Circles

We keep running in circles, every day, now and forever, always being connected.

Severing ties, lies, despair, death. A threat is coming, turning Yato and his friend's lives upside down.

'' Uesama '', thoughts.

'' Uesama '', speaking.

Enjoy!~

''Do you believe in destiny?'', he asked her, staring at her face with a serious look.

She didn't know what to say, nor to think. To tell the truth, she didn't even know what was going on.

He averted his eyes, looking away into the distance.

She glanced at him, with a questioning look and he chuckeled, but it sounded hollow.

'' For me.. I don't think I believe in destiny, but maybe there is something ultimately out there, that gets people together for a reason. Maybe that's why we met...

The thing that's troubling me, and maybe even Yukine.. is just that.. now that we ha-'', he stopped, taking a breath and looked at her. He didn't continue and only smiled.

He opened his mouth and formed words, but she couldn't understand him due to the wind's howling.

She woke up with a start and looked around her room, trying to catch her breath and comprehending what this dream was about just now.

Laying her head into her palms, she could finally calm down a little bit.

'' I've been having these weird dreams since last week... I don't even know why... and it's getting worse, too.'', she thought and sighed.

Standing up Hiyori walked over to her window to open it, but the moment she reached the handle, a purple-haired boy, who was hanging upside down the roof, greeted her in the most bizarre way. '' Yooooooo!'', Yato shouted at her and saluted, while grinning from ear to ear.

Hiyori's eyes widened. ''Kyaaaaaa!'' She punched his face out of reflex, sending him down the roof.

He crashed into the ground with a loud thud. '' Urghhh...'', was all she could hear.

''Oh my gosh Yato! I-I'm so sorry, you scared me !'', she stammered. '' Wa- wait! I'll help you'' She shouted down and started running down the stairs, out the door and onto the street. He looked up at her dizzily. '' Jeez, is that how you greet a god?'', he said grinning at her, eventhough it looked kind of disorientated. ''Gomen Yato, but you really scared me!'' She stammed her fists on her hips looking at him accusingly.

He scratched the back of his head, laughing. '' Ah, I guess I did.'' Standing up he brushed off the dust on his clothes.

''Isn't Yukine-kun with you?'', she asked while looking at him questioningly.

'' Nah, he's wandering around town I guess. We're still waiting for a jo-'', he was cut off as his phone began to rang. '' Fast, affordable, and reliable! Delivery God Yato at your service! How can I help you?!'', he said cheerfully. '' Ah-huh, yeah, uh-huuuh. Sure. Yea. We'll be there in no time!'', he hung up and grinned at Hiyori, who was blinking at him.

'' I gotta get Yukine, we got a jooooob! Oh! And just so you know, I don't think it's good to run around in short pajamas at this kind of year'', he grinned at her and then, before she could even answer him, he was gone into nothingness.

Looking down, eyeing her pajamas, she started blushing. It had little panda patterns on it and the overall color was pink. ''Noooooooooo!'', she screamed, totally embarrassed. Running into her house again, she swore she could hear Yato chuckle from afar.

'' Yu-ki-neee!'', he startled the blonde boy greatly.

Yukine turned around and gave Yato a death glare. '' Don't do this again, jeez!'', he pointed out angrily. Yato just waved at him nonchalantly and spoke up.

'' We have a job, let's get your butt moved, buddy.'', before Yukine could respond, Yato already grabed his arm and they teleported to the meeting place.

'' Isn't this Tenjin's temple, though?'', Yukine asked as he looked around.

'' It is. He gave me the job, not sure what we'll have to do yet, though.'', Yato said and looked around, searching for Tenjin or any of his shrine maids.

'' Yato'', Tenjin said from behind them. ''There you are, we've been waiting for you and your Shinki.''

Yato and Yukine looked at Tenjin. '' So.. err.. what's this job about?'', Yato asked the infamous God.

Tenjin tilted his head up to the sky, searching for something. '' There have been many stormy nights lately, Yato. I wouldn't say it's something unusual, but there's something I can't put my finger on. The storms have become more frequently and also the ayakashi are becoming stronger and more powerful. If you're up to date, you should already know that there have been more and more incidents and also cases of death.'', Tenjin said in a serious tone.

Yukine's eyes widened a little bit and he looked up at the sky, searching for any clues, that what the mighty god said, was true.

Yato, however, was nodding, getting into a thoughful pose. '' Yeah, actually I did heard of it. I, myself, thought it was weird that there were so many storms.''

Tenjin nodded.

'' So, you want me and Yukine to check it out?'', he asked, making Yukine look at him and Tenjin.

''Yes, I would appreciate it if you could do this job for me. At this kind of year I am kind of busy, with bringing fortune and luck to the people who are coming to my temple.'', Tenjin said and smiled at Yato.

He pouted, being just a little bit jealous. '' Must be nice having a temple and maids and people worshipping you.'', Yato said, looking around the place.

'' Ah, I'm sorry, I hope I didn't hurt your feelings'', the infamous god said, though he was smiling just a little bit, after all it was fun teasing Yato once in a while.

'' Ah, I don't care at all! You see, one day I have my own temple! In the middle of the city. People will come worship me, complement me, give me lots of money and praise me. Hohohoho hehe hee'', he laughed,but then started coughing.

Yukine looked at him disgusted and murmured to himself, while Tenjin looked rather lost, debating if he should laugh or plainly shake his head.

Mayu, also known as Tomone ( A/N: Yato's former Shinki ), facepalmed herself.

Yato just grinned at them. '' Just you guys wait, some day or another my dream will definately come true and then you will be the ones who will kneel infront of me.'', he thought while chuckling.

The others were simply staring at him, like he had gone mad.

'' So we're going to look for these storms Tenjin was talking about?'', Yukine asked Yato and looked up at him.

''Yeah. It's been really bad lately. Especially now that the exams are up at the schools, students are getting stressed or depressed, attracting the phantoms.'', he said, looking around.

They were currently walking around the city, searching for any clues. Walking down the street, they stopped infront of a shop. The TV's at the windows were showing the NEWS.

'' 3 more people, this week, got caught in accidents. 2 of them were students, whereas one of them got hit by a truck and the other one got caught in a hit and run accident. The third person has been found near the trainstation dead in a rift. […]'', as Yukine kept listening, Yato was already turning around and started walking.

'' There have been 18 accidents this week. And I'm sure all of them have something to do with the rising storms. It's normal that people die because of this, especially when there are plenty of Ayakashi around... but something is definately not right. There shouldn't be this many incidents in one week.'', Yato thought.

'' Yuk-'', before he could finish shouting at his Shinki, an explosion went off, 2 streets down.

As both of them turned around another explosion went off, sirens could be heard and people shouting and screaming. Looking up at the sky he could see black fog, near the place of the accident.

''Oh shit'', was all he said, before he and Yukine started running.

To be continued! Hope you guys liked it :D

Also, English is not my native language, please bear with me :s