Note

Thanks for all the reviews. I am reloading chapters one and two because of the questions you all asked made me realize that I have been slacking on my character development. Yes you are suppose to feel a little bad for Reito but try to remember yes he cares for Shizuru and is very attracted to her, and he may very well love her in his own way but he isn't in love with her. He has hang ups on what makes a perfect life and most who are going for a perfect life well from what I have seen in life that kind of perfect is a lie. all window dress colorful paint to make it look nice while the whole time the people stuck in such a life hide what they really feel because they think it is wrong to mess up something that is comfortable, not realizing they are miserable or at the very least not as happy as they could have been if they wouldn't have to think what if. This story is about fixing a big what if and making a man who is normally out for himself see that it is the imperfect lives in his life that matter most. So I am going to give this story another go and see if you guys and gals like it a bit better.

Disclaimer: I am borrowing the peeps but the content is mine for the most part. I mean come on who else could be this cracked hum well I haven't met them yet and I don't want to.

Warnings: this story may contain one or more of the following things that you may find um not to your personal liking due to moral dilemmas or weak stomach or stick rectum compaction (stick up the ass for those of you who didn't get it.) bad language, foul language, bad grammar, poor spelling, girls kissing girls, girls kissing boys, drinking, insanity, death, sex of hetero and homo persuasions, some violence mostly slaps and hitting I haven't thought up any parts with guns, sharp objects or other implements of mass destruction unless you count kids I find those very destructive well the ones in my family anyway.

Note: hi this will be the only warning and disclaimer that you will get out of me unless I change some things. Also I would like very much to know what you think of this story. I don't care if you are nice about it or mean about it just leave something so I know how I am reaching you or not reaching you. Now on with the show action!

Hey I am Natsuki Kuga and well I would say this is my story but I would be lying this story belongs to fate and us it's play things. I don't think I should start at the beginning but in the middle that's when things really started to go to crazy town for me.

Sounds of the wedding march fill the packed church as the most beautiful bride walked down a red carpeted isle to a dashing young man his dark hair was slicked back and his white gloved hands were clenching and unclenching nervously as he watched his bride approach.

"Don't worry she said yes," Mikoto said giving his shoulder a squeeze.

"I know but she can still change her mind." Reito said swallowing the lump that has made a home in his throat for the better part of the day. It was as if she was there, out of the corner of his eye he had been seeing long hair that was so black its shine was blue. If that wasn't bad enough almost every thing about to day reminded him of that day. The only thing different about this day is that the girl would pledge her love to him.

"She won't she knows what she wants and that is you brother so stop twitching."

"Thanks Mikoto as wise as you are becoming it won't be to long before I am standing next to you with Mai walking down that isle." He said distractedly knowing deep down that what Mikoto had just said wasn't as true as he would like it to be.

"I don't know about that she is here with Tate." She said sadly looking quite grown up in a female version of the tux he was wearing.

"Don't let that stop you I didn't let that stop me." He said thinking of that day once more, his hand clenched he could still feel the note in his hand as he crushed it. The smell of it still in his memory, but it was something that was hard to forget given it was his bride's favorite perfume.

The whispered conversation stopped there as Shizuru made it to the end of the isle and her father placed her hand into Reito's. He relaxed knowing that he was finely getting what he wanted, the girl that was perfect for him.

The wedding went on just as it started perfectly with no objections from the gathered guest, easing all the doubts from Reito's mind.

Two months later

"What do you want for dinner love," Shizuru asked as she straightened Reito's tie.

"How about I take you out tonight after all we will have something to celebrate your father and I are completing the merger with Kanzaki enterprises today." He said kissing her soundly, as he left for work.

Shizuru went on about starting her day she pulled a cd from the bottom of the stack. She had been listening to this disk a lot lately, soon the sound of the song smile like you mean it by the killers was filling the house as she put the tea pot on. It was soon whistling as she hummed along as she prepared her fix for the day. She pour the water into the tea leaves then brought the cup to her lips inhaling the aroma of the tea before taking her first sip and frowned as her stomach began to roll. She dropped the cup and ran to the down stairs bathroom and emptied her stomach promptly.

'Oh my I hope I am not coming down with something,' she thought to her self as she cleaned up. She soon found her self thinking back to her school days and how this isn't where she seen her self being. She shrugged it off as Mr. Bright side started playing.

At dinner time Reito still hadn't made it home and she was beginning to feel sick again. The phone began to ring as she was pacing back and forth she picked it up on the first ring.

"Hello," she answered.

"I'm sorry love I'm running a bit late we had a few complications with the merger but we have them ironed out now and we are signing the contracts now so why don't you meet me at the dragon for dinner. I shouldn't be more than a half hour behind you."

"I see you there then. I love you," she said not wanting to disappoint the one person who always seemed to be there for her.

"I love you to Shizuru I will see you in a bit bye."

"Bye," she said hanging up the phone with a sigh.

She walked up stairs and slipped on the red silk dress she had worn on there first date. It was backless with a high neck the skirt came mid thigh it was sexy in an innocent way the skin it showed wasn't risky but what it did show was enough to make you want to see what the rest had to offer. She looked in the mirror and remembered how awkward that first date had felt and how they ended it by shaking hands. She slipped on the matching shoes and grabbed her had bag pulling her car keys out and left not knowing what fate had in store for the evening.

Reito sighed as he put his mark on the last contract and relaxed in his chair looking at his watch and smiled.

'I got done early if I leave now I we should get there at the same time,' he thought to him self as he watched the company lawyer file the paper work.

"Well it looks like we are done here Mr. Kanzaki," the young pink haired woman said smiling at him.

"Thank you Mrs. Himeno," Reito said smiling back. 'If I wasn't a married man she would be a lovely woman to come home to her husband is a lucky man,' he thought to himself.

"It's Ms. and don't thank me you and Mr. Fujino did most of the work so this was easy money for my firm." She said with a shrug picking up her brief case.

'And modest to I should tell Mikoto about her it may help get her over Mai seeing as she isn't being very proactive about the Tate situation. Not that it would help much at this point, he has Mai wrapped around his finger. To bad Mikoto is too nice to tell her the girl he is living with isn't his sister.'

"You did more than you think but enough of this I have to meet my wife for dinner to celebrate this merger if I don't hurry I will be later than I am already." He said standing up shaking her hand as he left.

He left the building smiling he stepped to the curb looking both ways before crossing to the guest car park.

'This time tomorrow I will have my own parking spot in the under ground car park right next to Fujino's and every thing will be perfect,' he thought as his phone began to ring. He started crossing the street as he plucked his phone out of his pocket.

"Kanzaki," he answered.

"SSSSRRRREEEEAAAACCCCHHHHHHH!"

"Ah!" he exclaimed as he pulled the phone away from his ear, only to here the squealing breaks of a huge double Decker bus right before it hit him.

Then blackness…..

He awoke in a thick mist wearing the same suit he had on when he left for work that morning. He looked around seeing countless people getting into a line many of them were wearing hospital gowns.

"Where am I," he asked out loud.

"Ah good your awake, said a boy with white hair as he lit a smoke and took a pull. "Right this way we have a lot to discus and I would rather do it in my office."

"Where am I and what time is it I have to meet my wife for dinner, I really don't want to be late." Reito said clutching the only excuse he could think of in this odd situation that he wanted no part of.

"I really don't have time for this," he said rolling his eyes at the young business man. "Look your dead so you don't have to worry about being late I am sure your wife will understand and accept your excuse. Now if you would come right this…"

"That is unacceptable I can't be dead I just go my life started, every thing is finely going to be perfect even for Mikoto if I can talk some since into her. Come on this has to be some kind of a joke right where are the cameras? I bet Tate put you up to this, he knows that I know about his girl on the side." he said becoming more nervous at the kid's expression wasn't one of someone who would be joking. "Fine what do you want and why do you plan to kill me? I haven't done anything to you.

He sighed in exasperation. "Look I don't want to kill you, and you have done plenty to me in the way of paper work. This is no joke Reito you are already very much dead and your body is currently clogging the radiator of the bus that hit you. Now I really need you to come with me so we can get some things squared away," the kid said snapping his fingers.

Two men in black want to be grabbed Reito by his arms and half picking him up half dragging the shocked young man to the kid's office. They sat him roughly into a chair across the desk from the kid who had just taken his seat and ashed his smoke. The office was plain the walls were yellow not because they were painted that color but from smoke stains. The desk looked like it was obtained at a dump because even a nonprofit organization wouldn't use it. The chair he was sitting in was a ripped up leather arm chair with the stuffing coming out of it in places, but even that was better than the metal folding chair Reito was subjected to.

"Look I know you are still in shock but if you don't listen to me you will have more to worry about than being dead. You see you mess up a lot of other people's lives by messing with fate."

"What do you mean I messed up other people's lives?" Reito asked.

"Well this is a list of people who died because of the choices you made who shouldn't have, and this is the list of people who will never find the love and family they were meant to have because of what you have done." The kid said passing the pages across the desk to Reito.

Reito looked over the pages and on the pages of loveless one name stood out that didn't surprise him at all, and that was Natsuki Kuga. He shrugged it off as her own fault not his and looked at the page with deaths. There were names of people most he didn't know but they all looked familiar but after all those names there was a line drawn and a header of (those who will never be born.) The first name on that list shocked him Mashiro Kanzaki.

"Who was she going to be?" Reito asked in a whisper.

"Oh yes Mashiro Kanzaki was to be the first ever leader of Japan to make the nation a utopia for all who live there, hell she would have brought the end to poverty world wide because of her revolutionary ideas to rid the world of trade agreements and government standing in the way of people's lively hood, but most importantly she was to be your granddaughter."

"So if I would have lived me and Shizuru would have had at least one child," Reito said smiling to him self thinking how that would have tied in to his life plan well.

"That's part of the problem you and Shizuru were never meant to be together you were suppose to marry a lawyer named Fumi Himeno, and she would have given birth to Erstin Kanzaki who would have went on to marry Nina Kuga who is the child of one Shizuru Fujino and Natsuki Kuga my point is we can still fix this."

"What you're saying is the mistake I made was not giving up the girl I love to someone who didn't deserve her hell Kuga acted like she didn't even exist." Reito all but hissed through clenched teeth.

"It is not up to you to decide who is deserving of love and who is not," the kid exclaimed his voice booming much like you would think god's would. "I bet you never even bothered to find out why Natsuki Kuga acted the way she did toward Shizuru, because if you would have bothered to even look you would have left things alone and let them have each other. In many ways she is more deserving than you are she… never mind you will see for your self soon because as it sits you can help us fix the mess you caused."

"And if I were to refuse?" Reito asked petulantly thinking how hard he worked to get this far.

"Well then we will get to say good bye to the human race because the child Shizuru is currently caring is a child out side of fate and unless she becomes the daughter of one Natsuki Kuga with in the next two years she will end the world with a war the likes the world has never seen before. To put it simply if the child doesn't get put back into fate's design she will be the only human left on earth because she will be unable to die."

"So I had to die to give my family to Kuga this is bull shit." He screamed in outrage.

"No you died because it was your time even if you would have gone with the life fate dealt you it would still be your time only you would have had a one year old little girl and a wife who loved you desperately instead of a wife who is caring the end of all existence and loves you but always sees another in her minds eye thinking about what could have been if she wouldn't have settled. The life fate had planed for you was more rewarding and the love you would have found would have been effortless." He laughed bitterly, "as hard as you had to work to get Fujino to love you, and to get the life you thought was perfect…" he began to laugh again.

"So I'm a jack ass for going after what I wanted in life?" Reito asked rubbing the bridge of his nose as if a head ache was coming on.

"No you are a jack ass for going after someone you didn't really love but wanted so no one else could have her. You not only ruined Natsuki's life but look in the middle of that will never find love list."

He picked the page back up and looked down at it looking over the names finding the names of Mai, Mikoto and Shizuru among other people who have been good to him over the years.

"So what do I have to do to fix this mess?" Reito asked completely defeated looking once more at Mikoto's name.

"Well this is what is going to be the hard part for you. What we need you to do is put back together what you helped tear apart. You have seven years to get Natsuki Kuga to help you tie up loose ends for Fumi, Mai, and Mikoto. You only have two years to get Shizuru Fujino and Natsuki Kuga together before some of the damage is permanent."

"So get my wife and Kuga together in two years and talk her into helping me fix a few other things got you. After I do that what will happen to me?" Reito asked looking across the desk feeling uneasy about his future.

"You come back here and get reborn, and if I am looking at this right you get to stay a Kanzaki you will be the first born child of Mai and your sister Mikoto provided you can get those two together."

"Well that's something I got right Mikoto and Mai really are meant to be."