemed feral, quite unnerving, in fact. He decided to brush it off and buried his head back into his pillow, drifting off into a deep sleep. Heiyata Honomi had actually heard the the two classmates' conversations, her keen ears catching every word clearly, but eventually ignored them, allowing their voices to merge with the drone of the rest of the classroom. Focusing her eyes outside, she sat waiting for the dull school day to end.
Night fell again, and a pair of glittering eyes silently watched the two Kekkaishis argue on Karasumori grounds. From her rooftop post, she immediately sensed an ayakashi about to appear in the main courtyard at the middle of the the two schools. Seeing that the two spirit dogs have not yet detected the ayakashi, she decided to go ahead and wait for the monster to appear. She nimbly leaped over the rooftop fence and landed in one of the trees that circled the main courtyard, crouched atop one of the thick branches, hidden from view. After a few moments, a the dirt ground of the courtyard began to warp, as an ayakashi began to appear. Emerging from the dirt, a six-foot tall mole-like ayakashi with spikes on it back shoveled it way out of the ground. The girl in the tree cocked her ears to hear the dogs alert the kekkaishi about the ayakashi. Deciding that the kekkaishi were taking too long, she jumped down from the tree and faced the ayakashi, ready to surround it. Taking a deep breath, she exhaled a plume of fire onto the ayakashi, and stood there waiting for it to burn into ashes. Unfortunately, the ayakashi laughed, the sound rumbling across the courtyard while using its giant, spade-like hands to shovel dirt on top of itself, extinguishing the fire. Before the girl was able to surround the ayakashi with a kekkai, the ayakashi leaped toward her, its clawed hands poised in the air, revealing jaws lined with rows of teeth. Almost a moment too late, she surrounded its snout with a kekkai pinning its open jaws in place. What she had not expected, was the rest of the body to swing down, following momentum and meet solidly with her midsection. Thrown backwards in the air, and smashing her head against one of the tree trunks, she blacked out after trying to get up unsuccessfully and flopped down on her side.
Yoshimori and Tokine rounded the corner just to see the same black figure from the previous night catapult into a tree and a quite large ayakashi slash away at a red kekkai surrounding its snout, and turn to face them. Assuming defensive stances, the two kekkaishi poised their hands in a ready position to surround the ayakashi. Yoshimori, as usual, tried to surround the ayakashi with a giant kekkai. Tokine, on the other hand, looked past the ayakashi, searching for the mysterious figure still lying on the ground. Deciding to just surround the unknown person for the time being, she focused her attention on the ayakashi after making a kekkai around the figure sprawled on the ground. Yoshimori grew annoyed at the ayakashi after unsuccessful attempts to destroy the ayakashi, which simply slashed through every barrier. Tokine rolled her eyes at Yoshimori, and pierced through each of the ayakashi's paws, and pinning them in the air with two kekkais.
"Yoshimori, now!" Tokine instructed. Giving a satisfied grin, he finally surrounded the struggling ayakashi and destroyed it. Raising her staff, as Yoshimori had left his lying somewhere around the entrance again, Tokine cleaned up the remaining particles to prevent the ayakashi from regenerating. Now, she turned her attention towards her captive.
"Yoshimori, let's go see who that person is."
"Yeah, sure."
As the two neared Tokine's kekkai, she released it with a wave of her hand. Tokine crouched down and examined the figure. Slender and fit, it was obviously a girl clothed in a fitted turtleneck tank, it was all black except for a giant, crimson red diamond in the back, much like the houin mark, but turned its side, a square diamond. The girls' hands and feet were calloused and each nail looked deadly sharp. Her bottoms consisted of knee-length spandex-like material shorts. Her bare feet were bandaged up to the bottom of her knees. Tokine reached a cautious hand to brush away shoulder-length hair from her face. The second Tokine's fingers brushed against her face, the girl's eyes snapped open revealing mismatching cat eyes. Her hand reflexively swatted out at the two surprised kekkaishis in defense, making them jump back in response. Yoshimori's gaze was locked on the girl's piercing blue and emerald green eyes, which seemed familiar to him, but he couldn't place where he saw them before. Tokine stood defensively, facing the girl who had shot up and out at them with newly clawed hands, said nails gown into even deadlier looking metal tips, encasing the entire fingers.
"Who are you, and what do you want here?" Tokine inquired. She was only met with a snarl, as the girl's lips curled back to reveal unusually sharp canines and wary eyes dancing between the two kekkaishis.
"Hey! Tokine asked you a question! Who the heck are you?!" Yoshimori angrily snapped. Like Tokine, he was only met with a glare and bared teeth. After a few strained seconds, the girl crouched, and leaped over the two kekkaishis, onto the school gate, and disappeared over it. The kekkaishis could only follow her actions before registering what just happened. Too late, Yoshimori angrily shouted, "Hey! Come back here! You didn't answer our questions!"
"Yoshimori, it's too late."
"Argh, not again! But, I feel like I've seen those eyes before..." Yoshimori stood there with his hand on his chin, racking his mind.
"Honey," Hakubi interjected, "It's the same smell..."
"Really? Yoshimori, last night, Hakubi told me she smelled like an ayakashi-majiri and a kekkaishi at the same time, so I decided to ask Grandma about it."
"What? That's possible?" Yoshimori reeled at the thought.
"Yes, and Grandma told me that she has never heard of it, and would look into the records and do some research."
"Well, I guess we should get that person tomorrow then, because our work is done for the night." Yoshimori yawned and went to retrieve his staff.
"I guess..." Tokine resigned for the night and started to head home. Another fruitless night had ended, other than finding out the face of the mysterious person.
Ohhh cliffy~ Stay tuned!
Hopefully I'll be able to upload a new chapter every week or so! Don't forget to review~
