Disclaimer: I do not own Blue seed or any of its characters.
Author's notes: This is my first fic so bare with me. Please don't be too hard on me. The story takes place some time after Kaede is discovered to still be alive. Momiji is losing confidence in her self. Also, the story brings into view a topic that the series didn't explore too much. Kusanagi tells Momiji that she shouldn't be worried about the Matama to take over her as long as she has the will power. In this fic she loses her will power.
Mingling Matamas
Chapter 1
Only second best
It was a bright and peaceful day, a very uncommon sight for Momiji ever since she found out that she was more than just a typical high school student. For quite a while now there's been no stop to the continuous onslaught from the monstrous Arigami. Days have gone by where Momiji has failed to get any sleep causing her to fail even more tests than usual. But lets face it; she's not the sharpest needle in the haystack. Fortunately, though, today isn't one of those days.
Actually, today is the first day in a long time that anyone's ever found Momiji sleeping in. Her alarm went off many times trying to get her going. At first she planned on getting up fairly early so she had merely pushed the snooze button, but that got old fast. After about the fifth time she decided to take drastic measures. Instead of just unplugging the thing like any normal person would she decided to make sure that the thing would not cause her anymore trouble so she sent it flailing out the window.
She was so oblivious of her surroundings that she didn't even realize that she had nearly knocked Kusanagi out of the nearby tree. He too was trying to catch up on his beauty sleep until he was rudely awakened by a very hard object. At first he had merely brushed it off thinking he was still dreaming. But that quickly changed when he toppled out of the high branches and came face to face with a not so friendly lower branch. With this he was completely awake.
Startled he looked around trying to find the object of his now splitting headache. With luck he found it. Shocked at realizing that an alarm clock had bashed him over the head, he now turned his attention to the nearby window of the supposed culprit. With haste he jumped up into the window. Before he went inside, he quickly surveyed the room making sure that Momiji was the culprit and to his satisfaction he noticed the dresser where she kept her alarm clock was now vacant.
Wanting to get even, he quickly devised a plan to wake Momiji up in the same fashion that he was. To be ironic he concluded that the best object at his disposal would be the very thing that woke him up, the alarm clock. He walked around her room trying to find some other plug to connect the alarm to so Momiji didn't just push snooze again. He managed to find one by the door of her room. Thinking that this was too far for the regular volume to be used, he decided to raise the volume to the highest decimal. Again thinking that it would be even more fun if it wasn't the alarm sound that woke her up, but instead the radio. He quickly switched it to radio. He then moved the knob so that the station that would be playing would have the most annoying music in the world. Searching back in his head he recalled an old station that he used to listen to. It had changed hands and music to Polka, mainly the reason he stopped listening to it in the first place. With that in mind, he quickly changed the station to the Polka channel and moved in to plug in the alarm.
Almost immediately a boom of noise came out almost shaking the room. Momiji jumped when she heard the music. She would have gagged too because it was Polka music, but she instead focused her lazy attention at turning off the radio. She reached her hand to where her alarm was supposed to be and made the motions of turning it off. Nothing happened. She attempted the same thing again and again nothing. After this second attempt she sat up some and looked at where her alarm was supposed to be. She was in complete shock; apparently she hadn't remembered that she had thrown it out the window. Realizing that the sound was coming from somewhere else she slowly looked around the room trying to locate the source of the sound. She found the spot and could tell that there was someone there, but she was still sleepy eyed and couldn't tell who it was. She assumed it was Mr. Kunikida.
"Mr. Kunikida, why did you wake me up? This was the first day I've had to sleep in for a month. Even so, why'd you have to pick that horrible music?" Momiji complained.
"Well, princess, first of all I'm not Mr. Kunikida", replied Kusanagi.
With that reply, Momiji froze just now realizing who was really standing in her room. "Kusanagi!!! Why are you in my room?! Don't you know better than to barge into a girl's bedroom? And besides that why did you wake me up like this? You know you're a real jerk!"
"You know I wouldn't be talking like that to the person who's still holding your alarm", replied Kusanagi.
"My alarm? Why did you steal my alarm and then play such a stupid, STUPID joke like that?"
"First of all, I didn't steal your alarm. You so kindly gave it to me when you threw it out of the window. And with that sweet gesture, I had to find someway to repay you."
"Oh, now that you mention it, I do remember throwing it out the window. But that gives you no right to do what you did, Kusanagi."
"Well I think it does. And anyways why should I take orders from someone who still wears kiddy underwear?"
At that remark, Momiji slowly looked down and realized that she was only wearing a shirt and some underwear. Feeling completely embarrassed, she grabbed the blanket and covered herself.
"YOU PERVERT!"
Right when she made that remark a groggy looking Mr. Kunikida strolled into the room after being woken up too by the loud music.
"What's going on in here?" Mr. Kunikida replied.
Again completely embarrassed, Momiji responded. " Oh, I'm so sorry. Kusanagi wanted to get even at me for throwing my alarm out of the window at him, even though he shouldn't have retaliated like that."
"Well I might have reacted the same way too if that were to happen to me. But please just turn it down", answered Mr. Kunikida.
Right when Kusanagi unplugged the radio, Momiji's Matama started to glow. Oh, no, she thought. Not again.
"Aragami!" With that remark, Kusanagi jumped out the window and started heading towards the Aragami.
Thirty minutes later, the whole TAC was re-grouped at a movie theater, the scene of the new Aragami. Kusanagi was already fighting away before they had even got out of the car.
"Hey plant boy! Leave some for us", Kome snorted.
Kome started shooting at the large worm like Aragami. Ms. Matsudaria and Yaegashi started away at their computers trying to find some way to defeat it. And finally Ms. Tacheuchi and Kunikida were still in the car trying to inform the Prime Minister of their current predicament. Momiji, during this time, just stood there staring up at the monster.
Unfortunately, Momiji was standing a little too close. Few seconds later, the worm like creature headed towards Momiji. She thought she was done for because she couldn't get her legs to work. But right when it was just inches from devouring the princess, Kusanagi swiped her up.
"You know princess, you should really be more careful."
Kusanagi, after saying that remark, placed Momiji safely on the ground. He started to join the party again, until he felt some weird presence. He turned around and saw…Kaede. He just took off only muttering her name. Momiji, noticing what was going on, called to him to come back, but it was futile.
Now, the TAC was all alone trying to fend off the Aragami. Luckily at that moment the last member of the TAC showed up.
"Hey, everyone. I'm finally here," came the voice of the beautiful and annoying Sakura.
"Oh brother. Not her again," snorted Kome.
Sakura paid no head and instead went right to work. In a matter of minutes with the help of Sakura and the rest of the TAC the Aragami was foiled, no thanks to Kusanagi.
"Well, sacrifice girl, I told you I was great and this time you didn't interfere or your annoying protector Kusanagi. Speaking of Carrot boy, where is he?"
"He just ran off after Kaede," replied Momiji.
After the fight the whole gang went over to the TAC headquarters to process all the data from this new Aragami. Everyone was busy to work except for Sakura who was lounging around in one of the office chairs and Momiji who was also sitting, but was deep in thought over the last thing that just happened with Kusanagi. She continued doing this until she heard Sakura speak up.
"I wish that stupid plant boy hadn't run off. I could have shown him all my skill as the best Faith Healer there is. How stupid had he been for running after some old girlfriend? If she's anything like her sister over there, than I have no idea why he even bothers. I'm twice the girl either of them are." Almost immediately after stating her opinion, Kome knocked her over the head with a book.
"Will you shut up," she cried looking over at Momiji.
Hearing this Momiji started to wonder what Kaede was like. If Kaede was just like she was she'd have no problem trying to gain him back. Well, even so she'd have some difficulty.
"What was Kaede like?" Momiji asked voicing her thoughts.
"She was nice and pretty and a straight 'A' student. She was also graceful and was so fun to be with," came the words of Mr. Kunikida. Obviously hearing Kaede's name made him go all nostalgic not even noticing the tears beginning to swell up in Momiji's eyes.
Momiji lost all confidence in her self then. How was she supposed to compete with that? She didn't even think she could compete with Sakura. This was her own sister, her better half literally.
While engorged in her own thoughts Kusanagi swooped in through the window. He was a little battered looking, probably from Maurokumo. He stood there for a few moments before saying anything. "Damn that Maurokumo! If it wasn't for him I could have gotten her back. Momiji, did you feel her?"
Momiji set off guard replied, "What?"
"At the battle, did you feel her?"
"No. I didn't feel anything," she answered turning around heading for the door, "I have to leave." She ran out of the door and headed home.
Kusanagi just stood there for a few minutes trying to figure out what just happened. He began to go after her, but was stopped halfway down the hall. Someone had grabbed his hand.
"So, thinking you're going to run off again without even saying bye. How very rude of you. You know Carrot boy, you missed all the fun earlier by going after your old girlfriend. She's old news anyway. If you ever decide to realize that I'll be here." After saying that, Sakura leaned over and placed a very passionate kiss on old Kus Kus. Momiji, who was down the hall, had heard some commotion even though she hadn't heard any of the specific words. She turned around just in time to see the passionate kiss. Thinking she might be sick, she turned around and again headed for home.
Kusanagi, too feeling sick, ripped Sakura off of him and went after Momiji.
Momiji finally made it home after much running. How can I be good enough for him she thought. He's so strong and handsome. He wants to be with someone who's as equally gorgeous and at least someone who doesn't fall over every second. Why am I such a loser? She then started to drift off into sleep. Almost immediately she was in a dream. She was looking at Kusanagi. Her heart raced when she saw him. But that didn't stay long for shortly after Kaede and Sakura showed up and slung themselves all over him.
"Look at the baby. She's such a baby. She even wears kiddy pants," said Kusanagi. She looked down to see that she was only in her underwear. She gasped and quickly covered herself.
"You can't compete with us. You're only a loser, a loser," came the voices of the two girls.
"I know. I know. Just leave me alone," yelled Momiji.
In the real world her Matama was glowing bright blue. She was moving uncontrollably under her covers. Luckily, Kusanagi had followed her home. He jumped in her room and began shaking her to wake up, but nothing happened. Her Matama was still glowing. Beginning to get a little worried, he started shaking her again and this time called her name. She reluctantly came out of her dream. Fluttering her eyelids she woke up.
"Kus..Kusanagi?"
"Princess you gave me a real scare. Was it aragami?"
"Was what Aragami?"
"You're Matama was glowing. It must have been Aragami," answered Kusanagi.
Not knowing what just happened or even remembering her dream Momiji replied, "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Well, it's over now. I'll go check around just in case it was Aragami. Try to get some more sleep," with that Kusanagi was off.
Little did he know or even Momiji knew, that it was Aragami, but not the Aragami that he thought it was. It was the Aragami that was resurfaced through Momiji. With the rise of Susanoh-oh it gave her Matama a perfect chance to come alive.
Well that's it for the first chapter. I hope you liked it. Please review.