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The snow from the heavens covers the world with a blanket of peaceful bliss, bringing people closer to one another and letting new relationships sprout out beneath the frigid cold of life.
- Hoshino Yukino -
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Konnichiwa minna-san! This is the new and improved Blinded By Hate, which is one of the stories that I forgot about after a long time now. Hoshino Yukino has been too quiet this past few months and now I want to change all that and hopefully the next chapter of this new and improved story will come out a week after. You see, after reading all the reviews that I received for this fic, I decided that this fic was not up to my new standards and now I am rewriting it! I am thinking of rewriting all my fics to suit my now higher standards in writing fics… Guess, we'll just find out in due time… Megumi is still the main character in this fic but the person blinded by hate is now longer the silent one… Hope you would enjoy this fic as much as I enjoyed writing it… Enjoy…
Disclaimer: I don't own Gatekeepers and the characters in it.
Rating: PG-13 for death and profanity
Note: There will be OOC on Megumi's part because of all the changes that has happened since then but there will still be a lot of similarities with the old Megumi except now she's more content in life and happy with herself instead of thinking of herself as someone who is always stepped on…
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~ * ~ Blinded by Hate ~ * ~
- Prologue: One Less -
By Hoshino Yukino
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It has been a year now since Shun, our captain, defeated the dark gatekeeper, Shadow, the person who went by the name Reiji Kageyama. I was afraid that they would hate me after that, after I had betrayed their trust by my going to the dark side, but they never did. They even took me back into AEGIS and helped me heal my heart, which was broken up into many pieces by the person I used to care for the most.
Many changes have happened since then, especially with me, but I guess I'll have to tell you what happened to the other gatekeepers first…
Feye has decided to finish her schooling in Tategami High School. Mainly because there were still some invader threats that occurred once in awhile after that incident and also because she found a guy named, Takato Tsukishiro, who had just confessed that he had crush on her under a cherry tree. Now, they're a cute little couple and their relationship has grown to a level of that they trust each other to the point that they trust their lives on each other. However, Feye still wouldn't tell him about her identity as a gatekeeper, not that he doesn't know about her powers, it's just that Feye doesn't want to tell him about AEGIS and the invaders because she doesn't want him to be involve in a battle that would only hurt him. As I said before, they're a really sweet couple and this makes me want to love once more but I just… can't… just yet…
Bancho was sent to the North American AEGIS Branch because of his strange gate. The AEGIS top brass want to examine why his gate had such a slow reaction rate and is pondering if the invaders could have gotten a jamming signal to have made it harder for him to use his gate power. He's under observation and some basic military training so that he could be able to us his gate power normally and should be back by the end of the year, not that he's really missed back here in Japan…
Kaoru has given up on Ukiya-sempai, knowing that Shun loves Ruriko and not her. Her hair has grown longer by a bit but not long enough to slow her down when doing her athletics. She's currently going out with Satoru Ichijouji, the team captain of the soccer club. Satoru was one of her classmates since last year and had a crush on her since the time he saw her. He just didn't want to trouble her by telling her that he liked her, especially since she liked someone else, so he didn't. It was actually in the Annual Sports Festival, after Kaoru had given up on Ukiya-kun, that he decided to tell her what he felt. At first, Kaoru had a hard time, deciding if she would or if she should not but after some time and after talking to Ukiya-kun, she accepted him as her koi. And now, like Feye and Takato, they're a really cute couple. She already told him about her gate powers but instead of him getting scared off because of that, he actually thought it was cool…
Megane still works in AEGIS but has gotten taller since the last encounter with Shadow. He has just finished his newest masterpiece Gate Robot 2, which is an improved version of the Gate Robot. The one Shun used in the battle with Kageyama, which Kageyama destroyed easily. Megane has now replaced the armor with a lighter and yet more durable alloy to protect the gate engine that Shun's father created and made the efficiency ratio of the gate robot to peak efficiency. He's working on creating another gate robot for the Far East branch but he lacks the blueprints for one…
Reiko, well, is still the same way she always has been, funny and quite forgetful at times. Although I still think she's a klutz and a ditz at times, I guess she's kind enough to try and she is "nice"… Again, I repeat she is nice, but her screw is just not screwed on tight… She is currently taking music courses in a nearby college and still lives with Mrs. Ochiki in their house near the AEGIS Far East Branch…
As for me, well, I'm now the top of the class, the class president and my parents business is doing better now. I let my hair grow longer, mainly to show all of the people who knew me that I changed now and also because some people think I look with long hair. I talk more nowadays, not that I didn't talk much before, but it's just that all I said before wasn't really friendly… But I still like studying quietly once in a while, even if I'm beginning to like hanging out with friends and all, now that my parents don't really need me to help around in our noodle store anymore. I'm getting to be popular among the students now and they are beginning to ask me for help in their assignments. At first, I felt annoyed at them but as they came, it felt as if it was naturally for me and I soon liked the feeling. As you can see, I changed a lot… I'm no longer the old Megumi who was bothered with the problems of inferiority… I'm now the TRUE Megumi, the person I always wanted to be… ME!!!
What about Ruriko and Shun?
Ruriko, well… she's dead… She died about a month ago when the invaders started attacking again, strangely enough. We thought that it would be all over when Kageyama was defeated but I guess we were wrong and the invader attack that killed her just proves it.
**** Flashback ****
We were all going to my noodle shop that day, I was treating them to a snack since I was voted as class president with some help with Ruriko, of course, when we were stopped in our tracks by a dark ring appearing in front of us. We jumped back when a purple beam shot out but Ruriko wasn't able to dodge it and was eradicated from the face of the earth. She disappeared without a trace after she was hit. Afterwards, a being, guy or girl, we're not sure, stepped out of the gate and laughed loudly.
"Gatekeepers, your merriment will end today! Watashi wa Onikage! I am the Dark One and I am here to seek revenge for the invaders you have killed mercilessly and for the loss of our great commander, Shadow. Accept the death of one your kind as my welcoming gift Gatekeepers, enjoy you specks of bugs! I swear that I'll fulfill the wishes of my master, Kageyama, and put an end to the miserable lives of these specks of a bug! Invaders RISE!" shouted the hooded being who called itself Onikage.
Invaders of a different kind then rose from beneath the ground; they weren't even a bit alike the previous invaders and had a weird inscription written on their foreheads. They raised their palms to shoulder level and a green energy was building up on their palms. I immediately built a shield to protect us and motioned for the rest to prepare themselves for the worst. Feye was about to call upon her gate when she noticed that the Dark One had a black ring above her hand.
"Gate Open" shouted the hooded being, creating some sort of rapture that destroyed my concentration, which led to the removal of the shield that protected them.
Shun who was standing dumbfounded at the lost of Ruriko, who had just agreed to go out with him and who had just told him that she loved him, began to go crazy and fired shot after shot at each one of the invaders the Dark One called out, eradicating them, creating black crystals where they once stood. He was fuming and his rage was shown in his eyes.
"How dare you take away the one I loved the most, you fucking bastard! GO TO HELL!" shouted Shun, firing continuously at the hooded figure that stood in front of us.
The hooded figure just stood there and waved her hand when the balls of energy were about to hit her and the balls of energy were redirected towards a nearby building.
"Pitiful!" remarked the hooded one, as he/she created some sort of rift in front of himself/herself.
"Sayonara… Ga-to-keepers…" waved the Dark One, stepping into the rift that he/she created.
"Come back here, you fucking asshole…" shouted Shun, as he shot another ball of energy in the Dark One's direction.
The Dark One disappeared into the shadows leaving us to mourn for the death of one of our kind, Ruriko…
**** End Flashback ****
Shun was the one hit the hardest and because of that he's been acting weirdly these days and couldn't wait to have another invader attack, so that he can beat the fucking daylights out of them. Nothing much had happened to Shun, after the battle with Kageyama and the encounter with Onikage, except maybe that he looks more mature now and wants to wear black all the time. He goes to the cemetery weekly, where AEGIS had buried Ruriko's most valuable things since they didn't have her body. He usually places some flowers over her grave and begins to cry out loud, asking God what he had done to deserve such a fate…
A new gatekeeper came into the Far East branch after Ruriko had died and she calls herself, Mizuki Inoge…
~ Owari for now ~
Note: I'm so sorry if the dialogue does not incorporate much Japanese but since they're mainly profanity, I don't really know their Japanese translations… Gomen… *bows down* Gomen…
Please R & R… So how did you like it? Better than the first or worst? You tell me! If it's worst then I'll bring back the first along with this, okay with you? This time I made Megumi not a spoiled brat anymore, okay? I hope everyone will be happy with this one… Hope so…